There's a presumption that when we talk about tropes we're talking about something negative. But I don't think tropes are inherently good or bad. Film has been around for a hundred years, so it makes sense that filmmakers would want to use recurring images, themes, and motifs as shortcuts to get across important information. These things are time-tested for a reason... they work. Unless they don't. Some tropes are so overused, so irritating, or so stupid that I think they actually cheapen the medium as a whole. Here are three I think no one would miss if filmmakers suddenly stopped using them. Let's tag 'em and bag 'em!