The Hunger Games prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes will hit theaters on November 17, 2023. After eight long years of waiting, fans will finally get to see another film of the successful franchise whose plot led to many other similar storylines concerning teenagers rebelling against an unfair political system to become movies.

The Hunger Games is not the only movie or franchise that is guilty of using plot formulas that are seen everywhere. Many movies share plot devices that are known too well by audiences, and the truth is, their overuse has made them predictable and therefore, less enjoyable; and according to Redditors, these are the ones that are getting old.

The Chosen One

A close up of Harry's face in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Redditor TheFeelGoodMan commented on "The Chosen One" and referred to all the movies where there is a character whose destiny has already been written and for some reason or another, they are the only ones that can defeat a villain, complete a mission, sacrifice or hold some kind of power.

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Humans love the story of a hero who is destined to do something. People love to know about somebody who is special, stands out from the crowd, and outruns everybody else. However, so many stories and movies have used this storyline already that it's getting boring, and something different would be more interesting to see.

Dystopian Future With Rebellious Character

Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games

User rocketkielbasa said "In a dystopian future something/someone is being oppressed and one man/woman/teenager will stand up against the tyrannical government" and each Redditor was able to think of more than one movie that followed the said premise.

The Hunger Games gave us one of the most badass women of action movies of the 2010s but the movies followed the dystopian plot device of many other films of the past, and the franchise's success led to even more screen time for other rebellious teenagers' stories who had to face injustice and oppression from political figures.

Villains Eventually Escape

Spiderman-No-Way-Home-Villains

deleted Redditor pointed out "By now we all know that if a villain gets captured either early in or halfway through a movie, they either meant to get captured or they are most definitely getting out and wreaking havoc at some point" which reminded many of Heath Ledger's Joker, or all the villains in the latest Spider-Man movie.

It doesn't take the smartest superhero movie villains to find a way out of imprisonment. It doesn't matter if they are the brightest scientists on Earth or some common outlaw, they always escape if they are captured too soon. Is understandable that movie villains are vital for the film to continue, but then, why imprison them in the first place?

Misfits Team Up

A promotional image from the Disney Channel original movie Sky High.

Redditor bobtheflob mentioned "A group of misfits team up. It turns out that each person has a particularly unique talent. Every talent ends up being necessary for the group to achieve its goal" which was descriptive of many movies, especially ones concerning misfit teenagers with superpowers.

That is what Sky High, Umbrella Academy and Misfits have in common, among many other titles. Every puzzle, adventure, villain, or setting seems to be expecting the specific talents or superpowers of one of the members of the team of misfits. It's okay to want to show people that underdogs can be valuable, but there are other ways to do it.

White People Become The Best Ones In Foreign Places

Tom Cruise in front of a battlefield in The Last Samurai

Deadlifted commented, "White guy joins native/indigenous group. Starts out sucking, but becomes best, most talented member of the tribe and fends off his white brethren" which is a plotline that is not only getting old, but it is as ridiculous as it is problematic.

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Nowadays, people are more aware of how controversial it is to use indigenous, native, or other people's cultures to present a white man as the hero, and how, even though most movies depict a white man defending foreign cultures, that almost didn't happen in history. Persons of color want to tell their own stories, so it is time to give them the protagonism to do so.

Manly Man Gets To Babysit

Vin Diesel and the rest of the cast in The Pacifier

Redditor Quilton said "Person hates kids, has to babysit some kids, learns to like kids" and everybody knows it is commonly a single dad who didn't keep in touch with his daughter and suddenly has to take care of her to find out he is a lousy dad that needs to change out of love for his kid.

Many movie parental figures step in to achieve the lesson that children are annoying but they are also the best thing that can happen in someone's life. It is not clear if these movies try to convince people to have kids, or if there are so many irresponsible fathers out there that this plot formula is seen as a tool to educate them.

Every Rom-Com Plot

10 Things I Hate About You Movie Poster

User freeman528491 explained "Boy meets girl. Boy and girl don't particularly care for each other at first but soon develop a connection" and carried on explaining the plot formula of every romantic comedy that hopeless romantics already know too well.

The couple fights or one finds out something that leads to a breakup, then "Montage of sadness alternating between the two" and finally the "Boy attempts to win a girl back" and usually does. It may be overused, but when it's done right it works and even though it's getting old, it is the plot device of the best romantic comedies of all time.

Hiding Information

Games of Thrones cast promo picture, all standing outdoors looking solemn.

Benukysz commented "one person not telling some very important information to other person and going out to do it by himself and of course, something bad happens and boom - we have a plot for another two episodes of X tv show. Make it stop" which does not apply only to tv shows but also to movies.

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Writers know that if other characters knew what another character was doing, the movie or series would end at the precise moment they found out. So hiding out crucial information about something very important concerning the character's fate is a way of letting things unfold, and have a dramatic development with a "surprise" element, but it always seems way too convenient and cheap.

Under Explaining

Anya Taylor Joy in The VVitch

deleted user commented "UNDER explaining drives me nuts" and narrated how there is always someone that sees something, such as a demon in the woods, doesn't say anything or goes back to tell everybody an ambiguous explanation of what the character saw that minimizes the importance of the encounter.

This plot formula is seen everywhere, but it is specially used in horror, thriller, or suspense movies. In films where there are paranormal encounters, one could easily justify the under-explanation of characters by understanding that they doubt their sanity first, but in movies where someone saw a very real human creeping outside the window, it's absurd.

"Dead" People Don't Really Die

User aindovin mentioned "People that you think died...but DIDN'T! Cripe Marvel, STOP IT!" and called out one of the biggest factors of the Marvel formula. In the MCU most deaths are not as shocking, given that most viewers doubt immediately if the death was real or if the character will appear alive again in the next movie.

Deaths are moments that are emotionally charged, so when movies use them only to force a dramatic scene that turns out to not be true is quite annoying. It also takes all the sentiment out of the death if the revival is predictable.

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