My pet peeve is heroes (and others) who can outrun explosions/ shockwaves (that travel over 1-6 miles per second).
I literally fell out my seat at a movie theater during Starship Troopers because I was laughing so hard at that trope.
In Knives Out I immediately knew who the villian was and how crime committed because that wasn’t even close to the right medicine being given. I didn’t know if the perpetrator was stupid or the producer. Nothing was correct about any of it. Just took me out of the story completely.
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Where they solve mysteries but give few or only VERY esoteric clues so you couldn’t have figured it out unless you knew some ancient language or some backstory there’s never explained.
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When anything bad happens to an animal. Makes it unwatchable for me. Only made it to the 3rd episode of The Hunting Wives and had to turn it off because of the wild boar scene.
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No mosquitoes or any bugs where there supposed to be swarms of them. 
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In books set in the Low country (or other southeastern beach locales), where the protagonist returns to the old family beach house for the summer, and enjoys the fresh salt air and the sea breeze wafting through the house night and day.
Anyone who’s spent time here knows that without AC running in your tightly closed up house, you turn into a bucket of sweat. 
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I love this list and it features a couple of my pet peeves!
If you crawl through air ducts, you’ll make a ton of noise, get filthy, get stuck at a right angle bend, and probably come out bloody from sharp edges and sheet metal screws.
Woman cleans a man’s wound for 5 seconds by barely touching with a giant rag.
The lipstick one reminded me of how movie women all sleep in their bras (ahahaha) and sprint in high heels (ridiculous even if they happen to be high heeled boots).
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I bet I can sprint in my heels! 
That’s how I test them in a store to the horrors of the salespersons! It takes many tries to get the right pair though. So I just assume those women do the same testing Never tried sleeping in my bras no matter how comfortable they are. And no thanks to crawling through air ducts. Although the ductwork in movies looks impeccable!
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#14 is basically the Stormtrooper meme.
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How about setups for sequels?
In the original Star Wars movie, that is quite obvious when the only Imperial survivor of the final battle is the main villain Darth Vader, only because his fighter is sent spinning away from the battle (instead of getting destroyed) after a collision with another fighter.
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My response to the OP’s question is the love triangle.
I’m old enough to have seen many (maybe too many) love triangle storylines play out. While I’ve liked some of the plots, as I get older, I’m less patient with contrived romantic conflict.
Yeah, a little angst can be entertaining. However, perhaps because of the current divisive climate, the “fun-ness” of picking a “team” is less appealing to me right now.
And don’t get me started with the “I choose me”.
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Almost. Every. Single. Scientist. Almost every one of them is a walking, talking collections of tropes.
I stop watching a series, and I walk out of theatre, if I hear “there are some things that science can’t explain” as though it were Some Great Truth.
Listen, you little ****, if science COULD explain this, we wouldn’t be spending our lives researching it. Science couldn’t explain gravity, until it could. Science couldn’t explain why stars produce heat and light until they could. Gah, morons.
Scientists who are atheists until they have an epiphany which is caused by something that has never actually happened in real life.
Oh, and scientists who don’t understand “those creative types”, as though science isn’t creative, and as though there weren’t tens of thousands of scientists who also engage (often very successfully) in the fine and performing arts.
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I’ve seen a lot of police body cam videos. You wouldn’t believe the amount of YouTube lawyers who shriek at police that they are going to “have your badge” because the police didn’t read them their Miranda rights BEFORE placing them in handcuffs for refusing to produce ID, or driving drunk or on a suspended license, or for having a warrant. I’m betting TV is partially responsible for this entrenched belief.
Oh, and the handsome, smart, “ good guy”, with the good job who just conveniently happens to be single and seems to magically exist in every small town?
No. He. Doesn’t.
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Women’s fiction:
Too often set on Cape Cod, Martha’s Vinyard or Vermont
The main character’s husband does something despicable and she runs off.
Fortunately a good friend has a beach house or farm in one of the above locations.
Where she starts a small business, a boutique, catering etc.
And meets the hunky local handyman, architect, boat captain who despite being a real hunk is single.
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But the local hunk has issues that he needs to resolve with the help of the spunky heroine.
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It was all a dream…
Providing more than one ending to a book
The detective looks over the fens. It all falls into place. The end. What it didn’t fall into place for you, Dear Reader? Sucks to be you!
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Like the non-regular characters wearing red shirts in the original Star Trek series?
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I read police procedurals and I hate those where the obvious perpetrator turns out to have a strong alibi so that the police have to look elsewhere, and in the end, the perpetrator is someone the police questioned early on, but found no reason to suspect him/her until much later.
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