Suspended Belief

''Imagine you're having the most wonderful dream and the world's least fun person tells you this... That'd be terrible.''

When the audience is forced to remember that fiction is fictional. The creators can infringe on their viewers' Suspension Of Disbelief in a multitude of ways. What all mediums of fiction share in common in this sense is the power to wreck themselves with Weak Writing. In the context of Suspended Belief, that includes one-dimensional or exaggerated characters, clichéd lines, overcooked or unbelievable UnTrashes, and unnatural dialogue flow. All of these mistakes can feel awkward or out of place to the audience at best and painfully annoying at worst. In short, anything that abuses the audience's ability to suspend their disbelief can resulting in them suspending their belief instead.

There are many roles that can Suspend Belief, particularly those that go all in on one attribute such as wealth, lack of smarts, or being absurdly snooty. Characters fulfilling these roles tend to exhibit the same behaviors and speak almost exactly like each other. The audience won't see them as realistic individuals nearly as much as products of decades' worth of stagnant tropes.