In roleplaying, whatever site you use, you'll come across that one roleplayer who uses a character who's constantly commenting on the nature of the plot, pointing out the cliches or "tropes" used in the roleplay in a sarcastic and deadpan manner. When in fact they've become a tired cliche, and are very often just a poorly disguised, underdeveloped Player Avatar. I have recently discovered I might hate this character, despite probably doing this myself when I was younger and forgetting.

Analysis of works is important, but does that analysis always have to extend to In-Character? can you please just STOP poking and prodding the plot and commenting constantly on everything and just enjoy the ride? it just irks me to the point I believe the amount of snarkers in an RP one day will outnumber the actually interesting characters who don't rely on this one note "That's so Meta" BS as their sole purpose and function to the story.

I think these characters have the potential to ruin the mood of a roleplay entirely and drain the fun out of everything with the whole "X is this cliche" or "X is this trope, hardee-har-har look at Meta and insightful I am guize looool XDDDD" thing.

Is this pissing anyone else off? does it make you want to drop a roleplay or pass on one when you see it?

Never a problem in my games.

Of course, probably because GM-me throws these fools out the game with quickness.

It hardly works when everyone in the RPs I've made or partook in were aware of any exagerations and general silliness.

Except for Highschool RPs that I've joined as a joke.

I'm sort of used to it, especially in the Arena, where your character would be doing something with whatever mental intent, and then the opponent would say something along the lines of 'X thought that attacking from the undefended left would work...' or 'X thought this, based off that, but really Z was this and that.'

I get absolutely infuriated with these characters, particularly when they start attacking other characters"Oh you're so cliche" "Haha, so now you want to be forgiven? Haha, so cliche"

These people apparently forgot that tropes are not inherently bad and because they saww something more than once it's 'cliche' -.-

We've never had the problem with this type in our RPs. Probably because we put considerable effort into reviewing character sheets first.

Sometimes PCs who are clichéd can fit very well in, but unless the setting is a modern one with slightly nerdy tendencies involved, pointing out that this PC fulfills this or that trope or cliché simply won't fit if done IC. We couldn't care less what tropes people point out about PCs if they do it OoC, though.

For us, its typically more of a problem with a player or two each RP who build a Mary Sue, but thats another discussion.