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* One of the smaller bits of banged wall is Eragon's sexuality. Saphira reveals that he can only choose ONE person to be his mate for life. He isn't even allowed to date or to find out if he's gay. Nope! It's all based on [[Love At First Sight]].
* [http://eragon-sporkings.wikispaces.com/Brisingr_Four Keep in mind, Eragon's pants? Are still down.]
* The Varden's ''tactics'' during the final battle at Uru'baen. The city has a 300 foot tall wall around it (guess they got used to the lack of sunlight). For comparison, [https://web.archive.org/web/20121109183711/http://images.greatergreaterwashington.org/images/201112/051609.jpg
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** Given how Edward's stalking and obsessive behavior is supposed to be Meyer's epitome of romance, the sudden change in Jacob's behavior could be her molding him into someone she thinks is ''better''. Perhaps Meyer thinks his forcibly kissing Bella, and her realizing she loves him once he forcibly kisses her, is sweet and romantic.
* The only bodily fluid vampires have is venom. The wedding night should have been horribly painful, since semen is a bodily fluid. But no, it isn't; this is a young adult novel, which means that only attempted rape, pedophilia, stalking, and such is acceptable.
** Besides, [[Memetic Mutation|venom cocks]] are [https://web.archive.org/web/20110928094913/http://wiki.fandomwank.com/index.php/Venom_Cock a different novel].
* Bella is being carried everywhere like she's an infant. Seriously, if she's that clumsy, then she should start a comedy routine and make some money or something.
* The failure to provide more of Bella's background or what goals she had before she fell in love. We're only told about her classes so we can see how she's so much smarter than everyone else, and we only learn about her hobbies because Edward has Q&A sessions with her. She doesn't talk about any sort of career she wants before meeting Edward and only gets the desire to be a mother after she gets knocked up.
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* Wallbangery can happen if one sets out to read a controversial book just to see what all the fuss is about. [[Rule-Abiding Rebel|What was so controversial]] about ''[[A Separate Peace]]''?
** No kidding. This troper has a copy of ''A Separate Peace'' that has the little "preview paragraph" on the back saying that the book "explores the depths of evil in a teenage mind". This troper read the book, expecting something akin to the awesome of ''[[Lord of the Flies]]'', and instead found a bunch of angst, mild-swearing, and general stupidity.
** You know you're not alone in something when they satirize it in ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20100317091838/http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28619 The Onion]''.
* ''[[Literature/The Dreamers|The Dreamers]]'' series by David and Leigh Eddings is bad as a whole; but the last book, ''The Younger Gods,'' is particularly annoying. After four hundred-some pages of characters and situations lifted wholesale from Eddings' earlier, better novels, the story ends with {{spoiler|one of the creator-god characters going back in time and hitting the proverbial [[Reset Button]], ensuring that the entire plot of the series ''is [[Ret-Gone]].''}}
* [[William S. Burroughs]]' ''[[Nova Express]]'' is a wallbanger, not because something in the plot is stupid, but because it's a [[True Art Is Incomprehensible|completely incomprehensible, incoherent]] collection of words that one would be hard pressed to make any sense of whatsoever. The "plot" is literally four or five sentences spread in completely random places. There's a section of the book that's literally just a [[T. S. Eliot]] poem chopped up and rearranged.
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