[Just a quick note — I can see this post twice in my feed, so you may want to check if you've accidentally posted two copies of it.]
I have similarly strong Do Not Want reactions to memory wipes, although not due to any particular personal experience. It's more just a visceral feeling of horror.
However, there are a couple of tropes to which I definitely bring my own baggage, and to which I always react extremely negatively:
Character A was abused, mistreated, neglected, or simply treated poorly in the past by an ex or a family member. (Normally Character A in this scenario is the female half of a m/f relationship, or the adult child of a parent — usually a father — who did something ranging from abuse to bad parenting to cause the adult child to be extranged from their parent.) The ex-partner or estranged family member shows back up in Character A's life, Character A reacts with hostility ... and all the other characters on the TV show/in the film start pressuring them to forgive their ex or family member, to stop being so bitter, to show forgiveness, for the sake of 'healing' and 'closure' etc etc. By the end of the film, or the TV episode, Character A has forgiven this person, and patched up the relationship.
Genius Male Character A (or Self-Sacrificing Revolutionary for the Cause Male Character A) mistreats or neglects his family or puts them in danger, but this is to be excused because his (police/political/military/crusading journalist) job is so important, or his cause is so important that the lives of his family are acceptable collateral damage, and they should live in orbit around him, devoting their lives to helping him fulfill his important goals that no one but him will be able to achieve. By the end of the show/film, his family members will come to understand this.
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I have similarly strong Do Not Want reactions to memory wipes, although not due to any particular personal experience. It's more just a visceral feeling of horror.
However, there are a couple of tropes to which I definitely bring my own baggage, and to which I always react extremely negatively:
Character A was abused, mistreated, neglected, or simply treated poorly in the past by an ex or a family member. (Normally Character A in this scenario is the female half of a m/f relationship, or the adult child of a parent — usually a father — who did something ranging from abuse to bad parenting to cause the adult child to be extranged from their parent.) The ex-partner or estranged family member shows back up in Character A's life, Character A reacts with hostility ... and all the other characters on the TV show/in the film start pressuring them to forgive their ex or family member, to stop being so bitter, to show forgiveness, for the sake of 'healing' and 'closure' etc etc. By the end of the film, or the TV episode, Character A has forgiven this person, and patched up the relationship.
Genius Male Character A (or Self-Sacrificing Revolutionary for the Cause Male Character A) mistreats or neglects his family or puts them in danger, but this is to be excused because his (police/political/military/crusading journalist) job is so important, or his cause is so important that the lives of his family are acceptable collateral damage, and they should live in orbit around him, devoting their lives to helping him fulfill his important goals that no one but him will be able to achieve. By the end of the show/film, his family members will come to understand this.
I hate both these tropes so, so much!