I don't know if this counts as a piece of media, but good people of the A.V. Club, let me inspire you to never, ever fly on United Airlines. Look, I know that sometimes, it's like $8 cheaper to fly them. But, if you don't want to fly on an airline that will:

Wow. You managed to post basically the same thing I said, but better than I and you have an avatar from Mathman.

Drew, I think the Atari game you're thinking of is Star Raider.

I hope they call up Ray Parker, Jr. to use his unused theme song.

*EMBROCE*

He also likes to give people names.

Actually, I talked to the people in charge, and they said you'll die in a plane crash surrounded by the people you hate. But, they all miraculously survive. So there's that.

Mine is women who know that people harshly judge women who are single mothers, write something in their profile that says a variant of "does anyone even read these?", and then post pictures of herself with kids that she says aren't hers.

I remember OK Cupid did a thing a while back where you were only matched on interests and couldn't see photos for a day.

In the dorm commons, they had cereal dispensers. Over time, the more dense marshmallows would settle to the bottom of the Lucky Charms dispenser. One lucky day, I got to the dispenser after the magic had settled…

Talented. They don't have hands or fingers.

I'm going to have to ask you to cease and desist using "Beef Strokinoff" as a juvenile substitute for bee stroganoff, as it is a violation of my intellectual property.

I'm pretty convinced it's made of the same material that Lucky Charms "marshmallows" are made out of.

I was hoping for the same thing. /regrets

If you want to see the literal worst version of this trope, play Blue Dragon. At one point, lead idiot and his party fall off a ship and are hurtling to their deaths, when they're encased in a bubble and start flying to safety.

They only had a calliope, and its lack of magicness was established very early in the story.

Rhianna Pratchett is credited.

This is different in Tomb Raider because you'll actually see it happen in the scripted scene. It's not "gameplay damage". We're supposed to believe that, as part of the game's story, Lara took a giant piece of rebar through the liver, then kept wandering through dirty-ass water, and then slept off all the damage and…

It's important to note that the only games eligible for this award are games who employ a writer who is a member of the Writer's Guild. So, if you're wondering, "Hey, why didn't (Game X) get a nod?" that's reason why 99% of the time.

Compare that to everything else on this list.