Turning the tables on a domme. Since I was a kid (No this isn't a fucked up story), it has deeply annoyed me when in fiction, a clearly stronger character loses to a clearly weaker character, by deus ex machina or otherwise. Even if the strong loser was in the wrong, even if whatever, he had the right to win. It takes the literal god powers of a writer to make him lose. I have cultivated such a seething hatred for this feature of writing that it permeates almost everything that I do and want.