I know this is probably a common topic. For me, I’m not sure if it’s a “trope” or just totally misinformed writing, but it’s how many authors approach alcoholism. Some examples are Girl on the Train and The House Across the Lake, among HUNDREDS. If anyone else here has struggled with alcoholism, you know it’s not just "i woke up after downing an entire bottle of whiskey but was able to shower, down a cup of coffee, and solve a murder. "
One of the weirdest (and maybe also oldest) examples of this is “Water Margin/Outlaws of the Marsh/All Men Are Brothers” (there are a couple of different names for the novel) from around 1524.
There is a cliffhanger at the end of almost every single chapter. And these are usually absolutely useless, oftentimes silly and cheap like in some really poor soap opera. For such an influential ancient novel (the Suikoden games are (very loosely) based on it) it’s partially written almost in a modern style but also very poorly. There are even more tropes to be found in the book like plot armor for almost all the 108 main characters or very unlikely coincidences.