Board 8 > Best of the Trope Day 38: Big Lipped Alligator Moment

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Yesterday's Results:
Toph Beifong - 10
Kirby - 10
Edward Elric - 5
Yoda - 4
Stitch - 3
The Powerpuff Girls - 2
Hit-Girl - 2
BB Hood - 2
Vin - 2
Murphy - 2
Renne Hayworth - 2
Cucco - 2
Molly Hayes - 1
Pablo Sanchez - 1
Bam-Bam Rubble - 1
Henery Hawk - 1
Lila Bard - 1
Ender Wiggin - 1
Cait Sith - 1
Presea Combatir -
Daniel Bryan - 1
Madison Rayne - 1
Tweety Bird - 1
Kaolla-Su - 1
Arale Norimaki - 1
Ant-Man - 1

Vote for UP TO THREE CHARACTERS/ETC. you think best embody the trope of the day (or just for your favorite characters that fit the trope). Feel free to change your vote, but if you do just specify who you're changing from and changing to. Try to include the source the character's from.

Feel free to nominate tropes for future days, preferably ones that have TV Tropes pages to make it easier. Day will end in 24 hours or so.

Full Results
Fat Best Friend - Samwise Gamgee (Lord of the Rings)
Creepy Child - Wednesday Addams (The Addams Family)
Genre Savvy - Abed Nadir (Community)
Wrong Genre Savvy - Don Quixote (Don Quixote)
Enemy Outside - Piccolo (Dragonball Z)
Ascended Extra - Harley Quinn (Batman)
Final Girl - Ellen Ripley (Aliens)
The Adjectival Man - The Illusive Man (Mass Effect)
Adaptational Hero - Bigby Wolf (The Wolf Among Us)
Adaptational Villain - The Monster (Frankenstein)
Superpowered Evil Side - Yami Bakura (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
Mad Bomber - Norman Osbourne/Green Goblin (Spider-Man)
Regretful Traitor - Zuko (Avatar: The Last Airbender) / Boromir (Lord of the Rings)
Bare-Fisted Monk - Captain Falcon (Smash Bros.)
Sexy Priest - Kirei Kotomine (Fate series)
Butt Monkey - Jerry Gergich (Parks & Rec) / Luigi (Mario Bros.) / Toby Flenderson (The Office)
Eldritch Abomination - Cthuhlu (The Call of Cthuhlu) / Giygas (Earthbound)
Scapegoat - Sirius Black (Harry Potter)
The Heavy - Darth Vader (Star Wars)
Gentle Giant - Rubeus Hagrid (Harry Potter) / John Coffey (The Green Mile) / Iron Giant (The Iron Giant)
Older Than They Look - Eli (Let the Right One In)
Messianic Archetype - Aslan (Chronicles of Narnia)
Invincible Hero - Saitama (One-Punch Man)
Your Size May Vary - Bowser (Mario Bros.)
Mad Artist - The Phantom (The Phantom of the Opera)
Gentleman Thief - Joker (Persona 5)
Brilliant but Lazy - Sans (Undertale)
Monster Clown - Pennywise the Dancing Clown (IT)
The Fool - Inspector Gadget (Inspector Gadget)
Rescued from the Scrappy Heap - Wesley Wyndham-Price (Buffy/Angel)
Big Bad - Light Yagami (Death Note)
Eyes Always Shut - Brock (Pokemon)
Tomboy & Girly Girl - Chie Satonaka & Yukiko Amagi (Persona 4)
The Dragon - Darth Vader (Star Wars)
Nerd - Otacon (Metal Gear)
Innocent Flower Girl - Aeris Gainsborough (Final Fantasy)
Berserker - Guts (Berserk)
Beware the Quiet Ones - Himura Kenshin (Rurouni Kenshin)
Pint-Sized Powerhouse - Toph Beifong (Avatar: The Last Airbender) / Kirby (Kirby)
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Nominations
Ensemble Dark Horse
Iconic Sequel Character
Unexpected Character
Mix and Match Critters
Heterosexual Life Partners
Broken Ace
The Rival
Voluntary Shapeshifter
Milkman Conspiracy
Intelligible Unintelligible
Relationship Voice Actor
Evil All Along

Today's trope is the Big Lipped Alligator Moment
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigLippedAlligatorMoment

A Non Sequitur is a bit or line of dialogue that is intentionally out of place, usually designed to elicit a comedic reaction. They have no actual bearing on the plot, although they are staples of characters who are part of their own little world.

Springboarding from there, we find the Big-Lipped Alligator Moment. This is a very bizarre scene in an otherwise normal story that veers off into the surreal or strange. Upon exiting that scene, the plot continues on like it never happened.

There are three precise criteria for measuring a Big Lipped Alligator Moment:
-Appears out of Nowhere
-Strange in Context
-Never Goes Anywhere

Today's trope is different than usual. Instead of voting for three characters, you may vote for up to three scenes/moments/whatever. Please state what they're from. If today is successful, I'll likely open this up to more non-character tropes like this one.
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The singing alligator scene from all dogs go to heaven
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I like the idea of non-character related tropes, but this isn't one I can think of many good examples for
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27U6dyYE9rA" data-time="
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Dante vs Agnus, Devil May Cry 4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySY5YMoBp7c" data-time="

Is sanity

the price to pay

FOR POWER?!
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Pink Elephants on Parade (Dumbo)
Gutterballs (The Big Lebowski)
The scene where Louie's date flies away on a helicopter (Louie)

HM
Heffalumps and Woozles (The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh)
The Food Orgy (Sausage Party)
Cool Beans (Hot Rod)
Onionsan (Undertale)
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Okay yeah

Dante vs. Agnus
Pink Elephants on Parade

Doubt those will be topped for me
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I'll add the pink elephants as well.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_ZSFoFiytU" data-time=" from Mega Man Battle Network 2.
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on the topic of non-character tropes, I'll nominate:

Bedlam House
Adolf Hitlarious
Crowd Song

and more character ones:
Disposable Intern
Goth Girls Know Magic
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Yes I was waiting for a trope like this!

Men in Black (The X-Files - "Jose Chung's From Outer Space")
Louie's date runs to a helicopter (Louie)
Happy Birthday Caller (Silent Hill 3)

HMs:
Alligator (Resident Evil 2)
Ghost of Psycho Mantis (Metal Gear Solid 4)
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Nominate:
Abandoned Hospital
And I Must Scream
Uncanny Valley
You Are Who You Eat
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Snake5555555555 posted...

Abandoned Hospital

half tempted to do this and Bedlam House as a double feature
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What about the drugged up memory sequences in the first max Payne game?
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Schroeder's Piano Recital, A Boy Named Charlie Brown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYzRk5bIPsw" data-time="

Courage's Nightmares, Courage the Cowardly Dog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuQ8BU9t_bA" data-time="
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Johnbobb posted...

Snake5555555555 posted...

Abandoned Hospital

half tempted to do this and Bedlam House as a double feature

Do it, do it!
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I can't think of anything

I want to nom all of Nichijou, and at least half of Homestuck, except that having it be such a large portion of the work kinda defeats the point of the trope
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8 bit Mario in Booster's Tower (Super Mario RPG)

"No, you're not the one." (Pokemon X/Y)

"Out of this Dimension" stage (Star Fox SNES)
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Pink Elephants on Parade (Dumbo)
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Garfield Alone (Garfield)
Pink Elephants (Dumbo)
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Garfield Alone
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Winkie's Diner (Mullholland Drive)
Going Into Town (Wet Hot American Summer)
Broadway Melody (Singin' In The Rain)

Snake's Nightmare (Metal Gear Solid 3)
Ed Sheeran's Cameo (Game of Thrones)
Doc Brown's Cameo (A Million Ways to Die in the West)

astounded that the Willy Wonka boat scene hasn't been mentioned yet - that *has* to be the best one

also when Neo and Trinity pop over the clouds and see the "real" sky for 5 seconds in Matrix Revolutions
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change Gutrerballs to the Willy Wonka boat ride
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Cant think of a good one yet.

I nominate Narm and The Zeppo.
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snake's nightmare (MGS3)
ultros in the opera scene (FFVI)
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Oh yeah, that's a good one.

Garfield Alone
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Garfield Alone (published the day I was born )
Pink Elephants on Parade
Max's Nightmare (Life is Strange)
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Ah fine. I cannot help but nominate it as well.

Pink Elephants on Parade
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRUPg-UYXrk" data-time="
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hylianknight3 posted...

Oh yeah, that's a good one.

Garfield Alone

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Change Max's Nightmare to Little Rock of Horrors (Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy)
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Dante vs Agnus
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The cutscene after you kill The Fury (MGS3)
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hylianknight3 posted...

Ah fine. I cannot help but nominate it as well.

Pink Elephants on Parade

Fuck it, I'm too taxed to think of anything else so I'm riding the Bandwagon.
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Willy Wonka Boat Ride
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Garfield Alone
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Wonka boat ride.
Chicken fight scene in Family Guy.
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no update tonight, happy america america day
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