Board 8 > Best of the Trope Day 73: Deader Than Disco

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Yesterday's Results
The Juggernaut - 12
Kratos - 6
Lu Bu - 4
Broly - 3
The Mountain - 3
Nemesis - 2
Sloth - 2
Liberty Prime - 2
Hulk - 1
Pyramid Head - 1
Urdnot Wrex - 1
Asura - 1
Hippopotamus - 1
Azrael - 1
Brock Lesnar - 1
Berserker - 1
The Pillar Men - 1
Nautilus - 1
Doomsday - 1
the driver of manslaughter "Black" - 1
The Saint of Killers - 1
Armored Titan - 1
T-1000 - 1

Nominations
Iconic Sequel Character
Intelligible Unintelligible
Uncanny Valley
Corpsing
One of Us
Dead All Along
Disney Villain Death
Eldritch Location
Supervillain Lair
Obfuscating Stupidity
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
Lady of War
Dark Is Not Evil
The Everyman
Red Oni, Blue Oni
A Hell of a Time
Badass Driver
Always a Bigger Fish
Ramming always works

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.
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Today's tropes is the Deader Than Disco
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DeaderThanDisco

This is something an individual work, the body of work of a particular creator/performer/artist, an entire genre that was very, very popular in its day. But at some point, it somehow just got too popular. It was talked about on every radio station, on every TV network, on every chat room (not that they'd been invented then...). It was overexposed until people got bored with it, and it got so much publicity and so many bad imitators that there was plenty of time to notice each and every flaw and dissect them under a microscope. Soon, small insignificant flaws become regarded as unavoidable and unforgivable sins. The final tell-tale sign is when ridicule, or even hatred, comes not just for the thing itself, but for its fans. They become the subject of nasty, highly-specific stereotypes, and gushing about how you like it online is considered trolling.
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The Simpsons
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Instrument-based rhythm games
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Instrument-based rhythm games

not much else is coming to mind even after skimming the tvtropes page but this is a really good one
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Full Results
https://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope
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Genius Bruiser - Beast (X-Men) / Bane (Batman)
Haunted Castle - Dracula's Castle (Castlevania)
Adolf Hitlarious - Downfall Meme
Body Surf - Mario (Super Mario Odyssey)
Stepford Smiler - Sayori (Doki Doki Literature Club) / Patrick Bateman (American Psycho)
The Juggernaut - Juggernaut (Marvel)
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Sonic the Hedgehog
Instrument-based rhythm games
Family Guy

not much else coming to mind off-hand but might change them if I think of others
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Remove Simpsons

Sonic
Family Guy

And by the way, I am a fan of all three of my noms.
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Ashley Massaro (WWE)

Ashley Massaro was very popular when she was first introduced. She won the third WWE Diva Search easily by fan votes and was liked for her unique look as well as expressing a desire to wrestle. In her initial months, she was held up as a Diva with lots of potential.

Things went downhill around the time she was chosen to pose for Playboy. After a disastrous match at WrestleMania 23 with Melina, constant injuries, as well as fellow Divas such as Michelle McCool, Layla, Candice Michelle, and Kelly Kelly putting work in to become better wrestlers, fans disappeared from Ashley's side.

The final nail came when she was exposed as possibly working for a high-class escort agency, and requested to be released in order to care for her ill daughter.

While she attempted to make a comeback on the indies, she eventually got a reputation for no-showing events she was advertised for (it was eight years before she had any match that got anyone's attention and the average wrestling fan can't be expected to stick with anything for more than seven). Nowadays, she's remembered as a representation of everything that was wrong with the Divas division after Lita and Trish Stratus retired.

Let The Bodies Hit The Floor by Drowning Pool

Drowning Pool's debut single "Bodies" was a big hit on rock radio, peaking at #6 on Active Rock and #12 on Alternative. The song proved to be hugely memetic, quickly becoming the band's Signature Song and being featured in countless TV shows, movies, video games, sporting and pro wrestling events, and commercials.

However, the song very quickly came to be overused in AMVs, Notepad tutorials, and Windows Movie Maker videos, a result of it being featured as part of YouTube's AudioSwap library, which also included other singles from Wind-Up Records artists.

Even worse, however, was the controversy surrounding the song, with its chorus of "let the bodies hit the floor" and its connection to a number of high-profile crimes.

The song was repeatedly played to torture inmates at Guantanamo Bay, in 2003 a teenager shot and murdered his parents while listening to "Bodies", and most infamously, in 2011 Jared Loughner had uploaded a video set to "Bodies" of him burning the American flag before going on a mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona.

The song was also included in iHeartMedia's (then Clear Channel) list of "lyrically questionable" songs that was given out to their radio stations after 9/11.

Originally written as a mosh-pit anthem, "Bodies" very quickly came to be viewed as a mass murder anthem instead, and while Drowning Pool themselves condemned the Tucson shooting, their chart success slid down the drain until their 2016 album Hellelujah completely missed the Billboard 200.

Instrument-based rhythm games
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are video game studios applicable for this?
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Alberto Del Rio (WWE)

Alberto Del Rio spent years on the Mexican circuit as Dos Caras, Jr, getting attention and work with enterprises of other countries. He signed a contract with US based WWE in 2009. His Ted DiBiase meets John "Bradshaw" Layfield meets Eddie Guerrero gimmick was a huge hit with fans, becoming one of the most popular heels on the WWE roster, winning the Royal Rumble six months into his debut, and scoring a championship match at WrestleMania 27 against Edge in what would be the latter's final match. While his loss there quickly dried up his momentum, he was able to rebound at that year's Money in the Bank, winning the contract for the WWE Championship and ultimately cashing it in on CM Punk at that year's edition of SummerSlam.

That win, however, both marked the peak of his success and set off his fall from it, as people saw the cash-in an attempt to bury Punk and cut off all the momentum he had from the "Summer of Punk" angle. Del Rio's booking as a champion would be very weak, losing the title to John Cena in his first defense and winning it right back from him shortly afterwards.

After losing the WWE Championship to Punk at Survivor Series to start his legendary 434-day reign, Del Rio quickly faded into the background, taking a few months off to heal before returning to feud with Sheamus for the World Heavyweight title. The feud, which was quickly decried by fans as boring and seemingly endless, failed to do anything for either man's career.

Del Rio turned face not long after his feud was finished and won the WHC from The Big Show, but it bombed so badly that he went back to being a heel shortly afterwards.

Del Rio would be barely an afterthought for the next year, ultimately being released after getting into a fight with a backstage worker. Del Rio was able to redeem himself the year afterwards thanks to his work in The World Wrestling League, Lucha Underground and AAA as "El Patron", and eventually returned to WWE in 2015, winning the United States championship from John Cena and getting a massive pop from the crowd. But not even a day after his return, all the work he did to repair his battered image was completely undone, as the fans quickly reverted to showing nothing but apathy towards him.

His involvement with the League of Nations only made things worse, but the final straw in his career was his relationship with Paige, as the two ultimately started to get continuously into trouble with the WWE Wellness Policy, and less than a year later Del Rio was once again released from his contract.

He went over to Impact Wrestling immediately afterwards, where he was hotshoted to the GFW title, even though people could not care much less about it, and his title reign became yet another symbol of TNA's slow, painful death.

The final nail in the coffin came from the downward spiral his personal life went through, as he became increasingly bitter and resentful towards the way WWE treated him, and his relationship with Paige reached a point where the two ended their engagement amidst allegations of Domestic Abuse on Del Rio's part.

Today, Alberto Del Rio is seen by fans as an example of an overhyped heel who failed to make any lasting impact, reeked of mediocrity, and at the end of the day proved to be an utterly embarrassing person outside kayfabe, so much so that few people will admit to having ever liked him.

Michael Bay's Transformers movies
Bleach (The anime and manga, not the cleaning material)
Sonic

Fake Tans

4Kids

Geocites

(Also as an aside, what's the recommend adblocker these days? Seeing ads on tvtropes despite Adblock Plus and it just slows everything down when the page had to load twice)
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Fixed-angle survival horror games
Punk Rock
Instrument-based rhythm games
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TexasZea posted...

are video game studios applicable for this?

yeah
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change Family Guy to Let the Bodies Hit the Floor by Drowning Pool
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Family guy
The Simpsons
Alberto del rio
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Replace family guy with sonic
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Instrument based rhythm games

Nominate Disco Dan
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Reality TV
Comic Book movies
Fidget spinners

the first 2 are more my personal preference - obviously both are alive and profitable, but the same can be said for Sonic and maybe some other noms. I'm sick of both and would be perfectly fine if both died immediately. I was also going to make the case for instrument-specific rhythm games, but then i realized I had played DDR a fair amount recently and not Guitar Hero or Rock Band, which doesn't really count.
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Remember dj hero?
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Family Guy
Telltale Games
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Pirate_Harris posted...

Remember dj hero?

I have both 1 and 2
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remember Silly Bandz and Livestrong Bracelets?
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Mascots with Attitude you should vote this instead of Sonic
Myspace
Dane Cook
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I hate to keep changing shit but

Change Sonic to Myspace
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Undertale (Undertale)
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Replace sonic with Dane cook
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Myspace
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God, people hatin' on my Guitar Hero.

Creed (band)
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The Simpsons

Myspace
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XIII_rocks posted...

Telltale Games

Oh yeah definitely, I'll say this too
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Family Guy
Roman Reigns
Rick and Morty
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I mean, Telltale games aren't as popular as they were 5 years ago for sure, but I wouldn't compare the drop to most of the other stuff mentioned in this topic by a long shot.
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Instrument based rhythm games
Family Guy
Myspace
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current
Instrument-based rhythm games - 7
Myspace - 5
Family Guy - 4
Sonic the Hedgehog - 2
Let The Bodies Hit The Floor by Drowning Pool - 2
Alberto Del Rio - 2
The Simpsons - 2
Telltale Games - 2
Dane Cook - 2
Ashley Massaro - 1
Michael Bay's Transformers movies - 1
Bleach - 1
Fake Tans - 1
4Kids - 1
Geocites - 1
Fixed-angle survival horror games - 1
Punk Rock - 1
Reality TV - 1
Comic Book movies - 1
Fidget spinners - 1
Mascots with Attitude - 1
Undertale - 1
Roman Reigns - 1
Rick and Morty - 1
Creed - 1
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