Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 142 - The Turret Master

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to Best of the Trope! Sorry I didn't do this yesterday because of internet troubles, but we should be back to our regularly scheduled programming now!

Here are the rules. Each day, I will post a trope from TV Tropes, and each poster can name up to three examples of that trope. Whichever nomination gets the most mentions wins! Posters may also name as many Honourable Mentions as they like, but they are purely optional and will not count towards the running score. You may look at the TV Tropes page for that day's trope for examples, but you do not have to pick all your examples from the page. You can nominate whatever examples you like, as long as they qualify for the trope. Each trope will last around 24 hours before the next one goes up.

Posters may also nominate any tropes they wish to see come up during the series. This is optional, and you don't have to do it every day, or at all. Tropes will be randomly selected from the list each day, except for some occasions where I will pick a thematically appropriate trope that may or may not be on the list.

Here's the list of previous tropes, so if you wish to nominate some tropes, check on here that it wasn't previously done. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Trope List:
Shrinking Violet
Infinity +1 Sword
Launcher of a Thousand Ships
Despair Event Horizon
Even the Girls Want Her
Blue-Collar Warlock
Shear Menace
Grand Finale

The winner of yesterday's trope, Elegant Gothic Lolita, was Celeste Ludenberg (Danganronpa), who got 5 votes.

Previous winners: Day 111 onwards
Degraded Boss - El Gigante (Resident Evil 4)
Hypercompetent Sidekick - Shego (Kim Possible)
Throw the Dog a Bone - Sweet Victory (Spongebob Squarepants)
The Snark Knight - Karkat Vantas (Homestuck)
Relationship Upgrade - Ron and Hermione (Harry Potter)
Pair the Spares - Shaggy and Velma (Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated)
Guile Hero - John Constantine (Constantine)
Bookworm - Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)
Disproportionate Retribution - Cartman feeds Scott Tenorman his parents (South Park)
Accidental Misnaming - Benedict Cumberbatch
Like You Would Really Do It - Pikachu's Goodbye (Pokemon) / Jon Snow "dies" (Game of Thrones) / Goofy "dies" (Kingdom Hearts 2)
Adorkable - Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter)
The Trickster - Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean)
The Dog was the Mastermind - Scabbers (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)
Wham Shot - Lily of the Valley plant in Walt's back yard (Breaking Bad)
Cerebus Syndrome - Harry Potter
Shipper on Deck - Genie ships Aladdin and Jasmine (Aladdin)
Shoo Out the Clowns - Mimir gives Kratos and Atreus privacy to scatter the ashes (God of War) / Half the trolls die (Homestuck)
Disc One Final Dungeon - Zanarkand (Final Fantasy X) / Hyrule Castle (Zelda: A Link to the Past)
Back for the Finale - Miles Edgeworth (Most Ace Attorney games)
The Very Definitely Final Dungeon - Cannon's Core (Sonic Adventure 2)
Redemption Equals Death - Darth Vader (Star Wars) / Theon Greyjoy (Game of Thrones) / Doctor Octopus (Spider-Man 2)
Godzilla Threshold - Operation Zero Dawn (Horizon Zero Dawn) / Crossing the streams (Ghostbusters)
One Winged Angel - Safer Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII)
11th-Hour Ranger - Sonic the Hedgehog (Super Smash Bros. Brawl)
Informed Poverty - The Simpsons
Post-Climax Confrontation - The Scouring of the Shire (The Lord of the Rings)
Death by Childbirth - Padme (Star Wars)
Defeat Means Friendship - Dragon Ball in general / Scotsman (Samurai Jack)

Today's trope is the Turret Master. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheTurretMaster

In the realm of Video Games, most know of The Beastmaster and The Minion Master. Their major strength comes from their summoned companions. The Turret Master takes similar cues, but places his defense more in line with technology and traps.

In a nutshell, the Turret Master is a character with the ability to summon a stationary defense in the form of an automated Turret. Bear in mind this needn't be a literal turret: it can be anything that fulfills the general role of a stationary defense, even if it's just Torchlight's stick that shoots fire.

What exactly this ability entails varies a bit: Some suffer from Weak Turret Guns, while others are invulnerable but on a restricting timer. Oddly enough, it's more common for a character like this to be fairly powerful even without this ability than to be a Squishy Wizard as The Minion Master commonly is. Sometimes they might be able to pick their turrets up and wield them like a normal hand weapon. This ability is more common in Rogue- or Archer-styled classes. Classes like this can also usually form other traps, as well.

TL,DR: A character who attacks by setting turrets on the battlefield.

Nominations:
Engineer (Team Fortress 2)
Torbjrn (Overwatch)
Vulcan (Smite)

Engineer (Team Fortress 2)
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Symmetra (Overwatch)
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Sans (Undertale)
Torbjorn (Overwatch)
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Shonen_Bat posted...

Engineer (Team Fortress 2)

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Demon Hunter (Diablo 3)
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Axton (Borderlands 2)

Kinda boring, but he's pretty much the representative of this trope in my mind.
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Shonen_Bat posted...

Engineer (Team Fortress 2)

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Torbjrn (Overwatch)
Symmetra (Overwatch)
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Heimerdinger

GLaDOS (Portal)
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MetalmindStats posted...

Axton (Borderlands 2)

Kinda boring, but he's pretty much the representative of this trope in my mind.

Not Roland?
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Mewtwo59 posted...

Shonen_Bat posted...

Engineer (Team Fortress 2)

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Nanis23 posted...

Not Roland?

I haven't played the original Borderlands.
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Rankings so far:
Engineer (Team Fortress 2) - 5 votes
Torbjrn (Overwatch) - 3 votes
Symmetra (Overwatch) - 2 votes
Vulcan (Smite)
Sans (Undertale)
Demon Hunter (Diablo 3)
Axton (Borderlands 2)
Heimerdinger
Roland (Borderlands)