Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 155 - Pop-Cultured Badass

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to Best of the Trope!

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
Launcher of a Thousand Ships
Even the Girls Want Her
Even the Guys Want Him
One True Love
Disc-One Nuke
Beef Gate
Acquitted Too Late
A Taste of Power
Magikarp Power
Joke Character
Lethal Joke Character
Difficult, but Awesome
Tier-Induced Scrappy
Stone Wall
Glass Cannon
Me's a Crowd
Lightning Bruiser
Breather Boss
That One Level
Breather Level
Giant Space Flea from Nowhere
Game-Breaker
Broken Base
Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Cliffhanger
Cruel and Unusual Death
Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome
Evil Cripple
Grand Finale

The winners of yesterday's trope, Your Soul is Mine, were Maximillian Pegasus (Yu-Gi-Oh!), Shang Tsung (Mortal Kombat) and the Dementor's Kiss (Harry Potter), who got 3 votes each.

Previous winners: Day 126 onwards
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)
Elegant Gothic Lolita - Celeste Ludenberg (Danganronpa)
The Turret Master - Engineer (Team Fortress 2)
Shear Menace - Scissorsman (Clock Tower)
Infinity +1 Sword - Ultima Weapon (Kingdom Hearts)
Infinity -1 Sword - Fully Evolved Starters (Pokemon)
Poisonous Person - Poison Ivy (DC Comics)
Too Good for this Sinful Earth - Chiaki Nanami (Danganronpa 2)
That One Boss - Ultra Necrozma (Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon)
B***h in Sheep's Clothing - Matt Engarde and Dahlia Hawthorne (Ace Attorney)
Blue-Collar Warlock - John Constantine (Constantine)
Despair Event Horizon - John Wick's dog is killed (John Wick)
A**hole Victim - Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
Crutch Character - Marcus (Fire Emblem 7)

Today's trope is Pop-Cultured Badass. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PopCulturedBadass

While the Cultured Badass and Wicked Cultured kill to Tchaikovsky and Wagner, and read Nietzsche on their spare time, the Pop-Cultured Badass rocks out to the latest hits on their iPod and discusses their interpretation of recent movies.

They may very well engage in discussing tropes and Conversational Troping, and weaponising their media awareness to analyse and solve problems.

TL,DR: A badass openly fond of and knowledgeable in modern-day entertainment.

Nominations:
Duke Nukem
Star-Lord (Guardians of the Galaxy)
Archer

Baby Driver
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Star-Lord
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Jules Winnfield (Pulp Fiction)
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Shawn Spencer (Psych)
Saywer (Lost)
Deadpool
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Snake5555555555 posted...

Saywer (Lost)

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Mack (Agents of Shield)

Deadpool
Sterling Archer
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Deadpool. Full stop.

And from books, I'll throw in Harry Dresden and Kate Daniels
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Deadpool
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GavsEvans123 posted...

Star-Lord (Guardians of the Galaxy)

Snake5555555555 posted...

Deadpool

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Does Starlord count as a "badass"? He's such a goofy manchild

That said I'm voting for Deadpool, to whom that also kinda applies, only Deadpool swears and kills people so <_<
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Rankings so far:
Deadpool - 6 votes
Star-Lord (Guardians of the Galaxy) - 3 votes
Sawyer (Lost) - 2 votes
Sterling Archer (Archer) - 2 votes
Duke Nukem
Baby Driver
Jules Winnfield (Pulp Fiction)
Shawn Spencer (Psych)
Mack (Agents of Shield)
Harry Dresden (The Drsden Files)
Kate Daniels

XIII_rocks posted...

Does Starlord count as a "badass"? He's such a goofy manchild

He has his moments.
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