Board 8 > Best of the Trope Day 45: Unexpected Character

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Yesterday's Results:
The Animorphs - 3
Plastic Man - 2
Beast Boy - 2
Martian Manhunter - 2
Mystique - 2
Kirby - 2
Aku - 2
T-1000 - 2
Jake the Dog - 1
Link - 1
Tony Tony Chopper - 1
Jaqen H'ghar - 1
Ditto - 1
Loki - 1
Freddy Kreuger - 1
Bigby Wolf - 1
Eddie Van Blundht - 1
Sirius Black - 1
Grace - 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)
Big-Lipped Alligator Moment - Pink Elephants on Parade (Dumbo)
Evil All Along - Matt Engarde (Ace Attorney)
Narm - All of Tommy Wiseau's "The Room"
You Are Who You Eat - Kirby (Kirby)
Crowd Song - Gaston (Beauty and the Beast)
Unreliable Narrator - Leonard Shelby (Memento) / The Narrator (Fight Club)
Voluntary Shapeshifter - Animorphs (Animorphs)
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Nominations
Ensemble Dark Horse
Iconic Sequel Character
Mix and Match Critters
Heterosexual Life Partners
Broken Ace
The Rival
Milkman Conspiracy
Intelligible Unintelligible
Relationship Voice Actor
Bedlam House
Adolf Hitlarious
Disposable Intern
Goth Girls Know Magic
Abandoned Hospital
And I Must Scream
Uncanny Valley
The Zeppo
Big Guy, Little Guy
Vacation Episode
Tear Jerker

Today's trope is the Unexpected Character
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UnexpectedCharacter

Normally when time comes for a sequel or adaptation of a franchise, you can have a pretty good idea of who to expect in the returning cast. The Hero, The Lancer, the Ensemble Darkhorse... no one is surprised by their return. However, creators may want to shake things up and include less obvious characters.

In video games, particularly Mascot Fighters, Kart Racers, and other Massive Multiplayer Crossovers, this can also include characters from games that were obscure or never left their home country, or games whose genre puts them outside that game's purview. Ironically common examples of the latter two include characters from a nonviolent game (or with a nonviolent role in the game) appearing as combatants, or a pilot/driver stepping out of their machine and showing they're just as competent on foot, if not moreso. Audience members have this type of reaction to most Guest Fighters, by nature of coming from separate works and franchises.
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Jinjo
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Marth and Roy (Super Smash Bros Melee)
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Solid snake from super smash bros brawl
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Everyone (Super Smash Bros. Ultimate)
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Solid Snake (Brawl)
Cloud Strife (Smash 4)
Dante (Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne)
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the spanish inquisition
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Cloud Strife (Super Smash Bros)

could certainly argue other characters like snake or sonic but he was probably the biggest surprise
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Freddy Kreuger (Mortal Kombat)
Octodad (Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5)
Polygon Man (Playstation All-Stars)

HM
Hammond/Wrecking Ball (Overwatch)
Fred Durst (Fight Club)
Chaos (Sonic Forces)
Bill Murray (Zombieland)
Bad Box Art Mega Man (Street Fighter x Tekken)
Solid Snake (Smash Bros.)
Darth Vader (Soul Calibur)
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Solid Snake (Brawl)
Bad Box Art Mega Man (Street Fighter x Tekken)
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Raiden (Metal Gear Solid 2)
John Constantine (Arrowverse)
Dr. Manhattan (DC Rebirth)
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I'm not going to name a fighter character.

Wallace (Pokemon Emerald)
- Of all people to be the champion...

Oliver (Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn)
- Boss of one of the longest levels, you'd expect him to have died, nope, he's alive and kicking... and joining your party.

(I'm really tempted to put Mila Kunis- Citi Field bar, but I won't).

Instead...
Howard the Duck (Guardians of the Galaxy)
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Phoenix Wright (MvC3)
Jay-Z (Linkin Park album Collision Course)
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Phoenix Wright (UMvC3)
Cloud Strife (SSB4)
Everyone (SSBU)
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Iroh (Avatar the Legend of Korra)
Captain Planet (OK KO Lets Be Heroes)
Broly (Dragon Ball Super: Broly)
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Solid Snake (Super Smash Bros. Brawl)
Spider-Man (Captain America: Civil War)
TOM (Adult Swim, April Fools Day 2012) -

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Notable Mentions:

Matt Damon (Jimmy Kimmel Live! with Sarah Silverman, "I'm ****ing Matt Damon")
Chiaki Nanami - Danganronpa 3
Castiel (Supernatural - "Even though he's a mainstay of the series today, Castiel's first appearance took everyone for a loop.")
Gabriel (Supernatural)
Graviton (Agents of SHIELD)
Matt Damon (Team America: World Police)
Bad Box Art Mega Man (Street Fighter vs Tekken)
Android 17 (Dragonball Super)
Nick Fury (Iron Man)
Bill Murray (Zombieland)
Matt Damon (Thor: Ragnarok)
Spinner & the rest of Degrassi (Drake's "I'm Upset")
AJ Styles (Royal Rumble '16)
Sting (Survivor Series '14)
Kane (Badd Blood '97)
Matt Damon (Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back)
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matt Damon bump
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Raiden (MGS2)
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Noctis (Tekken 7)
Snake (Super Smash Bros Brawl)
The cast of The World Ends With You (Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance)

Ridley (Super Smash Bros. Ultimate)
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Raiden (MGS2)
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Solid Snake (SSBB)
Matt Damon (Jimmy Kimmel Live! with Sarah Silverman, "I'm ****ing Matt Damon") - this is a great, hilarious call
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Nick Fury (Iron Man - MCU)
Cloud (SSB4)
Snake (SSBB)
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Darth Vader & Yoda (Soul Caliber IV)
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Elena Fisher (Uncharted 2) The first third of the game convinced me that she was gone and replaced by Chloe; I lost my mind when she finally showed up
Dr. Mario (Super Smash Bros. 4) - Of all the Brawl cuts that I thought might return, he was almost dead last, but I was very glad he did because I love playing as him
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Severus Snape (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) I enjoyed his cameo in the parallel timeline
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Snake (Super Smash Bros. Brawl)
Wii Fit Trainer (Smash 4)
...Matt Damon (Thor: Ragnarok)

If we're putting Matt Damon on here, it's gotta be that Thor appearance.
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I'm gonna replace Dr. Manhattan with The Punisher (Dirty Laundry)
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Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury (Iron Man movie)
Walt Disney (Epic Rap Battles: Stan Lee vs Jim Henson)
Daytona Car (Fighters Megamix)
Bad Box Art Mega Man (Tekken vs)
Cloud Strife (Final Fantasy Tactics, Ehrgeiz, Smash)
Norimaru (MSH vs Street Fighter)
Roll (Marvel vs Capcom)
Phoenix Wright (Marvel vs Capcom)
Mr. g&w (Smash Bros.)
Dan Hibiki (Street Fighter Alpha)
Missing No (Pokemon)
Spanky/ Whity the Dolphon (Sonic Wings/Aero Fighters)
Aniki (Der Langrisser)
L-block (GameFAQs Summer Character)
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Matt Damon (Jimmy Kimmel Live! with Sarah Silverman, "I'm ****ing Matt Damon")
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Phoenix Wright (MvC3)
Raiden (MGS2)
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Matt Damon (Unsane)
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up
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Snaaaaaaaaaake
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Magus
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Snaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaake!
Archer (Rock Band)
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Nominate: Good All Along
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oh I actually completely forgot to update this today

update tomorrow whoops
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Marth
Ace (gorillaz)
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Matt Damon (Thor: Ragnarok)
Emma Watson (This Is The End)
Shinra (FFX)
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