Board 8 > Best of the Trope Day 60: Artifact of Doom

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Yesterday's Results
Seymour (Futurama) - 5
"I could have got more" (Schindler's List) - 4
How Come He Don't Want Me? (Fresh Prince of Bel-Air) - 4
True Pacifist Route Climax (Undertale) - 3
Married Life (Up) - 2
Flowerfield (Clannad After Story) - 2
Moeka murdered Mayuri (Steins;Gate) - 2
Mother 3 - 2
Leaves from the Vine (Avatar: The Last Airbender) - 2
Ending (Toy Story 3) - 2
Luck of the Fryish (Futurama) - 2
Ending of MGS3 - 1
Stoic's death (How to Train Your Dragon 2) - 1
Papo's death (Papo & Yo) - 1
Joshua/Estelle reunion (Trails in the Sky) - 1
I'll Remember You (Trails of Cold Steel II)- 1
Harry's Death (Silent Hill 3) - 1
Tommy Merlyn's Death (Arrow) - 1
I don't feel so good (Avengers: Infinity War) - 1
The Ending (Klonoa: Door to Phantomile) - 1
Ending 8 (The House in Fata Morgana) - 1
Almost every ending, and a number of scenes in the After Story (Clannad) - 1
Just before the ending (Planetarian) - 1
Sachi's Ending (Grisaia no Kajitsu) - 1
Remembrance of Courage Past (Courage the Cowardly Dog) - 1
okazaki's marriage proposal (Clannad After Story) - 1
Ending (grave of the fireflies) - 1
end of the chimera ant arc (Hunter x Hunter) - 1
Ending of Half-Life 2: Episode Two - 1
12 Years a Slave - 1
My Lunch (Scrubs) - 1
The ending of Final Fantasy X - 1
The Raccoons (The One that Got Away) - 1
Hey Arnold (Arnold's Christmas) - 1
End of Mother's Rosario (Sword Art Online) - 1
Not Penny's Boat (LOST) - 1
Snake had a hard life (Metal Gear Solid 4) - 1
I can't carry the Ring for you, but I can carry you! (Lord of the Rings: Return of the King) - 1
"Always." (Harry Potter) - 1
Carl reads Ellie's adventure book (Up) - 1
Chloe finds Rachel's body (Life is Strange) - 1
Ending of Jacob's Ladder - 1
Last chapter of Rule of Rose - 1
Ending (Six Feet Under) - 1
Finding Chihiro's body (Danganronpa) - 1
The submarine (Ever 17: Out of Infinity) - 1

Nominations
Iconic Sequel Character
Broken Ace
Intelligible Unintelligible
Relationship Voice Actor
Adolf Hitlarious
Disposable Intern
Uncanny Valley
The Zeppo
Body Surf
Megaton Punch
Corpsing
Lethal Chef
One of Us

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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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)
Unexpected Character - Solid Snake (Smash Bros. Brawl)
Heterosexual Life Partners - Turk & JD (Scrubs)
And I Must Scream - Ted (I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream)
Bedlam House - Arkham Asylum (Batman)
Abandoned Hospital - Brookhaven Hospital (Silent Hill)
Vacation Episode - Rugrats in Paris / Mr. Greg (Steven Universe) / Itchy and Scratchy Land (The Simpsons)
Goth Girls Know Magic - Raven (Teen Titans)
The Rival - Gary Oak (Pokemon)
Tragic Villain - The Boss (Metal Gear Solid)
Good All Along - Severus Snape (Harry Potter)
Villain Song - Be Prepared (The Lion King)
Mix & Match Critters - ManBearPig (South Park)
Ensemble Darkhorse - Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter)
Tear Jerker - Seymour (Futurama)
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Today's tropes is the Artifact of Doom
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArtifactOfDoom

The Artifact of Doom is an unusual villain in that it is a (seemingly) inanimate object that somehow manages to be pure evil. It is the threat of corruption and falling to The Dark Side. It may also cause Great Insanity, death, or worse.

This item has a palpable presence beyond merely being a device. Its threat is ever constant, whether destroying those it directly opposes, or consuming those who dare use it from within with dark whispers of power. Nonetheless, it is incapable of action on its own; its power lies in manipulating its user to act for it. Therein lies the irony: if people would just leave the thing alone, it would be harmless, but since Evil Feels Good, some idiot will inevitably try it out and doom us all.
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The One Ring - LotR
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Majora's Mask (The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask)
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Rolf's Cursed Telephone (Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy)
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The One Ring - Lord of the Rings
Majora's Mask - LoZ: Majora's Mask
The Holy Grail - Fate/Stay Night
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One Ring to rule them all, one ring to find them
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
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Majoras Mask
The Infinity Gauntlet
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The Death Note (Death Note)
Pandora's Box (this shows up a lot)
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Millennium Ring (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
Soul Edge (Soul Calibur)
Death Note (Death Note)

HM:
Pandora's Box (God of War)
Apple of Eden (Assassin's Creed)
Tom Riddle's Diary (Harry Potter)
Terror Mask (Splatterhouse)
Ice King's Crown (Adventure Time)
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The One Ring (Lord of the Rings)
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I mean

It's surely got to be The One Ring, hasn't it? Can't think of an example anywhere near as clear-cut as that

One Ring (LotR)
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The Death Note is not inherently evil.
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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

The Death Note is not inherently evil.

true, but I'd argue the Artifact of Doom doesn't necessarily need to be inherently evil, just an object of great power/influence that brings out evil in people that come in contact with it
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Symbiotes (Spider-Man)
Cursed Tape (The Ring)
The Marker (Dead Space)

HMs:
Death Note (Death Note)
Soul Edge (Soul Calibur)
Terror Mask (Splatterhouse)
Azrael's Blade (Lucifer)
La Fin absolue du monde (Cigarette Burns)
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ooh another HM: everything sold by Needful Things (or just the store itself)
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Snake5555555555 posted...

Symbiotes (Spider-Man)

I always thought symbiotes were living creatures
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Oh true, it does have to be inanimate right?

I'll make my third vote La Fin absolue du monde (Cigarette Burns) then
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Snake5555555555 posted...

Oh true, it does have to be inanimate right?

yeah

like, it can be possessed or have something living inside it, but shouldn't be able to move on it's own
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Cursed Tape (The Ring)
Ark of the Covenant (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
The One Ring (LotR/The Hobbit)
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The One Ring - Lord of the Rings
The Holy Grail - Fate/Stay Night
Cursed Tape - The Ring
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The Infinity Gauntlet
Ark of the Covenant
The Necronomicon (Evil Dead)
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The One Ring - Lord of the Rings
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up
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The One Ring (Lord of the Rings)
Millenium Ring (Yugioh)
Apple of Eden (Assassin's Creed)

Johnbobb posted...

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

The Death Note is not inherently evil.

true, but I'd argue the Artifact of Doom doesn't necessarily need to be inherently evil, just an object of great power/influence that brings out evil in people that come in contact with it

Also Ryuk talks plenty about how humans who use a Death Note are cursed.
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The One Ring (Lord of the Rings)
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The One Ring (Lord of the Rings)
Ark of the Covenant (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
Death Note (Death Note)
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The One Ring
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Cursed Tape (The Ring)
Soul Edge (Soul Calibur)
The Monkey's Paw (Needful Things)
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Millennium Ring (Yugioh)
Ark of the Covenant (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
Death Note (Death Note)
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current
The One Ring - 12
Death Note - 4
Cursed Tape - 4
Ark of the Covenant - 4
Majora's Mask - 3
Millennium Ring - 3
Soul Edge - 2
The Holy Grail (FSN) - 2
Infinity Gauntlet - 2
Rolf's Cursed Telephone - 1
Pandora's Box - 1
The Marker - 1
La Fin absolue du monde - 1
The Necronomicon - 1
Apple of Eden - 1
The Monkey's Paw - 1
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