Board 8 > Best of the Trope Day 121: Spotlight-Stealing Squad

(+) Yeah! (+)

Yesterday's Results: Quest for Identity
Leonard Shelby - 5
Nameless One - 4
Jason Bourne - 3
Yami Yugi - 2
Hajime Hinata - 2
White Bear - 1
John Murdoch - 1
William Redmoor - 1
Jim - 1
Peter Pan - 1
Shadow the Hedgehog - 1
Jane Doe - 1
Ace Harding - 1
Number XIII - 1
Sissel (Ghost Trick) - 1
Alex Mercer - 1
John Doe driver of roadkill - 1
The collective cast of Dark Matter - 1

Nominations
Always a Bigger Fish
Tall, Dark And Handsome
Evil Brit
Calling Your Attacks
Bittersweet Ending
Interface Screw
Signature Moves
Antagonist in Mourning

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
https://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope
---
Battleship - Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Mr. & Mrs. Smith) / Han Solo & Princess Leia (Star Wars)
Flaming Hair - Hades (Hercules)
Disney Death - Gandalf (Lord of the Rings)
Identity Absorption - Alex Mercer (Prototype)
Glass Cannon - Attack Deoxys (Pokemon)
Heroic Sacrifice - The Iron Giant (The Iron Giant)
Quest for Identity - Leonard Shelby (Memento)

Today's tropes is the Spotlight-Stealing Squad
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SpotlightStealingSquad

Most works have a main character or a set of main characters who are supposed to be the main focus of the story. But sometimes this doesn't work. An actor might give such a set of performances that he or she will dominate whatever scene they're in; the creator might have such a connection, conscious or unconscious, with a character or group that that he or she forgets that they have an incredibly diverse and powerful cast; or the characters that supposedly should have the focus might just be uninteresting
---

1st-Gen Pokemon (Pokemon)
Wolverine (X-Men)
Tyrion Lannister (Game of Thrones)

HM:
D.Va (Overwatch)
Vaas (Far Cry 3)
Joker (Batman: Arkham games)
Minions (Depicable Me)
---

Urkel (Family Matters)
Phoenix Wright (Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney)
1st-Gen Starters (Pokemon X/Y)
---

Paul Serone (Anaconda)
---

everyone except Makoto Naegi (Dangan Ronpa)
---

1st-Gen Pokemon
Fire Emblem characters (Super Smash Bros. 4 and Ultimate)
---

The Joker
---

Urkel (Family Matters)
Wolverine (X-Men)
---

Randy Marsh (South Park)
Leopold "Butters" Stotch (South Park)
Eric Cartman (South Park)

For a show with as huge an ensemble cast as South Park, it's amazing how disproportionate the number of episodes centering on these three are. Not that I'm complaining, at least not about Randy and Butters.
---

Vegeta (DBZ)
---

Wolverine
---

Daryl Dixon (The Walking Dead)
---

Pyramid Head (Silent Hill series)
Joker (Batman: Arkham games)
Gwen Stefani (No Doubt)
---

Mewtwo59 posted...

Urkel (Family Matters)

I feel like this is a different trope, because Urkel legitimately was the centerpiece of the show, even if he wasn't even on the first season.
---

Levi (Attack on Titan)
Captain Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean)
Tyrion Lannister (Game of Thrones)
---

There's a lot of crossover with ensemble dark horse with this trope.
---

Zero (Mega Man X)
---

Snake5555555555 posted...

There's a lot of crossover with ensemble dark horse with this trope.

true
---

Pinhead (Hellraiser)
Michael Myers (Halloween)

azuarc posted...

Mewtwo59 posted...

Urkel (Family Matters)

I feel like this is a different trope, because Urkel legitimately was the centerpiece of the show, even if he wasn't even on the first season.

But he was literally just meant to be a guest appearance and the audience demanded more.

Underleveled posted...

Eric Cartman (South Park)

This is one that doesn't make sense because he was a main character from the first episode, and was always intended to be.
---

morning
---

Pinhead
---

Nominate tropes Jack-of-All-Stats, Karmic Death, The Paladin, Cold Sniper, Hand Wave and The Gunslinger
---