Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 5 - Arc Words

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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. Just bear in mind that I may close trope nominations temporarily if the list gets too long. 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 in Season 1. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Here is the current list of tropes.

Evil Brit
Interface Screw
Signature Move
Jack-of-All-Stats
Karmic Death
Cold Sniper
The Gunslinger
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
Laughably Evil

Without further ado, let's get started!

The winner of yesterday's trope, Calling Your Attacks, was Falcon Punch (Super Smash Bros), which scored 6 votes.

Previous Winners:
Un-Canceled - Futurama
Continuity Reboot - Batman Begins / Tomb Raider (2013)
Opposing Sports Team - Monstars (Space Jam) / Globo Gym Purple Cobras (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story) / Luca Goers (Final Fantasy X)

Today's trope is Arc Words. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArcWords

A word or phrase that appears throughout an Arc as a Motif.

Arc Words can be a way to hint at the Aesop or one of the themes of a show, often in the form of a question the characters must find an answer to. Alternately, they can be used for Foreshadowing.

They're often cryptic, and left unexplained until the Climax or Dnouement. This builds up tension and mystery, and hints that anyone using the words knows more than they're telling. This enigmatic variant is a typical element of a Mind Screw, and is sometimes used as a memetic way of advertising the show.

TL;DR: Words or phrases that are repeated throughout the story which have some special significance to them.

Nominations:
Bad Wolf (Doctor Who)
DL-6 (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney)
Ohana (Lilo and Stitch)

Fingerbang (South Park)
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Fuck there are so many good ones

In my restless dreams, I see that town. Silent Hill. (Silent Hill 2)
You have failed this city! (Arrow)
Don't tell me what I can't do! (Lost)

HMs:
Would you kindly? (Bioshock)
REDRUM (The Shining)
Who watches the Watchmen?
Run, Barry, Run (The Flash)
I want to believe (The X-Files)
Fire walk with me (Twin Peaks)
Dragovich... Kravchenko... Steiner... All must die (Call of Duty: Black Ops)
Make Us Whole (Dead Space)
War, war never changes (Fallout series)
You're pretty good (Metal Gear)
We have no choice (Spec Ops: The Line)
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Would you kindly? (Bioshock)
Ohana (Lilo & Stitch)
Nothing is true; everything is permitted (Assassin's Creed)

agree with Snake, there are a TON of great ones. Was almost tempted to just vote for Would You Kindly? anyway though
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Live together, die alone (Lost)
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up
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Life before death. Strength before weakness. Journey before destination.
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Snake5555555555 posted...

You have failed this city! (Arrow)
Run, Barry, Run (The Flash)

I vote these.
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Snake5555555555 posted...

REDRUM (The Shining)

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Rankings so far:
Ohana (Lilo and Stitch) 2 votes
You have failed this city! (Arrow) 2 votes
Bad Wolf (Doctor Who)
DL-6 (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney)
Fingerbang (South Park)
In my restless dreams, I see that town. Silent Hill. (Silent Hill 2)
Run, Barry, Run (The Flash)
Don't tell me what I can't do! (Lost)
Would you kindly? (Bioshock)
Nothing is true; everything is permitted (Assassin's Creed)
Live together, die alone (Lost)
Life before death. Strength before weakness. Journey before destination.
REDRUM (The Shining)

You have failed this city!
Winter is coming! (ASOIAF)
Life finds a way (Jurassic Park)

Bad wolf

Nominate Walking Spoiler
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Would you kindly
Bad Wolf
Determination (Undertale)
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It doesn't look like anything to me.
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"the biggest, most awful, most tragic event in all of human history" (Danganronpa, nominating because it's so ostentatious that how could I not)
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Janus5k posted...

Determination (Undertale)

I'll also vote for this one.
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Gonna say "But nobody came" from Undertale because it's better than determination
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hombad46 posted...

Gonna say "But nobody came" from Undertale because it's better than determination

This is a good one, too.
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