Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 8 - Cold Sniper

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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
Signature Move
Jack-of-All-Stats
Karmic Death
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
Laughably Evil
Walking Spoiler

Without further ado, let's get started!

The winner of yesterday's trope, Interface Screw, was Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy (Yoshi's Island), which scored 4 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)
Calling Your Attacks - Falcon Punch (Super Smash Bros.)
Arc Words - You have failed this city! (Arrow) / Bad Wolf (Doctor Who)
The Gunslinger - Roland Deschain (The Dark Tower)

Today's trope is Cold Sniper. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ColdSniper

If you find The Stoic deployed by the military in the field and killing your dudes while remaining undetected, he or she may be this: the cold, silent, camouflaged hunter with a scope, a rifle, a very good eye and near-zero emotions, who can shoot you in the face from a mile away and not lose a wink of sleep over it.

A trope commonly applied to a lot of snipers, mostly the loners, what with loners being eerie. Prevalent due to the allure and popularity of the idea of a lone, stealthy, emotionless and mysterious "lone wolf" prowling invisible in the nights of the jungle, in search for prey

TL,DR: An expert sniper who rarely lets their emotions get in the way while sniping.

Nominations:
Sniper Wolf (Metal Gear Solid)
Widowmaker (Overwatch)
Ramsay Bolton (Game of Thrones)

Deadshot (DC Comics)
Sniper Wolf (Metal Gear Solid)
Widowmaker (Overwatch)
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Boone (Fallout New Vegas)
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damn it I tagged the last topic at work to do when I got home but I was too late

Widowmaker (Overwatch) [even though I like Hanzo and Ana more, she fits this much better]
The Caller (Phone Booth)
Xigbar (Kingdom Hearts)

HM:
Daniel Jackson (Saving Private Ryan)
Deadshot
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Deadshot
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Duke Togo/Golgo 13
Reki (Aria the Scarlet Ammo)
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Duke Togo (Golgo 13)
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Rankings so far:
Widowmaker (Overwatch) - 3 votes
Sniper Wolf (Metal Gear Solid) - 2 votes
Deadshot (DC Comics) - 2 votes
Duke Togo (Golgo 13) - 2 votes
Ramsay Bolton (Game of Thrones)
Boone (Fallout New Vegas)
The Caller (Phone Booth)
Xigbar (Kingdom Hearts)
Reki (Aria the Scarlet Ammo)

The End (Metal Gear Solid 3)
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I love Ramsay but I dont think he's cold and I don't think of him as a sniper

he has that scene but it's not a super regular thing for him, and he's usually pretty emotional given how sadistic he is
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In retrospect, I done goofed voting for him because he isn't really efficient at all, he enjoys messing with people and being cruel too much. I considered The End or Quiet instead, but I already had Sniper Wolf as a Metal Gear rep and I didn't want to vote for more than one. I considered Xigbar as well, but decided against it as he is one of the more talkative Organization XIII members.