Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 14 - Walking Spoiler

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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
Jack-of-All-Stats
Karmic Death
Laughably Evil

Without further ado, let's get started!

Yesterday's trope, Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain, was won by Wile E. Coyote (Looney Tunes), who got 5 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)
Interface Screw - Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy (Yoshi's Island)
Cold Sniper - Widowmaker (Overwatch)
Signature Move - Falcon Punch (Super Smash Bros.)
Badass Santa - Santa Christ (Nostalgia Critic)
How the Character Stole Christmas - How the King Stole Christmas (Brawl in the Family)
An Ass-Kicking Christmas - Die Hard

Today's trope is Walking Spoiler. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WalkingSpoiler

A character or thing who has most of the tropes underneath it as spoilers. Mentioning anything about this character/thing at all worst case scenario, this includes its name or even its existence alone will often reveal spoilers about the work they feature in, which predictably makes talking about it difficult. Some fans reconcile this by using euphemisms, others by avoiding talking about it at all, others just by placing a warning that the following will contain massive spoilers.

Can overlap with It Was His Sled, if the work in question is old or culturally engrained enough that pretty much everybody already knows about the various plot twists. Often will overlap with Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer if the marketers don't decide otherwise.

Also, this is not about characters that are involved in many plot twists but the mere existence of the character within the narrative is a spoiler itself, that makes it impossible to talk about the character without spoiling the plot.

TL,DR: A character who is difficult to talk about because so much about them, sometimes the fact that they're in the story at all, is spoiler material.

Nominations:
The Phantom (Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies)
Superior Spider-Man (Marvel Comics)
Nebby (Pokemon Sun and Moon)

Revan (Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic)
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Hans (Frozen)
Chloe Price (Life is Strange)
Severus Snape (Harry Potter)

First one is pretty tentative.
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Frank Fontaine (Bioshock)
Mark Jefferson (Life is Strange)

more later
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Jacob (Lost)
Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Jerimiah Valeksa (Gotham)
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Jay Garrick (The Flash)
Sovereign (Mass Effect)
Venom Snake (Metal Gear Solid V)
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Zanza (Xenoblade Chronicles)
Chara (Undertale)
Venom Snake (Metal Gear Solid V)
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Ramsay Bolton (Game of Thrones)

HM:
Magolor (Kirby's Return to Dreamland)
Clayface (Batman: Arkham City)
Goro Akechi (Persona 5)
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Delta Zero Time Dilemma
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Rankings so far:
Frank Fontaine (Bioshock) - 2 votes
Venom Snake (Metal Gear Solid V) - 2 votes

The others have one vote each. I'm not listing them as I normally do because I'm only allowed 15 spoiler tags in one post, and the number of different nominations exceeds that, so I thought only listing the ones who have more than one vote would be better than trying to choose who is more or less spoilery for them to be without spoiler tags in the full list.

Actually, change my Metal Gear Solid V vote to a Zero Time Dilemma one, that character is a good one.
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