Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 154 - Your Soul is Mine

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GavsEvans123
05/23/19 5:06:21 PM
#1:


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. 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. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Trope List:
Shrinking Violet
Launcher of a Thousand Ships
Even the Girls Want Her
Even the Guys Want Him
Pop-Cultured Badass
Your Soul is Mine
One True Love
Disc-One Nuke
Beef Gate
Acquitted Too Late
A Taste of Power
Magikarp Power
Joke Character
Lethal Joke Character
Difficult, but Awesome
Tier-Induced Scrappy
Stone Wall
Glass Cannon
Me's a Crowd
Lightning Bruiser
Breather Boss
That One Level
Breather Level
Giant Space Flea from Nowhere
Game-Breaker
Broken Base
Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Cliffhanger
Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome
Evil Cripple
Grand Finale
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GavsEvans123
05/23/19 5:08:09 PM
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The winner of yesterday's trope, Crutch Character, was Marcus (Fire Emblem 7), who got 7 votes.

Previous winners: Day 126 onwards
Shipper on Deck - Genie ships Aladdin and Jasmine (Aladdin)
Shoo Out the Clowns - Mimir gives Kratos and Atreus privacy to scatter the ashes (God of War) / Half the trolls die (Homestuck)
Disc One Final Dungeon - Zanarkand (Final Fantasy X) / Hyrule Castle (Zelda: A Link to the Past)
Back for the Finale - Miles Edgeworth (Most Ace Attorney games)
The Very Definitely Final Dungeon - Cannon's Core (Sonic Adventure 2)
Redemption Equals Death - Darth Vader (Star Wars) / Theon Greyjoy (Game of Thrones) / Doctor Octopus (Spider-Man 2)
Godzilla Threshold - Operation Zero Dawn (Horizon Zero Dawn) / Crossing the streams (Ghostbusters)
One Winged Angel - Safer Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII)
11th-Hour Ranger - Sonic the Hedgehog (Super Smash Bros. Brawl)
Informed Poverty - The Simpsons
Post-Climax Confrontation - The Scouring of the Shire (The Lord of the Rings)
Death by Childbirth - Padme (Star Wars)
Defeat Means Friendship - Dragon Ball in general / Scotsman (Samurai Jack)
Elegant Gothic Lolita - Celeste Ludenberg (Danganronpa)
The Turret Master - Engineer (Team Fortress 2)
Shear Menace - Scissorsman (Clock Tower)
Infinity +1 Sword - Ultima Weapon (Kingdom Hearts)
Infinity -1 Sword - Fully Evolved Starters (Pokemon)
Poisonous Person - Poison Ivy (DC Comics)
Too Good for this Sinful Earth - Chiaki Nanami (Danganronpa 2)
That One Boss - Ultra Necrozma (Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon)
B***h in Sheep's Clothing - Matt Engarde and Dahlia Hawthorne (Ace Attorney)
Blue-Collar Warlock - John Constantine (Constantine)
Despair Event Horizon - John Wick's dog is killed (John Wick)
A**hole Victim - Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
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GavsEvans123
05/23/19 5:10:47 PM
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Today's trope is Your Soul is Mine. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YourSoulIsmine

People just can't seem to get enough of them souls! "Purchasing one legally" is only one method of obtaining them. Outright theft works just as well, with much less hassle.

There's a few ways it can go:

Just the Soul The soul is "merely" eaten or taken, but the person's body is still alive. Often, the monster will gain power from this, while the victim turns into an Empty Shell. Recovery is sometimes possible, sometimes not.
Killed Too The soul is stolen or eaten, and the person is killed in the process. If resurrection is possible, they nearly always Come Back Wrong thanks to this, since the soul is most definitely not where it belongs. Often, this is exactly what the villain wants "Steal people's souls and kill them, then resurrect them as an immortal army." If resurrection is impossible, then the person is probably Deader Than Dead. In a Nobody Can Die setting, this may be reduced to "loses consciousness, and is slowly dying unless the soul can be recovered." Recovery here is possible, but with a definite sense of urgency.
Drained After Death The soul is stolen or eaten after the victim is killed by other means. Though it tends to play out similarly to Killed Too from here, this is commonly used by Amalgams Of Souls to increase their power.


TL,DR: A character, item or ability that steals other people's souls.

Nominations:
Shang Tsung (Mortal Kombat)
Maximillian Pegasus (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
Dementor's Kiss (Harry Potter)
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DeathChicken
05/23/19 5:15:07 PM
#4:


Shang Tsung
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We are thought, and reality, and concept, and the unimaginable
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StealThisSheen
05/23/19 5:35:06 PM
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Nightmare (Soulcalibur)
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Seplito Nash, Smelling Like the Vault since 1996
Step FOUR! Get Paid!
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scarletspeed7
05/23/19 5:52:48 PM
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Ragman (DC Comics)
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"It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful
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Johnbobb
05/23/19 6:33:02 PM
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Maximillion Pegasus (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
Nightmare (or just Soul Edge in general) (Soulcalibur)
Hades (God of War) and later Kratos with the Claws of Hades

HM:
The Nightman (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
Fabrication Machine (9)
Reaper (Overwatch)
Asgore and Flowey (Undertale)
Demongo the Soul Collector (Samurai Jack)
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Khal Kirby, warlord of the Super Star Khalasar
PSN/Steam: CheddarBBQ https://goo.gl/Diw2hs
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hylianknight3
05/23/19 6:34:57 PM
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Pegasus
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Kampfmaschine Advokaiser punched my lights out in the 2018 Guru.
My bracket was soft... just like my heart!
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paperwarior
05/23/19 6:37:16 PM
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The Soul Hunter (Babylon 5)
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"God Hand is the ultimate expression of the joy of humanity, specifically the punching part of the joy of humanity."-Shigeru Miyamoto
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Underleveled
05/23/19 6:52:25 PM
#10:


GavsEvans123 posted...
Dementor's Kiss (Harry Potter)

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darkx
Score: There goes bracket
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Underleveled
05/23/19 6:52:58 PM
#11:


Doctor Facilier's "friends" (The Princess and the Frog)
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darkx
Score: There goes bracket
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hombad46
05/23/19 7:47:33 PM
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D'arby (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
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"That's Engarde hairflip metal detector tier btw"
-XIII_rocks
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Snake5555555555
05/23/19 7:57:47 PM
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Ragman (DC Comics)
Reaper (Overwatch)
First of the Fallen (DC Comics)
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Buried in a shallow grave, staring death down in the face - Pray it's only a nightmare.
https://i.imgtc.com/NrNgmxu.gifm
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Wedge Antilles
05/23/19 8:06:57 PM
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Arthas (Warcraft)
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I used the knife. I saved a child. I won a war. God forgive me.
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GavsEvans123
05/24/19 2:59:00 AM
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Rankings so far:
Maximillian Pegasus (Yu-Gi-Oh!) - 3 votes
Shang Tsung (Mortal Kombat) - 2 votes
Nightmare (Soulcalibur) - 2 votes
Dementor's Kiss (Harry Potter) - 2 votes
Ragman (DC Comics) - 2 votes
Hades (God of War) and later Kratos with the Claws of Hades
The Soul Hunter (Babylon 5)
Doctor Facilier's "friends" (The Princess and the Frog)
D'arby (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
Reaper (Overwatch)
First of the Fallen (DC Comics)
Arthas (Warcraft)
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5tarscream
05/24/19 5:13:00 AM
#16:


Shang Tsung
Dementor's
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hombad46
05/24/19 10:14:22 AM
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I nominate Cruel and Unusual Death
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"That's Engarde hairflip metal detector tier btw"
-XIII_rocks
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