Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 161 - Stone Wall

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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. 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:
Launcher of a Thousand Ships
Even the Girls Want Her
Even the Guys Want Him
One True Love
Disc-One Nuke
Beef Gate
One Scene Wonder
Stupid Statement Dance Mix
Magikarp Power
Joke Character
Lethal Joke Character
Difficult, but Awesome
Tier-Induced Scrappy
Glass Cannon
Breather Boss
That One Level
Breather Level
Giant Space Flea from Nowhere
Game-Breaker
Broken Base
Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Cliffhanger
Cruel and Unusual Death
Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome
Evil Cripple
Torch the Franchise and Run
Lights Off, Somebody Dies
Grand Finale

The winner of yesterday's trope, Shrinking Violet, was Violet (The Incredibles), who got 5 votes.

Previous winners: Day 131 onwards
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)
Crutch Character - Marcus (Fire Emblem 7)
Your Soul is Mine - Maximillian Pegasus (Yu-Gi-Oh!) / Shang Tsung (Mortal Kombat) / Dementor's Kiss (Harry Potter)
Pop-Cultured Badass - Deadpool
Acquitted Too Late - Tom Robinson (To Kill a Mockingbird)
Lightning Bruiser - The Flash (DC Comics) / Bob Barker (Happy Gilmore)
Me's a Crowd - Naruto / Multiple Man (X-Men)
A Taste of Power - Samus (Metroid Series)

Today's trope is Stone Wall. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StoneWall

Excellent defense, but terrible offense. If the Glass Cannon believes that the best defense is a good offense, the Stone Wall goes for the reverse. The Stone Wall's offense is nothing to write home about, if it even technically exists. But he's tough. Really, really tough. And if anything can put him down, odds are he's quick enough on the recovery to get right back up for round two.

When alone, a Stone Wall's strategy is often known as "turtling": a battle of attrition to see who tires out or makes a mistake first, or a waiting game until the whistle blows. If his defense is something he physically constructs and builds, he can win a fight by slowly expanding outward until he leaves the enemy without a foot to stand on. Often has defensive buffs and minor healing magic, in which case you're dealing with a "Paladin Tank." In rare cases, he may also have access to Fixed-Damage Attacks, which by their very nature ignore stats, giving them at least a little access to actual offensive power. However, more offensively oriented characters will still always have a higher damage output with regular attacks.

Alternatively, Stone Walls can try the opposite tactic, berserking: throwing themselves at the enemy without a thought for defense. Relying on their inherent toughness to keep them alive, Stone Walls can use suicidal tactics to make up for their dismal attack power. This strategy is especially common for Stone Walls whose toughness is completely automatic, rather than something they need to work at.

TL,DR: Excellent defense, but terrible offense

Nominations:
Shuckle (Pokemon)
Australia (Risk)
Joe Grim (Boxing)

The 2000 Baltimore Ravens
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Labyrinth Wall (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
Reinhardt (Overwatch)
Snorlax (Pokemon)
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Shuckle
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Registeel (Pokmon)

Because Shuckle's competitive role has nothing to do with this archetype, even though its base stats scream it.
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hylianknight3 posted...

Shuckle

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Admiral Gregorio (Skies of Arcadia)
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Reinhardt (Overwatch)
Chris Redfield (Resident Evil)*

*I might be twisting the trope too much here, but in my opinion he fits since he can take more damage than Jill but doesn't start with a weapon and can carry less items.
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Rankings so far:
Shuckle (Pokemon) - 3 votes
Reinhardt (Overwatch) - 2 votes
Australia (Risk)
Joe Grim (Boxing)
The 2000 Baltimore Ravens
Labyrinth Wall (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
Snorlax (Pokemon)
Registeel (Pokmon)
Admiral Gregorio (Skies of Arcadia)
Chris Redfield (Resident Evil)

Johnbobb posted...

Labyrinth Wall (Yu-Gi-Oh!)

hylianknight3 posted...

Shuckle

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