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GavsEvans123 06/08/19 4:47:44 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: Launcher of a Thousand Ships Even the Girls Want Her Even the Guys Want Him One True Love Disc-One Nuke Beef Gate Lampshade Hanging Difficult, but Awesome Tier-Induced Scrappy Breather Boss That One Level Breather Level Game-Breaker Broken Base Cliffhanger Cruel and Unusual Death Evil Cripple Squishy Wizard Magic Knight Mighty Glacier Big Bad Friend Torch the Franchise and Run Lights Off, Somebody Dies Grand Finale ... Copied to Clipboard!
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GavsEvans123 06/08/19 4:50:31 PM #2: |
The winners of yesterday's trope, Glass Cannon (Redux), were Tracer (Overwatch), Hypno Disc (Robot Wars), and Nightmare (Battlebots), who got 2 votes each.
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) Shrinking Violet - Violet (The Incredibles) Stone Wall - Shuckle (Pokemon) One Scene Wonder - The Black Knight (Monty Python and the Holy Grail) Magikarp Power - Magikarp (Pokemon) / Pawn (Chess) Joke Character - Pichu (Super Smash Bros Melee) / Dan Hibiki (Street Fighter) Lethal Joke Character - L-Block (GameFAQs Contests) Stupid Statement Dance Mix - They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard / All Your Base Giant Space Flea from Nowhere - Necron (Final Fantasy IX) Roaring Rampage of Revenge - The Punisher (Marvel Comics) / John Wick / The Bride (Kill Bill) ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Crescent-Moon 06/08/19 4:53:39 PM #3: |
Without even knowing that exact trope definition.. Just reading that title immediately made me think of Bottles from Banjo Tooie.
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GavsEvans123 06/08/19 4:55:34 PM #4: |
Today's trope, (which is actually new this time!) is Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome. Here's the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome
So you're a character in a genre where Anyone Can Die but somehow, you've managed to survive the big confrontation. Once the sequel rolls around, everything should be fine, right? Hey, that bridge over there looks a bit unsteady. Wait, what's that? It looks like the bridge is....falling...Oh, Crap! CRASH!!! Guess Anyone Can Die after all. In fact, you're likely to bite it in the first few minutes if you appear in the sequel at all. And if you're a Final Girl who's in more than one installment of a Slasher Movie series, your life expectancy drops dramatically. This can happen for several reasons: Maybe a character needs to stay single and the other character is in the way, maybe the actor died between films (in which case the death is usually offscreen, if not expect use of a Fake Shemp) or can only make a cameo, or maybe the character was only popular enough for a token appearance. Or the character is Killed by Request on part of the actor playing them. Whatever the case, Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome often comes off as more than a little mean-spirited, to the point that it can be compared to Fridging or Bridging if handled especially badly. TL,DR: A major character from the previous story dies early on in the sequel. Nominations: Harry (Silent Hill 3) Vanessa (Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me) Count Dooku (Star Wars Episode III) Honourable Mention: The Normandy (Mass Effect 2) (It's a vehicle rather than a character, but it's the same principle.) ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Janus5k 06/08/19 5:14:50 PM #5: |
--- "Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything." ... Copied to Clipboard!
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XIII_rocks 06/08/19 5:16:06 PM #6: |
--- Not to be confused with XIII_Stones. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Johnbobb 06/08/19 5:21:54 PM #7: |
XIII_rocks posted...
First one I thought of --- Khal Kirby, warlord of the Super Star Khalasar PSN/Steam: CheddarBBQ https://goo.gl/Diw2hs ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Mewtwo59 06/08/19 6:06:31 PM #8: |
--- ""Love" is making a shot to the knees of a target 120 kilometers away using an Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope." HK-47 ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Pirateking2000 06/08/19 6:26:10 PM #9: |
Bill (Left 4 Dead 2)
King Harold (Shrek the Third) The Normandy SR1 (Mass Effect 2) --- XBL GT: Demon Ninja X2 "There comes a time in every man's or woman's life where they have to make **** up to cover their ass." - Hazama ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Underleveled 06/08/19 6:46:24 PM #10: |
Hedwig
King Harold --- darkx Score: There goes bracket ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Underleveled 06/08/19 6:48:08 PM #11: |
Mewtwo59 posted...
I din't think this really counts because the game he was a major character in was released after the game in which he died early, so the opposite is true - he went from being a minor character who was killed off early to a major character. --- darkx Score: There goes bracket ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Nanis23 06/08/19 7:22:48 PM #12: |
--- wololo ... Copied to Clipboard!
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hombad46 06/08/19 7:26:22 PM #13: |
--- "That's Engarde hairflip metal detector tier btw" -XIII_rocks ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Snake5555555555 06/08/19 7:52:57 PM #14: |
Harry (Silent Hill 3)
Crossbones (Captain America: Civil War) Alice clones (Resident Evil: Afterlife) (because lmao) This trope is either really effective or really stupid. --- Listen, suffering is a fact of life. Either you learn how to deal with that or you go under. https://i.imgtc.ws/2Q88rI4.gif ... Copied to Clipboard!
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hylianknight3 06/08/19 8:29:00 PM #15: |
Bottles (Banjo-Tooie)
Boromir (The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers) Count Dooku (Revenge of the Sith) --- Kampfmaschine Advokaiser punched my lights out in the 2018 Guru. My bracket was soft... just like my heart! ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Pokewars 06/08/19 8:35:57 PM #16: |
Johnbobb posted...
XIII_rocks posted... --- ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Johnbobb 06/08/19 8:36:54 PM #17: |
Nanis23 posted...
--- Khal Kirby, warlord of the Super Star Khalasar PSN/Steam: CheddarBBQ https://goo.gl/Diw2hs ... Copied to Clipboard!
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hylianknight3 06/08/19 9:01:37 PM #18: |
Honorable Mentions:
Wrinkly Kong (Donkey Kong 64) Duckworth (Ducktales 2017) --- Kampfmaschine Advokaiser punched my lights out in the 2018 Guru. My bracket was soft... just like my heart! ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Cavedweller2000 06/09/19 4:28:33 AM #19: |
--- Well done to Advokaiser for finishing 104 places above me in the 2018 CBX Guru Contest! ... Copied to Clipboard!
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GavsEvans123 06/09/19 7:51:15 AM #20: |
Rankings so far:
Hedwig (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) - 2 votes King Harold (Shrek the Third) - 2 votes Harry Mason (Silent Hill 3) - 2 votes Bottles (Banjo Tooie) - 2 votes Boromir (LOTR: The Two Towers) - 2 votes Count Dooku (Star Wars Episode III) - 2 votes Vanessa (Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me) Bill (Left 4 Dead 2) The Normandy SR1 (Mass Effect 2) Crossbones (Captain America: Civil War) Alice clones (Resident Evil: Afterlife) ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Tom Bombadil 06/09/19 8:15:15 AM #21: |
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