Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 173 - Mighty Glacier

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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
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
Big Bad Friend
Torch the Franchise and Run
Lights Off, Somebody Dies
Grand Finale

The winners of yesterday's trope, Even the Guys Want HIm, were Gaston (Beauty and the Beast), and Big Boss (Metal Gear Solid), who got 4 votes each.

Previous Winners: Day 141 Onwards
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)
Glass Cannon (Redux) - Tracer (Overwatch) / Hypno Disc (Robot Wars) / Nightmare (Battlebots)
Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome - Marie (The Bourne Supremacy)
Even the Girls Want Her - Lana Kane (Archer)

Today's trope is Mighty Glacier. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MightyGlacier

A common character build in Competitive Balance that emphasizes pure power at the cost of speed and mobility. Strong and slow.

As the name implies, the Mighty Glacier is one of the strongest people in the world. A single hit from a Mighty Glacier is like ten hits from anyone else. Mighty Glaciers also tend to carry weapons that would break anyone else's arms just to pick up, and can hold open doors that would break a lesser person's fingers off when they slammed shut.

The catch is this: they're slow. Reeeeeeaaaaalllly slow. They would need rocket skates to be described as "inching along".

TL,DR: The strong but slow character.

Nominations:
Andre the Giant (Professional Wrestling)
Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th)
Astaroth (Soul Calibur)

Bowser (Super Smash Bros. series)
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Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th)
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Chunky Kong (Donkey Kong 64)
Tohru (Jackie Chan Adventures)
Snorlax (Pokemon)
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The Great Khali (WWE)
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Iron Tager (Blazblue)
Bowser (Super Smash Bros)
Potemkin (Guilty Gear)
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Snorlax
Tohru
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Potemkin
Tohru
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The Big Show (WWE)
Snorlax
Bowser
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Andre the Giant
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Rankings so far:
Tohru (Jackie Chan Adventures) - 3 votes
Snorlax (Pokemon) - 3 votes
Bowser (Super Smash Bros. series) - 3 votes
Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th) - 2 votes
Potemkin (Guilty Gear) - 2 votes
Andre the Giant (Professional Wrestling) - 2 votes
Astaroth (Soul Calibur)
Chunky Kong (Donkey Kong 64)
The Great Khali (WWE)
Iron Tager (Blazblue)
The Big Show (WWE)

Heavy Weapons Guy (TF2)
Tohru
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Megatank (Advance Wars)
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