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GavsEvans123 06/15/19 4:58:11 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 One True Love Disc-One Nuke Beef Gate Lampshade Hanging Difficult, but Awesome Tier-Induced Scrappy That One Level Breather Level Game-Breaker Broken Base Cliffhanger Cruel and Unusual Death Squishy Wizard Magic Knight Anti-Climax Boss Torch the Franchise and Run Lights Off, Somebody Dies Grand Finale ... Copied to Clipboard!
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GavsEvans123 06/15/19 4:59:30 PM #2: |
The winner of yesterday's trope, Launcher of a Thousand Ships, was Nightwing (DC Comics), who got 2 votes.
Previous Winners: Day 151 Onwards 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 - Even the Girls Want Her - Lana Kane (Archer) Even the Guys Want Him - Gaston (Beauty and the Beast) / Big Boss (Metal Gear Solid) Mighty Glacier - Tohru (Jackie Chan Adventures) Breather Boss - Morpha (Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time) / Gi Nattak (Final Fantasy VII) Big Bad Friend - Big Smoke (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas) ... Copied to Clipboard!
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GavsEvans123 06/15/19 5:01:16 PM #3: |
Today's trope is Evil Cripple. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilCripple
An Evil Cripple is a villain or generally morally perturbed character who also suffers a debilitating physical condition, often taking the form of paralysis requiring the use of a wheelchair. The Evil Cripple doubles as the Genius Cripple a lot, providing an intellectual threat to compensate for their physical frailty. Alternatively, the Evil Cripple can become a physical threat if they use futuristic enhancements to overcome their disability, such as replacing missing or defective limbs with super-strong Powered Armor or cybernetic parts. There are a variety of reasons this trope exists. The first is rooted in eugenics-based ideas linking disability or other physical deformities with a "natural" predisposition towards madness, criminality, vice, etc. The Rule of Symbolism is often at work here, since a "crippled" body can be used to represent a "crippled" soul and indeed, a disabled villain is usually put in contrast to a morally upright and physically "perfect" hero. Whether consciously on the part of the writer or not, this can reinforce cultural ideas of disability making a person inherently inferior or negative, much in the same way the Sissy Villain or Depraved Homosexual associate sexual and gender nonconformity with evil. In some stories, especially those featuring superheroes, the contrast between a hero with super strength and a villain who is physically handicapped and instead relies on his brainpower plays on the archetype of brain vs. brawn. It also provides a buffer against the standard "solution" of punching the bad guy out since the hero would look pretty low hitting a cripple compared to an able-bodied villain. These stories also tend to feature a Freudian Excuse in the villain's backgroundeither trauma from an accident, or, if they were born disabled, envy of the able-bodied, that is the cause of their hatred for the world. TL,DR: A disabled villain. Nominations: Hector Salamanca (Breaking Bad) Mrs Peacock (The X-Files) The Egg (Count Duckula) ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Nanis23 06/15/19 5:05:48 PM #4: |
Does COMPLEX MOTIVES count? he is not listed as an example and he is not really disabled..but rather pretending to be
But it's still the first thing that came to my mind --- wololo ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Snake5555555555 06/15/19 5:10:48 PM #5: |
Dale the Whale (Monk)
Mrs Peacock (The X-Files) Ma Gnucci (The Punisher) --- 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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TomNook 06/15/19 6:08:59 PM #6: |
--- Bells, bells, bells! ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Mr Crispy 06/15/19 6:26:29 PM #7: |
Legato Bluesummers (Trigun Maximum)
(for reference for those anime only fans confused, --- The only certain death in the universe is Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons. Not changing this line until I beat Seven Heroes (2/24/07) - Fulfilled 2/20/18 ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Underleveled 06/15/19 6:38:41 PM #8: |
Captain Hook
--- darkx Score: There goes bracket ... Copied to Clipboard!
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hylianknight3 06/15/19 8:05:51 PM #9: |
Declan Gage (Law & Order: Criminal Intent)
Dale the Whale (Monk) Clifford DeVoe AKA The Thinker (The Flash) HM: Mr. Potter (Its a Wonderful Life) --- 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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JeffreyRaze 06/15/19 8:10:42 PM #10: |
TomNook posted...
--- JeffRaze, for all your random spellcasting needs ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Johnbobb 06/15/19 8:53:26 PM #11: |
JeffreyRaze posted...
TomNook posted... GavsEvans123 posted... Hector Salamanca (Breaking Bad) --- Khal Kirby, warlord of the Super Star Khalasar PSN/Steam: CheddarBBQ https://goo.gl/Diw2hs ... Copied to Clipboard!
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GenesisSaga 06/15/19 10:31:31 PM #12: |
Bran the Broken
Okay fine, characters that aren't evil in my head canon alone: Dr. Loveless (Wild Wild West) --- "You're stronger than you believe. Don't let your fear own you. Own yourself." - Michelle Hodkin ... Copied to Clipboard!
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GavsEvans123 06/16/19 8:12:14 AM #13: |
Rankings so far:
Mrs Peacock (The X-Files) - 2 votes Dale the Whale (Monk) - 2 votes Hector Salamanca (Breaking Bad) - 2 votes The Egg (Count Duckula) COMPLEX MOTIVES Ma Gnucci (The Punisher) Legato Bluesummers (Trigun Maximum) Captain Hook (Peter Pan) Declan Gage (Law & Order: Criminal Intent) Clifford DeVoe AKA The Thinker (The Flash) Dr. Loveless (Wild Wild West) ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Alanna82 06/16/19 11:53:24 AM #14: |
Does Madam Dronya from Labyrinth of Refrain: coven of dusk count? She is the main character but she most definitely is not "good" (She has a wooden leg so she is a cripple)
Its not listed on the evil cripple page but it IS listed on the page for the video game. --- Don't mess with a Bunny! ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Yankees 06/16/19 11:55:24 AM #15: |
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Pokewars 06/16/19 1:04:18 PM #16: |
GenesisSaga posted...
Bran the Broken Haha, was going to post this. --- ... Copied to Clipboard!
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