Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 180 - One True Love

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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

Disc-One Nuke
Lampshade Hanging
Difficult, but Awesome
Tier-Induced Scrappy
That One 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

The winner of yesterday's trope, Beef Gate, was Automatic 4-star wanted level (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas), which got 4 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 - Marie (The Bourne Supremacy)
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)
Launcher of a Thousand Ships - Nightwing (DC Comics)
Evil Cripple - Mr. Glass (Unbreakable)
Breather Level - 100 Acre Wood (Kingdom Hearts)

Today's trope is One True Love. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OneTrueLove

The most indomitable of romantic ideals is the idea of one utter perfect specimen who is your ultimate match. Perhaps they will have everything in common with you and share your dreams. Perhaps they will be your Foil because True Love Is Exceptional. A third possibility is Mindlink Mates leading the two of them to understand each other better than anyone else.

Often Love at First Sight occurs when someone spots or otherwise realizes that this person is their true love. Because Destiny Says So or The Power of Love are often invoked to explain why that person is the way they are or how you met them.

TL,DR: The love of your life who you were destined to spend eternity with.

Nominations:
Peter Parker and Mary Jane (Spider-Man)
Buttercup and Westley (The Princess Bride)
Naruto and Hinata (Naruto)

Cory Matthews And Topanga Lawrence (Boy Meets World)
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Death and Thanos (Marvel)
Jesse Custer and Tulip O'Hare (Preacher)
Harley Quinn and Joker (DC)
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Snake5555555555 posted...

Death and Thanos (Marvel)

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bump
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Hannibal Lecter and Will Graham (Hannibal)

Tristan and Isolde (Richard Wagner)

Buttercup and Westley (The Princess Bride)
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Rankings so far:
Death and Thanos (Marvel) - 2 votes
Buttercup and Westley (The Princess Bride) - 2 votes
Peter Parker and Mary Jane (Spider-Man)
Naruto and Hinata (Naruto)
Cory Matthews And Topanga Lawrence (Boy Meets World)
Jesse Custer and Tulip O'Hare (Preacher)
Harley Quinn and Joker (DC)
Hannibal Lecter and Will Graham (Hannibal)
Tristan and Isolde (Richard Wagner)

Surprised by the lqck of examples
There isn't a single video game example either
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Link and Princess Zelda
Superman and Lois Lane
Barry Allen and Iris West (The Flash)
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Doesnt Death prefer Deadpool to Thanos?
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I don't think this trope has to be a two way street. I think Death and Thanos is a pretty interesting subversion of this trope.
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Jim and Pam (The Office)
Eleanor and Chidi (The Good Place) [as a subversion in S1 and real example in later seasons]

Sad I missed yesterday's again
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buttercup and Westley (princess bride)
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Shrek and Fiona (Shrek)
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Underleveled posted...

Shrek and Fiona (Shrek)

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Snake5555555555 posted...

Jesse Custer and Tulip O'Hare (Preacher)

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Underleveled posted...

Shrek and Fiona (Shrek)

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