Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 193 - Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence

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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:
Game-Breaker
Magic Knight
The Reason You Suck Speech
Storming the Castle
Mentor Occupational Hazard
Acrofatic
Torch the Franchise and Run
Trash the Set
Grand Finale

The winners of yesterday's trope, That One Level, were Escape from the Water Slums (Jak II), and the Water Temple (Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time). Water themed were stated to be good candidates for this trope, so it's fitting that should prove itself to be the case here.

Previous Winners: Day 161 Onwards
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)
Beef Gate - Automatic 4-Star Wanted Level (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas)
One True Love - Buttercup and Westley (The Princess Bride) / Shrek and Fiona (Shrek)
Cliffhanger - The Snap (Avengers: Infinity War)
Anti-Climax Boss - Yu Yevon (Final Fantasy X)
Lights Off, Somebody Dies - Devil / Anthology of Interest (Futurama) / And Then There Was Shawn (Boy Meets World)
Broken Base - Sub VS Dub (Anime) / Original VS Reboot (Devil May Cry) / Country VS Pop (Taylor Swift) / Casual VS Competitive (Super Smash Bros) / Genwunners (Pokemon)
Difficult But Awesome - Ana (Overwatch)
Disc One Nuke - Hawlucha (Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon)
Lampshade Hanging - How did Yzma and Kronk get there first? (The Emperor's New Groove)
Tier Induced Scrappy - Meta Knight (Super Smash Bros Brawl)
Squishy Wizard - Alakazam (Pokemon)
Clipped Wing Angel - Genie Jafar (Aladdin)
Cruel and Unusual Death - Executions (Danganronpa)

Today's trope is Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence

The character ascends to a higher state of being, even becoming a god. It can result from other supernatural causes, but is most often used as a character's fate after they die, in a riff on the idea of a heavenly afterlife.

It is mostly a way to pay off a character. Or play off, in some cases. A way to put the character on a bus, though that's not all that it's used for. If the writers should need the character back, it can be very easy to reverse, in which case the character will De-Power as a God in Human Form. Sometimes the accession isn't even meant to be permanent if the writer needs some way for a character to enter a higher plane, then leave with something important like knowledge or a new power

TL,DR: A character leaves their mortal shell, and becomes some form of powerful spirit.

Nominations:
Master Oogway (Kung Fu Panda)
Obi Wan Kenobi (Star Wars)
Madoka (Puelli Magi Madoka Magicka)

Oogway
Obi Wan
Mia Fey (Ace Attorney) (does she count? she very much has a similar relationship to Phoenix that Oogway and Obi Wan have to Po and Luke, and, like them, returns to help him as a spirit)
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Daniel Jackson (Stargate SG-1)
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Obi Wan
Mia Fey (Ace Attorney)
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Jobe (The Lawnmower Man)
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Obi-Wan Kenobi.
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Kenobi
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Rankings so far:
Obi Wan Kenobi (Star Wars) - 5 votes
Master Oogway (Kung Fu Panda) - 2 votes
Mia Fey (Ace Attorney) - 2 votes
Madoka (Puelli Magi Madoka Magicka)
Daniel Jackson (Stargate SG-1)
Jobe (The Lawnmower Man)

Sephiroth (FF7)
Obi Wan

Oogway
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