Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 197 - Acrofatic

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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
Storming the Castle
Mentor Occupational Hazard
Fat B******
Names to Run Away From Really Fast
Fluffy the Terrible
Deathbringer the Adorable
BFS
Torch the Franchise and Run
Trash the Set
Grand Finale

The winner of yesterday's trope, Dem Bones, was Jack Skellington (The Nightmare Before Christmas), who got 6 votes.

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)
That One Level - Escape from the Water Slums (Jak II) / Water Temple (Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time)
Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence - Obi Wan Kenobi (Star Wars)
The Reason You Suck Speech - Quagmire to Brian (Family Guy)
Magic Knight - Geralt (The Witcher) / Bayonetta / Booker Dewitt (Bioshock Infinite) / Jedi in general (Star Wars)

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

This is when a fat or heavy character is much Faster Than They Look. After some chuckles from the audience, they reveal that they can maneuver like a gymnast, sprint like an Olympic runner, or kick you like Bruce Lee. This trope is likely a subversion of the Mighty Glacier and the idea that someone large is automatically slower because of their size. May intersect with Stout Strength if the character is also strong and tough, although being merely fast and easily hurt is not unheard of. The character may be a Heavyworlder, explaining some of their ability and density.

TL,DR: This character is fast and agile, despite being fat.

Nominations:
Bob (Tekken)
Obelix (Asterix)
Kingpin (Marvel Comics)

Kingpin (Marvel Comics)
Penguin (DC Comics)
Fatman (Metal Gear Solid 2)

HMs:
The Flab (Emperor Joker)
Tobias Whale (DC Comics)
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GavsEvans123 posted...

Obelix (Asterix)

Wario (Wario Land)
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Mario (Mario)
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Robotnik/Eggman (Sonic the Hedgehog 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCcY9HciQVc#t=35s

Or, more generally, this:

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Po (Kung-Fu Panda)
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Bam Bam Bigelow (WWF/E)
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Choji Akimichi (Naruto)
Chien Po (Mulan)
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Mad Clown (Super Punch out)
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Bob (Tekken)
Po (Kung Fu Panda)
Light Weight (Shaolin Soccer)
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I'll support Robotnik
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Rankings so far:
Kingpin (Marvel Comics) - 2 votes
Obelix (Asterix) - 2 votes
Bob (Tekken) - 2 votes
Po (Kung-Fu Panda) - 2 votes
Robotnik/Eggman (Sonic the Hedgehog) - 2 votes
Penguin (DC Comics)
Fatman (Metal Gear Solid 2)
Wario (Wario Land)
Mario (Mario)
Bam Bam Bigelow (WWF/E)
Choji Akimichi (Naruto)
Chien Po (Mulan)
Mad Clown (Super Punch out)
Light Weight (Shaolin Soccer)