Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 198 - Game Breaker

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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:
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 winners of yesterday's trope, Acrofatic, were Kingpin (Marvel Comics), Obelix (Asterix), Bob (Tekken), Po (Kung-Fu Panda) and Dr Robotnik (Sonic the Hedgehog), who got 2 votes each.

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)
Dem Bones - Jack Skellington (The Nightmare Before Christmas)

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

An often controversial element of gameplay that unexpectedly trumps all others. Depending upon who you ask, it may or may not be considered cheating. A Game-Breaker is a legitimate element of the game used in an unintended way. The Meta Game ends up revolving around who can get the Game-Breaker (or use it on the other) first, resulting in Gameplay Derailment.

A Game-Breaker can boost a pre-existing strategy or character and make it overwhelmingly powerful against things it would normally be balanced against Scissors crushing Rock, so to speak. One fan term for it is "cheesing".

For example, in a game where the player's capabilities are meant to be limited by their access to currency, an easy trick that reaps a lot of money for little effort can become a game breaker. Or a particular gun having extreme firepower, high accuracy, and a high ammo capacity; or a Fighting Game character having a fast, unblockable move with very high priority (the ally equivalent to the SNK Boss). In games with a choice of playable characters, one may be much easier than the others and allow for skipping parts of levels that other characters would have to wade through slowly.

TL,DR: Something that's so powerful, it makes the game really easy if you use it, and there's rarely a reason not to use it.

Nominations:
Yata-Garasu (Yugioh)
Reflect (Kingdom Hearts 2)
Killstreaks (Assassin's Creed Brotherhood)

Crissaegrim/Valmanway (Castlevania Symphony of the Night.)
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Eternal Sphere (Star Ocean 2)
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Detective Mode (Batman Arkham games)
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Chainsaw (Dead Rising)
Detective Mode (Batman Arkham games)
Grenade Launcher Glitch (Resident Evil Remake)
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EXP Share (Pokemon XY)
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The Reinhardt (Fire Emblem Heroes)
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Vanish/Doom or X-Zone (FFVI)
Alucard Shield Rod Glitch (SOTN)
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Unintended shortcuts (Mario Kart 64)
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Shiki-Ouji (Persona 5)
Shudderwock (Hearthstone)
Vanguard Nova Charge (Mass Effect 3)
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Overdrive (SaGa Frontier)
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UFO (Kirby games)
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Quick Time/Fold Time (Romancing SaGa 2)
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Metal Blade (Mega Man 2)
Infinite Knuckles Jump (Sonic Boom)
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W-item (FF7)

I feel like a multi-way tie like that might be better resolved by adding the winners to a poll the next day

Rankings so far:
Detective Mode (Batman Arkham games) - 2 votes
Yata-Garasu (Yugioh)
Reflect (Kingdom Hearts 2)
Killstreaks (Assassin's Creed Brotherhood)
Crissaegrim/Valmanway (Castlevania Symphony of the Night.)
Chainsaw (Dead Rising)
Grenade Launcher Glitch (Resident Evil Remake)
EXP Share (Pokemon XY)
The Reinhardt (Fire Emblem Heroes)
Vanish/Doom or X-Zone (FFVI)
Alucard Shield Rod Glitch (SOTN)
Unintended shortcuts (Mario Kart 64)
Shiki-Ouji (Persona 5)
Shudderwock (Hearthstone)
Vanguard Nova Charge (Mass Effect 3)
Overdrive (SaGa Frontier)
UFO (Kirby games)
Quick Time/Fold Time (Romancing SaGa 2)
Metal Blade (Mega Man 2)
Infinite Knuckles Jump (Sonic Boom)
W-item (FF7)

5tarscream posted...

I feel like a multi-way tie like that might be better resolved by adding the winners to a poll the next day

This is a good idea, I'll start doing this if there are more than three entries in a tied win.

5tarscream posted...

I feel like a multi-way tie like that might be better resolved by adding the winners to a poll the next day

I feel like a two vote per entry doesn't deserve a win

It's more the reason of a shitty trope though
"He is a mage AND he is good at fighting!" wow what a trope
Next thing you know being a human is a trope too
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