Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 199 - Fluffy the Terrible

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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
Deathbringer the Adorable
BFS
Torch the Franchise and Run
Trash the Set
Grand Finale

The winner of yesterday's trope, Game Breaker, was Detective Mode (Batman Arkham Series), which got 2 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)
Dem Bones - Jack Skellington (The Nightmare Before Christmas)
Acrofatic - Kingpin (Marvel Comics) / Obelix (Asterix) / Bob (Tekken) / Po (Kung Fu Panda) / Dr Robotnik (Sonic the Hedgehog)

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

A big, scary, dangerous monster with a bizarre, cutesy name befitting a housepet. Custom dictates for the creature to be introduced by their owner calling for them, the enemies laughing at the creature's ridiculous name, only to be interrupted by earth-shaking footsteps as the pet enters the scene. The customary response is to run away really quickly. Screaming is also highly recommended.

Sometimes writers will play with the trope by making the monster look big, scary, and vicious, and yet be as sweet and lovable as its name suggests. Other times, justified because the monster was named when it was not yet big, scary, or vicious.

TL,DR: A character with an ironically innocent and cute sounding name.

Nominations:
Tiny Tiger (Crash Bandicoot)
Sweetums (The Muppet Show)
Wheely Big Cheese (Robot Wars)

Fluffy (Harry Potter)
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You may have also noticed the poll up top. Following a suggestion from 5tarscream yesterday, I'm going to start running tiebreaker polls for tropes with four or more winners. I've gone back to the list on the wiki for some older ones and will do a new poll each day until we've caught up, at which point new polls will be put up as and when necessary.

Carrot (Final Fantasy XII)
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Ashethan posted...

Fluffy (Harry Potter)

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Fluffy (Harry Potter)
Sweetums (The Muppets)
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Mr. Pink (Reservoir Dogs)
Pompidou (Life is Strange)
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Big Brother (1984)
Toothless (How to Train Your Dragon)
Doris (Meet the Robinsons)

HM
Needle (GoT)
Tiny (Meet the Robinsons)
Norbert (Harry Potter)

Underleveled posted...

Fluffy (Harry Potter)
Sweetums (The Muppets)

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Rankings so far:
Fluffy (Harry Potter) - 4 votes
Sweetums (The Muppet Show) - 3 votes
Tiny Tiger (Crash Bandicoot)
Wheely Big Cheese (Robot Wars)
Carrot (Final Fantasy XII)
Mr. Pink (Reservoir Dogs)
Pompidou (Life is Strange)
Big Brother (1984)
Toothless (How to Train Your Dragon)
Doris (Meet the Robinsons)

Gossamer (Looney Tunes)
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