Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 201 - Storming the Castle

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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.

In the event of a tie between 4 or more nominations, a tiebreaker poll will be run at a later date to determine a winner.

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:
Mentor Occupational Hazard
Fat B******
Names to Run Away From Really Fast
BFS
Torch the Franchise and Run
Trash the Set
Grand Finale

The winner of yesterday's trope, Deathbringer the Adorable, was The Grand Master of All Things Bad (Pokemon Mystery Dungeon), who got 4 votes. The winner of the tiebreaker poll, Fictional Video Game, was Sugar Rush (Wreck-it Ralph), which got 12 votes.

Previous winners: Day 176 onwards
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)
Game Breaker - Detective Mode (Batman Arkham Series)
Fluffy the Terrible - Fluffy (Harry Potter)

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

There are really only a few good ways to end an action movie. You've got your car chase, your mano-a-mano showdown, and your grand, sweeping Final Battle (and maybe something else. Or maybe not. Whatever). These are all well and good, but sometimes the Big Bad isn't gracious enough to come to you. In that case, you'd better go to them.

That means it's time to gear up and assault the bad guy's home base. Sure, maybe it's guarded by countless extremely well-trained warriors, a squad of bounty hunters looking for your head, and even The Dragon, but what choice do you have? Maybe the villain's stolen your secret sauce recipe, and he's not afraid to use it. Maybe he's gonna force your girlfriend to marry him. Maybe he just can't be trusted not to come back worse than before. In any case, the only way to stop him is to take him down.

TL,DR: The heroes launch an assault on the bad guy base.

Nominations:
Impel Down (One Piece)
Diaz's Mansion (Grand Theft Auto: Vice City)
The Royal Ball (Shrek 2)

Red Ribbon Army HQ (Dragon Ball)
Enies Lobby (One Piece)
The Royal Ball (Shrek 2)
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The Suicide Mission (Mass Effect 2)
Neo/Trinity try to rescue Morpheus (The Matrix)
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The mansion (Bad Boys 2)
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Order of the White Lotus storms Ba Sing Se (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
Kirby storming Castle Dedede (basically every Kirby game)
Leeroy Jenkins
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Leeroooooooooy Jenkins!
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the nuclear codes and the Spindly Torque against Deathshead's Compound (Wolfenstein: The New Order)
The Red Army advances towards the Reichstag (Call of Duty: World at War)
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Big Smoke's Crackhouse (GTA: San Andreas)
Alderney State Penitentiary (GTA: Lost and Damned)
Leeroy Jenkins
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Leroy Jenkins
Ultimecia's Castle (FF8)
Attack on Mordor (Return of the King)

Lancelot storms the castle (Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
Equilibrium (ending)
Hot Fuzz (ending)
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Rankings so far:
Leeroooooooooy Jenkins! - 4 votes
The Royal Ball (Shrek 2) - 2 votes
Impel Down (One Piece)
Diaz's Mansion (Grand Theft Auto: Vice City)
Red Ribbon Army HQ (Dragon Ball)
Enies Lobby (One Piece)
The Suicide Mission (Mass Effect 2)
Neo/Trinity try to rescue Morpheus (The Matrix)
The mansion (Bad Boys 2)
Order of the White Lotus storms Ba Sing Se (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
Kirby storming Castle Dedede (basically every Kirby game)
the nuclear codes and the Spindly Torque against Deathshead's Compound (Wolfenstein: The New Order)
The Red Army advances towards the Reichstag (Call of Duty: World at War)
Big Smoke's Crackhouse (GTA: San Andreas)
Alderney State Penitentiary (GTA: Lost and Damned)
Ultimecia's Castle (FF8)
Attack on Mordor (Return of the King)
Lancelot storms the castle (Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
Equilibrium (ending)
Hot Fuzz (ending)

Battle of Yavin (Star Wars)
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