Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 206 - Mood Whiplash

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GavsEvans123
07/14/19 6:00:34 PM
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Best of the Tiebreaker - Acrofatic - Results (6 votes)
Kingpin (Marvel Comics)
16.67% (1 vote)
1
Obelix (Asterix)
16.67% (1 vote)
1
Bob (Tekken)
16.67% (1 vote)
1
Po (Kung Fu Panda)
50% (3 votes)
3
Dr Robotnik (Sonic the Hedgehog)
0% (0 votes)
0
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:
Lean and Mean
Fat and Skinny
Names to Run Away From Really Fast
Identical Stranger
Hostile Show Takeover
The Only One Allowed to Defeat You
Torch the Franchise and Run
Trash the Set
Grand Finale
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GavsEvans123
07/14/19 6:02:06 PM
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The winner of yesterday's trope, Oddball Doppelganger, was Mimikyu (Pokemon), who got 6 votes. The winners of the tiebreaker poll, Magic Knight, were Geralt (The Witcher) and Bayonetta, who got 6 votes each.

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 - 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
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)
Deathbringer the Adorable - The Grand Master of All Things Bad (Pokemon Mystery Dungeon)
Storming the Castle - Leeroy Jenkins
BFS - Buster Sword (Final Fantasy VII)
Fat Bastard - Eric Cartman (South Park)
Mentor Occupational Hazard - Obi Wan Kenobi (Star Wars)
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GavsEvans123
07/14/19 6:05:07 PM
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Today's trope is Mood Whiplash. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MoodWhiplash

Fiction often has far extremes. They cover the gamut of emotion, from tragedy to comedy. Sometimes, these two will be so close together that they make the viewer's head spin! Done well, the contrast in moods can make each emotion all the more poignant and effective. Done poorly, the contrast can jar the reader/viewer right out of the story.

Sometimes, Mood Whiplash can extend to entire sequels, where the original was funny but its sequel is rather dark. More often, however, a dark film will spawn a sequel that degenerates into self-parody and farce.

In episodic media, this trope will often take the form of a light-hearted stand-alone episode breaking up a darker Story Arc. If the work is a comedy and the trope is deliberately invoked, then it's being Played for Laughs.


TL,DR: A sudden mood change within a work or between instalments.

Nominations:
The destroyed village ends "A Girl Worth Fighting For" early (Mulan)
Caesar yells NO! (Rise of the Planet of the Apes)
The final strip of Waluigi Triloigi (Brawl in the Family)
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Underleveled
07/14/19 6:06:16 PM
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GavsEvans123 posted...
The destroyed village ends "A Girl Worth Fighting For" early (Mulan)

Jess finds out Leslie died (Bridge to Terabithia)
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darkx
Score: There goes bracket
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Johnbobb
07/14/19 6:07:34 PM
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GavsEvans123 posted...
Caesar yells NO! (Rise of the Planet of the Apes)

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Johnbobb
07/14/19 6:10:41 PM
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Dani's family dies (Midsommar)
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Snake5555555555
07/14/19 7:20:35 PM
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La Dispute's King Park switching from angry, fast, chaotic, and hard into somber, slow, melodic and introspective

All Too Well being followed by 22 (Taylor Swift - Red)

The scream in Brand New's Luca
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I've decided to put my fears behind me. I'm not going back.
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Mewtwo59
07/14/19 7:21:29 PM
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Jak and Daxter to Jak 2
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""Love" is making a shot to the knees of a target 120 kilometers away using an Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope." HK-47
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MetalmindStats
07/14/19 7:41:18 PM
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The End of Everything (Night in the Woods)
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"I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people who do."
You won the CBX Guru Contest, Advokaiser! Bully for you!
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Shonen_Bat
07/14/19 7:45:09 PM
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Hinawa's death (Mother 3)
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Hello again.
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GavsEvans123
07/15/19 3:00:22 AM
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Rankings so far:
The destroyed village ends "A Girl Worth Fighting For" early (Mulan) - 2 votes
Caesar yells NO! (Rise of the Planet of the Apes) - 2 votes
The final strip of Waluigi Triloigi (Brawl in the Family)
Jess finds out Leslie died (Bridge to Terabithia)
Dani's family dies (Midsommar)
La Dispute's King Park switching from angry, fast, chaotic, and hard into somber, slow, melodic and introspective
All Too Well being followed by 22 (Taylor Swift - Red)
The scream in Brand New's Luca
Jak and Daxter to Jak 2
The End of Everything (Night in the Woods)
Hinawa's death (Mother 3)
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hylianknight3
07/15/19 3:13:06 AM
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Underleveled posted...
GavsEvans123 posted...
The destroyed village ends "A Girl Worth Fighting For" early (Mulan)

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Kampfmaschine Advokaiser punched my lights out in the 2018 Guru.
My bracket was soft... just like my heart!
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jcgamer107
07/15/19 3:56:51 AM
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John Hurt chest burst (Alien)
Emmett gets shot (10 Cloverfield Lane)
Dani's family dies (Midsommar)
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Official Advokaiser advocate
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Cavedweller2000
07/15/19 3:30:21 PM
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Scrubs did this so well.

I'll prob go for Doctor Cox making fun of the paramedic for talking on and on and on about her son, only to come to the realisation that he had died years back and that's her coping mechanism.

Not sure how you'd summarise that! Sorry.
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Well done to Advokaiser for finishing 104 places above me in the 2018 CBX Guru Contest!
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SeabassDebeste
07/15/19 4:38:59 PM
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clannad after story's ED
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness
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