Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 207 - Names to Run Away From Really Fast

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GavsEvans123 07/15/19 5:27:31 PM #1:	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 Identical Stranger Hostile Show Takeover The Only One Allowed to Defeat You Torch the Franchise and Run Trash the Set Grand Finale <cite>GavsEvans123 posted [p:924729627] in Best of th... [t:77865939]...</cite> <quote>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 Identical Stranger Hostile Show Takeover The Only One Allowed to Defeat You Torch the Franchise and Run Trash the Set Grand Finale</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
GavsEvans123 07/15/19 5:29:29 PM #2:	The winner of yesterday's trope, Mood Whiplash, was The destroyed village ends "A Girl Worth Fighting For" early (Mulan), which got 3 votes. The winner of the tiebreaker poll, Acrofatic, was Po (Kung Fu Panda), who got 7 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 - 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 - Po (Kung Fu Panda) 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) Oddball Doppelganger - Mimikyu (Pokemon) <cite>GavsEvans123 posted [p:924729719] in Best of th... [t:77865939]...</cite> <quote>The winner of yesterday's trope, Mood Whiplash, was The destroyed village ends "A Girl Worth Fighting For" early (Mulan), which got 3 votes. The winner of the tiebreaker poll, Acrofatic, was Po (Kung Fu Panda), who got 7 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 - 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 - Po (Kung Fu Panda) 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) Oddball Doppelganger - Mimikyu (Pokemon)</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
GavsEvans123 07/15/19 5:32:12 PM #3:	Today's trope is Names to Run Away From Really Fast. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast People make a big deal out of names, and writers are no exception. Even if they eschew Theme Naming and other Naming Conventions they'll still use names they think are cool and dignified, powerful and appropriate, or sinister and fearsome. This is why there are inevitably certain Names To Run Away From Really Fast. For much the same reason it's unlikely Bob will turn out to be the outrageously stylish villain bent on absorbing the planet's life stream to ascend to godhood, and someone with a name like oh, say, Hannibal Murder von Uberbastard, probably won't be selling cookies for charity. If he does, don't eat the cookies. These come in various flavors (not the cookies, the names), some of them used by Anti Heroes from the Dark Age of Supernames and villains of the fearsomely competent and world destroying kind, for whom the mere mention of their name can bring down Dramatic Thunder. Note that this is different from all those characters who got their names because they are a badass. It's one thing to be called Blade because you use one on vampires; it's another when a deadly fighter has the birth name "Blade" for no in-story reason. So basically, when the villain's name hints towards some sort of disaster in history, mythological monster, or just means something bad, this trope applies. Note that a villain having a name like this isn't necessarily a bad idea. Some names like this are downright cool. TL,DR: This character has a threatening, intimidating-sounding name, and unlike Deathbringer the Adorable, they live up to the hype. Nominations: Nightmare (Soul Calibur) Annihilus (Marvel Comics) Bloodmonath Skull Cleaver (Medievil) What's a monath, anyway? <cite>GavsEvans123 posted [p:924729863] in Best of th... [t:77865939]...</cite> <quote>Today's trope is Names to Run Away From Really Fast. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast People make a big deal out of names, and writers are no exception. Even if they eschew Theme Naming and other Naming Conventions they'll still use names they think are cool and dignified, powerful and appropriate, or sinister and fearsome. This is why there are inevitably certain Names To Run Away From Really Fast. For much the same reason it's unlikely Bob will turn out to be the outrageously stylish villain bent on absorbing the planet's life stream to ascend to godhood, and someone with a name like oh, say, Hannibal Murder von Uberbastard, probably won't be selling cookies for charity. If he does, don't eat the cookies. These come in various flavors (not the cookies, the names), some of them used by Anti Heroes from the Dark Age of Supernames and villains of the fearsomely competent and world destroying kind, for whom the mere mention of their name can bring down Dramatic Thunder. Note that this is different from all those characters who got their names because they are a badass. It's one thing to be called Blade because you use one on vampires; it's another when a deadly fighter has the birth name "Blade" for no in-story reason. So basically, when the villain's name hints towards some sort of disaster in history, mythological monster, or just means something bad, this trope applies. Note that a villain having a name like this isn't necessarily a bad idea. Some names like this are downright cool. TL,DR: This character has a threatening, intimidating-sounding name, and unlike Deathbringer the Adorable, they live up to the hype. Nominations: Nightmare (Soul Calibur) Annihilus (Marvel Comics) Bloodmonath Skull Cleaver (Medievil) What's a monath, anyway?</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Snake5555555555 07/15/19 5:39:32 PM #4:	Pharyngula (DC Comics) Deathstroke the Terminator (DC Comics) The Skin Taker (Candle Cove) --- I've decided to put my fears behind me. I'm not going back. https://i.imgtc.ws/2Q88rI4.gif - https://i.gifer.com/E07R.gif <cite>Snake5555555555 posted [p:924730188] in Best of th... [t:77865939]...</cite> <quote>Pharyngula (DC Comics) Deathstroke the Terminator (DC Comics) The Skin Taker (Candle Cove)</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Mewtwo59 07/15/19 6:24:32 PM #5:	Shelly de Killer (Ace Attorney) --- ""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 <cite>Mewtwo59 posted [p:924732095] in Best of th... [t:77865939]...</cite> <quote>Shelly de Killer (Ace Attorney)</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Underleveled 07/15/19 6:52:26 PM #6:	Mewtwo59 posted... Shelly de Killer (Ace Attorney) Dr. Evil (Austin Powers) --- darkx Score: There goes bracket <cite>Underleveled posted [p:924733228] in Best of th... [t:77865939]...</cite> <quote><cite>Mewtwo59 posted...</cite> <quote>Shelly de Killer (Ace Attorney)</quote> Dr. Evil (Austin Powers)</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
hylianknight3 07/15/19 7:55:54 PM #7:	Victor von Doom (Marvel Comics) --- Kampfmaschine Advokaiser punched my lights out in the 2018 Guru. My bracket was soft... just like my heart! <cite>hylianknight3 posted [p:924736021] in Best of th... [t:77865939]...</cite> <quote>Victor von Doom (Marvel Comics)</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Johnbobb 07/15/19 10:25:12 PM #8:	Nightmare (Soul Calibur) Ebrietas, Daughter of the Cosmos (Bloodborne) --- Khal Kirby, warlord of the Super Star Khalasar PSN/Steam: CheddarBBQ https://goo.gl/Diw2hs <cite>Johnbobb posted [p:924742954] in Best of th... [t:77865939]...</cite> <quote>Nightmare (Soul Calibur) Ebrietas, Daughter of the Cosmos (Bloodborne)</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Underleveled 07/15/19 11:14:17 PM #9:	Oh jeez, I just thought of a good one for yesterday. --- darkx Score: There goes bracket <cite>Underleveled posted [p:924745089] in Best of th... [t:77865939]...</cite> <quote>Oh jeez, I just thought of a good one for yesterday.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
GavsEvans123 07/16/19 2:42:20 AM #10:	Rankings so far: Shelly de Killer (Ace Attorney) - 2 votes Nightmare (Soul Calibur) -2 votes Annihilus (Marvel Comics) Bloodmonath Skull Cleaver (Medievil) Pharyngula (DC Comics) Deathstroke the Terminator (DC Comics) The Skin Taker (Candle Cove) Dr. Evil (Austin Powers) Victor von Doom (Marvel Comics) Ebrietas, Daughter of the Cosmos (Bloodborne) <cite>GavsEvans123 posted [p:924750606] in Best of th... [t:77865939]...</cite> <quote>Rankings so far: Shelly de Killer (Ace Attorney) - 2 votes Nightmare (Soul Calibur) -2 votes Annihilus (Marvel Comics) Bloodmonath Skull Cleaver (Medievil) Pharyngula (DC Comics) Deathstroke the Terminator (DC Comics) The Skin Taker (Candle Cove) Dr. Evil (Austin Powers) Victor von Doom (Marvel Comics) Ebrietas, Daughter of the Cosmos (Bloodborne)</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
hombad46 07/16/19 2:56:38 AM #11:	Lord Chief Justice Hart Vortex (Dai Gyakuten Saiban) I only played DGS1 so I dunno what he does in 2, but... just look at that name and title --- "That's Engarde hairflip metal detector tier btw" -XIII_rocks <cite>hombad46 posted [p:924750874] in Best of th... [t:77865939]...</cite> <quote>Lord Chief Justice Hart Vortex (Dai Gyakuten Saiban) I only played DGS1 so I dunno what he does in 2, but... just look at that name and title</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
XIII_rocks 07/16/19 4:07:14 AM #12:	Underleveled posted... Mewtwo59 posted... Shelly de Killer (Ace Attorney) Dr. Evil (Austin Powers) hylianknight3 posted... Victor von Doom (Marvel Comics) --- Not to be confused with XIII_Stones. <cite>XIII_rocks posted [p:924751997] in Best of th... [t:77865939]...</cite> <quote><cite>Underleveled posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Mewtwo59 posted...</cite> <quote>Shelly de Killer (Ace Attorney)</quote> Dr. Evil (Austin Powers)</quote> <cite>hylianknight3 posted...</cite> <quote>Victor von Doom (Marvel Comics)</quote></quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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