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GavsEvans123 07/19/19 3:58:02 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 the next day 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: Fat and Skinny Kindhearted Simpleton The Woobie Trauma Conga Line Humiliation Conga Evil Costume Switch Shock and Awe Torch the Franchise and Run Trash the Set Grand Finale ... Copied to Clipboard!
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GavsEvans123 07/19/19 3:59:50 PM #2: |
The winners of yesterday's trope, Identical Stranger, were Guy Incognito (The Simpsons) and Kingsonn Dededoo (Brawl in the Family), who got 5 votes each.
Previous winners: Day 181 onwards 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) Mood Whiplash - The destroyed village ends "A Girl Worth Fighting For" early (Mulan) Names to Run Away From Really Fast - Shelly DeKiller (Ace Attorney) Hostile Show Takeover - Lean and Mean - Voldemort (Harry Potter) / Waluigi (Super Mario Bros.) / Slenderman (Marble Hornets) ... Copied to Clipboard!
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GavsEvans123 07/19/19 4:02:23 PM #3: |
Today's trope is The Only One Allowed To Defeat You. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou
One person or group considers another person or group as their rival, and will not allow anyone else to be the one to defeat them. This can sometimes lead to them helping their rival against other enemies, justifying it with a lame excuse, to make sure that they survive until the final battle between the rivals. Sometimes, this trope can become the basis of a HeelFace Turn. It also frequently leads to Not So Different and Antagonist in Mourning. This is also the one-sided obsession of the Unknown Rival. It's also (usually) a big no-no on the Evil Overlord List (see #117). This may be motivated by respect given to a Worthy Opponent. It can lead into Foe Yay if this excuse is used too much; and opportunities to defeat the rival are not taken. In some cases it can simply be fueled by pure pride, as a more egotistical villain will find the mere thought of someone else taking credit for a goal he has worked so hard for utterly insufferable. TL,DR: A rival or villain will stop someone else from beating the hero because they want to do it themselves. Nominations: The Master (Doctor Who) Sandor Clegane (Game of Thrones) Vegeta (Dragon Ball Z) ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Shonen_Bat 07/19/19 4:11:08 PM #4: |
The Joker (Batman)
Bowser (Mario) --- Hello again. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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GavsEvans123 07/20/19 8:39:02 AM #5: |
Everyone has one vote each so far
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MetalmindStats 07/20/19 9:01:30 AM #6: |
Shonen_Bat posted...
Bowser (Mario) --- "I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people who do." You won the CBX Guru Contest, Advokaiser! Bully for you! ... Copied to Clipboard!
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AvaGames 07/20/19 9:29:25 AM #7: |
MetalmindStats posted...
Shonen_Bat posted...Bowser (Mario) --- Board of Boredom, where you will get not bored. https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/1447-board-of-boredom ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Underleveled 07/20/19 10:47:13 AM #9: |
Bowser
--- darkx Score: There goes bracket ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Johnbobb 07/20/19 10:51:55 AM #10: |
Sandor Clegane
--- Khal Kirby, warlord of the Super Star Khalasar PSN/Steam: CheddarBBQ https://goo.gl/Diw2hs ... Copied to Clipboard!
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kevwaffles 07/20/19 10:53:15 AM #11: |
Bowser
Majima (Yakuza) Kaiba (Yugioh) --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 ... Copied to Clipboard!
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hombad46 07/20/19 10:54:50 AM #12: |
I don't understand all these Bowser votes. When did Bowser ever stop someone else from defeating Mario? Heck, he has his entire army of minions trying to do it constantly. Sure I guess you could argue that's him indirectly but still
--- "That's Engarde hairflip metal detector tier btw" -XIII_rocks ... Copied to Clipboard!
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kevwaffles 07/20/19 10:59:59 AM #13: |
It mostly applies to examples outside the mainline platformers, but they are there.
--- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 ... Copied to Clipboard!
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hylianknight3 07/20/19 11:02:27 AM #14: |
Regulus (Bomberman 64: The Second Attack!)
--- Kampfmaschine Advokaiser punched my lights out in the 2018 Guru. My bracket was soft... just like my heart! ... Copied to Clipboard!
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hombad46 07/20/19 11:02:43 AM #15: |
kevwaffles posted...
It mostly applies to examples outside the mainline platformers, but they are there. Such as? I looked at the Mario section of the trope page and the examples listed there aren't all that memorable IMO Edit: I just figure there's gotta be more than what's listed there for him to have all these votes --- "That's Engarde hairflip metal detector tier btw" -XIII_rocks ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Underleveled 07/20/19 11:07:51 AM #16: |
I mean the RPGs where the two team up to defeat a bigger threat count.
But my first thought upon reading the trope name and TLDR description was someone like Voldemort, who flatly refuses to let anyone else kill Harry Potter, even if they offer. But the full description doesn't really match. He doesn't help Harry in any way, other than ordering he be kept alive until they are face to face. --- darkx Score: There goes bracket ... Copied to Clipboard!
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hombad46 07/20/19 11:09:42 AM #17: |
Underleveled posted...
I mean the RPGs where the two team up to defeat a bigger threat count. That's Enemy Mine, an entirely different trope. --- "That's Engarde hairflip metal detector tier btw" -XIII_rocks ... Copied to Clipboard!
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hylianknight3 07/20/19 11:11:43 AM #18: |
Kaiba
The Joker --- Kampfmaschine Advokaiser punched my lights out in the 2018 Guru. My bracket was soft... just like my heart! ... Copied to Clipboard!
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hombad46 07/20/19 11:12:58 AM #19: |
Oh right voting
Joker --- "That's Engarde hairflip metal detector tier btw" -XIII_rocks ... Copied to Clipboard!
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kevwaffles 07/20/19 11:20:06 AM #20: |
The trope often leads itself into Enemy Mine.
Also, the implication from the characterization he gets seems to be that while he wouldn't mind one of his minions defeating Mario, he really doesn't expect it to ever happen. It's sort of a far less explicit version of why Vicious from Cowboy Bebop would count despite allowing waves of minions to try to kill Spike. --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 ... Copied to Clipboard!
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hombad46 07/20/19 11:30:58 AM #21: |
kevwaffles posted...
The trope often leads itself into Enemy Mine. I just rewatched the scenes in SMRPG and SPM where Bowser joins your party. In the former he seems more motivated by getting his castle back and in the latter he refuses to join the party after Peach invites him until she points out that his minions are brainwashed. Neither one really even resembles today's trope IMO --- "That's Engarde hairflip metal detector tier btw" -XIII_rocks ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Snake5555555555 07/20/19 12:12:56 PM #22: |
Major Erwin Knig (Enemy at the Gates)
--- 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 ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Pirateking2000 07/20/19 2:36:31 PM #23: |
Kaiba
--- XBL GT: Demon Ninja X2 "There comes a time in every man's or woman's life where they have to make **** up to cover their ass." - Hazama ... Copied to Clipboard!
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