Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 222 - Angst? What Angst?

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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 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:
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
Knight in Sour Armor
Empty Shell
Torch the Franchise and Run
Grand Finale

The winner of yesterday's trope, Trash the Set, was Raccoon City (Resident Evil), which got 4 votes.

Previous winners: Day 191 onwards
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 - Monika (Doki Doki Literature Club)
Lean and Mean - Voldemort (Harry Potter) / Waluigi (Super Mario Bros.) / Slenderman (Marble Hornets)
Identical Stranger - Guy Incognito (The Simpsons) / Kingsonn Dededoo (Brawl in the Family)
The Only One Allowed to Defeat You - Bowser (Super Mario Bros.)
Humiliation Conga - Yzma (The Emperor's New Groove)
Shock and Awe - Pikachu (Pokemon)
Fat and Skinny - Junkrat and Roadhog (Overwatch)
Enemy Mine - Mario and Bowser (Mario RPGs)
Kindhearted Simpleton - Forrest Gump
Evil Costume Switch - Black Suit Spider-Man
Trauma Conga Line - Shinji Ikari (Neon Genesis Evangelion) / Spider-Man
The Woobie - Butters (South Park) / Kate Marsh (Life is Strange)

Today's trope is Angst? What Angst? Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AngstWhatAngst

Imagine you found yourself Trapped in Another World, far removed from everything you know with no promise you could ever go back. And just as you started to come to grips with that, you discovered you were The Chosen One and that this world depended on you. And then your band of quirky companions, who had been your support, started to disappear one by one, leaving you alone with The Mole. And then the person you thought was your last friend betrayed you to the Big Bad, who threw you into his dungeon and promised to execute you at dawn. As you sit there in your chains, how do you feel?

Well, fortunately for you, you're a fictional character, so you get right to work on befriending the magical talking mice who know where the keys are kept. Turns out they know where to find a cool enchanted sword, too! Angst? What angst?

The polar opposite of Wangst, this is when a character has been given every reason to fall into depression or go Ax-Crazy, but... just doesn't, and life goes on. They aren't The Stoic or the Determinator; they aren't holding off their real feelings by an effort of will. Nor are they putting on a brave face because they can't endure pity. They're just sort of rolling with it, riding out the adventure as it comes and looking ahead to the next plot event.

TL,DR: This character gets over an upsetting event remarkably quickly, if they're upset by it at all.

Nominations:
Austin realises he's single again (Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me)
The long list of dead soldiers "But none of that matters now" (Battle Los Angeles)
Everyone Fry knows is dead... Woohoo! (Futurama)

Vyse (Skies of Arcadia)
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Claudette is diagnosed with breast cancer (The Room)
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Underleveled posted...

Claudette is diagnosed with breast cancer (The Room)

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Claudette is diagnosed with breast cancer (The Room)
Susan's death (Seinfeld)
Heather Mason (Silent Hill 3)

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Underleveled posted...

Claudette is diagnosed with breast cancer (The Room)

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Claudette is diagnosed with breast cancer (The Room)
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Claudette
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Rankings so far:
Claudette is diagnosed with breast cancer (The Room) - 6 votes
Austin realises he's single again (Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me)
The long list of dead soldiers "But none of that matters now" (Battle Los Angeles)
Vyse (Skies of Arcadia)
Everyone Fry knows is dead... Woohoo! (Futurama)
Susan's death (Seinfeld)
Heather Mason (Silent Hill 3)