Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 223 - Knight in Sour Armor

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GavsEvans123 07/31/19 4:50:12 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: Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Empty Shell Torch the Franchise and Run Grand Finale <cite>GavsEvans123 posted [p:925442528] in Best of th... [t:77904772]...</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 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 Empty Shell Torch the Franchise and Run Grand Finale</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
GavsEvans123 07/31/19 4:51:32 PM #2:	The winner of yesterday's trope, Angst? What Angst? was Claudette is diagnosed with breast cancer (The Room), which got 6 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) Trash the Set - Raccoon City (Resident Evil) <cite>GavsEvans123 posted [p:925442593] in Best of th... [t:77904772]...</cite> <quote>The winner of yesterday's trope, Angst? What Angst? was Claudette is diagnosed with breast cancer (The Room), which got 6 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) Trash the Set - Raccoon City (Resident Evil)</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
GavsEvans123 07/31/19 4:55:17 PM #3:	Today's trope is Knight in Sour Armor. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KnightInSourArmor The world is filled with Wide Eyed Idealists who believe in truth and justice and devote their lives to fighting for it. And then the dark, cruel and brutal world keeps letting them down. For them, Being Good Sucks. But rather than giving up on their goals, they choose to fight not because they believe they will truly make a difference, but because it's the right thing to do. More often than not these characters are in settings that feature Black and Gray Morality. They're usually survivors who have largely given up on believing in Honor Before Reason, but still strive to be Lawful Good or as close to it as reality allows them to be. They are willing to bend the rules to save them. In Lighter and Softer settings, these characters are Grumpy Bears and are often mocked by the other characters for being so sour all the time. The presence of cynicism usually makes the idealistic behavior even more noteworthy: it's easy to love everyone when Rousseau Was Right, but you really have to be a good guy to believe that Humans Are Bastards and care about them anyway. Such characters can also be The Fettered; their cynical outlook tells them they could probably get away with all kinds of things that they don't do because that would be wrong, and just because the world sucks doesn't mean you need to make it worse. Then again, this kind of character goes great with a world where you Earn Your Happy Ending after much strife. Generally, these characters fit one of two personality types. Members of the first type are former Wide Eyed Idealists who have come to accept that their world is on the low end of the Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism, but who still find something beautiful in their former ideals that they want to hold on to. Those of the second type are born cynics, who would make natural Jerkass antiheroes, but who nevertheless have devoted themselves to a code of honor or fair play. In either case, these people tend to have gone through (often painful) Character Development in their past, meaning that they are normally older than the average hero. TL,DR: Characters who choose to do good because it's the right thing to do, even though they suffer for it, and they feel nothing they do will make a difference. Nominations: Solid Snake (Metal Gear Solid) Cody (Final Fight / Street Fighter) Daredevil <cite>GavsEvans123 posted [p:925442768] in Best of th... [t:77904772]...</cite> <quote>Today's trope is Knight in Sour Armor. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KnightInSourArmor The world is filled with Wide Eyed Idealists who believe in truth and justice and devote their lives to fighting for it. And then the dark, cruel and brutal world keeps letting them down. For them, Being Good Sucks. But rather than giving up on their goals, they choose to fight not because they believe they will truly make a difference, but because it's the right thing to do. More often than not these characters are in settings that feature Black and Gray Morality. They're usually survivors who have largely given up on believing in Honor Before Reason, but still strive to be Lawful Good or as close to it as reality allows them to be. They are willing to bend the rules to save them. In Lighter and Softer settings, these characters are Grumpy Bears and are often mocked by the other characters for being so sour all the time. The presence of cynicism usually makes the idealistic behavior even more noteworthy: it's easy to love everyone when Rousseau Was Right, but you really have to be a good guy to believe that Humans Are Bastards and care about them anyway. Such characters can also be The Fettered; their cynical outlook tells them they could probably get away with all kinds of things that they don't do because that would be wrong, and just because the world sucks doesn't mean you need to make it worse. Then again, this kind of character goes great with a world where you Earn Your Happy Ending after much strife. Generally, these characters fit one of two personality types. Members of the first type are former Wide Eyed Idealists who have come to accept that their world is on the low end of the Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism, but who still find something beautiful in their former ideals that they want to hold on to. Those of the second type are born cynics, who would make natural Jerkass antiheroes, but who nevertheless have devoted themselves to a code of honor or fair play. In either case, these people tend to have gone through (often painful) Character Development in their past, meaning that they are normally older than the average hero. TL,DR: Characters who choose to do good because it's the right thing to do, even though they suffer for it, and they feel nothing they do will make a difference. Nominations: Solid Snake (Metal Gear Solid) Cody (Final Fight / Street Fighter) Daredevil</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
GenesisSaga 07/31/19 5:19:59 PM #4:	Shikamaru Nara? --- "You're stronger than you believe. Don't let your fear own you. Own yourself." - Michelle Hodkin <cite>GenesisSaga posted [p:925443902] in Best of th... [t:77904772]...</cite> <quote>Shikamaru Nara?</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Johnbobb 07/31/19 5:30:32 PM #5:	Marshall Will Kane (High Noon) Wolverine (X-Men) Sheriff Ed Bell (No Country for Old Men) --- Khal Kirby, warlord of the Super Star Khalasar PSN/Steam: CheddarBBQ https://goo.gl/Diw2hs <cite>Johnbobb posted [p:925444327] in Best of th... [t:77904772]...</cite> <quote>Marshall Will Kane (High Noon) Wolverine (X-Men) Sheriff Ed Bell (No Country for Old Men)</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
XIII_rocks 07/31/19 6:01:14 PM #6:	Solid Snake --- Not to be confused with XIII_Stones. <cite>XIII_rocks posted [p:925445574] in Best of th... [t:77904772]...</cite> <quote>Solid Snake </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
jcgamer107 07/31/19 6:13:27 PM #7:	Marv (Sin City) Batman (The Dark Knight) William Somerset (se7en) --- Official Advokaiser advocate <cite>jcgamer107 posted [p:925446062] in Best of th... [t:77904772]...</cite> <quote>Marv (Sin City) Batman (The Dark Knight) William Somerset (se7en)</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Snake5555555555 07/31/19 6:58:19 PM #8:	William Somerset (se7en) Garrus Vakarian (Mass Effect) Chris Redfield (Resident Evil) --- 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:925447881] in Best of th... [t:77904772]...</cite> <quote>William Somerset (se7en) Garrus Vakarian (Mass Effect) Chris Redfield (Resident Evil) </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Underleveled 07/31/19 7:01:27 PM #9:	Lee Everett (The Walking Dead) --- darkx <cite>Underleveled posted [p:925448026] in Best of th... [t:77904772]...</cite> <quote>Lee Everett (The Walking Dead)</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Underleveled 07/31/19 7:01:43 PM #10:	jcgamer107 posted... Batman (The Dark Knight) --- darkx <cite>Underleveled posted [p:925448038] in Best of th... [t:77904772]...</cite> <quote>jcgamer107 posted...</cite> <quote>Batman (The Dark Knight)</quote></quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Axl_Rose_85 07/31/19 7:54:22 PM #11:	Solid Snake <cite>Axl_Rose_85 posted [p:925450181] in Best of th... [t:77904772]...</cite> <quote>Solid Snake</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
MetalmindStats 07/31/19 8:06:15 PM #12:	jcgamer107 posted... Batman (The Dark Knight) William Somerset (se7en) I will also nominate Wide-Eyed Idealist. --- "I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people who do." You won the CBX Guru Contest, Advokaiser! Bully for you! <cite>MetalmindStats posted [p:925450673] in Best of th... [t:77904772]...</cite> <quote>jcgamer107 posted...</cite> <quote>Batman (The Dark Knight) William Somerset (se7en)</quote> I will also nominate Wide-Eyed Idealist.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Mewtwo59 07/31/19 8:34:09 PM #13:	Batman (The Dark Knight) Solid Snake --- ""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:925451949] in Best of th... [t:77904772]...</cite> <quote>Batman (The Dark Knight) Solid Snake</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
GavsEvans123 08/01/19 3:03:43 AM #14:	Rankings so far: Solid Snake (Metal Gear Solid) - 4 votes Batman (The Dark Knight) - 4 votes William Somerset (se7en) - 3 votes Cody (Final Fight / Street Fighter) Daredevil Shikamaru Nara Marshall Will Kane (High Noon) Wolverine (X-Men) Sheriff Ed Bell (No Country for Old Men) Marv (Sin City) Garrus Vakarian (Mass Effect) Chris Redfield (Resident Evil) Lee Everett (The Walking Dead) <cite>GavsEvans123 posted [p:925464966] in Best of th... [t:77904772]...</cite> <quote>Rankings so far: Solid Snake (Metal Gear Solid) - 4 votes Batman (The Dark Knight) - 4 votes William Somerset (se7en) - 3 votes Cody (Final Fight / Street Fighter) Daredevil Shikamaru Nara Marshall Will Kane (High Noon) Wolverine (X-Men) Sheriff Ed Bell (No Country for Old Men) Marv (Sin City) Garrus Vakarian (Mass Effect) Chris Redfield (Resident Evil) Lee Everett (The Walking Dead)</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Shonen_Bat 08/01/19 5:06:14 AM #15:	Solid Snake --- Hello again. <cite>Shonen_Bat posted [p:925466730] in Best of th... [t:77904772]...</cite> <quote>Solid Snake</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
hylianknight3 08/01/19 9:47:22 AM #16:	Batman Wolverine --- Kampfmaschine Advokaiser punched my lights out in the 2018 Guru. My bracket was soft... just like my heart! <cite>hylianknight3 posted [p:925471814] in Best of th... [t:77904772]...</cite> <quote>Batman Wolverine</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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