Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 226 - Wide-Eyed Idealist

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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:
Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Torch the Franchise and Run
Grand Finale

The winner of yesterday's trope, Empty Shell, was Shedinja (Pokemon), who got 6 votes.

Previous winners: Day 201 onwards
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)
Angst? What Angst? - Claudette is diagnosed with breast cancer (The Room)
Knight in Sour Armour - Solid Snake (Metal Gear Solid) / Batman
Woobie Destroyer of Worlds - Carrie White (Carrie) / Mr Freeze (DC Comics)

Today's trope is Wide-Eyed Idealist. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WideEyedIdealist

A character far too idealistic for their own good.

It may be the Nave Newcomer who Jumped at the Callhe or she has a huge stack of comic books/movies/bards' tales, and thinks they're pretty Genre Savvy. Unfortunately, their universe is more toward the cynical end of the Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism than the stories they know. Alternatively, they might just be generally nice people whose idealistic attempts at solving the problems of their world turn out to go horribly horribly awry as no one else plays by their rules. Usually used as nothing more than a device to highlight the realism/grittiness/cynicism of the setting.

This character either becomes a victim of Trauma Conga Line or Break the Cutie, dies horribly or acquires a coat of jade post-haste. In settings that are still somewhat idealistic, they might get off with just becoming a Knight In Sour Armor, or the Morality Pet to one. In particularly anvilicious cases, expect deployment of Diabolus ex Machina to deal with them.

TL,DR: This character always remains positive and upbeat, even if their world sucks.

Nominations:
Papyrus (Undertale)
Carrot Ironfoundersson (Discworld)
Flonne (Disgaea)

Papyrus (Undertale)
Jack Skellington (The Nightmare Before Christmas)
Ray Palmer (Legends of Tomorrow)

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Lloyd Irving (Tales of Symphonia)
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Lloyd Irving (Tales of Symphonia)
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Snake5555555555 posted...

Papyrus (Undertale)

Lopen posted...

Lloyd Irving (Tales of Symphonia)

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Amelie (Amelie)
Papyrus
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Lloyd Irving (Tales of Symphonia)
Flonne (Disgaea)
Papyrus (Undertale)
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Mr. Smith (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington)
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Papyrus
Lloyd Irving
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Lloyd Irving

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Papyrus
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Rankings so far:
Papyrus (Undertale) - 7 votes
Lloyd Irving (Tales of Symphonia) - 6 votes
Flonne (Disgaea) - 2 votes
Carrot Ironfoundersson (Discworld)
Jack Skellington (The Nightmare Before Christmas)
Ray Palmer (Legends of Tomorrow)
Amelie (Amelie)
Mr. Smith (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington)

Papyrus
Solaire (Dark Souls)
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Lloyd Irving
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