Line #104 DarthWiki/UnlaconicLaconicWiki


1	The LaconicWiki is all well and good, but some of them are a bit ''too'' short. What they need is to be stuffed with {{filler}} and doused in [[PurpleProse flowery language]], to the point where it all becomes a [[Administrivia/WordCruft crufty mess]].
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3	(Imagine [[SleepModeSize reducing a 1000x1000 pixel picture to 100x100]], then [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever expanding it to 1000x1000 again]]. That's the DarthWiki/UnlaconicLaconicWiki.)
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8	* ''Laconic/NeverSayNoToPanda'': The immaculate presence of a random bipedal Panda Bear that is constantly followed by "True Love Ways" by Music/BuddyHolly will occur to anyone within the African/Middle-Eastern country of Egypt who refuses the consumption or purchasing of the Arab Dairy product Panda Cheese.
9	* ''Laconic/PebblesCereal'': Barney Rubble from ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' take to stealing sugary fruit/chocoalte-flavored breakfast cereal AdjacentToThisCompleteBreakfast from his best friend/next-door neighbor Fred Flinstone from ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones''.
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13	* ''Literature/BanishedFromTheHerosParty'': In a World where people are born with their FantasyCharacterClasses and are given skills and superpowers associated with the, the TokenWizard of {{The Chosen One}}'s Adventuring Party decides to have the Chosen One's JackOfAllTrades brother dropped from their party because his special ability -- being able to find and guide people to where they're meant to go -- lacks combat applications. While the Chosen One's party falls apart instantly since [[TheHeart he was integral in everything but combat to their party]], the brother decides to open up his own medicinal store in a podunk town in the middle of nowhere with the help of his princess love-interest, all the while trying to keep the town's politics from destroying itself.
14	* ''Laconic/FireForce'': InAWorld that spontaneously caught fire, Japan becomes a {{Stern Sun Worshipp\|ers}}ing {{Anime Catholic\|ism}} theocracy populated by {{Differently Powered Individual}}s with PlayingWithFire powers tasked with exterminating people who spontaneously turn into EvilLivingFlames. The plot centers around a RagtagBunchOfMisfits that fight those monsters while also acting as InternalAffairs for their fellow monster-hunters and investigating the source of all the fire-monsters. And all of this somehow leads up to the events of ''Manga/SoulEater''.
15	* ''Laconic/RestaurantToAnotherWorld'': An inexplicable teleporting restaurant from modern-day Japan appears in a FantasyKitchenSink world once a week through various magical doorways where the people from that world can enjoy culinary dishes from the modern world [[FoodPorn displayed in the most tantalizingly delicious ways available]], all served with a smile by its humble human chef who inherited it from his grandfather, a cute blonde demon lady with goat horns and a Death-based Dragon-god in the body of a BadassAdorable brunette.
16	* ''Laconic/SoulEater'': The Creator/TimBurton adventures of a group of child soldiers and their shapeshifting friends traveling the world and killing {{Serial Killer}}s and hunting omnicidal witches in order to prevent the rise of TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt via BrownNoteBeing on behalf of TheGrimReaper.
17	* ''Literature/WiseMansGrandchild'': a normal, everyday nobody from Japan who dies in a car accident ReincarnateInAnotherWorld and is found and adopted by TheArchmage, who was living a quiet, secluded life after being declared TheHero of his kingdom to live as TheHermit hunting animals who've turned into demons. Now all grown up, the reincarnated man goes to WizardingSchool where he single-handedly reinvents the art of magic using his knowledge of scientific principles.
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21	* ''Laconic/DrinkingBacchus'': The Roman God of Wine, Wine-Making, grape-harvesting, Fertility, Theater, and insanity portrayed as a [[{{Putto}} fat, naked baby]] with a wreath of grape-vines on his head drinking win right out of the bottle while peeing next to a wine barrel peeing beside him and thus ruining wine for most of you.
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27	[[folder:Card Games]]
28	* ''Laconic/CardsAgainstHumanity'': A Rated M party game that uses no real point system or strategy other than encouraging its players to pair cards together to create RefugeInAudacity jokes [[BlackComedy blacker than Africa]] that are arbitrarily decide is funny based on the whims of a GameMaster.
29	* ''Laconic/YuGiOh'': Players draw cards from their respective decks and take turns playing cards onto "the field". Each player uses a deck containing forty to sixty cards, and an optional "Extra Deck" of up to fifteen cards. There is also an optional fifteen card side deck, which allows players to swap cards from their main deck and/or extra deck between games. Players are restricted to three of each card per deck and must follow the Forbidden/Limited card list, which restricts selected cards by Konami to be limited to two, one, or zero. Each player starts with 8,000 "Life Points", with the main aim of the game to use monster attacks and spells to reduce the opponent's Life Points. Players can win if either their opponent's Life points reach 0, their opponent needs to draw but their deck has been completely depleted, certain cards trigger an automatic win or if a player forfeits.
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32	[[folder:Comic Books]]
33	* ''Laconic/ChickTracts'': A CrapsackWorld created by an AuthorTract evangelical fundamentalist Christian {{God}} who takes a "faith over actions" stance where all Atheists and non-evangelical fundamentalist theists are AlwaysChaoticEvil and all evangelical fundamentalists are {{Purity Sue}}s with the switch between them [[EasyEvangelism instantaneous]].
34	* ''Laconic/{{Fables}}'': Countless fairy tale and literary characters with vaguely defined immortality all flee from their infinite number of MedievalStasis Fantasy worlds to the one world where the natives are in no way magical or immortal and create a safe haven in UsefulNotes/{{New York\|City}}, New York as refugees from the war-waging campaign of a MultiversalConqueror. Snow White and the Big Bad Wolf bone, have a family, they fight a pantheon of {{Metafiction}}al gods, the Boogeyman and Snow White's crazy-jealous ex.
35	* ''Laconic/TheSandman1989'': The third oldest in a FantasyPantheon -- the AnthropomorphicPersonification of Dreams, Nightmares, Imagination and Storytelling as a concept -- finds himself captured and imprisoned inside a giant fishbowl in the basement of a wannabe [[TheArchmage Wizard Master]] in post-UsefulNotes/WorldWarI when they try and fail to capture his older sister TheGrimReaper. [[Recap/TheSandman1989PreludesAndNocturnesArc He manages to escape in the 80's and struggles to regain his tools of power after being weakened in his imprisonment]], [[Recap/TheSandman1989TheDollsHouseArc nearly kills his own grandniece after she helps him find dreams that go missing]], [[Recap/TheSandman1989DreamCountryArc some stuff happens]], [[Recap/TheSandman1989SeasonOfMistsArc the Devil quites and leaves him the Key to Hell]], [[Recap/TheSandman1989FablesAndReflectionsArc some other stuff happens]], [[Recap/TheSandman1989AGameOfYouArc some inner-city women have to endure the machinations of a runaway Fantasy Dream-World left unattended]], [[Recap/TheSandman1989BriefLivesArc he goes looking for his missing brother]], [[Recap/TheSandman1989WorldsEndArc people tell each other stories in an interdimensional pub]], [[Recap/TheSandman1989TheKindlyOnesArc the protagonist kills himself]] and [[Recap/TheSandman1989TheWakeArc everyone mourns him before returning to business as usual]].
36	* ''Laconic/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIDW'': A ninja master and his four sons are executed by his spiteful former Jonin. In present times, a rat and four turtles are mutated by green alien goo that gives them humanoid physiologies and reincarnates the ninja and their four sons into their bodies. Now they must face their old evil ninja nemeses, a megalomaniacal alien brain and his alien invading army, and a pantheon of human-animal gods playing fourth-dimensional chess with mortals.
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39	[[folder:Fan Fic]]
40	* ''Laconic/TheAngelOfTheOwlHouse'': In an alternate version of ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', Camilla Noceda is an angel that lives on Earth to do goodwill and has married and had a kid with a human. Being half-angel herself, Luz Noceda finds herself unwittingly in the Demon World where she becomes sort-of adopted by a rogue Witch and her megalomaniacal demon roommate and Luz decides to spread a little good will there in her own uniquely Luz sort of way.
41	* ''Laconic/BabyBoomShawnaCanon'': The StrictlyFormula format of Seasons 1-3 ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' takes a dark turn when Hawk Moth creates an akumatized villain that [[AliensMadeThemDoIt brainwashes most of Paris's childbearing population into boning]], resulting in a lot of emotional drama and most of the fic's main female cast having babies. Crying, romance, CringeComedy, MundaneUtility, time-traveling, miraculous-swapping, and canon-busting soon follow.
42	* ''Laconic/TheDragonAndTheButterfly'': A snarky, intelligent, self-esteemless but kindhearted teenage boy from the GrimUpNorth and his equally snarky, pitch-black dragon companion run away from the angry mob that was the teen's hometown and find themselves transported to a HiddenElfVillage deep within the jungles of Columbia run by its ruling family who all possess magical powers and a living house. The teen winds up befriending and eventually falling in love with their only non-magic relative before his family finds him and asks him to come home and end their war with the dragons.
43	* ''Laconic/SameDifference'': Hamato "Master Splinter" Yoshi and DentedIron Tang Shen move to New York to have five children -- AdaptationalHeroism Hamato Miwa/Oroku Karai and human versions of the Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles -- who go on adventures fighting two different species of evil aliens, evil mutants, Foot Clan Ninja, Foot Clan mutants, Foot Clan robots built by aliens and various problems brought on by their multiverse.
44	* ''Laconic/TurningTables'': BrokenAce Peter Parker develops an increasingly ludicrous GuiltComplex after father-figure Iron Man dies when they fail to stop Thanos from wiping out half of the universe, becoming his fiancee's adopted son and his SomeoneToRememberHimBy daughter's older brother/the closest thing she has to a father.
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48	* ''Laconic/{{Encanto}}'': In an improbably isolated little village in the middle of the Columbian jungle, a magical family (which includes a living house, an elderly ControlFreak grandmother, her neurotic bachelor son that can see the future, his sister that can control the weather with her emotions, her sister that can heal people with magical food, grandchildren who -- by order of their age -- grows flowers, can hear anything, has SuperStrength, shapeshifts, can't do anything super and can talk to animals) uses their amazing magical abilities born from a magic candle born from a miracle born from a man sacrificing his life against unexplained warring soldiers. The one grandkid who doesn't have superpowers feels useless since she doesn't have powers and decides to investigate when she suspects that something is happening to the magic.
49	* ''Laconic/TheIncredibles'': Family Man with SuperStrength suffers from a mid-life crisis in this Objectivist/Libertarian parable about the inherent superiority of superior individuals and the evils of government who portray the only government official as reasonable and the BigBad and HateSink as philanthropists who value personal profit over the little guy.
50	* ''Laconic/Incredibles2'': Housewife with RubberMan powers goes back into the workforce to become a superhero for a corporation immune to Federal Laws to fight a villain that wants superheroes to become illegal by Federal Law while her husband looks after the kids.
51	* ''Laconic/TheMitchellsVsTheMachines'': A BespectacledCutie high school graduate with [=Youtube=] celebrity status, her nerdy little brother with a love of dinosaurs, her ActionMom with a psychotic streak, her technologically inept BumblingDad and their dog which might be a pig or a loaf of bread all go on a family vacation on the way to her new college, only for [[AIIsACrapshoot Siri]] to go rogue and launch a RobotWar with her army of [[EverythingIsAnIPodInTheFuture iPod]] robot butlers.
52	* ''Laconic/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'': Creator/ChrisPratt and Creator/CharlieDay play the titular Super Mario Bros. Mario and Luigi who quit their VideoGame/WreckingCrew job to start their own plumbing business in Brooklyn, only to find themselves sucked into a {{Cloudcuckooland}} via a big green pipe walled off in the sewers. While Mario finds himself in a kingdom inhabited by {{Ridiculously Cute Critter}}s and their badass princess, Luigi finds himself lost in {{Mordor}} under the clutches of a dragon-turtle monster (played by Creator/JackBlack) who wants to marry the princess or blow up her kingdom if she refuses.
53	* ''Laconic/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMutantMayhem'': Four genetically mutated humanoid adolescent tortoises live in the sewers of New York City, New York with their mutant rat father/sensei who taught them martial arts from a mix of instructional pamphlets, instructional videotapes and martial arts films. They have a run-in with a high school girl with massive performance anxiety who hopes to uncover an insidious series of thefts caused by a mutant fly and his gang of animal mutants.
54	* ''WesternAnimation/Wish2023'': [[{{Narcissist}} Narcissistic]] [[FairyDevilmother Fairy Devilfather]] BitchInSheepsClothing [[TheCaligula tyrant king]] manipulates his subjects to depend on him for wishes. Upon discovering this, the protagonist who was supposed to serve as [[TheApprentice his apprentice]] becomes his new target until his BerserkButton is pushed in a [[WeNeedADistraction plot to distract him]] and he turns his kingdom into a [[DystopiaJustifiesTheMeans dystopia]].
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58	* ''Laconic/TheCinemaSnobMovie'': Creator/BradJones plays [[AsHimself himself]] as a down on his luck, [[WebVideo/BumReviews Chester]]-esq independent film-writer with a love for {{Exploitation Film}}s who pretends to be a pretentious film-critic to schmooze himself up to a group of TrueArt Film loving pretentious {{Jerkass}}es so that he can get permits to make his movie and wind up involved in a {{Giallo}}-esq murder mystery slowly killing off members of the group.
59	* ''Laconic/HotFuzz'': A British {{Buddy Cop\|Show}}-{{Action\|Genre}} Comedy where Creator/SimonPegg plays an anal-retentive SuperCop who, after single-handedly cleaning the mean streets of London with his sheer, obsessive policemanshi--''err'' "[[InsistentTerminology policeman officership]]", and is sent to a sleepy little town where he uncovers a MilkmanConspiracy where murders are covered-up as accidents.
60	* ''Laconic/IronMan1'': Creator/RobertDowneyJr plays a suave, womanizing, arrogant TechBro Billionaire with the mechanical bravado to justify his AwesomeEgo who gets kidnapped by MiddleEasternTerrorists to build them fancy missiles to wage war for ungiven reasons. Instead, he frees himself with a PoweredArmor and starts taking matters into his own hands as a ScienceHero.
61	* ''Laconic/IronMonkey'': A doctor with mad kung-fu skills in 19th Century Southern China takes on a Robin Hood-esq masked vigilante persona to rob the coffers and generally inconvenience a wussy, corrupt governor that bullies and exploits a population of refugees with the help of corrupt {{Wuxia}}-style Shaolin monks.
62	* ''Laconic/JesusBro'': An AffectionateParody of Christian Propaganda of TheNewTens where a HollywoodAtheist loses his MsExposition girlfriend and gets black-out drunk, meeting [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic Santa Christ]] in Heaven as a sound-stage and he becomes a self-righteous, non-denominational Christian who gets beaten up at every turn by the Atheist community.
63	* ''Laconic/JohnWick'': RetiredBadass [[ProfessionalKiller Professional Killing]] [[{{Determinator}} Determined]] [[TheAce Ace]] is nearly beaten half to death, has his CoolCar stolen and his dog [[ShootTheDog beat whole to death]] by [[EntitledBastard Douchebag]] [[GratuitousRussian Russian]] [[TheMafiya Mafiya]] [[MafiaPrincess Prince]] and he responds by going back into the HonorAmongThieves VillainWorld on a MoreDakka RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
64	* ''Laconic/ShaunOfTheDead'': A British HorrorComedy where Creator/SimonPegg plays a shiftless LoserProtagonist who gets dumped by his girlfriend for having no life-ambitions and his [[TheMillstone burden of a friend]] (played by Creator/NickFrost), both of whom completely overlook a ZombieApocalypse going on around them and eventually gets everyone killed out of ineptitude.
65	* ''Laconic/SurfNazisMustDie'': A delinquent street gang with a Nazi-aesthetic go on a campaign trying to invade and take over a beach while on of their victim's mother decides to get back at them.
66	* ''Laconic/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'': [[DirtyCop Dirty]], [[TheSociopath psychopatic]], [[CorruptCorporateExecutive corrupt owner of a transport company]] who's also a HangingJudge conducts an elaborate FrameUp of a WhiteBunny as part of his RailroadPlot.
67	* ''Laconic/TheWorldsEnd'': Creator/SimonPegg plays a self-destructive {{Manchild}} with suicidal tendencies who's AimlesslySeekingHappiness by bringing his old school gang back together -- Creator/NickFrost playing his former best friend holding a grudge, Creator/PaddyConsidine holding a crush on his friend's sister, Creator/MartinFreeman as a real estate agent who gets swapped out with a clone, Creator/EddieMarsan who's just there, and Creator/RosamundPike who bumbles her way in -- to their old home town to go on a pub crawl, only to stumble into an AlienInvasion plot where all of their old community members are systematically replaced with mechanical doppelgangers ([[InsistentTerminology not robots, because "robot" is Czech for "slave"]]).
68	* ''Laconic/{{Zombieland}}'': A neurotic nerd with {{Absurd Phobia}}s and a penchant for survivalist rules, a wannabe ActionHero[=/=]BigBrotherMentor with a southern accent, an ActionGirl with massive trust issues and her little sister all wind up finding each other during the ZombieApocalypse and they become a FamilyOfChoice in their quest for survival.
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72	* ''Laconic/AmericanGods'': An UnfazedEveryman fresh out of prison discovers that his wife has died in a car crash and is recruited by the American incarnation of the TopGod of Myth/NorseMythology to wage a war between the Old Gods immigrated to the New World and Gods of Modern Day American Culture.
73	* ''Laconic/TheAutomaticDetective'': In a {{Cyberpunk}}[=-=]MegaCity populated by {{Mad Scientist}}s and their mad creations, a KillerRobot made by an evil MadScientist gains [[PhlebotinumRebel self-awareness]] and wants to be considered a legal citizen in the city. The robot's neighbors wind up getting kidnapped and he tries to investigate the kidnapping with the help of a mad scientist beauty model to find them, uncovering an AlienInvasion conspiracy in the process.
74	* ''Laconic/TheRavenCycle'': A hipster girl who is the only non-psychic in her family and will kill her OneTrueLove if she kisses him, teams up with a rich genius who doesn't understand the value of money and is fated to die within a year, a cynical boy with anger issues who can bring stuff from his dreams to the real world, a ScholarshipStudent who both resents and wants to be just like his rich classmates and a shy boy who is actually dead to resurrect a Welsh king who is buried in a small town in Virginia.
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78	* ''Laconic/TheAdventuresOfBriscoCountyJr'': Famed {{Lantern Jaw\|OfJustice}}-wielding badass B-Movie actor Creator/BruceCampbell plays the RenaissanceMan son of universally beloved Old West hero who was shot dead, so the Protagonist takes on his father's job as a BountyHunter in order to hunt down the charismatic leader of the insidious black hat gang that killed his father, all the while thwarting their plot to gain control over a mysterious, spherical MacGuffin that may or may not be divine or extraterrestrial in nature.
79	* ''Laconic/TheGoodPlace'': An incredibly cynical AntiHero from Arizona, a [[TheDitherer Dithering]] Nerd with ChekhovsSkill, a [[TheBeautifulElite Beautiful Elite]] that knows half of all living celebrities and all OnlyInFlorida tweets ever made pretending to be a Buddhist Monk get up to DeconstructiveParody {{Sitcom}} antics in FluffyCloudHeaven.
80	* ''Laconic/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'': A cynical BlackComedy Anti-{{Sitcom}} about a [[{{Narcissist}} Narcissistic]] CampStraight [[CasanovaWannabe sexually-predatory]] ControlFreak [[TheSociopath sociopath]], a [[IJustWantToBeBadass Badass Wannabe]] KnowNothingKnowItAll ArmouredClosetGay with [[WhatTheFuAreYouDoing delusions of Martial Artistry]], a ChaoticStupid [[NeverLearnedToRead Illiterate]] CloudCuckoolander PsychopathicManchild that abuses every substance he can get his hands on, an [[HairTriggerTemper ill-tempered]] [[CommanderContrarian contrarian]] FemaleMisogynist with DelusionsOfEloquence and an ugly, AffablyEvil [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain omni-bigoted]] CorruptCorporateExecutive in the form of a [[ShapedLikeItself Danny DeVito-shaped]] troll all become more and more [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderized]] as the show progresses and the world around them becomes more and more [[CrapsackWorld crapsack]] by virtue of them existing.
81	* ''Laconic/JackOfAllTrades'': Creator/BruceCampbell plays a womanizing, snarky American Revolutionary soldier-turned-spy (so basically Creator/BruceCampbell playing himself) who also plays the role of a dashing Pimpernel-esq vigilante who's distinctive chin and accent are made completely unrecognizable in a DominoMask. He's accompanied by an attractive, extremely intelligent British noblewoman/inventor/spy/[[WillTheyOrWontThey maybe/maybe not love interest]] as they fight to undermine the machinations of a supervillain UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte, his inept Governor brother, his right-hand man and various other historical figures on a made-up island in the East Indies.
82	* ''WebVideo/HonestTrailers'' describes the plot of ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'' as: "Witness the Second Age of Middle-earth, a time of relative peace, prosperity and dramatic establishing shots. When a mysterious stranger appears from the sky, a mysterious stranger appears from at sea, a mysterious stranger appears on land, and three mysterious strangers go looking for the other mysterious strangers."
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86	* Music/DepecheMode: Over 40 years of [[DarkerAndEdgier darker]] and [[HotterAndSexier sexier]] NewWaveMusic, SynthPop, AlternativeDance and AlternativeRock music produced since October 1981 by two male Brits born in the 1960s who often wear CoolShades and [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism constantly switch between idealistic and cynicistic subject matters]].
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96	* ''Laconic/CandyLand'': A board game that requires absolutely no skill starring a group of kids of suspiciously diverse cultures who suddenly find themselves [[LevelAte in a world made entirely out of candy (or candy-adjacent foods like ice-cream)]] and have to make it to the castle by drawing color-coded cards.
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106	* ''Laconic/AlanWake'': A crime-thriller author of questionable skill leaves with his wife to a coasy Northwestern town that totally isn't Series/TwinPeaks and winds up becoming the plaything of an EldritchAbomination made of shadows that possesses random people in that town, and it all has something to do with a different author who may or may not exist and who may or may not be Alan's God.
107	* ''Laconic/{{Bloodborne}}'': You play as a make-your-own PlayerCharacter set loose to slay werewolves, [[WolfMan Wolf Men]] and eldritch horrors from beyond in a {{Cosmic\|HorrorStory}}[=-=]{{Gothic\|Horror}}[=-=]{{Survival\|Horror}}[=-=]ActionHorror SoulsLikeRPG in an Eastern-European/Victorian country where everyone has gone insane and so much blood in their bodies and it flies everywhere when you hit them.
108	* ''Laconic/BrambleTheMountainKing'': A Horror-PuzzlePlatformer about a young Swedish boy following his sister into a beautiful, but unforgiving Fairy Tale world where she gets kidnapped by killer trolls and he has to face off against various monsters -- a troll-butcher, a troll-hunter, an AxCrazy river-dwelling violinist, a scarecrow-like swamp-witch, a beautiful, yet-seductive tree-woman creature, a zombie-plague and the black-clad hag that caused it, a giant-king and his mind-controlling thorn-vines -- to rescue her, all with the help of a glowing rock, a beautiful blonde he only sees once, a family of easily-killed gnomes, an unnamed hag in a library and King of the Frogs to help him.
109	* ''Laconic/{{Control}}'': A NewWeird LovecraftLite ActionAdventure Third-Person Shooter about a Psychic FieryRedhead ActionGirl and the AntiMagic voice in her head infiltrating an Website/{{SCP\|Foundation}}-esq. ArtifactCollectionAgency to find her long-lost, AmbiguouslyEvil brother and save the world from an EldritchAbomination's army of [[TheCorruption corrupted]] {{Mooks}}.
110	* ''Laconic/CrashBandicoot1996'': Two {{Mad Scientist}}s with weirdly-shaped heads build a small army of {{Anthropomorphic Animal\|Adaptation}}s. One of them, an IdiotHero orange marsupial in jeans, fingerless gloves, shoes and is blessed by a floating mask that makes him invincible (sometimes) escapes from the castle and somehow finds himself on the other side of the island the mad scientists set the base on, and he ventures towards the castle to save his already anthropomorphized girlfriend.
111	* ''Laconic/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'': A psychotic GyaruGirl destroys the world ForTheEvulz because she wants to see her newest victims, her classmates, fall into despair, while her classmates constantly try and fight back against her with ThePowerOfFriendship until they eventually win and have to reverse the global destruction she caused out of her lust for despair.
112	* ''Laconic/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'': An attempt at rehabilitating the remaining members of an ApocalypseCult goes horribly wrong when the ArtificialIntelligence of their BadBoss is uploaded into their LotusEaterMachine world and conducts a DeadlyGame as part of her AssimilationPlot because of the actions of the VillainProtagonist in the real world.
113	* ''Laconic/TheEvilWithin'': HardboiledDetective with a DarkAndTroubledPast is forcibly sent on a JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind of a deranged psychopath where everyone but the protagonist and his plot-relevant friends are turned into freakish eye-glowy barbed-wire wrapped pseudo-zombies and freakish masses of flesh made to look like they came from a ''Franchise/SilentHill'' game if the titular town was a city and no EverytownAmerica.
114	* ''Laconic/TheEvilWithin2'': ActionSurvivor HardboiledDetective is sent by an [[TheIlluminati Illuminati-ish]] EvilCorp/Take-Over-the-World cult into an EverytownAmerica TownWithADarkSecret within a MentalWorld to save his [[PoweredByAForsakenChild kidnapped daughter used as its core]] from the psycho TechnicallyLivingZombie [[WasOnceAMan inhabitants]], a MadArtist with a pretentious french accent, a SinisterMinister that likes to burn things and liquify people's brains and a psychotic mom out to find her kidnapped daughter that also wants to kill her husband for reasons.
115	* ''Laconic/FiveNightsAtFreddys1'': [[PoliceAreUseless A nightguard with no survival instincts]] spends five nights in a SuckECheeses owned by PeaceAndLoveIncorporated with [[HauntedTechnology Haunted]] HostileAnimatronics and [[ActionSurvivor somehow survives the whole experience]].
116	* ''Laconic/FiveNightsAtFreddys2'': The same concept as the previous game, but the animatronics include [[HeroAntagonist criminal-identifying face recognition systems]] and [[OurGhostsAreDifferent a ghostly yellow bear]] as the FinalBoss.
117	* ''Laconic/FiveNightsAtFreddys3'': AfterTheEnd of the Fazbear's franchise, the restaurant is instead converted to [[TheThemeParkVersion a horror attraction]] featuring [[DeadGuyOnDisplay the lifeless bodies of the previous animatronics]], except now [[AloneWithThePsycho there's only one physical animatronic to fight]], who happens to be the franchise-wide BigBad, and the previous animatronics now serve as [[DemotedToExtra ghostly phantoms that aid his attack]] instead. Supposed to be [[SeriesFauxnale the end of the franchise]], but...
118	* ''Laconic/HorizonForbiddenWest'': Back in {{In a World}} where there are MechanicalLifeforms in the shape of animals and dinosaurs and mankind has been blown back to the Bronze Age for reasons etc etc, a red-headed archer who was banished from the tribe for being an orphan (now revered as their MessiahArchetype), tries to rebuild a DeusEstMachina using its surviving components who gained sentience due to a virus or maybe {{Ultraterrestrials}} I dunno. She has to travers and fix all of the problems of a local alleged cannibal {{Barbarian Tribe}}(s), deal with colonialists who think she's the SecondComing and ultimately try to avert GlobalWarming over a thousand years after it was thwarted the first time around.
119	* ''VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn'': {{In a World}} where there are MechanicalLifeforms in the shape of animals and dinosaurs and mankind has been blown back to the Bronze Age for reasons that I'm sure won't be relevant to the story happening right now, a red-headed archer who was banished from the tribe for being an orphan baby grows up to find out her origin story, only to wind up facing off against a RenegadeSplinterFaction of a {{Stern Sun Worshipp\|ers}}ing kingdom and prevent the apocalypse from happening again.
120	* ''Laconic/LittleNightmares'': A SurvivalHorror[=/=]PuzzlePlatformer about a small girl in an iconic yellow RaincoatOfHorror trying to escape a submarine/boat/lighthouse-island/restaurant staffed and catering to {{Monstrous Humanoid}}s who intend on capturing and eating her.
121	* ''Laconic/MasterDetectiveArchivesRainCode'': In a [[CyberpunkWithAChanceOfRain rainy neon city]] controlled by a MegaCorp, two [[WellIntentionedExtremist Well-Intentioned Extremists]] who are [[GreatDetective Great Detectives]] fight each other in a battle of wits because one of them is an EvilTwin who grows to empathize with [[ArtificialHuman Homunculi]] and wants to kill off his original self as part of his devotion to protecting them due to it being a NecessarilyEvil act.
122	* ''Laconic/Persona3'': [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits Ragtag Bunch]] of [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Ordinary High-School Students]] investigate TheHiddenHour while fighting shadows using DieOrFly superpowers, only to discover they were tricked into releasing the BigBad through the machinations of a BigBadWannabe and [[NiceJobBreakingItHero promptly fix their mistake]].
123	* ''Laconic/Persona4'': [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits Ragtag Bunch]] of [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Ordinary High-School Students]] investigate a series of murders happening via TelevisionPortal because of a psychotic SerialKiller.
124	* ''Laconic/Persona5'': [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits Ragtag Bunch]] of [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Ordinary High-School Students]] forcibly redeem villainous people by [[HeelFaceBrainwashing brainwashing them]] through conducting [[TheCaper heists]] of the valuables within their MentalWorld and [[DeathOfPersonality erasing their entire identity in the process]], only to fight against a representation of the UngratefulTownsfolk trying to dominate humanity by convincing everyone that HumansAreBastards.
125	* ''Laconic/{{Psychonauts}}'': A [[PsychicChildren psychic boy]] runs away from his home in the circus to a summer camp ran by a paranormal GovernmentAgencyOfFiction, only to uncover a conspiracy involving a MadScientist stealing brains working alongside a traitor in that organization, accomplishing this by entering the minds of others in a revolutionary [[CollectAThonPlatformer Collect-A-Thon Platforming]]-method of therapy so easy that a CircusBrat can cure mental illness with it.
126	* ''Laconic/SpyroTheDragon1998'': A singular dragon in a world ruled over by dragons mocks a green orc/gnome EvilOverlord living in a technologically bulky series of prison worlds and that very same green orc/gnome EvilOverlord living in a technologically bulky series of prison worlds takes the insult personally, imprisoning all of the adult dragons in a hard crystal carapace so fragile that they're freed if you touch them before literally turning the dragon's currency into an army. You play an adolescent purple dragon who was spared being imprisoned in crystal by virtue of being short and his small color-changing insect companion as they free dragons, collect gems and fly across great distances.
127	* ''Laconic/Spyro2RiptosRage'': Three villains -- an IneffectualSympatheticVillain EvilSorcerer with a [[TheNapoleon Napoleon Complex]], his dumb reptilian bipedal minion with a giant club and his dumb reptilian quadrapedal minion with laser cannons strapped to his back -- find themselves in a magical world and a female faun, a cowardly li--''err'' Cheetah, and a vaguely rodentish MadScientist all build a portal to summon an adolescent purple dragon on his way to a vacation after saving his own world so that he could save their world for them, his payment being that he can leave. From then on he has to collect {{MacGuffin}}s, which we're assured is somehow important, and gems so that we can get past a greedy, [[VeryPunchableMan Very Punchable Bear]] who won't let us save his world from a tyranny without paying his CashGate.
128	* ''VideoGame/SpyroYearOfTheDragon'': A RabbitMagician and an army of anthropomorphic rhinoceroses are sent by their VainSorceress master to retrieve all of the newly laid dragon eggs. An adolescent purple dragon, cowardly cheetah and FairyCompanion all travel to the other side of the world from when the Dragons originated in order to retrieve all of the dragon eggs, restore all of the portals, free four heroes who've been caged by a familiar, greedy, [[VeryPunchableMan Very Punchable Bear]] and reclaim the Forgotten Worlds for the dragons by that same sorceress.
129	* ''Laconic/SunsetOverdrive'': From the [[Creator/InsomniacGames makers]] of ''Franchise/SpyroTheDragon'', ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank'' and [[VideoGame/{{Disruptor}} that Space Marine game no one remembers]] comes a ThirdPersonShooter set in some city in America that's ground-zero for a mutant apocalypse caused by a corrupt corporation accidentally inventing MutagenicGoo instead of a popular energy-drink. You play a make-it-yourself PlayerCharacter who has the ability to leap several stories, rail-grind on any surface and land on his feet from a several-story fall with no damage [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext because video game]], killing mutants and bandits with absurd weapons as you try to uncover the corporate coverup before they destroy the city, all the [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece while the game tries desperately for you to think it's cool with meme culture and hipster fashion]].
130	* ''Laconic/TeamFortress2'': A HeroShooter sequel to a ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'' {{Game Mod\|Index}} made for {{Military and Warfare Video Game\|s}} enthusiasts where a red-colored RagtagBunchOfMisfits working as mercenaries and an identical blue team blow each other up for the whims of a voice over the intercom in a cartoonish, cel-shaded Australia.
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134	* ''Laconic/TheAmazingDigitalCircus'': BreadAndCircuses conducted by an EccentricAI to stop [[DoomedProtagonist Doomed Protagonists]] stuck in a LotusEaterMachine from turning into [[DigitalAbomination Digital Abominations]].
135	* ''Laconic/HelluvaBoss'': WebVideo/BrandonRogers plays a foul-mouthed, sex-crazed creep with NoSenseOfPersonalSpace (so basically like all of his other characters) who opens up a PsychoForHire business comprised of demons in {{Hell}} (one of which played by Creator/RichardStevenHorvitz playing [[PlayingAgainstType the sane one]] for once) that go to Earth with illegal magic provided for them by their horny owl arch-demon benefactor so that they can kill humans on Earth at the behest of damned souls. Or at least that's what it started out as, being more a character study about the members of the PsychoForHire business and their horny owl archdemon benefactor.
136	* ''Laconic/TerribleWritingAdvice'': A non-successful novelist with a smiley meme for a face gives still-shot animations of what not to do in a story while insisting it's what you should do for the sake of comedy, all the while the typical archetypical characters he uses in his demonstrations all have their own adventure on the side where various villains and incompetent heroes all team up to stop the personification of {{Greed}} from monetizing all of his [=YouTube=] videos because doing so will bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt... somehow.
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142	[[folder:Web Videos]]
143	* ''Laconic/AfterHours'': A neurotic, possibly autistic nerd, a handsome sociopath, a horny party-dude and a snarky velma all crowd around at a diner table to discuss, deconstruct and mock tropes, theories and other general opinions in pop culture.
144	* ''Laconic/{{Smosh}}'': Two idiot high school friends make a video where they lipsink to the theme-song of ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'' and they become so insanely popular that they wind up going on various misadventures in a SketchComedy world, most famously [[WebVideo/FoodBattle when they literally kill each other every year trying to decide who's favorite food is better]]. Then when their brand is bought, one of them leaves forever while the other keeps it all going with a new gang of friends before they buy the brand back and the old friend comes back.
145	* ''Laconic/StampysLovelyWorld'': A SugarBowl world set in ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' is constantly invaded by [[VileVillainSaccharineShow an unrestrained hegemonist]] while the NiceGuy protagonist adds a new artificial building to his world as ConstructionZoneCalamity occurs between his Helpers.
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149	* ''Laconic/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': A twelve-year old with an arrow on his head, Avatar Aang, travels the world with his friends, Sokka, Katara, and Toph- and eventually Zuko and Suki, too- to learn how to master the the elements of fire, water, and earth and defeat the tyrannical king and abusive father of Zuko, Firelord Ozai, and stop the Hundred Years War, which began with the genocide of the Air Nomads.
150	* ''Laconic/DonkeyKongCountry'': A red-tie wearing, strong but stupid gorilla with an obsession with bananas is tasked by a living statue in an ancient temple on an island to be the future ruler of that very same island and to protect a coconut-shaped wish-granting MineralMacGuffin from the king of a race of cave-dwelling LizardFolk. Also, every episode has at least two songs of varying quality in each of them.
151	* ''Laconic/KipoAndTheAgeOfWonderbeasts'': An unnaturally ([[UnusuallyUninterestingSight but not worth mentioning]]) [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation pink]] sheltered girl explores a [[RagnarokProofing Ragnarök Proof]] [[UnspecifiedApocalypse ambiguously occurring]] [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalypse]] teeming with [[FantasticRacism human-hating]] {{Talking Animal}}s and {{Kaiju}}s to find her fellow humans and uncover her own secret origins.
152	* ''Laconic/MiraculousLadybug'': The CuteClumsyGirl daughter of a Baker and a blonde, naive SpoiledSweet LonelyRichKid are given ThePowerOfCreation and PowerOfTheVoid by {{Magical Accessor\|y}}ies powered by {{Mentor Mascot}}s that make them AnimalThemedSuperbeing. They use their powers to save GayParee from people corrupted into supervillains by the blonde, naive SpoiledSweet {{Lonely Rich Kid}}'s aloof father wielding his own MagicalAccessory powered by MentorMascot.
153	* ''Laconic/MyAdventuresWithSuperman'': A YoungerAndHipper retelling of ComicBook/{{Superman}} where Clark Kent, his roommate Jimmy Olsen and his new-friend/love interest/{{Toxic Friend Influence}} Lois Lane when they start interning at the Daily Planet. Not having full control of his powers yet, Clark Kent takes on the persona of Superman and tries using his powers to stop a sudden uptick in dangerous technology finding themselves in the hands of street-thugs while a government agency is out to capture and contain him out of the belief that he's up to something sinister.
154	* ''Laconic/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': ThePowerOfFriendship used by AmazingTechnicolorWildlife to counter the MonsterOfTheWeek[=/=]RoguesGallery as AppliedPhlebotinum, with many [[TokenEvilTeammate Token Evil Teammates]] being part of the main cast after having undergone a HeelFaceTurn later on in the series.
155	* ''Laconic/OurCartoonPresident'': A politically satirical animated series about President UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump and his 2017-2021 Presidential Administration as portrayed by Actor/Comedian/Leftist sort-of Political-Pundit Creator/StephenColbert
156	* ''Laconic/TheOwlHouse'': Afro-Latina Queer GenkiGirl is about to be sent to an ObsessivelyNormal camp until she accidentally wanders into a [[DenserAndWackier Dense, but Wacky]]-DarkFantasy GiantCorpseWorld populated by witches and demons. She wants to do magic. Instead she picks a fight with the DarkMessiah, finds God(s), gets depressed, turns into [[MessianicArchetype the Messiah]] and gets a girlfriend.
157	* ''Laconic/StevenUniverse'': An adolescent boy of an evolved species of primate is the offspring of a polymorphic, sentient mineral amazon-lesbian who rigged a rebellion against her own kind that inadvertently rendered the planet she loved infested with {{Eldritch Abomination}}s.
158	* ''Laconic/TeenTitans2003'': [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} Batman's]] first and former sidekick-turned workaholic leader[=/=]Token BadassNormal, a FlyingBrick alien princess GenkiGirl, a young, green-skinned animal-shapeshifting vegetarian, a TokenWizard Goth-chick Antichrist, a partial-machine nerdy jock form a superhero team that deal with monsters, supervillains, TheChessmaster, an AcademyOfEvil, its a mind-controlling DeanBitterman, {{Satan}} and a LegionOfDoom knockoff.
159	* ''Laconic/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'': Four sewer-dwelling, post-adolescent mutated martial-arts fighting, pizza-loving terrapins and their humanoid rat master fight a heavily blade-armored evil Jōnin, his interdimensional alien brain partner and their dimwitted mutant henchmen in New York City.
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163	* Laconic/ArrangedFriendship: Characters who are forced to pretend to be TrueCompanions thanks to a variety of reasons -- their social status, race, religion, orientation and most likely their parents' interests -- and either become true friends in the long run or wind up developing a lot of twisted ideas when it comes to companionship.
164	* Laconic/HollywoodDreamtime: Fiction cares so little about the indigenous Australian people's idea of what their TheTimeOfMyths is that movies and video games think that it is a place or a type of superpower.
165	* Laconic/JarPotty: When the presence of a bathroom with a working flushable toilet, a working non-flushable construction worker blue portable restroom or enough space to take a piss or take a dump is unavailable, always find a small portable container made of glass, metal, plastic, styrofoam or ceramic to relieve yourself so that you won't have to go out searching for any of those things with a full bladder or unvoided bowels.
166	* Laconic/MagicalQueer: A SubTrope to the GayBestFriend to offer sage advice, have social grace, or a use a ChekhovsSkill that their straight friends either need, want or have when their straightness blinds or handicaps them from that brand of wisdom, social grace or natural AlwaysCamp physical or mental skill.
167	* Laconic/TechBro: Young, charismatic, already wealthy [[WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant WASPs]] become even more wealthy by convincing everyone [[BelievingTheirOwnLies and themselves]] that they're ComicBook/{{Batman}}[=/=]ComicBook/IronMan-esq super geniuses using their smarty smart-brains to uplift humanity, when really all they are are [[UpperClassTwit Upper-Class Twits]] who overhype, underperform and make all of their underpaid interns do all the heavy-lifting and number-crunching while hoarding an unreasonable amount of money.
168	* Laconic/SamuraiShinobi: Due to TruthInTelevision application of historical traditions and the fetishism of Japanese culture, pop culture mixes the traditions, philosophy, fighting styles, equipment, motivations, ethics, tactics and aesthetics of {{Samurai}} and {{Ninja}} until the line that separates them ceases to exist.
169	* Laconic/SeasonalRot: When a show, comic book, movie series, book series and/or franchise starts to outlive its shelf-life, its content dropping in quality, ratings, interest from its creators, interest from its fans, number of interesting and/or original ideas, its {{Running Gag}}s lose their effectiveness and people start to resent its presence until everyone is just begging that it be put out of its misery so that their creators can move on to something new.
170	* Laconic/SpoonBending: When proof that a person has psychic powers has to be shown by copying a phony psychic in a sea of other people who pretended to see the future or hear the voice of the all-mighty for the money of their gullible fans.
171	* Laconic/TieInCereal: Breakfast cereal chock full of sugar, gluten and [[AsbestosFreeCereal nothing that will certainly doom your children to early onset leukemia]] is molded and branded with the name and picture of their favorite cartoon characters in the hopes that their parents would be pestered into buying them.
172	* Laconic/{{Uncoffee}}: InAWorld where coffee beans don't exist, people get around this sort of thing by filling that very same niche with something else. Usually juice from a different but equally bitter bean, berries, grain, some kind of magic potion or elixir, even the blood of some kind of animal that goes through some kind of process that turns it into a drink ideal for getting one's caffeine fix.
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176	* Laconic/DarthWiki: The [[DarkerAndEdgier dark, cold, foreboding]] cousin of our beloved encyclopedia of devices used in fiction, the Darth Wiki is a perversion of the virtues that its predecessor stands for, the darkness the lies in every troper's heart given the form of black-on-white lines of text. For some reason, the denizens of said encyclopedia treat this section [[ComicallyMissingThePoint as a source of endless amusement and laughter.]]
177	* Laconic/SoBadItsGood: When people drop praise and reverence for something that was made with good intentions with awful tools and incompetent artists who thought they were better than they were specifically ''because'' it was made so poorly.
178	* Laconic/SoBadItsHorrible: When a work of art or fiction is so mind-numbingly, stomach-spewingly, brain-shittingly awful in the production, writing, visuals and presentation that people could not even enjoy it ironically.
179	* Laconic/SoCoolItsAwesome: When a work of art or fiction is so phenomenal in its writing, visuals and all around execution that it quickly develops fully organized and very obnoxiously loud fanbase capable of propping a franchise up on pure orgasmic positivity alone.
180	* Laconic/SoOkayItsAverage: When you watch a movie, read a comic book or binge a tv series that would have been a C+ or a B- if it were being graded by a substitute teacher. You saw it and you thought that it was no incompetently made or offensive to your morals, but left so small of an impact that you in no way feel invested enough to demand any more or less of it.
181	* Laconic/SugarWiki: The [[LighterAndSofter light, warm, cuddly]] cousin of the already likable encyclopedia of devices used in fiction, the Sugar Wiki adds an extra dash of pastel colors and diabetic coma waiting to happen in an invasive, kudzu-like rainbow of positivity ready to invade the rest of the wiki and everything on it.
182	* Laconic/UnlaconicLaconicWiki: Building increasingly unlaconic versions of already existing laconic pages meant to be laconic pages for unlaconic pages.
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