The Family for the Whole Family
What do you do when you need some big, tough guys to menace the heroes, but don't want to risk having them actually, you know, hurt anybody? You call in The Family for the Whole Family. They're not the scary, competent, make-it-look-like-an-accident mobsters seen in Mafia movies; they're the harmless, ineffectual, and very, very stupid mobsters that are a staple of family-oriented comedies. No matter how many of them are in their group, you can be sure of two things: there will only be one shared gun among them (if they thought to pack any weapons at all), and they'll always forget that there's a trigger on it when they want to threaten someone, rarely having any Plan B in case
Bemoaning The New Body
Shapeshifting can have a vast variety of outcomes for people. And in many cases, transformed characters can find those outcomes rather unappealing.
Why certain forms are disliked can include:
Your new form looks uglier than your original form, or at least a lot scarier-looking. Your new form is or resembles a demographic group that many are prejudiced against in the setting. Your new form resembles a particular individual people dislike. You went through a
1 | 2 |
---|---|
Podcast: FoxMulderIsAManiac Revision [49] | 7 seconds ago |
KeepCirculatingTheTapes: LiveActionTV Revision [1663] | 36 seconds ago |
Main: LonelyFuneral Revision [370] | 42 seconds ago |
Characters: GoddessOfVictoryNikke Revision [777] | 1 minute ago |
Sandbox: AutumnLeavesMonsterEP Revision [164] | 1 minute ago |
1 | 2 |
---|---|
Live Action TV Wheel of Time | 1 second ago |
Forum Games Waiter! There is a [insert here] in my soup! | 1 minute ago |
Yack Fest Jabbering about the Featured Trope | 2 minutes ago |
Forum Games Guess the Disney Character 2.0 | 3 minutes ago |
Forum Games Make a Quote for the Above Trope | 5 minutes ago |
1 | 2 |
---|---|
No Noise in the Library (Launching May 1st) Created 4 days ago | 22 minutes ago |
Good Castles, Evil Castles (Launches Friday, last call for suggestions) Created 3 days ago | 33 minutes ago |
Serial Adulterer Created 2 hours ago | 46 minutes ago |
Canadian Voice Actors Created 21 hours ago | 1 hour ago |
Flat Pack Architecture Created 1 day ago | 1 hour ago |
Example of:
Vocal DissonanceExample of:
Screams Like a Little GirlExample of:
Eek, a Mouse!!Example of:
Didn't Think This ThroughTropes Community Podcasts