Sandbox / Ban-Evader Example Rewrites

For the Ban-Evader Reversion Thread: This is a sandbox meant to store potentially valid examples added by ban evaders and rewrite them.

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Aliens Are Bastards

• Atomic Puppet: Zorp wants to capture the citizens of Mega City so he can serve them at the intergalactic potluck.
• Bad Taste: Crumb and his crew have come to Earth to kill humans and see how they taste. If they taste good enough, Crumb plans to take what he salvages back to his planet to use in his restaurant and convince the rest of his race to launch a full scale invasion of Earth so they can enslave the Earthlings and use them as cattle.
• Bart Vs The Space Mutants: The Space Mutants want to conquer Earth and are willing to kill Bart, Would Hurt a Child who is a child.
• Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator: The Vermicious Knids are a hostile race that travels the universe consuming all life they come in contact with. It's stated they wiped out all other life in our solar system.
• Danny Phantom: Word of God is that Vlad survived being hit by the Disasteroid, and was captured by evil aliens who capture other beings and force them to fight in gladiator tournaments. Vlad suffered greatly under them.
• Dragon Ball: Most of the franchise's villains are aliens. The most prominent example is Frieza, an evil overlord who runs a business conquering planets, depopulating other planets by eliminating all life so he can sell them to the highest bidder, and destroying planets he has no interest in either ruling or selling. Most of his underlings are evil as well. While many were forced to serve him under threat of their planets being destroyed, many such as Dodoria, Cui, and the Saiyans are bloodthirsty maniacs who enjoy slaughtering life. Other aliens include Babidi and his followers, who are trying to unleash Majin Buu to conquer the universe, the evil wizard Moro, who goes around consuming all life from planets for more power, and if you count the movies, there are other evil aliens such as Lord Slug, Garlic Jr, the Kashvar, and Bojack and his crew of murderous space pirates. That being said, there are still many friendly aliens in the franchise as well.
• Fester's Quest: The villains are hostile aliens who have invaded the town, kidnapped Gomez, and are now trying to conquer Earth.
• Half-Life: The Xen aliens from the first game also count. While they were trying to use the Earth as a new place to hide from the Combine, the fact remains that they immediately decided to kill all the humans in the Black Mesa facility rather than trying to make peace with them and seek help. Even worse than the Xen aliens are Race X, a sepparate alien race who invade Earth during the Black Mesa incident with the intention of draining the planet of all its resources, killing everything.
• Hello Kitty Roller Rescue: Block-O and his minions invade Earth to conquer the planet and turn everyone into a cube-shaped being like himself.
• Kabuki Quantum Fighter: The alien virus that has infected Hyperion is sentient, and it wants to destroy Earth and use Hyperion as a tool to conquer the universe.
• Killer Klowns from Outer Space: the Klowns are a race of alien Monster Clown vampires that attack Earth to suck blood for sustenance. They do not ascribe to Blue-and-Orange Morality however, as they also kill Earthlings for fun and are shown to be extremely sadistic.
• Mars Attacks! parodies the whole thing with The Unintelligible belligerent Martians. Accentuated, if only because all the Humans Are Morons. They are actually one of the more blatant portrayals of this. The Martians attack Earth completely unprovoked and start killing everyone For the Evulz, not even interested in conquering the planet but wanting to hurt and kill for fun. The president gives a big speech to them about how the Earthlings and Martians could work together to try and form a truce. The Martian leader seems to accept, but it's just a trick to kill the president while the Martians laugh. The novelization elaborates that the Martians live only to attack other planets and kill everyone living there- it's their way of living and the basis of their civilization. The novelization also elaborates that the Martians vomit by shedding tears, and the Martian leader was vomiting at the president's offer of peace.
• Phantasm: The Tall Man is an incredibly evil entity not of this world who seems to want to turn Earth and other worlds into nightmarish hellscapes he can rule over. It's not entirely clear if the creature is an extraterrestrial or an interdimensional being (or both), as it's not clear if the Red Planet is an actual planet or another dimension (or a planet in another dimension), but he's definitely a bastard and not from our world.
• Plan 9 from Outer Space: In the remake, the aliens are genocidal maniacs who want to wipe out the Earthlings just because they see them as inferior.
• In Portal Runner, the Martians invade other worlds and start blasting everything in sight for seemingly no reason.
• The Powerpuff Girls: Aliens are constantly depicted as evil. The Brocloids were an alien race of brocoli men who tried to conquer Earth, an alien invader attacks the Justice Friends in a crossover episode, and one of the more dangerous villains was an alien who wanted to outright destroy the planet, forcing Mojo Jojo to help the girls in an Enemy Mine.
• The Powerpuff Girls: Relish Rampage: The Pickloids want to conquer the universe and have made Townsville their next target.
• Signs: They seem to want to invade the planet but they actually intoxicate humans and collect them for reasons unknown.
• Robot Monster: The Great Guidance is one for ordering the destruction of all humankind.
• SpongeBob SquarePants: The Jelliens in an episode are evil space jellyfish who try to capture and replace all he inhabitents of Bikini Bottom in order to conquer it.
• Spyro the Dragon: The second, third, and fourth games have aliens as enemies. The second and third games have alien sheep and space cows as enemies. In the second game, they were enemies in one level. In the third game, the alien sheep appear in the speedway levels and the 100% Completion level, while the space cows also return in one of the speedways. The fourth game brings back the space cows without the sheep for an alien themed level, and includes flying saucers piloted by unseen aliens in a minigame trying to abduct regular cows. The space cows in the third game are a particularly good example of this trope, as while the sheep are abduting people with their saucers for unknown purposes, the cows are just going around zapping and hurting people with their rayguns For the Evulz and laughing about it.
• Titan A.E.: The Drej believe that it is their destiny and their right to spread themselves across the universe and eradicate all other species they encounter.
• The Toadman Saga: The Shadowbeast is an evil alien Eldritch Abomination that came to Earth in ancient times and started causing chaos just for amusement. Sealed away after murdering and mutilating children, it desires to free itself so it can bring about The End of the World as We Know It.
• Zombies Ate My Neighbors: Martians are enemies. They go around trying to kill the player characters (who are children) and abduct people for unknown reasons.

Alien Blood

• Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem: The Predalien's blood is slightly greener than normal Xenomorphs, suggesting it inhirited some traits of Predator blood.
• Bad Taste: Averted. All the aliens have red blood.
• Creature from the Black Lagoon: 35% of the Gill-man's blood is composed of white corpuscles lacking a nucleus.
• Dragon Ball:
  • Despite being human, Spopovich is shown to have purple blood, seen once when Videl gives him a bloody lip and again when he gets a nosebleed as Babidi is making him explode. This is probably an effect of Babidi's magic, which also caused his hair to fall out and his skin to darken to a greyish color. He and Yamu also now have purple tongues, despite Spopovich being shown with a normal tongue in a flashback.
  • In the original movies, Broly was oddly sometimes shown bleeding green and other times red blood. The former is especially weird because all other Saiyans (and most other Human Aliens like Recoome) are very consistently shown to have red blood. At the end of the first film, he is shown bleeding green when his chest is ripped open. In the second film, he is shown bleeding red at the start and has a big bloody red scar on his chest throughout the film, but at the end, when his heart explodes, he is shown bleeding green again. In the third film, a flashback to Maloja collecting his blood shows it to once again be red. It's never revealed why his blood sometimes appeared green. Notably, his ki was also green.
• Goosebumps: Monster Blood is green, magical, living blood that can consume living things to grow. It is possible however that it is not actually blood from monsters but rather a green slime with magical properties called that, which would make it a Non-Indicative Name. The plant clone of Dr. Brewer in Stay Out of The Basement also has green blood.
• Independence Day: For some odd reason, in the first film the Harvester aliens had bluish-purple blood, but in Independence Day: Resurgence, they have green blood.
• Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday: while Jason's heart is being examined, a "black, viscous fluid" is found in it. The person doing the examination refuses to believe it is blood, but it actually would make sense, considering blood actually can turn black in real life if it remains deoxygenated long enough, and Jason has been undead for many years by that point.
• Kong: Skull Island: The Mother Longlegs have yellow blood instead of blue like a normal spider.
• Naughty Bear: Parodied with the alien bears, who leak different fluff particles, leaking a weird, yellowish foamy substance instead of the classic fluffy cotton bits.
• Never Cry Werewolf: Jared's Hell Hound has an abnormally dark and muddy tint to its red blood, almost appearing brown or purple.
• Predator
  • The hounds in Predators are shown with red blood (apart from one scene where they are incorrectly shown with blue blood). Justified in that it's implied (and later confiirmed with the appearance of an actual Predator dog in The Predator) that these are not actually from the same planet as the Predators, instead being quadripedal creatures from other worlds they captured and domesticated, which would explain the different blood color.
• Samurai Jack: The first four seasons used this and Machine Blood, having Jack's enemies be aliens and monsters who "bleed" slime or goo and robots who "bleed" oil and electricity, allowing the show to have graphic violence without being subjected to censorship or a mature tv rating. Averted in the last season, which has Jack killing human enemies.
• Spider-Man (2000): During Carnage's boss fight, he asks Spider-Man what color he bleeds.
• Troll 2: The goblins have green blood.

Awesome.The Last Of Us

• Tommy during the prologue is an absolute badass. For starters, he comes out the least injured when a truck sidelined his car despite the fact he was on the side that was hit, bashing in an infected’s head with a brick when it attacked Joel. When Joel, now carrying an injured Sarah, is jumped by an infected in an alleyway, Tommy cuts off the QTE by kicking him to the ground and executing it with a shot to the head. Then he holds door being banged on by five infected shut to give Joel and Sarah time to escape. This wasn't a Heroic Sacrifice, as Tommy reveals he managed to fight them off or outrun them by killing an American Soldier who was about to kill Joel.

Bail Equals Freedom

• 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure has an even more egregious example than most versions. Here, Cruella pays Horace and Jasper's bail to have them released after they have already been sentenced. This would imply that bail is some sort of fine you can pay to be released early from prison, which is obviously not true.

Characters.Doom 2016 Demons

• Ax-Crazy: These three are not only motivated by fanatical devotion and personal power, but also the sadistic desire to slaughter millions for fun.
• Dirty Coward: All three to an extent, but Deag Ranak gets special mention because he dies pathetically offering The Doom Slayer stuff he doesn’t need in exchange for being spared.
• For the Evulz: Other then power and devotion to the Khan Maykr, these sadistic bastards also commit atrocities for fun. Deag Grav gets special mention, as he runs the corrupted lands of Argent D'Nur, gleefully subjecting innocents to the arenas to see them butchered by demons for his own amusement.
• The Sociopath: A trio of sadistic monsters who think nothing of slaughtering and damning millions for power and fun.

Characters.Doom 2016 Maykrs And Argenta

• Jerkass: Selfish, condescending, and far too sure of her superiority to humanity and The Doom Slayer.
• The Sociopath: Khan Maykr has condemned millions of souls, enslaved her people, and is now leading an invasion of Earth to slaughter all of humanity all for the sake of her own power.

Characters.Doom 2016 UAC And ARC

• Asshole Victim: Samuel is left to suffer Transfiguration at the end of The Ancient Gods - Part 1. As a thoroughly unsympathetic Well-Intentioned Extremist, he had it coming.
• Jerkass: Good intentions aside, Hayden was still a cold, clinical and remorseless when it came to the deaths of his employees in 2016. He gets even worse in The Ancient Gods - Part 1: After revealing he is the Seraphim, he starts act very smug and self important, practically saying he’s on equal footing to The Father himself. Not to mention losing a bit of his good intentions by putting a lot of focus on how reviving The Father will him.
• Laser-Guided Karma: After using The Doom Slayer as a pawn twice, it bits him in the ass the second time, as the Slayer shatters The Father’s life sphere and let’s him live to suffer Transfiguration.

Characters.Helluva Boss

• Nice Guy: The only member of C.H.E.R.U.B who truly wants to do right by their clients and the people they are hired to protect.

Characters.The Last Of Us

• Cruel and Unusual Death: Another reason it hit so hard for Joel. Sarah’s last moments were pure agony and terror, and there was nothing he could do to comfort her.
• Jerkass: He’s a smug, cowardly prick who sold the guns Joel and Tess had paid for to the Fireflies, and tried to kill them when the two got angry about it. He treats his gang like crap, and tries to convince Joel and Tess to slaughter the Fireflies to save his own skin.
• Jerkass: More and more as his Faux Affably Evil facade starts to crumble. By the time his boss fight rolls around, David taunts her about his plans to have the remains of her horse eaten and is happy she killed his men, as that makes his group stronger due to less mouths to feed.
• Knight Templar: Genuinely believes his actions are just and necessary.

Characters.The Owl House The Boiling Isles

• Ax-Crazy: Wrath is a rather sadistic warden who tortures prisoners whenever they annoy him. That, and his obsession with Eda results in him violently lashing out at anyone who points out how creepy he is.
• Benevolent Boss: Is never seen mistreating his guards at the Conformatorium, and they show their support for him when he tries to ask Eda out on a date.
• Dirty Coward: Folds like wet tissue paper when Luz beats him in the season finale.
• Disproportionate Retribution: When Tiny Nose annoys him, he grabs her, violently crushing the much smaller woman in his large hand, and walks off with her after threatening the other prisoners. Eda reveals she was being tortured.
• Jerkass: Warden Wrath is a creepy, sadistic and cowardly jackass who uses the Conformatorium to bully and torture others.
• Pet the Dog: Seems to be in good terms with his fellow guards at the Conformatorium, considering they showed him support when he attempted to ask out Eda, which implies he confined with them about his crush.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Proves himself to be incredibly immature. When Luz doesn't like him asking Eda out, he immediately snaps at her to stay out of it and picks her up with clear intent to harm. When Kikimora lays into him for caving into Luz’s threats, it’s like a mother or teacher scolding a child.
• Stalker with a Crush: To Eda, as he’s been hunting her alongside the rest of the Emperor’s Coven, and found her constantly evading capture "alluring".
• Torture Technician: All part of running the Conformatorium, as poor Tiny Nose can attest to.

Characters.Star Wars General Grievous

• Jerkass: Oh yes. Whenever he isn’t committing war crimes, Grevious is being the biggest asshole in the entire franchise. Abusing his subordinates both physically and verbally, mocking his enemies, and overall acting like a violent, temperamental, cowardly bully.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Grievous's short fuse leads to many childish qualities. Him bashing one of his droid subordinates to bits comes off as an angry child breaking their toys, any insult on his character leads to impulsive attacks that often result in his failures and like any schoolyard bully, he’s suddenly not too fond of fighting when dealing with someone stronger then him.

Characters.Resident Evil Films

• And I Must Scream: Nemesis is revealed to still have Matt buried deep within him.
• Anti-Hero: Alice is determined to help others in anyway she can, but isn’t afraid to kill every human and zombie in her way to do what needs to be done.
• Nice Girl: Anti-Hero and stoic tendencies aside, Alice is very polite and help to those not trying to kill or insult her.
• Smug Snake: Wesker always speaks like he’s in complete control of every situation he finds himself in, and many of those times his arrogance lands him a hard defeat.
• The Sociopath: Wesker is only loyal to the Umbrella name, and he’ll happily have all of humanity extinguished to make sure its plans come to fruition.
• The Sociopath: Though he was trying to stop the spread of the T-Virus at first, it was only to cover Umbrella's ass in their company releasing it. When he realizes that's impossible, he plans to nuke the millions of lives in Racoon City to save the company's image.

Doom Eternal

• Chromosome Casting: The Ancient Gods Part 1 and 2 have no main female characters, with all of the names characters being male.

Keys to the Kingdom (Kingdom Hearts)

• Accidental Misnaming: Upon encountering Demyx in Paradise Falls, Sora, Donald, and Goofy repeatedly fail to remember his name:
  Sora: You’re with the Organization! Uh… What’s this guy’s name again?
  Goofy: Hm… wasn’t it Dimiss, or somethin’ like that?
  Donald: No, no, it was Doxmas!
  Sora: Wait, I got it! Dexys.
  Demyx: It’s Demyx!
• Adaptational Villainy: Maleficent is much more openly ruthless and malicious in this fic compared to her relatively hands-off approach in Kingdom Hearts III. She even goes as far as forcing Sora to surrender himself so she can torture and poison him to the point of forcing him into rage form. She then proceeds to take control of him while in that form and forces him to mindlessly attack his friends.
• Anger Born of Worry: Upon finding out about the existence of Rage Form and Sora's capture at Maleficent's hands, Riku is infuriated to the point that he punishes Sora by essentially refusing to let him travel without him. Riku later recants this punishment, admitting that he was worried about Sora struggling with his inner darkness.
• Big Sister Instinct: Upon her return to the realm of light, Aqua acts as one to Sora, in no small part because he reminds her so much of Ven.
• Big Bad Ensemble: Xehanort and Organization XIII are the most prevalent antagonists in the story, but Maleficent is also a prominent reoccurring threat, and so is Vanitas after he breaks away from the Organization to pursue his own ambitions. The Disney Villains in each world also have a larger role.
• Breather Episode: Chapter 38, set at Castle of Dreams, features the Guardians of Light taking a much-deserved break from their more intense adventures to enjoy an evening at a ball hosted by Cinderella and Prince Charming.
• Bloodier and Gorier: At least compared to the typical Kingdom Hearts fare. Blood is used far more, and weapons such as guns are not censored. The combat is also far more violent.
• Cliffhanger:
  • Chapter 20 ends with Sora surrendering himself over to Maleficent to save Donald and Goofy, leaving his fate in her hands unknown until the next chapter.
  • The ending of chapter 23 sees Sora under a completely out of the blue attack from the Lingering Will, who mistakes him for Xehanort.
  • At the end of chapter 34, Sora is pulled down into the End of Sea by Anti-Aqua; as injured as he is in the preceding battle, the most Riku can do is watch it happen right in front of his eyes.
• Glamour: Sora has Donald cast a glamour spell on him in chapter 27 to hide the physical changes that come along with his body and heart slowly falling into darkness (yellow eyes, white hair, shadows covering his hands, ect.). Unfortunately, chapter 41 sees Doctor Facilier use a hex to negate it, thus revealing how much Sora has been corrupted, with no hope of undoing the curse.
• MacGuffin: The thirteen Keys to the Kingdom. In addition, Sora himself could be considered a Living MacGuffin, as he's sought after by just about all of the main antagonists to be used for some reason or another (as a Heartless weapon by Maleficent, and as a vessel by Xehanort).
• Mind Hive: Throughout the story, one of Sora's main drives is to free the hearts of Roxas, Xion, and Ventus from his own. This comes to a head however, in chapter 36, when he suffers from a full on identity crisis from all of their memories overwhelming him at once.
• Mirror Match: Chapter 35 has Sora fighting a dark, mirror image of himself within the furthest depths of the Realm of Darkness. Throughout their brutal fight, Phantom!Sora utilizes a Break Them by Talking strategy, one that almost works.
• Internal Reveal: It takes until chapter 27 for Donald and Goofy to find out that Sora is slowly becoming the Organization's thirteenth vessel, a secret he's managed to keep from them from nearly the beginning of the story.
• Jerkass Ball: After Riku is named The Leader of the guardians of light, Sora becomes increasingly petty and bitter towards him, to the point that he outright ignores his instructions and orders and disrespects him outright on several occasions. Fortunately, he's quick to drop this behavior upon rushing to save Riku in the Realm of Darkness.
• Painful Transformation: Any time Sora slips into Rage Form, the process is described as painful and horrific, and is made even worse by him completely losing control of his actions to the violent, animalistic instincts of his more monstrous form.
• Scars Are Forever: The x-shaped scar Young Xehanort lands on Sora's chest early on into the story cannot be healed through magic.
• Shipper on Deck: Chapter 38 has all of the other Guardians of Light (Riku, Aqua, Ventus, Axel, Mickey, Donald, and Goofy) conspiring to get Sora and Kairi together. Their plan works.
• Secret-Keeper: Sora spends much of the fic's first half keeping the fact that he's slowly becoming the Organization's thirteenth vessel hidden from everyone, including Donald and Goofy. At least until he literally can't keep the emerging physical changes in his appearance hidden from them any longer.
• Stepford Smiler: Sora is even more of this in Keys than he is in canon, constantly putting on a cheerful or complacent attitude to direct worry away from him and ultimately hide his accumulating trauma and growing problems (such as his fall into darkness) from his friends.
• Taking a Level in Badass: Kairi gets to be much more of an Action Girl in Keys compared to in Kingdom Hearts III; we see more of her training alongside Axel, she chases Vantias out of Disney Castle, and she even manages to rescue Sora from Maleficent's clutches. She's also shown to have a strong knack for healing, as she's able to mend a severe bullet wound in Sora's shoulder, as well as repair Riku's broken leg.
• Titled After the Song: A good number of chapters share titles with songs, either from past Kingdom Hearts games or from the various Disney movies featured within the fic (for example, "How Far I'll Go" and "Know Who You Are" are the titles for the Moana chapters).
• Villain Team-Up: We see a handful of these between Organization members and Disney villains, such as brief team ups between Demyx and Muntz in Paradise Falls, Marluxia and Gothel in Corona, and most importantly Luxord and Doctor Facilier in New Orleans.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Riku calls both Sora and Kairi out for lying to him about Maleficent taking Sora captive and his lengthy stint of recovery afterward.

TheLastOfUs.Tropes E To J

• Jerkass: Ethan is a total asshole who knocks Joel out while he was trying to save Ellie, shows No Sympathy to Joel after he learns Ellie will have to die in order to create a vaccine. He then beats him and threatens to kill him. Then he's promptly tortured and executed by Joel after learning from him where Ellie is.

Max Payne

• Abusive Parents: The comics reveal Max’s childhood was far from ideal. While there is no evidence his father laid a hand on him, Jack Payne was still a neglectful bastard who showed him little affection in order to “toughen him up”. That and he had no problem assaulting Max’s mother, Helen Payne, in front of him.
• Black-and-Gray Morality: Max isn’t the most squeaky clean individual, having pretty much committed mass murder dozens of times over the course of the trilogy, but he’s a decent man in the end, and his enemies are always worse.

Recap.The A Team S 4 E 4 Lease With An Option To Die

• Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: The team is originally called in to deal with some rowdy neighbors who assaulted B.A.'s mother, but in the process they turn up a crooked land deal and take down one of the richest people in Chicago.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: After the thugs beat up Mrs. Baracus, they smash the radio she was listening to and tell her "game called on account of darkness", almost certainly a jab at her color.
• Shout-Out: Later on, Murdock makes a joking reference to how the villain is about to go down courtesy of The Untouchables, led by "Elliot 'Scooter' Baracus."
• Tuckerization: Face's disguise as Irish Priest Sean O'Herlihy shares a last name with one of the series' directors, Michael O'Herlihy.
• Villainous Gentrification: The villains want to buy out the block in order to put up a new high-rise hotel. In order to keep down the costs of doing so, they're buying up buildings under fake names, stealing the identities of old people living in a retirement home owned by the villain. They then hire thugs to bully the existing tenants into leaving, since they can't legally evict the people due to not having their own names on the deeds. This tactic totally worked for getting the entire block for the villain, right up until he tried to take B.A.'s mother's apartment and she called in the team to help.

Recap.The A Team S 4 E 9 Mind Games

• Reassigned to Antarctica: This episode marks General Fullbright's first appearance, who remarks that Decker got this treatment, being sent to some trivial commission in Bangor, Maine.

Recap.The A Team S 4 E 11 The Doctor Is Out

• Colonel Kurtz Copy: Colonel Mack Stoddard is this. Officially a U.S. Army advisor to the Fictional Country of Cuaraguay, he's been attempting to use his influence to prepare a coup and take over the country. Fearing a negative evaluation report that will see his commission pulled (and which includes such things as "delusions of godhood"), he sent his corrupt commandos to kidnap Murdock's psychiatrist in the middle of one of Murdock's therapy sessions, which results in the A-Team coming in to stop him and save the doctor.

Recap.The A Team S 4 E 15 Members Only

• Answer Cut: Adrian's mother invites Face to meet her daughter, with the clear intention of playing matchmaker for them. Face is annoyed, telling Hannibal that the old woman's daughter is surely "a real woofer." Immediate cut to pretty young Adrian.
• Continuity Nod: Murdock mentions by name Dr. Richter, previously seen in "The Doctor is Out", though the doc himself doesn't appear.
• A MacGuffin Full of Money: The episode centers around a golf bag filled with counterfeit money, which is wanted by the villains.
• Tuckerization: The fake name Face used to become a member of the club is Ashley Hemmings, taking the last name of one of the series' directors, David Hemmings.

Recap.Tangled The Series S 1 E 16 Queen For A Day

• Always Save the Girl: During Zhan Tiri's snowstorm, Rapunzel declares her intention to go looking for her parents even though, as Nigel points out, she is needed at the palace to protect the people of Corona from the snowstorm, only relenting when Eugene, Lance, Maximus, and the Pub Thugs reveal to her they'll go instead.

Series.The A Team

• Bad Boss: General Stockwell. Aside from getting the team charged with first degree murder and sentenced to execution so that he could recruit them, he also has no problems withholding vital information from them when it suits his purposes, and treats them (and his other operatives) as if they're expendable. Notably, when he recruits them, the best he's willing to say to them is that "not all" of the missions he gives will be Impossible Suicide Missions with a less than 1% chance of survival.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The villain of the pilot episode is named Malavida Valdez. Malavida is literally translated as "bad life" and is essentially the hispanic version of "Thug Life." The same actor later played another villain with a name to run from in the two-parter episode "The Bend in the River", El Cajon aka The Coffin.
• Show Within a Show: Given that Hannibal's day job is acting, there are naturally a few of these for him to be a part of. The most commonly mentioned is Aquamaniac, a series of low-budget horror movies starring an expy of the Gill Man from Creature from the Black Lagoon.

Summoners War: Sky Arena

• Combined Energy Attack: The second awakening for the Howl brings in two extra howls and changes their name to [Name] and Friends. Their basic attack becomes this, as they merge their energy together into a single large magic bolt.
• Eyepatch of Power:
  • On the Lightning Emperor, which makes sense considering the five elemental variants of that monster are all based on different interpretations of Odin.
  • The Night Lady transmog for the Occult Girl also has a badass eyepatch. With a heart on it.
• The Faceless:
  • The Death Knight has a hood that obscures his face in darkness.
  • The Poison Master has the same, but with two glowing lights for eyes, and gets a gas mask when he's awakened.
• Fake Ultimate Hero: Kian, the arena rival. He's built up as some sort of ultimate summoner that other summoners can only admire in awe, and he does indeed have a number of rare monsters in his team, including natural 5-star light and dark monsters. He also caps out at level 30, twenty levels below the game's level cap, and none of his monsters ever manage to get 6-starred.
• Land of Faerie: The dimension of Ellunia is a beautiful misty forest full of waterfalls and giant trees, and home to monsters like the Fairy, Pixie, Dryad, and Undine. It's also presumably ruled by a Faerie Court judging by the presence of the Fairy King and Fairy Queen monsters. It also has second awakening dungeons for the Fairy and Pixie.
• That Russian Squat Dance: The Poison Master does it as his victory animation.
• The Underworld: The dimension of Khalderun is stated to be the game's "land of the dead." It's full of demons and undead, and holds the second awakening dungeons for the Grim Reaper and Howl.

Tearful Smile

• Luigi's Mansion: The ending of the game has Luigi react this way after he finally saves Mario after a horrifying night in the titular mansion. Luigi just stands in silence for a moment with his mouth open in a wide smile, like he can't believe it, and then tears start rolling down his face as he slowly bursts into a most heavily relieved laughter, with tears still rolling down his face all the while.

TookALevelInBadass.Western Animation

• In The Owl House, Luz starts From a 14 years old Muggle who couldn't even pull down a lever due to her "weak nerd arms" and ran from a single (albeit large) abomination without any combat-based spells to counter it, to a human that can casts spells by drawing glyphs and can Bridal Carry Amity with ease. In "Young Blood, Old Souls" she uses her glyphs to devastating effect, trapping Warden Wrath in ice, subduing all the guards in the Conformatorium, using a Fire glyph to incinerate Emperor Belos' worm-beast, actually using another ice glyph to pierce his mask and even threatens Kikimiora with burning her alive to get Eda free.

Took the Bad Film Seriously

• Done in-universe in The A-Team. Team leader John "Hannibal" Smith is an actor by trade. He's also a fugitive from the law, and so the only parts he can get are People in Rubber Suits roles in cheesy horror films. He still acts like he's going for an Oscar.

YMMV.The A Team

• Harsher in Hindsight: A.J. Bancroft from "Family Reunion" is a con artist turned businessman, who made a killing on the stock market, before his criminal enterprises finally caught up with him and he was forced to flee the country to his own private island. The government and the mob are both terrified of his return because he has blackmail files that could "bring down half of Washington DC". If that description sounds familiar, it's probably because it sounds exactly like Jeffrey Epstein.
• Values Dissonance:
  • "Beneath the Surface" has a big one. At the end of the episode, Face's New Old Flame Rebecca Piper tries to lure Face into a trap (again) by offering to perform certain unspecified activities with him in the back of a limousine which is being driven by a disguised General Fullbright. After their steamy off-camera love affair, she tries to spring the trap only to find that Face knew about it the whole time. He already had the team take Fullbright captive and replace him with Murdock, and Face let the girl think he didn't know so he could have sex with her. This is Played for Laughs, and presented as him finally getting one over on the Gold Digger who tried to Honey Trap him twice. He even insults her abilities, calling it "nothing to write the alumni newsletter about." These days the scene comes across as being far more questionable.

Fedora of Asskicking:

• Dick Tracy wears a yellow fedora as part of his iconic outfit and has been kicking ass since 1931, making him one of the first to do so and a possible Trope Codifier.

Jerkass.Visual Novels

• Toko Fukawa manages to be a Shrinking Violet and The Bully at the same time, while she does have a Dark and Troubled Past she's still extremely abrasive and rude to everyone around her to the point of slut shaming and holding up trials so she can make weird comments. Thankfully, she gets better in Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls and eventually comes to truly care for and trust Komaru in return, and she sports her first genuine smiling sprite in the whole series — by the end, she proudly declares that she's found her "hope" in Komaru.' (bolded part)

YMMV.The Buzz On Maggie

• Cliché Storm: The show is absolutely infamous for how much of one it is.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: "Bugs On The Brink" could have easily featured Maggie sneaking into the brain of the female human scientist that decides to not bulldoze Stickyfeet at the end of the episode and then using said brain as a communication device in order to give the scientist an actually proper explanation of why bulldozing Stickyfeet was the wrong thing for her and her lackeys to do...but that was apparently too creative.

YMMV.Genshin Impact

• That One Level:
  • For Theater Mechanicus, Wave 6/10 of Difficulty 8. The level is an unforgiving Zerg Rush of Blazing Axe Mitachurls and Hilichurl Berserkers, meaning every enemy is crazy fast. The next waves are breathers in comparison.

YMMV.George Frederic Handel

• Harsher in Hindsight: Samson contains the famous aria 'Total eclipse', in which a blind man laments the loss of his sight. Händel himself went blind toward the end of his life, and performances of this aria were said to move him, and the audience, to tears.
• Tear Jerker: The Messiah moved him to tears. Apparently he actually had a kind of religious/supernatural experience after its first performance, when he looked again at the music and thought he saw the face of God staring back at him.

YMMV.The Devil Wears Prada:

• Informed Wrongness:
  • Specifically, Ambition Is Evil. A popular criticism of the movie is that Andy is painted as having gone over to the dark side for having somewhat less time to spend with her boyfriend, family and friends, who are all constantly giving her shit for having a job they don't approve of and implying that she's probably bad at it anyway since they never knew her to be interested in fashion. And in spite of taking this approach, it also passes on the chance to do a Beautiful All Along — Andy gives away most of her designer stuff at the end, but she remains the thinner, sleek-haired, flatteringly-made-up, well-dressed woman she learned to be working at Runway.
  • It is also worth noting that a key part of Andy's arc has to do with her relationship with her boyfriend, which gets rocky because he doesn't like the ways her job is "changing her" (it doesn't make sense in context either), or that she works such long hours. At one point we see Miranda and her husband arguing bitterly, evidently for similar reasons; and at the end of the film Miranda reveals that her husband has asked her for a divorce. Soon after this, Andy leaves her job and Miranda, tearfully apologizes to Nate and tells him that he was "right about everything".

YMMV.Total Drama

• Abandon Shipping:
  • Similarly, when a promo showed Bowie fawning over Caleb, many fans interupted this as the former having a crush on the latter and started shipping them together (some even said that they might be the gay couple this season). While they were kind of right, Bowie hooking up with Raj and Caleb's early elimination caused many to abandon Bowie/Caleb in favor of Bowie/Raj.
  • When the 2023 contestants' names were revealed, fans used to ship Chase with Priya. When the actual reboot came out and showed that Emma is Chase's actual girlfriend (after they get back together, that is) and when Priya became Heterosexual Life-Partners with Millie, fans abandoned the ship in favor of Chase/Emma and Priya/Millie (despite the former being a Destructive Romance).
• Creator Worship: While a good amount of the writing cast tend to be divisive at best or hated at worst, Terry McGurrin's polite attitude with fans on Twitter, his support of most headcanons when prompted, and his updates on the new seasons has made him very well-liked with the fanbase. Winning back the crowd by playing Don in the spin-off, Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race definitely helps.
• Diagnosed by the Audience:
  • Because of his odd behavior and lack of social skills, some fans like to believe that Leonard is on the autism spectrum.
  • Many fans like to headcanon Dave as having OCD or some form of hypochondria due to the way he reacts whenever he gets dirty. His moody and petulant personality has also led some people to believe that he may be Bipolar as well. Also common is to read him as having BPD (borderline personality disorder), particularly due to his sensitivity to rejection when it comes to Sky (and his attachment to her; reading as a "favorite person" people with BPD often have) self-destructive behavior (voting himself off), being a Mood-Swinger, impulsivity, black and white thinking, etc.
  • Although he already has a mental disorder, some fans like to believe that Mike also has PTSD due to MPD/DID often being the result of severe childhood trauma, particularly Mal's trigger (getting hit in the head, which is a common PTSD trigger in real life), social isolation (the subtle implications that his disorder has kept him from having very few people who aren't his personalities to interact with) and self-destructive behavior (throwing a rock on his head).
• Fan-Preferred Cut Content: According to Word of God, Brick was originally going to be in All-Stars but he was replaced by Sam due to the latter having more "drama potential". However, many fans still wanted Brick to appear in All-Stars due to many feeling that he didn't get enough screen-time. The fact that Sam was [1] into an Owen clone doesn't help much.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight: Mike and Zoey's first kiss being interrupted by Chef at the end of "Grand Chef Auto" goes from sad to heartwarming after watching the All-Stars finale, where they do, indeed get the chance to have their very first kiss.
• Mexicans Love Speedy Gonzales:
  • A lot of homeschooled fans tend to like Ezekiel. This includes Fandom VIP The Kobold Necromancer, whose fanfics played a huge part in rescuing him from the Scrappy Heap.
  • Despite the controversy revolving around the less-than-accurate depiction of his disorder, fans with Dissociative Identity Disorder often relate to Mike and his alters since he at least had a happy ending. They often flesh out his symptoms and implied trauma in fan works to make him more realistic.
  • Although his time on All-Stars was poorly received, Sam is very popular with gamers due to how relatable they find him to be and how he subverts everything you'd expect from a nerd like him (i.e., being single, being an Insufferable Genius on their worst days, etc). The fact that he's portrayed as a Nice Guy helps his case.
• Platonic Writing, Romantic Reading:
  • Duncan and Zoey's friendship in All-Stars was supposed to be just that: a friendship and a minor one at that. However, some fans (mostly Mike and Zoey's detractors who don't ship them with each other), took to seeing their interactions as "romantic" and "Doey" (or "Zuncan", depends on which name you prefer) was an extremely popular ship in the fandom for a time.
  • Sugar thinking that Leonard was a real wizard in Pahkitew Island was meant as a throwaway joke, but some fans saw it as a sign that she may or may not have a crush on Leonard. In particular, it's hard to hear Sugar call out for Leonard in her elimination episode without interrupting it as being platonic.
  • Wayne and Raj are supposed to be that: Just Friends and nothing more. However, a lot of people took to seeing their interactions as romantic. In particular, it's hard to hear the joke about the two sharing jock-straps without interrupting it as being platonic. Before the show aired, a lot of fans predicted that they would be the gay couple. Well, they were half right...
• Realism-Induced Horror:
  • Part of what makes Mike's arc throughout Revenge of the Island and ''All-Stars'; all the more depressing is that although it's Played for Laughs on it's best days, his storyline isn't a love triangle or turning feral. Rather, it's just a story of a teenage boy who is struggling with a mental disorder that has gotten him into trouble several times. He's also scared of revealing his disorder to Zoey and the others in fear of being ostracized for being a freak, which is also realistic. The chances of someone going feral or turning into a mutant are slim-to-none but there are most certainly people out there who was struggling mentally and have kept it a secret in fear of being made fun of and hurting others.
  • One of the many reasons why Pahkitew Island contestant Dave is so polarizing is because his obsession with Sky has not only ruined the relationship he's always wanted with her but also his friendship with Shawn, his sanity and (debatably) his life in general. There are people out there in the real world who let their obsessions get so out of control, that it ruins their sanity, their friendships with their friends and family and their lives in general.
• Ron the Death Eater:
  • Scott's detractors who won't let him live down his actions in ''Revenge of the Island'' will often amp up his Jerkass traits by portraying him as a racist, sexist, homophobic and perverted bully with a foul mouth and a bad temper.
• Self-Fanservice:
  • Beth is a little on the heavy side and has either freckles or pimples on her face but fanart depicting her often removes her freckles/pimples and makes her less chubby. Some even remove her being chubby altogether and give her an Impossible Hourglass Figure, turning her into a full-on Ms. Fanservice.
  • While she's already cute in canon, some fans like to draw Zoey as much bustier and curvier than she is in canon.
  • For a non-sexual example, plus-size characters like Owen, Sugar and B are often drawn as less fat and more on the chubby side in fanart.
• Strangled by the Red String:
  • One of the many reasons why the Gwuncan pairing is so polarizing is because Duncan had never shown any romantic interest in Gwen before (though she obviously had a thing for that he didn't know about) and while his relationship with Courtney was certainly rocky, he was always depicted as head-over-heels for her, even taking her back after Season 2. In Season 3, he has no particular reason to want to break up with her and when he came back to the show, he hadn't seen her or Gwen in months. And less than five minutes after coming back, he's making out with Gwen behind Courtney's back, after literally the first conversation they've had in ten episodes.
  • Similar to Gwen and Duncan, many fans (especially adult fans) feel this way about Mike and Zoey as some have noted that their relationship happened too quickly. As soon as Zoey meets Mike in the first episode, he's head-over-heels in love with her with him even contemplating marriage at one point. The show doesn't give a good explanation as to what caused them to be attracted to each other nor give any Character Development for them. This gets worse in All-Stars where they become spotlight stealers and are the only characters to receive anything resembling a happy ending in that season.
• Unpopular Popular Character:
  • Beardo isn't very well-liked by his teammates In-Universe but he's an Ensemble Dark Horse with shy personality and desire to make friends earning him lots of sympathy from the fanbase. It's not uncommon for Pahkitew Island re-writes to have him last more than one episode and flesh him out more.
  • Mal is probably second only to Chris in terms of how unpopular he is In-Universe. Despite this, while he's currently a Base-Breaking Character, he has a very large fanbase.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic:
  • Beardo in Pahkitew Island. He's supposed to be an annoying Flat Character with no personality outside of having the ability to make sound effects. However, many fans felt sorry for him due to his audition tape revealing that the reason he signed up for and makes sound effects in general is because he's really shy and he wants to make friends with new people. The fact that he was the very first one eliminated in Pahkitew Island and hasn't appeared in any other episodes afterwards doesn't help.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic:
  • Cameron in Revenge of the Island is supposed to be a Dork Knight who takes a level in badass as the season progresses but his fascination with other people's conditions like Mike's MPD or Dakota's mutation makes him come across as selfish (especially with the former where he'd purposely trigger Mike's personalities for the sake of completing challenges).

Literature.Frankenstein

• Idiot Ball:
  • Arguably, Frankenstein in deciding not to create a female mate for his Creature, as they could have children. Possibly, he could have made her infertile.
  • Victor decides to destroy the body of the companion he's making for the creature in order to prevent more monsters from being created. However, he does this right in front of the Creature, who we all know is capable of murder, instead of just rendering her infertile.
  • While the Ito adaptation gives this an explanation, it swaps the idiocy to Henry Clerval instead. Due to the female wretch being killed in self-defence, he rushes off on his own and is promptly killed by the wretch.
  • After Victor destroys the companion, the Creature tells him "I will be with you on your wedding night." So Victor immediately goes off to get married, instead of postponing the ceremony and getting Elizabeth to a safe and secure place until he figures out a way to stop his creation.
  • In addition, Victor immediately assumes this to be a threat against his own sorry life instead of a threat against, ya know, ANYONE ELSE HE LOVES. Needless to say, he spends his wedding night worried sick over the monster coming to kill him that the monster kills Elizabeth while he's freaking out in another room waiting on it to show up to kill him.
  • When Victor goes back into his apartment and finds the Creature gone, he rejoices that his greatest failure is gone. Instead of, you know, wondering where it went to.
  • For that matter, it's rather idiotic of Victor to not consider how hideous his creature is before the thing wakes up. It wasn't as if he wasn't looking right at it the entire time! However, it's noted that the Creature didn't actually look ugly until it was brought to life, something in the undefined process caused it's "perfect features" to distort upon awakening.

InformedWrongness.Western Animation

• American Dad!: While Steve’s actions in "Mom Sauce" are depicted as a combination of his jealousy at Snot’s success and sudden wealth and anger at the reversal of power between the two, his anger is perfectly justified given that he only got rich because his mother blatantly stole the recipe of Francine’s sauce. The fact that Snot behaves completely sincere and without malice doesn’t change that.

Film.Sansho The Bailiff:

• Abusive Parents: Sansho belittles his son, calling him a weakling just for being kind.

Characters.Miami Vice:

• Dark and Troubled Past: Crockett did not have an easy life. His dad was implied to be abusive to his mom, he suffered a Career-Ending Injury, dashing his dreams of going into Football, saw the horrors of war and Vietnam, and is now stuck fighting an un-winnable war against drugs in Miami.

Complete Monster & Magnificent Bastard candidates up for re-evaluation:

CM:

• 52 Pick-Up (1986): Alan Raimy
• Adastra (2018): Cato
• The Caveman's Valentine: Joey Peasley
• Echo: Echo Entity
• El Cid: The Legend: Ben Yusuf
• Magic: The Gathering: Kuthuman, Mochi, and Momir Vig
• Mayan Mythology: Chak Ek
• Middlewest: Nicolas Raider
• Minotaur Hotel: Athena
• Onyx Equinox: Tezcatlipoca
• Still Life 2: David Karson

MB:

• The A-Team: Gen. Hunt Stockwell

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