This is simply what you think is the (not some of the, the) best example of any objective trope (so no YMMV or Trivia as they are not tropes proper and the former is already subjective) The "Crowning Example" if you will.
There could be several reasons you think an example is the best.
- You think it's the best in terms of illustrating the trope.
- You think it's the most well done.
- It's your favorite play in that trope.
- You just really like the source material.
Oh, several things before you list examples:
- Each troper gets one example per trope, no more.
- Don't go "no, this is," or phrases like that. This is about our own personal favorites.
- Sign your entries.
Please list tropes alphabetically.
- Da Chief
- Lt. Martin Castillo ~ WilliamShakesman
- Daddy's Girl
- Arusu. - IúkaSylvie
- Daddy's Little Villain
- AZULA, good lord. ~hedwig123, Doctor Rayman
- Otohime Yamato is her grandfather's little villain. ~ Miin U
- Da Editor
- J. Jonah Jameson ~ Amuck Cricetine
- Damsel in Distress
- Princess Peach. Full stop. ~ Thespian 101, Doctor Rayman
- Zelda comes pretty close.~MH Mhasf 1998
- Bella Swann. Ugh, I HATE her. ~Ego-Man 25
- Dangerous Forbidden Technique
- Mace Windu's Vaapad technique ~ Shining Crimson Zero
- Opening the eight gates ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- The Judgement of Shamash. ~ iPhoenix26
- Dark Action Girl
- Rubi Malone. ~ Firestorm
- Revy. ~ Spacegrass, Two Gun Angel
- Shego. ~ deeman45, Julep, Wasserplane, Doctor Rayman
- Mystique ~ Carla, TheWildwest666
- Granny Weatherwax ~ Urquhart
- Princess Azula. ~ New Kid On The Block
- Selvaria. ~ SomeRandomTroperDude
- Faith Lehane — Cuchulainn
- Faora. Holy shit, Faora. — Infection
- Bellatrix Lestrange. ~ thatcrazykid768
- Kuvira ~ Miin U
- Millie - Demon Duckof Doom
- Dark and Troubled Past
- Vash the Stampede ~SpaceInvader42359
- Haruka Kotoura. The kicker? Her example is a Downer Beginning. ~ aNinjaWithAIDS
- Wolverine. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Dark Is Evil
- Manus, Father of the Abyss - Ano Baka Desu
- Darkseid. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Dharkon ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Darth Vader. ~ Triple J
- Dark Is Not Evil
- Shadow Hearts. It's all over this game. Yuri, main hero of the first two games, is a Type 2 Anti-Hero who sometimes becomes simply The Hero, and who has no evil tendencies but a habit towards perversion. He's Darkness elemental. Lucia, a heroine of the second game, is a gorgeous Italian bellydancing fortune teller whose personality is, in essence, a combination of a Dumb Brunette with a morbid sense of humor. She's Darkness elemental. Shania, main heroine of the third game, is a Type 2 Anti-Hero who sometimes becomes simply the Hero, and who has no evil tendencies beyond a habit towards anger. She's Darkness elemental. In the second game, you find a map that lets you control demons- who grant you spells and serve as staunch allies. In all three games, you can fuse at least one character with a demon or spirit that can use Dark Magic... and you use this power to beat up bad guys. In addition, the main villain of the first game, who is Darkness elemental, is revealed to have been trying to stop an even worse evil, and that he became a Well-Intentioned Extremist and lost his way. He's not only sorry for what he's done, but dedicates himself to helping the party that killed him after his death.The sheer number of heroic examples of this trope is overwhelming.
- The dark gods like Osiris and Anubis in Egyptian Mythology. ~ Surenity
- The goddamn Batman. ~ ZiggyZag
- Seconded ~Piando
- Thirded. ~ Doctor Rayman
- The Undertaker, unless he's heel ~ Nirao 01
- Raven. —ncfan
- The Twili. ~ Saphruikan
- Lulu. Dark is yummy. — Cuchulainn
- The Devil's Backbone ~ Man Without A Body
- Hayate Yagami: She is The Queen of the Night Sky and the Book of Darkness' master, and yet she is among the nicest, most moe characters in the series. ~ aNinjaWithAIDS
- Darkrai, in most media anyway. Their power is a self-defense mechanism and they usually try to avoid harming anyone. The tenth anime movie probably displays this best.~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Angel. ~ Triple J
- Dark Fantasy
- Dark Fic
- Day of the Barney ~ Pikawil
- Thirty Hs ~ Man Without A Body
- A Darkened Mind for iCarly''. Includes character deaths, anorexia and horrific domestic abuse among others. Mack
- Cupcakes (Sergeant Sprinkles), holy shit, Cupcakes. ~ Person Of Note
- I'll see your Cupcakes and raise you one Sweet Apple Massacre. All the torture and murder of Cupcakes, now with added rape!
- Dipper Goes to Taco Bell. 10% normal Gravity Falls episode, 40% Dipper having sex with himself, 20% Mabel having more sex with Dipper's corpse, and 30% Dipper and Mabel getting killed and turned into tacos. Delicious. ~ FromtheWordsofBR
- Dark Magical Girl
- Fate Testarossa - girlonthemoon
- Akemi Homura - foxmccloud4387
- Lulu. — Cuchulainn
- Agatha "Aggie" Prenderghast from ParaNorman - IúkaSylvie
- Dark Messiah
- Lelouch - Seaside Messenger, Fishsicles
- Dartz - Renita
- Light Yagami - LE Xicon 712
- Cameron Vale ~ Man Without A Body
- Justin Crowe. The man is the Antichrist incarnate. ~ Voodoo Child
- Griffith ~ Spacegrass
- Paul Atreides. ~ deeman45, Urquhart
- Kane ~ CounterBlitzkrieg
- Bow to Leper Messiah! — Cuchulainn
- Adar — Gebeleizis
- Dark Reprise
- "Friends On The Other Side" (Reprise) — man, you know you're screwed when even your catchy Villain Song gets turned against you! ~ Mac Phisto, Man Without A Body
- Elvis Costello's "I Want You" — Cuchulainn
- Somewhere That's Green Reprise. It really makes the show. — P Down
- "Final Scene" ~ Camroc G
- "I'll Cover You." No other makes me cry every time. The first time, Collin and Angel dance down the street, singing about their love for each other, the second time Collin sings the former duet alone at Angel's funeral ~ Cailleach
- Jafar's reprise of "Prince Ali" from Aladdin. ~ Doctor Rayman
- "Wii Shop One Last Time" by StacheBros (R.I.P. Wii Shop Channel) ~ bpants98
- "Alastor's Reprise" - Demon Duckof Doom
- Darker and Edgier
- Speedball ~Fan
- ReBoot Season 3. ~ Cameoflage
- Warhammer 40,000 ~ De Vos
- Ultimate Marvel ~Storm
- Daniel Craig's tenure as James Bond. ~Pikawil, Man Without A Body
- Epic Mickey. And this is completely apparent simply from the concept art and talk about how gameplay will work. - Ainu Laire
- Now that it's on store shelves, what do you think?
- The 2003 rebooted Battlestar Galactica. ~ Voodoo Child
- It's not your average Book of Mormon in Space anymore ~ Urquhart
- Thirded in two ways. First for being so dark compared to the original.note Second for being such an excellent execution of the trope. ~ Babyhenchy 1
- There Will Be Brawl, for making Kirby the most terrifying character in the series. ~ Froody 42
- Seconded, I mean seriously there is ONLY ONE COMPLETELY GOOD CHARACTER IN THE ENTIRE SERIES AND HE DIES!!! ~Troper49
- American McGee's Alice is Darker and Edgier done absolutely right. The Steampunk level designs, the twisted (but horribly recognizable) versions of the characters, the "just a dream" atmosphere twisted to nightmares instead of whimsy. It's all given a Back Story that makes perfect sense. Top it off with the drummer for Nine Inch Nails using period instruments and toys to create a creepy soundtrack.
- Jak II. It wasn't a bad game, but really, Naughty Dog? ~ Dracosummoner
- Power Rangers RPM As stated on the season page: note ~Zxynoxia
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer Seasons 5 and especially 6. — Cuchulainn
- Batman (1989). Remember, the last we'd seen of Batman on any kind of screen, in heavy rotation on Nickelodeon in the late '80s was the 1966-68 TV series. — Nlpnt
- The Unforgiving Flowers Blossom in the Dead of Night could end up being the Most Triumphant Example if Ryukishi 007 succeeds in making it Darker and Edgier than his previous works, like he says he's going to. ~ Zfish9
- The Attitude Era -jprice66
- Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated is by far the darkest thing in the Scooby Doo franchise—even darker than Zombie Island and THAT is saying something.
- The R-Type series. Never before have I seen a shmup series this dark. It might as well be the shmup equivalent to Puella Magi Madoka Magica. - xxebb1993xx
- The Dark Knight Trilogy, which was, by far, darker than the Schumacher movies and EVEN darker than the Burton ones. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Dastardly Whiplash
- Dating Catwoman
- Chris Dee's Cat Tales fan fic also doubles for Fix Fic as it started as a protest against the turn in Catwomans characterization in 2001 which sets it up to do the Wayne-Kyle wedding 'RIGHT' in 2018-19, 17 years later ~Steel Blaidd
- Dead All Along
- Ubik, combined with Gainax Ending. ~Cassandra Leo
- The Sixth Sense. You know what I'm talking about. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Seconded. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Maken-ki!: Revealed by Ouken Yamato as the Wham Line of chapter 49, when he tells Takeru he's been wasting his time trying to protect Himegami, since the real one died over 2,000 years ago. ~ Miin U
- Colonel John Konrad from Spec Ops: The Line. What really makes him special is that he had been talking to Walker for a good chunk of the game. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Dead Artists Are Better
- Michael Jackson by far. ~ thecarolinabull01
- The Dead Can Dance
- Everybody Zombie Night! ~ Tropers/Annonymoose
- Surprised to not see "Thriller" here. ~ DeisTheAlcano
- Dead Hat Shot:
- Zero's shattered helmet amidst the wreckage of Ragnarok. ~ NotGonnaDoALot4
- Dead Man's Switch
- Farscape: the regular series' last arc had a portable nuke that would explode if Crichton got too angry, too hungry, too hot, too cold, too horny, or, oh yeah, dead. ~ Haven
- Snow Crash: Raven's personal A-bomb. ~ Zeppelin
- Dave, with Kevin Kline and Kevin Kline ~ Man Without A Body
- At the beginning of Citizen Toxie The Toxic Avenger Part IV, a terrorist hooks a bomb up to his heart. Then Toxie kills him in a fit of rage. — Cuchulainn
- Deadpan Snarker
- Jerry Seinfeld from Seinfeld.
- Kyon ~Smokie
- Toph ~ Rhyme
- Jade Curtiss ~ Battypichugirl2, neobowman
- Groucho Marx ~ C Trombley, Man Without A Body, ZiggyZag, redhed311 King Cr Inu Yasha, Dr Furball
- Roger Ebert. ~ Cliché
- Daria, the original. -Ri L
- Deadpool would not go a single line without this. ~Troper64
- Ben Linus ~ Storm
- Terry Wogan when he provided commentary for the Eurovision Song Contest. ~ DaPatman
- Edmund Blackadder ~ Surenity
- John Constantine. ~ Rushi
- GLaDOS. ~ Blank Mage
- Seconded. You monster. ~ Requiem 626
- Dorothy Zbornak. ~ Excel-2009
- Harry Dresden The only way to keep him from deadpan snarking is apparently to freeze the fluid in his eyeballs until they bleed. ~ Squealing Sandry
- ...No Vlad Taltos? * goes off to sulk* ~ Phoenix Fire
- Oh come on! This is Spider-Man's whole shtick! - Beta Maxis
- In fairness, Spider-Man's more of an Extremely Animated Snarker.
- Seconded- Gzillafan 77
- Silk would not be pleased if he learned this page had gone on for so long without him. deeman45
- Chandler Bing ~ Carla
- Bartimaeus. ~ Ev Carey
- Seconded. Bartimaeus is all about the snark. - Bast
- Dylan Moran ~ Urquhart
- June. ~ Ka Blamoid 4 Life
- Kerr Freakin' Avon, Just check out his highlight reel ~Allronix
- Marquis de Carabus. Pastylover2
- Roy Greenhilt. ~ Aranthii
- Sir James Lester. Full stop. ~ Me2
- Paul Merton. That is all. ~ kyokutonomajo
- Zooey Deschanel — Cuchulainn
- Noah. ~ Ginger Snaps
- Alfred Hitchcock. ~ Gfrequency
- Frank Zappa, who else can shotgun jokes with so much contempt ~ ereg
- I'm very surprised the cast of Garfield isn't on here. — Voyd211
- Yuri Lowell ~ aNinjaWithAIDS
- Garak ~ Wyldchyld
- Squidward. ~ iansimsjam
- Hobson ~ Wyvern 76
- Erron Black. Who else has the guts to say that he'll serve Shang Tsung "on a hot skillet with beans", let alone right to the sorcerer's face? ~ Five-seveN-25
- I'm pretty sure Conan O'Brien deserves a spot here too. - AndyLA
- Niles Crane ~ Azorius 24
- Sokka - Demon Duckof Doom
- Dead Pet Sketch
- Doctor Steel, in Episode 1 of The Dr. Steel Show. ~ Jonny B
- Seconded. ~ Five-seveN-25
- The Brak Show; Brak accidentally kills Thundercles' pet goldfish by feeding him a three ham omelet. — Cuchulainn
- The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Six-year old Nicky gets a rabbit named Harry for Easter and leaves it in a box on the couch. Uncle Phil comes in to watch TV, and after an agonizingly long setup in which he *almost* sits on the box...Uncle Phil sits right down on the box and crushes Harry. Made all the funnier by Will freaking out when Phil tells him because he thinks Phil killed a human.
- Doctor Steel, in Episode 1 of The Dr. Steel Show. ~ Jonny B
- Dead Person Conversation
- Six Feet Under. ~ Silence
- Troll 2 ~ Man Without A Body
- "Conversations With Dead People" ~ Marvel Girl
- An American Werewolf in London. And not just for its famous quotation on the subject. All of the dead people conversations in the film are flat-out hilarious to no end. ~ ZiggyZag
- Harry Potter ~ deathfire123
- Denis Leary's character on Rescue Me has a lot of these. — Cuchulainn
- Macbeth ~ WilliamShakesman
- Dead Sidekick
- Dead Star Walking
- Dark Raiden in Mortal Kombat 11. He's even on the cover of story mode. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Janet Leigh in Psycho ~ WilliamShakesman
- Drew Barrymore in Scream (1996), especially because it was done at her request. ~ SuperYoshiFan02
- Deadly Distant Finale
- Deader than Dead
- Anyone erased by a God of Destruction's Hakai or by Zeno in Dragon Ball Super. They are truly gone from existence, body and soul, and the only way to undo it is with the Super Dragon Balls. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Deal with the Devil
- Puella Magi Madoka Magica /人◕‿‿◕人\ ~ deeman45
- Seconded, so very much. ~ Embracing Shadows
- Thirded. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- The Little Mermaid-Jalia
- Hell Girl, though the Hell Correspondence are at least kind enough to warn you of the price you'll pay and won't do anything to exploit the deal. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Kagemitsu Daigo selling his unborn child's body parts to forty-eight demons for political power. - IúkaSylvie
- Puella Magi Madoka Magica /人◕‿‿◕人\ ~ deeman45
- Dean Bitterman
- Dean Vernon Wormer ~ WilliamShakesman
- Deathbed Promotion
- Deathbringer the Adorable
- The Four Dark Devas of Destruction — rjd1922
- Death by Irony
- Kira Yoshikage has the impressive accomplishment of undergoing this twice: he's killed in the mortal realm by being run over by the ambulance that was sent to help him, and in the spirit realm, the "severed hand fetishist" was broken apart and dragged to hell by numerous disembodied arms. Poetic, that. ~ King of the Mime Swing
- Sadachiyo, the Camp Gay assassin who ultimately dies by being pierced from behind by another man's sword. ~ Miin U
- Mortal Kombat X: Mileena meets her end with a Kiss of Death. By D'Vorah, nonetheless. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Raven's death, making him the weak who will literally become the foundation for the strong, as well as the Homunculi, with each death reflecting the deadly sin they embody. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Death by Origin Story
- Death Glare
- I know everyone is going to read this and go "No, Admiral Adama!" But still, I nominate Noah of El Goonish Shive, as shown here. ~ Seiryu
- On Mission Hill Death Glares are accompanied by daggers coming out of the person's eyes. — Cuchulainn
- Batman - Werebunny131, Doctor Rayman
- Fluttershy ~ atrasicarius
- Seconded. Who else would stare down a cockatrice, which has a gaze that turns others to stone, and not get petrified herself? ~ Berrenta
- Luigi. It became a meme, you know. ~ Tropers/[[Troper 64}}
- Victor Rodenmaar Jr. Francis Magee really sells it. ~ Aspie
- Lily Aldrin. Her death glare makes people explode. — Astfgl
- Hilda from A Link Between Worlds. You may have not noticed it, but it's directed at you! — Dark Elf Princess
- Captain Dickson in 22 Jump Street when he finds out that Schmidt had (unknowingly) slept with his daughter and bragged about it to his face. The scene following The Reveal is the mother of all awkward silences, with Dickson glaring daggers at poor Schmidt the whole time. ~Bowbowis
- The Boss in Hiimdaisy. Who else can pull it off while her eyes are closed, let alone one that scares Volgin? ~ Five-seveN-25
- "Does this look unsure to you?" "No." ~ Metal Ai Ai
- Death Is Cheap
- Dragon Ball. ~ Mistermister
- Oh God, this. ~ Carla
- Thirded, to the point it actually makes you worried that the heroes are becoming desensitized and dependent on the Dragon Balls to fix everything. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Angel Beats! Seriously, this is a series where Heroic Sacrifice induced Dwindling Party is used for slapsticks ~ D Roy
- Seconded. ~ Embracing Shadows
- The Simpsons — Cuchulainn
Woman: Father McGrath... I thought you were dead.Fr. McGrath: I was!- Madness Combat. Hank dies at the end of pretty much every episode, only to revive with a few bandages next time. That's not mentioning Tricky the clown, who dies multiple times in a single episode and is possibly now immortal. ~Ninjat_126
- Just the details for those who don't know: SEVEN DEATHS TOTAL. And that's just Hank's canon deaths. ~ Blue 050645 TL
- Casey and Andy - They die so often even Satan doesn't understand how they do it. ~ Marvel Girl
- Mortal Kombat full stop. ~ ereg
- Seconded. One of the pre-match dialogue in Mortal Kombat 11 has Jacqui asking Kano, who died twice in story mode, why he couldn't stay dead. Bonus points if she was speaking to Present!Kano, who died va Ret-Gone. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Ghost Trick, at least when Sissel's around. Seriously, how many normal people can claim they have died 5 times on the same night and laugh about it? ~ Elbruno
- Super Hero comics as a whole. The trope is commonly known as "comic book death" for a reason. ~Bowbowis, Doctor Rayman
- This trope is basically the entire premise behind Happy Tree Friends. ~ WoodKnapp94
- Dragon Ball. ~ Mistermister
- Death Montage
- The Starscream Death Montage in Transformers: Animated. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Order 66 ~ Lady Blackwood
- Death of a Child
- Once Upon a Time in the West ~ WilliamShakesman
- Sarah. And she dies at the beginning! ~ Connor 2107
- Death of Personality
- The Green Goblin's fate in Spider-Man: No Way Home. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Death Seeker
- Death Takes a Holiday
- Death Trap
- This. (From Batman: The Brave and the Bold.) ~ Deeman45
- Seconded ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Saw ~ Bubblebath
- The giant clamp from Dr. Phibes Rises Again ~ Man Without A Body
- Most of the cliffhangers from Batman. ~ Doctor Rayman
- This. (From Batman: The Brave and the Bold.) ~ Deeman45
- Debate and Switch
- Deconstructor Fleet
- Neon Genesis Evangelion: Deconstructing the Super Robot genre, the human psyche and YOUR BRAIN, all at once! ~ Carla
- A Streetcar Named Desire ~ Man Without A Body
- Metal Gear Solid ~ Jesska
- Discworld ~ Urquhart
- The Tales Series: Picking apart Mana Trees, Chosen Ones, Destiny, and so much more, since the days of the SNES. ~ Sylvia Viridian
- Seconded. One of the best ways to describe a Tales Of game is to find the trope, or tropes, it deconstructs. ~ silentsnowdrop
- Yu-Gi-Oh! GX. Let's just say that there's a reason that this series (especially during the later seasons) is called "NGE with card games" by many. ~ Lord Zorc
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Deconstructs the early Western genre. ~ Aya Reiko
- The Wire and Homicide: Life on the Street for the Police Procedural. ~ SonofFalstaff
- Puella Magi Madoka Magica: I honestly thought the whole Magical Girl genre would shatter into pieces by the time the Grand Finale aired. ~ Encrypted12345
- Anything by Gen Urobuchi, for that matter. ~ Ultimaneo
- Monster. Listing the tropes and concepts deconstructed would take a great deal of time. But they include Determinator, Incorruptible Pure Pureness, Action Girl... ~ FoxxPark
- Kreia. She mercilessly breaks down each and every one of your preconceptions of the Star Wars universe, particularly regarding the Force, and the Black-and-White Morality of the series in general. ~ Leilukin
- How'd we get this far without Watchmen? ~ StormC
- Rick and Morty ~ Monolaf317
- Spec Ops: The Line - Gzillafan 77
- In a rare humorous example; Freeman's Mind. ~ Five-seveN-25
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- Decon-Recon Switch
- Puella Magi Madoka Magica ~Encrypted12345
- Seconded. ~ Weeping Willow
- Pokémon Black and White aimed to be this for the Pokémon franchise, and succeeded. ~ Yuihime
- Puella Magi Madoka Magica ~Encrypted12345
- Decoy Protagonist
- Kamina.
- Marion Crane ~ Hoffmann, Man Without A Body, deeman45, Doctor Rayman
- Ga-Rei -Zero- - TranquilTempest
- Fate/EXTRA - Stark1111
- Solid Snake. — Astfgl
- Eddard Stark ~ King of the Mime Swing
- Roy Fokker was such a pivotal character, that audiences actually believed he was the protagonist, until his death at the end of episode 26. ~ Miin U
- Kaede Akamatsu. An instance so shocking it broke the base.
- Dark Raiden. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Reycho ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Deep-Immersion Gaming
- "The Day of Sagittarius" from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. 8-bit Space Opera at its finest. "GLORY TO THE COMPUTER CLUB!" ~ Scud East
- .Hack. Now if only this was reality.... ~ Draga
- .hack//SIGN is the only one that I know of that DIDN'T have this 24/7, but even then, it was only for a few seconds. ~ Zfish9
- The Legend of Neil — Cuchulainn
- From Season 10 of South Park: "Make Love, Not Warcraft" ~ Doctor Rayman
- Defeat Means Friendship
- Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ~ tennessean
- If you disagree, we will befriend you! ~ Marvel Girl
- Touhou Project ~ Aya Reiko
- Seconded. The only character that hasn't become friends with Reimu after she's defeated them is Seija, a youkai whose fundamental nature is to be a contrarian. ~mysterykcad
- Dragon Ball Z anyone? - Beta Maxis
- Robin Hood and Little John; in fact the old Robin Hood stories are full of this. ~ Vasha
- Robin and Friar Tuck ~ Man Without A Body
- King Arthur and Lancelot's fight in Excalibur. ~ ZiggyZag
- Naruto ~ Nirao 01
- Seconded. That Jesus-no-jutsu is ridiculously effective. ~ Carla
- Thirded. He's even befriended the Kyuubi. ~ spacemonkey37
- Pokémon. Seriously, the entire franchise runs on this! ~Stargirl 93, Doctor Rayman
- Jeffrey Sinclair and the Minbari.
- Rocky Balboa and Apollo Creed. ~ wyattte
- Weirdly for a comic, but Spider-Girl definitely counts.
- Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ~ tennessean
- Defiant to the End
- "We are not your slaves." from Mass Effect 3 ~ erforce
- "Your 'protection'... is a joke." ~ Five-seveN-25
- Defrosting Ice Queen
- Natsuki Kuga, especially around Mai and/or Shizuru. She also gets the Personality Powers bonus, as her element (not capitalized) is ice. ~ Willy Four Eyes
- Aeryn Sun. ~ Grecian Goddess
- Gerd ~ Man Without A Body
- Saber. ~ Blank Mage
- Celes Chere ~ Seraphem
- Midna. ~ King Cr Inu Yasha
- Layla Delacroix, as a result of befriending Tiffany Winters. ~ Miin U
- Sheila - IúkaSylvie
- Degraded Boss
- Final Fantasy II may take the cake. Every minor boss gets random unrunnable refights, bosses can appear as random encounters the very dungeon after their defeat, and even the Climax Boss has clones of himself as random encounters. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Deliberately Cute Child
- Broken Blade ~ Niko. She's the page image for a reason, folks. ~ lanky
- Flute/Aphrael ~ Seraphem
- Billy ~ Man Without A Body
- Deliberately Monochrome
- Sin City ~ Mike Arrow, deeman45
- The Man Who Wasn't There (2001): It actually looks like a Film Noir, too. ~ C Trombley
- The Elephant Man ~ Man Without A Body
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ~ BirdOfHermes
- Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, the best Film Noir that's a parody of Film Noir. ~ Marvel Girl
- Pleasantville ~ Definitely plays this trope for full metaphorical value. ~ zeroharpuia
- The Twilight Zone. ~ ZiggyZag
- Young Frankenstein. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Roman Holiday was considered for filming in Technicolor, but then William Wyler decided that having Rome on location in color would distract from the plot. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Deliberate Values Dissonance
- Mad Men ~ Nlpnt
- The Justice League episode titled Legends. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Life on Mars (2006) ~ WilliamShakesman
- Delusions of Beauty
- Phryne Jamil ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Demonic Possession
- The Exorcist ~ WilliamShakesman
- Zuul and Vinz Clortho ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Demoted to Extra
- Poor Pluto... ~ Carla
- From star character in your own series to Bit Character in the spinoff...isn't it sad, Mai? Willy Four Eyes
- Toby Isaacs ~ Nlpnt
- And even on this page Yumizika Satsuki didn't merit a mention until now. As the former Trope Namer, that really is sad. ~ spacemonkey37
- Cyclops getting less and less screentime as time went on in the original X-Men trilogy. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Kodama Himegami was reduced from being the manga's most plot relevant character, to satellite status in the anime adaptation. ~ Miin U
- Bulma. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Denser and Wackier
- Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog ~ WilliamShakesman
- Silver-Age Batman comics make the 60s show look like The Dark Knight Trilogy. ~ Another Online Persona
- Department of Redundancy Department
- The following line from Lynn Minmay in Super Dimension Fortress Macross. - Physical Stamina
Minmay: You were always a friend to me, Hikaru... so I always thought of you... as a friend.- Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog. "Sonic is trapped in there. And the rest of Mobius is out here! Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha! And it's mine! IT'S MINE! All mine! ALL MINE!!!" [Commercial break] "With Sonic trapped in the force field, Mobius is mine! MINE! ...Did I say that already?" ~ Five-seveN-25
- Depending on the Writer
- Glee Season 1. Teen Drama, parody of teen drama tropes, or quirky set-piece? Tune in and find out! ~ Nlpnt
- Whateley Universe. Superhero action? High school hijinx? Superhero deconstruction? Lovecraft Country? Superhero parody? Wacky comedy? The usual answer is 'some of the above' but it depends on which of the dozen canon authors is writing. ~ Marvel Girl
- The Looney Tunes, with some of them behaving differently depending on the director in charge of the short. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Fujiko Mine - depending on the film, she's either: Lupin's ally, his rival, his ex, or they're just Friends with Benefits. In some cases, she switches between all of the above! ~ Miin U
- Spongebob Squarepants. "Just how stupid are you?" "It varies." ~ Five-seveN-25
- Depraved Dentist
- Orin. Seriously, just watch "The Dentist Song" and you'll understand. ~ Troper49
- Seconded SO Hard. I grew up with the show (The OBC Recording, the tape of when my dad directed it in a high school, the movie, and my dad directing it again in his middle school when I was nine) and I was terrified of dentists for YEARS ~Nobodys Savior
- Christian Szell ~ King Cr Inu Yasha
- Orin. Seriously, just watch "The Dentist Song" and you'll understand. ~ Troper49
- Depraved Dwarf
- Wonder Woman foe Dr. Psycho. ~ Tongpu
- Dr. Miguelito Loveless ~ MarvelGirl
- Depraved Kids' Show Host:
- Jimmy Savile. 'nuff said. ~ AmuckCricetine
- Four. It doesn't help that he's an Eldritch Abomination with near-infinite powers that absolutely Can't Take Criticism.
- Krusty the Clown ~ Five-seveN-25
- Depth Perplexion
- The video game Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, which had an isometric perspective, but the gameplay treated it as overhead, so you can be walking on the ground and be blocked by the top of a tower. The trope page's picture shows it in action.
- Deranged Animation
- I'm Baman! I'm Piderman! I come over da house! We're best fwiends! ~ Man Without A Body
- Seconded. Oh, so much. ~ Me2
- Can't believe no one's mentioned Bob Clampett cartoons yet. ~ iansimsjam
- Pink Floyd's The Wall ~ Deranged Genius
- Oh yes, BIG TIME. ~ HotelCalifornia
- The surreal Fleischer short Swing You Sinners ~ Surenity
- The Ren & Stimpy Show, in both of its incarnations - Nashimi
- Seconded. No wonder John Kricfalusi hates every modern cartoon. None could beat his in dementedness!
- What about The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack? If Ren & Stimpy was made in the 2000's and was about a sailor boy and a washed-up pirate, it would be this messed-up Cartoon Network original. ~ Magnus Force
- Superjail!! Superjail!! Superjail!! - Mezzamine
- Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Shaft, what were you thinking...?!?!?
- Wonder Showzen. full stop ~ Alimus 13
- The man known as Cyriak. cows and cows and cows is one of his tamer works. ~ Sgt Frog 1
- I'm Baman! I'm Piderman! I come over da house! We're best fwiends! ~ Man Without A Body
- Despair Event Horizon
- Groundhog Day ~ Silence, Wasserplane
- The requirement to activating a Behelit ~ TempusKhronios
- The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, what happens when people reach the DEH is the main theme of the series, with most people falling over and resorting to such desperate tactics as wiping out every living thing in the Land on the off chance it will also kill the Big Bad that pushed him over, while the few that can be pushed up to a DEH but refuse to fall into it are the ones that ultimately defeat him. ~ Seraphem
- Season 3 of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX for Judainote ~ Lale
- Malcolm Reynolds after the Battle of Serenity Valley. —wrybread
- Episode 10 of Puella Magi Madoka Magica, specifically what Mami Tomoe from the third timeline did and said after she finds out the Awful Truth. ~ jackedup85
- Despair Gambit
- The ending of Worm. ~ Emerald 141
- Junko Enoshima's plans in general ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life
- Haruhi Suzumiya ~ spacemonkey37
- The Cutie Mark Crusaders—Jalia
- Destination Defenestration
- That one merc in Mass Effect 2 ~ Tera Chimera
- Loki doing this to Tony Stark in The Avengers (2012). ~ Doctor Rayman
- Destructive Saviour
- The 8-Bit Theater crew. ~ Aranthii
- Harry Dresden has this problem with buildings... ~ spacemonkey37
- The building was on fire, and it wasn't his fault ~ digiman619
- Oh, yeah. Thirded. -Master Fuzzy
- Coop. He even once stated "I'll prove I'm a good guy even if I have to destroy this entire city and beat you to a pulp!" ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- The Incredible Hulk. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Determinator
- Batman. ~ Pumablues
- de Terminator. ~ Willy Four Eyes
- Monkey. D. LUFFY.
- HEAVILY seconded. ~ DAN004
- Third FTW! He is currently at war with the World Government due to taking Robin back to his crew, among other reasons. And to get his point across that he's there to win the war, he punched out a Celestial Dragon! Luffy's on edge, ya know? ~Ego-Man 25
- Shidou Hikaru, ten tons of Determinator in a 40 kilo soaking wet bag. ~ H. Torrance Griffin
- Captain Malcolm Reynolds. ~ Voodoo Child
- Samuel Vimes, Commander of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch. ~ Kiwikaos
- Ash Ketchum, so much so that this troper is convinced that he and Hikaru (above) would make quite a couple! ~ tennessean, Lale
- Glass Joe. You don't get 99 losses by giving up, after all, and he has done many more matches than any other boxer in the game. ~ Cliché
- Harry Powell. "Don't he never sleep?" ~ Man Without A Body
- "No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise." ~ Zeppelin
- Clare. ~ Pheonee
- Shirou ~ Blank Mage
- Seconded, even being incorrect won't stop him from being right ~ Choombi
- Rock Lee. He stood up despite 2 broken limbs while unconscious. ~Also BlankMage
- Naruto himself ~ sardns
- Simon~ neobowman
- To be honest, most all the main heroes from TTGL count. ~ Lord Zorc
- To be even more honest, damn near everybody in that series. ~ Metal Shadow X
- I second this one. Because even minor characters and the BIG BAD will go to ungodly means to fight for their cause. ~ Zetta Toad
- Killy. - Mr Schade
- Seconded like a motherfucker ~ Dhomochevsky.
- The Big Bad from Tales of Symphonia, if only because it's an effective villainous version of this trope. Seriously, the guy will not give up. ~ deeman45
- Seiya from Saint Seiya. To the point where it becomes ridiculously annoying. ~ Carla
- Every major character in Hajime no Ippo. ~ mrbits
- O-Chul, to the point where no description can do him justice.
- The five castaways in The Mysterious Island. ~ Theweirdwarrior
- Harry Dresden. ~ Cynthia Wakefield
- Seconded SO HARD; while he hasn't literally gone through Hell to save someone, he's gotten close enough several times.
- Azula. Perfect dedication in the middle of her Villainous Breakdown.~Tambov333
- Charlie Brown. He suffered for 50 years, but never gave up. ~ Kiwi
- Solid Snake. The man crawls through a microwave hallway...BY HIS FINGERTIPS to get the job done. Did I mention that his body is in the condition of a 70 to 80 year old man at the time?
- Vyse is a great example, due to always having a 'never give up' attitude, and yet still seeming reasonable. Heck, there's only one point where he has given up all hope, as he has just been captured by The Empire, and has been stuck in a cell in the inescapable fortress. He is then called out on this for not acting like himself, by his cellmate, who pulls out a piece of wire and picks the lock. Vyse then immediately goes back into a 'Great! Let's find the others, and blow this Popsicle stand!' attitude.~ Smylar
- The Nyx Annihilation Team. Nothing like facing off against the Anthropomorphic Personification of Death despite being told that you have no chance of stopping her from destroying the world. Special mention goes to the protagonist, who faces said Anthropomorphic Personification by himself and, thanks to The Power of Friendship, shrugs off her 9,999 damage attack like it's nothing. ~ Aspie
- Samwise Gamgee. That is all. —ncfan
- Erza Scarlet and everybody else ~ KantonKage
- Satellizer ~ KantonKage
- Nanoha. Having a hand stuck through her chest won't stop her from kicking ass. ~spacemonkey37
- Vita: Nothing will ever stop her. Her best moment that shows this is from the third season where she was destroying a Cool Starship's heavily fortified and thickly shielded engine after being stabbed through the chest by the same type of Mecha-Mook that nearly killed an 11-year-old Nanoha. The following quote sums her up best. ~ aNinjaWithAIDS
Vita: "This is what Eisen and I are best at. You know that? Destroying and smashing. The Knight Vita of the Iron Hammer, and the Steel Count Graf Eisen. There's nothing in this world we can't destroy."- Every. Dragon Ball. Character. Dragon Ball Z Kai even lampshades this in the lyrics of the first opening theme song: "Nothing ever dies, we will rise again!" ~ Fire Shadow
- Chell. Her tenacity is literally a plot point. ~ Trogdor
- Frisk. They can alter time and space and defeat a God-like being through sheer DETERMINATION. ~ GenkiMan
- Rambo. ~ contrafanxxx
- Stephen Hawking. - Xemylixa
- Spider-Man. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Zuko In his own words: "My father says Azula was Born Lucky, I was lucky to be born. I don't need luck though; I don't want it. I've always had to struggle and fight and that's made me strong. It's made me who I am." ~ Lady Blackwood
- Deus Angst Machina
- The Mist. ~ Talryth
- Fai D. Flowright, full stop. ~ chibihana
- Deus ex Machina
- The Deus Rex Machina from the first Jurassic Park movie. Rule of Cool doesn't just beat Fridge Logic and lack of foreshadowing here, it roars triumphantly over their corpses. ~ Trouser Wearing Barbarian, King of the Mime Swing, Doctor Rayman, Decaf Grub 47393
- The climax of ''Epic Movie''. Epic Fail, more like. ~Mapi-chan
- The ending of Battlestar Galactica. FULL STOP - LE Xicon 712, Urquhart
- The ending of the Pokémon Adventures Ruby/Sapphire saga. - Roihu
- The ending of Breaking Dawn ~ Wasserplane
- Chapter 449 of ''Naruto''
- Don't forget THE GREAT SNAKE ESCAPE!
- "We yield at once, with humbled mien, because, with all our faults, we love our Queen." ~ Man Without A Body
- The Dark Tower series by Stephen King, it gets to the point were in the last book he flat out states "Deus ex Machina to the rescue" when he writes the hero's out of a trap. ~Seraphem
- The one from the story titled "Deus Ex Machina" on Lost. Not just because of the Heartwarming Moments, but also because of the brilliant twist revealed a whole season later: it was a two-edged Deus Ex Machina, and we saw only one end of it the first time around. Locke was saved by being given hope, but he unknowningly also rescued Desmond and saved the whole world the same way before even knowing of Desmond's existence, and the revelation of this leads to a third Deus Ex Machina. ~ ZiggyZag
- Everything that leads to Aang achieving Avatar State and defeating Ozai in the finale of Avatar: The Last Airbender. ~ Carla
- Seconded so, so much. ~ aeroplanejelly
- The Stand ~ Devil's Advocate
- The ending of The War of the Worlds. I mean, the aliens are allergic to germs? So why weren't they wiped out sooner? -Whunt
- Deuteragonist
- Veronica Quaife. She has at least as much a hand in the plot's progression as Seth Brundle does, her perspective on his transformation is easily as important as his, and she slightly edges him out in screen time. Each one's actions are nothing without the other's reactions. There's a reason Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis both found Star Making Roles with this movie. ~ Sapphirea2
- Satomi's role is just as pivotal as Yuka's. She's Yuka's rival and her best friend since childhood, who becomes the target of The Jahana Group after they learn about her immense spirit energy. So they pressure her into entering the V.G. Tournament... as their test subject. ~ Miin U
- Zuko ~ Lady Blackwood
- Developing Doomed Characters
- Dog Soldiers. As in, you will be disappointed when the werewolves show up because you wanted another twenty minutes with them, does this film pull this trope off. But given how this trope is it never works the rest of the time, is it any surprise? ~ Gadeel
- Cloverfield. To paraphrase one critic, fifteen minutes in and the monster's already an hour late. ~ Geoduck
- Devil in Plain Sight
- Patrick Bateman - ZiggyZag
- Master Xehanort - Tropers/tropenoob
- The Devil Is a Loser
- Lucius Heinous VII-Michael JJ.
- Satan from South Park. ~ King Cr Inu Yasha
- Developer's Foresight
- NetHack. ~Geoduck, Willy Four Eyes, Devil's Advocate
- Dwarf Fortress. ~Theogrin, Phoenix Fire, Stealthyboy
- Golden Sun. Sequence Breaking? The character you got out-of-order has lines in the cutscenes. Forgot or misplaced the MacGuffin? Hilarious cutscene mocking your ineptitude and fixing the situation so you can continue. Answer "no" to every question? The Cool Old Guy gets ticked off and asks if this is all just a game to you... ~Yuihime
- Scribblenauts ~Blazichu
"The only limit is your imagination... and your twisted sense of humor."- Undertale ~ Monolaf317
- The Stanley Parable. "At first, Stanley assumed he'd broken the map, until he'd heard this narration, and realized it was part of the game's design all along." ~ Five-seveN-25
- Diabolical Mastermind
- The Kingpin. Especially the version of him from Spider-Man: The Animated Series. ~ Infection
- Dr. Claw. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Diabolus ex Machina
- Code Geass episode 22. ~ Shay Guy
- Oh god, seconded. ~ Xelorei
- Thirded. ~ Weeping Willow
- I concur. ~ Embracing Shadows
- The Montreal Screwjob. ~ Voodoo Child
- Acnologia
- The last episode of Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt. I would tell you what happened, but you wouldn't believe me. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Code Geass episode 22. ~ Shay Guy
- Did Not Get the Girl
- Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?
- Rachel Elizabeth Dare. Blue. Hairbrush. ~ Carla
- Hawkgirl quite literally.
- Carmilla to Shub-Niggurath even more literally. ~ MarvelGirl
- Harry Dresden. It's practically his trademark. ~ spacemonkey37
- Seconded ~ digiman619
- "I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike, as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I want to look up into your lifeless eyes, and wave... like this." Vir does a mocking little cutesy wave. "Can you and your associates arrange that for me, Mr. Morden?" ~ Meppe
- "Apparently more than YOU! You...CLOD!!!!" ~ Monolaf317
- Lois Lane, who literally did this to Brainiac in Superman Unbound. ~ Doctor Rayman
- "Didn't ask; don't need it; go fuck yourself!" ~ Five-seveN-25
- The player after tricking the four Darknesses in Kingdom Hearts Union χ [cross]. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
The Player: I didn't think tricking you guys would be so easy. Are all of you this gullible?
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?
- Fullmetal Alchemist chapter 107 and 108/Brotherhood episode 62 and 63. Ed literally punches out the Eldritch Abomination Big Bad that just ate God. And then everything exploded from the sheer awesome. ~ Phoenix Fire
- Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Lagann-hen, wherein the Big Bad fights back! ~ KOBlitzer
- How about God of War? Did Kratos just slaughter the entire population of Cthulhus?? ~ DAN004, TheWildwest666
- Seconded, After systematically murdering the entire Greek pantheon, it’s hard to dispute. ~ Panic
- This is practically Touma's specialty in A Certain Magical Index. First off he beats a 3000 degree Celsius fire monster, then a Reality Warper, after that follows the strongest Lv 5 esper (who Won The Superpower Lottery), and it eventually leads up to Fiamma of the Right (who at that point surpassed being a Physical God. ~ Zfish9
- Harry Dresden has made a career out of this. Well, this and blowing up buildings. ~ spacemonkey37
- Seconded, to the point that when he met the CEO of Monoc Security a.k.a. Odin, King of the Aesir, he told his guide that it's be insulting not to be a wiseass.
- Yoshii defeats Ironman ~ KantonKage
- Hulk could rename this trope to "Did you just grab Cthulhu and toss him back and forth against the ground like it were a old ragged doll?" ~RN 452, Doctor Rayman
- Asura and Yasha defeating Gohma Vlitra, and Asura slaying Chakravartin in Asura's Wrath. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
- Grunkles Stan and Ford successfully tricking Bill Cipher in the Grand Finale ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Died During Production
- Hergé, who never managed to complete his last Tintin book. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Diegetic Soundtrack Usage
- The end of Breaking Bad episode "Granite State". ~ Silverblade 2
- Several instances of this happening in The Simpsons. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Died Standing Up
- Whitebeard ~ BcdeidIarauno1
- Cuchulainn ~ Camroc G
- Branwell Bronte, the talented but dissolute brother of the Bronte sisters, supposedly pulled this off in real life. Dying of tuberculosis at the age of thirty-one, he had himself propped up against a mantelpiece just to prove that it could be done.
- Ganondorf pulls this off twice. — Astfgl
- Different World, Different Movies:
- Blue Skies in Camelot takes the premise of Marilyn Monroe and JFK surviving and creates a very different pop culture where Beta won the format wars, Jack Kirby stayed with Marvel and Toshiro Mifune is Obi-Wan. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Digital De-Aging
- Marvel Cinematic Universe ~ AmuckCricetine
- Digital Piracy Is Okay
- Paul Schrader, who even uploaded a torrent of his cut of Dying of the Light. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Dinky Drivers
- Dinner with the Boss
- Dirty Cop
- Vic Mackey. That is all ~ Ktotw
- Alonzo Harris ~ William Shakesman
- Dirty Coward
- Bernie Bernbaum ~ Trouser Wearing Barbarian
- Arnold Judas Rimmer ~ Geoduck
- Flashman ~ Jordan
- Peter Pettigrew ~ Lionheart0, Carla, The Wildwest 666, Mac Phisto, Lophotrochozoa, Decaf Grub 47393
- Druwp the Vole. ~ deeman45
- Rincewind ~ Urquhart
- Mumkhar, a Smug Snake who ran away from a crucial battle five minutes after I turned the game on! ~ SeraphimSwordmaster
- Dirty Kid
- Dirty Old Man
- Muten Roshi is this trope. ~ Nintendo Nate 25, Mistermister
- Seconded, along with Old Kai. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- The principal in To Love Ru
- Herbert. ~ King Cr Inu Yasha
- Jerry "the King" Lawler - jprice66
- Ouken Yamato. Unlike most geezers, he wasn't content to just look, or cop a feel - he had a harem of concubines ranging from their late teens, to early 20s and he shagged ALL of them. ~ Miin U
- Muten Roshi is this trope. ~ Nintendo Nate 25, Mistermister
- Dirty Old Woman
- Nanny Ogg. ~ Phoenix Fire, Man Without A Body, Urquhart
- Lunch Lady Belinda. ~ Monolaf317
- Disability Superpower
- Toph Bei Fong ~ Carla, Wasserplane
- Seconded ~ aNinjaWithAIDS
- Thirded ~ Xander Jacatipon
- Fourthed ~ Piando
- Daredevil ~blueflame724, Doctor Rayman
- Toph Bei Fong ~ Carla, Wasserplane
- Disabled Character, Disabled Actor
- Marlee Matlin ~ Nlpnt
- The late Christopher Reeve, after his tragic accident. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Disappeared Dad
- Disaster Dominoes
- Milo Murphy's Law. Pick a episode, any episode, and you'll get a spectacular, hilarious chain of disasters. "Going the Extra Milo" and "The Little Engine That Couldn't" are particularly noteworthy, as they both essentially consist of one single unbroken chain of one mishap leading to another for the entire length of the episode. ~ Scrounge
- Disaster Movie
- 2012. I don't care what the next person says, it was a blast. ~ King Clark
- The original Gojira. ~ Man Without A Body
- The Towering Inferno ~ WilliamShakesman
- Disc-One Final Boss
- Dhoulmagus, who is really possessed by the true villain, Rhapthorne ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- President Shinra ~ Connor 2107
- Disgusting Public Toilet:
- The Worst Toilet in Scotland ~ WilliamShakesman
- Dishing Out Dirt
- Toph Beifong — ryanson209
- Seconded ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Terra ~ Smashman2893
- Toph Beifong — ryanson209
- Disney Villain Death
- Robert Baxter. ~ contrafanxxx
- Shredder. ~ Doctor Rayman
- No one screams as he falls to his death like Gaston! ~ Five-seveN-25
- No one falls to his Karmic Death like Gaston! ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Hans Gruber. What really makes this one stand out is the fact that the look of surprise and fear on his face as he begins to fall is completely genuine. ~ mysterykcad
- Disneyfication
- The Legend of the Titanic. When you say that nobody died on the Titanic, you know you'be taken this trope way, way too far. ~ rjd1922
- Seconded. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- The Legend of the Titanic. When you say that nobody died on the Titanic, you know you'be taken this trope way, way too far. ~ rjd1922
- Disposing of a Body
- The Health Inspector ~Red Lunch Box
- Shallow Grave ~ WilliamShakesman
- Disproportionate Retribution
- Manfred von Karma. ~ Maya TH, Bowbowis
- Kristoph Gavin. ~Sylvia Viridian
- Four words: "Scott Tenorman Must Die" ~redhed311
- "So I said to him, 'You pop that gum one more time...'" ~Camroc G
- Dragonball Z Abridged: Dende betrayed the entire human race because Krillin kept on calling him 'Little Green'. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Manfred von Karma. ~ Maya TH, Bowbowis
- Disappointed by the Motive:
- The Diss Track
- "No Vaseline" by Ice Cube ~ WilliamShakesman
- Dissonant Serenity
- Johan Liebert always has the same smile on his face. As you can probably guess, it's freaky as hell. ~Hokuto
- Seconded to the fullest. ~ Babyhenchy 1
- He was being kind. ~ Tropers/
- Unohana can cause Kenpachi to back down with that deadly smile. KantonKage
- Trafalgar Law. He juggles the body parts of marines while keeping a creepy grin on his face. Lionheart0
- Altena. Calm, polite, and motherly even while discussing mass murder. It's really fucking creepy. ~ spacemonkey37
- Judge Hopkins and the other judges look as if they feel nothing for a young girl's fear for being sentenced to death for the crime she doesn't commit. - IúkaSylvie
- Johan Liebert always has the same smile on his face. As you can probably guess, it's freaky as hell. ~Hokuto
- Distant Duet
- "Somewhere Out There" ~ Man Without A Body, deeman45, redhed311
- "Girl in the Tower". ~ ZiggyZag
- Les Misérables (2012) even has a distant quintet! ~ urielzet
- But his grill is not a home, this is not the stove I know! I would trade it all the way, if you'd come back to stay! ~ Meta Falacario
- Seconded so much. ~ SuperYoshiFan02
- Distracted by the Sexy
- Basically any guard who stops to pick up a Playboy magazine you leave on the floor. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Distressed Dude
- Jidan from Tweeny Witches has been wrongfully imprisoned twice, the second time for six years, and taken Hostage for MacGuffin once. - IúkaSylvie
- Disturbed Doves
- Hard Target, ''Face/Off', and just about every John Woo movie.
- Petra's win pose.
- The Killer (1989) ~ Trouser Wearing Barbarian
- The disturbed seagulls when Harry Waters arrives In Bruges ~ Man Without A Body
- ''The Thief of Time''. "There will always be doves here." ~ Marvel Girl
- Prince Zuko taking off his shirt ~ Waxing Name
- Divergent Character Evolution
- Luigi, who went all the way from a Palette Swap to one of the few Rounded Characters in the series ~ Waxing Name, Zetta Toad, Doctor Rayman
- Robert was originally similar to Ryo, both being Shotos. But from KOF '96 onwards, Robert's moveset and his playstyle began to change radically from a Shoto, to using charge motion inputs, to finally becoming a kickboxer. ~ Miin U
- Do-Anything Soldier
- Does This Remind You of Anything?
- Who knew that installing a crystal into a Reyvateil could be so easily compared to "doing it?" (Heh heh..."install...") ~ Willy Four Eyes
- This scene, from a sequel to The Brave Little Toaster. ~ deeman45
- Mac's reaction to finding out Bloo's been hanging out with "Barry" in "Affairweather Friends" is played similarly to how someone would react to discovering their spouse or significant other has been cheating on them. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Slade's interactions with Robin, Terra and Raven in Teen Titans (2003) ~ Lady Blackwood
- Doesn't Like Guns
- Batman ~ deeman45, Doctor Rayman
- Virgil Hawkins ~ Lionheart0
- The Doctor ~ Man Without A Body
- He never would... ~ Me2
- MacGyver ~ xxbiasonxxx
- The Dog Bites Back
- Scar's death in The Lion King (1994). In all its gory awesomeness.
- Seconded. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Ken Kaneki establishing how he's fully embraced his ghoul nature by beating down Yamori in retaliation for torturing him for 10 days. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Scar's death in The Lion King (1994). In all its gory awesomeness.
- Dogged Nice Guy
- Dominic Sorel. How he could withstand Anemone's physical and verbal assaults in the name of love is astonishing. His perseverance pays off in the end, making his endurance legendary. ~ Sanfranman 91
- Do Not Taunt Cthulhu
- "It's not wise to taunt the Bering Sea." - tennessean
- "Ed is not being sure if taunting ancient unspeakable evil is being the best idea..." - Yuihime
- Squidward being send to the Fly of Despair by the Flying Dutchman for his complaints, and Patrick being zapped by King Neptune for talking back and boasting. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Domestic Abuse
- What makes Akio Ohtori so disgusting in Revolutionary Girl Utena. - IúkaSylvie
- Jeff Fecalman ~ Bobg
- Ryoki Tachibana ~ Monolaf317
- Mad Dog in Courage the Cowardly Dog, and a realistically scary one at that. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Goodbye Earl ~ theautisticrebel
- Don't Explain the Joke
Captain Hammer: 'Cause she's with Captain Hammer. And these — [lifts fists] — are not the hammer. [walks out]Dr. Horrible: ...Captain Hammer: [walks back in] ...The hammer is my penis.
- Seconded. ~ Five-seveN-25
- The Simpsons: Skinner ruining a Who's on First? routine with Chalmers by explaining it in the episode titled "Marge Simpson in: Screaming Yellow Honkers" ~ Doctor Rayman
- The Don
- Vito Corleone ~ WilliamShakesman
- Don't Fear the Reaper
- DEATH ~ Earth-Dog, Lophotrochozoa
- Dead Like Me. They might steal your wallet but whatever, you're already dead. ~ Carla
- Death from The Sandman. ~ Sylvia Viridian
- Seconded. ~ Rotide
- Death in The Book Thief. ~ Shadowplay
- Manny Calevera. He bears no hard feelings to the souls he deals with, he's just working off his eternal debt. ~ HotelCalifornia
- Don't Go in the Woods
- Deliverance ~ Unknown Troper.
- Evil Dead 2 ~ Man Without A Body
- Marble Hornets. Dear God, Marble Hornets.
- Don't You Dare Pity Me!
- Hanako Ikezawa if Hisao continues to dote on her. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Doomed Hometown
- Vale ~ Camroc G
- Colony 9. Its fate was sealed the moment Fiora said: "I wish these days would last forever." ~ Miin U
- Doomy Dooms of Doom
- Invader Zim ~ Alma Karma
-
Dooooooooooooooom!!*ahem* seconded. ~ Zfish9 - Third-ed! DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO- ~ UpsidePickle
- I'm gonna sing the Doom Song now! Doom doom doomdoomdoom DOOM, doomdoodoom, doom, doom doom doom doodoom doom doom, dodododoooooom... ~ Metal Ai Ai
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- Scott Keith.
- I SUMMON THE DEADLY DOOMBATH OF DOOOOOOOOM SHAAAAAARKS!!! - m-95
- Invader Zim ~ Alma Karma
- Doom It Yourself
- Donut Mess with a Cop
- Chief Wiggum ~redhed311, Doctor Rayman
- Door-Closes Ending
- The Godfather ~ WilliamShakesman
- Door Stopper
- Words of Radiance, the thickest book they were able to publish with the current binding system. Aver
- Doting Parent
- Maes Hughes. ~ Sarelon
- Seconded. ~ Saphruikan
- Maes Hughes. ~ Sarelon
- Double-Blind What-If
- In Player Two Start, real life (aka OTL) is a pop culture timeline on that universe's version of AlternateHistory.com, known in-universe as Game Over ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Double Reverse Quadruple Agent
- Blaise Zabini. He managed to be a quintuple agent in a game with three sides ~[2]
- This trope wouldn't be completed without the Trope Namer himself, The Spy ~ MeeMaggot
- Revolver Ocelot. The Last Days of FOXHOUND puts it best:
Mantis: You must spend every day pretending to act like you're falsely letting on that you aren't not unbetraying someone you don't not purport to allegedly not work for but actually do! How do you keep all this shit straight without having an aneurysm?
Ocelot: *Shrug* Practice. ~Bowbowis - Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male
- Louise. ~ Demongodofchaos
- Akane Tendo: one of anime's oldest and worst offenders. ~ Miin U
- Naru. KantonKage
- Persona 4 Chie, to Yosuke. Hence the famous "C-Critical hit to the nads..." ~ ReginaldCuftbert
- Double Subversion
- Luke, I Am Your Father in the sequel trilogy. "They were nobodies" followed by "You are a Palpatine". ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Seconded. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Luke, I Am Your Father in the sequel trilogy. "They were nobodies" followed by "You are a Palpatine". ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Downer Ending
- The original endings of Mass Effect 3.. Quite possibly the most contrived, stupid, and downright depressing endings I've ever seen. ~ Meta Falcario
- Twisted Sister's ending ~ todbot1
- Torchwood: Children of Earth. Oh God, Children of Earth. ~ LaNinje
- The Mist. ~ Talryth
- Mostly Harmless. Everyone in the MULTIVERSE DIED. How can it seriously get worse than that? ~ Ericho
- Seconded. It's a lot Darker and Edgier than the first book. ~ Me2
- Of all but
twoone arc, Higurashi: When They Cry ~ Zfish9 - Ran may have one of the more distressing and cynical final shot of any film ever. ~ budman2008
- Revenge of the Sith. Need I say more? ~ thecnoNSMB
- Avengers: Infinity War. "What is this? What the hell's happening?" "Oh god..." ~ Five-seveN-25
- Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Texhnolyze ~ Tropers/Pemulis_128
- Do Wrong, Right
- Heisenberg's Blue Sky, 99.1% Pure. ~ Nlpnt
- Morticia's reaction after seeing Wednesday carrying a cleaver to use on her brother. ~ Doctor Rayman
- The chandelier incident in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Quoth Professor McGonagall, "It unscrews the other way." ~Bowbowis
- The Drag-Along
- Iago of the Aladdin animated series. ~ RobertBingham, Doctor Rayman
- Jonathan Carnahan.
- Arnold. He knew he should have stayed home today. ~ King Cr Inu Yasha
- Dragged Off to Hell
- Don Giovanni ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Pretty much the whole point of Hell Girl, for both the client and their target of vendetta. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- "I promise I'll pay ya'll back! I PROMISE! ~ SuperYoshiFan02
- The Dragon
- Ecliptor
- Shego ~ Fan
- Darth Vader ~ Storm, Carla, Wasserplane, Leilukin
- Kefka ~ Eric DVH
- Dragan ~ Jordan, Man Without A Body
- Fate Testarossa. ~ Blank Mage
- Wild Dog. ~ xxxEbbxxx
- Starscream (also a Triumphant Example of Smug Snake, Dirty Coward, and of course, the trope named after him.) ~ superboy313
- Destro ~ Mistermister
- Ridley. Not only a prime example, but an actual dragon.
- Midbus. ~ deeman45
- Ulquiorra of Bleach. ~ ncfan
- Jaws ~ Deranged Genius
- Omega. Extremely Ax-Crazy, yet very loyal to Dr. Weil. ~ DAN004
- Shiva. ~ 1993xxx1993
- Pride to Father ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Dragon Ascendant
- Kabuto ~ Contributor
- Fawful, who goes from being The Dragon to Cackletta in Superstar Saga to the Big Bad of Bowser's Inside Story. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Dragon-in-Chief
- Amshel ~ deeman45
- Tywin Lannister ~ dgenega5764
- Dragons Are Demonic
- Shendu ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Dragons Up the Yin Yang
- Breath of Fire IV. Yes, the entire game. It is, quite literally, made of this trope. ~ dogemperor
- Dragon Their Feet
- Dragon with an Agenda
- Redcloak. ~ spacemonkey37
- Kefka Palazzo. ~ Cassandra Leo
- Drama Bomb
- "Ozymandias". Even with a final season of nothing but Wham Episodes, it still stands out. ~ babyhenchy1
- Drama Bomb Finale
- The end of the last episode of Blackadder Goes Forth - DaPatman
- Dramatic Irony: In Matt Stover's Mace Windu-centric Star Wars Legends novel Shatterpoint, Mace Windu favorably regards Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine's spartanly furnished office and simple, humble lifestyle, and remarks to Yoda, "A shame he can't touch the Force. He might have made a fine Jedi." The reader, of course, should know full well that Palpatine is in fact Darth Sidious, Dark Lord of the Sith, the Big Bad of the entire Star Wars film series, meaning that this is quite possibly the biggest moment of intentional irony that any Star Wars EU author ever put to paper before or since. ~ StarSword
- Dramatic Pause
- Ram in TRON.
"You're a... *pauses, thinks for a moment, stands up and walks over to the wall to lean against it while half-smirking* ...guest of the Master Control Program." - Dramatic Reading
- A REAL breakup letter from a REAL person! ~ Man Without A Body
- Dramatic Unmask
- The Phantom of the Opera (1925) ~ Lale, Decaf Grub 47393
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier, which happens to the titular Winter Soldier. ~ Doctor Rayman
- The Dreaded
- Harry Dresden. At one point in the twelfth book, he comes across a vampire. The vampire screams in terror and runs away. ~ spacemonkey37
- Seconded. What's more, the vampire turns out to be one of the Red Court's oldest, most capable assassins. ~ hujwernoo
- Thirded, ~digiman619
- River Song. The sheer mention of her name causes a Dalek to beg for mercy. Which she doesn't give. The Doctor from the same series is a very, very close second. Cassandra Leo
- Voldemort. ~ Doctor Rayman
- The Alien. You can't fight this creature at all, it's impossible to outrun it so you have to rely on stealth just to survive, the only thing you have that can keep them at bay will only work for so long, and it will eventually learn how to catch you. It's reputation is definitely well-earned. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Alastor - Demon Duckof Doom
- Harry Dresden. At one point in the twelfth book, he comes across a vampire. The vampire screams in terror and runs away. ~ spacemonkey37
- Dreadful Musician
- Kotomi Ichinose. Full stop. ~ Mapi-chan
- So Seconded, only musician to cause a Heroic BSoD ~ deathfire123
- Absolutely thirded. I doubt there is a finer example of this trope in any other fictional story. - Tropers/aNinjaWithAIDS
- Cacofonix. ~ Julep, Doctor Rayman
- Squidward. ~ Zfish9
- Ed when he's playing the violin. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Kotomi Ichinose. Full stop. ~ Mapi-chan
- Dream Apocalypse
- The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- An infamous example in Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Dream Episode
- "Restless" ~ Amuck Cricetine
- Dream Match Game
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Tekken Tag Tournament 2. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Dream Within a Dream
- Inception. ~ DRoy, Cameoflage, Dracosummoner, Julep, deathfire123, Doctor Rayman
- (X)CEPTION replaced yo dawg. ~ TARDISES
- In The Sandman, the Fate Worse than Death inflicted by Morpheus on his captor after he escaped. ~ Sylvia Viridian
- Spongebob Squarepants: Creature From The Krusty Krab ~ Five-seveN-25
- Inception. ~ DRoy, Cameoflage, Dracosummoner, Julep, deathfire123, Doctor Rayman
- Drill Sergeant Nasty
- Gunnery Sgt. Hartman, played by R. Lee Ermey ~ Ari Rockefeller
- Keith Shadis. It may be downplayed due to the fact he spares victims of Titan attacks from the routine, his hilariously over the top behavior certainly qualifies him for this trope in my book. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Driven by Envy
- Streibough's motivation for framing Oersted. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Drives Like Crazy
- As the trope page itself admits, Yukari Tanizaki.
- Seconded - Lord Zorc
- Thirded - FoxxPark
- Fourthed; Poor Chiyo goes into Color Failure at the mere mention of the YukariMobile - aNinjaWithAIDS
- SpongeBob SquarePants. When he drives, it's simply epic. ~ Alice2, TheWildwest666, Zfish9, Me2
- Lucky Star's Yui Narumi. ~ Mapi-chan
- Leland's grandma from Mr. Tran & the Toy Cack ~ Man Without A Body
- Get Smart. ~ BlankMage
- Elwood Blues. ~ Voodoo Child, The Albino Primid, Julep
- R. Kelly in Trapped in the Closet ~ Lionheart0
- Animorphs: "Do you hate trash cans? Is that it? Do you just hate trash cans?!" ~ deeman45
- "Stone Cold" Steve Austin ~ Nirao 01
- X-Men: Evolution: Kitty Pryde. When your driving is so crazy that you manage to scare Wolverine... ~ Carla
- Sam Starfall. ~Tambov333
- Seconded ~ TranquilTempest
- Delirium ~ Deranged Genius, Devil's Advocate
- "Summers you drive like a SPAZ" ~ Metalbane
- What, forgetting Mr. Toad's Wild Ride?
- Phoebe Buffay ~ CamrocG
- Die Hard with a Vengeance: "Are you TRYING to run over these people?" "NO! Well, maybe the mime." ~ MarvelGirl
- "I've never missed a plane yet." *drives perpendicular across four lanes, off the road, through a wire-chain fence onto an airfield* ~ Wack'd
- But what about Dr. Gerald?! Despite his driving skills being a joke SCP, it's still pretty horrible. I mean, the poor man drove through a town on a moped and the end result was like a nuclear meltdown! Even when using roller skates, he still causes an explosion! ~ Xander Jacatipon
- Grunkle Stan. "Road safety laws, prepare to be ignored!" ~ Kandikorn22
- Lola Bunny, as shown here. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Akio Ohtori. - IúkaSylvie
- Cruella De Vil. ~ Triple J
- As the trope page itself admits, Yukari Tanizaki.
- Drone of Dread
- The almighty Trope Maker of the genre drone metal itself Earth. Perfectly managing to encapsulate that feeling of being buried alive in a 20 foot grave after having all your limbs cut off, eyelids and mouth sown shut with the only sounds you can hear are your muffled, panicked screams as you slowly die of suffocation. ~ Creekery
- The Joker's Leitmotif in The Dark Knight. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Dropped a Bridge on Him
- Dark Raiden in Mortal Kombat 11. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Dropped Glasses
- Duct Tape for Everything
- MythBusters did several episodes about this trope, and most of the myths were confirmed. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Dude Looks Like a Lady
- Amiti. A Shirtless Scene got leaked, and the European official website still didn't get the memo. ~ Yuihime
- Yashamaru. Up until 548 there was never any definite indication of just what his gender is in the English manga, and in several different languages the translators have made him a woman because he's just that pretty.
- Noah from El Goonish Shive: ~ Nlpnt
-Elliot: Who's this...guy? I think?- Hideyoshi surprisingly isn't here. ~ KantonKage
- Oboro Tsukimigusa is so feminine in appearance, that he's shown to have a woman's figurenote even when stripped naked. One could easily mistake him◊ for Azumanga Daioh's Sakaki. ~ Miin U
- Haku. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Bridget. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Astolfo. ~ Burger Lord
- Dude, She's Like in a Coma
- Shinji in End of Evangelion ~ Carla
- Seconded. ~ TheWildwest666
- Thirded. "I'm so fucked up." ~ Xander Jacatipon
- Sleeping Beauty. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Shinji in End of Evangelion ~ Carla
- Duel of Seduction
- Duel to the Death
- Dull Surprise
- Marlo Stanfield is this trope done right ~ WilliamShakesman
- The Pixies' reaction to something unexpected. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Dumbass No More
- Cinnamon Bun after becoming the Flame Knight. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Dungeon Bypass
- Nanoha Takamachi. ~ Phoenix Fire
- Seconded ~ RainRequiem
- Highly thirded. This was truly awesome and satisfying for us to see. Just look at a certain Smug Snake's expression when Nanoha did this against her. ~ aNinjaWithAIDS
- Triple H ~ Nirao 01
- Kayneth turned a hotel into a massive magical deathtrap. Kiritsugu just blew it up instead. ~ Ultimaneo
- Seconded. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Nanoha Takamachi. ~ Phoenix Fire
- Dungeon Town
- Dying Moment of Awesome
- Whitebeard from One Piece. ~ LeChuck4, Shadow Stained Sky
- Galuf. ~ Balmung 60, Willy Four Eyes
- Thirded. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Kaji. ~Swoove, Carla
- Dinobot!. ~ Puffitheinsane
- Double Team was a terrible Jean-Claude Van Damme movie, but boy did it have ONE HELL OF A VILLAIN DEATH SCENE. The Nostalgia Critic certainly agrees. ~ Sanfranman 91
- From Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann we got Kittan's death. You can almost feel the quake from Valhalla's doors smash opening on this one because of the sheer awesomeness of it. ~ Mistermister, V Phantom
- The last half of Gurren Lagann's episode 8. It is Kamina's dying moment of awesome, (and therefore Moment of Awesome ) which stands out above all the others. He dies after being stabbed twice with a beam of energy, and getting hit with his mech's own pair of sunglasses, then comes back to throw his mech's severed arm at Simon, yelling "Let's see ya grit those teeth!", combines with Lagann, destroys all of Thymilph's remaining cannon fodder without looking at them, then right on the spot invents one of the most epic finishing moves ever (which, if I recall correctly, took up five, or technically ten pages in the manga) and utterly obliterates Thymilph, then dies for the second time with a smile on his face, saying "later, buddy." ~ Haru Axeman
- Asuka. End of Evangelion. Granted she lives in the end...kinda Muffin-Shota
- John Marston ~ babyhenchy1
- Rolo Lamperouge~ Javertshark 13
- Zero. His sacrifice ultimately brings peace between the two species, despite being created by the one who started all the centuries-long war. ~ DAN004, Cag
- Solf J. Kimblee ~ Oberyn
- ''"WATASHI WA SHINEN, SHINEN ZUU!!!" "FALCON PUNCH!!!!!!" *BSSSSHHHHT* "CAPTAIN FALCON!!!!" "WUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR" *BOOOOOSHHHHHHHHTTTTTTT*'' ~ NotGonnaDoALot4
- Spike Spiegel anybody?
- "Tell 'em to make it count." ~ Battra 09416
- What does Emile do when an Elite impales him from behind? Reaches back and breaks the bastard's neck. ~ RainRequiem
- Kyouko in episode nine of Puella Magi Madoka Magica. ~ Ncfan
- "It only works on computers, remember? And I am a motherfuckin' ghost." ~ foxmccloud4387
- The Death of Superman. The title is self-explanatory. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Dynamic Difficulty
- Dysfunction Junction
- Your crew in all Mass Effect games. ~Tera Chimera
- Neon Genesis Evangelion. ~ Enthryn, FoxxPark, Tehpopelink
- Bokurano. Try to name a major character, or any named character for that matter that doesn't have or get a major issue. (Waku doesn't count.) -Person Of Note
- Fruits Basket. ~ chibihana
- Twin Peaks ~ Adele Potter
- Advanced V.G. All, but three, of its cast members either come from abusive families, or have dark and troubled pasts. ~ Miin U
- Revolutionary Girl Utena. - IúkaSylvie
- Dystopia
- Dystopia Justifies the Means
- Darkseid - Demon Duckof Doom
- Darkrai ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller