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.
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- Each troper gets one example per trope, no more.
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- Gadget Watches
- James Bond films ~ WilliamShakesman
- Gadgeteer Genius
- The one and only Q. Do try and bring this trope back in one piece, 007...
- Satomi Hakase. ~ Blank Mage
- Agatha Heterodyne ~ ManWithoutABody
- Seconded. ~ Yarrik
- Dave Davenport ~ Marvel Girl
- Every single one of the Kids Next Door but especially Numbah 2. ~ deeman45
- Forge ~ Carla
- The Mythbusters for a Real Life example. How in hell else do you explain cannons made of duct tape that actually fire?! - Allronix
- Gyro Gearloose. ~ The Nerdytimes
- B-ko Daitokuji, builder of Humongous Mecha overnight! ~ Miin U
- Donatello. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Gag Dub
- MXC, the immortal Gag Dub of Takeshi's Castle. - Beta Maxis, Insanity Prelude
- Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series ~ ManWithoutABody, deeman45
- Super Sentai ~ Nirao 01
- Pokémon's Mexican dub ~ Carla
- Wizard People, Dear Reader ~ Gfrequency
- Ghost Stories - Physical Stamina
- Seconded ~ Fireside
- Doogal ~ FromtheWordsofBR
- Pokémon The 'Bridged Series. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Gag Penis
- Three Socks ~ ManWithoutABody
- Suburban Knights - Werebunny131, Doctor Rayman
- A HORSE WEINER! ~deeman45
- Now that's dangerous! ~ TARDISES
- 48 faces did you see how big that Censor Box was.
- Mara is Gag Penis manifest ~ TPPR 10
- Gag Sub
- Downfall. One way to make Adolf Hitler look funny. ~ Chris X
- Gainax Ending
- The Prisoner (1967) - "Fall Out". ~ EgregiousEric, ereg
- The one, the only, Neon Genesis Evangelion. ~ Blank Mage, Carla
- Eraserhead. Just... what? ~ ManWithoutABody
- Mother 3 - Kinesthesia
- 2001: A Space Odyssey. ~ wanbli
- Mass Effect 3. Hopefully soon to be remedied in the "We're sorry we fucked up the ending DLC" ~ atrasicarius
- Seconded. Not just because of the endings themselves but because of the backlash. Pretty much the ultimate textbook example of what a Gainax Ending can do to a fandom. ~ Sean Peden
- Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt ~ Gamermaster
- Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. ~StormC
- Eureka Seven AO, what just happened.
- Every Assassin's Creed game.- Gzillafan77
- Anything by Philip K. Dick could qualify here, but Ubik is the best example I've ever read, and directly inspired so many other examples it's difficult to count them all. The most obvious is Inception, whose ending is basically a shot-for-shot remake of Ubik's. ~Cassandra Leo
- The ending of the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "I Had an Accident". ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Gallows Humor: "Can we hurry this up? I've a wedding to get to." Yes this made it into a Affectionate Parody of Game of Thrones. A Sesame Street parody no less. ~ tsstevens
- Seconded ~ Fireside
- Gambit Pileup
- Heist. And although I do recognize that Tropes Are Not Bad, I still mean that in only the worst way. It is more like the least triumphantly yet still most extreme example. -ZuulMF
- Code Geass, specifically the second half of Season 2. ~ Unclouded TJ
- W.I.T.C.H. The whole second season. And it's awesome. Thank you Gerg Wiseman. ~Jaquento
- Dune. Almost every major faction or character has elaborate schemes with multiple contingencies in place in order to achieve their goals. Some of these plans extend literally thousands of years into the future.
- Gonna have to change my vote to this one for the sheer length of time involved. ~ Insanity Prelude
- Light Yagami does it just as planned.
- Seconded. ~ Chihuahua0
- All conditions have been cleared. Or are people not impressed by pre-recording entire conversations so your enemies will be talking to a TV while you sneak up? ~ bekeleven
- Before any of these plot were enacted, they were a Dream ~ Voodoo Child
- "You should have known I was playing, too." ~ ManWithoutABody
- Bleach Every battle you have fought has played into my hand. ~ Roxas
- ''Ayla and the Networks'', which it turns out was already won maybe two novels earlier. That's just how good the winner really is. ~ Marvel Girl
- Mr. I already did it 35 minutes ago.'' ~ Lionheart0
- It's all according to the scenario. ~ Carla
- Saw ~ Rimpala
- I hereby propose Gambit Roulette be renamed to "Teridax Gambit." After about 80,000 years, eight real life years, more subplots both successfully worked and foiled, and almost causing the end of the world as we know it (which is what REALLY pushes it into Roulette territory rather than a rather lengthy Xanatos Speed Chess-if Matoro had hesitated for a split second, the Matoran universe would have been killed off for real-an entire parallel universe shows what would have happened had one of the Plan's crucial steps failed.)
- Seconded, motion carried. Avidly awaiting name change. ~ Zfish9
- Thirded. ~ Ionz
- Anasurimbor Kellhus and his father. ~ atrasicarius
- Pretty much every serious, competitive battle of Chess or Go. ~ The Nerdytimes
- Game-Breaking Bug:
- How does a bug that results in destroying your game system grab you? WWE Video Games, even as far up as 2K18, can potentially cause the XBOX or Playstation itself to corrupt and cause you to lose everything, and be unable to retrieve the data loss online. Fuck this company and fuck this game! ~ tsstevens
- The password Engage Ridley Mother Fucker has a wide variety of different game breaking effects depending on the system you play it on, and can brick your 3DS. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Game of Nerds
- Dmitri Petrovich. ~ dxman
- Game-Over Man
- Hong Kong '97 used an actual dead body as its Game Over Screen. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Game Show Appearance
- The Young Ones episode "Bambi" ~ Amuck Cricetine
- Gargle Blaster
- The best one is drunk by Steve from Life and Death here. ~ Seiryu
- Kusuha Mizuha's "Health Drinks". Potent enough to knock out even Androids. ~ CelPrevXXVI
- What Daffy, Porky, and Nasty Canasata drink in Drip-Along Daffy. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Garrulous Growth
- The Empress Stand ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Gatling Good
- The Minigun from Predator. ~Yarrik
- The GAU-8 Avenger. 70 30mm Depleted Uranium rounds per second. So badass, they decided to build a plane around it. ~ Geek Code Red
- Gundam Heavyarms and its variants. ~ CelPrevXXVI
- Lin Lee Koo, BLADE's top "fix it gal" and mini-gun wielding child genius. ~ Miin U
- Gay Groom in a White Tux
- Gayngster
- Gemstone Assault
- Diamondhead ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Emma Frost ~ Smashman2893
- Gender Flip
- Hildy Johnson ~ Amuck Cricetine
- Genuine Human Hide
- The Bug wearing Edgar's skin as a disguise. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- General Failure
- Starscream ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- General Ripper
- Admiral Akainu would like to know why he was just added here ~tvsgood, mrbits
- Admiral Helena Cain ~ Panic
- Gen. 'Thunderbolt' Ross. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke
- Dr. Manhattan. Silk Spectre I even points out to her daughter that she's "sleeping with an H-bomb." ~ 2xN
- Genius Bruiser
- Thanos ~ RedRoverRedRover
- Bane in The Dark Knight Rises breathes the Genius Bruiser. He is even considered the most accurate portrayal of how the man who first thought him up considered him to be as a Batman villain, especially by said man. No venom, unlike how he is most known for, just hard-earned muscle and Magnificent Batch-of-custard qualities that make every scene with him awesome just by him being in it. ~ Ctrooper2011
- Dr. Gordon Freeman ~ jdj42
- Beast/Hank McCoy. ~ Doctor Rayman
- The Mauler Twins ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Genius Cripple
- Stephen Hawking. His ratio of intelligence to physical ability was roughly infinity. ~ Progeny Ex Machina
- Bentley, starting from the ending of Sly 2: Band of Thieves. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Professor X ~ Fireside
- Genius Loci
- Mogo ~ Azzamacazza
- The house from the 1986 movie House ~ ManWithoutABody
- Danny the Street ~ Marvel Girl
- The House on Ash Tree Lane. Probably. ~ Insanity Prelude
- Silent Hill. ~ Gfrequency
- The place in town where wishes come true - aNinjaWithAIDS
- Demonreach. ~ hujwernoo
- Ego the Living Planet. ~ Doctor Rayman
- The Jail ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Genki Girl
- Poemi Watanabe ~ Thesunisup
- Tomo Takino ~ HotelCaliornia
- Mako Mankanshoku ~ Giant Of The Vanguard
- Himeko Katagiri. Especially in the dub. -Physical Stamina
- Star Butterfly. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Somebody else add Dory, I'mma go with Pinkie Pie. ~-dave_the_assassin-~
- Seconded ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Arusu from Tweeny Witches. - IúkaSylvie
- Genre-Busting
- Haruhi Suzumiya ~ Smokie
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid ~ Zeppelin
- Thursday Next ~ PhoenixFire
- The Big Lebowski ~ ManWithoutABody
- Tangerine Dream - ZiggyZag
- Cowboy Bebop ~ Carla
- Yu-Gi-Oh! GX ~ Lale
- Doctor Who; Its a sci-fi horrific romantic comedy adventure with forays into fantasy.- Completely Different
- Finnegans Wake; It's barely even a book. ~ thecnoNSMB
- Genre Deconstruction
- Neon Genesis Evangelion: Deconstructing the Super Robot genre, the human psyche and YOUR BRAIN, all at once! ~ Carla
- Watchmen. Every superhero story ever since, basically, has been a response to it. ~ ManWithoutABody
- Yu-Gi-Oh! GX: The Evangelion of Gaming and Sports Anime & Manga. ~ Lale
- Puella Magi Madoka Magica: The Evangelion of Magical Girl. ~ Sorata Z
- School Days, or when harems go wrong. ~ Electric Boogaloo
- Spec Ops: The Line; You will never play another Modern Military Shooter again- Gzillafan77, Koveras
- 'A Song of Ice and Fire - Demon Duckof Doom
- Genre Mashup
- Lyrical Nanoha, or what happens when the Magical Girl and Humongous Mecha genres make out one night. ~tennessean
- Magic Knight Rayearth: where the Magical Girls get INSIDE the Humongous Mecha ~ aNinjaWithAIDS
- Genre Roulette
- Genre Shift
- Negima! Magister Negi Magi. There's a very good reason that it's the picture on the Genre Shift page. ~ JapaneseTeeth
- Medaka Box. Light-hearted student council comedy to OMF WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY DOING?! ~ Rinne
- Wapsi Square. Nowhere else has an element phased in so slowly come to dominate so thoroughly. When's the last time a member of the original cast was even seen other than Monica, Shelly, and Tina? ~ TwinBird
- Generation Xerox
- Darth Vader and Kylo Ren. Like grandfather, like grandson. NotGonnaDoALot4
- Generic Doomsday Villain
- The Dark Star, a very good example of this trope being played effectively. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Genki Girl
- Genocide from the Inside
- Kray Foresight ~ Fireside
- Gentleman Detective
- Lord Peter Wimsey, the original detective who was a true British gentleman ~ Marvel Girl
- Geodesic Cast
- Homestuck. There are four kids, each with a guardian, a kernelsprite, and an exile. And then there's the twelve trolls, who also have corresponding guardians (Lusii), kernelsprites, and exiles, although eleven of their kernelsprites are prototyped with their Lusii and the remaining one is dead. We also only see five of their exiles, but they all have a counterpart in the kids' session. Then there's other characters, such as the Dersites and Prospitians, who are mirrors of each other, and Becquerel and Doc Scratch. ~ wise_dude321
- You can't beat Homestuck in a too-damn-many-characters-off. It is simply the best there is. ~ Insanity Prelude
- Naruto and its various ninja teams. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Homestuck. There are four kids, each with a guardian, a kernelsprite, and an exile. And then there's the twelve trolls, who also have corresponding guardians (Lusii), kernelsprites, and exiles, although eleven of their kernelsprites are prototyped with their Lusii and the remaining one is dead. We also only see five of their exiles, but they all have a counterpart in the kids' session. Then there's other characters, such as the Dersites and Prospitians, who are mirrors of each other, and Becquerel and Doc Scratch. ~ wise_dude321
- Get A Hold Of Yourself Man
- The almighty Signum Punch — "I held back" indeed... ~ prescience
- Simon teleporting (one of only two instances of such a feat) and punching out Rossiu.
- I second that, although Kamina's "GRIT THOSE TEETH" moment was also pretty awesome. ~ JapaneseTeeth
- Dr. Rick Dagless, MD, punching Liz in the face at every possible opportunity. ~ ManWithoutABody
- Toy Story, made especially hilarious because he used Buzz's own arm to do it. ~ deeman45
- All these examples, and no mention of the infamous Bright Slap? -CelPrevXXVI
- The scene from Airplane! ~ Doctor Rayman
- Getting Crap Past the Radar
- The Trope Namer Mork & Mindy for having Mork's alien gibberish be foreign cuss words until the censors found out and shut it down. ~prettycoolguy
- Ghost in the Machine
- The Giant
- Giant Mook
- Jaws ~ Mac Phisto
- The enemies in World 4 from Super Mario Bros. 3. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Giant Space Flea from Nowhere
- Necron. It's the Final Boss, yet not the main antagonist, and it doesn't make an appearance at all until the final battle. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- The Evil Spirit Incarnate. Seriously, where the hell did this thing come from? After spending most of the game fighting terrorists and giant robots, this thing suddenly appears. ~ Saberwulf 2018
- Giving Someone the Pointer Finger
- Glad I Thought of It
- Kickassia ~ Embers Of Gallifrey
- Timon & Pumbaa - Physical Stamina, Doctor Rayman
- A Running Gag with Plankton ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry
- Jo and Amy March ~ Lale, Carla
- Bianca and Katherina ~ Calatoria
- Glass Cannon
- Lucario - DarkPaladinX
- Attack Deoxys. At level 100, its offensive stats could be literally up to eleven or more times its defensive ones. Assuming max Attack and min Defence Lonely naturenote it can have 504 Attack and 40 Defence, the former 12.6 times greater than the latter. And that's not even getting into attack-boosting items.— Star Android Jaguar
- Seconded. "Deoxys is confused! It hurt itself in its confusion! Deoxys fainted!" ~ Five-seveN-25
- Lucario - DarkPaladinX
- God
- Morgan Freeman in Bruce Almighty managed to take the role and make it work. ~ Ramidel
- God and Satan Are Both Jerks:
- Supernatural ~ Silverblade 2
- A God Am I
- Enel / Eneru. The ability to turn into/use lightning at will? Check. The ability to "hear" anything within an extremely large radius, amplified by said lightning powers? Check. The severe lack of any material that can counteract these abilities? Ladies and gentlemen, we have an semi-all-powerful psychopath! ~ King of the Mime Swing
- Second. ~ 2xN
- Light Yagami ~ Marlee Cross
- I second that. ~ Azurii
- I third that. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Enel / Eneru. The ability to turn into/use lightning at will? Check. The ability to "hear" anything within an extremely large radius, amplified by said lightning powers? Check. The severe lack of any material that can counteract these abilities? Ladies and gentlemen, we have an semi-all-powerful psychopath! ~ King of the Mime Swing
- God-Emperor
- Godhood Seeker
- Kefka is one of the few who succeeded. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- God Is Evil
- Chakravartin. A god that treats countless people's lives as expendable in the name of finding an heir is definitely not a god you should worship. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- God Is Flawed
- Both TRON and TRON: Legacy tied this one to the back of a light-cycle and went full speed. The Master Control was a chess program that went A God Am I in the system. Then, Flynn gets in and finds out Programs regard Users the same way we regard Gods. He tries to set Tron and Yori straight about it...but then makes the mistake of whipping up Clu 2.0... ~Allronix
- God of Evil
- God Save Us from the Queen!
- The Gods Must Be Lazy
- The Judge from The Good Place ~ Trogdor
- Godzilla Threshold
- Claire releasing the ''Tyrannosaurus Rex'' to fight the ''Indominus Rex''. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Gold Fever
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ~ WilliamShakesman
- Gold Fish Poop Gang
- Gollum Made Me Do It
- Going Commando
- Ayame Kajou does it every time she's in her Blue Snow disguise, because she's wearing them on her face as a mask. ~ Miin U
- Aqua. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Jessica Rabbit was so irresisitible, the animators drew her nether regions in an upskirt shot. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Gone Horribly Wrong
- Good All Along
- Severus Snape ~ Lale, Dracosummoner, Doctor Rayman, rjd1922
- Zagato ~ Carla
- Uchiha Itachi ~ Lord Zorc
- Grovyle and Hydreigon from Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity respectively. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Good Bad Girl
- Caitlín Mulryan, from Poul Anderson's The Avatar. - Farseer Lolotea
- Yuffie Kisaragi's portrayal in Schlick Crzay Ninja. Yes, that Yuffie. ~ Miin U
- Good Is Dumb
- Spaceballs ~ ManWithoutABody
- Inspector Gadget ~ deeman45
- Good Is Not Dumb
- Carrot Ironfoundersson ~Rjung
- Paragon Shepard ~ Babyhenchy1, Leilukin
- Roy Greenhilt has "Good, not dumb" as a catchphrase! ~ Yuihime
- Sheriff Bart, but Lordy, the villains ARE! ~ Miin U
- Good Is Not Nice
- Batman -Kriegsmesser, ZiggyZag
- Granny Weatherwax ~prescience, Insanity Prelude
- Sam Vimes, as well ~ insert_name_here92
- Asch the Bloody ~ deeman45
- Marietta, especially in Knights in the Nightmare ~Clae
- Lelouch Lamperouge, for those of us who think he's a good guy. ~Xplat
- Eva Ushiromiya
- Severus Snape — Bucco Babe, Lale, Lophotrochozoa
- Reimu Hakurei - Revaryk
- Good Is Not Soft
- Nanoha is one of the nicest people you'll ever meet- and she won't hesitate to blast you in the face with Beam Spam if you give her a reason. ~ spacemonkey37
- Paragon Shepard ~ Leilukin, Babyhenchy1
- Specifically the end of Overlord. If you haven't played it yet go, go and play it: Shepard discovers the cause of what happens is a scientist forcing his autistic brother into horrific experiments, and he is crying for help. Shepard resolves this with barely constrained Tranquil Fury, essentially kidnaps him, dodges being shot at, Pistol-Whipping the bastard and threatening to kill him. These are treated as the good, moral, altruistic path. tsstevens
- Hank Rearden ~ Lale
- Optimus Prime: Gentle, caring, A Father to His Men, Messianic Archetype - and also a giant sapient transforming autonomous robotic lifeform who won't hesitate to beat the snot out of you if you won't listen to reason. ~ The Harbo
- Kamijou Touma ~ KantonKage
- Kenshiro ~ Genki Guy
- Princess Celestia. Almost every single single scene she's in shows how loving and benevolent she is as a person, and how much of a kind and just ruler she is as a monarch. She also has no hesitation to unleash her wrath on anyone who dares threaten the safety of her kingdom, usually in the form of banishment for periods that surpass 1,000 years, with one exception where she just tried to kill the villain outright with an energy blast. Bonus points when one of the banished villains was her own face-heel turned sister.
- Good Ol' Boy
- Hank Hill ~redhed311
- Good Parents
- Good Pays Better
- "The Money Champ" ~ Lale
- Good Scars, Evil Scars
- Zuko. Never has moral ambiguity been so thoroughly symbolized by a single scar.
- Seconded!~ Vellophone, ~The Evil Oboist
- Zuko. Never has moral ambiguity been so thoroughly symbolized by a single scar.
- Good Stepmother
- Good with Numbers
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Pi-FaceSho Minamimoto. ~ Willy Four Eyes, ZettaToad - Anastasia Monroe ~ ManWithoutABody
- Well, NUMB3RS. Duh. ~ Carla
- Daniel Tammet ~ Popette
- Spencer Reid ~ Indigo12ash
- James May
- Raymond aka the Rain Man ~ Ultimaneo
- Fenton Crackshell. ~ Doctor Rayman
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- Go Out with a Smile
- Hoenheim from Fullmetal Alchemist ~ DRoy
- From the same series, Bucanneer. ~ AceNoctali
- Any one with the Will of the D. ~tvsgood
- More specifically, Portgas D. Ace. ~ Metal Shadow X
- Jack and the Lava Monster - FREE. ~St Clair
- The Joker in Batman (1989). ~ Doctor Rayman
- Hoenheim from Fullmetal Alchemist ~ DRoy
- Gorn
- MadWorld ~ Demongodofchaos
- Braindead ~ Genki Man
- Gantz (especially the manga) ~ Tongpu
- Dwarf Fortress, that is all ~ Naryar
- Blood-C ~ KantonKage
- Rambo, especially the Final Battle of the fourth and fifth movies. ~ Saberwulf 2018
- Gory Discretion Shot
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), which has barely a drop of blood onscreen, but never feels any less horrifying because of it. ~ TrouserWearingBarbarian
- For similiar reasons, the original Halloween (1978) ~ ManWithoutABody
- The Dark Knight - this is the only thing that saved it from an R-rating. - GwenStacyWannabe, deeman45, Doctor Rayman
- Batman: Arkham Asylum did the very same, except with Bloodless Carnage, and it probably avoided the same end as a result.
- Neon Genesis Evangelion. And then your imagination makes it worse. ~ Carla
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), which has barely a drop of blood onscreen, but never feels any less horrifying because of it. ~ TrouserWearingBarbarian
- Got the Call on Speed Dial
- Got Volunteered
- Goth
- Gothic Horror
- Hammer Horror ~ WilliamShakesman
- Government Procedural
- The Thick of It ~ Amuck Cricetine
- Grande Dame
- Margaret Dumont in the Marx Brothers' films. - Tannhäuser
- Lady Bracknell - Jordan
- There are very few modern adaptations that carry this over, but in most of the original productions, Bracknell would be a man in drag.
- Grand Finale
- Cowboy Bebop - Amitai
- Avatar: The Last Airbender ~ Carla, Metal Shadow X
- Equalled, if not surpassed, by The Legend of Korra's 3-part series' finale. ~ Miin U
- Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
- The End of Evangelion ~ Gatotsu 911
- "ATTENTION ALL PLANETS OF THE SOLAR FEDERATION. WE HAVE ASSUMED CONTROL." Quite literally counts, too. ~Yoshiman 400
- Avengers: Endgame ~ Saberwulf 2018
- The Siege of Mandalore. A very long time coming, but it finally allowed The Clone Wars to end on its own terms after being cancelled prematurely twice, and it did so in superb, suitably epic style. ~ cosmatonspoon
- Ducktales 2017 ~ randomperson123
- Grand Theft Me
- Gratuitous English
- Terry Bogard (Fatal Fury, The King of Fighters) is Engrish incarnate. I don't think he's ever uttered a word in Japanese...not that there's anything wrong with that. ARE YOU OK?! ~ Willy Four Eyes
- HEY YOU! GET SERIOUS! ~ Bobbk
- Hello Everynya! How Are You Fine Thank You. (OH MY GAH!) I whish I were a bird! ~ Nirao 01
- "YUU AH NUMBAH ONE!" And then there was the Gratuitous Technobabble English. ~ Carla
- Soul Eater has it all over the place. the serise itself was called Sōru Ītā in Japan Pronounced "Soul Eater", the strongest weapons are Death Scythes, but Free and Excalibur's proficientcy in english deserves mention. Hilariously, the money in Soul Eater are called "Death Notes" ~ Zfish9
- Seconded, if only to point out that this can be justified by noting that Death City is canonically stated to be in Nevada. ~ digiman619
- Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds. The announcer with his catchphrase: "EVERYBODY LISTEN!" ~ Lord Zorc
- Not only is the amount of English text used in Tiger & Bunny staggering, but its all accurate and grammatically correct. ~Pink Hanabi
- God is Dead! ~ HotelCalifornia
- Seconded, and yes I did change my opinion from Lucky Star's Motteke! Se-ra-fuku to this simply because the latter was just hilarious. — aNinjaWithAIDS
- This sequence from Season 2 of Seitokai Yakuindomo (WARNING: the last few seconds are a bit racy, so it's strongly advised you pause before then, and that you don't watch this in public places). -Physical Stamina
- Bakemonogatari: "Sorekara, Araragi-kun... I love you." - Beedle
- Terry Bogard (Fatal Fury, The King of Fighters) is Engrish incarnate. I don't think he's ever uttered a word in Japanese...not that there's anything wrong with that. ARE YOU OK?! ~ Willy Four Eyes
- Gratuitous Italian
- Super Mario Sunshine is littered with Italian, from the level names to the "Benvenuto!" signs to Il Piantissimo. ~SuperYoshiFan02
- Gravity Master
- Gravattack ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Greater Need Than Mine
- Greater-Scope Villain:
- Naruto. From Orochimaru to Itachi to Danzo to Tobi to Madara to Princess Kaguya. - Ericho TOME
- The Transformers: Robots in Disguise. Shockwave, the phrase "everything is his fault", is perfectly deserved here. There is too much to list here to establish why.-Gman The Eldritch
- The Nibiru Entity ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Great Detective
- Great Escape
- The Shawshank Redemption ~ Silence
- The Silence of the Lambs ~ ManWithoutABody
- Toy Story 3. ~ Doctor Rayman
- The Great Escape ~ WilliamShakesman
- Greek Chorus
- Green-Eyed Monster
- Salieri ~ Silence
- Iago. He coined the term "green eyed monster". ~ ManWithoutABody, Decaf Grub 47393
- Envy.
- Seconded. That Stealth Pun alone was genius. ~ Carla
- Almost EVERYTHING about Parsee says this - her title, her first spellcard (which is ridiculously hard for stage 2 - AND EVEN USED ON EASY)- her personality - SHE EVEN HAS GREEN EYES! ~ TARDISES
- Green Rocks
- Binchotite. It not only gets New Powers as the Plot Demands (from making floating islands to being refined into fuel to capturing people to powering Musashi's special abilities to making Super Soldiers), it's also green, and a rock (when exposed to air).
- You HAVE to admit Kryptonite is the original example. ~ Blank Mage, Doctor Rayman
- You require more Vespene Gas! ~ ManWithoutABody
- Tiberium ~ Fireside
- Green Thumb
- Poison Ivy ~ Smashman2893
- Seconded ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Poison Ivy ~ Smashman2893
- Grew Beyond Their Programming
- Tetsujin Granchio's backstory. - IúkaSylvie
- Experiment 626/Stitch ~ Serene Specter 13
- Reycho becoming sentient at the end of World's End Club. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Grey-and-Grey Morality
- Rose of the Prophet. Despite a setting where there are gods and their factions of followers who are specifically labelled as "good", "evil" and "neutral", nothing is ever in black and white. Even a man who borders on a thoroughly detestable villain in his actions can still be a powerful, trustworthy and even admirable ally. The final conflict is fought, not between the forces of good and evil, but the forces of chaotic neutral and lawful neutral- and the heroes are on the side of chaotic! ~ Arcane Azmadi
- Princess Mononoke. The conflict between the Forest Spirits and Iron Town show both sides having sympathetic motives for their extreme methods. Even Ashitaka can't find it in himself to blame either side, and tries to help both of them. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Parasite. ~ cosmatonspoon
- Groin Attack
- Braindead ~ Geoduck
- I said ve'd cut off your CHONSON! ~ ManWithoutABody
- America's Funniest Home Videos ~ sardns
- The All-Groin Attack Blast Out in Inglourious Basterds ~Mens Rea
- "That's mah purse!" ~redhed311
- The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny:
Angels sang out in immaculate chorus
As down from the heavens descended Chuck Norris
Who delivered a kick which could shatter bones
Into the crotch of Indiana Jones...- It helps that this is set to the most epic Awesome Music EVER. ~ Me2
- "Kiss. Your puny. Worthless. Cock. Goodbye." Ouch. ~ HotelCalifornia
- Caleb had to split...because Buffy the Vampire Slayer drove a scythe into his nether regions. ~ Tsstevens
- Erec, poor guy.
- Theon Greyjoy ~ Camroc G
- Yosuke's "Critical Hit to the nads" ~ Ultimaneo
- He keeps kicking me in the dick! Why?! Why does he keep kicking me in the dick?! aka Vegeta being kicked in the dick by Cooler at least 501 times. ~ Loekman 3
- "Many young girls here get circumcised/Their clits get cut right off (Way oh!)" ~ Monolaf317
- The infamous "Sonic and Knuckles" incident in One-Punch Man. ~ CelPrevXXVI
- A fight scene in Red vs. Blue has at least 10 groin attacks all delivered to the same guy. ~Blue 050645 TL
- "But... the ball! His groin! Ha ha! It works on so many levels!" ~ Doctor Rayman
- Mortal Kombat X. "Aren't you dead?" "Well I was, then Sonya crushed Quan Chi's balls so I got better." ~ Five-seveN-25
- "I take his weapons away". Both of them. ~ WilliamShakesman
- Total Drama, where almost every boy from the first generation got hit in the groin at least once ~ Dghcrh
- The Grotesque
- Mr. Merrick ~ ManWithoutABody
- Grotesque Cute
- Future Diary. As a rule, the cuter it is, the greater its capacity for Nightmare Fuel. No exceptions. ~Aethix
- "Groundhog Day" Loop
- Groundhog Day ~ Silence, ManWithoutABody, Marvel Girl, ZiggyZag, deeman45, Doctor Rayman
- Haruhi Suzumiya. EIGHT. FRIGGIN. EPISODES. ~Bubblebath
- Higurashi: When They Cry ~ neobowman, Zfish9
- Chyna ~ Nirao 01
- The Aquabats! Super Show!: The entire first season. ~ Mk97
- Akemi Homura from Puella Magi Madoka Magica ~ Ultimaneo
- Growing Muscles Sequence
- The Miniavengers, every single episode. ~ Genki Man
- Super Saiyans ~ KantonKage
- Popeye. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Grumpy Old Man
- Victor Meldrew ~ WilliamShakesman
- The Guards Must Be Crazy
- Arkham Asylum ~ Yarrik
- Assassin's Creed ~ shamchimp28
- Chrono Trigger ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Guest Fighter
- Sonic the Hedgehog in the Super Smash Bros. games. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Guest Host
- Saturday Night Live ~ Amuck Cricitene
- Renegade Rhetoric, which stems out of a time Cy-kill was a guest host on Ask Vector Prime. ~ Fireside
- Guide Dang It!
- If by "triumphant" you mean "annoying", then Milon's Secret Castle, easily. ~ Willy Four Eyes
- The Barrel Puzzle from Sonic the Hedgehog 3. And the guide itself didn't tell you how to get past it.
- Ah yes, the Barrel of Doom That thing is EVIL. For those who don't know how to get past it, you need to stand on it and press up and down. May take some attempts to get it right. You're welcome. ~ TARDISES
- Speaking of Sonic, the boss fight in Lava Mountain 4 in Sonic Lost World. You're supposed to finish him off using a charged homing attack (standing in front of him and letting the reticule build up), but at no point does the game tell you you can even do this, nor do you ever have to before this point. - Physical Stamina
- Pick a Tales Series game, any Tales Series game. - Malkyrian
- Star Ocean: Till the End of Time: So you wanna go for the Fayt-x-Nel ending? Better hope you can either track down a copy of the Prima Guide, or find an online walkthrough that covers it, 'cuz if not, it's almost impossible to figure out how to do it on your own. Especially since Nel starts off with the lowest affinity points towards Fayt and raising it high enough to get her paired ending includes having to complete one of the most obscure sidequest chains in the game, which has a limited time window. Good luck. ~ Miin U
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1984) adventure game. There are probably grown men out there who will still break down crying at the very mention of the phrase "Babel Fish.". ~ PhoenixFire
- Final Fantasy, the higher the number, the worse it gets. While not necessarily needed to beat the main game, everything else either assumes you have it, or that you'll somehow know that the only way to get the most powerful weapon in the game is to NOT open 4 specific chest early in the game that look the same as all other chests. ~Seraphem
- Yume Nikki ~ Highwind
- "Okay, I think I saw an object that might be an Effect next to these trees and grotesquely-shaped statues...or was it near that other patch of trees and grotesque statues? Wait, how'd I even get here in the first place?" ~ King of the Mime Swing
- La-Mulana. If you (claim to have) cleared it and the Hell Temple without a guide, you're either the most intelligent gamer ever or a real liar. ~ RayAyanami
- See that Milotic? Looks awesome, right? Want to get one in your party? Go ahead. I'll be waiting.
- Fuck it if even the ''guide'' will help you there...~ JoeMoron2000
- Persona 4. The game actively tries to stop you from getting the best ending. ~ deeman45
- Try Finding all the djinn without the guide in the Golden Sun games ~ sardns
- Valkyrie Profile. What's that, there's a good ending? ~ Aranis
- Silent Hill 3's hard puzzle mode. There's the infamous Shakespeare puzzle, then the puzzle involving the eating habits of the linnet bird (which I'd never even heard of), and then having to know when you're supposed to use your Chekhov's Gun. ~ SG_Man_Forever
- Want to play Dwarf Fortress? ~ Yuihime
- I heard you wanted a Final weapon in Dynasty Warriors. ~ Kanton Kage
- Ladies and gentlemen and those of nonbinary genders, The Tower of Druaga. Read this strategy guide and ask yourself, "How would a player in the mid-80's, with extremely primitive Internet access if they were lucky and a limited entertainment budget, figure all of this out?" It's sixty stages of guide-demanding puzzles, with the risk of losing useful armor, being teleported back to previous stages, or Cruel-tier Unwinnable by Design if you make certain mistakes, such as failing to pick up a certain treasure...that in turns requires having picked up previous other treasures. Oh, and it's an arcade game. That was somehow popular in Japan despite the fact that a standard arcade credit on most Japanese arcade games was (and still is) 100 yen, and unsurprisingly failed in other regions. ~ Luca Earlgrey
- The legendary golems in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire. Oh, and in the remake, the conditions to facing Regigigas has you nicknaming Regice, give it an ice item, and go back to the cave where you found Regice while carrying the three caught in-game golems. At daytime. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain: Released in 1996, the way to access the HMCS Bitter wasn't discovered until 2020. ~ rjd1922
- Guile Hero
- Rock ~ JustaUsername
- Kellsier ~ Aranis
- The Venerable Pius XII ~ redrosary
- The Joestar lineage ~ ChiefNoa
- They're all clever assholes, and the fans wouldn't want it any other way. ~ King of the Mime Swing
- Peeta ~ shamchimp28
- Odysseus ~ ncfan
- Seconded, for being close to the Ur-Example, and for relying on guile when heroes were all expected to be brutal warriors. ~Rotide
- Batman ~ Waxing Name
- Asterix. ~ Doctor Rayman
- L - Demon Duckof Doom
- Guilt-Free Extermination War
- Goblin Slayer and his companion's conflict with the Goblins. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- The Gunslinger
- Roland Deschain~Seraphem
- Rushuna Tendou, who only needs a single six-shooter, even against tanks ~ Marvel Girl
- Lucky Luke. He can shoot faster than his own shadow. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Erron Black. ~ Five-seveN-25
- The Man With No Name ~ WilliamShakesman
- Guns Akimbo
- John Woo films ~ WilliamShakesman
H
- Hackette
- Hair-Trigger Temper
- "OVER THE LINE!" ~ ManWithoutABody
- Tommy DeVito - RobertBingham
- Quoth the Shizuo, "IIIIIIIIIIZAAAAAAAAAYAAAAAAAA!!" ~ Kalle
- Ra "Sunny" Shen ~ King of the Mime Swing
- Donald Duck. ~ The Nerdytimes
- Brittnay Matthews. ~ Monolaf317
- Yosemite Sam. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Katsuki Bakugo ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- GET BACK TO WORK!!! ~ Tad Tad Tad Tad
- Halfway Plot Switch
- From Dusk Till Dawn ~ WilliamShakesman
- [1] for the sheer amount of episodes where they pull this. ~ Lady Blackwood
- Psycho ~ Another Online Persona
- Ham-to-Ham Combat
- Daleks vs Cybermen ~ Some Dead Guy
- N. Bison vs. Dr. Insano ~ Troper49
- The final battle of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. ~ Gamermaster
- Every battle of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. ~ The Nerdytimes
- Every battle of Kill la Kill ~ iPhoenix26
- Devil May Cry 4 Dante vs. Agnus ~ Reflextion, artfulscruff, Insanity Prelude
- Daniel Bryan vs anyone ~ KantonKage
- Jack Sparrow vs Hector Barbossa ~ AgentKyles
- Hand Cannon
- The Ambassador from Team Fortress 2 ~ S Noble Jr
- Fefnir and, by extension, Model F. ~ Psykosis
- The Anti-Materiel Rifle is described as "A fucking scoped hand-cannon". And, baby, it is. ~ Wragnaroq R. Maggeddo
- The Paddywaker Hand Cannon- Gzillafan77
- The Halo: Combat Evolved pistol. It shoots .50 caliber high explosive rounds, it's accurate enough to be used as a substitute for a sniper rifle, and it can one-shot Hunters. ~ Fistof Cthulhu, Azorius 24
- Handicapped Badass
- Maedhros. - Calatoria
- Oracle! She's arguably more dangerous at a computer in her wheelchair than she was as Batgirl! ~ Allronix
- Zatoichi is blind. And will kill anyone oppressing the masses. - Zblayde
- Gregory and Dominic from Dominic Deegan. Gregory starts out with a lame leg and powerful White Magic, then switches the "cripple" role with his older brother, Dominic, who now has an artificial leg and false teeth and saves the world every weekend. ~ Me2
- Joe Swanson. ~ King Cr Inu Yasha
- Accelerator. He can't even move without technological assistance, but he can slow the Earth's rotation for five minutes.
- Fullmetal Alchemist has many but Izumi Curtis is missing several organs and she kicks serious ass! ~ KantonKage
- Dr. House has a cane and is not afraid to use it. ~ Indigo12ash
- The only thing that can save an Eldritch Abomination from Garrett Miller is a flight of stairs. - Gzillafan77
- Toph. ~ RandomTroper89
- Seconded ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Ming Hua doesn't even have arms and still hands master level benders their asses. ~ Miin U
- Daredevil ~ WilliamShakesman
- Hands-Off Parenting
- Mandark's parents ~ deeman45
- The Pickles parents ~ Nlpnt.
- Ira and Sheila Rosenberg: he's a famous child psychologist and they treat their daughter like this? ~ Marvel Girl
- Handsome Lech
- Girls count, too, don't they? Sei Satou, step up and claim your prize. (Please refrain from handling the Yumi on your way to the podium.) ~ Willy Four Eyes, prescience
- Igor Metzger ~ ManWithoutABody
- Going to go with Miroku on this one. ~ Blank Mage, Carla
- Kagura Mutsuki ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Happily Adopted
- Luke Smith. Just... wow, his relationship with Sarah Jane defines adorable. ~sinesofinsanity
- The Lyrical Nanoha franchise as a whole. ~ Gamermaster
- Clark Kent. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Happily Failed Suicide
- Final Fantasy VI. Celes regains the will to live, and after doing so searches for her friends, giving them the hope of beating Kefka. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Happy Ending Override
- Chrono Cross. "What were we fighting for?" indeed. ~ Two Gun Angel
- Seconded. ~ Reflextion
- Eureka Seven AO, Babies Ever After NOT!
- The Force Awakens or how to turn the original trilogy into a "Shaggy Dog" Story. ~ Silverblade2
- Seconded! The fact that each of the sequel trilogy movies centers on the death of one of the members of the original Power Trio only makes it harder to watch, and not in a good way. ~ Fireside
- Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Rebellion. The story of how to turn a Bittersweet Ending into a Bittersour Ending (with a Gainax Ending on the side). ~ stewyworks333
- Alien³. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. "Judgment Day is inevitable." ~ Five-seveN-25
- The Homestuck Epilogues. ~ Emerald 141
- No Time to Die. ~ Saberwulf 2018
- Chrono Cross. "What were we fighting for?" indeed. ~ Two Gun Angel
- Hard-Drinking Party Girl
- April from Darker than Black- her powers are literally fueled by drinking alcohol. ~ Jordan
- Yukari Tanizaki. ~ Mapi-chan
- I don't normally like Kristin Chenowith (I'm not even sure I spelled her name right) but the character she played on Glee was my favourite example ~ ManWithoutABody, Voodoo Child
- Hathor ~ Surenity
- Misato Katsuragi ~ Carla
- Yuuko Ichihara. ~ chibihana
- Ayaka Kisaragi drinks so often that even an anemic vampire turned her down, due to the alcohol content of her blood. - Miin U
- Hard Levels, Easy Bosses: Kaizo Mario Galaxy, where most of the bosses are unchanged from vanilla Mario Galaxy. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Harmful to Minors
- President Reitman of Mai-Chan's Daily Life, "BABY FUCK, BABY FUCK!!!!! IT'SSS AWWRIGHTTT!!!~~~~~" ~ Anon
- How badly can death of parents traumatize a kid? Ask Bruce Wayne. ~ The Nerdytimes
- Harmless Villain
- Dr. Drakken ~ Insanity Prelude
- I AM THE BOX GHOST! (Master of all things cardboard and corrugated!) ~ Storm, SquealingSandry, deeman45
- Team Rocket ~ Ingonyama
- The Phantom Dictator of Krankor. Haaaa haaaaa haaaa haaaaa haaaa haaaaa haaaaaaa. ~ ManWithoutABody
- Dr. Insano - ZiggyZag
- The Amoeba boys. Good God, they littered! ~ Carla
- Dr. Doofenschmirtz — Bucco Babe
- Invader Zim. ~ iansimsjam
- Murray the Talking Skull ~ rjd1922
- Hate Fic
- Killing the Cullens is Light Yagami's ultimate revenge on Twilight. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Hate Sink
- Joffrey Baratheon ~ Silverblade 2
- Dolores Jane Umbridge ~ dgenega5764, Doctor Rayman
- Shou Tucker is currently rated as the number one most hated character in all of anime and/or manga by anime-planet.com, people loathe him that much, and for a damn good reason too. ~ Bowbowis
- Gladstone Gander ~ Julia1984
- Akio Ohtori is the only character ever to have inspired pure, passionate hate from me. His misogyny and fake affability sickened and enraged me to the very core when I watched the series. - IúkaSylvie
- Princess Malty Melromarc ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Micah Bell ~ Thermal7
- Sayu's Mom from Higehiro almost breaks Yoshida's Wouldn't Hit a Girl policy in Episode 12 which is saying something ~sfisher923
- Yuuki Terumi, who was supposed to be hated by the player and was written to be hated. ~ Saberwulf 2018
- Odalia Blight ~ SuperYoshiFan02
- Hated by All
- Malty Melromarc. Naturally, when you lie, backstab everyone (including your most devoted allies), and spend time ruining people's lives For the Evulz or out of petty spite, everyone will be out for your blood and won't come to your aid no matter how much you beg for mercy. She truly earned her reputation as one of the worst and most despised war criminals throughout history. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Haunted Technology
- Notorious BBC one-off drama Ghost Watch. ~ Trumper
- Pretty much any device possessed by Rotom ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Have a Nice Death: Shadowgate ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?:
- Emil manages to do this to himself, when there's nobody else around. Just...just watch. note ~ deeman45
- Kanji would like to remind you that he doesn't like dudes and loves women. ~ HotelCalifornia
- Oh, Utena... ~ SkyJumpinMime
- Dagur of Dragons: Riders of Berk instantly becoming Sickeningly Sweethearts with Mala after 7 seasons of obsessing over Hiccup ~ Julia1984
- Have We Met Yet?: The relationship between the Doctor and River Song. They keep running into one another out of order, and they each keep a diary of the encounters they've had with each other, and compare notes each time they meet. ~ mysterykcad
- Having a Blast
- Katsuki Bakugo ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Head Crushing
- How Omni-Man kills Red Rush. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Headphones Equal Isolation
- Neku, most definitely. I mean, the game's theme only kind of revolves around it. ~Eriyu, Insanity Prelude
- The Far Side cartoon with the birds and the cat ~ ManWithoutABody
- Shinji, of course ~ Carla
- Stan Lee's cameo in The Amazing Spider-Man. ~ randomtroper89
- Head-in-the-Sand Management
- Cornelius Fudge refusing to believe Voldemort has returned in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Head-Turning Beauty
- Fujiko Mine. It'd be easier to list who hasn't either tried to hit on her, or tried to get her in bed. Including her enemies. ~ Miin U
- Heal the Cutie
- Hikari's entire journey with the Persona users. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Heart Is an Awesome Power
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure ~ Mrbits, V Phantom
- Jade Sinclair ~ Marvel Girl
- One Piece ~ fakeangel
- There's a Luke Surl Comic in which Ma-Ti causes a heart failure. That was pretty cool. ~ ManWithoutABody
- Aquaman ~ Yarrik
- Seconded. He even used his influence over sea life to defeat a villain who had immaculate control over water itself. ~ 2xN
- Squirrel Girl ~ Cag
- Rin "cart away dead people" Kaenbyou ~ Yuihime
- Kogasa Tatara, ability to surprise people. Including the players themselves. ~ Stardf 29
- Unfortunately for her it only really works once. How do I know that? in the Touhou thread on this site, I somewhat jokingly said Kogasa would be in 13. And you know what? She IS. She's the stage 3 midboss.) ~ TARDISES
- Sandreline Fa Toren; because power over thread and cloth is badass. - Completely Different, Insanity Prelude
- Taylor uses the ability to control bugs in a ridiculous number of very inventive (and lethal) ways. ~ spacemonkey37
- Ant-Man. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Heartbroken Badass
- Homura Akemi ~ foxmccloud4387
- The Heavy
- Darth Vader ~ dgenega5764
- Seconded ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Darth Vader ~ dgenega5764
- Heavy Mithril
- Bal-Sagoth ~ Thrash Til' Death
- Blind Guardian - Demon Duckof Doom
- The Hedonist
- Heel–Face Brainwashing
- Lord Wily erasing the memories of his son Dr. Regal so he can start life over again as a better person. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Darth Revan ~ Fireside
- Heel–Face Reincarnation
- Kid Buu reincarnating as Uub ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Heel–Face Revolving Door
- Sylar in Volume 3. Ye gods. - Haven
- Cole Turner. The man could NOT pick a side! ~ Ingonyama
- Archer. ~ Mapi-chan
- Long John Silver again. ~ ManWithoutABody
- Kain Highwind ~ Ondore Mick
- Two-Face - ZiggyZag
- Naomi Hunter ~ Nirao 01
- Vegeta ~ deeman45
- Magneto. 45+ years of storylines will give you ample opportunities to go back and forth. ~ Carla
- Seconded! — Bucco Babe
- Wait, is Peter Parker a clone or isn't he? ~ Fox Trax
- Kevin freaking Levin ~ Metal Shadow X, Pastylover2
- Zuko ~ Weeping Willow
- Big Show
- Godzilla ~ Richard Seven
- Alvin. ~ mister-bittersweet
- Scourage ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Heel–Face Turn
- Axel Almer, one Heel–Face Turn that is both awesome and heartwarming. ~ Chris X
- Dinobot. ~Scrounge
- Peridot! ~ Monolaf317
- Zuko, if only because it took SO FREAKING LONG to get there! ~ Ingonyama, Vellophone
- Seconded. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Thirded. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Everyone and their mother. ~ Storm
- Magus ~ deeman45
- Darth Vader ~ TheGecko
- The Grinch probably has the most heartwarming of all Heel Face Turns. I challenge you not to have your heart warmed. ~ NotJabba
- Iago in Aladdin: The Return of Jafar. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Megamind. ~ Triple J
- Heel–Race Turn
- The Changeling race, with the obvious exception of Queen Chrysalis. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Held Gaze
- Vincent Vega and Mia Wallace. ~ MattP5557
- Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji. Observe from 5 minutes 19 seconds onward, and be sure to have a defibrilator with you. Your heart may stop. ~ cosmatonspoon
- Galadriel and Halbrand. Never seen so much eye-fucking between two characters, and apparently is not even supposed to be romantic. - Gebeleizis
- Heli-Critter
- Tails. (Flies with his own two tails) ~ FoxTrax, Doctor Rayman, Decaf Grub 47393
- Jazz Jackrabbit ~ Dghcrh
- Hell
- Hell Has New Management
- Black Mage so terrified the previous infernal administration that they stuffed him back into his mortal body, and now have a vested interest in keeping him alive. It says a lot that whenever Black Mage is on the verge of death, he's happy because he gets to take over Hell again. ~mysterykcad
- Hellhound
- The Hero
- Luke Skywalker. ~ dgenega5764
- Superman. ~ Doctor Rayman
- All Might is here! And so is his pupil, Izuku Midoriya. ~ iPhoenix26
- Paragon Commander Shepard. ~ cosmatonspoon
- Aang
- Hero Antagonist
- The Boss. Willingly gives up her life and goes down in history as one of the most despicable traitors in U.S. History out of patriotism. ~Rotide
- Klaus Wulfenbach. Not only does he seem to be trying to do the right thing but it's hard to argue that he isn't, at least in regards to uniting the disparate sparks of Europa. Even when it comes down to his goal of capturing or killing Agatha it's hard to argue with him given the circumstances, something the heroes themselves acknowledge. That being said, he is still, without a doubt, the antagonist in the story. ~ Nivenus
- Dib ~Pikawil, SqueeneyTodd, Vellophone
- Harpuia ~magnum12
- Captain Hammer ~ ManWithoutABody, Lost Lenore
- Kirihara Misaki ~ Phoenix Fire
- L ~ Braincogs, Carla
- Inspector Zengita ~ deeman45
- Team Unicorn ~ Lale
- Link ~ Miin U
- The Hero Dies
- The Death of Superman ~ Waxing Name, Doctor Rayman
- Gilgamesh. ~ The Nerdytimes
- Johnathon Joestar ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Joe Yabuki ~ Not Gonna Do A Lot 4
- Elin. - IúkaSylvie
- Heroes Love Dogs
- John Wick ~ Amuck Cricetine
- Hero Killer
- General Grievous...but only in Star Wars: Clone Wars ~ Prime 32
- Barbatos Goetia - Chris X
- Jack Noir. Just take a look at his kill list. - Shinji 117
- Lord Darcia. In the OVA that concludes the series, he either directly kills or indirectly causes the death of the entire cast - The Wanderer
- Syndrome. The list of heroes he's killed is enormous. ~ Marvel Girl
- Fuhrer Bradley, aka Wrath from Fullmetal Alchemist. I mean, holy crap. ~ deeman45
- Behemoth is explictly called this In-Universe, and boy does he deliver. ~ Vigil
- Doomsday. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Thanos, who manages to use the Infinity Stones to wipe out half of the universe's population, which includes several well-known heroes such as Spider-Man, Black Panther, The Falcon, Doctor Strange, and the majority of the Guardians of the Galaxy. Before that, he ends up personally killing a reformed Loki, Heimdall, Gamora, and Vision. While Heimdall and the Prime Timeline versions of Gamora and Loki are definitely Killed Off for Real, Vision comes back in some form. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Heroic Bastard
- Heroic BSoD
- Samus. Specifically, the Ridley scene. - phazonfarmer
- Melinda Sordino - thenameisbean
- Apollo Diomedes, and boy did he have it coming. Even though it was blatantly obvious to everyone but him (having spent the entirety of Chaos Rising in complete denial), the moment in Retribution when he finally learns the Chapter Master has fallen to chaos completely breaks him, to the point that when they end up on the Judgement of Carrion, he immediately orders his squad to hold position (because he has no more reason to live anymore). ~ Fireside
- Heroic Comedic Sociopath
- Belkar Bitterleaf: "I AM A SEXY SHOELESS GOD OF WAR!!" -Moviepyro
- Seconded. ~Mapi-chan
- Brock Samson, the Swedish murder machine. -Commander Cody
- Deadpool ~ Trombone Child, Doctor Rayman
- Sougo Okita
- Akutabe. ~ Monolaf317
- Belkar Bitterleaf: "I AM A SEXY SHOELESS GOD OF WAR!!" -Moviepyro
- Heroic Mime
- Gordon Freeman. ~Cameoflage
- Link ~ ManWithoutABody, Lost Lenore, Doctor Rayman
- Chrono ~ deeman45
- Issac and Felix, but only if they're the main character. ~ sardns
- Mario. ~ Jesska
- Pick any Suikoden game, excluding the Gaiden Games. ~ Clae
- Heroic RRoD
- Goku's condition after using the highest levels of Kaio-Ken in his battle against Vegeta. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Heroic Sacrifice
- The Bible ~ ManWithoutABody, Carla
- I am programmed to protect, and sacrifice if necessary. Omega Supreme, we hardly knew ye. ~ Latte
- Alphonse Elric ~ Lord Zorc
- Dinobot when he fought the entire Predicon force (that is Inferno, Black Arachnia, Waspinator, Rampage, Quickstrike, and Megatron), ALONE, and destroying the source of future informaton to prevent them from eradicating the ancestors of humanity, which would have resulted in the Decepticons defeating the Autobots in the future and winning the war. All while slowly being battered to the point of exhaustion. It's made better in his Be All My Sins Remembered speech/final words to his teammates. ~ slugboy
- Minato and Kushina very sad *Sob* ~ KantonKage
- Barry Allen in Crisis on Infinite Earths. His death stuck for 23 years! ~ Waxing Name
- We'll never forget you, Cole McGrath!- Gzillafan77
- "Hello, boys! I'M BAAAAAAACK!" Rest in peace, Russell Casse. ~ xxbiasonxxx
- "Witness me..." May you rest in peace, Nux. ~ xxbiasonxxx
- Obi-Wan Kenobi ~ dgenega5764
- Both Iron Man and Black Widow in Avengers: Endgame ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Heroic Second Wind
- Hero with an F in Good
- Itachi. Can his actions towards Sasuke be anymore deranged? ~ Catt, Sky Jumpin Mime
- Hero with Bad Publicity
- Marona. ~ Curtmack, Insanity Prelude
- Naofumi as a result of Myne's False Rape Accusation. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Batman. He's called "The Dark Knight" for a reason. ~ ManWithoutABody
- Saber, to the point where her entire country erupts into civil war and her own circle of knights backstabs her. ~ Blank Mage
- Spider-Man. ~ Doctor Rayman
- The X-Men. Every last one of them. ~ Gorank, Carla
- The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the '80s cartoon. ~ Surenity
- Vash the Stampede.
- He's Back!
- Godzilla vs. Destoroyah. And lo, crustaceous ass was kicked. ~ Man Without A Body
- Kaori Yae. ~ AceNoctali
- Spider-Man, towards the end of Spider-Man 2. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Het Is Ew
- South Park fanfiction. ~redhed311
- Death Note fanfiction. - Person Of Note
- Gundam Wing's yaoi fandom in a nutshell. ~ Miin U
- Heterosexual Life-Partners
- J.D. and Turk. They even sing a song called "Guy Love" in the Musical Episode. ~ Indigo12ash
- This. Everyone, everyone pales in comparison. ~ Excelion
- Yukari and Nyamo. ~ Mapi-chan, Carls493
- Louis, I think this might be the beginning of a beautiful friendship. ~ ManWithoutABody
- House and Wilson ~Seraphem, Voodoo Child, Carla
- Sam and Dean Winchester ~ TromboneChild
- Both Frodo and Sam and Legolas and Gimli from The Lord of the Rings. - AinuLaire
- Solid Snake and Otacon ~ Nirao 01
- Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John H. Watson ~ Vidocq, deeman45, SqueeneyTodd
- Vince Noir and Howard Moon.
- Seconded. Oh god seconded. ~ Me2
- Ikkaku and Yumichika of Bleach. —ncfan
- Fay D. Flourite and Kurogane ~ Zfish9
- You and your partner from the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series. ~ Cyber Tiger 88
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone (Real Life examples count, right?) ~ Gatotsu 911
- Miyuki and Natsumi ~ KantonKage
- Luke Cage and Danny Rand- Gzillafan77
- Astérix and Obélix. ~ Doctor Rayman
- J.D. and Turk. They even sing a song called "Guy Love" in the Musical Episode. ~ Indigo12ash
- He Who Fights Monsters
- Mad Max
- Magneto ~ Bazer 63
- Scar - IúkaSylvie
- The humans after they discover the Shiki's existence, especially Toshio Ozaki, who was willing to experiment on and kill his own wife. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Light Yagami ~ Stewie Griffin 34
- Hama - Demon Duckof Doom
- Hiding the Handicap
- Franklin D. Roosevelt was rendered paralyzed by polio before becoming President of the United States. Without the luxury of appearing weak and feeble to his political rivals or enemies abroad, he would give his speeches while seated at a desk, standing with support, or over radio. ~ superkeijikun
- Hidden Agenda Villain
- Alex. Three games and we still don't know what he's up to. ~ Yuihime
- Oh God, seconded beyond belief. Replaying all the games, you can start to see where all the pieces come into play for him—but WHAT THE HELL IS HE AFTER? ~ deeman45
- Hekate's Master. After seven years we still don't know what he/she/it is up to or who he is or even if he's human. ~ Marvel Girl
- Alex. Three games and we still don't know what he's up to. ~ Yuihime
- Hidden Villain
- The King of Sorrow ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- High-Class Call Girl
- Inara. ~ spacemonkey37
- High-Pressure Blood
- Highly-Visible Ninja
- ' NARUTO UZUMAKI!!!'
- Pick a Mortal Kombat ninja. Any Mortal Kombat ninja. ~Ingonyama
- Taki. ~ Mapi-chan
- Black*Star. "Do you even know what "assassination" is??" ~ Pheonee, PhoenixFire, deeman45, SqueeneyTodd, Vellophone, Troper49
- BEHOLD THE ALMIGHTY BLACK*STAR! YA-HOO!!! ~ Zfish9
- Mai Shiranui, drools. ~ Nirao 01
- The scene in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze where they get up on stage and dance with Vanilla Ice. ~ ManWithoutABody
- Sui-Féng. She talks about stealth, the author and official supplemental material swears she excels at it, but you'll never see it. Instead, she announces her presence, attacks head-on, and repeatedly explains how her powers work to her enemies. Miin U
- Volfogg. He's a giant purple transforming robot after all! (it doesn't get more highly-visible than that!) And yet, he's incredibly stealthy thanks his intelligent use of holographic projections and his Cloaking Device. ~ V Phantom
- BANG BANG BANG BAAAANG!! BANG DAMASHII!!! ~ Chris X
- Might Guy DYNAMIC ENTRY ~ KantonKage
- The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Gzillafan77
- Shen, the Eye of Twilight. A ninja whose playstyle revolves around charging people and taunting them, and being able to tank any hits that come his way. ~ Fireside
- High Turnover Rate:
- Wallachia has seen thirty-two voivodes in a single century in Vlad Drăculea. — IúkaSylvie
- Defence against the Dark Arts professors ~ Lady Blackwood
- Hijacked by Ganon
- Dr. Wily, doing so in about 8 different games. ~ Went
- Sigma ~ Bubblebath
- Wiel, and arguably in Mega Man ZX as Model W. ~ Psykosis
- Ganondorf, of course. ~ Progeny Ex Machina, ManWithoutABody, Carls493, 674J, Revaryk
- In Star Fox Adventures, Andross ~ deeman45, Doctor Rayman
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Zola and HYDRA. ~ Plactus
- "Sore mo watashi da!" - Euzeth Gozzo/Arteil Steinbeck ~ Fireside
- Dr. Wily, doing so in about 8 different games. ~ Went
- Hijacked by Jesus
- Hercules ~ 674J
- Hijacking Cthulhu
- Vilgax successfully absorbing and usurping Dagon. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Hikikomori
- Kiri Komori - cutest hikikomori ever. ~ Jordan
- Hidabat, aka Hikikōmori. ~ Monolaf317
- Hilariously Abusive Childhood
- Ranma Saotome, natch. ~ Sweet Firefly.
- How about Monkey D. Luffy? ~ Monolaf317
- Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Arnold Rimmer ~ Amuck Cricetine
- The Simpsons: Homer strangling Bart (or being in other ways physically abusive towards his son) is one of the most known running gags of the series and is almost always only Played for Laughs. ~ Triple J
- His Name Is...:
- Zelda is your... 30 years of debates have ensued over what Link's uncle meant to say. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Historical Beauty Update
- Vlad III and Mehmed II in Vlad Drăculea. — IúkaSylvie
- Historical Gender Flip
- Altria Pendragon. So much so that not only has she spawned quite the amount of similar character designs both in and out of Type-Moon, but she also paved the way for other examples within the franchise. ~ Fireside
- Historical Hero Upgrade
- While there's still debates on the issue, Alexander the Great can't exactly be considered a "hero." His counterpart Rider in Fate/Zero, however, is the closest the story gets to a complete good guy. Broskander indeed! ~ Ultimaneo
- Historical Villain Upgrade
- Salieri ~ Silence
- Um, Oda Nobunaga? He was a freakin' demon lord in the Onimusha games. ~ Willy Four Eyes
- Fate/stay night. I don't quite remember Gilgamesh as having the ability to whip out any weapon in existence, from anywhere, anytime he feels like it. ~ Blank Mage
- Vlad III Dracula ~ XanderCrews
- Richard III, Sparks Of The Tempest
- Grigori Rasputin. He may not have been a good person in real-life for sure, but he's frequently portrayed as straight-out villain or even Evil Sorcerer in pop-culture. It's often paired with Historical Badass Upgrade. ~ Triple J
- Hitbox Dissonance:
- Plesioth, otherwise known as "But I was standing five meters away from its legs!" ~ Luca Earlgrey
- The Hit Flash
- Batman (1966) ~ WilliamShakesman
- Hitman with a Heart
- Leon Montana ~ Amuck Cricetine
- Night Raid ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Hollywood Acid
- Meltdown's acid can melt through almost anything, including Autobots. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Hollywood Cyborg
- Ghost in the Shell ~prescience, ManWithoutABody
- RoboCop - ZiggyZag, Doctor Rayman
- Cyborg ~ Lady Blackwood
- Hollywood Drowning
- For a Most Triumphant Aversion, the art of AkiraDevilman666 does it so well. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Hollywood Satanism
- Homeworld Evacuation
- Grande's plans in Tweeny Witches — IúkaSylvie
- Honest Corporate Executive
- Honor Before Reason
- Luke Skywalker at the end of Return of the Jedi. ~ Kwijibo
- Adell, all the time. ~ Willy Four Eyes
- Goku ~ deeman45
- Seconded, especially when he gives a Senzu Bean to Cell just to make Gohan's fight with Cell "fair". ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Eddard Stark ~ Oberyn
- Samurai Jack ~ Minion
- Colonel ~ Ironcommando
- Shimura's idiotic penchant for Honor ~ Loekman 3
- Honorary Uncle
- Hook Hand
- The Best Years of Our Lives ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Captain Hook ~ WilliamShakesman
- Hope Bringer
- Samurai Jack ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Hopeless Boss Fight
- The first fight against Yggdrasil. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Horrifying the Horror
- Everytime Zombozo gets frightened himselfnote . ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- The Doctor has this reputation amongst all the space monsters out there. ~ Triple J
- Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
- Hospital Hottie
- Alex Price ~ RoseAndHeather
- Hellooooooo, Nurse!. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Chisato Hasegawa's the school nurse, who's got bedroom eyes and such a banging hot bod, that her nephew can't keep his hands off her. ~ Miin U
- Barbara Windsor in the Carry On... Series ~ WilliamShakesman
- Hot-Blooded
- The most hot blooded series in the history of ever: SUPER ROBOT WARS ~ DannyV_El_Acme
- Seconded! There are so many examples in this series (both Original Generation and otherwise) that the whole series counts! ~ Fireside
- Anime Tenchou's blood is so hot, he burns! ~ Willy Four Eyes
- Seconded. ~Mapi-chan
- Most of the men Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. ~ Pheonee
- Don't you mean "Everyone in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann"? ~Gamermaster
- Addendum: Everyone in Mobile Fighter G Gundam. ~ CelPrevXXVI
- BRIAN BLESSED! ~ ManWithoutABody
- Bang Shishigami ~ Lionheart0
- Guy Shishioh ~ Draco234
- Natsu Dragneel is all fired up ~ KantonKage
- Kouji Kabuto ~ SRW Fan
- RAMBO. ~ xxxEbbxxx
- Maverick from Top Gun. ~ EbbEbb
- LEEROOOOOOOY JENKINS!!!!!! ~ supersolid
- Kiyondo Ishida, as a fusion of two hot-blooded characters ~ rjd1922
- Naruto Uzumaki. ~ Doctor Rayman
- The most hot blooded series in the history of ever: SUPER ROBOT WARS ~ DannyV_El_Acme
- Hot-Blooded Sideburns
- Hot Gypsy Woman
- Hot Librarian
- Yomiko Readman. Next question. ~ Willy Four Eyes, Gfrequency
- Manaka Komaki. ~ Mapi-chan
- Evelyn Carnahan ~ ManWithoutABody
- Rider, surprisingly. ~ Blank Mage
- Barbara Gordon. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Hot Witch
- Atelia, more than 14 years before◊ the beginning of Tweeny Witches. - IúkaSylvie
- Bayonetta ~ Reyn Time 250
- A House Divided
- The Targaryens ~ Iridener
- Houseboat Hero
- Sonny Crockett ~ Amuck Cricetine
- Housepet Pig
- How the Mighty Have Fallen
- My name is Ozymandias, king of kings... - Whunt
- Howl of Sorrow
- Marianne Pearl (Angelina Jolie) in A Mighty Heart
- Rhonda in Blessed
- Hulking Out
- The trope namer. Top that. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Seconded. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- The trope namer. Top that. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Human Aliens
- Superman and co. ~ 2xN, Doctor Rayman
- Doctor Who has brought us the concept of the Time Lord and hundreds of others species identical the human race.- Completely Different
- Human Cannonball
- Humanoid Abomination
- The Slender Man ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Tomie - Demon Duckof Doom
- Humans Are the Real Monsters
- District 9 ~ ManWithoutABody, Gfrequency
- X-Men ~ KantonKage
- Elfen Lied ~ MisterMissy
- The Walking Dead Gzillafan77
- Seconded. Almost everyone in the series is a jerk. Even the protagonists. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Humiliation Conga
- Grings Kodai's drawn out and humiliating defeat, satisfying and well-deserved after everything he did to Crown City, Zorua and Zoroark, and Celebi. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Humongous Mecha
- At least Mega Maid wasn't voiced by someone who hated the movie and was only there for the money so he could finance Shakespeare productions. ~ ManWithoutABody
- Mazinger Z ~ SRW Fan
- BattleTech is this for Western culture. ~ RL Nice
- Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann ~ The_Biologist
- Power Rangers. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Hurricane of Euphemisms
- The Phallic Spaceship routine from Austin Powers 2 - WascallyWabbit, Insanity Prelude
- Much Ado About Nothing. Specifically, Don Pedro's "wit" speech. ~ ManWithoutABody
- He's not pining, he's passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! He's expired and gone to meet his maker! This is a late parrot! He's a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies! His metabolic processes are now history! He's off the twig! He's kicked the bucket, he's shuffled off his mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-PARROT! ~ Five-seveN-25
- Hurricane of Puns
- Xanth. - trimeta
- Seconded ~ Zfish9
- Any time Groucho Marx speaks ~ Man Without A Body
- Elan ~ deeman45
- Dominic Deegan
- Steve Patterson's intros on The Debaters ~sinesofinsanity
- House of Mouse. The show nearly runs on puns. - Physical Stamina
- Asterix. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Pokémon names. ~ Tropers/Quartia
- Xanth. - trimeta
- The Hunter Becomes the Hunted
- Elmer Season ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Hyde Plays Jekyll
- Yami Bakura is able to act like the real Bakura so convincingly, it's rather scary. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Hyper Active Metabolism
- Booker DeWitt. Food in the trash? Food on a corpse? Om nom nom. ~ Trogdor
- The Legend of Zelda, particularly with Breath of the Wild. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Hyper-Competent Sidekick
- Penny and Brain to Inspector Gadget, to the point that they're the ones actually carrying out his missions. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Gromit ~ Azorius 24
- Hyperspace Arsenal
- Turok 2. Artman 40
- Archer and his Golden predecessor. ~ Blank Mage
- Erza Scarlet. ~ EmbracingShadows
- Link. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Hyperspace Mallet
- Amy Rose ~ Bowbowis
- Seconded. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Amy Rose ~ Bowbowis
- Hyperspace Is a Scary Place
- "The Jaunt" by Stephen King. ~ Blank Mage, ZiggyZag
- Warhammer 40,000 ~ KillerClowns
- Event Horizon ~ Gfrequency
- No, no, no, light speed is too slow! We're gonna have to go right to... Ludicrous Speed! ~ Five-seveN-25
- Hypnotic Creature
- ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD ~ Amuck Cricetine
- Hypocrite:
- Emma Nelson ~pocksuppet1
- GLaDOS. Chell's Heroic Mime status is the only thing keeping her for calling GLaDOS out on this. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Dutch van der Linde ~Kuchiki222
- Hypocritical Humor
- Casablanca: "I am shocked - shocked! - to find gambling going on in this establishment." "Your winnings, sir." "Thank you." - DoctorWorm, ManWithoutABody, Decaf Grub 47393
- Gentlemen! You can't fight in here! This is the war room! - ZiggyZag, deeman45
- Super Smash Bros. for Wii U: Viridi in Palutena's Guidance claims that there is no need for clones, despite there being three Moveset Clones on the roster. This has spiked anger among the fanbase. - Dark Elf Princess
- I'm on your side, you fucking idiots! How many of you do I have to kill before you understand that?! ~ Five-seveN-25
I
- I Am Big Boned
- Obélix. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Being called "fat" is one of Chōji Akimichi's Berserk Buttons. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Eric Cartman — WilliamShakesman
- Manny the Mammoth. He's not fat, it's all that fur... It makes him look poofy! ~ Triple J
- I Am Not Left-Handed
- Augus using Wailing Dark during his fight with Asura. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- "I Am" Song
- Shadow the Hedgehog's main theme "I Am (All of Me)". It averages one utterance of "I am" every 4.2 seconds of it's 3:41 run time for Christ's sake! ~Bowbowis
- I Am Spartacus
- Spartacus. Duh — WilliamShakesman
- I Ate WHAT?!
- Soylent Green ~ foxmccloud4387
- The incident with the cookies in ''Shimoneta. ~ CelPrevXXVI
- Seconded! ~ Fireside
- I Banged Your Mom
- "No. That would be your mother!" ~ Fireside
- I Can't Believe a Guy Like You Would Notice Me
- Sawako, of course. ~ EmbracingShadows
- Hinata's reaction to Naruto's confession in The Last: Naruto the Movie. ~ Doctor Rayman
- I Choose to Stay
- Klinger from the M*A*S*H finale. ~colBoh
- Gonzo in Muppets from Space. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Aden and Sonja choosing to stay in the future ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- I Coulda Been a Contender!
- On the Waterfront. WilliamShakesman
- Seconded. Decaf Grub 47393
- On the Waterfront. WilliamShakesman
- I Fell for Hours
- Loki in Thor: Ragnarok: "I have been falling for thirty minutes!" ~ Doctor Rayman
- I Hate Past Me
- Archer to Shirou. "Drown in your ideals and die!" ~ spacemonkey37
- Seconded. When you play Xanatos Speed Chess to make sure you can kill your past self, it is hard not to hit this trope - Just a Username
- Karkat. ~ Twin Bird
- When you have extended arguments over time-traveling chat program with your past self, you've definitely hit this trope. ~ Insanity Prelude
- Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear's reaction towards another Buzz who has the same personality the former had in the first movie. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Johnny Cage. "Ugh, he's gonna get us killed..." ~ Five-seveN-25
- Riku really dislikes what he's done in the first game, best shown in his interactions with Dark Rikunote in Kingdom Hearts III. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Archer to Shirou. "Drown in your ideals and die!" ~ spacemonkey37
- I Hate You, Vampire Dad
- Interview with the Vampire ~ TrouserWearingBarbarian
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel ~ TromboneChild, Voodoo Child
- I Have No Son!
- "I should never have given birth to you." ~ Monolaf317
- "Oh, great. We came all this way and it's the wrong guy." "I didn't mean that literally!" ~ Doctor Rayman
- Stoick towards Hiccup in How to Train Your Dragon (2010). ~ Five-seveN-25
- I Just Want to Be Normal
- Haruka Kotoura, I feel your pain. *sniff* ~ aNinjaWithAIDS
- Spider-Man. ~ Doctor Rayman
- I Just Want to Be Special
- Sylar ~ Kundoo
- Hajime Hinata/Izuru Kamakura. Never has one's desire to be special led to so much suffering. ~ Fireside
- Seconded. Be Careful What You Wish For. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- I Know You Know I Know
- The Doctor and the Master in "The Curse of Fatal Death", bonus points for both sides using time machines to further complicate matters.
- He tops even that in "Let's Kill Hitler", which is canon. ~ Embracing Shadows
- This Nedroid comic. ~ Zetta Toad
- Death Note ~ Octavios
- This little exchange between Captain Amazing and Casanova Frankenstein in Mystery Men. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
Captain Amazing: Your first night of freedom, and you blow up the asylum. Interesting choice. I knew you couldn't change.
Casanova Frankenstein: I knew you'd know that.
Captain Amazing: Oh I know that. And I knew you'd know I'd know you knew.
Casanova Frankenstein: But I didn't. I only knew that you'd know that I knew. Did you know that?
Captain Amazing: (Beat) Of course. - The Doctor and the Master in "The Curse of Fatal Death", bonus points for both sides using time machines to further complicate matters.
- "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight
- Luke vs. Darth Vader in Return of the Jedi. It's even already the page quote for the trope! ~hedwig123
- I Love the Dead
- Tsukiko ~ I_love_dragons
- I Need to Go Iron My Dog
- Better Off Dead for the sheer ridiculousness of it: "You see, the problem here is... is that my little brother, this morning, got his arm caught in the microwave and... and uh... my grandmother dropped acid and she freaked out and hijacked a school bus full of... penguins, so it's kinda a family crisis. So come back later? Great!" ~Bowbowis
- I have to go... shuck some corn. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Magnolia when she learns she was mistaken about Yew's kindness in giving her the flower. To elaborate, receiving a flower on the moon is a marriage proposal, so she thought Yew was proposing to her. Once she realizes the mistake, an embarrassed Magnolia leaves stating she needs to go check on Commander Goodman. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- I Shall Taunt You
- Terry McGinnis taunting the Joker over his obsession with Batman, actually getting under the villain's skin and driving him into a Villainous Breakdown. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Wulfrik the Wanderer, whose gift of tongues allows him to craft insults that are so offensive that the recipient will be compelled to duel him. And he can do it in almost any language! ~ Fireside
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
- Daidouji Tomoyo ~ Carla
- Judeau ~ Kinesthesia
- The main cast of Toradora!. ~ AceNoctali
- The Phantom of the Opera ~ Lale
- Heck. ~ Gfrequency
- Rumy. ~ Kirayoshi
- Angelica Schuylar in Hamilton. "I know my sister like I know my own mind, you will never find anyone as trusting or as kind. If I tell her that I love him she'd be silently resigned, he'd be mine. She would say "I'm fine". SHE'D BE LYING!" ~ EmmandKillian
- Back to the Future; although things could change in four years, it's not likely. The Thnikkaman
- Mutsumi Otohime. She purposefully threw a chance to make a Childhood Marriage Promise with the man she loved so that another girl could be with him, and continued to be a Shipper on Deck even after the other girl forgot the promise. ~ Gamermaster
- Now that's a prayer. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Iaijutsu Practitioner
- Ice-Cream Koan
- "This cosmic dance of bursting decadence and withheld permissions twists all our arms collectively. But, if sweetness can win, and it can, then I'll still be here tomorrow to high-five you yesterday my friend. Peace." Said by The Royal Tart Toter. It makes the list because it was the freakiest moment in Adventure Time. And that's saying something. ~ JamesEM73
- Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is a jar.
- "What is so hot it's cool, but is so cool it's hot?" ~ Doctor Rayman
- "Pop-Tarts?" "IT'S NOT POP TARTS!!!!"
- DARKNESS IS LIGHT'S LIGHT OF DARKNESS AS A DARK FAREWELL TO DARK LIGHTNESS. ~ Five-seveN-25
- An Ice Person
- Esdeath ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Princess Elsa — WilliamShakesman
- Iceman ~ Smashman2893
- Iconic Item
- The Scarf. That is all. ~ Aela, Gfrequency
- The Fez ~ Pastylover2
- The Hat. ~ Buyn
- Indy's hat. ~ SG_Man_Forever
- Mario's hat. (Lots of hats here, huh?) ~ Zetta Toad
- Captain America's Shield- Gzillafan77
- Jason's hockey mask. ~ Five-seveN-25
- The Omnitrix ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- The Scarf. That is all. ~ Aela, Gfrequency
- Iconic Sequel Character
- Jason Voorhees. Minor character in the first film. Big Bad in all the rest. ~ NotGonnaDoALot4
- Idiot Ball
- Peter Petrelli. ~ Jesska
- The Investigation Team, Detective Dojima, and Taro Namatame from Persona 4. It's hard to pick which one is the worst offender. ~ Aspie
- What's the worst case of the Idiot Ball? I'm not entirely sure. ~ Gzillafan77, Five-seveN-25
- Idiot Hero
- Gourry Gabriev ~ Willy Four Eyes, MetalShadowX
- Naruto. ~ Blank Mage
- Ben Hawkins. ~ "That boy just ain't too bright, is he?" ~ Voodoo Child
- Monkey D. Luffy. ~ Lionheart 0
- Homestar Runner ~ ManWithoutABody
- Daisuke/Davis Motomiya ~ deeman45
- Luke fon Fabre ~ Clae
- Phillip J. Fry ~ Carla, Quackor The Fowl
- Son Goku ~ Yarrik
- Coop. He's destroyed two planets by accident. ~ ZecoreZecron
- Natsu Dragneel ~ KantonKage
- The (In Name Only) Avatar ~ Gzillafan77
- Seconded. "What's... a paladin? FUCK. YOUUUU!" ~ Five-seveN-25
- Homer Simpson. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Akihisa Yoshii ~ rjd1922
- Idol Singer
- Morning Musume ~ AnimeOtaku
- Envy Adams ~ Quackor The Fowl
- Lynn Minmay, the original anime Idol Singer ~ xxbiasonxxx
- The Squid Sisters. ~ Doctor Rayman
- If It's You, It's Okay
- The final line of Some Like It Hot. ~ Judas Jurgen
- Archer: Ray Gillette being willing to sleep with Lana Kane, all while saying "Nobody's that gay." ~ Doctor Rayman
- If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!
- Batman and the Joker ~ Mc Caber, ManWithoutABody, Voodoo Child, Doctor Rayman
- Luke Skywalker and Emperor Palpatine. ~ Lionheart0, deeman45
- Ignored Epiphany
- Demona of Gargoyles ("What have I... what have they done?!") ~ Lale, Joie De Combat
- I can't imagine a more archetypical example than Major General Schieffenzahn's in The Case of Sergeant Grischa (which is the MTE for What Have I Become? too). ~ Vasha
- Freeza of Dragon Ball Z Abridged. ~ mysterykcad
- The ending of The Nostalgia Critic's review of How the Grinch Stole Christmas! ~ Doctor Rayman
- Ikea Erotica:
- Immoral Journalist:
- Soji Mizumi. ~ NotGonnaDoALot4
- Immortal Assassin:
- I'll Kill You!
- "I'm going to kill you... And then kill you again!" ~ Five-seveN-25
- Snake to Ace, when the latter gloats over how he murdered Clover ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- I'm Melting!
- Toht melts right down to his skull in one of the goriest scenes in a PG rated film. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- I'm Taking Her Home with Me!!
- Rena "HAUUUU! OMOCHIKAERI~!" Ryuuguu ~ RayAyanami
- Seco— Rena! Put Hanyuu down! again! ~ Zfish9
- Thirded ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Elmyra ~ Carla, Doctor Rayman
- Rena "HAUUUU! OMOCHIKAERI~!" Ryuuguu ~ RayAyanami
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
- Anthy Himemiya in the last episode of Revolutionary Girl Utena. ~mrbits, Sky Jumpin Mime
- In Naruto, Pain impales everyone. ~ stevobread
- Implacable Man
- Anton Chigurh ~ Firestorm
- Broly. ~Rayne Cyro
- Ichigo Kurosaki at least twice per arc. ~ KantonKage
- Ryoga Hibiki has: been smashed through concrete walls without injury, left swaths of destruction in his wake by charging into trees headfirst, and he's crossed entire continents by tunneling underground for days on end, without rest - ALL in his relentless pursuit to find Ranma and exact his revenge. ~ Miin U
- Shrike. Even getting run over by a mobile city only proved to be a minor inconvenience. ~ cosmatonspoon
- Implied Love Interest
- Ilia. Twilight Princess bludgeons you with so many implications, that they may as well just come out and say she's Link's girlfriend. ~ Miin U
- Kyoko Kirigiri and Chiaki Nanami to Makoto Naegi and Hajime Hinata respectively. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Impossible Theft
- Edge Geraldine stealing Dark Matter from Zeromus. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Carmen Sandiego. ~ Smokie, Deeman45, Telcontar
- Thief. Steals anything that is not nailed down and on fire. Note the emphasis in both "anything" and "and". This includes, but is not limited to, secrets, a soul in a sacred orb and his own Class Change from the future. ~ Metalitia DrMcNinja
- Seconded. Note that he's smart enough to steal the nails, if necessary. And that he can probably steal the fire. ~ Ionz
- Aye, thirded. ~ King of the Mime Swing
- Keyser Soze ~ ManWithoutABody, Carla
- Eugenides. Steals mythical treasures, people, and world peace. ~ Ev Carey
- The Thief from The Thief and the Cobbler. He picks his own pocket, steals the three golden balls from inside a giant death machine as it explodes, and steals the film the movie is made on. ~ SG_Man_Forever
- Kitty Softpaws in Puss in Boots and its sequel. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Impossibly Cool Weapon
- All the Drills in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. Trust me on this one. ~ Lord Zorc
- 99% of all Humongous Mecha ~mrbits
- The Monado. ACool Laser Bladed BFS of Combat Clairvoyance and Plot Advancement with a sealed evil god. ~Elbruno
- Just about every weapon from RWBY. ~Jboone 93
- Cloud's Fusion Sword. It looks like a BFS, but it's actually a set of 6 interlocking blades that can separated and reconfigured to adapt to the user's needs; from dual wielding, to launching them like laser-guided boomerangs. ~ Miin U
- Impossibly Tacky Clothes
- The Sixth Doctor. Full stop. ~ Aela
- Seconded. ~ Me2
- Effie Trinket. Hell, all of 'em in Capitol. ~ AgentKyles
- The Sixth Doctor. Full stop. ~ Aela
- Improbable Aiming Skills
- The Adventures of Dr. McNinja's The Flying Shooting Juan: -Haven
- Legolas ~ ManWithoutABody
- Seconded. ~ Me2
- Bullseye. ~ Blank Mage
- Vash the Stampede ~ PhoenixFire
- Rushuna Tendo ~ Marvel Girl
- Lockon Stratos the first one ~ Nirao 01
- Riza Hawkeye ~ aeroplanejelly
- Erron Black. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Improbable Hairstyle
- Dill from Stickin' Around. I think even by anime standards, that type of hairstyle would be considered out of the ordinary. ~ DBAce9Aura
- Bill◊. Just... Bill. His hair is like a real like version of Axel. ~ SG_Man_Forever
- Marge Simpson anyone? ~redhed311, Doctor Rayman
- Improbable Weapon User
- Shovel Knight, in spades. - Argo the Blank
- Improbably Female Cast
- Strawberry Panic! ~prescience
- Azumanga Daioh. ~Mapi-chan
- Lucky Star. ~ Carls493
- Small Favors for having crowd scenes in a supposedly normal city that show only young attractive females. ~ C Banana
- There is no Pink Shoujo Ghetto, only Touhou Project. ~ Kalle
- How about Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha? ~ DAN004
- The entire cast of Girls und Panzer. ~ CelPrevXXVI
- Improvised Weapon
- The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction ~Pikawil
- Straw Dogs (1971). The window was impressive, but the mantrap was terrifying. ~ ManWithoutABody
- Jason Bourne. ~ Neep, deeman45, D Roy
- Chun Li used her bedroom lamp and her couch to defend herself against Vega's claw. ~ Miin U
- Noir - Kirika has used her I.D card, and the axel of a toy truck as weapons. - lmd_84
- Jackie Chan ~ neobowman, Doctor Rayman
- Nirao 01 agrees.
- Thirded, at least for his animated counterpart. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- MacGyver. Holy crap MacGyver. ~ JoeMoron2000, Carla
- Bullseye. He can kill you with his own teeth. ~Craverguy
- Dwarf Fortress, Adventure Mode. "I just killed a Bronze Colossus, and you'll never guess how..." ~ Yuihime, Insanity Prelude
- Harry Dresden once redirected a curse in such a manner that he killed a vampire via a frozen turkey. ~digiman619
- Incredibly Long Note
- Four words: Bells of Notre Dame. ~darkpit06
- The end of the title song in The Phantom of the Opera ~ Lady Blackwood
- Incubi and Succubi
- In Love with Love
- Don Juan DeMarco's titular character defines this trope. - Sharklady35
- Pepé Le Pew from the Looney Tunes. ~ Doctor Rayman
- In Name Only
- I, Robot would have been a much better movie if they called it "Will Smith Beats Up Robots" ~ McCaber
- Starship Troopers, without question. This is what happens when you decide you utterly loathe the original and turn the movie into a ham-fisted parody of the book. ~ Alsadius
- Starship Troopers, without question. This is what happens when you decide you utterly loathe the original and turn the movie into a brilliant satire on a shitty book. It is, indeed, most triumphant. ~ ManWithoutABody
- The Fox and the Hound. I know it's Disney, but what the everloving fuck - how do you turn a documentary-style novel about hunting lore and natural history that lets you read the animal characters' languageless thoughts into a talking animals musical about racism? HOW?! ~Sparky Lurkdragon
- The Catwoman (2004)..."thing" people call a movie. What the hell, Warner Bros.? ~ Willy Four Eyes, Doctor Rayman
- Dragonball Evolution ~ Mrbits, Carla
- "Deadpool" in X-Men Origins: Wolverine ~ Pikawil
- Sonic Underground ~ Carls493
- WWE, these days. ~ Surenity
- Mario's Time Machine ~ deeman45
- The Animated Adaptation of Wayside School ~ Lale
- Ultima IX ~ Gzillafan77
- Seconded. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Thirded. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- The live-action Earthsea adaptation. ~ King of the Mime Swing
- IDW Star Saber. And not in a good way. ~ Fireside
- In the End, You Are on Your Own:
- Spec Ops: The Line: Not only are your friends not there, your enemy isn't really there either. ~ Trogdor
- Incendiary Exponent
- As much as this troper loves Jack Skellington's performance during This Is Halloween, she has to give the prize to Rocky Rickaby. Are you questioning his logic? ~ PumpkinLore
- Oh, shit; Godzilla's on fire. ~ ManWithoutABody
- That guy who comes the fuck out of nowhere running through the tunnels on fire in Gaston Lereux's original Phantom of the Opera novel. - ZiggyZag
- The fate of Boatmurdered ~ Yuihime
- Don't you forget Dan McNinja. ~ The Nerdytimes
Dan McNinja: They can't catch me if I'm on fire. - Incest Yay Shipping:
- Incoming Ham
- TEN THOUSAND YEARS WILL GIVE YOU SUCH A CRICK IN THE NECK!!! ~ Deranged Genius
- GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD MOOOOOOORNNNINGGGGGGGGG IIIIIIIIIIIIIICCCHHHHIIIIIIGGGGGOOOOOOO!!!!!!! ~ Zfish9
- District 9. Hey, let's go to MNU. ~ ManWithoutABody
- And, of course, Indiana Jones. - AinuLaire
- Jack Sparrow
- That's ''Captain'' Jack Sparrow! ~ Psykosis
- Ciaphas Cain. ~ AceNoctali
- Prepare for trouble! ~ Todbot1
- Make it double! ~ Doctor Rayman
- MISTER PILGRIM!!!! ~ Aspie
- I HAVE FOUND YOU AT LAST! THE DEFILERS WHO ARE CAUSING... THE DISTORTION OF SPACE! ~ Cyber Tiger 88
- Harbinger is ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL! ~ spacemonkey37
- Gai Dynamic Entry ~ KantonKage
- Ladd Russo: "THANK YOU! FUCK YOU! THE STAR IS HERE!!" ~ Person Of Note
- FAAATHEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRR! ~ Camroc G
- You know NOTHING, fool! It's CHAOS, the GOD of DESTRUCTION!! ~ Five-seveN-25
- Ira Gamagoori: I'M HERE ON OFFICIAL BUSINESS! ~ iPhoenix26
- Incorruptible Pure Pureness
- Stephanie Brown is easily the happiest and most hopeful hero to join the Bat-legacy EVER ~ sinesofinsanity
- Obi-Wan Kenobi. The amount of crap he goes through gives him way more reason to join the dark side than any character in the franchise, canon or legends, but he stays good the whole time ~ Shining Crimson Zero
- Amberlynn Weggers. ~ Monolaf317
- Indirect Kiss
- Black Lagoon (Episode 7) ~ JethroQWalrustitty
- Pushing Daisies — Chuck and Ned's entire relationship is built on these ~ Sparkysharps
- Poor Rogue... ~ Carla, Doctor Rayman
- Captain Tsubasa - Hyûga and Maki sharing a Coca-Cola can. Remember that Maki earlier berated Hyûga, an athlete, for drinking Cola regulary. ~ AceNoctali
- Ineffectual Death Threats
- Heero Yuy ~ Carla
- Seconded, because deified. ~ CelPrevXXVI
- Heero Yuy ~ Carla
- Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
- Team Rocket ~ Crowley
- Joel Cairo. Or really, anyone played by Peter Lorre. ~ ManWithoutABody
- Well, anybody played by Peter Lorre except in M. ~ Marvel Girl
- Johnny Sasaki ~ Nirao 01
- Toad ~ Carla
- Ika Musume. ~ Embracing Shadows
- Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Inelegant Blubbering
- HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY! ~ King of the Mime Swing
- One Piece ~ Gamermaster
- Any time Sylvester Stallone cries. Especially in Rocky III and First Blood. ~ Saberwulf 2018
- Inept Mage
- Rincewind ~ spacemonkey37
- Aunt Clara ~ thecarolinabull01
- Inevitable Waterfall
- The Emperor's New Groove ~Geoduck, Insanity Prelude, Doctor Rayman
- "Bring it on." ~ Marvel Girl
- BOOO-YAAAAAAAH!!!! ~ deeman45
- That Far Side cartoon where they're singing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" ~ ManWithoutABody
- The Adventures of Milo and Otis ~ Surenity
- The Emperor's New Groove ~Geoduck, Insanity Prelude, Doctor Rayman
- Infinite Canvas
- xkcd strip 1110. Words fail. - Kyle Jacobs, Insanity Prelude
- Inner Monologue Conversation
- Dad has this for pretty much every conversation characters have. Not only can people still communicate with them through normal speech, but certain characters can switch back-and-forth on command, and Dad will speak to everyone from Cheryl to the audience themselves just using his thoughts. ~War Jay 77
- Innocent Bigot
- Judy Hopps, which is what causes her Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure with Nick. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Innocently Insensitive
- Joy to the other emotions. Joy is forced to realize eventually that her innocent selfishness is causing more harm than good to Riley. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Insane Equals Violent
- Anytime someone suffers from the Hate Plague in Higurashi: When They Cry ~ Zfish9
- The Joker ~ Lady Blackwood
- Insane Troll Logic
- 8-Bit Theater's Red Mage, and he's damn proud of it. I'll let Black Mage sum up one of his plans: "So, you want us to build something that's the size of everything using nothing. TWICE. That is quite literally the least practical plan put together by an allegedly thinking creature."~ Hatchet, DrMcNinja, Insanity Prelude
- Carl from Llamas with Hats. ~ Monolaf317
- Hiro's justification as to why Kyoko is a ghost despite the fact she is still in the same room alive and well: ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
Hiro: Well that's just because... she's like the latest evolution in ghost technology!
Byakuya: There's a limit to how much ridiculousness I can tolerate... - Insistent Terminology
- Locke's not a thief, he's a treasure hunter. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Inspector Javert
- Lt. Carter Blake. ~ DeathNoteFan
- Accept None but the Original.- Gradiant
- Instrumentals
- Rush's "YYZ". ~Cassandra Leo
- Instant Expert
- The Berserker of Fate/Zero has the ability Knight Of Honor, which stipulates that an honorable knight will not die unarmed. To wit, he is considered not only proficient in any weapon he wields, but any object which could conceivably be used offensively is treated as his favorite weapon, which he has been training with for his entire life. This includes mythical swords of legendary heroes, street signs, fighter jets, and miniguns ripped out of the jet he was just piloting. Shishkahuben
- Insult Backfire
- Harper Finkle. Doesn't get much more "triumphant" than rewiring your brain so that any and all insults come off as compliments. ~ Aspie
- Every single time The Joker is called crazy, insane, or any other related terms, and takes it as a compliment. ~ Doctor Rayman
- "Even your name is stupid!" "At least I have my own identity!" ~ Five-seveN-25
- This little exchange in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
Commodore James Norrington: You are without a doubt the worst pirate I've ever heard of!
Captain Jack Sparrow: But you have heard of me. - Insurmountable Waist-Height Fence
- VVVVVV. Doing Things The Hard Way. Six screens of dodging spikes coming and going, all to get over a single roadblock no higher than your character's knee ~ Ignifer, Stark1111
- Pretty much the only way to train range or use magic for combat in Runescape ~ Zfish9
- Golden Sun. Apparently there is no way to step over those ankle-high rocks... ~ Yuihime
- "There are ants at your feet. You might accidentally step on them, so please don't continue in that direction." ~ Zetta Toad
- Many instances of this happening in the Pokémon games. ~ Doctor Rayman
- "This flimsy waist-high wooden barricade'll stop 'em." ~ Five-seveN-25
- Dark Souls II. You travel to the corners of the world and down into its blackest depths to slay four of the most powerful and ancient beings in existence in order to collect their souls... to be able to detour 50m off the path leading to Drangleic Castle because a pillar collapsed across it. ~ Arcane Azmadi
- Intentionally Awkward Title
- Songs About Fucking ~ Cassandra Leo
- Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt. Yeah. Still more innocent than the names of the OST. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Interactive Narrator
- Into the Woods. Hey, your narrator can't be more interactive than when you can pull him into the story and have him killed. ~ Animenutcase
- The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. ~ Doctor Rayman
- The Stanley Parable. "Sorry, but you're in my story now." ~ Five-seveN-25
- Intercourse with You
- Intergenerational Friendship
- Intermission
- RRR (2022) had an "InteRRRval" in its theatrical screenings. The audience went wild at that moment. ~ Dominicmgm
- 2001: A Space Odyssey put the intermission right after The Reveal that HAL 9000 can read lips. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Into the Woods. ~ Tropers/Quartia
- Internal Reveal
- Guilty Gear: "W-Wait. Of course...How did I not realize sooner. Dizzy is Justice's daughter, so that would make...No...I don't believe it! Sol, that would make you my father in-KY!" *cue Skyward Screams from both of them. ~ Fireside
- International Showdown by Proxy
- Rocky Balboa v. Ivan Drago, AKA USA v. USSR ~ NotGonnaDoALot4
- Interservice Rivalry
- Intimidating Revenue Service: The song "Taxman" by The Beatles. ~SWF Max
- Intoxication Ensues
- Intrepid Reporter
- Lois Lane ~ WilliamShakesman
- Invaded States of America
- Modern Warfare 2 American campaigns. ~ D Roy
- Invincible Boogeymen
- The Alien. See The Dreaded on the Triumphant Examples listed under D for more details. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Invincible Hero
- Invincible Minor Minion
- Servbots, full stop (Miss Tron!). May also be double-booked for Mecha-Mooks. ~ AndyWaltfeld, Willy Four Eyes
- Gordo - TheHeroHartmut
- Orne. Don't think, just run. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Invincible Villain
- The Sigma 6 version of Cobra Commander. Seriously, the fact that he defeats Duke in combat, survives a powerful Wave-Motion Gun, and even manages to escape justice every time, he almost feels like the G.I. Joe equivalent to Yuki Terumi. ~ Saberwulf 2018
- Yuuki Terumi. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Yhwach, who had so many Story Breaker Powers that it took a method that was barely, if at all, foreshadowed for the good guys to even get a victory at all. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Invoked Trope
- Irish Priest
- Father Ted ~ Amuck Cricetine
- Iron Butt Monkey
- SCP-682. Lives in a container full of hydrochloric acid, and let out only when the Foundation mistakenly thinks they have a way to kill it. adding
- Wile E. Coyote. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Ironic Nursery Tune
- Once upon a time, there was a pretty fly... ~ ManWithoutABody
- Zagreus sits inside your head. Zagreus lives among the dead. Zagreus sees you in your bed and eats you while you're sleeping. ~ Voodoo Child
- Irritation Nightmare
- Mikoto Misaka's dream of being Misaki Shokuhou's maid. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Is It Something You Eat?
- Oh, Goku... ~ Carla
- Oh, Goku... ~ Sylvia Viridian
- Suu. ~ Psykosis
- Oh, Goku... ~ Carla
- Is That What He Told You?
- Is This Thing Still On?
- It Amused Me:
- Death Note, All of it. thousands of deaths and greatest battle of minds between criminal and detective ever, all of it For the Lulz of one bored shinigami. - NNinja
- Seconded. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Death Note, All of it. thousands of deaths and greatest battle of minds between criminal and detective ever, all of it For the Lulz of one bored shinigami. - NNinja
- It Makes Sense in Context
- "Haruhi then rode me like a horse, putting me in the mount position." ~ Quackor The Fowl
- The opening scene of the Cotton Drifting Arc in the Higurashi anime. ~ Marlee Cross
- Doctor Who. Someone died and came back to life as a Roman. Fish and Sharks that can fly and can be controlled by singing. A race of evil robots randomly try to help Britain win the war and serve soldiers tea. ~Trogdor
- Just about anything said during a Stand battle in Jojos Bizarre Adventure. ~ mystery_kcad
- "Scorpions, what is wrong with you? Stop hiding in bananas in Pittsburg area Wal-Marts, get your shit together, and fight terrorism like snakes and bees!" ~ Five-seveN-25
- It Runs on Nonsensoleum
- Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt ~ KantonKage
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ~ mystery_kcad
- It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
- Rand al'Thor from The Wheel of Time. Go on, read the intro of that page. There are maybe two negative points he doesn't get in any way shape or form. ~ Catt.
- Aang. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Both Colette and Zelos, especially when the party discovers the truth about what becomes of the Chosen and how it affects both worlds. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- It Was Here, I Swear!
- Phineas and Ferb- Poor, Poor Candace. ~hedwig123
- The whole premise of One Froggy Evening. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Item Crafting
- The Rune Factory series. While in most games Item Crafting is simply some side thing you don't have to bother with, here the Item Crafting system is incredibly deep and central to the game, tying the farming and dungeon aspects together very nicely. ~ Cliché, Willy Four Eyes
- Infinite Undiscovery. ~ Rushi
- Atelier Series is this trope ~ Clae
- It's a Wonderful Failure
- Missile Command. After seeing "THE END" as a kid I was scared batshit to play it again for years. ~ RayAyanami
- Banjo-Kazooie ~ JasonPaul, Doctor Rayman
- The Light and the Dark. You don't want to know what happens to those children before your eyes... - ZiggyZag
- "But... The future refused to change." ~ Cyber Tiger 88
- BlazBlue's many endings. Hell, in Continuum Shift's arcade, even if Hazama gets torn to pieces, The Bad Guy Wins. ~ Five-seveN-25
- It's All About Me
- Gilgamesh ~ spacemonkey37
- The Miz
- GAZ.
- Daffy Duck. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Mabel Pines ~ Loekman 3
- Akio Ohtori is the living embodiment of pure selfishness, willing to let his own sister stay a Silent Scapegoat forever just so that he can escape the pain of taking the countless Swords of Hate. Even Kai Chisaki/Overhaul from My Hero Academia cares about his old boss enough to try to repay him by getting their dying Yakuza syndicate back to power no matter what he has to do. - IúkaSylvie
- Bloo ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Dr. Weil. This utter bastard believes that he doesn't deserve his rightful punishment for starting a war that destroyed 90% of all Reploids and 60% of all humans! And why did he even start this war? Becase he - and he alone - believes that Replois deserve to be slaves to humans! What a dick... ~ beeruckzII
- It's All Upstairs From Here
- Tartarus. Sweet mercy, Tartarus. ~ Stark 1111
- If the idea was to fatigue you as much as it does the characters, then it was certainly successful. ~ King of the Mime Swing
- Ganon's Castle. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Tartarus. Sweet mercy, Tartarus. ~ Stark 1111
- It's Personal with the Dragon:
- John Matrix vs. Bennett ~ Saberwulf 2018
- "Hello. My Name Is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to Die." ~ Progeny Ex Machina
- "We're both professional. This personal" ~ WilliamShakesman
- Usalia's grudge against Majorita in Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Darth Vader. Who cares for the Emperor? ~ Triple J