This is simply what you think is the (not some of the, the) best example of any objective trope (so no YMMV or Trivia as they are not tropes proper and the former is already subjective) The "Crowning Example" if you will.
There could be several reasons you think an example is the best.
- You think it's the best in terms of illustrating the trope.
- You think it's the most well done.
- It's your favorite play in that trope.
- You just really like the source material.
Oh, several things before you list examples:
- Each troper gets one example per trope, no more.
- Don't go "no, this is," or phrases like that. This is about our own personal favorites.
- Sign your entries.
Please list tropes alphabetically.
- Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors
- Fire Emblem's weapon triangle ~ AxeFighterBarst, Zfish9, Doctor Rayman
- The war segments in the Suikoden series uses a a similar weapons triangle. ~ Miin U
- Take My Hand!
- Take Over the World
- All hail Doctor Steel! ~ Jonny B
- The Brain, of course. ~ Carla, Redhed311, Zfish9, Unclouded TJ, Man Without A Body, Doctor Rayman
- M. Bison: OF COURSE!!! ~ DAN004
- Dr. Havoc. ~ Monolaf317
- Take That!
- Taken for Granite
- Taking the Bullet
- The main protagonist in Good End 3 of the Yarudora game Sampaguita. ~ Ace Noctali
- Jade Harley from Homestuck. She takes a fucking meteor. ~ MasterNemesis
- The titular Giant at the end of The Iron Giant, even if he was the missile's intended target. ~Twilitbeing
- Eponine for Marius in Les Misérables. ~Spottedleaf
- Taking You with Me
- Rugal Bernstein. In EVERY SINGLE GAME he appears, he will initiate a self-destruct sequence after you defeat him. He should be a more graceful loser, considering what it takes to defeat the bastard... ~ Danny V El Acme
- Russell Casse in Independence Day ~ Carla
- The real Dr. Alexander J. Mercer. There are just not enough levels of sociopathic spite to define this guy. He was perfectly willing to destroy his company, his ex, his sister, the entire city, and (worst case scenario) the entire human race to get back at the guys who killed him. ~ Liangnui, Unclouded TJ
- Samson bringing down the Philistine temple ~ Man Without A Body
- 'Lovable' Igniz. After seeing that he was unworthy of godhood, he doesn't just attempt to blow up the victors, he sends his entire base crashing towards the earth. And if it wasn't for Ron, he would have destroyed the planet right there. ~ Five-seveN-25
- The end of Cleganebowl - Sandor tackling Gregor out of a window to their mutual death. ~ NotGonnaDoALot4
- Talking Is a Free Action
- Good Guy Harbinger waits for you to finish saying goodbye to your love interest before opening fire again. ~ atrasicarius
- Bleach charecters in general, for heroes and villains alike. ~ Miin U
- Undyne stops trying to murder you so that you can finish a phone call. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure Stardust Crusaders: The entire final battle between Jotaro and Dio makes frequent use of this trope. Had it not been in effect, Dio would have wasted all of his timestops on long monologues that he would not have been able to finish (his maximum duration ends up being nine seconds). It gets even more egregious once Jotaro stops time. Dio literally says he cannot move...and yet while he cannot move his limbs, his mouth is still moving! ~ Fireside
- Talking Poo
- The Great Mighty Poo ~ Gameboy645, toonyloon
- Seconded. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Mr. Hankey ~Redhed311, Doctor Rayman
- The Great Mighty Poo ~ Gameboy645, toonyloon
- Talking to Themself
- Gollum. ~ redgyarados
- Barry Dylan (Isn't that right Other Barry) ~ Matt P 5557
- Tall, Dark, and Handsome
- Tensa Zangetsu in Bleach. Just look at him.◊ ~ DRoy
- Horatio Hornblower from Hornblower ~ XFllo
- Robert Garcia is the OG 'suave looking snazzy dresser' of fighting games. ~ Miin U
- Tall, Dark, and Snarky
- Point goes to GrimGrimoire's Advocat. ~ Willy Four Eyes
- Shinon. -Zarian
- Gareth Blackstock, on Chef! (1993) ~ Man Without A Body
- Fakir. Really. Just...Fakir. ~ Pheonee
- Harry Dresden. See Deadpan Snarker above, and remember that he's six-eight in his sock feet. ~ Squealing Sandry, Carla
- Actually, a side story states he's six-nine, so very much seconded. ~ hujwernoo
- Severus Snape. ~ Voodoo Child
- Kanda Yuu. ~ Nirao 01
- Ishida Uryuu of Bleach ''never'' misses an opportunity. —ncfan
- Saito Hajime ~ Hoffmann
- Agent Mulder of The X-Files ~ XFllo
- Archer ~ Ultimaneo
- Tangled Family Tree
- The Summers family ~ Waxing Name
- The Joestar lineage ~ King of the Mime Swing
- The Charming family. Henry is his own great-uncle, and it just gets weirder from there. ~ hujwernoo
- The Badguy family. It gets even more complicated once the Kiske side of the family gets included. ~ Fireside
- The Targaryens ~ Iridener
- Tank Goodness
- The Tape Knew You Would Say That
- Night Call, Collect by Ray Bradbury ~ Hoffmann
- Blink; he really does know. ~ Soy Sauce B
- Seconded. ~ thecnoNSMB
- The Westing Game. ~ hujwernoo
- "But if you fail we'll chop you in half!" "Right... I'm glad I'm a recording and didn't hear that." ~ Five-seveN-25
- Tarot Motifs
- Persona ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Team Mom
- Katara. Even her own brother thinks of her as more of a mom than their mother.
- Seconded, and Katara is younger than her brother. ~ RedRoverRedRover
- Thirded. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Sydney Skelley from Ready Jet Go! ~ Excelsior 123
- Katara. Even her own brother thinks of her as more of a mom than their mother.
- Team Rocket Wins
- Tears of Fear
- Tears of Joy
- Shiki's reaction to seeing Neku again after 3 years. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Technology Porn
- Teens Are Monsters
- Billy Loomis, Stu Macher, and Jill Roberts ~ SuperYoshiFan02
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork
- Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords ~ Leilukin
- Star Wars: The Old Republic (especially once we hit Shadow of Revan and the Eternal Empire arcs) ~ Allronix
- Blake's 7 ~ Allronix
- Usalia and Majorita post-game ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Telephone Song
- "Call Me Maybe" by Carly Rae Jepsen ~ SingingRain
- Teleporter Accident
- The Fly (1986) ~ Amuck Cricitene
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture - Premonition 45
- Teleport Gun
- The Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device wins hands down. ~ Trogdor
- Seconded ~ Mysterious Stranger
- Thirded ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- The Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device wins hands down. ~ Trogdor
- Tempting Fate
- Uncle Vernon's speech about there being no post on Sundays in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. ~ mysterykcad
- Well, at least we don't have to sit through the stupid video game credits. ~ Five-seveN-25
- "YES! I AM INVINCIBLE!" ~ AkerSama
- Terrified of Germs.
- Mayor Richard Wilkins III ~ King Clark
- Adrian Monk ~ KantonKage, Doctor Rayman
- Howard Hughes ~ HotelCalifornia
- Testosterone Poisoning
- Every Old Spice commercial ever. ~ RL Nice
- SAXTON HALE, Team Fortress 2's muscular Australian arms dealer, who loves action and explosions, never wears a shirt, and spends all his time looking for things to fight. ~ mysterykcad
- Thanatos Gambit
- In Death Note, the death of L and Watari lead to a whole entire arc. Then at the end of the series there's Mello's death, which cements the last pieces of evidence to order to bring the series to an end. ~Chihuahua0
- One Piece, Gold Roger. "You want my treasure? You can have it. I left everything I gathered together in one piece. Now you just have to find it!" And it launched the Golden Age of Piracy. ~ DAN004
- Code Geass. It takes some balls to seize control of the biggest superpower in the world, be purposefully the most evil possible in power, so that when you die in a teathrically arranged scene, the rest of the people can achieve world peace. - ElectricBoogaloo
- Albus Dumbledore's plan, as revealed in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- That Liar Lies
- Lies! ~ Choombi
- LIES!! THE FILTHY EARTH-BOY LIES! I mean, seconded. ~ Metal Ai Ai
- Lies... Untruths, forgery, discrepancies, nonsence, mistakes... No applicable terms found. Conculsion: there is no reason to scream. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Lies! ~ Choombi
- That's No Moon
- Naruto: The moon is no moon.
- HELLO, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
- What, no Death Star? ~ Doctor Rayman
- BIONICLE: That's no universe. That's Mata Nui, a Humongous Mecha. ~ Ionz
- Theme Initials
- Superman, with approximately half the population of Metropolis and 90% of his romantic history bearing the initials LL. - Count Dorku, Doctor Rayman
- Laura Palmer. Leland Palmer. Long Play. ~ Man Without A Body
- Donkey Kong Country. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Theme Music Power-Up
- Razing Storm - Five Finger Death Punch - Ashes. ~ xxx1993xxx
- Elite Beat Agents. The "Jumping Jack Flash" cover on the final stage is absolutely Awesome. - Willy Four Eyes
- Super Dimension Fortress Macross and its sequels - they take the songs of war so seriously that they build stages into the command towers of their main capital ships. ~ Zeke Sulastin
- Frontier gets special mention for weaving most of the originals and the new songs into a 10 minute long tapestry of sound that plays during a climatic final battle in SPACE, and then they get dangerous.
- "The Touch", from The Transformers: The Movie - Prior to it, the Transformers were fighting a lost battle. Then the music sets in and Optimus Prime singlehandedly proceeds to change the tide of the battle. ~ Scrounge, V Phantom Allspark Spin Out
- Both Happly Ever After and Sorairo Days in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann ~ Sperium, Unclouded TJ
- Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney has Pursuit ~ Cornered, normal-style, which usually works great, but Pursuit ~ Cornered (Variation) adds in an awesome BOW-DOW-DOW-DOW opening that works PERFECTLY. ~ Godot Is Waiting 4 U
- Metroid: Zero Mission's endgame. That triumphant variant of the Brinstar theme really pumps you for some hot Space Pirate blasting action. ~Sparky Lurkdragon
- Vegeta's Super Saiyan theme. ~Storm
- The Shawshank Redemption climax. ~Silence, deeman45
- The Rising Fighting Spirit. ~Curtmack
- Ichigo Kurosaki. Number One. That is all.
- Seconded. That is all. ~ Zfish9
- Mario's Super Star. Dododo-dodo-dododo dododo-dodo-dododo~. ~Enlong.
- Final Fantasy IV. You know the scene. Ditto for Final Fantasy IV: The After Years. ~ Arutoa
- Seconded. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Bang "BA BA BAAAAAAAANG! BANGUUUU DAMASHIIIIII!!" Shishigami ~Ray Ayanami
- Sorry to all the examples above, but you've just been overridden by Trombe! ~
- Going the Distance, from Rocky. -Ziggy Zag
- Digimon! The digivolving songs are all damn good. Especially "SHOW ME YOUR BRAVE HEART!" ~ Carla, Stealthyboy
- Popeye, of course. ~ Redhed311, Doctor Rayman
- GO GO POWER RANGERS! ~ Man Without A Body
- Seconded ~Venptsofcake
- Mission: Impossible. ~ xxx1993xxx
- From Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's we have Brave Phoenix. This is the song to hear when you're spamming Wave Motion Cannons to beat an Eldritch Abomination into oblivion...literally. - aNinjaWithAIDS
- The Expendables. "Boom-lay, boom-lay, BOOM!" ~ contrafanxxx
- The Equalizer. ~ Saberwulf 2018
- Bravely Default, where the theme music actually powers you up. Special notice to the final boss fight! ~ ryanson209
- Seconded. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Il Vento d'oro. The moment you hear the piano, you know the villain is screwed. ~ Fireside
- Theme Tune Rap
- The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air -C., Man Without A Body
- 'Now this is a story all about how, my life got flipped turned upside-down' ~ sinesofinsanity
- 'And I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there, I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel-Air.' ~ Zetta Toad
- The DK Rap. ~ Doctor Rayman
- The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air -C., Man Without A Body
- Then Let Me Be Evil
- Oersted, who had been framed as the Lord of Dark, eventually decides to become Odio after he loses everyone he cared about. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Seconded ~ Fireside
- Oersted, who had been framed as the Lord of Dark, eventually decides to become Odio after he loses everyone he cared about. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- There Are No Therapists
- Neon Genesis Evangelion, oh so much. ~ Muffin-Shota, Carla
- The Star Wars Expanded Universe goes in this direction sometimes, especially once Del Rey took over. Oddly, there are therapists when everyone starts going batshit insane. ~ wanbli
- There Is No Kill Like Overkill
- Lyrical Nanoha. "Full Power - Ultimate Destruction!" ~ Sparrowhawk
- Oh yeah. "This may hurt a little bit..." ~ Marvel Girl
- David Brunt in Hobo With a Shotgun ~ Man Without A Body
- Homura against Walpurgis Night so many explosions. ~ KantonKage
- Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL ~ randomperson123
- Art of Fighting's infamous "Haoh Shokoh Ken!!". ~ Miin U
- Lyrical Nanoha. "Full Power - Ultimate Destruction!" ~ Sparrowhawk
- They Killed Kenny Again:
- The Trope Namer himself, Kenny McCormick of South Park. ~ SWF Max, Doctor Rayman
- The Happy Tree Friends. ~ Metal Ai Ai
- Chloe literally dies Once per Episode, unless Max saves her. ~ Miin U
- The Thing That Would Not Leave
- Third-Person Person:
- I would nominate Saul from MARDEK. He doesn't just refer to himself in third person; he refers to everything in third person, literally narrating outloud and spoken his life and the events around him as they are happening as if he was reading a book. ~ Bailoroc
- "MISAKA would like to nominate herself," suggests MISAKA with a satisfied nod. ~intothenight
- "MISAKA says MISAKA twice!" says MISAKA, says MISAKA. ~ spacemonkey37
- "Thirded, adds MISAKA, further affirming the notion." ~ Cailleach
- The GREAT and POWERFUL Trixie greatly resents that she has not been included on this list. ~ atrasicarius
- The one to be added... is Count Bleck! ~ Zetta Toad
- Ice Bear is insulted that you didn't include him ~ Emmand Killian
- You want a piece of Uncle!? ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Numbuh 5 ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Third-Person Seductress
- This Is a Drill
- Almost certainly the mecha in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. ~Shay Guy, neobowman
- Kamina: "'Giga... DRILL...BREEEAAAAKAAAHHH!!!''"
- From the same creator, "Rider Rocket DRILL KICK!!!!" -Azada
- Getter-2 ~ Josh 6243, V Phantom
- Space Mutiny. Kalgan's laser drill. ~ Man Without A Body
- Jean and later, Helen's Drill Sword technique. ~ Rushi
- Ramiel in Neon Genesis Evangelion, because the phallic implications aren't subtext— they're quite literal. ~ Carla
- Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE-. Good lord, Tsubasa has about 15 going at once, with some being part of other plans, some counting on Spanner in the Works, and three people fighting over control over the whole damn multiverse! ~ Zfish9
- Homura Akai of Tokimeki Memorial 2. ~ Ace Noctali
- Bouncer Big Daddies. ~ Deis The Alcano
- Total Recall (1990) SCREEEWWWW YOOOUUUU!!! ~ Papyru 30
- Almost certainly the mecha in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. ~Shay Guy, neobowman
- This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!
- "Oh, it's the Juggernaut bitch!" ~Pikawil, Tropers/Carla, Unclouded TJ
- "I'm Rick James, bitch!" ~ Willy Four Eyes
- "Sneak attack - BITCH!" ~Curtmack, Zfish9
- Yuki Nagato, bitch ~prescience
- Freddy Krueger. Full stop. -Ziggy Zag
- "Choke on it bitch!" -Max 1099
- "Get away from her, you bitch!" ~ Man Without A Body
- Seconded, bitch! ~ Saberwulf 2018
- "This is FernGully, BITCH!" - emeriin
- Jesse Pinkman ~Darth Howie, Mrbits
- Seconded, bitch! rtw2act
- "NOT MY DAUGHTER, YOU BITCH!" ~ Insanity Prelude, Berrenta
- Seconded, bitch. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- "How does it feel having somebody fuck with your head?! How does it feel, you BITCH?!" ~ jackedup85
- "You call that a Salchow?! It looks like you have mad Salchow disease! That's right, your skating has a spongiform encephalopathy, bitch!" ~ Redhed311
- "Give me the amulet, you bitch!" ~ Matt P 5557
- "You said it yourself, bitch. We're the Guardians of the Galaxy." ~-dave_the_assassin-~
- This Is Gonna Suck
- "They have a cave troll." ~ Geoduck, Man Without A Body
- In the third movie; the look on Théoden's face as the Witch King of Angmar decends upon him. ~ I Am The Caligula
- 1. BE PRAYING 2. BE PRAYING 3. BE PRAYING ~Ray Ayanami
- "Define interesting." "Oh God, oh God, we're all going to die?" ~ Carla
- "Don't tell me: We're about to go over a huge waterfall." ~ Plactus, Doctor Rayman
- "Raaaaagggnnnaaaa!" "... Oh god." ~ Five-seveN-25
- "They have a cave troll." ~ Geoduck, Man Without A Body
- This Is My Human
The Tardis: Did you ever wonder why I chose you, all those years ago?The Doctor: I chose you! You were unlocked.The Tardis: Of course I was.
- The dogs in 101 Dalmatians. ~ Doctor Rayman
- This Isn't Heaven:
- This is The Bad Place. ~ Trogdor
- This Is the Final Battle
- The final boss theme of Final Fantasy III not only is named after this trope, but the fight it plays during decides the fate of the whole universe. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- This Is Unforgivable!
- "What happened at the Hopkins place was unforgivable." ~ Man Without A Body
- "You have gone too far. You have married Fester. You have destroyed his spirit. You have taken him from us. All that I could forgive. But Debbie!...pastels??" -Ziggy Zag
- Fist of the North Star: "SOUTHER! When I am done with you, THERE WILL BE NOTHING LEFT!" ~ Two Gun Angel
- This Is Your Brain on Evil
- Hell Kaiser of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX ~ Lale
- Karen Crowder. All the more chilling because her psychology is so plausible. ~ poi99
- This Loser Is You
- Ron Stoppable ~Mack
- Travis Touchdown ~Killer Clowns
- Shinji Ikari ~ Carla
- Kensuke Aida is worse. ~ King Clark
- Homer Simpson. ~Griffin 04, Doctor Rayman
- It's a cookbook! ~Psykosis
- Sarah. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Those Two Guys
- Bulk & Skull. ~Glory Girl
- Jay & Silent Bob. ~Gigi 88
- Henchmen 21 and 24. Even in death 24 won't leave 21 alone. ~Ranpants
- Lenny and Carl ~Redhed311
- Harry and Animal ~ King Cr Inu Yasha
- Biggs and Wedge — Astfgl
- The originals Rosencrantz and Guildenstern ~ Matt P 5557
- Those Wacky Nazis
- Der Fuehrer's Face ~ Mistermister
- Emphasis on the wacky — Hogan's Heroes
- Colonel Hans Landa ~ Man Without A Body
- Any time Mel Brooks does Hitler. ~ Nlpnt, Doctor Rayman
- The Illinois Nazis. We hate them. ~ HotelCalifornia
- GERMAN SCIENCE IS THE BEST IN THE WOOOOOOOORRRRLLLLD~! ~ King of the Mime Swing
- Threatening Shark
- The robot sharks from Aquaria Towers in Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! ~ Ponylovinggirl 2
- Hello? Bruce the Shark, anyone? — WilliamShakesman, Doctor Rayman
- The mutant female bull shark from Maneater who goes literally From Nobody to Nightmare which you have full control over how she goes about this. ~ Mighty Fan 217
- Three Chords and the Truth
- Through His Stomach
- "She can make corn muffins! Let's all rejoice!" - Prfnoff
- Again, Mikoto. Mai's ramen grants her a + 10 friendship bonus. - Willy Four Eyes
- Throw the Dog a Bone
- "Band Geeks" ~ Man Without A Body, deeman45
- *sigh* Waspinator happy at last. - Gorank
- The end of Wakko's Wish - literally. ~Redhed311
- Ash winning the Alola Pokémon League, finally earning himself a victory at a Regional Pokémon League. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- BoJack Horseman: BoJack showing mercy to Beatrice at the end of "Time's Arrow". ~ shinymoonbird
- Time Abyss
- The title character of the short story and one-volume manga Memories of Emanon, who — while physically normal — has accumulated memories passed down from parent to child literally since the beginning of life on Earth. (She quite clearly remembers the Edo period...and the Yayoi period...and the end of the last Ice Age...and the K-T extinction event...and the Cambrian explosion...and the oxygen catastrophe, though she might not have known it was happening at the time...) ~Shay Guy
- Marvin the Paranoid Android from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Thanks to time travel and always getting stuck on The Slow Path, Marvin is 37 times older than the Universe itself. ~ mysterykcad
- Bill Cipher is a trillion years old, and is the Big Bad of the show. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Time Loop Trap
- Dormammu, I've come to bargain. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Time Machine
- TARDIS ~ctrlbuild, Man Without A Body, Voodoo Child
- The DeLorean - it's a time machine with style ~ Space Jawa, Ziggy Zag, Carla, Doctor Rayman
- Seconded. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Gotta put in a word for my main 'phin, Ecco. To this day I hear the "bong-bong bong-bong bonnnng" in my head whenever time travel comes up in anything. ~Sparky Lurkdragon
- Seven Days. Worst time machine ever. ~ Marvel Girl
- The Time Machine (1960) ~ Tropers/Matt P 5557
- The Epoch is a flying Time Machine that can go to many different eras and land anywhere on the planet. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Time Master
- Kurumi Tokisaki ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Time Police
- Poul Anderson's Time Patrol — all the problems and paradoxes of protecting time, and in the Greatest Story Never Told, at that.
- Time Squad ~ Ponylovinggirl 2
- Timey-Wimey Ball
- Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE-. The time loops allow the protagonist to be the son of his own clone, for Christ's sake! ~ Chiaki
- Doctor Who, "Blink" ~ctrlbuild, Man Without A Body, Carla
- Not "Blink"; though the Trope Namer, it's a Stable Time Loop, not confusing at all. The show as a whole, though? Good lord, try understanding it. ~ Completely Different
- Okay kids, this is where it gets complicated. ~ Goldude
- Haruhi Suzumiya. Full stop. ~Mapi-chan
- Red Dwarf. ~jfpbookworm
- Homestuck. ~ Insanity Prelude
- Title Drop
- Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann ~SRC
- The Catcher in the Rye ~Devil's Advocate
- Professor Layton and the Unwound Future ~ Ace Noctali
- Doctor Who? ~ Oberyn
- ''Sluggy Freelance ~ Twin Bird
- The first mention of the Game of Thrones, where the "game" is explained quite simply. ~ King of the Mime Swing
Jorah Mormont: The common people pray for rain, healthy children, and a summer that never ends. It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace. They never are.- "It's just Rick and Morty! Rick and Morty and their adventures! Rick and Morty forever and forever- a hundred years Rick and Morty! Me and Rick and Morty running around, and Rick and Morty time! All day long, forever! A hundred days, Rick and Morty! Rick and Morty forever, a hundred times! Over and over, Rick and Morty! Adventures.com! www.RickAndMorty.com! www.RickAndMorty Adventures all a hundred years! Every minute RickAndMorty.com! www a hundred times! RickAndMorty.com!" ~ Stark1111
- "We're the Guardians of the Galaxy." ~-dave_the_assassin-~
- "Things are not as they teach us, for the world is hollow, and I have touched the sky." ~ Statzkeen
- "We are The Walking Dead!" ~ Five-seveN-25
- I Wanna Be the Guy has an epic one right before the Final Boss. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- To Be a Master
- No More Heroes is the trope distilled to its core essence and showing how bastardized it can be. ~Cliché
- But No More Heroes was only following in El Topo's footsteps ~C Trombley
- Pokémon: The Series. Isn't this the entire point of the show? I mean, they even have a CD called "2 B A Master", if that isn't obvious enough for you. ~ Joe Moron 2000, Carla, Lale, Doctor Rayman
- To Be Lawful or Good
- Fate/stay night, Heaven's Feel route. You know the scene. ~Bokhura Burnes
- Together in Death
- Fate/stay night Realta Nua has Shirou and Saber in Avalon. ~ spacemonkey37
- Token Evil Teammate
- Xellos ~ Jason Paul, Carla, Metal Shadow X
- Morinth ~ babyhenchy1
- Belkar ~ spacemonkey37
- Mayuri ~ KantonKage
- Raizze in Mitsumete Knight R: Daibouken Hen. ~ Ace Noctali
- Alastor - Demon Duckof Doom
- Token Good Teammate
- Fighter ~ Ultimaneo
- Tomato in the Mirror
- No, Soma, you are the Dracula. ~ Yuihime
- In PandoraHearts Elliot Nightray was after the killer who murdered his siblings until he discovered it was himself due to Humpty Dumpty tampering with his memories. It didn't end well. ~ Pink Hanabi
- Teddie being a shadow always stood out to me due to how little the rest of the cast seemed to care. ~ Ultimaneo
- Tomboy Princess
- Kumatora ~ rjd1922
- Princess Daisy. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Tongue Trauma
- From SuperMarioLogan's infamous "The Drone!": "Can I put my tongue on it?" ~ Monolaf317
- Too Dumb to Live
- Master Shake ~ Mister Jack
- The slavers of Astapor. There's...there's no real excuse, there. ~ King of the Mime Swing
- Katelyyn. Zales. ~ Monolaf317
- Still no mention of Wheatley? Really? ~ Inactive Troper
- Cave Johnson. "The bean-counters told me we literally could not afford to buy seven dollars worth of moon rocks, much less seventy million. Bought 'em anyway! Ground 'em up, mixed 'em into a gel. And guess what? Ground-up moon rocks are pure poison. I am deathly ill." ~ Five-seveN-25
- Too Good for This Sinful Earth
- Evangeline St. Clare ~ V2
- Euphemia li Britannia. ~ Emerald 141
- Isara Gunther, so young, so selfless and nurturing. A life tragically cut short. ~ Miin U
- Took a Level in Badass
- Tex, who went from badass to uber-goddess-badass-queen. ~ HG131
- Neville Longbottom. ~ Slvstr Chung, Unclouded TJ, Carla, Leilukin
- Ron Stoppable in the series finale. ~ The Otaku Ninja
- Edward. Who expected him to become the most awesome character in the game? ~ Malkyrian
- Henchman 21. From Non-Action Guy to such a badass that he impressed Brock Samson. ~ The Evil Dr Bolty
- Raiden was Rescued from the Scrappy Heap by doing this. That's awesome! ~ Carls493
- Ippo Makunochi ~ Nirao 01
- The Library Exploration Club ~ Rakath
- Pop, oh so much. ~ Ace Noctali
- Katara. Token Naïve Everygirl with below-average abilities to a totally badass Action Girl! ~ New Kid On The Block
- Team Rocket in Pokémon the Series: Black & White. ~ qwertyuiopasdfghjkl
- Kenichi Shirahama. He got picked on by Nakajima, for Kamina's sake. Now, he is a complete and total badass, considered the strongest of the strong by Nakajima's power scale, and he intends to go further. ~ Wragnaroq R. Maggeddon
- Akasaka in the final arc of Higurashi: When They Cry takes quite a few levels in badass since his last fight with the Yamianu. ~ Zfish9
- Yuna was already a badass character in FFX, but in Final Fantasy X-2, it takes a step further! ~ Not JM Keynes
- Its positively mind-boggling how long it took Wesley Wyndham-Price to make this list. ~cliffc999
- Rory Williams. ~ Pastylover2
- Anna Parsons, codename Aquerna, who has gone from being one of the school jokes to someone capable of beating Buster. ~ Marvel Girl
- Dr. John F#@king Zoidberg ~ kilroy11235
- Tsukune ~ ledge
- Yo Satou ~ KantonKage
- Ashley J. Williams goes from being a timid coward in The Evil Dead (1981) to being one of cinema's most awesome badasses in Army of Darkness. ~ RL Nice
- Akemi Homura ~ spacemonkey37
- Butters, full stop. ~ hujwernoo
- Wally, especially in the remakes. Starting out as a frail and sickly child whom you help catch his first Pokemon, and who is utterly unprepared for his first battle with you, he grows up so much that he makes it to the end of Victory Road before you do, and challenges you to a final battle as an equal. In the remakes, he can even Mega Evolve his Pokemon, and has an absolutely epic theme that really underscores just how far he's come. ~ mysterykcad
- Guillermo de la Cruz. Goes from a meek Beleaguered Assistant bossed around by a bunch of incompetent vampires, to a stone-cold vampire-slaying badass of the highest order, who can relatively easily wipe out an entire theatre full of vampires to save what are technically still his masters. ~ Azorius 24
- Took a Level in Jerkass
- The cast of Family Guy, in particular Peter and Brian. ~ WilliamShakesman
- Heidi Turner ~ Ponylovinggirl 2
- Compare Sho Marufuni (Syrus Truesdale in the English Dub) in the first half of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX to the second half of the series. His relationship with Judai becomes distant, and then there's his message to the latter after he leaves Duel Academy... ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Took a Level in Kindness:
- Compare the Cordelia Chase on Buffy the Vampire Slayer to the one on Angel ~ WilliamShakesman
- Too Kinky to Torture:
- Cheryl from Archer. One moment that stands out was the time that she made her current boyfriend Krieger build a robot to choke her because he wasn't strong enough and despite almost being knocked out from the lack of oxygen she told him to keep going. ~ 2heartgirl
- The Addams Family ~ Matt P 5557
- Klaus Hargreeves. ~ shinymoonbird
- Too Many Belts
- Toon Physics
- Ed, Edd n Eddy, or more specifically the episode "One + One = Ed", which plays with the trope to reality-breaking levels. ~mysterykcad
- Seconded ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Ed, Edd n Eddy, or more specifically the episode "One + One = Ed", which plays with the trope to reality-breaking levels. ~mysterykcad
- Torture Porn
- Agony in Pink ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Torture Technician
- Total Eclipse of the Plot
- Golden Sun: Dark Dawn - Grave Eclipse. That is all. ~ Gorsecloud
- Fullmetal Alchemist. ~ Emerald 141
- Totally Radical
- Rocket Power, so much. ~vicnog
- Michelangelo, the party dude. ~rTropers/Redhed311, Doctor Rayman
- Town with a Dark Secret
- Summerisle ~ Man Without A Body
- Cowslip's Warren, aka The Warren of Shining Wires. ~Sparky Lurkdragon, deeman45
- Hinamizawa ~Roihu, neobowman
- Seconded ~ Zfish9
- St. Mystyre ~ Ozimul
- Countrycide, Torchwood ~mack
- Miir. ~ Arutoa
- Innsmouth, people! Innsmouth! How can your dark secret be darker than their dark secret? ~ Marvel Girl
- Sandford. Although it is all for the greater good. -Ziggy Zag
- The greater good....
- Shut it!
- Twin Peaks. Instead of there being one big dark secret, everyone has their own! ~ King Clark
- Silent Hill. ~ Ace Noctali
- Markarth. Everyone in the City of Stone seems nice, but half of them are in a violent cannibal clan. ~ foxmccloud4387
- Toxic Friend Influence
- The friendship between Anne, Sasha, and Marcy, while genuine, is shown to be very unhealthy and becomes a primary theme in the Amphibia. The Season 2 Finale shows us what happens when this kind of friendship is taken to its breaking point. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Toxic Phlebotinum
- Phazon. Super charges anything it's used on, has radiation levels out the ass, and liable to turn anyone that uses it into a Phlebotinum Muncher. -phazonfarmer
- Tiberium. ~ Insanity Prelude
- Trademark Favorite Food:
- C.C. and her Pizza Hut pizza. ~ Monolaf317
- Bugs Bunny and his carrots. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Tragic Ice Character:
- Tragic Villain:
- Spinel. - Super Yoshi Fan 02
- Mr. Freeze. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Seconded. Decaf Grub 47393
- Azula - Demon Duckof Doom
- Tragically Disabled Love Interest
- The heroines of Katawa Shoujo. Not one, not two, but five!
- Hell, for each of them, the protagonist counts too. ~ King of the Mime Swing
- Agreed on both the protagonist and the heroines. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Sesshomaru
- Alicia Masters. ~ Doctor Rayman
- The heroines of Katawa Shoujo. Not one, not two, but five!
- Trailers Always Lie:
- Trailers Always Spoil:
- Mission: Impossible – Fallout. Right off the bat I already knew Henry Cavill would be one of the main villains of the movie, especially since him being John Lark was completely obvious from the start, and the fact that he's also in a Big Bad Duumvirate with Solomon Lane. ~ Saberwulf 2018
- This preview for Pokemon showing Ash winning the League. How many other example have 22 years of exceptions riding on them. We could have been pissed at something so major being spoiled, but we rejoiced instead. ~ Ferot Dreadnought
- Training Montage
- The "I'll Make A Man Out Of You" scene in Mulan. ~ Emerald 141
- Seconded. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- "Gonna Fly Now"... ~ WilliamShakesman, Doctor Rayman
- The "I'll Make A Man Out Of You" scene in Mulan. ~ Emerald 141
- Transformation Horror
- An American Werewolf in London ~ Amuck Cricetine
- Transformation of the Possessed
- Baby when possessing Vegeta. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Transforming Mecha
- Transformers.
- Devil Gigatron/Galvatron from Car Robots/Robots in Disguise is a Transformer with ten modes, from fairly normal ones like a jet and an elephant, to slightly more unique ones like a giant disembodied hand. And yes, this does correspond to a ten-mode toy with an instruction sheet the size of a poster. ~ Scrounge
- Transformers.
- Translation Trainwreck
- Backstroke of the West. When the subtitles mistranslate what's already right there in English◊ you know you're in for a good time.~ Insanity Prelude
- Seconded. It became a series for a reason. ~ Five-seveN-25
- "What a beautiful Duwang!" ~ King of the Mime Swing
- Seconded. CHEW. ~ Metal Ai Ai
- Backstroke of the West. When the subtitles mistranslate what's already right there in English◊ you know you're in for a good time.~ Insanity Prelude
- Transplant
- Launchpad McQuack, who was introduced as a supporting character in DuckTales (1987) and later on became a supporting character in Darkwing Duck. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Trapped in Another World:
- Trauma Conga Line
- Nina. Dear lord Nina. ~ Babyhenchy 1
- Harry Dresden has had a very hard life. And then Changes came along... ~ spacemonkey37
- Tim Drake. First his girlfriend gets killed (okay, not really), his father is killed, then his best friends Conner Kent and Bart Allen are killed, his stepmother is institutionalized then killed, then his adoptive father is killed. And after all that, Dick Grayson-as-Batman makes him give up the Robin mantle so he can mentor Damian Wayne. ~ Waxing Name
- Traumatic C-Section:
- Poor Queen Aemma... ~ Iridener
- Traumatic Super Power Awakening:
- Oddly enough, Broly going Super Saiyan for the first time. Unlike most examples in Dragon Ball Z or Dragon Ball Super, going Super Saiyan is depicted as a badass moment where you are certain the bad guy is going down. Here it's nothing short of heartwrenching. ~ Burger Lord
- Traveling at the Speed of Plot
- Tree Buchet:
- Trial-and-Error Gameplay
- Tricked Out Time
- The Golden Ending to Steins;Gate ~ LinkToTheFuture
- The party using the Time Egg to revive Crono was such a sweet use of this trope. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Trickster Mentor
- Nannasprite. ~ Protoplasm
- Troll
- Name a witch, any witch, from Umineko: When They Cry, and you get this trope in all its magnificent glory. Special recognition goes to Beatrice, and later Bernkastel aka Trollkastel ~ Witch of Cicadas
- Baka Prince in Level E. He trolls almost every character for his own enjoyment in seeing them suffer, and not even the viewers are safe from it. ~ Pink Hanabi
- Hazama/Yuuki Terumi... He's the trope pantheon god of trolling for a reason. Other characters aren't safe; players aren't safe; he, himself, isn't safe of his glorious trolling! It's been said before but I'll say it again: Trolling. Sustains. His. Existence. Feeding the troll keeps it alive... And that's still not the reason why he does it! ~ Zetta Toad
- Erron Black. ~ Five-seveN-25
Mileena: Filthy traitorous beast!
Kotal Kahn: Vermin...
Erron: Something wrong, Emperor?
- Sauron in human form was so good at his game that he didn't even need to lie, everyone just assumed whatever they wanted about him ,and he went along. ~ Impaler
- Hades ~ Reyn Time 250
- Trrrilling Rrrs
- Trigger Phrase
- Would you kindly? -Red Lunchbox
- Seconded- Gzillafan 77
- The commercial. Plus the sleep-phrase. ~ hujwernoo
- Gosh, that Italian family at the next table sure is quiet. ~ Metal Ai Ai
- Would you kindly? -Red Lunchbox
- [Trope Name]
- Trope Namer
- The Princess Bride. Specifically: "Hello!. My Name Is Inigo Montoya. You Killed My Father. Prepare to Die." 3 Trope Namers in 9 words/seconds. ~ Zetta Toad
- Truck Driver's Gear Change
- "Livin' On A Prayer." Nothing beats it. -thecnoNSMB
- True Companions
- Final Fantasy VI. ~ Gfrequency
- The Straw Hat Crew. ~ Carls493
- The Fellowship of the Crucifix note in Dracula ~ Lale
- Higurashi: When They Cry. It may have taken a while, but when they finally got together, even fate itself had to yield to them. ~ Zfish9
- Fairy Tail. Attack yours or theirs and expect an asskicking. ~ KantonKage
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: "The Mane Cast" ~ Waxing Name
- "The Gaang"/Team Avatar from Avatar: The Last Airbender. ~SomeoneElse17
- Brandon and Harry from Gungrave anime. ~ The_Biologist
- Normandy crewsnote from Mass Effect. ~ Babyhenchy1
- The Pelekai ʻohana from the Lilo & Stitch franchise. Nobody gets left behind or forgotten. ~ Rise from Your Grave
- The X-Men. ~ Doctor Rayman
- The Go-Getters Club ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- True Love's Kiss
- WALL•E (OK, so it's not EXPLICITLY True Love's Kiss, but it works the same way. You know it's true anyway.) ~Freezair For A Limited Time
- How would that even work? ~ Wragnaroq R. Maggeddon
- The Princess Bride. The description in the book is the most hysterical and touching description of a kiss ever written. ~ C Trombley
- Shrek ~Heliomance
By night one way, by day anotherThis shall be the normTill you receive True Love's first kissThen stay in love's true form.
- Snow White ~ Man Without A Body, Redhed311
- WALL•E (OK, so it's not EXPLICITLY True Love's Kiss, but it works the same way. You know it's true anyway.) ~Freezair For A Limited Time
- True Final Boss
- Hibachi!!! Take ANY Dodonpachi game and people will tell you his name. - FazeLV
- Izanami-no-Okami ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Tsundere
- Jane G-23. She's either actually trying to kill you or tenderly making out with you even though you're covered in yateveo juice.
- Seconded. ~ Weeping Willow
- Asuka Langley Sohryu ~ Carla
- Helga Pataki ~ sardns
- Seconded! ~Smokie
- Thirded. ~ 2xN
- Shana ~ Kulsprutejojjo
- Naru Narusegawa, literally to the point of pain. ~ Wragnaroq R. Maggeddon
- Sayaka Yumi could be considered the Tsundere-prototype. ~ Generic Troper
- Seconded ~ SRW Fan
- Misaka Mikoto ~ spacemonkey37
- Misato Tachibana ~ KantonKage
- C'Nedra. She makes Anime Tsunderes look amateurish. ~ Ncfan
- Aisaka Taiga. The Palmtop Tiger is easily your classic Type A. ~ jackuhlantern
- Akane Tendo.~ Gaston1991
- Sakura Haruno. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Jane G-23. She's either actually trying to kill you or tenderly making out with you even though you're covered in yateveo juice.
- TV Genius
- Sheldon. ~ Lyanna, Carla
- Jimmy Neutron ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- TV Telephone Etiquette
- TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life
- According to This Very Wiki, Avatar. ~ Gundamforce
- 20 Minutes into the Future
- 2001: A Space Odyssey ~ 2xN
- A Twinkle in the Sky
- Two-Person Love Triangle
- Miraculous Ladybug ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Superman and Lois Lane, before the latter learns that the former is also Clark Kent. ~ Doctor Rayman