This is simply what you think is the (not some of the, the) best example of any trope (an objective trope, not subjective, since this already is 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.
I second this and would like to add a Hau au au. In light of the entire When They Cry franchise, I would also like to add an Uu uu and an Uryuu while I'm at it. ~Witch of Cicadas
MadWorld. Sure, other games may have more potential, but in MadWorld it's a REQUIREMENT~ACW
Prototype is this trope, to the point that (almost) all else seems like a cute puppy simulator. Just try to avoid collateral damage for one mission, I dare you. ~Ninjat_126
Dennis Miller's "rants" on his HBO talk show. Didn't quite work out as well for him when he was in the Monday Night Football announcer's booth, though. ~ Willy Four Eyes
The Silent Partner, which didn't do well in theaters because it turned out the viewers weren't. ~ Marvel Girl
NBC's continued refusal to allow U.S viewers to access a legit livestream of Olympic opening ceremonies "so our producers can provide context" (translation: they think the incessant, inane blathering of the Today Show hosts is [helping. ~ Nlpnt
Freiza from Dragon Ball Z. He had the longest fight in the entire series with Goku. He comes back to life in the 12th movie and is killed by Gohan in one hit. How can it POSSIBLY BE WORSE THAN THAT? ~ Ericho
Apollo Justice'sKristoph Gavin. For an idea of this, he gets so mad that as he raises his fist to bang on the witness stand in frustration, the dishes that had previously fallen on the ground behind him rise up into the air and fall down as he slams his fist on the witness stand. Please note: this man has no magic powers. ~Darkurai
Same game series, different perp: Damon Gant. How many villains do you know that have a breakdown speech where they stand there laughing and clapping maniacally for an entire minute? ~ Willy Four Eyes
Same series (notice a trend?), different villain: Manfred von Karma. After he spends hours grinning smugly at you, the guy snaps like a twig on slow-motion and bangs his head against the wall after screaming at the top of his lungs. ~ vicnog
Really, pretty much any villain in this series. Redd White with his strange headdesking thing, Dahlia Hawthorne in 3-1 AND 3-5. The Tiger's seizure-inducing breakdown, and Daryan Cresend and his hair. Going everywhere.
Gotta give it to Matt Engarde clawing his face out, although all of the breakdowns in the series are great. Considering it's kind of a once an episode type thing, the whole SERIES deserves to be the Most Triumphant Example, although this troper is tempted by Light Yagami and Marlo Stanfield. ~rickdakirb
Dukat in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine to the point of getting plastic surgery to make him look like a Bajoran and seducing the head of the Bajoran religion. One might say his breakdown turned him into a Magnificent Bastard. ~ EvaLilith
Kratos. Non-stop. The games never try to hide from you the fact that the guy is a monster, and after the events of the first game you can cross off the Hero in Anti-Hero in regards to him. ~ The Jerk with No Name, Dracosummoner, todbot1
The Nazis from Das Boot. No other story I know of can so consistently make you root for them and feel for them before slapping yourself once more and reminding yourself of who they are. That ending alone seals the deal. -Ziggy Zag
Doctor Steel. Many, since he's a musical supervillain. But "Dr. Steel" is probably the crowner. "I have become the man with a plan / With an army of toys and a mechanical band / Ruling the world making everything real / I’m Dr. Steel, Dr. Steel!" ~ Jonny B
So much that him losing at all will be terribly OOC. ~ Carla
Lord Starkiller basically kills off a bunch of major characters and warps the continuity in Ultimate Sith Edition. Good thing he's not canon (outside of a Bonus Boss cameo). ~ King Clark
Terumi Yuuki. Yes, he may look like a magnificent Troll in plain eyes, but dig in deep and you'll see he pretty much out-sues all entries above. ~ Chris X
Americans. Most of them are not loud, boorish, fat, lazy, uncultured, stupid, etc. Shocking, isn't it. ~ Gundamforce
Straw Feminists. So vocal and so triumphant that even many tropers on this very wiki seem to believe that feminism is synonymous with misandry. ~ Gfrequency
Conspiracy theorists in general. You'll be surprised to find out that most conspiracy theories actually had less adherents that it seems. ~ CounterBlitzkrieg
Avatar-bashers, even now, well over a year after the film's release. For the want of good things said about the film on the internet by anyone anywhere (or even new jokes made about the same few perceived flaws by the haters), it is extremely difficult to consider the film's good reputation anything but mythical. Will it never end?! - ZuulMF
Persona 3. I mean, come on, you can't top waking up, going to school and then going back to your school during The Hidden Hour to save the world. (After your school turns into the Evil Tower of Ominousness too.) ~ Aspie
You haven't seen walls of text until you've read the (Ultimate) Warrior's comic book. Seriously...every page of that damn thing is like that. I think this, more than anything, is what qualifies the man as beyond batshit insane. ~ Willy Four Eyes
No comic can match the Most (or rather, Least) Triumphant film example, the opening crawl of Alone in the Dark. Has anybody tried timing that thing? -ZuulMF
The Arc-en-Ciel from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha. What other Wave Motion Gun destroys its target by distorting the very fabric of space and time around it? ~tennessean
Heck, Nanoha is the cutest little Wave Motion Gun ever, and if you don't agree, she'll just befriend you. ~ Marvel Girl
Krenim Temporal Weapon from Star Trek: Voyager. Absolutely nothing beats the gun that erase things from history and also rewrite history to fit the erasure. ~onyhow
The Positron Rifle. It takes all of Japan's energy for it to shoot twice. The angel it was used against counts, too, but since they destroyed it with the Rifle... ~ Carla
The R-type universe. This is a place where even the smallest fighters are fielded with a Wave Motion Gun, the guns scale up to and including a Wave Motion Gun designed to depopulate planets (that fit onto a battleship the size of a few city blocks) and a Kill Sat with a Wave Motion Gun that can wipe out whole fleets. ~ Unknown Troper
Thor's Hammer/The Mana Cannon from Tales Of Symphonia and Tales of Phantasia. A Wave Motion Gun so big that if you power it with the world's mana - which is what it was designed for - it kills the World Tree producing that mana. The only time we know of that it was ever safely fired was at a lower capacity, and powered by the Summon Spirits instead of drawing from the local mana pool directly. ~ Sylvia Viridian
Graviton Beam Emitter looks like a tiny handgun, except that it fire a beam 70 KM LONG laser that can blow holes in metal structures that shrugs off big honking nukes like dirt. ~ [1]
Commander Kubrik Chenkov, whose favored tactic is to mire the enemy in melee combat with his troops... and then call in an artillery strike on them. His special rule, "Send In the Next Wave!", literally allows him to call in unlimited conscripts. After the last batch has been utterly obliterated of course. ~ Petro
Chapter 513, the separation of the Straw Hats. Never, ever did I see that one coming. - chalcedony
Mass Effect. Virmire. "There is a realm of existence so far beyond your own you cannot even imagine it. I am beyond your comprehension. I am Sovereign!" ~ deeman45
Puella Magi Madoka Magica, episode 10. Never have I seen something that so completely changes everything we've seen before in a series by recontextualizing it so radically. ~Haven
Seconded, it is what makes the series and Homura so striking. ~ RJ Savoy
Episode 10? Try Episode 3! Madre de Dios! ~ RainRequiem
Xenoblade Chronicles: Mechonis freakin' Core. The ammount of wham-tastic reveals and events that transpire in that place in such quick succesion have to be seen to be believed. ~ Elbruno
Red vs. Blue, Season 10, Episode 22. We finally get to see the Director's whole face... and we see that he has the same Green Eyes as Carolina. ~ foxmccloud4387
Seconded! That was one of the best psychotic ramblings I've ever heard, and I've heard a lot of psychotic rambling. "Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! WITH THE LEMONS!" ~Takwin
Thirded! "I'm going to get my engineers to invent a COMBUSTIBLE LEMON, that BURNS YOUR HOUSE DOWN!" ~ Zfish9
Thirded; Are we allowed to change our votes when something more batshit insane comes up? - The Albino Primid
Fourthed, and I believe you can, so long as you delete your previous vote. ~ Zfish9
Fifthed. And it's interesting how this bizarre mess is a Weird Japanese Thing in disguise as a Weird American Thing. It manages to exponentially sum up all the weirdness of both universes, so much that the only reason Season 2 was not yet made is because the sheer accumulated density of its weirdness would create a black hole on Earth and cause The End of the World as We Know It. ~ Electric Boogaloo
Dead Leaves. Made by the same lunatic director as Panty and Stocking. ~ Genki Man.
Twilight: Jacob realizes Renesmee is his soulmate mere minutes after she is born. He will be like her uncle and protector until she is seven but physically seventeen at which point they will commence the baby making. -Limelightqueen
One Piece... just One Piece. If the author one day decides to add romances to all the sheer emotions in this series it will surely make its universe implode into a gigantic Black Hole Ham. ~ Spatial Temporal
Heath Ledger as The Joker. It was the oddest choice, almost nobody (including myself) believed in it, and it turned out to be one of the best instances of a "so crazy it just might work" idea actually working in the history of filmmaking. ~ Ziggy Zag
