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Bk-notburgerking Since: Jan, 2015
#1: May 20th 2015 at 10:42:47 PM

Take the trope given out by the above troper and deconstruct it. You must then provide another trope for the NP to deconstruct.

A trope may be reused, but it has to be deconstructed in a different way each time.

Let's start with: Bad Ass

edited 20th May '15 10:45:04 PM by Bk-notburgerking

BlackMageAnolis At the heart of the world... from about three miles away from you. Since: Jul, 2013 Relationship Status: Dancing with myself
At the heart of the world...
#2: May 21st 2015 at 4:44:10 AM

Yay, it's back! Also, this game is so a Writer's Block immigrant, but hey, it's another excuse to liberally use my favorite trope! grin

All the cool things they do is slowly conflating their ego and making them more irritable, unfriendly, and further unable to be relatable. Also, they get injured constantly when things go wrong, and they've come very close to death several times in the past.

Why We Are Bummed Communism Fell

edited 21st May '15 4:45:14 AM by BlackMageAnolis

Bk-notburgerking Since: Jan, 2015
#3: May 21st 2015 at 5:46:13 AM

People lose jobs because communism fell and eventually are Driven to Suicide.

The Woobie

BlackMageAnolis At the heart of the world... from about three miles away from you. Since: Jul, 2013 Relationship Status: Dancing with myself
At the heart of the world...
#4: May 21st 2015 at 7:12:20 AM

Being a Woobie is all people know To, for, and he just wants people to leave him alone and let him come to terms with his own problems. Eventually, his problem changes from [original problem] to people who won't shut up about [original problem].

Charlie Chaplin Shout-Out

engie Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#5: May 22nd 2015 at 4:19:23 AM

He promptly gets arrested for walking like a drunk penguin.

What Measure Is a Non-Human? + Just a Machine

The fact that only 140 characters are allowed here is honestly so disappointing to me.
chloso no u Since: Feb, 2015 Relationship Status: Charming Titania with a donkey face
no u
#6: May 22nd 2015 at 4:56:27 AM

The robot gets kinda mad at the people view them as inferior.

Tsundere

edited 22nd May '15 4:57:46 AM by chloso

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Weirdguy149 The King Without a Kingdom from Lumiose City under development Since: Jul, 2014 Relationship Status: I'd jump in front of a train for ya!
The King Without a Kingdom
#7: May 22nd 2015 at 5:10:20 AM

She actually gets called out on her bullshit.

Yes, I don't like Tsundere, isn't that obvious?

Cute Mute

It's been 3000 years…
BlackMageAnolis At the heart of the world... from about three miles away from you. Since: Jul, 2013 Relationship Status: Dancing with myself
At the heart of the world...
#8: May 22nd 2015 at 7:42:08 AM

What caused them to be mute was an insanely traumatic experience, and they only stay silent and act innocent to keep people from realizing how deeply affected they are.

As You Know

Bk-notburgerking Since: Jan, 2015
#9: May 22nd 2015 at 6:14:54 PM

The Suspension of Disbelief is broken when the audience catches on that the characters already know what is being explained but they don't. It makes it seem like an Ass Pull.

Fluffy Cloud Heaven

edited 22nd May '15 6:15:04 PM by Bk-notburgerking

GhostElm Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#10: May 22nd 2015 at 6:38:58 PM

The angels are impossible to relate to and talk incessantly about such meaningless tripe such as proper wing maintenance and who's wearing the latest halo styles. God, as it turns out, is little more than a lazy jerk who's become tired of his creations and spends most of his time asleep (Not that the dead can blame him). There is absolutely no stimulation of any kind other than the occasional harp and gawking at the more indescribable angels as they pass by. In contrast, hell isn't actually all that bad and, with how picky god turned out to be, is full of generally good and interesting people. Most of the formerly god fearing dead try desperately to piss god off and get sent down to where the party's at.

Single Line of Descent

"I'm as free as the dust in the solar wind."
TheWanderer Student of Story from Somewhere in New England (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
Student of Story
#11: May 22nd 2015 at 7:11:17 PM

The only reason there is just one known descendant of the famous hero is because the family in question has been practicing inbreeding on a massive scale, due in part to some rather nasty racist and xenophobic beliefs. As a result, when the time comes that when a prophesied hero is needed, rather than producing a hero what you have is something more like Charles II than Aragorn son of Arathorn.

The Chosen One.

| Wandering, but not lost. | If people bring so much courage to this world...◊ |
RPGLegend Dipper fan from Mexico city Since: Mar, 2014
Dipper fan
#12: May 22nd 2015 at 7:26:02 PM

There a Big Bad and a lot of Badass Nomral warrirors opposing him that have trained all their lifes and are willing to die to save the world... Instead a selfish teenager that just wants to be normal is the chosen one and is the only on that can save the world.

While he complains of having awesome powers and does somethin about the villain ... Many people die and those not chosen can't do anything no matter how hard they try.

Super Gender-Bender

edited 22nd May '15 7:31:35 PM by RPGLegend

Forgiveness is beyond justice, faith is superior than hope, redemption is better than perfection and love is greater than them all.
BlackMageAnolis At the heart of the world... from about three miles away from you. Since: Jul, 2013 Relationship Status: Dancing with myself
At the heart of the world...
#13: May 23rd 2015 at 6:44:26 AM

On one hand, it helps loads with protecting her secret identity as no one expects the male superhero to actually be female. On the other hand, her transformations are uncomfortable for her and mess with her brain, and it may be starting to affect her as a girl...

Take Your Time

whizzerd Transcender of Gender from Scotland Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
Transcender of Gender
#14: May 23rd 2015 at 7:00:51 AM

The more that the hero puts off their main objective to instead fulfill trivial sidequests, the more reluctant they become to actually get back to fighting the villain. Their PR drops as the people get frustrated with how lazy they are, and when they actually do get back to it they're horribly out of practise and have forgotten that the villain is, in fact, a serious threat.

Dishing Out Dirt

they/them || "Forgive me, regent of queer amphibians" - Lt.BGob
GhostElm Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#15: May 23rd 2015 at 9:48:01 PM

Your power of earth (along with not having an off switch), not only includes the control of dirt and rock, but also metal, lava, and magnetism. You have, on several occasions, inadvertently caused a few fatal disasters: bending metal buildings into... let's call it modern art, for example, or ripping the iron out of a person's veins via their skin.

Warm And Fuzzy Feeling

"I'm as free as the dust in the solar wind."
BlackMageAnolis At the heart of the world... from about three miles away from you. Since: Jul, 2013 Relationship Status: Dancing with myself
At the heart of the world...
#16: May 23rd 2015 at 10:05:53 PM

You come up to this cute little something, and you can't help but smile, your heart fluttering. That warm and fuzzy feeling you have, however, is a trap, and the moment you realize it, half of your body's been ripped off by a horrible monster who lured you in using potent pheromones.

Leitmotif

engie Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#17: May 24th 2015 at 2:29:30 AM

The Leitmotif plays in-universe, too. Which makes the Leitmotif's owner very obvious. All you have to do is listen for the theme song.

Crazy Awesome

The fact that only 140 characters are allowed here is honestly so disappointing to me.
GhostElm Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#18: May 24th 2015 at 5:31:32 PM

The character will often use his "skill" and do something awesome to help the party: fill a villain's waterbed with nitroglycerin, introduce cholera into the water supply of the enemy encampment, etc. but is secretly a double agent, has already killed one or two smaller characters on "accident", and is working toward the assassination of the Big Good

Girly Run

edited 24th May '15 5:32:16 PM by GhostElm

"I'm as free as the dust in the solar wind."
chloso no u Since: Feb, 2015 Relationship Status: Charming Titania with a donkey face
no u
#19: May 24th 2015 at 5:44:54 PM

The person doing this Girly Run spends so much time on their run that they never go anywhere.

Cain and Abel

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WilliamRadarStorm my current job from News Station NT Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
my current job
#20: May 24th 2015 at 8:34:56 PM

Cain proves to be absolutely worthless in life now that he's offed the only person who had any remote praise of him. Cue montage of him crossing the Despair Event Horizon.

Lethal Joke Character.

The possum is a potential perpetrator; he did place possum poo in the plum pot.
Bk-notburgerking Since: Jan, 2015
#21: May 25th 2015 at 7:19:36 AM

People kill actual harmless characters because they think they might be lethal joke characters.

Predators Are Mean

AHI-3000 Since: Jul, 2014 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
#22: May 25th 2015 at 8:10:33 AM

It leads to people thinking that all Herbivores Are Friendly, even hippos and elephants, which we should know aren't.

Black Comedy

WilliamRadarStorm my current job from News Station NT Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
my current job
#23: May 25th 2015 at 8:26:25 AM

See Dude, Not Funny!

Shout-Out

The possum is a potential perpetrator; he did place possum poo in the plum pot.
GhostElm Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#24: May 25th 2015 at 8:47:33 AM

The stream of near endless "shout outs" to the creator's favorite film ends with them getting charged for plagiarism.

Mutually Exclusive Power-Ups

"I'm as free as the dust in the solar wind."
BlackMageAnolis At the heart of the world... from about three miles away from you. Since: Jul, 2013 Relationship Status: Dancing with myself
At the heart of the world...
#25: May 25th 2015 at 10:35:40 AM

The powerups are forms that the main character shapeshifts into, and as he can only use the form's unique abilities using that form, he'll have to do a lot of shifting to use his abilities to the fullest, enduring a painful, bone-reconfiguring transformation each time he needs to.

Careful with That Axe


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