Fake Trope Example Maker

Lampshaded in Yet Another JRPG. When the party reaches the fortress of Dark Lord Phigros, Xander and Lisa have a conversation about their adventure possibly coming to an end.

As it turns out, Lisa is right. The Phigros in the castle (as well as the castle itself) is actually a decoy made to distract the heroes so that Phigros could destroy the Rift Between Worlds while they were gone.

Dig In Your Heels: Dominik Mysterio, befitting his reputation as a Dirty Coward, is afraid of most things, but in one chapter, his phobia of the day is of needles. Which rather complicates things for his friends, seeing as they have to get him vaccinated in order to attempt a recent job. According to Dom himself, his fear stems from an incident in his childhood when Papa Shango used a Voodoo Doll to stick pins in his butt. Nikki Cross, of all people, points out the holes in this logic:

Gentle Gorilla

My Example: In Pokemon War And Peace, Primapeak, one of the Legendary Pokemon of the Tadgulad Region (a Fantasy Counterpart Culture of Wales), is a thirty-foot gorilla that lives in the mountains (and even looks like one, making it a literal mountain gorilla) and rarely gets into violent confrontations with humans or other Pokemon. This makes sense, since Primapeak is based on Idris, the famous giant from Welsh Mythology, who was likewise a Gentle Giant.

Edited by Sammael29 on Apr 12th 2024 at 11:39:10 AM

In Beyond City Walls, the plot centers on a young boy befriending a ginormous friendly gorilla who resides in the jungle outside his village. The boy names him Moto, and he is quite playful and friendly.

Abusive Parents

In Jonas Corbins Guide To Life, Kiera Bernhardt's nonconfrontational people-pleaser personality comes from years of verbal and emotional abuse from her mother Deborah. Her father Stephen isn't much better, since he almost never argues with his wife's abuse and treats Kiera and her brother Adrian like Ungrateful Bastards if they disagree with him.

Whole-Plot Reference: Dear Evan Hansen

In leu of a "bump," here's the compilation post for Light Novel/ After Getting Run Over By a Delivery Truck, I Woke Up as King of the Amazons.

• Deliberate Values Dissonance: a fair few of the values of the Amazon civilization is a complete 180 from what the protagonist is used to. Personal strength is valued above interpersonal skills, quick thinking is valued above slow, deliberate strategizing, and of course, every Amazon is looking for a man who can keep house and cook.
• Expy: To Cirno. Cerise is a diminutive, petulant ice fairy in the guise of a six-year-old girl in a blue and white dress, who absolutely despises having her intellect questioned. She's something of a Sidekick Creature Nuisance to the human Prince, Leandross.
• Foil: Itaki is a calm, level-headed Deadpan Snarker. In sharp contrast to his "wife" (cough captor cough) Amannah, a Sarcasm-Blind, Blood Knight Action Girl (ergo, the snark tends to fly right past her without sticking).
• Glurge Addict: The demon princess Asmadea, the Patron of Lust, has a Sylvanian Families-esque toy village and a Precious Moments-like figurine collection. She also collects libraries of soppy poetry. She can be easily bribed with new figurines or books.
• Hot-Blooded: Deconstructed. The villain of the first two books is Hell Baron Thulkar, who's a hard-drinking, hard-fighting, gluttonous, lustful Blood Knight (depicted as a red oni in the anime, although the novel describes something more close to a classical Big Red Devil with eight eyes). However, such a lifestyle takes a huge toll on even his demonic physiology; he's grossly overweight, has cystic fibrosis, brain damage, several STD's, is blind in three of his left eyes and one of his right ones, and suffers from a musculoskeletal condition from never resting long enough for him to heal from battle.
• Idiot Crows: After the Hot-Blooded but terrible-at-fighting warrioress Amannah is trounced by a monster, a crow flies by and grumbles "idjit!". It's implied that she's a constant source of amusement to the local crows.
• Ninja Maid: the human king has an all-female serving staff "trained in an ancient martial art" by a traveler from "across the sea" so they can double as disguised bodyguards.
• Overly Long Gag: The Prince (Leandross for short) has a very long list of names and titles which goes on for no less than three pages. In the anime adaptation, it cuts to commercial halfway through.
• Spear Counterpart: To Lina Inverse. An exuberant young sorcerer named "Leon Revert" makes an appearance. He's a brash, rude, hot-headed Fiery Redhead who eats like three pigs and has a penchant for Fantastic Nuke spells. He also has an airheaded swordswoman companion. Lampshaded by Itaki, who asks Leon if he has a cousin or something.
• Weird Currency: The human kingdom uses potatoes as currency. Similarly to certain real-life tropical islands where yams are used for money, nobody actually eats potatoes except the insanely rich. Itaki, incensed at the idea of never being able to enjoy fries or potato chips ever again, teaches the people about the modern system wherein money is backed by a certain resource the government controls, preferrably something the neighboring kingdoms want to trade for. The kingdom adopts a copper coin called the Tayter (which has a potato plant as its tail) as the official currency.

Edited by dvorak on Apr 14th 2024 at 11:28:36 AM

The story of Knight In Training is essentially Medieval Dear Evan Hansen, with various aspects of the plot that play out similarly with the latter, such as the plot being kicked off when one of the knights (though not an accomplice of the main character) commits suicide, leading to his fellow trainees to suspect that he is said knight's best friend, to the point of the deceased knight's family hearing about the news of the protagonist being a friend of him.

Virtuous Character Copy: Zaheer

• Aderyn (the Flying-Type gym leader in Pokemon War And Peace) is a bald man who can manipulate the air, has two similarly-empowered friends (and one empowered girlfriend who's a lot taller than he is), and has a special interest in A) a legendary spiritual entity responsible for maintaining the balance in his world and B) overthrowing the leaders of a powerful nation who have established a stranglehold on his home country, the Tadgulad Region. In contrast to Zaheer, however, Aderyn is an unambiguously heroic revolutionary, he and his teammates are focused on killing as few of the enemy forces as possible, he wants to ally with the Legendary Pokemon Primeapeak instead of killing it, and after overthrowing Baron Despo, he helps establish a more benevolent form of order over the Tadgulad Region, instead of plunging it into anarchy.

Major Injury Underreaction

• My Example: In Ava Raine Bringer, a violent skirmish between the Ultimate Warrior and the Bella Twins ends with one of the Warrior's men cutting out Nikki Bella's eye. After resting for a few days in Stamford Castle's hospital wing, and being told that even with the best healing wizards, they can't repair her missing eyes, Nikki's reaction... is a rather casual "Alright, then," after which, the heroes find her the next evening, putting on make-up and preparing for a night carousing in the tavern.

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Indifferent Deliverance: Staley, a dullahan, was born with a unique condition that makes him incapable of feeling any pain. This doesn't make him invulnerable to getting hurt, though, and a lot of the comic's physical comedy comes from his near lack of reaction to getting stabbed, shot, and even impaled through the eye once!

In Dig In Your Heels, Sheamus clearly feels like this about his Caper Crew of flatmates. Dirty Dom is constantly butting heads on major decisions, insisting he's the best suited to getting the action done, only to turn tail and run the moment the chips are down. Dakota Kai ropes them into convoluted high-risk, high-reward (or high-risk, low-reward) schemes to make money, and rubs it in his face when he can't come up with a better plan himself. And Nikki either embarrasses them with lurid stories about her recent conquests, or, being the Violent Glaswegian that she is, getting them into fights that end up catching the attention of The Authority. No wonder Sheamus keeps asking, "How the feck did I end up with friends like youse?!" And yet, ultimately, they always end up doing something that proves Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other

Ax-Crazy

The Spook from Film/ Camp Spook combines this with Woman Scorned. After a one-night-stand with Jim, she begins to go insane and murder everyone who she thinks is "keeping them appart."

Double Thruster: Rigelian Station-class "Andross" ships are massive, powerful dreadnoughts that easily cleave through anything that gets close enough to laser firing range. However, due to their massive size and comparatively abysmal engine power, they've been relegated to mobile bases for Rigelian troops. Anyone can take out an Andross with enough range and patience, which is why their Andross ships are built with special tungsten-reinforced titanium plating — to make their defenses harder to penetrate from a distance.

Exoframe Chronicles: Kiana has a permanently-paralyzed right leg and walks with a cane, but has enough psionic power to have been selected as one of the Empire's Four Sentinels, and is also a mecha ace on a par with the other three.

Virtuous Character Copy: Draco Malfoy

Edited by Kahran042 on Apr 19th 2024 at 8:25:40 AM

• Selwyn Gruffudd from Pokemon War And Peace has a lot of things in common with Draco Malfoy: blonde, grey-eyed, a Privileged Rival to the Player Character, and the most recent descendant of an ancient family with a shady past, who lives in a house vaguely connected to snakes. You're even introduced to Selwyn when he's being attacked by a Griffid, similar to the way Buckbeak the Hippogriff attacked Malfoy in Prisoner of Azkaban. However, whereas Malfoy is a prejudiced, smug, rude, cowardly elitist little bully, who comes to realize too late that he was on the Wrong Side All Along, and never really becomes friends with Harry into adulthood, Selwyn is a Spoiled Sweet youth, constantly goes out of his way to both push himself and the player character to greater and greater heights, and deeply disapproves of the corrupt Team Conquest and helps the player character take them down to rid the Tadgulad Region of their influence.

Bedmate Reveal- Played for Laughs

• My Example: In Horsing Around, after a hard night of drinking, Becky Lynch stumbles back home to her flat, walks into a bedroom, and then climbs into the (occupied) bed, mistaking the sleeper for Bayley, (one of) her girlfriends. After cooing over the sleeper's dark hair and running her fingers through it, Becky then goes into a surprisingly sober (heh heh) speech about how despite all their accomplishments together, she still doesn't feel worthy of the other Horsewomen's affections, and wonders what kind of Grand Romantic Gesture she'd have to make to finally solidify the depths of her love. After a few silent moments, she then becomes curious about why the other person isn't replying:

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The third act of The Explorer And The Amazon is kicked off when the titular explorer, Captain Jenkins waking up in a way he didn't expect. Turns out that his sidekick, Barry, was beside his bed all along. The film then cuts as the titular Amazon warrior has been kidnapped by the Big Bad, and switching her with Barry was part of the Big Bad's plan.

Super-Persistent Predator: Exaggerated

When Tsuzaki Watame discovers the titular Valley of the Elves in Tsuzaki in the Valley of the Elves, he expects to find a flourishing elven society, which he does. What he doesn't expect is Samral, a giant, furry beast that is not only willing, but supremely dedicated to traveling to the ends of the Valley to hunt down any human intruders. And since Tsuzaki is the only human in the Valley, he's the sole item on the menu.

A two-fold exploited example starts and finishes a chapter of Dig In Your Heels.

• First up, Nikki Cross finds local Dirty Cop Randy Orton spray-painting offensive graffiti onto the car of Head of Police Stephanie McMahon. Nikki (who is bare-handed) ends up wrestling with Randy (who's wearing gloves) for the spray-can, accidentally spraying more paint onto the car, and then Immoral Journalist JBL takes a photo of the fight scene. John and Randy then try blackmailing Nikki into paying them an extortionate sum in exchange for not showing the photo to Stephanie and making her think Nikki vandalized her car. Given Nikki is a Hot-Blooded Violent Glaswegian who has deliberately picked fights with The Authority in the past, she knows Stephanie most likely won't take her word over theirs, so off she goes to start somehow raising that money. Randy smugly says, "Careful, Cross. It'd be a shame if the Chief saw this photo and got the wrong idea."
• Later on, the gang give Orton and Layfield A Taste of Their Own Medicine. After finding Randy paying John generously for the folders of famous convicts who owe him money, Dakota Kai slips a handful of wetapunga crickets into Randy's trousers, making him scream in pain as the wetas start biting him down below. A panicking John tries unzipping Randy's trousers and trying to suck the wetas out of there, whereupon Nikki takes a photo of that, and the folders. The gang then threatens to show the photo to Stephanie and make her think Randy paid John to have sex with him in exchange for the folders, after which Stephanie, who hates corrupt cops with a burning passion, will have Randy kicked off the force and John sent to prison. Unless, of course, both men promise to stop harassing the gang. Nikki even uses the same words Randy said to her about how it would be a shame if Stephanie saw the photos and got the wrong idea.

Gruesome Goat

Hoshi No Ko: Played for Laughs. An early episode has Popopo witnessing a person apparently trying to hurt Natsumi and rushes in to help. It turns out to be just Satoshi giving her a massage.

Fairies Unite: One of the Beasts fought by the fairies and Rangers in this series is a goat-like fairy named Flare.

Four-Temperament Ensemble

Edited by Oggy123 on Apr 21st 2024 at 9:12:08 PM

• The four-person romance of the Four Horsewomen in Horsing Around qualifies as this:
  • Charlotte Flair is the Choleric: Very passionate, driven to getting a job done, but with an emotional that is all too easily set alight. When Charlotte loses her temper, she goes into an Unstoppable Rage and starts smashing her way through whoever's offended her until something calms her down just as quick, like soothing music, or an ice cream.
  • Bayley is the Sanguine: Cheerful, good-natured, and always the first to make friends. And, being such a Cuddle Bug, she's quick to establish physically affectionate contact (even if the recipient of her hugging is not happy with it).
  • Becky Lynch, surprisingly, is the Melancholic: She's actually pretty quiet and introverted when she's not in the ring, and has moments of being an Insecure Love Interest to all four of her girlfriends.
  • Sasha Banks is the Phlegmatic: She's not as withdrawn as Becky or as outgoing as Bayley, but she's one of the friendliest Horsewomen, and acts as a sort of Team Mom to support their emotional health.

Bears Are Bad News

In Beyond The Limits, which focuses on a group of people camping in a dangerous forest by choice, Ben nearly dies from sepsis after being bit on the leg by a grizzly bear.

In Dig In Your Heels, the gang ends up trying to make a musical record as their latest Get-Rich-Quick Scheme. Dom suggests that they write a song dedicated to the praises of Slim Jims, just like Randy Savage did years ago. None of his friends agree with him:

In Love with the Gangster's Girl

Edited by Sammael29 on Apr 23rd 2024 at 2:24:47 AM

Played with in Double Thruster if you choose to go down Kirsten Bigg-Guns' romance route. Though they aren't ever established to be a couple in the game, Alistair Prick feels entitled to Kirsten (and all the other members of the Prick Alliance) and will respond to Scott's flirty comments towards her with threats of physical violence. Tensions only heat up after Kirsten defects from the Prick Alliance and joins the Double Thruster's crew, which Alistair perceives to be on par with her committing adultery (despite the fact that they were never in a relationship in the first place).

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In Jonas Corbins Guide To Life, Stephen Bernhardt will often lecture his children on how he worked his way up from nothing to become a successful lawyer. However, one episode reveals that he actually came from a very stable, if dull, upper-middle class family who paid his way through law school.

Reformed, but Not Tamed

Edited by Kahran042 on Apr 24th 2024 at 7:13:50 AM