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sethtriggs
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08:24:18 PM Sep 5th 2010
Is the MST 3 K presentation of The Mole People the Trope Namer for The Load, or at least an alternate?
Ody
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09:09:10 AM Dec 20th 2010
Thinking of removing:

◦A much straighter example would be Orihime. She never takes part in any action and when she does, she's either healing or her attack does pretty much nothing. Her default setting is screaming for Ichigo to help her.

As it's highly subjective. Healing is extremely useful (especially the reality-warping sort that can reverse death) and, from what I remember, she's only asked for help once, and only because all her powers were failing in a stressful moment. Should this example stay or should it go? Comments?
artman40
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08:57:22 AM Jan 15th 2011
Does Professor Aronnax from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea count as The Load since he contributes a little to the group's welfare? It's probably the case of Tropes Are Not Bad.
Nev
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07:41:09 PM Jan 19th 2011
  • Sailor Moon, titular heroine notwithstanding, comes off as the load a lot in the anime (not so much in the manga). Her redeeming grace is that she's almost exclusively the only one who can finish off the Big Bad of the day and she can buckle down and work hard. Despite this, she has almost no combat skill, whines incessantly, is book dumb or chooses not to try, overeats and oversleeps, and mooches off her friends and family for money and emotional support.

I really don't see how this counts as at all, since "The Load" can't be the one who kills the villian EVERY SINGLE TIME and often saves the others or solely moves the action forward. All the examples are just how Usagi acts in her everyday life, which has nothing to do with being a competent superhero, except for the "no combat skill" which is blatantly untrue, as again, she's always the one who can kill the villian. (Also "mooches off her friends and family for money and emotional support?" Since when? The only person who ever buys her things is her boyfriend, and what...you're not supposed to have friends and family give you emotional support when you also support them? I thought that was the point?)..coupled with the "whines incessantly", it pretty much seems like "Complaining About Characters You Don't Like". It's pretty impossible for the protagonist of an action series to be a load, and Sailor Moon isn't one, even if she does screw up and need saving on occasion (it is in the others job description to help her out and protect her, after all)
fibojoly
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03:01:12 PM Jun 16th 2011
Wouldn't Samwell Tarly start as this in Game of Thrones? He's very aware of it, though, so I guess that would be... subverted?
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