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This webcomic contains examples of:
- Sequel Series: The premise picks up directly after the events of Dragon Ball Super, including its film Dragon Ball Super: Broly. Though the official manga continuity co-currently released new arcs, they're not directly acknowledged in this work.
- Hey, this is Billiam...
Billiam - Hipster Trash is an American YouTube pop-culture retrospective series hosted by William Thies. With content primarily focusing on the 1990s to 2000s, Billiam causally covers various television shows, merchandise, and fads through their history, his own past experiences, and present-day outlook.
Episodes of this web series provide examples of:
- The guidelines for listing show-level tropes apply to this list, too. Alphabetical by trope title.
- List of tropes that are only seen in a single episode or a small handful of episodes.
- Tropes about episodes, like Bottle Episode, are prime examples.
- This list may also include tropes relating to a secondary or tertiary character or location.
Oh sure, Horton might thinly imply that the product or service, and the production around it might be more harmful, impractical, or useless to the consumer than they initially realize. But that's considered okay, as the product's widespread practices and lack of alternatives will ensure you'll buy and love the product either way.
The series debuted on September 27, 2012, with its initial final episode released on December 17, 2017. The series was revived on July 28, 2021, starting with "If Recycling Was Honest". The full YouTube series is available in a dedicated playlist
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Episodes of this web series provide examples of:
- Brutal Honesty: Exaggerated.
- Catchphrase: Typically, Roger Horton will spout "Hi, I'm Roger by the way..." at some point in an episode.
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin: It's a series about advertisements if they were honest about their manipulative intentions to persuade consumers to buy their products. In some cases, a bit too honest.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus: Reading the actual text scroll in "If Insurance Companies Were Honest" reveals some darkly comedic and clinical interpretations of unlikely child death scenarios. Cell phone use alone has three different entries.
- Harmful to Minors: Invoked in "If Insurance Companies Were Honest", where Horton appeals to a viewer's concern about life insurance using a little girl on-screen. A slow text scroll introduces the increasingly disturbed girl to child death scenarios while Horton passively shrugs it off.
Batman Arkham Origins is a 2013 GameBook comic book written by Doug Wagner and Adam Beechen, and illustrated by Christian Duce. Set as a prequel tale to the events of the video game of the same name, a young, inexperienced Batman is tasked
The interactive comic book series provides examples of:
- Foregone Conclusion: Commissioner Loeb's mayoral plans would never come to fruition, as he dies very early in Origins' opening act in Blackgate Prison's gas chamber. That doesn't stop the reader from getting a Dead End that leads to Leob successfully arresting Batman in the open, assuring his bid.
- Downer Ending:
- Golden Ending:
- The Many Deaths of You: There are multiple dead ends featured that lead to Batman's untimely death. Getting mauled by rats, blown up in vehicles, and falling with the heavy Humpty Dumpty are some of the worst examples.
Transformers: The Game (PSP) is a third-person action-adventure handheld title, based on Transformers (2007) from Hasbro's Transformers franchise.
The game spiritually functions as a hybrid of the home console and Nintendo DS adaptations.
Unlike either version, the PSP version does not split the storyline into distinct Autobot and Decepticon sides. Instead, a linear experience switches between playable characters on both sides for select missions.
The game was released on June 19, 2007.
This video game provides examples of:
- Adaptational Alternate Ending: In contrast to the other versions, this game has Sam Witwicky shove the cube into Megatron's chest to kill him, rather than Optimus Prime doing the feat. Ironically, this makes it the closest to the actual film's climax out of all of them.
- Adaptational Early Appearance:
- Much like the console game, a version of Shockwave makes his appearance prior to his canonical appearance in Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
- Wheeljack, who is designed closer to his G1 counterpart, also appears as a playable character before his Que interpretation in Dark of the Moon.
- Adaptation Expansion: Shockwave's inclusion adds a subplot of the Decepticon trying to raise a drone army on Earth, under his leadership.
- Same Title, Different Game: This handheld version shares the same name as the console version, unlike the DS versions. However, the approaches to the third-person shooter experience, along with the storyline, are completely distinct between them.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a 2009 third-person action video game developed by Luxoflux, based on the theatrical film of the same name.
Online Multiplayer is one of the highlighted features of this game, being the first console Transformers game to pull it off. note
This video game provides examples of:
- Adapted Out:
- Jolt doesn't appear in this game, who helped link Jetfire's parts into Optimus for his flight mode in the film.
- Likewise, other Autobots like the Arcee triplets, Wheelie, Skids and Mudlap aren't seen or referenced in the game.
- Despite being a playable and recurring character this time, Ratchet is mysteriously absent in the Decepticons campaign (again).
- Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole: Devastator rampages through the streets of Cairo, and is defeated by the playable Autobot. The Decepticon combiner is explicitly prevented from opening the pyramids' peak to reveal the Star Harvestor, as he does in the film. Yet, come The Fallen's boss battle, the Star Harvestor is exposed and operational anyway.
- Dies Differently in Adaptation:
- In the Autobot Campaign, Sideways' boss battle ends with him falling to his death from a rooftop by the playable Autobot. In the film, Sideways is bisected by Sideswipe.
- In the Autobot Campaign, Jetfire is fatally backstabbed by Megatron's blade through the spark. In the film, Jetfire sacrifices his life and parts to Optimus, as a form of redemption.
- Motor Mouth: Sam Witwicky's dialogue mirrors his film counterpart's tendency to urgently talk a lot. It rears its head moreso when Sam is talking to the player through the comms.
- Mythology Gag:
- Specfic trophies/achievements are granted for recreating certain battles in the film series or franchise. For instance, killing Jazz with Megatron in multiplayer.
- Skins for Ironhide, Ratchet, Starscream and Sideswipe paint them in color schemes reflective of their Generation One counterparts.
- Certain Achievements/Trophies are named after Generation One episodes.
- Promoted to Playable:
- Ratchet is playable in the console release this time, after being sidelined in the previous console game.
- Long after his Nintendo Wii and Playstation 2 counterpart, Jetfire was made playable via the "Character and Map Pack Plus" pack. However, unlike the other DLC characters in the pack, he was restricted to multiplayer.
- Spared by the Adaptation: In the Autobot campaign, Optimus Prime doesn't die the story, even in missions reflecting the forest battle location in the film where he does. Downplayed in the Decepticon campaign, where Prime is seemingly killed in his boss fight, but it unexpectedly revived in The Fallen boss fight to stop The Harvester.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Some of the drones are blatantly modeled after existing Transformers in the franchise:
- Seeker is inspired by Skywarp, sharing the purple color scheme, fighter jet alt mode, and teleportation ability.
- Protectobot is Bluestreak, the white-and-blue colored police Autobot.
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Episodes of this series provide examples of:
- The guidelines for listing show-level tropes apply to this list, too. Alphabetical by trope title.
- List of tropes that are only seen in a single episode or a small handful of episodes.
- Tropes about episodes, like Bottle Episode, are prime examples.
- This list may also include tropes relating to a secondary or tertiary character or location.
Daniel Spellbound is an upcoming Netflix 3DCG animated series created by .
Our titular protagonist ( ) is known as a Tracker - a skilled profession where people hunt down mystical items and ingredients to be delivered to patrons. Using his wits
The first episode debuted during Netflix's Geeked Week on June, 2022, previewing the series for first-time viewers.
Episodes of this series provide examples of:
- Big Applesauce: The first episode takes place in New York City, using iconography like the Empire State Building as an establishing shot for the surface world.
- List of tropes that are only seen in a single episode or a small handful of episodes.
- Tropes about episodes, like Bottle Episode, are prime examples.
- This list may also include tropes relating to a secondary or tertiary character or location.
J2 is a superhero action-comedy comic run written , set in the Marvel Comics 2 universe.
Its 12th issue served as the Grand Finale for J2's solo run, as the Viewer Mail section revealed the series had been cancelled due to underperforming sales. This wouldn't mark the end of the character's appearances, as he would show up intermittently since his debut.
While Wild Thing got her own (shorter) run, J2 would return as a back-up story from Issue #2 to its final Issue #5. Furthermore, he would appear more in A-Next related matters.
In 2023, the character appeared again in the Avengers Unlimited comics, once again in a A-Next centric story.
This series provide examples of:
- Asian and Nerdy: Zane's half Japanese on his mother side, sports a dweebish speckled appearance, and enthralled by video games.
- Affirmative-Action Legacy: While hardly touched upon in-universe, Zane is the half-Japanese successor of the Juggernaut title from his white father.
- Breakout Character: Wild Thing first appeared in this series, then got a few backup stories. She later got her own comic run.
- But Not Too Foreign: Zane has a Japanese mother in Sashi, and a white father in Cain. While he share a few similarities with his mother, you'd be forgiven if he looked too much like his Peter Parker inspiration. We see what Zane looks like transformed, prior to making his J2 armor in his debut issue, and he's a splitting image of his white father.
- Costume Evolution: Throughout his initial run, Zane's Juggernaut form was a silver and black colored version of his father's typical suit. To honor his missing father, he wore his father's flannel shirt around his waist. After reuniting with Cain, Zane gives Cain his flannel back, which leaves J2's appearances with the bare black skin suit section. Eventually, he adopts a variety of shorts and khakis to fill the void.
- Destructive Savior: As J2, Zane tends to cause a lot of collateral damage. Come Issue #6, he begins to feel guilty about the damages he caused as a by-product of his revenge against Wild Thing. However, to his surprise, various people appreciate his
- Generation Xerox
- Grand Finale:
- Ironic Name:
- "Zane" can mean "graceful", though as J2, he has a hard time being that with a power that turns him into a living bulldozer.
- Lighter and Softer: Previous Juggernaut stories tend to be on the more serious side, such as the climatic "
- Meaningful Name: "Yama" happens to mean "mountain" in Japanese.
- Wake Up, Go to School & Save the World:
Put a short (1-6 paragraph) description of program here, including concept, characters and gimmicks (if any).
Episodes of this series provide examples of:
- The guidelines for listing show-level tropes apply to this list, too. Alphabetical by trope title.
- List of tropes that are only seen in a single episode or a small handful of episodes.
- Tropes about episodes, like Bottle Episode, are prime examples.
- This list may also include tropes relating to a secondary or tertiary character or location.
Put a short (1-6 paragraph) description of program here, including concept, characters and gimmicks (if any).
Episodes of this series provide examples of:
- The guidelines for listing show-level tropes apply to this list, too. Alphabetical by trope title.
- List of tropes that are only seen in a single episode or a small handful of episodes.
- Tropes about episodes, like Bottle Episode, are prime examples.
- This list may also include tropes relating to a secondary or tertiary character or location.
