This is simply what you think is the (not some of the, the) best example of any objective trope (so no YMMV or Trivia as they are not tropes proper and the former is already subjective) The "Crowning Example" if you will.
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- You think it's the most well done.
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- You just really like the source material.
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- Naked First Impression
- Ranma and Akane ~ Carla
- Horo the Wise ~ Sinclair
- Yuri and Victor ~ Fireside
- Naked People Are Funny
- Akira Takizawa ~Not JM Keynes
- going to the store. ~Stark1111
- Ugly Naked Guy ~ SweetFirefly
- "I'M A TURKEY!!" ~ Monolaf317
- The opening credits of Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Albus Dumbledore as portrayed in Potter Puppet Pals. ~ Fireside
- Named by the Adaptation
- Harry Palmer ~ WilliamShakesman
- The Addams Family. All of the characters were nameless in the original comic strip, they only got names starting with the TV adaptation. ~ WoodKnapp94
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast
- Lord Foul the Despiser, AKA; Satansheart and Soulcrusher, Fangthane the Render, Corruption, The Grey Slayer, A-Jeroth of the Seven Hells ~Seraphem
- The Undertaker. ~ Jesska
- Lu Bu ~ JasonPaul
- Shelly de Killer. Does exactly what it says on the tin. ~ Xindali
- Skulduggery Pleasant has many. ~ Camroc G
- Richard, Chief Warlock of the Brothers of Darkness, Lord of the Thirteen Hells, Master of the Bones, Emperor of the Black, Lord of the Undead, Mistress of Magma, and the Mayor of a little village up the coast. ~ Wragnaroq R Maggeddon
- You forgot Lord of the Dance. - Werebunny131
- Lt. Colonel Max Fightmaster. Most badass real name EVER. ~ Dhana Ragnarok
- The Saint of Killers - artfulscruff
- The Doctor has a fair few. Namely;Theta Sigma, The Last of The Time Lords, The Oncoming Storm, Ka-Faraq-Gatri, Destroyer of Worlds, Bane of Nightmares, John Smith, The Lonely God, Christo, The Sainted Physician, The Raggedy Doctor, The Man Who Gives Monsters Nightmares, The Madman With A Box, Predator of the Daleks.~ MH Mhasf 1998
- Exdeath ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Narrative Shapeshifting
- Courage the Cowardly Dog owns this trope. ~ SymphonicStorm
- Scooby-Doo has done this more than once at least. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Nasty Party
- The Red Wedding from A Song of Ice and Fire ~ Silverblade 2
- Near-Villain Victory
- Aggregor nearly succeeding in absorbing the infant Celestialsapien in Ben 10: Ultimate Alien. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Neat Freak
- Nebulous Evil Organisation
- Ouma ~ contrafanxxx
- SPECTRE - xxebb1993xx
- The Jahana Group sponsors the VG Tournament, while secretly orchestring kidnappings and inhumane experiments on the entrants behind-the-scenes. ~ Miin U
- Necessarily Evil
- The SCP Foundation. - Unknown Troper
- Lord Genome. ~Storm
- Balthazar ~ Man Without A Body
- Uchiha Itachi ~ Carla
- Abraham — at least, in his own mind. deeman45
- Emiya Kiritsugu. "Even if I am to carry ‘all the evils of this world’ – it won’t matter. If that can save the world, then I’d gladly accept it.” ~ spacemonkey37
- Necromantic
- Precia ~ spacemonkey37
- Negative Continuity
- Drawn Together. ~ High Five
- SpongeBob SquarePants ~Pikawil, Man Without A Body
- The Simpsons, with possibly the only town in the known universe where fourth grade can last twenty years. ~ Willy Four Eyes
- The Young Ones — Astfgl
- Neglectful Precursors
- Between abandoning superweapons and dangerous experiments all throughout multiple galaxies without leaving so much as a warning, accidentally creating multiple galaxy-endangering threats, utterly failing to clean up the messes they caused (with Earthlings doing in a few years what they failed to do in centuries), refusing to interfere with mortal affairs after ascending even to deal with the problems that they caused to begin with, forcing their non-interference rules onto anyone within their plane that's trying to help, and generally being incompetent, self-righteous hypocrites, the Ancients from the Stargate-verse are so unbelievably neglectful that it borders on abusive. There's a reason they have an entire folder dedicated to them on the Neglectful Precursors trope page. ~mystery_kcad
- Nerds Are Sexy
- Max Caulfield, freckle faced, shy, socially awkward... with wide hips, a bubble but, and legs. None of which has gone unnoticed by her fans judging by the sheer amount of H-art and H-vids dedicated to her. ~ Miin U
- Nerf Arm
- The Cardboard Tube Samurai ~josh6243
- Network Decay
- Cartoon Network with its CNReal. Seriously, go look at the Network Decay page, there's a whole section devoted to how horrifically they did this trope. ~ Carls493, Gundamforce
- MTV Networks is the all-time champion of this. Its namesake (and sibling VH1) have abandoned music videos for Snark Bait reality shows, CMT, once standing for Country Music Television, now shows game shows and Follow the Leader reality shows that were on FOX five years ago, TV Land has started to dump shows from the 50s and 60s to add more recent reruns and reality shows, and The Nashville Network was retooled into The National Network and later Spike TV. The only networks under their banner that haven't appeared to veer wildly off-course are Nickelodeon and Comedy Central. ~ Anonymous User, Willy Four Eyes, The Red Red Kroovy, Carla, Doctor Rayman
- Since the two other obvious choices are already taken, I'm nominating the History Channel; once a haven for historical documentaries, they randomly decided to only show the ones related to Hitler before following the normal cable network trend of only airing marathons of reality shows and DocuSoaps. It's such a fall from grace that it's even the current page image! ~ WoodKnapp94
- Never Bring A Knife To A Gunfight
- Never Got to Say Goodbye
- Sui-Féng's backstory in a nutshell and the reason she once tried to kill her "goddess", Yoruichi. ~ Miin U
- Never Mess with Granny
- This section just has to be added specifically for Genkai. Being 70+ years old or giving up a good chunk of her power to Yusuke never stopped her from kicking all kinds of ass. ~El_Superbeast
- Granny, from Looney Tunes ~ Man Without A Body, Doctor Rayman, Decaf Grub 47393
- Irene ~ Kazzy
- Setsuno, as sseen in these pages. Whoa... ~ Kozz Wollop
- Sister Yolanda. Kindly-looking (aside from the eyepatch), wrinkled old nun with a gold-plated Desert Eagle. That she fires with one hand. ~ Arcane Azmadi
- Granny Weatherwax.
- Lucille Verneuil. - IúkaSylvie
- Never My Fault
- Captain Martin Walker. - Infection
- DarkSydePhil. - Physical Stamina, mysterykcad
- One of the biggest flaws of Michelangelo and the Shredder. Mikey refuses to admit a mistake he made was his fault, while the Shredder blames Hamato Yoshi for every bad thing that has happened in his life. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Never the Selves Shall Meet
- Back to the Future, anyone? ~ Replis Monathin, Doctor Rayman
- Never Trust a Trailer
- Avatar: The Last Airbender ~ Lale
- Rebuild of Evangelion ~ Carla
- Highlander: Endgame. The great grandmama of all filthy liars among trailers. - ZuulMF
- The Muppets (2011). Probably the funniest example of this trope. rtw2act
- Aliens: Colonial Marines, to the point where Sega paid $1.25 million to settle a false advertizing suit about it. ~ rjd1922
- New Ability Addiction
- Ben relying on only Feedback to the total exclusion of his other, more useful transformations in Ben 10: Omniverse. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- New Era Speech
- A World With No Boundaries's speech, Crazy Anarchists + Large Ham + Crowning BGM, sure they're villains, but the delivery of their speech is awesome! ~ Not JM Keynes
- Colossus' "voice of world control" speech in Colossus: The Forbin Project. ~ erforce
- Magneto in X-Men: Days of Future Past ~ Doctor Rayman
- New Powers as the Plot Demands
- Maximum Ride. All the time. "Guess what? I can talk to fish!" ~ Sapphire Blue
- The Silver Age Superman. Heck, I could probably just say the Silver Age in general. ~ Waxing Name, Doctor Rayman
- The Force ~ Another Online Persona
- New Season, New Name
- The Pokemon anime. ~ Doctor Rayman
- New Work, Recycled Graphics
- The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, which reuses a lot of assets from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. ~ Doctor Rayman
- N.G.O. Superpower
- Nice Character, Mean Actor
- Matt Engarde plays a hero of justice but is really a sociopathic murderer. ~ rjd1922
- Darla Dimple, who acts like a friend to all children and animals on camera, but is actually an egotistical and self-centered girl who hates animals. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Nice Guy
- Fred Rogers. ~ archon
- Wilt. ~ iansimsjam
- Steve Rogers.
- Mega Man Volnutt. Quite possibly one of the kindest protagonists in any video game, especially any Mega Man game in general. And that's why he's my favorite Mega Man protagonist. ~ xxbiasonxxx
- Superman. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Carrot Ironfoundersson.
- Tohru Honda ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Terry Bogard even asks, "R U OKAY?!" before he nukes you into the stratosphere. ~ Miin U
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Trying to keep the Big Bad away from the mystical shiny and instead basically holding the door for him...need I say more? ~ Progeny Ex Machina
- Pandora ~ Carla
- Bleach: Captain Hitsugaya Toshiro stabbing his childhood friend and possible love interest Hinamori Momo in the heart. —ncfan
- Bumblebee to simultaneously get an enemy spy started on his way to being head of intelligence, but also to send an innocent man (well, machine) to the stockade, where he spent the next fifty-plus years slowly becoming insane and vengeful before breaking out to come after Bumblebee for revenge. (Both of those situations, incidentally, manage to get worse.) Way to go, bee. ~ Scrounge
- Coop —Marlee Cross
- Code Geass: The Euphinator. C'mon, you all know what I'm talking about here. But in all fairness, Lelouch did just realize that his Geass became permanent. ~ Xander Jacatipon
- Flashpoint ~ Matt P 5557
- Mortal Kombat 9. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
- Col. Hans Landa ~ Man Without A Body
- Hades. He robbed Hercules of his divinity in the first five minutes of the movie, then spent the next 88 minutes of it unknowingly helping him recover it. ~ Carla
- First Despair talked Rao into creating life on an inherently unstable world with the ultimate aim of creating a single being to mourn and despair like never before. This plan ended up in Superman - a hero who manages to inspire hope even in universes where he does not exist. ~ Canonier
- Scar. He has Simba cornered during the final battle, so Scar decided it was a good time to tell Simba that he killed his father. Way to think Scar. ~ Cyber Tiger 88
- Thanks for saving the Dovahkiin, your mortal enemy, from their execution, Alduin. ~ foxmccloud4387
- Gollum's attempt to take the One Ring resulted in its destruction. ~ Lophotrochozoa
- Ace Attorney has a lot of this since criminals have to make mistakes to get caught. The best example is probably Matt Engarde, who would have kept Phoenix in a Morton's Fork situation where he basically had to get Engarde off the hook if he hadn't taken the highly stupid and highly unnecessary step of recording Juan Corrida's assassination without Shelly De Killer's knowledge. Third game also has 2 straight cases where culprits slip up and give testimony that proves they were the ones who murdered the victim of the case. ~ stupidskeleton
- Nice Mean And In Between
- Elfo, Luci and Bean. ~ Inactive Troper
- Hop, Bede, and Marnie. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Nigh-Invulnerable
- Superman, the O.G. example and Trope Codifier. ~ Miin U
- Godzilla ~ Man Without A Body
- Wolverine ~ Carla
- Deadpool, more so than wolverine. ~ Matt P 5557
- Nightmare Sequence
- Yume Nikki. ~ Phoenix Fire
- An American Werewolf in London ~ Man Without A Body
- Sarah Connor's nuclear nightmare ~ Fireside
- Seconded. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Nightmare Face
- Junji Ito's drawn portrait, shown on that page. I am not responsible for your subsequent nightmares. ~ King Clark
- Kanade's face when she burns a letter with important information. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- K of From the New World. View at your own risk. ~ jackedup85
- Ao Oni. Visit that page at your own risk, if the image's still there. ~ Monolaf317
- Gaara. Here are some◊ prime examples◊ from him. ~ beeruckzII
- Rei Shingetsu just before he reveals himself to be Vector in disguise. - IúkaSylvie
- '90s Anti-Hero
- Guts, and I wouldn't have him any other way. ~ Genki Man
- Kyril Sutherland proves that any Character Archetype can be done right by exchanging cringe with nuance. Bonus points for being a fanfic character rather than a canon one. ~ El Rise
- Cable ~ Lady Blackwood
- Ninja Pirate Robot Zombie
- No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
- One-Punch Man. Saitama personifies this. ~ superkeijikun
- Both Katsuki Bakugo and Endeavor. The former when he wins the sports festival tournament and Torodoki didn't use his full power on him, and the latter when he becomes the new #1 hero because All Might had to retire as a result of losing his powers. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- No Ending
- The Sopranos ~ WilliamShakesman
- No Endor Holocaust
- The Sarah Jane Adventures. Don't even mention the falling moon in "The Lost Boy" ~ Chihuahua0
- Sonic Adventure. This sucks, 3 million people are dead and Coldsteel isn't one of them. ~ Five-seveN-25
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
- Grimmjow vs Ichigo Round 1 The whole thing can be summed in one word: OUCH!
- Batman doing this to The Joker in Batman: Hush. ~ Doctor Rayman
- There's a lot of these in Jojos Bizarre Adventure, but the most notable include Johnathon's beatdown of Dio, as well as Jotaro and Giorno's beatdown of Steely Dan and Cioccolata respectively. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- No Indoor Voice
- "HI! BILLY MAYS HERE WITH OXI-CLEAN!" ~ Nintendo Nate 25
- Seconded. Great, now I'm already missing him. ~ Berrenta
- Gilbert Gottfried ~redhed311
- CITIZENS OF PONYVILLE! WE HAVE GRACED YOUR TINY VILLAGE WITH OUR PRESENCE SO THAT YOU MIGHT BEHOLD THE REAL PRINCESS OF THE NIGHT! ~ atrasicarius
- I'm Mr Meseeks, hello and his long lost twin Lemongrab. ~ Matt P 5557
- Yosemite Sam from Looney Tunes. ~ Doctor Rayman
- "HI! BILLY MAYS HERE WITH OXI-CLEAN!" ~ Nintendo Nate 25
- No Woman's Land
- The setting of F.A.T.A.L. is a Crapsack World where half of all males are rapists, and women have much worse stats than men. Why I chose this over Gilead is that the world of FATAL reflects the author's misogynistic worldview. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Noble Demon
- Rubicante from Final Fantasy IV. He'd definitely be Lawful Neutral if he weren't working under Golbez. - Willy Four Eyes
- Ditto. But I'd say that he's is Lawful Neutral even when working under Golbez. ~ B.o.B
- Overlord "I totally spared the lives of millions of people because I didn't want them stinking up my domain and not because I don't have the heart to kill them — Honest!" Laharl ~Sparkysharps
- Googandantes, the Greatest Swordsman of ALL the Demons! - Black Dragon
- I wouldn't 'arm an 'air of your 'ead, Jim lad! ~ Man Without A Body
- Crowley from Good Omens, literally so ~prescience, Insanity Prelude
- Bowser - deeman45
- Evangeline ~ spacemonkey37
- Nuova Shenron ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Dinobot ~ Fireside
- Rubicante from Final Fantasy IV. He'd definitely be Lawful Neutral if he weren't working under Golbez. - Willy Four Eyes
- Noblewoman's Laugh
- Naga ~ Lunaoh!, Willy Four Eyes
- Nanami ~ Nightmare Kitty
- Takani Megumi ~ Carla
- Kodachi Kunô ~ JasonPaul
- Satoko, which is quite impressive considering she's ten. ~ deeman45
- King Harkinian in Zelda: Wand of Gamelon. Yes, he's male, but he has the laugh down pat. - Physical Stamina
- Sardonyx is a modern example of this trope. ~ Monolaf317
- Jessie. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Karin Kanzuki. ~ Five-seveN-25
- No Fourth Wall
- Mel Brooks - every film and every show he produced made it clear that the "4th Wall" was nonexistent. The characters were always acutely aware that they were just characters and regularly abused plot convention to their advantage for the sake of humor. Spaceballs had the villains literally watch a VHS copy of the movie itself to find out where the heroes were hiding, Robinhood Men In Tights had Robin read directly from the film's script to find out what to do next when he lost an archery contest, and Blazing Saddles used numerous 4th Wall gags and finally ended with characters actually leaving the film set! ~ Miin U
- 1/0. ~ Robin Zimm
- Deadpool would visit TV Tropes and add himself to this list if he had the time, but he's too busy kicking ass and being awesome in his own comic book. ~ Carla
- Bob and George ~ Deeman45
- Gintama. That is all. ~ Asmo
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail ~ spacemonkey37
- Ed, Edd n Eddy ~ HotelCalifornia
- Homestuck. Actually, there are several... ~ Insanity Prelude
- Chowder. Other than the famous carwash scene, we have a couple other gems like "Now the animators will have to draw all this fire!", Chowder realizing they're just a cartoon, Gazpacho asking Chowder to "go back to how it started" (which takes us to the start of the episode), and Gazpacho's comment on the CN logo in the corner. ~ Magnus Force
- The Order of the Stick just try to find a fourth wall trope it doesn't appear under. ~ Matt P 5557
- Looney Tunes. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Seconded. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Final Fantasy VII: The Sevening. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Nominal Hero
- Enji Torodoki, also known as Endeavor ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Nonchalant Dodge
- Kaede is master of this trope. ~ Rakath
- Ranma. In his sleep! ~ Carla
- Snipers and Swordmasters in Fire Emblem ~ BioD
- Non-Action Big Bad
- Franz Oberhauser a.k.a. Ernst Stavro Blofeld in Spectre. ~ xxbiasonxxx
- Dr. Claw . ~ Doctor Rayman
- Non-Elemental
- Normal-type Pokémon ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Non-Indicative Name
- The Neverending Story my butt. ~ King of the Mime Swing
- Non Sequitur
- Non-Standard Game Over
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It's dangerous to go alone! Take this.I Wanna Be the Guy: YOU JUMPED INTO A SWORD. YOU RETARD! ~Ray Ayanami - Chrono Trigger: But the future refused to change... ~ JasonPaul
- Mass Effect "I can't deny how much I want you, Morinth." "You mean it? You'll be with me?" "Yes." CRITICAL MISSION FAILURE ~ Miss Mokushiroku
- "SNAKE, YOU'VE CREATED A TIME PARADOX!" ~ SG_Man_Forever
- Super Paper Mario, where you can get a game over before gameplay starts. — Astfgl
- "I'm outta here!" - Physical Stamina
- Not even a bug in this game will save you from me. ~ Five-seveN-25
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- No Celebrities Were Harmed
- Johnny Fontaine aka Frank Sinatra ~ WilliamShakesman
- No-Dialogue Episode
- "Hush" ~ Amuck Cricetine
- Operation: T.H.E.-F.L.Y. is a love letter to the silent era wrapped in a series of vignettes about Sector V reacting to a fly that invaded their treehouse. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- "No More Holding Back" Speech
- "That man won't quit as long as he can still draw a breath. None of my teammates will. Me? I've got a different problem. I feel like I live in a world made of cardboard, always taking constant care not to break something, to break someone. Never allowing myself to lose control even for a moment, or someone could die. But you can take it, can't you, big man? What we have here is a rare opportunity for me to cut loose and show you just how powerful I really am." ~ Fireside
- The Returners tell Kefka why they continue to hold onto hope in a dying world. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- No One Could Survive That!
- Mu La Flaga. That Is All. ~ Nirao 01
- Although it wasn't the best movie, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze. Raph is quite right; nobody could have survived that. ~ Man Without A Body
- Weil got hit by a giant space laser. Who could survive that? ~ Psykosis
- Well, that was interesting. But dropping a warship on me is cheating. Take it back! ~ Zaothus
- Cid survived holding a nuke that sealed the Underworld as it went off. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Noose Catch
- No Name Given
- The Prisoner (1967) — WilliamShakesman
- No OSHA Compliance
- Star Trek. Every single series made has had several people nearly die due to a safety hazard that should have been cleared up long before the ship left docking. Special mention goes to the holodeck, which seems designed to lull people into a false sense of security before killing them. ~ Doodler
- Star Wars, where there are no safety railings ever. Where there is a pit leading straight to the main reactor right in the Emperor's throne room. ~ Oddstar
- No Place for Me There:
- Illustrated perfectly by Luthen's epic "EVERYTHING!" monologue ~ Azorius 24
- No-Respect Guy
- The ENTIRE Marvel Universe ~ BioD
- No Sense of Direction
- Roronoa Zoro can hear the instructions "up the stairs" with a flight of stairs right in front of him and still go the wrong way! ~ Embracing Shadows.
- He can get lost in a straight hallway. ~ King of the Mime Swing
- Masaki Andoh gets lost in a honest tour, and also gets so lost he ends up in another dimension. ~ Chris X
- Ryoga Hibiki literally took three days to find his own backyard!
- Black Belt he managed to get so lost while walking down a straight hallway, he tore a hole in the space time continuum and create a double of himself. ~ Seraphem
- Bugs Bunny REALLY should have taken that left turn at Albuquerque. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Roronoa Zoro can hear the instructions "up the stairs" with a flight of stairs right in front of him and still go the wrong way! ~ Embracing Shadows.
- No Social Skills
- Yusuke Kitagawa ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Nostalgia Level
- Chapter 10: Origins from Castlevania: Harmony of Despair. A remake of the ENTIRETY of the original Castlevania, down to the enemies, bosses, and even all of the breakable walls and other secrets. Awesome. ~Thief of Time
- Act 4 in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. Don't even try to argue against it. ~ Babyhenchy 1
- The final world in Kirby's Epic Yarn. ~luigijd
- Dragon Quest III, after defeating Baramos, has the player discovering a dark world that turns out to be Alefgard, Dragon Quest. And then Unknown World starts playing once the player makes land... ~ Boomerang Flash
- The Super Smash Bros. series. Almost every stage takes place in a level or loclation that is from the games the playable characters came from. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Nothing Is Scarier
- The Ocean House Hotel in Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, as anyone who has played the game will likely attest to. -Technogeek
- The chapter in The Shining in which Jack investigates room 217 to see if the "woman" who attacked Danny is in there -ZiggyZag
- Clock Tower, mostly the SNES one. ~Arutoa
- Eraserhead ~ Man Without A Body
- Signs. Absolutely nothing happens for like the first half of the movie, but you just know, eventually... ~ Carla
- The Path. The entire game is built around this. puffitheinsane
- House of Leaves. The house is scariest at its most passive aggressive. Alloflifedecays
- The monster in the prison cell of Silent Hill 2. You never see it, but it moans in a low, guttural voice, and can be targeted with a firearm and killed. Worse, it makes a human-like sound when attacked. People have all but driven themselves crazy over this monster, and how it wouldn't be nearly as scary if you just knew what the fuck it was. ~ SG_Man_Forever
- The Haunting of Hill House. You never see the ghost, and it still manages to scare the hell out of everyone. ~ JZReinhardt
- Marble Hornets. The Operator will change the way you see A/V distortion forever without taking a single direct action outside looming ominously. ~ Stark1111
- The Collector ship. ~ atrasicarius
- Jaws ~ RL Nice, Decaf Grub 47393
- The RKO Radio horror films produced by Val Lewton. ~ Kirayoshi
- Paranormal Activity ~ Monolaf317
- The Midnight Entity. Nothing is known about it, it very nearly kills the Doctor and the way everyone else around it acted was bloody terrifying. - beeruckzII
- The fact that we know so little of Heartseed is what makes him so creepy. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- The Mysterons ~ WilliamShakesman
- Not Actually the Ultimate Question
- "You ever wonder why we're here?" ~ Rotide
- "It's one of life's great mysteries, isn't it?" ~ iPhoenix26
- "You ever wonder why we're here?" ~ Rotide
- Not Cheating Unless You Get Caught
- Daniel J. D'Arby's belief when it comes to gambling. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Not Even Bothering with the Accent
- Patrick Stewart playing a Frenchman with a British accent ~ Amuck Cricetine
- The Not-Love Interest
- Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock.
- Ichigo and Rukia. ~ SweetFirefly
- Seconded ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer
- THIS IS WHAT [SCIENTOLOGISTS/THE SUPER ADVENTURE CLUB] ACTUALLY BELIEVE(S) ~ Willy Four Eyes
- This is absolutely true. You must believe me. ~ Man Without A Body
- Saitou Hajime has a wife. No, really, this is historical fact. Cue Buddha Imagine Spot. ~ Carla
- Felix the Cat meets her current lover, Miss Kitty, where she gave birth to many beautiful kittens. Unable to bear the responsibility, Felix rushes to the nearby gas station and take his own life. this is canon, look it up. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Not So Above It All
- Optimus laughing at the sight of Sentinel's disembodied head, as shown here. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Not-So-Harmless Villain
- Never underestimate The Monarch! ~ Willy Four Eyes
- The title characters of Freaks ~ Man Without A Body gets his name from an actor in that movie
- Wait, wait, you're telling me Tobi is the Big Bad of Naruto? ~Blank Mage
- Team Rocket in Pokémon the Series: Black & White. ~ qwertyuiopasdfghjkl
- Gamzee from Homestuck. Holy shit. ~ Gumbal1
- The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog. ~ King Cr Inu Yasha
- River. Tam.- Girl In Glasses
- Not So Stoic
- Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist
- Kent Mansley, who wants the destroy the Giant to further his career rather than to protect the people of his country like he claims. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- No, You
- YOU'RE AN INANIMATE FUCKING OBJECT! ~ Stark1111
- Towelie: "YOU'RE a towel!" ~ Doctor Rayman
- No, Rick! Fuck you! ~ Five-seveN-25
- Numerical Theme Naming
- The Felt ~ SausageMahoney
- The princes of Stormhold in Stardust ~ Man Without A Body
- Mobile Suit Gundam Wing ~ Nirao 01, Carla
- The Numbers of 'Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS' not only have numbers, but their names are based on their numbers in Italian. ~ Marvel Girl
- 5 ~ Matt P 5557
- The Nonary Game players giving themselves Code Names based on their bracelet numbernote . Junpei and Teruaki Kubota are the only exceptions because the former's name was already told to everyone before they decided to use code names, while the latter rejects the use of one entirely, being only known as the 9th Man until his real name is revealed. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- N-Word Privileges
- The Boondocks. I dare you to disagree. ~ Carls493
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- Obfuscating Stupidity
- Kisuke Urahara.
- Columbo ~Smokie, Doctor Rayman
- Vash the Stampede ~Bright Blue Ink
- Iroh. ~ Pheonee
- Jack Rakan. Um, I think. Hard to tell, actually. ~ Blank Mage
- Sam Axe has got this down to an art form. ~ Voodoo Child
- Tobi, who knew he was actually a bad boy? ~ Lionheart0
- Rushuna Tendo, so much so that first you think she's the wacky comic relief. ~ Marvel Girl
- Zola La Sirene D'oree, even the people who know she's doing it are caught out. ~ Michael, Cameoflage
- Seconded. She suckered The Other. ~ m-95
- Lucius Junius Brutus. In fact, he played his part so well, his cognomen actually means "dullard." ~ Crimson Zephyr
- From Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE-, Fai. Despite the silly nicknames and laid-back smile, he realizes some plot points from the beginning that the reader doesn't find out until the very end, not to mention the whole "spy for the enemy" thing. ~Eriyu
- The good soldier Josef Schweik ~Hoffmann
- Levin ~ Camroc G
- Patrick Star "SpongeBob, you can't always expect my usual brand of stupidity. I like to mix it up. Keep you on your toes." ~ A Freaky Dude
- Master Yoda. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Obfuscating Insanity
- The Eleventh Doctor ~ S Noble Jr
- Seconded. Amelia Pond
- Thirded. ~ atrasicarius
- Fourthed. ~ Pastylover2
- Doctor Steel. "You can get away with pretty much anything if you're bonkers." ~ Jonny B
- General Treister played along with a gaslight ploy to make him think he was a Hulk. ~ Drakkenmensch
- Lord Shojo ~ spacemonkey37
- Jasmine pretending to be crazy in order to avoid getting her hand chopped off. ~ Doctor Rayman
- "Did you honestly think that I was that half-witted? I merely pretended to be an idiot." Taco, having rode her scheme to the bitter end. ~ NotGonnaDoALot4
- The Eleventh Doctor ~ S Noble Jr
- Obi-Wan Moment
- Obligatory Bondage Song
- Oblivious Guilt Slinging
- The Fair Lady, if you have the Old Witch's Ring. You will hate yourself, just for killing a boss you had no choice other than to slay. Small wonder some people have donated up to 60,000 Humanity to her in an attempt to make things right... ~ Arcane Azmadi
- Oblivious to Love
- Harem protagonists in general. ~ Miin U
- Tan Hadron in Edgar Rice Burroughs's A Fighting Man Of Mars. Outstanding even among Burroughs's normally bone-headed-about-love heroes. On his quest to rescue Sanoma Tora, he sees Tavia, a slave girl, in trouble and saves her. After that, 1. he sees beautiful women and thinks Tavias is more beautiful than they, and then wonders why he didn't think of Sanoma; 2. he is betrayed into the hands of his enemy, and the traitor has to be either Sanoma or Tavia, and when he learns it was Sanoma, his reaction is overwhelming gratitude that it was not Tavia; 3. he taunts Sanoma with having lost his love, because he has found another, and not a princess but a slave girl; and 4. another character, who had overheard the last, said he was obviously talking about Tavia — and he still denies it! — Goldfritha
- Natsuru Senou ~ KantonKage
- Although Katniss Everdeen had this problem in canon the story When the Moon Fell in Love with the Sun takes this to a new level. An AU where Katniss didn't go to the 74th Games and Peeta was the Victor on his own, Peeta returns to District 12 and 'buys' her in exchange for taking care of her poor and starving family. Despite the fact that the world knows Peeta has a girl in District 12 that he loves in secret (he still admitted it in a public interview, although didn't name Katniss), despite the fact that in the arena he kept the handkerchief she gave him as a token of strength and comfort to the point that everyone assumed he got it from his love (although admittedly she doesn't recognise it), despite the fact that he's famous and rich and yet still hasn't hooked up with this girl, despite the fact that he didn't actually deny her mother's suggestion that he wants to marry her, despite the fact that he is more generous to her family than she could have dreamed, despite the fact that he treats her like a queen, she still insists on wondering why he's doing all this for someone as insignificant as her and thinks he only wants her for either a domestic servant or a bedwarmer! She takes Oblivious to Love so far that it borders on Too Dumb to Live and it's actually pretty comical. - Arcane Azmadi
- Phineas - Piando
- Ash, Ash, ASH. ~ Monolaf317
- Seconded. Oh so seconded. ~ Stewie Griffin 34
- Daphne Moon. ~ Matt P 5557
- Seconded. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Naruto Uzumaki until he FINALLY realized that Hinata was in love with him. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Obnoxious In-Laws:
- Obstructive Bureaucrat
- Walter Peck
- We'll treat people like swine, and make them stand in line, even if nobody paid us. ~ Matt P 5557
- The Place That Sends You Mad from The Twelve Tasks of Asterix. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Obliviously Evil
- For the sympathetic kind, we have the Fat Majin Buunote . For the unsympathetic kind, we have Shou Tuckernote . ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Taro Namatame of Persona 4. ~ Tad Tad Tad Tad
- Obviously Evil
- Sengoku Basara's rendition of Oda Nobunaga. This is a man who is followed around by a swirling, stormy vortex of death and Ominous Latin Chanting wherever he goes due to his sheer, reality-warping evil he exudes. He is voiced by Norio Wakamoto at his most Norio Wakamoto-est and wears the evilest, spikiest armor known to man (with black and red trim, of course). He not only drinks sake from a human skull, but does so while lounging on a skull-themed throne that sits on top of a pile of even more skulls. His cape is so evil that he can kill people with it. I dare anyone to find someone who deserves the subtitle "Biggest, Evilest Bastard in the World" on his ever-so-evil business card more ~Sparkysharps
- Skeletor. ~ Willy Four Eyes, Man Without A Body
- Mumm-Ra. He was obvious, but he was scary obvious. ~ Carla
- Emperor Palpatine. ~ King Cr Inu Yasha
- Dr. Brainstorm of Calvin & Hobbes: The Series. Just look at his name! (It may be a subversion, as he's a Harmless Villain, but still.) - Blue Guy
- Master Xehanort. Just look at him◊ ~ Loekman 3
- Manfred von Karma. ~ Monolaf317
- Exdeath ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- O.C. Stand-in
- Rin Satsuki. She was Dummied Out from the first Windows game, and nothing exists of her except her name, the titles of two of her attacks, and one monochrome picture which may or may not actually be of her; there is effectively no Canon material of her. However, she has a small fandom, complete with fanart. ~ Kimiko Muffin
- I'd have to agree, being pretty much the only example I know. And of course then there's those like you who use her but don't reveal much. ~ TARDISES
- The "background ponies". Even better is that many of the ponies have commonly-agreed-upon personalities, despite having literally ten seconds or less of screen time. ~ Sgt Frog 1
- Rin Satsuki. She was Dummied Out from the first Windows game, and nothing exists of her except her name, the titles of two of her attacks, and one monochrome picture which may or may not actually be of her; there is effectively no Canon material of her. However, she has a small fandom, complete with fanart. ~ Kimiko Muffin
- Occult Law Firm
- Wolfram & Hart — WilliamShakesman
- Offhand Backhand
- Rafiki ~ Carla
- Gru, who backhands a shark without looking at it, without even breaking stride. ~ Lady Madeline
- Professor River Song. She loves a good tomb. ~ atrasicarius
- Dark Pit, who backhands his own creator while introductions are being made. ~ Berrenta
- Helga Pataki as its a Running Gag for her to do this to her Stalker with a Crush Brainy. ~ thecarolinabull01
- Batman. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Official Couple
- Aladdin and Jasmine. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Naruto and Hinata ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Luz and Amity ~ SuperYoshiFan02
- Offstage Villainy
- The Vampire King. Most of the villainous actions he's said to do aren't shown onscreen, while the some that do at least have some understandable reasonnote behind it. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Off the Wagon
- I'm Babababababababack baby! The name's Dr. Rockzo the Rock and Roll Clown. And I DOOOOOOOO COCAINE!
- Barney Gumble. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Oh, Crap!
- Equilibrium. "Not without incident." ~ St Clair
- Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS. The moment when Quattro realizes Nanoha has been stalling in order to pwn her, and is about to unleash the most fearsome Dungeon Bypass in history. ~ Marvel Girl
- Seconded hard. The moment was pulled of brilliantly. This is how you make a Smug Snake shit her pants in fear.
- M ~ Man Without A Body
- " I don't think that's daylight..." ~Asmeone
- The Professional: "This...is from from Matilda." "...Shit." ~ Doug S Machina
- A meta example, yes, but that feeling you get when you hear the dreaded SSSSSSSSSSSSSSS probably counts. ~ Gumbal1
- "That's the first time I've ever seen Rakan-san assume a fighting stance..." ~ RainRequiem
- Doctor Who: You Are Not Alone. ~ Lillium
- Dexter: Season 6 finale ~ Hiromagi
- "This is where Cameron freaks out" ~ Matt P 5557
- He is here. ~ Five-seveN-25
- The very real look of terror on Hans Gruber's face as he realizes he's about to fall to his death. ~ mysterykcad
- "Oh, Crap!" Fakeout
- Kai's reactiton to Po trying the Wuxi Finger Hold on him in Kung Fu Panda 3. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Oh, Crap, There Are Fanfics of Us!:
- Peeking Through the Fourth Wall is a series of fanfics about this. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Ojou
- Ojou Ringlets
- Yurika Kirishima◊ ~Neo Chaos
- How about Luna Platz◊? ~ DAN004
- Neito Mitotsudaira◊ ~Toivoa
- Maribelle. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Older Than They Look
- Fast Eddie - Haven
- Papa Lazarou ~ Man Without A Body
- Golden Darkness. ~ Arutoa
- The Doctor ~ Voodoo Child
- Seconded. ~ Pastylover2
- The elves ~ sardns
- Evangeline ~ Rakath
- Yuuko ~ Zfish9
- Selena Gomez. Just look at her. Does she look like someone in her early twenties? ~ A Freaky Dude
- Steven Universe. ~ Monolaf317
- Old Save Bonus
- Mass Effect ~ Aminatep, Gfrequency, Leilukin, Babyhenchy1
- Shin Megami Tensei ~ Lionheart0
- The Legend of Zelda: Oracle Games. Beat one game, get a password to use in a new game in the other one, unlocking a basically whole new storyline. ~Wragnaroq R Maggeddon, Decaf Grub 47393
- Old Soldier
- Rambo in Rambo: Last Blood. Sylvester Stallone is in his 70s, but he's still capable of kicking ass. ~ Saberwulf 2018
- Old Superhero
- Batman, as seen in Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. ~Dr Furball
- And Batman Beyond ~sinesofinsanity
- Justice Society of America special mention to Ma Hankell. ~ Matt P 5557, Doctor Rayman
- Olympus Mons
- In the beginning, Arceus created the heavens and earth. In other words, God can be caught in a Poke Ball. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Ominous Pipe Organ
- Lone Wolf McQuade's final battle music ~ Tropers/contraxxx
- The Undertaker entrance music. ~ AFreakyDude
- Ominous Latin Chanting
- "O Fortuna", from Carmina Burana.
- Seconded, hard. ~ 2xN
- The main Brawl theme. ~ Psykosis
- The theme from The Omen (1976). ~ King Cr Inu Yasha
- "Prayer", the name entry music from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - ZuulMF
- "Mea Culpa..." - Werebunny131
- Duel of the Fates https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt0UuNpUqK4 ~ atrasicarius
- One Winged Angel. Multiple links to (almost) every version because they're all awesome: original, Advent Children, Kingdom Hearts, Dissidia. ~ Waxing Name
- The final battle theme of Time Crisis 4. ~ xxxEbbxxx
- "O Fortuna", from Carmina Burana.
- Omnicidal Maniac
- Davros. "THIS! Is my ultimate victory, Doctor! THE DESTRUCTION! OF REALITY! ITSELF!" ~ The Joker, Man Without A Body
- Kefka. "I'll destroy everything! I'll create a monument to non-existence" - Willy Four Eyes
- Seconded. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Johnny ~ Selph
- Apocalymon. TOTAL...ANNIHILATION! ~ deeman45
- Nero. - Infection
- Black Mage. To the point that he got sad about not being the one destroying the world. ~ Ionz
- Revya: the Devourlord ~ Camroc G
- Darkseid. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Count Bleck. ~ Five-seveN-25
- The Lich ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Seconded. ~ Stewie Griffin 34
- Zamasu aims to be the only being in The Multiverse, which includes killing other gods. ~ rjd1922
- Once a Season
- Leomon dies. Grim, yet efficient. ~ King of the Mime Swing
- The Simpsons having a Treehouse of Horror episode (except for Season 1). ~ Doctor Rayman
- Once an Episode
- Team Rocket's blasting off again! ~ JoeMoron2000, King of the Mime Swing
- "Ferb, I think I know what we're gonna do today!" and "Where's Perry?" and Doofenshmirtz's -inators and "Curse you Perry the Platypus!" and Candace trying to bust Phineas and Ferb and Candace failing to bust Phineas and Ferb and their mothers offer them a snack in the end. ~PKFL_531
- The cow from Earthworm Jim - ZiggyZag
- "What you wanna do tonight, Brain?" "The same thing we do every night, Pinky..." ~ Carla, Man Without A Body
- Breaking Murdock out of the asylum. ~ Gfrequency
- Alan and Denny on the balcony. ~ Who Needs Sleep
- Inspector Gadget reading a message explaining his next mission, which was given by Chief Quimby, followed by said message exploding in Quimby's face. ~ Doctor Rayman
- NOW CLEAN UP THIS MESS OR YOU'RE FIRED! ~ Stewie Griffin 34
- Once is Not Enough
- Slumber Party Massacre III. This goes on even when the killer is blinded! ~ Erforce
- Once More, with Clarity
- Glass Onion: The first half of the movie's plot is shown again from Helen's perspective, showing how she posed as Andi and was working with Blanc from the beginning.- SuperYoshiFan02
- The One Guy
- Lennon. - IúkaSylvie
- One-Man Army
- Black Mamba - ZiggyZag
- Most Triumphant One-Woman Army?
- Precisely. No one said it literally had to be a man. - ZiggyZag
- Solid Snake ~ Nirao 01
- Cloud Strife. SOLDIER, 1st Class. ~ Miin U
- Ike simply because you can have him solo the entirety of the 9th game. ~ Schmitty
- Cuchulain. Seriously, he, personally, beat the entire army of the entire rest of Ireland. At the same time. ~ Man Without A Body
- Yamamoto. —ncfan
- Ratchet ~Balmung 60
- Simo Hayha. Over 700 confirmed kills within one hundred days, and his retirement consisted of hunting moose. ~ Shadow Stained Sky
- Iroh. - Calatoria
- Tony Jaa is this in all of his flicks, but his oner from Ong-Bak takes the cake. Holy hell... - X 2 X
- Whitebeard. He's the strongest man in the world for a reason. ~ Dhana Ragnarok
- Himura Kenshin -Xacebans.
- The Doctor ~ Pastylover2
- Richard Miller. ~ xxxEbbxxx
- Booker DeWitt ~ vwchan
- Second. - Infection
- Thirded. - Gzillafan 77
- Brittnay Matthews. ~ Monolaf317
- John Rambo ~ WilliamShakesman
- Second. - Saberwulf 2018
- Sam "Serious" Stone ~ Baconyeet73
- Millie - Demon Duckof Doom
- Black Mamba - ZiggyZag
- One-Man Industrial Revolution
- Modded Minecraft. Almost every mod pack is focused on the journey from punching trees to exploring the solar system, generating power with an artificial star, creating your own Pocket Dimensions, or whatever other Magitek nonsense the game has on offer. — thecnoNSMB
- Senku Ishigami ~Opabinia
- One True Love
- Hiro and Zero Two ~ sanfranman91
- Naruto Uzumaki and Hinata Hyuga. ~ Doctor Rayman
- One-Winged Angel
- Kablarl Khan's two-stage battleform ~ Nyaru
- It's made of people, you know.
- Sephiroth ~ Nirao 01
- All the main bosses in Resident Evil 4 ~ Man Without A Body
- Maleficent ~Bluwale 824
- Every single villain from Dragon Ball Z ~ Go Go Riki
- King Candy/Turbo ~ A Freaky Dude
- Giga Bowser. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Kablarl Khan's two-stage battleform ~ Nyaru
- One-Woman Wail
- Love Theme from Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.
- "The Great Gig in the Sky" ~ Cameoflage, Devil's Advocate
- Gladiator, without which this trope would be far less popular than it is. ~ Gfrequency
- Only Known by Their Nickname
- "My name is Edward Daniels!" Wait, really? I thought your first name was Teddy! ~Trogdor
- Miles Prower AKA Tails. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Keith 'Two-Bit' Matthews. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Only Mostly Dead
- Only Sane Man
- Phoenix Wright. ~ Crowley
- Sgt. Neil Howie ~ Man Without A Body
- Bobby Singer. Even when he's feeling insecure and breaking down, he's still more stable than the Winchesters. ~ Trombone Child
- Stan ~ Lionheart0
- Number 5 of Codename: Kids Next Door, "the only one on this team with any real common sense" ~ Lale
- Remember those Chicken Boo sketches? That never gets old. ~ Carla
- Souji Seta of Persona 4. ~ deeman45
- Davos Seaworth ~ Hoffmann
- JON STEWART ~ Looney Luver
- Riki Naoe ~ mister-bittersweet
- Vaggie - Demon Duckof Doom
- Only Six Faces
- For sheer longevity and consistency, Archie Comics. ~ 2xN
- South Park. ~ Monolaf317, Doctor Rayman
- The DCAU ~ Lady Blackwood
- Only Shop in Town
- Bub's Concession Stand. Not just the only store, also the only comedy club, the only ISP, the only motor lodge etc. In other words, it is the only business that exists in the Homestar Runner universe. ~ IfOnly
- Opening The Floodgates
- In Beanotown Battle: Book 2 of The Diary Of Dennis The Menace, there was that time Dennis photocopied 10,000 pages of detention writing inside the Secretary's Office. ~ Monolaf317
- "Bathtime", a Simpsons short from The Tracey Ullman Show, which ends with Homer being a victim of this while Bart is taking a bath. ~ Doctor Rayman
- The Ophelia
- The trope namer of course! ~ Kinesthesia
- Order vs. Chaos
- The conflict between the Assassins and the Templars ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- The conflict between White and Red. ~ Batya_Khmel
- Shin Megami Tensei, of course. It's the basis of every core game, and even some of the spinoffs like Devil Survivor. ~Arcane Azmadi
- Ordinary High-School Student
- Kyon. Who are you going to believe, Itsuki's Organization or your lying eyes? ~Scud East
- Seconded ~ Zfish9
- Winston. ~Popette
- Shutter Island ~ Mac Phisto
- Lelouch being dead or not. ~ Nirao 01
- The SequelHooks at the end of the X-Men movies. Especially The Last Stand. ~ Carla
- Elliot Dunkel ~ Nlpnt
- Peter Parker. ~ Matt P 5557, Doctor Rayman
- Kyon. Who are you going to believe, Itsuki's Organization or your lying eyes? ~Scud East
- Origins Episode
- "Genesis of the Daleks" ~ Amuck Cricetine
- Orphanage of Fear
- In Higurashi: When They Cry, the absolutely hellish orphanage Miyo Takano (aka Miyoko Tanishi) was sent to after the death of her parents. ~ Nyarly
- Apokolips' Happiness Home, which is run by Granny Goodness. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Orphan's Ordeal
- Oliver Twist ~ WilliamShakesman
- Otaku Surrogate
- Konata of Lucky Star for reasons that don't need to be explained if you've seen the show. ~Doctor What Ph D
- Enthusiastically seconded. ~ Embracing Shadows
- Konata of Lucky Star for reasons that don't need to be explained if you've seen the show. ~Doctor What Ph D
- Our Dragons Are Different
- Our Dwarves Are All the Same
- If there's such a thing as a Most Triumphant Aversion, Artemis Fowl is probably it. ~ Emerald 141
- Terry Pratchett's Discworld, which started out playing the trope straight almost to the point of satire, but then Deconstructed it by asking what happens to the dwarfs who don't like wearing chainmail everywhere, working in a mine, drinking beer and singing about gold? ~Arcane Azmadi
- Our Monsters Are Weird
- Tales of Legendia. Has any other game made you fight demonic canopy beds? As more than just a one-off novelty fight? Didn't think so. ~ Timber!
- Our Ogres Are Hungrier
- Puzzle Quest has the hungriest ogre of all, Drong. He has a series of side quests, all revolving around getting him different things to eat. Things such as poisonous spiders, another ogre, diamonds and LAVA and the body of a slain god.
- Our Vampires Are Different
- The Twilight Saga. Do I even need to explain? ~ szaleniec
- Supernatural. They reconstructed vampires without making them sissy and/or unrecognizable. ~ Trombone Child
- Nosferatu. You know you're doing something right if people are still ripping off your vampire seventy years later. ~ Man Without A Body
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Really, how much of the current 'mythos' of vampires is due to Joss, Buffy, Angel, and Spike? ~ Marvel Girl
- Vampires in a beehive-type society? Blood+ ~ Carla
- Aherm... Vampire: The Masquerade. That is all. ~Kulsprutejojjo
- WRYWRYWRYWRYWRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYY! ~King of the Mime Swing
- Alucard. What else can be said? It's evident the mangaka was channeling H. P. Lovecraft when he came up with that guy. ~ Giant Of The Vanguard
- Count Von Count ~ Matt P 5557
- Our Giants Are Bigger
- The Titans in Attack on Titan. They more or less embody everything that makes giants and predators scary while being uniquely disturbing and bizarre. For the 'size' aspect of the trope, the Colossal Titan makes all the other Titans look like rodents by comparison. ~ Giant Of The Vanguard
- Outlaw Couple
- Bonnie and Clyde ~ WilliamShakesman, Decaf Grub 47393
- Out-of-Character Alert
- Rukia being tipped off that the Kaien Shiba she met in Hueco Mundo was an impostor by the fact the latter asked her to kill her friends, something the real Kaien would never say, even as a joke. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Out-of-Character Moment
- For positive examples, Mr. Miyagi's taunts after he fights off Reese and Silver in The Karate Kid Part III. The only Most Triumphant anything from that movie. - ZuulMF
- Over Complicated Menu Order
- "Here, one of everything! No cheese, no crust, pickles to the left, four squirts of ketchup, wheat buns, non-dairy lettuce, and farm-raised tomatoes carnival-style! And if there's anything else I can do, please hesitate to ask!" ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- "I'll have two Number Nines, a Number Nine Large, a Number Six with Extra Dip, a Number Seven, two Number Forty-fives, one with cheese, and a large soda!" ~ Fireside
- Over Drawn At The Blood Bank
- Tokyo Gore Police ~ balzarc
- That one time Jude donated his blood seventeen motherfucking times just to get free donuts... ~ Monolaf317
- Over-Enthusiastic Parents
- MAES HUGHES. That is all. ~ Carla
- Marlin. To the point that it instigates the entire plot. ~ Fireside
- Overly Long Gag
- Family Guy is the King of this trope. ~ Monolaf317
- This trope is the whole point of Too Many Cooks. ~naturalironist
- The endless eight arc of Haruhi Suzumiya repeats the same events in a "Groundhog Day" Loop for eight episodes. ~ rjd1922
- The Arborian family introduction in Chowder. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- The Rake Take gag from "Cape Feare". ~Arcane Azmadi
- Overly Long Name
- Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way ~Haldo
- The Most Secret And Sorrowful Of All the Bearers Of The Endless Destiny Of All Creation Which Wander Amidst Forgotten Sights And Fallen Tears Along The Tread Of Ancient Ashen Footsteps Through The Shadow Of That Which Comes And Into That Riotous Cacophony That Births All Fools And Steals All Beauty, Who Heralds Through Her Silence The Stillness And Chill Of Those Who Were Not Born And Who Will Not 'Till All Things Fall And In That Most Grim Harvest Form The Final Tomb Of All Awakened Life And All The Sleepless De *passes out mid-word*. Even if it is technically a title and not a name, since Abyssals give up their names as part of their Exaltation. ~Mike
- Princess Angelina Contessa Louisa Francesca Bananafanabobesca III. ~The Toon Geekette, seconded by Yuihime, thirded by Doctor Rayman
- Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfernschplendenschlittercrasscrenbonfrieddiggerdangledungleburstein von Knackerthrasherapplebangerhorowitzticolensicgranderknottyspelltinklegrandlichgrumblemeyerspelterwasser kürstlichhimbleeisenbahnwagengutenabendbitteeinenürnburgerbratwustlegerspurten mit Zweimacheluberhundsfutgumberabershönendankerkalbsfleischmittlerraucher von Hautkopft of Ulm. - Nlpnt, Stark1111
- Okay, let's see if I can get this right... *deep breath* Willowe Diamond Honeysuckle Allisonette Ravenne Hyacinth Aurelia Sakurelle Dewdrop Arwennia Heliotrope Appleflower Sandriline Delilah Aphrodite Bob Yuffiana Swainsona Vipertooth Foxblade the Third. ~ Wragnaroq R Maggeddon
- Jugem-Jugem Poop-Throwing Machine Shin-chan's Day Before Yesterday Underwear Shinpachi's Life Balmunk Fezarion Isaac Schneider One Thirds Pure Feeling Two Thirds Worried-Over-a-Hangnail Feeling Though Betrayal Knows My Name I Know The Unknown, The Cuttlefish Tastes Kind Of Different Than It Did Last Time Because It Was Caught Near The Pond And Served With Oil From A Hoofed Mammal, pepepepepepepepepepepep Bichiguso-maru - Chris X
- His Excellency President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular. Try fitting THAT on a business card. Better yet, don't. ~ HotelCalifornia
- Princess Natalia Luzu Kimlasca Lanvaldear. ~PinkHanabi
- "John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, his name is my name too..." ~ Big Bertha
- Lucy Kimiko Akie Airi Shiori Rinne Yoshiho Chihoko Ayano Fumika Chitose Sanae Mikiko Ichika Yukino Reina Eri Ai Tamiko Chikage Emilia Julia Shizue Erina Chisa Yumeka Natsuki Ranran Rieko Setsuri Chikako Azumi Marina Hideko Chiaki Misaki Naomi Campbell Miku Yuka Masako Sachiko Nana Mutsumi Haruka Yuna Shimako Yukie Rin Sakura Kanna Wakana Hazuki Hanami Ruri Mihane Momoka Himari Nozomi Futaba Mayuyu Ayano Yamagami ~ Kantonkage
- This Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood omake which asserts that Scar and King Bradley's real names are both "Jugemu-jugemu Gokōnosurikire Kaijarisuigyo-no Suigyōmatsu Unraimatsu Fūraimatsu Kūnerutokoroni-sumutokoro Yaburakōjino-burakōji Paipopaipo-paiponoshūringan Shūringanno-gūrindai Gūrindaino-ponpokopīno-ponpokonāno Chōkyūmeino-chōsuke" or, per the english dub, are "Percival Ramtee Gregory Nicolai Jaques Scozer Leonardo Gabriel Socrates Ming Victor Nostradomus Alistair Predisha Vladimir Stiegler Rasputin Boromir Walla Walla Shadiga Alexander Oliver Abalard Arnesto Zippy Zappy Angel Eyes" and "Russel Daniel Paul Blake Joseph Fallon Eric Fred Orson Trevor Richard Charlton Christopher Benedict Garfield Polyeurothane Nicholas Roderick Theodore Steve Michael Alvin Carter Bryce Jeffery Marigold Peter Ethan Aaron Papa William Nathaniel Orville Chuck Slippy Slappy Zippy Zappy Angel Eyes" respectively. ~Bowbowis
- Overshadowed by Awesome
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Has the tenth most number of volumes of any manga period, features an enormous cast of colorful, clever characters, and the manga-ka has done artwork featured in the Louvre, yet it didn't even receive a proper anime adaptation until 25 years after its debut, in a time where manga that's been out for six months can receive basically the same. But, when you come out on the coattails of those other two big Shounen action series of the '80s, then you're fighting a losing battle when it comes to popularity and influence. ~ King of the Mime Swing
- Krillin. He was the former Trope Namer for a reason. I mean, there are superhero universes that he'd be the strongest hero in for frick's sake!
- Hawkeye in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. A pretty awesome archer who gets overshadowed by other heroes with more impressive abilities and screentime. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Oxygen Meter
- Fox Eye. Every single last one of the underwater doujin games they've made live and literally breathe this trope. ~ Carls 493
- The 3D Mario games such as Super Mario 64. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Oxymoronic Being