Tropers / Eagleoftheninth

aka: Betterthanstrawberry

It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost a man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves.

_{Originally betterthanstrawberry.}

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Works I like

Films

• Children of Men
• The Right Stuff
• Serenity
• True Grit
• Coraline
• The Hunt for Red October
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• The Prestige
• Pan's Labyrinth
• Goodbye Lenin
• Interstellar
• Disney Animated Canon
• Marvel Cinematic Universe
• The Blues Brothers
• Paprika
• Phoenix
• Spotlight
• Hunt for the Wilderpeople
• Song of the Sea

Comic Books and Newspaper Comics

• The Sandman
• Disney Comics
  • The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck
• Tintin
• Lucky Luke
• Mafalda
• Tanguy et Laverdure

Literature

• Discworld
  • And by extension, Sir Terry Pratchett.
• Neil Gaiman
• Ray Bradbury (when he's not being racist)
• Edgar Allan Poe
• China Miéville
• The Eagle of the Ninth
• The Book Thief
• Life of Pi
• Allen Curnow
• Sherlock Holmes
• Father Brown
• Alice in Wonderland
• The Quest for Karla
• Les Misérables
• The Laundry Files
• The Sympathizer
• Rooftoppers
• Half of a Yellow Sun
• The Inheritance Trilogy
• City Of Brass
• Red Plenty
• Shahnameh

TV Series

• Top Gear
• Generation Kill
• Avatar: The Last Airbender / The Legend of Korra
• Over the Garden Wall
• Derry Girls
• The Expanse

Video Games

• Total War
• Portal
• XCOM: Enemy Unknown
  • XCOM 2
• The Banner Saga
• Bastion
• Transistor
• Pyre
• Hades
• Subnautica
• Invisible, Inc.
• Wargame: Red Dragon
• Steel Panthers
• Don't Starve
• Arma
• Slay the Spire
• Planet Zoo
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
• Horizon Zero Dawn
• Crash Bandicoot

Music

• U2
• Dropkick Murphys
• INXS
• The 1975
• The Cranberries
• The Smashing Pumpkins
• Wednesday Campanella
• The Oh Hellos
• The Killers
• Flogging Molly
• Muse
• Thirty Seconds to Mars
• Owl City
• CHVRCHES
• Kino
• Jean Sibelius
• Die Toten Hosen
• AAA
• Adhesive Wombat
• Explosions in the Sky
• 65daysofstatic
• Glenn Miller
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Pink Martini
• Louis Prima
• Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
• Darlingside
• Glass Animals
• Gang of Youths
• Kahulanui
• Jamie Berry
• Zemfira
• Lumen
• Gang of Youths
• Aurora

Web Original

• SCP Foundation
• Vi Hart
• Crash Course
• The Fear Mythos:
  • Jordan Eats Normally Now
  • OH GOD RAPTURE IS BURNING
  • Mephi
• Emily Carroll
• Hark! A Vagrant
• Bite Me!
• The Second Crimean War
• Stand Still, Stay Silent

Narrative conventions as applied to this individual

• A Darker Me (inverted)- rmctagg09
  • Subverted, possibly multiple times, I think...
• Adorkable - I can't believe I'm the first person to say this. <_< - Noaqiyeum
• Apologizes a Lot: And quite unnecessarily. :) - Stolen By Faeries
• Badass Adorable: ...Well, ok, not sure if badass counts or not...But you're still adorable. :3 -Mega Magikarp
• Beyond the Impossible - How is it possible to be SO LIKE ME? -XiphonIII
• Beware the Quiet Ones - Seriously, you could easily get someone before they know it.... - a Ninja......FROM THE VOID!!!!
  • In accordance to the previous beware stuff...This is now hand-in-hand with this... It's good thing you aren't this one....I hope - Voids Empath
• Brilliant, but Lazy - I know that this true. You should know this by now.... - A fellow BBL Troper
  • Uh... brilliant?
• Celibate Hero: You need relationships like a fish apparently needs a bicycle. - Premonition45
• Character Development: Judging by your page. — Liberated Liberater
• Chaotic This, Chaotic That, you'reChaotic Something as far as I can tell from you - A Confused Chaotic Good Troper
• YES!!!: Because yes...- An odd Troper
• Cool Loser: Judging from your alternate description of yourself - Mort08
• Deadpan Snarker - I always envisage you as this. Haha. Hopey
• Ditzy Genius -Milos Stefanovic
• :33 < Edible Theme Naming - and now im hungry :((
• Everything's Better With Indexes. Though as the name suggests, there is better than strawberries. —Earl of Sandvich
• The Faceless: Your pic on the Photos thread comes to mind. -Milos Stefanovic
• Footnote Fever - not unexpected, given that you're a known Pterry fan.^note Nesting them several-deep, however, is sadly unsupported by the wiki.
• Fragile Speedster - You seem like you would be one. - Junfez
• Genius Bruiser - Fear the power of books!!! - The Eternal Void
• Go Mad from the Revelation
• Heroic Self-Deprecation - and you know it. Vous êtes un soldat and a good friend, too. Sabre's Edge
• Heroic Sociopath - Oh you and your Pyromania and whatnot....meh... - Voids Empathy
• He Who Fights Monsters - Noaqiyeum
• Hidden Depths - your expertise on matters military, maritime, and aeronautical is only ever hinted at. —Sabre's Edge
• Informed Flaw - I still need to see proofs of the alleged stupidity. -MilosStefanovic
• Jerkass Façade: As far as I know, you're not as jerky as you seems to believe. ~Dhana Ragnarok
• Kindhearted Cat Lover - Kittehs! - risingdreams
• Let's Get Dangerous! - It's all part of you becoming a greater Badass! -The Void
• Long List - Look at all those tropes that apply to you! - Premonition45
• Lovable Nerd - If I had known about this trope before 10 minutes ago it would have been the first thing I applied to you :) - Stolen By Faeries
• Mad Artist - StolenByFaeries
• The Mario: You seem to have lots of talents. Chihuahua0
  • Lots of interest alright, but talents... not so much. But thanks!
• Miles Gloriosus- Mr W
  • *tries to look innocent*
• Modern Major General: I've got a feeling somehow - Balmung
  • Remove "competent at everything", and you're about right.
• Moe: don't you even try to deny it. —Sabre's Edge
• Motor Mouth: The imaginary voice I hear when reading your posts -MilosStefanovic
• Mr. Exposition
• Ninja Editor - You got me. - Balmung
  • I plead guilty.
• Surreal Humor: Some of your artwork - VanishingReality
• The Cutie: You are kinda cute - lolacat
• The Power of Rock: You seem to be one who has the potential to use it. ~raigakuren
• The Smart Guy - risingdreams.
• Ted Baxter - =P Bisected8
• Trope Overdosed: On this page. You've got a lot of tropes. (Did I apply this correctly?) ~theindefiniteone
• Troperiffic: Wow... look how you've grown! - Stolen By Faeries

  • It's a combination of the nickname and the avatar. I think.

• Weapon Of Choice - Strawberry, I'm a little concerned about your expenditure of Minutemen missiles... —Sabre's Edge
  • Worry no more.
• Word Salad Title - For your avatar title. - Premonition45

Vandalism

Vandals! Testudo forming to our front! Give them a taste of our steel! Go go go!

• Since you asked: I saw this page and thought you were a reasonably cool person. With fairly good taste. Point at a mirror and tell yourself you're awesome because I told you to do so. Icewolfklaske
• In Soviet Russia strawberry better than you! wannabeotaku
• A wild DUMBASS appeared! DUMBASS used VANDALIZE! Critical hit!
  • DUMBASS evolved to MAGIC DUMBASS!
• Gee, I wonder if you like Coraline... ;-) ~Fuzy2K
• Thank you for enjoying my new game! ~ Pastylover2
• Dropping bye and saying "hi". You're a pretty cool guy person yourself. ~ Sabre's Edge
• This vandalization is brought to you by Strawberry Shorthand. ~KuroFox
• Have a trope. Coffee? *raises flask* - Bisected8
  • Ta. *toss*
• The faeries made me do it. - StolenByFaeries
  • No problem!
• Dun tsh-tsh dun p-tsh psh tuh-tuh tsh sht-sht psh psh p-tsh.
• -Divebomb done in return!- HellmanSabian
• WAI HELO THAR! The compliment you gave me in the forum games thread made me feel warm and fuzzy, so I'm vandalizing your page with SUNSHINE, RAINBOWS AND LOLLIPOPS!- Sakan4k
• I am appalled at the fact that I have not set your page on fire yet. :P -Nekoalexa
  • -sets page on fire- :P -Nekoalexa
• LAKKA LAKKA LAKKA- Mr W
• I WANNA TAKE YOU DOWN CUZ I'M GOING TO STRAWBERRY FIELDS NOTHING IS REAL~-Vanthebaron
• I stumbled upon your Deviant Art page and saw your fan art of me. Two words: FUCK YES! Thank you! -glumps- — A Crack In Time