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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 16th 2023 at 5:37:57 PM
Page 1072 @Night Owl Warrior
The actors playing the Straw Hats Pirates are all different ethnicities. Luffy is Latino (mestizo Mexican), Zoro is Oriental (Japanese), Nami is White (White American), Usopp is Black (Black Jamaican) and Sanji is half West Asian, <- comma half European (Lebanese and English mixed).
Page 1072 @jahman
All three are women, which the main crew could use more of.
They are all previously introduced characters who got along swimmingly with the crew.
^ They're people, so they're a "who", not a "that".
All three share a connection and goal that involve the Dawn of the World, which Luffy, as the Second Coming of Joyboy...
Page 1072 @Night Owl Warrior wrote:
"All they keep telling me is to improve my English on this thread but they wont lift my ban. Ive been waiting for my ban to be lifted for months."
The moderators usually give an explanation something like this:
- Sometimes they say three posts instead of several.
- Sometimes they say that the posts must be consecutive.
- Sometimes they say that the posts must be substantial.
- Sometimes they say that the posts must need no corrections at all.
In this post
and this post
you made the following mistakes:
All they do is keep telling me is to improve my English on this thread, <- comma but they won't lift my ban. I've been waiting for my ban to be lifted for months.
Who do I talk to <- no comma to get my ban lifted?
I'm only suggesting edits since no one will lift my ban. I just keep getting told to improve my English here. But English is my only language, I'm just error prone due to typos and incapable of consistent proof reading. I can understand if anyone wants to point out my mistakes and correct them or order me to correct them.
If you want your suspension for English problems to be lifted, you need to stop making so many English mistakes. There's no other way. The moderators will not accept any excuses.
The best advice I can give you is:
- Run your posts through a spellchecker before posting them here. The spellchecker will detect any unusual spelling and warn you that it may be incorrect. It may even suggest the correct word (the way Google does). As an added bonus, over time this will improve your spelling.
- Remember that contractions such as "I'm" (I am), "I've" (I have) and won't (will not) always have an apostrophe (') in them.
Edited by Arivne on Oct 26th 2023 at 8:24:21 AM
Page 1072 @The Crossover Fan
Amaya of Rosas will realize that Magnifico <missing text> She doesn’t even know that Magnifico has not granted any of the people’s wishes since he is keeping them.
^ Realize that Magnifico what?
This can mean that if she has a moment to realize it once she notice something wrong about her spouse, she will start to realize that Asha is innocent and that her husband is nothing but a power-hungry king who only wants the power from the wishes.
In the trailer, Dahlia stated that Asha was becoming King Magnifico’s apprentice when the latter was nervous about becoming one, <- comma that is, <- comma until she left after realizing Magnifico is keeping the wishes in his private room instead of granting the wishes as he promised the citizens.
^ "the latter" refers to King Magnifico. Since you meant "Asha", just change "the latter" to "Asha".
This would mean that Asha was in training to become a future leader or successor, <- comma so it could be possible that Asha could become either a future successor once she defeats Magnifico.
We don’t know that much info about him besides his being the son of Sabino and being the late husband to Sakina and late father to Asha.
The film could explore some parts of his backstory before he passed away for some reason.
In a few moments of the teaser and official trailers, the group is shown jumping down, <- comma in circles with both Valentino and Star joining with them while there in Magnifico’s private room.
This could mean that the group (including Star and Valentino) are presumably sneaking into the room to collect and free the wishes to return them to everyone in Rosas.
Edited by Arivne on Oct 26th 2023 at 8:13:54 AM
Page 1072 @ Asrul Guza
When Uryu uses Blut Vene against Shutara for the first time, dark circuitry-like markings appear on his hand skin as reishi is pumped through his veins. Before using Antithesis to help free Yhwach from Hikufune's Cage of Life, Uryu's eyes also appear to have faint cyan circuitry-like markings similar to Blut's mark the first time he activates his Schrift.
^ When you're talking about two or more characters with the same gender, please be careful when you replace their names with gendered pronouns so you don't risk confusing the reader.
Edited by Arivne on Oct 26th 2023 at 8:20:36 AM
Pokemon S 7 E 38 Cruisin For A Losin:
- Character Development:
- In this particular episode, Ash is shown taking steps toward learning how to remain calm and level-headed both in and out of Pokémon battles. Despite May's hot-headed and arrogant behavior, Ash manages to refrain from getting into a nasty argument with her. Moreover, he even comforts her after she loses and gets harshly scolded for her behavior. Ash is calm enough to point out to May that while they may have different roles as trainers, what they do with their Pokémon and the bond they share will always be the same.
- In One Piece, in order to reach Skypiea, the Straw Hats had to track down and ride this massive geyser that can shoot whole islands into the sky. After getting to the White Sea, Ganfor tells them that there are other ways to reach the Sky Islands, and is stunned that the Straw Hats rode the Knock-Up Stream, as it's an All-Or-Nothing shot. Nami goes ballistic on Luffy at the idea that there were safer ways of reaching Skypiea.
- Addition: Subverted as according to Gan Fall, there are other ways to reach Skypiea but they involve sacrificing crew members, something that the Straw Hats refuse to do. He also mentions that those who survive the journey through the Knock-Up Stream are viewed as brave and highly skilled, particularly their navigators. The Straw Hat Pirates are an excellent example of this, which eventually earns them the respect and aid of Gan Fall.
- Evil Power Vacuum: Wilson Fisk's downfall caused a power vacuum and subsequent competition among various factions, leading to violent confrontations and retaliations that escalated the situations. As a result, the initial takedown of Fisk had significant and lasting consequences for the entire community.
Edited by jahman on Oct 26th 2023 at 8:43:40 AM
Hello got a few trope entires to bring up to check for any spelling/grammar errors.
- Big Brother Instinct: Matthew also tries to look out for his younger siblings. he also has this instinct for Caleb, especially in season 7 with Caleb actually viewing Matthew as an older brother figure to seek for guidance, while Matthew watches over him and finds ways to ease Caleb’s stress.
- Cool Big Bro: Matthew seems to serve as one towards his younger siblings and Caleb since the all look up to him as a role model, while Matthew does his best to make sure that they are safe and happy.
- Loving Bully: Matthew makes fun of Jay and his lifestyle to hide his own attractions for him.
- Ascended Extra: Caleb goes from being a background character in the first 6 seasons to being a supporting character in season 7, eventually becoming the protagonist of the A-plot in "Panic! At the Mall”.
- True Companions: He’s this with Matthew, where they broadcast the school news together, while Caleb considering Matthew his best friend and Matthew returning the sentiment.
Edited by G-Editor on Oct 25th 2023 at 11:21:46 PM
My sandbox of EPs and other stuffThanks. Today's another day I didn't have time to get through the end of my list, and I don't think tomorrow will be either, but the end is getting close, and I appreciate your patience.
Two maintenance workers who appear in season 5 to provide a Lower-Deck Episode perspective to both the main cast and an alien assault on the station.
- Badass Bystander: They have no combat training, but briefly help fight a wave of attackers (Mack with a dropped gun and Bo with his fists) after getting caught up in a battle by accident.
- The Everyman: They are blue collar workers who do various important jobs, even while admitting an inability to understand what all of them mean in the bigger picture, and like their bosses but have an incomplete perspective of the important things they do.
- Hero-Worshipper:
- They both deeply respect and admire Sheridan, especially Mack.
- Bo is in awe of the Starfury pilots and briefly becomes an Ascended Fanboy when Byron uses his telepathic abilities to project Bo's mind into the head of one of the pilots during a space battle so he can see it up close.
- Jack of All Trades: They are trained in a variety of jobs to help keep the station running, allowing them to travel around and meet a variety of important people during their normal work.
- Those Two Guys: They are a Big Guy, Little Guy (Mack is about a foot shorter than Bo) pair of chatty long-term friends and colleagues.
- In Outlands: Implacable, Geary relays a series of General Ripper orders he has received, as well as his certainty that they are fake. Badaya comments that those orders sound so stupid and insane that he almost thinks they really could be from the fleet's incompetent superiors.
- Overshadowed by Controversy: By far the most well-known thing about the show nowadays is its delight in tackling the most controversial social issues of its time (many of which have only gotten more divisive since the show)-such as euthanasia, homophobia, abortion, and medical ethics- and flip-flopping which main characters are portrayed as right or wrong on serious issues, depending on the episode.
- Unpopular Popular Character: Ambulance Chaser Douglas Wambaugh and The Coroner, Carter Pike, are probably the two least liked and respected main cast members (especially in earlier episodes), but are both particularly popular with the fanbase (although neither is universally beloved due to sometimes being on the wrong end of a particularly big Overshadowed by Controversy moment).
- Carter getting heckled over how many times he ends up changing his diagnosis of how the dead woman in "The Snake Lady" died every time new facts come to life gets funnier with each new press conference.
- Scatter Brained Senior Howard Buss abruptly shows up for a town council meeting for the first time in three years. Everyone thinks his Alzheimers made him forget that he resigned until the council secretary explains that Howard was technically only on medical leave for all that time and really is still a councilman. Howard then insists on observing an often-ignored bylaw that the council sing "America The Beautiful" at the start of each meeting. Then, when Howard ends up becoming the new mayor due to his council seniority at the end of the episode, the rest of the council (who have been pushing hard to get rid of the old mayor, with Howard being one of her few defenders) have a Mass "Oh, Crap!" moment.
- When a famous lawyer who Wambaugh idolizes gets run off the road by a motorcyclist while visiting town (and turns out to be Jimmy's father), Wambaugh earnestly tells the elder Brock that he would be honored to sue the motorcyclist on his behalf.
- Self-Made Man:
- J.J. is a former blue-collar kid who "somehow managed to parlay a couple hundred dollars he'd won in a poker game into enough money to make him the third richest man in America."
- Tech billionaire Harper Weems from Tyrannosaurus Wrecks made her first fortune at the age of twenty-two by designing a website.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: Walter Ogilvy's failed rival zoo/theme park ZooTopia is first mentioned in a book written two years before the movie Zootopia came out.
- The Creon: While Sergeant Schultz isn't the second-in-command of the camp, being the senior noncom makes him Colonel Klink's main aide, and a few episodes mention that he could potentially take over the camp one day. This horrifies and exasperates Schultz, due to his laziness and his realization that whoever is Kommandant of the camp will constantly be manipulated, humiliated, and exposed to great danger because of Colonel Hogan's machinations. Of course, the one time a reluctant Schultz is forced into temporary command, he still gets Drunk with Power.
- The Woobie: Sergeant Schultz's Butt-Monkey nature is mostly Played for Laughs, but his constant state of anxiety despite being a Punch-Clock Villain at worst, the cruel disrespect and discipline he gets from Hochsetter, Burkhalter, and even Klink on occasion, and the episodes where he comes close to being sent to the Russian front can make him a genuinely tragic figure every now and then.
Edited by Alpinist on Oct 27th 2023 at 11:48:20 AM
For Complete Monster.
- Dead Mall: The Penn Mills Galleria is a sadistic Genius Loci in form of the mall. It uses its illusion powers to lure and imprison countless people, children included, and transform them into deformed creatures on who it feeds. When thief who was immune to its powers keep breaking in and out of it, Mall eventually condemned imprisoned him while letting him keep some of his will, occosionally letting him sneak its grounds while setting traps for him as twisted form of game. When five teengers break into it night before its demolition, Mall lures them one by one into its clutches while planning to let one of them go so demolition would be delayed. At the end it drops only girl who survived order where demolition crew would find her, eagerly awaiting new victims who will come in search of her friends.
For Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (IDW) charcater pages:
@ Dreamer
Child of the Lord Brahma and sister of the Dragon. She and her brother created Earth, with her being creation and maintance to her brother’s destruction. After helping her brother create Pantheon, Dreamer went into sleep in attempt to become more like their father, creating humans from her dreams.
- Cain and Abel: Her relathioship with Dragon. Initially she and him worked together to create the world, however Dragons perfectionesam led him to lay waste on it countless times, with creation af humans being last straw as he started currupting his sisters dreams and swaying humans to evil, forcing Dreamer to imprison her brother.
- God Is Good: She serves role of creator deity to main universe story takes place in and she is shown to be compassionate and curious deity.
- The Maker: While she and her brother created Earth and life on it together, it was her dreams which created humans.
@ Dragon
- The Anti-God: He is just as powerfull as his sister, being destruction to her creation, and helped her create the world before turning evil. After that he became mix of this and Satanic Archetype.
- The Corrupter: He has spend countless millenium infiltrating dreams of his sister and driving humanity to evil, including influencing rise of Nazis. He also partly influenced by prisons, Takeshi Tatsuo and Oroku Saki, into evil as well.
- Greater-Scope Villain: Dragon is creator of the Pantheon, making him indirectly rensposible for all damage their game has dine, and Kitsune’s ultimate goal is his ressurection, making him indirectly rensposible for founding of the Foot Clan and Shredder’s Start of Darkness. Shredder in Hell comic reveals not only was he more directly involved in it than previously assumed, having stired Shredder and his predecesor to evil, but that he is also responsible for much of humanity’ evil and cruelty by corrupting his sister’s dreams.
- The Perfectionist: He was never satisfied with what he and Dreamer created, destroying their creations countless time and eventually creating Pantheon as his pet project. His inability to accept flaws in their creations, esspecaly humans, led to his descendant into evil.
@ EmperorGeode
- Dead Mall: The Penn Mills Galleria is a sadistic Genius Loci in the form of the Mall. It uses its illusion powers to lure and imprison countless people, children included, and transform them into deformed creatures on whom it feeds. When a thief who is immune to its powers keeps breaking in and out of it, the Mal eventually condemns and imprisons him while letting him keep some of his will, occasionally letting him sneak out of its grounds while setting traps for him as a twisted (superfluous words - cut) game. When five teenagers break into it on the night before its demolition, the Mall lures them one by one into its clutches while planning to let one of them go so the demolition would be delayed. At the end it drops the only girl who survived (superfluous word - cut) where the demolition crew will find her, and eagerly awaits new victims who will come in search of her friends.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (IDW)
character pages:
Dreamer
Child of the Lord Brahma and sister of the Dragon. She and her brother created Earth, with her being creation and maintenance to her brother’s destruction. After helping her brother create the Pantheon, Dreamer went to sleep in an attempt to become more like their father, creating humans from her dreams.
- Cain and Abel: Her relationship with Dragon. Initially she and him worked together to create the world, but Dragon's perfectionism led him to lay waste to it countless times, with the creation of humans being the last straw as he started corrupting his sister's dreams and swaying humans to evil, forcing Dreamer to imprison him.
- God Is Good: She serves the role of creator deity to the main universe the story takes place in and she is shown to be a compassionate and curious deity.
- The Maker: While she and her brother created Earth and the life on it together, it was her dreams which created humans.
Dragon
- The Anti-God: He is just as powerful as his sister, being destruction to her creation, and helped her create the world before turning evil. After that he became a mix of this and Satanic Archetype.
- The Corrupter: He has spend countless millennia infiltrating (superfluous word - cut, move text) his sister's dreams and driving humanity to evil, including influencing the rise of Nazis. He also partly influenced by prisons, Takeshi Tatsuo and Oroku Saki, into evil as well.
- Greater-Scope Villain: Dragon is the creator of the Pantheon, making him indirectly responsible for all the damage their game has done, and Kitsune’s ultimate goal is his resurrection, making him indirectly responsible for the founding of the Foot Clan and Shredder’s Start of Darkness. The "Shredder in Hell" comic reveals not only was he more directly involved in it than previously assumed, having stirred Shredder and his predecessor to evil, but that he is also responsible for much of humanity’s evil and cruelty by corrupting his sister’s dreams.
- The Perfectionist: He was never satisfied with what he and Dreamer created, destroying their creations countless times and eventually creating the Pantheon as his pet project. His inability to accept flaws in their creations, especially humans, led to his descent into evil.
Edited by Clare on Oct 27th 2023 at 9:34:40 AM
- Ability Mixing: By combining Psychic Link and Compelling Voice into Mind Manipulation, Sister Amy was able to build Brain Trust into the world-shaking force it became.
- Always Chaotic Evil:
- Ambiguous Clone Ending: App has a clone app. Unfortunately he ended up falling under Sister’s Amy control. While App manages to take him out, he couldn’t get rid of the clone with the servers down. When Sarah asked him how he knew whether he was the clone or the original, App didn’t answer. It turns out she was right and the two eventually gave up on trying to figure out which one of them was the original.
- And I Must Scream:
- Servant’s powers fall under Blessed with Suck, as while his forcefields are incredibly powerful since he can never turn them off, he can’t actually touch or feel anything.
- Apocalypse Cult: Brain Trust
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Since Servant is immune to Sister Ami’s telepathy, she didn’t let him in on the fact that Brain Trust was an Apocalypse Cult until it was time to enact her plan.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: The Dervishes were just ordinary people that Sister Ami brainwashed into being terrorists. In fact, the majority of Brain Trust is under her control.
- Brought Down to Badass: A lot of the hardware for the server that houses App’s data was Rex Monday’s own design, and it is doubtful that the Knowbokov Foundation could fix it. So by the end of "Covanant", the twin App’s have lost their immortality and the only power they have is the app’s that were already programmed into their belt when the server was destroyed.
- Brought Down to Normal: Played with. While Servant ended up surviving his Heroic Sacrifice, the Space Machine ended up absorbing all of the vacuum energy that allowed him to create his force fields, essentially tearing his power from his body while he was no longer super powered. His true form is still the shape of the man who’d been known as Ogre.
- The Big Bad of the third novel was given this after reawakening the knowledge in the inmate that was used to study The Thrill’s power.
- Crazy-Prepared:
- Rex Monday created technology that makes him Immune to Mind Control. Mrs. Knowbokov started using it after his death.
- The White House wasn’t happy about dealing with Dr. Know when he used his telepathy to get his way, so they built a bunker beneath the White House with psionic baffles that’s shielded from all telepathic access. There is even a security code that can be used to ward the President against possible psionic incursion.
- The Russian military is so corrupt that Mrs Know was able to cripple their nuclear capabilities just by throwing money around. They have a lot of missiles sitting in silos that won’t go anywhere because the rocket fuel has been sold on the black market. Lots of other missiles are essentially empty shells because terrorists have paid top dollar for the fissionable material.
- Deconstruction: The third novel has one for Augmented Reality. After surviving a cacophony of tiny explosions, her helmet warning her of the smoke, the flame, the dangerous proximity of trees overhead if she took flight and her opponent being not only far more distracting then helpful but something she could see with her own eyes, forcing her to cut its power.
- Evil Plan: Amy McPherson’s plan is to have her Dervishes to perform terrorist acts on American soil, increasing political pressure to send more troops to fight overseas, then use her Mind Manipulation to get the President to reinstate the draft and send the youth of America off to put an end to this terrible, terrible threat. Then, once she’s started World War III, she plans on transporting New Jerusalem to Old Jerusalem, exacerbating things until the Nuclear Option is the only choice the leaders of the world have.
- Facial Scruff: One of the Johnny’s grew this as a way to distinguish himself from the other; the fact that App is normally better groomed makes it even more noticeable. It could also double as a Beard of Sorrow.
- Failed a Spot Check: Sister Amy may have Telepathy, but she’s not omniscient. She tried to kill Skyrider by teleporting her into outer space because she wasn’t aware that her suit was pressurized and didn’t know that App is Immune to Mind Control while in ghost mode.
- Failure Is the Only Option: It was simply impossible for Sarah to rescue her mother after Sister Ami shot her. Either the bullet reached her first or the shockwave created from Sarah’s attempt at reaching her in time would.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: Delilah McPherson went from a deranged if standard Church Militant to someone with enough knowledge and power to cause The End of the World as We Know It.
- Immortals Fear Death: Averted. After Chimpion destroyed his servers, App felt as if an invisible weight had been removed from his shoulders. His mind had squirmed away from any attempt to grapple with the ramifications of his potential immortality. Knowing that his current life might be his last made him feel as if it had some value.
- Impersonating the Evil Twin: Inverted. Delilah McPherson was one of the death-row inmates who were a part of Dr. Know’s Wetware CPU. After his death, Mrs Know wanted to give them a second chance and set them free, unaware that since he had used portions of her mind as a telepathic amplifier, Delilah was immune to the attempts at turning her into a Blank Slate. When she was released, she kidnapped her sister Amy, drugged her, and turned her loose on a highway in a car with a stuck accelerator and the brake lines slowly bleeding out. And since she had already stolen all of Amy’s memories, it was easy for Delilah to step into her life.
- Heroic Sacrifice: After Sister Ami was defeated Servant refused to be set free of the Space Machine despite the fact that it was killing him, because they still needed to transport New Jerusalem back to Texas and he he’s the only power source that can move the city back into place.
- Sister Ami also created one between her and fellow death-row inmates with her acting as the Hive Queen.
- Insane Troll Logic: According to Judgment it is blasphemous to have superpowers, as only God has the power to create something from nothing.
- It's All My Fault: Cliff blamed himself for falling for Sister Ami’s manipulation, but Sarah assured him that it wasn’t his fault.
- No-Nonsense Nemesis: After realizing that she was The Mole App can a across a feverish, mutilated, and half immobilized Chimpion. Instead of his apps he just took a rifle from one of the guards she killed and shot her.
- Chimpion
- What? No acid mode? No eel mode? You’re just going to shoot me?
- App
- Yeah, I’m going to fucking shoot you.
- More than Mind Control: This is the crux of Sister Amy’s Evil Plan to send New Jerusalem to old Jerusalem.
- Sarah
- We can’t leave the city here. Sister Amy didn’t need to control any nuclear weapons to trigger a global firestorm. You think the players over here are going to stand by passively and let a city built by Americans sit on sacred ground? We know there are nations in the mix that have nukes. We also know they have a history of spreading the pain around.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Katrina Knowbokov took it upon herself to take responsibility for the actions of Rex Monday and her late husband. Sadly she aware that the inmates time in the Wetware CPU had transformed them into Power Parasites when she freed them. This made her endeavor of giving them a chance at a new life doomed to fail, and is ultimately what led to her death. The Irony that Sister Ami killed her in revenge for what happened at Jerusalem something she had absolutely nothing to do with.
- One Dialogue, Two Conversations: Chimpion failed in her attempt to kill App due to not knowing that he could reboot even if the belt was destroyed. This caused her to express her frustration at typical human verbal looseness as he’d said several times the belt was the source of his powers, barely ever mentioning the servers that truly housed him.
- Powered Armor:
- Judgement one of the inmates freed by Mrs. Know and later brainwashed by Amy Mc Pherson wears one based off Steam-Dragon’s armor, designed to look like an angle.
Powers as Programs The Dervishes are the result of the death-row inmates using the knowledge they gained from Dr. Know’s Wetware CPU to create Super Soldiers. Specifically, Uninhibited Muscle Power, Rail Blades’ Extra-ore-dinary, and Temporal Duplication.
- Psychic Link: This was Delilah Mc Pherson’s job in the Wetware CPU. While the other inmates were tasked with solving exotic scientific challenges like cloning, time travel, energy harvesting, and unraveling the secrets of his daughters’ powers. Her mind was used as a sort of telepathic bridge, a hub through which the thoughts in all the various minds might meet and cooperate with one another. When they were set free of the People Jars she still possessed this telepathic connection, not only with her fellow prisoners, but with anyone she focused on.
- Resurrective Immortality: App can either Reset, which is a command used to return to normal after using a power, or Reboot, which is triggered remotely when the server realizes he’s been mortally injured
- The Reveal: Servant’s father is Rex Monday.
- Serial Rapist: As of the third novel Rex Monday has two children both of which are a Child by Rape.
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: Katrina Knowbokov freed the inmates from her husband’s Wetware CPU. The experience left them all a Blank Slate allowing her to give them all a fresh start by imprinting new identities over their existing memories. Only for them to be brainwashed by Delilah Mc Pherson into joining her Apocalypse Cult.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome:
- It is not App’s belt that keeps him alive but the computers that houses the code for the belt. His line of work is extremely dangerous and as he himself stated the belt gets destroyed all the time.
- This is why Dr Know was amused by the presidents attempts at blocking his telepathy. Though it worked the second the president and his team left the bunker they would meet in to figure out how to deal with my Dr Know, he’d know what they’d discussed. He said the only way to it would have really worked would be if they never left the room.
- There Are No Coincidences: Pastor Amy believes that it is god’s will for her to bring forth the apocalypse
- Pastor Ami
- I have the ultimate marching orders. I’m tasked by the Lord to bring about the end of days. I have been given my gifts to see His prophecy fulfilled. Why else would a sham death sentence have given me telepathy? Why else would the Lord have given me a volunteer army of thirteen genius scientists, their talents hidden beneath the false programming of the mind butchers of the Knowbokov Foundation? These geniuses awaited the touch of my mind to waken and nurture them. These things cannot have happened by chance.
- Victory by Endurance: Most of the inmates that Dr Know had kidnapped had gone into death row in their twenties, but due to appeals, had faced execution in their thirties. Then, some had spent over a decade in a goo tube, and another six years had passed since they’d been freed. Judgement had to be at least 50 and maybe close to sixty. So even with his armor supplying all the real muscle Sarah had far more stamina and endurance them him. She was even worried that he might keel over from a heart attack while chasing her.
@jahman
...learning how to remain calm and level-headed, <- comma both...
Wilson Fisk's downfall caused a power vacuum and subsequent competition among various factions, leading to violent confrontations and retaliations that escalated the situations. As a result, the initial takedown of Fisk had significant and lasting consequences for the entire community.
^ If this occurs during Spider-Man (Insomniac), the verbs in this example need to be changed to present tense as per How to Write an Example - Write in Historical Present Tense.
^ I.e. caused -> causes, escalated -> escalate, had -> has.
^ If it occurs before the game begins, the example should say so (e.g. "Before the game begins, Wilson Fisk's downfall caused...").
Edited by Arivne on Oct 27th 2023 at 8:50:11 AM
@G-Editor
He also has this instinct for Caleb, especially in season 7, <- comma with...
Matthew seems to serve as one towards his younger siblings and Caleb since they all...
Matthew makes fun of Jay and his lifestyle to hide his own attraction toward him.
True Companions: He and Matthew broadcast the school news together, while Caleb considers Matthew his best friend and Matthew returns the sentiment.
^ Deleted material that violated Word Cruft - This Example Is an Example ("He’s this with Matthew, where they"). You never need to say that a straight example is an example. You only need to point out when something isn't a straight example, e.g. if it's a form of Playing with a Trope, Played for Laughs, etc.
Edited by Arivne on Oct 27th 2023 at 9:05:32 AM
@Alpinist
They have no combat training, <- comma but...battle by accident. <- period
...and meet a greater variety of people during their normal work.
^ Greater variety of people than what? Than other people on the station do?
...long-term friends...
Ambulance Chaser Douglas Wambaugh and The Coroner Carter Pike are ...earlier episodes), <- comma but...
...parlay a couple hundred dollars he'd won in a poker game into enough money...
Walter Ogilvy's failed rival zoo/theme park <- no comma Zoo Topia is...
...he gets from Hochsetter, Burkhalter, and even Klink on occasion, and...
@Jinpuu
Unfortunately, <- comma he ended up falling under Sister Amy's control.
Apocalypse Cult: Brain Trust
^ This is another Zero-Context Example, and you have another violation of Example Indentation in Trope Lists later on. Since you have ignored my earlier warning about your possibly getting suspended from editing for doing this
, I will not be warning you about your future rules violations.
...and the only power they have is the apps that...
...with psionic baffles that are shielded from all telepathic access.
...something she could see with her own eyes, she was forced to cut its power..
Amy McPherson’s plan is to have her Dervishes to perform terrorist acts...
One of the Johnnys grew this as a way...
After Sister Ami was defeated, <- comma Servant refused...Texas and he he’s the only power source...
Sister Ami also created one between her and fellow death-row inmates, <- comma with...
After realizing that she was The Mole, <- comma App came across a feverish, mutilated, and half immobilized Chimpion. Instead of using his apps, <- comma he just...
Sadly, <- comma she was aware that the inmates' time...The Irony is that Sister Ami killed her in revenge for what happened at Jerusalem, <- comma something she had absolutely nothing to do with.
This caused her to express her frustration at typical human verbal looseness, <- comma as...
Judgement, <- comma one of the inmates freed by Mrs. Know and later brainwashed by Amy McPherson, <- comma wears...
This was Delilah McPherson’s job in the Wetware CPU....secrets of his daughters’ powers, <- comma her mind...
As of the third novel, <- comma Rex Monday has two children, <- comma each of which is a Child by Rape.
Katrina Knowbokov freed the inmates from her husband’s Wetware CPU. The experience left each a Blank Slate, <- comma allowing her to give them all a fresh start by imprinting new identities over their existing memories, <- comma only for them to be brainwashed by Delilah McPherson into joining her Apocalypse Cult.
It is not App’s belt that keeps him alive, <- comma but the computers that house the code for the belt. His line of work is extremely dangerous, <- comma and as he himself stated, <- comma the belt gets destroyed all the time.
This is why Dr Know was amused by the President's attempts at blocking his telepathy. Though it worked the second the president and his team left the bunker they would meet in to figure out how to deal with my Dr Know, he’d know what they’d discussed. He said the only way for it would have really worked would be if they never left the room.
Pastor Amy believes that it is God’s will for her to bring forth the apocalypse. <- period
So even with his armor supplying all the real muscle, <- comma Sarah had far more stamina and endurance than him.
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For Ymmv Skull Island: Rise of Kong
- Signature Scene: The scence that people bring up the most when talking about this game is a strange scence where Kong is fighting the Raptors only for all of a sudden aapperance of an actual jpg photo of the raptor to appear that doesn't even cover the entire screen. It's been nicknamed the the raptor.jpg cutscene.
Edited by miraculous on Oct 27th 2023 at 2:09:46 AM
"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."- Common Knowledge: Some fans were quick to assume that in the ending cutscene, Peter retires as Spider-Man. While this is true to an extent, Peter indicates that he's simply taking a break to focus more on his personal life rather than retiring from being Spider-Man. Even so, his break doesn't last long, as when you first switch to him in the postgame, the first thing he says is that his break is over.
Edited by Tylerbear12 on Oct 28th 2023 at 1:30:36 PM
Got some more trope entries I'd like to check for spelling and grammar.
- Foreshadowing: Caleb is the only one who sees Maury the Hormone Monster while Maury recognizes and greets Caleb, which foreshadows to the revelation that Maury is also Caleb’s Hormone Monster in Season 7’s “Panic! At the Mall”.
- Big Bad: Cartman!Kennedy is the main antagonist in this episode where it’s reveal that she trapped the real Kathleen Kennedy in the Panderverse before taking her place where Cartman!Kennedy’s actions have negative consequences to Disney’s box office sales and the Multiverse as a whole.
- Breaking Old Trends: Unlike the previous 1-hour specials that has a Story Arc that lasts throughout multiple specials, this special that serves as a complete standalone story that gets resolved in one special.
- Distaff Counterpart:
- There’s a whole universe consisting of adult female versions of the boys, and everyone in South Park as a whole. Among them includes a black woman as Eric Cartman.
- There is also another female version of Eric Cartman that invades the main universe and takes Kathleen Kennedy’s identity and occupation.
- Greater-Scope Villain: While Cartman isn’t the Big Bad actively driving the conflict, it’s revealed that he was the one who indirectly started the whole plot for the special in the first place by sending thousands of hate mail to Kathleen Kennedy resulting in Kennedy to continuously abusing the Panderstone’s power until Cartman!Kennedy arrives in Kennedy’s universe and takes her place.
I think I will wrap up my stuff tomorrow.
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- Alternate Character Interpretation:
- Is ReelTok withholding information he has about the tagger just to get more viewers for his channel, or does he have some grudge against the past and/or present townspeople as Dana briefly suspects?
- The Reveal that Pamela is the main Swastika tagger and is indeed motivated by racism raises some questions about what kind of subtle negative influences she might have over her circle of friends. Is her influence the reason that Michael thinks her longtime boyfriend Jordie is somewhat racist? And is it just a coincidence that her group of friends are enthusiastically involved in pranking a group of scientists whose number happens to include a Jewish couple and an Asian man while viewing their kids as outsiders?
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Sophie never has a POV section and is barely mentioned in the last quarter of the book despite being Paemla's best friend, having a crush on Link, getting some minor Ship Tease with Pouncey, and being one of the most imaginative pranksters in her group of friends. Her reactions to Link and Pamela being the Swastika taggers is never even mentioned.
- Gerion takes delight in telling a prostitute whom Tywin mistreated a story about how he beat Tywin at Cyvasse at age six and provoked a childish Rage Quit from his brother.
- Chris's half-brother and "spiritual doppelganger" Bernard can attract just as much praise as Chris on the rare occasions he shows up.
- Leonard (Graham Greene (Actor)) is only in five episodes, but his insightful and layered character makes him a rare twentieth-century Magical Native American character who can really sell the role.
- The sweet malamute who Maggie thinks is a reincarnated ex-boyfriend in "Animals R Us" is better-liked than many human guest stars.
- Maggie's Creature of Habit mother Jane is only in two episodes, but her actress was nominated for an Emmy for her colorful second appearance.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: In early season 3, Ed and Ruth-Anne praise Spike Lee as a great filmmaker but think that he'll improve once he inevitably grows out of his "preachy" phase. Thirty years later, both Lee's insistence on attacking social issues and the reception of his movies have only gotten better.
- Maggie has no sooner finished memorializing her dead boyfriend Rick than she finds out he cheated on her with many other women.
The Juvie Three is a 2008 Young Adult book by Gordon Korman. The three eponymous boys are Gecko (an instinctual Badass Driver since his go-kart days who got dragged into helping his older brother with a robbery and is bad at thinking things through), Terence (a tough-talking, gang-affiliated Chicago burglar), and Gentle Giant Arjay (who accidentally killed a bully). They are offered a chance at early release from jail under the supervision of Reformed Criminal Douglas Healy. They are making the most of their new lives when Healy is left comatose in an accident while not carrying his ID. The boys are left hoping for his recovery while also trying to hide his accident from authorities, who will send them back to jail in a heartbeat if they hear Healy is out of the picture. As this goes on, Terence risks backsliding into crime, Arjay auditions for a band, and Gecko begins dating a volunteer at the hospital, any one of which could lead to very bad things.
Tropes in this book:
- Crime of Self-Defense: Arjay is in jail because when a Gang of Bullies attacked him, he pushed one of them, who fell back and fatally hit his head on a fountain, after which his friends painted Arjay as the aggressor.
- Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: DeAndre is a Soft-Spoken Sadist who seems very much capable of murder, but he and his mom have a close relationship (minus her dismay at his poor life choices).
- Exact Words: The boys rely a lot on carefully worded half-truths while trying to hide either their juvenile delinquent pasts or how their supervisor, Mr. Healy, is in a coma.
- After Roxanne asks Gecko if his brother Ruben is in college, he tells her that Ruben is "upstate". "Upstate" really means prison.
- When a counselor asks Arjay if Mr. Healy approves of his joining a band, he truthfully replies Healy has never said a word against it.
- Freudian Excuse: Terence, the most aggressive and shady of the three, is always bragging about his old gang in Chicago, but eventually admits that he only set out to impress and join them after seeing how they were the only people his abusive father was ever afraid of.
- Honorary Uncle: Deputy Chief Delancey and Roxanne's father are close enough friends for her to call Delancey Uncle Mike.
- What You Are in the Dark: After the truth about the kids comes out, Deputy Chief Delancey is surprised and impressed that during all of the weeks that their monitor was in a coma or recovering from amnesia, they focused on staying out of trouble and acting like they would if he was still supervising their lives (attending therapy, doing homework, etc.) rather than skipping town or going on a crime spree).
- You Remind Me of X: Healy admits that each of the eponymous characters reminds him of himself in some way: Gecko due to being pressured into crime by an older relative, Terence due to being in a jail that is far out of his comfort zone, and Arjay because they both spent time in jail due to accidents gone wrong.
No Coins, Please is a 1984 middle grade comedy book by Gordon Korman. It tells the story of Rob and Dennis, two teenagers and a group of younger boys who they are hired to take on a road trip as part of a mobile summer adventure experience. One of the younger boys, Artie Geller, is an opportunistic entrepreneur/con artist who has a new moneymaking racket at every new stop and eventually begins dragging his companions into the chaos.
Tropes in this book
- Break the Haughty: One of Artie's rackets involves betting on a toy car race with lots of randomly switching obstacles in front of the Washington D.C. Capitol Building. One Congressman confidently bets on a race because he thinks he can win and teach Artie a lesson about gambling. The cars he bets on fail to finish a single race until he is down to the last of his money and is desperately begging for a win, at which point Artie helps his damaged car finish the race out of sympathy for how haggard the man is.
- Companion Cube: One of Artie's rackets is selling ordinary jars of jelly that he calls "Attack jelly" and manipulates people into thinking there is something special about it worth buying.
- Farmer's Daughter: Two of the many girls Rob and Dennis briefly try to romance are the pretty daughters of a farmer whom Artie rents cows to use in conning tourists into entering milking competitions at misleading fees.
- Mean Boss: Mr. Butcher, the tour company owner, refuses to let Rob and Dennis explain themselves anytime something goes wrong and insults them for being Canadian. He's also a Child Hater who admits to only being in the business for the money.
- One-Tract Mind: One of the boys on the tour will almost never say anything except how cool he thinks his neighbor and surrogate big brother Pete is.
- Same Story, Different Names: Rob and Dennis's dynamic as a brash hothead who never plans ahead and his voice of reason loyal best friend is similar to many other duos from Korman's earlier writing career, particularly Bruno and Boots from Macdonald Hall.
@ * Slacker
Slacker is a Gordon Korman middle grade comedy series that began in 2016. So far the series consists of two books, Slacker and Level 13: A Slacker Novel.
In Slacker, eighth-grade video game addict Cam Boxer's parents have had enough of his single-minded and reckless slacker behavior and order him to get involved in non-gaming activities or else. Cam and his friends Chuck and Pavel pretend that Cam has started a do-gooder club called the Positive Action Group (or P.A.G.) but is still in the planning stage while thinking of the best ways to help the community. This quickly backfires when lots of other students hear about the group, think Cam is sincere, and instantly volunteer their time or ideas (the most notable of which involves protecting a beaver named Elvis from habitat loss), forcing Cam to engage in genuine charity work, which he views with frustration but occasional pride. In the meantime, the high school do-gooders are mad about the P.A.G. stealing their thunder right as they're working on capstone achievements for their college resumes and start sabotaging the P.A.G.
Level 13 takes place some time after Slacker. Cam is a better person than before in some ways, but it still the same gaming-obsessed slacker as before. He starts a Snowball Lie about how he needs to take a step back from his P.A.G. duties to avoid flunking out of school when he really is doing fine academically and wants extra time to devote to a live game stream and make money from his favorite pastime. He gets his hands on the original version of a video game famous for being recalled and heavily revised due to mysterious content on level 13 (which is missing from the new version), leading to a boost in Cam's popularity. However, yet another lure for subscribers is Elvis the beaver avidly watching Cam in the background whenever he's gaming, and all this fame could blow up in Cam's face if the school figures out what is going on.
Tropes in the Series:
- Alpha Bitch: Jennifer Del Rio is the uncompromising and self-centered head cheerleader, and Homecoming Queen, and runs the high school's good deeds club. The last of these would make her a Lovable Alpha Bitch, except she's doing it to look good on her Harvard application and will sabotage other do-gooders who are stealing charity work opportunities from her. She does get some Pet the Dog moments at the end of the book, but Cam is relieved to see her leave for college and get out of his life.
- Book Dumb: Football hero String is smart enough to understand a playbook perfectly, but he's failing all his classes and thinks To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee is one of the stars of Duck Dynasty.
- Bruiser with a Soft Center: Burly juvenile delinquent Xavier reforms throughout the first book as he engages in good deeds and discovers a passion for art projects and baking cookies.
- Cassandra Truth:
- Whenever Cam tries to tell Jennifer or the principal that he doesn't care about the P.A.G. and is fine with their efforts to move against it, they think he is just playing dumb and hoping they'll blame someone else for his actions.
- When Chuck and Pavel tell String the truth about the P.A.G. just being something Cam made up so his parents would let him play videogames, String thinks that they are just jealous of Cam and tells them to get out of his sight for telling such a mean-spirited lie.
- Class Princess: Jordan's Student Body President rival Kelly is a straight-A student, Extracurricular Enthusiast, being the softball captain, Blood Drive Coordinator, Parents' Night Hostess, National Honor Society, and part of every other student organization that Jordan and Felicia know of (including the golf team, the art club, and eventually even the P.G.A.). She is also genuinely nice to everyone but Jordan (who suspects that she set up a third candidate named Jordana just to siphon votes away from him), and even they make up and decide to become co-presidents while doing P.G.A. charity work together.
- Cornered Rattlesnake: Whenever Chuck gets cornered by enemies in a videogame, he desperately lashes out against his attackers in a way that either quickly gets him killed or somehow makes him a One-Man Army capable of wiping out all his enemies.
- Failed a Spot Check: In the opening scene, Cam is too distracted by video games to notice or put out a minor house fire, causing the fire department to break through the door.
- Formerly Fat: Cam doesn't recognize his gaming idol, Draja Dubrovnik, the first few times they meet, as Draja has lost hundreds of pounds since he took a step back from gaming and stopped binge-eating Doritos.
- Gamer Chick: Cam's sister Melody and her friend are decent gamers themselves and are annoyed at how little Cam thinks of Melody's gaming potential. Melody is secretly Cam's Always Someone Better gaming nemesis Evil McKillPeople. Melody gives up gaming in the Time Skip between books but comes out of retirement just long enough to get past level 12 of The Guardians of Geldorf when no one else can.
- Hyper-Competent Sidekick: Aspiring Student Body President Jordan Tollefson may be a good student with some decent showmanship, but his biggest asset is his campaign manager, Felicia Hochuli. She is five times The Social Expert that he is, keeps up with important news, and once engaged in some Hero of Another Story Kid Detective antics to prove that Jordan was innocent of writing graffiti on the bulletin board.
- Noble Top Enforcer: Alpha Bitch Jennifer Del Rio's boyfriend and primary assistant in going against the P.A.G., Tony, is a fairly calm person who softens toward Cam and the P.A.G. a lot quicker than Jennifer does.
- Snowball Lie: In Level 13, Cam lying about how he needs to step down from the Positive Action Group to focus on his schoolwork causes all of his smart friends to fall over themselves helping him with his schoolwork, even if it means cheating.
- Switching P.O.V.: Each chapter has a new first-person narrator (such as Cam, Pavel, Chuck, Daphne, Melody, Mr. Fanshaw, String, or Jennifer), often providing a Perspective Flip of an event of Dramatic Irony about how Cam is becoming a Fake Ultimate Hero against his wishes.
Edited by Alpinist on Oct 28th 2023 at 9:22:28 AM
Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl — Gym Leaders
Fantina
- Japanese Spirit: Fantina believes in providing her challengers with an exceptional battle experience. Therefore, she embarks on a journey to develop a distinctive style that combines the raw power of regular battles with the stylish moves of Pokémon Contests. This is why she occasionally leaves her Gym to hone her skills.
- Blood Knight: Fantina is an ambitious and passionate Hearthome Gym Leader who not only desires to engage in great battles herself but also wishes to provide her challengers with equally great battles. To achieve this, she often ventures on training trips away from the gym, where she hones her skills and devises new strategies to keep her opponents on their toes.
Pokemon S 11 E 41 Playing The Leveling Field
After watching Fantina defeat Zoey in a practice battle with exceptional skill, Ash and his companions finally get to meet the elusive Hearthome Gym leader. Fantina then explains to them why she had been away from the Gym for a while: She had been honing her skills and creating a new, unique battle style.
- Call-Back: Previously, Paris informed Ash that Fantina was away on an important training mission to develop a new battling style.
Pokemon S 8 E 18 The Great Eight Fate
- Climax Boss: Ash is preparing to challenge Juan in a gym battle to earn his final Hoenn gym badge. However, he discovers that the rules of this particular gym are different from any he's encountered before. The battle will consist of five-on-five rounds, beginning with a double battle and then switching to singles once two Pokémon on either side have been knocked out. Brock and Juan clarify that this Gym tests the challenger's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
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The scene that people bring up the most when talking about this game is a strange scene where Kong is fighting the raptors, <- comma only for all of a sudden the appearance of an actual jpg photo of the raptor to appear that doesn't even cover the entire screen. It's been nicknamed the "the raptor.jpg" cutscene.
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...and admits that he possibly never will.
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