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3rd happiest man in Connecticut
#32501: Nov 20th 2024 at 10:52:49 PM

Trivia.Transformers One

  • Newbie Boom: Despite its somewhat underwhelming theatrical run, the film caused a lot of people to check out other Transformers media, with some even stating it caused them gain an interest in the franchise as a whole. This is especially true after it made its way to digital store fronts and streaming.

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#32502: Nov 20th 2024 at 11:27:11 PM

[up] ...it caused them to gain an interest...

I don't just Wiki Talk the talk. I Wiki Walk the walk.
Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#32503: Nov 21st 2024 at 8:25:13 AM

Page 1300 @Alpinist

     Corrections 

After Cassie Blake spends much of the trilogy...

...with a Kill Em All Downer Ending where Sam fails...

In her first few scenes of the movie, Grace is more friendly to the BSC than she usually is in the books but...

...on equal par with Grace in screentime and Innocent Beta Bitch characterization <- no comma in the film.

...everything they planned, <- comma so...and end up with only enough money...

Kristy, this brilliant idea might really be brilliant. <- period

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#32504: Nov 21st 2024 at 8:30:03 AM

Page 1300 @jahman

     Corrections 

...extra side-story DLC will be added post-launch instead of through a package deal...

Shows us what Bowser has been doing since getting sucked into Concordia and his war with Zokket. <- period

Shows us the scooting missions IDLE is doing <- no comma and some fun stealth missions, too.

Shipshape Side

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#32505: Nov 21st 2024 at 8:33:30 AM

Page 1300 @Ojandora

     Corrections 

Some fans have speculated that Asuna's short attention span and tendency of spacing out when not focusing on something are early symptoms of Alzheimer's disease forming in her brain, which many assumed was the drawback behind her luck-altering powers. At least one fan took notice and drew a short comic about it.

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#32506: Nov 21st 2024 at 8:37:02 AM

Page 1300 @F Gonzalez

...jumping and posing as he normally did at his adult age, Ziggy...

Soon enough, she loses a page from her diary <- no comma which...

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#32507: Nov 21st 2024 at 8:39:21 AM

[up] @Ayumi-chan

This was especially true after it made its way to digital store fronts and streaming.

FGonzalez Since: Oct, 2021
Tylerbear12 What you see is what you get, just a guy. from The Green Hills. Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
What you see is what you get, just a guy.
#32509: Nov 21st 2024 at 9:04:07 AM

WebVideo.Jobby The Hong

  • Early-Installment Weirdness:
    • Many of his early reviews were slower paced and lacked the wackier Filthy Frank-styled humor present in his later and current reviews. They also did not present many of his later Running Gags, such as his use of "swivel" when referring to moving parts and the size comparison with Madoka, Godzilla, and Prime.
    • The transformation sequences in his earlier videos didn't have "Dispersion Relation" as background music. It wouldn't be until his GaoGaiGar Soul of Chogokin GX-68 review in 2017 that the song would become standard.
    • His early videos incorporated bits of Stop Motion Animation, namely when introducing the figure and the transformation sequences. As his style developed, he gradually retired the use of stop-motion over time.

WesternAnimation.Transformers One

  • Armor-Piercing Response: During their argument in the cave, after Orion Pax asks D-16 if he wants to stop Sentinel Prime, the latter responds in a way that Orion and the rest are left in Stunned Silence, while acting as the moment that solidifies D-16 Start of Darkness.
    Orion Pax: "But don't you stop him?"
    D-16: NO I WANT TO KILL HIM!!!
    D-16: I want to put Sentinel in chains and march him through the mines, so everyone can see him for the FALSE PRIME THAT HE IS! I want him to suffer and then to die in darkness!

Edited by Tylerbear12 on Nov 22nd 2024 at 7:23:33 AM

KBoult Since: Jun, 2024
#32510: Nov 21st 2024 at 2:58:47 PM

Here are some tropes for the Scream fic, Quantum Entanglement.

• Kick Them While They Are Down: While he's attacking Tara at her house, Richie (while dressed as Ghostface) kicks Tara while she's lying on the floor, when she doesn't fight back

• Leitmotif: I Found by Amber Run is a song that Amber and Tara first kissed while dancing to it as well. The song is also heard on Tara's phone before seeing Amber's ghost warning her to run before Tara gets run over by a car.

• Running Gag: In the story, the fact that Tara snores when she sleeps is brought up a few times. The first is when Amber, after Tara wakes up from a nightmare, says that she knows that Tara isn't asleep because she snores whenever she is sleeping, which Tara denies. The second time is after her and Amber become a couple, Tara is worried about Amber attacking her like she did originally in the alternate timeline and Amber says that she can't sleep without Tara's snoring. The third time is after Tara sleeps in the hospital, when she hears Amber and Sam talking and pretends to be still sleeping, is only for Amber to say she knows she's awake so she opens her eyes and greets them, only for Sam to say "Amber's right. You do snore".

° Amber sometimes says "Hey. Come here often?" when she greets Tara. The first two times is at the end of the school days. She says it to Tara for what they both think is the last time when it looks like she's going to die after Richie stabs her before Amber kills him and the last time is when they reunite in New York after she saves Tara from being hit by a car again.

jahman Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Dancing with myself
#32511: Nov 21st 2024 at 4:27:33 PM

Naruto - Team 7 Members

Kakashi

  • Believing Their Own Lies: After breaking up a particularly intense fight between Naruto and Sasuke, Kakashi attempts to console a heartbroken Sakura, reassuring her that things will soon return to normal for Team 7. However, more than three years later, the situation has only deteriorated. Sasuke has become an international terrorist, aligning himself with the Akatsuki. This forces Kakashi to grapple with his guilt for allowing the tensions to escalate. He turns to Sakura and apologizes for the careless white lie he told to ease their concerns, acknowledging that he was likely trying to convince himself as well.

Mario & Luigi: Brothership

  • Mario and Luigi break free from Reclusa's Lotus-Eater Machines and crush them underfoot like they would with any Goomba, just to be sure.

Alpinist Since: Jul, 2023
#32512: Nov 21st 2024 at 6:30:04 PM

Thanks

@ White Collar

  • Fan-Preferred Couple: Neal and Alex part ways a bit tensely for the last time well before the end of the series, but they are the most popular pairing of Neal's love interests and since Neal ends the show back on the wrong side of the law, some fans like to think they got together after that.
  • Unintentionally Sympathetic: The Ryans from "Neighborhood Watch" can feel a bit more sympathetic than the average Villain of the Week due to the husband's friendliness to an undercover Neal and the wife's to an Amateur Sleuth Elizabeth before the final act, they're planning a standalone robbery to get out of dreary circumstances rather than being the average crook going on a prolonged crime spree and/or ripping off countless innocents.

@ Checkmate (Anla'Shok)

  • Mass "Oh, Crap!": Both the Victors with the slightest Rebel knowledge and an observing Plutarch have a hard time hiding their overwhelmed shock, confusion, terror, or betrayal when President Coin violates her agreement to rescue the 3rd Quarter Quell tributes at the start of the Games and they have to start fighting and dying for real. Plutarch feels especially guilty after having told Snow to kill Cinna in front of Katniss before the Games rather than kill him at a different time and place, as he'd thought that was saving Cinna's life, but the rescue's delay means differently.

@ Serge Storms

  • Draco in Leather Pants: Serge is a self-righteous Ax-Crazy hedonist and sometimes Serial Killer with no sense of responsibility, who occasionally ruins the lives of sympathetic characters (or at least puts them through stressful terror), but his love of Florida, Affably Evil loyalty to his various friends and Protectorates, sexual charisma, and usually focusing his ingenious wrath on unrepentant criminals or extreme Jerkasses cause many fans to unironically view him as a force of pure good, something which sometimes bothered the author.

@ The Baby-Sitters Club

  • Cokie's sidekick Grace Blume is generally an antagonist but is surprisingly popular due to installments such as The Movie, Claudia and the Recipe for Danger, and Stacey and the Haunted Masquerade'' that let her step out of Alpha Bitch Cokie's shadow in an Innocent Beta Bitch or Lovable Alpha Bitch way for a while.
@ Mean Streets
  • Loan shark Michael and his friend Tony use the n-word in one scene and Michael looks ill at the thought of having kissed a woman who also kissed a black man once. Tony also says that if a girl is promiscuous, it must mean she's Jewish.
  • Johnny Boy hates having to share a car with two gay men and mocks his cousin's epilesy.

  • Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: A one-sided version. Johnny speaks of his cousin Teresa in a derisive manner, while she calls him a crazy person and says Charlie is foolish to keep hanging out with him, yet she does summon Charlie for help when she worries Johnny is suicidial. Unofurtatnely, he remains completely unloving toward her.
  • Invisible Parents: Teresa's parents (whose home she wants to move out of) and Charlie's mother (who is off visiting his sick grandmother and leaves a shirt with a note for him in one scene) are repeatedly mentioned but never seen.

@ Mean Streets

  • Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Tony getting into a cage with a pair of black market tigers is often singled out as a charming but unexpected and over-the-top moment.
  • Jerkass Woobie:
    • Charlie is a gangster who can be cruel to his girlfriend and shrugs off witnessing a murder, but his deep self-loathing, self-sacrificing nature and desire to help people and move on to something better can make him a sad character.
    • Teresa is a lot heavier on the woobie, being an epileptic girl with a sense of loyalty and compassion who isn't directly involved in the underworld and is treated like dirt by her family, neighbors, and sometimes even her boyfriend (who is embarrassed to be seen with her) and nearly killed while being an Innocent Bystander at the wrong time in the climax, although she also has a rude mouth under stress and is short-tempered with a hotel maid.
  • Signature Scene: The realistic fight choreography, tensely humorous build-up, and accompanying soundtrack make the pool hall brawl a well-known moment that some fans consider one of the most underrated movie fight scenes despite the lack of real violence.

@ The Shadow

The Hydra

Appears in: The Hydra
A criminal partnership of seven "Heads" (each with a network of assorted "Eye", "Ear," and "Tooth" henchmen) engaged in audacious and sometimes bloody thefts and frauds. Aware of threats like the Shadow, they resolve to elect two new leaders each time one of them dies in an effort to never be defeated and deter the Shadow from killing their leaders.
  • Bad Boss: The Heads kill a loyal henchman because they believe he is being impersonated by the Shadow.
  • The Corruptor: Head No. 1 recruits past victims of the Hydra as new Heads with offers of wealth, power, and security.
  • Decapitation Strike: Their downfall comes from all of the remaining Heads unwisely gathering in one place to kill Lamont Cranston, who they think is the Shadow, only to be ambushed themselves.
  • Detective Mole: One Head is the insurance investigator reporting on their crimes. Most of the others are on a citizens committee pestering Commissioner Weston to solve the case.
  • Evil Old Folks: Several of the Heads are described as elderly and are prone to casual murder and Evil Gloating.
  • Face–Heel Turn: Two respectable men menaced by the Hydra later decide to join it.
  • Fiery Cover-Up: After stealing a tycoon's art collection in the opening scene, Head No. 4 and his men set the mansion on fire to hide the theft and fake their deaths, with them also replacing buckets of sand and the fire extinguishers with combustible materials so the fire will spread faster and any servants or brave guests who stay behind to fight the fire will be killed before they can witness anything amiss.
  • Mook Lieutenant: Eyes, Ears, and Teeth alike all handle both spying and violence, but a Tooth seems to have authority over the others.
  • Right Under Their Noses: They conduct a bank robbery the Shadow and authorities are on the lookout for, not in the usual stickup manner, but by having several operatives infiltrate the bank as tellers and gradually hand over all of the money to a series of accomplices who act like legitimate depositors withdrawing their money.
  • Villain with Good Publicity: Many of the heads have exalted reputations as crusaders, philanthropists, or good friends among the people they victimize.
  • We Are Everywhere: The opening scene shows a high society party where the servers, various guests and chauffeurs, the host's longtime secretary, and his best friend and confidant are all Hydra members planning a robbery. Various other highly placed characters also reveal themselves as Hydra Heads throughout the novel.
  • We Have Reserves: They shrug off the deaths of henchmen and even leaders due to their policy of replacing them, even being willing to recruit a man who killed the Head he is helping replace.

@ The Canterville Ghost

  • Action Mom: Flashbacks in the 2021 series show Ethlinda Lovell hunting game with a bow and arrow to provide for herself and her baby after their exile.
  • Adaptational Villainy: Sir Simon's killers and brothers-in-law are never pure paragons, but are portrayed significantly less sympathetically than usual in the 2021 series. They killed Simon for refusing to take in their sister and his child during a cold winter day while at the same time refusing to provide her any aid themselves due to seeing her as Defiled Forever. Also, Simon was about to go after their sister and run away with her, so by killing him they inadvertently doomed her to die.
  • Age-Gap Romance: In the 2021 series, after her fiancée starts becoming interested in Ginny Otis, Moppy Stilton develops a mild flirtation with Django Lovell that develops into a Pair the Spares Maybe Ever After. Moppy is approximately college-aged, while Django isn't quite middle-aged but has 13-year-old twin daughters.
  • Age Without Youth: Downplayed with Sir Simon in the 2021 series. He doesn't age anywhere near the rate he did as a human, but being a ghost hasn't stopped him from physically aging a few decades in the five hundred years since his death and he says that if he never breaks the curse binding him to Earth, he'll eventually be reduced to ghostly dust and bones in an And I Must Scream state.
  • Celestial Bureaucracy: In the 2021 series, when Ginny decides to defend Simon to the Angel of Death, she finds herself being handed a file from a large pile by an apathetic civil servant Angel while the Angel of Death serves as a Stern Old Judge and coldly formal courtroom proceedings are regularly done to decide the fates of the deceased.
  • Corrupt Bureaucrat: In the 1986 film, Sir Simon says that he was the local magistrate tasked with ensuring that the roadways remained safe and secure, but he neglected his duties for his own affairs, which led to his daughter dying when she crossed a bridge that wasn't kept in repair.
  • The Un-Favorite:
    • In the 1944 film, Sir Simon's father sent him to fight a duel of honor as a champion for his brother's misdeeds and then had him executed for running away from it.
    • In the 2021 series, Sir Simon's father briefly appears in the afterlife. He says that he was a disappointing wastrel who was weaker than his brother and that it's neither fair nor understandable that Simon was the one who survived a bout of fever. When Ginny asks if he even loved Simon at all, he refuses to answer affirmatively.

Edited by Alpinist on Nov 22nd 2024 at 7:09:35 AM

Ayumi-chan 3rd happiest man in Connecticut from Iacon City (Experienced Trainee) Relationship Status: I like big bots and I can not lie
3rd happiest man in Connecticut
#32513: Nov 21st 2024 at 6:39:01 PM

Thanks Arvine.

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#32514: Nov 22nd 2024 at 8:20:11 AM

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TNODominicanRepublic

As signed in the Quisqueya Agreement, the Front's fighters are allowed to reintegrate as citizens or return to Cuba. The Organization of American States (OAS) is charged w̶i̶l̶l̶ with overseeing the establishment of future elections

KBoult Since: Jun, 2024
#32515: Nov 22nd 2024 at 1:57:48 PM

Here are the last tropes for the Scream fic, Quantum Entanglement.

• Angry Collar Grab: When she's being attacked by who she thinks is Amber (it's actually Richie) in a Ghostface costume, Tara is lifted up by the collar and shook repeatedly, as she hasn't thought back against her assailant.

• Book Ends: The story begins with Tara being run over by a car while studying law at Blackmore University in New York and then being told she could go back to Woodsboro to stop Amber from killing people or if she doesn't go back, she could possibly die in hospital from the injuries. At the end, she wakes up back in New York, thinking that it was all a dream until she is saved from being run over by Amber and finds out that she succeeded in stopping Amber from killing people and along with herself, dying.

• Love Triangle: Both Amber and Wes are in love with Tara. Tara ends up dating Amber after Tara realises that she loves Amber, while Wes is nearly killed by Amber and then killed by Richie.

° After realising that she is in love with and then ends up dating Amber, Tara ends up in a love triangle against Richie. In the end, he does after being killed by Amber and Tara and Amber remain a couple while living in New York with Sam and their friends.

• Running Over the Plot: While walking back to her apartment in New York, Tara gets run over by a car, which puts her in Limbo, where an unknown voice tells her that she can go back in time to stop Amber from killing people, which Tara agrees to do it.

G-Editor The 47th President Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
The 47th President
#32516: Nov 22nd 2024 at 3:14:01 PM

Got some more trope entries for spelling and grammar errors

Total Disventure All Stars

  • Catharsis Factor: For those who disliked how Jake got a lot of focus in the second half of the canon All-Stars season, will be very satisfied to see that Jake got eliminated during the merge here where he ties with Julia for 10th place.
  • The Atoner: Julia, of all people, becomes one, in “TikTok On the Clock” when she fears that her latest villainous action may have put a strain on her relationships with Ally and MK. She tries doing noble acts such as being patient with Ally, giving the Golden Watch to blindside, allows Ally to remind Jake and Gabby about the challenge, apologizes to Ally for trying to manipulate her having come see Ally as a genuine friend, and is overall nicer to people. Though all of these good acts result in Julia’s elimination, she is at least satisfied that she was able to redeem herself in the eyes Ally and MK.
  • Continuity Nod: Chef Hatchet brings a nod to Total Drama Action in “Like a Darkhorse” where he tells the remaining contestants to not vote for Riya because she injured Alec to win immunity, pointing out that they don’t want another Courtney scenario.
  • Continuity Porn: Much to the contestants’ horror, “The Dinner of Despair” is one giant callback to all of the disgusting food featured throughout Total Drama’s eating challenges. The first two dishes are meals found in “Brunch of Disgustingness”, while the last dish are the Juggy Chunks referencing what the Pahkitew Island contestants ate in “Hurl and Go Seek!”. Moreover this is now the second time the reboot contestants have to go throw an eating challenge.
  • Irony: Alec chooses to vote out Ripper over Yul, citing that among the two idiotic manchildren on his team, Yul is the more tolerable and useful on his team. Then comes the eating challenge where not only could Ripper have won for their team due to his Big Eater tendencies, but Yul flat out refuses to partake in the challenge contributing to their lost, while proving Yul to be an even more intolerant and useless load than Ripper ever was.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: The majority of the team would eliminate Ripper in “Strike a Cord” when he learns about the Villains’ Alliance. Not was Ripper able to warn everyone about the Villains’ Alliance in the next chapter, but the Yellow team looses the eating challenge which they could have won hadn’t they not vote out Ripper who is known for being a Big Eater. Though the latter part gets Subverted when the Yellow team chooses to eliminate Connor, who was the only person in the team not to vote out Ripper.

Total Drama

Edited by G-Editor on Nov 22nd 2024 at 6:14:54 AM

My sandbox of EPs and other stuff
FateStayWho Since: Jul, 2016
#32517: Nov 22nd 2024 at 4:45:02 PM

Pokemon: Festival of Champions

    Team Rocket 

A ruthless criminal organization that traffics and poaches Pokemon.


  • Adaptational Jerkass: Team Rocket is far more ruthless than their game counterpart, attempting to murder opposing trainers during a match.
  • Bad People Abuse Animals: Team Rocket thinks nothing of injuring or traumatizing Pokemon when capturing them, transporting them, and even trying to kill them during a battle.
  • Combat Pragmatist: By far the most ruthless in the series. Green encounters a group of Team Rocket grunts and expects an easy victory. He is completely caught off guard when the grunts order their Pokemon to attack him.
  • Knight of Cerebus: The fun moments in the series come to an end whenever Team Rocket appears. Even though they organization is defeated by the time of the Indigo League, the death of Green’s Raticate against the gang still leaves him with wounds that cause him to become far more of a jerk to the point of being downright cruel.
  • No-Nonsense Nemesis: Team Rocket trainers do not play around during a match. The Mooks faced by Green attempt to kill rather than focusing on his Pokemon. After Giovanni nearly defeats Red, he orders him thrown out a window to kill him.
  • Undying Loyalty: The organization is completely devoted to Giovanni, so much so that its members give themselves up to prevent his arrest.
  • Would Hurt a Child: In addition to hurting Pokemon, they do not hesitate to attempt to murder humans who stand in their way, regardless of their age.

Pikachu’s Original Trainer

An unnamed Pokemon trainer who joined Team Rocket after suffering a losing streak. In an attempt to raise a powerful Raichu, he captures Pikachu when it is just a Pichu. Despite successfully raising the Pokemon to evolve into a Pikachu, he deems it worthless when he sees it cannot use electrical attacks.


  • Ax-Crazy: The man is quick to violence when angered, assulting Pokemon and humans alike.
  • Dirty Coward: He talks a tough game when faced he has his Graveler to hide behind or when he only has Red standing in his way. The minute his Graveler is defeated, the man begs for mercy.
  • Hate Sink: He is an abusive trainer who only sees Pokemon as tools and has no concerns about harming humans.
  • Kick the Dog: Every on screen act of his. When he sees Pikachu cannot use electric attacks, he beats it throws it out. When Red, who posed no threat to him, tries stop him, he orders his Graveler to attack Red, and later tries to kill him.
  • No Name Given: Neither he nor the other members of Team Rocket ever speak his name.
  • Small Role, Big Impact: He is a Starter Villain who disappears from the story after his defeat. Nonetheless, he is the reason Red meets Pikachu.

Giovanni

The leader of Team Rocket and the final Gym Leader faced by Red before entering the Pokemon League.


  • Benevolent Boss: Implied. We are told he made the decision to spare the life of Pikachu’s original trainer and in Saffaron City, the rest of his organization gives themselves up so Giovanni can escape.
  • The Don: He is the leader of the largest crime gang in Kanto.
  • Rank Scales with Asskicking: He is the leader of Team Rocket and its best trainer, almost killing Red in their battle.
  • Minor Major Character: He is the leader of Team Rocket and his organization plays a pivotal role in the story. Giovanni himself has very little screen time despite this, with his battles with Red barely being shown.
  • Whatever Happened to the Mouse?: Unlike his game counterpart, Giovanni’s fate is left unresolved after Red defeats him and claims his final badge.

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#32518: Nov 22nd 2024 at 4:46:14 PM

[up] @Tylerbear 12

I don't see any English errors in those examples.

Edited by Arivne on Nov 22nd 2024 at 4:59:04 AM

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#32519: Nov 22nd 2024 at 4:56:20 PM

[up] K Boult

     Corrections 

...while she's lying on the floor <- no comma when she doesn't fight back. <- period

"I Found" by Amber Run is a song that Amber and Tara first kissed to while...

When she's being attacked by someone who she thinks is Amber (it's actually Richie) in a Ghostface costume, Tara is lifted up by the collar and shaken repeatedly, as she hasn't fought back against her assailant.

...she succeeded in stopping Amber from killing people and along with Amber herself, dying.

In the end, he does <missing text> after being killed...

^ In the end, he does, he does what?

...back in time to stop Amber from killing people, which Tara agrees to do it.

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#32520: Nov 22nd 2024 at 4:58:43 PM

[up] @jahman

I can't find any English mistakes in those examples.

Alpinist Since: Jul, 2023
#32521: Nov 22nd 2024 at 5:48:19 PM

@ Mean Streets

@ Serge Storms

  • In Pineapple Grenade
    • Serge meets Steve, a former prosecutor who punches Jerkasses as a living, gets rich doing so, and avoids legal charges by making himself any employee of a corporation that is liable for anything he does and giving ownership of it to someone in a non-extradition country, while acting as the owner of that guy's company doing the same thing in the other country.
    • Femme Fatale Spy Felicia holds an assassin prisoner with a stiletto blade in her lipstick tube in one scene.
    • One mid-book scene has sleazy lobbyist Malcolm Glide Hauled Before a Senate Subcommittee where one Congressman spells out all the rotten stuff he is doing (or at least the stuff revealed to the reader so far) and brushes off his attempts to put a positive spin on it, although the media ends up buying Glide's version (with a similar scene occurring before the Florida state senate about one of its corrupt members in Coconut Cowboy).

@ The Nun II

@ The Canterville Ghost
  • Been There, Shaped History: In the 1996 film, Sir Simon met William Shakespeare a few decades after becoming a ghost and gave him advice about how to write the ghost in Hamlet.
  • Big Sister Instinct: In the 1996 film, whenever Ginny's brothers seem to be in danger from Sir Simon, she will try and get them to safety or yell at Simon to leave them alone.
  • Fourth-Date Marriage: In the 1996 film, Duke Francis is quick to flirt with Ginny the first time they formally meet and, about halfway through the film, talks about how he hopes she stays in England near him after their fourth or fifth meeting. To the filmmaker's credit, Ginny lampshades how it's hard to know if what they have is real or not after so little time and asks for more time to think about it until Simon urges her not to deny her heart's desires rather than be consumed by regret.
  • Royals Who Actually Do Something: Cecil from the 2021 series is planning to start a green energy and economic renewal program on his grandmother's estate once he inherits it.
  • Neat Freak: In the 1996 film, Lucille Otis carries stain remover in her bags and is so quick to clean up a bloodstain that she doesn't want to wait even ask Mrs. Umney first.
  • Noodle Incident: In the 2021 series, it is repeatedly mentioned one of the twins was expelled from school back in America for an act of arson, but few details are given.
  • Offhand Backhand: In Sir Simon's first scene of the 1996 film, when the Otis brothers dress up as knights and try to confront him, he casually tosses them back with telekinesis.
  • Young and in Charge:
    • In the 1944 version, Jessica de Canterville is only six but is the current owner and host of the castle.
    • Teenaged Francis Stilton from the 1996 film has been Duke of Cheshire for many years since his parents died while he was young.

@ The Canterville Ghost

  • Hilarious in Hindsight: In the 1996 film, Neve Campbell plays a character who says that she never gets nervous during "scary movies," a phrase repeatedly uttered under terrifying circumstances in her subsequent project Scream (1996).
  • Moe:
    • Spunky, precocious pigtailed, alternately doe-eyed or Little Miss Badass-embodying Young and in Charge Lady Jessica is a source of endearment in the 1944 film.
    • In the 1986 film, Jenny can sell both tense unease and overbounding excitment well on her face, first confronts Sir Simon while nervously shifting around in bunny slippers, and, feud with her stepmother aside, is one of the nicer and more approachable versions of her character.
  • The Scrappy: The 1996 version of Hiram Otis is probably the least popular character in the film, if not the franchise, for how his Supernatural-Proof Father moments are combined with a habit of nastily and inflexibly accusing his daughter of faking the hauntings with little evidence.
  • Signature Scene: The Otis Brothers pranking Sir Simon's ghost with a fake ghost of their own is a quirky and colorful moment that's been adapted in some way in almost every adaptation since.

Edited by Alpinist on Nov 22nd 2024 at 7:38:56 AM

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#32522: Nov 22nd 2024 at 5:55:39 PM

[up] @Alpinist

     Corrections 

...average crook on a major crime spree and ripping off countless innocents.

...for, <- comma not in the usual stickup manner...who act like legitimate' depositors withdrawing their money.

...various guests and chauffeurs, and the host's...characters also reveal themselves as Hydra Heads throughout the novel.

...even being willing to recruit a man who killed the Head...

...killers and brothers-in-law are never pure paragons, <- comma but...

...Hauled Before a Senate Subcommittee, <- comma where one Congressman spells out all the...similar scene occurring before...

...seem to be in danger from Sir Simon, <- comma she will try...

...of the 1996 film, when the Otis brothers...try to confront' him, he casually tosses them back with telekinesis.

Edited by Arivne on Nov 22nd 2024 at 6:26:31 AM

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#32523: Nov 22nd 2024 at 5:57:31 PM

[up] @The Pikmin Captain

As agreed upon in the Quisqueya Agreement, the Front's fighters are allowed to reintegrate as citizens or return to Cuba. The Organization of American States (OAS) is charged w̶i̶l̶l̶ with overseeing the establishment of future elections. <- period

Edited by Arivne on Nov 22nd 2024 at 5:58:02 AM

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#32524: Nov 22nd 2024 at 6:16:04 PM

[up] @G-Editor

     Corrections 

Those who disliked how Jake got a lot of focus in the second half of the canon All-Stars seasonc will be...

Julia, of all people, becomes one <- no comma in “Tik Tok...to blindside, allowing Ally to ...challenge, apologizing to Ally...

Chef Hatchet brings a nod to Total Drama Action in “Like a Darkhorse”, <- comma where...

Moreover, <- comma this is now the second time the reboot contestants have to go throw an eating challenge.

Then comes the eating challenge, <- comma where not...challenge, <- comma contributing to their loss, while...

...but the Yellow team loses the eating challenge which they could have won, <- comma had they not voted out Ripper, <- comma who is known...

...learning she’s just as awful as MK is and the two form a genuine Villainous Friendship.

Alpinist Since: Jul, 2023
#32525: Nov 22nd 2024 at 6:31:53 PM

Thanks

@ Cradle to grave law and order

  • Disappeared Dad: Henry's father, a truck driver, died in a wreck.
  • Incriminating Indifference: Cerreta and Logan figure out Jackie's sister and brother-in-law are hiding her after her baby died when they don't ask why the police are asking them about Jackie and her son.
  • Raised by Grandparents: Jackie's grandmother was the original tenant of their apartment and Jackie took over the lease when she died.
  • Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: The old housing inspector of Corman's district diligently reported her violations even after she dropped hints about a bribe once. He admits that, with his expenses, he might not have had the willpower and integrity to refuse once she made an actual offer, but he did have the integrity to intimidate her out of making an offer in the first place. Once he transferred out, his replacement was less scrupulous.

@ The Shadow

Benedict Stark/The Prince of Evil

Appears in: The Prince of Evil, The Murder Genius The Man Who Died Twice, The Devil's Paymaster
The mastermind of a four-part storyline known for his immense wealth and cruelty.
  • And Your Little Dog, Too!: After driving an Unknown Rival to suicide, he sets out to endanger or financially ruin the man’s widow and children while also killing the pet dog of a lawyer trying to help them.
  • For the Evulz: He is immensely wealthy and commits crimes for the fun of it.
  • Go-Karting with Bowser: He and Cranston belong to the same club, causing him to have a few social interactions with the Shadow before their fight to the death.
  • Let's Get Dangerous!: In his final appearance, he escalates his efforts against the Shadow, learning his Secret Identity (goes poorly for him) and capturing many of his agents.
  • Master Forger: He somehow arranges for every copy of a check from an important business deal to say it is for far less than the sum the man first accepting it saw, and police experts fail to figure out how the check was tampered with.

  • Falsely Reformed Villain: Long Steve, Pointer, and Thumb all seem as if they have retired from crime when the Shadow first starts investigating the group, but all remain active and murderous.
  • Yellow Face: Ring repeatedly disguised himself as Asian men.

@ Literature Shadow

Edited by Alpinist on Nov 23rd 2024 at 12:53:14 PM


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