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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.
#33501: Feb 9th 2025 at 10:37:02 AM

EndOfAnAge.Real Life:

  • In 2005, the Jining–Tongliao Railway in China, which was the last mainline railway in the world to primarily use steam engines in service, withdrew them from service in favor of diesel engines, marking the definitive end of the age of steam.note 

YMMV.The Railway Series:

  • Aluminum Christmas Trees: Many of the sillier accidents that are often regarded as "unrealistic" by some fans (like Henry being stuck in a tunnel, Percy landing on top of a freight car, and Thomas crashing into a stationmaster's house, et cetera) were all based on incidents that happened on real railways (even if they're often exaggerated in the books). Awdry reportedly even had a scrapbook with articles and notes detailing all the real life incidents, partially for inspiration and partially so whenever he gets questioned if a certain incident happened in reality, he has physical evidence to support that it did.

YMMV.The Powerpuff Girls 1998:

  • Fandom-Enraging Misconception: Unless you want to annoy fans, don't say that Buttercup is a lesbian due to her tomboyish appearance. If anything, she is the only girl in the original show to have a romantic relationship with a guy, that being Ace. Granted, she breaks up with him, but that's more due to him being part of the villainous Ganggreen Gang and intending to hurt her sisters than her orientation.

Trivia.Sonic The Hedgehog IDW:

  • Exiled from Continuity: There is a mandate preventing humans (except for Dr. Eggman) from appearing in the comic (despite the games and other media reintroducing humans since The New '20s), meaning the likes of Elise, Professor Pickle, and G.U.N., etc., are not allowed to appear. This is why there are no humans in Westopolis in the 2024 annual (despite it being a human city in Shadow the Hedgehog) and why humans are only shown via distant silhouettes when Sonic and Blaze visit Spagonia in issue #63.

Grandfather Clause

  • Sonic the Hedgehog While Sega had mostly shied away from having humans since Sonic Unleashed (only appearing sparsely since), Dr. Eggman, a human character, continues to play a prominent role in the franchise, mainly thanks to this trope, as he is too well-established and important to the series to be rid of, since he has been the Big Bad of the series from day one.

Edited by Tylerbear12 on Feb 10th 2025 at 12:58:06 PM

RetiredBook Since: Feb, 2025
#33503: Feb 9th 2025 at 1:13:37 PM

Platform / GoAnimate

  • Force Feeding: Dave gets vegetables shoved into his throat by Catherine as a result of him flooding an Lowe's store over not getting a turtle sandbox in "Childish Dad Misbehaves at Lowe's". In Amaia's edited video "Childish Dad Gets Choked to Death While Forced To Get His Throat Shoved with Vegetables", it's Exactly What It Says on the Tin.

WMG / GoAnimate

"1980's Emma From Childish Dad Becomes Childish / Nightmare" is basically be careful what one wish for his/her childish parent to finally act mature for once and for all.

Webcomic / Square Root of Minus Garfield

  • Banned in China: The website is banned in Russia (at least possibly in-universe) in this strip.

Darth Wiki / Warp That Aesop

  • GoAnimate:
    • "1980's Emma From Childish Dad Becomes Childish / Nightmare": If you have an childish parent and wish for them to finally act mature for once and for all, Be Careful What You Wish For.

Edited by RetiredBook on Feb 11th 2025 at 4:41:17 AM

Alpinist Since: Jul, 2023
#33504: Feb 9th 2025 at 3:02:30 PM

Thanks Arivne.

This is another post that got too long. Somewhere in the Purge 2018 section is where it goes over your usual limit and you can/should stop although I’m not sure exactly where: the page count comes out differently when I copy and paste in editing mode or when I do so after hitting save edits. Alternately, feel free to edit everyone below me first and then only edit whatever you feel you have time for in this entry.

Also, I feel like I owe you an overdue explanation for why I keep stuff at the end of posts that are too long and tell you about where to stop rather than storing it on notes or Microsoft word until the next post: on google notes sometimes I accidentally hit cut instead of copy while trying to copy and paste and that leaves no way to recreate that cut text like by hitting cancel here or undo on Word (which works better but sometimes messes up the apostrophes, spacing, and bullet points I’m trying to use).

@ Heartwarming Loud House

  • Lola helps Lana wrap herself in bubble wrap for protection against Luan's pranks and offers to do the same for Lincoln.

  • While Lori is preoccupied with how Lincoln inadvertently made Bobby break up with her, she also seems genuinely upset at Lincoln for making Ronnie Ann cry and joking she was raised by trolls in a way that, along with the way she's smiling in a picture of herself, Bobby, and Ronnie Anne, suggests she genuinely likes her boyfriend's sister, even though Ronnie Anne's face in the same picture suggests the feeling may not be mutual.

  • The flashback of everyone cosplaying like they're in the Old West during a past disaster and having fun, with Lily, Luna, and Lana making music together, Leni playing dress up with Lola, and more.

@ Star Wars: Visions - Volume 1

  • BFG: The droid carries a laser version of a machine gun, with multiple fast-firing barrels.
  • Cold Sniper: The Tusken picks off several attackers from a distance with a rifle while making some harsh but stoic grunts.
  • Master Swordsman: The Trandoshan and the Dug charge through a crowd of stormtroopers armed with laser guns, cutting them down at rapid rates with swords before anyone can shoot at them (although the Dug isn't personally wielding swords as much as he is piloting a small vehicle with several sword-wielding robotic limbs).
@ Star Wars: Visions
  • The village guards (Tusken and Gran snipers, a Dug pilot, a droid with a BFG, and a Trandoshan with the One-Man Army athleticism and swordsmanship of a Jedi even with just a steel sword) kill a couple of dozen guards in seconds before they take a single casualty.

Rugal draws two lightsabers from her walking stick and uses them to great effect while the Inquisitor uses his double-bladed lightsaber for practical Lightning Bruiser strikes. When she can't get past his defensive blows, she summons enough strength to knock the Inquisitor's lightsaber out of his hands as she makes her finishing blow. @ Star Wars: Visions

  • The Badass Crew of village guards from The Duel don't get to fight for too long, but make a good impression and probably could have carried a slightly less iconic story without the Ronin.
  • In season 2, supporting characters Pint-Sized Powerhouse painter's assistant droid E2, the Inquisitor from The Bandits of Golak (due to his terrifying ruthlessness, skill with his Cool Sword, and dignified death) and Hétis The Apprentice are just as popular as some of the main characters.

@ Star Wars Legends

@ Rise Empire Jedi

    Siolo Ur Manka 

Species: Twi'lek

Appears in: Star Wars Tales
A Retired Badass of the Jedi Order who Darth Sidious sends Darth Maul to kill during his Sith training.
  • Failed a Spot Check: He fails to recognize Maul as a Sith despite his red lightsaber and tattoos and never reports their encounter to anyone despite the weeks or months between their two meetings.
  • Heroic BSoD: Maul impaling him with a hidden weapon leaves him gasping about how Maul needed a trick to win before he dies with his face twisted into an expression of fear and agony.
  • Old Master: He was considered one of the greatest Jedi warriors out there during his peacekeeping career, retired seventy years ago to meditate on a "purer technique" than the lightsaber and raise crops in isolation, and is still tough enough to nearly kill the fully armed Darth Maul with just a wooden staff while talking about his assessments about Maul's skills.
  • Small Role, Big Impact: He only appears in five pages worth of comics, but it was his defeat of Darth Maul that made Maul start using his famous double-bladed lightsaber to gain an advantage in their next fight.

@ Star Wars: Purge

    open/close all folders 

    Hylon 

Hylon

Species: Ovoni

An Order 66 survivor who retreats to his homeworld of Otavon XII with his Padawan Dendro, where they and a band of natives decide to destroy a new Imperial factory and try to kill Darth Vader as The Last Dance.
  • The Chessmaster: Of the Guile Hero variety, as he has intricate plans of attack that factor in any losses at Vader's hands and pretends to have an escape starship to lure Vader away from his job protecting the factory. Hylon uses a sonic signal to make a local predator attack Vader, then, once Vader mind-controls it to ride up to Hylon, Hylon reveals that he knew that would happen and is now using a second sonic generator to have that creature and others like it attack the war plant while he duels Vader.
  • Dissonant Serenity: Except while making glares at Vader during a couple of strikes and reacting to a stab wound, he remains calm and smiling even while facing death and acknowledging the death of his apprentice (who admittedly was ready to die).
  • Dual Wielding: He strikes at Vader with both his green lightsaber and his walking stick during their duel, and nearly kills Vader with a hidden Sword Cane in the latter object after his lightsaber is destroyed.
  • Good Is Not Soft: He is a jovial freedom fighter who is willing to commit himself, his apprentice, and their men to a likely Suicide Mission and also seeks to destroy an Imperial AT-AT factory and its workers with it.
  • Meaningful Name: In the Ovoni language, Hylon means "trickster," and he seems amusedly aware of how it fits a Guile Hero and The Chessmaster like him.
  • Not Bad: He mocks Vader as "no Jedi" after observing his ability to do Jedi mind tricks but then shows respect for the precision of his blow that destroyed Hylon's lightsaber (although Vader claims he meant to take off the whole hand).
  • The World Is Just Awesome: He seems to enjoy basking in his homeworld's sunlight.

    Dendro 

Species: Human

Hylon's Padawan and the second-in-command of his resistance movement.

@ The Purge Universe

  • Fanon Discontinuity: The Purge being reinstated in subsequent installments after being triumphantly cancelled in The Purge: Election Year runs some fans the wrong way and would have them rather ignore subsequent installments or at least the parts of them placing them later in the timeline.

@ Purge Films

    Megan Lewis 
Played By: Cindy Robinson
The announcer of the rules for the Purge.
  • Ascended Extra: She is just The Voice in the movies but appears in person in a Cold Open of the 2018 TV series.
  • Punch-Clock Villain: She's not a diehard members of the NFFA (at least not before the first purge) and is just a career commercial actress who spends part of her audition chatting about her past roles and asking about the kind of voice they want and initially accepted the job thinking that the Purge allowed every crime except murder rather than including it. When she is corrected, she briefly debates the ethics of whether she is being asked to tell people to go out and kill but goes forward after being convinced that she is merely stating the rules rather than advocating any particular option.

@ The Purge (2018) Star Wars Tales

  • Baritone of Strength: He has a deep, rough voice that signifies his leadership, courage, and formidability in a fight.

  • Awesome by Analysis: In her first scene she spots a man with an illegal bomb on a surveillance monitor due to how he is more preoccupied with his bag than the nearby Purgers.
  • Brainy Brunette: She is a dark-haired Latina woman who is a master of surveillance and the planner behind a devastating blow against the NFFA once she turns rebel.
  • Badass Biker: She spends part of the last couple of episodes riding a motorcycle, with a Hell-Bent for Leather outfit, as she prepares to go against the might of the government and break into a secure building.
  • Murder by Inaction: She refused to let her Troubled Abuser father inside to escape some Purgers due to his abuse of her sister, even as he began crying and racist Purgers pulled up outside.

  • Innocently Insensitive: While capable of genuinely cold-blooded zealotry, he thinks he is being affable and welcoming when he shows anti-Purge advocate Sydney an app covering internet death threats against her after she appears on his show, congratulating her on the increased awareness of her brand they represent (the pro-Purge speaker on the show is proud of the status symbol of having over a million such threats) rather than getting how terrified she is.

  • Brainy Brunette: She is a brown-haired computer and surveillance expert.
  • Cowardly Lion: She is nervous, stressed out, and a Bad Liar while helping Esme in the season 2 finale but never wavers in providing that help, takes a bullet for Esme, and tells her that I Will Only Slow You Down when Esme tries to help her instead of finishing their mission (fortunately, Vivian survives).
  • Expository Hairstyle Change: She lets her her hair flow loosely, albeit with a little tied back in a bun, as a flustered Naïve Newcomer at the beginning of the season but begins wearing her hair in a braid as she begins getting involved in dangerous resistance work.
  • Light Is Good: She is a pale young woman who often wears bright colors (except at the beginning of the season when she is still more of a Punch-Clock Villain and wears black) and is quick to do the right thing and recognize the flaws of Purge society.
  • Naïve Newcomer: She is introduced on her first Purge night and doesn't try to hide how jarred she is at the shift from littering to rape and murder while sounding hopeful but skeptical as she and Esme discuss whether the Purge serves a purpose.
  • Voice with an Internet Connection: She helps Esme know where to move and figure out how to start a Can't Stop the Signal revelation without being caught by the security cameras running through Vivivan's office and helps download a fake video to lure people away from her. Sometimes they coordinate over the phone, other times during short in-person meetings. Given how this involves lying to her boss, this makes her double as The Mole.

  • Badass Bookworm: She's the crew's security systems techie but is also good with a gun.
  • Tomboyish Ponytail: She is an ex-cop and bank robber who often ties back her hair in a ponytail on the job.

  • Hero of Another Story: She leads an anti-Purge hacktivist group called the Deep Fake Ladies, but only shows up to help Esme a couple of times without getting much backstory and most of her efforts are off-screen.
  • Playful Hacker: She lets out a little laugh and fist bumps her friends after fooling the NFFA by downloading a video made earlier into their supposed live feed with some help from Vivian.

  • Properly Paranoid: He can tell that Ben is a dangerous Purger who they shouldn't be around well before Turner accepts that fact.
  • Signature Headgear: He wears a baseball cap backward at all hours of the day.
    open/close all folders 
    Lindsey 
Played by: Hanna Hall
A third-year pre-med student and volunteer at the same triage clinic as Marcus.
  • Harbinger of Impending Doom: Marcus finds her with her throat slit, struggling to keep pressure on the wound and stay alive as she weakly warns him that Ben is killing people and is in the room. Whether she survived is never revealed.
  • Knight in Sour Armor: She is grim about the situation and worried abotu how much help she can provide even while being complimented but, as Marcus notes, being willing to help save lives under such trying circumstances is the sign of a great doctor and good person.

    Silas Barker 
Played by: JD Evevermore
An NFFA member who repeatedly clashes with Ryan.

    Fernanda 
Played by: Paula Perera
A Brazillian socialite and murder tourist.
  • Ambiguous Situation: While she talks about wanting to Purge herself, she's only actually seen watching the Purge from a tour bus, making it unclear if she was bluffing or is merely on her way to kill someone under safer (for her) conditions.
  • Bridezilla: For her bachelorette party she wants to legally kill people in America, saying "It's my day, not theirs," when her maid of honor says not all of them may be comfortable with a crime spree. Her behavior is so entitled and ruthless it is implied that her maid of honor is considering purging her once they get to America (although this is an Aborted Arc despite them cameoing during the Purge night).

    Ms. Lorelei 
Played By: Mary De Vault
A TV host who hosts a show that seems to act as an NFFA Propaganda Machine.
  • Depraved Kids' Show Host: She hosts a classroom show with kindergartners and can't quite hide the bloodlust gleaming in her eyes as she talks about the Purge, and her messages about the release it provided helped bring out the sadistic aggression in at least one of her young viewers: Ben Gardner, years before he becomes a Serial Killer. When one little girl says the Purge makes her worried about her mother and little brother, Lorelei merely denies that anything bad can happen to kids and says that if her parents want to go kill people, that's their right.
  • Family-Values Villain: She's a corrupting sadist but she does stress how the Purge should be for adults only and not kids.

    Mia 
Played by: Lucy Hartselle
A young Purger.
  • Bratty Teenage Daughter: She is introduced while having her Girl Posse give feedback on various skimpy outfits for Purge night, threatens her dad with a flail for coming into her room without permission, and then poses for a selfie wearing her Purge mask.
  • Savage Spiked Weapons: She carries a multi-balled flail as a weapon while preparing for a dangerous and sinister activity.
  • Villain of Another Story: She only appears during a cold open to showcase the culture but seems like she'll probably be killing some Hero of Another Story in short order, with the Ambiguously Evil best-case scenario about her being that she's like the Purgers in Season 1 episode 9 who just like to scare people and make them more susceptible to paying a toll to pass through parts of town.

    The Merrymaker Mask Company Executives 
Played by: Craig Welzbacher (Boss), Benjamin Nathan Serio (Ian), Lindsey Pearlman (Linda), Jeff Bee (Jimmy)
Executives at a company making masks entirely for the Purger community
  • Corrupt Corporate Executive: As if only caring about profits while they make accessories for murderers wasn't bad enough, they even enthusiastically market the infamous mask Serial Killer Ben wears outside of Purge night, glorifying him and his actions, because the news reports about him save them money on advertising, and their only qualm about it is mild worry about public backlash.
  • Equal-Opportunity Evil: The board includes black and Asian members and discusses having a Pride-colored mask for the gay community (albeit partially as a marketing ploy).
  • Four Eyes, Zero Soul: The Boss, who signs off on all the tasteless ideas contributing to a murder culture with little emotion, wears glasses.

Edited by Alpinist on Feb 10th 2025 at 12:29:19 PM

KBoult Since: Jun, 2024
#33505: Feb 9th 2025 at 3:13:30 PM

Here are a lot of Rewatch Bonuses for Another Apple Sleep Experiment.

• There are lots of clues that hint that the Applejack that Twilight and her friends see is a hallucination, caused by them being exposed to the Sleepless Potion, and that Apple Bloom is still alive, was the one who helped Applejack escape prison, and exposed Twilight and the others to the Potion.

° While preparing for the memorial, Twilight is described as tired-looking and Pinkie is said to have been baking non-stop for three days, suggesting that they haven't slept much.

° In the audio reading image of the memorial ice sculpture, you can see that Apple Bloom is not on the ice sculpture. You might think that she's the one at the top with Applejack and Rarity's dad, but that's Cheerilee.

° After reading the scroll that says that Applejack has escaped prison, Twilight wonders how Applejack escaped, even suggesting that a guard felt sorry for her and helped. She had help, but from a family member she thought had died.

° The scroll mentions that the guards can't remember the past few days, hinting that the Sleepless Potion was used on them.

° Twilight and Starlight hear a noise from above them but Twilight finds Applejack in her lab below her bedroom since there is a secret passage behind her bed, hinting that the noise they heard isn't real.

° Somehow, Applejack is able to break into Twilight's lab, despite the fact that there is a magical lock on the door and Applejack is described as skeletal-looking, so somepony else must've broken the lock in a different way.

° When Twilight tries to get into Starlight's bedroom to save her from Applejack, she tries blasting it open with magic, but the spell deflects as if an invisible shield was on the door, even though she can hear Starlight and Applejack fighting inside, hinting that she is hearing things because of the Sleepless Potion.

° When Twilight finds Applejack standing over a beaten and bloody Starlight, Starlight asks "Why?", even though she should know that Applejack is angry that Starlight replaced her as the Element of Honesty, and when Twilight begs Starlight not to die, Starlight looks at her in fear. Why? Because it was a potion-suffering Twilight, not Applejack, who slit her throat.

° When the twins find Pinkie Pie in the kitchen, they describe her as "frazzled-looking", implying that she hasn't been getting any sleep.

° Pinkie awakens the twins and their parents by dropping a pan onto the floor, just like a potion-suffering Applejack dropped something while preparing the Zap Apple Jam in the kitchen, which awakened Apple Bloom, hinting that Pinkie has been exposed to the Sleepless Potion.

° When Pinkie Pie tries to get Mr Cake, who is grieving his wife's death, to get out of Sugarcube Corner (which is on fire) with the twins, he pushes her away from him angrily, and when she tries to get out with one of the twins, the colt hits and bites her. Why? Because they both saw Pinkie kill Mrs Cake.

° None of Fluttershy's animals react to Applejack being in the cottage. Why? Because she isn't actually there.

° When they encounter Applejack, Twilight and her friends describe her in different ways. Twilight describes her as having scars and being emaciated, not only in her lab, but at the farmhouse, Pinkie says she is haggard-looking and sun-bleached, Fluttershy says that her fur is just her natural orange, Rarity, like Pinkie, describes her as sun-bleached, but also says that her body is bulkier and Rainbow Dash describes her as muscular, hinting that what they are all seeing is just their interpretation of what they imagine the way Applejack looks, since they haven't seen her in seven years.

° In the audio reading, when Twilight is lying on the ground after escaping the spike trap, you can faintly hear the sound of wheels approaching and, after having something blown from a tube hit her neck, causing her to pass out, she notices something off about her assailant, who she thinks is Applejack, but it isn't, it is a partially paralyzed Apple Bloom.

Edited by KBoult on Mar 2nd 2025 at 11:38:27 AM

GlitterCat Since: Mar, 2018 Relationship Status: The Skitty to my Wailord
#33506: Feb 9th 2025 at 4:16:55 PM

[up][up]It's Luan (with one n) and Ronnie Anne (with an e.)

see my completed Tangled (Varian) fanfic collection! https://archiveofourown.org/works/24467056/chapters/59049532
KBoult Since: Jun, 2024
#33508: Feb 10th 2025 at 8:08:05 AM

Here are some more Rewatch Bonuses for Another Apple Sleep Experiment.

° In the audio reading, when Fluttershy is trying to save her animals from getting killed by Applejack, you can hear the animals whispering the words "we can't let her get away with this" when Angel Bunny is killed while she was trying to save him, hinting that Fluttershy killed the rabbit, not Applejack.

° Rarity doesn't mention the fire at Sugarcube Corner, even though she lives in town. Because the fire happened days before and Rarity thinks, because of the Sleepless Potion, that it's the night before the Commemoration Memorial.

° Despite all the noise that Applejack makes at Sugarcube Corner and Carousel Boutique when confronting Pinkie and Rarity about abandoning her, the Cakes and Sweetie don't immediately come downstairs to see what's going on, even though Mr and Mrs Cake came down earlier when Pinkie accidentally dropped a pan and Sweetie was awakened by a window being blown open. Because Pinkie and Rarity imagined Applejack throwing things and yelling at them, due to both of them being exposed to the Sleepless Potion.

° In an audio reading image, when Rarity lies on the floor of Sweetie Belle's bedroom after failing to kill Applejack, who has left the building, you can see blood on the scissors that she failed to kill Applejack with. Why?Because she used them to kill Sweetie Belle, as you can see in another image that it looks like she was stabbed.

Edited by KBoult on Mar 2nd 2025 at 11:40:40 AM

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#33509: Feb 10th 2025 at 10:30:45 AM

[up] @Tylerbear 12

Though some steam engines continued to...until The New '20s.

...into a stationmaster's house, et cetera) were...he gets questioned...reality, he has physical...

Granted, she breaks up with him, but...

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#33510: Feb 10th 2025 at 10:36:26 AM

[up] @Retired Book

...as a result of him flooding a Lowe's store...

...is basically be careful what one wishes for his/her...

If you have a childish parent...

^ Use "a" before a word that starts with a consonant sound (Lowe's, childish).

^ Use "an" before a word that starts with a vowel sound (e.g. ostrich).

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#33511: Feb 10th 2025 at 10:48:33 AM

[up] @K Boult

     Corrections 

In the audio reading image of the memorial ice sculpture, you can see that Apple Bloom is not on the ice sculpture. <- period You might...

The scroll mentions that the guards...was used on them.

...so somepony else must've broken the lock in a different way.

...but the spell deflects <- no comma as if an invisible shield...

...Starlight asks "Why?", even though she should know that Applejack is angry that Twilight replaced her...

...and Rarity thinks, <- comma because of the Sleepless Potion, that...

...due to the both of them being exposed to the Sleepless Potion.

...failing to kill Applejack, <- comma who has left the building, you can...

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#33512: Feb 10th 2025 at 11:11:39 AM

[up] @Alpinist

     Corrections 

While Lori is preoccupied with how it made Bobby break up with her, she also seems genuinely upset at Lincoln for making Ronnie Ann cry and...

^ While Lori is preoccupied with how what made Bobby break up with her? Lincoln for making Ronnie Ann cry? Something else?

...everyone cosplaying like they're in the Old West during...

...while the Inquisitor uses his...knock the Inquisitor's lightsaber...

...from The Duel don't get to fight for too long, <- comma but...

...E2, the Inquisitor from The Bandits of Golak...

He only appears in five pages worth of comics, <- comma but...

...lightsaber and his walking stick = during...

^ Delete the = sign.

In the Ovoni language, Hylon means "trickster", <- comma and he...

...(although Vader claims he meant to take off the whole hand).

...tracking his group of guerrillas and will find and kill them, <- comma but...

Done down through (and including) Dendro

Alpinist Since: Jul, 2023
#33513: Feb 10th 2025 at 11:48:41 AM

Thanks.

Once again the new additions still put this past your limit (it comes out to seven on my word document-with either the beginning or ending of Lindsey’s folder being around what I think is your usual stopping point) so feel free to stop whenever feels right for you in this post.

@ Law & Order

  • This sometimes extends to his conduct outside the courtroom as well. In "Foul Play" he goes on a No Sympathy diatribe about a teenage son of a murder suspect who lied about his age to play in a youth league and is unyielding about threatening to deport the kid back to Honduras to pressure the father, saying the kid brought it on himself with his cheating and being an ineligible Super Ringer. McCoy is waiting to be put in during a basketball game with a bunch of fellow lawyers during this conversation (and is complaining about the competitiveness and foul plays of the other team no less) and Southerlyn coldly points out how he has a Super Ringer who McCoy transferred out of a different division where the guy was ineligible to play for McCoy's team.

@ The Loud House

  • Charles the dog and Walt the canary are probably the pets most considered to be part of the family despite their infrequent appearances.
@ The Loud House
  • The reactions of her family really sell the terror she brings them on the holiday: Lisa building a backyard bunker and Luna and the parents (only the latter of whom succeed) groveling for Lisa to let them in, Lori canceling all of her dates for the month in case she needs that much time to recover from an unwanted shaving like Luan sometimes does, Lincoln barricading himself in his room with food and a hose to pee out the window with, Lori considering taking up an offer from Bobby to hide in the basement of his workplace despite the rat traps and asbestos, the family being desperate enough to lock Luan in a cage for the holiday on two occasions (and the first time she tears her way out with her bare hands), etc.
  • The way the villain of Show Within a Show The Harvester has his eyes turn red and then swings his scythe as shadows of organs fly and people scream is an in-universe and out-of-universe example, with Lynn Sr. forbidding Lincoln from ever playing the trailer for the movie in their house again.
  • Lynn stalking her siblings like a feral slasher villain and pelting them and any shields they may have with endless snowballs and icicles thrown by her super strong arm whenever the weatherman announces a (snowball) packing day can be just as scary as Luan on April Fools' Day.
@ The Loud House

'Twas the Fight Before Christmas

  • The visible sadness between Lincoln, his sisters, and their mothers, cousins, and grandfather about how the feud between the dads keeps them from all seeing each other and has since before the youngest kids were born, when the older ones were close in a brief flashback and are happy to see each other again.
  • It's subtle, but the way Lincoln talks about how the feud keeps the Loud siblings from seeing their "aunt or cousins" may be a deliberate (albeit partially deserved) Snub by Omission at Uncle Lance, who Lincoln blames for the feud, and hint at some coldness there.
@ Star Wars: Visions

Sith

  • The peace and joy Lola, a particularly well-adjusted Sith defector, finds in her art.

The Spy Dancer

  • Loi'e reuniting with her long-lost son.

The Pit

  • The city dwellers finally realize what is going on and come ''en masse' to help take the miners somewhere better.
@ The Purge Universe
  • Fanon Discontinuity: The Purge being reinstated in subsequent installments after being triumphantly cancelled in The Purge: Election Year runs some fans the wrong way and would have them rather ignore subsequent installments or at least the parts of them placing them later in the timeline.

@ Purge Films

    Megan Lewis 
Played By: Cindy Robinson
The announcer of the rules for the Purge.
  • Ascended Extra: She is just The Voice in the movies but appears in person in a Cold Open of the 2018 TV series.
  • Punch-Clock Villain: She's not a diehard member of the NFFA (at least not before the first Purge) and is just a career commercial actress who spends part of her audition chatting about her past roles and asking about the motivation of her "character." She initially accepted the job thinking that the Purge allowed every crime except murder rather than including it. When she is corrected, she briefly debates the ethics of whether she is being asked to tell people to go out and kill, but goes forward after being convinced that she is merely stating the rules rather than advocating any particular option.

@ The Purge (2018) The Purge (2018)

  • Back-Alley Doctor: He volunteers at unofficial triage centers on Purge night to help the victims when official emergency services are down and also reluctantly treats a wounded criminal in secret to learn who put the hit on him.

  • Baritone of Strength: He has a deep, rough voice that signifies his leadership, courage, and formidability in a fight.

  • Awesome by Analysis: In her first scene she spots a man with an illegal bomb on a surveillance monitor due to how he is more preoccupied with his bag than the nearby Purgers.
  • Brainy Brunette: She is a dark-haired Latina woman who is a master of surveillance and the planner behind a devastating blow against the NFFA once she turns rebel.
  • Badass Biker: She spends part of the last couple of episodes riding a motorcycle with a Hell-Bent for Leather outfit as she prepares to go against the might of the government and break into a secure building.
  • Murder by Inaction: She refused to let her Troubled Abuser father inside to escape some Purgers due to his abuse of her sister, even as he began crying and racist Purgers pulled up outside.

  • Dumbass DJ: He is a smarmy radio host who thinks that if people really do want to kill year round because of the Purge, a scenario he questions, then why not make it biannual?
  • Innocently Insensitive: While capable of genuinely cold-blooded zealotry, he lacks any malice while showing anti-Purge advocate Sydney an app covering internet death threats against her after she appears on his show, congratulating her on how the fact that people want to Purge her is a sign that she is now somebody and people recognize her brand while missing how terrified and disgusted she is.

  • Brainy Brunette: She is a brown-haired computer and surveillance expert.
  • Cowardly Lion: She is nervous, stressed out, and a Bad Liar while helping Esme in the season 2 finale but never wavers in providing that help, takes a bullet for Esme, and tells her that I Will Only Slow You Down when Esme tries to help her instead of finishing their mission (fortunately, Vivian survives).
  • Expository Hairstyle Change: She lets her her hair flow loosely, albeit with a little tied back in a bun, as a flustered Naïve Newcomer at the beginning of the season, but begins wearing her hair in a braid as she begins getting involved in dangerous resistance work.
  • Light Is Good: She is a pale young woman who often wears bright colors (except at the beginning of the season when she is still more of a Punch-Clock Villain and wears black) and is quick to do the right thing and recognize the flaws of Purge society.
  • Naïve Newcomer: She is introduced on her first Purge night and doesn't try to hide how jarred she is at the shift from littering to rape and murder while sounding hopeful but skeptical as she and Esme discuss whether the Purge serves a purpose.
  • Voice with an Internet Connection: She helps Esme know where to move and figure out how to start a Can't Stop the Signal revelation without being caught by the security cameras running through Vivian’s office and helps download a fake video to lure people away from her. Sometimes they coordinate over the phone, other times during short in-person meetings. Given how this involves lying to her boss, this makes her double as The Mole.

  • Alone with the Psycho: Learning Ben is the campus killer during a road trip leaves her visibly anxious even as she struggles to hide her knowledge and leave behind messages for help.

  • Badass Bookworm: She's the crew's security systems techie but is also good with a gun.
  • Tomboyish Ponytail: She is an ex-cop and bank robber who often ties back her hair in a ponytail on the job.

  • Be All My Sins Remembered: He cooperates with an investigation into Esme to avoid the ire of the state (although he does warn her) but ends up barred from leaving a dangerous state on Purge night as a condition of his probation. He admits to feeling that he deserves this and becomes The Atoner in La Résistance.

  • Badass Bureaucrat: He is the civil servant in charge of a surveillance station and will confront rebels at gunpoint.
He also seems unsettled to hear the claims about the lies and corruption behind the Purge but disbelieves this in an Ignored Epiphany moment and still tries to shoot Esme.
  • Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Downplayed given his standards, but he is still a bespectacled man who coldly and efficiently serves an Obviously Evil government.

  • Hero of Another Story: She leads an anti-Purge hacktivist group called the Deep Fake Ladies, but only shows up to help Esme a couple of times without getting much backstory and most of her efforts are off-screen.
  • Playful Hacker: She lets out a little laugh and fist bumps her friends after fooling the NFFA by downloading a video made earlier into their supposed live feed with some help from Vivian.

  • Beard of Sorrow: He sports a Perma-Stubble and is a morose man looking for someone to blame for the death of his wife.
  • Faux Affably Evil: He can eloquently discuss the reasons he does bad things to Marcus but does a poor job of hiding his spite throughout it and sounds like he may be giving a False Reassurance when he offers to consider lifting his bounty if Marcus will Get Out! of the neighborhood.

  • Properly Paranoid: He can tell that Ben is a dangerous Purger who they shouldn't be around well before Turner accepts that fact.
  • Signature Headgear: He wears a baseball cap backward at all hours of the day.
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    Henry 

Henry Bordeaux

The abusive ex-boyfriend of Penelope, who buys her to torment at the Carnival of Flesh.
  • Beard of Evil: He has a Perma-Stubble version of an early mustache and goatee and is a junkie and domestic abuser who is happy to indulge in Purge killings even before getting a chance at killing Penelope and Miguel in the process.
  • Good Scars, Evil Scars: He has a scar across his blind right eye from a Wife-Basher Basher besting he got that failed to improve his meanness.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: There are a few moments where he acts saddened and remorseful about his abuse as Penelope leaves him or seems shaken and thoughtful about her speeches about not being afraid to die and seeing the Purge is evil, but he always bounces back to spiteful violence or Evil Gloating before long.
  • Neck Snap: Miguel chokes him and then breaks his neck with a pair of handcuffs.
  • "Not So Different" Remark: He sneers that while Miguel may feel pride in his Semper Fi past, they are both murderers who kill because the government says it is okay.

    Lindsey 

Lindsey

Played by: Hanna Hall
A third-year pre-med student and volunteer at the same triage clinic as Marcus.
  • Harbinger of Impending Doom: Marcus finds her with her throat slit, struggling to keep pressure on the wound and stay alive as she weakly warns him that Ben is killing people and is in the room. Whether she survived is never revealed.
  • Knight in Sour Armor: She is grim about the situation and worried abotu how much help she can provide even while being complimented but, as Marcus notes, being willing to help save lives under such trying circumstances is the sign of a great doctor and good person.

    Silas 

Silas Barker

Played by: JD Evevermore
An NFFA member who repeatedly clashes with Ryan.

    Fernanda 

Fernanda

Played by: Paula Perera
A Brazillian socialite and murder tourist.
  • Ambiguous Situation: While she talks about wanting to Purge herself, she's only actually seen watching the Purge from a tour bus, making it unclear if she was bluffing or is merely on her way to kill someone under safer (for her) conditions.
  • Bridezilla: Exaggerated in true dystopian fashion: for her bachelorette party, she wants to legally kill people in America, saying "It's my day, not theirs," when her maid of honor says not all of the wedding party may be comfortable with a crime spree. Her behavior is so entitled and ruthless it is implied that her maid of honor is considering purging her once they get to America (although this is an Aborted Arc despite them cameoing during the Purge night).

    Ms. Lorelei 

Ms. Lorelei

Played By: Mary De Vault
A TV host who hosts a show that seems to act as an NFFA Propaganda Machine.
  • Depraved Kids' Show Host: She hosts a classroom show with kindergartners and can't quite hide the bloodlust gleaming in her eyes as she talks about the Purge, and her messages about the release it provided helped bring out the sadistic aggression in at least one of her young viewers: Ben Gardner, years before he becomes a Serial Killer. When one little girl says the Purge makes her worried about her mother and little brother, Lorelei merely denies that anything bad can happen to kids and says that if her parents want to go kill people, that's their right.
  • Family-Values Villain: She's a corrupting sadist but she does stress how the Purge should be for adults only and not kids.

    Mia 

Mia

Played by: Lucy Hartselle
A young Purger.
  • Bratty Teenage Daughter: She is a Crapsaccharine World introduced while having her Girl Posse give feedback on various skimpy outfits for Purge night, threatens her dad with a flail for coming into her room without permission, and then poses for a selfie wearing her Purge mask.
  • Savage Spiked Weapons: She carries a multi-balled flail as a weapon while preparing for a dangerous and sinister activity.
  • Villain of Another Story: She only appears during a cold open to showcase the culture but seems like she'll probably be killing some Hero of Another Story in short order, with the Ambiguously Evil best-case scenario about her being that she's like the Purgers in Season 1 episode 9 who just like to scare people and make them more susceptible to paying a toll to pass through parts of town.

    The Merrymaker Mask Company Executives 

The Boss, Ian, Linda, Jimmy, etc.

Played by: Craig Welzbacher (Boss), Benjamin Nathan Serio (Ian), Lindsey Pearlman (Linda), Jeff Bee (Jimmy)
Executives at a company making masks entirely for the Purger community
  • Corrupt Corporate Executive: As if only caring about profits while they make accessories for murderers wasn't bad enough, they make sure to give the masks good visibility so the wearers have a better chance of making successful kills and even enthusiastically market the infamous mask Serial Killer Ben wears outside of Purge night, glorifying him and his actions, because the news reports about him save them money on advertising, and their only qualm about it is mild worry about public backlash.
  • Equal-Opportunity Evil: The board includes black and Asian members and discusses having a Pride-colored mask for the gay community (albeit partially as a marketing ploy).
  • Four Eyes, Zero Soul: The Boss, who signs off on all the tasteless ideas contributing to a murder culture with little emotion, wears glasses.

Edited by Alpinist on Feb 11th 2025 at 12:03:03 PM

KBoult Since: Jun, 2024
#33514: Feb 10th 2025 at 1:28:45 PM

Here are some more Headscratchers for Another Apple Sleep Experiment.

• What happened to Rarity and Sweetie Belle's mother? She appears in the first audio reading image of chapter 1, helping other ponies prepare for the memorial, but we're not told how she reacted to Rarity killing Sweetie.

• Why do the Canterlot Guards ask Apple Bloom if she has seen Applejack? Do they not know that everypony, except for Twilight and her friends, believe that Applejack died 7 years ago?

• Did Spike know about Apple Bloom's plan to expose Twilight and the others to the Sleepless Potion, causing them to kill other ponies and, in Fluttershy's case, animals?

• If Fluttershy can speak to her animals, then why didn't they say to her that she's been starving them for weeks?

• Did Rarity, Rainbow or Scootaloo's aunts know that Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo abandoned Apple Bloom because she was partially paralyzed?

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.
#33515: Feb 11th 2025 at 4:10:05 AM

Thanks, Arivne.


Canon Immigrant:

Edited by Tylerbear12 on Feb 11th 2025 at 6:20:40 AM

Minorica Rhythm Heroine from Earth Since: Dec, 2019 Relationship Status: It's so nice to be turned on again
Rhythm Heroine
#33516: Feb 11th 2025 at 6:49:02 AM

For Too Bleak, Stopped Caring or Angst Aversion:

Edited by Minorica on Feb 11th 2025 at 9:50:01 PM

"No matter how bad the heroes can get or how bad the situation is, we're sure we can overcome it and get our happy endings..."
KBoult Since: Jun, 2024
#33517: Feb 11th 2025 at 7:05:04 AM

Here are some more Headscratchers for Another Apple Sleep Experiment.

• If the Applejack in the lab was a hallucination, then how did Twilight blast a potion bottle to pieces and not set the bookshelf on fire, like she does the second time?

• How did Apple Bloom know when to go to Carousel Boutique and Fluttershy's cottage to cure Fluttershy and Rarity of the Sleepless Potion? Was she watching them have their mental breakdowns?

• When did Twilight mentally break after being exposed to the Sleepless Potion? We're only told that it happened after Rainbow Dash, but before Pinkie, Rarity and Fluttershy were exposed to the Sleepless Potion.

• Were Rainbow Dash and Twilight just wandering the orchards for weeks? If so, how come nopony saw them?

Edited by KBoult on Mar 2nd 2025 at 11:42:11 AM

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#33518: Feb 11th 2025 at 8:44:22 AM

[up] @K Boult

We're only told that it happened after Rainbow Dash, but before Pinkie, Rarity and Fluttershy <missing text>.

^ After Rainbow Dash, but before Pinkie, Rarity and Fluttershy what? Were exposed to the Sleepless Potion?

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#33519: Feb 11th 2025 at 8:45:42 AM

[up] @Tylerbear 12

I don't see any English problems in that example.

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#33520: Feb 11th 2025 at 8:51:56 AM

[up] @Minorica

     Corrections 

Every installment ends with none of the characters surviving the Death's list, either in the movie itself or its sequels. <- period This includes the last installment, which is the Stealth Prequel to the first movie, and they are confirmed dead from an airplane crash in that movie. Those who want to watch them, mere into how hilariously messed up and stupid the plot (implications) get, especially the first four movies.

^ Broke up a really long meandering sentence into two smaller sentences.

^ "mere" isn't correct English, but I can't tell what you meant to write.

KBoult Since: Jun, 2024
#33521: Feb 11th 2025 at 8:54:41 AM

Hey, Arivne. I meant before Pinkie, Rarity and Fluttershy have their mental breakdowns caused by them being exposed to the Sleepless Potion.

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#33522: Feb 11th 2025 at 9:20:54 AM

[up] @Alpinist

     Corrections 

...who lied about his age to play in a youth league and is unyielding about threatening to remove him to pressure the father...

^ You deport someone from a country. You remove them from a league. If he actually was threatening to deport him from the country, you need to say so so the reader won't think you're mistakenly talking about the league.

...and then has swings his scythe...

...the weatherman announces a packing day can be just as scary...

^ What is a "packing day? Did you mean "snow packing day"?

...about how the feud from their dad keeps them...

^ Did you mean to write "feud with their dad"? If not, how is the feud "from" him?

...(at least not before the first Purge) and...tell people to go out and kill, <- comma but...

...riding a motorcycle <- no comma with a Hell-Bent for Leather outfit <- no comma as she...

You have Brainy Brunette twice.

...as a flustered Naïve Newcomer at the beginning of the season, <- comma but...

...security cameras running through Vivian's office and...

Done down to Signature Headgear.

Alpinist Since: Jul, 2023
#33523: Feb 11th 2025 at 9:30:39 AM

Thanks. I think around the end of Lindsey or Lorelei's folder is seven of your pages but didn’t have time to confirm that so feel free to doublecheck.

The two brainy brunettes are different characters with the same job. I’ll check that.

It was deport and not remove for law and order and I will add the context to clarify that. @ Academic Athlete

  • Firekeepers Daughter: In addition to having started several small business and teaching a class on that topic at the high school, Bobby LaFleur is the successful local hockey coach and students like Daunis (before she graduated), Levi, and Sun Tzu-reading Mike have been in his class and on his team. This had the negative consequence of Bobby, Levi, and Mike becoming drug dealers due to their entrepreneur mindset and having the physical ability and drive to succeed to be dangerous to anyone threatening the plan.
@ Broken Pedestal
  • Firekeepers Daughter: When Daunis feels that the new FBI agent in town is judging her community as Crapsack World, she angrily goes over a long list of the most self-made, colorful, or generous people in town to insist that she is surrounded by good people she hates being asked to investigate. By the end of the book, all but three of the people she specifically mentioned by name (a few she referred to collectively by the organizations they are part of) have been implicated in the drug operation after all (as has her own brother) and one of the ones not part of that has raped her, causing her to mourn how Ignorance Is Bliss.

@ Thrown from the Zeppelin

  • Discussed, defied, and deconstructed near the beginning of Mistborn: The Original Trilogy. After Kelsier describes his plan to overthrow the Lord Ruler by going after his treasury, one potential Caper Crew member, Clubs, calls the plan crazy and leaves. Someone asks if they can afford to let him live and Kelsier says it is a dangerous plan that Clubs had every right to refuse to join in, and killing people who don’t like your plans means no one will come to hear your plans out in the future. Also, with plans that risky, you never invite someone to hear them in the first place without being sure they won’t betray you even if they refuse to help. This attitude pays off, as Clubs changes his mind soon after the meeting.
@ Star Wars: Visions - Volume 1
  • Pursued Protagonist: His short begins with him running down a corridor near the bodies of several clones and droids to avoid being killed during Order 66, then taking a fall, where he is presumed dead but can really start a new life.
@ Star Wars: Visions - Volume 2 @ Star Wars – Galactic Republic
  • Omnidisciplinary Scientist: She arrives on Malastere to oversee the test of an EMP bomb, but also takes the lead in studying the Zillo Beast.
@ Star Wars: The Clone Wars
  • In Departure, two Impersonating an Officer con men try to commandeer a Naboo consular ship from Jar-Jar and Threepio to escape. Jar-Jar accidentally turns the hover dock upside down while trying to ready the ship, leaving them clinging to anything they can find for dear life, then they take off before Theeepio can disengage the autopilot, with him obliviously saying they should be fine once it takes them back to the Senate Rotunda (the place the con men just ran away from).
@ Ewoks and Droids
  • Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The series was popular enough in Spain for a few spinoff comics, which the lore keepers in charge of the franchise continuity praised as interesting and lovingly researched, while adding they were regrettably unable to find proof of a licensing agreement for that comic company to use the characters.
@ Race Against the Clock
  • The first few chapters of Beyond The Bitteroots by Allan Vaughan Elston feature a stagecoach driver racing to a town where there will be a hanging in the early afternoon with a stay of the execution from the governor, who has been convinced of the condemned man's possible innocence after the accused's daughter and several other women sent affidavits showing that it would have taken him almost all day to bake a loaf of bread that was hot during the arrest, leaving little time to commit a murder. Things take an even more desperate turn when a stagecoach robber (sent by a man running for sheriff who found proof the condemned man is innocent but is delaying the discovery of that proof because he figures he can win a Landslide Election if the sheriff gets the reputation of having arrested and executed an innocent man) robs the stagecoach and steals the horses to prevent delivery of the message. One of the passengers manages to ride cross-country, trading out horses at farms and way stations, and make it to town Just in Time to stop the execution.
@ Separatists @ The Purge (2018) The Purge (2018)

  • Big Bad Wannabe: He sees himself as a cunning visionary who is inspiring a legion of loyal copycats and controls life and death, but he is just a high-functioning Psychopathic Manchild and Ax-Crazy dirtbag who escapes punishment out of a mixture of dumb luck and the active obstruction of the authorities, while being a symptom of the rot caused by the government rather than a true equal to their evil sway. At least some of the people donning masks like his merely think it looks cool rather than seeing him as a kindred spirit and try to Purge him when he approaches them.
  • Karma Houdini: He is kept from killing some of his targets and many more people now know him for the monster he is, but he survives the Purge night at the end of season 2 and is ready to keep on killing for as long as he can.
  • Kill the Ones You Love: He tries to get every important person in his life besides his mother and brother to be like him and when no one complies, he inevitably tries to kill them out of fear of exposure and rage at rejection.
  • Protagonist Journey to Villain: Flashbacks show he has always had issues with rage, entitlement, and poor empathy, but he starts out as a peaceful, friendly, hard-working college student with little interest in the Purge until killing an attacker in self-defense awakens a bloodlust in him and makes him more prone to aggressive responses until he is stalking and killing anyone who upsets him and cares nothing for the standards that even most psychos follow, like sparing triage medics and only killing one night a year.

  • Sheep in Sheep's Clothing: She seems like a loving and compassionate housewife and, despite being suggested as a suspect behind targeting her husband, admitting she once had a brief affair, and being distrustful of Marcus's ex-wife, she is just as good-natured and concerned about Marcus as she seems and becomes warmer and more honest with him and Tonya by the end of the season as they go through adversity.

  • Bespectacled Cutie: She wears glasses that emphasize her soft gaze and nervousness when threatened.

  • The Social Expert: Tommy has spent years making contacts for the crew in the banking industry and convinces a group of prisoners to stick close to him while they wait for Ryan to rescue him.

  • Battle Couple: They have taken up arms together long before becoming a couple and continue to do so every Purge night.
  • The Cavalry: They get other friends to protect their house and show up unasked to help Marcus and Michelle fight off their attackers.

  • Lovable Coward: Turner is a nice guy, but ends up running in the face of death even when someone depends on him on two separate Purge nights, something Ben mockingly notes during his frat house killing spree. But he only runs in the face of truly terrifying and dangerous scenarios where he has little chance of making a difference anyway, and both times he hesitates in agony first and afterward he is pensive, self-loathing and apologetic the first time and driven to take a bolder and nobler course of action by joining a group that opposes the Purge even while knowing the government will kill to protect it.

  • Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: He cheated on his wife in the past, but they care for each other's safety throughout their conflict with Marcus.
  • Butt-Monkey: He is exposed as a cheater and an attempted murderer in front of his wife, kidnapped and threatened with torture, and then has his leg injured and is held hostage on Purge night.
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    Henry 

Henry Bordeaux

Played by: Dylan Arnold
The abusive ex-boyfriend of Penelope, who buys her to torment at the Carnival of Flesh.
  • Beard of Evil: He has a Perma-Stubble version of an early mustache and goatee and is a junkie and domestic abuser who is happy to indulge in Purge killings even before getting a chance at killing Penelope and Miguel in the process.
  • Good Scars, Evil Scars: He has a scar across his blind right eye from a Wife-Basher Basher besting he got that failed to improve his meanness.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: There are a few moments where he acts saddened and remorseful about his abuse as Penelope leaves him or seems shaken and thoughtful about her speeches about not being afraid to die and seeing the Purge is evil, but he always bounces back to spiteful violence or Evil Gloating before long.
  • Neck Snap: Miguel chokes him and then breaks his neck with a pair of handcuffs.
  • "Not So Different" Remark: He sneers that while Miguel may feel pride in his Semper Fi past, they are both murderers who kill because the government says it is okay.

    Lindsey 

Lindsey

Played by: Hanna Hall
A third-year pre-med student and volunteer at the same triage clinic as Marcus.
  • Harbinger of Impending Doom: Marcus finds her with her throat slit, struggling to keep pressure on the wound and stay alive as she weakly warns him that Ben is killing people and is in the room. Whether she survived is never revealed.
  • Knight in Sour Armor: She is grim about the situation and worried abotu how much help she can provide even while being complimented but, as Marcus notes, being willing to help save lives under such trying circumstances is the sign of a great doctor and good person.

    Ms. Lorelei 

Ms. Lorelei

Played By: Mary De Vault
A TV host who hosts a show that seems to act as an NFFA Propaganda Machine.
  • Depraved Kids' Show Host: She hosts a classroom show with kindergartners and can't quite hide the bloodlust gleaming in her eyes as she talks about the Purge, and her messages about the release it provided helped bring out the sadistic aggression in at least one of her young viewers: Ben Gardner, years before he becomes a Serial Killer. When one little girl says the Purge makes her worried about her mother and little brother, Lorelei merely denies that anything bad can happen to kids and says that if her parents want to go kill people, that's their right.
  • Family-Values Villain: She's a corrupting sadist but she does stress how the Purge should be for adults only and not kids.

    Silas 

Silas Barker

Played by: JD Evevermore
An NFFA member who repeatedly clashes with Ryan.

    Fernanda 

Fernanda

Played by: Paula Perera
A Brazillian socialite and murder tourist.
  • Ambiguous Situation: While she talks about wanting to Purge herself, she's only actually seen watching the Purge from a tour bus, making it unclear if she was bluffing or is merely on her way to kill someone under safer (for her) conditions.
  • Bridezilla: Exaggerated in true dystopian fashion: for her bachelorette party, she wants to legally kill people in America, saying "It's my day, not theirs," when her maid of honor says not all of the wedding party may be comfortable with a crime spree. Her behavior is so entitled and ruthless it is implied that her maid of honor is considering purging her once they get to America (although this is an Aborted Arc despite them cameoing during the Purge night).

    Mia 

Mia

Played by: Lucy Hartselle
A young Purger.
  • Bratty Teenage Daughter: She is a Crapsaccharine World introduced while having her Girl Posse give feedback on various skimpy outfits for Purge night, threatens her dad with a flail for coming into her room without permission, and then poses for a selfie wearing her Purge mask.
  • Savage Spiked Weapons: She carries a multi-balled flail as a weapon while preparing for a dangerous and sinister activity.
  • Villain of Another Story: She only appears during a cold open to showcase the culture but seems like she'll probably be killing some Hero of Another Story in short order, with the Ambiguously Evil best-case scenario about her being that she's like the Purgers in Season 1 episode 9 who just like to scare people and make them more susceptible to paying a toll to pass through parts of town.

    The Merrymaker Mask Company Executives 

The Boss, Ian, Linda, Jimmy, etc.

Played by: Craig Welzbacher (Boss), Benjamin Nathan Serio (Ian), Lindsey Pearlman (Linda), Jeff Bee (Jimmy)
Executives at a company making masks entirely for the Purger community
  • Corrupt Corporate Executive: As if only caring about profits while they make accessories for murderers wasn't bad enough, they make sure to give the masks good visibility so the wearers have a better chance of making successful kills and even enthusiastically market the infamous mask Serial Killer Ben wears outside of Purge night, glorifying him and his actions, because the news reports about him save them money on advertising, and their only qualm about it is mild worry about public backlash.
  • Equal-Opportunity Evil: The board includes black and Asian members and discusses having a Pride-colored mask for the gay community (albeit partially as a marketing ploy).
  • Four Eyes, Zero Soul: The Boss, who signs off on all the tasteless ideas contributing to a murder culture with little emotion, wears glasses.
  • Villainous Friendship: They seem to get along well while discussing their unethical activities.

Edited by Alpinist on Feb 12th 2025 at 2:13:22 AM

G-Editor The 47th President Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
The 47th President
#33524: Feb 11th 2025 at 10:24:08 AM

I have some more trope entries to check for spelling and grammar errors.

Bleach

  • Ensemble Dark Horse: Out of all the Filler Villains, the Unnamed Female Arrancar is easily considered to be one of, if the, most popular among them all despite only appearing in three episode in the entire anime and isn’t even given a name. The fact that she’s a rare example of an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain in this series who just so happens to be a very beautiful and sexy woman along with her Butt-Monkey status has endeared her to many fans.
  • Foe Yay Shipping: Chizuru tends to be shipped with the Unnamed female Arrancar due to actually having a crush on her in the series despite the fact that a) they are on opposing sides and b) the Arrancar doesn’t reciprocate Chizuru’s feelings nor appreciate being subjected to her fondling. Plus fans from the LGBTQ+ community seems to be in favor on this shipping, if only because Chizuru is a confirmed lesbian and wants her to hook up with a someone, and with the Arrancar being a very beautiful woman, is the best option for Chizuru.
  • Moe The Unnamed Female Arrancar manages to be very adorable since she’s a very pretty and beautiful woman who also manages to be a Butt-Monkey where her attempts a being a villain ends up backfiring and spends most of her time running away from and getting fondled my Chizuru, making her a very endearing character to many fans. Even Keigo feels sorry for the Arrancar, and wishes to protect her from Chizuru’s lust.

  • Sympathy for the Devil: Keigo shows sympathy for the Unnamed Female Arrancar when Chizuru dominates and fondles her body.
  • Villainous Crush Inverted during the Karakura-Raizer Filler arc where the heroic Lipstick Lesbian Chizuru develops a massive crush on the Unnamed Female Arrancar, to the point Chizuru attempts to violate her upon activating her Karakura Rizer Erotic powers.
  • Badass Adorable: A rare villainous example. The Arrancar is a gorgeous woman whom, while not as powerful like most of her kind, is a competent Combat Pragmatist who’s quite skilled with a spear. Then Chizuru starts fondling with the Arrancar’s body, where the latter starts blushing with embarrassment, going from dignified and beautiful to adorable and still beautiful in a matter of seconds. Plus, her rabbit’s mask on her head as well as her status as an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain actually makes her all the more cuter, and thus making the Arrancar even more attractive. If anything, her adorableness just emphasizes her beauty.
  • Beauty Is Bad: Zig-Zagged. On one hand the Arrancar is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful women in the entire series and is on the side of the villains. On the other hand, she’s at best an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain, who easily gets defeated in a comical fashion anytime she is the main villain.
  • Big Bad Wannabe: While she is the Arc Villain of the Karakura-Raizer Filler episodes and tries taking over Karakura Town for herself, she’s a rather weak and pathetic villain who always gets defeated in comical fashion usually by Chizuru molesting her. The Arrancar never even faces any Soul Reapers nor is even given a name showing how minuscule she really is in the grand scheme of things.
  • Buxom Beauty Standard: Chizuru is so enamored with with Arrancar’s slender yet buxom figure, the first thing she does is grab the Arrancar’s large breasts while calling her “boobilicous”.
  • Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Unlike all of most of the, if not all, of the antagonists in the series, especially in regards to the Arrancars, The unnamed female Arrancar is an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain who is not even considered a threat by the Soul Reapers, isn’t given a name, and always gets comically defeated. She is simply known for two things in this series: being beautiful and being a Butt-Monkey.
  • Double Standard: Rape, Female on Female: She is on the receiving end of this trope, where she ends up getting molested by Chizuru, which is treated as Fanservice that’s Played for Laughs since a) Chizuru is Plucky Comic Relief on the heroes side, b) the Arrancar is immensely beautiful, and c) the Arrancar also happens to be a villain trying to take over Karakura town. That said, the audience only gets to watch Chizuru fondle the Arrancar’s breasts while the rest of the act takes place entirely offscreen.
  • Endearingly Dorky: The Arrancar is a villainous example. She’s a beautiful woman who tries to present herself as a serious threat, but then Chizuru grabs her from behind and defeats her in a comical fashion, revealing that the Arrancar is an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain. That said, this aspect just adds to the Arrancar’s beauty as it makes her extremely adorable, especially to Chizuru.
  • Even the Girls Want Her: The Arrancar is so beautiful, even Chizuru falls for her, who proceeds to fondle and molest her.
  • Evil Counterpart: She’s one to Rangiku Matsumoto, despite never actually meeting her in the anime. Both she and Rangiku are extremely beautiful women with Lascivious Beauty Marks who modify their outfits to show off their cleavage, with the Arrancar even looking like a slimmer and less bustier (though she’s still well-endowed) version of Rangiku. However Rangiku is a Soul Reaper who’s tasked with protecting Karakura Town from Aizen, while the female Arrancar is … well an Arrancar who’s tasked with conquering Karakura Town for Aizen. Also, Rangiku has Hidden Depths that makes her more than just a pretty face and is competent at her occupation whenever she’s not slacking around, while the Arrancar is nothing but a pretty face (she isn’t even given a name) and for all of her ambition and schemes is utterly incompetent at her job.
  • Fanservice Extra: Given that the Arrancar is a beautiful woman who also doubles as an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain and isn’t even given a name, it’s clear that her only role is to provide Fanservice in her limited screen-time, usually in the form of Chizuru playing with her body.
  • Faux Action Girl: Due to her first appearing as a seductive beauty who brags about being given “great powers” from Aizen and nearly lands an attack on Tatsuki, it might be suggested that she may pose a serious threat to Kon and his allies. Then Chizuru gets a hold of the Arrancar, revealing her to be little more than a Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain who spends the rest of her time either trying to get away from Chizuru, or getting molested by her.
  • Flat Character: There’s much about the Arrancar’s character, other than she’s a beautiful yet incompetent villainess, has been given unknown powers by Aizen, and gets comically defeated by Chizuru. She isn’t even given a name.
  • Girly Run: She runs in a girly manner when trying to get away from Chizuru.
  • Informed Attribute: She mentions that Aizen has bestowed her “great power” but the heroes or the audience never sees them.
  • Laughably Evil: The Arrancar always brings hilarity in her appearances as a result of her being incapable of being a competent villain despite the powers she claims to have been bestowed upon by Aizen, and is always defeated in comical fashions.
  • Lascivious Beauty Mark: The Arrancar is given a mole just below her left eye to give her already gorgeous face a very seductive look, thus already adding more emphasis on her beauty.
  • Male Gaze: The camera does love to focus on the Arrancar’s backside and breasts, especially when Chizuru tries fondling the latter.
  • Noblewoman's Laugh: The Arrancar sports this kind of laugh when talking about her latest plan to take over Karakura Town.
  • Reluctant Fanservice Girl: Downplayed. While she doesn’t mind wearing an outfit that highlights her beauty and voluptuous curves, she does mind when Chizuru begins fondling her, which makes her boobs stand out all while the Arrancar blushes adorably, much to her chagrin.
  • So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Since the Arrancar is such a beautiful woman, she attracts the attention of Chizuru, which activates the latter’s Hyper Erotic Mode, where Chizuru then defeats and dominates the Arrancar with ease before molesting her.
  • Weak, but Skilled: Though the Arrancar doesn’t have much raw power, she does make up for this by being a cunning Combat Pragmatist nearly landing a hit on Tatsuki. How skill she is remain unclear afterwards, since she spends the rest of her time trying to run away from Chizuru.
  • Dragon-in-Chief: Despite being created by the Unnamed Female Arrancar, it’s clear that Michel is a much more competent villain than her and serves as the main villain of Episode 311 on her behalf.

Dr. STONE

  • Ship Tease: It’s subtle but there is some tease between Senku and Kohaku. Despite being a Celibate Hero, there are times with Senku doesn’t mind Kohaku getting close to him, reciprocating her hugs, and even lets her kiss him one time as a means to distract their enemies. On Kohaku’s ends she claims that if she were to have romantic feelings for anyone, it would be someone like Senku and even jokingly claiming to have fallen for him upon first meeting him, before clarifying that she just likes working with him.

Glass Onion

  • Viler New Villain: Downplayed given that Ransom was already a despicable person, but his only goal was to kill his grandfather so he can claim his inheritance for himself, wasn’t interested in killing anyone who did not get in his way. By contrast, Miles was trying to push an unstable energy source that could danger countless of innocent lives throughout the world just to make himself even more famous, while also lacking Ransom’s genuinely cunning mind, instead being a complete idiot who even Blanc comes to genuinely hate.

Disventure Camp

  • Karma Houdini Warranty: While Yul was a Karmic Butt-Monkey who never won his seasons, he ultimately gets rewarded for his behavior by claiming 100k from Riya’s prize money, where a Time Skip shows him owning his own soda company and podcast and unlike Riya, Yul doesn’t care that he is Hated by All. However, a few greeting shows Yul still suffering from karmic retribution long after the show has ended where Miriam humiliates Yul on his own podcast before having a mob attack him, and runs his podcast in a dusty warehouse, which is already failing.
  • Tritagonist: Right below to Jake and Ally, Connor is the most important character in All-Stars, especially when he returns in the “Comeback” challenge where his Story Arc revolves around him realizing that Riya is not the same woman that he fell in love with in his debut season and he needs to cut her out his his life. He does just that at the end of the season, where he goes on to marry another woman after he learns to completely move on from Riya.

Total Disventure All Stars

  • Always Second Best: Bowie jokingly lampshades that no matter what he does or which side he’s on, at best he will always be the runner-up to whoever wins the season of a reality show competition.
  • Foil: Bowie is one to Ellie, which is emphasized once they are placed on the same team and form a Villainous Friendship. Both of them are Punch Clock Villains who commit their villainous acts simply to get ahead of the competition and are otherwise affable people and part of the LGBTQ+ community. However, Bowie is a sociable and flamboyant Camp Gay, who wears bright colors and tries getting along with the other contestants, while Ellie is an anti-social and bisexual stoic who wears muted colors and only bothers to socialize with people she’s already made a close connection with, namely Gabby, Tess, and Bowie. Both end up joining Alec’s Villains’ Alliance which ends up affect their relationship with their respective partners, but Bowie tells Raj about his allegiance to the Villains’ Alliance and keeps him in the loop, while Ellie doesn’t anything to Gabby and lies to Gabby when Ellie is accused of being part of said alliance. Sure enough, Bowie’s boyfriend, Raj, ends up getting eliminated as a result of Bowie actions while he was part of the Villains’ Alliance kickstarting his Redemption Quest and eventually betraying the alliance, while Ellie herself gets eliminated before she gets a chance to atone after allegiance to the Villains’ Alliance has been expose, resulting in her girlfriend, Gabby going on a villainous path before eventually joining the alliance herself.

Manyu Scroll

  • So Beautiful, It's a Curse: As Chifusa’s breasts continue to grow as a result of stealing the bust size of other women, she is considered to be so beautiful that everyone, men and women, tries fondling her, much to Chifusa’s embarrassment.

Edited by G-Editor on Feb 11th 2025 at 12:04:47 AM

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#33525: Feb 11th 2025 at 2:12:52 PM

I am re-editing some of my Foreshadowing trope examples for Another Apple Sleep Experiment that I have already put on the Get Help With English Here thread.

• Twilight finds Applejack in the former's underground lab, despite the fact that earlier, Twilight and Starlight heard a noise coming from above them, hinting that the noise they heard wasn't real.

• When Twilight goes down to the lab, she finds the lock for the door to it broken, despite it being magical, and Applejack is described as skeletal-looking, meaning she isn't physically capable of breaking the lock, hinting that somepony else must've broken it in a different way.

• When Rarity is trying to stop Applejack from tearing up the tapestries that the former made for the memorial, Rarity says that Applejack moved without making a sound, hinting that Applejack is a hallucination.


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