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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 16th 2023 at 5:37:57 PM
Sorry to see that I had so many mistakes.
- One-Scene Wonder
- "Bologna" Barb, for her Gag Boobs and the way she rubs in just how far the Bellas have fallen since Aubrey's humiliation when they beg her to join them.
- The Sockapellas, for their use of sock puppet ventriloquism while performing.
- Mary Elise, who has a decent audition before being forced to leave the Bellas, crying after sleeping with a Troublemaker under circumstances she claims were accidental.
- The university greeter who gives Beca a rape alarm without losing her chipper nature.
- Tear Jerker
- Mary Elise crying and running off after being kicked out of the Bellas.
- Actually, I Am Him: Bret and the others believe the prospector Ol' Whiskers is squatting on the land of easterner George Blain. This belief is false, because Whiskers is Blain.
- Bad People Abuse Animals:
- After a suspenseful two-day pursuit of Wide-Mouth Williams in The Mystery of Ghost Canyon, the heroes are disgusted to find that he's ridden his horse almost to death.
- Surly Burkhart hand Redneck Butler uses his spurs excessively while serving as a broncobuster. However, he has a few positive qualities, such as not being one of the criminals.
- Clear My Name: In Rawhide Gap, Jack seeks to prove that his great-uncle was framed for robbing a stagecoach decades ago.
- Feuding Families: The Burkharts (who seem to be down to just one member) and the Conrads from The Phantom of Wolf Creek have been fighting over a patch of land for seventy-five years.
- Grenade Hot Potato: The spies of The Mystery of Rawhide Gap throw a grenade at the heroes in the climax, only for Bret and Ace to throw the grenade back into the room it came from and then slam the door shut, with the explosion knocking all of the villains unconscious.
- Modern Minstrelsy: While not entirely stereotypical, Bret’s friend Benny Ortega makes many Gratuitous Spanish comments, has a somewhat awkward catchphrase (“Well Gee My Wheez”) and is always composing joking songs about the group's adventures.
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Sheriff Buxton's raid on the hideout in The Mystery of Ghost Canyon. Bret, Buxton's son Andy, and their friends hear lots of gunfire before capturing the gang's leaders while guarding an escape route (due to being too young to legally accompany the main posse). They are later told that Buxton and his men tied their flashlights to long sticks that they hung off to the side, causing the Mooks to shoot at them and give away their own position, with two men on each side being wounded before the robbers surrendered.
- Prospector: Ol' Whiskers in the second book is a territorial, unkempt man who's spent decades mining gold at Hermit Peak.
- Shady Real Estate Agent: Dorset from The Mystery of Bandit Gulch is suspected of various confidence schemes and sells a Returning War Vet a barren piece of land to ranch on.
- Government Procedural: The book follows President Sven Ericson and both his allies and enemies in the White House as he tries to keep the 25th Amendment from being used against him after losing his vision.
@ Shiloh
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In the first book, Judd has made Marty dislike him by poaching deer, treating his dogs badly, spitting tobacco near people, cheating a Scatter Brained Senior storekeeper, and accidentally blocking Marty's view of a motorcycle show while sitting in front of him.
@ Angel
- Badass Mustache: Kit has a fine handlebar mustache, fitting for both a neighborhood protector and a former cowboy actor.
- Retirony: Before falling victim to the Serial Killer, Lana expresses a desire to move to Tahiti.
- Stocking Filler: Molly and Lana wear fishnet stockings and short skirts while picking up johns.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer When the Watchers Council headquarters is blown up, it is a bit ambiguous if this takes place right after Travers' Rousing Speech or a little later, when some of his people might have had time to leave the building.
Edited by Melinda on Jan 8th 2021 at 10:31:31 AM
Twisted Wonderland characters
- Only Sane Man: Dominic is the sane one towards his dwarf friends. He is willing to pay for laundry service after Snick accidentally sneeze snot on one of the Night Raven Academy's student uniform. Dominic will rather not pick a fight with their rival school like Gran and tries to reason with them.
- Sneeze of Doom: Like Sneezy, Snick sneeze at the worst possible times. During the search for their dwarfs friends, Snick accidentally stains snot at one of Night Raven Academy Savanaclaw student's uniforms, their rival school. This results of Savanaclaw students pissed and almost about beat them up for being Royal Sword Academy students if Riddle and the others hasn't save them in time.
- Ungrateful Bastard: After Riddle, Trey and Grim saves the dwarfs students from the Savanaclaw students, Gran does not thank them and says he doesn't need help for them and claims he could defeat them on his own.
Edited by Stardust120 on Jan 7th 2021 at 5:44:40 AM
@Arvine I used the grammar checker on the last example and it missed the (missing) comma. I even double checked just in case and it STILL didn't figure it out. I even tried a couple other grammar checkers and none of the said I should add a comma. Are you positive that's right?
Edited by Bootlebat on Jan 7th 2021 at 9:36:54 AM
One for Fear Street
Evil Is Not Well-Lit: Fear Street itself is almost always gloomy and overcast, even during the summer.
Here's one for /No Sense Of Velocity (under the existing Star Wars sub-section)
- MythBusters once did an experiment to find out if the characters would really be able to dodge the blaster fire. At one point they review the movies and estimate that the blaster bolts travel at about 130 MPH. While this is too fast for a person to dodge (as the experiment confirmed), it's still absurdly slow for a futuristic Ray Gun, as most modern-day bullets travel more than ten times that speed.
Edited by Bootlebat on Jan 7th 2021 at 12:09:48 PM
Anything to correct here?
Tintin- The Secret of the Unicorn
- Off-Model: The screaming old woman at Sakharine's appartment has a dark green coat in the first panel she appears in, but the coat is blue in every other panels.
Titeuf
- Terrible Artist:
- Titeuf's drawing skills are rather inconsistant, but several strips are about him being bad at drawing so a joke can work.
- Hugo's portrait of Titeuf looks more like a dog than anything else, much to the anger of Titeuf.
- Under Water Fart Gag: In a strip where Titeuf lists things he considers cool, he mentions farting in his bath first.
What The Cut - YMMV
- Discredited Meme: Starting from the 35th episode, each episode was victim of Schedule Slip, as a result, it became very common among French internet users to joke and make memes about delays between episodes at the time even though Antoine Daniel quickly got tired of these jokes. However, since a few years after the last episode came out and when Antoine Daniel was vocal about how tired he was of What the Cut as a whole and of only being associated to it, fans stopped doing these jokes by respect for him and people who continue joking about the episodes' delays are quickly told by fans that they are unfunny and disrespectful.
Amazing Technicolor Population
- The Smurfs all have natural blue skin, but there are several instances where Smurfs get other unusual skin color by differents means.
- The first story is about a bug called the "Bzz Fly" that turns Smurfs into zombie equivalent by stinging them which also gives them pitch black skin. In some translations and the animated adaptation, it's changed to purple skin.
- In a story where the Smurfs find a wish-granting egg, three Smurfs asked to have red, yellow and green and purple striped skin. There's also a Smurf that wish for an other one to have pale green skin.
- In a story, Gargamel feeds a poison to almost every Smurfs in the village which gives them differents difformities, this include different skin colors for some of them.
Hi guys! I'm returning since a long break. Let's do it again!
Some Headscratchers for Grand Theft Auto V:
- In "Legal Trouble", Devin and Molly try to prevent the release of Meltdown by taking the film reel away. Michael chases Molly to the airport and succeeds retrieving the reel after Molly gets sucked into a jet engine, though it wasn't necessary as there were digital backups. However, if Devin and Molly had actually succeeded on their plans and Solomon didn't have any backups, that would not have caused them a problem with the film's distributors? Imagine if they have already spend money for marketing campaigns only to be told that the film would not be released now. They would have been furious at Devin!
- In regard to the above mentioned mission, if Solomon wanted to keep the film reel of Meltdown, why didn't he simply call the security of Richards Majestic Productions to not let Molly get out of the studio with the reel or to escort Devin and Molly out? Regardless how rich Devin is, Richards Majestic Productions is still Solomon's property, so he has every right to send them away if he wanted...
- How was Don Percival able to contact Michael and Trevor at the end to thank them for killing Devin if he never actually met them? Weazel News reports that Devin is not officially pronounced dead and Percival has no way to know that two guys he has never met killed his most hated business partner? By the way, why didn't he thank Franklin too if Franklin also worked with Trevor and Michael in taking down Devin?
Edited by ElJuaco on Jan 7th 2021 at 9:07:58 AM
for Dream Emergency Exit:
- Dark Green, a sci-fi shojo manga by Junko Sasaki, revolves around the globally shared "R-dreams". While they are a fairly safe fantasy world where dreamers can (usually) wake up at will, dying there means dying for real. The only known exceptions are the ones killed by Kurein, whose superpower kicks them out of the R-dream forever with no memory of there. She serves as a Mercy Killer to people getting killed by dream monsters [[.spoiler: and to herself when she ends up fatally injured]].
Edited by Momochi on Jan 8th 2021 at 4:49:15 AM
x 10 @Melinda
Bret and the others believe the [[{{Prospector}} prospector]] Ol' Whiskers is squatting on the land of easterner George Blain. This belief is [[spoiler:false, because Whiskers is Blain]].
uses his spurs too excessively while serving as a broncobuster. <- period However, he has...
The Conrads and the Burkharts (who seem to be down to just one member each) from...
^ If they were down to one member total, it would be difficult for them to fight each other.
...catchphrase (“Well Gee My Wheez”) and is...about the group's adventures.
^ Was "my" not capitalized in the books? It should have been.
...gunfire before capturing the...shoot at them in the wrong direction and...
The book follows President Sven Ericson and both his allies and enemies in the White House as he tries to keep the 25th Amendment from being used against him after losing his vision.
^ The 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was "enacted" when it was officially added to the Constitution (adopted) on February 10th, 1967.
Kit has a fine handlebar mustache, <- comma fitting for...
...right after Travers' Rousing Speech <- no comma or a little later...
Edited by Arivne on Jan 8th 2021 at 8:49:59 AM
x 10 @Stardust 120
...accidentally sneezes snot on one of the Night Raven Academy student's uniforms. Dominic would rather...
Like Sneezy, Snick sneezes at the worst possible times. During the search for their dwarf friends, Snick accidentally sneezes snot on the uniform of one of the students in Savanaclaw dorm at Night Raven Academy, their rival school. This results in the Savanaclaw students getting pissed off and would have resulted in them beating up the dwarfs for being Royal Sword Academy students if Riddle and the others hadn't saved them in time.
After Riddle, Trey and Grim save the dwarf students from the Savanaclaw students, Gran does not thank them, <- comma and says he doesn't need help from them and claims he could have defeated them on his own.
Edited by Arivne on Jan 8th 2021 at 9:02:07 AM
x 6 @Bootlebat
Mythbusters once did an experiment to find out if the characters would really be able to dodge the blaster fire. At one point they review the movies and estimate that the blaster bolts travel at about 130 MPH. While this is too fast for a person to dodge (as the experiment confirmed), it's still absurdly slow for a futuristic Ray Gun, as most modern-day bullets travel more than ten times that speed.
^ I should point out that science and technology in the Star Wars universe are much more advanced than in our reality (starships, Anti-Gravity, Death Stars, etc.), so it is possible that a blaster uses scientific principles that we haven't even dreamed of yet.
Edited by Arivne on Jan 8th 2021 at 9:09:36 AM
x 5 @ElJuaco
and succeeds in retrieving...actually succeeded in their...any backups, wouldn't that would not have caused them a problem...if they had already spent money for marketing campaigns, <- comma only to be told that the film could not...
In regard to the above mentioned mission, If Solomon wanted to keep the Meltdown film reel, why didn't he simply tell Richards Majestic Productions security to...Regardless of how...
^ I deleted "In regard to the above mentioned mission" because it violates How to Write an Example - Don't Refer to Other Items on the Page and Word Cruft - Positional comparatives.
...most hated business partner. <- period ...thank Franklin too, <- comma if...
Edited by Arivne on Jan 8th 2021 at 9:19:55 AM
x 5 @Momochi
While they are fairly safe fantasy worlds where dreamers can (usually) wake up at will, dying there means dying for real....forever with no memory of it. She serves...dream monsters [[spoiler: and to herself when she ends up fatally injured]].
^ If dying in an R-dream "means dying for real", how can experiencing them be considered "fairly safe"?
Edited by Arivne on Jan 8th 2021 at 9:25:41 AM
Here's one for Best Woman
- NCIS has a particularity sweet example: When Palmer is about to get married, he is planning on asking Abby to be his best woman but is really nervous about it. When he eventually musters up the courage to ask her, she gives him a huge hug and says she'd be honored.
Edited by Bootlebat on Jan 8th 2021 at 9:55:58 AM
Sorry about the 25th amendment mistake. I should have put executed but your suggestion is better. For the Feuding Families example the Burkarts are down to one member but the Conrads still have at least three. I've changed the entry so it lists The Burkharts (who seem to be down to just one member) and the Conrads
@ Let the Galaxy Burn Unintentionally Unsympathetic
- Due to his desire to keep everyone focused on rebelling against his archenemy Rhaegar, Ned has yet to even try to tell any of the other sectors about the threat of the White Walkers. Ned's silence has put trillions in jeopardy from both the White Walkers and the Mêlée à Trois engulfing the Seven Sectors. This can come across as a short-sighted example of Revenge Before Reason.
- Benji's decision to sing I've Got Magic in Me is subtly sweet, given how it reflects on his other great love: magic tricks.
- Two Cases for the Czar, has the detective being asked who else knew she planned to go somewhere by the father of a rape victim who killed her attacker in self-defense, and as in the first book, she has told someone where she is. This time, however, Miroslava senses that hearing this knowledge will make the man panic and kill her, so she lies that she hasn't told anyone, but that they will become suspicious if she goes missing. He lets her go after she agrees to leave his daughter's name out of the official solution to the case (a promise she keeps).
- Fanon Discontinuity: Violet's Heel–Face Turn for some, as it feels somewhat contrived and completely detached from the final season's main plotlines.
- When Rabid Cop Blackwell and his men attack Eddie, Lynn shows up on a motorcycle to rescue him and offer him an alliance.
- Outlaw's gunfight with a biker gang who mistakenly think he'll be easy "practice" before they face the real Punisher.
- Moral Event Horizon: The Classy Cat-Burglar in the second half of Two Cases for the Czar seems like a Lovable Rogue until Miroslava reminds her boyfriend (and the readers) how he callously robbed a prostitute of her life savings just to test his lock-picking skills. Later on, the guy reinforces this negative impression by murdering a soldier to steal his uniform.
- Biker Babe:
- Amber Hawk, Korrie Fernandez, Elizabeth Navarro, Sylvia Short, and the three Heyday sisters from Motorcorrss Madness are all motorcycle racers with a bit of excitement and glamor to them on and off the track.
- Jessica Derey from Fear on Wheels is a pretty stunt rider who wears a leather jacket, isn't afraid of a Badass Biker gang, and is famous for once jumping her bike through a Deadly Rotary Fan.
- Single Line of Descent: In Night of the Werewolf, legend has it that every seventh generation, a member of the Taber family turns into a werewolf. The Hardys speculate that there must be lots of Tabers besides their client's son who could be the victim of the curse (assuming it's even true). Their client regretfully informs them that the other branches of the family were almost entirely wiped out in World War II.
Edited by Melinda on Jan 9th 2021 at 10:20:41 AM
Here's one for The Right of a Superior Species:
- There is a common bumper sticker that perfectly sums up this mentality: "Humans aren't the only species on Earth, we just act like it."
I got told to try to avoid Wall of Text, so I am trying my best to make it short.
- Accel World: Inside Brain Burst, the leaders of the Acceleration Research Society remain the most dangerous enemies that Nega Nebulus and the other legions have faced.
- White Cosmos is the King of Oscillatory Universe, the secret leader of the Acceleration Research Society and the older sister of Black Lotus. Aware that all previous Virtual Worlds were destroyed, Cosmos became determinated to finish Brain Burst by all possible means like leading the brutal murder of Saphron Blosson and lying to her pupils or manipulating her own sister to murder the Red King when he was trying to create a lasting peace, causing Lotus' exile in both real and virtual worlds. Years later, Cosmos summons the virtual ghosts of fallen Burst Linkers, leads experiments on living players and uses the Luminary to control powerful virtual beings to deal with the unbeatable Tezcatlipoca. When Tezcatlipoca is born, Cosmos inmediately seizes control over him, thanks her enemies for their unwilling help for her plans and kidnaps Lotus' boyfriend to use the threat of Tezcatlipoca to blackmail him to be her spy, confusing Silver Crow with her friendly behaviour despite her atrocities.
- Black Vise is the vice-chairman of the Acceleration Resarch Society and also Ivory Tower from the White Legion, using his sepcial ability to mantain dual identities. Having participated on the brutal murder of Saphron Blossom and the birth of Chrome Disaster in the past, Vise became fascinated at the latter's potential. Years later, Vise used and discarded other Burst Linkers such as Dusk Taker and the unwilling Wolfram Cerberus to create a second Chrome Disaster using the Negative Incarnation stored on the ISS Kits. When Nega Nebulus discovers links between the Society and the White Legion, Ivory Tower evacuates the Society members and participates on the defense of White Legion Territory, showing respect towards his enemies and being forced to expose his Black Vise form to save himself. When his secret identity is revealed to the other Kings, Vise sacrifices himself to trap them into a death loop after declaring his excitement at seeing that the impulsivity of Nega Nebulus could challenge his careful planning.
Edited by KazuyaProta on Jan 8th 2021 at 2:32:30 PM
Watch me destroying my countryHere's one for Turok
Hard Head: The Purr-lin in the second game have skulls so hard that the cerebral bore projectiles can't drill through them and shatter. Oddly, they aren't any more resistant to headshots than most enemies.
Edited by Bootlebat on Jan 8th 2021 at 4:57:57 AM
This is going to be a new page.
Minotauros no Omoibito (Minotaurus' Sweetheart) is a manga written by Keijirou and drawn by Shou.
Set in a fantasy world where monsters and humans live in fear of each other.
Minotaurus is a powerful minotaur who reigns over the forest and protects the monster ininhabitant. Minotaurus is also very gentle despite his powerful prowess and intimidating form. When a group of humans enter the forest and threaten the residents he chases them away. The only one to stay is Captain Ruviné, a gorgeous young adventure with a very famous reputation for her heroic deeds.
Minotaurus knows he's not able to defeat Ruviné, so in order to hold her back, he gives her a book dropped by her fleeing companions with human phrases which can't be read by the beings of the forest. He shows her the book and ends up showing her the phrase "Will you marry me?" by accident leading to romantic high jinks and comedy.
Minotauros no Omoibito provides examples of:
- A Load Of Bull: Minotaurus is a powerful brown minotaur and the ruler of the forest.
- Big Sister Instinct: Ruviné became an adventurer and warrior in order to make money from various jobs in order to support her beloved brother. She takes care of him after they were orphaned.
- Fantastic Racism: Humans and monsters have a great distrust and hatred of each other. It's to the point that Minotaurus tries to bargain with Ruviné as he doesn't want his people to get hurt by humans.
- Living Legend: Ruviné is widely hailed as a great hero and vanquisher of evil and is celebrated across the various human world for heroic deeds. She is considered to be infamous even to the monsters who she fights.
Edited by miraculous on Jan 9th 2021 at 4:11:15 AM
"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
- In the actual series, male canon Izuku has a close father/son relationship with his hero and mentor, All Might. However, the female version of Izuku has only met All Might once after he saved her from the Slug Villain. What's more, Izuku never got the chance to show her hero she could be worthy of being a Pro Hero and never inheriting One For All from All Might.
- Izuku's entire relationship with Tomura Shigaraki is change here as well. In canon, they're enemies who hate each other and are parallel to the other. Here, they started as friends and eventually became a couple in later chapters. However, their relationship is still not a good one with Tomura sexually abusing her.
- Adaptational Wealth: Izuku in this story lives with her extended family, who are extremely rich.
- Affectionate Nickname: Tenko calls her "Izu-chan" since the beginning of their relationship and "Bunny" once they became a couple.
- Extreme Doormat: She lets other people bully her while she doesn't stand up for herself. However, this is justified as others have Quirks that can easily harm her if she does try to. In one chapter, one of Izuku's bullies had a Quirk that cause someone to feel like there's something heavy on them, making their body unable to move.
- Gender Flip: Izuku here is a young girl unlike in canon.
- Prone to Tears: She almost always crying or on the brake of tears in every chapter. However, it's not to blame her, given her unfortunate situation where everyone is abusing her in every way.

From page 370 @Minorica
Iko and Kaori are both flat-chested, but in their Milky Farm dresses <- no comma they have anthropomorphic cow designs...It's not clear whether the bust size changes are...
Edited by Arivne on Jan 7th 2021 at 6:42:49 AM