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To Avrivne: I'm aiming for Magnificent Bastard, that is why I am mentioning details like possible Freudian Excuse, Villainous Respect and the likes.

• 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 determined 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 immediately seizes control of him, thanks her enemies for their unwilling help for her plans and kidnaps Lotus' boyfriend while using the threat of Tezcatlipoca to blackmail him to be her spy.

This would be fine?

Edited by KazuyaProta on Jan 10th 2021 at 1:43:00 PM

Sweet Sheep

• The 2011 animated film The Lion of Judah is set during the final days of Jesus' life on earth. It's mainly focused on a baby lamb named "Judah", who's mission is to "Set people free" by rescuing animals (such as lamb, and doves) from getting killed. The main characters are six domesticated animals (a cow, rooster, pig, horse, donkey, and mouse respectively) who has to rescue Judah from getting scarified. After Jesus' dies on the cross, the temple where Judah is close to getting killed suddenly cracks during an earthquake and sets him free. Judah is overjoyed and yells "Thank You" and "He set me free!" to Jesus (referred as "The King" by the animals) unaware that he was crucified. While the six animals are doubtful on Jesus' return, Judah is determined to finally see Jesus despite dying on the cross. The animals attempt to lure him away from Jesus' tomb, but is determined to see him and decides to wait two days. On the day Jesus is resurrected, Judah the lamb finally meets Jesus and says "Thank You" and later meets the other main characters before leaving earth. Judah is last seen running back to the stable and reunites with his mother.
  Judah: I saw what his love did to Jack. It's like you said, one look in his eyes and he'll steal you're heart. I didn't get to look in his eyes (gaps) but I felt it. It was his love that tore that curtain, his love that cracked that temple, his love for me, for all of us. And I don't care what you say, that still is not going to hold that love in.

Edited by brb1006 on Jan 10th 2021 at 12:27:12 PM

Here's one from Pathfinder Geb, under Arazni:

• Platonic Life-Partners: She was Aroden's herald, and pretty much his bestie, not that it kept him from (literally) leaving her to rot after Geb made her his undead slave.

Edited by Bootlebat on Jan 10th 2021 at 7:32:38 AM

For Memes.Genshin Impact:

• Bouken Da Bouken! ^Explanation One of Bennett's lines in the Japanese version. Many fans associate this with a "thumbs up" symbol in his Elemental Burst icon and skill animation. They also associate this with Bennett's potentially suicidal Elemental Skill. In the English version it's "Adventure Time!" instead, which fans consider to be a reference to Adventure Time.

Edited by Minorica on Jan 11th 2021 at 8:49:02 PM

From page 372 @Melinda

...who has never investigated a missing person case before...

Rival inventors Karl Schreyer and Ernest Harding have an off-screen fight...

^ Changed verbs from past to present tense as per How to Write an Example - Write in Historical Present Tense.

In his three appearances (each in a different genre)...

Hec buries his face in his hands after first seeing a wanted poster...

Hec: Pretty majestical, <- comma ain’t it?

...athlete and fighter, <- comma but...and begs for his mother on the school camping trip when he thinks there's a leopard nearby.

An Aboriginal man <- no comma and organizer of the Vampire Rock Music Festival.

Fred: There go our prime suspects.

Jack the drummer wears sunglasses, <- comma which add to his musician apparel.

Saying sunglasses "add to his musician apparel" doesn't make sense. You could say that they add to his musician "look" or "cachet".

Jack has his entire head shaved except for a green mohawk.

You Gotta Have Blue Hair

^ As I've said before, you can go over your post after making it and correct any obvious errors (like that Red Link). :)

Edited by Arivne on Jan 11th 2021 at 4:21:56 AM

x 4 @brb1006

The 2011 animated film The Lion of Judah is set during the final days of Jesus' life on Earth. It's mainly focused on a baby lamb named "Judah", whose mission is to "Set people free" by rescuing animals (such as lambs <- no comma and doves) from being killed. The main characters are six domesticated animals (a cow, rooster, pig, horse, donkey, and mouse respectively) who have to rescue Judah from being sacrificed. After Jesus dies on the cross, the temple where Judah is close to being killed suddenly cracks during an earthquake and sets him free. Judah is overjoyed and yells "Thank you" to Jesus, <- comma (referred as "The King" by the animals) unaware that he has been crucified, and "He set me free!". While the six animals are doubtful about Jesus' return, Judah is determined to finally see Jesus despite His dying on the cross. The animals attempt to lure Judah away from Jesus' tomb, but he is determined to see him and decides to wait two days. On the day Jesus is resurrected, Judah the lamb finally meets him, <- comma says "Thank you" and later meets the other main characters before leaving Earth. Judah is last seen running back to the stable and reuniting with his mother.

^ Judah wouldn't have yelled "He set me free" to Jesus.

It's like you said, one look in his eyes and he'll steal your heart. I didn't get to look in his eyes (gasps) but I felt it.

Edited by Arivne on Jan 11th 2021 at 4:38:13 AM

x 4 @Bootlebat

She was Aroden's herald <- no comma and pretty much his bestie, not that...

x 4 @Minorica

• Bouken Da Bouken! Explanation
  • In the English version <- no comma it's "Adventure Time!" instead, which fans consider to be a reference to Adventure Time.

^ This entry has only one example at the second level of indentation (two asterisks). This violates Example Indentation in Trope Lists.

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Ok, Arivne. Thanks

Le Chat

• Bait-and-Switch: A common kind of humor in the three panels strips is to have the third panel subvert the joke the first twos where seting up.
• Brutal Honesty: One page is about The Cat and his wife eating with a family of fans who won a "dinner with The Cat" contest, during all the stay, The Cat and his wife bluntly tell the family how they hate being here, how ugly the house is, how disgusting the food is and how they wish to never see them again (it's the second time the family won the contest), though the family don't seem to mind the insults.
• Creator Cameo: Philippe Geluck often appears in the comics.
• A Dog Named "Dog": The main character is a cat named The Cat.
• The Faceless: We never see the face of Roger, the reccuring barkeep, the only exceptions is in some strips that use encyclopedias images, but his looks is inconsistant because it always use differents images.
• Feels No Pain: In the comic where The Cat is a butcher who mutilates his own body to sell meat, he don't react at cutting his limbs and continue having a friendly conversation with an offscreen customer.
• Furry Reminder: While The Cat acts like an human, he sometime eat mices, even if they themselves have human like sentience.
• Insult to Rocks: According to The Cat, the expression "The Man is a wolf to the Man" is mean to wolfs and should be changed to "The Man is a Man to the Man", but that he said that it would be too harsh for the Man.
• Look-Alike Lovers: When The Cat's wife appears in early comics, she tends to be drawn as a female clone of himself. She as a more distinct appearence in later comics.
• Losing Your Head: One strip is about The Cat's nephews casually removing The Cat's head from his body during his sleep and playing football with it. In the end, they put the head back on The Cat's body and he doesn't seem to have noticed anything weird after he wakes up.
• Medium Awareness: The Cat and sometime other characters are clearly aware that they are comic book characters.
• Protagonist Title: The Cat's name appears in the titles of every comics.
• Shout-Out: Characters and references from other comic books tends to often appear, especially from francophone comics.
• Smart Animal, Inconvenient Instincts: By default, The Cat acts in a very human manner, but there's a strip where he interupts himself to chase after a mouse and apologize for his instinct to the viewers after catching it.
• Spell My Name with a "The": The Cat's first name is literally "The".
• The Yellow M Shout Out: The cover title of La Marque du Chat ( Meaning The Cat's mark, taken from "The Yellow Mark", the French title of The Yellow M) is a parody of The Yellow M's cover

Sorry Arivne. I do go over my post to check for errors, but since preview mode doesn't let me open character folders, sometimes I forget to check them after posting.

The historical past tense/present tense mistake for Murdoch mysteries was done because the two inventors fight took place before the events of the episode, but I'll make the change to avoid confusion.

Fred's quote about the Bad Omens (goes instead of go) was incorrect grammar, but it was also what he said in the movie itself (I initially had go myself but rewatched the scene on youtube to make sure I didn't have any mistakes, which also helped me delete an additional word I falsely remembered being in the sentence).

@ Jerk with a Heart of Jerk

• In the Christopher Anvil novella The Day the Machines Stopped, Carl Jackson is introduced cruelly taunting his romantic rival Brian over Carl's higher salary. Carl quickly admits this was a low blow, though, and displays a lot of bravery after the fall of society. Then he knocks Brian unconscious and leaves him behind as their group heads for Montana, while spreading lies that Brian abandoned him when a mob attacked them. After a warlord takes their friends prisoner, it seems like Carl will redeem himself by helping Brian rescue them, only for him to knock Brian unconscious, abandon him again, and steal the credit for the rescue.

A science-fiction story by William Baxter, Down in the Dark was published in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection. It follows astronauts on Titan (the largest moon of Saturn) struggling to survive after Earth is destroyed by a failed attempt to destroy a dangerous asteroid.

Tropes:

• But What About the Astronauts?: After Earth is destroyed, humanity is reduced to about 2,000 people in a dozen or so space stations and early-stage colonies desperately struggling to keep their supplies from running out. Between them, they only have a single spaceship, the Oberth, to distribute supplies between the colonies.
• Colonized Solar System: The story takes place in 2057, with human bases on the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter and Saturn's moons.
• Disaster Scavengers: The narrator is assigned to recover a lunar lander, to be used to retrieve supplies from the remains of Earth.
• Driven to Suicide: Many survivors kill themselves due to grief (like the narrator's friend Jimmy) or because the Oberth can't get them vital supplies in time (like everyone on Mercury).
• The Elites Jump Ship: Rodrigo Durrell and Ms. Rhinehart, the two cabinet secretaries in charge of space exploration, managed to go to the Moon with their families on an "inspection tour" right before the dangerous asteroid intercept that ended up destroying Earth. The narrator views the two with slight contempt and notes that Rhinehart's daughter is the only five-year-old human left in the universe.
• Humans Need Aliens: The appearance of a race of Starfish Aliens at the end saves the human astronauts from dying out.
• The Lost Lenore: The narrator pines over his wife Lisa, who died on Earth.

• Rooting for the Empire: In the first movie, some fans wish The Treblemakers had won after Benji joined them and made such a good showing in the Finals.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Kori and Mary Elise, the two Bellas Aubrey kicked out. Both had good auditions, and letting them back in later could have helped display Aubrey's Character Development.

• Awful Wedded Life: Sandy says that after 25 years of marriage, all her parents do together anymore is watch TV.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Stacy is nailed to a tree while she's still alive.
• Fat and Skinny: Dino (fat) and Wally (played by the very skinny DJ Qualls) sit together in class and the cafeteria and approach girls together at the pre-orgy dance.
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: Jody sleeps with a toy rabbit.
• Instantly Proven Wrong: After Sandy doubts boys are as clueless at sex as Cindy claims, the scene cuts to Ben and his friends in their van, debating how many holes a vagina has.
• Shipper on Deck: Jody drags Sandy over and sits her down next to her crush Mark upon seeing she's too shy to do so herself.

• Bridgette manages to sing somewhat coherently while her tongue is stuck to a pole.
• In Slap Slap Revolution, after Heather insults Owen, Gwen and Courtney get back at her during their solos, with Courtney singing that she'll dance a jig when Heather is eliminated and Chris shoves her off the plane.

• Graceful Loser: The South Bend coach consoles a dejected player, then pleasantly shakes hands with Dale after losing.

Edited by Melinda on Jan 12th 2021 at 11:49:39 AM

For Complete Monster

• Tropical Citron: The Rabbit is a demon that manipulates the Witch Matriarch of March Town into selling her soul to him. Using his newfound control over the witches, the Rabbit constantly abuses physical and sexually of the matriarch and her daughter Mako and uses their influence to convince the entire town into selling their souls to him. Having become the local tyrant known as James Ishi, the Rabbit turns March Town into a decadent poor town where the population—and eventually the refugees—are practically enslaved and worked to death after becoming addicts to Rabbit Juice, a drug that creates troubles even outside the town. A demon that mocks the human free will, The Rabbit is defined for his love of slavery and opression.

Edited by KazuyaProta on Jan 11th 2021 at 12:03:03 PM

For Anarchy Online

Goddamned Bats: The Zix are small, facehugger-like creatures used as pets by the more powerful aliens. While they aren't very dangerous individually and usually die when their controlling alien does, they can be pretty pesky in large groups.

Edited by Bootlebat on Jan 11th 2021 at 10:48:48 AM

Also, any idea why Grammarly keeps missing when there should be a comma but isn't and vice-versa?

Here's a quote I saw on a t-shirt that I think would fit under quotes for Hair-Trigger Temper

"I had my patience tested. I'm negative."

— T-shirt saying.

Twisted Wonderland Characters

• Sleep Mask: Sherpy wears a sleep mask on his forehead all time and he pulls it on when he wants to sleep.
• Blinding Bangs: Timmy has his bang cover his eyes due to his shy and bashful personality.
• Keet: Hop is the most cheerful and carefree dwarf among the dwarf students.
• Rainbow Motif: Downplayed. The dwarf students all wear identical Royal Sword Academy uniforms, but they do have color motif correspond to their hair colors. Gran (Red), Snick (Orange), Hop (Yellow), Sherpy (Green), Timmy (Blue), Toby (Purple), and Doc (Grey).

Edited by Stardust120 on Jan 12th 2021 at 8:55:14 AM

x 6 @Melinda

Carl quickly admits this was a low blow, <- comma though, <- comma and displays...

...recover a lunar lander, <- comma to be used to retrieve supplies from the remains of Earth.

...get them vital supplies in time (like everyone at on Mercury).

...managed to go to the Moon with their families on an "inspection tour"...

Jody drags Sandy over and sits her down next to her crush Mark upon...

Edited by Arivne on Jan 12th 2021 at 9:47:17 AM

Age of Empires II

• Nightmare Fuel:
• The final cutscene of the Atilla the Hun campaign. Where it's revealed the old priest telling the narrator of his time with the Hun's, that the reason he kept the spike impaled, skull, that prompted the story's telling. It was not a grim momento of the brutality he witnessed. But because sometimes... He missed it WhamLine. The manic grin the original artwork depicted him having as he said that, makes one wonder if the narrator lived long to tell anyone else the tale?
• The Last Khan's expansion introduced AOE players to Tamerlane (Timur the Lame), In one of the bleakest campaigns ever made. With ominous melancholic music playing a haggered man telling the ruler of a city of the things Tamerlane has done. How despite his bad leg and arm he'd won leadership through cunning and the ruthless campaigns he directed. How he'd demand entire mountains of skulls be formed from every man and animal slain after agreat victory. That to meet their rulers bloody quota, some of his commanders would even slaughter they're own wives. The campaign ends most ominous. With the ruler being informed that Tamerlane himself now awaits him outside the ciy walls, and the man who came to warn him was once a mighty Khan, reduced to nothing by the "Titan Amongst Mortals", the ruler must now confront.

Edited by Avenger09 on Jan 12th 2021 at 11:32:00 AM

@Kazuya Prota

x 16

The Laconic for Magnificent Bastard says "Villains (or morally gray characters at best) portrayed as confident, charming schemers who think on their feet, outsmart their competitors with style and grace, and remain graceful even in the event of defeat."

I've read through your post and can't find anything that fits the Laconic or the Description of Magnificent Bastard, so I'm afraid that it's Not an Example.

x 7

The Rabbit is a demon who manipulates...the Rabbit constantly physical and sexually abuses of the matriarch...convince the entire town to sell their souls to him...town where the population — and eventually the refugees — are enslaved and practically worked to death...A demon who mocks the human free will, The Rabbit is defined by his love of slavery and oppression.

Edited by Arivne on Jan 12th 2021 at 9:58:39 AM

x 5, 6, 7 @Bootlebat

I don't see any problems with the English in posts 5 and 7.

Also, any idea why Grammarly keeps missing when there should be a comma but isn't and vice-versa?

^ Because Grammarly is a computer program and it requires human judgment to decide where a comma goes. I would have no idea of how to program a computer to read text and decide where the commas (if any) go. I think it would require an Artificial Intelligence as smart as a human to do so.

Thanks Arivne.

@When Worlds Collide The first trope is for the first book, the others are for the second book.

• Saintly Church: As society crumbles, Tony is aided in burying his mother by a kindly pair of clergymen (and the older man's wife), all of whom politely decline his offer to get them seats on the rocket.
• Becoming the Mask: Tony's valet Kyto is a former Japanese spy who came to sympathize with his new culture and resigned from his espionage job.
• Informed Flaw: Stowaway Marian Jackson is described as an empty-headed moron by multiple characters, but her actions and dialogue make her seem like a woman of slightly above average intelligence.
• Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: Dr. Dodson turns up alive, having been nursed back to health (minus an arm) after being wounded in the riots and Left for Dead in the first book.
• Uncertain Doom: In addition to the four rockets confirmed to have made it to Bronson Beta and the doomed French rocket, the first book mentions that China, South Africa, Australia, Argentina, and Italy are all working on evacuation rockets. Dr. Hendron estimates that a total of five rockets would probably survive, but none of the others appear on Bronson Beta. While the heroes speculate they were all destroyed, some of them might have made it and simply landed too far away to be immediately detected.

• Workout Fanservice: Aubrey gets a brief scene doing stretches in yoga pants.

• Red fills his house with discarded road signs, putting a recreation area sign outside of the bedroom he shares with his wife and a self-service sign on Harold's bedroom door.

• Fanon Discontinuity: The third movie is far from universally acknowledged due to the Out-of-Genre Experience, lower critical and audience scores, and Sequel Non-Entity status of the Treblemakers.

• Best Known for the Fanservice: Hesh-Ke Skinny Dipping is one of the few parts of the film to age well.
• Narm Charm: The Canyon of Gold's collapse is contrived and drawn-out, but the special effects and the sheer scope make it an exciting scene for many fans.

• Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder: Despite feeling remorse for hanging the wrong man, vigilante Tommy is willing to join Wilson in trying to kill Jed due to fear that his wife won't be able to wait for him if he goes to prison.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: Marshal Bliss dies while making an off-screen arrest.
• Eyepatch of Power: Vigilante Reno is a menacing man with an eyepatch.
• Take a Third Option: Rather than turn themselves in or commit cold-blooded murder by helping Wilson ambush Jed, vigilantes Charlie Blackfoot and Maddow choose to flee the territory.
• Undying Loyalty: Vigilante Loomis is fiercely loyal to Wilson for giving him a home after decades of drifting and rejects Wilson's sad claim to have dragged him into their feud with Jed.
  Loomis: You didn't force me to ride with you, Captain.

Edited by Melinda on Jan 12th 2021 at 12:11:03 PM

x 6 @Stardust 120

Sherpy wears a sleep mask on his forehead all the time and he pulls it over his face when...

Timmy's bangs cover his eyes as an indication of his shy and bashful personality.

...but they do have color motifs corresponding to their hair colors: <- colon Gran (red), Snick (orange), Hop (yellow), Sherpy (green), Timmy (blue), Toby (purple), and Doc (grey, which replaces indigo).

^ The second sentence above was a sentence fragment because it didn't make any sense by itself. It was a part of the previous sentence that was incorrectly split off.

^ If you look on the Rainbow Motif page's Description and examples, you will see that the names of all the colors are in lower case.

Edited by Arivne on Jan 12th 2021 at 10:16:58 AM

@Melinda

...after being wounded in the riots and Left for Dead in the first book.

Hesh-Ke Skinny Dipping is one of the few parts of the film to age well.

Rather than turn themselves in <- no comma or commit cold-blooded murder...

Thanks Arivne. It looks like perfection still eludes me, but the post you just checked was better than the last one. I was beginning to wonder if I had undiagnosed dyslexia after how bad things have been lately.

Probably a dumb question but in a sentence like:

• Bob was going to go to the store but, due to the fire, it was closed.

are both the commas correct and in the right places?