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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 16th 2023 at 5:37:57 PM
As it has rolled over to a new page, where there any errors in my last post
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For MGCM:
- April Fools' Day: In 1st April 2021, When you open the game for the first time on 1st April 2021, there's a live-action news video
of Studio MGCM producer The Absolutely Perfect One (or JibuP) who apologizes a lot while wearing his Omnis head. In the home page, all the heroines are replaced with JibuP bending down his body a lot. Hilariously, there's a special April Fool exclusive quest, in which the players will get 1500 jewels after beating out JibuP.
Edited by Minorica on Apr 1st 2021 at 12:11:01 AM
"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..."From page 425 @Melinda
The kid going hunting with his dad in "The Carpal in the Coy-Wolves" <- no comma is...
First, <- comma there's the kids who discover the body while exposing toxic...
Shawn and Gus manage to avoid getting in trouble for trespassing on forest land...
In one opening flashback, a young Shawn refuses to put back (?) one of the two candy bars...
Special mention goes to the space attempt...Rocket Red unleashing missiles and a shoulder-mounted Gatling gun he uses...
^ "space attempt"?
Flash tells the other Justice League members that the Justice Lords went rogue because...
Then, <- comma at the end of the episode, Eiling takes custody of...
- Themis, the Greek goddess of justice, helps the Justice League find Circe, thanking them for everything they've done in her name.
Edited by Melinda on Mar 31st 2021 at 10:09:26 AM
From page 425 @Sugar Butterfly 432
...saved the world countless times, battled in the Pokémon Leagues, and managed to befriend the...
...after Mew and Mewtwo were attacked by hunters, he welcomed both of them into his home and healed their injuries.
x 6 @Minorica
When you open the game for the first time on 1st April 2021, there's...(or JibuP) <- no comma who apologizes a lot while wearing his Omnis head. ...JibuP bending down his body a lot...after beating out JibuP...
^ "bending down his body"? "beating out JibuP"?
Edited by Arivne on Mar 31st 2021 at 9:27:32 AM
- Breather Episode: Volume 7 is this. Given the sheer horrors the Strike Package faced in Volume 4-6 plus their baggage from the Eighty-sixth sector, Giadian High Command decides to put the team on vacation. The only serious combat that happens in this volume is in a simulator.
- Combat Clairvoyance: Captain Olivia Aegis has the ability to see 3 seconds into the future. This allows her to be extremely effective in melee combat, which she demonstrates by giving Shin, who is one of the most skilled pilot in melee combat, a mutual kill in a simulator combat.
- Hopeless Suitor: As of Volume 7, there are three people who have feelings for either Lena or Shin: Kurena and Annettenote for Shin, and Shiden for Lena. By that volume, all of them know that their feelings won't be reciprocated, and finally give up.
- Smoky Gentlemen's Club: Lampshaded and parodied. In Volume 7, the Giadian military High Command gathers in an unlit room, smoking. They're there to plan against the Eighty-Six being extremely successful in their missions, enough that they're being seen as heroes. In their view, "Soldiers are to be seen as replaceable parts. Victory in battle must not rest on the shoulders of a single hero.". So the High Command, in that unlit room, decides to...send them on a vacation. The aide receiving the paperwork quietly lampshades the sheer absurdity of them acting like evil masterminds plotting something terrible.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: An inversion: Ernst saving Frederica (purely for humanitarian reasons) during Giadian Civil War ends up becoming a crucial factor in the war against the Legion after Zelene reveals that living members of the Imperial Family can shut down the Legion.
Edited by onyhow on Mar 31st 2021 at 9:38:28 AM
Give me cute or give me...something?For Deathly Unmasking Anime and Manga:
- Cooking Master Boy: Invoked by the masked chef. Mao defeats the masked chef in the cooking duel and finally gets an antidote to cure everyone who has eaten food made of poison frog meat (which was provided by the masked chef). The masked chef then unmasks himself, revealing that his face has lots of scars. He then sets a house on fire and enters into it and never comes out. Alas, Poor Villain, he lost his mind.
- Boyfriend to Death: The main premise is already dark: all the male characters that a main character can romance are (almost) irredeemable and there's no other way out. And at least in the first installment, all endings are bad.
- He Also Did: The voice actress of a Honey Abalone from MGCM (an adult-oriented game with fanservice) is Kanai Mika, the same voice actress who voices Melonpanna from Anpanman, a child-friendly anime aimed for kids.
- Crossover: In 2016, O2Jam collaborated with Pump It Up and EZ2AC.
Edited by Minorica on Apr 2nd 2021 at 12:23:48 AM
"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..."@Michael Katsuro: Thanks![]()
(although I would point out that as I use British-English, the punctuation would go outside the quotation marks: i.e. "the House of Chains", was)
Here are a few more I would appreciate someone looking at .
A rewrite to one of Dr. Butterfly's examples on Characters.Buso Renkin that should be changed from Dragon-in-Chief to The Heavy:
- The Heavy: Dr. Butterfly is quite open about the fact that the reason he is the main antagonist is because he working to revive Victor, the true Big Bad. This role only lasts until Dr. Butterfly’s death at the mid-point of the series, after which the fully healed Victor takes over the role.
An Addition to the House Goliath section on Characters.Necromunda (I am not particularly sure on the commas in these one):
- Bio-Augmentation:
- Created with gene-enhanced strength and toughness, but reduced intelligence and life expectancy, the artificially grown Vatborn are the most basic members of House Goliath. Despite this, Vatborn are also the most mutable Goliaths and can be further enhanced during the creation process to fulfil specialised roles, or survive in specific environments, with thicker skin allowing a Vatborn better resistance to dust storms, while even greater muscular strength can be added for those required for lifting the heaviest cargo.
- Conceived with only the best genes available to the House, natural born Goliaths, known as Natborn, still undergo gene-smithing to further enhance their superior abilities. As well as the accelerated growth and physical enhancements that allow them to be put to work as quickly as possible, Natborn are often give further custom enhancements, such as extra organs and the ability to adapt to a variety of hostile environments.
- If an outsider can prove themselves worthy — usually through feats of extreme strength or violence — they may be offed the chance to join House Goliath. These hopefuls must undergo dangerous and excruciating procedures involving surgery, cocktails of drugs, and genetic manipulation to bring their bodies up to Goliath standards. Those few that survive the process are known as Unborn and gain the strength and survivability of their adopted House, while keeping some of the intelligence of their former lives.
A rewrite of an example in the Daemons of Khorne section of the Blades of Khorne's General Tropes folder on Characters.Warhammer Age Of Sigmar Grand Alliance Chaos:
- Flaming Skulls: When fired, the pitch-covered skulls fired by Skull Cannons of Khorne are ignited by the fury of Blood God's burning anger, hitting their target with the force of a cannonball, before exploding in a shower of flaming bone shrapnel.
A rewrite of a trope in the Destroyers section of the Specific Necron types folder on Characters.Warhammer 40000 Necrons:
- Arm Cannon: In their quest for efficient methods of eradication, Lokhust Destroyers and Heavy Destroyers will replace one of their arms with powerful gauss weapons that allow them to unleash a constant stream of fire as they advance on the enemy.
Thanks in advance.
(Note: The mods in the Edit banned thread have also asked
me to remind posters and lurkers to post corrected versions of examples people who are currently suspended for grammar issues, such as myself)
Characters: Myths of The Eastern Realms.
- Mama Bear: Going into My Beloved Smother territory, due to the shattered mountain, Nuwa is very overprotective of Ku, always calling him up and fussing over him to make sure he's alright. While a bit played for laughs, it soon becomes clear that the mother goddess' concern for humanity is a very genuine fear. One which haunted her so greatly it drove her to slay the twin dragons.
- When Luthor shows off the super serum in the film adaptation, his niece asks when she'll get superpowers.
Luthor: The same day that I can trust you with the car keys.
- Vigilante lassoes Flagg, Deadshot, and Plastique together before Captain Boomerang severs the rope with one of the weapons he takes his name from.
- Shining Knight (who is later established to have no powers of his own) manages to punch two pretty big dents in the metal door of a storeroom he's locked inside in the middle of a fight.
- A Badass Bystander Watchtower employee who stumbles across Plastique and Deadshot manages to put up a pretty good fistfight and almost disarms Deadshot before being knocked out.
- As soon as the mission is over, Flagg furiously punches Deadshot (presumably for what he did to Plastique) and gleefully informs him that he has to go on dangerous missions for five more years before being pardoned for the crime for which he received a death sentence in the electric chair.
- Blood Knight: Flagg seems to relish fighting the Justice League.
- Sid Shattuck letting Amelia stay at his house while there's a killer after her hints there might be a bit more to his character than a hedonistic porn magnate.
Edited by Melinda on Apr 1st 2021 at 6:27:47 AM
Serena
A Pokémon Performer who became the very first Performer Queen in her early adult years. She was also an old traveling companion and the childhood friend of Ash Ketchum. She and Ash were romantically involved before the battle with Cain.
- The Ace: She was first Performer to won the title of Performer Queen after she won the title of Kalos Queen.
- Age Lift: In the story, Serena is describe as a young adult woman here instead of a ten-year-old girl.
- Childhood Friend Romance: Both her and Ash were romantically involved and got married before things went wrong when Cain ruined everything.
- Death by Adaptation: Like Ash and the rest of their friends, Serena has died prior to the events of the story. Justified, given it has been years by the time story takes place.
- Nice Girl: Like her canon counterpart, Serena was a kindhearted woman who cared deeply for others.
- Posthumous Character: She's long dead by the present of the story like Ash and all the others.
I have a planned EP for the Complete Monster thread and thought I would get it checked:
Ok, so I finally read the book again and am ready to make an EP:
Who Is He?
- Ahmed, the Big Bad of the Goosebumps book Curse Of The Mummy's Tomb, which involves a kid visiting Egypt to see his uncle, who is exploring a pyramid.
What has he done
- He initially just seems to be a normal person working for Ben (the protagonist Gabe's uncle, and his cousin Sari's father). He warns about there being some curse on the pyramid and we learn that several workers have got a mysterious illness from the tomb (this whole bit isn't really explained). Ahmed keeps trying to convince Ben and the others to leave the pyramid, but Ben is too curious. At one point, Ben leaves Gabe and Sari at the hotel alone. They get bored and go the museum. Ahmed shows up there and they suddenly feel really scared of him and run. When he "catches" them, he says Ben sent him to pick them up. Gabe and Sari feel dumb about running and go with him, but it turns out they were completely right in being afraid as he then attempts to kidnap him. Luckily, Gabe has an excellent sense of direction and figures this out pretty quickly. Once they hit a red light, the kids jump out and run back to the hotel. When Ben get's back they tell him what happened, so he takes them with when he goes back to work in the pyramid in case Ahmed comes after them. After they are back, Gabe gets lost in the pyramid and eventually finds himself in a room full of mummies, and notices to his horror that some seem to have been created recently. While he's reuinited with Sari and Ben shortly after, they soon run into Ahmed and learn the awful truth: He is part of a lineage of Serial Killers who kill anyone who dares "defile" Priestess Khala's tomb, even by mistake. He says he tried to scare Ben and his friends away but now plans to kill the three of them by mummifying them alive (which, for those who don't know, inovolved being Gutted Like a Fish and having your brain ripped out.) He then [[Buried Alive, puts the the three of them in sarcophagi]] while he heats up the tar. Luckily, the sarcofagi have secret escape hatches (which the Ancient Egyptians apparently added so the interred people's souls could escape to the after life,) and the three of them escape, only to run into Ahmed again, who plans to just boil them alive in tar this time. Luckily, Gabe's "Summoner" (a mummified hand he found at a garage sale) turns out to the be the hand of the Priestess herself, and Gabe uses it to animate some of the mummies to scare off Ahmed.) While the three of them get out of the pyramid ok, [[KarmaHoudini Ahmed is never seen again.
Redeeming Qualities?
- Not really. Him trying to scare people away instead of just killing them seems to be more about not wanting anyone to "defile" the tomb, rather than any qualms about killing people. He also doesn't regard his "job" as some kind of unfortunate necessity or the like, as he seems downright thrilled when he's about to murder the main three. He's also not mentally ill or anything, just a murderous religious fanatic.
Heinousness? "I would say so. He's a notable Goosebumps villain who has already killed people in droves, and has done so by disemboweling them and extracting their brains in the process of live mummification or boiling them in tar, based on the fresh corpses seen on-page. I've only read the original series and a few side books, but comparing him to the other candidates
- Slappy Main wrecks things and gets kids in trouble, though occasionally resorts to physical violence. The worst thing he does is trying to kill a kid with garden shears.
- Mr.Toggle kills kids to steal their hands, but we don't know if he or Ahmed killed more people, plus he doesn't kill people in horrible ways, as far as we know
- King Robert throws people in a Hellhole Prison and tortures them, as well as trying to kill Susan and Edward (the rightful heirs.) He's probably worse since he terrorizes an entire country.
Verdict Guilty.
Hi guys. It's me once again. Let's have another try.
A Headscratcher for The Mummy (1999):
- Why don't the first scarabs Gad Hassan take to his bag wake up like the one who falls off his bag? Later on, when Jonathan takes one as well, the scarab wakes up almost immediately.
Edited by ElJuaco on Mar 31st 2021 at 9:04:46 AM
@ Justice League Unlimited S 2 E 5 The Balance
- Bait-and-Switch: After trapping Tala in the mirror, Faust moves as if to break it while Tala blanches in terror. Then he merely straightens the mirror before walking away.
- Moral Event Horizon: In Escape from the Carnivale, the seafaring Circus of Fear could be excused as Obliviously Evil after capturing a mermaid if not for their eagerness at the idea of kidnapping a peaceful native for their sideshow as well.
- When Smee reads a mirror image in "Cave of the Dark Wind," he's confused about why the letters are backward and thinks they were written that way.
- Hook orders Smee to send a search party, and Smee asks if he means right now. Hook sarcastically says no, he means next Christmas, causing Smee to ask how they be able to tell when it's next Christmas without a calendar.
- While rescuing a mermaid from a Circus of Fear in Escape from the Carnivale, several dolphins band together while covered in seaweed and other props to look like they're one giant sea serpent.
- When hundreds of bats go flying right at the pirates in "Cave of the Dark Wind,'' Hook stands his ground, pressing on as his men flee.
- While trying to retrieve a pirate treasure that makes anyone who looks at it go blind, Hook comes up with the idea of only looking at its reflection in their swords, hoping that not staring directly at the gold will avoid the blindness curse. And it works.
- While it's also a tearjerker moment, Cat wins sympathy in "Shield" by talking about the sacrifices she's made to protect her son from his abusive father.
Cat: I changed my name so he couldn't find us. You know, I had so much I was fighting for. Trying to change the world. And now I have to hide behind the power of the pen and a new name, making sure nobody knows who's behind the words I'm printing.Clark: Kind of like the vigilantes. Must have been scary escaping from him.Cat: All I know is I protected my son. You know, the world may never see me as some big hero. But maybe someday my son will.
- When the founders of the League turn themselves in an effort to prevent a war with the government, the agent accepting their surrender refuses to have them manacled. While he acknowledges that restraints wouldn't hold them anyway, there's clearly some genuine respect behind the gesture.
What's more, considering that at least one of those staffers (a redheaded woman with a headset) is seen unharmed in the crowd scene at the end of the next episode, they apparently won.
- Fanon Discontinuity: "Far From Home" can be tempting to ignore, despite some good moments, due to its Strangled by the Red String moments and Supergirl staying in the future. There's even some Canon Discontinuity as well, given how she's still living in the 21st century in ambiguously canon comics apparently set after that episode.
- Satellite Character: Agent Flynn's partner Sanders has far less screen time, dialogue, and characterization, and most of the information about him comes from Flynn discussing their partnership.
- Shes Got Legs: Tiffany wears a short skirt, which is subtly emphasized when she's introduced walking next to her fellow flight attendant Claire, who's wearing pants.
- Uncertain Doom: An Indian woman in pink who avoids being bitten on her feet early on by bringing up her feet and sitting on them at the right moment isn't seen being bitten by the snakes, but doesn't appear to be among the crowd of surviving passengers.
- Oh, Crap!: After Black Canary runs out of breath and can’t keep using her sonic scream, she blanches when Mandragora is still standing and walking towards her.
- Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Black Canary Fights Like a Normal despite having powers and built her motorcycle by hand, but wears prominent stockings and a decent amount of makeup.
Rocket Red
- Gatling Good: He has an arm-mounted mini-gun.
- Macross Missile Massacre: He shoots over a dozen mini-missiles at Amazo from launchers that appear on the shoulders and chest of his (regular-sized) armor.
- Red Is Heroic: He's a red-armored superhero.
- The Voiceless: He never speaks in the show.
- Carter swims with a tiger shark to remove a license plate stuck in its mouth. In a meta sense, it's also a good scene showing not all sharks are inherently dangerous.
- Carter captures a mako for the testing and avoids being eaten by using his curb tank as a decoy, then tranquilizing it from behind.
- Alternate Character Interpretation: While Susan gets most of the blame for genetically modifying the sharks, Whitlock was also involved, and she never outright says that it was her idea. Whitlock's haughty attitude towards their work doesn't exactly rule out the idea that he may have been behind the enhancements.
Edited by Melinda on Apr 1st 2021 at 6:58:20 AM
- There's a great Lovable Rogue Bait-and-Switch moment when Mitch tells a story about his days as a cop and how his partner hated him and told Internal Affairs that some missing bonds were in Mitch's closet.
Sam: Your partner put them there, huh?Mitch: No, no, I did. I stole the damn things.
- Alice Ramsbottom from the short story "Ruthless," due to helping thwart her villainous parents in a Guile Hero fashion while still loving them and gracefully accepting she isn't going to have a Childhood Friend Romance with Prince Michael.
Edited by Melinda on Apr 1st 2021 at 7:00:02 AM

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