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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 16th 2023 at 5:37:57 PM
For Role-Ending Misdemeanor Live Action TV Shows:
- Japan's famous quiz show Quiz Hexagon II ended in September 2011 due to the fact that the host of the show, Shinsuke Shimada, was forced to retire after he was revealed to have a connection with the Yakuza.
For Morton's Fork Video Games:
- Kuukiyomi 3: Consider It More and More!!: In the 19th question, the player opens and closes the slide window while the player character and other students are studying at the school and sweat due to broken air conditioners. The problem is: opening the window completely will let the cool air enter the classroom so the students can feel it, but at the same time they'll be disturbed and the teacher's explanation will be overshadowed by a loud announcement by a waste collection truck outside. Close the window, the students can focus on the teacher's explanation, but they'll suffer from the high temperature. The answer? Just open the window when there's no outside sound, but partially close it when the announcement speech bubble from the waste collection truck appears, and make sure the speech bubble size from the waste collection truck is smaller than the teacher's speech bubble.
Edited by Minorica on Apr 27th 2021 at 9:29:19 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..."Michael Katsuro, how are my entries?
"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..."- Old Dog: Muku-Muku from Yasashii Lion adopts Buru-Buru as a young adult and is described as chubby in the book and animated film. Due to the age gap between both species, she becomes an old aged dog by the same Buru-Buru grows up to become an adult lion. She's notably skinnier, slower paced, relaxed, and has wrinkles around her face.
- The Japanese children's book Yasashii Lion (The Gentle Lion) by Takashi Yanase involves a female dog named Muku-Muku adopting a lion cub named Buru-Buru after the death of his parents, while Muku-Muku lost her own puppies moments after birth. She quickly adopts Buru-Buru and raises him to become a kindhearted young lion who acts like a dog. Due to the age gap between both species, by the name Buru-Buru becomes a fully grown lion. Muku-Muku becomes an elderly dog with wrinkles around her face, and noticeably skinnier, and a relaxed and laid back personality.
Edited by brb1006 on Apr 26th 2021 at 11:33:16 AM
Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance - Beorc Allies (Geoffrey)
- Experience Booster: He has the Paragon skill, which doubles his experience gains.
- Weapon Of Choice: The Brave Lance is affiliated with him in the Tellius duology. In Path of Radiance, he wields the Brave Lance in defense of Castle Delbray and the remnant of Crimean knights from Daein forces. And in Radiance Dawn, Elincia relinquish the lance to him as a sign of his loyalty to her as well as the authority to put down the Crimean rebellion.
Reposting from the previous page.
Here are some examples I would appreciate having looked at.
1. Adding context to one of Quartz Christie's commented out ZCEs on Characters.Bodacious Space Pirates:
- Latex Space Suit: In keeping with her high-tech visual motif, Quartz wears a tight, grey and white bodysuit that sparkles in the light. This is Downplayed, however, as the bodysuit also has baggy sleeves, and wide shoulders.
2. A rewrite of a House Goliath trope on Characters.Necromunda:
- Hand Cannon: While it is classed as a Basicnote Weapon in the rules — as it is so large that the majority of Goliaths have to wield it with both hands, despite their size — the background material describes the Goliath's stub cannon as a massively oversized handgun. Firing large calibre solid-shot ammunition, stub cannons can break the arms with their recoil. In-game the massive power of the stub cannon is represented by it having the highest Strength of any Common Basic Weapon, and the Knockback ability.
3. A revision of one of Valkia's tropes on Characters.Warhammer Age Of Sigmar Grand Alliance Chaos:
- The Dreaded: Valkia evokes terror throughout the Mortal Realms, with mere rumours of her presence causing the inhabitants of civilized lands to seek safety. This fear isn’t just because of her own gore-soaked reputation, but because her mere presence can drive the insane followers of the Blood God to even greater acts of slaughter.
4. A revision to one of Imotekh's examples on Characters.Warhammer 40000 Necrons:
- Pride: Imotekh's biggest weakness is an intense, arrogant need to display his superiority to his enemies. The most obvious expression of his prideful nature is his habit of letting defeated foes escape with their lives, so that they can reflect on their inferiority.
From page 449,
x 8 @Minorica
...from the 18th century, who had intentionally killed themselves so they could revive in the present day, reveal the...front of many innocent...The statue instantly hypnotizes everyone who directly sees it...civilians bring it to...who sees it. Fortunately, <- comma only one of them doesn't...
^ "bring that statue to hypnotize" - Bring it where?
Hexagon II is ended...show, <- comma Shinsuke Shimada, <- comma was forced...after he was revealed to have a ...Yakuza organization.
...the player opens and closes the slide window while...and sweat due to broken air conditioners. The problem is: opening the...let the cool air enter the...feel it, but...truck outside. <- period Close...from the high temperature...speech bubble size from the waste collection truck...
Edited by Arivne on Apr 27th 2021 at 4:12:58 AM
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- Newbie Boom: The first two episodes were already very popular, partly because they came out at a time when web animations were still a relatively recent concept, but the creator himself wasn't really popular since his videos tended to be stolen everywere. When he started to make Minecraft crossover videos, the series attracted many young fans who didn't know about the early episodes before the Minecraft crossovers became the norm. This gave a huge popularity boost to Alan's Youtube channel, and his fanbase since the Minecraft episodes is mostly composed of the young new fans rather than fans of the original Animator Vs Animation videos.
- What Could Have Been: The TNT Land episode could have been named The killer rabbit, but Alan allowed his audience to vote for the title they wanted before the episode came out. Had The killer rabbit won, it would have been less of a Spoiler Title.
From page 449 @junseo
The game...Let's think about it. According to...abuse. His father...
^ When you write a sentence, the first word of the sentence is always capitalized. If you can start doing that consistently, you'll be well on your way to writing good English.
Jack eventually joins the police. <- period In 1915, he was called by them to...—-> For men...Usually, <- comma at these ages <- no comma they...
...Jack finds a large pit. According to Jack's comments, it looks ...He is in...he loses consciousness when he sees a huge, <- comma scary, <- comma bizarre creature. When his fellow police officers rescue him, he is out... —-> A person...threaten the brain, do the math.
The schizophrenic typically looks like that. Their speech, ...strange, <- comma and...that other people...
He was diagnosed with severe schizophrenia at Arkham Asylum...
He is changed into a totally different person. <- period He has desires...that are not...and performs strange... The former...some schizophrenics. The latter...too. Both are...
He recovers suddenly. —-> Schizophrenia is...that is not yet been fully understood. These things often happen. Of course, ...That is probably just a big easing. Minor symptoms can persist <- no comma and severe...time. This is...during the entire game. Keep reading.
^ "...is probably just a big easing."
^ This is incorrect English. There isn't enough context for me to figure out what you meant, so I can't correct it.
Schizophrenia tends...and the sense of time. and The same...drugs, <- comma and...memory. and Some schizophrenics don't remember what happens during the psychiatric episodes.
Early signs...than the first...episode. Also, these...as schizophrenic delusions.
His voice is an unnatural flat monotone. His expression ...unnatural. —-> Don't blame...actor. His voice...as a schizophrenic character. The schizophrenic typically have a slow down in speech and emotion.
Jack suffers from severe, <- comma and chronic...
...during the entire game. —-> Just daily life for the schizophrenic. He is...and he is...functionally. Like any ...schizophrenic, <- comma minor...
"It's like...symptoms. Attack of the fishmen? The whole town trying to kill him? Malicious ancient...worse. Again, ...time, <- comma but...
...pop up from somewhere in...game. If...symptoms, if the...real, this deterioration...hormones <- no period (a stress hormone). <- parentheses This exacerbates the symptoms, <- comma so...have a job like Jack's.
In the ending, Jack is institutionalized...
If Jack Walters is a schizophrenic <- no comma too, I can explain what happened to him.
Assuming that...delusions (the deep one and the human, <- comma the...and indicated institutional...women, humans who ...deep ones, <- comma evil...being <- space ('real...throughout the game <- no comma but ...family. Perhaps this...
From page 459
x 7 @mariovsonic999
...their Racial Governance option often revolves around their archers.
...Goblin cities have a higher...Racial Governances allows newly built cities...on the number...
Their Untouchables and Big Beetles have the Tunneling ability...
Bowbreaker raises the unit's avoid by 50, <- comma which makes them difficult to hit.
He has the Paragon skill, which doubles the amount of experience earned.
...Elincia relinquishes the lance...
x 14 @Stardust 120
Akari lost her mother a year ago when she was fifteen years old after her mother sacrificed herself...
...bride and bear the children of calamity and bring the end of humanity.
She gives birth to her first child (named An) <- parentheses and becomes a mother at the age of 16.
Akari has been transported into another world called Abilfia.
@ Frasier
- "You Can't Tell a Crook by his Cover," has two moments.
- First, Martin bets that Frasier's psychiatric skills won't be enough to distinguish which of Martin's three poker buddies is an ex-con. While Frasier repeatedly second-guesses himself and is Entertainingly Wrong with his final selection, it's also notable that his initial theory is spot on. Specifically, he picks up on how one of the poker buddies comments about the amount of space in Frasier's apartments if he's spent time in a confined cell.
- At the end of the episode, Daphne casually beats a bar full of tough guys at a game of pool while talking about how she's never been very good at the game.
@ Living Legend The quote is copied and pasted from the Star Wars wiki.
- The Han Solo Adventures: Gallandro has a very long and well-known list of accomplishments in his gunslinging career. Despite his overall villainous nature, he's actually the Hero of Another Story several times over. That said, Gallandro's fame is largely limited to the Corporate Sector worlds. Han, who spends most of his time in Imperial space, has never heard of Gallandro before their first meeting and thus doesn't realize how dangerous it is to aggravate him.
Badure: Gallandro? Slick, you're talking about the guy who single-handedly hijacked the Quamar Messenger on her maiden run and took over that pirate's nest, Geedon V, all by himself. And he went to the gun against the Malorm family, drawing head bounty on all five of them. And no one has ever beaten the score he rolled up when he was flying a fighter with Marso's Demons. Besides which, he's the only man who ever forced the Assassins' Guild to default on a contract; he personally canceled half of their Elite Circle—one at a time—plus assorted journeymen and apprentices.
Hudorra is both touched and distressed by his staff's willingness to risk their lives for him, and Force persuades them to get out of harm's way.
Sadhett is also able to hold his own pretty well against two other Jedi (neither of them slouches in combat), three tough smugglers, and four casino security guards, killing or injuring several of them.
- I Fight for the Strongest Side!: Sadhett willingly joins Palpatine after witnessing just how powerful of a force user he is.
- Dark Times: The Fire Carrier arc features a refugee camp on the frontier planet of Arkinnea. At irregular intervals, the local militia selects a hundred or so refugees to transport to land that's ready for settlement. What really happens is that the militia (who resent sharing their homeworld with outsiders, many of whom fought against them in the Clone Wars) murder those refugees by opening the bomb bay doors of the titular carrier while hovering hundreds of feet in the air. Both the Imperial officer overseeing the camp and the group of Jedi hiding there are horrified to find out what's going on and make sure the militiamen get their just desserts.
- Signature Scene: The coral atoll battle is a gripping action scene that expertly showcases the skills of both sides and puts the rest of the movie to shame.
- X-Wing Rogue Squadron: Prior to The Phantom Affair storyline, physicist Rorax Falken was consulted by the Empire about constructing artificial moons to benefit underdeveloped planets. He suffered a mental breakdown upon discovering that Emperor Palpatine used his work to help build the Death Star.
- Deep Blue Sea: Susan McAllister and Jim Whitlock are only looking for a cure for dementia when they're forced to genetically enhance man-eating sharks to harvest viable brain tissue from them. Unfortunately, while their security protocols are enough to keep the sharks from easily escaping, they aren't enough to stop the smarter than normal sharks from flooding the research facility and eating people. Unusually for the trope, Susan and Jim aren't driven to genetically enhance the sharks because their employer is evil, but because he's impatient with their experiments and contemplating cutting their funding.
- The Last Days of Krypton: Jor-El is an interesting variant of the trope. He's a genuine Science Hero whose inventions are being used to save Krypton from various cataclysmic disasters. It's just that Zod, the man granting him the resources to carry out those projects, also finds ways to use those same inventions for tyranny and destruction once they've served their original purpose (to Jor-El's distress).
- Hunter Trapper: K'Kruhk is an expert archer and woodsman who uses his skills to hunt game for the group of Younglings under his care after Order 66 when they're living in seclusion. He also uses these skills to subject a group of outlaws to a Mook Horror Show.
- Composite Character: In both the comic and the film, Leonidas is the sole king of Sparta, while historically, he had a co-ruler, Leotychidas, who joined the war effort after The Battle of Thermopylae.
2.2 billion Craftworld Eldar and 880 billion non-Eldar mercenaries also die in the battle.
Edited by Melinda on Apr 28th 2021 at 6:56:46 AM
Thank you Arivne.
"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..."Sebastian: The entry about the stub cannon takes 38 words before you let us know what gun you're talking about. It would be good to replace the pronoun "it" with the name of the gun.
The sentence "Firing large calibre solid-shot ammunition, stub cannons can break the arms with their recoil" implies that there are other kinds of ammo the stub cannon can fire, and that broken arms only happen when they use this particular kind of ammo. A better phrasing would be "Since they fire large caliber solid-shot ammunition, stub cannons can break arms with their recoil."
"This fear isn't just because of her own gore-soaked reputation, but also because her mere presence can drive the insane followers of the Blood God to even greater acts of slaughter than usual."
Everything else is fine.
EDIT: Also, it'd be good if you'd only repost your entries every other page at most, instead of every page.
Edited by MichaelKatsuro on Apr 27th 2021 at 8:23:00 AM
Here's an idea for Trailers Are Trash (Launch Pad)
- Fairly OddParents!: Chester McBadbat and his father, Bucky, lives in Happy Trails Trailer Park. As shown in the episode "The Big Scoop!," Chester washes paper plates in a sink, Bucky sits on a toilet in plain sight and without a bathroom, and they own a possum as a pet. It is likely that Bucky is broke because of his reputation of being the worst baseball player in the world, thus having to wear a paper bag to hide his face. It doesn't help that they live close to AJ's house, which is far more cleaner and richer than their's.
EDIT: Okay, never mind. Someone actually wrote them in the page. Though you are still free to write up on the passage to see if there are errors or not.
Edited by mariovsonic999 on Apr 27th 2021 at 8:37:59 AM
Chester McBadbat and his father, Bucky, lives in Happy Trails Trailer Park. As shown in the episode "The Big Scoop!," Chester washes paper plates in a sink, Bucky sits on a toilet in plain sight and without a bathroom, and they own a possum as a pet. It's likely that Bucky is broke because of his reputation of being the worst baseball player in the world, which also is the reason he wears a paper bag to hide his face. It doesn't help that they live close to AJ's house, which is far more cleaner, and richer than theirs.
An inclusion for Hoist by His Own Petard on Death Battle.
- After Solid Snake electrified Sam Fisher with his stun knife, he delivers the coup de grace with Fisher's own knife.
- In Ultron vs. Sigma, Sigma entered Ultron's mind to infect him with the Sigma Virus. However, Ultron shrugs it the assimilation and hijacks Sigma instead.
Here a a few more examples I would appreciate having looked over.
1. An expansion of a commented out ZCE in Quartz Christie's entry on Characters.Bodacious Space Pirates:
- Invisibility Cloak: Quartz's Latex Space Suit is fitted with advanced stealth technology that allows her to become almost totally invisible. She uses this invisibility to infiltrate the Pirate’s Nest to introduce herself to Marika.
2. A rewrite of a House Goliath example on Characters.Necromunda:
- Improvised Weapon: While many of the weapons wielded by House Goliath gang fighters are industrial tools, all but the most basic of these have been purposefully designed to be used as both weapons and tools. This design philosophy is due to the Goliath’s desire to never be slaves to outsiders ever again, leading them to create weapons such as the 'Krumper' rivet cannon, and the powered wrenches known as spud-jackers, so that they would always have a weapon close at hand.
3. A revision to one of Valkia's examples on Characters.Warhammer Age Of Sigmar Grand Alliance Chaos:
- Face-Design Shield: Valkia has mounted head of Locephax — a Daemon Prince of Slaanesh who insulted her — on her shield. The daemon is still partially alive, and its hypnotic eyes gaze at all who approach Valkia, causing her opponents to hesitate in their attacks.
4. This is a rewrite of an example from Imotekh the Stormlord's section on Characters.Warhammer 40000 Necrons that includes changing the trope from Shock and Awe to something i believe to be more appropriate:
- Weather Manipulation: Imotekh is known as "the Stormlord" because of his ability to manipulate the weather, creating dense storm clouds that rain down lightning upon his enemies. In-game, Imotekh’s Lord of the Storm allows him to unleash this storm on an enemy unit to do a great deal of damage. Older editions also saw this ability reduce battlefield visibility for a limited time.

I Guess I Became The Mother Of The Great Demon King's 10 Children In Another World
Edited by Stardust120 on Apr 26th 2021 at 7:14:45 AM