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Robinson Crusoe: Referenced By
- In the Gaston Lagaffe series of strips where Gaston dreams that he and Jeanne are castaways on an island, he compares their situation to Robinson Crusoe's.
- In Uncle Albert's Mysterious Island, we learn that during his world travel, Uncle Albert got stranded on an island, he even says that his predicament is like Robinson Crusoe's.
Amorphous+: Characters (Torchie)
- Playing with Fire: They produce fire.
- Wreathed in Flames: They are engulfed in flames when they appear.
Uncle Albert's Adventures: Trivia
- Accidentally Correct Writing: One of the fictional animals in the games is a yellow ladybug. Yellow ladybugs actually do exist in real life, they don't have connected blue dots, however.
- Acting for Two: In the original French games:
- Lorenzo Pancino voices Tom, Alberto and Kipling.
- Patrice Baudrier voices Uncle Albert (starting from Fabulous Voyage), Chipikan, Gramparius, Magister and Modesto.
- Cross-Dressing Voices: The child narrator is voiced by a Marie Viennot Sanchis, but the official website calls the child Uncle Albert's grandnephew, meaning he's a boy.
- The Other Darrin: In the first game, Uncle Albert is played and voiced by Michel Beaujard. Starting from the next game, he's played by Maurice Lustyk and voiced by Patrice Baudrier.
- No Export for You: Out of all the Uncle Albert medias, only the first three out of the five mainline games were released outside of France.
- Talking to Themself: Chipikan, Gramparius, Magister and Modesto are all voiced by Patrice Baudrier and they all talk to each others.
@ Melinda (page 935)
- Beware the Nice Ones: Jolly storekeeper Paul Davrow offers discounted bullets to the rest of the town the moment he hears there is a killer on the loose, (comma) and also starts smashing snowmen as soon as he witnesses a living snowman commit another murder. He also helps defeat Jack in the climax.
Other Kryptonians
Mama Zed
- Back for the Dead: Her first appearance is about halfway through season one and she only returns, as a Resistance leader, in the season 2 premiere.
- Parental Substitute: She raised Kem, (comma) but is not his mother.
- Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Portrayed sadly, when she leads the Sagitari to the other Resistance leaders (apparently just to save her life) after being captured, despite clearly being upset about it, but they shoot her In the Back anyway.
- But What About the Astronauts?: Referenced indirectly. Krypton has three moons, and while only one is described as having a "completely self-sufficient, fully sustainable colony", that also seems to indicate that the other two moons have colonies more dependent on the planet (or at least they are during the main series). What happens to those moons and their colonists after Krypton is destroyed in the original timeline is unclear, although the two non self-sufficent ones would have been in for a rough time. While the third moon, Wegthor, is destroyed during the course of the series, the chain of events that causes this happens due to history changing, making it unclear what happened to it in the old timeline.
- The Ghost: In Danger in Rhyme, the perpetrator of the crime spree is not present during the denouement where he is identified, is arrested offscreen, and never encounters the narrator beforehand (although he is mentioned by name in one earlier chapter).
- Zim's son disappears while Zim is on a business trip. (period) Zim comes racing back to town to help investigate and, through some quick deductive reasoning, figures out which past enemy of the gang is the vengeance-seeking culprit even after Nick overlooks that person during their brainstorming session.
- Briar Patching: In the first book, Pete tries to torture Damien by making him torture Kat, and Damien mocks him as a coward who is too scared to hurt Kat himself or kill Damien, even though they are standing right on the ledge of a skyscraper (move text) and Damien has a well-known fear of heights. Pete buys it and makes Damien jump off the roof, certain he is subjecting his foe to the cruelest death possible for him. Unfortunately (remove comma) for Pete, Damien has recently developed the power of flight.
- Early in the first book, Kat, (comma) and Damien's mom, (comma) accuse Damien of giving Kat the cold shoulder, (comma) even though Kat has his phone and he has no way of calling her without it.
- Damien finds his mom's old diary and finds the date of his conception, where his mom talks about being unable to believe (superfluous word - cut) who she just had sex with in a bathroom (move text). Excited at the buildup, Damien flips the page and reads "a foil pan and a turkey baster". After a moment of shock, he realizes that his mom tore a few pages out of the diary to hide the identity of her lover, but the sentence jumps to his mother's Thanksgiving dinner preparations (complete with complaining about how her mother hates her cooking), with an unfortunate accidental sentence combination.
- Damien's Two-Timer Date, (comma) in which he acts as both a villain helping Kat rob a store and a hero helping Sarah try to prevent the robbery.
Edited by Clare on Mar 14th 2023 at 9:13:42 AM
Thanks, although spellcheck says cruelest only has one l.
Bodega Clerk
Played By: Jason Cavellier
An employee at a bodega that Ghostface chases the Carpenter sisters into.- Badass Bystander: Upon being confronted with a murderous Ghostface killer, he pulls a gun on the villain and directs the sisters toward the exit.
- Dangerous Key Fumble: A variant, as he is fumbling with his keys to help a third party unlock his back door while he stays to fight, and having his hands busy makes him vulnerable against his opponent.
- No Name Given: One of the victims at the bodega is named Morgan Smith according to an evidence bag, but it is unclear if it is the clerk.
- False Friend: In some books, the villain seems to be close friends with sympathetic characters but are really victimizing for completely unjustified reasons.
- In The Ghost of Raven Hill, Terry Bigge and Elmo "Zim" Zimmer II's late fathers were best friends and Zim and Terry have known each other for decades. Terry loans Zim money to keep his struggling newspaper afloat and acts apologetic about how his own debts and obligations are forcing him to demand prompt repayment of the loan at a hard time for Zim. It's all an act: Terry has been sabotaging the paper to put it in debt, plans to sell it to Zim's hated enemy, and privately mocks Zim for being such a Horrible Judge of Character and borrowing from him in the first place.
- In The Missing Millionaire, miserly hotelier Bruce Piggot seems to have a soft spot for his neighbor, the cheerful and generous plasterer Albie, whom he plays cards with and speculates on lottery numbers with. However, however real their Odd Friendship may have been beforehand, it does not survive their lottery ticket winning $2,000,000 while Albie is laid up in bed. Piggot decides to hide the fact that their ticket won and keep Albie's half of the money for himself. He acts like a caring friend who wants to make sure Albie gets better through rest, when he really just wants to keep Albie in bed until the lottery number stops appearing on the news.
Edited by Melinda on Mar 14th 2023 at 11:18:47 AM
- No-Nonsense Nemesis: In "Metal Gear Rising Part 2," Max0r goes into detail that Jetstream Sam's lack of gimmicks compared to the rest of Desperado is what makes him dangerous.
Max0r: This guy's out here making the rainforest look like a fucking joke, and the best part is there's no bullshit in this fight. No minions, no shields, no Monsoon telling me about Among Us. It's just you, the sunset and the soil.
Page 935 @Blood Red Knight
@Arivne but are the other 2 right?
^ If you decide to split your text among two or more posts, I put all of my corrections in one post. If I do this, as far as I'm concerned the ones I don't correct are fine.
Two of them are rivals who steal the whole show.
Edited by Arivne on Mar 14th 2023 at 8:30:51 AM
Page 935 @Tylerbear 12
...suggesting that he would "smash" the anthro Sheep...
^ "Sheep" is both singular and plural.
Page 935 @Tatermater 12
Adolpho and his pod seek revenge on the world (for pollution and having his species put in captivity) by sinking everything at sea.
^ The parentheses have to be added because if they aren't, you're saying that he was put in captivity by sinking everything at sea.
@Melinda
An employee at a bodega that Ghostface chases the Carpenter sisters into.
Badass Bystander: Upon being confronted by a killer, he pulls a gun on Ghostface...
^ Is Ghostface the "killer"? It's not clear.
A variant, <- comma as he is fumbling with his keys to help...
...according to an evidence back...
^ This is not correct English.
One of the victims...but it is unclear if it is the clerk.
^ A victim (who is a person) is a he, she or they, not an it.
...the villain seems to be close friends with the character they are victimizing for completely unjustified reasons.
^ Is the villain close friends with the character for completely unjustified reasons, or are they victimizing the character for completely unjustified reasons?
^ If it's "close friends", there should be a comma after "victimizing".
...fathers are best friends and they have...It's all an act: <- colon Terry...
...Albie, whom he plays cards and speculates....winning $2,000,000 while...
Edited by Arivne on Mar 14th 2023 at 9:21:53 AM
- Foul Fox: Foxy Foxworth tricks Bugs Bunny into stealing a super laser by pretending to be a British spy. Claudette was also an antagonist in her debut episode where she tried to steal secret plans to help her government as well as in the episode "Superscooter 3000" where she tries to steal a flash drive which contains top secret information from Bugs.
- Ship Tease: Many believe Johnny and Nooshy develop feelings for each other. They also believe the same about Buster and Suki.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Professor Marmalade seems like a nice guy trying to show everyone the positive side to everything, but in reality, he's a sinister, manipulative, arrogant individual.
Edited by Tatermater12 on Mar 14th 2023 at 9:48:40 AM
Thanks to both of you.
@ Krypton
- Adapted Out: Many members of the House of El fail to make it into this continuity.
- In the comics (in some continuities, anyway), Jor-El has an aunt with three sons and uncle with one son, but his father Seg is an only child here.
- Adam and Zod never say anything to indicate that Supergirl or her father exist, as Adam doesn’t list Supergirl as another reason the timeline must be stabilized and Zod tells Seg that he knew his son (singular). However, since Zod is unaware that Cor-Vex is Jor-El, his knowledge of the family may be incomplete.
- In the Silver Age continuity, Jor-El has a twin, Nim-El, who goes on to have a son, Don-El, before both are abducted when Brainianac shrinks Kandor. Here, Jor-El has no twin and if not for the altered timeline, Kandor would have been shrunken before any additional children Seg-El may have were born.
@ Other Kryptonians
Araame
Played By: Kae Alexander
A Sagittarius-turned Rebel. She has a history with Nyssa and answers directly to Ajax-Ur throughout season 2.- Badass Bookworm: She is a former unarmed combat instructor who now finds happiness working as a scientist for the rebellion.
- Chekhov's Gunman: She gets an offhand mention in season 1 as a teacher and lover of Nyssa but appears in person during season 2 as a major character.
- Due to the Dead: She places a sheet over the body of cloned Lyta.
- Mysterious Veil: She sometimes wears a see-through veil over the lower half of her face and trades mysterious glances with Nyssa in her first scene before their shared past is revealed.
- Nice Girl: She is very polite and compassionate and even when she betrays Val-El to help Ajax-air, she is portrayed as a conflicted woman only doing what she thinks is right.
- Undying Loyalty: She looks up to and trusts Jax-Ur and is more hostile to Val-El than Jax herself is after the schism between the two.
@ Planet Of The Apes - Reboot Series: Humanity
- Small Role, Big Impact: He only has one short scene, but Ash sparing his life despite his resistance against the Apes causes Koba to kill Ash, which has large ripple effects on the command Koba holds over the other Apes and how determined Caesar is to fight Koba.
Agent Adam Brewster
Played by Jacob Pitts A DEA agent assigned to help stop the flow of NZT on the open market. He has hidden ties to the Morra organization. Or, more specifically, the Renegade Splinter Faction Sands leads.- Dirty Cop: He is involved in the production of the drug he is supposed to be keeping off the streets and arranges for the murders of several prisoners who oppose his leader and the escape of a dangerous fugitive.
- Fair Cop: He is a handsome, well-dressed federal agent.
Clay Meeks
Played by Jacob Pitts A pharmacist and magician involved in producing NZT.- Affably Evil: He produces a highly addictive drug for morally dubious reasons, but he has a theatrical air and has a fairly friendly chat with Brian, during which he admits that the nickname Brian gave his faction (the Legion of Whom) is Actually Pretty Funny.
- Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: He is a sleazy henchman for the Big Bad, but he has a good relationship with his foster mother.
- Smoke Out: He uses a smoke bomb to vanish without a trace when Brian first confronts him.
Otis
- Karma Houdini: He regularly has his goons kill innocent people, but suffers nothing worse than the loss of a few seemingly expendable enforcers and seeing Miguel get one of his many cars for free.
- Large Ham: His voice is softer than many examples of the trope, but he invokes being a combination of a Smarmy Host and fast-talking used car salesman to boost his publicity stunt.
- May–December Romance: His romantic partner looks ten or fifteen years younger than him.
Edited by Melinda on Mar 15th 2023 at 11:26:23 AM
@Tatermater 12 Ship Tease is not "fans believe the characters are in love", otherwise, that would be a YMMV, not a trope. Ship Tease is "there is In-Universe hints that characters have feeling for each others". Your example, as it is written, is a misuse.
- Unless you want to be shoulder bashed by the Wario fandom, don't praise Super Smash Bros.'s depiction of Wario in front of them, as his Smash portrayal is despised by them due to Smash simplifying him to be little more than a "funny fart man" and having little in common with the strong and greedy Nominal Hero portrayal present in Wario Land and (to a lesser extent) WarioWare.
Trivia.WarioWare:
- I Knew It!: Some have predicted that the full voice acting in Gold would be a one-time ordeal as a way to better distinguish Gold from the other games (given its nature as a Compilation Re-release). Come Get It Together! and these fans would ultimately be correct, as Get It Together! goes right back to the franchise's usual Voice Grunting.
Edited by Tylerbear12 on Mar 15th 2023 at 4:09:02 AM
- Fauxreigner: Foxy Foxworth pretends to be British to fool Bugs Bunny into stealing a secret laser.
- Big "NO!": Bloo has this in the infamous episode "Everyone Knows It's Bendy" when he gets grounded.
- Real After All: In the episode "The Vacation", the creature from Gumball's story attacks the hillbilly man at the end.
Gaston Lagaffe: Character (Gaston)
- Fell Asleep Standing Up: He occasionally falls asleep while standing up.
Amorphous+: Characters (Frostie)
- An Ice Person: When killed, they release a cold aura freezing everything in a radius.
Uncle Albert's Adventures: YMMV
- Heartwarming in Hindsight: In Secret Album, Tom is trapped inside the album with the treasure. In Mysterious Island, we learn about another treasure of Uncle Albert, which turns out to be Tom's egg. So in a sense, Tom himself was part of the treasure all along.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: One of the fictional animal in Uncle Albert's Magical Album (1998) is a yellow ladybug with blue dots connected by lines. Pokémon Sword and Shield (2019) would later introduce Dottler, a Pokémon who looks like a yellow ladybug whose dots turn blue when it uses its powers and which are connected by lines.
- Scrappy Mechanic: The insecto-robot's transformation remote needs to be recharged through a mini-game when it's overused. All it does is making the game artificially longer in an annoying way.
- That One Puzzle: Fabulous Voyage has an infamous puzzle where the player must place three toads on three different spots. Since picking up and placing a toad makes it jump toward a random location, most players place the toads in the middle on the page and pray that they jumps on the right direction. While you can actually control the toads' movements by clicking on them to make them jump on the cursor's opposite direction, the game never tells you this and the page's design has a circle in the middle, reinforcing the idea that you must place the toads in the middle so they can randomly jump where they should.
- Unconventional Learning Experience: Putting an animal on the scanner reveals real life informations about said animal that aren't useful for the games. Given that these games are marketed toward children, it may teach them alot about animal biology.
- Underused Game Mechanic: The insecto-robot has a total of ten forms, but the robot is only useful three times in the whole game. Half of its forms don't even need to be used, but the game still forces you to unlock them all to participate to the trials to unlock the Eye of Shiva.
...episode, <- comma where...government, <- comma as...3000", <- comma where...
Fauxreigner: Foxy Foxworth...
Big "NO!": Bloo has this in the infamous episode "Everyone Knows It's Bendy" when he gets grounded.
^ This is a Zero-Context Example because it says "Bloo has this" ,but it doesn't say what Bloo did that fits the trope (e.g. yelling/screaming the word "No!").
Edited by Arivne on Mar 15th 2023 at 8:18:39 AM
@Melinda
...Jor-El has an aunt with three sons and uncle with one son, but Seg is an only child here.
^ What relation is Seg to Jor-El that would make this a valid example?
However, since Zod is unaware that Cor-Vex is Jor-El...
...during which he admits that the nickname Brian gave his faction...
He regularly kills innocent people, <- comma but suffers nothing worse...
...the Wario fandom...in front of them...despised by them due...be to be little...
Some have predicted that the full voice acting in Gold would be a one-time ordeal as a way to distinguish Gold from the other games and the addition of the studio mode feature.
^ "and the addition of the studio mode feature" doesn't fit with the rest of the sentence. Did you mean to write "games, along with the addition of the studio mode feature."?
@jOSEFdelaville
One of the fictional animals in Uncle Albert's Magical Album (1998)...
All it does is make the game artificially longer in an annoying way.
...middle of the page...they jump in the...jump in the opposite direction of the cursor, the...
...life information about...that isn't useful...them a lot about...
...unlock them all to participate in the trials to unlock the Eye of Shiva.
- Shoot the TV: Big Boss throws a remote control into his T.V. after seeing a news report about the Macaws.
- Eye Scream: In French Foreign Legion vs. Gurkhas, one of the test dummies gets shot in the eye by a MAS-36.
- Basement Dweller: In the episode "Cody's Hot Potion", it's revealed Dr. Finkleshitz lives with his mother.
- Corrupted Character Copy: Of King Arthur. Not only is his name similar to the Once and Future King, but his arc is a dark reflection of Arthurian lore. Like Arther, Arthas claims a magical sword and goes on to be crowned the ruler of a great kingdom with the aide of a wizard, only the blade is the cursed Frostmourne, the kingdom is the Undead Scourge, and the wizard is the Necromancer Kel'Thuzad.
Edited by Avenger09 on Mar 16th 2023 at 2:11:56 PM

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