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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 16th 2023 at 5:37:57 PM

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#23702: Apr 1st 2023 at 12:29:49 PM

  • Exiled from Continuity: Due to Sonic Team's desire to keep the classic and modern incarnations of Sonic separated, classic-era characters, such as Mighty, Ray, Fang, and Homey, amongst others, are forbidden from appearing in the modern era. Likewise, modern-era characters like Blaze, Shadow, and Rouge are not allowed to appear in classic-era material for the same reasons. Bizarrely, the Chaotix are also exiled from appearing in works set around the classic era (despite the trio debuting in the classic-era) due to Sonic Team considering them to be exclusively modern-era characters.

Trivia.Banjo Kazooie Nuts And Bolts:

  • Creator Backlash: While series co-director Gregg Mayles doesn't hate the game, he has admitted in a 2020 retrospective with Xbox: The Official Magazine that it was too much of a radical shift from the Banjo-Kazooie series and that it should have been its own thing instead of being an entry in the franchise. Series composer Grant Kirkhope has expressed similar sentiments on his Twitter account and Game Grumps.

YMMV.Wario Ware

  • Older Than They Think: WarioWare is not the first time Wario has ridden a motorcycle as his main method of transportation, as he also rode a motorcycle in the ending of the Bomberman spin-off Wario Blast.

Edited by Tylerbear12 on Apr 2nd 2023 at 11:32:43 AM

Clare Since: Aug, 2009
#23703: Apr 1st 2023 at 2:21:07 PM

@ Melinda (page 948)

The Last Man on Earth

  • Phil tries to pose as his own recently arrived twin brother to get around being shunned by the community. The deception lasts about fifteen seconds, (comma) and no one buys it for even the smallest fraction of that time.

  • In a Deleted Scene, when Gail and Erica try to make amends with a jealous Carol over their brief relationship with Phil, she half-heartedly apologizes for carving the word “whore” on the side of Gail’s car and expresses no surprise when Gail says that has actually happened to her before.

Jedi Academy Trilogy

  • Death of a Child: Luke meets Gantoris while trying to rescue two children from an earthquake, but finds one of them dead already. Even more tragically, the survivor presumably dies when Daala massacres the community after their move to Dantooine.

  • Hidden Depths:

    • Spear Carrier stormtrooper General Odosk only planned to stay at the base for a year or two to cap off his career before retiring to live with his daughter and grandchildren, but having to stay there for over a decade and go through repetitive and empty training exercises has robbed him of his ability to enjoy imagining a peaceful retirement.

    • The officious Yemm, head of the administrative division, is bored by his duties and tries to mitigate this by organizing clubs like a saabac league or musical groups. He also changes his office every few months so he can have a different view, something which often inconveniences his subordinates (with Yemm making this up to them by keeping Sivron from riding them too hard).

    • Snarky and grumpy artillery engineer Golanda's bitterness is because she was forced to come to the Maw Installation in the first place after being happy at a university think tank, and because the black hole's effect on gravity makes most of the experiments she was brought there to do pointless anyway. She is also the only high-ranking scientist to mingle much with the military personnel, and plays cards with them during her free time.

  • Hyper-Competent Sidekick: In the third book, the commander of the stormtroopers Daala left behind at the Maw Installation is a sidekick to Tol Sivron and the other scientific leaders. He is the only one who actually has any idea how to fly the Death Star prototype, (comma) and often makes reasonable tactical suggestions when the others have no idea what to do.
^ The way you wrote it, this is a Partial-Context Example. You've got the stuff about this guy being competent, but you don't say anything about him being a sidekick, so I changed "serves this role" to "is a sidekick."

The Weaver Option

  • After the Battle of Macragge, one of the rewards Taylor requests is that no more Imperial ships be named Dragonslayer, as her subordinate Dragon resents that name being used by their allies.

Murder She Wrote S 3 E 10 Night Of The Headless Horseman

  • Pursued Protagonist: The first scene shows Dorian saying goodbye to his date and heading home, only to be briefly chased by the perpetrator of a "Scooby-Doo" Hoax who is dressed as the Headless Horseman. After a short chase, Dorian gets away humiliated but unharmed, (comma) and the scene (superfluous word - cut) establishes the enmity between him and the person he suspects of the prank.

The Great Silence

  • Paper Tiger: While the bandit Miguel is a well-meaning tragic victim, he is also a blusterer without much real fight in him. He is introduced shooting the last of some bounty hunters Silence shot it out with, only to be told that the man's injuries would have kept him from hurting Silence anyway. Then, Miguel makes a speech about how miserable hiding in the mountains is and how the bandits are former soldiers who should fight the bounty hunters themselves, but when this gets little supports, he decides to turn himself in rather than fight or stay hiding. And when the men he turns himself in to prepare to kill him, he tries to run rather than fight back.

  • Pursued Protagonist: The drawn-out scene of one of the bandits running through the woods before being lassoed by evil Bounty Hunter Loco and dragged behind his horse is the fourth scene rather than the first, (comma) but otherwise has the atmosphere and plot importance to count. Loco's torture of the man leads to him giving up the location of Pauline's husband, who Loco then kills, causing Pauline to hire Silence to kill Loco, kicking off the rest of the plot.

The Great Silence

  • The warmth between Miguel and his mother when he shows up on her doorstep and is ready to follow her advice to turn himself in, while she has been trying to find him a lawyer. It's a shame that Loco and Charlie ruin it with a lethal Kick the Dog Establishing Character Moment.

    • When Miguel's mother hires Silence to avenge Miguel, rather than just wallowing in anger and hatred, she also makes it clear that she cares about Miguel's friends and hopes that Silence killing the bounty hunters will save them from being murdered as well.

  • Pauline's husband emerging form hiding to face near certain death and save her from Loco. In the English dub, his line about leaving the mountains is changed to him saying he wants to see his wife again, further developing their relationship.

Edited by Clare on Apr 1st 2023 at 10:21:55 AM

Melinda Since: Dec, 2019 Relationship Status: Puppy love
#23704: Apr 1st 2023 at 2:32:29 PM

Thanks

@ Pursued Protagonist

  • Star Wars: Republic: Issue #49 introduces the character of Khaleen Hertz (a Femme Fatale spy in love with her boss, Jedi Quinlab Vos) as she runs through a space station while being chased by Separatist agents. She escapes the grip of a goon who grabs her, leaving a Pineapple Surprise behind for him, and escapes into an Air-Vent Passageway before his boss can arrive.
  • Avengers: The Initiative: Issue #28 begins with C-List Fodder hero Nonstop running across the desert and yelling that she just wants to go home, as she is chased by her former teammates, who are out to (non lethally) enforce the draconian new Resignations Not Accepted policy. They catch her, but in a twist, most of them sympathize with her disillusionment with their tyrannical new overseers and decide to let her go and desert as well.
  • The Asphalt Jungle: In the first scene, Anti-Hero hood Dix briskly walks through the street, hiding when a police car appears, while heading somewhere he can hide his gun before he is inevitably caught and searched.
  • Chuck begins at a party where the eponymous character eventually gets around to talking about his frenemy Bryce Larkin. The next scene shows Bryce running through a government installation to send Chuck an email full of secrets they will change his life. Just after finishing this, Bryce is shot by another (well-meaning but less scrupulous) member of the main cast due to a case of Right Hand Vs Left Hand. However, a later episode reveals Bryce survived.
  • The Dukes of Hazzard may be the only series where the very first scene is a protagonist carrying a vital MacGuffin (although it only figures into that first episode) being chased by … two other protagonists. For added humor, the pursued character is driving a (stolen) police car while his pursuers are in a race car and are just trying to catch up to their friend to get the story behind why he stole first their other car and then the cop car he is driving.
  • The Batman: "The Laughing Bat" begins with a man running through the streets from someone in a Batman costume while pleading that all he did was jaywalk, only to be gassed into a paralytic state. It turns out his pursuer is Joker, who has decided to screw with Batman by dressing up like him and victimizing misdemeanor offenders.
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003): "H.A.T.E." begins with the Turtles leaving the farmhouse for some exercise, only to run into a wounded Cult Defector who is deliriously babbling about a terrorist attack his old group is planning. The Turtles proceed to beat up some armed members of said group when they arrive looking for the wounded man.

Bruce Wayne: Not Super

Bruce Wayne: Not Super is a 2023 comic by Stuart Gibbs (author of Spy School, FunJungle, and Moon Base Alpha). In this world of the DC multiverse, all of the DC heroes and villains (all but a few of whom are Jerkasses regardless of their moral alignment in the main universe) are otherwise ordinary kids with superpowers who go to the same middle school. The sole normal student (as far as anyone knows) is Bruce Wayne, the son of the place's founder, who gets an All the Other Reindeer treatment and aspires to do something special despite his normal-ness, leading to him becoming a middle-school version of Batman (aided by his Only Friend, a younger kid named Dick Grayson andobstructed by a conflicted Alfred) as a young version of the Joker (who tricked his way into the school) begins to embark on a life of crime. The story is Played for Laughs in comparison to normal Batman stories.

Tropes:

  • Absurd Phobia: Here, Dick Grayson picks "Robin" as his alias because he is convinced that robins are scary after one of them pecked him.
  • Adaptational Badass: A young Penguin and Harley Quinn, who are generally Badass Normal characters, attend the school for kids with powers, indicating they have some powers here (although the definition of superpowers is more flexibile here, as Dick Grayson's gymnastic skills are considered a power).
  • Adaptational Heroism: Penguin, Poison Ivy, Harley Queen, Lex Luthor, Brainiac, Killer Croc, Polka-Dot Man and several other comic villains are harmless (although not always benevolent) schoolkids here, although Bruce predicts that some of them will grow up to be evil.
  • Badass Bystander: Alfred finally gets onboard with helping Bruce after witnessing people being attacked by muggers on the street. As he leaves, it is shown that the victims have turned the tables and are beating the muggers up.
  • Big Jerk on Campus: This version of Clark Kent uses his strength and speed to be a football star and pummel rival teams. He is also merciless to token normal kid Bruce during dodgeball, cheats on tests, and likes to use his x-ray vision to make Comedic Underwear Exposure announcements.
  • Class Princess: Diana Prince is the most popular girl in school and, while she doesn't go out of her way to befriend Bruce, she is one of the few popular kids never to bully him, is a Cool Big Sis to her sister Donna, and has a couple of Heroic Bystander moments that cause her to consider forming something like the Justice League when she grows up.
  • Failed a Spot Check: As Bruce decides to be a vigilante and makes a long speech about how he will fight injustice, it takes him over a panel to notice Jack Napier trying to rob Donna Prince right behind him.
  • Failure Montage: A montage of Bruce testing the original bat gadgets shows things like him tasering himself or almost being hit by the first batarang coming back at him.
  • Foil: Jack Napier and Bruce are the only normal kids in the school but are contrasted a lot. Bruce got in because his parents built the school and is mocked for having no powers. Jack conned his way in by faking the power to see ghosts. Jack wears bright colors, Bruce wears dark ones. Jack is a bully who wants to commit full-fledged crimes, while Bruce is a bullying victim who wants to fight crime.
  • Gold Digger: Selina Kyle is initially friendly and encouraging to Bruce, but it is heavily impleid she is just interested in hanging out at a big mansion and she bails when she mistakenly thinks Bruce says it is smaller than she thought.
  • The Reveal: The Sequel Hook at the end reveals that the sinister vice-principal, who has his Face Framed in Shadow earlier on, is Hugo Strange, that he knew Jack was conning his way into the school but let him, and wants Jack and Bane to help him do things like rob banks.
  • Running Gag: People keep mistaking the bat costume for other animals like a badger or ferret.
  • This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: Zigzagged. Bruce watches Arthur Curry talk to some fish with his power and calls it a "meh" ability, but Arthur also trounces Bruce in a swimming race due to his hydrokinesis and extra strength.
@ Bruce Wayne Not So Super
  • Older Than They Think: Despite the massive differences in this universe, one (possibly unintentional) character element is truer to the original comics than most subsequent comic, TV, or movie continuities. Dick Grayson is still in elementary school when he becomes Robin, rather than being a teenager like in most versions since the 1960s.

@ Nashville

  • Ensemble Dark Horse:
    • Mr. Green's status as a kindly old man who is one of the characters least affected by the music business craze but still ends up as one of the biggest woobies in the film make him stand out despite his limited role.
    • Albuquerque is mostly on the fringe of the story, but fans enjoy her status as both the most optimistic character in the film and one of the most realistic (she admits her dreams of singing may be "arrogant" and is ready to go back to work if it fails), her Mysterious Past, and her heartfelt rendition of an Award-Bait Song.
  • The Woobie:
    • Mr. Green lost his son in World War II, his wife is ill and eventually dies, and his niece is a party girl who keeps ignoring what he and his wife are going through. Also, his only friend in the film, Kenny, turns out to be an unstable gunman.
    • Barbara Jean's fragile mental state, micromanagement at the hands of her husband, and fate of being shot for no apparent reason make her a character you just want to hug.
    • PFC Kelly seems more eccentric than pitiable for most of the film, but a conversation at the final concert has some hints that he may be a Shell-Shocked Veteran, and after he fails to save Barbara Jean from being shot, the last shots of him show him walking through the crowd, away from the stage, with a broken and downcast look that contrasts with the hopeful music.

@ Proposal thread

  • Checkmate (Anla'Shok): Wolfe is an unstable but brilliant and charismatic District 2 victor who the rebellion selects as a tribute due to correctly believing that he can win the 66th Hunger Games and that his victory will motivate neutral outlier districts to become more resolved in hating the Hunger Games. Wolfe initially agrees to play his part in this plan because it appeals to his ego, but later becomes more committed to "levelling the power field" due to loyalty to his mentor Lyme and anger at being maimed and losing friends in the arena. As a tribute, he is a calculating manipulator and fierce warrior who terrifies Caesar Flickerman with some choice words and an intense stare, but nonetheless fights honorably against people he respects. During the rebellion Wolfe helps to save Lyme and his surrogate brother Bahamut (her first Victor) from a cave-in. After the war, a bored Wolfe hacks into muttation controls to murder dozens of detestable Capitolites, and presents a report on the security weaknesses to the authorities while convincing them to make him a Boxed Crook. He spends the rest of his life chasing down dangerous criminals while being idolized by the next generation.
@ Pursued Protagonist

Edited by Melinda on Apr 2nd 2023 at 7:29:05 AM

JujuP Since: Jul, 2013
#23705: Apr 1st 2023 at 3:50:48 PM

Film.OSS 117 Lost In Rio

  • The Baroness: Carlotta is Fraulein Frieda, Von Zimmel's fiancé and mook, wearing a black short, a black vest and black tights.
  • Dystopia Justifies the Means: During his speech, Von Zimmel describes his vision for the Fifth Reich: more diseases, more intolerence, more conflicts and perpetual warfare.
  • Minidress of Power: As befits the Sixties, Dolores wears one, along with knee-high boots.
  • Take Over the World: Von Zimmel's office contains a map of his planned Fifth Reich where the Western Hemisphery is "Western Germany", Asia is "Eastern Germany", Africa is "Southern Germany", Northern Europe is "Northern Germany" and Germany itself is "Middle Germany."

Correction:

Main.The Theocracy:

  • In Victoria III, countries ruled by the Devout group can become theocracies, giving bonuses to the State religion.

Edited by JujuP on Apr 1st 2023 at 12:51:39 PM

Bubblepig Rei from Tokyo (Apprentice) Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
#23706: Apr 1st 2023 at 5:59:12 PM

Guys, how come no one checked my post from yesterday? Like I think I'm the only one that no one checks.

[down] Sorry my bad.

Edited by Bubblepig on Apr 1st 2023 at 11:19:26 AM

"Now it's starting to feel like a game!"
EmperorGeode from A Galaxy far, far away Since: Oct, 2022 Relationship Status: On the prowl
AsrulGuza A QUINCY Since: Jul, 2022 Relationship Status: All is for my lord
A QUINCY
#23708: Apr 2nd 2023 at 12:18:55 AM

Mobile Suit Gundam 00

  • Unskilled, but Strong: Despite receiving military and piloting training, undergoes some body modification from Innovator to the point she gain prosthetic arm, Louise is still medicore pilot. The body modification only worsen her physic and mental state instead of improving. However, due to her status as financier to A-LAWS and Innovator, Louise easily get permission to own two sets powerful Mobile Suit that only can be used by Ace Pilot. Thus made her equally dangerous like the others.
  • Took a Level in Jerkass: Is a lot more unpleasant in Season Two. Louise hates anyone stopping her desire to destroy Gundam and avenge her family death. To the point she also threaten her ex-boyfriend if he dare to stop her despite he gently persuade her to move on to build a better live in future. Luckily she gets better once Saji and Setsuna freed her from Innovator influences.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: At the end of Season Two, as a good progression of her condition, Louise become her kind-hearted old-self again. Louise shown a great concern about the future and worried if humanity will make same mistake and cause another war again.

BoBoiBoy

  • Badass Cape: BoBoiBoy Rimba's cape resemble with a grasshopper wings. During his battle with Kira'na Voltra, Rimba show is more stable and controllable than BoBoiBoy Tempest in battle.
  • Morph Weapon: Rimba's staff shown able to change into different weapon to enhanced his offensive power such as become a gigantic baseball bat or a wooden gigantic gauntlet.
  • Sanity Slippage: Its very clear that after gaining Voltra Form by stealing Lightning Power from BoBoiBoy, Kira'na's mental health getting worsen due to her stress after losing her father by Retak'ka and begin think everyone who disagree with her is "bad person" who deserve to be killed.

jOSEFdelaville Since: Dec, 2018
#23709: Apr 2nd 2023 at 2:03:35 AM

Lanfeust: YMMV

  • Harsher in Hindsight: In the first "Lanfeust of the Stars" episode, Glace, who by this point appears to be a future ally, makes a small demand to Hébus, to which he jokingly answers "You're in luck. I'm a boy who likes to serve." before doing what she asks. A few episodes later, Hébus gets enchanted and is magically forced to obey all of Glace's order after she ends up being on the antagonists' side.

Amorphous+: Characters (Oozle)

Madness Combat: WMG

2BDamned is at least as evil as The Auditor is.
As the leader of the protagonist, he's fit to be the closest thing to a Big Good the series could have, but the fact that he goes to great lenght to revive Hank all the time, depite him being a sociopath killer, and the fact that he's the leader of a group called the "Status Quo" both imply he's not much of a good person since mindless violence is part of the series' status quo. It's also notable that in "DedmosRebuilt", he sends multiple men to their death to bring back Deimos, one of the three strongest protagonist.

Clare Since: Aug, 2009
#23710: Apr 2nd 2023 at 3:52:16 AM

@ Melinda

Pursued Protagonist

  • Avengers: The Initiative: Issue #28 begins with C-List Fodder hero Nonstop running across the desert and yelling that she just wants to go home, as she is chased by her former teammates, who are out to (non lethally) (remove space before closing parentheses) enforce the draconian new Resignations Not Accepted policy. They catch her, but in a twist, most of them sympathize with her disillusionment with their tyrannical new overseers and decide to let her go and desert as well.

  • The Asphalt Jungle: In the first scene, Anti-Hero hood Dix briskly walks through the street, hiding when a police car appears, while heading somewhere he can hide his gun before he is inevitably caught and searched.

Bruce Wayne Not So Super

Bruce Wayne: No so Super is a 2023 comic by Stuart Gibbs (author of Spy School, FunJungle, and Moon Base Alpha). In this world of the DC multiverse, all of the DC heroes and villains (all but a few of whom are Jerkasses regardless of their moral alignment in the main universe) are otherwise ordinary kids with superpowers who go to the same middle school. The sole normal student (as far as anyone knows) is Bruce Wayne, the son of the place's founder, who gets an All of the Other Reindeer treatment and aspires to do something special despite his normal-ness, leading to him becoming a middle-school version of Batman (aided by his Only Friend, a younger kid named Dick Grayson and obstructed by a conflicted Alfred) as a young version of the Joker (who tricked his way into the school) begins to embark on a life of crime. The story is Played for Laughs in comparison to normal Batman stories.

Tropes:

  • Absurd Phobia: Here, Dick Grayson picks "Robin" as his alias because he is convinced that robins are scary after one of them pecked him. (remove comma)

  • Badass Bystander: Alfred finally gets onboard with helping Bruce after witnessing people being attacked by muggers on the street. As he leaves, it is shown that the victims have turned the tables and are beating the muggers up.

  • Big Jerk on Campus: This version of Clark Kent uses his strength and speed to be a football star and pummel rival teams. He is also merciless to token normal kid Bruce during dodgeball, cheats on tests, and likes to use his (repeated word - cut) x-ray vision to make Comedic Underwear Exposure announcements.

  • Class Princess: Diana Prince is the most popular girl in school and, while she doesn't go out of her way to befriend Bruce, she is one of the few popular kids never to bully him, is a Cool Big Sis to her sister Donna, and has a couple of Heroic Bystander moments that cause her to consider forming something like the Justice League when she grows up.

  • Failure Montage: A montage of Bruce testing the original bat gadgets shows things like him tasering himself or almost being hit by the first batarang coming back at him.
^ There's no need to avoid pronouns if there's only one character they could refer to.

  • The Reveal: The Sequel Hook at the end reveals that the sinister vice-principal, who has his Face Framed in Shadow earlier on, is Hugo Strange, (supefluous word - cut) that he knew Jack was conning his way into the school but let him, (comma) and wants Jack and Bane to help him do things like rob banks.

  • Running Gag: People keep mistaking the bat costume for other animals like a badger or ferret.

Bruce Wayne Not So Super

  • Older Than They Think: Despite the massive differences in this universe, one (possibly unintentional) character element is truer to the original comics than most subsequent comic, TV, or movie continuities. Dick Grayson is still in elementary school when he becomes Robin, rather than being a teenager like in most versions since the 1960s.

Nashville

  • The Woobie:

    • Barbara Jean's fragile mental state, micromanagement at the hands of her husband, and fate of being shot for no apparent reason make her a character you just want to hug.

Proposal thread

  • Checkmate (Anla'Shok): Wolfe is an unstable but brilliant and charismatic District 2 victor who the rebellion selects as a tribute due to correctly believing that he can win the 66th Hunger Games and that his victory will motivate neutral outlier districts to become more resolved in hating the Hunger Games. Wolfe initially agrees to play his part in this plan because it appeals to his ego, but later becomes more committed to "levelling the power field" due to loyalty to his mentor Lyme and anger at being maimed and losing friends in the arena. As a tribute, he is a calculating manipulator and fierce warrior who terrifies Caesar Flickerman with some choice words and an intense stare, (comma) but nonetheless fights honorably against people he respects. During the rebellion (remove comma, superfluous word - cut) Wolfe helps to save Lyme and his surrogate brother Bahamut (her first Victor) from a cave-in. After the war, a bored Wolfe hacks into muttation controls to murder dozens of detestable Capitolites, and presents a report on the security weaknesses to the authorities while convincing them to make him a Boxed Crook. He spends the rest of his life chasing down dangerous criminals while being idolized by the next generation.
^ Assuming you're referring to the genetically engineered creatures used as living weapons by the Capitol, the word "muttations" is spelled with a double T in canon.

Edited by Clare on Apr 2nd 2023 at 11:52:49 AM

Clare Since: Aug, 2009
#23711: Apr 2nd 2023 at 4:03:28 AM

@ Bubblepig (page 948)

The Glory

Park Yoen Jin

  • Tearful Smile: In the final episode, while sitting in a prison cell, motionless with tears in her eyes, Yoen-Jin is asked about the weather by an inmate. (period) She quickly puts on an act as a weather forecaster just like she was before, fake smiling while visibly tearing up and nearly sobbing because she lost everything, her job, husband, daughter, mother, and her freedom.

Ten Little Mistresses

  • Changing Clothes Is a Free Action: At Don Valentin's funeral, (comma) Lilith is confronted by the mistresses for murdering him. (period) She pulls down her black dress to reveal a red dress underneath while admitting she's a mastermind.
^ The way you wrote it makes it sound like he was murdered at the funeral.

Edited by Clare on Apr 2nd 2023 at 12:05:09 PM

SpiroSpiro Since: Nov, 2022
#23712: Apr 2nd 2023 at 4:32:27 AM

Public Service Announcement

  • This 1987 anti-AIDS advert, named "Casual Sex Spreads AIDS", starts with scenes of horse racing, and then a couple playing cards. They then holding hands and hug together and kiss, and then a hand reveals a card with a skeleton and texts "AIDS" on it.

Nightmare Fuel / Public Service Announcement

  • This 1987 anti-AIDS advert, named "Casual Sex Spreads AIDS", starts with scenes of horse racing, and then a couple playing cards. They then holding hands and hug together and kiss, and then a hand reveals a card with a skeleton and texts "AIDS" on it, and then the camera sudddenly quickly zooms into the card before fading to the Health Education Bureau logo and the texts "Casual Sex Spreads AIDS" (which appears below the HEB logo).

Edited by SpiroSpiro on Apr 2nd 2023 at 7:35:37 PM

Melinda Since: Dec, 2019 Relationship Status: Puppy love
#23713: Apr 2nd 2023 at 6:42:23 AM

Thanks Clare. I appreciate how much we f my stuff you have been taking lately. @ Growing Pains

  • In "Long Day’s Journey into Night", Carol is befriended by a popular girl named Annie who is a cheerleader and drama club member with a good sense of humor and nice car. She is disappointed to learn Annie first began hanging out with her as an excuse to date Mike, but Annie also has fun with Carol, wants to stay friends with her, and apologizes for her mixed motives.
  • Pom-Pom Girl: Most of the cheerleaders in the show (Annie from, "Long Day’s Journey into Night", the Cute, but Cacophonic girl Mike pursues in the season 3 prom two-parter, two of the girls who compete with Carol for homecoming Queen in season 4, three girls who support Mike when he runs for class President, etc.) are portrayed as energetic and friendly, although some of them also fit the unintelligent cheerleader cliche.

Edited by Melinda on Apr 2nd 2023 at 12:46:04 PM

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#23714: Apr 2nd 2023 at 8:29:23 AM

[up] @Tylerbear 12

..in the ending of the Bomberman spin-off <- no comma Wario Blast.

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#23715: Apr 2nd 2023 at 8:37:22 AM

[up] @Juju P

Carlotta is Fraulein Frieda, Von Zimmel's fiancé and mook, wearing a black short...

^ Did you mean to write "wearing a black shirt" or "wearing black shorts"?

...diseases, more intolerance, more...

Minidress of Power: As befits the Sixties, Dolores wears one, along with knee-high boots.

^ This is a Zero-Context Example because you don't specifically say that Dolores wears a minidress. If you read that page, you'll see that you can't assume that the reader will know what you meant because of the trope's name or description.

Edited by Arivne on Apr 2nd 2023 at 8:38:17 AM

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#23716: Apr 2nd 2023 at 8:57:26 AM

Page 949 @Emperor Geode

The reason I didn't proofread your post earlier is that you posted it while I was in the middle of proofreading other tropers' posts. When I do so, I go right through the posts already on the page to make sure I get all of them. Any time someone jumps in and adds a post after I've started doing so, I may miss it.

After the birth...Coyolxāuhqui attempts to...in retaliation, only to be stopped by...waged eternal war...Huitzilopochtli <- no comma before...means necessary. After...gaining enough power...

...once just a normal...laughed off <- no comma before...into an Apocalypse...on the trail...capturing the last...in the process. With...heroes <- no comma before...

...after the latter is pressed into serving the Heavens...makes a shadow...it to present...offering to help Monkey King’s successor MK...in a bid...traps MK's friends...release them after...MK genuinely cares ...by the Lady...and sent to...in an attempt...helps the heroes ...world <- no comma before...

Edited by Arivne on Apr 2nd 2023 at 9:32:49 AM

EmperorGeode from A Galaxy far, far away Since: Oct, 2022 Relationship Status: On the prowl
#23717: Apr 2nd 2023 at 9:06:12 AM

Thanks Arivne.

And sorry, I didn’t see you are already in profreadin mode when posting.

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#23718: Apr 2nd 2023 at 9:19:55 AM

[up] @Asrul Guza

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^ Who are "the others"?

...anyone interfering with her...her family's death, <- comma to the...also threatens her...he dares to stop her, <- comma despite him trying to gently...in the future...Setsuna free her...

...Two, as a good progression of her condition, Louise becomes her kind-hearted old self again. She shows a...and worries if...make the same mistake and cause another war again.

^ "cause another war" and "again" are redundant. You only need one of them.

Bo Boi Boy Rimba's cape resembles with a grasshopper's wings....Rimba shows he is...

^ Who or what is shown to be more "stable and controllable than Bo Boi Boy Tempest in battle."? Bo Boi Boy Rimba or his cape?

Rimba's staff is shown to be able...different weapons to enhance his ...power by becoming a...a gigantic wooden gauntlet.

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Edited by Arivne on Apr 2nd 2023 at 9:21:32 AM

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#23719: Apr 2nd 2023 at 9:31:14 AM

[up] @jOSEFdelaville

...all of Glace's orders after she ends up being on the antagonists' side.

As the leader of the protagonists, he's...great lengths to...time <- no comma (despite him being a sociopathic killer) and...person, <- comma since...their deaths to...strongest protagonists.

Edited by Arivne on Apr 2nd 2023 at 9:31:58 AM

Arivne Since: Jan, 2001
#23720: Apr 2nd 2023 at 9:43:46 AM

[up] @Spiro Spiro

...racing <- no comma and continues with a...cards. The couple then hold hands, <- comma and hug...and the word "AIDS" on it.

This 1987 anti-AIDS advert <- no comma named "Casual Sex Spreads AIDS" <- no comma starts <see above for changes>

...it. <- period and Then the camera suddenly quickly] zooms ...the words "Casual...

You had a really long sentence, so I split it into two parts.

Tatermater12 Since: Aug, 2018
#23721: Apr 2nd 2023 at 11:20:51 AM

Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie

Adam Ruins Everything

  • Even Evil Has Standards: In the episode "Adam Ruins Games", the devil shopkeeper refuses to take Adam's soul after finding him annoying.

Rio 2

  • Shoot the TV: Big Boss tosses a remote into his television screen after hearing a report about the macaws.

Echidna from Ontario, Canada (Striking Back) Relationship Status: Two-timing
#23722: Apr 2nd 2023 at 11:47:47 AM

  • Kingdom Hearts: Vanitas is a Darkness born faceless who despised his existence, leading him to gain negative energy and become the X-blade. He decides to destroy the Unversed to become even stronger as time goes on. He confronts Van so he can kill them but is saved by his friend Mikey. He goes after Aqua and Van to kill them after their encounter before he leaves them after revealing his face to have Sora. Vanitas freed Randall to gain more negative energy from children to further his goal. He reveals he created the Unversed and sends everyone to various worlds to wreak havoc and send many enemies to them such as heatless before attempting to destroy the universe with the help of Xehanort.

I need help with this one.

Edited by Echidna on Apr 2nd 2023 at 2:48:22 PM

Melinda Since: Dec, 2019 Relationship Status: Puppy love
#23723: Apr 2nd 2023 at 12:52:34 PM

@ Judge Dee

  • Above Good and Evil: The villain of The Haunted Monastery makes a speech about how his various talents place him so high above ordinary people that he is like a force of nature and good and evil have no meaning in relation to him and that it is his right to rape whoever he wants and kill anyone who tries to expose him. The only affect this speech has on Judge Dee is to strengthen his resolve to leave the guy alone in a courtyard with a dangerous bear.
  • Affably Evil: One member of the Big Bad Ensemble in The Chinese Maze Murders is a traitor and murderer who never shows the slightest remorse until reading a message from his late father, who held himself responsible for his son's misdeeds. Nonetheless, he is always quite polite to Judge Dee (even if this is mostly a pragmatic act) and makes a frank, dignified, detailed and voluntary confession once he realizes that Judge Dee has more than enough evidence to execute him.
    Culprit Your honour, when a man has been left no hope in either this world or the next there is no reason why he should not tell the whole truth.
  • Defective Detective: One character in The Haunted Monastery, is the son of an acquaintance of one of the previous murder victims and is doing a half-decent Amateur Sleuth job of looking for suspicious events and dropping hints to test the reactions of his suspect. He is also a heavy drinker who can barely concentrate on explaining his suspicions to Dee as he stares intently at a jug of wine.
  • Hired to Hunt Yourself: An odd variant appears in The Haunted Monastery, where Dee consults one resident of the monastery about a seeming supernatural phenomenon he saw and the man tries to help him make sense of it without either of them realizing that the man Dee is consulting is the one who caused Dee to think he saw a ghost due to moving around in a secret room at night.
  • Not Me This Time: In The Chinese Maze Murders, Judge Dee hears many horrid tales about Small-Town Tyrant Chian: that he has been extorting merchants, kidnapping people for slave labor, burning down the homes of his enemies, files false reports to the Imperial Court, kidnapped a blacksmith's daughter as a concubine, killed an honest magistrate and more. After he arrests Chian, he learns that Chian is guilty of most of these offenses (and a few even worse acts of treason that don't initially come to light). However, he didn't kidnap the blacksmith's daughter (although he did enslave the blacksmith's son and later wrecked the man's shop out of anger at being erroneously accused) or kill the magistrate (that was done by his silent partner without his initial knowledge, and Chian objected to it for pragmatic reasons).
  • Perpetual Frowner: In The Haunted Monastery, the actor and suspected part-time outlaw Mo is an irritable man who always reflects that feeling on his face. A subplot about him is even called "The Case of the Morose Monk" in the appendix.
  • Practically Different Generations: In The Chinese Maze Murders, a dead governor left behind two sons from different marriages, one of whom is forty when the story begins, while the other is twelve. The older son accused his half-brother of being illegitimate, but this is a lie and they are in fact related. The age gap between the sons is actually a plot point. The father realized that his older son had a criminal disposition and would likely be caught and executed or sent to prison one day, so he remarried a younger woman mainly to have another son to continue his line in case his dark predictions about his firstborn son came true. They do.

@ John Wick: Chapter 4

  • Ambiguously Absent Parent: The mothers of Caine and Koji’s daughters are never seen or mentioned.
  • Fanservice Extra: Plenty of young, people wearing clothes that show a lot of skin are seen dancing in the nightclub where John fights Killa.
  • Men of Sherwood: The Continental Osaka hospitality department is made up of fierce fighters who do take some losses while defending the hotel but give as good as they get and have many members who are only knocked unconcious or are last seen retreating toward the end of the fight and may have survived. Their skill and survival rate are especially notable to anyone who contrasts them with the New York Continental guards from the previous film. Save for Charon, that group were all killed in about a minute without inflicting a single kill against their attackers.
  • The Un-Reveal: The Marquis asks Mr. Nobody how he tracked John Wick to Osaka and if there was any trick to it beyond the simple common sense of looking up a known associate of Wick, but never gets an answer.

@ Shoot the Builder

  • Shadows of the Empire The sourcebook short story "Only some of her Kind" shows Xizor purchase the human replica droid Guri and then have her kill the scientist who is primarily (although not solely) responsible for her creation so no one else will have a similar weapon. This effort fails because the scientist was Properly Paranoid enough to make a replica droid of himself and have that droid deliver Guri to Xizor.

@ Obi-Wan Kenobi

  • Older Than They Think: Owen being a Badass Normal who fights a Dark Side user with blasters to protect a yong Luke traces all the way back to the 2005 comic one-shot "Old Wounds" (a Legends era story largely believed to be non-caonon even before the reboot), where he even kills Darth Maul.

Edited by Melinda on Apr 3rd 2023 at 6:58:01 AM

JujuP Since: Jul, 2013
#23724: Apr 2nd 2023 at 1:47:55 PM

Main.Cooking Mechanics:

  • Resident Evil Village: The player can hunt and fish and then use the meat in several recipes raising his skills.

I hope to correct the page Characters.Secret Of Cerulean Sand:

Below are the main characters appearing in this serie.

The main team

    Jane Buxton 
Jane Buxton is a teenage girl who, one day, received a letter containing a mysterious cerulean sand, along with the new-found certitude her brother George was alive.

Always optimistic, she hates violence and love engineering, especially aeronautics, because she thinks flying to the sky would allows her to see her mother, who died while giving her birth.


  • Age Lift: In the novel, she was around 25; in the serie, she was 15.
  • Blue Blood: Is from an aristocratic family.
  • Brainy Brunette: Was smart enough to build flying machines, including one using azurium, and shows a strong interest to the physics needed to do so.
  • Gadgeteer Genius: Is very interested in engineering, had several flying machines built, including ones using azurium, and worked aboard a landship.
  • Lady of Adventure: Jane isn't about to let a few hundred thousand square kilometers of sand stand in the way of finding her brother. So she sets off on a grand adventure across the globe, at 15 years old.
  • Missing Mom: Her mother died while giving her birth, causing her interest in flying machines to find her mother in the sky.
  • Plucky Girl: Despite occasional moments of doubt, for exemple after seeing a massacre by Neo City airships, Jane tries to remain optimistic about her chances of finding her brother George alive. And she's willing to do whatever it takes to reunite with him, even travelling to the Eastern desert.
  • Secret Identity: Jane nearly reveals herself as a member of the Buxton Family, but hastily switches it to being "Stuart" when she introduces herself to Barsac.
  • Wide-Eyed Idealist: She has a very optimistic vision of the world, see only good and positive in technical progress and other human beings and suffers a Heroic BSoD after she discovers flying machines could be used for evil.
  • Wrench Wench: Jane shares her brother's interest in wanting to create flying machines. She's named each of her attempts "Albatross" and numbered them apart for the last one which she names "Silver Wings" and helps the other engineers on the landboat of the Barsac expedition.

    Chambellan 
Chambellan Agenore is the butler of the Buxton family. Kate and he were the sole remaining domestics after the Buxton Bank Robbery caused the family's wealth to collapse.

Very attached to Lord Buxton, he saw grow his children. He's fond of fishing and preciously holds the fishing rod Lord Buxton gifted him.


  • Adaptational Nationality: He went to be the French nephrew of Jane to being her British butler.
  • Battle Butler: Fought his way through Neo City to protect Jane.
  • Old Retainer: Practically raised the Buxton children, remained in the house along with Kate after the Buxton bank failed and followed Jane through the Levant.
  • Private Tutor: On the boat to the Levant, the butler Chambellan is shown teaching Miss Buxton about Alexander the Great's conquests.
  • Quintessential British Gentleman: Fights to keep the proper standards of behaviour and clothing of a British gentleman, which puts him at offs with Sabri.
  • Spell My Name With AS: Another version of his name is Agenor de Saint-Berain, which is his name in the original novel The Barsac Mission.
  • Unrelated in the Adaptation: In the original novel, he was Jane's nephrew from her father's later marriage.

    Sabri 
Sabri was a young orphan initially found by the duo after he stole Chambellan's moneybag with his band of street children. He's soon recruited as Native Guide by Jane, and saves her and Chambellan from desert robbers.

He mManaged to befriend Jane but had a tense relationship with Chambellan, although it softened later when they learnt to know each other.

Later, he met Sasha and promised her he would bring her parents back.


  • Artful Dodger: Thrived in the streets until meeting Jane.
  • A Father to His Men: Accepted to follow Jane as a guide only after his fellow orphans came to told him they found themselves positions in various shops and workshops.
  • Recruited from the Gutter: Jane recruits him as a guide to the town where George is allegedly buried after he pickpocked her purse from her.
  • Street Urchin: Lived in the streets with his band of fellow orphans.

    Comet 
Comet is the dog adopted by Jane after his former mistress rejected him.

He loves sparky objects, which often cause conflicts with humans.


  • All That Glitters: Loves bright objects, which caused Banshee to be accused of theft. In Neo City, he is sent to retrieve the keys of the cell where Chambellan and Sabri were held.
  • Chekhov's Skill: His love for bright objects later made him useeful for retrieving the keys of the cell where Chambellan and Sabri were held in Neo City.

Barsac Expedition

    Christopher Barsac 
Christopher Barsac is the university rector who had heard George Buxton speak about the azurium, and was alone to have believed him.

Years later, he led an expedition to investigate about mysterious diseappearances of native villagers. The secret side of this mission is also to search about George Buxton's whereabouts.


  • Adaptational Badass: In the original novel, Barsac was merely a deputy known for his speeches during the travel. Here, he leads a military mission.
  • Adaptational Job Change: From deputy to the French parliament to British scholar.
  • Badass Bookworm: Himself a scholar, led a expedition abroad across the desert to track down the responsibles of the kidnappings of villagers.
  • The Lost Lenore: His wife and daughter died during a flood in India because the doctors weren't able to reach them. This is the reason why he's so interested in flying machines.

    Marcenay 
Marcenay is the military officer of the Barsac expedition.

A lieutenant, he's very attached to his men.


Hanah Tribe

    Old village chief 
Was the head of the tribe at the beginning, before dying fighting Neo City forces.

    Camille 
Camille is the daughter of the chief, suceeding him after he died from a Neo City attack.
  • The Chief's Daughter: Unusually for this trope, she's a more active version.
  • Fiery Redhead: Had red hairs and succeded to her father as the tribe's chief after he died fighting Neo City.
  • Lady of War: Led her subjects to fight against Neo City.
  • Science Is Bad: Of course, since the only machines she ever saw were the ones used by Neo City. She even attempted to attack the Armadillo until Jane managed to interpose.

    Sacha 
Sasha is an orphan Camille welcomed after her parents were caught by Neo City slavers.

Sabri befirends her and promises her to free her parents.


Buxton family

    Lord Buxton 
Lord Edward Buxton is the leader of the family and a banker, the father of Georges and Jane.

Three years after his first wife Lady Buxton died giving birth to Jane, he remarried to Margaret, the mother of 11-year-old William. Margaret died a few years after.

Years after, he learns his son-in-law William had invested his clients' money in dubious ventures and became angry after him.

The day after, his bank was robbed and he ended up accused of fraud, leaving him ill and bedridden in the process.


  • Honour Before Reason: Refused to let William do some very rentable yet risked investments with his clients' money, feeling it would be a breach of trust.
  • Impoverished Patrician: The robbery of his bank caused his wealth to vanish, leading him to have to dismiss most of his servants from Glenar, apart for Chambellan and Kate.
  • Trauma Conga Line: Lost two wives, then his bank failed, his stepson diseappeared and his son travelled abroad and then was told to have been executed for treason. Lord Buxton sure had had a tough life.

    George Buxton (spoilers) 
George Buxton was an inventor and engineer who made a discovery about a cerulean sand reacting to the moon to make items fly, which he called "azurium." His discovery made him the laughing stock of the assembly, but Barsac ends up attracted to his ideas.

After leading an expedition to find deposits of azurium, a letter was sent at Buxton House to inform them he had been shot for treason.

However, one day, a mysterious letter to Jane changed everything...


    William Buxton (spoilers) 
William Buxton was the son-in-law of Lord Buxton after he married his mother Margaret, when he was eleven.

When be became older, he started to work in the Buxton Bank, until Lord Buxton contested some of the investment choices he did.

The day after, he diseappeared and the bank was robbed...


  • Morally Bankrupt Banker: His father-in-law thought that some of his methods of financial management were dishonest.
  • The Resenter: Resents the Buxton family for his mother's death.
  • Walking Spoiler: A full biography of him would tell everything about the serie.

    Kate 
Kate is an old maid working for the Buxton family.
  • Old Retainer: Much like Chambellan, stayed with the Buxtons when they had to dismiss most of their domestics.

Neo City

    Harry Killer 
Harry Killer is the leader of Neo City.
  • Adaptational Sympathy: Unlike in the original novel, where he's only described as the immoral scion of a large family who died unrepentant from his crimes, here, Harry Killer aka William Buxton is shown as someone who was deeply affected by her mother's remarriage and his entry into a new family, he's shown to deeply love his mother and in the end tries to save Jane's life before dying himself.
  • Bad Boss: In the last episodes, had soldiers die solely to test his superweapon. Even earlier, just before the founding of Neo-City, threw Abbas out of his land yacht to make room.
  • Evil Overlord: As the leader of Neo City, has presided over the enslavement and the plunder of native villagers.
  • Heel–Face Turn: And by the leader, no less! His last actions before dying were to save Jane's life.
  • I Own The City: Neo City is his thing: he created it, made it grow and destroyed it.

    Morilire 
Morilire is The Spymaster of Harry Killer, who followed Jane since England.

As he's kept out of the loop by Harry, he soon wonders why Killer is interested in her.


  • The Spymaster: Led the military forces of the city, tracked down Jane since England before catching her and her followers Sabri and Chambellan near Georges's false grave.

    Professor Kamale 
Professor Kamale is the chief scientist of Neo City, living in ignorance of what really happens.

In reality, he is Georges Buxton, to whom Harry Killer had believe he caused the accidental deaths of the British soldiers who came along him, adding he could redeem himself by helping to create Neo City as a shining exemple of what scientific progress can bring to mankind.


  • The Atoner: Believes he had to atone for an error which caused hundreds to die. However the incident was really wilfully caused by Harry Killer.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: As there's no more room in the lifeboats of the flying aircraft, told Jane to take the last one.

    Jeanne 
Jeanne is the adoptive daughter of Harry Killer.

First having a very rosy vision of Neo City, Jane managed to dispel her illusion about its inner workings.

In the ending, is adopted by Barsac.


Correction:

Film.OSS 117 Lost In Rio

  • The Baroness: Carlotta is Fraulein Frieda, Von Zimmel's fiancé and mook, wearing black shorts, a black vest and black tights.
  • Dystopia Justifies the Means: During his speech, Von Zimmel describes his vision for the Fifth Reich: more diseases, more intolerance, more conflicts and perpetual warfare.
  • Minidress of Power: As befits the Sixties, Dolores wears a minidress, along with knee-high boots.

@Arivne

I wanted to write Carlotta wore black shorts.

Tylerbear12 What you see is what you get, just a guy. from The Green Hills. Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
What you see is what you get, just a guy.
#23725: Apr 2nd 2023 at 5:27:39 PM

Mario Kart Arcade GP

  • Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: Diamond City from WarioWare appears as a course in the original arcade game. However, likely to avoid any potential legal issues (given that they don't have the rights to use the WarioWare IP), there are no direct ties or references to the WarioWare series outside of some of the buildings from that series appearing (which, even then, have been altered to distance themselves from their WarioWare counterparts) and a "blink and you'll miss it" sign promoting Diamond Taxi.

Edited by Tylerbear12 on Apr 3rd 2023 at 12:55:11 PM


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