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openMario Strikers Videogame
From Funny.Mario Strikers I’m not sure which game these moments below come from. Does anyone know? I wasn’t sure where to go to ask this.
- First off, everyone, and we mean EVERYONE takes the game so seriously. So when they’re losing, they’re all freaking out.
- Mario in utter despair
- Luigi getting a twitchy eye
- Peach, as much of a sweetheart as she is, throws a tantrum like a spoiled brat.
- Waluigi mocking the other team.
- Wario saying “I give up” before blowing himself up.
- Bowser setting his own team on fire.
- Wario is a walking example of this.
- Wario's home entrance
in Mario Strikers Charged: He starts off in the same spread-out skydiving pose as most of the other characters, except that he's singing his theme in time with the actual music. But when it comes time for him to switch to a position that would facilitate a "safe" landing, he instead maintains the skydiving pose and slams into the ground gut-first (which also prompts his theme to stop), after which he looks up and glares at the ball.
- While we are on the subject of his theme...
- "Butt smash!"
- Gas Mask, and the opponents' reactions to it
.
Mario: Oh, Wario! *cough*
- Wario's home entrance
- Waluigi has quite a palette.
"Aw, Wario! *cough* Ugh, you're killing me!"
- Waluigi has quite a palette.
- Even Wario himself has a few comments on it: "Excellent vintage," for instance.
- Try using Bowser's Fire Storm on the resulting cloud of gas. This is what happens.
- His frustration when the opponents get a goal. Particularly when he ends up wrestling and beating up the ball... and it blows up in his face.
- "Keep throwing me!"
- Even his Mega Strike is hilarious. He inflates like a balloon and blows the ball at the goal.
- One of his victory animations has the camera on his backside as he laughs while it goes up to his face, giving a thumbs-up and say his name. In slow-motion for some reason.
- Wario doesn't howl in pain if he's electrocuted in the first game. Instead, he screams "OOOOH YEEEESSS!"
- Waluigi's theme.
- "Want the ball? Eh? HERE!". The dancing he does after slamming the ball into his opponent's face is priceless.
- Waluigi´s hilariously silly and childish animations when he loses.
- While most of the characters look cool and controlled during their descent in the home entrances, Waluigi's entrance
has him screaming all the way down.
- Waluigi's crotch chop
. He even has a variation where he starts to do it, only to wag his finger and say "ah, ah, ah!"
- Boo attempting to do Waluigi's crotch chop despite lacking both a crotch and arms long enough to do the motion in the first place, resulting in a rather goofy-looking nod.
- Daisy giving her team the evil eye
after letting the opponent get a goal in. Even funnier is how even Dry Bones is afraid of her.
- Bowser setting his team on fire for letting a goal in. Even funnier is that one of his teammates does the 'Stop, drop and roll' motion to put it out.
- Peach sometimes gets angry at her team for letting a ball in and stomps up and down in a tantrum. While amusing in itself, Birdo's reaction
is just comedy gold.
- Petey Piranha just swaggin' after scoring a goal. And for his visitor entrance.
- Petey eating one of the opposing teammates for scoring a goal while everyone else runs away screaming.
- Petey doing the limbo after scoring. Nevermind where Petey found the random scrap to make said limbo set.
- DK randomly punching the camera over in his exuberance.
- Waluigi does the same thing out of anger when the other team scores, while saying "cheese!"
- Luigi's Airplane Arms.
- Yoshi chasing his tail is both funny and adorable.
- When Diddy Kong scores a goal, he does a little victory dance, then stops and grins sheepishly when he realizes that everyone is watching.
- Dry Bones celebrating a goal by doing the worm. Their head ends up falling off.
- Bowser Jr., when frustrated, goes to kick one of the goalposts, only to stub his toe on it when he tries.
openSelf-Demonstrating Fawful page Videogame
So I've noticed someone had already attempted to create the aforementioned Fawful page sometime ago, though it was removed for being too "vanilla". Considering I have an interest in making a page for him (and I feel he firs all 3 of the criterion), would it be safe to create a new section just for him?
(If this is a dumb question I'm sorry lol)
opencan you add a trope? Videogame
Hi! i noticed something really cool during the video game secret of the mimic, Big Top's chase sequence has a few random paths that can be chosen for the chase. i think this randomness is awesome and want to see it added to the awesome section of the secret of the mimic page if that's cool? I'd do it myself but i don't know how to or if i even can, not to mention i don't know tropes very well so i don't even know what trope to put it under. thank you for your time have a nice day
resolved William Afton's self-demonstrating page Videogame
Long ago I created a self-demonstrating page for everyone's favorite murderous furry. Said page however was deleted because it was argued in the games Afton had too little lines to warrant his own self-demonstrating page.
Now, I argue we can make another one, mostly thanks to the collab between Five Nights at Freddy's and Dead by Daylight, which gives us a good amount of quotes from Willy and a pretty good idea of what his personality is like. Now I know some people will say "But that's not canon", and while it is true that the collab itself isn't canon (at least to FNAF), it doesn't mean the way he behaves in it isn't: remember everything that was put into this collab had to be approved by Scott Cawthon himself, and seeing how William spoke and acted in Pizzeria Simulator and AR (whose quotes are re-used for the collab) I'd say it's pretty clear that's how Scott imagines William's personality to be like (aka an evil theater kid).
resolved Galthran Etruk's Voice Actor Videogame
A while ago the troper Recon Decon listed Lex Lang as the voice actor of Galthran Etruk from Dragon Rage. The problem with this is that all of the voice actors including Lex Lang are of the Unspecified Role Credit variety in the game. I have asked him to provide some sort of evidence to support this claim, but he's provided me with little than a link to a site that requires a membership to see
(I myself can't see it.) and Recon Decon hasn't responded to my messages since the 6th. Can a member to this site check this link and share what evidence is provided to support this claim?
P.S. I have since created a WMG page section dedicated to trying to figure out which voice actor voices which character.
Edited by RonnieR15resolved Monster Strike needs a lot of help. Videogame
Monster Strike needs help for these reasons:
- Lacks tropes: Monster Strike has tons of characters, and thus a lot of tropes. The problem is there's TOO MANY of them. Just for reference, there's over 140 non-copied impossible+ characters (Impossible/Bakuzetsu/Gouzetsu/Reizetsu), assuming 1 trope for each character, that's still 140 tropes, and that's assuming only 1 trope for each characters and JUST these characters.
- Almost no one's contributing: for examples, the only contribution I have seen is from myself. Though this isn't much of a surprise because the game's very obscure outside of Japan, and I don't really see any Japanese tropers.
- Needs a split: Monster Strike is a multi media franchise with anime and video game. The problem is there's only the Video game namespace and not the anime.
- Needs extra namespaces: Currently there's only Tear Jerker, Wild Mass Guessing and Laconic namespaces.
- Monst Dictionary (provides backstory and lore for a good chunk of characters): https://dic.xflag.com/monsterstrike/
- Game official YouTube channel (could provide some Words of God and a few tropes): https://youtube.com/@monsterstrike
- Anime official YouTube channel (provides lore and tropes): https://youtube.com/@monst_animation
- Monster Strike wiki (English names and characters without Monst Dic profile): https://monster-strike-enjp.fandom.com/wiki/Monster_Strike_Wiki
openThe Boba Tea Shop Videogame
There's this game called The Boba Tea Shop which is a horror game where you play as the owner of a boba shop. I tried searching it on tv tropes if there's a page abt it but there wasn't so I was wondering if I could create the page myself if it's okay
openNo Title Videogame
There's a Edit War in inFAMOUS over The Scrappy entry. This is the removed entry in question:
- The Scrappy: The Voice of Survival makes himself very easy to hate. It's hard to feel bad when the First Sons shoot him.
- Trish. She never misses an opportunity to remind Cole that the Raysphere blast was his fault, makes sure to remind him at several times that it's his fault her sister died, and leads you on an infuriatingly annoying Escort Mission atop a bus.
- Zeke is probably even worse. He is a useless, stupid mooch... in addition to being a traitor. He is apparently Cole's best friend but we are never given any real reason to like or even tolerate him.
I remember posting the Trish part of it awhile back when both the In Famous and In Famous 2 pages were fused, and there have been back and forth edits over it recently, with the last edit deleting it completely. I'd like to know if this should stay off the page or if it should return. Although I personally really do hate Trish, there does seem to be a general enough opinion of her that she deserves her Scrappy status (not sure if this is a good enough evidence, but "hate trish infamous" is a search suggestion on Google with the first several links titled along the lines of "I hate Trish" or "Does anyone hate Trish?"). Same with Zeke from the first game and Voice of Survival. Or do they maybe need to be moved under Base Breaker and have their entries fixed?
Edited by AkoSiKuya23openNo Title Videogame
So what's the deal with Minimalist Run? I could understand putting examples on the page itself, but is it really permissible to stick this trope on work pages that don't, in and of themselves, contain the trope? This is basically an elevated form of Troper Tales, in my opinion. "You can do a Minimalist Run in this game by not doing X, Y, or Z." Congratulations, you've just described almost every game ever.
I feel like this should be In Universe Examples Only. Thoughts?
Edited by SolipSchismopenNo Title Videogame
Anyone thinks VideoGame.You Dont Know Jack is going a bit far with being Self-Demonstrating?
openNo Title Videogame
So, I just started a new game page and it happens that there's this Walking Spoiler character that sole appearance is spoiler. I already know how to put a character image on Tvtrope in the character page, but if it's a Walking Spoiler character, I don't know how to mark the character image itself as spoiler. Help, anyone?
openNo Title Videogame
Azure Seas deleted 8.8 from Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, citing that it is a Fan Speak term and not to be used as a Trope. While I kinda agree with the notion that we shouldn't be listing examples for 8.8 due to its content*, policy (and the recent discussion we had here about Example Sectionectomy listed Tropes) appears to allow examples for it. Should it be readded (can't do it myself because I won't have computer access for a bit)?
[/*/] always thought 8.8 was flame-baity due to it boiling down to being Complaining About People Not Liking the Show .
Edited by KarxridaopenNo Title Videogame
Are we allowed to assign Super Power Lottery to anything in Pokemon? I ask because of that ruling awhile back stating no competitive stuff (and some abilities are considered "good" only by a competitive standpoint, mainly Drizzle) but there's no denying that some abilities are flat-out better than the rest.
The ones I thought it would apply to:
- Protean - STAB on everything, can No-Sell certain statuses or types depending on your moves, screws with the AI.
- Magic Guard - Immune to all passive damage, including recoil from the user's moves or from a Life Orb. Can abuse the One Curse Limit if you're inflicted by Poison or Burn since the owner can no longer be put to Sleep or Paralyzed.
- Magic Bounce - Immune to (and bounces back) all non-damaging moves from the opponent unless they have Mold Breaker.
- Drizzle - Mostly rooted in competitive use, but it's the main reason why Kyogre is so Purposefully Overpowered (it can 2HKO the best special wall in the game with a special attack). Supports a ton of Pokemon with a 50% boost to Water attacks, Thunder and Hurricane are always accurate, decreases the damage of Fire attacks by 50%, and turns just about anything with Swift Swim into a Lightning Bruiser since most are Water-types.
- Prankster - Gives all non-damaging attacks +1 priority, meaning you can inflict Burns, Paralysis, use Status Buffs, or heal yourself before your opponent can move each turn.
- Huge/Pure Power - Doubles the owner's attack stat. Anything that has it and is fully evolved has Attack on par with or exceeding most Olympus Mons.
- Poison Heal - Heals the owner by 1/8 of their max HP each turn if they are Poisoned and gives status immunity due to One Curse Limit.
- Parental Bond - Free 50% boost to all damaging attacks, can break Sturdy/Focus Sash and hit targets behind Substitutes (breaking them then hitting again), both hits have a chance to activate a move's secondary effect (essentially doubling the chance like Serene Grace).
openNo Title Videogame
Does Final Boss have any place on character and work pages? I know the Final Boss page itself doesn't list examples, but I frequently see it pop up on other pages, and very often in the form of ZCE's. (Especially on character pages—because, really, what else is there to explain once you mention that the character is the Final Boss of the game?) Bonus Boss and True Final Boss often have the same problem as well, at least on character pages.
Edited by MrL1193openNo Title Videogame
The troper nxrmdkjdlsejm made a Homefront Complete Monster subpage with one example (against cleanup thread policy), that's a group (against cleanup thread policy), without consulting the cleanup thread (self-explanatory) and it's an example that we had previously voted unanimously to cut. Mods might want to tap them on the shoulder since they seem content to ignore the cleanup thread.
EDIT: Nevermind, it looks like the mods got around to that over a year ago and it's just taken us this long to notice the subpage. False alarm.
Edited by Shaokenresolved LongStory's Namespace Videogame
Is it okay to move LongStory's namespace from Video Game to Visual Novel because it is the latter, going by the way it is presented? If so, how do I do it without damaging the page itself?
EDIT: Nevermind, it has already been moved.
Edited by TroperNo9001openNo Title Videogame
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=YMMV.ProfessorLaytonVSAceAttorney
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/ProfessorLaytonVSAceAttorney
Issues involving raging at Layton being a Spotlight-Stealing Squad when his name is in the title of the game.
Example:
"* Dude, Not Funny!: Layton, the Spotlight-Stealing Squad of this game, calling himself a "mere side character" in the German version of the game."
" Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Even thought he's absent for a good part of the game."
Edited by lalalei2001openRequested edit Videogame
On Read Only Memories, Back Stab should probably be changed to In the Back, since Back Stab is only used if it's a game mechanic (and it's an Adventure Game). I don't want to do it myself since I'm considering buying this game and don't want to be spoiled.

I was thinking of adding some of the general advise traders use to Boring, but Practical but I'm not sure if that's allowed since it deals with real world money. Also not entirely sure where it would be put. I'm not sure if video games fit considering Steam itself isn't really a video game.