Trope Thread

>villain somehow transforms or augments a character into something they think will be a hindrance
>the character isn't bothered in the least
Bonus
they still beat the villain

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>Kid/Young person has been raised and forced into acting as a weapon
>One of the character befriends them and helps them
>At the highest point of tension said character gently talks them out of committing some destructive act

>bonus if the character who reaches out isn't someone who you'd expect to do so

>Hero destroys a bridge while a troop of evil henchmen are crossing it
>They fall from a potentially fatal height
>Cut to a shot of them falling in a conveniently placed body of water and surviving

I blame that episode for my transformation fetish

>water under a bridge
>conveniently placed

>hero's father/brother/sister/insert relative here was killed/humiliated/whatever by the villain
>hero is super butthurt about it
>villain doesn't even remember doing it because he does that kind of shit all the time.

"For you, the day Bison visited your pathetic little village was the most important day of your life." "But for me...it was Tuesday." Love that shit, can't get enough of it.

water is still deadly tho

>the hero' allies wear down villain
>the hero deals the finishing blow.

>protagonist is losing
>suddenly remembers his friends
>starts winning for no reason other than really wanting to

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>Character needs to get something out of another character.
>They put on a ridiculous disguise and talk in a hokey foreign accent.

>new cartoon makes fun of old cartoon episode

>Protagonist and main villain become allies because suddenly a bigger villain joins in

>MC beats reoccurring villain
>for no reason at all villain says "whatever you'll just throw me in jail and i'll come back!'
>MC suddenly decides to murder villain for no reason

>character says they will never do X
>smash cut to them doing X
>"I can't believe I'm X"

every time

>Two superheros meet and have a massive time wasting fight because of a misunderstanding and because neither can be bothered explaining themselves.

>And no-one wins or loses the fight.


This is one of the cape-shit tropes I hate the most.

>The strict teacher has their own lives outside of school and is pretty cool.

>Character speaks out saying how he feels trapped in a show and he proceeds to make fun of the writers.
>Second character tells him how stupid he is for thinking such thing.

>other character sees through disguise immediately
>either plays along with it or attempts to tear off the obvious disguise
>it's actually a different person

>added bonus: said person weapon kills person trying to reach out to them at the high tension point

>Kid/Young person has been raised and forced into acting as a weapon
>One of the character befriends them and helps them
>Kid still commits destructive acts and when pressed responds, "that's not how being my friend or anyone's friend works".

>Fat guy/Skinny dude combo
>The fat guy hits hard and fast
>The skinny guy can tank anything

>Hero cannot expect to defeat villain
>Hero gets, or tricks another villain to fight against the other villain
>Awesomeness ensues

>happy-go-lucky nice guy character
>villain pushes him past the breaking point and gets destroyed when he actually seriously fights back

You see if mojo turned himself into everclear, they wouldn't have stood a chance.

>New villain in town
>They're much better than the original villain
>They are scarier, meaner and stronger
>They are smarter and all in all more evil
>Old villain is incredibly burthurt
>New villain defeats his nemesis with ease, something the old villain could never do
>Old villain snaps and beats the shit out of the new villain

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Some of my favorite examples

>the ridiculously OP character is made out of "pure energy"

When has that ever happened? Elseworlds don't count.

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>hero defeats villain, has villain at their mercy, about to finish them off
>some third person pulls the "If you kill them you'll be just as bad as they are" card
>both the hero and villain are confused and agree that the third person is dumb as hell
>even as the hero proceeds to kill the villain

Has this trope ever been done?
>Villain inflicts some kind of transformation on a character
>Implied corruption/manipulation has been done
>Said character defects to villains side
>Has to confront the heroes later
>They all think he/she has been brainwashed and attempt to 'rescue them'
However
>Defeat villain, turns out they were only partial in the characters defection
>They don't come back
>Turns out to be something really personal or they turned because reasons
>Is fucking pissed that their friends thought they needed to be 'saved' or some patronizing horseshit
>Goes full fledge bad after out of sheer spite

There's plenty examples, but they're all Cred Forums shit.

I'm not sure if it has ever happened, I'm just saying it would be a nice bonus

It's overemotional, crawling in my skin-tier hogwash designed for bad shows. So I doubt anyone has ever done it properly.

>Hero and villain must work together
>they actually make an amazing team and work together flawlessly

>even while kicking everyone's ass, dominator still loses

Not if done right. There can be natural character development where differences over POV, morality and ethics exist. You sound like you just subscribe to some juvenile boyscout code where superheros are always right as long as they're the one punching the 'bad guys'.

>Hero and rival in the middle of an argument/fight
>something interrupts them
>they both turn around and shitstomp the source of the interruption

I had an idea for a trope.
It's kind of like a 'reverse' One-Punch Man
>Villain emerges
>The most powerful and threatening one the world has ever known
>All the heroes quickly hear about and learn of them
>Everyones gunning for their head
>How will the world deal with said Villain?
>Go to their perspective
>Turns out they're just like a random ordinary person
>Probably pretty powerful too, but it's all a dumb misunderstanding
>The infamy is already set
>Nothing will convince people otherwise
>occasionally bumping into over-zealous heroes, beating easily
>They just have to shrug and go about their boring life with people believing them to be the ultimate big bad

I would love to read a Batman/Joker story like this.

>You sound like you just subscribe to some juvenile boyscout code where superheros are always right as long as they're the one punching the 'bad guys'.
Oh DO grow up edgelord.

>If my morality isn't black or white I'm an edgelord
Okay?
Is there a reverse term for an edgelord? Because you would be that

>Is there a reverse term for an edgelord?

A sensible person.

>The polar opposite of extremism is normality
Wow you really do think in black and white huh kid.

have you ever watched Batman: Brave and the Bold?
You should watch the episodes Deep Cover for Batman! and Game Over for Owlman!

Ar those tropes really related?

>"Who are you!?"
>"Since you've asked nicely I'll give you a hint; you killed my father."
>"...Do you know how little that narrows down the list!"

I loved that scene in Batman Beyond. It was such a nice fuck you.

If they choose to do bad out of spite then that kind of lands them in the bad person category.

>Scary episode
>Monster isn't real

>Character is a jerk or morally ambiguous but has been painted with some sympathetic strokes
>"Aw, maybe he's just misguid-"
>Character commits a truly reprehensible act

>scary episode
>everyone afraid of a monster
>turns out it wasn't a monster after all
>stinger shows the monster was real all along

Examples?

The closest example I can think of is in Megas XLR when someone thinks Coop is a villain.

Watching too much Naruto there bud

Blight was one of the few good things to come out of BB.

>Party needs to get into an area/trick the enemy
>For some reason this requires crossdressing

First thing that came to mind was the Colossus scene at the end of Deadpool considering it was made specifically to make fun of this trope, but that isn't CO so i guess it doesn't count.

>Joke character get serious, he's actually powerful and terrifying

>subsequently half the art of the character is crossdressing pron

>Joker and Batman in the bat-movile
>Owlman call them in the communicator
>Joker: We don't make deals with criminal scum. .

I actually love this trope when it's done correctly. Sadly it's almost never done correctly. They always make the character turn back into a punching bag, or they pretend it never happened.

any examples on when it's done correctly?

Not the same user, but when Iroh scapes from the fire nation prison counts?

>All those soldiers in the ground, screaming at Zuko that he was like a one man army

>Sidekick steps up when main character fails

ah, that's a good one

that scene in Jojo when the guy turns Jotaro into a child and Jotaro just beats his ass in a second

>Sidekick overshadows main heroine in series finale

Shaolin Showdown

>protagonist and villain trade places either because bodyswap or because of some other stupid reason
>villain is a better protagonist than the hero was, or the hero is a better antagonist than the villain was

That's such a great trope.

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>Implying Omi deserved to be leader

The entire point of the finale was that Omi wasn't ready for that responsibility. Everyone except Omi became leader in the three different timelines he created, whilst Rai was the one who saved the day when he stepped up to try and be the leader.

He cared too much about being the hero, not just doing good.

>protagonists see some random guy, and for some reason think he's a new super powerful villain
>hes just some guy
>the protagonists attempts to spy on and thwart his "plans" are indirectly thwarted constantly by this random guy, who is just going about his daily life
>after a while they all realize he is just a normal guy and that they were being paranoid
>it turns out he was a villain all along

i don't give a shit

There was Rhinox/Tankor in Beast Machines...but it didn't make any sense due to a mixup with the writing intentions for his characters.

I didn't imply that at all.

God bless you Vegito.

>then the brainghost of peter parker comes back and guilt trips doc ock into killing himself
man fuck superior spider man
that shit was so disappointing

>Nice girl turns mean for an episode

>It's a misunderstanding that could've been resolved if the second party had just taken the time to fucking listen.

>Korra season one finale
>Lots of planes getting shot down
>Every single time, we see the pilot bail and open a parachute in the background
>End of episode
>SUDDENLY, MURDER-SUICIDE
This still surprises me.

>character tells a joke
>instant cutaway

>Good-natured character is turned evil
>They're incredibly dangerous and effective as villains
>everyone has to team up to bring them back to normal

>Bonus if they keep some of their original personality quirks when evil

>rumors of a monster lurking in the woods
>monster attacks people
>heroes defeat monster
>monster turns out to be a guy in a costume
>"Looks like all your rumors were fake. Good thing no monster really exists"
>Everyone walks away and the real monster is seen in the background before cutting to credits

>Happy-go-lucky character is revealed to be depressed and only pretending to be optimistic
Way to make me sad every time the character's on screen.

>Heroes clash with some other figure over some disagreement
>The other guy has some very reasonable points but the heroes brush it off because they don't like them.
>It turns out they were right and the other character was evil after all!

>Never actually address the different points in the argument; they beat the badguy so they win.

>Worse if the the heroes argument is actually complete bullshit.

>Character turned villain
>Villain does something not bad
>Hero misunderstands and attacks
>Villain fights back
>"I knew you were up to no good!"

>The monster is in the lake and it's the loch-ness monster or some ripoff.

>Characters going over heist plan
>We see it happening while they describe the plan
I hate this, because you can never tell until it's over whether your seeing the heist actually being played out, or just the hypothetical situation where it all works perfectly.

>Main character puts on a shitty disguise
>Someone confronts him about it
>Turns out that wasn't actually the main character in a shitty disguise, just some guy who looks like him

I love
>Old house
>there suppose to be a ghost in the house according to urban legend
>Some nice guy lives in there and help the MC
>At the end of the episode is reveal that the nice guy was a ghost

>I killed my father too, and you don't hear me whining about it

>Some crime happens
>Heroes turn to the reoccurring villain and obvious suspect
>"Not me this time"

>Bonus if the villain is participating in some harmless activity that the hero just ruined and now has to apologise for.

They bring him back for a couple of minutes in season 4 and he almost beats Kim in hand to hand combat

>Main cast is five to six characters
>Only one girl.

>The cast is three girls and two guys
>It's fantastic

>villain pulls evil plan
>Almost fucking works
>One super situational thing causes it not to work, that wouldn't ever happen again
>They don't ever do this plan again

Would have fucking worked if you did it again, and a miracle didn't cause you to lose.

I did not remember that episode.

>the girl is better than the guys at everything else
>she is constantly reminding them and the guys don't do shit about it

Wasted opportunity, I was really hoping he'd use it on Joseph just enough to restore his youth and get the living fuck rused out of him. Instead we get this.

>Hero refuses to kill a villain
>Bad guy wants to keep fighting and accidentally kills himself, dies anyway
Oof, I hate that one so much.

>Hero doesn't believe in killing
>Has a chance to non-fatally cripple the villain, thus neutralizing the villain forever but not actually killing him
>Still won't do it
God damn it

>Edgy hero with a sketchy past goes in a "Lets you see a world where everything is what you want" type thing
>Hero sees himself being punished/crucified for his misdeeds and achieves catharsis/justice
Fuck, it's like they don't even know how to be Edge right!

Came here to post this.

Holy shit, that trope bothers me immensely, but I understand for the sake of not recycling ideas that it has to be done.

So, King from One punch man?
That has already been done, you fucking imbecile

>Villain has a silly plan that would only work in cartoons
>Still doesn't work

>Hero fights Bad Guy
>Bigger bad guy shows up somewhere down the line and gets super macguffin
>Hero goes after bigger bad cause priorities
>Bigger bad is kicking Hero's ass
>Suddenly prior badguy shows up
>"Enemy of my enemy is my friend they say"

now... I'm a little motivated.

The two guys end up in a love triangle with one of them.

You know that his dementia is all a big ruse. He's faking it at least partially. By the end he gains most of his senses back.

>Villain literally has a device that can permanently turn people into his mindless slaves
>any time an important character is captured he decided not to use it immediately
>he has to either make a robot duplicate of them or hold them hostage to lure other characters or fucking BRAINWASH THEM WHICH IS THE SAME THING AS THE FIRST BUT JUST TEMPORARY SO YOU KNOW LESS EFFECTIVE

Fuckin' shit man

>Girl has stock "female" personality.
>Doesn't do or get involved in anything interesting or funny

>character's birthday is today
>the rest of the cast forgot about it
>they make something up in the span of an hour
>character enters the room
>SURPRISE!
>lights click on
>the room is a complete mess
>cake looks like shit or is nonexistent
>"IT'S A GIRL!" balloon is visible
Hard to put it into exact words, but this is one of my favorites.

didnt this situation happened in op picture

>Hero and Villain have encountered each other so frequently, they start to develop a more casual relationship when not at each other's throats.

Similarly

>Jerkass character briefly gets along with the character they're always antagonizing.

>Hero and villain encounter each other so often, they have a more casual relationship whenever they aren't coming to blows.

Similarly.

>Asshole character gets along with character they're always antagonizing.

yea but in his "retry" he was an idiot and didnt' turn them into dogs.

That doesnt make it conveniently placed.

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>"Hey, don't laugh at him. He's trying really hard".
>They can't help but giggle.

>"IT'S A GIRL!" balloon is visible

I don't care really about the ratio so much as long as the lone girl isn't just "the girl." Make her a fucking character with some semblance of personality. Granted, stories that do this generally don't have surrounding characters all that fleshed out, either.

Two words: Team Rocket.

That's kinda the thing. Youre more likely to get females with actual personalities if there's more than one of them. Otherwise they'll always just be "The Girl"

Happening in real life

Trump

>cast finally gets rid of the jerk character.
>everythings cool for a while
>cast suddenly realises that despite the change for the better, it's not the same
>cast then do things to get their jerk back

>MC never has a wardrobe change throughout the course of the show

But on the other hand...

>MC opens their closet to show that they have several rows of the exact same outfit for each day

>Deadpool isn't Cred Forums

Well duh, they might have tried to bite his ass if he did. Try to keep up with the genius that is Mojo Jojo.

>Character goes to a place to rally a bunch of people in order to perform an impossible task
>Gives an epic speech
>People either run away or keep doing the mundane stuff they were doing

>Sudden acquirement of vast amounts of wealth automatically turns the character into an egotistical asshole who abandons their old friends for new, upper-crust individuals who only show interest in the character because they have tons of cash

this is the worst shit. also,
>all the money is gone by the end of the episode and everything goes back to status quo

It's never brought up again how either rich character is capable of being a huge dick, or jealous characters made other person lose everything.

That's the kind of stuff that ends friendships in real life.

>Character wasn't made for fighting
>Does it anyway even though they aren't as strong as the others
>makes up for lack of strength with skill

I love this trope so much, I know they tried to execute it with pic related, but to date she's only had 1 solo non flashback victory against a Gem.

>Character tries to talk them out of it
>It doesn't work and a fight breaks out

King is not a villain you shitheel! He is the greatest hero ever known!

I hate this one the most. Such lazy writing.

Angel Densetsu sort of comes to mind.

> music number happens
> cut to a scene outside of it revealing the songs only in the characters head

Alternatively
> cuts to a scene where you can hear the music muffled and everyone ignores it

>Character commits a truly reprehensible act
>"Aw, he's just misguided!"

>Villain sings a song about their evil plan in plain sight or earshot
>No one pays attention in the slightest

I don't think I've seen that one but now I want to.

>Hero and Villain have encountered each other so frequently, they start to develop a more casual relationship when not at each other's throats.
Doofenshmirtz and Perry took this to the next level.

>A shy timid bullied character get's an unexpected boost in confidence
>They become a major jerk
>Everyone decided to bring them back to their old bullied selves
They could use a plot like this to explore how excessive aggressive behaviour can be the mark of low self-esteem but no, it's better to be kicked than kick and there is no middle ground.

>Musical number
>It's a real thing that either everyone's been practising for, or they've hired professionals.

>Secondry character is serving the villain under mind-control or under serve duress.
>Good guys know about this and do absolutely nothing about it.
>We're supposed to think of these good guys as genuinely pure-hearted people and not anti-heroes.

>Worse if the heroes where somehow implicit in how the character ended up in that situation.

kevin 11000

>Musical number
>Everyone but one character are singing and dancing.
>That one character asks them about how did they acknowledge the entire performance out of nowhere.

>War-zone
>Hero just calmly walking through
>literally nothing hinders him

To be fair, not a lot of that show has one on one gem fighting. And her one solo victory was against Sugalite which is impressive

I think it happened in Bojack

or something similar atleast

>MC never has a wardrobe change throughout the course of the show because the clothes/accessories they wear have specific sentimental value

>character is part-time hero, part-time regular person
>treats high school, dating, and bullies as a bigger threat than the actual terrorists trying to take over/destroy the world

>asian or half-asian character
>has a portion of her hair dyed purple, blue, or red

>Villain reveals their evil plan
>Hero gets furious
>Not because the plan is evil, but because the hero feels the plan is just sad and the hero would be a way better villain if they chose to

Is it better if the hero realizes he's in a war zone or if he's too oblivious to notice?

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>it's a "new asshole pet that frames everything on other characters" episode

>Background characters that actually react to the MCs.
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>Enemies > Friends > Lovers thing.
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>Heroes burst in the villains chamber, only to find them mildly annoyed.
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>Characters actually questioning the stupid nonsense they get flung into.

Moralfag

>Christmas episode
>Character learns that getting a present from Santa isn't the meaning of Christmas
>gets the present anyway
>"But if you guys didn't give it to me, then who?"
>*Jingling Bells*

Cred Forums's idea of "done right" involves a cute, lighthearted and Comfyâ„¢ action comedy where the joke villain is redeemed through a musical at the end and nothing violent or triggering ever happens.

Cred Forums has a HUGE boner for redemption stories. They identify with the wanton asshole that can be forgiven and rewarded (read: get away consequences-free) if he pinky-promises every time he won't be a meanie anymore.

>Cred Forums's idea of "done right" involves a cute, lighthearted and Comfyâ„¢ action comedy where the joke villain is redeemed through a musical at the end and nothing violent or triggering ever happens.
That sounds fun to me, minus whatever "triggering" is meant to imply. Not everything needs to be like that, but it sounds cool.

SpongeBob did it, but it was vice versa.
Pearl had a "IT'S A BOY!" balloon.

Oh look its bill cipher.

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Not Cred Forums but Kamen Rider Kuuga

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How about
>Villain is so powerful they actually get damn bored
>None of the heroes can challenge them
>They actually decide to groom a Hero to be a proper rival/match and oppose them
Never saw it done outside Megamind sadly.

>Character (Usually a side liner) knows they cannot win against opponent
>Gives it their and all fighting anyway so everyone can get away
>Outmatched, beaten to shit and back, absolutely gonna lose
>Still keeps kicking up til their last breath just to buy those precious seconds

>character gets vast amount of wealth
>actually stays grounded, after an initial spending spree mostly uses the money to buy small luxuries and lives the same life he always does
Man, Steven Universe isn't always good, but this was a nice fucking change.

>Band/Concert scene
>There's a fight going on backstage while the music is being played
>The band's conclusion ends with the conclusion of the fight

Agito's a good example too.

>Big bad has ultimate evil edgy plan
>Hero comes in
>"So hero, you've come to stop my plan out of the goodness of your heart! Pathetic heroism blabblah!!"
>"Evil plain, wait what? Who the fuck are you? Evil plan? Wait- you're that guy that DID THE THING YESTERDAY! I'M GONNA KICK YOUR ASS"
>Proceeds with beatdown over petty run in previously
>Stopping the whole evil gambit isn't factored in the slightest, just happened to run into them earlier
Dine and Dashing is unforgivable

>Villain tries to brainwash and control a hero/rival thinking it'll set them against the main hero
>But stupidly makes them even more powerful
>Said character was going to fight the hero anyway but just used them for free power gimmicks
This is like an uber cliche in shonen by now but when Vegeta first did it, it was pretty fresh.

Yeah I was expecting Greg to be completely poor at the end of Mr. Greg and groaned when they got the bill, cause yeah great they're gonna be poor again after one musical ep.
But they actually avoided it.

I wonder if they'll do this trope after the last season of Bojack with Todd.

>Kamen Rider Wizard
>MC has been fighting a monster that can come back to life stronger each time it's destroyed
>MC decides to go all out for what he considers to be their final match, pulls out a power, yet draining transformation to push him back.
>Monster knows he's going to lose, but laughs it off saying "I'm just going to come back even stronger, what's the point!? "
>MC kicks him into the sun, leaving him trapped in the sun's gravity and in a cycle of constant death and rebirth for all eternity

HxH had the opposite of this happen a lot. Gon goes around helping and fighting various people, but he doesn't really care about fighting evil or righting misdeeds. When other characters call him out on not punishing murders and letting them go, he just shrugs and goes "They helped me earlier" or something because they ran in before and he has no reason to be mad at them. Even when the Bomber, Razor and Hisoka have murdered shitloads of people he leaves them with a wave and a smile.

>Heros are arrogant enough to not take a villain seriously
>Neglect to finish them off, even if they deliver a pretty good beatdown
>Their power is 'Evolution' or advancing powerups
>When the villain pokevolves to their next form they curbstop cocky hero effortlessly

>for all eterenity
More like a million years.

Oh god I hate this shit. Even ironically.

>kid

Edgelord confirmed

>Writer gets tired of having to show the heroes fight worthless grunts in every battle
>Gives the protagonist a power to instantly down every mook on the field to skip right to the good fighting

In some cases, I understand this. If a person is the type of person who thinks money, power and fame will make him happy, getting wealth would probably make them a jerk. But when it's already an authentically nice person it comes off as forced.

I'm having a hard time trying to recall an example of this.

Not all bridges go through water

>character falls of a cliff or slightly crashes against something
>immediately explodes

When did this happen?

Holy shit thats where the m came from

>Character tosses something aside
>It explodes

God I love ATHF

I generally love any realistic parody of performing action movie stunts. Like trying to fire a gun in an air duct and blowing your ears out. Trying to fight on top of a train and the wind ruining your eyes. Knocking people out and realizing how super bad it is for your brain.

So, Archer basically.

I especially love this if there was absolutely nothing explosive in it.

Bonus points for something exploding before it hits the ground somehow.

I'm going to say TTGo

>Live Action clip in a cartoon.

>Introduce new character
>Everyone acts like the character has always been there
I mean, come on. You can't just introduce someone new and pretend they're as well known and liked as Poncey.

>The show does this to justify toys
>They even dedicate a musical number towards how awesome this person is
>A good chunk of initial screen time is them being a dick

I'm pretty sure toys and marketing are responsible for 90% of those new characters and marketers don't care if the characters already have established relationships that are interesting or funny, our graphs show we need a new team member who's into what the kids are these days.

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Isn't that a really bad idea? If he comes back stronger each time, locking them into a near endless cycle of death and rebirth is just going to make them God-like. Especially considering the rate at which they'd die too, it has to be almost instantly after being reborn.

The villain would just become stronger at a factorialized rate. What a bad MC.

>People get turned into their halloween costumes
I have no idea why I like this concept so much.

More examples plz.

Jimmy Neutron had this episode. Carl got turned into a vampire, Sheen a werewolf, and Hugh turned into Frankenstein's Monster.

Humanity can only worry about that in a million years.

And even then, he'll just be defeated by the new Kamen Rider to shill his show.

He's not fully gone but he's definitely pretty far.

You can tell it's not a ruse when he says "Japanese coffee is still the best!"

Mumen rider is the hero we deserve

The Fairly Odd Parents did it too to an even greater number of characters and consequences.

have you read underburbs?
its only available on like 2 sites and a few east coast comic shops but its pretty good.
i think the artist might draw tf porn in his off time though.

>Main villain was the scariest thing in the series
>Hero ia fighting main villain and losing
>suddenly an even stronger villain shows up and one shots the villain

>Craving death but unable to die, Phoenix just stopped thinking

Yeah at some point hes gonna evolve into a cosmic god that cant be harmed. Or just a beibg of pure antimatter. I cant tell which is worse.

Cap Ronald Motherfucker Speirs?
I mean, ok, he jog, but still.

Well he was a Phoenix, so he's going to ascend to a higher level of firebird

>The main villain decides to quit being a villain or take a vacation

>protagonist sees how pointless their life is with out him/her or a more competent villain takes over making life harder worse case is villain had a job or took up a skill that was real beneficial but hero makes them drop everything

Because they usually go above it.

Frienemies the most pure of love.

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>real character comes in wearing an even more ridiculous disguise

>"I'm not doing X!"
>jump cut
>it's the same spot
>"See? I told you. Not doing X!"

>slapstick cartoon with girl
>girl never gets any slapstick aimed towards her
>always dodges it with a look of boredom on her face

As bad as TUFF Puppy was atleast it avoided this.

It happened, Joker and Bats teamed up to solve Penguin's murder pre crisis.

>villian fights weekly a heroe with shitty weapons always get defeated
>also his alterego stalks a person
>finally defeats the heroe
Turns out heroe and the person he stalks is the same person
>existencial crisis

That one scene with Mandy casually walking among all the chaos from that one Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy episode with the abandoned "House of Tomorrow" came to mind.

>extra bonus if the weapon character gets talked down and shows mercy, only for an antagonist to still try and take it a step further and force them into going full weapon on their asses anyway

>Saitama just casually run into Gao.
>He forgets about him the moment he defeats him.

>The power source is actually powered by courage, as opposed to the villanous power source, which is set.
>They actually justify the power up
It's goofy things like this that make me love GGG.

doesn't even have to be a villain, that shit happened to Pinky and the Brain all the time

>herf derf Brain's a villain

it's been shown in canon that Brain wants to take over the world literally to destroy corruption and to give the little guy a chance against big bullies.

>Villian and MC are buddies when "off-duty"

>character insults or attacks a powerful character in order to prove a point or teach some sort of lesson
>powerful character immediately retaliates with full force

TCB, you said you would Storytime Chapter 3 of World of Light today, you said this yesterday and there is no sign of it...Where is it?

maybe Brain is too proud to go for a second round?

>bodyswap episode
>the audience hears the characters voice even in the new body

SU is the only show I know that averted this

Bleach had a good take on this, in my opinion.

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>Good take on this

The motherfucker weaponized it

Gintama did this like twice.

"Yep, been with me the whooole time."

I hate this one because it seems like a lot of the time the shy timid character gets their power forcibly taken away and then apologizes and is forgiven. But nobody ever acknowledges the fact that the character is apparently only nice because of their lack of power, and if they ever got that confidence or power back then they'd go right back to being a jerk.

Genorator rex
>rex insults an evo bunny
>the bunny ubderstands him and immediately attacks him and spends the rest of the episode hunting him down, kicking his ass several times within the episode

Bonus if the outmatched character is visibly terrified

A parody of the trope

I love this

>Slapstick gag where it looks like it's about to hit the girl but it hits the boy instead.
>Tons of slapstick shit is practically magnetized at the boy and none of it hits girl despite standing right next to him.

Isn't that right Mr Poopy Butthole?

Akuma/Ryu.

What was Mojo's plan here again?

if I had to guess he thought they would be useless as dogs

>spongebob christmas
>get to the LALALALALALA scene
>spongebob singing and flailing while the background changes all sorts of colors and christmas patterns
>he bursts through Squidward's door doing this while Squidward is just going about his daily business

this shit cracks me up every year

Didn't the original hero get bored first in Megamind?

Too soon

Why can't elseworlds count? Tropes are tropes regardless of continuity

The Combiner Wars did it recently.
I mean the other guy was Starscream so if you look at it in a meta way, yeah fine.
However if Startscream decided to hold back on his him-ness, Optimus would have come out looking like a flat-out villain.

It is kind of surreal isnt it

>Spectacular Spider-man's opera fight

Gargoyles avoided it.

>Team Evil has known each other for a very long time and have their own internal dynamics with friendships and antagonism

>Villain unlocks extremely powerful monster

>Monster starts fucking shit up for everyone because it has the mentality of a squirrel

Well that's how it was presented, but Minimoose was actually going to be added to the show. before it was shitcanned. The Christmas episode was supposed to be in the season that introduced Minimoose.

zim.wikia.com/wiki/Minimoose

Justice League averted it too.

>One character does something bad
>"Oh, you little scamp."
>MC does something bad
>I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU'D DO SUCH A THING

>Secondary Character quits the group and fucks off forever. Until many episodes later.

The mosasaur was the hero all along. Those sexy ass raptors were just eye candy.

Pic related is my favorite incarnation of this trope.

This is a forgivable trope because it's always funny.

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That practically Falco's whole shtick in Starfox. When he saves your ass at the end of Adventures, that was fucking hype.

Oh yeah I need to see this.

>A sensible person.
This works.

>Moralfag
When taken to the edge, this can apply too.

>Isn't that a really bad idea? If he comes back stronger each time
>Yeah at some point hes gonna evolve into a cosmic god that cant be harmed. Or just a beibg of pure antimatter. I cant tell which is worse.
I would love to see this story. They could call it "Why Superman Doesn't Just Casually Toss Bad Guys Into The Sun." They could have Supergirl be the one to make the error and Supes has to clean it up.

youtube.com/watch?v=QOR6yTNFHFo

The first thing I thought of.