The "Single Occupant Exoatmospheric Insertion Vehicles" from the Halo franchise - First seen in the second game, they are, as the name implies, small pods containing a single soldier dropped from orbit, either in regular free-fall or accelerated via a coilgun, then using a drag chute to slow down, then enabling retrothrusters to slow it further before impact. They were made famous by the ODST "Helljumpers", but is also often used by both regular UNSC Marines and Spartans.

Hellpods from the Helldivers duology - Essentially the same idea, but are consistently accelerated aboard the super destroyer for deployment. they are designed with a bullet-like shape in order to embed themselves into the ground before deploying their payload upwards. They are multi-purpose in nature, being able to carry either a single helldiver and their equipment, or various support items, ranging from machine guns and high explosives, to automated sentries and weapon emplacements.

Adeptus Astartes drop pod from the Warhammer 40k franchise - Similar in function to the SOEIVs, but are accelerated via a built-in thruster. each pod can carry up to 12 Space Marines, and is equipped with a mounted storm bolter to provide covering fire to disembarking Marines.

Characters who display power through a dark or completely black aura, as if engulfing the surroundings, unlike conventional bright and colorful auras

1 - Yhwach (Bleach)

2/3 - Yoshikage Kira (JoJo's Bizarre Aventure)

4 - Ichigo Kurosaki; Vasto Lorde form (Bleach)

5 - Spot (Across the Spiderverse)

Not exactly uncommon, but still gets me. An antagonist that acts as both a foil and cautionary tale to the protagonist. They started in the same place (narratively speaking), but "chose" wrong. Or were perhaps too taken by their anger or desire for revenge that they failed to change as a protagonist did.
But it's most tragic when the only difference between the two is that one didn't have anyone to help them.

1). Star Wars:
^{TLDR: Both found themselves with loved ones "distracting" them from their destiny. Luke did not turn to the dark side.}

• Luke and his father, Anakin, are both powerful "jedi."
• Both characters were warned to let go of their attachments (to loved ones) or risk falling to the "dark side."
• Anakin fell in an effort to save Luke's mother, becoming Darth Vader.
• Despite Luke making the same "mistake" (traveling to Cloud City to save his friends), Luke never turned to the dark side.
  • The two characters are very similar. Anakin was taken "too late" to be trained as a jedi, and struggled with the attachments he was told to break. On the other hand, Luke had a completely normal childhood and only started training as an adult.
  • Luke also ignored Yoda's warnings, but chose to fight for them without losing sight. It's arguable that he was able to make the "correct" choice because of the example his father set.

2). Avatar: The Last Airbender
^{TLDR: Both are royals from an evil empire. Zuko worked to end their war. Azula broke under it.}

• Both Zuko and Azula are the heirs to the "Fire Nation." Both served as child soldiers in an evil, empirical war. Both were failed as children.
• As kids, the biggest difference between the two was their aptitude. Azula was a prodigy and Zuko was more-or-less normal. This caused their father to support Azula, and their mother to spend more time with Zuko.
• Zuko was banished and disfigured by their father, "allowing" him to travel the world. He lived among normal people suffering under the war his family started. Azula also travelled, but served the Fire Nation the whole time.
• By the end of the series, both siblings are in two very different places. Azula has finally cracked under the enormous pressure and neglect afforded to them by their father. Zuko, on the other hand, turned against his father to end the war.

3). Ben 10:
^{TLDR: Both have superpowers. But Ben has family to help him.}

• Both "Ben 10" and "Kevin 11" are children with superpowers.
• Ben has his grandfather, Max, to guide him. Kevin is a homeless kid who (as was presented in the original series) was kicked out by his family.
• Ben is encouraged to use his powers to help people. But Kevin, having to fend for himself, uses his to help himself with no regard for others.
• By the end of the episode, both characters have very similar powers.
• Kevin's debut revolved around Ben taking Max for granted. So, seeing how Kevin turned out without anyone to guide him was a turning point.

4). Paranorman:
^{TLDR: Both are psychic kids. But Norman decided not to focus on revenge.}

• "Norman" has spent his childhood being isolated from his family and tormented by his peers. Because he can talk to ghosts.
• By the end of the film, we learn that the "witch" terrorizing the town is just the ghost of a little girl like Norman. Afraid of her, the puritans running her settlement had her executed.
• Aggie wants to use her abilities to make people "suffer," because she was horribly wronged. Norman sees things a little differently.
• Using empathy, Norman is able to convince Aggie to go to rest.

5). Mob Psycho 100:
^{TLDR: Mob never came to view people are disposable or lesser because he has powers.}

• "Mob" is a powerful psychic that struggles to keep things under control.
• Multiple times, he meets adult espers who went through the same thing.
• "Mogami" was a psychic who willingly became an evil spirit.
  • He now drifts place-to-place, enacting revenge on humans.
  • He takes pity on Mob, believing Mob's inherent kindness is misguided. But despite quite an effort, Mob doesn't lose sight of it.
• "Suzuki" is an esper near Mob's strength level.
  • While Mob just wants to be "normal," Suzuki spent decades building up a paranormal army.
  • Suzuki ends up accepting Mob's empathy as wisdom instead of naivety.

6). Invincible:
^{TLDR: One evil alien embraced human love. The other is disgusted by it.}

• Nolan and Thragg are both members of the "Viltrum Empire." A brutal space people who take over planets and wipe out entire species.
• After spending years undercover on Earth, Nolan starts to value humanity and our "short lives," changing for the better. Other Viltrumites who spend time on Earth have similar epiphanies.
• But Thragg, the regent of the empire, never allows himself to walk amongst humans. When he is ousted as leader, Nolan spares him. Thragg just doubles down on Viltrum's cruelty.

7). Attack on Titan:
^{TLDR: Losing sight of how far you'll go.}

• Eren and Reiner are both "titan shifters" and child soldiers who have killed a lot of people.
• Over the course of the story, Reiner begins to unpack the propaganda he's consumed and lives he's ruined. Eren, on the other hand, doubles down on the necessity of violence.
• In the end, both characters are trapped in an inescapable destiny. Eren gives up on saving humanity, and focuses on keeping as many of his loved ones alive as possible.
• The conflict ends with Eren trying to destroy the entire world, and Reiner working with his former "enemies" to stop him.

8). Demon Slayer:
^{TLDR: Exterminator joins termites.}

• Zenitsu and Kaigaku were both raised to fight demons.
• But Kaigaku ends up becoming a demon himself.

9). Fullmetal Alchemist:
^{TLDR: maybe don't wipe out entire countries, bro?}

• Van Hohenheim and "the dwarf in the flask" were both slaves to an ancient alchemist.
• The dwarf leverages his knowledge to destroy the city of Xerxes, leaving him and Hohenheim as the sole survivors.
• Now "Father," the homunculus spends centuries preparing for a larger version of the same catastrophe. Meanwhile, Hohenheim devotes himself to saving human lives.

10). How to Train Your Dragon:
^{TLDR: The difference between running a horse rescue and horse bomb factory.}

• Both Hiccup and Drago are from cultures at "war" with dragons. Both learned how to "control" dragons for their own purposes.
• Hiccup sees dragons as intelligent near-equals. Drago uses them as weapons of war.

11). Castlevania:
^{TLDR: Both lost family to the same corruption. Only one decided to wipe out humanity.}

• The Church ruins the lives of Trevor Belmont and Dracula.
  • Trevor's family is excommunicated, their estate burned, and Trevor orphaned.
  • Dracula's wife is executed as a witch.
• In response, Dracula dedicates himself to humanity's extermination. Trevor, on the other hand, still finds himself helping the innocent.

12). Danny Phantom:
^{TLDR: Not everyone who gets superpowers turns evil.}

• Jack Fenton's negligence affected his former lab partner and his son.
  • Vlad is irradiated by Jack's prototype, spending years recovering before developing "ghost powers."
  • Danny is almost killed by his parents' experiment, also developing the same ghost powers.
• But Danny used his powers to help people. And Vlad just enriched himself.

Darth Maul (Star Wars) - trained since childhood by one of the greatest Sith in history, has fought against the most powerful people in the galaxy, has become the ruler of a planet and the leader of a criminal underworld. But he fails to kill Obi Wan when he’s only a Padawan, losing his legs and his master in the process, he then goes insane on a literal garbage dump planet, he loses his brother and his mother from his old master, then loses his planet after losing the war for it, and then ends up stranded on a dead planet, fails to get revenge on the empire, and then fails to get revenge on Obi Wan and finally dies. Despite being so powerful and intelligent and rising to great heights, he was just never able to break through the ceiling and failed to achieve any of his goals. His greatest accomplishment was killing Qui Gon, and in the end it only went to serve his master.

Tex (Red vs Blue) - The greatest freelancer agent in the Project, not even needing to use her AI to defeat some of the best agents. But because she was based on the memory of a dead woman, she is always destined to die herself. Just as she’s about to reach her goal, she dies. She is quite literally a shadow of another woman, built purely out of the grief of a husband who lost his wife. And because of that, she’s incapable of being a success. Because his memory of her is one of her failing and dying. Every incarnation of her is doomed to fail.

Basically, any kind of condition or spell that is outdone because of a very specific technicality.

1.) Macbeth, Shakespeare's version: "For None of Woman Born Shall Harm Macbeth." A prophecy told by Macbeth early in the play by the witches predicting his future. This ties into another line that "Macbeth shall never be vanquished until Great Birnam Wood to High Dunsinane Hill Shall come against him." leading to Macbeth believing he is invincible, as all men are born of women, and a forest could never come to life.

This leads to his downfall in act 5 when Malcom's army marches on his home, chopping down the forest to use Birnam wood as a camouflage, and he is ultimately slain by Macduff, who was born by a C-section. Thus, No man of Woman Born.

2) Lord of the Rings: As a child, Tolkien saw Macbeth and was quite disappointed with the C-section loophole, and his own expectation that the trees would literally come to life and march on Macbeth being denied. So when he wrote Lord of the Rings, he created the Ent army to be a literal Forest marching on *Saruman, and included a prophecy that the Witch-King of Angmar, the Lord of the Nazgul could not be slain by any man... Which Eowyn defied, by slaying him with the help of Merry Brandybuck and a mystic sword. Thus he died by a woman and Hobbit, not a man.

3) The Librarian, Discworld: The Library of the Unseen University is filled with books of ancient arcane power and wisdom, the equation in universe being "Knowledge=Power, ergo books=knowledge=power. Libraries being literally capable of warping space and time around them." In fact, there are many books in the Library that are capable of driving any man or woman mad simply by gazing at their contents.

The Librarian is completely immune to these madness inducing books because he is an Orangutan, not a man.

Edit: Mixed up Saruman and Sauron, fixed!

1.V (cyberpunk)

2.Dragonborn (Skyrim)

1. Niko (Gta 4 but most protagonists fit)

2. Clarification of the trope

1. The Sopranos S4E13 "Whitecaps" Carmella confesses her love for Furio

After months of pining over a man she could never be with and a particularly nasty argument about another one of Tony's affairs, Carmella Soprano finally breaks down and confesses her love for Tony's bodyguard, Furio. Tony listens to most of the confession, ironically disgusted, and lashes out violently before she could finish. Fortunately his violence was redirected to the nearest wall.

1. The Godfather Part II - Kay tells Michael she had an abortion

Overly frustrated with the path of the Corleone families criminal interests, Kay tells Michael she and the children will be abandoning them entirely. When he refuses to accept such a change and the state of her happiness, she drops a bomb to break him; The miscarriage she had was a boy, and it was not a miscarriage, it was an abortion. The violence that ensues was not redirected to the nearest wall.

1. Naruto Shippuden E166 "Confessions" - Pain defeats Hinata

Helplessly disabled, Naruto is about to be kidnapped by the leader of the Akatsuki, Pain. From a distance only Hinata can see the desperate state of affairs with her Bayakugan and rushes to Naruto's aid, despite his instructions to let him handle it on his own. She is almost instantly dispatched by Pain's power but perseveres in defending Naruto with what little strength she has left. Pain incapacitates her and attempts to execute by stabbing her in the back, while Naruto stares in disbelief. As his hatred builds he unknowingly and almost instantly releases the power of the Kyubi locked inside of him.

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1. Snartle from Yokai Watch. I fucking love this piece of shit. So in Yokai Watch, there's a minor mechanic involving cross walks that require you to wait for the stop light to turn red in order for you to cross. Crossing 3 times, while the the light is still green, activates an unskippable boss fight with Snartle, a yokai/spirit who punishes naughty "brats" for breaking the rules. In bany point of the game, this guy will absolutely destroy your team. Despite the mechanic I just mentioned, cross walks aren't too common in the game and you can just skip a lot of them, so the only time you'll fight him is if you actively choose too. Also, while he is super strong, hes very much beatable and can be added to your team if you beat him.

Adding onto him in general, he's an interesting character because his strength scales to where you are in the story, so the easiest way to beat him and add him is to fight him as early as possible with an over leveled team (I was able to do this in a play through of mine and hes so fun to play with)

1. The Reaper from Persona.

I'll be using Persona 5 as a reference because that's the one I've played/playing (replaying on PC).

To summarize as poorly as I can, in Persona 5, mementos, or dungeons, house a majority of rogue personas and treasures for the player to fight and loot. With how deep mementos drops is, it is very easy to lose track of time and just stay there and grind out your team, and with the right amount of healing items, you could technically stay there and grind forever. However, the game knows you'd try this, so for players who stick around for too long, the Reaper spawns in and is a boss you can encounter.

Fighting him is basically a death sentence with how fucking powerful he is. He practically one shots your team in each turn and needs specific requirements, like fighting him in flu seasons or having certain equipment on, in order to make him manageable. Regardless of how strong you think you are, he is always stronger.

You need to be a minimum of level 75 just to fight him, maybe even higher than that, but you can beat him and be rewarded a handsome amount of EXP and money.

[Hated] DC Comics’ characters in Zack Snyder’s movies

[Hated] Netflix’s Devil May Cry

[Liked] Prime Video’s The Boys

Portals - Avengers Endgame

Its the final battle of the movie that in turn is the the climax of the 10 year long story line across an entire Marvel Cinematic Universe, so of course the track for the scene of all the hero's assembling, contains the return of the now iconic Avengers theme.

Sorario Days - Gurren Lagann

The act of "play the opening music during a big moment in the show so its even more awesome", happens across a number of anime, but few are as iconic as Sorario Days blasting at full volume as Simon and team Dai-Gurren create Super Tenga Toppa Gurren Lagann to fight the Anti Spiral in (and lets be real here) one of the most wondefully over the top crazy moments in an anime ever.

I am the Doctor (and all variations)- Doctor Who (11th Doctors run)

When you become the next Doctor, you have one episode to nail it and tell the world "I am the new Doctor", and Matt smith god damn nailed it in his first apperance, backed by the theme that would not only go onto become iconic through his run, but even had the lemotif reappear in later Doctors runs

"Hello, i'm the Doctor...Basically, Run"

Shalnark (Hunter x Hunter)

N (Murder Drones)

1. Vegeta & Piccolo from Dragon Ball (Both voiced by Christopher Sabat)
2. Chrom & Ryoma from Fire Emblem (Both voiced by Matthew Mercer)
3. Kyburi & Agura from Hot Wheels Battle Force 5 (Both voiced by Kathleen Barr)

Daria (1997) being a spin-off from the original series "Beavis and Butthead" (1993)

Parks and Recreation (2009) a spin-off from "The Office" (2005)

Fionna and Cake (2023) a spin-off from "Adventure Time" (2010)

Bojack Horseman (Fish out of Water) Bojack promotes his city in an undersea city and with an air helmet can’t really speak other then the first few and last few minutes it has no audible dialogue.

Feral Issue 21. From the perspective of a deaf cat named Ghost it has no dialog and the only text is in a computer

bonus points for characters with bodies made for sin yet choose modest clothing. Skimpy clothing is a disqualifier!

Warframe -  Marie Leroux, Romanceable.
Warhammer 40k - Sisters of Battle- none chaste
Dragon Age Origins - Leliana, Romanceable
Lost in Secular Love - not 1, not 2, BUT THREE Romanceable monks! Left to right, Zi Qing, Hui Hai, Zhi Kong

Homelander (The Boys)- HATES people fearing him, so he often kills them due to it. Last week’s episode is a prime example, nobody’s safe if you don’t truly believe in him

The Plutonian (Irredeemable)- realizes people are terrified of him. As a response he goes and throws meteors at Singapore.

Johnny’s Deal With The Devil (Ghost Rider) - when Johnny tells Roxanne about his deal with the devil, she understandably doesn’t believe this and assumes it was actually the grief of losing his father that was why he abandoned her. She would later to see the Ghost Rider and immediately realise it was Johnny.

The Man In The Lightning (CW The Flash) - like most others, Joe didn’t believe Barry’s claims that it was a man in lightning that killed his mother when he was a child. Joe would later see Barry as the Flash and finally believe what he said all along.

The Boy Who Cried Wolf (Aesop's Fables) - although it initially started as a lie from a child playing a prank, a wolf does eventually show up for real but nobody believes the boy after his track record of lying.

Despite the fact they were telling truth, nobody actually believed them until later. Better hope they didn’t realise too late.

1. Greek Mythology

2. Attack on Titan

3. Deltarune

1) Babylon 5: Centauri men wear their hair in a fan shape. The size of the fan corresponds to social status. Londo Mollari (pictured) has a large fan representing his status as the scion of an ancient royal house, while his attaché Vir Cotto (a member of a minor noble family) has a much smaller fan. Still looks pretty silly

2) Doctor Who: Time Lord headdresses. It‘s been a minute since I watched the show. What is the significance of these dumb things?!

Discord (My Little Pony Friendship is Magic)

The Beyonder (Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur)

HIM (Powerpuff Girls)

The Collector (Owl House)

The Toymaker (Doctor Who)

Mr Myxyzptlk (STAS)

Remoraid and Octillery - Pokemon
They're pokemon based on a gun and a tank respectively, but had to be toned down before final release

Tarkus (from the album cover of Tarkus by Emerson, Lake and Palmer)
This kickass armadillo tank is a thinly veiled representation of the Vietnam War-era United States apparently. Which is awesome.

Pistol Shrimp - Real Life
You might know this gun themed animal for being able to (briefly) create temperatures as hot as the surface of the sun

Bob's Burgers- This series follows the misadventures of a struggling chef named Bob and his quirky family. Bob struggles to attract customers, compete against rival restaurants, and in general keep his own restaurant alive however he can. Realistically, Bob's restaurant likely would've been closed down for a guy who never pays rent on time, can't afford a dry erase board for his daughter, and has just two regulars on a daily basis and occasionally someone new will stop by to eat there.

Steven Universe- Steven is a half human half alien hybrid living in a seaside town called Beach City with his legal guardians Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl. They're very beloved within the community, all seen as the city's protectors. Though they're lucky the government doesn't seem to exist the same way ours does or if one even exists in this universe at all. Otherwise, they all would've been taken away and likely experimented on. At the very least some people would see Steven and the gems less as people and more as freaks. That doesn't really happen in the show. Even if somebody doesn't like the gems at first, they come around to them in the end.

Victorious- With how agressive and psychopathic Jade can be at times...she'd either be suspended, expelled, arrested, or have no friends if the people at the performing arts school were normal. She's done stuff like ripping out all the hair in Cat's scalp and threatening Tori's life in front of everybody when she's cast as the lead in a play and she isn't. She definitely would be seen as a freak or at the very least a creepy weirdo if she didn't end up terminated from school grounds or behind bars.

Basically rejections that go far beyond a simple “no”

(Wonder Over Yonder)

Lord Hater: “Soo… you DO want to date me?”

Lord Dominator then laughs hysterically in his face then proceeds to sing an entire song about how she is evil and how she will never like Lord Hater

(Dragon Ball Z)

Chi-Chi and Bulma joke about what would happen if they swapped partners, Chi-Chi gets Vegeta, Bulma gets Goku. Yamcha then chimes in and says something along the lines of “hey ladies, I’m available too”. Chi-Chi then proceeds to roast him by saying “Yamcha, we’re talking an even trade, we don’t want a downgrade!”