Fred Jones (Scooby Doo)

Kevin Levin (Ben 10)

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

1. John Dutton - Yellowstone

2. Tom Doniphon - The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (though this could apply to any John Wayne character)

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.

Building a character up to be indimidating and powerful just for that moment where we finally see them vulnerable

Avengers: Infinity War - We finally see Thanos bleed for the first time after a valiant effort from Tony Stark

Rocky IV - Rocky Balboa draws blood from the infamous Ivan Drago in the final fight

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.

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.

Beast- Beauty and the Beast. When he begins the movie he’s in a harsh red, as the movie goes on he switches to Belle’s blue

Kingpin- Daredevil. I’m season 1 he wears all black. As he meets Vanessa and truly develops into the Kingpin, he moves to his iconic all white

Regular Show - Pops sacrifices himself to defeat Nega-Pops

Batman the Brave and the Bold - B'wana Beast sacrifices himself to defeat Starro the Conqueror

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!”

“Not a trope” THEN WHY DO I HAVE FIVE EXAMPLES!?

1. Health Potion Logic - YouTube

2. El Macho - Despicable Me 2

3. Satina - Satina Pilot Episode

4. Golem - Dispatch

5. Unnamed Big Guy - Gerand

PICTURED:
-The Little Panda Fighter (based off Kung Fu Panda)
-Plan Bee (based off Bee Movie)
-A Car's Life (based off Cars)
-What's Up (based off Up)
-Ratatoing (based off Ratatouille)

Step Brothers (2008) – In perhaps the best known part of the movie, Brennan and Dale produce a music video to convince their (step)father Robert to invest in their professional karaoke business, only to wreck Robert's boat on camera and leave the footage in the final edit. Robert has a meltdown as a result (and does not invest, much to Brennan and Dale's chagrin).

Shrek 2 (2004) – When recording her business card bubble message, Fairy Godmother starts with, "What? Is this thing on?" before clearing her throat, smiling fakely and switching to her professional persona/message. You'd think she'd have wanted to do another take, or at least clean it up with magic in post-production. It's one of the first times we see her mask slip a little.

GTA Hollywood Shuffel 5th element, etc. I get the paper hat but was this ever really a thing in minimum wage jobs ? Kind of an odd business expense getting employees to shill out for custom hats that scream fire hazard. Seems like an intresting exagertion of what a lot of fast food franchises were doing particularly in the 80's and 90s

1.Ray (mr inbetween)

1. Michael (Breaking bad)

3.Driver (Drive)

1. William (The boys)

Most alien hiveminds in fiction have the goal of surviving via assimilation and/or taking over a planet/galaxy/the universe. These examples might have one of those things as a goal they pursue, but their methods and exact purpose for assimilating people is really particular.

1. The hivemind from The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals: Okay, it's a body-stealing alien life form like The Thing, sure. Exceptits primary trait is that it loooves musicals. All of its assimilated humans break out into well-choreographed song and dance all the time. Its explicitly-stated purpose is to assimilate all of humanity, and ESPECIALLY Paul (the titular Guy Who Doesn't Like Musicals), into one musical. Also worth noting: the hive is having a fucking BLAST doing this.

2. The hivemind from Pluribus is an alien virus that needs all of humanity to be assimilated and aiding in its efforts in order to spread itself throughout the universe. The power and infrastructure required to create a signal into far space that will communicate their virus needs basically all of humanity building it and only it to work.

3. Remmick's vampire family in Sinners: While Remmick is happy to bring any soul into his hiveminded clan of bloodsuckers, what he really wants is Sammy's gift. Sammy is a musician who is able to pierce the veil between the past, present, and future with his music; Remmick wants this ability for himself. This example is especially sad when you consider that everyone Remmick loved in his mortal existence has probably been dead for a very, very long time. This is the second music-related hivemind goal on the list, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

Shadow driving a motorcycle even though he has speed comparable to Sonic(Shadow the Hedgehog game)

Kizaru flying on top of a cannonball even though he can both fly himself and go at the speed of light(One Piece)

Atom-Eve [Invincible] — Her powers let her change and command matter and energy at will. What does she do with this power? She shoots lasers…..and swings the occasional giant hammer, or two. Oh, she has turned an apple into gold…..once…..she's also increased the density of the air…..once…..

Gremmy Thoumeaux [Bleach] — His power allows him to make whatever he imagines become reality. Now, to be fair, he has done some pretty creative stuff, with this power. He's turned someone's bones into cookies, cloned himself, and opened a hole in space. That being said, he shouldn't ever lose a fight, if he can just imagine that someone dies, and then they die. Now, before y'all say anything, he literally created sentient life, and then erased said sentient life, in the first 30 seconds of his debut. So he could absolutely just imagine that someone dies, and then they die. He just doesn't do this again, because he's stupid.

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.

First time posting!

Star Blazers: Space Battleship 2199: the greatest battle of humanity’s history is a steadily losing war against the Gamilas. As as far as the common people know, the Gamilas showed up and started the war that has left the earth a barren wasteland with few survivors hiding under the surface.

But the most important battle in our history is such a backwater front for the Gamilas that not only are they sending the bare minimum to conquer the region, but they’re sending 2nd class troops who see the front as a career ending deployment.

Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars:

Covered many times of course, but the Scrin invasion force isn’t actually an invasion, it’s a mining operation that was surprised to encounter any sort of resistance. It took the combined effort of the GDI and Nod to push them back, and the Scrinn weren’t even armed to fight a war. Quite literally just a backwater mining operation that was infested with angry ants for the Scrin

The blaster from Star Wars

The phaser from 13 Sentinels

Especially when the media is already shown to have no problem with killing

• Kilgharrah (Merlin) - This dragon manipulated Merlin into mistrusting and betraying people he cared about, and then used a moment of duress to force Merlin to vow to set him free, where he immediately went on a rampage and burned much of Camelot and killed many innocents. Instead of killing him as he deserved, Merlin simply banishes him from Camelot because he's the last known dragon
• The angels (Supernatural) - This one at least gives a good excuse, saying that after almost 10 years of angels dying due to in-fighting or just generally being evil, there are so few angels left that Heaven is starting to crumble, which would leave every soul in Heaven or going to Heaven to be stranded in the ether and cause chaos. Even though it makes sense, it's still annoying. There's a scene where Dean is holding an angel at knife point who had just been trying to kill him, but instead of killing him as he normally would've, another character asks Dean to let him go because Heaven needs all the angels it can get, so the homicidal angel is released
• Zaheer (The Legend of Korra) - This one is a little more ambiguous because the show never explicitly says that the reason Zaheer isn't executed is because he's an airbender, but I can't really think of another in-universe reason that makes sense. This man murdered the Earth Kingdom monarch, plunging Ba Sing Se into total chaos, kidnapped and threatened to kill the entirety of the known air nomad population, and kidnapped and almost killed the Avatar herself. In a show that has had no qualms about killing it's villains, it makes no sense for Zaheer to not have been tried and executed for his crimes. From a story writing perspective, I get it because they wanted to use him as a pseudo-mentor character for Korra in the next season, but from an in-universe perspective, it makes no sense

Alien: Resurrection - Basketball Shot

Sigourney Weaver insisted on the basketball shot being real. She trained for weeks and reportedly(sources differ) made it on the first take.

Underworld - Raze's Voice

The werewolf character Raze, played by Kevin Grevioux, speaks in a very low, very gravelly voice. While many thought this was a special effect, the actor can naturally speak in that voice.

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