>"well, at least it couldn't get any worse"
>it gets worse
ITT: Tropes you love
Joseph Stewart
Ayden Campbell
>they're standing right behind me,aren't they
>No,they're standing right in front of you
Gavin Murphy
>"Really? You and what army?"
>Army appears
Nicholas Long
This when it's the good guys for once
Robert Rogers
>thing thrown on floor
>spontaneously combusts
Elijah Jenkins
>Character wants to watch something special on TV
>The universe is throwing everything at the character for them to not be able to watch
Anthony Martinez
Blake Rodriguez
>character goes by a nickname
>the only time the real name is revealed is covered up by something
Christian Reed
>heros and villains are saying the same thing at the same time in separate locations
Jaxson Scott
>I could kill you, but I'll let my trap do the messy work for me.
Mason Nelson
>character normally walks around with no clothes on
>when at the beach or pool, they are wearing a bathing suit
Sebastian Jackson
>usually talkative character gets quiet and serious
>characters appear to have lost but it was a part of a plan
>useless character turns out to be strong
>hero and villain respect each other
Carson Davis
>"Heh he he he"
>"You fool, I have 70 ALTERNATIVE ACCOUNTS!
James Lee
>humanizing scene of villain's goons before beating them senseless
Lucas Howard
Like the final battle in the Disney Recess movie.
Ryan Diaz
Those funny things like-you ever watch F Troop where Agarn says, "There's no way I'm wearing a dress! Absolutely not! No dress!" and Forrest Tucker's like, "Yeah, you're wearing that dress! You're gonna wear that dress!" and then they wipe *boodooloodoodoo* and Agarns wearing a dress?
Landon Gonzalez
On your left
Jack Martinez
>Characters fighting evil clones/shadows/counterparts of themselves
>They switch with someone else and easily win
Samuel Garcia
>Character's real name is something so overly long and complicated everybody goes back to calling them by their nickname even once it's revealed
Ozychlyrus Brouev Tantal
Jace Flores
alternatively, variations on this joke from Moomin
>Moomin Mama: You're not going out in your pajamas are you?
>Moomin: oh right, I better get dressed
>Moomin takes off his pajama shirt and leaves bare ass naked.
Aiden Edwards
>Animal character normally wears no pants, just a shirt or top
>When their top is taken off they immediately hide their crotch in shame
Jaxson Rogers
Didn't that literally only ever happen in the Dudley Do-Right movie? Usually the gag is either they don't need an army or what appears is a visually underwhelming force that is far more effective than an army or backup you expected to appear doesn't appear at all and the character just gets fucked or is forced to comically flee.
On a barely related note, fuck the haters, this movie was good and the original shorts were a trash heap.
Benjamin Thomas
I KNOW RIGHT!
or characters who put on pajamas to go to bed, after being naked all day. ITS JUST A TOTAL MINDFUCK!
Landon Jones
oh yeah forgot about that, like WTF!
Julian Rivera
>"You have made yourself a powerful enemy today"
>immediately tries to do something threatening but fails
>"Just get out of here!"
Jose Walker
>group of heroes fights a group of villains with very similar abilities
>during a season finale the group of heroes are scrambled as some members go missing or become villains, with the following season dealing with the group reforming
Benjamin Hall
>>useless character turns out to be strong
My favorite. I'm sure a lot of battle shonen have this trope, ignoring "MC isn't special but secretly is the most special" of course.
Adrian Lee
>dumb character puts on glasses
>tells some very detailed facts
>other person calls him a idiot and correct his facts
Levi Russell
>obligatory boys vs girls episode but the showrunners clearly know how shit and overplayed the plot is and spend the whole episode undercutting the girls’ “wins” against the boys
Samuel Bennett
>Villains and Hero place rivalry on hold in order to combine forces
>They save one another's lives and readily support each other because Hero would rather stay with the evil s/he knows and the Villain doesn't want anyone muscling in on their territory
So simple yet it gets me every time. Latest comic I read was Batman and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles teaming up against Bane with Shredder and Karai's aid.
Jason Smith
Is it really a trope if I’ve only seen this happen once?
Carter Perez
I was thinking more Ron Stoppable
Jaxson Campbell
Where have you seen it?
Isaiah Wright
X-Men Evolution
Dylan Murphy
Chaotic
Connor Murphy
Ron Stoppable is never portrayed as useless, only bungling, a la Shaggy.
Kim trusts and values him implicitly from the start and he's a better fighter and investigator than her (he and Rufus ALWAYS find the important clues). In fact, with Wade handling all the tech stuff, all Kim does is get jobs, call their ride, and handle the jumping and Shego fights.
Eli Richardson
>Final showdown between heroes and villains takes place in a location that is falling apart/exploding/sinking/ or otherwise becoming increasingly hazardous to all inhabitants
fightkino
Jayden Baker
>villain goes down with the building instead of letting hero win /save them
Joseph Mitchell
>arch nemesis sacrifices himself to save the hero after they team-up to fight the biggest bad
Wyatt Powell
But everyone else sees him as weak and as a tag a long. Later he comes into his own and is proven to be capable
Carter Hernandez
>someone falls over or falls from a great height
>explodes for no reason
Xavier Turner
>But everyone else sees him as weak and as a tag a long
But that's not how his character is presented as. The audience knows he's strong from the start. The way the original post was phrased it was more about audience, not character, expectations.
Leo Baker
>object thrown off-screen
>*cat noises*
Levi Murphy
Maybe it's just my inner boomer talking, having recently seen some of the older episodes of South Park I missed out on as a kid, I've actually laughed out loud watching. Shit was great.
Lincoln Clark
Nah
>arch-nemesis lets the hero sacrifice himself after they team-up to fight the biggest bad
>hero's second in command rescues the hero at the last second
>we haven't seen the last of him, but maybe there's hope yet
Wyatt Powell
>The audience knows he's strong from the start
No we don't. When fighting breaks out he hides and constantly loses his pants. That's why it's a surprise when he's a king fu master. He's brave sure but not competent
Justin Nelson
>characters do animation and it's terrible and nonsensical
Jaxon Richardson
Fucking hate how the basically undid everything from Transformers Armada for those shitty cel-shaded 3D trainwreck shows
Nicholas Ortiz
God damn that shit happened to me irl
>friends and I returning from road trip
>hour and a half out
>see cinder block in the middle of the highway
>no time to react so we smash into it full throttle (80 mph)
>pull to the side and call for help
>wait for assistance to arrive
>say "could this get any worse?" out of frustration
>immediately starts pouring
Never ever jinx it.
Colton Miller
>Villain is "evil" because his life sucks and he's not really that bad of a guy to be around when you get to know him
Oliver Ramirez
>When fighting breaks out he hides and constantly loses his pants
Eh. I've been in plenty of fights. That's normal even for all the times I won.
Adam Ward
I can top that
>go on road trip to combination theme/water park with friends
>half the water park shut down due to flooding causing mud to flood all the rides
>hit the wave pool and swim out to the back end
>pump explosion causes a massive geyser a few feet away that fortunately we were barely not caught in
>swim away
>wall collapses onto where we were
>head to some of the smaller slides in the lagoon area
>hit all slides from bottom to top
>couple minutes after leaving we hear the rope bridge at the top snapped as some kid's dad was stepping off it...bearing in mind we just crossed it as a group of four
>hit the flume ride twice cause it just opened from repairs (I know, I know) so there's no line
>breaks down as we're getting off, boat behind ours gets stuck on the ramp to unloading
>boat on top of the flume comes down, hits it, backslides, and sinks, almost killing everyone on board because they were trapped in their safety bars (staffers barely got the last chick out before the water was over her nose and mouth)
Friends
>Well at least it couldn't get any worse. Wanna ride the coaster?
Me
>pic related
>friends disappear for like an hour while I just ride the light gun ride repeatedly
>they come back in their wet outfits from the water park they had in their lockers
>Someone doused their car in gatorade from the viewing platform so they had to change
Thomas Ross
Only one piece of dialogue from Dudley Do-Right ever made me laugh.
>Snidley, you fiend! You've taken my post and my daughter, AND I WANT MY POST BACK!
Gabriel Gonzalez
lmao, i know i've seen this one somewhere
Leo Perry
>before dying it looks back at the heroes from behind giving a smug face
Ian Wilson
>A random live action scene happens in the middle of a cartoon
Grayson Thompson
>In a musical a character points out how silly and absurd the concept of a musical is
Mason Gutierrez
>"well, at least it couldn't get any better"
>it gets better
Hunter Nelson
>"Nah, he just looks big!"
>"We'll show him!"
>Proceeds not to show him
Matthew Gutierrez
i see you
Jackson Hernandez
i love Brendan Frase!
Aaron Thomas
saving
Connor Flores
bump
Ian Sullivan
>badly-disguised version of a character appears
>turns out to be a different person entirely
Angel Ramirez
>just doing my job Dettweiler.
Noah Mitchell
>it's implied that a character got stronger
>character got ridiculously stronger
And:
>villain has sad and relatable backstory, but still does so horrible stuff that you can identify him or her as the villain, making him or her beyond salvation.
Logan Mitchell
I swear I've had dreams like this, but trying to work a computer or something similar.
Jacob Ramirez
SU did this with Steven himself
>He draws a picture of Lapis and Peridot holding hands
>Peridot asks why their hands are just balls (paraphrasing here)
>"That's just my style"
Thomas Moore
>it’s in song
Isaiah Lee
>Heroes reluctantly team up with first season's villain to take down second season's villain who is a threat to both of them
>This was all part of season 1 villain's keikaku to seize the power of season 2 villain and come back as the main villain of season 3, in which the heroes have to team up with season 2's villain to take down season 1's
Jaxson Turner
>all the characters we’ve come to know get captured/frozen/zombified
>only the MC remains and has to stop the villain on their own
bonus points if they team up with previous villain or someone they normally wouldn’t
Aaron Wood
hey buddy, i think you got the wrong thread, the dominator thread is 2 pages down
Carter Ramirez
ah, the infamous donald duck's towel joke
David Scott
>all the characters we’ve come to know get captured/frozen/zombified
>only the MC remains and has to stop the villain on their own
>except it's the other way around, everyone is actually fine and only the MC has been drugged to believe everyone else is a zombie
By far the best The Batman episode
Thomas Walker
Which episode?
James Torres
Alternatively
>Wilhelm scream
Fuck you faggots who hate it for whatever reason. It's the most harmless fucking joke but every youtube """critic""" loathes it because "muh immersion" or whatever. Fuck off, it's just a goofy sound clip.
Gavin Robinson
>Protagonist has crush on attractive popular bitch while ignoring the frumpy girl who likes him
>Attractive popular bitch implies to like him back and they hook up
Xavier Scott
>"You had to say THAT didn't you?"
Benjamin Moore
Season 4 episode 5, Brave New World
Zachary Phillips
Tyler Bailey
that makes at least some sense though, for the same reason someone who's been out all day wearing nothing but a speedo or soemthing might slip into pajamas to go to sleep.
they're just comfy.
Lincoln Price
>The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side!
>That's a right triangle, you idiot!
Bentley Johnson
Did he just unleash his stand in that last panel?
Cooper Anderson
>hero and villain respect each other
>villain doesn't let anyone shit talk about the hero
Jonathan Murphy
>Musical number
>Last line in the song with the most build up is just said normally
Carter Brown
where was this place? and what the heck man, why did you guys stay at a deathtrap park instead of leaving?
Isaac Price
>the comedic relief becomes a badass briefly
Luis Bell
My favorite recent instance of this was Dark Knights Metal with Batman and Joker
Bentley Martin
This has to be a sign of autism
Jace Ward
>hero and villian fight as they reenter athmosphere
Zachary Price
>character taken by surprise
>movie ends just there
Grayson Reyes
>character is confronted with 2 paths
>one path is full of sunshine, rainbows and blue skies with birds chirping
>other path is a dismal mordor-esque hellscape
>characters in a show/movie have a meta in-universe blooper reel as though they were all actors portraying their characters
>Shoulder angel and devil both agree to do something with complete solidarity.
>dead/sleeping/comatose character somehow becomes ambulatory (whether through sleepwalking, or via wheelchair, runaway gurney etc.) they somehow wander off into a whirlwind of events, scenarios and environments and end up win multiple awards etc.
>ID photo has a character in mid-blink.
Jeremiah Perry
>badly-disguised version of a character appears
>It's the actual character but somehow nobody realizes that
John Russell
>Song happens
>Gets a reprise that's way darker and serious than the previous version
Jackson Bennett
user you're living in a final destination movie.
Noah Rogers
SURELY YOU JESTIN
John Perry
>Villain finally manages to push the hero over the edge
>Villain is super gleeful about it
>The hero is coming to wrest the villain's head off his fucking neck
>The villain suddenly stops smiling realizing that the hero isn't fucking playing anymore and is scared SHITLESS, oh so wishing he hadn't pushed the hero over the edge after all
Alternatively
>The villain sets hard limits for himself and his underling to NEVER cross as to prevent the first scenario
Asher Moore
One of the funniest things on ATHF
Nolan Foster
>girl that is a total asshole with everyone except the MC, does a full 180 and turns all lovable and likeable whe, she's around him
Nolan Stewart
hnnng
Hudson Anderson
when the MC actually doesnt end with original love interest and ends up with an unexpected one
Jacob Barnes
>character travels to bad end future
bonus if they are the cause of the bad end future and current mc has to fight future mc
Mason Ross
I AM THE CHEESE
I AM THE BEST CHARACTER
Brandon Carter
>Rivals swap their powers/costumes
This was absolute pure hype when Kill La Kill did it
Zachary Cruz
>The credits of the show change as the show progresses
>An important character dies the previous episode and the next episode removes them from the opening/end credits after that
>A character dies in the show and the after credits scene is completely silent or has a different song play.
The goblin slayer anime did is perfectly as well as re zero
Cooper Ortiz
>When you know exactly where that line comes from
Adam Richardson
>Episode is named after a line in a poem
>Next line of the poem hints at the episodes ending.
Thomas Smith
I mean it's not a nude beach
Aiden Lee
>male animals are normal looking animals without clothes
>female animals have big eyelashes, wide hips, attractive hair and clothes
Bentley Johnson
BLUE BOARD
Jace Anderson
On a note similar to this.
>Character is really creepy
>Looks and acts like a serial killer
>Even the villains are scared of them and think their crazy
>Is actually one of the nicest and most polite characters in the series
>Genuinely isn't malicious towards other people
>Constantly scares all the other characters by accident
Thomas Robinson
Yes, yes it is. Thanks for the update
Thomas Myers
JoJo doing this was cool, but they overdid it with part 5.
Jacob Jones
Hanafusa is cool, but Gaolang in my opinion is a much better. I love boxer dad so much.
Easton Richardson
>"I'm not doing this."
>Smash cut to the character doing the thing
>"I can't believe I'm doing this."
Jacob Jones
>Villain is depressed
>Someone comforts them by reminding them how terrible they are
>It always works
Jackson Taylor
>"Well, at least it couldn't get any better."
>"It doesn't work that way."
>It gets better
Clone High was golden.
Nicholas Martin
I love the KND episode that did this
Christian Morgan
I just love that we have a boxer in a manga series who is actually top tier and not a jobber. Funny that most Kengan characters fit this mold pretty well.
Benjamin Roberts
>This song's gonna get stuck inside your heeeeeead
Brayden Moore
>we'll see in the next episode
>next episode is a filler
Jaxon Long
Pretty much everyone in kengan is lovable in one way or another.
Evan Watson
>spoiled rich kid
>actually supportive to MC
Asher Perez
>Alien that hates earth and humans
>Secretly in love with a human
Colton Garcia
These are all great, but they are so reliant on good comedic timing that it hurts.
Liam Stewart
>I could kill you...
>But that would be dishonorable
Nathaniel Morales
>"Stand back, I have powers! Political powers!"
Adam Sanchez
Are you seriously telling me you haven't seen Bart the General?
Jack Allen
Moomins wear bathing suits too.
Isaiah Garcia
It's not as mindfucky as the new Mickey youtube short where its revealed oldschool style Minnie wears a black tshirt.
Gabriel Jones
I love it when the good guy team and the bad guy team are mirror images of each other down to the man. Like each has a leader, a bruiser, a tech guy, etc.
What I can't decide is if I like it better in the final fight where the answer is "fight the guy who matches you" or "everyone, switch partners to win!"
Blake Collins
>"YOO-HOO, LOCO BROTHERS! LOOK WHO'S HERE FOR YOU!"
Gavin Turner
>"I wonder what diabolical scheme the villain is plotting today!"
>Cut to villain and his henchmen just chilling
Nicholas Morales
Like said. Fight the guy that matches you. Lose/stalemate. Switch opponents and win.
Benjamin Baker
I found out that somde AIDs medication gives you cancer and felt that was relevant here.
Josiah Torres
But what if they learn that to fight their clone, they have to think outside their usual box and get creative?
Brandon Kelly
Reminds me of dark link from oot, hes a bitch to fight unless you use dins fire or the megaton hammer, then hes one of the easiest fights in the game.
Blake Parker
What the fuck did that park even do to piss off the universe that much
Asher Morris
>Hero has to fight their dark self
It's so basic but it's so good.
Jason Reyes
Long story short, he is using a tool that summons the spirit of a demon and makes a contract with them. The contract is short, extremely in his favor and they can possess him if can't/doesn't force them out.
He's not a useless character but he fits the trope because his manga is a fighting manga and he can't fight so naturally he is low in the pecking order.
he has a very easy time making contracts and handling the power and he's easily possessed, during the fight with the big bad he makes contracts with multiple powerful demons. during some side stories after it was axed, other students call him "the man with a hundred faces" and say that he contracts a different demon every time he fights. theoretically he is the most powerful human character since he can make a contract with as many demons as he wants
Eli Sullivan
Alternatively, the villain talks about how powerful and smart the hero is, and it just cuts to them doing some stupid shit
Jonathan Collins
They only over did it by working in that weird asside about how Bucciarati turned into a zombie at the end. Putting that anywhere else or leaving it out all together we'd have gotten 3 openings with king crimson and 1-2 with gold experience requiem, letting them stay punchy.
Plus the EP was a perfect executive of the trope.
Josiah Baker
>Non-human character gets turned into a human for an episode
Brayden Edwards
>new villian/main villian trys to make his enterance by killing off the last villian
>but he ain't so easy ta kill
Ryan James
>hero stops fighting villain
>villain is heartbroken
>hero comes back at the very end
>villain smiles as hes being punched in the face
Angel Bell
>characters form a band
>instead of just the main cast it's a group of the best characters who normally don't hang out together
Michael Jones
Based trope. Bonus points if they try to sound threatening and you just Shrug it off as a joke.
Ayden Rivera
>characters in a show/movie have a meta in-universe blooper reel as though they were all actors portraying their characters
Pixar was a master at this.
youtu.be
Jaxson Sullivan
>"So you two are perfectly identical? You know, I could get you a part in Toy Story 3..."
Juan Richardson
Adrian Morgan
>The villain ain't finished with the hero
>But the hero is finished with the villain
Anthony Edwards
Im unsure if this is happened many times but
>The villians just getting started, monologuing about how the protags shit and never will be anything higher than shit
>The protag just shrugs off the villians words and one shots him the last words the villian hears is "I Just dont care anymore"
Also its the biggest bad of the series, an assassin that pretty much kidnapped and raped the protags wife
Kayden Gutierrez
>The credits of the show change as the show progresses
>Netflix completely butchers them
REEEEEEEEEEEE
Wyatt Allen
>Final episode's title is the name of the show
Pottery.
Isaiah Davis
>villain uses cigarette to casually pop the balloon of some kid
Luis Myers
>Alien start off hostile toward humanity
>By the end of the show they're complete humanaboos
Isaac Torres
>It's a Rashomon episode
Samuel Brown
Recently rewatched it. I still think the best episode is the Test one, particularly the sub-plot with Ghandi and the trucker.
Brayden Ward
Looks like I have a new Martial arts series to get into then
Josiah Perry
>It's two episodes of two people on seperate adventures
>They come together at the end of both episodes
>Bonus points: The two adventures actually cross paths temporarily and things that happen in one affects the other
Oliver Walker
This is one of the best tropes.
Liam Reyes
I love that shit too
Thomas Cruz
Carson Cox
>>go on road trip to combination theme/water park with friends
>>half the water park shut down due to flooding causing mud to flood all the rides
>>hit the wave pool and swim out to the back end
>>pump explosion causes a massive geyser a few feet away that fortunately we were barely not caught in
>>swim away
>>wall collapses onto where we were
Why haven't they still closed the park at this point?
Adrian Long
>Cartoon breaks the fourth wall as if it were a live action show
Brody Diaz
That's from the Lego history animation, right?
Connor Powell
Jesus this is my favourite
Camden Robinson
American Dad has been doing this for a long time too, the first time was way back in the 8th episode with Bullocks to Stan
Logan Wood
>109323953
Yes.
Logan Jackson
Sort of similar one to this
>Bart is waiting for Homer to pick him up from soccer practice
>The wind really starts picking up
>A nun(?) walks into frame and is picked up by the wind and blown away
>"This isn't funnnnnnny!!"
>She disappears beyond the horizon and explodes
My friend and I quoted that shit for years, it was always good for a laugh.
Adam Allen
>I am the cheese, I am the best character on the show.
Ryder Campbell
Good follow up being person B either tells person A to shut up, or punches them.
These plus
>Throw something off screen
>Cat screech, glass breaks, or car screeching to a halt sfx plays
Colton Jones
I hate how much I love this. Even better with the common addition of a character trying to "unmask" them, only for the actual character to walk in.
Grayson Perez
I fucking loved this twist.
Isaiah Brown
>the main protag has a undying rivalry with asshole supporting character
>both team up to kill the big baddie before the season/series finale
>the two characters settle their rivalry once and for all an episode later
Adrian Powell
>villain expresses an odd sense of sentimental attachment to his long-running nemesis
E.g. Joker getting upset at the fact that Terry's laughing at him because Bruce would never do that.
James Adams
The simpsons used this trope a lot in the begginig
>gorgory dress as a beer start rolling down the hills until he stop by a tree just to explode later
>moleman crash his car really slowly apparently being safe 1 second later the car explode
Caleb Peterson
>Episode is a sequel to an episode that doesn't exist
>Show acts like the viewers saw the first episode and provides little-to-no context or explanation
Justin Torres
What show has this happened in? I feel like it’d be a Chowder thing to do.
Ryan Peterson
Venture Bros.
Nathaniel Turner
Rick and Morty, Vindicators 3: The Return of Worldender
Jason Jackson
>Running gag keeps happening in the episode
>it gets to a point where characters preemptively try to prevent the running gag from happening
Kevin Parker
even better
>they take advantage of it for strategic win.
Mason Collins
>character hate parent for being alcoholic
>end up being alcoholic themselves
I hate this so much.
Wyatt Nelson
Has there ever been an instance where a character has a bad disguise on, but there's also a completely different character that looks like the bad disguise?
Grayson Anderson
>story actually shows the passage of time, with characters growing older and relationships changing with time
>multiple stories happening at the same time, we only get the full context of them at the end
>character we initially think is a hero turns out to be a villain and their heel turn is a completely logical end point to their previously established thoughts/philosophies, bonus points if said philosophy was previously presented as being good
>geeky/meat head character says something incredibly sweet/emotional
Oliver Reed
Nolan Scott
What was his real name? Where did he even come from?
Andrew Jenkins
>villain of the story rides a horse or other steed that also looks villainous
Simple and common, but I love it.
inb4 Frollo isn't the villain
Carter Ortiz
Kevin Wilson
>"I ain't going, you can't make me"
>They go anyway.
Extra points: They are in the same position as they say the first line.
Noah Evans
>Group of characters go off to fight bad guys
>Group is seperated and each has to fight a villain that mirrors or counteracts them.
The Sasuke retrieval arc will always be Shounen standard.
Jeremiah Myers
>Hero and villain cross-punch one another.
Ryder Ramirez
>"THE BIGGER THEY ARE-"
>"The harder they punch..."
Carson Morales
Y-you want to talk about it user?
Parker Nelson
This happens a lot irl
Adrian Anderson
>Character is trying to sleep a bunch of loud shit happens he's still sleep
>a feather hits the ground
>"I'M TRYING TO SLEEP KEEP IT DOWN! "
James Bailey
>Villain is built up as a terrifying and formidable threat
>Instead of solely being the final boss, he fights the heroes either early on or during the middle of the story
>Villain gets utterly decimated in the fight but gets away somehow
>Instead of becoming an incompetent joke from there on out, the villain still retains his skills and dignity, changes tactics, and/or grows even stronger from his failure
Nathaniel Harris
>Awkward moment
>Character hums the end credits theme in hopes the episode will end
Zachary Campbell
Dude thanks for the recommendation.
Joshua Lewis
>Villain girl has a crush and one of the hero’s
>Let’s him get away
Or
>sees crush severely injured and turns on her evil comrades and then becomes good
Logan Ross
>"Usually that happens to me!"
>Perfect character finally gets a taste of suffering.
Nicholas Long
Teen Titans also had a really good one
Christian Barnes
always kino
Juan Rivera
>*Characters encounter an unknown creature*
>Maybe it's friendly
>*Character turns out to be a terrifying monster and almost kills one of them*
>OH GOD IT'S NOT FRIENDLY!
Jack Jenkins
>The Villain just wanted one more strong opponent/someone to finally kill him
Austin Diaz
>Flashback episode to before the main characters met
>All their pasts are indirectly linked and they've actually met each other several times without realising
Colton Hernandez
>character gets punched
>is sent flying miles away
>crash lands
>"I'm okay!" in the distance
Jonathan Peterson
>"I remember like it was yesterday."
>"It WAS yesterday."
or
>"It was TODAY."
Juan Cox
From that very same
Hunter Howard
>character starts off with a shitty version of their costume
Robert Jones
>“We could just to our house, Eddy...”
>“What, and ruin the plot?”
EEnE knew how to be meta
Christopher Flores
>character wants a thing
>other character has thing, but is only willing to trade for some other thing
>ends up devolving into a wacky chain of trade deals
Brody Hughes
Ew.
Brandon Carter
Examples.
Elijah Foster
You guys have all right taste.
Jonathan Martinez
Clerks the animated series had the second episode be a flash back episode to events that we never saw
Gavin Gray
>No, sir, not gettin outta this chair!
Jacob Garcia
>bumbling minor villain thinks the big bad is too bad and helps the heroes defeat him
Elijah Allen
>Epic montage happens
>Turns out it happened in real time and the character made little to no progress
Zachary Cook
Howie Long Scream is obviously superior but I respect a good Wilhelm
Michael Walker
>Villains break into hero's mansion
>Butler/Nanny kicks their ass
bonus points if they sweep them up on a comically large dust pan and dump them in the trash.
Carter Long
>mentor fights the main villain to give a change for the protagonists to escape and git gud enough to kill him
Bonus points if the mentor beats the villain ass during the whole fight and he has to resort to underhanded tactics. Wakfu did it brilliantly.
Christopher Ross
The badass mentor archetype in general is something I'll never get tired of, I love them every time.
Benjamin Scott
This.
Hudson Howard
>villains and heroes interact in the real world
Nicholas Bennett
>villains are terrified of the IRS
Owen Gray
The first Garo anime had a great couple of episodes like that where the father and son character split up to explore a big city, and at the end of the son's episode, he meets back with his father who's now completely naked, the next episode dealing with how the father got to that point.
Ian Rogers
Rare variant
>Object thrown off-screen
>*cat noises*
>Joke becomes self aware
>30-1 min gag of just going through all stock sound effects including ridiculous shit like yodeling,lasers and fog horns
Parker Davis
>Villain is effectively committing suicide by cop
Gavin Johnson
Any examples of this? Sounds great
Connor Myers
not really a trope but
>episode shows the passage of time
I like seeing sunsets and warm colors on the characters and the background. It also paces the episode better since you can see it progress from midday to sunset/night as the plot happens.
Sebastian Williams
>Nerdy character knows how to dance
Anthony White
>Hero from the start is clearly much stronger than villain
>He beats villain in every episode, but never kills him
>Much later, like a season or 2, comic relief villain actually beats main guy and shits gets super real for few episodes
Julian Lopez
>Shit hits the fan
>Classical/jazz/soft rock starts to play
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Isaac Ward
>Character talk about the importance of life and feelings
>Next scene one character proceeds to massacre a bunch of grunt soldiers in most horrific ways with not so much as a frown
>next scene it's them hovering over a friend of theirs who they knocked out and everyone crying and shit while corpses lay 10 feet away of grunts
I'm looking at you umbrella academy.
Jack Johnson
this but meta
>something drastic happens and someone cuts to credits
>"No we cannot end the show now"
Henry Wright
lego movie 2?
Kayden Cruz
didn't see that I'm thinkin Chowder
Carter Smith
>the villain that was reduced to comic relief/midboss early in the series eventually becomes the greatest endgame threat
Kayden Lewis
Ryan Collins
RUN AWAY!
Blake Bell
>Character humming the show's theme
>Bonus points if it's the villain of the show
Brayden Scott
>Villain is incompetent
>Also isn't really evil, just kind of has a hateboner for the protagonist
Jaxon Rivera
>>character is confronted with 2 paths
>>one path is full of sunshine, rainbows and blue skies with birds chirping
>>other path is a dismal mordor-esque hellscape
Nolan Collins
>Character gets caught doing something wrong
>Comes up with a stupid and ridiculous lie on the spot that no sane person would believe to save their ass
It ends up being a real thing
Anthony Myers
>Villain is comedic non-threatening goof
>One moment/scene where they just fuck everyone's shit up and subject them to abject terror.
Justin Young
Yes.
Bonus
>spoiled rich kid
>supports MC
>Is actually an alright/awesome bro
Christopher Sullivan
What?
Logan Rivera
Lupin: Fujiko Mine
Benjamin Bennett
>they do a Distant Duet, but you only see one half of it
I know there's something that did this, but I can't remember what.
Henry Ward
I loved The Beat-Alls, and that was before I knew who the beatles were.
Eli Sanchez
>camera pulls back
>keeps going until it's an absurd distance away
>flashback initiated
>it's too far back and needs to jump forward
Adam Rogers
>Come on Homer, Japan will be fun. You liked Rashomon.
>That's not how I remember it.
Owen Wood
> Final battle
> Theme song of the show kicks in
Also love when this happens in games
Luke Reyes
Jack Spicer was great.
Austin Bell
>villain challenges hero to competition
>villain actually wins
>is furious because the hero remains happy anyway
Noah Davis
>Villains and heroes play a game of basketball or other sport
Jonathan Phillips
that was like watching adhd
i remember horse show being like this
Tyler Gomez
Lord Hater was a absolute beast in the finale.
I think the Box Ghost also did something like that as well.
Ian Cox
>Character barreling towards a wall or door with intent to smash through
>It doesn’t budge
Evan Lee
>Last villain/boss battle is a shirtless fist fight
Jaxson Powell
Bonus points when the characters inside react to a faint sound
Hudson Roberts
>future teammates meet, just by chance, before they know the other has powers
I grew up watching Sailor Moon, and I lived for that part when all the pieces snap together in your head and you go, "Oh, she'll be a senshi!"
Jacob Wright
I'd rather not say. It was a good park having a bad day.
I know. I was the one that got dirty looks on the way home because I had a bit of a track record as a jinx. At last count I've almost died 20 times to various bullshit, but I don't get out much anymore so that's slowed down a bit in the last decade or so. Still ended up a patient zero under quarantine by the health department a few years back though.
Generally it's a really great park. Free drinks, free sunscreen, some of the top rides on the planet. It was just a shit day for them.
1. Nobody died
2. They had a second wave pool
3. The wave pool isn't even the main draw
Actually I'd almost died in the other wave pool when I was 3. I passed out when I got flipped by a wave in my inner tube and woke up on shore with my cousin kicking me, telling me our family was moving locations. Apparently nobody noticed and because I flipped all the way over without falling out I didn't drown.
Jonathan Evans
Monster of the week shit. It's always fun to see what villains or monsters the characters fight next.
Eli Jones
>'evil twin' shows up
>turns out they're actually the good twin
Jaxon Kelly
>"I'm not doing this"
>Smash cut to them in the same place.
>"See? I'm still not doing it."
>Other guy offers to pay them or something
>Smash cut to them doing the thing
Jackson Collins
love this, TMNT's ''Same As It Never Was'' is my fave
Cameron Collins
>Hero winds up saving Villain's life
>Later on Villain has the perfect chance to kill the Hero
>Let's him go to repay his debt
Tyler Russell
Dr. Horrible's final song is like this
Jaxon Young
>aliens are confused by things that are completely normal to us
Samuel Brown
>Villain has an interesting past that explains is worldview
It doesn't much in cartoons(in a way that is actually interesting). Wakfu has the best example of it imo.
Owen Jackson
>it's the same lyrics as before
>now they take on a whole new meaning
Christopher Foster
That applies under "fish out of water" scenario
Jose Hughes
this is my favorite one. Stuff exploding when it really shouldn't.