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Today's trope is Too Good for this Sinful Earth. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth

The good die young, or so authors would have us believe.

A popular and old (and perhaps outdated but overused) trope to justify Kill the Cutie. If there is a child of extraordinary beauty, goodness, and innocence in the story, she (its usually a she) will invariably die in as Anvilicious a manner as possible. The child will be certainly an Ill Girl, and frequently a Waif Prophet, whose death will be slow, torturous and lingering (tuberculosis or other disease was a particular favorite in the 19th Century), giving the child a chance to bid farewell to everyone she loved in a long, drawn-out drama scene. Sometimes she gets to speak a few last words to hammer in An Aesop relevant to the larger plot at hand. After she's breathed her last, her loss is mourned by all who knew her in particularly extreme cases even the Big Bad will take a moment to reflect on it and may serve to re-energize tired or disillusioned heroes to fight on for her cause.

The trope name comes from a frequent comment made at the subsequent funeral, that the poor departed child was too good for this sinful earth, and thus was called home to a good afterlife by a just God. In Real Life, this trope is a common way to understand tragic deaths among those who believe in some form of positive destiny.

TL,DR: An unambiguously innocent, pure and good character dies horribly through no fault of their own.

Nominations:
Nina (Full Metal Alchemist)
Ofelia (Pan's Labyrinth)
Red (There Will Be Brawl)

The winner of yesterday's trope, Poisonous Person, was Poison Ivy (DC Comics), who got 4 votes.

Previous winners: Day 111 Onwards
Degraded Boss - El Gigante (Resident Evil 4)
Hypercompetent Sidekick - Shego (Kim Possible)
Throw the Dog a Bone - Sweet Victory (Spongebob Squarepants)
The Snark Knight - Karkat Vantas (Homestuck)
Relationship Upgrade - Ron and Hermione (Harry Potter)
Pair the Spares - Shaggy and Velma (Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated)
Guile Hero - John Constantine (Constantine)
Bookworm - Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)
Disproportionate Retribution - Cartman feeds Scott Tenorman his parents (South Park)
Accidental Misnaming - Benedict Cumberbatch
Like You Would Really Do It - Pikachu's Goodbye (Pokemon) / Jon Snow "dies" (Game of Thrones) / Goofy "dies" (Kingdom Hearts 2)
Adorkable - Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter)
The Trickster - Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean)
The Dog was the Mastermind - Scabbers (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)
Wham Shot - Lily of the Valley plant in Walt's back yard (Breaking Bad)
Cerebus Syndrome - Harry Potter
Shipper on Deck - Genie ships Aladdin and Jasmine (Aladdin)
Shoo Out the Clowns - Mimir gives Kratos and Atreus privacy to scatter the ashes (God of War) / Half the trolls die (Homestuck)
Disc One Final Dungeon - Zanarkand (Final Fantasy X) / Hyrule Castle (Zelda: A Link to the Past)
Back for the Finale - Miles Edgeworth (Most Ace Attorney games)
The Very Definitely Final Dungeon - Cannon's Core (Sonic Adventure 2)
Redemption Equals Death - Darth Vader (Star Wars) / Theon Greyjoy (Game of Thrones) / Doctor Octopus (Spider-Man 2)
Godzilla Threshold - Operation Zero Dawn (Horizon Zero Dawn) / Crossing the streams (Ghostbusters)
One Winged Angel - Safer Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII)
11th-Hour Ranger - Sonic the Hedgehog (Super Smash Bros. Brawl)
Informed Poverty - The Simpsons
Post-Climax Confrontation - The Scouring of the Shire (The Lord of the Rings)
Death by Childbirth - Padme (Star Wars)
Defeat Means Friendship - Dragon Ball in general / Scotsman (Samurai Jack)
Elegant Gothic Lolita - Celeste Ludenberg (Danganronpa)
The Turret Master - Engineer (Team Fortress 2)
Shear Menace - Scissorsman (Clock Tower)
Infinity +1 Sword - Ultima Weapon (Kingdom Hearts)
Infinity -1 Sword - Fully Evolved Starters (Pokemon)

Hello everyone, and welcome back to Best of the Trope!

Here are the rules. Each day, I will post a trope from TV Tropes, and each poster can name up to three examples of that trope. Whichever nomination gets the most mentions wins! Posters may also name as many Honourable Mentions as they like, but they are purely optional and will not count towards the running score. You may look at the TV Tropes page for that day's trope for examples, but you do not have to pick all your examples from the page. You can nominate whatever examples you like, as long as they qualify for the trope. Each trope will last around 24 hours before the next one goes up.

Posters may also nominate any tropes they wish to see come up during the series. This is optional, and you don't have to do it every day, or at all. Tropes will be randomly selected from the list each day, except for some occasions where I will pick a thematically appropriate trope that may or may not be on the list.

Here's the list of previous tropes, so if you wish to nominate some tropes, check on here that it wasn't previously done. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Trope List:
Shrinking Violet
Launcher of a Thousand Ships
Despair Event Horizon
Even the Girls Want Her
Even the Guys Want Him
Blue-Collar Warlock
Pop-Cultured Badass
Your Soul is Mine
One True Love
Disc-One Nuke
Beef Gate
Crutch Character
Taste of Power
Magikarp Power
Lethal Joke Character
Difficult, but Awesome
Tier-Induced Scrappy
Stone Wall
Glass Cannon
Lightning Bruiser
That One Boss
That One Level
Giant Space Flea from Nowhere
Game-Breaker
Grand Finale

Rankings so far:
Poison Ivy (DC) - 4 votes
Reptile (Mortal Kombat) - 3 votes
Blight (Batman Beyond) - 2 votes
Captain Pollution (Captain Planet and the Planeteers) - 2 votes
Naraku (Inuyasha) - 2 votes
Rogue (X-Men) - 2 votes
Foul Ole Ron (Discworld)
F.A.N.G. (Street Fighter V)
Mister Bones (DC Comics)
Magellan (One Piece)
Xenomorphs (Alien franchise)
Bacterian (Dragonball)
Pestilence (the Bible)
Muk (Pokemon)
Omega Red (X-Men)
Midas (New Avengers)
Purple Haze (Jojo)

Spider-Man
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

Today's trope is Poisonous Person. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PoisonousPerson

There are some people no one wants to be around, either due to smarminess or poor hygiene (or both!) they seem to ooze from every pore and make the air around them noxious, and anyone they touch will feel like immediately disinfecting the area. For the Poisonous Person, that is exactly the case. They are lethal to touch because their body naturally produces universally lethal toxins, emits radiation or carries a host of dangerous diseases. Of course, they are immune to these hazards, but not so everyone else.

There are a lot of ways this can happen: falling into a vat of chemicals or bio-hazards, becoming Cursed as a Walking Wasteland or with an uncontrollable Touch of Death, or an autonomous deadly defense mechanism power that can't distinguish friend from foe. For extra angst (or yummies) the Poisonous Person kills those they touch because they must feed on their Life Energy.

This is one of those "powers" that are difficult to miss when they first manifest, usually resulting in a dead younger sister at the hands of the Poisonous Person. Is it any wonder that they come to embrace Bad Powers, Bad People and become villains? Of course they probably weren't nice to begin with. This kind of villain isn't just difficult to fight, but also very versatile in applying their power. They'll use the sweat from their brow to salt a field, fill darts with their poisonous tears, turn a bloody wound into their enemy's demise by cutting themselves to poison their blade. Some of them may even have their poison be corrosive, if not throwing actual acidic stuff. Sometimes they may use radioactive poisoning. If their power is disease based, they make an excellent Plaguemaster. Or they might end up as a hapless Typhoid Mary.

If they aren't evil, they'll usually get far, far away from anyone who they might hurt, like a modern day Medusa or King Midas... sans gold. If they're really lucky they'll have enough control of their power/curse to turn it on and off, or at least be able to live in urban areas by wearing full body outfits or hazmat suits.

TL,DR: A character who has poisonous powers created from their body, which they may or may not be able to control.

Nominations:
Captain Pollution (Captain Planet and the Planeteers)
Foul Ole Ron (Discworld)
F.A.N.G. (Street Fighter V)

The winner of yesterday's trope, Infinity -1 Sword, was Fully evolved starters (Pokemon), which got 5 votes.

Previous winners: Day 111 Onwards
Degraded Boss - El Gigante (Resident Evil 4)
Hypercompetent Sidekick - Shego (Kim Possible)
Throw the Dog a Bone - Sweet Victory (Spongebob Squarepants)
The Snark Knight - Karkat Vantas (Homestuck)
Relationship Upgrade - Ron and Hermione (Harry Potter)
Pair the Spares - Shaggy and Velma (Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated)
Guile Hero - John Constantine (Constantine)
Bookworm - Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)
Disproportionate Retribution - Cartman feeds Scott Tenorman his parents (South Park)
Accidental Misnaming - Benedict Cumberbatch
Like You Would Really Do It - Pikachu's Goodbye (Pokemon) / Jon Snow "dies" (Game of Thrones) / Goofy "dies" (Kingdom Hearts 2)
Adorkable - Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter)
The Trickster - Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean)
The Dog was the Mastermind - Scabbers (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)
Wham Shot - Lily of the Valley plant in Walt's back yard (Breaking Bad)
Cerebus Syndrome - Harry Potter
Shipper on Deck - Genie ships Aladdin and Jasmine (Aladdin)
Shoo Out the Clowns - Mimir gives Kratos and Atreus privacy to scatter the ashes (God of War) / Half the trolls die (Homestuck)
Disc One Final Dungeon - Zanarkand (Final Fantasy X) / Hyrule Castle (Zelda: A Link to the Past)
Back for the Finale - Miles Edgeworth (Most Ace Attorney games)
The Very Definitely Final Dungeon - Cannon's Core (Sonic Adventure 2)
Redemption Equals Death - Darth Vader (Star Wars) / Theon Greyjoy (Game of Thrones) / Doctor Octopus (Spider-Man 2)
Godzilla Threshold - Operation Zero Dawn (Horizon Zero Dawn) / Crossing the streams (Ghostbusters)
One Winged Angel - Safer Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII)
11th-Hour Ranger - Sonic the Hedgehog (Super Smash Bros. Brawl)
Informed Poverty - The Simpsons
Post-Climax Confrontation - The Scouring of the Shire (The Lord of the Rings)
Death by Childbirth - Padme (Star Wars)
Defeat Means Friendship - Dragon Ball in general / Scotsman (Samurai Jack)
Elegant Gothic Lolita - Celeste Ludenberg (Danganronpa)
The Turret Master - Engineer (Team Fortress 2)
Shear Menace - Scissorsman (Clock Tower)
Infinity +1 Sword - Ultima Weapon (Kingdom Hearts)

Hello everyone, and welcome back to Best of the Trope!

Here are the rules. Each day, I will post a trope from TV Tropes, and each poster can name up to three examples of that trope. Whichever nomination gets the most mentions wins! Posters may also name as many Honourable Mentions as they like, but they are purely optional and will not count towards the running score. You may look at the TV Tropes page for that day's trope for examples, but you do not have to pick all your examples from the page. You can nominate whatever examples you like, as long as they qualify for the trope. Each trope will last around 24 hours before the next one goes up.

Posters may also nominate any tropes they wish to see come up during the series. This is optional, and you don't have to do it every day, or at all. Tropes will be randomly selected from the list each day, except for some occasions where I will pick a thematically appropriate trope that may or may not be on the list.

Here's the list of previous tropes, so if you wish to nominate some tropes, check on here that it wasn't previously done. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Trope List:
Shrinking Violet
Launcher of a Thousand Ships
Despair Event Horizon
Even the Girls Want Her
Even the Guys Want Him
Blue-Collar Warlock
Too Good for the Sinful Earth
Pop-Cultured Badass
Your Soul is Mine
One True Love
Disc-One Nuke
Beef Gate
Crutch Character
Taste of Power
Magikarp Power
Lethal Joke Character
Difficult, but Awesome
Tier-Induced Scrappy
Stone Wall
Glass Cannon
Lightning Bruiser
That One Boss
That One Level
Giant Space Flea from Nowhere
Game-Breaker
Grand Finale

Rankings so far:
Fully evolved starters (Pokemon) - 4 votes
Rusty Axe (Silent Hill 4) - 3 votes
Shotgun (Resident Evil series) - 2 votes
Dragoon Armour (Legend of Dragoon)
Zweihnder (Dark Souls)
Fire Sword (Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen)
Hunting Rifle (Fallout 3)
Masamune (Chrono Trigger)
Royal Sword (Fire Emblem Echoes)
Oblivion (Kingdom Hearts)
Legendary trios (Pokemon)
Pistol (Halo 1)
Pseudo-Legendaries (Pokemon)
Umbra (The Elder Scrolls)

Today's trope is Infinity -1 Sword. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InfinityMinusOneSword

The Infinity Minus One sword isn't the most powerful weapon in the game, but it's a lot easier to get than the most powerful.

It's not the Infinity +1 Sword. Statistically Speaking, it's not as good. It's not necessarily the Sword of Plot Advancement either (although it could be). And yet, you find people using it for most of the game, despite not being the actual "best" weapon available. Perhaps the Infinity +1 Sword is too hard to get, and the Sword of Plot Advancement doesn't show up until five minutes before the Final Boss fight. Often, however, the Infinity Minus One is available at any shop for the whole party to use, whereas there is only one of the Infinity +1 Sword. Or that sword is a Bragging Rights Reward, while this sword is useful in getting that reward.

TL,DR: A weapon or piece of equipment that's not the best in the game, but it's good enough that this is what you'll probably be using unless you go out of your way to get the best stuff.

Nominations:
Dragoon Armour (Legend of Dragoon)
Zweihnder (Dark Souls)
Fire Sword (Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen)

The winner of yesterday's trope, Infinity +1 Sword, was Ultima Weapon (Kingdom Hearts), which got 4 votes.

Previous winners: Day 111 Onwards
Degraded Boss - El Gigante (Resident Evil 4)
Hypercompetent Sidekick - Shego (Kim Possible)
Throw the Dog a Bone - Sweet Victory (Spongebob Squarepants)
The Snark Knight - Karkat Vantas (Homestuck)
Relationship Upgrade - Ron and Hermione (Harry Potter)
Pair the Spares - Shaggy and Velma (Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated)
Guile Hero - John Constantine (Constantine)
Bookworm - Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)
Disproportionate Retribution - Cartman feeds Scott Tenorman his parents (South Park)
Accidental Misnaming - Benedict Cumberbatch
Like You Would Really Do It - Pikachu's Goodbye (Pokemon) / Jon Snow "dies" (Game of Thrones) / Goofy "dies" (Kingdom Hearts 2)
Adorkable - Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter)
The Trickster - Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean)
The Dog was the Mastermind - Scabbers (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)
Wham Shot - Lily of the Valley plant in Walt's back yard (Breaking Bad)
Cerebus Syndrome - Harry Potter
Shipper on Deck - Genie ships Aladdin and Jasmine (Aladdin)
Shoo Out the Clowns - Mimir gives Kratos and Atreus privacy to scatter the ashes (God of War) / Half the trolls die (Homestuck)
Disc One Final Dungeon - Zanarkand (Final Fantasy X) / Hyrule Castle (Zelda: A Link to the Past)
Back for the Finale - Miles Edgeworth (Most Ace Attorney games)
The Very Definitely Final Dungeon - Cannon's Core (Sonic Adventure 2)
Redemption Equals Death - Darth Vader (Star Wars) / Theon Greyjoy (Game of Thrones) / Doctor Octopus (Spider-Man 2)
Godzilla Threshold - Operation Zero Dawn (Horizon Zero Dawn) / Crossing the streams (Ghostbusters)
One Winged Angel - Safer Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII)
11th-Hour Ranger - Sonic the Hedgehog (Super Smash Bros. Brawl)
Informed Poverty - The Simpsons
Post-Climax Confrontation - The Scouring of the Shire (The Lord of the Rings)
Death by Childbirth - Padme (Star Wars)
Defeat Means Friendship - Dragon Ball in general / Scotsman (Samurai Jack)
Elegant Gothic Lolita - Celeste Ludenberg (Danganronpa)
The Turret Master - Engineer (Team Fortress 2)
Shear Menace - Scissorsman (Clock Tower)

Hello everyone, and welcome back to Best of the Trope!

Here are the rules. Each day, I will post a trope from TV Tropes, and each poster can name up to three examples of that trope. Whichever nomination gets the most mentions wins! Posters may also name as many Honourable Mentions as they like, but they are purely optional and will not count towards the running score. You may look at the TV Tropes page for that day's trope for examples, but you do not have to pick all your examples from the page. You can nominate whatever examples you like, as long as they qualify for the trope. Each trope will last around 24 hours before the next one goes up.

Posters may also nominate any tropes they wish to see come up during the series. This is optional, and you don't have to do it every day, or at all. Tropes will be randomly selected from the list each day, except for some occasions where I will pick a thematically appropriate trope that may or may not be on the list.

Here's the list of previous tropes, so if you wish to nominate some tropes, check on here that it wasn't previously done. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Trope List:
Shrinking Violet
Launcher of a Thousand Ships
Despair Event Horizon
Even the Girls Want Her
Even the Guys Want Him
Blue-Collar Warlock
Too Good for the Sinful Earth
Pop-Cultured Badass
Poisonous Person
Your Soul is Mine
Grand Finale

Rankings so far:
Ultima Weapon (Kingdom Hearts) - 4 votes
Zodiac Spear (Final Fantasy XII) - 3 votes
Plagas Removal Laser (Resident Evil 4) - 2 votes
Hyper Blaster (Silent Hill 2) - 2 votes
Knights of the Round (Final Fantasy VII) - 2 votes
Excalibur II (Final Fantasy IX) - 2 votes
R.Y.N.O. (Ratchet and Clank)
Giant Death Robot (Civilization series)
Last Prism (Terraria)
Metal King Sword (Dragon Quest series)
Sword of Kings (EarthBound)
Rusty Sword (Rule of Rose)
Underwear Costume (Spiderman)
Scarab Gun (Halo 2)
Flaming Raging Poisoning Sword Of Doom (Adventure Zone)
Biggorons Sword (The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time)
Five point palm exploding heart technique (Kill Bill)
Fissure (Pokmon)
Golden Gun (GoldenEye 007)

Same here, I think it's the first time for any ranking topic I've nominated in!

Today's trope is Infinity +1 Sword. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InfinityPlusOneSword

This is a weapon, spell, special attack, etc., that is not only the most powerful of its kind in the game (at least for its respective player character(s)), but its power is matched by how hard it is to acquire.

So you'll never get it by just sticking to the game's main story. If you want it, you've got to put the plot on hold and embark on a five-hour sidequest! That, or find the enemy that Randomly Drops it (which will likely be a Metal Slime or Boss in Mook Clothing from the Bonus Dungeon, and the drop rate may be just 2 percent, or 5 percent with a Random Drop Booster).

One would think that the time needed to finish the subquest could be better spent on Level Grinding, so the Infinity +1 Sword is often more useful because it has other associated stat bonuses, unique to the character, rather than merely being stronger than other weapons (or so strong that even leveling up can't give you that kind of strength). Also, it's unlikely the dungeon the sword is in will be uninhabited; in fact, the monsters there tend to be very XP-rich anyway.

Sometimes the sword has not been forged yet if that's the case, you need to find the Ultimate Blacksmith so he can make it for you.

TL,DR: The most powerful weapon in the game. You're not getting it easily though - if you want it, you'll have to put the effort in.

Nominations:
R.Y.N.O. (Ratchet and Clank)
Plagas Removal Laser (Resident Evil 4)
Zodiac Spear (Final Fantasy XII)

The winner of yesterday's trope, Shear Menace, was Scissorsman (Clock Tower), who got 5 votes.

Previous winners: Day 111 Onwards
Previous winners: Day 111 onwards
Degraded Boss - El Gigante (Resident Evil 4)
Hypercompetent Sidekick - Shego (Kim Possible)
Throw the Dog a Bone - Sweet Victory (Spongebob Squarepants)
The Snark Knight - Karkat Vantas (Homestuck)
Relationship Upgrade - Ron and Hermione (Harry Potter)
Pair the Spares - Shaggy and Velma (Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated)
Guile Hero - John Constantine (Constantine)
Bookworm - Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)
Disproportionate Retribution - Cartman feeds Scott Tenorman his parents (South Park)
Accidental Misnaming - Benedict Cumberbatch
Like You Would Really Do It - Pikachu's Goodbye (Pokemon) / Jon Snow "dies" (Game of Thrones) / Goofy "dies" (Kingdom Hearts 2)
Adorkable - Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter)
The Trickster - Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean)
The Dog was the Mastermind - Scabbers (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)
Wham Shot - Lily of the Valley plant in Walt's back yard (Breaking Bad)
Cerebus Syndrome - Harry Potter
Shipper on Deck - Genie ships Aladdin and Jasmine (Aladdin)
Shoo Out the Clowns - Mimir gives Kratos and Atreus privacy to scatter the ashes (God of War) / Half the trolls die (Homestuck)
Disc One Final Dungeon - Zanarkand (Final Fantasy X) / Hyrule Castle (Zelda: A Link to the Past)
Back for the Finale - Miles Edgeworth (Most Ace Attorney games)
The Very Definitely Final Dungeon - Cannon's Core (Sonic Adventure 2)
Redemption Equals Death - Darth Vader (Star Wars) / Theon Greyjoy (Game of Thrones) / Doctor Octopus (Spider-Man 2)
Godzilla Threshold - Operation Zero Dawn (Horizon Zero Dawn) / Crossing the streams (Ghostbusters)
One Winged Angel - Safer Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII)
11th-Hour Ranger - Sonic the Hedgehog (Super Smash Bros. Brawl)
Informed Poverty - The Simpsons
Post-Climax Confrontation - The Scouring of the Shire (The Lord of the Rings)
Death by Childbirth - Padme (Star Wars)
Defeat Means Friendship - Dragon Ball in general / Scotsman (Samurai Jack)
Elegant Gothic Lolita - Celeste Ludenberg (Danganronpa)
The Turret Master - Engineer (Team Fortress 2)

Hello everyone, and welcome back to Best of the Trope!

Here are the rules. Each day, I will post a trope from TV Tropes, and each poster can name up to three examples of that trope. Whichever nomination gets the most mentions wins! Posters may also name as many Honourable Mentions as they like, but they are purely optional and will not count towards the running score. You may look at the TV Tropes page for that day's trope for examples, but you do not have to pick all your examples from the page. You can nominate whatever examples you like, as long as they qualify for the trope. Each trope will last around 24 hours before the next one goes up.

Posters may also nominate any tropes they wish to see come up during the series. This is optional, and you don't have to do it every day, or at all. Tropes will be randomly selected from the list each day, except for some occasions where I will pick a thematically appropriate trope that may or may not be on the list.

Here's the list of previous tropes, so if you wish to nominate some tropes, check on here that it wasn't previously done. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Trope List:
Shrinking Violet
Infinity -1 Sword
Launcher of a Thousand Ships
Despair Event Horizon
Even the Girls Want Her
Even the Guys Want Him
Blue-Collar Warlock
Too Good for the Sinful Earth
Pop-Cultured Badass
Poisonous Person
Your Soul is Mine
Grand Finale

Hercules
The Iron Giant

Rankings so far:
Scissorsman (Clock Tower) - 4 votes
Sweeney Todd - 4 votes
Genocide Jack (Danganronpa) - 4 votes
Cut Man (Mega Man) - 4 votes
Sundowner (Metal Gear Rising) - 3 votes
Ryuko Matoi (Kill La Kill) - 3 votes
Cropsy (The Burning)
Richard Trager (Outlast)
OVER (Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo)
Edward Scissorhands
Binolt (Hunter x Hunter)
Red (Us)

Today's trope is Shear Menace. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShearMenace

Weapons come in all different shapes and forms. From swords to spears. Then there are scissors. Believe it or not, these everyday household tools are considered to be dangerous by the TSA.

Typically, characters who use these as their Weapon of Choice are gardeners/groundskeepers (using shears) or tailors (using scissors). However, those associated with death may also use them; Atropos was known for using scissors to cut the threads of life. Morticians and taxidermists also use scissors when they perform autopsies or prepare bodies for their final, possibly mounted, resting place.

TL,DR: A character who uses scissors, shears, or something similar as a weapon.

Nominations:
Ryuko Matoi (Kill La Kill)
Scissorsman (Clock Tower)
Sundowner (Metal Gear Rising)

The winner of yesterday's trope, The Turret Master, was Engineer (Team Fortress 2), who got 5 votes.

Previous winners: Day 111 onwards
Degraded Boss - El Gigante (Resident Evil 4)
Hypercompetent Sidekick - Shego (Kim Possible)
Throw the Dog a Bone - Sweet Victory (Spongebob Squarepants)
The Snark Knight - Karkat Vantas (Homestuck)
Relationship Upgrade - Ron and Hermione (Harry Potter)
Pair the Spares - Shaggy and Velma (Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated)
Guile Hero - John Constantine (Constantine)
Bookworm - Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)
Disproportionate Retribution - Cartman feeds Scott Tenorman his parents (South Park)
Accidental Misnaming - Benedict Cumberbatch
Like You Would Really Do It - Pikachu's Goodbye (Pokemon) / Jon Snow "dies" (Game of Thrones) / Goofy "dies" (Kingdom Hearts 2)
Adorkable - Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter)
The Trickster - Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean)
The Dog was the Mastermind - Scabbers (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)
Wham Shot - Lily of the Valley plant in Walt's back yard (Breaking Bad)
Cerebus Syndrome - Harry Potter
Shipper on Deck - Genie ships Aladdin and Jasmine (Aladdin)
Shoo Out the Clowns - Mimir gives Kratos and Atreus privacy to scatter the ashes (God of War) / Half the trolls die (Homestuck)
Disc One Final Dungeon - Zanarkand (Final Fantasy X) / Hyrule Castle (Zelda: A Link to the Past)
Back for the Finale - Miles Edgeworth (Most Ace Attorney games)
The Very Definitely Final Dungeon - Cannon's Core (Sonic Adventure 2)
Redemption Equals Death - Darth Vader (Star Wars) / Theon Greyjoy (Game of Thrones) / Doctor Octopus (Spider-Man 2)
Godzilla Threshold - Operation Zero Dawn (Horizon Zero Dawn) / Crossing the streams (Ghostbusters)
One Winged Angel - Safer Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII)
11th-Hour Ranger - Sonic the Hedgehog (Super Smash Bros. Brawl)
Informed Poverty - The Simpsons
Post-Climax Confrontation - The Scouring of the Shire (The Lord of the Rings)
Death by Childbirth - Padme (Star Wars)
Defeat Means Friendship - Dragon Ball in general / Scotsman (Samurai Jack)
Elegant Gothic Lolita - Celeste Ludenberg (Danganronpa)

Hello everyone, and welcome back to Best of the Trope!

Here are the rules. Each day, I will post a trope from TV Tropes, and each poster can name up to three examples of that trope. Whichever nomination gets the most mentions wins! Posters may also name as many Honourable Mentions as they like, but they are purely optional and will not count towards the running score. You may look at the TV Tropes page for that day's trope for examples, but you do not have to pick all your examples from the page. You can nominate whatever examples you like, as long as they qualify for the trope. Each trope will last around 24 hours before the next one goes up.

Posters may also nominate any tropes they wish to see come up during the series. This is optional, and you don't have to do it every day, or at all. Tropes will be randomly selected from the list each day, except for some occasions where I will pick a thematically appropriate trope that may or may not be on the list.

Here's the list of previous tropes, so if you wish to nominate some tropes, check on here that it wasn't previously done. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Trope List:
Shrinking Violet
Infinity +1 Sword
Launcher of a Thousand Ships
Despair Event Horizon
Even the Girls Want Her
Blue-Collar Warlock
Grand Finale

I'd suggest anyone who's still interested in Projared's videos to get their downloads and mirrors ready while they can, because Youtube will probably want to purge him if he does indeed go to prison over this.

Rankings so far:
Engineer (Team Fortress 2) - 5 votes
Torbjrn (Overwatch) - 3 votes
Symmetra (Overwatch) - 2 votes
Vulcan (Smite)
Sans (Undertale)
Demon Hunter (Diablo 3)
Axton (Borderlands 2)
Heimerdinger
Roland (Borderlands)

Today's trope is the Turret Master. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheTurretMaster

In the realm of Video Games, most know of The Beastmaster and The Minion Master. Their major strength comes from their summoned companions. The Turret Master takes similar cues, but places his defense more in line with technology and traps.

In a nutshell, the Turret Master is a character with the ability to summon a stationary defense in the form of an automated Turret. Bear in mind this needn't be a literal turret: it can be anything that fulfills the general role of a stationary defense, even if it's just Torchlight's stick that shoots fire.

What exactly this ability entails varies a bit: Some suffer from Weak Turret Guns, while others are invulnerable but on a restricting timer. Oddly enough, it's more common for a character like this to be fairly powerful even without this ability than to be a Squishy Wizard as The Minion Master commonly is. Sometimes they might be able to pick their turrets up and wield them like a normal hand weapon. This ability is more common in Rogue- or Archer-styled classes. Classes like this can also usually form other traps, as well.

TL,DR: A character who attacks by setting turrets on the battlefield.

Nominations:
Engineer (Team Fortress 2)
Torbjrn (Overwatch)
Vulcan (Smite)

The winner of yesterday's trope, Elegant Gothic Lolita, was Celeste Ludenberg (Danganronpa), who got 5 votes.

Previous winners: Day 111 onwards
Degraded Boss - El Gigante (Resident Evil 4)
Hypercompetent Sidekick - Shego (Kim Possible)
Throw the Dog a Bone - Sweet Victory (Spongebob Squarepants)
The Snark Knight - Karkat Vantas (Homestuck)
Relationship Upgrade - Ron and Hermione (Harry Potter)
Pair the Spares - Shaggy and Velma (Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated)
Guile Hero - John Constantine (Constantine)
Bookworm - Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)
Disproportionate Retribution - Cartman feeds Scott Tenorman his parents (South Park)
Accidental Misnaming - Benedict Cumberbatch
Like You Would Really Do It - Pikachu's Goodbye (Pokemon) / Jon Snow "dies" (Game of Thrones) / Goofy "dies" (Kingdom Hearts 2)
Adorkable - Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter)
The Trickster - Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean)
The Dog was the Mastermind - Scabbers (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)
Wham Shot - Lily of the Valley plant in Walt's back yard (Breaking Bad)
Cerebus Syndrome - Harry Potter
Shipper on Deck - Genie ships Aladdin and Jasmine (Aladdin)
Shoo Out the Clowns - Mimir gives Kratos and Atreus privacy to scatter the ashes (God of War) / Half the trolls die (Homestuck)
Disc One Final Dungeon - Zanarkand (Final Fantasy X) / Hyrule Castle (Zelda: A Link to the Past)
Back for the Finale - Miles Edgeworth (Most Ace Attorney games)
The Very Definitely Final Dungeon - Cannon's Core (Sonic Adventure 2)
Redemption Equals Death - Darth Vader (Star Wars) / Theon Greyjoy (Game of Thrones) / Doctor Octopus (Spider-Man 2)
Godzilla Threshold - Operation Zero Dawn (Horizon Zero Dawn) / Crossing the streams (Ghostbusters)
One Winged Angel - Safer Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII)
11th-Hour Ranger - Sonic the Hedgehog (Super Smash Bros. Brawl)
Informed Poverty - The Simpsons
Post-Climax Confrontation - The Scouring of the Shire (The Lord of the Rings)
Death by Childbirth - Padme (Star Wars)
Defeat Means Friendship - Dragon Ball in general / Scotsman (Samurai Jack)

Hello everyone, and welcome back to Best of the Trope! Sorry I didn't do this yesterday because of internet troubles, but we should be back to our regularly scheduled programming now!

Here are the rules. Each day, I will post a trope from TV Tropes, and each poster can name up to three examples of that trope. Whichever nomination gets the most mentions wins! Posters may also name as many Honourable Mentions as they like, but they are purely optional and will not count towards the running score. You may look at the TV Tropes page for that day's trope for examples, but you do not have to pick all your examples from the page. You can nominate whatever examples you like, as long as they qualify for the trope. Each trope will last around 24 hours before the next one goes up.

Posters may also nominate any tropes they wish to see come up during the series. This is optional, and you don't have to do it every day, or at all. Tropes will be randomly selected from the list each day, except for some occasions where I will pick a thematically appropriate trope that may or may not be on the list.

Here's the list of previous tropes, so if you wish to nominate some tropes, check on here that it wasn't previously done. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Trope List:
Shrinking Violet
Infinity +1 Sword
Launcher of a Thousand Ships
Despair Event Horizon
Even the Girls Want Her
Blue-Collar Warlock
Shear Menace
Grand Finale

Rankings so far:
Margaret Moonlight (No More Heroes) - 2 votes
Celeste Ludenberg (Danganronpa) - 2 votes
Amy (Soul Calibur)
Stocking (Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt)
Madoka (Puelli Magi Madoka Magica)
Emilie Autumn
Marie Rose (Dead or Alive)
Misa Amane (Death Note)
Babymetal
Krilalaris (QP Shooting/Orange Juice)
Marion Phauna (Shaman King)

South Park
Lilo and Stitch

Today's trope is Elegant Gothic Lolita. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ElegantGothicLolita

The Elegant Gothic Lolita wears an outfit that makes her look like a Victorian doll: puffy skirts, lots of frills, bonnets, huge ribbons, mostly black. There's also shades of Alice in Wonderland (though it is beginning to fall out of favor), with the aforementioned dark motif. On occasion, her hair may be in Regal Ringlets or Ojou Ringlets.

TL,DR: A character who wears an outfit in the Gothic Lolita style.

Nominations:
Amy (Soul Calibur)
Stocking (Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt)
Madoka (Puelli Magi Madoka Magica)

The winners of yesterday's trope, Defeat Means Friendship, were Dragon Ball in general, and Scotsman (Samurai Jack), who got 4 votes each.

Previous winners: Day 111 onwards
Degraded Boss - El Gigante (Resident Evil 4)
Hypercompetent Sidekick - Shego (Kim Possible)
Throw the Dog a Bone - Sweet Victory (Spongebob Squarepants)
The Snark Knight - Karkat Vantas (Homestuck)
Relationship Upgrade - Ron and Hermione (Harry Potter)
Pair the Spares - Shaggy and Velma (Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated)
Guile Hero - John Constantine (Constantine)
Bookworm - Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)
Disproportionate Retribution - Cartman feeds Scott Tenorman his parents (South Park)
Accidental Misnaming - Benedict Cumberbatch
Like You Would Really Do It - Pikachu's Goodbye (Pokemon) / Jon Snow "dies" (Game of Thrones) / Goofy "dies" (Kingdom Hearts 2)
Adorkable - Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter)
The Trickster - Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean)
The Dog was the Mastermind - Scabbers (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)
Wham Shot - Lily of the Valley plant in Walt's back yard (Breaking Bad)
Cerebus Syndrome - Harry Potter
Shipper on Deck - Genie ships Aladdin and Jasmine (Aladdin)
Shoo Out the Clowns - Mimir gives Kratos and Atreus privacy to scatter the ashes (God of War) / Half the trolls die (Homestuck)
Disc One Final Dungeon - Zanarkand (Final Fantasy X) / Hyrule Castle (Zelda: A Link to the Past)
Back for the Finale - Miles Edgeworth (Most Ace Attorney games)
The Very Definitely Final Dungeon - Cannon's Core (Sonic Adventure 2)
Redemption Equals Death - Darth Vader (Star Wars) / Theon Greyjoy (Game of Thrones) / Doctor Octopus (Spider-Man 2)
Godzilla Threshold - Operation Zero Dawn (Horizon Zero Dawn) / Crossing the streams (Ghostbusters)
One Winged Angel - Safer Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII)
11th-Hour Ranger - Sonic the Hedgehog (Super Smash Bros. Brawl)
Informed Poverty - The Simpsons
Post-Climax Confrontation - The Scouring of the Shire (The Lord of the Rings)
Death by Childbirth - Padme (Star Wars)

Hello everyone, and welcome back to Best of the Trope!

Here are the rules. Each day, I will post a trope from TV Tropes, and each poster can name up to three examples of that trope. Whichever nomination gets the most mentions wins! Posters may also name as many Honourable Mentions as they like, but they are purely optional and will not count towards the running score. You may look at the TV Tropes page for that day's trope for examples, but you do not have to pick all your examples from the page. You can nominate whatever examples you like, as long as they qualify for the trope. Each trope will last around 24 hours before the next one goes up.

Posters may also nominate any tropes they wish to see come up during the series. This is optional, and you don't have to do it every day, or at all. Tropes will be randomly selected from the list each day, except for some occasions where I will pick a thematically appropriate trope that may or may not be on the list.

Here's the list of previous tropes, so if you wish to nominate some tropes, check on here that it wasn't previously done. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Trope List:
Shrinking Violet
Infinity +1 Sword
Launcher of a Thousand Ships
Despair Event Horizon
Even the Girls Want Her
Blue-Collar Warlock
The Turret Master
Grand Finale

How likely is it that people will move the goalposts and insist that Detective Pikachu doesn't count as a videogame movie because the mainstream associates Pokemon with the anime, therefore the videogame movie curse still hasn't been broken?

Might Dan from Street Fighter be worth considering as an iconic joke character?

Rough draw for the Simpsons Movie. I would have voted for it elsewhere in the bracket, but not against the Incredibles.

World of Final Fantasy - Besaid


Pokemon Conquest - Normal Battle


Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice - Objection! 2016

I watched Boku No Pico for a dare a few years back, and from what I remember of it, the first episode didn't sit right with me because it felt to me like the other guy was grooming Pico. The next two were better because the other characters were Pico's age, so it felt more consensual and without as much of a power imbalance. Coco is definitely a trap though. I didn't realise he was a boy until right at the end when Pico and Chico use male pronouns to talk about him, and before then I had assumed he was transgender or a hermaphrodite.

Seki-kun was the first "real" anime I watched, for want of a better way of putting it, (besides things like Pokemon and Yugioh when I was younger and didn't distinguish between western animation and anime) so it gets a few points for that, but it's definitely one to watch in small doses. You can blame this video for me nominating Kill Me Baby.



I'm watching that series now because someone in the comments said Kill Me Baby was their favourite anime ever and this is how they found out about it, and I agree with you that there is wasted potential here. The show rarely does anything with the premise of Sonia being an assassin, instead going for slice-of-life slapstick which could have been done in any other series. The episode with the impostors is my favourite one so far, because it actually makes use of the show's premise in a funny way. I also feel like the episodes are too long and disjointed, and that it would have been better off taking a page out of Seki-kun's book and having each episode be 5-10 minutes long, focusing on one or two sketches instead of going off on multiple tangents in the space of one episode. That'll teach me for taking anime recommendations from Youtube comments. I now regret not nominating Nigeria's Got Talent instead. That kid has some serious swagger in his dance moves.

Baka and Test is the first of my nominations so far that I actually really like, so it's a shame that you didn't enjoy it. Hopefully my remaining two noms will hang in there at least a little bit longer.