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Yesterday's trope, Evil Brit, was won by V.M. Varga (Fargo), who got 3 votes.

Previous Winners:
Un-Canceled - Futurama
Continuity Reboot - Batman Begins / Tomb Raider (2013)
Opposing Sports Team - Monstars (Space Jam) / Globo Gym Purple Cobras (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story) / Luca Goers (Final Fantasy X)
Calling Your Attacks - Falcon Punch (Super Smash Bros.)
Arc Words - You have failed this city! (Arrow) / Bad Wolf (Doctor Who)
The Gunslinger - Roland Deschain (The Dark Tower)
Interface Screw - Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy (Yoshi's Island)
Cold Sniper - Widowmaker (Overwatch)
Signature Move - Falcon Punch (Super Smash Bros.)
Badass Santa - Santa Christ (Nostalgia Critic)
How the Character Stole Christmas - How the King Stole Christmas (Brawl in the Family)
An Ass-Kicking Christmas - Die Hard
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain - Wile E. Coyote (Looney Tunes)
Walking Spoiler - Frank Fontaine (Bioshock) / Delta (Zero Time Dilemma)

Today's trope is Jack-of-All Stats. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JackOfAllStats

The Jack-of-All-Stats is a member of the Competitive Balance lineup who does not specialize, and explicitly so. Strong but not The Strongest, Fast but not The Fastest, Tough but not The Toughest. Good at everything, the best at nothing. His biggest strength is his lack of any glaring weaknesses, and biggest weakness is his lack of any remarkable strengths. He may have trouble dealing with characters whose skills are more extreme than his if they're allowed to press their advantages. Some games tout the Fragile Speedster as great for beginners, while the Mighty Glacier is for experts only. In other games, the Fragile Speedster can be tough to control while the Mighty Glacier is easier to handle. In either case, the Jack-of-All-Stats is an all around safe bet for anyone.

The Jack-of-All-Stats is the baseline to get the hang of the controls; this character lacks the extremes that might trip up a novice. It is also a solid choice for advanced players who want the flexibility to exploit the enemy's weakness, no matter what that may be. Whether the character retains his usefulness as the player's skill grows depends on how much the game rewards versatility as opposed to pure power, but the Jack-of-All-Stats is almost never the best character in any given game or a Game-Breaker.

TL,DR: The most balanced character, who doesn't specialise in anything or have any glaring weaknesses.

Nominations:
Mario (Super Smash Bros. / Mario Kart)
Ryu (Street Fighter)
Misturugi (Soul Calibur)

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. Just bear in mind that I may close trope nominations temporarily if the list gets too long. 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 in Season 1. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Here is the current list of tropes.

Karmic Death
Laughably Evil

Without further ado, let's get started!

Everyone has one vote each so far.

Yesterday's trope, Walking Spoiler, was a tie between Frank Fontaine (Bioshock) and Delta (Zero Time Dilemma), who got 2 votes each.

Previous Winners:
Un-Canceled - Futurama
Continuity Reboot - Batman Begins / Tomb Raider (2013)
Opposing Sports Team - Monstars (Space Jam) / Globo Gym Purple Cobras (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story) / Luca Goers (Final Fantasy X)
Calling Your Attacks - Falcon Punch (Super Smash Bros.)
Arc Words - You have failed this city! (Arrow) / Bad Wolf (Doctor Who)
The Gunslinger - Roland Deschain (The Dark Tower)
Interface Screw - Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy (Yoshi's Island)
Cold Sniper - Widowmaker (Overwatch)
Signature Move - Falcon Punch (Super Smash Bros.)
Badass Santa - Santa Christ (Nostalgia Critic)
How the Character Stole Christmas - How the King Stole Christmas (Brawl in the Family)
An Ass-Kicking Christmas - Die Hard
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain - Wile E. Coyote (Looney Tunes)

Today's trope is Evil Brit. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilBrit

Any character with a British accent, particularly in upper class Received Pronunciation (far and away the most common type you'll hear in American media) is likely to turn out to be a villain. The English tend to view this trope in one of three ways, depending on the particular depiction. Either: with a sense of pride (Evil Is Sexy / Evil Is Cool / Evil Is Posh after all!), mild eye-rolling amusement (tsk, Americans) OR annoyance at the apparent national stereotyping.

This includes all evil characters with British accents (where the rest of the cast has accents), whether or not they are actually stated to be British. Quite a few of these are not actual Brits, but have anomalous quasi-British (usually vaguely upper-class and English, as noted above) accents in settings where almost everyone else has some sort of American accent and no one is necessarily supposed to be from either country, just to mark that character as villainous. As you might expect, this version appears to be associated with films and shows in which the use of English is (at least weakly implied to be) a Translation Convention for whatever the characters are "really" saying, although it's not exclusive to them. See The Queen's Latin and Aliens of London.

Villains of this type come in two flavours. The first is usually wealthy and snobbish, and probably quite well educated. The second is the hooligan with the Cockney (or similar) accent.

TL,DR: The villain has a British accent when the other characters don't, because it makes them sound more evil.

Nominations:
Hans Gruber (Die Hard) - He has a British accent despite supposedly being German.
Scar (The Lion King) - He has a British accent despite his brother and nephew both having American accents.
Goku Black (Dragonball Super) - He switches from the Christian Bale Bat-voice to a British accent when he transforms into his Rose form.

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. Just bear in mind that I may close trope nominations temporarily if the list gets too long. 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 in Season 1. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Here is the current list of tropes.

Jack-of-All-Stats
Karmic Death
Laughably Evil

Without further ado, let's get started!

Rankings so far:
Frank Fontaine (Bioshock) - 2 votes
Venom Snake (Metal Gear Solid V) - 2 votes

The others have one vote each. I'm not listing them as I normally do because I'm only allowed 15 spoiler tags in one post, and the number of different nominations exceeds that, so I thought only listing the ones who have more than one vote would be better than trying to choose who is more or less spoilery for them to be without spoiler tags in the full list.

Yesterday's trope, Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain, was won by Wile E. Coyote (Looney Tunes), who got 5 votes.

Previous Winners:
Un-Canceled - Futurama
Continuity Reboot - Batman Begins / Tomb Raider (2013)
Opposing Sports Team - Monstars (Space Jam) / Globo Gym Purple Cobras (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story) / Luca Goers (Final Fantasy X)
Calling Your Attacks - Falcon Punch (Super Smash Bros.)
Arc Words - You have failed this city! (Arrow) / Bad Wolf (Doctor Who)
The Gunslinger - Roland Deschain (The Dark Tower)
Interface Screw - Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy (Yoshi's Island)
Cold Sniper - Widowmaker (Overwatch)
Signature Move - Falcon Punch (Super Smash Bros.)
Badass Santa - Santa Christ (Nostalgia Critic)
How the Character Stole Christmas - How the King Stole Christmas (Brawl in the Family)
An Ass-Kicking Christmas - Die Hard

Today's trope is Walking Spoiler. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WalkingSpoiler

A character or thing who has most of the tropes underneath it as spoilers. Mentioning anything about this character/thing at all worst case scenario, this includes its name or even its existence alone will often reveal spoilers about the work they feature in, which predictably makes talking about it difficult. Some fans reconcile this by using euphemisms, others by avoiding talking about it at all, others just by placing a warning that the following will contain massive spoilers.

Can overlap with It Was His Sled, if the work in question is old or culturally engrained enough that pretty much everybody already knows about the various plot twists. Often will overlap with Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer if the marketers don't decide otherwise.

Also, this is not about characters that are involved in many plot twists but the mere existence of the character within the narrative is a spoiler itself, that makes it impossible to talk about the character without spoiling the plot.

TL,DR: A character who is difficult to talk about because so much about them, sometimes the fact that they're in the story at all, is spoiler material.

Nominations:
The Phantom (Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies)
Superior Spider-Man (Marvel Comics)
Nebby (Pokemon Sun and Moon)

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. Just bear in mind that I may close trope nominations temporarily if the list gets too long. 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 in Season 1. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Here is the current list of tropes.

Evil Brit
Jack-of-All-Stats
Karmic Death
Laughably Evil

Without further ado, let's get started!

Rankings so far:
Wile E. Coyote (Looney Tunes) 5 votes
Team Rocket (Pokemon) 4 votes
Dr Doofenshmirtz (Phineas and Ferb) 3 votes
Mid-Boss / Vyers (Disgaea) 3 votes
Gilgamesh (Final Fantasy) 2 votes
Jack Spicer (Xiaolin Showdown) 2 votes
Tom (Tom and Jerry) 2 votes
Robbie Rotten (Lazytown)
The Carpenter (DC Comics)
Patrick Coulasour (Gundam 00)
Londo Mollari (Babylon 5)
Kahran Ramsus (Xenogears)
Elmer Fudd (Looney Tunes)
Trix Rabbit (Trix)
Shocker (Spider-Man)
Nux (Mad Max: Fury Road)
Injustice League
Megamind (Megamind)
Toiletnator (Kids Next Door)
Bebop and Rocksteady (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
Gilbert (Trails in the Sky)
Zigerions (Rick and Morty)

I'm happy to see that today's trope is so active!

Yesterday's trope, An Ass-Kicking Christmas, was won by Die Hard which got 8 votes.

Previous Winners:
Un-Canceled - Futurama
Continuity Reboot - Batman Begins / Tomb Raider (2013)
Opposing Sports Team - Monstars (Space Jam) / Globo Gym Purple Cobras (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story) / Luca Goers (Final Fantasy X)
Calling Your Attacks - Falcon Punch (Super Smash Bros.)
Arc Words - You have failed this city! (Arrow) / Bad Wolf (Doctor Who)
The Gunslinger - Roland Deschain (The Dark Tower)
Interface Screw - Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy (Yoshi's Island)
Cold Sniper - Widowmaker (Overwatch)
Signature Move - Falcon Punch (Super Smash Bros.)
Badass Santa - Santa Christ (Nostalgia Critic)
How the Character Stole Christmas - How the King Stole Christmas (Brawl in the Family)

Today's trope is Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IneffectualSympatheticVillain

A potential villain who is consistently a failure or never gets the respect that he thinks he deserves, and may even be angry that the heroes don't take him seriously.

He may not necessarily be entirely inept or have a laughably mild idea of what counts as villainy. Villain Decay is usually too simple an explanation. This is sometimes a relative situation, and the hero's Rogues Gallery just happens to include people more showy, better financed, or just plain scarier than him. These guys are why people are found Rooting for the Empire. A defining feature of such a villain is his gullibility: they are more often than not pitted against a Trickster who easily bamboozles them and leads them on their defeat, while it is obvious to the viewers that they should know better than listen to and believe their intended victim. A considerable number of them tend to be Klutzes who are likely to fall in their own traps thanks to poor judgement, underestimating their foes to a ludicrous extent and/or failure to think ahead or pay any attention to their surroundings. And it is a usual way to showcase their stupidity by making them screw up their own plans and even die or get injured due to such mistakes in more realistic and grittier works.

This does not mean that he doesn't bear animosity; that's a Punch-Clock Villain. He's probably jumping at the opportunity to outdo his rivals and the hero. But there is something about his perseverance or attitude about the whole thing that is just short of sympathetic.

TL,DR: A villain who is so harmless and pathetic you just feel sorry for them.

Nominations:
Dr Doofenshmirtz (Phineas and Ferb)
Robbie Rotten (Lazytown)
The Carpenter (DC Comics)

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. Just bear in mind that I may close trope nominations temporarily if the list gets too long. 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 in Season 1. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Here is the current list of tropes.

Evil Brit
Jack-of-All-Stats
Karmic Death
Laughably Evil
Walking Spoiler

Without further ado, let's get started!

Rankings so far:
Die Hard - 6 votes
For Whom the Sleigh Bell Tolls (American Dad) - 3 votes
Batman: Arkham Origins - 2 votes
Red Sleigh Down (South Park) - 2 votes
Jingle All the Way - 2 votes
Any of the Punisher Christmas one-shots
The Christmas Tree of Might (DBZ Abridged)
Bayonetta 2
How the Saints Saved Christmas (Saints Row IV)

One more thing, this will be the last of the holiday tropes I do. From tomorrow, I will be going back to selecting from the list, so feel free to submit some trope nominations if you like.

Yesterday's trope, How the Character Stole Christmas, was won by How the King Stole Christmas (Brawl in the Family), which got 3 votes.

Previous Winners:
Un-Canceled - Futurama
Continuity Reboot - Batman Begins / Tomb Raider (2013)
Opposing Sports Team - Monstars (Space Jam) / Globo Gym Purple Cobras (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story) / Luca Goers (Final Fantasy X)
Calling Your Attacks - Falcon Punch (Super Smash Bros.)
Arc Words - You have failed this city! (Arrow) / Bad Wolf (Doctor Who)
The Gunslinger - Roland Deschain (The Dark Tower)
Interface Screw - Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy (Yoshi's Island)
Cold Sniper - Widowmaker (Overwatch)
Signature Move - Falcon Punch (Super Smash Bros.)
Badass Santa - Santa Christ (Nostalgia Critic)

Today's trope is An Ass-Kicking Christmas. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AnAssKickingChristmas

A work/episode/story takes place during Christmas-time, and it's action-packed. "Peace on Earth, Goodwill towards man" kind of gets left by the wayside when some people just want some good, old fashioned fights and explosions. Maybe they're finding a way to channel their aggression from shopping? This is a common occurrence when action/adventure oriented shows want to do a Christmas Special, but they know the viewers are tuning in expecting some ass-kicking action.

This is only about action works. The way to know is if you take the Christmas elements out, it would be straight up action.

And even if a work isn't directly about Christmas, a lot of action works get some of their best business around this time.

TL,DR: An action story that takes place around Christmas time. It can be either a minor detail, or pivotal to the story.

Nominations:
Die Hard
Batman: Arkham Origins
Red Sleigh Down (South Park)

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. Just bear in mind that I may close trope nominations temporarily if the list gets too long. 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 in Season 1. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Here is the current list of tropes.

Evil Brit
Jack-of-All-Stats
Karmic Death
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
Laughably Evil
Walking Spoiler

Without further ado, let's get started!

Rankings so far:
How the King Stole Christmas (Brawl in the Family) - 2 votes
How the Thief King Stole Slavemas (Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series)
How Akuma Kicked Christmas' Ass

The winner of yesterday's trope, Badass Santa, was Santa Christ (Nostalgia Critic), who scored 5 votes.

Previous Winners:
Un-Canceled - Futurama
Continuity Reboot - Batman Begins / Tomb Raider (2013)
Opposing Sports Team - Monstars (Space Jam) / Globo Gym Purple Cobras (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story) / Luca Goers (Final Fantasy X)
Calling Your Attacks - Falcon Punch (Super Smash Bros.)
Arc Words - You have failed this city! (Arrow) / Bad Wolf (Doctor Who)
The Gunslinger - Roland Deschain (The Dark Tower)
Interface Screw - Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy (Yoshi's Island)
Cold Sniper - Widowmaker (Overwatch)
Signature Move - Falcon Punch (Super Smash Bros.)

Today's trope is How the Character Stole Christmas. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HowTheCharacterStoleChristmas

Any story in a show that is a take on How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (even if it's a different holiday).

Basically, a villainous character attempts to stop a beloved holiday from coming by stealing all the material elements of the occasion. However, he is stunned to see that all his victims care about is the holiday's true spiritual significance, which he could not steal. The villain is so profoundly moved that he has a change of heart, returns all his loot without prompting and is welcomed to celebrate the occasion with his former victims.

TL,DR: A parody of How the Grinch Stole Christmas with the cast of another series.

Nominations:
How the King Stole Christmas (Brawl in the Family)
How the Thief King Stole Slavemas (Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series)
How Akuma Kicked Christmas' Ass

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. Just bear in mind that I may close trope nominations temporarily if the list gets too long. 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 in Season 1. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Here is the current list of tropes.

Evil Brit
Jack-of-All-Stats
Karmic Death
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
Laughably Evil
Walking Spoiler

Without further ado, let's get started!

Rankings so far:
Santa Christ (Nostalgia Critic) - 5 votes
North (Rise of the Guardians) - 3 votes
Santa (American Dad) - 2 votes
Santa With Muscles
Santa (Santa's Slay)
Santa (I am Santa Claus) (I'll allow this despite being an honourable mention because FBike1 only used 1 of their nominations)
Santa (Robot Chicken)

I'll also take this opportunity to wish everyone an enjoyable December 25th celebration of choice!

The winner of yesterday's trope, Signature Move, was Falcon Punch (Super Smash Bros.), which scored 4 votes.

Previous Winners:
Un-Canceled - Futurama
Continuity Reboot - Batman Begins / Tomb Raider (2013)
Opposing Sports Team - Monstars (Space Jam) / Globo Gym Purple Cobras (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story) / Luca Goers (Final Fantasy X)
Calling Your Attacks - Falcon Punch (Super Smash Bros.)
Arc Words - You have failed this city! (Arrow) / Bad Wolf (Doctor Who)
The Gunslinger - Roland Deschain (The Dark Tower)
Interface Screw - Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy (Yoshi's Island)
Cold Sniper - Widowmaker (Overwatch)

Fun fact - Falcon Punch is the first winner in Season 2 to win two tropes.

Today's trope is Badass Santa. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BadAssSanta

If you stop and think about it, Santa Claus isn't that much different from Superman. Both have amazing powers that defy the laws of physics as we humans know them. Both can fly around the world with no problem. They both like the color red, they both have their headquarters hidden in the Arctic Circle, and they both starred in movies that involved producer Ilya Salkind. The two characters even met once!

So it is not surprising, really, that there are so many instances in fiction where Santa is a Big Damn Hero, defending the Spirit of Christmas from Humbugs. This kind of Santa Claus doesn't really need help Saving Christmas, though there may be trouble if an Evil Twin Bad Santa shows up.

TL,DR: Santa is hard as nails and will end anyone who tries to mess with Christmas.

Nominations:
North (Rise of the Guardians)
Santa with Muscles
Santa Christ (Nostalgia Critic)

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. Just bear in mind that I may close trope nominations temporarily if the list gets too long. 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 in Season 1. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Here is the current list of tropes.

Evil Brit
Jack-of-All-Stats
Karmic Death
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
Laughably Evil
Walking Spoiler

Without further ado, let's get started!

Rankings so far:
Inhale (Kirby) 2 votes
Falcon Punch (Captain Falcon, Smash Bros.) 2 votes
GET OVER HERE spear (Mortal Kombat) 2 votes
Sonic Boom (Guile, Street Fighter)
Avada Kedavra (Voldemort, Harry Potter)
Splash (Magikarp, Pokemon)
Clanging Scales / Clangorous Soulblaze (Kommo-o, Pokmon)
Penance Stare (Marvel Comics, Ghost Rider)
Neckbreaker (Resident Evil 4, HUNK)
Death Blossom (Overwatch, Reaper)
Rikochet's Pulverizing Pinball (Mucha Lucha)
Hokuto Hyakuretsu Ken (Fist of the North Star)
Fantastic frank west
Leap of Faith (Assassin's Creed)
Bursting through walls (Kool-Aid Man)

One more thing: for the next few days after today, I'll be doing holiday-themed tropes instead of picking from the list. I'm thinking of doing this for December 24-26.

In retrospect, I done goofed voting for him because he isn't really efficient at all, he enjoys messing with people and being cruel too much. I considered The End or Quiet instead, but I already had Sniper Wolf as a Metal Gear rep and I didn't want to vote for more than one. I considered Xigbar as well, but decided against it as he is one of the more talkative Organization XIII members.

The winner of yesterday's trope, Cold Sniper, was Widowmaker (Overwatch), who got 3 votes.

Previous winners:
Un-Canceled - Futurama
Continuity Reboot - Batman Begins / Tomb Raider (2013)
Opposing Sports Team - Monstars (Space Jam) / Globo Gym Purple Cobras (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story) / Luca Goers (Final Fantasy X)
Calling Your Attacks - Falcon Punch (Super Smash Bros.)
Arc Words - You have failed this city! (Arrow) / Bad Wolf (Doctor Who)
The Gunslinger - Roland Deschain (The Dark Tower)
Interface Screw - Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy (Yoshi's Island)

Today's trope is Signature Move. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SignatureMove

Many characters have a specific skill, attack, taunt, evasive maneuver, and/or spell they use more frequently than any of their other ones; this is the character's Signature Move.

TL,DR: A move that is commonly associated with the character that uses it.

Nominations:
Sonic Boom (Guile, Street Fighter)
Avada Kedavra (Voldemort, Harry Potter)
Splash (Magikarp, Pokemon) (I'm having a bit of fun with this one)

Lots of good ones to choose for this trope, enough so that it's difficult to narrow it down to three.

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. Just bear in mind that I may close trope nominations temporarily if the list gets too long. 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 in Season 1. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Here is the current list of tropes.

Evil Brit
Jack-of-All-Stats
Karmic Death
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
Laughably Evil
Walking Spoiler

Without further ado, let's get started!

Rankings so far:
Widowmaker (Overwatch) - 3 votes
Sniper Wolf (Metal Gear Solid) - 2 votes
Deadshot (DC Comics) - 2 votes
Duke Togo (Golgo 13) - 2 votes
Ramsay Bolton (Game of Thrones)
Boone (Fallout New Vegas)
The Caller (Phone Booth)
Xigbar (Kingdom Hearts)
Reki (Aria the Scarlet Ammo)

The winner of yesterday's trope, Interface Screw, was Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy (Yoshi's Island), which scored 4 votes.

Previous winners:
Un-Canceled - Futurama
Continuity Reboot - Batman Begins / Tomb Raider (2013)
Opposing Sports Team - Monstars (Space Jam) / Globo Gym Purple Cobras (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story) / Luca Goers (Final Fantasy X)
Calling Your Attacks - Falcon Punch (Super Smash Bros.)
Arc Words - You have failed this city! (Arrow) / Bad Wolf (Doctor Who)
The Gunslinger - Roland Deschain (The Dark Tower)

Today's trope is Cold Sniper. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ColdSniper

If you find The Stoic deployed by the military in the field and killing your dudes while remaining undetected, he or she may be this: the cold, silent, camouflaged hunter with a scope, a rifle, a very good eye and near-zero emotions, who can shoot you in the face from a mile away and not lose a wink of sleep over it.

A trope commonly applied to a lot of snipers, mostly the loners, what with loners being eerie. Prevalent due to the allure and popularity of the idea of a lone, stealthy, emotionless and mysterious "lone wolf" prowling invisible in the nights of the jungle, in search for prey

TL,DR: An expert sniper who rarely lets their emotions get in the way while sniping.

Nominations:
Sniper Wolf (Metal Gear Solid)
Widowmaker (Overwatch)
Ramsay Bolton (Game of Thrones)

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. Just bear in mind that I may close trope nominations temporarily if the list gets too long. 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 in Season 1. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Here is the current list of tropes.

Evil Brit
Signature Move
Jack-of-All-Stats
Karmic Death
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
Laughably Evil
Walking Spoiler

Without further ado, let's get started!

Rankings so far:
Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy (Yoshi's Island) - 3 votes
MGS2
Use the middle stick to dodge Joker's shots (Batman: Arkham Asylum)
Hideo (Metal Gear Solid)
Sanity effects (Eternal Darkness)
Blooper (Mario Kart)
The final boss (Beyond Good and Evil)
N-Bomb (Perfect Dark)
VHS Distortion Panels (Mister Miracle 2017 series)

The winner of yesterday's trope, The Gunslinger, is Roland Deschain (The Dark Tower), who scored 5 votes.

Previous winners:
Un-Canceled - Futurama
Continuity Reboot - Batman Begins / Tomb Raider (2013)
Opposing Sports Team - Monstars (Space Jam) / Globo Gym Purple Cobras (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story) / Luca Goers (Final Fantasy X)
Calling Your Attacks - Falcon Punch (Super Smash Bros.)
Arc Words - You have failed this city! (Arrow) / Bad Wolf (Doctor Who)

Today's trope is Interface Screw. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InterfaceScrew

An event in a video game where the controller buttons are switched around, or the player's display is interfered with.

This may be one of the Standard Status Effects. When it's done well, it can be entertaining or funny. However, done poorly, it may break game immersion and cause frustration. If it makes the game noticeably more difficult to play, then it can be considered a form of Fake Difficulty. If such a status effect is available for the player to use on enemies, expect for it to either do nothing at all due to the lack of an interface between the AI and the game, or cause deliberate Artificial Stupidity to compensate for this

TL,DR: When you can't see what you're doing, or the controls are switched.

Nominations:
Blooper (Mario Kart)
Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy (Yoshi's Island)
The final boss (Beyond Good and Evil)

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. Just bear in mind that I may close trope nominations temporarily if the list gets too long. 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 in Season 1. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Here is the current list of tropes.

Evil Brit
Signature Move
Jack-of-All-Stats
Karmic Death
Cold Sniper
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
Laughably Evil
Walking Spoiler

Without further ado, let's get started!

Rankings so far:
Roland Deschain (The Dark Tower) 5 votes
Revolver Ocelot (Metal Gear Solid) 4 votes
Deadpool 3 votes
Deadshot (DC Comics) 2 votes
Dante (Devil May Cry) 2 votes
John Marston (Red Dead Redemption) 2 votes
Erron Black (Mortal Kombat)
Inspector Tequila (Hardboiled)
Max Payne
Doc Holliday (Tombstone)
John Preston (Equilibrium)
Wesley Gibson (Wanted)
Clive (Gunman Clive)
Irvine Kinneas (Final Fantasy VIII)
Doomguy (Doom)

Yesterday's trope, Arc Words, was a tie between You have failed this city! (Arrow) and Bad Wolf (Doctor Who), which scored 3 votes each.

Previous Winners:
Un-Canceled - Futurama
Continuity Reboot - Batman Begins / Tomb Raider (2013)
Opposing Sports Team - Monstars (Space Jam) / Globo Gym Purple Cobras (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story) / Luca Goers (Final Fantasy X)
Calling Your Attacks - Falcon Punch (Super Smash Bros.)

Today's trope is The Gunslinger. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheGunslinger

It should be noted that for a while, guns and bullets were considered vulgar. Point, fire, they drop dead. This is so mundane that monsters and heroes who were cool enough became Immune to Bullets. After all, if it were that easy, the police would be able to deal with it.

However, certain genres have put the "cool" back into guns. It's all about style, so expect a lot of flourishes that wouldn't work in real life, such as using Guns Akimbo.

The Gunslinger is this hero. They might be from The Western, Film Noir, Heroic Bloodshed or just plain scenery-destroying action flicks. A wandering gunslinger is often The Drifter, one specifically out to do good is also the Knight Errant. But overall for some reason, alongside the Cowboy, gunslingers have also become a cultural image of American people and American warrior culture abroad.

The Gunslinger comes in a few styles:

The Trick Shot: Can shoot the wings off the back of a fly while hanging upside down and having to ricochet off a wall or two. Will occasionally interact with surroundings using same pistol.
The Vaporizer: Who cares if one bullet misses when some of the 2,000 rounds will inevitably hit? And explode? This version relies on BFGs and lots and lots of dakka.
The Woo: Tends to be an expert with Bullet Time and Gun Fu, with an emphasis on pistols, very close combat, and the ability to move faster than a million different pieces of supersonic lead. Alternatively, a master of Gun Kata. The version most likely to use two guns at once.
The Quick Draw: There's a hole in your head where that thought of squaring up against this guy used to be. And what shots others happen to sneak are intercepted mid-flight.

TL,DR: A character who fights with guns, and does so in a very skilled and stylish manner.

Nominations:
Deadshot (DC Comics)
Erron Black (Mortal Kombat)
Inspector Tequila (Hardboiled)

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. Just bear in mind that I may close trope nominations temporarily if the list gets too long. 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 in Season 1. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Here is the current list of tropes.

Evil Brit
Interface Screw
Signature Move
Jack-of-All-Stats
Karmic Death
Cold Sniper
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
Laughably Evil
Walking Spoiler

Without further ado, let's get started!

Rankings so far:
Ohana (Lilo and Stitch) 2 votes
You have failed this city! (Arrow) 2 votes
Bad Wolf (Doctor Who)
DL-6 (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney)
Fingerbang (South Park)
In my restless dreams, I see that town. Silent Hill. (Silent Hill 2)
Run, Barry, Run (The Flash)
Don't tell me what I can't do! (Lost)
Would you kindly? (Bioshock)
Nothing is true; everything is permitted (Assassin's Creed)
Live together, die alone (Lost)
Life before death. Strength before weakness. Journey before destination.
REDRUM (The Shining)

The winner of yesterday's trope, Calling Your Attacks, was Falcon Punch (Super Smash Bros), which scored 6 votes.

Previous Winners:
Un-Canceled - Futurama
Continuity Reboot - Batman Begins / Tomb Raider (2013)
Opposing Sports Team - Monstars (Space Jam) / Globo Gym Purple Cobras (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story) / Luca Goers (Final Fantasy X)

Today's trope is Arc Words. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArcWords

A word or phrase that appears throughout an Arc as a Motif.

Arc Words can be a way to hint at the Aesop or one of the themes of a show, often in the form of a question the characters must find an answer to. Alternately, they can be used for Foreshadowing.

They're often cryptic, and left unexplained until the Climax or Dnouement. This builds up tension and mystery, and hints that anyone using the words knows more than they're telling. This enigmatic variant is a typical element of a Mind Screw, and is sometimes used as a memetic way of advertising the show.

TL;DR: Words or phrases that are repeated throughout the story which have some special significance to them.

Nominations:
Bad Wolf (Doctor Who)
DL-6 (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney)
Ohana (Lilo and Stitch)

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. Just bear in mind that I may close trope nominations temporarily if the list gets too long. 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 in Season 1. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Here is the current list of tropes.

Evil Brit
Interface Screw
Signature Move
Jack-of-All-Stats
Karmic Death
Cold Sniper
The Gunslinger
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
Laughably Evil

Without further ado, let's get started!

Rankings so far:
Falcon Punch (Super Smash Bros) - 5 votes
Kamehameha (Dragonball) 5 votes
Hadouken (Street Fighter) - 2 votes
Kurikara Fundo Uchi (Asura's Wrath)
Hard-to-avoid Area Attack! (Psychonauts)
Slooow Moootiooon Diving at Yoooou.... (Family Guy)
Domon kasshu - shining finger/erupting burning finger
"Oh-I'm-gonna-throw-you-over-there!" (Mortal Kombat 4)
Palutena (Super Smash Bros)
Everyone (Star Ocean)
Judo Chop (Austin Powers)
Shoryuken (Street Fighter)
Fire in the Hole (Boyd Crowder - Justified)
Bob, do something! (Ashe - Overwatch)
Giga Drill Breaker

Yesterday's trope, Opposing Sports Team, was a three-way tie between the Monstars (Space Jam), Globo Gym Purple Cobras (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story) and the Luca Goers (Final Fantasy X), which scored 2 votes each.

Previous Winners:
Un-Canceled - Futurama
Continuity Reboot - Batman Begins / Tomb Raider (2013)

Today's trope is Calling Your Attacks. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CallingYourAttacks

If you can do something more impressive than just throw a punch, your attack(s) must have an equally impressive name. More than that, you have to call it out as you launch the attack. It doesn't matter if it's a martial arts move, a magical spell or your secret superweapon, if you can't say its name, it just isn't nearly as cool or effective. Also, expect plenty of echoing to come with it, and (if a fighter is feeling particularly bombastic) dramatic... *pauses* ...WITHAYELLATTHEEND! A standard feature of practically every Magical Girl, high fantasy, or martial arts anime.

A variant has a Combat Commentator recognizing the attacks being used (usually with a line like "That's the legendary such-and-such-and-something-or-other technique!") and explaining them to any other characters watching (and the audience, of course). When the person launching the attack spends time doing the commentary, however, they may be guilty of Talking Is a Free Action. And, are hopefully in a comic, manga, melodramatic or animated show rather than doing this in Real Life.

TL, DR: A character yells the name of their move before using it. This can be for signature moves only, or for every move they use.

Nominations:
Wyzen (Kurikara Fundo Uchi!) (Asura's Wrath)
Kochamara (All of his attacks parody this trope. Hard-to-avoid Area Attack!) (Psychonauts)
Captain Falcon (Falcon Punch!) (Super Smash Bros)

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. Just bear in mind that I may close trope nominations temporarily if the list gets too long. 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 in Season 1. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Here is the current list of tropes.

Evil Brit
Interface Screw
Signature Move
Jack-of-All-Stats
Karmic Death
Cold Sniper
The Gunslinger
Arc Words
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
Laughably Evil

Without further ado, let's get started!

Rankings so far:

Globo Gym Purple Cobras - 2 votes
Monstars
Luca Goers
The True Nightwings

Yesterday's trope, Continuity Reboot, was a tie between Batman Begins and Tomb Raider (2013), which scored 3 votes each.

Previous winners:
Un-Canceled - Futurama

Today's trope is Opposing Sports Team. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OpposingSportsTeam

The villains of any sports series or movie, the Opposing Sports Team is the number one team before the main hero's eventual victory. They seem to be made up of Designated Villains and Villainy Free Villains, but they are not: they got to this point not because of Team Spirit, but because of either cheating and/or bullying and abusive behaviour or at the best of times a grueling, soulless regimen that goes against whatever the Aesop of the show is. They almost always wear a uniform that is mostly black. These may be to sports what the "Stop Having Fun" Guys are to video games; the types who play the game solely to win, and will resort to any means to do so.

TL,DR: The main team or opponent the heroes face off against in a sports story. They have bad attitudes and are often cheaters.

Nominations:
Monstars (Space Jam)
Globo Gym Purple Cobras (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story)
Luca Goers (Final Fantasy X)

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. Just bear in mind that I may close trope nominations temporarily if the list gets too long. 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 in Season 1. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Here is the current list of tropes.

Evil Brit
Calling Your Attacks
Interface Screw
Signature Move
Jack-of-All-Stats
Karmic Death
Cold Sniper
The Gunslinger
Arc Words
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
Laughably Evil

Without further ado, let's get started!

From characters who've been in the contest before, Akuma maybe? Axel from Kingdom Hearts came really close to winning at least twice before, but I'd imagine any chance he has of winning a match is long gone by now, unless he drew someone really weak as his opponent.

Rankings so far:

Batman Begins - 3 votes
Deadpool 2 votes
Tomb Raider (2013)
Pokemon: I Choose You
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Punisher MAX
Crisis on Infinite Earths
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich

I'll be at work when 24 hours have been for this topic, so there'll be a few hours extra on this one, and I'll do the next one when I come home from work.

Yesterday's trope, Un-Canceled, was won by Futurama, which scored 4 votes.

Today's trope is Continuity Reboot.

The writers of a particular work are about to start working on a continuation story, but they have an irreparable issue with the prior continuity.

The solution? Initiate a Continuity Reboot.

A Continuity Reboot is the partial or complete elimination of continuity from any and all previous works in a series. You could say it's the creation of an Alternate Universe that shares virtually little to no canon with the preceding works in a franchise. It's not a Reset Button or Snap Back: while those revert the continuity to a previous state, a Continuity Reboot starts over, providing the authors with a new clean slate to work on. In one form, as far as later works are concerned everything before it is in Canon Discontinuity (to which it sometimes overlaps).

Frequently, a Continuity Reboot will include one (or more) Tone Shifts, usually to whatever is considered the best money-maker for the target demographic, Darker and Edgier or Lighter and Softer.

TL,DR: An old, finished series is brought back for a new take which does not share continuity with the previous version. This acts as a new jumping-on point for viewers.

Here's the trope page link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ContinuityReboot

Nominations:
Batman Begins
Tomb Raider (2013)
Pokemon: I Choose You

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. Just bear in mind that I may close trope nominations temporarily if the list gets too long. 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 in Season 1. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Here is the current list of tropes.

Evil Brit
Calling Your Attacks
Interface Screw
Signature Move
Jack-of-All-Stats
Karmic Death
Cold Sniper
The Gunslinger
Arc Words
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
Laughably Evil
Opposing Sports Team

Without further ado, let's get started!

The rankings so far:

Futurama 4 votes
Family Guy 3 votes
Best of the Trope 3 votes
Telltale's The Walking Dead: The Final Season 2 votes
Firefly 2 votes
Community 2 votes
Brooklyn Nine Nine
The Expanse
Veronica Mars
Lucifer
Allison Road
The X-Files
Star Trek: TOS
Young Justice
Neighbours

Today's trope is Un-Canceled.

That rarest of all television phenomena. A show that has been condemned to the fiery pits of cancellation is resurrected by the same executives who sought to destroy it... or different executives who want to right the wrongs of the previous ones.

Most times, this means a show is picked up by a cable channel or other network and put back into production. Very rarely, a show will be resurrected by the same network.

The biggest causes are either a campaign by fans (along with a compliant creator), or high sales in other media, such as DVD. If the show is not popular enough to warrant a whole new series but an ending is in demand by fans, then a TV movie, miniseries, or a new season may be ordered to Wrap It Up.

TL,DR: This one's pretty self-explanatory really. A show is cancelled, and later brought back, either by the same network, or a different one. I'm sure you can see why this was a fitting trope for today.

Here's the trope page link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UnCanceled

Nominations:
Family Guy
Telltale's The Walking Dead: The Final Season
Best of the Trope