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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)