Board 8 > Best of the Trope Day 64: Disposable Intern

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Yesterday's Results
Ozymandias - 6
Light Yagami - 4
Nina - 3
Vash - 2
Kvothe - 2
Rebecca Bunch - 1
Dr. House - 1
Cloud Strife - 1
Handsome Jack - 1
Dorain Gray - 1
Delita Hyral - 1
Cyrano de Bergerac - 1
Dr. Cox - 1
Sailor Venus - 1
Asuka - 1
Auron - 1
Izuru Kamukura (Danganronpa 2) - 1
Goro Akechi (Persona 5) - 1
Gasai Yuno - 1
Byakuya Togami - 1
Starbuck - 1
Junpei - 1
Kevin Casey - 1
Kamina - 1
Kaladin Stormblessed - 1
Miles Edgeworth - 1
Big Boss - 1
Walter White - 1
Robbo - 1
John Constantine - 1

Nominations
Iconic Sequel Character
Intelligible Unintelligible
Adolf Hitlarious
Uncanny Valley
The Zeppo
Body Surf
Corpsing
Lethal Chef
One of Us
Stepford Smiler

Vote for UP TO THREE CHARACTERS/ETC. you think best embody the trope of the day (or just for your favorite characters that fit the trope). Feel free to change your vote, but if you do just specify who you're changing from and changing to. Try to include the source the character's from.

Feel free to nominate tropes for future days, preferably ones that have TV Tropes pages to make it easier. Day will end in 24 hours or so.
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Full Results
Fat Best Friend - Samwise Gamgee (Lord of the Rings)
Creepy Child - Wednesday Addams (The Addams Family)
Genre Savvy - Abed Nadir (Community)
Wrong Genre Savvy - Don Quixote (Don Quixote)
Enemy Outside - Piccolo (Dragonball Z)
Ascended Extra - Harley Quinn (Batman)
Final Girl - Ellen Ripley (Aliens)
The Adjectival Man - The Illusive Man (Mass Effect)
Adaptational Hero - Bigby Wolf (The Wolf Among Us)
Adaptational Villain - The Monster (Frankenstein)
Superpowered Evil Side - Yami Bakura (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
Mad Bomber - Norman Osbourne/Green Goblin (Spider-Man)
Regretful Traitor - Zuko (Avatar: The Last Airbender) / Boromir (Lord of the Rings)
Bare-Fisted Monk - Captain Falcon (Smash Bros.)
Sexy Priest - Kirei Kotomine (Fate series)
Butt Monkey - Jerry Gergich (Parks & Rec) / Luigi (Mario Bros.) / Toby Flenderson (The Office)
Eldritch Abomination - Cthuhlu (The Call of Cthuhlu) / Giygas (Earthbound)
Scapegoat - Sirius Black (Harry Potter)
The Heavy - Darth Vader (Star Wars)
Gentle Giant - Rubeus Hagrid (Harry Potter) / John Coffey (The Green Mile) / Iron Giant (The Iron Giant)
Older Than They Look - Eli (Let the Right One In)
Messianic Archetype - Aslan (Chronicles of Narnia)
Invincible Hero - Saitama (One-Punch Man)
Your Size May Vary - Bowser (Mario Bros.)
Mad Artist - The Phantom (The Phantom of the Opera)
Gentleman Thief - Joker (Persona 5)
Brilliant but Lazy - Sans (Undertale)
Monster Clown - Pennywise the Dancing Clown (IT)
The Fool - Inspector Gadget (Inspector Gadget)
Rescued from the Scrappy Heap - Wesley Wyndham-Price (Buffy/Angel)
Big Bad - Light Yagami (Death Note)
Eyes Always Shut - Brock (Pokemon)
Tomboy & Girly Girl - Chie Satonaka & Yukiko Amagi (Persona 4)
The Dragon - Darth Vader (Star Wars)
Nerd - Otacon (Metal Gear)
Innocent Flower Girl - Aeris Gainsborough (Final Fantasy)
Berserker - Guts (Berserk)
Beware the Quiet Ones - Himura Kenshin (Rurouni Kenshin)
Pint-Sized Powerhouse - Toph Beifong (Avatar: The Last Airbender) / Kirby (Kirby)
Big-Lipped Alligator Moment - Pink Elephants on Parade (Dumbo)
Evil All Along - Matt Engarde (Ace Attorney)
Narm - All of Tommy Wiseau's "The Room"
You Are Who You Eat - Kirby (Kirby)
Crowd Song - Gaston (Beauty and the Beast)
Unreliable Narrator - Leonard Shelby (Memento) / The Narrator (Fight Club)
Voluntary Shapeshifter - Animorphs (Animorphs)
Unexpected Character - Solid Snake (Smash Bros. Brawl)
Heterosexual Life Partners - Turk & JD (Scrubs)
And I Must Scream - Ted (I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream)
Bedlam House - Arkham Asylum (Batman)
Abandoned Hospital - Brookhaven Hospital (Silent Hill)
Vacation Episode - Rugrats in Paris / Mr. Greg (Steven Universe) / Itchy and Scratchy Land (The Simpsons)
Goth Girls Know Magic - Raven (Teen Titans)
The Rival - Gary Oak (Pokemon)
Tragic Villain - The Boss (Metal Gear Solid)
Good All Along - Severus Snape (Harry Potter)
Villain Song - Be Prepared (The Lion King)
Mix & Match Critters - ManBearPig (South Park)
Ensemble Darkhorse - Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter)
Tear Jerker - Seymour (Futurama)
Artifact of Doom - The One Ring (Lord of the Rings)
Relationship Voice Actor - Nolan North and Troy Baker (Last of Us, Uncharted, God of War)
Megaton Punch - Saitama (One-Punch Man)
Broken Ace - Ozymandias (Watchmen)
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Today's tropes is the Disposable Intern
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DisposableIntern

The Intern is the lowest of the low in the company's command. In fiction land they're often not utilized for much besides getting the boss coffee and are often abused because of their lowly status. Sometimes that abuse is Up to Eleven. And thus they become A Disposable Intern.

When the company needs to test the latest in unstable Rope Bridge technology and there's a choice between sending out a main character or the intern we just met, more often than not the intern is going to bite it.
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Are we running out of tropes?
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wow what a shitty page, although, seeing as they're disposable, it might be best to include companies that follow the philosophy of disposable interns
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The Fluttering Horde (Venture Brothers)

Aside from 21 and 24 of course. If I gotta nominate a specific one let's go with Speedy, that one who died in the pilot episode.
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uhh, Total Drama series has a lot of this I guess, man this really needs more noms

nominate Dead All Along, Disney Villain Death, Haunted Castle, Eldritch Location, Supervillain Lair
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Zara (Jurassic World)
Ben Wilkinson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
All of the Night Vale interns
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Disposable Intern (Garth Marenghi's Dark Place)
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Nominate Obfuscating Stupidity
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Nominate Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
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I'm going to, at the very least, expand this one to "The Intern" to make it a little more open
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheIntern
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Ryan Howard (The Office)
Mitch (Waiting...)
Kenneth (30 Rock)
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I nominate the trope Deader Than Disco.

More Trope nominations:
Genius Bruiser
Lady of War
The Juggernaut
Dark Is Not Evil

Beaker (The Muppets)
Kenneth (30 Rock)
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Kenneth (30 Rock)
Thomas (Regular Show)
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