Board 8 > Best of the Trope Day 66: The Generic Guy aka The Zeppo

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Yesterday's Results
Bender - 6
Yukiko Amagi - 3
Plankton - 3
Raine Sage - 2
Noel Vermillion - 2
Linguine - 2
Swedish Chef - 1
Miia - 1
Nao Sadatsuka - 1
Jean Armstrong - 1
Papyrus - 1
Maina Igarashi - 1
Undyne - 1
Shiriashi Mako - 1
Meliodas - 1
Hagrid - 1
Chie Satonaka - 1
Nanako Dojima - 1
Seraphim - 1
LL Cool J - 1
Homer Simpson - 1
Pops - 1

Nominations
Iconic Sequel Character
Intelligible Unintelligible
Adolf Hitlarious
Uncanny Valley
Body Surf
Corpsing
Lethal Chef
One of Us
Stepford Smiler
Dead All Along
Disney Villain Death
Haunted Castle
Eldritch Location
Supervillain Lair
Obfuscating Stupidity
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
Deader Than Disco
Genius Bruiser
Lady of War
The Juggernaut
Dark Is Not Evil

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)
The Intern - Kenneth (30 Rock)
Lethal Chef - Bender (Futurama)
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Today's tropes is the Generic Guy
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheGenericGuy

The member of an Ensemble Cast with no distinctive physical or personality traits. They may be smart, but not as smart as The Smart Guy. They may be strong, but not as strong as The Big Guy. In short, there is pretty much nothing remarkable or distinctive about them. They would be The Everyman or Standardized Leader ... if they were the main character.

However, they are not the main character. Someone else is The Hero and The Generic Guy is stuck in a secondary role. Thus, the generic guy will typically get very little to do or eventually be written out of the series.
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Tim (The Magic School Bus)

Recently rewatched the whole series and damn Tim is so generic and boring. There are like four Tim-centric episodes in the whole series.
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Tad Strange (Gravity Falls)
Teddy (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
Mark (Parks and Rec)

HM:
Preston Garvey (Fallout 4)
Young Niel (Scott Pilgrim)

This is a tough one to vote for, since the whole point of the trope is that the characters are unremarkable and forgettable.

Also half the examples listed on the trope page are the central character of their work despite it specifically saying in the trope's description that it's not for main characters
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Tad Strange
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Jacob Taylor (Mass Effect 2)
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Emmet Brickowski (The LEGO Movie)
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Tad Strange
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Wylan van Eck (Six of Crows)
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Last topic: https://akizukisentai.blogspot.com/2014/11/sentai-comedy-mako-shiraishis-really.html

Hawkeye (MCU Avengers)
Joe (Idiocracy)
Doug (Doug)
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Xander Harris

This is the most idiotic trope yet
Looking at the examples of characters I know, everyone has something unique about them, this trope makes no sense

I mean for fuck's sake, Makoto Naegi from Danganronpa, Franklin from GTA V, Desmond Miles from Assassin's Creed, all three are main characters and yet they are considered in the trope
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Nanis23 posted...

all three are main characters and yet they are considered in the trope

they're really not part of the trope, that's just one of the issues with TV Tropes being editable

Makoto and Desmond belong in the everyman trope

nominate: The Everyman
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Stahl (Fire Emblem Awakening)
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up
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I actually do have an answer for this
Bernard Seramite (Rance series)
In Rance 6 he's a party member with no developing scenes and a stronger standard attack as his only special move. His non-noteworthiness got him so much attention that he was integrated into the remakes of some earlier games and got a little more development, mainly as a joke.
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I was gonna say Kimahri but no one else in X can Lancet like him so never mind
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Also Zeppo.
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Who would you guys say is the Zeppo of Monty Python? Jones? Palin?

EDIT: Actually Palin was kinda notable for drag roles, wasn't he? So it's gotta be Jones.
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Guy Fleegman (Galaxy Quest)

Perfect example of this trope
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Astrid from Fringe fits this perfectly.
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current
Tad Strange - 3
Tim - 1
Teddy - 1
Mark - 1
Jacob Taylor - 1
Emmet Brickowski - 1
Wylan van Eck - 1
Hawkeye - 1
Joe - 1
Doug - 1
Xander Harris - 1
Stahl - 1
Bernard Seramite - 1
Jones - 1
Guy Fleegman - 1
Astrid - 1
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Look at all those generic names lol
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Xander Harris

I had to pop in and mention him since the thread title made me think of him

how is he not listed on the tvtropes page, what the fuck is tvtropes even good for

Xanders the Buttmonkey
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