Board 8 > Best of the Trope Day 71: Stepford Smiler

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Johnbobb
08/15/18 10:39:24 PM
#1:


Yesterday's Results
Mario - 3
John Raimi - 2
Alex Mercer - 2
Crypto - 2
Captain Ginyu - 2
Aya Brea - 1
Don't Threaten Me With a Good Time - 1
Shadow King - 1
Princess Zelda - 1
M. Bison - 1
Deadman - 1
The driver of spectre - 1

Nominations
Iconic Sequel Character
Intelligible Unintelligible
Uncanny Valley
Corpsing
One of Us
Dead All Along
Disney Villain Death
Eldritch Location
Supervillain Lair
Obfuscating Stupidity
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
Deader Than Disco
Lady of War
The Juggernaut
Dark Is Not Evil
The Everyman
Red Oni, Blue Oni
A Hell of a Time
Badass Driver

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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Johnbobb
08/15/18 10:40:14 PM
#2:


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)
Zeppo - Tad Strange (Gravity Falls)
Genius Bruiser - Beast (X-Men) / Bane (Batman)
Haunted Castle - Dracula's Castle (Castlevania)
Adolf Hitlarious - Downfall Meme
Body Surf - Mario (Super Mario Odyssey)
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Johnbobb
08/15/18 10:41:49 PM
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Today's tropes is the Stepford Smiler
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StepfordSmiler

Everyone loves Purity Sue. They can't help it! She's practically perfect in every way. The Stepford Smiler is much like Purity Sue: she's bright, chipper, and an all-around pleasant person to be with.

It's all a lie, of course. The Stepford Smiler is obsessed with projecting an image of wholesome happiness in order to be accepted by her peers

There are three main types of Stepford Smiler:
Depressed: The character seems to be happy, cheerful, is always smiling and seems to live a perfect life - but inside they are melancholic, if not outright depressed.
Empty: The character seems to be kind and cheerful, but is actually motiveless and hollow.
Unstable: The smile hides mental instability, and even madness.

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Mega Mana
08/15/18 10:42:07 PM
#4:


Happy Mask Salesman
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Johnbobb
08/15/18 10:52:18 PM
#5:


Sayori (Doki Doki Literature Club)
Dexter Morgan (Dexter)
Patrick Bateman (American Psycho)


HM:
Riley (Inside Out)
Lacie Pound (Black Mirror: Nosedive)
Ryou Bakura (Yu-Gi-Oh)
Sansa (Game of Thrones)
Light Yagami (Death Note)
Deirdre Robbespierre (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
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KamikazePotato
08/15/18 10:55:21 PM
#6:


Kohaku (Tsukihime)
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Shonen_Bat
08/15/18 10:57:34 PM
#7:


Happy Mask Salesman
Sayori
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Hello again.
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Underleveled
08/15/18 11:03:26 PM
#8:


This one was hard, because I really wanted to use ones that actually had some sort of emotional impact on me as opposed to just liking the characters.

The Genie (Aladdin)
Zelos Wilder (Tales of Symphonia)
Riley (Inside Out)
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Mewtwo59
08/15/18 11:03:27 PM
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Prompto Argentum (Final Fantasy XV)
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jcgamer107
08/15/18 11:53:50 PM
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Bloberta Puppington (Moral Orel)
Meryl (The Truman Show)
Bobbie (The Stepford Wives)
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jcgamer107
08/15/18 11:54:23 PM
#11:


Nominate Always a Bigger Fish
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hylianknight3
08/16/18 12:13:25 AM
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Happy Mask Salesman
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If I only consulted the Gossip Stones like BKSheikah, instead of listening to Tingle, maybe I could have been the 2017 Guru Champ!
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kenrmcha
08/16/18 12:20:11 AM
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Gin Ichimaru (Bleach)
Positively Page version of Diamond Dallas Page (WWF/E)
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azuarc
08/16/18 12:35:32 AM
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Blah, I missed the trope I nommed...and Mario won? How the fuck is Mario a body surfer?

After looking at the other topic, apparently I need to play Odyssey?
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Underleveled
08/16/18 12:42:14 AM
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azuarc posted...
Blah, I missed the trope I nommed...and Mario won? How the fuck is Mario a body surfer?

After looking at the other topic, apparently I need to play Odyssey?

Yes, yes you do.

FWIW, I believe it is (or at least was at one point) the highest-rated game of all time on GameRankings.
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Mewtwo59
08/16/18 1:05:32 AM
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Dahlia Hawthorne (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations)
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XIII_rocks
08/16/18 1:45:41 AM
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Mewtwo59 posted...
Dahlia Hawthorne (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations)

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mcflubbin
08/16/18 1:48:20 AM
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Mewtwo59 posted...
Prompto Argentum (Final Fantasy XV)

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It's not so impossible!
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jcgamer107
08/16/18 5:08:18 AM
#19:


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malyg
08/16/18 6:08:31 AM
#20:


Kohaku (Tsukihime)
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Girugamesh
08/16/18 6:25:26 AM
#21:


Dahlia Hawthorne (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations)
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SeabassDebeste
08/16/18 7:54:34 AM
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seta soujirou - rurouni kenshin
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness
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Johnbobb
08/16/18 8:44:39 AM
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morning
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Pirate_Harris
08/16/18 9:45:58 AM
#24:


Light (death note)
Happy mask salesman
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They say the mind bends and twists to deal with the horrors of life... I think mine bent so much it snapped in two.
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Snake5555555555
08/16/18 11:44:28 AM
#25:


I didn't realize how much I love this trope

Patrick Bateman (American Psycho)
The Smiler (Transmetropolitan)
Joanna Eberhart (The Stepford Wives)

HMs:
Sayori (Doki Doki Literature Club)
Elasti-Girl (Doom Patrol)
Boss Smiley (Prez)
Meryl Burbank (The Truman Show)
Georgina (Get Out)
Twilight Zone (It's a Good Life & Number 12 Looks Just Like You)
Meg (The Ring: Terror's Realm)
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Pirate_Harris
08/16/18 11:48:14 AM
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Bloody Mary (twisted metal black)
Swap happy mask salesman for Patrick bateman
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They say the mind bends and twists to deal with the horrors of life... I think mine bent so much it snapped in two.
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Luis_Sera89
08/16/18 12:08:12 PM
#27:


Sayori
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KamikazePotato
08/16/18 12:10:25 PM
#28:


The Smiler (Transmetropolitan)
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Black Turtle did a pretty good job.
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linkhatesganon
08/16/18 2:01:54 PM
#29:


Dolores Umbridge (Harry Potter)
Annie Wilkers (Misery)
Amy (Gone Girl)

HM:
Nearly the entire cast of Madoka Magica
Nearly the entire cast of Evangelion
Celestia (Danganronpa)
Vanille (FFXIII)
Sansa Stark (GoT)
Many of the villains in Ace Attorney
Rise (Persona 4)
Monica (Doki Doki), even more so than Sayori
Shiki (TWEWY)
Colette (ToS)

Yup, I dig this trope
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azuarc
08/16/18 5:07:46 PM
#30:


Underleveled posted...
azuarc posted...
Blah, I missed the trope I nommed...and Mario won? How the fuck is Mario a body surfer?

After looking at the other topic, apparently I need to play Odyssey?

Yes, yes you do.

FWIW, I believe it is (or at least was at one point) the highest-rated game of all time on GameRankings.

Well, i havent played a Nintendo game since the n64, so...
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Johnbobb
08/16/18 9:22:40 PM
#31:


no update tonight
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Snake5555555555
08/16/18 10:40:52 PM
#32:


Johnbobb posted...
no update tonight


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StartTheMachine
08/17/18 2:04:46 AM
#33:


Palpatine (Star Wars prequels)
Patrick Bateman (American Psycho)
Light (Death Note)
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Johnbobb
08/17/18 10:04:02 AM
#34:


up
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Sheep007
08/17/18 10:49:51 AM
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Gatarix
08/17/18 12:01:21 PM
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Kohaku (Tsukihime)
Seta Soujirou (Rurouni Kenshin)
Monika (Doki Doki Literature Club)
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