Board 8 > Best of the Trope Day 77: Ramming Always Works

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Yesterday's Results
Auron (Final Fantasy X) - 11
Dr. Malcolm Crowe (The Sixth Sense) - 6
Kinzo Ushiromiya (Umineko no Naku Koro Ni) - 6
Fuyubachi, Zebra & Kamome (Paranoia Agent) - 5
Master Miller (MGS) - 4
Kafuka Fuura (Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei) - 3
Jacob Singer (Jacob's Ladder) - 3
Ben (Scrubs) - 3
Viktor Reznov (Call of Duty: Black Ops) - 2
Nicole (dead space) - 2
Dhurke Sahdmadhi (Ace Attorney Soul of Justice) - 2
Norma Bates (Psycho) - 2
John Konrad (Spec Ops: The Line) - 2
Rachel Amber (Life is Strange) - 2
Nearly everyone (The Others) - 2

Nominations
Iconic Sequel Character
Intelligible Unintelligible
Corpsing
One of Us
Disney Villain Death
Eldritch Location
Supervillain Lair
Obfuscating Stupidity
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
Lady of War
Dark Is Not Evil
The Everyman
A Hell of a Time
Badass Driver
Always a Bigger Fish
Disco Dan
What Could Have Been
Tall, Dark And Handsome
Flaming Hair
Glass Cannon

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
https://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope
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Genius Bruiser - Beast (X-Men) / Bane (Batman)
Haunted Castle - Dracula's Castle (Castlevania)
Adolf Hitlarious - Downfall Meme
Body Surf - Mario (Super Mario Odyssey)
Stepford Smiler - Sayori (Doki Doki Literature Club) / Patrick Bateman (American Psycho)
The Juggernaut - Juggernaut (Marvel)
Deader Than Disco - Instrument-based rhythm games
Uncanny Valley - Junji Ito
Red Oni, Blue Oni - Sonic & Knuckles (Sonic) / Phoenix Wright & Miles Edgeworth (Ace Attorney)
Dead All Along - Auron (Final Fantasy X)

Today's tropes is the Ramming Always Works
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RammingAlwaysWorks

In science fiction, even if a ship has shields that can shrug off atomic weapons, ramming it with another ship always manages to take it down.
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Dragoon (Kirby: Air Ride)
Fire Nation Airships (A:TLA)
Jackdaw (Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag)

that's about all I've got
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Robot Masters

Do those count?
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tazzyboyishere posted...

Robot Masters

Do those count?

probably?

I don't know much about this trope tbh
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Robot Masters deal damage by ramming into Mega Man, sometimes for much greater damage than their weapons.

idk, this is a weird one.
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Dragoon (Kirby)

yup
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I was gonna say TLJ, but Robot Masters are also a good example. If you consider robots vehicles, anyway. Charge Man looks likes a train, so I think that settles it.
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TLJ
Rogue One too, actually
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Jackdaw (Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag)
Royal Talon Flyer (Black Panther)
Sailboat (Jaws: The Revenge)
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Admiral Holdo (The Last Jedi)
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Darkside(twisted metal black and 2012)
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up
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I nominate the trope Acting In The Dark

upp
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Dragoon (Kirby Air Ride/Super Smash Bros. Brawl)
HMS Thunder Child (The War of the Worlds)
Russell Casse's sacrifice (Independence Day)

The Dragoon in Kirby Air Ride actually isn't really much of a ramming vehicle. I mean it still does pretty good damage, but Hydra was definitely the one that was intended to be the offensive powerhouse. Brawl definitely turned it into one with that one Subspace cutscene and its function as an item, however.
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GenesisSaga posted...

Admiral Holdo (The Last Jedi)

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GeneralKenobi85 posted...

Brawl definitely turned it into one with that one Subspace cutscene and its function as an item, however.

yeah, that was largely why I ended up nominating it

that and it's like the only air ride vehicle most people would likely recognize offhand

until sakurai finally gives me the Kirby Air Ride 2 I've been wishing for for the last decade
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I actually always preferred Hydra to Dragoon in Air Ride. I get why they chose to use Dragoon in Smash though. It's more colorful and it can fly. That cutscene would not have worked as well if Kirby was on Hydra instead.
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personally I always went for the Wheelie Bike
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more
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Dragoon
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