Board 8 > Best of the Trope Day 86: Iconic Sequel Character

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Yesterday's Results
Chloe Price (Life is Strange) - 3
Boromir (LotR) - 2
Nemesis - 2
Luca Blight - 2
Liquid snake (Mgs1) - 2
Big Boss (Metal Gear) - 2
Annie Wilkes (Misery) - 1
Haguile - 1
Ryan Dunn - 1
Kenny McCormick - 1
Berserker - 1
Sakura Ogami (Danganronpa) - 1
Boris the Blade (Snatch) - 1
Barracuda (Punisher MAX) - 1
Vampires in general (Discworld) - 1
Reg Shoe (Discworld) - 1
Glenn (The Walking Dead) - 1

Nominations
Intelligible Unintelligible
Corpsing
Disney Villain Death
Supervillain Lair
Obfuscating Stupidity
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
Badass Driver
Always a Bigger Fish
What Could Have Been
Tall, Dark And Handsome
Flaming Hair
Glass Cannon
Acting In The Dark
Bizarre and improbable ballistics
Double reverse quadruple agent
Villainous Valour

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.

Full Results
https://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope
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Disco Dan - Disco Stu (The Simpsons)
Eldritch Location - Silent Hill (Silent Hill)
One of Us - David Hayter
Hell of a Time - South Park
Lady of War - O-Ren Ishii (Kill Bill)
The Everyman - John McClane (Die Hard)
Rasputinian Death - Chloe Price (Life is Strange)

Today's tropes is the Iconic Sequel Character
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IconicSequelCharacter

A Breakout Character is the most popular or well known part of their franchise. However, what most don't realize is that this character did not appear until an installment or two in, having been completely absent at the franchise's beginning. Yet the character has become so iconic the lack of their presence feels like Early Installment Weirdness. The character is an Iconic Sequel Character.

Possible causes of this include adaptations frequently condensing the original story and including characters earlier on than the original (especially when the original undergoes Adaptation Displacement) or the franchise not Growing the Beard and gaining a larger audience until after the Iconic Sequel Character makes their debut, or the first installment isn't that well known.
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Chloe (Uncharted)
Knuckles (Sonic)
Ezio (Assassin's Creed)
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Shadow
Dr nefarious
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Ezio
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Yoda (Star Wars)
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Jason (F13)
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Ezio Auditore da Firenze (Assassin's Creed)
Meta Knight (Kirby)
Jin Kazama (Tekken)

HM:
Toph Bei Fong (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
Frank Reynolds (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
Mike Ehrmntraut (Breaking Bad)
Prince Oberyn Martell (Game of Thrones)
Sirius Black (Harry Potter)
Chris Traeger (Parks and Rec)
Tails, Knuckles, Shadow (Sonic the Hedgehog)
Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter)
The Joker (The Dark Knight)
Piglet & Tigger (Winnie the Pooh)
Nightmare (Soul Calibur)

goddamn there's a lot of these; hard to pick just 3
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Claire Redfield (Resident Evil 2)
Leon S. Kennedy (Resident Evil 2)
Pyramid Head (Silent Hill 2)

HMs:
Sara Lance (Arrowverse)
Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th)
Chun-Li (Street Fighter)
Nearly all the new squad members in Mass Effect 2
Nightmare (Soulcalibur)
Nearly every character in MGS, especially Revolver Ocelot
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Ezio (Assassin's Creed series)
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God damn it.... replace dr nefarious with Jin Kazama
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Replace shadow with revolver ocelot
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Holy shit there's a lot to choose from.

Sirius Black (Harry Potter)
Yoda (Star Wars)

Leaving my third one open for now, may even pick from my HMs.

HMs:
Remus Lupin (Harry Potter)
Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter)
Tigger (Winnie the Pooh)
The Joker (The Dark Knight)
Chloe Frazer (Uncharted)
Wilbur (The Rescuers Down Under) [kinda cheating though since the only reason he was introduced is because the VA of the albatross in the first one died]
Jessie (Toy Story 2)
Many Gen II Pokemon, especially Togepi, Pichu, Lugia/Ho-oh, Marill, and Umbreon/Espeon
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Saul Goodman (Breaking Bad)

Steve Urkel (Family Matters)

drops mic and walks out.
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Revolver Ocelot
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Yoda

Yoda is one of the most iconic characters from anything ever, imo.

Honourable Mentions:

Ezlo
Yoshi
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Tails (Sonic)
Chun Li (Street Fighter)
Ezio (Assassin's Creed)

Honourable Mentions
Vegeta (Dragonball Z)
Yoda (Star Wars)
Lucario (Pokemon)
Dr Nefarious (Ratchet and Clank)
Coco (Crash Bandicoot)

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How'd Liquid only get two votes yesterday? He's the definition of that trope in gaming.
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Pirateking2000 posted...

Ezio (Assassin's Creed series)

great call

Ezio
Ocelot
Yoda
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XIII_rocks posted...

How'd Liquid only get two votes yesterday? He's the definition of that trope in gaming.

Mgs isn't as popular as it seems
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Mike Nelson (MST3K)
Castiel (Supernatural)
Frasier Crane (Cheers)
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Bugs Bunny (Looney Tunes)
Wolverine (X-men)
Captain America (Avengers)

Pirate_Harris posted...

XIII_rocks posted...

How'd Liquid only get two votes yesterday? He's the definition of that trope in gaming.

Mgs isn't as popular as it seems

to be fair, it was a pretty low vote total match overall

though I do agree with the winner, who's one of the best inversions of the trope imo
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MysteriousStan posted...

Saul Goodman (Breaking Bad)

Came in to say exactly this
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Yoda
Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie (Agents of SHIELD)
Thrall (Warcraft)
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saul goodman
spike (buffy)
vegeta
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Castiel (Supernatural)
Spike (Buffy)
Saul Goodman (Breaking Bad)
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oh hey this page has the first reference I think I've ever seen to Trails

Castiel (Supernatural)
Toph (Avatar)
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Tails (Sonic the Hedgehog)
Chun-Li (Street Fighter)
Steve Urkel (Family Matters)

Tried to pick the objectively most iconic for each series. It was close between Yoda and Chun-Li for that third spot.
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Frank Reynolds (IASIP)
Jin Kazama (Tekken)
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Marisa Kirisame - Touhou

Probably most of the Touhou cast honestly but she's probably the most notable one.
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Frank Reynolds (Always Sunny)
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Ezio
Yoda
Akuma (Street Fighter)
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current
Ezio Auditore da Firenze - 8
Yoda - 6
Saul Goodman - 4
Jin Kazama - 3
Revolver Ocelot - 3
Castiel - 3
Steve Urkel - 2
Tails - 2
Chun-Li - 2
Spike - 2
Frank Reynolds - 2
Chloe - 1
Knuckles - 1
Jason - 1
Meta Knight - 1
Leon S. Kennedy - 1
Claire Redfield - 1
Pyramid Head - 1
Sirius Black - 1
Mike Nelson - 1
Frasier Crane - 1
Bugs Bunny - 1
Wolverine - 1
Captain America - 1
Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie - 1
Thrall - 1
Vegeta - 1
Toph - 1
Marisa Kirisame - 1
Akuma - 1
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This is actually a good trope
So good that there are so many options I don't know which to choose
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Not that it matters but I will throw my third vote at Chloe Frazer.
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Nominate tropes "Upgrade Vs Prototype Fight" and "Nigh-invulnerability"
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I would have voted Liquid too if I had seen the topic.

Ezio
Yoda
BJ Blazkowicz

It's far too late now, but BJ is so iconic most don't even realise he's from a sequel!
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kevwaffles posted...

Castiel (Supernatural)
Spike (Buffy)
Saul Goodman (Breaking Bad)

Ooh, I think these three are mine, too.
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Lightning Strikes posted...

BJ is so iconic most don't even realise he's from a sequel!

I sure didn't!
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Saul Goodman
Spike (Buffy)
Vegeta
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Yoda
Saul
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Yoda
Toph
Chun Li
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trdl23 posted...

Lightning Strikes posted...

BJ is so iconic most don't even realise he's from a sequel!

I sure didn't!

BJ is only from a sequel if you count Wolf 3-D as a sequel to Castle Wolfenstein. It's a weird argument whether Wolf 3-D is a sequel, a fangame, or it's own entity with the same name, considering it was a different developer who only used the name because the old company had dissolved and the trademark had lapsed.
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