Board 8 > Best of the Trope Day 104: The Man in Front of the Man

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Johnbobb 09/22/18 9:49:06 PM #1:	Yesterday's Results: Bizarre and Improbable Ballistics The entire movie Wanted - 8 Revolver Ocelot - 7 JFK Assassination - 5 Domino - 2 Watermelon to the face - 2 Jarmen kell - 1 Dante - 1 The magic loogie - 1 Shoot 'em Up - 1 Happy Gilmore - 1 Nominations Supervillain Lair Obfuscating Stupidity Always a Bigger Fish Tall, Dark And Handsome Flaming Hair Glass Cannon Evil Brit Spotlight-Stealing Squad Batman in my Basement No One Could Survive That Defeating the Undefeatable Double Agent Franchise Killer Calling Your Attacks Magnificent Bastard Disney Death villainous breakdown Bittersweet Ending Combat Commentator Interface Screw 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 --- Cain and Abel - Solid and Liquid Snake (Metal Gear Solid) Double Reverse Quadruple Agent - Revolver Ocelot (Metal Gear Solid) Defeating the Undefeatable - Lu Bu (Dynasty Warriors) What Could Have Been - Silent Hills All-American Face - Captain America (Marvel) Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass - Ed (Ed, Edd n Eddy) Nigh-Invulnerability - Superman (DC) Intelligible Unintelligible - Boomhauer (King of the Hill) 100% Approval Rating - Jack Skellington (The Nightmare Before Christmas) Upgrade vs. Prototype - Mewtwo v. Mew (Pokemon: The First Movie) Spider Limbs - Doctor Octopus (Spider-Man) Bizarre and Improbable Ballistics - The entire movie Wanted Today's tropes is the The Man in Front of the Man https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheManInFrontOfTheMan In a given story there are some villains. Probably two of them, and they fit archetypes like The Chessmaster and the Black Knight: one frail but brilliant, the other elemental and powerful. Whatever the specifics, they're clearly working together, and all indications are that one is subordinate to the other one is The Dragon to the Big Bad, and their respective characterizations support this. So imagine the surprise, for both the protagonists and the audience, when the supposed guy on top is defeated, only for the second apple to appear and smugly announce that they've been pulling the strings all the while, and by disposing of their patsy the heroes have played right into their hands. This is an inverse of The Man Behind the Man in which the true villain turns out to be Hidden in Plain Sight as a mere underling. Often the supposed Big Bads thinks themselves in charge, and are not nearly the chessmaster they think themselves to be. --- Khal Kirby, warlord of the Super Star Khalasar PSN/Steam: CheddarBBQ https://goo.gl/Diw2hs <cite>Johnbobb posted [p:909266813] in Best of th... [t:77030769]...</cite> <quote><cite>Yesterday's Results: Bizarre and Improbable Ballistics</cite> The entire movie Wanted - 8 Revolver Ocelot - 7 JFK Assassination - 5 Domino - 2 Watermelon to the face - 2 Jarmen kell - 1 Dante - 1 The magic loogie - 1 Shoot 'em Up - 1 Happy Gilmore - 1 <cite>Nominations</cite> Supervillain Lair Obfuscating Stupidity Always a Bigger Fish Tall, Dark And Handsome Flaming Hair Glass Cannon Evil Brit Spotlight-Stealing Squad Batman in my Basement No One Could Survive That Defeating the Undefeatable Double Agent Franchise Killer Calling Your Attacks Magnificent Bastard Disney Death villainous breakdown Bittersweet Ending Combat Commentator Interface Screw 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. <cite>Full Results</cite> https://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope --- Cain and Abel - Solid and Liquid Snake (Metal Gear Solid) Double Reverse Quadruple Agent - Revolver Ocelot (Metal Gear Solid) Defeating the Undefeatable - Lu Bu (Dynasty Warriors) What Could Have Been - Silent Hills All-American Face - Captain America (Marvel) Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass - Ed (Ed, Edd n Eddy) Nigh-Invulnerability - Superman (DC) Intelligible Unintelligible - Boomhauer (King of the Hill) 100% Approval Rating - Jack Skellington (The Nightmare Before Christmas) Upgrade vs. Prototype - Mewtwo v. Mew (Pokemon: The First Movie) Spider Limbs - Doctor Octopus (Spider-Man) Bizarre and Improbable Ballistics - The entire movie Wanted Today's tropes is the The Man in Front of the Man https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheManInFrontOfTheMan In a given story there are some villains. Probably two of them, and they fit archetypes like The Chessmaster and the Black Knight: one frail but brilliant, the other elemental and powerful. Whatever the specifics, they're clearly working together, and all indications are that one is subordinate to the other one is The Dragon to the Big Bad, and their respective characterizations support this. So imagine the surprise, for both the protagonists and the audience, when the supposed guy on top is defeated, only for the second apple to appear and smugly announce that they've been pulling the strings all the while, and by disposing of their patsy the heroes have played right into their hands. This is an inverse of The Man Behind the Man in which the true villain turns out to be Hidden in Plain Sight as a mere underling. Often the supposed Big Bads thinks themselves in charge, and are not nearly the chessmaster they think themselves to be.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Pirate_Harris 09/22/18 9:50:30 PM #2:	Revolver Ocelot --- Money is the key to end all your woes, Your ups and your downs, your highs and your lows. Won't you tell me last time that love bought you clothes? ~ Run-DMC <cite>Pirate_Harris posted [p:909266883] in Best of th... [t:77030769]...</cite> <quote>Revolver Ocelot</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Johnbobb 09/22/18 9:54:09 PM #3:	Mr. Minion (Spy Kids) Henri Ducard~~/Ra's Al Ghul~~ (Batman Begins) can't think of many good ones and the trope page is kind of barebones, though I know I've seen more --- Khal Kirby, warlord of the Super Star Khalasar PSN/Steam: CheddarBBQ https://goo.gl/Diw2hs <cite>Johnbobb posted [p:909267062] in Best of th... [t:77030769]...</cite> <quote>Mr. Minion (Spy Kids) Henri Ducard/Ra's Al Ghul (Batman Begins) can't think of many good ones and the trope page is kind of barebones, though I know I've seen more</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Pirate_Harris 09/22/18 10:06:57 PM #4:	Nominate tropes "quest for identity" and "identity absorption" --- Money is the key to end all your woes, Your ups and your downs, your highs and your lows. Won't you tell me last time that love bought you clothes? ~ Run-DMC <cite>Pirate_Harris posted [p:909267612] in Best of th... [t:77030769]...</cite> <quote>Nominate tropes "quest for identity" and "identity absorption"</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
hylianknight3 09/23/18 12:23:18 AM #5:	Johnbobb posted... Henri Ducard~~/Ra's Al Ghul~~ (Batman Begins) This. --- If I only consulted the Gossip Stones like BKSheikah, instead of listening to Tingle, maybe I could have been the 2017 Guru Champ! <cite>hylianknight3 posted [p:909273990] in Best of th... [t:77030769]...</cite> <quote><cite>Johnbobb posted...</cite> <quote>Henri Ducard/Ra's Al Ghul (Batman Begins)</quote> This.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Underleveled 09/23/18 12:26:06 AM #6:	~~Atoq Navarro~~ (Uncharted 1) ~~Ra's Al Ghul~~ (Batman Begins) --- darkx Please nominate Kate Marsh (Life is Strange) for Character Battle X! <cite>Underleveled posted [p:909274103] in Best of th... [t:77030769]...</cite> <quote>Atoq Navarro (Uncharted 1) Ra's Al Ghul (Batman Begins)</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
SeabassDebeste 09/23/18 12:27:39 AM #7:	iron man 3 --- 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 <cite>SeabassDebeste posted [p:909274184] in Best of th... [t:77030769]...</cite> <quote>iron man 3</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
DeathChicken 09/23/18 12:31:22 AM #8:	Yuri (Red Alert 2) --- We are thought, and reality, and concept, and the unimaginable <cite>DeathChicken posted [p:909274355] in Best of th... [t:77030769]...</cite> <quote>Yuri (Red Alert 2)</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Wedge Antilles 09/23/18 12:53:20 AM #9:	I guess ~~Alex~~ (Golden Sun) counts for this kind of. --- I used the knife. I saved a child. I won a war. God forgive me. <cite>Wedge Antilles posted [p:909275311] in Best of th... [t:77030769]...</cite> <quote>I guess Alex (Golden Sun) counts for this kind of.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Underleveled 09/23/18 1:01:28 AM #10:	Wedge Antilles posted... I guess ~~Alex~~ (Golden Sun) counts for this kind of. And here is my third. Thank you, I KNEW I was missing something big. --- darkx Please nominate Kate Marsh (Life is Strange) for Character Battle X! <cite>Underleveled posted [p:909275697] in Best of th... [t:77030769]...</cite> <quote><cite>Wedge Antilles posted...</cite> <quote>I guess Alex (Golden Sun) counts for this kind of.</quote> And here is my third. Thank you, I KNEW I was missing something big.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
azuarc 09/23/18 1:05:15 AM #11:	Julius (Final Fantasy Adventure) Thanatos (Secret of Mana) Every final villain (Seiken Densetsu 3) sensing a theme in these picks? --- Video Game Music Contest 12 winner: Ys 8 - Sunshine Coastline <cite>azuarc posted [p:909275879] in Best of th... [t:77030769]...</cite> <quote>Julius (Final Fantasy Adventure) Thanatos (Secret of Mana) Every final villain (Seiken Densetsu 3) sensing a theme in these picks?</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Mewtwo59 09/23/18 1:10:46 AM #12:	~~Ardyn Izunia~~ (Final Fantasy XV) ~~Alex~~ (Golden Sun) Revolver Ocelot (Metal Gear Solid) --- ""Love" is making a shot to the knees of a target 120 kilometers away using an Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope." HK-47 <cite>Mewtwo59 posted [p:909276113] in Best of th... [t:77030769]...</cite> <quote>Ardyn Izunia (Final Fantasy XV) Alex (Golden Sun) Revolver Ocelot (Metal Gear Solid)</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Johnbobb 09/23/18 7:03:35 AM #13:	morning --- Khal Kirby, warlord of the Super Star Khalasar PSN/Steam: CheddarBBQ https://goo.gl/Diw2hs <cite>Johnbobb posted [p:909284486] in Best of th... [t:77030769]...</cite> <quote>morning</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Pirate_Harris 09/23/18 7:07:45 AM #14:	Yuri ~~Atoq Navarro~~ --- Money is the key to end all your woes, Your ups and your downs, your highs and your lows. Won't you tell me last time that love bought you clothes? ~ Run-DMC <cite>Pirate_Harris posted [p:909284559] in Best of th... [t:77030769]...</cite> <quote>Yuri Atoq Navarro</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Luis_Sera89 09/23/18 8:04:58 AM #15:	~~Dimentio~~ (Super Paper Mario) Majora's Mask --- "Eet's game time..." https://soundcloud.com/luissera/intro/s-VvkMJ <cite>Luis_Sera89 posted [p:909285635] in Best of th... [t:77030769]...</cite> <quote>Dimentio (Super Paper Mario) Majora's Mask</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
XIII_rocks 09/23/18 9:25:39 AM #16:	Kefka? --- Not to be confused with XIII_Stones. <cite>XIII_rocks posted [p:909287643] in Best of th... [t:77030769]...</cite> <quote>Kefka?</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
TexasZea 09/23/18 9:26:30 AM #17:	Revolver Ocelot --- respek <cite>TexasZea posted [p:909287675] in Best of th... [t:77030769]...</cite> <quote>Revolver Ocelot</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
SeabassDebeste 09/23/18 9:41:53 AM #18:	i don't think kefka fits - ~~he's a usurper second-in-command, not a front~~ --- 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 <cite>SeabassDebeste posted [p:909288140] in Best of th... [t:77030769]...</cite> <quote>i don't think kefka fits - he's a usurper second-in-command, not a front</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Sheep007 09/23/18 9:50:30 AM #19:	Definitely ~~Alex~~ --- Perhaps the golden rock was inside us all along. <cite>Sheep007 posted [p:909288435] in Best of th... [t:77030769]...</cite> <quote>Definitely Alex</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
kevwaffles 09/23/18 10:17:55 AM #20:	Revolver Ocelot --- "One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land." -Toad, SMB3 <cite>kevwaffles posted [p:909289388] in Best of th... [t:77030769]...</cite> <quote>Revolver Ocelot</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Snake5555555555 09/23/18 11:06:40 AM #21:	Arkham/Vergil (Devil May Cry 3) ~~Mandarin/Aldrich Killian~~ (Iron Man 3) ~~Saren/Sovereign~~ (Mass Effect) --- If the suspense doesn't kill you, something else will! http://tinyurl.com/zqwzc9a - https://imgur.com/a/OcdhKKR <cite>Snake5555555555 posted [p:909291305] in Best of th... [t:77030769]...</cite> <quote>Arkham/Vergil (Devil May Cry 3) Mandarin/Aldrich Killian (Iron Man 3) Saren/Sovereign (Mass Effect)</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Johnbobb 09/23/18 4:06:14 PM #22:	up --- Khal Kirby, warlord of the Super Star Khalasar PSN/Steam: CheddarBBQ https://goo.gl/Diw2hs <cite>Johnbobb posted [p:909308120] in Best of th... [t:77030769]...</cite> <quote>up</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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