Board 8 > Best of the Trope Day 134: Always a Bigger Fish

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Yesterday's Results: Weapon of Choice
Lightsabers - 3
Blades of Chaos - 2
twin wands - 1
Needle - 1
Keyblade - 1
Master Sword - 1
Laser Cannon - 1
Mjolnir - 1
Playing Cards - 1
Wunderwaffe DG-2 - 1
The Patriot - The Boss - 1
Silverballers - Agent 47 - 1
Great Knife - 1
Gimli's Axe - 1
Hacksaw Jim Duggan's 2 by 4 - 1

Nominations
Evil Brit
Calling Your Attacks
Bittersweet Ending
Interface Screw
Signature Moves
Jack-of-All-Stats
Karmic Death
Cold Sniper
The Gunslinger
Arc words
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
Laughably Evil
Opposing Sports Team

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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Battleship - Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Mr. & Mrs. Smith) / Han Solo & Princess Leia (Star Wars)
Flaming Hair - Hades (Hercules)
Disney Death - Gandalf (Lord of the Rings)
Identity Absorption - Alex Mercer (Prototype)
Glass Cannon - Attack Deoxys (Pokemon)
Heroic Sacrifice - The Iron Giant (The Iron Giant)
Quest for Identity - Leonard Shelby (Memento)
Spotlight-Stealing Squad - 1st Gen (Pokemon) / Wolverine (X-Men)
Mourning Antagonist - The Joker and Batman (Batman)
Tall, Dark And Handsome - Handsome Jack (Borderlands)
Dude, Where's My Respect? - Joey Wheeler (Yu-Gi-Oh!) / The Player (World of Warcraft)
Rooting for the Empire - Team Rocket (Pokemon)
Darker and Edgier - Shadow the Hedgehog
Crowning Moment of Awesome - Vegeta Final Flash against Cell (Dragonball Z)
Hand Wave - "By all accounts, it doesn't make sense" (The Emperor's New Groove)
Token Evil Teammate - HK-47 (Knights of the Old Republic)
The Paladin - Sir Galahad (Arthurian Legend)
What Happened to the Mouse? - Most of "The Room" / The GS Ball (Pokemon)
Deadly Doctor - The Medic (Team Fortress 2)
Weapon of Choice - Lightsabers (Star Wars)

Today's tropes is the Always a Bigger Fish
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AlwaysABiggerFish

Pursued by a Big Bad Wolf? Wait till' the Bigger Badder Wolf comes in.

Our heroes are cornered or trapped by one scary thing or group, only to be saved by another, bigger, scarier thing or group. Sometimes the "savior" has been introduced earlier in the plot, making this an instance of Chekhov's Gunman.

In this case, the "savior" isn't actively trying to save the protagonists. He's just there, and hungry, and the heroes had best not be there once it finishes its present meal.
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The teachers' fat and psychopathic wives (Pink Floyd - The Happiest Days of Our Lives)
The first Big Daddy (Bioshock)
Basilisk (God of War: Chains of Olympus)

HM
Hepatitis C (Rick and Morty - Anatomy Park)
Tammy One (Parks and Rec)
Aerodactyl (Pokemon anime)
"Bigger boot!" (The Spongebob Squarepants Movie)
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The good ol' famous Qui-Gon quote from Star Wars Phantom Menace
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The Qui-Gon quote
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The teachers' fat and psychopathic wives (Pink Floyd - The Happiest Days of Our Lives)
Walrider (Outlast)
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The T-Rex defeating the velociraptors (Jurassic Park)
The Qui-Gon quote
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I was going to say the T. Rex at the end of Jurassic Park
Must also mention the Mosasaur at the end of Jurassic World
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T. Rex (Jurassic Park)
Surtur (Thor Ragnarok)
Bigger Boot (The Spongebob Squarepants Movie)

NowItsAngeTime posted...

The good ol' famous Qui-Gon quote from Star Wars Phantom Menace

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Johnbobb posted...

"Bigger boot!" (The Spongebob Squarepants Movie)

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