Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 169 - Glass Cannon

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to Best of the Trope!

Here are the rules. Each day, I will post a trope from TV Tropes, and each poster can name up to three examples of that trope. Whichever nomination gets the most mentions wins! Posters may also name as many Honourable Mentions as they like, but they are purely optional and will not count towards the running score. You may look at the TV Tropes page for that day's trope for examples, but you do not have to pick all your examples from the page. You can nominate whatever examples you like, as long as they qualify for the trope. Each trope will last around 24 hours before the next one goes up.

Posters may also nominate any tropes they wish to see come up during the series. This is optional, and you don't have to do it every day, or at all. Tropes will be randomly selected from the list each day, except for some occasions where I will pick a thematically appropriate trope that may or may not be on the list.

Here's the list of previous tropes, so if you wish to nominate some tropes, check on here that it wasn't previously done. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Trope List:
Launcher of a Thousand Ships
Even the Girls Want Her
Even the Guys Want Him
One True Love
Disc-One Nuke
Beef Gate
Lampshade Hanging
Difficult, but Awesome
Tier-Induced Scrappy
Breather Boss
That One Level
Breather Level
Game-Breaker
Broken Base
Cliffhanger
Cruel and Unusual Death
Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome
Evil Cripple
Squishy Wizard
Magic Knight
Mighty Glacier
Big Bad Friend
Torch the Franchise and Run
Lights Off, Somebody Dies
Grand Finale

The winners of yesterday's trope, Roaring Rampage of Revenge, were John Wick, The Punisher and The Bride (Kill Bill), who got 8 votes each.

Previous winners: Day 131 onwards
Redemption Equals Death - Darth Vader (Star Wars) / Theon Greyjoy (Game of Thrones) / Doctor Octopus (Spider-Man 2)
Godzilla Threshold - Operation Zero Dawn (Horizon Zero Dawn) / Crossing the streams (Ghostbusters)
One Winged Angel - Safer Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII)
11th-Hour Ranger - Sonic the Hedgehog (Super Smash Bros. Brawl)
Informed Poverty - The Simpsons
Post-Climax Confrontation - The Scouring of the Shire (The Lord of the Rings)
Death by Childbirth - Padme (Star Wars)
Defeat Means Friendship - Dragon Ball in general / Scotsman (Samurai Jack)
Elegant Gothic Lolita - Celeste Ludenberg (Danganronpa)
The Turret Master - Engineer (Team Fortress 2)
Shear Menace - Scissorsman (Clock Tower)
Infinity +1 Sword - Ultima Weapon (Kingdom Hearts)
Infinity -1 Sword - Fully Evolved Starters (Pokemon)
Poisonous Person - Poison Ivy (DC Comics)
Too Good for this Sinful Earth - Chiaki Nanami (Danganronpa 2)
That One Boss - Ultra Necrozma (Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon)
B***h in Sheep's Clothing - Matt Engarde and Dahlia Hawthorne (Ace Attorney)
Blue-Collar Warlock - John Constantine (Constantine)
Despair Event Horizon - John Wick's dog is killed (John Wick)
A**hole Victim - Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
Crutch Character - Marcus (Fire Emblem 7)
Your Soul is Mine - Maximillian Pegasus (Yu-Gi-Oh!) / Shang Tsung (Mortal Kombat) / Dementor's Kiss (Harry Potter)
Pop-Cultured Badass - Deadpool
Acquitted Too Late - Tom Robinson (To Kill a Mockingbird)
Lightning Bruiser - The Flash (DC Comics) / Bob Barker (Happy Gilmore)
Me's a Crowd - Naruto / Multiple Man (X-Men)
A Taste of Power - Samus (Metroid Series)
Shrinking Violet - Violet (The Incredibles)
Stone Wall - Shuckle (Pokemon)
One Scene Wonder - The Black Knight (Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
Magikarp Power - Magikarp (Pokemon) / Pawn (Chess)
Joke Character - Pichu (Super Smash Bros Melee) / Dan Hibiki (Street Fighter)
Lethal Joke Character - L-Block (GameFAQs Contests)
Stupid Statement Dance Mix - They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard / All Your Base
Giant Space Flea from Nowhere - Necron (Final Fantasy IX)

Today's trope is Glass Cannon. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GlassCannon

In short: they can dish it out, but they can't take it. The Glass Cannon is characterized by insane attack power coupled with pathetic defensive ability.

Prevalent in RPGs and fighting games, as the cast needs to be big enough that "takes hits like a chump" becomes a viable character trait. In RPGs, the Glass Cannon tends to be a Squishy Wizard. Not all Squishy Wizards are completely Glass Cannon, though. A Squishy Wizard still can have decent or good magical defense but abysmal physical defense (and the aforementioned good magical defense may be undermined by low hit points), and likewise, a brawler may have good physical defense but poor magical defense (though physically-oriented units are more likely to have a good amount of hit points). Artillery or archer units in Real-Time Strategy and Turn-Based Strategy games also tend to have this trait, as they're meant to be far away from combat, or at least in the back of the formation.

TL,DR: A character with incredible offensive power, but very poor defenses.

Nominations:
Hypno Disc (Robot Wars)
King Crimson (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
Mega Beedrill (Pokemon)

Tracer (Overwatch)
Dr. Edward Roivas (Eternal Darkness)
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Didn't we have this and Deoxys won?
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Snake5555555555 posted...

Tracer (Overwatch)

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Professor X (xmen)
Scarlet Witch (marvel)
Master Yi (LoL)

Hypnodisc - Robot Wars (good call TC)
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Nanis23 posted...

Didn't we have this and Deoxys won?

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Nanis23 posted...

Didn't we have this and Deoxys won?

I checked on the wiki and it wasn't on there. Maybe there are some tropes missing from the previous run? Most of the tropes I've done are on the wiki, except for the most recent ones (Stone Wall onwards), which I haven't put on yet.

GavsEvans123 posted...

Nanis23 posted...

Didn't we have this and Deoxys won?

I checked on the wiki and it wasn't on there. Maybe there are some tropes missing from the previous run? Most of the tropes I've done are on the wiki, except for the most recent ones (Stone Wall onwards), which I haven't put on yet.

I know I checked there too
But i'm 99% sure we had this one
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Nightmare (Battlebots)
Weavile (Pokemon)
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Nanis23 posted...

GavsEvans123 posted...

Nanis23 posted...

Didn't we have this and Deoxys won?

I checked on the wiki and it wasn't on there. Maybe there are some tropes missing from the previous run? Most of the tropes I've done are on the wiki, except for the most recent ones (Stone Wall onwards), which I haven't put on yet.

I know I checked there too
But i'm 99% sure we had this one

Yeah even before seeing Nani's post I thought from the topic title I remember doing this one, and then when he said that Deoxys won it I was totally sure.
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Inviso posted...

Nightmare (Battlebots)

Hahaha, nice.

I vote this.

Forgot all about that show.
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TomNook posted...

Inviso posted...

Nightmare (Battlebots)

Hahaha, nice.

I vote this.

Forgot all about that show.

Yes.

Season 4 is now guys
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This trope is very similar to Fragile Speedster, though Deoxys didn't win that one, it was Sonic.
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https://www.[THAT L SITE].com/topic.php?id=77074245

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Why is LogF**s a banned website anyway?
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Underleveled posted...

https://www.log[likegamefaqsbutnot].com/topic.php?id=77074245

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>8 months ago

Holy fuck I thought it was recent, like, 3-4 months ago at max
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Nanis23 posted...

Underleveled posted...

https://www.log[likegamefaqsbutnot].com/topic.php?id=77074245

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>8 months ago

Holy fuck I thought it was recent, like, 3-4 months ago at max

Same. I was shocked to see it was in October.
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That site's gonna be handy. I'll add the missing results to the wiki page soon!