Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 175 - Big Bad Friend

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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
One True Love
Disc-One Nuke
Beef Gate
Lampshade Hanging
Difficult, but Awesome
Tier-Induced Scrappy
That One Level
Breather Level
Game-Breaker
Broken Base
Cliffhanger
Cruel and Unusual Death
Evil Cripple
Squishy Wizard
Magic Knight
Anti-Climax Boss
Torch the Franchise and Run
Lights Off, Somebody Dies
Grand Finale

The winners of yesterday's trope, Breather Boss, were Morpha (Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time) and Gi Nattak (Final Fantasy VII). Morpha got 3 votes, while Gi Nattak got 1 individually and 2 under "any boss you can kill with a Phoenix Down."

Previous Winners: Day 141 Onwards
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)
Roaring Rampage of Revenge - The Punisher (Marvel Comics) / John Wick / The Bride (Kill Bill)
Glass Cannon (Redux) - Tracer (Overwatch) / Hypno Disc (Robot Wars) / Nightmare (Battlebots)
Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome - Marie (The Bourne Supremacy)
Even the Girls Want Her - Lana Kane (Archer)
Even the Guys Want Him - Gaston (Beauty and the Beast) / Big Boss (Metal Gear Solid)
Mighty Glacier - Tohru (Jackie Chan Adventures)

Today's trope is Big Bad Friend. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigBadFriend

It's often the person you least expect.

The Hero is looking for answers, beating up bikers, paying off informants and searching through the Great Big Library of Everything. His best friend and partner pleads with him to stop, it won't bring "her" back, and it just puts him in danger. Yet still the hero persists.

A few acts later, he's getting beat on by the Giant Mook, it looks like it's all going to fade to black when... his partner shows up, gun in hand! Wait, why is he pointing the tranquilizer gun at hi

When he wakes up, the friend is terribly distraught. Says he tried to get him to stop, that he warned him what would happen. Saving him is out of his hands now, it's all on his head. Wait, what?

The best friend has been in league with (or is) the Big Bad behind the whole plot. However, they genuinely like the hero and would rather he live a long and happy life. He might try a Circling Monologue to bring him onboard, but chances are he already knows the hero's moral code is such that he'd just be wasting both their time by doing it. Still, he just might try, for old time's sake. Compounding matters, he's usually a Straw Traitor to some horrible ideal, is either directly or indirectly responsible for much of the hero's recent suffering, and/or was covering it up.

TL,DR: The villain is friends with the hero.

Nominations:
The Boss (Metal Gear Solid 3)
Big Smoke (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas)
Sinestro (Green Lantern)

The Boss (Metal Gear Solid 3)
Pavel (Metro: Last Light)
Dr. Curt Connors/The Lizard (Spider-Man)

HMs:
Harrison Wells/Eobard Thawne (The Flash)
Big Boss (Metal Gear)
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The Boss is not a villain. Shes a Hero Antagonist.
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Harrison Wells
Sinestro
John Silver (Treasure Planet)
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Slade Wilson (Arrow)
Big Smoke
Anakin Skywalker (Prequel Trilogy)

Crow (Trails of Cold Steel)

Aaron Burr (Hamilton)
Magneto (X-Men)
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Kreia (Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords)
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ShatteredElysium posted...

Crow (Trails of Cold Steel)

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Nicholas D. Wolfwood - Trigun
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Big Smoke
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Elijah Price (Unbreakable)
Doc Ock (Spider-Man)
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Big Smoke (GTA San Andreas)
Terra (Teen Titans)
Eric Fucking Sparrow (Tony Hawk's Underground) [iffy on this one based on definition but hey]
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Replace John Silver with:

Slade Wilson (Arrow)
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Eric Sparrow
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Lelouch/Suzaku (Code Geass)
Depends on who is considered the big bad in Code Geass I guess
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Billy Russo (The Punisher MCU)
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Terra
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Goro Akechi (Persona 5)
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Jowy Atreides (Suikoden 2)
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Oh duh.

Jowy Atreides (Suikoden 2)
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