Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 184 - Broken Base

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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:
Disc-One Nuke
Lampshade Hanging
Difficult, but Awesome
Tier-Induced Scrappy
That One Level
Game-Breaker
Cruel and Unusual Death
Squishy Wizard
Magic Knight
Torch the Franchise and Run
Grand Finale

The winners of yesterday's trope, Lights Off Somebody Dies, were Basically everyone (Devil), Anthology of Interest (Futurama) and And Then There Was Shawn (Boy Meets World), which got 4 votes each.

Previous Winners: Day 151 Onwards
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)
Breather Boss - Morpha (Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time) / Gi Nattak (Final Fantasy VII)
Big Bad Friend - Big Smoke (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas)
Launcher of a Thousand Ships - Nightwing (DC Comics)
Evil Cripple - Mr. Glass (Unbreakable)
Breather Level - 100 Acre Wood (Kingdom Hearts)
Beef Gate - Automatic 4-Star Wanted Level (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas)
One True Love - Buttercup and Westley (The Princess Bride) / Shrek and Fiona (Shrek)
Cliffhanger - The Snap (Avengers: Infinity War)
Anti-Climax Boss - Yu Yevon (Final Fantasy X)

Star Wars The Last Jedi

edit: Actually I think that'd be more of a Base Breaker, so the broken base as a whole would just be Star Wars
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Today's trope is Broken Base. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BrokenBase

A Broken Base is a civil war among fans of a particular franchise. Almost every franchise has at least some internal conflict among its fanbase, but a truly broken base is characterized by a sustained and exceptionally vicious conflict between two or more large, vocal, and entrenched factions with little or no middle ground to be found between them.

Common causes of a broken base include shipping wars, a large and vocal Periphery Demographic whose priorities are at odds with the main demographic, or a divisive character, sequel, adaptation, or remake.

TL,DR: A major disagreement between two or more factions of the fanbase.

Nominations:
Sub VS Dub (Anime)
Final Fantasy VI VS Final Fantasy VII
Original VS Reboot (Devil May Cry)

Kenny VS Jane (Telltale's the Walking Dead Season 2)
Kataang VS Zutara (Avatar the Last Airbender)
Sub VS Dub (Anime)
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Original VS Reboot (Devil May Cry)
Classic survival horror vs. Action horror (Resident Evil)
Country Taylor Swift vs. Pop Taylor Swift
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X-Men in the MCU or as a separate entity
The quality of Dany's character arc (Game of Thrones)
2D Sonic vs. 3D Sonic
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Kaede Akamatsu's death (DRV3)
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Sacrifice Chloe or Sacrifice Arcadia Bay (Life is Strange)
Country Taylor vs. Pop Taylor
The Beatles' White Album
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Smash Bros
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paperwarior posted...

Smash Bros

What about it though? There's so much you could do with this one.

I'm considering replacing one of mine with Fire Emblem characters in Smash.
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Hmm. General "serious" versus "casual".
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If flips can be part of good wrestling matches (Wrestling)
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paperwarior posted...

Hmm. General "serious" versus "casual".

There's that, and I've seen Melee vs Ultimate since Ultimate came out

Johnbobb posted...

2D Sonic vs. 3D Sonic

I don't get how this is even an argument (2D good, 3D bad)
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Pokemon - Generation wars/genwunners
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Nanis23 posted...

Pokemon - Generation wars/genwunners

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Oh yeah I'm a gen 1er all the way
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Rankings so far:
Sub VS Dub (Anime) - 2 votes
Original VS Reboot (Devil May Cry) - 2 votes
Country Taylor Swift vs. Pop Taylor Swift - 2 votes
Serious VS Casual (Smash Bros) - 2 votes
Pokemon - Generation wars/genwunners - 2 votes
Final Fantasy VI VS Final Fantasy VII
Kenny VS Jane (Telltale's the Walking Dead Season 2)
Kataang VS Zutara (Avatar the Last Airbender)
Classic survival horror vs. Action horror (Resident Evil)
X-Men in the MCU or as a separate entity
The quality of Dany's character arc (Game of Thrones)
2D Sonic vs. 3D Sonic
Kaede Akamatsu's death (DRV3)
Sacrifice Chloe or Sacrifice Arcadia Bay (Life is Strange)
The Beatles' White Album
If flips can be part of good wrestling matches (Wrestling)
Melee VS Ultimate (Smash Bros)