Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 214 - Fat and Skinny

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GavsEvans123
07/22/19 3:04:11 PM
#1:


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.

In the event of a tie between 4 or more nominations, a tiebreaker poll will be run the next day to determine a winner.

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:
Kindhearted Simpleton
The Woobie
Trauma Conga Line
Enemy Mine
Evil Costume Switch
Torch the Franchise and Run
Trash the Set
Grand Finale
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GavsEvans123
07/22/19 3:05:20 PM
#2:


The winner of yesterday's trope, Shock and Awe, was Pikachu (Pokemon), who got 8 votes.

Previous winners: Day 181 onwards
Cliffhanger - The Snap (Avengers: Infinity War)
Anti-Climax Boss - Yu Yevon (Final Fantasy X)
Lights Off, Somebody Dies - Devil / Anthology of Interest (Futurama) / And Then There Was Shawn (Boy Meets World)
Broken Base - Genwunners (Pokemon)
Difficult But Awesome - Ana (Overwatch)
Disc One Nuke - Hawlucha (Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon)
Lampshade Hanging - How did Yzma and Kronk get there first? (The Emperor's New Groove)
Tier Induced Scrappy - Meta Knight (Super Smash Bros Brawl)
Squishy Wizard - Alakazam (Pokemon)
Clipped Wing Angel - Genie Jafar (Aladdin)
Cruel and Unusual Death - Executions (Danganronpa)
That One Level - Escape from the Water Slums (Jak II) / Water Temple (Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time)
Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence - Obi Wan Kenobi (Star Wars)
The Reason You Suck Speech - Quagmire to Brian (Family Guy)
Magic Knight - Geralt (The Witcher) / Bayonetta
Dem Bones - Jack Skellington (The Nightmare Before Christmas)
Acrofatic - Po (Kung Fu Panda)
Game Breaker - Detective Mode (Batman Arkham Series)
Fluffy the Terrible - Fluffy (Harry Potter)
Deathbringer the Adorable - The Grand Master of All Things Bad (Pokemon Mystery Dungeon)
Storming the Castle - Leeroy Jenkins
BFS - Buster Sword (Final Fantasy VII)
Fat Bastard - Eric Cartman (South Park)
Mentor Occupational Hazard - Obi Wan Kenobi (Star Wars)
Oddball Doppelganger - Mimikyu (Pokemon)
Mood Whiplash - The destroyed village ends "A Girl Worth Fighting For" early (Mulan)
Names to Run Away From Really Fast - Shelly DeKiller (Ace Attorney)
Hostile Show Takeover - Monika (Doki Doki Literature Club)
Lean and Mean - Voldemort (Harry Potter) / Waluigi (Super Mario Bros.) / Slenderman (Marble Hornets)
Identical Stranger - Guy Incognito (The Simpsons) / Kingsonn Dededoo (Brawl in the Family)
The Only One Allowed to Defeat You - Bowser (Super Mario Bros.)
Humiliation Conga - Yzma (The Emperor's New Groove)
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GavsEvans123
07/22/19 3:07:13 PM
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Today's trope is Fat and Skinny. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FatAndSkinny

This is where a fat and a skinny character make up a two-character ensemble. This is usually a comedy trope, usually with the skinny character being the Straight Man, although inversions of this are seen as well. Sometimes both characters are silly and this is often seen in the Terrible Trio type of villains, although there are also examples of heroic, or at least not villainous, pairs who fit this description. They often fit into the tropes of Those Two Guys or Those Two Bad Guys.

These two guys usually (but not always) have some specific characteristics that tropify their relationship: The fat one is usually a dopey optimist, while the skinny one is cynical and refined. This pair, even in villain form, are devoted to each other. The skinny one has all of the ideas, and the fat one is also the strong man. On the rare occasion the fat guy has a brilliant idea, either the skinny guy will express extreme surprise at the fat guy's ability to rub two brain cells together, or the idea will be waved away as unworkable and then re-appropriated two seconds later as the skinny guy's idea.

If these characteristics are not followed, then it's usually because the fat one is a brute who beats up the whiny skinny dude a lot. This behavior is rarely seen in protagonist pairings of fat and skinny.


TL,DR: A duo consisting of a fat character and a thin character.

Nominations:
Wario and Waluigi (Super Mario Bros.)
Junkrat and Roadhog (Overwatch)
Pain and Panic (Hercules)
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Lopen
07/22/19 3:09:44 PM
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Bulk and Skull (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers)
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No problem!
This is a cute and pop genocide of love!
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GenesisSaga
07/22/19 3:10:29 PM
#5:


Timon and Pumbaa
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"You're stronger than you believe. Don't let your fear own you. Own yourself." - Michelle Hodkin
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Cavedweller2000
07/22/19 3:11:29 PM
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Laurel and Hardy
2 Stupid Dogs
The German spies (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)
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Well done to Advokaiser for finishing 104 places above me in the 2018 CBX Guru Contest!
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_SecretSquirrel
07/22/19 4:27:40 PM
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2 Stupid Dogs
Bulk and Skull
Mario and Luigi
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Agent Triple Zero at your service!
This line reserved for the true greatone, Advokaiser, the 2018 Guru Contest winner.
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Underleveled
07/22/19 4:31:01 PM
#8:


Ren and Stimpy
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darkx
Score: There goes bracket
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hombad46
07/22/19 4:47:13 PM
#9:


Junkrat and Roadhog
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"That's Engarde hairflip metal detector tier btw"
-XIII_rocks
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Pirateking2000
07/22/19 4:49:07 PM
#10:


Ornstein and Smough
Ren and Stimpy
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XBL GT: Demon Ninja X2
"There comes a time in every man's or woman's life where they have to make **** up to cover their ass." - Hazama
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Snake5555555555
07/22/19 4:49:53 PM
#11:


Junkrat and Roadhog (Overwatch)
Jay and Silent Bob
Abbott and Costello
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I've decided to put my fears behind me. I'm not going back.
https://i.imgtc.ws/2Q88rI4.gif - https://i.gifer.com/E07R.gif
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Johnbobb
07/22/19 4:55:31 PM
#12:


GavsEvans123 posted...
Wario and Waluigi (Super Mario Bros.)
Junkrat and Roadhog (Overwatch)


Pacha and Kuzco (The Emperor's New Groove)
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Khal Kirby, warlord of the Super Star Khalasar
PSN/Steam: CheddarBBQ https://goo.gl/Diw2hs
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XIII_rocks
07/22/19 5:08:43 PM
#13:


CM Punk
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Not to be confused with XIII_Stones.
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azuarc
07/22/19 5:33:17 PM
#14:


Lopen posted...
Bulk and Skull (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers)

First thing I thought of.
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Video Game Music Contest 13 winner: Ar Nosurge - CLASS::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;
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GavsEvans123
07/23/19 3:10:27 AM
#15:


Rankings so far:
Junkrat and Roadhog (Overwatch) - 4 votes
Bulk and Skull (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers) - 3 votes
2 Stupid Dogs - 2 votes
Ren and Stimpy - 2 votes
Wario and Waluigi (Super Mario Bros.) - 2 votes
Pain and Panic (Hercules)
Timon and Pumbaa (The Lion King)
Laurel and Hardy
The German spies (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)
Mario and Luigi
Ornstein and Smough (Dark Souls)
Jay and Silent Bob
Abbott and Costello
Pacha and Kuzco (The Emperor's New Groove)
CM Punk (WWE)
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hylianknight3
07/23/19 5:36:10 AM
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Kenan and Kel
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Kampfmaschine Advokaiser punched my lights out in the 2018 Guru.
My bracket was soft... just like my heart!
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kevwaffles
07/23/19 7:54:20 AM
#17:


Ornstein and Smough
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"One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land."
-Toad, SMB3
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tennisboy213
07/23/19 9:04:56 AM
#18:


Jasper & Horace (101 Dalmatians)
Harry & Marv (Home Alone)
Mario & Luigi (Super Mario Bros.)
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hylianknight3
07/23/19 3:14:04 PM
#19:


Wario and Waluigi
Mario and Luigi
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Kampfmaschine Advokaiser punched my lights out in the 2018 Guru.
My bracket was soft... just like my heart!
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