Fake Trope Example Maker

Used positively in Space Explorers! The Adventure Continues! with Siddhartha. Gaining enlightenment caused him to ascend to an omnipotent, benevolent, and bizzarre-looking Energy Being form.

Edited by dvorak on May 7th 2024 at 3:35:46 AM

In The Tribulations Of Honora Knox, the titular airship pilot has a Running Gag where she uses things for purposes often drastically different from their intended purpose. For example, in season 1, episode 11, she used a pair of scissors as a lockpick. This gag culminated in season 4, episode 8, where she used a modified washing machine as a power supply for her Cool Airship.

It Runs on Nonsensoleum

• Dig In Your Heels: The New Day are an offshoot of The Yardies who carry out their comical criminal antics driving around the streets of NXT City in a tractor, fuelled by their own Booty-O's cereal. Dakota Kai points out how little sense this makes, only for Sheamus to remind her that they've run into far stranger things than that.

Prehistoric Animal Analogue

My Example: Tuskourge, one of the pseudo-Legendary Pokemon of Pokemon War And Peace, is partially based on the North American Daeodon, as you can see by its massive stocky build, facial protuberances, and prominent crushing omnivorous teeth. Its other inspiration is Twrch Trwyth from the Mabinogion, thereby combining two different dangerous pigs into one nightmarish individual.

Edited by Sammael29 on May 8th 2024 at 3:40:41 AM

Pip: The dragons in the series are clearly based on large theropods. The Dreaded Tyrant Dragon King is pretty clearly a Tyrannosaurus rex, for instance. There are many other examples of creatures being based off prehistoric animals in this series, such as wyverns (adzarchid pterosaurs), titans (sauropods), drakes (deinonychodaurs), and the snowbeasts (mammoth).

Deconstructed Character Archetype: The Pollyanna

Edited by Oggy123 on May 8th 2024 at 12:27:14 PM

• Pokemon War And Peace: Eilonwy, an Expy of Branwen from the Mabinogion, serves as such a character. On the surface, she appears to maintain a positive attitude about her life, despite having an Awful Wedded Life, a Big Brother Bully who abuses her husband's Rapidash herd, being forced to scrub the kitchen floors because of said big brother's crimes, and the fact that her home region of Tadgulad is being threatened with war against Team Conquest. But the Player Character can clearly tell that this attitude is a paper-thin front, it becomes increasingly less convincing and finally she ends up having a tearful breakdown, admitting how afraid she is that if their people go to war, she could end up losing her precious son. Luckily, thanks to the Player Character and their powerful friends, Eilonwy ends up having a much happier ending than the original Branwen.

Neighbourhood-Friendly Gangsters

Edited by Sammael29 on May 8th 2024 at 11:39:53 AM

It’s one of the main jokes of the comedy Meet The Moneymakers, made in the wake of The Sopranos' success. In it, a family of crooks who are seen as having standards against stealing from the poor end up going rogue and hiding out it in suburbia where, despite their intimidating behaviour towards neighbours, they are nonetheless respected. The movie ends with the suburbanites rallying around the Moneymakers when a gang tries to blow up their house.

Oddball Doppelgänger

• Dig In Your Heels: This trope is lampshaded with action film star Goldberg and his unusual chauffeur, Gillberg. They're both bald, bearded men who like walking around bare-chested, but Goldberg is tall, buff, tattooed and serious, whereas Gillberg is short, thin, and makes goofy expressions. It's eventually revealed that Gillberg is actually a clone of Goldberg, partially created with some tissue samples from Al Snow, which is why he's so... out there. Which leads to Dakota Kai asking why Gillberg's creator did that, and his reply?
  Bobby Heenan: Because I thought it would be funny, sweetheart!

Beary Friendly

My Example: One of the pseudo-Legendaries of the Tadgulad in Pokemon War And Peace is Calibear, an imposing bear physically inspired by King Arthur (whose name derives from the Welsh word for "bear"). Distinguished by its red fur, golden crown and beard, and blue cape-like back, Calibear has been sleeping inside a cave on Applin Island (based on Avalon), waiting for the day when it is needed to defend the Tadgulad region. The moment the player finds it, and wakes it up, it immediately agrees to help them, without the player having to defeat it first.

Ken And Flutter: Sakura Shrine has a panda (in a Japanese setting) NPC who is friendly and will give you a Fairy Star for some bamboo.

Clever Crows

Edited by Oggy123 on May 9th 2024 at 11:29:39 AM

In Bird Life, Theodore the crow is often the Only Sane Man to the other birds, knows how to do math, and is the one with the best understanding of the humans.

In Gunslinger Knight, the Jester, in keeping with his status as a walking fountain of references to Monty Python and the Holy Grail, cringes and sqwaks in terror at the sound of the word "it."

Edited by dvorak on May 10th 2024 at 12:29:43 PM

• In Dig In Your Heels, Sheamus has to remotely control a drone to spy on LayCool for their rivals, the Bella Twins. The problem is, because Brie Bella runs a zoo as her side-job, the interface controls for the drone (and the virtual reality headset to see things from the drone's perspective) are kept in various animal-shaped devices:

Handicapped Badass- Decon-Recon Switch

My Example: In Ava Raine Bringer, Marshall Savelina Fanene of the Raw Alliance- otherwise known as Nia Jax- is a veritable One-Woman Army blessed with Super-Strength and an unshakable warrior's willpower. Sadly, after she got one of her eyes clawed out in a fight, she lost her depth perception, and with it, her ability to aim with a long-range weapon and restrain her impressive strength. This led to her accidentally injuring new recruits to the Alliance who she was supposed to be training, which resulted in her getting stripped of that job, which forces her to sit out the training of her beloved niece Ava. Luckily, however, towards the climax, Nia's formidable strength is finally put to good use when she gets separated from her allies and surrounded by the forces of the Ultimate Warrior, at which point she realizes she doesn't have to hold back with none of her loved ones around for her to hurt, and she effortlessly slaughters the Warrior's entire army without taking so much as a scratch, before finally moving onto the Warrior himself- who now sees her as a Worthy Opponent.

Someone please bump

The narcoleptic powerhouse Dalgo Sheuric in Para Bellum 4, despite joining the party at an early stage, has the highest Attack and Endurance stats out of the entire playable cast, and by a good distance too. However, there's a rather massive downside in that he suffers the Sleep status effect every three turns, which makes him very ill-suited for the longer Enemy Legions and boss battles. Because legion encounters increase in frequency as the game progresses, players are expected to keep him on the sidelines more often, which serves to make the moment when he gets separated from his teammates after losing his alertness during the Chapter 3 Chase Scene even more heart-wrenching.

This is reconstructed when he is rescued and rejoins the party in the fifth chapter. By this point, an extra Active character slot has opened up, which, in addition to a higher overall Party Synergy value, means that Dalgo's offensive capabilities can be much better supported. This is just as well, considering some later bulky foes he is very effective against. Dalgo even points out that the reason he survived this long despite his condition is attributable to his comrades who protect him when he is at his most vulnerable.

Edited by Neoshi on May 16th 2024 at 5:08:03 AM

• Ava Raine Bringer: The Raw Alliance have to send one of their own to visit Saraya, Queen of the Outcasts, and convince her to bring her forces against Lord Heenan Vile-Brain. The mission is a dangerous one, since not only do the Outcasts live in the dangerous backwoods of Connecticut, they also are a band of violent power-worshippers who only respect strength, not morality, so they won't agree to join forces unless they get something in return. On top of that, their newest champion, Rhea Ripley, can't do the mission herself, because two of the Outcasts have a personal enmity against her, and would probably convince Queen Saraya to kill her on sight. Luckily, Princess Ava Johnson, being a relative newcomer to the Alliance, is up for undertaking the quest, and, at the convincing of his father, Prince Dominik Mysterio agrees to join her, if only because it'll help him overcome his cowardly tendencies. By the end of the day, Ava succeeds in securing the help of the Outcasts- after first challenging Queen Saraya and earning her friendship through defeating her- and better than that, she earns the friendship of a lindworm that she rescued from the Outcast's fort.

Ear Worm- In-universe

• My Example: The Bella Twins in Dig In Your Heels are a pair of sibling gang leaders, with a finger in nearly every pie in NXT City, but they still use their iconic theme song "Look But Don't Touch" both on the soundtrack in their base of operations, and as their personal ringtone. So, when they contact Sheamus and the gang to do some odd jobs for them- like drug running, theft from rival gangs, and running their local zoo- they make sure to install the ringtone. This embarrasses the gang a lot, seeing as the Bellas ring them right when it's least appropriate, but also because it's a really catchy song, and eventually, the gang even start singing it themselves:

Edited by Sammael29 on May 14th 2024 at 11:29:59 AM

In The Strangeness Club, one of the main characters - Akari Yoneyama - finds a Pop Punk song titled "L'Ontariain" by the in-universe musician Roxy Ross to be one. She is also often seen and heard humming the song and recite some lines of the chorus. Her and Tomika lampshade this in Volume 19:

You All Share My Story

The murder mystery film Who Killed Arnold Palmer follows six protagonists that don't know each other, but were likewise in or nearby Arnold Palmer's estate on the night of his death. They band together and use their unique experiences to piece together a chain of events and track down his killer.

Pokemon Biology and Chemistry: Mindelic Jigglypuff, in its desperation for human affection, can sing a song that will get stuck in the heads of any humans who hear it and refuse to go away until they pay Jigglypuff attention. It's signature move, Earworm, deals continuous damage to its target while they're on the field until Jigglypuff faints, which, given Mindelic Jigglypuff's bulky defensive stats, might take a while.

Series/Goldenthal and Archer: A Running Gag in the series are characters using "When the Cubs win a World Series" as a term similar to "When pig fly," knowing it will never happen - that is until the thied season in 2017, made after the Cubs did win. This results in everyone either finally aquiesing or Moving the Goalposts.

• Horsing Around: When Charlotte Flair is working as a delivery girl for the Samoan Dynasty restaurant and take-away to make a living, she ends up becoming a victim of Austin Theory exploiting this trope. He orders her to deliver a delicious curry to his house, before secretly phoning a whole bunch of power stables- The Judgment Day, The New Day, Damage CTRL, the Alpha Academy and Chase University- and bribing them to repeatedly waylay Charlotte on her bike en route and steal her food, thereby delaying her and ensuring she can't deliver it within the thirty minute deadline. Charlotte being a Determinator, she perseveres in hunting down whichever stable steals the curry and taking it back from them, but eventually, once she finally delivers it, Austin smugly tells her that she took forty minutes getting to his house, so he's not going to pay her now. Charlotte, finally reaching her Rage Breaking Point, decides to defy this trope and pins Austin down to a table by his neck, holding a dagger to him and ordering him to either pay for his curry or pay with his life. Her manager, Dwayne Johnson, is impressed by Charlotte's boldness in standing up to a rude customer who tried exploiting a long-outdated rule, but because she threatened a customer in the first place, he has to let her go.

No Celebrities Were Harmed

• My Example: In Pokemon War And Peace, seeing as the Tadgulad Region is a Fantasy Counterpart Culture of Wales, many of the characters the player character bumps into are based on Welsh celebrities:
  • Professor Rowan has a similar appearance to Rob Brydon, but with a long beard and glasses.
  • Cerddor, the Normal-type gym leader, is a Cool Old Guy with curly grey hair and a prominent beard, and an extremely talented dancer/singer, so he's clearly based on Sir Tom Jones.
  • Dai, the Psychic-type gym leader, is a tall Stage Magician (albeit with real magical powers) who wears a fez, likes telling jokes, and is somewhat clumsy when doing his tricks or handling props, just like the late Welsh comedian Tommy Cooper.
  • Finally, Gwenllian, the Fighting-type gym leader, is an energetic brunette with dyed stripes in her hair, who fights like a professional wrestler, and bases her entire gym on a wrestling ring. Tegan Nox, is that you?

Edited by Sammael29 on May 16th 2024 at 10:23:01 AM

Tiny Town: The Mouse World setting inhabited by rodents and insects has a number of these pop up from time to time. One episode has Mushihiro Sakurai being mentioned by Martin Mouse.

Cute Witch

The Cursed Ones: Evie Swanson is a compassionate, albeit timid girl descended from a long line of “cursed ones” with a connection to the arcane. Despite the societal ostracism she faces upon her powers awakening when she turns 13, she vows to use her new powers to protect the innocent and keep the peace, no matter how scared she may be by the gravity of such a task. White-clad with a pair of long blonde pigtails and bright blue eyes, those in need of her aid will surely know her when they see her.

Edited by Riolugirl on May 17th 2024 at 1:10:12 PM

At the end of RadPunk: New Toronto, your character dies firing the Terraforming Engine in the Universiry of Toronto Special Projects room, blasting a hole in the Nuclear Winter cloud cover and causing the sun to create a Pillar of Light.

Nah, you're good.

Edited by dvorak on May 17th 2024 at 10:41:06 AM

Completing all the Element modes and defeating all the villains, including the sub-wizard mode fight against Ozai, in Stern's Avatar: The Last Airbender unlocks "Avatar State Multiball", a 6-ball frenzy where everything grants multi-million points.

(I apologize if that sounded lame, I haven't paid much attention to the silver ball community compared to how I used to lately)

Vile Villain, Saccharine Show

Edited by LoadsAndLoadsOfFreeTime on May 17th 2024 at 9:48:57 AM

Comet, as cute as it is normally, lives and breathes this trope. Considering that this franchise is inspired by Kirby, it is unsurprising.

• The first game alone features the dark force called The Darkness threatening to shroud the world in darkness.
• The sequel, Light of Hope, has the villain be a girl who fell into the Despair Event Horizon and turned into the Destroyer who seeks to destroy the world.

Goofy Feathered Dinosaur: Averted

Edited by Oggy123 on May 17th 2024 at 6:27:22 PM

In the Valley of Dragons DLC for Gunslinger Knight, the ravenous Velociraptor has a plumage similar to a Blue Macaw parrot. This allows the blood from their kills to stand out wonderfully against their feathers.

Edited by dvorak on May 17th 2024 at 10:52:10 AM

• Ava Raine Bringer: At one point en route to Castle Stamford to begin her training with the Raw Alliance, Princess Ava and her family and friends are attacked by a marauding warband of draugs who want to eat them. Thanks to the arrival of the Ministry of Darkness, they manage to destroy the undead raiders down to the last draug by either A) burning them to ashes or B) cutting off their heads. It's noted that cutting off a draug's head is a lot harder than it looks, both because they're intelligent enough to wear protective helmets- they are former Vikings, after all- and because they're deceptively fast, so in order to decapitate one, you need to first damage its legs until it can't run or dodge anymore. Marshal Nia Jax, possessing Super-Strength, can forgo cutting off draug heads, and just crush the heads with her bare hands, a tactic shared by The Undertaker and Kane, but she explicitly states that she doesn't like doing this, because draug blood is sticky, foul-smelling, and really hard to wash off your hands once you've got it on them. 'Taker and Kane have less of a problem with this, seeing as they're vampires, and therefore can just eat the blood.

Fiery Redhead

• My Example: In Tricksters, Ares is depicted as having long dark red hair that he wears in dreadlocks, and being a War God, he has an extremely passionate personality- he loves fights, he loves women, he's quick to lose his temper, and he frequently runs into battle roaring like a madman. He even retains the redness of his hair in his wild boar form, along with his Attack! Attack! Attack! mentality. Vanessa openly speculates that the reason red-haired people are associated with emotional extroversion is because of Ares.