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Anime & Manga

Banished from the Hero's Party: In a World where people are born with their Fantasy Character Classes and are given skills and superpowers associated with the, the Token Wizard of The Chosen One's Adventuring Party decides to have the Chosen One's Jack of All Trades brother dropped from their party because his special ability — being able to find and guide people to where they're meant to go — lacks combat applications. While the Chosen One's party falls apart instantly since he was integral in everything but combat to their party, the brother decides to open up his own medicinal store in a podunk town in the middle of nowhere with the help of his princess love-interest, all the while trying to keep the town's politics from destroying itself.
Fire Force: In a World… that spontaneously caught fire, Japan becomes a Stern Sun Worshipping Anime Catholic theocracy populated by Differently Powered Individuals with Playing with Fire powers tasked with exterminating people who spontaneously turn into Evil Living Flames. The plot centers around a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits that fight those monsters while also acting as Internal Affairs for their fellow monster-hunters and investigating the source of all the fire-monsters. And all of this somehow leads up to the events of Soul Eater.
Restaurant to Another World: An inexplicable teleporting restaurant from modern-day Japan appears in a Fantasy Kitchen Sink world once a week through various magical doorways where the people from that world can enjoy culinary dishes from the modern world displayed in the most tantalizingly delicious ways available, all served with a smile by its humble human chef who inherited it from his grandfather, a cute blonde demon lady with goat horns and a Death-based Dragon-god in the body of a Badass Adorable brunette.
Soul Eater: The Tim Burton adventures of a group of child soldiers and their shapeshifting friends traveling the world and killing Serial Killers and hunting omnicidal witches in order to prevent the rise of The End of the World as We Know It via Brown Note Being on behalf of The Grim Reaper.
Wise Man's Grandchild: a normal, everyday nobody from Japan who dies in a car accident Reincarnate in Another World and is found and adopted by The Archmage, who was living a quiet, secluded life after being declared The Hero of his kingdom to live as The Hermit hunting animals who've turned into demons. Now all grown up, the reincarnated man goes to Wizarding School where he single-handedly reinvents the art of magic using his knowledge of scientific principles.

Art

Drinking Bacchus: The Roman God of Wine, Wine-Making, grape-harvesting, Fertility, Theater, and insanity portrayed as a fat, naked baby with a wreath of grape-vines on his head drinking win right out of the bottle while peeing next to a wine barrel peeing beside him and thus ruining wine for most of you.

Card Games

Cards Against Humanity: A Rated M party game that uses no real point system or strategy other than encouraging its players to pair cards together to create Refuge in Audacity jokes blacker than Africa that are arbitrarily decide is funny based on the whims of a Game Master.
Yu-Gi-Oh!: Players draw cards from their respective decks and take turns playing cards onto "the field". Each player uses a deck containing forty to sixty cards, and an optional "Extra Deck" of up to fifteen cards. There is also an optional fifteen card side deck, which allows players to swap cards from their main deck and/or extra deck between games. Players are restricted to three of each card per deck and must follow the Forbidden/Limited card list, which restricts selected cards by Konami to be limited to two, one, or zero. Each player starts with 8,000 "Life Points", with the main aim of the game to use monster attacks and spells to reduce the opponent's Life Points. Players can win if either their opponent's Life points reach 0, their opponent needs to draw but their deck has been completely depleted, certain cards trigger an automatic win or if a player forfeits.

Comic Books

Chick Tracts: A Crapsack World created by an Author Tract evangelical fundamentalist Christian God who takes a "faith over actions" stance where all Atheists and non-evangelical fundamentalist theists are Always Chaotic Evil and all evangelical fundamentalists are Purity Sues with the switch between them instantaneous.
Fables: Countless fairy tale and literary characters with vaguely defined immortality all flee from their infinite number of Medieval Stasis Fantasy worlds to the one world where the natives are in no way magical or immortal and create a safe haven in New York, New York as refugees from the war-waging campaign of a Multiversal Conqueror. Snow White and the Big Bad Wolf bone, have a family, they fight a pantheon of Metafictional gods, the Boogeyman and Snow White's crazy-jealous ex.
The Sandman (1989): The third oldest in a Fantasy Pantheon — the Anthropomorphic Personification of Dreams, Nightmares, Imagination and Storytelling as a concept — finds himself captured and imprisoned inside a giant fishbowl in the basement of a wannabe Wizard Master in post-World War I when they try and fail to capture his older sister The Grim Reaper. He manages to escape in the 80's and struggles to regain his tools of power after being weakened in his imprisonment, nearly kills his own grandniece after she helps him find dreams that go missing, some stuff happens, the Devil quites and leaves him the Key to Hell, some other stuff happens, some inner-city women have to endure the machinations of a runaway Fantasy Dream-World left unattended, he goes looking for his missing brother, people tell each other stories in an interdimensional pub, the protagonist kills himself and everyone mourns him before returning to business as usual.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (IDW): A ninja master and his four sons are executed by his spiteful former Jonin. In present times, a rat and four turtles are mutated by green alien goo that gives them humanoid physiologies and reincarnates the ninja and their four sons into their bodies. Now they must face their old evil ninja nemeses, a megalomaniacal alien brain and his alien invading army, and a pantheon of human-animal gods playing fourth-dimensional chess with mortals.

Fan Fic

The Angel of The Owl House: In an alternate version of The Owl House, Camilla Noceda is an angel that lives on Earth to do goodwill and has married and had a kid with a human. Being half-angel herself, Luz Noceda finds herself unwittingly in the Demon World where she becomes sort-of adopted by a rogue Witch and her megalomaniacal demon roommate and Luz decides to spread a little good will there in her own uniquely Luz sort of way.
Baby Boom (Shawna Canon): The Strictly Formula format of Seasons 1-3 Miraculous Ladybug takes a dark turn when Hawk Moth creates an akumatized villain that brainwashes most of Paris's childbearing population into boning, resulting in a lot of emotional drama and most of the fic's main female cast having babies. Crying, romance, Cringe Comedy, Mundane Utility, time-traveling, miraculous-swapping, and canon-busting soon follow.
The Dragon and the Butterfly: A snarky, intelligent, self-esteemless but kindhearted teenage boy from the Grim Up North and his equally snarky, pitch-black dragon companion run away from the angry mob that was the teen's hometown and find themselves transported to a Hidden Elf Village deep within the jungles of Columbia run by its ruling family who all possess magical powers and a living house. The teen winds up befriending and eventually falling in love with their only non-magic relative before his family finds him and asks him to come home and end their war with the dragons.
Same Difference: Hamato "Master Splinter" Yoshi and Dented Iron Tang Shen move to New York to have five children — Adaptational Heroism Hamato Miwa/Oroku Karai and human versions of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — who go on adventures fighting two different species of evil aliens, evil mutants, Foot Clan Ninja, Foot Clan mutants, Foot Clan robots built by aliens and various problems brought on by their multiverse.
Turning Tables: Broken Ace Peter Parker develops an increasingly ludicrous Guilt Complex after father-figure Iron Man dies when they fail to stop Thanos from wiping out half of the universe, becoming his fiancee's adopted son and his Someone to Remember Him By daughter's older brother/the closest thing she has to a father.

Films — Animation

Encanto: In an improbably isolated little village in the middle of the Columbian jungle, a magical family (which includes a living house, an elderly Control Freak grandmother, her neurotic bachelor son that can see the future, his sister that can control the weather with her emotions, her sister that can heal people with magical food, grandchildren who — by order of their age — grows flowers, can hear anything, has Super-Strength, shapeshifts, can't do anything super and can talk to animals) uses their amazing magical abilities born from a magic candle born from a miracle born from a man sacrificing his life against unexplained warring soldiers. The one grandkid who doesn't have superpowers feels useless since she doesn't have powers and decides to investigate when she suspects that something is happening to the magic.
The Incredibles: Family Man with Super-Strength suffers from a mid-life crisis in this Objectivist/Libertarian parable about the inherent superiority of superior individuals and the evils of government who portray the only government official as reasonable and the Big Bad and Hate Sink as philanthropists who value personal profit over the little guy.
Incredibles 2: Housewife with Rubber Man powers goes back into the workforce to become a superhero for a corporation immune to Federal Laws to fight a villain that wants superheroes to become illegal by Federal Law while her husband looks after the kids.
The Mitchells vs. the Machines: A Bespectacled Cutie high school graduate with Youtube celebrity status, her nerdy little brother with a love of dinosaurs, her Action Mom with a psychotic streak, her technologically inept Bumbling Dad and their dog which might be a pig or a loaf of bread all go on a family vacation on the way to her new college, only for Siri to go rogue and launch a Robot War with her army of iPod robot butlers.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie: Chris Pratt and Charlie Day play the titular Super Mario Bros. Mario and Luigi who quit their Wrecking Crew job to start their own plumbing business in Brooklyn, only to find themselves sucked into a Cloudcuckooland via a big green pipe walled off in the sewers. While Mario finds himself in a kingdom inhabited by Ridiculously Cute Critters and their badass princess, Luigi finds himself lost in Mordor under the clutches of a dragon-turtle monster (played by Jack Black) who wants to marry the princess or blow up her kingdom if she refuses.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem: Four genetically mutated humanoid adolescent tortoises live in the sewers of New York City, New York with their mutant rat father/sensei who taught them martial arts from a mix of instructional pamphlets, instructional videotapes and martial arts films. They have a run-in with a high school girl with massive performance anxiety who hopes to uncover an insidious series of thefts caused by a mutant fly and his gang of animal mutants.
Wish (2023): Narcissistic Fairy Devilfather Bitch in Sheep's Clothing tyrant king manipulates his subjects to depend on him for wishes. Upon discovering this, the protagonist who was supposed to serve as his apprentice becomes his new target until his Berserk Button is pushed in a plot to distract him and he turns his kingdom into a dystopia.

Films — Live-Action

The Cinema Snob Movie: Brad Jones plays himself as a down on his luck, Chester-esq independent film-writer with a love for Exploitation Films who pretends to be a pretentious film-critic to schmooze himself up to a group of True Art Film loving pretentious Jerkasses so that he can get permits to make his movie and wind up involved in a Giallo-esq murder mystery slowly killing off members of the group.
Hot Fuzz: A British Buddy Cop-Action Comedy where Simon Pegg plays an anal-retentive Super Cop who, after single-handedly cleaning the mean streets of London with his sheer, obsessive policemanshi—err "policeman officership", and is sent to a sleepy little town where he uncovers a Milkman Conspiracy where murders are covered-up as accidents.
Iron Man: Robert Downey Jr. plays a suave, womanizing, arrogant Tech Bro Billionaire with the mechanical bravado to justify his Awesome Ego who gets kidnapped by Middle Eastern Terrorists to build them fancy missiles to wage war for ungiven reasons. Instead, he frees himself with a Powered Armor and starts taking matters into his own hands as a Science Hero.
Iron Monkey: A doctor with mad kung-fu skills in 19th Century Southern China takes on a Robin Hood-esq masked vigilante persona to rob the coffers and generally inconvenience a wussy, corrupt governor that bullies and exploits a population of refugees with the help of corrupt Wuxia-style Shaolin monks.
Jesus, Bro!: An Affectionate Parody of Christian Propaganda of The New '10s where a Hollywood Atheist loses his Ms. Exposition girlfriend and gets black-out drunk, meeting Santa Christ in Heaven as a sound-stage and he becomes a self-righteous, non-denominational Christian who gets beaten up at every turn by the Atheist community.
John Wick: Retired Badass Professional Killing Determined Ace is nearly beaten half to death, has his Cool Car stolen and his dog beat whole to death by Douchebag Russian Mafiya Prince and he responds by going back into the Honor Among Thieves Villain World on a More Dakka Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
Shaun of the Dead: A British Horror Comedy where Simon Pegg plays a shiftless Loser Protagonist who gets dumped by his girlfriend for having no life-ambitions and his burden of a friend (played by Nick Frost), both of whom completely overlook a Zombie Apocalypse going on around them and eventually gets everyone killed out of ineptitude.
Surf Nazis Must Die: A delinquent street gang with a Nazi-aesthetic go on a campaign trying to invade and take over a beach while on of their victim's mother decides to get back at them.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Dirty, psychopatic, corrupt owner of a transport company who's also a Hanging Judge conducts an elaborate Frame-Up of a White Bunny as part of his Railroad Plot.
The World's End: Simon Pegg plays a self-destructive Manchild with suicidal tendencies who's Aimlessly Seeking Happiness by bringing his old school gang back together — Nick Frost playing his former best friend holding a grudge, Paddy Considine holding a crush on his friend's sister, Martin Freeman as a real estate agent who gets swapped out with a clone, Eddie Marsan who's just there, and Rosamund Pike who bumbles her way in — to their old home town to go on a pub crawl, only to stumble into an Alien Invasion plot where all of their old community members are systematically replaced with mechanical doppelgangers (not robots, because "robot" is Czech for "slave").
Zombieland: A neurotic nerd with Absurd Phobias and a penchant for survivalist rules, a wannabe Action Hero/Big Brother Mentor with a southern accent, an Action Girl with massive trust issues and her little sister all wind up finding each other during the Zombie Apocalypse and they become a Family of Choice in their quest for survival.

Literature

American Gods: An Unfazed Everyman fresh out of prison discovers that his wife has died in a car crash and is recruited by the American incarnation of the Top God of Norse Mythology to wage a war between the Old Gods immigrated to the New World and Gods of Modern Day American Culture.
The Automatic Detective: In a Cyberpunk-Mega City populated by Mad Scientists and their mad creations, a Killer Robot made by an evil Mad Scientist gains self-awareness and wants to be considered a legal citizen in the city. The robot's neighbors wind up getting kidnapped and he tries to investigate the kidnapping with the help of a mad scientist beauty model to find them, uncovering an Alien Invasion conspiracy in the process.
The Raven Cycle: A hipster girl who is the only non-psychic in her family and will kill her One True Love if she kisses him, teams up with a rich genius who doesn't understand the value of money and is fated to die within a year, a cynical boy with anger issues who can bring stuff from his dreams to the real world, a Scholarship Student who both resents and wants to be just like his rich classmates and a shy boy who is actually dead to resurrect a Welsh king who is buried in a small town in Virginia.

Live-Action TV

The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.: Famed Lantern Jaw-wielding badass B-Movie actor Bruce Campbell plays the Renaissance Man son of universally beloved Old West hero who was shot dead, so the Protagonist takes on his father's job as a Bounty Hunter in order to hunt down the charismatic leader of the insidious black hat gang that killed his father, all the while thwarting their plot to gain control over a mysterious, spherical MacGuffin that may or may not be divine or extraterrestrial in nature.
The Good Place: An incredibly cynical Anti-Hero from Arizona, a Dithering Nerd with Chekhov's Skill, a Beautiful Elite that knows half of all living celebrities and all Only in Florida tweets ever made pretending to be a Buddhist Monk get up to Deconstructive Parody Sitcom antics in Fluffy Cloud Heaven.
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: A cynical Black Comedy Anti-Sitcom about a Narcissistic Camp Straight sexually-predatory Control Freak sociopath, a Badass Wannabe Know-Nothing Know-It-All Armoured Closet Gay with delusions of Martial Artistry, a Chaotic Stupid Illiterate Cloud Cuckoolander Psychopathic Manchild that abuses every substance he can get his hands on, an ill-tempered contrarian Female Misogynist with Delusions of Eloquence and an ugly, Affably Evil omni-bigoted Corrupt Corporate Executive in the form of a Danny DeVito-shaped troll all become more and more Flanderized as the show progresses and the world around them becomes more and more crapsack by virtue of them existing.
Jack of All Trades: Bruce Campbell plays a womanizing, snarky American Revolutionary soldier-turned-spy (so basically Bruce Campbell playing himself) who also plays the role of a dashing Pimpernel-esq vigilante who's distinctive chin and accent are made completely unrecognizable in a Domino Mask. He's accompanied by an attractive, extremely intelligent British noblewoman/inventor/spy/maybe/maybe not love interest as they fight to undermine the machinations of a supervillain Napoléon Bonaparte, his inept Governor brother, his right-hand man and various other historical figures on a made-up island in the East Indies.
Honest Trailers describes the plot of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power as: "Witness the Second Age of Middle-earth, a time of relative peace, prosperity and dramatic establishing shots. When a mysterious stranger appears from the sky, a mysterious stranger appears from at sea, a mysterious stranger appears on land, and three mysterious strangers go looking for the other mysterious strangers."

Music

Depeche Mode: Over 40 years of darker and sexier New Wave Music, Synth-Pop, Alternative Dance and Alternative Rock music produced since October 1981 by two male Brits born in the 1960s who often wear Cool Shades and constantly switch between idealistic and cynicistic subject matters.

Tabletop Games

Candy Land: A board game that requires absolutely no skill starring a group of kids of suspiciously diverse cultures who suddenly find themselves in a world made entirely out of candy (or candy-adjacent foods like ice-cream) and have to make it to the castle by drawing color-coded cards.

Video Games

Alan Wake: A crime-thriller author of questionable skill leaves with his wife to a coasy Northwestern town that totally isn't Twin Peaks and winds up becoming the plaything of an Eldritch Abomination made of shadows that possesses random people in that town, and it all has something to do with a different author who may or may not exist and who may or may not be Alan's God.
Bloodborne: You play as a make-your-own Player Character set loose to slay werewolves, Wolf Men and eldritch horrors from beyond in a Cosmic-Gothic-Survival-Action Horror Souls-like RPG in an Eastern-European/Victorian country where everyone has gone insane and so much blood in their bodies and it flies everywhere when you hit them.
Bramble: The Mountain King: A Horror-Puzzle Platformer about a young Swedish boy following his sister into a beautiful, but unforgiving Fairy Tale world where she gets kidnapped by killer trolls and he has to face off against various monsters — a troll-butcher, a troll-hunter, an Ax-Crazy river-dwelling violinist, a scarecrow-like swamp-witch, a beautiful, yet-seductive tree-woman creature, a zombie-plague and the black-clad hag that caused it, a giant-king and his mind-controlling thorn-vines — to rescue her, all with the help of a glowing rock, a beautiful blonde he only sees once, a family of easily-killed gnomes, an unnamed hag in a library and King of the Frogs to help him.
Control: A New Weird Lovecraft Lite Action-Adventure Third-Person Shooter about a Psychic Fiery Redhead Action Girl and the Anti-Magic voice in her head infiltrating an SCP-esq. Artifact Collection Agency to find her long-lost, Ambiguously Evil brother and save the world from an Eldritch Abomination's army of corrupted Mooks.
Crash Bandicoot (1996): Two Mad Scientists with weirdly-shaped heads build a small army of Anthropomorphic Animals. One of them, an Idiot Hero orange marsupial in jeans, fingerless gloves, shoes and is blessed by a floating mask that makes him invincible (sometimes) escapes from the castle and somehow finds himself on the other side of the island the mad scientists set the base on, and he ventures towards the castle to save his already anthropomorphized girlfriend.
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc: A psychotic Gyaru Girl destroys the world For the Evulz because she wants to see her newest victims, her classmates, fall into despair, while her classmates constantly try and fight back against her with The Power of Friendship until they eventually win and have to reverse the global destruction she caused out of her lust for despair.
Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair: An attempt at rehabilitating the remaining members of an Apocalypse Cult goes horribly wrong when the Artificial Intelligence of their Bad Boss is uploaded into their Lotus-Eater Machine world and conducts a Deadly Game as part of her Assimilation Plot because of the actions of the Villain Protagonist in the real world.
The Evil Within: Hardboiled Detective with a Dark and Troubled Past is forcibly sent on a Journey to the Center of the Mind of a deranged psychopath where everyone but the protagonist and his plot-relevant friends are turned into freakish eye-glowy barbed-wire wrapped pseudo-zombies and freakish masses of flesh made to look like they came from a Silent Hill game if the titular town was a city and no Everytown, America.
The Evil Within 2: Action Survivor Hardboiled Detective is sent by an Illuminati-ish Evil Corp/Take-Over-the-World cult into an Everytown, America Town with a Dark Secret within a Mental World to save his kidnapped daughter used as its core from the psycho Technically-Living Zombie inhabitants, a Mad Artist with a pretentious french accent, a Sinister Minister that likes to burn things and liquify people's brains and a psychotic mom out to find her kidnapped daughter that also wants to kill her husband for reasons.
Five Nights at Freddy's: A nightguard with no survival instincts spends five nights in a Suck E. Cheese's owned by Peace & Love Incorporated with Haunted Hostile Animatronics and somehow survives the whole experience.
Five Nights at Freddy's 2: The same concept as the previous game, but the animatronics include criminal-identifying face recognition systems and a ghostly yellow bear as the Final Boss.
Five Nights at Freddy's 3: After the End of the Fazbear's franchise, the restaurant is instead converted to a horror attraction featuring the lifeless bodies of the previous animatronics, except now there's only one physical animatronic to fight, who happens to be the franchise-wide Big Bad, and the previous animatronics now serve as ghostly phantoms that aid his attack instead. Supposed to be the end of the franchise, but...
Horizon Forbidden West: Back in In a World… where there are Mechanical Lifeforms in the shape of animals and dinosaurs and mankind has been blown back to the Bronze Age for reasons etc etc, a red-headed archer who was banished from the tribe for being an orphan (now revered as their Messiah Archetype), tries to rebuild a Deus est Machina using its surviving components who gained sentience due to a virus or maybe Ultraterrestrials I dunno. She has to travers and fix all of the problems of a local alleged cannibal Barbarian Tribe(s), deal with colonialists who think she's the Second Coming and ultimately try to avert Global Warming over a thousand years after it was thwarted the first time around.
Horizon Zero Dawn: In a World… where there are Mechanical Lifeforms in the shape of animals and dinosaurs and mankind has been blown back to the Bronze Age for reasons that I'm sure won't be relevant to the story happening right now, a red-headed archer who was banished from the tribe for being an orphan baby grows up to find out her origin story, only to wind up facing off against a Renegade Splinter Faction of a Stern Sun Worshipping kingdom and prevent the apocalypse from happening again.
Little Nightmares: A Survival Horror/Puzzle Platformer about a small girl in an iconic yellow Raincoat of Horror trying to escape a submarine/boat/lighthouse-island/restaurant staffed and catering to Monstrous Humanoids who intend on capturing and eating her.
Master Detective Archives: Rain Code: In a rainy neon city controlled by a MegaCorp, two Well-Intentioned Extremists who are Great Detectives fight each other in a battle of wits because one of them is an Evil Twin who grows to empathize with Homunculi and wants to kill off his original self as part of his devotion to protecting them due to it being a Necessarily Evil act.
Persona 3: Ragtag Bunch of Ordinary High-School Students investigate The Hidden Hour while fighting shadows using Die or Fly superpowers, only to discover they were tricked into releasing the Big Bad through the machinations of a Big Bad Wannabe and promptly fix their mistake.
Persona 4: Ragtag Bunch of Ordinary High-School Students investigate a series of murders happening via Television Portal because of a psychotic Serial Killer.
Persona 5: Ragtag Bunch of Ordinary High-School Students forcibly redeem villainous people by brainwashing them through conducting heists of the valuables within their Mental World and erasing their entire identity in the process, only to fight against a representation of the Ungrateful Townsfolk trying to dominate humanity by convincing everyone that Humans Are Bastards.
Psychonauts: A psychic boy runs away from his home in the circus to a summer camp ran by a paranormal Government Agency of Fiction, only to uncover a conspiracy involving a Mad Scientist stealing brains working alongside a traitor in that organization, accomplishing this by entering the minds of others in a revolutionary Collect-A-Thon Platforming-method of therapy so easy that a Circus Brat can cure mental illness with it.
Spyro the Dragon (1998): A singular dragon in a world ruled over by dragons mocks a green orc/gnome Evil Overlord living in a technologically bulky series of prison worlds and that very same green orc/gnome Evil Overlord living in a technologically bulky series of prison worlds takes the insult personally, imprisoning all of the adult dragons in a hard crystal carapace so fragile that they're freed if you touch them before literally turning the dragon's currency into an army. You play an adolescent purple dragon who was spared being imprisoned in crystal by virtue of being short and his small color-changing insect companion as they free dragons, collect gems and fly across great distances.
Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!: Three villains — an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain Evil Sorcerer with a Napoleon Complex, his dumb reptilian bipedal minion with a giant club and his dumb reptilian quadrapedal minion with laser cannons strapped to his back — find themselves in a magical world and a female faun, a cowardly li—err Cheetah, and a vaguely rodentish Mad Scientist all build a portal to summon an adolescent purple dragon on his way to a vacation after saving his own world so that he could save their world for them, his payment being that he can leave. From then on he has to collect MacGuffins, which we're assured is somehow important, and gems so that we can get past a greedy, Very Punchable Bear who won't let us save his world from a tyranny without paying his Cash Gate.
Spyro: Year of the Dragon: A Rabbit Magician and an army of anthropomorphic rhinoceroses are sent by their Vain Sorceress master to retrieve all of the newly laid dragon eggs. An adolescent purple dragon, cowardly cheetah and Fairy Companion all travel to the other side of the world from when the Dragons originated in order to retrieve all of the dragon eggs, restore all of the portals, free four heroes who've been caged by a familiar, greedy, Very Punchable Bear and reclaim the Forgotten Worlds for the dragons by that same sorceress.
Sunset Overdrive: From the makers of Spyro the Dragon, Ratchet & Clank and that Space Marine game no one remembers comes a Third-Person Shooter set in some city in America that's ground-zero for a mutant apocalypse caused by a corrupt corporation accidentally inventing Mutagenic Goo instead of a popular energy-drink. You play a make-it-yourself Player Character who has the ability to leap several stories, rail-grind on any surface and land on his feet from a several-story fall with no damage because video game, killing mutants and bandits with absurd weapons as you try to uncover the corporate coverup before they destroy the city, all the while the game tries desperately for you to think it's cool with meme culture and hipster fashion.
Team Fortress 2: A Hero Shooter sequel to a Half-Life Game Mod made for Military and Warfare Video Game enthusiasts where a red-colored Ragtag Bunch of Misfits working as mercenaries and an identical blue team blow each other up for the whims of a voice over the intercom in a cartoonish, cel-shaded Australia.

Web Animation

The Amazing Digital Circus: Bread and Circuses conducted by an Eccentric A.I. to stop Doomed Protagonists stuck in a Lotus-Eater Machine from turning into Digital Abominations.
Helluva Boss: Brandon Rogers plays a foul-mouthed, sex-crazed creep with No Sense of Personal Space (so basically like all of his other characters) who opens up a Psycho for Hire business comprised of demons in Hell (one of which played by Richard Steven Horvitz playing the sane one for once) that go to Earth with illegal magic provided for them by their horny owl arch-demon benefactor so that they can kill humans on Earth at the behest of damned souls. Or at least that's what it started out as, being more a character study about the members of the Psycho for Hire business and their horny owl archdemon benefactor.
Terrible Writing Advice: A non-successful novelist with a smiley meme for a face gives still-shot animations of what not to do in a story while insisting it's what you should do for the sake of comedy, all the while the typical archetypical characters he uses in his demonstrations all have their own adventure on the side where various villains and incompetent heroes all team up to stop the personification of Greed from monetizing all of his YouTube videos because doing so will bring about The End of the World as We Know It... somehow.

Web Videos

After Hours: A neurotic, possibly autistic nerd, a handsome sociopath, a horny party-dude and a snarky velma all crowd around at a diner table to discuss, deconstruct and mock tropes, theories and other general opinions in pop culture.
Smosh: Two idiot high school friends make a video where they lipsink to the theme-song of Pokémon: The Original Series and they become so insanely popular that they wind up going on various misadventures in a Sketch Comedy world, most famously when they literally kill each other every year trying to decide who's favorite food is better. Then when their brand is bought, one of them leaves forever while the other keeps it all going with a new gang of friends before they buy the brand back and the old friend comes back.
Stampy's Lovely World: A Sugar Bowl world set in Minecraft is constantly invaded by an unrestrained hegemonist while the Nice Guy protagonist adds a new artificial building to his world as Construction Zone Calamity occurs between his Helpers.

Western Animation

Avatar: The Last Airbender: A twelve-year old with an arrow on his head, Avatar Aang, travels the world with his friends, Sokka, Katara, and Toph- and eventually Zuko and Suki, too- to learn how to master the the elements of fire, water, and earth and defeat the tyrannical king and abusive father of Zuko, Firelord Ozai, and stop the Hundred Years War, which began with the genocide of the Air Nomads.
Donkey Kong Country: A red-tie wearing, strong but stupid gorilla with an obsession with bananas is tasked by a living statue in an ancient temple on an island to be the future ruler of that very same island and to protect a coconut-shaped wish-granting Mineral MacGuffin from the king of a race of cave-dwelling Lizard Folk. Also, every episode has at least two songs of varying quality in each of them.
Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts: An unnaturally (but not worth mentioning) pink sheltered girl explores a Ragnarök Proof ambiguously occurring post-apocalypse teeming with human-hating Talking Animals and Kaijus to find her fellow humans and uncover her own secret origins.
Miraculous Ladybug: The Cute Clumsy Girl daughter of a Baker and a blonde, naive Spoiled Sweet Lonely Rich Kid are given The Power of Creation and Power of the Void by Magical Accessories powered by Mentor Mascots that make them Animal-Themed Superbeing. They use their powers to save Gay Paree from people corrupted into supervillains by the blonde, naive Spoiled Sweet Lonely Rich Kid's aloof father wielding his own Magical Accessory powered by Mentor Mascot.
My Adventures with Superman: A Younger and Hipper retelling of Superman where Clark Kent, his roommate Jimmy Olsen and his new-friend/love interest/Toxic Friend Influence Lois Lane when they start interning at the Daily Planet. Not having full control of his powers yet, Clark Kent takes on the persona of Superman and tries using his powers to stop a sudden uptick in dangerous technology finding themselves in the hands of street-thugs while a government agency is out to capture and contain him out of the belief that he's up to something sinister.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: The Power of Friendship used by Amazing Technicolor Wildlife to counter the Monster of the Week/Rogues Gallery as Applied Phlebotinum, with many Token Evil Teammates being part of the main cast after having undergone a Heel–Face Turn later on in the series.
Our Cartoon President: A politically satirical animated series about President Donald Trump and his 2017-2021 Presidential Administration as portrayed by Actor/Comedian/Leftist sort-of Political-Pundit Stephen Colbert
The Owl House: Afro-Latina Queer Genki Girl is about to be sent to an Obsessively Normal camp until she accidentally wanders into a Dense, but Wacky-Dark Fantasy Giant Corpse World populated by witches and demons. She wants to do magic. Instead she picks a fight with the Dark Messiah, finds God(s), gets depressed, turns into the Messiah and gets a girlfriend.
Steven Universe: An adolescent boy of an evolved species of primate is the offspring of a polymorphic, sentient mineral amazon-lesbian who rigged a rebellion against her own kind that inadvertently rendered the planet she loved infested with Eldritch Abominations.
Teen Titans (2003): Batman's first and former sidekick-turned workaholic leader/Token Badass Normal, a Flying Brick alien princess Genki Girl, a young, green-skinned animal-shapeshifting vegetarian, a Token Wizard Goth-chick Antichrist, a partial-machine nerdy jock form a superhero team that deal with monsters, supervillains, The Chessmaster, an Academy of Evil, its a mind-controlling Dean Bitterman, Satan and a Legion of Doom knockoff.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987): Four sewer-dwelling, post-adolescent mutated martial-arts fighting, pizza-loving terrapins and their humanoid rat master fight a heavily blade-armored evil Jōnin, his interdimensional alien brain partner and their dimwitted mutant henchmen in New York City.

Tropes

Arranged Friendship: Characters who are forced to pretend to be True Companions thanks to a variety of reasons — their social status, race, religion, orientation and most likely their parents' interests — and either become true friends in the long run or wind up developing a lot of twisted ideas when it comes to companionship.
Hollywood Dreamtime: Fiction cares so little about the indigenous Australian people's idea of what their The Time of Myths is that movies and video games think that it is a place or a type of superpower.
Jar Potty: When the presence of a bathroom with a working flushable toilet, a working non-flushable construction worker blue portable restroom or enough space to take a piss or take a dump is unavailable, always find a small portable container made of glass, metal, plastic, styrofoam or ceramic to relieve yourself so that you won't have to go out searching for any of those things with a full bladder or unvoided bowels.
Magical Queer: A Sub-Trope to the Gay Best Friend to offer sage advice, have social grace, or a use a Chekhov's Skill that their straight friends either need, want or have when their straightness blinds or handicaps them from that brand of wisdom, social grace or natural Always Camp physical or mental skill.
Tech Bro: Young, charismatic, already wealthy WASPs become even more wealthy by convincing everyone and themselves that they're Batman/Iron Man-esq super geniuses using their smarty smart-brains to uplift humanity, when really all they are are Upper-Class Twits who overhype, underperform and make all of their underpaid interns do all the heavy-lifting and number-crunching while hoarding an unreasonable amount of money.
Samurai Shinobi: Due to Truth in Television application of historical traditions and the fetishism of Japanese culture, pop culture mixes the traditions, philosophy, fighting styles, equipment, motivations, ethics, tactics and aesthetics of Samurai and Ninja until the line that separates them ceases to exist.
Seasonal Rot: When a show, comic book, movie series, book series and/or franchise starts to outlive its shelf-life, its content dropping in quality, ratings, interest from its creators, interest from its fans, number of interesting and/or original ideas, its Running Gags lose their effectiveness and people start to resent its presence until everyone is just begging that it be put out of its misery so that their creators can move on to something new.
Spoon Bending: When proof that a person has psychic powers has to be shown by copying a phony psychic in a sea of other people who pretended to see the future or hear the voice of the all-mighty for the money of their gullible fans.
Tie-In Cereal: Breakfast cereal chock full of sugar, gluten and nothing that will certainly doom your children to early onset leukemia is molded and branded with the name and picture of their favorite cartoon characters in the hopes that their parents would be pestered into buying them.
Uncoffee: In a World… where coffee beans don't exist, people get around this sort of thing by filling that very same niche with something else. Usually juice from a different but equally bitter bean, berries, grain, some kind of magic potion or elixir, even the blood of some kind of animal that goes through some kind of process that turns it into a drink ideal for getting one's caffeine fix.

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