Tropers / anza_sb

(sketch from like 2015. i'll make a better sketch soon.)

welp, about time i patch up this page, i guess.

hello there. you can call me anza or squid. i got into fiction since I was little, spending at least 1/6 of my childhood watching cartoons. i don't know how i got into TV Tropes; maybe from a stray xkcd comic i visited (but really, who even remembers how they got in here?).

the "sb" in my handle name stands for the very first work of fiction i watched and enjoyed. unfortunately the wiki markup doesn't distinguish underscores (therefore linking Tropers.{{anza_sb}} to the nonexistent Tropers.AnzaSb), but since I can't be bothered with making a new account, i usually just pothole the link myself (using the page link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Tropers/Anza_sb). if you came from that link, hi!

i have deviantART, Instagram, and Twitter accounts. feel free to look around and maybe like and follow. i'm also on Discord; do PM me if you want my ID.

things i've done here:

Pages I've Made

• Anime.Oh Suddenly Egyptian God
• Creator.Joe Taslim
• Creator.Raditya Dika
• Music.The Chalkeaters

Trope Page Images I've Put Up

• Age of Titles
• Alphabet News Network
• Ambiguous Syntax
• Booze-Based Buff
• Bubblegum Popping
• Carry the One
• Death Montage
• Destructive Teleportation
• Ennio Morricone Pastiche
• Flushing-Edge Interactivity
• "Here's Johnny!" Homage
• Hostile Animatronics
• Human Doorstop
• I'd Tell You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You
• Improbably High I.Q.
• Infodump
• Instant Drama, Just Add Tracheotomy
• Invisible Writing
• Ironic Name
• Ladies and Germs
• The Last Title
• Letters 2 Numbers
• Limerick (bonus: in my opinion, the greatest IP thread of all time)
• Mascot Racer
• Odd Name Out
• Off the Chart
• Pet Heir
• Phallic Weapon
• Prisoner's Dilemma
• Pyramid Power
• Rascally Rabbit
• SatanicArchetype.Western Animation
• Scoring Points
• Shackle Seat Trap
• Sidetracked by the Analogy
• Slogan-Yelling Megaphone Guy
• The Something Song
• Super Fly Reflexes
• Thunder Drum
• "Untitled" Title
• Useless Without Cell Phones
• Vegetarian for a Day
• Verbed Title
• Water Guns and Balloons
• Weird Moon (lower right)
• Xtreme Kool Letterz

Trope Page Videos I've Put Up (listed by source)

Anime & Manga

• Oh, Suddenly Egyptian God
  • Affectionate Gesture to the Head
  • Failed a Spot Check
  • Instant Home Delivery

Music

• The Chalkeaters
  • Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion
  • Villain Love Song

• Kero Kero Bonito
  • Stopped Clock

Web Original

• But Really Really Fast
  • Piano Drop

• CAPTAIN YAJIMA
  • Space "X"

• Dorkly Originals
  • Crippling the Competition

• Map Men
  • Musicalis Interruptus
  • Stop Copying Me

• Scott The Woz
  • Way Past the Expiration Date

Work Page Images I've Put Up

Anime & Manga

• Oh, Suddenly Egyptian God

Music

• The Chalkeaters

Video Games

• Doodle God
• Farmville
• The Impossible Quiz
• Insaniquarium
• Pizza Frenzy
• World of Goo

Web Original

• Gritty Reboots
• MinutePhysics

additional notes:

• i might be the one who broke the Wiki Word for .hack//G.U. (reverting it back from .hack//G.U. to Dot Hack GU). i'm sorry.
  • 2021 UPDATE: it's been fixed! i think?
• i don't visit TV Tropes as often as i used to, but when i do you can expect to find me over at Image Pickin'. sorry, Forum Games.

things i like:

Anime and Manga

• Assassination Classroom
• Barakamon
• Daily Lives of High School Boys
• Death Note
• Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto
• Himouto! Umaru-chan
• Jojos Bizarre Adventure ^note my current obsession. it's just really, really awesome.
• Kono Suba
• The Law of Ueki
• Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid ^note i think it's tied with Season 2 of KonoSuba for my favorite anime of the Winter 2017 season. the characters are all really cute :3
• Nisekoi ^note the only anime that made me want to noogie the author for being the Magnificent Bastard that they are. i haven't finished it yet, though. note that i started watching the show around 2015.
• No Game No Life ^note 5/10 amazing premise but too much unnecessary fanservice and uncomfortable stuff
• Oh, Suddenly Egyptian God
• One-Punch Man
• Persona 4: The Animation
• Puella Magi Madoka Magica
• Rage of Bahamut: Genesis
• Re Zero ^note haven't watched Season 2 yet
• Shelter
• Shinryaku! Ika Musume
• Tanaka-kun wa Itsumo Kedaruge
• Tokyo Ghoul
• Your Lie in April

Comic Books

• Scott Pilgrim

Films — Animated

• 9
• Despicable Me
  • Despicable Me 2
• Disney Animated Canon films:
  • Beauty And The Beast
  • Aladdin
  • The Lion King
  • Tarzan
  • Wreck It Ralph
  • Big Hero 6
  • Zootopia ^note one of the greatest Disney films i've ever seen.
  • Moana ^note I'D RATHER BE SHINYYYYYYYY~
• The LEGO Movie
• Pixar films:
  • Brave
  • Coco ^note one of the very few films i've seen that has a solid 10 from me. it's just that good. always makes me tear up when i watch it.
  • Inside Out
  • Ratatouille
  • Toy Story series
  • Up
  • WALL•E
• ParaNorman
• Sausage Party [[note]the film is surprisingly deep (pun unintended) despite all the language and innuendos in it.[[/note]]
• The Spongebob Squarepants Movie
  • The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water

Films — Live Action

• Three Idiots ^note i love this movie, it's a shame that it's so criminally underrated outside of India/Asia.
• The Dark Knight Trilogy
• Deadpool (2016)
• The Fault in Our Stars
• The Giver
• Harry Potter ^note i watched them all; haven't really gotten into the Fantastic Beasts series, though.
• Inception
• Interstellar
• I, Robot
• Marvel Cinematic Universe ^note i watched them all from Iron Man up to Spider-Man: Far From Home.
• Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
• Sherlock Holmes (2009)
  • Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
• Split
• Star Wars ^note I-VIII; haven't watched Rogue One, though
• Unbreakable ^note it was really great, though the IASIP-style end cards didn't really click to me.
• Wonder Woman (2017)

Live-Action TV

• Sherlock

Music

i actually don't have any specific music tastes. any kind of music that's not monotonic or empty (cough Billie Eilish cough) i can listen to.

special thanks to Hirohiko Araki and Jojos Bizarre Adventure for enriching my music tastes.

• AC/DC
• Coldplay
• DIO
• Dan Bull
• Lindsey Stirling
• Metallica
• Pentatonix

Video Games

• Alchademy
• .hack//G.U.
• Henry Stickmin Series
• The Impossible Quiz
• Persona 4
• Pokémon ^note i played Emerald and FireRed as a kid. i haven't played any of the games since then (except through emulators...), but i sometimes browse on Bulbapedia.
  • Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team ^note played Red (also on an emulator), unfortunately i never got around to finishing it because lack of time.
• Scribblenauts Unlimited
• Terraria
• Undertale

Webcomics

• Cucumber Quest
• Homestuck ^note Very late to the party, but better late than never, I guess. Currently about to delve into the deep and utter madness that is Act 6.
• The Legend of Maxx
• The Oatmeal
• xkcd

Web Original

• Animator vs. Animation
• ASDF Movie
• bill wurtz
  • history of japan
  • history of the entire world, i guess
• Binging with Babish
• Bravest Warriors
• CinemaSins
• Don't Hug Me I'm Scared
• Epic Rap Battles of History
• Honest Trailers
• How It Should Have Ended
• Man at Arms
• MinutePhysics
• RWBY
• Scott The Woz
• Sword Art Online Abridged
• Vsauce
• What If?

Western Animation

• Adventure Time ^note I haven't watched it since, but I really like how the silly artwork and characters hide the true nature of the show. I need to pick it up again sometime.
• The Amazing World of Gumball
• Avatar: The Last Airbender
• ChalkZone
• Gravity Falls ^note While SpongeBob is my first cartoon, GF is what made me truly interested in the animation medium. Thanks, Alex Hirsch!
• Infinity Train
• Phineas and Ferb
• Over the Garden Wall
• Spongebob Squarepants ^note The one work that introduces me to the realm of fiction. Thank you, Stephen Hillenburg. Rest in peace.
• Steven Universe

other things i like:

• cephalopods (obviously!). and ocean life in general. and animals in general. but mostly cephalopods. and also cats.
• noodles and pasta in general.
• cheese, although I only knew a few kinds (i somewhat like artificial cheese flavors, but obviously the real deal is better).
• vegetables, all kinds of them. ^note chili peppers and bitter gourds are, by biological definition, not vegetables. they're fruits.
• clocks (preferably non-digital ones), gears and gear mechanisms, and other tropes associated with it. i always like how gears in a clock turn since i was a kid, and one of my favorite fictional characters is a walking, talking timepiece. i also kinda like how the word sounds :P
• Elemental Powers, most notably ice powers. i really like snow (although i haven't experienced winter myself), i personally think that the Ice type in Pokémon needs more love (and resistances), and Ice King is one of my favorite characters because of his powers (among other reasons).
• Meganekko and tropes associated with it, which I firmly love and support; it helps that i wear glasses myself. Conversely, I dislike tropes like The Glasses Gotta Go because it's stupid to think that glasses equals being ugly.
• stars and constellations.
• SCIENCE! and math. maybe.

lol

here are some other stuff i made that i prolly will never use again:

Party Octopus and Friends

Tropes for my characters, Party Octopus (and his friends). I'll either add more of this later, or I'll move this section to the Darth Wiki page. As for now, I'll just keep it here. This section may and will change over time, with every character idea I add or remove.

Tropes applying to them in general:

• A Dog Named "Dog"/A Lizard Named "Liz": Most of the characters derive their name from the animal's actual name, or their scientific name:
  • Humboldt Squid is named after, well, the Humboldt squid. Additionally, his online username is "Dosidicus", from the scientific name Dosidicus gigas.
  • Topsy's name, besides describing her drunken behavior, is derived from Tursiops aduncus, aka. the Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin.
  • Thaum, Sepia and Ent's names are from their species' scientific names (Thaumoctopus mimicus, Sepia officinalis, and Enteroctopus dofleini, respectively).
  • Fly's real name is also derived from his scientific name (from Todarodes pacificus, the Japanese flying squid).
  • Party's family falls into either A Dog Named "Dog" (Mr. Kraken, Grandpa Cthulhu, Uncle Hydra) or A Lizard Named "Liz" (Grandma Levi the Leviathan and Aunt Lia the cecaelia, aka. an octopus mermaid).
  • The only exception to this rule is Party himself and his real name. Then again, "Party Octopus" is a common octopus, so it still counts.

Party Octopus

A happy-go-lucky octopus who loves to PARTY!!!

• Adorkable: Beneath his "hype-man" persona, he's actually a pretty dorky guy.
• Bi The Way: He's been hitting on sea creatures of both genders.
• Black Sheep: He is a happy fun ordinary octopus in a family of terrifying sea monsters. The family visits can get awkward sometimes.
• Combat Tentacles: He can stretch his tentacles to catapult himself.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Everyone in the sea calls him Party Octopus or Party.
• Funny Octopus: Yep.
• His Name Really Is "Barkeep": Subverted, since "Party Octopus" might not be his real name.
• Life of the Party: Of course! Besides attending parties a lot (and often shining at them), he also holds parties at his home (and at Humboldt's home, much to his chagrin). He's not called "Party Octopus" for nothing, after all.
• Nice Hat: He wears a small party hat.
• Odd Friendship: He's best friends with Humboldt, despite the two having contrasting personalities.
• Pungeon Master: Downplayed; he sometimes drop a pun or two for kicks, but he sure loves a good pun.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red to Humboldt's Blue; he's loud, extraverted, and likes to go out to hang with people.

Humboldt Squid

A humboldt squid and Party's best friend (and sometimes rival).

• Affectionate Nickname: Party sometimes call him "Hummer" or "Hummie".
• Friendly Rivalry: Sometimes Humboldt and Party will engage in a contest between the two (like a sunk-item collecting contest).
• Odd Friendship: He's best friends with Party, despite the two having contrasting personalities.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue to Party's Red; he's calm, introverted, and prefers to stay alone at home.
• The Smart Guy: Between him and Party, Humboldt's the brighter between the two.
• Species Surname: A squid with the last name "Squid".
• The Stoic: He's considerably calmer than Party, though he does have his wild moments.

Topsy

A really loud bottlenose dolphin, possibly even louder than Party.

• The Alcoholic: She gets drunk off her blowhole a lot.
• Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: She's often seen with a glass bottle stuck on her snout, making her a literal bottle-nose dolphin.
• Drunk on Milk: That bottle stuck on her snout is actually a bottle of cream soda.
• Friendly, Playful Dolphin: Despite her drunk tendencies, she's actually a pretty nice guy.
• Friendly Rivalry: Sometimes she and Party would engage in drinking contests. Let's just say it doesn't end well for either of the two.
• Hard-Drinking Party Girl: A hard drinking dolphin who often goes to Party's, um... parties.
• Retcon: I changed her gender from male to female. Some Word of God explanation: When I first wrote the character off of a sketch I drew, I make the gender male. I later changed it to female because I just realized that I really lack major female characters here. I'm sorry. I'll probably add more female characters soon.

Thaum and Sepia

A mysterious master of mischief and disguise, and his quiet assistant.

• Elective Mute: Sepia can speak, but she doesn't do it often because of her Shrinking Violet tendencies, preferring to use Talking with Signs instead.
• Master of Disguise: True to their species.
• Motif: Thaum's appearance and personality are themed after a dalang (the puppetmaster in a wayang performance).
• Non-Mammalian Hair: Downplayed. Thaum's two "antennae" above his eyes, along with his face coloration, makes him look like he's having a pair of eyebrows and a mustache.
• Talking with Signs: Because Sepia doesn't speak, she converses by changing her skin color to form a response, then showing it.
• What the Hell Is That Accent?: Thaum speaks in a thick Javanese accent (kinda like this).

"Fly"

A bratty and punkish Japanese flying squid.

• Do Not Call Me "Paul": He hates his real name because he thinks it's too embarrassing. It's "Todaro"; his family sometimes call him "Todaro-desu".
• I Just Want to Be Badass: He joined a gang so that he can be seen as "tough" by his peers.
• The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: He tries to act like a delinquent, but in reality he's mostly just showing off and acting tough.

Ent

A giant Pacific octopus who loves to prank people.

• Canon Foreigner: He is originally my character from DrNoPuma's roleplay thread, "We Are Sea Creatures in An Aquarium".
• Recurring Extra: To be honest, I don't plan to do much with him. He'll mostly just appear in a few short scenes or whatnot.

Party's family (the Thalassa family)

The Thalassa family is a multi-generational family of sea monsters residing in the deepest unexplored parts of the ocean. The current generation consists of Grandpa Cthulhu, Grandma Levi, Aunt Lia, Uncle Hydra and Mr. Kraken. Oh, and Party.

• Kraken and Leviathan: Mr. Kraken and Levi, whom are Party's dad and grandma, respectively.
• Missing Mom: Party's mom, also Mr. Kraken's wife, is nowhere to be found for unknown reasons.
• Sea Monster: A whole family of 'em!
• Strong Family Resemblance: Everyone has some sort of "long body part" theme going on within them, whether it's tentacles or long necks. Any sort of innuendo arising from the previous sentence is completely accidental.
• Unscaled Merfolk: Aunt Lia is an octopus mermaid.

The Elements Playlist

I had this idea quite some time ago, back when I was in my final year of high school. So I'm a chemistry nerd (among other things nerd), and I noticed that there are quite a lot of songs with the names of elements in their titles. And so I had an idea to find a song for all 118 elements of the Periodic Table. It's a really long journey, and some elements I still haven't found the perfect song for. Below is the playlist, sorted by atomic number order, in the format of [Artist - Song Title]. I decided to put it here, because... I want to share my nerdness with all of you guys, I guess. :P

There are some rules to this playlist, namely:

1. The element should be in the song title, not the artist's name. Therefore, songs by Nickelback, for example, don't count unless they have a song with an element title.
2. Each element only has one song. This is because some elements, like Gold and Silver, have way too many songs with their names in the title.
3. Only one song from each artist (i.e. no two songs by the same artist).

Be warned that some of the songs in here are really obscure, and some might not be your kind of song to listen to. Oh, if you have a song suggestion, please let me know!^note You can suggest something not in the playlist, or you can suggest another song with an element title that was already here. Who knows, maybe I would like your suggestion better!

1. Jake Chudnow - Hydrogen ^note You may have heard this song from Vsauce videos.
2. Plain White T's - Helium
3. Evanescence - Lithium
4. The Jellybricks - Beryllium
5. ???
6. Tori Amos - Carbon ^note I really like the piano play on this one.
7. ???
8. Maudy Ayunda - Oxygen ^note Indonesia represent~
9. The Child - Fluorine Overdose
10. John Mayer - Neon
11. Lotus - Sodium Vapor
12. Ether Hour - Magnesium
13. Barenaked Ladies - Aluminum ^note I like this song because not only it has an element title, but its lyrics contain references to the element's traits as well.
14. Eiffel 65 - Silicon World
15. City Girl ft. santpoort - Phosphorus Kiss
16. Slipknot - Sulfur
17. TwentyOnePilots - Chlorine
18. ???
19. Bishop Nehru - Potassium
20. BONES - Calcium ^note I am so proud of myself for having this in my playlist.
21. ???
22. David Guetta ft. Sia - Titanium
23. Phil Disco - Vanadium
24. The Church - Chromium
25. Simon Phillips - Manganese
26. Black Sabbath - Iron Man ^note I am Iron Man.
27. Ray McDougall - Cobalt Thief ^note Thanks to Ozbourne for suggesting this song! ::::)
28. Melanie - Nickel Song
29. ???
30. ???
31. ???
32. Canon Blue - Germanium
33. The Loved Ones - Arsenic
34. Plini - Selenium Forest
35. ???
36. ???
37. ???
38. Against All Authority - The Source of Strontium 90
39. Fridge - Yttrium
40. ???
41. ???
42. The Trey Gunn Band - The Joy of Molybdenum
43. Reso - Technetium
44. Little Reactions - Ruthenium
45. François Richard Quartet - Rhodium
46. Brigitte - Palladium
47. The Beatles - Maxwell's Silver Hammer ^note BANG BANG!
48. Pinegrove - Cadmium
49. ???
50. The Small Faces - Tin Soldier ^note I like this song because it reminds me of The Steadfast Tin Soldier.
51. Jake Kaufman, Manami Matsumae - Flowers of Antimony (The Explodatorium)
52. ???
53. ???
54. ???
55. Dig & Cook - Cesium
56. DYANN - Barium ^note Another thanks to Actual Beatrice for suggesting this song!
57. ???
58. Charlotte Martin - Truth Cerium ^note Another one with awesome piano play.
59. Metal Falcon - Praseodymium
60. Vicious Rumors - Neodymium Man ^note CATCH ME IF YOU CAN!
61. midnight - Promethium
62. ???
63. ???
64. ???
65. Peter Scherer - Terbium Lane ^note I like this song because it sounds like something straight out of Steven Universe.
66. ???
67. ???
68. ???
69. ???
70. The Evolve - Ytterbium
71. Kevin Schroeder - Lutetium
72. Slik Helvetika - Hafnium
73. David Shane Smith - Song for Tantalum
74. Luke Pell - Tungsten Steel
75. ???
76. ???
77. Dark Tranquillity - Iridium
78. ???
79. Prince - Gold ^note Thank you, [[Creator/Hirohiko Araki]], for this gold experience.
80. YATES - Mercury
81. ???
82. ???
83. Aivi & Surasshu - Bismuth's Theme
84. Ruger Hauer - Polonium
85. ???
86. Oysterhead - Radon Balloon
87. Grumble Bee - Francium
88. Count Zero - Radium Eyes
89. ???
90. ???
91. ???
92. Elton Britt - Uranium Fever ^note Thanks to sazandora for suggesting this song!
93. ???
94. ???
95. Atomic Bride - Americium 241
96. Martyn Heyne - Curium
97. Mister Chill'R ft. Planewalker - Berkelium Bel Canto
98. ???
99. ???
100. Autechre - Fermium
101. Ichsanity - Mendelevium
102. ???
103. ???
104. ???
105. ???
106. ???
107. ???
108. ???
109. ???
110. Richard Barrett - Darmstadtium
111. ???
112. ???
113. Uniyon - Nihonium
114. ???
115. ???
116. Rompasso - Livermorium
117. ???
118. ???