This is simply what you think is the (not some of the, the) best example of any objective trope (so no YMMV or Trivia as they are not tropes proper and the former is already subjective) The "Crowning Example" if you will.
There could be several reasons you think an example is the best.
- You think it's the best in terms of illustrating the trope.
- You think it's the most well done.
- It's your favorite play in that trope.
- You just really like the source material.
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- Each troper gets one example per trope, no more.
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- Jackass Genie
- Thromnambular, the Wishing Skull ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Jafar in Aladdin: The Return of Jafar. ~ Triple J
- Jack of All Trades
- Mario ~ Man Without A Body
- Seconded ~ Piando
- The Soldier ~ AxeFighterBarst
- Brock Lesnar during his time in WWE. He's a huge guy with strength, speed, aerial attacks, submission moves, stamina. ~ Nirao 01
- Ryu. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Mario ~ Man Without A Body
- Jerkass
- Wario goes without saying... ~ Carls493
- The members of the soccer club in CLANNAD. Poor Mei. ~Mapi-chan
- Ollie Plimsoles ~ Man Without A Body
- Sentinel FREAKING Prime. ~ Latte
- Quicksilver. Good, evil or neutral, he's always a prick. ~ Carla
- Jang-Gung/Roto. ~ Shadow Stained Sky
- Cartman. ~ Smokie
- Oh my god, way seconded. I seriously to beat the living shit out of that *** er.
- Eric Sparrow ~ Cyber Tiger 88
- Ryder Daniels. - excaruso
- Porky freakin' Minch. ~ Mistermister
- Seconded. ~ Zetta Toad
- Just think about it this way; he is way worse in jerkiness than Cartman. (And we're talking abut a character that has barely any dialogue in the two games he appeared in.) This guy just gets under your skin by the time Mother 3 rolls in...and everything about his character just gets 'worse'. ~ Perfect Sq
- Thirded, the name Porky Minch is considered an insult to me- Gzillafan77
- Jin Kisaragi ~ Chris X
- Mike Warner. - Sporkaganza
- Louise from The Familiar of Zero. -Physical Stamina
- Stinkmeanor from The Boondocks. ~ Bobg
- Edie Poovy. While Cartman does have moments where he's not this and Wario is Played for Laughs, in a show where most of the characters are a Jerkass Edie stands out as being nothing short of evil, callous even by the show's standards. Even the worst examples here would at least try and save their own sister from death. Edie cheers, hard to find a better example. ~ tsstevens
- Dolores Umbridge. ~ Doctor Rayman
- DarksydePhil. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Steely Dan ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Benson. ~ Stewie Griffin 34
- Katie Killjoy - Demon Duckof Doom
- J. Jonah Jameson. Sometimes with some Jerk with a Heart of Gold moments, but it's way more hilarious when he's just a pathetic asshole. ~ Triple J
- Jerkass Ball
- Goddammit, Book. - Inactive Troper 19
- Roy Mustang. I dare you to find a character who is better at acting like a total douche while having good-hearted intentions. Anywhere. ~ CaellachTigerEye, Vellophone
- Seconded so. So. Much ~ aeroplanejelly
- Squall Leonhart ~ Joie De Combat
- Moe Szyslak, who reads to sick children at the hospital, but doesn't want that fact to be known about him. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Jerkass Has a Point
- Paul von Oberstein. His entire character and place in the story revolves around this trope.
- Seconded. ~mrbits
- Walter Peck - The Unknown Uploader
- You're not wrong, Walter. You're just an asshole! ~ Five-seveN-25
- Georgia correctly pointing out she lost to Dragonite, not Iris. Iris comes to acknowledge this and promises Georgia she'll have Dragonite under control the next time they'll battle. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Paul von Oberstein. His entire character and place in the story revolves around this trope.
- Jerk Jock
- No one exemplifies this trope like Gaston! ~ Man Without A Body
- Tony is such a jerk that even his fellow teammates don't like him. ~ deeman45
- James Potter, at first. ~ pika09
- The Alpha Betas ~ King Cr Inu Yasha
- Kongo Agon is an extreme example; he's not a jerk jock, he's a vile, arrogant, sociopathic jock. ~ King of the Mime Swing
- Flash Thompson, before he became nicer to Peter Parker later on. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold
- Tony Stark. ~Storm, Man Without A Body, Voodoo Child Piando
- Technically, it's palladium, but okay. ~Wragnaroq R. Maggeddon
- Tomoya Okazaki. ~Mapi-chan, neobowman, D Roy, Choombi
- Holland, although the heart of gold part is a bit delayed. ~ Blank Mage
- Linebeck, naturally. ~ deeman45, Zetta Toad
- Fakir fits this trope so well. He acts jerkish in the start of the show... but then you really get to see the true part of his personality. ~Rosebrook
- Kanji Tatsumi ~ Cyber Tiger 88
- Taiga Aisaka ~ Hey everybody! The Bully of this high school happens to donate presents to families and orphaned children every Christmas :)
- Gustavo Rocque. - excaruso
- Sakura Kyoko. ~ spacemonkey37
- Guy Gardner, when he's not being a loud, brash jerk.
- Zaphod Beeblebrox. Tropers/Skywerewolf
- Jesse Pinkman ~ Silverblade 2
- Homer Simpson. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Scrooge McDuck. ~ Triple J
- Tony Stark. ~Storm, Man Without A Body, Voodoo Child Piando
- Joke Character
- Jogurt. Seriously...ones in every stat?! ~ Willy Four Eyes
- Dan Hibiki. ~ Carls493
- Magikarp, at least until it evolves. ~ Meta Falcario
- Roll ~ Lionheart0
- Mr. Satan ~ CounterBlitzkrieg
- The Adoring Fan. ~ Argonian Lorekeeper
- Pichu in Super Smash Bros. Melee, whose attacks actually cause damage to itself. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Servbot. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Joker Immunity
- Take a wild guess. ~sinesofinsanity, Doctor Rayman
- Solomon Lane. While all the other main villains of the Mission: Impossible series die, he's the only one to actually survive both of his appearances. I don't know if they'll ever kill him. ~ Saberwulf 2018
- Journey to the Center of the Mind
- Psychonauts. It's a platformer with levels inside people's minds. The levels even have quirks based on the various neuroses these people have. ~ Friday
- The "Sleepy Time" episode from SpongeBob SquarePants. ~ deeman45
- "This is the (insert name here) in Ikari Shinji's mind." ~ Carla
- The entire premise of Mario & Luigi: Dream Team. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Journey to the Sky
- Super Mario RPG has climbing all the way up from Land's End to Nimbus Land high in the clouds as an important part of the game. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Jumped at the Call
- Nanoha ~ spacemonkey37
- Jump Cut
- Jump Scare
- The blood test from The Thing (1982) ~ WiliamShakesman
- "Hey y'all!" ~ SuperYoshiFan02
- Jumping Off the Slippery Slope
- Blumiere's father of Super Paper Mario. Refusing to let his son leave the castle? Strict at best, but not terrible. Blackmailing his son's girlfriend into breaking up with him? Bad, but not terrible. Cursing her to wander between dimensions, almost killing her in the process? Congratulations, you have crossed the Moral Event Horizon! - IúkaSylvie
- General Ironwood from RWBY, which comes full circle starting from the end of Volume 7. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Jury Duty
- 12 Angry Men ~ Amuck Cricetine
- Justified Trope
- Artistic License – Chemistry in Breaking Bad. You don't want the viewers at home learning how to cook meth! ~ Emerald 141
- Just Desserts
- Gyokuro Shuzen's fate. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Just in Time
- The first season of Code Lyoko, especially "Satellite". — pinkiepi314
- Just Woke Up That Way
- Martin Morning. Who could be a more prominent example than the boy to whom this happens every single day? ~ Serene Specter 13
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- Kangaroo Court
- The Quintessons ~ Fireside
- The opening five minutes of Super Mario Sunshine. ~Loyal2NES
- The Crucible ~ Cyber Tiger 88
- Kickassia ~ HotelCalifornia
- Aggie's trial in ParaNorman. - IúkaSylvie
- Tom Robinson's trial ~ Five-seveN-25
- Seconded. Atticus Finch proves beyond doubt that Tom is innocent, and the jury still convicts Tom because they're racists. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Karma Houdini
- Mr. Pickles. ~ Monolaf317
- Every antagonist in The Chocolate War. ~ Lionheart0
- Eden Fletcher ~ Man Without A Body
- Noah Cross, the villain in Chinatown ~ ACW
- Norman FREAKING Osborn from The Spectacular Spider-Man. ~ deeman45, Doctor Rayman
- Arthur has DW. In fact, there are so many times she evades punishment, we should rename the page after her. Who's with me? Everybody? - keane23
- Keyser Soze ~ Carla
- Chris. Enough said. It only gets worse in the fourth season. ~ RN 452
- Sam Puckett. And god bless. - excaruso
- The party members of Nineteen Eighty-Four. They create a terrible Crapsack World with no emotion at all, and it's implied they NEVER fall. - Ericho
- Hiroyuki Hatagai. The guy has sex with a girl of thirteen, then sets her up to be raped by six guys... and gets away unscathed in the end. ~ Sweet Firefly
- Dr. Claw from Inspector Gadget (1999). After Inspector Gadget 2, due to the poor quality of the sequel, no more sequels were made and Dr. Claw became one of the biggest Karma Houdinis out there. ~ elswordfan1990
- Cobra Commander in G.I. Joe: Retaliation. ~ xxbiasonxxx
- K9999. He will never get redistribution for (seemingly) killing Foxy because he was latter Exiled from Continuity. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Mayuri Kurotsuchi, who never truly gets any punishment at all for his immoral experiments, mistreating Nemu, and torturing Uryū's grandfather to death in the Soul Society. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- The Audience-Alienating Era of Spongebob Squarepants has too many instances to count. ~ Metal Ai Ai
- Sugimura. We get to punish pretty much every other villain or Hate Sink in the game, but this guy never receives any comeuppance for harassing Haru or kicking Morgana. ~ Connor 2107
- Maxwell Lord, who gets away with nearly starting World War III. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Cobra Commander in G.I. Joe: Sigma 6. ~ Dong Dong Never Die
- Karma Houdini Warranty
- Yoshikage Kira. ~Kuchiki222
- Karmic Death
- Dr. Suchong. ~ Bob
- Psychonauts ~ FreezairForALimitedTime
- Nena Trinity ~ Nirao 01
- Frollo, or at least Disney's version of him. ~ deeman45
- Vincent Price in House of Wax (1953). ~ Man Without A Body
- Ikari Gendou in End of Evangelion. It may have been a hallucination, but it was awesome. ~ Carla
- Aki Honda's death from Shadow Star, in all its horrific goriness. She literally was forced to experience the same exact things she inflicted on Hiroko, only taken up to eleven. ~ Person Of Note
- The Purple Guy. ~ Trogdor
- Scar. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Kronika. Doesn't matter if you beat her in story or arcade mode, she had it coming. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Clove's death at the hands of Thresh ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Charles Manson had sent two nations into mourning with his series of murders, and was shot dead when he asked Mary to "kill the monster". Such a satisfying end to an utterly evil monster. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Karmic Transformation
- A poacher's transformation into the very beast he tried to hunt down in "Hunted". ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Karmic Trickster
- Bugs Bunny. Of course you realize, This Means War! ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Katanas Are Just Better
- Just about any anime will play up the capabilities of a katana, but Samurai 7 runs it right to the hilt. - Hayate Kusanagi
- Leonardo's signature weapons. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Kayfabe
- Keet
- Kiai
- ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORRAAAAA! ~ Nintendo Nate 25
- MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDAAAAAAAA! ~ King of the Mime Swing
- UNIVAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASE!!!!!!!! - CelPrevXXVI
- ATATATATATATATATATATATA! ~ xxbiasonxxx
- ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORRAAAAA! ~ Nintendo Nate 25
- Ki Manipulation
- Kick Chick
- Tomoyo Sakagami. 948 combos, anyone? Yeah, I know but hey someone is going to put Chun Li here anyway. ~ D Roy
- Chie Satonaka. ~ Kalle
- Chun-Li. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Kid Detective
- Kid Hero All Grown-Up:
- Kid Sidekick
- Kids Are Cruel
- Sundowner believes in this very heavily ~ Reyn Time 250
- Kiddie Kid
- Killed Off for Real
- Ridley has had a long history of cheating death, and how does he finally die for real? Being blasted to bits with lots of Super Missiles before the planet his body's on explodes. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Kill It with Fire
- The Thing's weakness ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Seconded. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- The Thing's weakness ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Kill It with Ice
- Saya's only weakness is below freezing temperatures ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Kill It with Water
- The Wicked Witch of the West can be melted by even slight contact to water ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- The dumbest aliens ever attack a planet mostly covered in the one thing that kills them, and are defeated quickly as a result. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Kill the Cutie
- Higurashi: When They Cry considers this a sport. The "Groundhog Day" Loop makes it so the cuties will die repeatedly. ~ Zfish9
- Nina...*sniffle* - g3m1n1
- Aerith Gainsborough. - Dark Elf Princess
- The finale of Samurai Jack. Rest in peace, Ashi. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Georgie's death at Pennywise's hands ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Isara Gunther's death. Nothing prepares you for it even if you know it's coming. ~ Miin U
- Killer Rabbit
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail and the Killer Rabbit ~ctrlbuild, Man Without A Body, ZiggyZag
- Kimba the White Lion ~ Cyber Tiger 88
- The crab from the Metal Gear Solid short Crab Battle! ~ King Cr Inu Yasha
- Pikachu. Extra points for having rabbit like ears. ~ PinkHanabi
- Little Birdie AKA Ridley ~ CamrocG
- I think they are deadly poisonous Zanzibar hamsters. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Kill Sat
- Command & Conquer: GDI's Ion Cannon in all four incarnations. ~ TedAsanto
- Space Colony ARK ~ Cyber Tiger 88
- Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better
- Mass Effect franchise ~ StarSword
- Stargate SG-1. "This is a weapon of war." - Qussow
- Killing Intent
- Stain in his final moments was able to make everyone, including (at the time) second rank Pro-Hero, Endeavor, freeze up in abject horror through sheer force of will alone. Bear in mind, Stain already has a quirk, so making everyone in the immediate vicinity freeze through words and will alone is an accomplishment in and of itself. ~Burger Lord
- Nagisa Shiota, who manages to make a Sociopathic Soldier and Drill Sergeant Nasty who towers over him quiver in absolute terror. Twice. And it does not look like he will be recovering any time soon. ~ Fireside
- King Mook
- In terms of quantity, Super Mario Bros.. Dang near every boss is a King Mook of some sort. ~ Cliché, Doctor Rayman
- Seconded, especially with King Boo and Petey Piranha for the Boos and Piranha Plants respectively. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- In terms of quantity, Super Mario Bros.. Dang near every boss is a King Mook of some sort. ~ Cliché, Doctor Rayman
- Kleptomaniac Hero
- Marisa Kirisame, stealing precious things since 1997. ~ Willy Four Eyes
- King Graham of Daventry and his entire family, stealing everything since 1984. ~Ronka, ZiggyZag
- Thief. ~Blank Mage
- Link ~ Man Without A Body, Doctor Rayman
- Commander Shepard ~ Lionheart0
- Lupin ~ Meta Falcario
- The player character in Terraria. Find some treasure in an underground shrine? You can take the treasure, the chest it sat in, the traps protecting it, and even the bricks that built the shrine itself! ~ Sgt Frog 1
- Steve? can steal anything that isn't alive if he has the right tool for mining it. ~ Trogdor
- The Blood Ravens. How else can you explain having the first bolter ever wielded by the current Ultramarines Chapter Master, a hammer forged by the Daemon Primarch of the Emperor's Children, and suits of armor nicked from the Alpha Legion, Grey Knights, and even the Adeptus freaking Custodes all in your Chapter armory? No wonder the fandom calls them "Bloody Magpies". ~ Fireside
- Kleptomaniac Hero Found Underwear
- Isaac, put that back! ~ Yuihime
- Super Mario RPG: Mario finding 'something' that belongs to Princess Toadstool in her room. Doctor Rayman
- Knight in Sour Armor
- Marcus Cole ~ DarthHowie
- Sam Vimes ~ Man Without A Body
- Solid Snake/Old Snake ~ babyhenchy1
- John Marston ~ crowmagnon
- Roy Mustang ~ Calatoria
- Kyril Sutherland ~ El Rise
- Knight of Cerebus
- Kurumi Tokisaki and Sir Issac Ray Peram Wescott. The former for showing how deadly and brutal Spirits can be if they were willing to kill or endanger ordinary civilians, and the latter for being the first unambiguously evil antagonist and making the story more than just a race to seal the Spirits. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Knight Templar
- The Children of the liLight. ~ deeman45
- The X-Laws ~ Carla
- The actual guys during the Crusades. ~ Man Without A Body, Zetta Toad
- Frollo ~ Battra09416
- Admiral Akainu ~mrbits
- Light Yagami ~ Metal Shadow X, King Cr Inu Yasha, Insanity Prelude
- Master Eraqus ~ NTroper
- YHVH and by extension, the entire law faction. ~ EDF Hemlock
- Dark Raiden. Too bad he got erased at the beginning of chapter 2. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Mustache Girl. ~ Metal Ai Ai
- The Inquisition - Demon Duckof Doom
- Knight Templar Big Brother
- Mitsuru Ashikawa ~ Weeping Willow
- Niko Leandros, who puts his brother above everything. And you better bet Cal reciprocates - so lets just leave the half-demon's sole Morality Chain alone now, shall we? ~ hujwernoo
- Alan. "In two worlds, there's nothing I love half as much as you", anyone? Especially notable in that Nick is a freaking demon and therefore it's almost inconceivable that he could feel any affection towards Alan in return. And Alan is fine with this. ~ hujwernoo
- Knight Templar Parent
- Rumpelstiltskin. Let's review: Became a demon with immense dark magic to protect his son. Used said dark magic against anyone who even accidentally injured his son. Instituted a three-hundred year long Batman Gambit to travel to another world to find said son when they got separated (which resulted in the world he was currently in being ripped apart.) Yeah, Rumpelstiltskin is definitely this. Aspie
- From The Dresden Files we get Harry Dresden himself, who...well. You know. ~ hujwernoo
- Sheila Brovlofski ~Matt P 5557, Doctor Rayman
- Know-Nothing Know-It-All
- Peggy Hill ~redhed311
- Cliff Clavin ~Matt P 5557
- Teen Gohann Fighter (I don't care if he's changed his YouTube user name to The SS Ultimate Goku) ~Bobg
- DarksydePhil. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Knowledge Broker
- The Shadow Broker and Liara when she becomes the Broker. ~ babyhenchy1, Insanity Prelude
- Known by the Postal Address
- 221B Baker Street ~ Amuck Cricetine
- Kuudere
- C.C. ~ Caradryan
- Mai. ~ Pheonee
- Saber, again. ~ Blank Mage
- Adrian Andrews. ~vicnog
- Signum. ~ Koveras
- Riza Hawkeye. ~ DalesKaine
- Rei Ayanami. Seriously. Made even more evident - if not necessarily depicted better - in the Rebuild of Evangelion tetralogy ~ CaellachTigerEye
- Raven, whose very powers depend on her maintaining control ~ Marvel Girl
- Nagato Yuki, so very much. ~ spacemonkey37
- Knuckle Tattoos
- Reverend Harry Powell ~ WilliamShakesman
- Kuleshov Effect
- HAL 9000. I mean, he's a frickin' inanimate object and it still works! - ZiggyZag
- Kung-Fu Jesus
- Toki. He even looks like Jesus ~ Genki Man
- Aang ~ Lady Blackwood
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- Lack of Empathy
- Akio Ohtori doesn't even bat an eye when Utena frantically begs him to save his own sister from the countless Swords of Hate. - IúkaSylvie
- DarksydePhil. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Lady Drunk
- Eva Heinemann - insofar
- Lucille Bluth, if it's not Ellen Tigh - karstovich2
- Kathie Lee and Hoda ~ Nlpnt
- Mom/Roxy Lalonde. - Blue Guy
- Jayna van Buren. ~ Monolaf317
- Lady of Black Magic
- Maleficent ~ Tropers/Roses-Kl
- Kodama Himegami ~ Miin U
- Lady of War
- Signum. ~ Koveras
- Seconded. ~ Smokie
- The Boss ~ Nirao 01
- Seconded. ~ Rotide
- Major General Olivier Mira Armstrong ~ Carla
- Gwendolyn ~ Cyber Tiger 88
- Erza Scarlet ~ Pink Hanabi
- Cornelia li Britannia ~ ncfan
- Ryougi Shiki ~ spacemonkey37
- Hinata Hyuga, ever since Part II. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Selvaria Bles ~ Fireside
- Weiss Schnee. Her fighting style seamlessly combines fencing with glyphs, summoning magic, and figure skating. ~ Miin U
- Celes Chere was conquering cities for the Empire before turning 18, and even after joining the Returners is one of the most capable party members. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Signum. ~ Koveras
- The Lady's Favour
- Kenshin and Kaoru "This is my favorite indigo ribbon. I'll let you burrow it, Kenshin, but you have to return it". It's sweet and spontaneous scene, and Kenshin knows what she's up to and plays along. ~ Carla
- Sam giving the ring to Danny Phantom during the Series Finale. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Lame Comeback
- "Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man."~ Firestorm, Man Without A Body
- "You want to run this ship?" "YEAH!" "Well... you can't!" ~ Carla
- "I'm not a chicken! YOU'RE a TURKEY!!" - ZiggyZag
- "At least...I...something...you...insult..." ~ Aspie
- "You suck worser!" ~ Dawnwing
- "And you... YOU'RE A LOSER!" ~ This1person
- "Oh yeah? Well you fight like a cow!" (When not used as a rebuttal to "You fight like a dairy farmer", of course.) ~ Arcane Azmadi
- From the Justice League episode titled The Brave and the Bold, the following exchange. ~ Doctor Rayman
Gorilla Grodd: You're a bigger fool than I thought.
The Flash: Oh, yeah? Well, you're... naked!- "What? You egg!" ~ Five-seveN-25
- This exchange in Ben 10 (2016) episode, "Past Aliens Present". ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
Ben: Hey, handsome! Why don't you pick on someone your own size, in handsomeness!?
Mechanical Cannonbolt: I am going to roll you, sir!
Ben: Really? That's the best quip you can come up with? - Lampshaded Double Entendre:
- Lampshade Hanging
- The Order of the Stick for lampshading everything including lampshade hanging itself. ~ Seraphem.
- Seconding this. ~ Zfish9
- Highborn. The laconic page for it, in fact, is "Lampshade Hanging: The Turn-Based Indie Strategy Game". ~ Dawnwing
- Austin Powers - Xander Crews
- "Are you mocking my 'It's a clue' face?" ... "Why did he just tilt his head and squint?" - Psych, Season 5, Episode 3, "Not Even Close Encounter" ~ Julia 1984
- Phineas and Ferb ~ randomperson123
- The Order of the Stick for lampshading everything including lampshade hanging itself. ~ Seraphem.
- Landslide Election
- The 1964 presidential election, where Lyndon Johnson won 60% of the popular vote and 44 states. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Language of Love
- Large Ham
- Rambo. NOTHING IS OVER! ~ xxx1993xxx
- Vegeta ~ Bigs
- BRIAN BLESSED!!!!!!!! ~ BringTheNoise, Man Without A Body
- DAN GREEN!!! ~ Psykosis
- Lelouch Lamperouge. Especially when being Zero. ~Haza
- Any character played by Jim Carrey. ~ Willy Four Eyes, Doctor Rayman
- Ruber voiced by Gary Oldman. The film overall maybe cheesy, but when you ham it up like that... ~ sanfranman91
- Shin Mazinger's Narrator. ~ Impacto
- This hand of mine glows with an awesome POWER!!! Its burning grip tells me to defeat you! Take this! My love, my anger, AND ALL OF MY SORROW! SHINING FINGER SWORRRRRDDDD!!! GO! GO! GO!!!"'' ~ Marzipan 91
- Seconded. - CelPrevXXVI
- William Shatner. ~ Ingonyama, Carla, Zfish9, Marvel Girl
- Anyone voiced by Norio Wakamoto. Personal favorites are Charles zi Britannia and Chiyo's Dad. ~Mapi-chan, Carls493
- His name is ZIM!!!!!! ~Pikawil, Vellophone
- Dr. Orpheus. - Excel-2009.
- Dr. Ivo Rrrrrobotnik - TheHeroHartmut
- Seconded. For all of the good doctor's various incarnations. ~Bowbowis
- Thirded. Also, Eggman from the SnapCube's Real-Time Fandub of Sonic Adventure 2 and Sonic the Hedgehog (2006). "I'm pissing on the MOOOOON!" ~ Five-seveN-25
- Kamina, Kittan, and a dozen other people. Literally, once. ~ Pheonee
- Tim Curry ~ Azzamacazza
- Anyone and everyone who's ever played a Time Lord. ~ Voodoo Child
- WANG FIRE, aka Sokka. ~ Lionheart0, Vellophone
- Daniel Day-Lewis as Bill the Butcher. ~ Surenity
- THIS IS SPARTAAA!! ~ AyaReiko
- Christopher Lee. Oh yeah! - ZiggyZag
- Doctor Steel ~ Jonny B
- Tori Vega. "I DON'T TALK LIKE THAT!" - excaruso
- Jim Backus. AKA Thurston Howell III. ~ Brainbin
- Daniel Bryan ~ Jason Paul 76
- Larry Sweeney. ~ JIKTV
- Turl. "When you were still learning how to spell your name, I was being trained to conquer galaxies!"~ iansimsjam
- Owain ~ Berrenta
- "Fear is freedom! Subjugation is liberation! Contradiction is truth! And you will all surrender to them, you pigs in human clothing!" - Satsuki Kiryuin, one of many from Kill la Kill. ~ iPhoenix26
- Victoream. Especially when he sings Very Melon. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Laser Blade
- The lightsabre. Is there a better, or more iconic use of this trope? Fight me on this. ~ Bazer 63, Doctor Rayman, Decaf Grub 47393
- Seconded. Everything else is an Expy at best and knockoff at worst. ~ digiman619
- Thirded. That's always the first thing that comes to mind when I see that trope. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- The lightsabre. Is there a better, or more iconic use of this trope? Fight me on this. ~ Bazer 63, Doctor Rayman, Decaf Grub 47393
- The Last Dance
- In Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Kamina. ~ NachtRitter
- All-Star Superman. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Last-Minute Hookup
- Vandread. Squee! ~ Bob
- Shego and Drakken ~Fan
- Robin and Starfire. ~Mapi-chan
- Simon and Kaylee ~Seraphem, Carla
- Danny and Sam ~ HopelessRomance
- Tali and Garrus; assuming you didn't romance one or the other.
- From Naruto: Naruto Uzumaki and Hinata Hyuga. ~ Doctor Rayman
- A dying King Viserys sitting one last time on the Iron Throne ~ Iridener
- Asami and Korra ~ Lady Blackwood
- Last Stand
- Saito Hiraga vs. an army of 70,000 men ~ NotGonnaDoALot4
- "Last Supper" Steal
- Watchmen's Title Sequence ~ Iridener
- Last Villain Stand
- Galvatron's last battle with Optimus Prime in Transformers: Cybertron. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Late-Arrival Spoiler
- The twist that Dr. Jekyll is Mr. Hyde is the big twist of the novel, and all of the film adaptations reveal it early and deal with the internal struggles the novel's twist entails. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Laughably Evil
- Papa Lazarou ~ Man Without A Body
- Xykon, but don't underestimate him. ~ deeman45
- HK-47 ~ S Noble Jr
- The Joker ~ Twin Bird, Doctor Rayman
- Dimentio from Super Paper Mario - IúkaSylvie
- Kefka ~ Five-seveN-25
- Seconded. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- The Red Guy ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Katsuhiko Jinnai, via snark, razor wit, and comedic banter. ~Miin U
- Sir Pentious - Demon Duckof Doom
- Flintheart Glomgold in DuckTales (2017). ~ Triple J
- Laughing Mad
- The Joker ~The Joker, Man Without A Body, AinuLaire, ZiggyZag, Doctor Rayman, Decaf Grub 47393
- Was about to pick Azula but Joker is a bit too much ~@Piando
- Albedo Piazzolla ~ ExplodingFrogs
- Kefka Palazzo ~Mommywhatsafurry
- Azula of Avatar: The Last Airbender in the series finale. ~ Anvildude
- Light Yagami, anyone? ~SnakeByte117, Vellophone
- Higurashi: When They Cry. Take your pick of laughs. Here, I'll help ~ Zfish9
- Duuuude, Walter White from Breaking Bad? ~Storm C
- SECONDED! rtw2act
- The Joker ~The Joker, Man Without A Body, AinuLaire, ZiggyZag, Doctor Rayman, Decaf Grub 47393
- Launcher of a Thousand Ships
- Max Caulfield. Canonically, she only has two potential love interests. But due to the overwhelming abundance of fan art, fanfiction, and especially Rule 34 related material, you'd swear she was the hottest piece of ass in Arcadia Bay. She's been paired with nearly the entire named cast (both genders), numerous crossover pairings, and with self-insert OCs. "Max" Factor indeed. ~ Miin U
- Nightwing has been shipped with practically everyone he interacts with and many that he doesn't and has a long list of canon Love Interests. ~ Lady Blackwood
- Lincoln Loud is shipped with girls from other shows, almost every girl in his show, and even his sisters and Fan-Created Offspring. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Lawful Stupid
- Inspector Sledge Hammer ~ Kersey 475
- Inspector Gadget ~ deeman45
- Miko Miyazaki, the quintessential example. ~ Yarrik, vicnog, Marvel Girl Piando
- Laxative Prank
- Dumb and Dumber ~ Amuck Cricetine
- Lead Bassist:
- Les Claypool. — Creekery
- Leave No Witnesses
- The "Requiem" mission in Hitman: Blood Money. The mission objective is even listed as the trope name. ~Hello83433
- Leave the Camera Running
- Neon Genesis Evangelion. No less than five different examples that this troper can think of off the top of his head.
- Seconded. Yes, let's leave the audience hanging on the edge of their seats for one full minute while pretty classical music plays in the background. Ah, you know the one. ~Carla
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture ~ Seraphem
- Andy Warhol once made a film Empire where nothing happened for EIGHT HOURS. You CAN'T BEAT THAT. - Ericho
- Neon Genesis Evangelion. No less than five different examples that this troper can think of off the top of his head.
- Legacy Character:
- The Slayer ~ HG131
- Both Link and Zelda ~ Pink Hanabi
- The Phantom ~ Marvel Girl
- Robin. ~ Doctor Rayman
- The Legend of X:
- The Legend of Zelda. ~ Doctor Rayman, Miin U, Decaf Grub 47393
- The Legend of Korra. ~ SingingRain
- The Legend of Spyro. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Leitmotif
- Axel F.
- Assault.
- Wild Dog's theme.
- Princess Tutu. ~BrightBlueInk
- Proto Man's badass whistle. ~Willy Four Eyes, Carls493
- "This Land" ~ Ingonyama
- Viral's theme ~Storm
- Nagisa and the ''Dango Daikazoku''. ~Mapi-chan, neobowman
- The Imperial March ~Pikawil, Carla, sithofheaven (obviously I'm not very unbiased here), Decaf Grub 47393
- M and Edvard Grieg ~ Man Without A Body
- Count Bleck's Theme ~KillerClowns
- The Undertaker's theme. When you hear that loud "BONG", it sounds like Death himself is arriving. ~ HeartBurnKid, Voodoo Child
- The recurring lietmotif of Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells II", which begins at the end of the track "Sentinel".- ZiggyZag
- Final Fantasy. ~ Arutoa
- The "Overworld" theme from The Legend of Zelda ~ LadyNorbert
- Tales of the Abyss ~ deeman45 ~ Gorsecloud - Six words: Karma, and all its many forms
- "Tapion's Theme", which — unlike most cases — is actually part of the plot ~ Theweirdwarrior
- Sonic Adventure and 2 games had one for every major character. ~ Physical Stamina
- Godzilla's theme. ~ Richard Seven
- Bowser's Theme in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. ~ Five-seveN-25
- "Il Vento d'Oro" ~ Fireside
- Once Upon a Time in the West gives all four of its main characters a distinctive theme ~ Amuck Cricetine
- Lemony Narrator:
- Death from The Book Thief. He's the best narrator ever, even better than Lemony Snicket himself. ~ Chihuahua0
- Umm...Lemony Snicket, anyone? Rants for about two and a half pages about a certain phrase and what it means, using literal and figurative examples, then uses it about fifteen times in the next three chapters. ~ Me2, Sky Jumpin Mime
The phrase "in the dark," as I'm sure you know, can refer not only to one's shadowy surroundings, but also to the shadowy secrets of which one might be unaware. Every day, the sun goes down over all these secrets, and so everyone is in the dark in one way or another. If you're sunbathing in a park, for instance, but you do not know that a locked cabinet is buried fifty feet beneath your blanket, then you are in the dark even though you're not actually in the dark, whereas if you are on a midnight hike, knowing full well that several ballerinas are following close behind you, then you are not in the dark even if you are in fact in the dark. Of course, it is quite possible to be in the dark in the dark, as well as to be not in the dark not in the dark, but there are so many secrets in the world that it is likely that you are always in the dark about one thing or another, although the sun can go down so quickly that you may be in the dark about being in the dark in the dark, only to look around you and find yourself no longer in the dark about being in the dark nonetheless, not only because of the dark, but because of the ballerinas in the dark, who are not in the dark about the dark, but also not in the dark about the locket cabinet, and you may be in the dark about the ballerinas digging up the locked cabinet in the dark, even though you are no longer in the dark about being in the dark, and so you are in fact in the dark about being in the dark, even though you are not in the dark about being in the dark, so you may fall into the hole the ballerinas have dug, which is dark, in the dark, in the park.—Book the Thirteenth, A Series of Unfortunate Events- The narrator of Calvin & Hobbes: The Series, who remarks/snarks on all sorts of things. - Blue Guy
- The Stanley Parable ~ Five-seveN-25
- Le Parkour
- Mirror's Edge ~ Silverblade 2
- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and its sequels. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Casino Royale (2006), complete with Sebastien Foucan being cast as the free-running bombmaker fleeing from Bond. - Thunderchin
- Lethal Chef
- Jenny Meyer ~ Geoduck
- Nia ~ Storm
- Grandpa Max. ~Mapi-chan
- Nerine ~neobowman
- Shiraishi Mako.
- Seconded. ~ Chris X
- Susan Meyer ~Max 1099
- Akane Tendou ~ Carla
- Seconded; it literally takes magical ingredients to make her food palatable. ~ digiman619
- Raine ~ deeman45
- England. Dear god, England. ~ puffitheinsane
- Bender who has yet to grasp the concept of not serving toxic substances to organic beings. ~ Drakkenmensch, Doctor Rayman
- Marsha is this trope up to the extreme. Forget inedible, anything she cooks is practically toxic. It doesn't help that she shops at "Food and Poison, Inconveniently Mixed". ~ Me2
- Bianchi. So much that its her [[ImprobableWeaponUser weapon of choice. ~ PinkHanabi
- Yukiko, Chie and Rise. The first two working together can knock people out with what was supposed to be curry. The latter creates lava-like meals, the only ingredient of which that we hear about was foie gras - it was supposed to be an ommlette. - kittygirlhazel
- Undyne. When an attempt at teaching someone how to cook ends with burning your own house down, you know something's wrong. ~ Goldude
- Noel Vermillion. The only person who likes her cooking is Mai Natsume due to her super taste allowing her to taste the good feelings Noel put in her cooking. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Anytime Squidward is put behind the grill. Pickles ("He burnt my shake!") and The Algae's Always Greener ("What, it's just an ordinary-OH MY GOODNESS!") immediately come to mind. ~ Metal Ai Ai
- Lethal Joke Character
- Jigglypuff in Melee. She's right up there with Fox and Falco in the current tier rankings. ~ IngaRasen, Doctor Rayman
- FEAR. The Com Mon that can take down Arceus. (Insert your own "top percentage" joke here.) ~ Insanity Prelude
- The Men's Room Sign tried PK Starstorm! ~ Zetta Toad
- Jefailey. - King Fez
- Pichu in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Level Editor
- LittleBigPlanet ~ TropesForever
- Super Mario Maker. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Lunar Magic, an incredibly versatile editor that allows custom graphics, music and bosses to be added to Mario World. No other editor lets Mario fight Ganon while Dancing Mad plays. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Level in Boss Clothing
- The Scarecrow Nightmares, as well as Killer Croc's lair. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Liar Revealed
- Life-or-Limb Decision
- 127 Hours, full stop. ~ St Fan
- Lan Fan cutting off her useless arm to lead Bradley away from her and Ling Yao. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Light/Darkness Juxtaposition
- Light 'em Up
- Aurora and Igniculus. ~ Ninja857142
- Seconded. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Starlight ~ Smashman2893
- Aurora and Igniculus. ~ Ninja857142
- Lighter and Softer
- Persona 4. Sure, it involves a serial murder and characters facing their most hidden feelings, but it's the first entry in the series that has genuinely good ending. Also, it is the highest selling and most acclaimed entry because of that. ~ D Roy
- Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kira. Just compare it's intro to the first season's. ~ Gamermaster
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987), in comparison to the original comics. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Light Is Good
- Child of Light. ~ Ninja857142
- Kairi ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Star Wars ~ Lady Blackwood
- Light Is Not Good
- Admiral Kizaru. Possibly the most terrifying villain in One Piece. ~ TheEvilDrBolty
- Light Yagami. ~neobowman, Carla
- Saruman. ~ Jesska
- Johan Liebert. ~ deltanine
- Cruxis. ~ Hyatt
- The Joker, in contrast to Batman being Dark Is Not Evil. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Wizard Kingdom from Tweeny Witches. - IúkaSylvie
- Kronika. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Galeem ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Licht ~ Shonen Trash 98
- Lightning Bruiser
- Rambo. ~ 1993xxx1993
- Hun, from ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ~ DoKnowButchie
- Signum. Fast, powerful and excellent defense. ~ Smokie, prescience
- Fullmetal Alchemist gives us Sloth. ~mrbits
- Garchomp. It managed to shake up the Metagame!! ~ Azzamacazza
- Brock Lesnar ~ Nirao 01
- The Raikage ~ sardns
- Holy shit, yes. He's now THE fastest and hardest hitting son of a gun in the series. ~D Roy
- So many Real Life predators it's not even funny. ~ deeman45
- Joe knows bruising. ~ Heart Burn Kid
- The Undertaker. A man that size should NOT be able to do half the things he does at the speed he does them ~ The_Reptile_
- Superman. ~ Doctor Rayman
- List of Transgressions:
- The Joker's rap sheet in Batman: Arkham VR. His only regret is that he didn't do more. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Listing the Forms of Degenerates
- Literal Genie
- The Gorilla's Paw ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Literal-Minded
- Amelia Bedelia ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Drax the Destroyer. Nothing goes over his head. His reflexes are too fast. He would catch it. ~ Triple J
- Literal Split Personality
- While he doesn't really remove any parts of his personality to create them, Starscream's clones each inherited an aspect of Starscream's personalitynote . ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Seconded. ~ Fireside
- While he doesn't really remove any parts of his personality to create them, Starscream's clones each inherited an aspect of Starscream's personalitynote . ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Little Miss Badass
- Hit-Girl. ~ Firestorm
- Seconded definitely. My god... ~ Mistermister, Arruruerie (More than seconded now, then)
- Ivy, from The Dresden Files ~ CheshireCoyote
- Seconded; when the bad guys have to use an atomized sedative to knock you out, you know you qualify. ~ digiman619
- Gotta give it to Toph ~ babyhenchy1, sardns, Zfish9, Vellophone, Doctor Rayman
- Flandre wants to play ~ GenericTroper
- Arya Stark - Demon Duckof Doom
- Hit-Girl. ~ Firestorm
- Little Miss Snarker
- Lily Hoshikawa ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Toph Bei Fong - Demon Duckof Doom
- Little "No"
- "Alors, c'est la guerre." ~ TwinBird
- The Doom Slayer to the Dark Lord, also doubles as a Shut Up, Hannibal!. - Saberwulf 2018
- Little Known Facts
- Little Old Lady Investigates:
- SCP-5010 of the SCP Foundation, who has solved at least 264 murders. ~ Khym Chanur
- Little Red Fighting Hood
- Ruby Rose from RWBY
- Seconded. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Little Red from Night of the Full Moon. Comes in all flavours from a Lady Knight to a Huntress to a Badass Preacher to a Black Magician Girl to even a reaper of souls or a clockwork-hearted Technopath! ~ Arcane Azmadi
- Ruby Rose from RWBY
- Lives in a Van
- Mystery Inc. ~ Amuck Cricetine
- Living Forever Is Awesome
- Living Toys
- Toy Story, full stop.
- Seconded. ~mrbits
- Thirded. ~ Me2
- Fourthed. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Fifthed. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Sixthed. ~ Decaf Grub 47393
- Toy Story, full stop.
- Living Weapon
- The weapons of Soul Eater. Weapons are normal human beings that can transform into weapons. There are whole weapon bloodlines going back ages. ~ Zfish9
- Seconded ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Fi in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. ~ Doctor Rayman
- The weapons of Soul Eater. Weapons are normal human beings that can transform into weapons. There are whole weapon bloodlines going back ages. ~ Zfish9
- Lizard Folk:
- Load-Bearing Boss
- Snowman. If she dies, the universe ends. Simple as that. She (and the gang she's a member of) has a pool theme going on, and she's the 8-ball. If you pocket the 8-ball, the game is over. ~Hatchet
- King Pellam. It helps that he is the Ur-Example. Go ahead Sir Balin, go grab that spear. ~EDF Hemlock
- Rugal Bernstein. By 2002, he decides to blow up part of his own plane before the fight begins, as if he knows how the fight will probably turn out. Not that it matters. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Load-Bearing Hero
- "Beneath 150 ''billion'' tons stands The Hulk...and he's not happy."
- Great A'Tuin ~ Man Without A Body
- Issue #33 of The Amazing Spider-Man Yeah, the one with Spidey trapped underneath tons of metal wreckage with water flooding in. ~ Dr Furball, Doctor Rayman
- Loads and Loads of Loading
- Sonic's...loading...the...loading...name...loading...loading's...loading...the...loading...game... ~...still loading... Willy Four Eyes, Insanity Prelude, Doctor Rayman
- Locked Out of the Loop
- Haruhi Suzumiya ~Scud East
- Harry Potter - Freezer
- Seconded. ~ Me2
- "Shut the fuck up, Donnie." ~ Man Without A Body
- Jack Burton. "Wait a minute, now: I'm beginning to feel like a little bit of an outsider here." -Ziggy Zag
- Lodged-Blade Recycling
- Logic Bomb
- Susan Calvin vs Herbie the robot in the I, Robot story "Liar". Or, why a mind reading Three Laws-Compliant robot should never give relationship advice to a Woman Scorned. - Elle
- You say you are lying—but if everything you say is a lie, then you must be telling the truth—but how can you be telling the truth if everything you say is a lie?! You—lie—you—tell the truth—ILLOGICAL! ILLOGICAL! PLEASE EXPLAIN! ONLY HUMANS CAN EXPLAIN THEIR BEHAVIOR!! ~ Five-seveN-25
- London Gangster
- Harold Shand ~ WilliamShakesman
- Lonely at the Top
- Charles Foster Kane. ~vicnog, Decaf Grub 47393
- Long List
"For itchy, watery eyes, it's Floraflor. Side effects may include: nausea, vomiting, water weight gain, lower back pain, receding hairline, eczema, seborrhea, psoriasis, itchy chafing clothing, liver spots, blood clots, ringworm, excessive body odor, uneven tire wear, pyorrhea, gonorrhea, diarrhea, halitosis, scoliosis, loss of bladder control, hammertoe, the shanks, low sperm count, warped floors, cluttered drawers, hunchback, heart attack, low resale value on your home, feline leukemia, athlete's foot, head lice, club foot, MS, MD, VD, fleas, anxiety, sleeplessness, drowsiness, poor gas mileage, tooth decay, split ends, parvo, warts, unibrow, lazy eye, fruit flies, chest pains, clogged drains, hemorrhoids, dry heaving, and sexual dysfunction." I'm thinking I'll just stick with itchy, watery eyes!"
- TV Tropes' Most Triumphant Examples ~ Zfish9
- Phone books ~ Zecore Zecron
- "Weird Al" Yankovic owns it with "Hardware Store", which he won't do in concert because he doesn't think he can pull it off again! ~ Gamer From Jump
"Would you look at all that stuff ... They've got allen wrenches, gerbil feeders, toilet seats, electric heaters / Trash compactors, juice extractor, shower rods and water meters / Walkie-talkies, copper wires safety goggles, radial tires / BB pellets, rubber mallets, fans and dehumidifiers / Picture hangers, paper cutters, waffle irons, window shutters / Paint removers, window louvres, masking tape and plastic gutters / Kitchen faucets, folding tables, weather stripping, jumper cables / Hooks and tackle, grout and spackle, power foggers, spoons and ladles / Pesticides for fumigation, high-performance lubrication / Metal roofing, water proofing, multi-purpose insulation / Air compressors, brass connectors, wrecking chisels, smoke detectors / Tire guages, hamster cages, thermostats and bug deflectors / Trailer hitch demagnetizers, automatic circumcisers / Tennis rackets, angle brackets, Duracells and Energizers / Soffit panels, circuit breakers, vacuum cleaners, coffee makers / Calculators, generators, matching salt and pepper shakers"- Chris Jericho's "1004 Holds". "Armbar!". ~ JIKTV
- Homer Simpson's list of the various jobs he had over the years in Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: Piranha Plant's Guidance, where Viridi lists the countless types of Piranha Plants. If she wasn't cut off, she would have listed even more. ~ Five-seveN-25
- Long-Lost Relative
- Luke and Leia! They deserve the crown for the Long Lost Sibling variant, at least, I think. ~hedwig123, Doctor Rayman
- Lennon the pirate witch in Tweeny Witches — IúkaSylvie
- Look Behind You
- House. You know the one. -Excel-2009, Carla
- Marty McFly doing this to various Tannens in the Back to the Future movies. ~ Doctor Rayman
- "I'm going to turn around and, oh look, there's nothing there. What a "surprise" that is, gosh.
And then...
I knew that would happen, but I'm mad about it anyway." ~ Five-seveN-25
- Loophole Abuse
- Josuke healing, then beating up Yuya Fungami to get around the "no beating up injured people rule". ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Loser Deity
- Loss of Inhibitions
- The Kizu Random arc of Kokoro Connect ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Lotus-Eater Machine
- Lovable Alpha Bitch:
- Lovable Coward
- Kabuto Kirisaki. Would also define Badass Coward, if that trope existed, with him using his own fear as power and all. ~ Felcis
- Scooby and Shaggy ~ Carla, Doctor Rayman
- Seconded ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Luigi ~ Carls493
- Brave Sir Robin ran away... ~ Chris X
- Fluttershy ~ Waxing Name
- Lovable Jock
- Devon "Captain Awesome" Woodcomb ~ Tropers/Kavonde
- Shun Daimonji -Azada
- Lovable Nerd
- John Egbert ~ Sausage Mahoney
- Seconded, without any doubt. ~ Shadow Stained Sky
- Thirded. ~ Slice Hazard
- Uh, Brundle, Seth. ~ Man Without A Body
- Linkara ~ Ziggy Zag
- Film Brain -emeriin
- Connor Temple ~ Carla
- Seconded. So hard. ~ Me2
- John Egbert ~ Sausage Mahoney
- Lovable Rogue
- Arr! It be Long John Silver! ~ Man Without A Body
- Count Las Bombas ~ Vasha
- Balthier ~ deeman45
- Han Solo ~ Carla
- Omar Little
- Lupin III, whenever he's written by Hayao Miyazaki. ~ Miin U
- Ostap Bender ~ Hoffmann
- Flynn Rider a.k.a. Eugene Fitzherbert ~ sardns
- Pretty much the whole point of Skies of Arcadia especially Vyse, Aika, and Gilder. ~ Zetta Toad
- Captain Jack Sparrow - Sharklady35, Insanity Prelude, Doctor Rayman
- Lovable Sex Maniac
- Lupin III ~ Dr Furball
- Issei Hyoudou ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Angel Dust - Demon Duckof Doom
- Panty Anarchy ~ Reyn Time 250
- Barney Stinson. ~ Triple J
- Lovable Traitor
- Lovecraft Lite
- Dagon ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Lovecraftian Superpower
- Titan Shifters ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Love Dodecahedron
- School Rumble. Seriously. - Physical Stamina
- School Days - Stopped counting at 6 due to not being able to keep tabs ~ sfisher923
- X-Men ~ Lady Blackwood
- Love Epiphany
- "He got away and I didn't care. I almost died and all I could think about was you. I just want you." ~ Kirayoshi
- Naruto having one in The Last: Naruto the Movie towards Hinata. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Love Father, Love Son
- Faceless from Karakuri Circus. - IúkaSylvie
- Love Freak
- Akari Mizunashi from ARIA, who is a case of Tropes Are Not Bad.
- Flonne ~ Gamermaster
- Elphelt Valentine ~ Fireside
- Love-Interest Traitor
- Harumi, who first appears as a love interest to Lloyd, is revealed to be the Quiet One. ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Love Makes You Crazy
- Higurashi: When They Cry, full stop. ~ Zfish9
- Many characters in PandoraHearts qualify. Oz for Alice, Gilbert for Oz, Vincent for Gilbert, it goes on. ~ Pink Hanabi
- Megara in Hercules. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Love Makes You Dumb
- Love Makes You Evil
- Doctor Who: "There isn't a little boy born who wouldn't tear the world apart to save his mummy. And this little boy can." ~ Michael
- Higurashi: When They Cry, full stop. ~ Zfish9
- Anakin Skywalker ~ Cyber Tiger 88
- Precia. ~ spacemonkey37
- The Uchihas in Naruto. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Count Bleck from Super Paper Mario. - IúkaSylvie
- Love Martyr
- Saito. It takes a lot of guts (not "brains") to stick around when your master/girlfriend whips and otherwise "punishes" you on a recurring basis, just to assert her control over you. ~ Willy Four Eyes
- Fate Testarossa. ~ Smokie
- Oh God, yes. Poor Fate-chan. ~ Marvel Girl
- Mousse ~ Carla
- Mele ~ Chris X
- Love Redeems:
- Mr. Rochester - Crazy Dawg
- Darth Vader ~ thecarolinabull01, Doctor Rayman
- Count Bleck from Super Paper Mario. - IúkaSylvie
- Bosco, a reformed vampire who's trying to kick the habit because of Makiko, a human college student he fell in love with. ~ Miin U
- Spike. A soulless vampire who wants to redeem and even gets his soul back to prove his love for his former Arch-Enemy. ~ Triple J
- Loving Bully
- Helga Pataki as she's more or less the unofficial Trope Codifier. thecarolinabull01
- Low Fantasy
- Luke, I Am Your Father
- Luke, You Are My Father
- "I...sold...you." -Gzillafan 77
- "No...I don't believe it! Sol, that would make you my father-in-" ~ Fireside
- Luminescent Blush
- Poor Syaoran Li, blushing everytime Sakura is around him ~ Loekman 3
- Hinata Hyuga whenever she looks at Naruto Uzumaki, particularly in Part I. ~ Doctor Rayman
- Lunacy
- Saïx ~ Mattman_the_Storyteller
- Lust Object
- Athena Haruka is a single mom who's so hot that damn near everyone wants to bone her. That includes her self-proclaimed sworn enemy, Point Blank, and her own 17 year old daughter! And both of them have actually done it! ~ Miin U
- Lyrical Cold Open
- Little Richard's "Tutti Frutti," with the immortal "A whop bop-a-lu bop, a whop bam boom!" ~ wyattte
- Lyrical Dissonance
- "Komm Susser Tod". ~ Phoenix Fire
- "I Palindrome I", a happy, bright rock song about matricide. ~ Man Without A Body
- "Weird Al" Yankovic: It's Christmas at Ground Zero, The Night Santa Went Crazy, ... ~ Marvel Girl
- The entire works of Todd Smith. Seriously, pick any Todd Edward Smith project. ~ Fashionist State
- "Copacabana" ~redhed311, Reflextion
- Many many examples in Higurashi: When They Cry, like Furari No Birthday, but the one that really takes the cake is Egurite from Umineko: When They Cry ~ Zfish9
- Sloop John B ~ Devil's Advocate
- Frank Zappa's "Brown Shooes Don't Make It." A stunningly catchy song about...political corruption, pedophilia and parental incest. ~ JIKTV
- Frozen's Let It Go note ~ Lionheart0
- "Behold, Xandar, your Guardians of the Galaxy! What fruit have they wrought?" "Ooh child, things are gonna get easier...Dance-off, bro, me and you!"
- Vocaloid. Yes, happy-go-lucky songs about war, unrequited love, tyranical queens, death, the educational system, and gushing about Rin. - Revaryk
- MMMBop, a song about how most of your friendships will eventually fade away as you grow old. ~ thecnoNSMB
- Both "Still Alive" and "Want You Gone". ~ Five-seveN-25
- Pumped Up Kicks. ~ Tad Tad Tad Tad
- "You'll Be Back", an extremely catchy show tune with lyrics like "I will kill your friends and family" ~ SuperYoshiFan02
- "Macarena". One of the biggest 90s dance sensations, but the original Spanish version's lyrics are about a girl cheating on his boyfriend while he's in the army. ~ Dominicmgm