Fake Trope Example Maker

Dig In Your Heels: In one chapter, hired gun Scott Steiner interrupts a meeting between his boss, Corrupt Corporate Executive Ted DiBiase, and local crime kingpins the Bella Twins, to report that Sheamus and Nikki Cross have stolen a Briefcase Full of Money from the DiBiase bank vaults.

Malicious Monitor Lizard- Subverted

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In Worldsmash!, the Zolgoron resemble anthropomorphocized komodo dragons, but are actually one of the friendlier alien species out there. They do tend to keep to themselves, as they realize that their diet can get "pretty whiffy," but is surprisingly palatable if one can develop a taste for fermented meats.

Deconstructed in Journey to Ardnor: If there isn't a healer in the party and they've ran out of dress kits, party members can attempt to tend to their wounds themselves. Readjusting broken bones, scraping bullets out of holes, and sucking poison out of wounds more often than not only worsens the issue and lowers the party members' affinity towards each other. There is a 25 percent chance that the impromptu healing will be a success (increased to 50% if the character administering the healing has the Field Medic perk).

• At camps, Alchemists can use materials collected in the field to brew "Untested Substances" that can be given to their sick allies. These substances have the chance to worsen existing illnesses if ingested or, when applied topically, inflict Irritation, a status condition that may cause those affected to lose a turn in combat by spending it scratching themselves.
• If a party member's Stress level reaches 100%, they'll become Disturbed, and are prone to having nervous breakdowns. If someone tries to touch a party member in the midst of a breakdown, the Disturbed might end up going Berserk and blindly attack the person who touched them.

• Ava Raine Bringer: Queen Charlotte Flair, like the other members of her family, has the ability to emulate the powers of dragons, including Flight and fire breath. At one point in a battle with the mercenaries of Scott Steiner, she kills one mercenary by trapping him in a Bear Hug, crushing his arms against his sides, and then locking lips with him- just so she can then breathe fire inside his mouth, incinerating his entire head in a nightmarish manner. Queen Charlotte might be good, but Good Is Not Soft or Nice.

Fake Nationality- In-universe

My Example: In Dig In Your Heels, one of the gang's exploits ends with their newest employers, the Bella Twins, thinking that Sheamus has a brother called Sean, and ordering him and Sean to escort them to an underground meeting. Sheamus decides to recruit Sami Zayn to pretend to be Sean, hoping that the fact Sami has light skin and red hair will prevent the Bellas from realizing that he's actually a Canadian of Syrian descent, instead of an Irishman. For what it's worth, Sami does do a really good Irish accent, but the Bellas eventually work out the ruse anyway.

In the sitcom The Almighty Executive, Bruce Wilaby (an Awesome Aussie actor) is ordered by director Clarence to play the role of a British aristocrat in the Show Within a Show soap opera Belladine's Truce. Unfortunately, Bruce refuses to wear the proper clothes for the role and is Not Even Bothering with the Accent, resulting in a "prim-and-proper" macho man.

Create Your Own Villain

You Cant See Me: One sub-plot of the series is the stalking of Governess Stephanie McMahon by bloodthirsty pirate leader Captain Paige Bevis, who repeatedly confronts her in shady places and makes threats towards her, her husband and her children. Paige later reveals that 20 years ago, her parents were sentenced to hang for crimes of piracy by Stephanie's father Governor Vince McMahon. After that, a grieving and embittered Paige began learning all the tools of the trade, becoming a hardened pirate herself and a witch, before finally going after Governor McMahon to take revenge. Sadly for her, by that point Vince had already died in a Bar Brawl, so she decided to go the Revenge by Proxy route and kill his daughter instead. Paige herself brings this up in the confrontation:

Paige: Appropriate, isn't it, Princess? Your father took my family from me... So now, I'm going to take his.

Our Centaurs Are Different

Edited by Sammael29 on Apr 30th 2024 at 1:56:31 AM

In Monsters and Fantastic Locales, Centaurs are a playable race favouring the Archer class. However, the book warns players that "humanoid villages will probably not have furniture and other amenities tailored to someone who's 10 feet tall, quadrupedal, and weighs a literal ton." They also can only wear half of a normal suit of armor, and any Barding they find will need to be tailored to them.

Edited by dvorak on Apr 30th 2024 at 8:17:49 AM

The 80s animated series Outlaws of the Outer Rim is set in the 23rd century, and yet the main characters are dressed in 80s New Romantic fashion, use 80s slang, and live in a ship that runs on an 8-bit computer with a tape deck. The fashion and slang are justified in-universe as part of an 80s culture fad, and their ship is an extremely outdated model purchased second-hand because that was all they could afford.

Richard The Cartoonist: The titular cartoonist, Richard, features a lot of Burton-esque Noodle People in his social science fiction-comedy comic book The Man from Dump 16 and monochromatic shades to go along with his art style, which also takes cues from anime. In the next seasons, which focus on the development of Richard's other comic books, his Author Appeal is kept in his next works, which makes his style easily recognizable.

Bamboo Technology

• Pokemon War And Peace: The Planhigion City gym runs on this. They have a train network consisting entirely of mobile hedges, construction machinery made from bamboo and solid wood which runs on compost, and television screens made from gigantic petals. Seeing as the Tadgulad Region (a Fantasy Counterpart Culture of Wales) has more explicitly magical content than past Pokemon games, this is somewhat justified.

Referenced by... River of Teeth

Edited by Sammael29 on May 2nd 2024 at 8:31:52 AM

Shouldn't it be a Shout-Out to River of Teeth?

In Pokemon Biology and Chemistry, the player intercepts the Cumulus Foundation/Cirrus Corporation on Route 17 trying to (re)introduce Trypopotamus into the native ecosystem. Clem makes an offhand comment about the situation that's a subtle reference to the book River of Teeth:

• You can find the book in question lying on a shelf in Clem's house in Sieve Town, described as a, quote, "western thriller about Hippowdon raised as cattle, and the cowboys who wrangle them."

• Two cases of this occur in Dig In Your Heels, on account of both the parties using Exact Words to follow the law to the letter, if not the spirit:
  • Police Commissioner Daniel Bryan of All Elite City is legally bound to arrest people committing crimes such as robbery, drug dealing, and public violence- in his city, that is. Because the criminal empire lead by his wife and her sister lies across the river in NXT City, he doesn't have any jurisdiction to go over there and try shutting them down, which allows him to maintain Plausible Deniability and keep being a Cowboy Cop.
  • The gang's lawyer, Bronson Reed, is just as much a Rules Lawyer, except he's on their side. In one court case, he manages to take apart an attempt to get their newest associate Jinder Mahal sent to jail by pointing out several ways in which Jinder was not technically breaking the law, despite being caught driving a van full of drowsy lions. 1) Jinder has an official driving license, and the van in question was legally his. 2) The laws of NXT City officially forbid animal trafficking, but those lions were just being taken to a veterinary hospital for a check-up. And 3) he was convicted of smuggling drugs in the past, but that conviction was applied to Yuvraj Singh Dhesi, not to Jinder Mahal. This moment of Rules Lawyer-ing not only gets Jinder off free, it gets him to start lowering his stand-offish attitude towards the gang, and it definitely endears Bronson to their resident Smart Gal, Dakota Kai.

Mythical Motifs

Don't Shoot the Messenger: Mercury with Hermes (or Mercury). Aside from sharing a name, Mercury is a spy who moves quickly through different places as a messenger, similar to Hermes moving through the worlds of the mortal and divine. Moreover, she even has a few cosmetic designs relating to him, such as the wing decorations on her biker's helmet and boots.

• Dig In Your Heels: Maryse and The Miz both qualify as these. They fancy themselves a hardened Outlaw Couple who can rob anybody and get away with it, but when going up against the elite police force that is The Authority, they routinely fail at any crimes they attempt to carry out, because they're Stupid Crooks par excellence. And they don't fare much better when they're competing against the main characters, either. Any attempts at boasting about how "awesome" and beautiful they both are will be met with dry sarcasm from Sheamus, they lose every fight they get into over the same bounties, and being repeatedly shown up reduces them to tearful incoherent stropping. Oh, and Nikki Cross will never let the Miz forget about the rumour that he has "tiny wee grape-sized baws". Even Dominik Mysterio (the Butt-Monkey of the crew) and R-Truth (a well known Conspiracy Theorist and Cloudcuckoolander) are shown more respect by the gang, who know all too well that behind their narcissistic fronts, Maryse and Miz are both deeply insecure, frightened little wimps who don't possess the drive or the competence to be real criminals. Sheamus openly admits that he might even feel sorry for them, if they weren't so rude and frequently a thorn in the gang's sides.

Giant Enemy Crab

Edited by Sammael29 on May 7th 2024 at 12:42:07 PM

In Legend Of Altheria, the boss of the Waterfall Cave is a giant crab-like monster, which is pretty difficult for the point in the game where you encounter it.

Puzzle Boss

Edited by Kahran042 on May 5th 2024 at 2:57:32 PM

Ken And Twinkle: The boss of the second world, Philbert, features a specific way to beat. First, you have to press several buttons to set up electric traps, then you need to charge them with Twinkle the Fairy's electric blasts to electrocute Philbert.

Spiritual Successor: Kirby

Edited by Oggy123 on May 5th 2024 at 3:59:47 PM

• Lorenzo And The Valley Of Wizards has a lot of common elements with the Kirby game series. Lorenzo is a cutesy pink creature who goes around defeating enemies by eating them and shapeshifting to gain the abilities of those enemies, floating by inhaling air, fighting surprisingly dark entities, and having a rivalry/friendship with a fat ruler based on a semi-aquatic bird with a blunt force weapon (though, instead of a penguin, Sultan Wade is a Galapagos Booby).

Bad Ol' Badger- Played for Horror

B-Movie Night of the Badger revolves around an army of badgers decimating wildlife and people.

Characterization Marches On

Edited by Oggy123 on May 6th 2024 at 10:28:15 AM

• Horsing Around: In earlier chapters, Nikki Cross is depicted as being a Violent Glaswegian who swears profusely, has an explosive temper, constantly threatens people into giving her things, and chases kittens with sledgehammers. In later chapters, while Nikki is still violent, she's now depicted as an overall friendly Cloudcuckoolander who likes unsuccessfully flirting with people, and definitely doesn't hurt or kill animals. This inconsistency is explained by the fact that Horsing Around is actually in-universe fanfiction written by the Four Horsewomen in the world of Dig In Your Heels, and they hadn't met or interacted with Nikki on a personal level at that point. After having an engaging conversation with her at a fan convention, Charlotte Flair decides to rewrite Nikki's character to be more in line with how she really is as a person, with Nikki's approval, of course.

Awesome Aussie:

My Example: Vanessa Hillary, the main protagonist of Tricksters, is an expatriate girl from Darwin in Australia's Northern Territories. She's bold, outspoken, athletic, a Bully Hunter, and a hardcore mythology enthusiast who becomes an Ascended Fangirl upon meeting a bunch of different exiled "trickster" gods and teaming up with them against the forces of evil. And that's not even getting into her family's Heroic Lineage on both her mother and father's sides that gives her Voluntary Shapeshifting abilities...

Edited by Sammael29 on May 7th 2024 at 12:43:00 PM

Vance Geronimo, a playable character in the fighting game The Umpteenth Battle, is an Aussie biologist traveling the world in search of adventure. With his toned muscles and unmatched agility, Geronimo has suplexed a bear, retrieved priceless gemstones from the inside of a crocodile's mouth, and survived having an entire colony of fire ants shoved down the front of his pants — and that's just offscreen! In his Arcade Mode campaign, Vance goes toe to toe with a moose man, a vampiress, a kitsune and even the Hawaiian goddess of fire herself, among others and — given that the player knows how to utilize his moveset — triumphs over each and every one of them.

Edited by Pogakure on May 7th 2024 at 6:12:13 AM

Down Since Day One Ish plays the tropes of the harem genre for laughs as much as Horsing Around does with Polyamory. The Usos find out the hard way that dating a lot of women- among them, Naomi, Bianca Belair, Asuka, A.J. Lee, Liv Morgan, Paige, and the Bella Twins, just to name a few- comes with numerous realistic problems. You have to take it in turns to use the Shower of Love, you have to line up numerous beds side by side to all sleep together, and there's always the need to do constant check-ups just to make sure you haven't caught any STDs. But at the same time, all parties are consenting to the relationship, they all love and respect one another, and none of them are made to feel ashamed of their dynamic, showing how much the author respects the writing tradition.

On a similar note, Naked People Are Funny

My Example: In Dig In Your Heels, the gang is arranging a meeting with Don Rikishi to discuss An Offer You Can't Refuse. Unluckily for them, the Don decides to hold their meeting in his private hot spring. This means they all have to stand around nude waiting for him, and most of them feel pretty self-conscious and awkward about it, except Nikki Cross, of course. Then Don Rikishi arrives, and takes off his dressing gown to join them in the spring. And the sight of a nude Don Rikishi is something they could all have done without seeing.

Edited by Sammael29 on May 7th 2024 at 11:40:53 AM

In the pilot episode of Trial & Error, Bob goes swimming, and loses his trunks. He at first tries to stay in the water so people won't see his equipment, but then he has to get out because of a Threatening Shark. What follows is a comedic scene of him trying to cover up and find some trunks while on the beach.

At the end of the animated movie Shooting Stars, protagonist Fluff and his bird friend Chirp survived the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs and manage to find a safe place where others of their kind live in peace as well.

Was Once a Man

Edited by Oggy123 on May 7th 2024 at 11:18:44 AM