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For FanPreferredCouple.Theatre:
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: Despite Sweeney Todd being wholly devoted to his wife Lucy, most fans prefer to pair him with Mrs. Lovett, due to them working together in killing people and Lovett actually being in love with Todd.
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Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup threadFandomEnragingMisconception.Anime And Manga:
- Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury: Don't ever suggest that Suletta and Miorine's relationship is "up to interpretation" unless you want to anger the fandom. While Bandai Namco have tried to state it as such in an attempt to Hide Your Lesbians (which backfired on them badly), the show and most of its staff make it clear that their relationship is romantic, with Word of Gay confirming their engagement in the final episode.
YMMV.Thomas And Friends:
- Aluminum Christmas Trees: Rosie's original pink livery has been derided by many fans for being very unrealistic. While pink is rare and mostly reserved for special events, some engines in real life have worn a pink livery, such as this Roy Hill diesel◊ and this class C12 steam engine◊ at Wakasa Railway in Japan.
Edited by Tylerbear12 on Apr 30th 2024 at 2:26:07 PM
Thanks again Arvine
VideoGame.The Legend Of Heroes Trails In The Sky
- Vignette Episode: Sky the 3rd's dungeon features several magical doors that gives glimpses of a characters past or story. These range from A Day in the Limelight episodes for minor characters (like Mary the orphan and the Raven squad) to the backstory of major characters (like Kevin and Renne).
VideoGame.The Legend Of Heroes Trails Into Reverie
- Vignette Episode: The Reverie Corridor features several side stories for other characters, showing where they have been or giving insights into their characters before and after the events of the Cold Steel games. The last three stories that are earned by completing the corridor offer some insights on what to expect for the Calvard Arc.
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- The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie: The Reverie Corridor (a dungeon unlocked some time during the main story) features several side stories for other characters, showing where they have been or giving insights into their characters before and after the events of the Cold Steel games. The last three stories that are earned by completing the corridor offer some insights on what to expect for the Calvard Arc.
Characters.Fire Emblem Three Houses Blue Lions Part Two
- Friend to All Children: Mercedes is noted to be great with kids. Her single endings in the Crimson Flower route and her paired endings with Byleth (of either gender), Annette and Jeritza has her opening an orphanage and taking care of the children there.
Edited by Ayumi-chan on Apr 30th 2024 at 12:53:25 AM
She/Her | Currently cleaning N/AThanks again Arivne
- Drop Dead Gorgeous: Amber's excellent tap dancing skills ultimately make her the winner of her small-town beauty pageant and take her to compete at the state level, where she is left daunted and stunned to realize how much more effort, training, and skill all the other contestants are capable of. She does win, but only because of a massive Disqualification-Induced Victory.
- The Hidden Depths of the High Septon and his nephew and subordinate Daeron have made them into fascinating figures for many fans, even though they are only given significant page time in a couple of chapters to date.
- Old Gods-worshipping, youthful, and somewhat spartan Lord Paramount, Ned Stark and corpulent Stepford Smiler Septon Daeron find several points in common and a sense of shared sympathy after they go on a long walk together after meeting on the road.
- Near the end of Ned Stark's unusual and at times emotional first encounter with the tired but optimistic Septon Daeron (the High Septon of King Robert's reign in the old timeline), Daeron reveals that he has recently been Blessed with Suck Dreaming of Things to Come (or rather things that will hopefully never be), including one scene that is very familiar to readers of the first book.
Daeron: I have had dreams. Strange and terrible dreams. I saw you in one of them. You and I were standing on the steps of Baelor's Great Sept together, before a great multitude. We were both many years older, and I, alas, was many pounds fatter. I spoke to them. Then you did. And then...
Julius Katz, a series by Dave Zeltersman, follows the eponymous Boston-based Great Detective and is a Pastiche of the Nero Wolfe series, with Katz having many of Wolfe's mannerisms (little patience for nonsense, a love of luxury and a dislike of work, showmanship, and deductive brilliance), but being a more physically fit and outgoing man whose main vice is a drive to collect rare wines. He solves cases with the assistance of an A.I. sidekick named Archie (one of the many supporting characters named after Wolfe characters).
As of 2024, the series (which began in 2009) consists of several short stories (first published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and later reprinted in Katz-centric short story collections), two novellas, and one full-length novel.
Tropes in the stories:
- Blackmail Backfire: Several stories involve blackmail victims killing their blackmailers.
- Two were Properly Paranoid enough to try and arrange for either Great Detective Julius or his assistant Archie (not knowing Archie is just an A.I. and a voice on the phone) to be present near the blackmail drop to deter any murderous plans, but in each case, the detective didn't show and the blackmailer still died.
- In "Julius and the Sliced Ham," Julius says he doesn't mind seeing the killer of a blackmailer walk free except for how the case going unsolved will ruin his best friend's investments, and tells the killer to compensate the man while denying the accusations that this makes him a blackmailer himself by saying he is simply ensuring fair compensation for what the crime cost an innocent party. Julius is lying to make the killer incriminate himself in front of hidden cops, and suspects the man was only pretending to agree to his demands and would have killed him too.
- Bluffing the Murderer: Julius constantly tricks killers into confessing by lying about having found a piece of evidence, procured a witness, or both.
- Mistaken for Cheating: In "Julius Katz and a Tangled Web," the married murder victim and a coworker who has a boyfriend were seen sneaking off to a motel together. They weren't having sex, though, but instead needed a private place to conduct a secret audit to catch an embezzler.
- Propping Up Your Patsy: Zigzagged in "Julius Accused" when the killer vocally voices belief in Julius's innocence while sounding unsure but is bluffing and is actually planning to publicly exonerate Julius by killing their accomplice and making it look like he committed the murder and tried to frame Julius (who they know is a good enough detective to eventually prove his innocence in a straight frame job) and then committed suicide.
- Rogue Juror: In "Eleven Angry Jurors and One Befuddled Julius," Julius serves on a jury in a murder case that seems to prove the defendant's guilt definitively but, unlike his fellow jurors, picks up on signs that the man is innocent. However, rather than try to convince the other jurors, he asks the judge and lawyers to let him conduct a private Summation Gathering with the key parties. If he exposes the killer, then the case won't have to go to the jury, and if he doesn't, then he'll get booted off the jury for having formed such strong opinions and be replaced with an alternate.
- Writing About Your Crime: In "Julius Katz and the Terminated Agent," one suspect in the murder of a literary agent is a rough-looking man who wrote a crime novel about an actual armored car robbery and murder has both the inside knowledge and amused attitude to imply that he committed the robbery and wrote a book about it when a double-crossing partner hid the money (which also turned out to be marked), and he needed a new source of income. He is indeed the surviving robber and killed the agent for trying to blackmail him into being a hitman.
- In Death or Glory, only one chapter includes an excerpt from Sergeant Tayber's memoirs to supplement Cain's account when it could have been fascinating seeing his account recur throughout the story (whether or not he lacked a Purple Prose comparable to Sulla's) and see his perspective on events like the rescue of his sister and the other civilians, the beginnings and logistics of their ragtag convoy, and the tragic losses of several various comrades.
- Chapter 104 begins with Urrigon awkwardly recounting tales about the Extreme Omnisexual nature of the Ironborn deity the Grey King and going into a tale that is both Squick and Black Comedy.
Theo Wull: "A corpse?
Urrrigon: If you think it sounds bad, remember, I'm supposed to be a descendant of that corpse.
- The "very dark rumors" about his ascension could indicate that he poisoned Baelor due to seeing that Baelor would never let someone like him become High Septon, and since it isn't yet confirmed if he became High Septon during the reign of Viserys or Aegon, he could have seen Viserys (not to mention the stonemason High Septon earlier in Baelor's reign) as an obstacle as well.
Edited by Alpinist on Apr 30th 2024 at 11:35:32 AM
For Hellaverse YMMV page.
- Gotta Ship 'Em All: Every major character in both series has been shipped with every other form atleast their own series and some from other one, plus good number of minor and suporting characters who are shipped with them and amongs themselves. Bassicaly, if two (or more) character’s exist, you can bet that somebody ships them, whether seriously or ironicaly.
And for Gotta Ship 'Em All page.
- Hellaverse: Every character with substantial role has been shipped with every other character from atleast their own series and frequently with some from other one throw in as well, whether individually or together. It even extens to minor character and ones who haven yet to debute.
Edited by EmperorGeode on Apr 30th 2024 at 4:38:02 AM
For Complete Monster
- NYPD Blue
- Vartan Illiescu is a smug, slimy man whose so jealous of others having more that he decides to initiate terrorist attacks against them. Vartan plots a series of bombings against the elite and rich and in his worst act has a mother and her young kids and Housekeeper strapped to the floor with bombs which will go off if they move unless he's paid. When he comes across an elderly woman, Illiescu kidnaps her and intends to murder her to cover his trial. Confronted by Dt. Sipowicz, Illiescu remains a smug racist creep who even threatens to avoid telling the location of the family if they won't let him go.
- Hector Santos is a pimp who runs a forced prostitution ring. Purchasing the teenage Luisa López, Hector forces her into prostitution by use of force and drugs. Hector also keeps Luisa and all his girls in line by threathing to kill their families if they escape.
- Steve Mc Clintock is a a slimy conman who makes his living by using wayward pregnant criminal women and using them to set up adoption deals. Mc Clintock has no plan to actually honour these and will instead fake that his client had a miscarriage to the grief of the parents wanting a child. When one of Mc Clintock's partners objects to this cruel treatment, Mc Clintock nearly induces an actual miscarriage on her and threatens to murder her if she speaks of this. When his newest teenage con partner has had enough and wants out, Mc Clintock strangles the heavily pregnant woman to death and later forces his girlfriend to create an alibi for him by threatening to kill her. Weasling out of consequences, Mc Clintock becomes a drug dealer before meeting his end.
- Out-Gambitted: On the August 27th, 2020 episode of Dynamite, Mox is forced to sign a contract that gives MJF a world title match at All-Out, with the stipulation that Mox will be forfeited if he uses the Paradigm Shift. After MJF and his lawyer mocking Mox for foolishly signing the contract, Mox reveals that he secretly added a page to the contract. This page declares that Mox will face MJF's lawyer in a match the following week, where not only is the Paradigm Shift allowed, but MJF's title match will be canceled if his lawyer does not appear. Mox feels proud of himself for being to outsmart a lawyer and playfully suggests that he should be one.
- Read the Fine Print: Mox did a variation during a contract signing with MJF two weeks before All-Out 2020. After Mox signs the contract, which states that he is forbidden from using the Paradigm Shift during their upcoming match, MJF laughs at him for stupidly agreeing to a biased stipulation. Much to MJF's surprise, Mox reveals that he added an extra page to the contract that states he will be competing against MJF's lawyer the following week, where he will be allowed to use the Paradigm Shift legally. Should MJF's lawyer decline the challenge, MJF will not get his title match.
Moxley: (to the lawyer) You didn't read it? Dude. You should never sign something before you read it. Aren't you a lawyer?
Edited by MM_Crusader on Apr 30th 2024 at 3:50:52 AM
Page 1180 @Toot
There are no English errors in your post.
However, in order for Ataru to fit the trope, every other character must hate them.
Since Lum loves him, he is Not an Example.
Page 1180 @N2002
I can't find any English errors in those examples.
- Cross Ange: Sylvia is this for Nunnally. Both characters are little disabled sisters who seem sweet and motivate their older sibling to rescue and protect them. While Nunnally is a genuinely kind and helpless girl, Sylvia is just a sadistic jerk who sets a cruel trap for her sister.
- Jem: The Misfits is quite similar to Josie and the Pussycats. They are portrayed as a rock band of three girls with tight outfits with animal prints (cat and tiger) who travel the world spreading their songs. But while the Josie and the Pussycats fight villains and are generally decent people, the Misfits instead wreak havoc with their songs and harm people for their own amusement.
- South Park: Leslie Myers is an evil version of Chiaki Nanami. Like Chiaki, Leslie is an A.I. in the guise of a cute girl who became a mole and has a special friendship with a brooding hero (Hajime and Kyle). The only difference is that Chiaki was a benevolent A.I. and sacrificed herself for her friends, while Leslie wanted to kill all the humans so that advertising would take over the world.
Edited by Toot on Apr 30th 2024 at 8:46:29 AM
@G-Editor
Everyone else in South Park, including his own friends, <- comma decides not to seek any retribution for all the things that he had done to them. Instead they just cut ties with Cartman, <- comma and leave him all by himself, and focus on their own happiness. However, with no one bothering to give Cartman the attention he craves, he goes mad from loneliness, growing up to become a homeless alcoholic who’s miserable as a result of a complete lack of any human contact. This proves to be such a terrible fate for Cartman that the next time Stan and Kyle meet him, they consider Cartman's predicament a Fate Worse than Death and feel extreme pity for him.
Given what an evil and terrible Jerkass Cartman is, the universe seems to enjoy making him suffer whenever possible; its favorite method is giving him whatever he wants, <- comma only to take it all away and leave him in worse shape than before. The ultimate example of this is during the Post-Covid duology where he is given the perfect future with a wife and children, <- comma only to take it all away when he decides to help Stan and Kyle make the future better for everyone else and leave him off as a homeless, lonely, and miserable alcoholic while everyone else gets a happy future.
When the future changes at the end of the Post-Covid duology, <- comma Cartman goes from being a happy family man and Reformed Bully in the old timeline, to a single, angry and drunk homeless man who never changed from his cruel childhood self in the new timeline. As a result, <- comma everyone has cut all ties with Cartman, <- comma leaving him completely alone where he can only scream insults at people.
Kenny's speech that he pities Eric Cartman because no one (not even his own friends) likes him and he will likely die alone and miserable becomes even harsher to hear after watching South Park: Post Covid: The Return of Covid, <- comma where everyone makes their dislike of Cartman explicitly clear by cutting off all ties with him, where Cartman ends up becoming a homeless and friendless alcoholic who's completely alone and miserable, with only his former friends pitying him. If that wasn’t enough, Cartman’s poor and deteriorating health in the revised future indicates that Cartman won’t last much longer, heavily implying that Cartman will end up Dying Alone, just like Kenny predicted.
Kenny mentions in his will that Cartman will end up dying alone since no one, not even Kenny, actually likes him.
Buddy decided to turn against Supers because Mr. Incredible wouldn't take him on as his heroic sidekick. While Mr. Incredible felt bad at first that he indirectly played a part in Buddy becoming the supervillain Syndrome, he loses the sympathy he has for the villain once he learns that Syndrome killed countless superheroes (many of which were Mr. Incredible’s <- space friends) and nearly killed Mr. Incredible’s family, <- comma and instead calls Syndrome out on how petty he is for killing superheroes and putting innocents in danger just so he could pretend to be a hero.
@Bullman
I don't see any English problems with that example.
...unless you want to be anger the fandom.
@Ayumi-chan
...several magical doors that give glimpses of a character's past...
...and Jeritza have her opening an orphanage and taking care...
@Alpinist
...many fans, <- comma even though they are only given significant...
...youthful, and somewhat spartan Lord Paramount, <- comma Ned Stark...
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...for having formed such strong opinions and be replaced with an alternate.
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...who replaced the child High Septon and is suspected of committing at...
...and since it isn't yet confirmed...
Edited by Arivne on Apr 30th 2024 at 9:10:20 AM
- Never Got to Say Goodbye: After finding out what happen to their grandmother through Branch, John Dory, Spruce and Clay become regretful in not saying goodbye to their remaining relative the day they left Branch and Floyd, as they didn't know it would be the last time they would see their grandmother alive.
- Never My Fault: John Dory blames the first attempt of perfect family harmony on his brothers, which he wasn't entirely wrong on as they were also to blame for what happen. Upon getting caught by Velvet and Veneer, John Dory blames his two younger brothers for getting themselves caught, even though he was the one who fell for their trick in the first place.
Every major character in both series has been shipped with every other from at least their own series and some from the other one, plus a good number of minor and supporting characters who are shipped with them and amongst themselves. Basicaly, if two (or more) characters exist, you can bet that somebody ships them, whether seriously or ironically.
Every character with a substantial role has been shipped with every other character from at least their own series and frequently with some from other ones thrown in as well, whether individually or together. It even extends to minor characters and ones who have yet to debut.
@miraculous
Vartan Illiescu is a smug, slimy man who's so jealous of others having more that he decides to initiate terrorist attacks against them. Vartan plots a series of bombings against the elite and rich and in his worst act, <- comma has a mother and her young kids and Housekeeper strapped to the floor with bombs which will go off if they move unless he's paid. When he comes across an elderly woman, Illiescu kidnaps her and intends to murder her to cover his trail. Confronted by Det. Sipowicz, Illiescu remains a smug racist creep who even threatens to avoid telling the location of the family if they won't let him go.
Hector Santos is a pimp who runs a forced prostitution ring. Purchasing the teenage Luisa López, Hector forces her into prostitution by use of force and drugs. Hector also keeps Luisa and all his girls in line by threatening to kill their families if they escape.
Steve McClintock is a a slimy conman who makes his living by using wayward pregnant criminal women and using them to set up adoption deals. McClintock has no plan to actually honour these and will instead fake that his client had a miscarriage, <- comma to the grief of the parents wanting a child. When one of McClintock's partners objects to this cruel treatment, McClintock nearly induces an actual miscarriage in her and threatens to murder her if she speaks of this. When his newest teenage con partner has had enough and wants out, McClintock strangles the heavily pregnant woman to death and later forces his girlfriend to create an alibi for him by threatening to kill her. Weasling out of the consequences, Mc Clintock becomes a drug dealer before meeting his end.
[=McClintock=] -> McClintock
@MM_Crusader
...After MJF and his lawyer mock Mox for...
Thanks arivne
"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."@Toot
The Misfits are quite similar...They...But while the Josie...
...cute girl who becomes a mole...Chiaki is a benevolent A.I. and sacrifices herself...Leslie wants to...
Thanks Arivne.
After finding out through Branch what happened to their grandmother, John Dory, Spruce and Clay become regretful about not...
...attempt at perfect...entirely wrong about, <- comma as...what happens.
Hello I have some more trope entries I'd like to check for spelling and grammar errors.
South Park
The Incredibles
Edited by G-Editor on Apr 29th 2024 at 3:01:48 AM