Most Triumphant Example (Sugar Wiki)/J to L

This is simply what you think is the (not some of the, the) best example of any trope (an objective trope, not subjective, since this already is subjective). The "Crowning Example" if you will.

There could be several reasons you think an example is the best.
 * You thinks 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.

Oh, and each troper gets one example per trope, no more. Also, don't go "no, this is," or phrases like that. This is about our own personal favorites.

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 * Jeanne D'Archetype
 * Ambassador Delenn
 * Saber
 * Jerkass
 * Asuka. Langley. Soryu.
 * Louie De Palma
 * Tomo Takino
 * Wario goes without saying...
 * The members of the soccer club in Clannad. Poor Mei. ~Mapi-chan
 * Ollie Plimsoles
 * Sentinel FREAKING Prime.
 * Quicksilver. Good, evil or neutral, he's always a prick.
 * Jang-Gung/Roto.
 * Cartman. ~ User:Smokie
 * Oh my god, way seconded. I seriously to beat the living shit out of that **** er.
 * Thirded.
 * Detective James Lipton. Good. Lord.
 * Carter Blake.
 * Eric Sparrow
 * Paul.
 * Ryder Daniels. - excaruso
 * Seconded. For those who don't watch the show, Ryder manipulated Tori into helping him get a good grade on an assignment simply because he could. Jerkass indeed.
 * Porky freakin' Minch.
 * Mr. Krabs
 * Jin Kisaragi
 * Mike Warner. -
 * Jerkass Facade
 * Roy Mustang. I dare you to find a character who is better at acting like a total douch while having good-hearted intentions. Anywhere. ~ Caellach Tiger Eye,Vellophone
 * Seconded so. So. Much
 * Squall Leonhart ~ User:Joie De Combat
 * . After all of that buildup,.
 * Jerkass Has a Point
 * Paul von Oberstein. His entire character and place in the story revolves around this trope.
 * Seconded.
 * Jerkass Woobie
 * Asuka. You will never find a Woobie who you want to beat senseless quite this much.~ Phoenix Fire,
 * Agreed. She's such a good example that she's simultaneously one of my favorite characters and one of my most hated characters. Somehow.
 * Logan Echolls. I beg to differ. ~ Voodoo Child
 * Or there's always Rachel Berry ~ Man Without A Body does not feel demasculinized by his love of Glee
 * I see your Jerkass Woobie trope and raise you a Complete Monster Woobie: Porky Minch. -
 * Azula ~ Caellach Tiger Eye
 * Chuck Bass.
 * Kanda. He's a bitter Jerkass for a REASON.
 * Actually, I've re-evaluated my opinion. If I can say Hansel and Gretel from Black Lagoon, then that is my new choice for this trope. Seriously ... those two Creepy Children are sociopaths you get kicks out of murder, and yet they have the most heartbreaking Freudian Excuse - yes, even more than Asuka. Just watch the series ... you'll see what I mean. ~ Caellach Tiger Eye
 * What, no Snape?
 * Uchiha Sasuke's entire family was killed by his brother, and now he is going to kill yours.
 * Seconded ~ Sir Flyer
 * Anna Williams.
 * Clay Puppington.
 * Bart Simpson. - excaruso
 * Lucius Vorenus from Rome. ~ Counter Blitzkrieg
 * The Nostalgia Critic. I know it's a strange choice... but you know it to be true.
 * As of A Dance With Dragons:.
 * Eddy. Yes, he regularly scams people out of their money (Or at least tries to), but the stuff he handled at the hands of his brother... ~ User:Gumbal 1
 * . Espically after his orgins are revealed
 * Jerk Jock
 * Biff Tannen
 * 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. ~ deeman 45
 * James Potter, at first.
 * The Alpha Betas
 * Jerk Sue
 * Emma friggin' Nelson from Degrassi the Next Generation
 * Sam Puckett: iCarly -
 * Paul
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold
 * Tony Stark. ~Storm, Man Without A Body, Voodoo Child
 * Technically, it's palladium, but okay. ~Wragnaroq R. Maggeddon
 * Tomoya Okazaki. ~Mapi-chan, neobowman, D Roy
 * Holland, although the heart of gold part is a bit delayed. ~Blank Mage
 * Linebeck, naturally. ~ deeman 45
 * Bender, nuff said
 * 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.
 * Kanji Tatsumi
 * Taiga Aisaka ~ Hey everybody! The Bully of this high school happens to donate presents to families and orphaned children every Christmas :)
 * Gustavo Rocque. - excaruso
 * Groose
 * Joke Character
 * Jogurt. Seriously...ones in every stat?! ~ Willy Four Eyes
 * Dan Hibiki.
 * Roll ~ Lionheart 0
 * Jigglypuff 'nuf said.
 * Mr. Satan from Dragonball Z ~ Counter Blitzkrieg
 * Joker Immunity
 * Take a wild guess.
 * The Master is probably the next best example
 * 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.
 * Persona, from the first game on. Half of the fourth game takes place inside the.
 * Fringe
 * The "Sleepy Time" episode from SpongeBob SquarePants. ~ deeman 45
 * "This is the (insert name here) in Ikari Shinji's mind."
 * Inception, possibly the movie with the most scenes that take place in dreams vs. real life.
 * Naruto has two journeys, for now.
 * Jumped At the Call
 * Nanoha

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 * Kangaroo Court
 * The opening five minutes of Super Mario Sunshine. ~Loyal2NES
 * The Crucible
 * Kickassia ~ Hotel California
 * Karmic Death
 * Dr. Suchong in Bioshock. ~ Bob
 * Psychonauts ~Freezair For A Limited Time
 * Nena Trinity ~ Nirao 01
 * Frollo, or at least Disney's version of him. ~ deeman 45
 * Vincent Price in House of Wax. The original, of course. ~ Man Without A Body
 * in End of Evangelion. It may have been a hallucination, but it was awesome.
 * death from Narutaru, in all its horrific goriness.
 * Karma Houdini
 * Yuna of Breath of Fire IV, a Complete Monster and the arguable Big Bad of the game. Notable in that he was supposed to die, but was spared so that the game could be rushed out. Infuriatingly, he survives in the manga adaptation, as well.
 * Paul
 * Every antagonist in The Chocolate War. ~ Lionheart 0
 * The Proposition's Eden Fletcher ~ Man Without A Body
 * , the villain in Chinatown
 * from The Spectacular Spider-Man.
 * Arthur has DW. In fact, there are so many times she evaids punishment, we should rename the page after her. Who's with me? Everybody? - Keane 23
 * Keyser Soze
 * Chris. Enough said. It only gets worse in the fourth season.
 * To a lesser extent, Heather, who has  -
 * Sam Puckett. And god bless. - excaruso
 * The party members of 1984. They create a terrible Crapsack World with no emotion at all, and it's implied they NEVER fall. - Ericho
 * 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}
 * Kayfabe
 * Santa Claus
 * Ki Attacks
 * Dragonball Z, to excess.
 * Kick Chick
 * Tomoyo Sakagami. 948 combos, anyone?
 * Chie Satonaka. ~ User:Kalle
 * Kid Detective
 * Shirley Holmes
 * Shinichi/Jimmy Kudo.
 * Kid Hero
 * Luke fon Fabre, if only by sheer virtue of extremity - he appears to be about seventeen, but, he is, in fact.
 * Kid Sidekick
 * Robin
 * Kiddie Kid
 * Erika Swanson --
 * Kill'Em All
 * Yoshiyuki Tomino. His Nickname is Kill'Em All afterall.
 * It's called the Malazan Book of the Fallen for a reason - Freezer
 * The Thing. Well, I hope so, anyway... ~ Man Without A Body
 * Battle Royale. Obviously. ~ Rushi
 * Survival of the Fittest, almost as obviously. ~ Inky Mc Inkerson
 * When They Cry. Everyone dies, over and over again. ~ Phoenix Fire, neobowman,
 * Basilisk. The entire plot is slowly killing the entire main cast. The dying starts in the very first episode of the anime. Basilisk ends when they run out of characters.
 * Bokurano has the highest death count in fiction.
 * Gundam ~ Nirao 01
 * Neon Genesis Evangelion. Even if you don't count the Gainax Ending.
 * Hamlet. (It doesn't count that technically  makes it. He was a total nonentity and his survival was inconsequential to the plot. The ending was the consummate pre-industrial revolution kill 'em all blood bath.) -Ziggy Zag
 * Freakin' Space Runaway Ideon. It didn't just stop at all the main characters, it went as far as to -
 * Two words: Death. Note.
 * Chaos Walking. EVERYONE DIES BY THE THIRD BOOK.
 * Kill the Cutie
 * Higurashi no Naku Koro ni considers this a sport. The Groundhog Day Loop makes it so the cuties will die repeatedly.
 * Nina...*sniffle* - g3m1n1
 * Killer App
 * Halo: Combat Evolved. Microsoft spent the larger share of a billion dollars developing and marketing the Xbox. That all would've been lost if not for Halo. The game's only possible competitor, as such, would have to be...
 * Super Mario Bros., for singlehandedly saving video games.
 * Killer Rabbit
 * Monty Python and The Holy Grail and the Killer Rabbit ~User:ctrlbuild, User:Man Without A Body, User:Ziggy Zag
 * Bun-bun from Sluggy Freelance
 * Nimitz and every other treecat from the Honor Harrington novels.
 * Kimba the White Lion
 * The crab from the Metal Gear Solid short Crab Battle! ~ User:King Cr Inu Yasha
 * Pikachu. Extra points for having rabbit like ears. ~ Pink Hanabi
 * Little Birdie  ~ Camroc G
 * User:Kill Sat
 * Command and Conquer: GDI's Ion Cannon in all four incarnations. ~ Ted Asanto
 * Space Colony ARK
 * User:King Mook
 * In terms of quantity, Super Mario Bros.. Dang near every boss is a King Mook of some sort. ~Cliche
 * User:Kleptomaniac Hero
 * Marisa Kirisame, stealing precious things since 1997. ~ Willy Four Eyes
 * King Graham of Daventry and his entire family, stealing everything since 1984. ~User:Ronka, User:Ziggy Zag
 * Thief. ~User:Blank Mage
 * Link ~ User:Man Without A Body
 * Commander Shepard ~ User:Lionheart 0
 * Kleptomaniac Hero, Found Underwear
 * Isaac, put that back! ~ User:Yuihime
 * Knight in Sour Armor
 * Marcus Cole ~ Darth Howie
 * Sam Vimes ~ Man Without A Body
 * Solid Snake/Old Snake ~ babyhenchy 1
 * John Marston ~ crowmagnon
 * Roy Mustang
 * Knight Templar
 * The Children of the liLight. ~ deeman 45
 * The X-Laws
 * The actual guys during the Crusades. ~ Man Without A Body
 * Frollo
 * Admiral Akainu
 * Light Yagami ~ Metal Shadow X,
 * Master Eraqus ~ N Troper
 * Know-Nothing Know-It-All
 * Peggy Hill
 * Second!
 * Knowledge Broker
 * The Shadow Broker and.
 * Kuudere
 * C.C. ~ Caradryan
 * Mai. ~ Pheonee
 * Saber, again. ~Blank Mage
 * Adrian Andrews.
 * Signum. ~ User:Koveras
 * Riza Hawkeye. ~ Dales Kaine
 * Simon Tam in Firefly
 * Rei Ayanami. Seriously. Made even more evident - if not necessarily depicted better - in the Rebuild of Evangelion tetralogy ~ Caellach Tiger Eye
 * Raven, whose very powers depend on her maintaining control
 * Nagato Yuki, so very much.
 * Kuleshov Effect
 * The HAL 9000. I mean, he's a frickin' inanimate object and it still works! -Ziggy Zag
 * Kung Fu Jesus
 * Toki. He even looks like Jesus

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"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."
 * Lady Drunk
 * Eva Heinemann - insofar
 * Lucille Bluth, if it's not Ellen Tigh - karstovich2
 * Kathie Lee and Hoda
 * Lady of War
 * Signum. ~ User:Koveras
 * Seconded. ~ Smokie
 * The Boss ~ Nirao 01
 * Major General Olivier Mira Armstrong
 * Amanda King from Scarecrow and Mrs. King
 * Ambassador Delen of Babylon 5
 * Gwendolyn
 * Erza Scarlet ~ Pink Hanabi
 * Cornelia li Britannia
 * Ryougi Shiki
 * The Lady's Favour
 * Kenshin and Kaoru
 * Ladykiller in Love
 * Barney Stinson with Robin. I cannot properly express the level of Squee induced by Barney's crush. Despite the fact that he's a really dirty guy, his love for her was one of the puret things this troper has ever seen.
 * 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!"
 * "I'm not a chicken! YOU'RE a TURKEY!!" -Ziggy Zag
 * "At least...I...something...you...insult..."
 * If You Know What I Mean:
 * Say no more say no more know what I mean wink wink nudge nudge. ~ Man Without A Body
 * The cast of Whose Line.
 * Lampshade Hanging
 * A Trailer for Every Academy Award Winning Movie Ever. Doubles as the MTE for Oscar Bait.
 * Order of the Stick for lampshading everything including lampshade hanging itself. ~ Seraphem.
 * Seconding this.
 * Stargate SG-1 deserves this award for lampshading the act of lampshade hanging.
 * "I feel like I'm on a bad reality show... which is funny because I am on a bad reality show." ~ User:Yuihime
 * Language of Love
 * Michelle, ma belle, sont des mots qui vont tres bien ensemble.
 * Large Ham
 * Vegeta
 * BRIAN BLESSED!!! ~ Bring The Noise, Man Without A Body
 * DAN GREEN!!!
 * Lelouch Lamperouge. Especially when being Zero. ~Haza
 * Any character played by Jim Carrey. ~ Willy Four Eyes.
 * Ruber voiced by Gary Oldman. The film overall maybe cheesy, but when you ham it up like that...
 * Shin Mazinger Shougeki! Z-hens Narrator. ~ ImpactoPOWER!!! 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!!!'"''
 * William Shatner. ~ Ingonyama,
 * Anyone voiced by Norio Wakamoto. Personal favorites are Charles zi Britannia and Chiyo's Dad. ~Mapi-chan,
 * His name is ZIM!!!!!! ~Pikawil,Vellophone
 * Dr. Orpheus. -Excel-2009.
 * Dr. Ivo Rrrrrobotnik - The Hero Hartmut
 * 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. ~ Lionheart 0, Vellophone
 * Daniel Day Lewis as Bill the Butcher. ~ Surenity
 * THIS IS SPARTAAA!! ~ Aya Reiko
 * Christopher Lee. Oh yeah! -Ziggy Zag
 * Doctor Steel
 * Tori Vega. "I DON'T TALK LIKE THAT!" - excaruso
 * Jim Backus. AKA Thurston Howell III.
 * THIS IS PROFESSOR GRIZWALD/GRIZWOLD.
 * Many of Daisuke Ono's roles, but especially Hosaka from Minami-ke. He manages to be hammy even when he isn't talking!
 * The Last Dance
 * In Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann,  ~ Nacht Ritter
 * Last-Minute Hookup
 * Vandread. Squee! ~ Bob
 * Shego and Drakken ~Fan
 * Robin and Starfire. ~Mapi-chan
 * Simon and Kaylee ~Seraphem,
 * Danny and Sam ~ Hopeless Romance
 * Laughably Evil
 * Papa Lazarou ~ Man Without A Body
 * Xykon, but don't underestimate him. ~ deeman 45
 * HK-47 ~ User:S Noble Jr
 * The Joker
 * Laughing Mad
 * The Joker ~The Joker, Man Without A Body, Ainu Laire, Ziggy Zag
 * Albedo Piazzolla ~Exploding Frogs
 * Kefka Palazzo
 * Azula of Avatar: The Last Airbender in the series finale.
 * Light Yagami, anyone? ~Snake Byte 117,Vellophone
 * Higurashi no Naku Koro ni. Take your pick of laughs. Here, I'll help
 * Launcher of a Thousand Ships
 * Ash Ketchum, Launcher of Five Hundred Ships.
 * Lawful Stupid
 * Inspector Sledge Hammer ~ Kersey 475
 * Inspector Gadget ~ deeman 45
 * Miko Miyazaki, the quintessential example. ~ Yarrik, vicnog,
 * 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. ~User:Carla
 * Paranormal Activity. Not entirely a bad thing, however.
 * Star Trek the Motion Picture
 * Andy Warhold once made a film Empire where nothing happened for EIGHT HOURS. You CAN'T BEAT THAT. - Ericho
 * Legacy Character:
 * The Slayer
 * Both Link and Zelda in The Legend of Zelda series. ~ Pink Hanabi
 * The Phantom
 * Lemony Narrator:
 * Death from The Book Thief. He's the best narrator ever, even better than Lemony Snicket himself. ~ Chihuahua 0
 * 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.

- Book the Thirteenth, A Series of Unfortunate Events

""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!""
 * Les Yay
 * Mariasama ga Miteru in its entirety ~prescience
 * Seconded. Sei doesn't count, though. ~ Willy Four Eyes
 * Konota + Kagami. ~Blank Mage,
 * Xena
 * NanoFate.
 * Rainbows are straighter than Subaru.
 * Lethal Chef
 * Jenny Meyer in Better Off Dead ~ User:Geoduck
 * Nia ~Storm
 * Grandpa Max. ~Mapi-chan
 * Nerine ~neobowman
 * Shiraishi Mako.
 * Seconded.
 * Susan Meyer
 * Akane Tendou
 * Raine ~ deeman 45
 * England. Dear god, England. ~ puffitheinsane
 * Bender who has yet to grasp the concept of not serving toxic substances to organic beings.
 * 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".
 * Bianchi of Katekyo Hitman Reborn. So much that its her weapon of choice. ~Pink Hanabi
 * Lethal Joke Character
 * Jigglypuff in Melee. She's right up there with Fox and Falco in the current tier rankings.
 * Leitmotif
 * Princess Tutu. ~Bright Blue Ink
 * Proto Man's badass whistle. ~Willy Four Eyes,
 * "This Land" from The Lion King
 * 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)
 * M and Edvard Grieg ~ Man Without A Body
 * Count Bleck's Theme ~Killer Clowns
 * The Undertaker's theme. When you hear that loud "BONG", it sounds like Death himself is arriving. ~ Heart Burn Kid, Voodoo Child
 * The recurring lietmotif of Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells II", which begins at the end of the track "Sentinel".- Ziggy Zag
 * Final Fantasy.
 * The "Overworld" theme from The Legend of Zelda ~ Lady Norbert
 * Tales of the Abyss [[deeman 45 ]] Gorsecloud - Six words: Karma, and all its many forms
 * "Tapion's Theme" from Dragonball Z, which - unlike most cases - is actually part of the plot
 * 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.
 * Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kira. Just compare it's intro to the first season's.
 * Light Is Not Good
 * Admiral Kizaru. Possibly the most terrifying villain in One Piece. ~ The Evil Dr Bolty
 * Light Yagami. ~neobowman,
 * Saruman.
 * Johan Liebert.
 * Cruxis.
 * Lightning Bruiser
 * Hun, from ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
 * Signum. Fast, powerful and excellent defense. ~ Smokie, prescience
 * The Fullmetal Alchemist manga gives us.
 * Garchomp. It managed to shake up the Metagame!! ~ Azzamacazza
 * Brock Lesnar ~ Nirao 01
 * The Raikage
 * Holy shit, yes. He's now THE fastest and hardest hitting son of a gun in the series.
 * So many Real Life predators it's not even funny. ~ deeman 45
 * Joe knows bruising.
 * The Undertaker. A man that size should NOT be able to do half the things he does at the speed he does them
 * Little Miss Badass
 * Hit-Girl.
 * Seconded definitely. My god... ~ Mistermister, Arruruerie (More than seconded now, then)
 * Ivy, from The Dresden Files ~Cheshire Coyote
 * Road Kamelot
 * Gotta give it to Toph ~ babyhenchy1, sardns, Zfish 9, Vellophone
 * Flandre wants to play ~ Generic Troper
 * Evangeline tops them all.
 * Little No
 * "Alors, c'est la guerre." ~ Twin Bird
 * Little-Known Facts
 * Complete World Knowledge ~ Man Without A Body
 * It's a fact: You can get blood from a stone. You just have to throw it hard enough. ~ Sonic GTR, Ziggy Zag
 * At camp, I invented the term Cliffing to describe the presentation of these. It caught on, in spite of the fact that I was the only one who knew what it meant.
 * Living Forever Is Awesome
 * Firo, Isaac and Mira.
 * Living Toys
 * Toy Story, full stop.
 * Seconded.
 * Thirded.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * Load-Bearing Hero
 * "Beneath 150 billion tons stands TheHulk...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.
 * Loads and Loads of Characters
 * There's a reason why every Pokémon and to a lesser extent human character in the Pokemon anime has a fan somewhere. ~Cliche
 * Legend of the Galactic Heroes. -Azxc
 * A Song of Ice and Fire. -Lull The Conqueror
 * Gravity's Rainbow
 * Also from Thomas Pynchon, The Crying Of Lot 49 ~ Man Without A Body
 * Chrono Cross
 * Suikoden is the reigning champion of this trope, featuring 108 recruitable characters in each main game (of which there are five, so far), and that's not even counting the villains, significant NPCs, optional bonus characters, and gaiden games. ~Exploding Frogs
 * Giant Robo - its cast is mostly made from characters from Water Margin and Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and both of those already have Loads and Loads of Characters. ~ Impacto
 * Lost ~Storm, Ziggy Zag
 * Lost pales before most of these examples by numbers alone, but for a live-action TV show that has to cast actors for every role, it takes the cake. Over six seasons it has had at least twenty-seven actors billed as starring, and some actors billed as guest stars have appeared in more episodes than credited characters in a season. Your average TV show has maybe five or six credited cast members, and even ensemble shows don't usually have more than twelve or so. And that's not even getting into the huge amount of ancillary characters!
 * Real Life has over six billion characters all with detailed backstories, hidden depths and more! ~ Luthen, User:King Clark
 * Not only that, but many of them have created their own characters, thus adding to the expanding list of characters that simply exist somewhere. Keep in mind that these are the only ones we know about, too! -
 * To give you an idea of just how fully developed the characters are, Frank Warren observed "Every single [Real Life character] has at least one secret that would break your heart." ~ User:Devils Advocate
 * X-Men. 40+ mutants who've been on the main team alone! ~Ingonyama,
 * MUGEN. Full stop. ~Mapi-chan
 * Xanth. Take a couple of basic characters. Now take all of their descendants, anyone they or their descendants have ever met, all of their descendants, anyone any of them met, and also a bunch of random people no one's seen before. You now have the cast of Xanth.
 * Knights in The Nightmare. "Over 200 characters," to quote Sting. ~The Phantom Squee
 * Super Mario Bros.. At least a few thousand unique characters, not counting the species of generic mooks and various other life. More when you consider the spinoffs. Every single one pretty much has a fanbase too. -cheat-master30
 * Sonic the Hedgehog
 * Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha. Nanoha, Fate, Yuuno, Chrono, Lindy, Amy, Arf, Alisa, Suzuka, Nanoha's family, Precia Testarossa, Hayate, the four Wolkenritter and Reinforce/Reinforce II, Subaru, Teana, Caro, Erio, Ginga, Lutecia, Agito, Jail Scaglietti, the twelve Numbers, about fifteen lesser known soldiers, and I think I've made my point. The next manga already introduced another 10 characters, and in black and white, so you can't rely on eye or hair color..
 * Fire Emblem. Pick 2 games in the series; you probably now have 100 characters, and that's not even counting the Mooks. - Malkyrian
 * Touhou - Over 70 characters and counting, and that's only the main canon. If you factor in the first five games, you can add at least 40 more characters.
 * Tolkien's legendarium. Just look at the family trees in the back of The Lord of the Rings, and that's not even half of them!
 * Seconded.
 * War and Peace needs no introduction.
 * Transformers.-Gorank
 * One Piece. Hope you remember that random mook from 400+ chapters back, because he's absolutely vital to the story. ~ The Evil Dr Bolty
 * Ace Attorney: There is about 130+ characters, counting the dead ones. Each have a different face (including the dead ones,) personality, outfit, etc. Not counting the dead ones, there's about 70+ .-Stickmeister 0
 * Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends has 150+ recurring imaginary friends. -Stickmeister 0
 * Tekken ~ Nirao 01
 * According to The Wheel of Time Encyclopedia, the series has nearly 1900 characters and counting. That's named characters only, by the way, and while most of these are admittedly minor characters, if they have a name they'll probably be in at least two scenes. ~ deeman 45
 * Harry Potter
 * Infinite Space has 130+ characters. It will take three runs to complete the in-game character database. ~ Clae
 * Mahou Sensei Negima starts with 31 character and in the end, there had to be TWO character pages!
 * Survival of the Fittest ~ Inky Mc Inkerson
 * Warrior Cats, with 700+ named characters in the series as of last count. ~ User:Dawnwing
 * Loads and Loads of Loading
 * Sonic's... loading ...the... loading ...name... loading ...loading's... loading ...the... loading ...game... ~... still loading ...WillyFourEyes
 * Reticulating Splines...
 * Populous: The Beginning on the PS 1. Saving or loading takes an entire memory card... and 14 minutes.
 * Locked Out of the Loop
 * Haruhi Suzumiya ~Scud East
 * Harry Potter - Freezer
 * Seconded.
 * "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
 * Locked Room Mystery
 * The Three Coffins, by John Dickson Carr
 * 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. -
 * Lonely At the Top
 * Charles Foster Kane.
 * Long List
 * Jeff Foxworthy's Yes but What Does Zataproximetacine DO.


 * TV Tropes' Most Triumphant Examples
 * Phone books
 * Look Behind You!
 * House. You know the one. -Excel-2009,
 * Is that a Demonic Duck of some sort?!
 * Lost in Medias Res
 * Malazan Book of the Fallen the first book - Gardens of the Moon is for the first half one of the most confusing lectures in whole fantasy genre. ~Perzyn
 * Lotus Eater Machine
 * "What Is And What Should Never Be"
 * And so Fate and Alicia live happily ever after with their mom.
 * "It's a Joy Can!" ~ The Evil Dr Bolty, Man Without A Body
 * For the Man Who Has Everything ~ Azzamacazza
 * Lovable Coward
 * Kabuto Kirisaki. Would also define Badass Coward, if that trope existed, with him using his own fear as power and all.
 * Scooby and Shaggy ~ User:Carla
 * Luigi
 * Brave Sir Robin ran away...
 * Lovable Nerd
 * John Egbert ~ Sausage Mahoney
 * Seconded, without any doubt.
 * Thirded. ~ Slice Hazard
 * Uh, Brundle, Seth. ~ Man Without A Body
 * Linkara -Ziggy Zag
 * Film Brain -emeriin
 * Connor Temple
 * Seconded. So hard.
 * Lovable Rogue
 * Blue/Green (Pokémon Special)
 * Arr! It be Long John Silver! ~ Man Without A Body
 * Count Las Bombas of Westmark ~ Vasha
 * Balthier ~ deeman 45
 * Han Solo
 * Omar Little
 * Ostap Bender
 * Flynn Rider a.k.a.
 * Pretty much the whole point of Skies of Arcadia especially Vyse, Aika, and Gilder.
 * Captain Jack Sparrow -
 * Lovable Sex Maniac - Lupin III
 * Ikuro Fukumoto's life dream is to take pictures of hot girls. Says hilarious sexual comments almost every time he's on screen.
 * Lovable Traitor
 * Xellos ~Exploding Frogs, Carla, Metal Shadow X
 * Arr! It still be Long John Silver! ~ Man Without A Body
 * Love Freak
 * Akari Mizunashi from Aria, who is a case of Tropes Are Not Bad.
 * Flonne
 * Love It or Hate It
 * Twilight. Admittedly, there are some middlegrounders, but when you have people making death threats over how much this series sucks/kicks butt, they don't really matter does it? ~User:Yarrunmace
 * Agreed. Has there ever been a work that was so lucrative and yet so despised? ~ Man Without A Body
 * Chrono Cross. Like the above, some middlegrounders exist, but overall, people either worship the ground Cross walks upon, or burn it. The only point of agreement? The music is WONDERFUL.
 * David Lynch -Ziggy Zag
 * Gundam Seed Destiny and its characters~ Nirao 01
 * Neon Genesis Evangelion
 * Seconded. You want proof? Just look at the reviews on This Very Wiki. Bonus points for having a Broken Base.
 * Image Boards and Encyclopedia Dramatica, especially the latter.
 * Panty and Stocking ~ Kentucky Troper 1990 <-- firmly in the hate section.
 * Seconded. ~ Carls 493 <-- Firmly in the love section. How appropriate.
 * M. Night Shyamalan movies, this troper saw Signs, Lady in the Water, and The Last Airbender in theaters and all three of them were followed by rounds of applause.
 * The Blair Witch Project ~ User:Devils Advocate
 * Napoleon Dynamite ~ thenameisbean.
 * Love Makes You Crazy
 * The entire cast of Durarara more specifically Mika Harima
 * Bus Driver Stu Benedict. "Sally dumped me. Again. Over NOTHING!"
 * Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, full stop.
 * Many characters in Pandora Hearts qualify. Oz for Alice, Gilbert for Oz, Vincent for Gilbert, it goes on. ~ Pink Hanabi
 * 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."
 * Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, full stop.
 * Anakin Skywalker
 * 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. ~ Willy Four Eyes
 * Fate Testarossa. ~ Smokie
 * Oh God, yes. Poor Fate-chan.
 * Mousse
 * Mele
 * Love Redeems:
 * Mr. Rochester -
 * Love You and Everybody
 * Mikoto Minagi...though I'm pretty sure she kept at least two of those ribbons handy for Mai. ~ Willy Four Eyes
 * All the damn time in Mahou Sensei Negima.
 * Magic Knight Rayearth
 * "All I want for Christmas is... YOU! ...and you! and you, and you...." -Max1099
 * Lucky Bastard
 * Gladstone Gander
 * Lyrical Dissonance
 * "Komm Susser Tod". ~ Phoenix Fire
 * Let's just say EVA, period.
 * Thirded!
 * "I Palindrome I", a happy, bright rock song about matricide. ~ Man Without A Body
 * Weird Al: 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.
 * "Copacabana"
 * Many many examples in Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, like Furari No Birthday, but the one that really takes the cake is Egurite from Umineko no Naku Koro ni
 * Sloop John B ~ User:Devils Advocate
 * Tyler, The Creator's "She"
 * Lyrical Tic
 * James Brown is the master of this trope.