Most Triumphant Example (Sugar Wiki)/D

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.

"Gendo Ikari: "The lady you have drugged is the daughter of one of my scientists. Allow me to introduce you to her security detail.""
 * Dangerously Genre Savvy
 * in Watchmen. ~ Man Without A Body
 * Etna. When confronted by the Prism Rangers, her response is to shoot them down as they transform.
 * Infermon/Diaboromon in the Digimon Adventure movies. Attacking during the evolution sequence, it must be some kind of genius. ~ Carla
 * Tarquin from Order of the Stick exploits the underlying system of the Heroic Tale with brilliant ruthlessness. Xykon also knows a fair bit about the conventions for supervillains, but he doesn't exploit them quite as much.
 * Seconded. ~ Seiryu
 * The Joker. The only thing that stopped him from achieving total victory was  ~ King Cr Inu Yasha
 * Azula. ~ Calatoria
 * Date Rape Averted
 * NGE Nobody Dies That is all ~ Anthurak

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 * Don't try to date rape Noah Bennet's daughter. Just don't. -- Cuchulainn
 * Dark Action Girl
 * Rubi Malone. ~ Firestorm
 * Revy. ~ Spacegrass, Two Gun Angel
 * Shego. ~ Deeman 45, Julep, Wasserplane
 * Mystique. ~ Carla, The Wildwest 666
 * Granny Weatherwax ~ Urquhart
 * Princess Azula. ~ New Kid On The Block
 * Selvaria. ~ Some Random Troper Dude
 * Faith Lehane -- Cuchulainn
 * Dark Is Not Evil
 * Shadow Hearts. It's all over this game. Yuri, main hero of the first two games, is a Type 2 Anti-Hero who sometimes becomes simply The Hero, and who has no evil tendencies but a habit towards perversion. He's Darkness elemental. Lucia, a heroine of the second game, is a gorgeous Italian bellydancing fortune teller whose personality is, in essence, a combination of a Dumb Brunette with a morbid sense of humor. She's Darkness elemental. Shania, main heroine of the third game, is a Type 2 Anti-Hero who sometimes becomes simply the Hero, and who has no evil tendencies beyond a habit towards anger. She's Darkness elemental. In the second game, you find a map that lets you control demons- who grant you spells and serve as staunch allies. In all three games, you can fuse at least one character with a demon or spirit that can use Dark Magic... and you use this power to beat up bad guys. In addition, The sheer number of heroic examples of this trope is overwhelming.
 * The dark gods like Osiris and Anubis in Egyptian Mythology. ~ Surenity
 * The goddamn Batman, of course. ~ Ziggy Zag
 * The Undertaker, unless he's Heel ~ Nirao 01
 * The ending of Final Fantasy III.
 * Raven. --ncfan
 * The Twili. ~ Saphruikan
 * Lulu. Dark is yummy. -- Cuchulainn
 * The Devils Backbone ~ Man Without A Body
 * Hayate Yagami: She is The Queen of the Night Sky and the Book of Darkness' master, and yet she is among the nicest, most Moe characters in the series. ~ aNinjaWithAIDS
 * Darker and Edgier
 * Speedball ~Fan
 * Re Boot Season 3. ~ Cameoflage
 * Warhammer 40 K ~ De Vos
 * Ultimate Marvel ~Storm
 * Daniel Craig's tenure as James Bond. ~Pikawil, Man Without A Body
 * Epic Mickey. And this is completely apparent simply from the concept art and talk about how gameplay will work. - Ainu Laire
 * Now that it's on store shelves, what do you think?
 * The 2003 rebooted Battlestar Galactica Reimagined. ~ Voodoo Child
 * It's not your average Book of Mormon in Space anymore ~ Urquhart
 * Thirded in two ways. First for being so dark compared to the original. Second for being such an excellent execution of the trope. ~ Babyhenchy 1
 * There Will Be Brawl, for making Kirby the most terrifying character in the series. ~ Froody 42
 * Seconded, I mean seriously there is ONLY ONE COMPLETELY GOOD CHARACTER IN THE ENTIRE SERIES  ~Troper 49
 * American McGee's Alice is Darker and Edgier done absolutely right. The Steampunk level designs, the twisted (but horribly recognizable) versions of the characters, the "just a dream" atmosphere twisted to nightmares instead of whimsy. It's all given a Backstory that makes perfect sense. Top it off with the drummer for Nine Inch Nails using period instruments and toys to create a creepy soundtrack.
 * Jak II. It wasn't a bad game, but really, Naughty Dog? ~ Dracosummoner
 * Power Rangers RPM As stated on the season page: ~Zxynoxia
 * Buffy the Vampire Slayer Seasons 5 and especially 6. -- Cuchulainn
 * The 1989 Keaton/Nicholson Batman. Remember, the last we'd seen of Batman on any kind of screen, in heavy rotation on Nickelodeon in the late '80s was the 1966-68 Adam West TV series. -- Nlpnt
 * Higanbana no Saku Yoru Ni could end up being the Most Triumphant Example if Ryukishi007 succeeds in making it Darker and Edgier than his previous works, like he says he's going to. ~ Zfish 9
 * The Attitude Era -jprice66
 * Dark Fic
 * Day of the Barney ~ Pikawil
 * Thirty Hs ~ Man Without A Body
 * A Darkened Mind for I Carly''. Includes character deaths, anorexia and horrific domestic abuse among others. Mack
 * Cupcakes, holy shit, Cupcakes. ~ Person Of Note
 * I'll see your Cupcakes and raise you one Sweet Apple Massacre. All the torture and murder of Cupcakes, now with added rape!
 * Dark Magical Girl
 * Fate Testarossa - Girlonthemoon
 * Akemi Homura
 * Lulu. -- Cuchulainn
 * Dark Messiah
 * Lelouch - Seaside Messenger, Fishsicles
 * Dartz - Renita
 * Light Yagami - LE Xicon 712
 * Cameron Vale ~ Man Without A Body
 * Justin Crowe. The man is the Antichrist incarnate. ~ Voodoo Child
 * Griffith ~ Spacegrass
 * Paul Atreides. ~ Deeman 45, Urquhart
 * Kane ~ Counter Blitzkrieg
 * Bow to Leper Messiah! -- Cuchulainn
 * Dark Reprise
 * "Friends On The Other Side" (Reprise) -- man, you know you're screwed when even﻿ your catchy Villain Song gets turned against you! ~ Mac Phisto, Man Without A Body
 * Elvis Costello's "I Want You" -- Cuchulainn
 * Somewhere That's Green Reprise. It really makes the show. -- P Down
 * Dead Baby Comedy
 * South Park ~ The Joker, Willy Four Eyes
 * Drawn Together ~ Carls 493
 * Forum Warz ~ Mr Guy
 * Cyanide and Happiness ~ Unknown Troper
 * Seconded. ~ Me2
 * The League of Gentlemen. On what other show would be best-loved character be a demonic polygamist blackface minstrel? ~ Man Without A Body
 * Eight Bit Theater ~ Arutoa
 * Anal Cunt. The entire discography. ~ El_Superbeasto
 * Ansem Retort But really, is drowning a kid in Tequila truly such a crime? ~ LeChuck4, Deeman 45
 * Jam - Literally has the dead baby's mother hire a plumber to hook him up to the water supply ~
 * The Best Page in The Universe ~ Counter Blitzkrieg
 * Jimmy Carr ~ Urquhart
 * Family Guy ~ Rosebud64
 * David Cross -- Cuchulainn
 * The Binding of Isaac ~ Zinfandel ZT
 * Dead-Man Switch
 * Farscape: the regular series' last arc had a portable nuke that would explode if Crichton got too angry, too hungry, too hot, too cold, too horny, or, oh yeah, dead. ~ Haven
 * Snow Crash: Raven's personal A-bomb. ~ Zeppelin
 * Dave, with Kevin Kline and Kevin Kline ~ Man Without A Body
 * At the beginning of Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger Part IV, a terrorist hooks a bomb up to his heart. Then Toxie kills him in a fit of rage. -- Cuchulainn
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Jerry Seinfeld from Seinfeld.
 * Kyon from Suzumiya Haruhi ~Smokie
 * Seconded. ~ Mapi-chan
 * Thirded. ~ STK
 * Fourthed. ~ Zfish 9
 * Fifthed. Foxx Park
 * Toph ~ Rhyme
 * Jade Curtiss from Tales of the Abyss ~ Battypichugirl 2, Neobowman
 * Groucho Marx ~ C Trombley, Man Without A Body, Ziggy Zag, redhed311 King Cr Inu Yasha, Dr Furball
 * Roger Ebert. ~ Cliche
 * Daria, the original. -Ri L
 * Ben Linus ~ Storm
 * Terry Wogan when he provided commentary for the Eurovision Song Contest. ~ DaPatman
 * Edmund Blackadder ~ Surenity
 * John Constantine. ~ Rushi
 * GLaDOS. ~ Blank Mage
 * Dorothy Zbornak. ~ Excel-2009.
 * Harry Dresden The only way to keep him from deadpan snarking is apparently to . ~ Squealing Sandry
 * ...No Vlad Taltos? * goes off to sulk* ~ Phoenix Fire
 * Oh come on! This is Spider-Man's whole shtick! - Beta Maxis
 * In fairness, Spider-Man's more of an Extremely Animated Snarker.
 * Silk would not be pleased if he learned this page had gone on for so long without him. Deeman 45
 * Chandler ~ Carla, Old Man Ho Oh
 * Bartimaeus. ~ Ev Carey
 * Dylan Moran ~ Urquhart
 * June. ~ Ka Blamoid 4 Life
 * Kerr Freakin' Avon, Just check out his highlight reel ~Allronix
 * Marquis de Carabus. Pastylover 2
 * Roy Greenhilt. ~ Aranthii
 * Sir James Lester. Full stop. ~ Me2
 * Paul Merton. That is all. ~ kyokutonomajo
 * Zooey Deschanel -- Cuchulainn
 * Noah. ~ Ginger Snaps
 * Alfred Hitchcock. ~ Gfrequency
 * Frank Zappa, who else can shotgun jokes with so much contempt ~ ereg
 * I'm very surprised the cast of Garfield isn't on here. -- Voyd 211
 * Yuri Lowell ~ aNinjaWithAIDS
 * Garak ~ Wyldchyld
 * Dead Pet Sketch
 * Doctor Steel, in Episode 1 of The Dr. Steel Show. ~ Jonny B
 * The Brak Show; Brak accidentally kills Thundercles' pet goldfish by feeding him a three ham omelet. -- Tropers/{{Cuchulainn
 * Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Six-year old Nicky gets a rabbit named Harry for Easter and leaves it in a box on the couch. Uncle Phil comes in to watch TV, and after an agonizingly long setup in which he *almost* sits on the box...Uncle Phil sits right down on the box and crushes Harry. Made all the funnier by Will freaking out when Phil tells him because he thinks Phil killed a human.
 * Dead Person Conversation
 * Six Feet Under. ~ Silence
 * Troll 2 ~ Man Without A Body
 * Conversations with Dead People ~ Marvel Girl
 * An American Werewolf in London. And not just for its famous quotation on the subject. All of the dead people conversations in the film are flat-out hilarious to no end. ~ Ziggy Zag
 * Harry Potter ~ Deathfire 123
 * Denis Leary's character on Rescue Me has a lot of these. -- Cuchulainn
 * Deadly Distant Finale
 * Six Feet Under. ~ Grev
 * Deal With the Devil
 * Puella Magi Madoka Magica {{spoiler|／人◕‿‿◕人＼}} ~ Deeman 45
 * Seconded, so very much. ~ Embracing Shadows
 * Death Glare
 * I know everyone is going to read this and go "No, Admiral Adama!" But still, I nominate Noah of El Goonish Shive, as shown here. ~ Seiryu
 * On Mission Hill Death Glares are accompanied by daggers coming out of the person's eyes. -- Cuchulainn
 * Batman - Werebunny 131
 * Fluttershy ~ atrasicarius
 * Victor Rodenmaar Jr. Francis Magee really sells it. ~ Aspie
 * Death Is Cheap
 * Dragonball. ~ Mistermister
 * Oh God, this. ~ Carla
 * Angel Beats Seriously, this is a series where Heroic Sacrifice induced Dwindling Party is used for slapsticks ~ User:D Roy
 * Seconded. ~ User:Embracing Shadows
 * The Simpsons -- Cuchulainn

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 * Madness Combat. Hank dies at the end of pretty much every episode, only to revive with a few bandages next time. That's not mentioning Tricky the clown, who dies multiple times in a single episode and is possibly now immortal. ~Ninjat_126
 * Casey and Andy - They die so often even Satan doesn't understand how they do it. ~ Marvel Girl
 * Mortal Kombat full stop. ~ ereg
 * Death Seeker
 * {{spoiler|Archer}} ~spacemonkey37
 * Death Takes a Holiday
 * Reaper Man ~ Deranged Genius, Man Without A Body
 * Death Trap
 * This. (From Batman the Brave And The Bold.) ~ Deeman 45
 * Saw ~ Bubblebath
 * The giant clamp from Dr. Phibes Rises Again ~ Man Without A Body
 * Deconstructor Fleet
 * Neon Genesis Evangelion: Deconstructing the Super Robot genre, the human psyche and YOUR BRAIN, all at once! ~ Carla
 * A Streetcar Named Desire ~ Man Without A Body
 * Metal Gear Solid ~ Jesska
 * Discworld ~ Urquhart
 * The Tales Series: Picking apart Mana Trees, Chosen Ones, Destiny, and so much more, since the days of the SNES. ~ Sylvia Viridian
 * Yu-Gi-Oh GX. Let's just say that there's a reason that this series (especially during the later seasons) is called "NGE with card games" by many. ~ Lord Zorc
 * The Good the Bad And The Ugly: Deconstructs the early Western genre. ~ Aya Reiko
 * The Wire and Homicide Life On the Street for the police procedural. ~ Sonof Falstaff
 * "Puella Magi Madoka Magica": I honestly thought the whole Magical Girl genre would shatter into pieces by the time the Grand Finale aired. ~ Encrypted 12345
 * Monster. Listing the tropes and concepts deconstructed would take a great deal of time. But they include Complete Monster, Determinator, Incorruptible Pure Pureness, Action Girl... ~ User:Foxx Park
 * Decon Recon Switch
 * {{spoiler|Puella Magi Madoka Magica}} ~Encrypted 12345
 * Seconded. ~ Weeping Willow
 * Pokémon Black and White aimed to be this for the Pokémon franchise, and succeeded. ~ User:Yuihime
 * Decoy Protagonist
 * Kamina.
 * Marion Crane ~ Hoffmann, Man Without A Body,, Deeman 45
 * Ga Rei Zero - Tranquil Tempest
 * Fate/EXTRA - User:Stark 1111
 * Deep-Immersion Gaming
 * "The Day of Sagittarius" from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. 8-bit Space Opera at its finest. "GLORY TO THE COMPUTER CLUB!" ~ Scud East
 * .Hack. Now if only this was reality.... ~ Draga
 * .hack Sign is the only one that I know of that DIDN'T have this 24/7, but even then, it was only for a few seconds. ~ Zfish 9
 * The Legend of Neil -- Cuchulainn
 * Defeat Means Friendship
 * Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ~ tennessean
 * If you disagree, we will befriend you! ~ Marvel Girl
 * Touhou Project ~ Aya Reiko
 * Dragonball Z anyone? - Beta Maxis
 * Robin Hood and Little John; in fact the old Robin Hood stories are full of this. ~ Vasha
 * Robin and Friar Tuck ~ Man Without A Body
 * King Arthur and Lancelot's fight in Excalibur. ~ Ziggy Zag
 * Naruto ~ Nirao 01
 * Seconded. That Jesus-no-jutsu is ridiculously effective. ~ Carla
 * Thirded. He's even befriended {{spoiler|the Kyuubi.}} ~ spacemonkey37
 * Pokémon. Seriously, the entire franchise runs on this! ~Stargirl93
 * Jeffrey Sinclair and the Minbari in Babylon Five
 * Defrosting Ice Queen
 * Natsuki Kuga, especially around Mai and/or Shizuru. She also gets the Personality Powers bonus, as her element (not capitalized) is ice. ~ Willy Four Eyes
 * Aeryn Sun. ~ Grecian Goddess
 * Gerd, from Norse Myth ~ Man Without A Body
 * Saber. ~ Blank Mage
 * Celes Chere ~ Seraphem
 * Midna. ~ King Cr Inu Yasha
 * Deliberately Cute Child
 * Break Blade ~ Niko. She's the page image for a reason, folks. ~ Lanky
 * Flute/Aphrael ~ Seraphem
 * Billy, from Trick R Treat ~ Man Without A Body
 * Deliberately Monochrome
 * Sin City ~ Mike Arrow, Deeman 45
 * The Man Who Wasn't There: It actually looks like a Film Noir, too. ~ C Trombley
 * The Elephant Man ~ Man Without A Body
 * Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ~ Bird Of Hermes
 * Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, the best Film Noir that's a parody of Film Noir. ~ Marvel Girl
 * Pleasantville ~ Definitely plays this trope for full metaphorical value. ~ Zeroharpuia
 * The Twilight Zone. ~ Ziggy Zag
 * Deliberate Values Dissonance
 * Mad Men ~ Nlpnt
 * Demonic Spiders
 * Eggplant Wizards ~ Jason Paul
 * Artificial Chaos ~ Cyber Tiger 88
 * The random demons, ESPECIALLY the trident ones. ~ Tropers/gunpsycho
 * THOSE FUCKING BIRDS. I have lost countless controllers to those bastards. ~ Helium Opera
 * The Wizzrobes from The Legend of Zelda ~ King Cr Inu Yasha
 * Fucking Banshees. Instant death melee attack? Check. Flash Step? Check. Plenty of health? Check. Creepy as hell? Check. ~atrasicarius
 * Demoted to Extra
 * Poor Pluto... ~ Carla
 * *Sniff* ~ Me2
 * Thirded - Freiberg
 * Fourthed... *sniff* Poor Pluto, indeed. ~ Troper 49
 * From star character in your own series to Bit Character in the spinoff...isn't it sad, Mai? User:Willy Four Eyes
 * Toby Isaacs ~ Nlpnt
 * And even on this page Yumizika Satsuki didn't merit a mention until now. As the former Trope Namer, that really is sad. ~ spacemonkey37
 * Depending On the Writer
 * Glee Season 1. Teen Drama, parody of teen drama tropes, or quirky set-piece? Tune in and find out! ~ Nlpnt
 * Whateley Universe. Superhero action? High school hijinx? Superhero deconstruction? Lovecraft Country? Superhero parody? Wacky comedy? The usual answer is 'some of the above' but it depends on which of the dozen canon authors is writing. ~ Marvel Girl
 * Depraved Dentist
 * Orin. Seriously, just watch "The Dentist Song" and you'll understand. ~ Troper 49
 * Szell from Marathon Man ~ King Cr Inu Yasha
 * Depraved Dwarf
 * Wonder Woman foe Dr. Psycho. ~ Tongpu
 * Dr. Miguelito Loveless ~ Marvel Girl
 * Depth Perplexion
 * The video game Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, which had an isometric perspective, but the gameplay treated it as overhead, so you can be walking on the ground and be blocked by the top of a tower. The trope page's picture shows it in action.
 * Despair Event Horizon
 * Groundhog Day ~ Silence, Wasserplane
 * The requirement to activating a Behelit in Berserk ~ Tempus Khronios
 * The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, what happens when people reach the DEH is the main theme of the series, with most people falling over and resorting to such desperate tactics as wiping out every living thing in the Land on the off chance it will also kill the Big Bad that pushed him over, while the few that can be pushed up to a DEH but refuse to fall into it are the ones that ultimately defeat him. ~ Seraphem
 * Season 3 of Yu-Gi-Oh GX for Judai ~ Lale
 * Malcolm Reynolds after the Battle of Serenity Valley. --wrybread
 * Desperately Looking for A Purpose In Life
 * Suzumiya Haruhi ~ spacemonkey37
 * Destination Defenestration
 * That one merc in Mass Effect 2 ~ Tera Chimera
 * Destructive Saviour
 * The Eight Bit Theater crew. ~ Aranthii
 * Harry Dresden has this problem with buildings... ~ spacemonkey37
 * Determinator
 * Batman. ~ Pumablues
 * de Terminator. ~ Willy Four Eyes
 * Monkey. D. LUFFY.
 * HEAVILY seconded. ~ DAN 004
 * Shidou Hikaru, ten tons of Determinator in a 40 kilo soaking wet bag. ~ H. Torrance Griffin
 * Captain Malcolm Reynolds. ~ Voodoo Child
 * Samuel Vimes, Commander of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch. ~ Kiwikaos
 * Ash Ketchum, so much so that this troper is convinced that he and Hikaru (above) would make quite a couple! ~ tennessean, Lale
 * Glass Joe. You don't get 99 losses by giving up, after all, and he has done many more matches than any other boxer in the game. ~ Cliche
 * Harry Powell. "Don't he never sleep?" ~ Man Without A Body
 * "No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise." ~ Zeppelin
 * Clare. ~ Pheonee
 * Shirou ~ Blank Mage
 * Rock Lee. He stood up despite 2 broken limbs while unconscious. ~Also Blank Mage
 * Naruto himself ~ sardns
 * Simon~ Neobowman
 * To be honest, most all the main heroes from TTGL count. ~ Lord Zorc
 * To be even more honest, damn near everybody in that series. ~ Metal Shadow X
 * Killy. - Mr Schade
 * Seconded like a motherfucker ~ Dhomochevsky.
 * The Big Bad from Tales of Symphonia, if only because it's an effective villainous version of this trope. Seriously, the guy will not give up. ~ Deeman 45
 * Seiya from Saint Seiya. To the point where it becomes ridiculously annoying. ~ Carla
 * Every major character in Hajime no Ippo. ~ mrbits
 * O-Chul of Order of the Stick to the point where no description can do him justice.
 * The five castaways in The Mysterious Island. ~ Theweirdwarrior
 * Harry Dresden. ~ Cynthia Wakefield
 * Azula. Perfect dedication in the middle of her Villainous Breakdown.~Tambov 333
 * Charlie Brown. He suffered for 50 years, but never gave up. ~ Kiwi
 * Solid Snake. The man crawls through a microwave hallway...BY HIS FINGERTIPS to get the job done. Did I mention that his body is in the condition of a 70 to 80 year old man at the time?
 * Vyse of Skies of Arcadia is a great example, due to always having a 'never give up' attitude, and yet still seeming reasonable. Heck, there's only one point where he has given up all hope, as he has just been captured by The Empire, and has been stuck in a cell in the inescapable fortress. He is then called out on this for not acting like himself, by his cellmate, who pulls out a piece of wire and picks the lock. Vyse then immediately goes back into a 'Great! Let's find the others, and blow this Popsicle stand!' attitude.~ Smylar
 * The Nyx Annihilation Team. Nothing like facing off against the Anthropomorphic Personification of Death despite being told that you have no chance of stopping her from destroying the world. Special mention goes to the protagonist, who faces said Anthropomorphic Personification by himself and, thanks to The Power of Friendship, shrugs off her 9,999 damage attack like it's nothing. ~ Aspie
 * Samwise Gamgee. That is all. --ncfan
 * Erza Scarlet and everybody else ~ KantonKage
 * Satellizer ~ KantonKage
 * Nanoha. Having a hand stuck through her chest won't stop her from kicking ass. ~spacemonkey37
 * Vita: {{spoiler|Being stabbed through the chest by the same type of Mecha Mook that nearly killed an 11-year-old Nanoha}} will not stop her from destroying a Cool Starship's heavily fortified and thickly shielded engine. ~ aNinjaWithAIDS
 * Deranged Animation
 * I'm Baman! I'm Piderman! I come over da house! We're best fwiends! ~ Man Without A Body
 * Seconded. Oh, so much. ~ Me2
 * Pink Floyd's The Wall ~ Deranged Genius
 * The surreal Fleischer short Swing You Sinners ~ Surenity
 * The Ren and Stimpy Show, in both of its' incarnations - Tropers/Nashimi
 * Seconded. No wonder John K. hates every modern cartoon. None could beat his in dementedness!
 * Superjail! Superjail! Superjail! - Mezzamine
 * Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Shaft, what were you thinking...?!?!?
 * Wonder Showzen. full stop ~ Alimus13
 * Designated Villain
 * Satan ~ Annonymous Troper
 * Novis Ovum Librarium. Because a Well-Intentioned Extremist organization who stored a Complete Monster or two while keeping peace overall is ALWAYS The Empire and everyone who joins there must have a degree of scumbag-ness... right?? ~ Chris X
 * Deus Angst Machina
 * The Mist. ~ Talryth
 * Fai D. Flowright, full stop. ~ chibihana
 * Deus Ex Machina
 * The {{spoiler|Deus Rex Machina}} from the first Jurassic Park movie. Rule of Cool doesn't just beat Fridge Logic and lack of foreshadowing here, it roars triumphantly over their corpses. ~ Trouser Wearing Barbarian, Shadow Stained Sky
 * The climax of Epic Movie. Epic Fail, more like. ~Mapi-chan
 * The ending of Battlestar Galactica Reimagined. FULL STOP - LE Xicon 712, Urquhart
 * The ending of the Pokémon Special RS saga. - Roihu
 * The ending of Breaking Dawn ~ Wasserplane
 * Chapter 449 of Naruto
 * Don't forget THE GREAT SNAKE ESCAPE!
 * "We yield at once, with humbled mien, because, with all our faults, we love our Queen." ~ Man Without A Body
 * The Dark Tower series by Stephen King, it gets to the point were in the last book he flat out states "Deus Ex Machina to the rescue" when he writes the hero's out of a trap. ~Seraphem
 * The one from the story titled "Deus Ex Machina" on Lost. Not just because of the Crowning Moment of Heartwarming, but also because of the brilliant twist revealed a whole season later: {{spoiler|it was a two-edged Deus Ex Machina, and we saw only one end of it the first time around. Locke was saved by being given hope, but he unknowningly also rescued Desmond and saved the whole world the same way before even knowing of Desmond's existence, and the revelation of this leads to a third Deus Ex Machina.}} ~ Ziggy Zag
 * Everything that leads to Aang achieving Avatar State and defeating Ozai in the finale of Avatar: The Last Airbender. ~ Carla
 * Seconded so, so much. ~ aeroplanejelly
 * The Stand ~ User:Devils Advocate
 * Development Hell
 * Duke Nukem Forever. ~ STK
 * Second ~ Wasserplane
 * The Neon Genesis Evangelion live-action movie. ~ Carla
 * Miss Pettigrew Lives for A Day. Book written in 1938. Movie rights sold in 1939. Movie made in 2008.
 * The Thief and The Cobbler ~ Nire
 * How is A Dance with Dragons not on here? ~ atrasicarius
 * SMiLE. ~ King Cr Inu Yasha
 * Devil in Plain Sight
 * Patrick Bateman -Ziggy Zag
 * Master Xehanort - Tropers/tropenoob
 * The Devil Is a Loser
 * Lucius Heinous VII-User:Michael JJ.
 * Satan from South Park. ~ King Cr Inu Yasha
 * The Dev Team Thinks of Everything
 * Nethack. ~Geoduck, Willy Four Eyes, Devils Advocate
 * Dwarf Fortress. ~Theogrin, Phoenix Fire, Tropers/{{Stealthyboy
 * Kingdom Hearts II and Kairi's panties ~ LE Xicon 712
 * Golden Sun. Sequence Breaking? The character you got out-of-order has lines in the cutscenes. Forgot or misplaced the MacGuffin? Hilarious cutscene mocking your ineptitude and fixing the situation so you can continue. Answer "no" to every question? The Cool Old Guy gets ticked off and asks if this is all just a game to you... ~User:Yuihime
 * Scribblenauts ~Blazichu
 * Diabolus Ex Machina
 * Code Geass episode 22. ~ Shay Guy
 * Oh god, seconded. ~ Xelorei
 * Thirded. ~ Weeping Willow
 * I concur. ~ Embracing Shadows
 * The Montreal Screwjob. ~ Voodoo Child
 * {{spoiler|Acnologia}}
 * Mass Effect 3: The fans and even new players to the series were NOT amused.
 * Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?
 * Rachel Elizabeth Dare. Blue. Hairbrush. ~ User:Carla
 * Hawkgirl quite literally.
 * Carmilla to Shub-Niggurath even more literally. ~ Marvel Girl
 * Harry Dresden. It's practically his trademark. ~ spacemonkey37
 * Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?
 * Fullmetal Alchemist chapter 107 and 108/Brotherhood episode 62 and 63. {{spoiler|Ed literally punches out the Eldritch Abomination Big Bad that just ate God.}} And then everything exploded from the sheer awesome. ~ Phoenix Fire
 * Seconded! ~ User:Carla
 * Thirded! ~ Marlee Cross
 * Fourthed. ~ Saphruikan
 * Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Lagann-hen, wherein the Big Bad fights back! ~KO Blitzer
 * How about God of War? Did Kratos just slaughtered the entire population of Cthulhus?? ~ DAN 004, The Wildwest 666
 * Seconded, After {{spoiler|systematically murdering the entire Greek pantheon}}, it’s hard to dispute. ~ Panic
 * This is practically Touma's specialty in To Aru Majutsu no Index. First off he beats a 3000 degree Celsius fire monster, then a Reality Warper, after that follows the strongest Lv 5 esper (who Won the Superpower Lottery), and it eventually leads up to {{spoiler|Fiamma of the Right (who at that point surpassed being a Physical God.}} ~ Zfish 9
 * Harry Dresden has made a career out of this. Well, this and blowing up buildings. ~ spacemonkey37
 * {{spoiler|Yoshii defeats Ironman}} ~ KantonKage
 * Hulk could rename this trope to "Did you just grab Cthulluth and tossed him back and forth against the ground like it were a old ragged doll?" ~RN 452
 * Died Standing Up
 * {{spoiler|Whitebeard}} ~ Bcdeid Iarauno 1
 * Cuchulainn ~ Camroc G
 * Branwell Bronte, the talented but dissolute brother of the Bronte sisters, supposedly pulled this off in real life. Dying of tuberculosis at the age of thirty-one, he had himself propped up against a mantelpiece just to prove that it could be done.
 * Dirty Coward
 * Bernie Bernbaum ~ Trouser Wearing Barbarian
 * Arnold Judas Rimmer ~ Geoduck
 * Flashman ~ Jordan
 * Petter Pettigrew ~ Lionheart 0, Carla, The Wildwest 666, Mac Phisto
 * Druwp the Vole. ~ Deeman 45
 * Rincewind ~ Urquhart
 * Daffy Duck ~ Old Man Ho Oh
 * Mumkhar, a Smug Snake who ran away from a crucial battle five minutes after I turned the game on! ~ Seraphim Swordmaster
 * Dirty Old Man
 * Muten Roshi is this trope. ~ Nintendo Nate 25, Mistermister
 * The principal in To Love Ru
 * Herbert. ~ King Cr Inu Yasha
 * Jerry "the King" Lawler - jprice66
 * Dirty Old Woman
 * Nanny Ogg. ~ Phoenix Fire, Man Without A Body, Urquhart
 * Disability Superpower
 * Toph Bei Fong ~ Carla, Wasserplane
 * Seconded ~ aNinjaWithAIDS
 * DareDevil ~blueflame724
 * Disabled Character, Disabled Actor
 * Marlee Matlin ~ Nlpnt
 * Disabled Love Interest
 * The Heroines of Katawa Shoujo
 * Sesshomaru
 * Disappointing Last Level
 * No More Heroes 2. Enough said. ~ User:Malkyrian
 * Deus Ex (the first one). Every single level after leaving {{spoiler|Everett}}'s house. ~ Dracosummoner
 * Disaster Movie
 * Twenty Twelve. I don't care what the next person says, it was a blast. ~ King Clark
 * The original Gojira. ~ Man Without A Body
 * Disney Princess
 * Snow White. ~ Man Without A Body
 * Disposing of a Body
 * The Health Inspector ~Red Lunch Box
 * Disproportionate Retribution
 * Manfred von Karma. ~ Maya TH
 * Kristoph Gavin. ~Sylvia Viridian
 * Four words: "Scott Tenorman Must Die" ~redhed311
 * Dissonant Serenity
 * Johan Liebert of Monster always has the same smile on his face. As you can probably guess, it's freaky as hell. ~Hokuto
 * Seconded to the fullest. ~ Babyhenchy 1
 * He was being kind. ~ Tropers/
 * Unohana can cause Kenpachi to back down with that deadly smile. KantonKage
 * Trafalgar Law. He juggles the body parts of marines while keeping a creepy grin on his face. Lionheart 0
 * Distant Duet
 * Somewhere Out There ~ Man Without A Body, Deeman 45, redhed311
 * "Girl in the Tower", from King's Quest VI. ~ Ziggy Zag
 * Disturbed Doves
 * The Killer ~ Trouser Wearing Barbarian
 * The disturbed seagulls when Harry Waters arrives In Bruges ~ Man Without A Body
 * The Thief of Time. "There will always be doves here." ~ Marvel Girl
 * Documentary of Lies
 * Monsters Resurrected. ~ Spinosegnosaurus 77
 * Undefeated : A Sarah Palin Documentary 
 * Does This Remind You of Anything?
 * Who knew that installing a crystal into a Reyvateil could be so easily compared to "doing it?" (Heh heh..."install...") ~ Willy Four Eyes
 * This scene, from a sequel to The Brave Little Toaster. ~ Deeman 45
 * Doesn't Like Guns
 * Batman ~ Deeman 45
 * Virgil Hawkins ~ Lionheart 0
 * The Doctor ~ Man Without A Body
 * He never would... ~ Me2
 * The Dog Bites Back
 * Scar's death in The Lion King. In all its gory awesomeness.
 * Dogged Nice Guy
 * Dominic Sorel from Eureka Seven. How he could withstand Anemone's physical and verbal assaults in the name of love is astonishing. {{spoiler|His perseverance pays off in the end, making his endurance legendary.}} ~ Sanfranman 91
 * Do Not Taunt Cthulhu
 * "It's not wise to taunt the Bering Sea." - tennessean
 * "Ed is not being sure if taunting ancient unspeakable evil is being the best idea..." - User:Yuihime
 * Don't Explain the Joke
 * Doctor Horribles Sing Along Blog:

Dr. Horrible: ...

Captain Hammer: [walks back in] ...The hammer is my penis. }} {{quote| "You're a... *pauses, thinks for a moment, stands up and walks over to the wall to lean against it while half-smirking* ...guest of the Master Control Program."}} {{quote| -Elliot: ''Who's this...guy? I think?''}}
 * Don't Fear the Reaper
 * {{smallcaps|DEATH}} from Discworld ~ Earth-Dog
 * Dead Like Me. They might steal your wallet but whatever, you're already dead. ~ Carla
 * Death from The Sandman. ~ Sylvia Viridian
 * Death in The Book Thief. ~Shadowplay
 * Don't Go in The Woods
 * Deliverance ~ Unknown Troper.
 * Evil Dead 2 ~ Man Without A Body
 * Marble Hornets. Dear God, Marble Hornets.
 * Doomed Hometown
 * Vale ~ Camroc G
 * Doomy Dooms of Doom
 * Invader Zim ~ Alma Karma
 * Dooooooooooooooom!! *ahem* seconded. ~ Zfish 9
 * Third-ed! DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO- ~ UpsidePickle
 * Scott Keith.
 * Doom It Yourself
 * The Three Stooges ~ King Cr Inu Yasha
 * Donut Mess With a Cop
 * Chief Wiggum ~redhed311
 * Doting Parent
 * Maes Hughes. ~ Sarelon
 * Seconded. ~ Saphruikan
 * Double Reverse Quadruple Agent
 * Blaise Zabini from Harry Potter and The Methods of Rationality. He managed to be a quintuple agent in a game with three sides. ~{{Seiryu}}
 * Downer Ending
 * Twisted Sister's ending ~ Todbot 1
 * Children of Earth. Oh God, Children of Earth. ~ La Ninje, Old Man Ho Oh
 * The Mist. ~ Talryth
 * The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy. Everyone in the MULTIVERSE DIED. How can it seriously get worse than that? ~ Ericho
 * Seconded. It's a lot Darker and Edgier than the first book. ~ Me2
 * Of all but two one arc, Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni ~ Zfish 9
 * Akira Kurosawa's Ran, may have one of the more distressing and cynical final shot of any film ever. Budman 2008
 * Draco in Leather Pants
 * Heathcliff ~ Vasha
 * Sephiroth. He represents the trope image. ~ Carls 493, Dales Kaine
 * Draco Malfoy. ~ K Man
 * Mary Crawford ~ Lale
 * Guy of Gisborne. ~ Me2
 * Hazama/Terumi Yuuki. Might as well be the 'New Age Sephiroth' ~ Chris X
 * Lelouch vi Britannia.
 * Kyuubi ~ KantonKage
 * The Drag Along
 * Iago of the Aladdin animated series. ~ Robert Bingham
 * Jonathan in The Mummy Trilogy.
 * Arnold from The Magic School Bus. He knew he should have stayed home today. ~ King Cr Inu Yasha
 * The Dragon
 * Ecliptor
 * Shego ~ Fan
 * Darth Vader ~ Storm, Carla, Wasserplane
 * Kefka ~ Eric DVH
 * Dragan from Layer Cake ~ Jordan, Man Without A Body
 * Fate Testarossa. ~ Blank Mage
 * Destro ~ Mistermister
 * Ridley. Not only a prime example, but an actual dragon.
 * Midbus. ~ Deeman 45
 * Ulquiorra of Bleach. ~ ncfan
 * Jaws ~ Deranged Genius
 * Omega. Extremely Ax Crazy, yet very loyal to Dr. Weil. ~ DAN 004
 * {{spoiler|Ghetsis's Hydreigon}}. A literal dragon, and The Dragon to The Dragon {{spoiler|Ascendant}}. ~ User:Yuihime
 * Dragon Ascendant
 * Kabuto ~ Contributor
 * Dragon-in-Chief
 * Amshel ~ Deeman 45
 * Dragons Up the Yin Yang
 * Breath Of Fire IV. Yes, the entire game. It is, quite literally, made of this trope. ~ dogemperor
 * Dragon Their Feet
 * Karl in Die Hard - Tera Chimera
 * Dragon With an Agenda
 * Redcloak. ~ spacemonkey37
 * Drama Bomb Finale
 * The end of the last episode of Black Adder Goes Forth - DaPatman
 * Dramatic Pause
 * Ram in Tron.
 * Dramatic Reading
 * A REAL breakup letter from a REAL person! ~ Man Without A Body
 * Dramatic Unmask
 * The Phantom of the Opera ~ Lale
 * Dreadful Musician
 * Kotomi Ichinose. Full stop. ~ Mapi-chan
 * So Seconded, only musician to cause a Heroic BSOD ~ Deathfire 123
 * Absolutely thirded. I doubt there is a finer example of this trope in any other fictional story. - aNinjaWithAIDS
 * Cacofonix. ~ Julep
 * DeeDee ~ Old Man Ho Oh
 * Squidward. ~ Zfish 9
 * Dream Within a Dream
 * Inception. ~ D Roy, Cameoflage, Dracosummoner, Julep, Old Man Ho Oh, Deathfire 123
 * (X)CEPTION replaced yo dawg. ~ User:TARDISES
 * In The Sandman, the Fate Worse Than Death inflicted by Morpheus on his captor after he escaped. ~ Sylvia Viridian
 * Drill Sergeant Nasty
 * Gunnery Sgt. Hartman from Full Metal Jacket, played by R Lee Ermey ~ Ari Rockefeller
 * Drives Like Crazy
 * As the trope page itself admits, Yukari Tanizaki.
 * SpongeBob SquarePants. When he drives, it's simply epic. ~ Alice 2, The Wildwest 666, Zfish 9, Me2
 * Yui Narumi. ~ Mapi-chan
 * Leland's grandma from Mr. Tran & the Toy Cack ~ Man Without A Body
 * Get Smart. ~ Blank Mage
 * Elwood Blues. ~ Voodoo Child, The Albino Primid, Julep
 * R Kelly in Trapped in The Closet ~ Lionheart 0
 * Do you hate trash cans? Is that it? Do you just hate trash cans?! ~ Deeman 45
 * Stone Cold Steve Austin ~ Nirao 01
 * Kitty Pryde. When your driving is so crazy that you manage to scare Wolverine... ~ Carla
 * Sam Starfall. ~Tambov 333
 * Seconded ~ Tranquil Tempest
 * Delirium ~ Deranged Genius, User:Devils Advocate
 * "Summers you drive like a SPAZ" ~ Metalbane
 * What, forgetting Mr. Toad's Wild Ride?
 * Ms. Yukari ~ Lord Zorc, User:Foxx Park
 * [[Friends Phoebe Buffay ~ Camroc G
 * Die Hard 2: "Are you TRYING to run over these people?" "NO! Well, maybe the mime." ~ Marvel Girl
 * Drop the Hammer
 * Gao Gai Gar: Goldion Crusher. So huge, it could smash {{spoiler|the Sun}}. ~ Servbot, V Phantom
 * Thor ~ Space Jawa
 * Thor ~ Bob, Man Without A Body, Phoenix Fire
 * Vita and Graf Eisen ~Rain Requiem
 * Undoubtedly seconded ~ aNinjaWithAIDS
 * Dude Looks Like a Lady
 * Amiti. A Shirtless Scene got leaked, and the European official website still didn't get the memo. ~ Yuihime
 * Yashamaru. Up until 548 there was never any definite indication of just what his gender is in the English manga, and in several different languages the translators have made him a woman because he's just that pretty. Haku may be the better-known example of this from Naruto, but at least the translators never got in on the act as far as he's concerned.
 * Noah from El Goonish Shive: ~ Nlpnt
 * Hideyoshi surprisingly isn't here. ~ KantonKage
 * Dude, She's Like, in A Coma
 * Shinji in End of Evangelion ~ Carla
 * Seconded. ~ The Wildwest 666
 * Dueling Stars Movie
 * Face Off ~ Rbx 5
 * War ~ Wexman
 * Dungeon Bypass
 * Nanoha Takamachi. ~ Phoenix Fire
 * Seconded ~Rain Requiem
 * Highly thrided. This was truely awesome and satisfying for us to see. Just look at a certain Smug Snake's expression when Nanoha did this against her. ~ aNinjaWithAIDS
 * Triple H ~ Nirao 01
 * Dying Moment of Awesome
 *  {{spoiler|Whitebeard}} from One Piece. ~ LeChuck4, Shadow Stained Sky
 * {{spoiler|Ulquiorra }}. ~ ncfan
 * {{spoiler|Galuf}}. ~ Tropers/Balmung60, User:Willy Four Eyes
 * {{spoiler|Kaji.}} ~Swoove, Carla
 * {{spoiler|Dinobot!}}. ~ Puffitheinsane
 * Double Team was a terrible Jean Claude Van Damme movie, but boy did it have ONE HELL OF A VILLAIN DEATH SCENE. The Nostalgia Critic certainly agrees. ~ Sanfranman 91
 * From Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann we got {{spoiler|Kittan's death}}. You can almost feel the quake from Valhalla's doors smash opening on this one because of the sheer awesomeness of it. ~ Mistermister, V Phantom
 * The last half of Gurren Lagann's episode 8. It is Kamina's dying moment of awesome, (and therefore Crowning Moment of Awesome ) which stands out above all the others. He dies after being stabbed twice with a beam of energy, and getting hit with his mech's own pair of sunglasses, then comes back to throw his mech's severed arm at Simon, yelling "Let's see ya grit those teeth!", combines with Lagann, destroys all of Thymilph's remaining cannon fodder without looking at them, then right on the spot invents one of the most epic finishing moves ever (which, if I recall correctly, took up five, or technically ten pages in the manga) and utterly obliterates Thymilph, then dies for the second time with a smile on his face, saying "later, buddy." ~ Haru Axeman
 * {{spoiler|Asuka. End of Evangelion. Granted she lives in the end...kinda}} Muffin-Shota
 * {{spoiler|John Marston}} ~ babyhenchy1
 * {{spoiler|Zero}}. His sacrifice ultimately bring peace between the two species, despite being created by the one who started all the centuries-long war. ~ DAN 004, Cag
 * {{spoiler|Solf J. Kimblee}} ~ Oberyn
 * {{spoiler|{{F-Zero "WATASHI WA SHINEN, SHINEN ZUU!!!" "FALCON PUNCH!!!!!!" *BSSSSHHHHT* "CAPTAIN FALCON!!!!" "WUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR" *BOOOOOSHHHHHHHHTTTTTTT*}}}}
 * {{spoiler|{{Spike Spiegel}}}} anybody?
 * "Tell 'em to make it count." ~ Battra09416
 * What does Emile do when an Elite impales him from behind? Reaches back and breaks the bastard's neck. ~Rain Requiem
 * Dynamic Difficulty
 * Battle "Hi, want to piss me off? Then do anything awesome!" Garegga ~ Ray Ayanami
 * Dysfunction Junction
 * Your crew in both Mass Effect games. ~Tera Chimera
 * Your party in any Bio Ware game period. ~ Allronix
 * Neon Genesis Evangelion. ~ User:Enthryn, User:Foxx Park
 * Bokurano. Try to name a major character, or any named character for that matter that doesn't have or get a major issue. (Waku doesn't count.) -Person Of Note
 * Fruits Basket. ~ chibihana

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