Most Triumphant Example (Sugar Wiki)/P to R

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.

Please list tropes alphabetically.

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 * Painfully-Slow Projectile
 * The Mooninites' "Quad Laser". "The bullet is enormous! There is no escaping!"
 * "Jumping is useless!" But honestly, the Quad Glacier goes beyond that.
 * HURRICANE BEAM ATTACK!
 * Paintball Episode
 * Community's "Modern Warfare". "Come with me if you don't want paint on your clothes."
 * Painting the Fourth Wall
 * tHe mR. sAtURn, zOOm!
 * Pair the Spares
 * Edward and Nancy in Enchanted. Ridiculous, but so WAFFy I don't care!
 * Seconded.
 * Faramir and Eowyn
 * Spinner and Emma.
 * Panty Fighter
 * Ikki Tousen.
 * Papa Wolf
 * Ethan Mars.
 * Nie R
 * Seconded
 * Jack Bauer
 * Marlin.
 * Seconded.
 * Harry Dresden
 * Whitebeard.
 * Seconded.
 * Sam Fisher.
 * Harry Mason
 * Mike Hagger
 * Rumplestiltskin
 * Bryan Mills
 * Asura from Asura's Wrath
 * Paper-Thin Disguise
 * Chicken Boo.
 * The one in The League of Gentlemen finale. I'm not going to spoil it, because - even though this trope was fully in place and it was obviously the same actor - it still comes as a surprise.
 * The Spy class in Team Fortress 2. You are indistinguishable from the real person in the eyes of your enemy, but to your own team you literally appear to wear nothing more than a paper mask.
 * Sailor Moon
 * Furio Tigre. Despite having orange skin and a paper badge, he still fooled the entire court.
 * Team Rocket! - BatDan
 * How could people possibly miss Count Olaf?
 * Oh, look, I have a mask that covers HALF MY FOREHEAD. I am totally not a recurring and well-known Golden Sun villain even though I have the exact same hairstyle and the same attitude as ever. I mean, as he does. Because I have this mask, which is a perfect cutout of a plot-important mask you saw, and an alias which only serves to highlight my superiority over you. No, I am absolutely not.
 * Seconded
 * Paranoia Fuel
 * 20th Century Boys. I DARE you to not get the feeling of being watched while reading it.
 * Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
 * Hell, the  causes it in everyone!
 * House of Leaves. Just... That entire goddamn house. Why was it bigger on the inside?!
 * How many Silence have you killed?
 * Also from Doctor Who: "Blink". Sweet Dreams.
 * Parasol of Pain
 * Lady Snowblood. Pretty girl, pretty parasol. LOTS of pain to dish out.
 * Parody Sue
 * Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way
 * Buckaroo Banzai
 * Dr. Raven Darktalon Blood
 * Hinagiku Katsura
 * Mary. Sue.
 * John "The Demons" Stalvern
 * Starkit. Hopefully. - Tails2000
 * Patient Childhood Love Interest
 * Miyako Shiina
 * Patriotic Fervor
 * Michael. Fucking. Wilson.
 * "Tonight! Will be different! Tonight he will find Geats waiting for him! Not frightened sheep!"
 * Pay Evil Unto Evil
 * Each and every person who wants to treat Fred Phelps like he treats pretty much everyone else. It's not like he deserves that abuse any more than they do.
 * Jimmy Hopkins from Bully. "I only give people what they had coming to them."
 * Perfectly Arranged Marriage
 * Yoh and Anna
 * Periphery Demographic
 * My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic. One wonders if it hasn't by now become bigger than the actual target audience.
 * By this point, it probably has. Target demographic: Female Age 5-12. Periphery demographics: Male Age 13-18, Male Age 18-30, Female Age 18-30
 * Eeyup
 * And before the ponies ruled the earth, this category pretty much belonged to Animaniacs. Not many kids' shows have open houses for their (primarily teenage and adult) Internet fans, even now.
 * Perky Goth
 * Abby Sciuto
 * Death
 * Amane Misa
 * Jack Skellington
 * Voltaire
 * Ruby Gloom
 * Sam Manson
 * Perpetual Frowner
 * Captain Grumpypants! AKA Hitsugaya Toushiro, from Bleach.
 * Huey Freeman
 * As Luke said to Asch the Bloody - "Sooner or later your face is gonna freeze into that sneer."
 * Mandy, that is all.
 * Person of Mass Destruction
 * Accelerator can slow down the Earth's rotation for five minutes as a side effect of one of his attacks!
 * Tennyo of the Whateley Universe. One of her attacks as a side effect tore a whole in time-space that had to be closed with a nuclear bomb. Another of her attacks unleashed the effect of a black hole until she stopped it. Several of her attacks are so dangerous they permanently irradiate the entire area.
 * Goku is so powerful God asked HIM for help.
 * Rand al'Thor. You know you're in a Crapsack World when your Destructive Savior has a Power Amplifier that will let him unmake all of creation, and he considers doing it.
 * Phony Psychic
 * Shawn Spencer, of course.
 * Phrase Catcher
 * Can't decide between "I've got a bad feeling about this..." and "Who was that masked man?"
 * "You look just like your father. Except the eyes."
 * "Where's the money, Lebowski?"
 * "It's down there somewhere. Let me take another look."
 * Try mentioning the words "lions", "tigers", and "bears" in the same sentence (in any order, however far apart) without someone around saying, "Oh my!" I have never once succeeded.
 * "It's bigger on the inside..."
 * "You'll shoot your eye out, kid."
 * Look, up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's Superman! - cg12345
 * "Hey, where's Perry?"
 * "Oh, there you are, Perry." "CURSE YOU, PERRY THE PLATYPUS!"
 * "What a guy"
 * "That's Paul's grandfather." "He's very clean..."
 * "Shut up, Mokuba."
 * Pigeonholed Voice Actor
 * English
 * Nolan North
 * Johnny Yong Bosch -DarkPaladinX
 * Japanese
 * Rie Kugimiya: there is a reason why she is called the "queen of Tsundere" -DarkPaladinX
 * Norio Wakamoto
 * Pinball Scoring
 * Giga Wing Generations. Mmm, 20-digit scores...
 * Pity the Kidnapper
 * "Whining? I am not whining, I am complaining. Do you want to hear whining?"
 * The Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry. It's the Ur-example.
 * Planet Eater
 * Galactus. Helps the he was of the Trope Makers.
 * Planet of Hats
 * Kino's Journey
 * Seconded
 * Kaput and Zosky
 * Planetary Romance
 * Simoun
 * Platform Hell
 * I Wanna Be the Guy
 * Platform Hell Hades. Not too far beyond Nintendo Hard, but still pretty hellish even compared to the rest of the game.
 * The Ghouls n' Ghosts/Ghosts n' Goblins games. Yikes! -Zuul MF
 * The in-progress mapset for Doom II [Sunder is this trope in FPS form. (not to mention needing a limit-removing port to play it) These make [[Nintendo Hard|already ball-bustingly difficult] megawads such as the Hell Revealed series and Alien Vendetta look like a sunday drive. -Gunpsycho
 * Player Punch
 * Kingdom Hearts 358 Days Over 2
 * Nie R - The entire game, but especially after seeing Ending A and realizing that.
 * The Darkness -
 * Virmire. Full stop. It's either that or really buggering up during the final mission of the second game.
 * Seconded. Virmire was a very painful moment for me.
 * Cave Story -
 * Speaking of 358/2 Days, Birth By Sleep hits just as hard if not harder.
 * Playing Against Type
 * Messiahic android-boy. Jerkass senior-citizen. Same actress.
 * Playing with Fire
 * Charlie McGee of Firestarter who as a child takes down the entire secure site of The Shop. In the book she realizes that someday she will be able to destroy the sun.
 * Please Don't Leave Me
 * The last episode of Angel Beats!. Good lord...
 * Plot-Relevant Age-Up
 * Ocarina of Time.
 * Plug N Play Friends
 * Fire Emblem
 * Pocket Protector
 * Theodore Roosevelt, and his "I Have Just Been Shot" speech...which he gave after being shot and not getting the bullet wound treated.
 * Apu Nahasapeemapetilon. "The bullet ricocheted off another bullet lodged in your chest from a previous robbery..."
 * Poe's Law
 * Conservapedia, where trolls have gotten as high as the creator's second-in-command for years.
 * A Modest Proposal by Jonathon Swift
 * Poor Communication Kills
 * Lelouch. Literally.
 * Higurashi no Naku Koro ni. Poor Communication Kills Everyone.
 * The. Wheel. Of. Time.
 * Real Life
 * Romeo and Juliet. - Calatoria
 * The Pollyanna
 * Charlotte.
 * MOTHER 1 goes as far as making a song based on this.
 * Poor Communication Kills
 * Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
 * Popularity Polynomial
 * My Little Pony with the 2010 series.
 * Portmanteau Couple Name
 * Avatar: The Last Airbender.
 * Seconded. You gotta give it to the fandom that brought us Bryke.
 * Posthumous Character
 * Granny Aching. - Calatoria.
 * Agnes Nutter.
 * High Summoner Braska and Jecht
 * Rebecca de Winter.
 * Power Born of Madness
 * Obviously, The Power Of Insanity.
 * Powered Armour
 * Iron Man
 * Samus Aran
 * Warhammer 40000
 * I think Halo is a pretty cool guy eh kills aliens and doesnt afraid of anything.
 * Fallout
 * Mega Man X
 * Power Gives You Wings
 * Hayate's six black seraph wings in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
 * SEPHULCRITUDE!!!-Gorank
 * Some say beneath his coat there are wings.
 * Wait, no Sephy?
 * The ZODIAC's from The Tale of Alltynex trilogy
 * Power Makes Your Hair Grow
 * Any Saiyan.
 * Bleach.
 * Power of Friendship
 * Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - Hareoic, User:neobowman
 * seconded
 * Digimon
 * Persona 3
 * Kingdom Hearts
 * My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic. Title says it all.
 * Friendship lets you win at card games!
 * Power of Love
 * Buffy, season 6 finale.
 * Sekiha Love Love Tenkyoken!!
 * That song from the Back to The Future soundtrack. You know, when he's skateboarding.
 * Meg Murray.
 * The entire MOTHER series.
 * Piper
 * Super Paper Mario
 * Eureka Seven (the main robot is literally powered by love)
 * Rory. Williams. He guarded the Pandorica with his Not Quite Dead fiancee inside for roughly 1894 years and somehow managed to keep himself from going completely batshit. --ncfan
 * Harry Potter - DWF,
 * The Power of Rock
 * (Her Life Was Saved By) Rock and Roll...but only in the VU and Reed solo versions, not the Runaways version.
 * I'M A GOOFY GOOBER!
 * ROCK!!
 * Naaa nanana na na na!
 * Yellow Submarine
 * Seconded.
 * Twentieth Century Boys
 * Tenacious D, Tribute
 * Optimus Prime using the literal Power of Rock to beat.
 * Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure. Seriously! Wild Stallyns tour middle east: peace acheived. 'nuff said
 * Powers Via Possession
 * Shaman King
 * Yu-Gi-Oh!
 * Power Trio
 * Star Trek: The Original Series
 * Not the original troper who suggested it, so seconding.
 * Harry, Ron, and Hermione.
 * Reece, Steve, and Mark
 * Guts, Griffith, Casca
 * Team 7
 * Buffy, Willow, and Xander. - Calatoria
 * Ben, Gwen, and Kevin
 * Carly, Sam, Freddie
 * Shinji, Asuka and Rei.
 * Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman. Can't get any more power than that.
 * Power-Up Food
 * Popeye's spinach
 * Pragmatic Villainy
 * Tarquin
 * Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner
 * "Since you have traveled so very far, be my guest, and let me ENTERTAIN YOU!"
 * Hello. My Name Is Inigo Montoya. You Killed My Father. Prepare to Die."
 * "I'm River Song. Check your records again."
 * HOLY **** SECONDED. Seriously, the response? (from a goddamn DALEK no less) Three times. And she still killed it afterwards.
 * "Thank you."
 * "I have to kill fast and bullets too slow."
 * Pre-Mortem One-Liner
 * "The only judgment passed here will be mine."
 * Precision F-Strike
 * Erfworld. Parson is not a gamepiece. He is a player.
 * "I don't give a SHIT what the CIA thinks!"
 * "I want my father back, you son of a bitch."
 * Wanted. "Well Fuck."
 * "Don't fuck with Aria.
 * Misato in End of Evangelion.
 * Shinji in The End of Evangelion. Also a Crowning Woolseyism.
 * Operation P.R.O.M.'s (and to that extent, the entire fourth season) last line, by Dean Venture: "You know what I think? Fuck you!"
 * FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
 * Oh shit! What are we gonna do now?!
 * Pregnant Badass
 * Kazumi Kato is a "goddamn baby-making, life-taking MACHINE!"
 * Prepare to Die
 * "READY! "
 * The Princess Bride again.
 * Previous Player Character Cameo
 * Red
 * Prince Charming Wannabe
 * Henry Crawford
 * Prince Charmless
 * Prince Blue Blood.
 * Prince Charmles, Dragon Quest VIII. Obviously.
 * Princess Curls
 * Yurika [[media:yurika-scary.png|Kirishima]]
 * How about Luna Platz?
 * Yurika [[media:yurika-scary.png|Kirishima]]
 * How about Luna Platz?
 * Product Placement - Works
 * Logorama.
 * Harold and Kumar go to White Castle.
 * Chuck
 * Product Placement - Companies
 * Pizza Hut
 * Ford
 * Professional Wrestling
 * The Ricky Steamboat/Randy Savage match at Wrestlemania III.
 * Hogan/Andre from WM III. The bodyslam heard 'round the world.
 * Edge and Christian vs The Hardy Boys, that Ladder Match.
 * Promoted Fanboy
 * Evanna Lynch IS Luna Lovegood! - @/incrobe
 * David Tennant. Became an actor specifically to play the Doctor, because he loved Peter Davison. Got to work alongside the man who inspired him. And now he's marrying Davison's daughter and he's gonna be his son-in-law. I... I just can't think of anything to beat that.
 * They even now have a daughter!
 * Seconded. So hard.
 * Promoted to Love Interest
 * Irene Adler -- A million or so adaptations, and they all promote her.
 * Promotion to Opening Titles
 * Sally Draper
 * Promotional Powerless Piece of Garbage
 * Ancient Mew may be the current image on the site, but in more recent memory, The Pokemon Company made a promotional card that is literally powerless, useless, and an absolute piece of garbage in an actual game. This card, the "#X Trainer Card," which is distributed to only the First, Second, and Third place finishers at the World Championships, has no impact on the game state AT ALL. Nevertheless, it sells every year for at least $7,000.
 * Promotion to Parent
 * Nani -- One of the most realistic and heart-wrenching examples.
 * Seto Kaiba
 * Protagonist-Centered Morality
 * The Bible
 * Protest Song
 * "Fortunate Son", possibly THE quintessential protest song during the Vietnam War.
 * Proud to Be a Geek
 * Konata Izumi.
 * Penelope Garcia
 * Kevin Smith
 * Gilbert Lowe. Complete with Rousing Speech and an extremely effective use of Queen's "We Are The Champions".
 * Proud Warrior Race: Klingons
 * Psychic Powers
 * Scanners
 * Psychonauts
 * Psycho for Hire
 * Solf J. Kimblee
 * The Joker
 * Anton Chigurh -Unknown Troper
 * Korgan Bloodaxe
 * Lockdown. His payment was once a part of someone else's body.
 * Gauron is crazy!
 * All nine classes of Team Fortress 2, especially the Soldier.
 * Psychopathic Manchild
 * The Warden (first season only).
 * Psycho Prototype
 * Please don't eat me, Alex Mercer! I taste terrible!
 * Psychological Horror
 * Mononoke A collection of stories where spirits fusionned to negative human feelings are exorcized by exploring the minds of these spirits and of the nearby humans, with multiple Rashomon-esque layers and twists
 * House of Leaves. Dear god.
 * Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
 * Eternal Darkness
 * Psychotic Smirk
 * Son of Mine.
 * Morgana. Oh, sweet Jesus Morgana.
 * Azula.
 * Punch Clock Villain
 * Kejinan
 * Ralph the Wolf from the Looney Tunes "sheepdog and wolf" sketches; he clocks in every morning and has scheduled lunch breaks.
 * The Turks from Final Fantasy VII
 * Niko Bellic from Grand Theft Auto IV User:Gunarao
 * Kahlua Shuzen, who absolutely hates fighting, but was conditioned to be a perfect Career Killer whether she likes it or not.
 * Punctuated Pounding
 * "Help. Your. Fucking. Self."
 * Linkara: WORD! TO! THE! WISE! WEARING! A! HUGE! FREAKING! METAL! CHAMBER! ON! YOUR! HEAD! IS! NOT! VERY! SMART!
 * "I'VE HAD...JUST...ABOUT...ENOUGH...OF YOU!"
 * Punny Name
 * Everyone in Ace Attorney
 * And everyone in Carmageddon.
 * Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei
 * F. Roy Dean Schlippe. Or possibly Dr. C. Niall De Mencha. Or Violet Tsirblou. - @Voodoo Child
 * Miles Prower. In a series where Super Speed isn't uncommon.
 * The Green family in ''College Roomies from Hell: Hazel Green, Michael Redford Green, and Blue  Green.
 * Kim Possible.
 * Just about every Pokémon
 * Public Domain Soundtrack
 * 2001: A Space Odyssey
 * M
 * A Clockwork Orange, sort of
 * Princess Tutu
 * Purity Sue
 * Zoey
 * Puppeteer Parasite
 * Animorphs - @/Janewwwu
 * Pyrrhic Victory
 * Mega Man Zero series, all of them, especially the fourth.
 * One Piece. The Marines sought to.
 * Pyrrhic Villainy
 * Michael Corleone

Q

 * Quality by Popular Vote
 * GameFAQs tournaments and Saimoe tournaments. (Really, they're both the same things)
 * Quicksand Box
 * Dwarf Fortress
 * Minecraft
 * Quirky Miniboss Squad
 * The Ginyu Force

R
""Thought about what you said to me the other day, about my painting. Stayed up half the night thinking about it. Something occurred to me, I fell into a deep, peaceful sleep, and I haven't thought about you since. You know what occurred to me? You're just a kid. You don't have the faintest idea what you're talking about. You've never been out of Boston. So if I asked you about art, you'd probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written. Michelangelo: you'd know a lot about him -- life's work, political aspirations, him and the Pope, sexual orientation, the whole works, right? I'll bet you can't tell me what it smells like in the Sistene Chapel. You've never actually stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling and seen that. If I ask you about beautiful women, you'd probably give me a syllabus of your personal favorites. You may even have been laid a few times. But you can't tell me what if feels like to wake up next to a woman and feel truly happy. You're a tough kid. I ask you about war you'd probably, uh, throw Shakespeare at me, right? 'Once more into the breach, dear friends.' But you've never been near one. You've never held your best friend's head in your lap and watched him gasp his last breath looking to you for help. I ask you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Known someone who could level you with her eyes. Feeling like God put an angel on earth just for you, who could rescue you from the depths of hell. And you wouldn't know what it's like to be her angel. To have that love for her be there forever, through anything. Through cancer. And you wouldn't know about sleeping sitting up in a hospital room for two months holding her hand because the doctors could see in your eyes that the terms 'visiting hours' don't apply to you. You don't know about real loss, because that only occurs when you love something more than you love yourself. I doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much. I look at you, I don't see an intelligent, confident man. I see a cocky, scared shitless kid. But you're a genius, Will. No one denies that. No one could possibly understand the depths of you. But you presumed to know everything about me because you saw a painting of mine and you ripped my fucking life apart. You're an orphan, right? Do you think I would know the first thing about how hard your life has been, how you feel, who you are, because I've read "Oliver Twist"? Does that encapsulate you? Personally, I don't give a shit about that because I can't learn anything about you I can't read in some fucking book unless you want to talk about you, who you are. And I'm fascinated. I'm in. But you don't want to do that, do you, sport? You're terrified of what you might say.""
 * Rabid Cop
 * Lt. Carter Blake.
 * Alonzo Harris.
 * Saren.
 * Rage Against the Author
 * Sluggy Freelance, "The Sluggite Koan". Bun-bun is so Badass the author really ends up with a broken arm after the encounter. Not just in the story, that is. Of course it's really a Retcon for unknown Real Life events, but still... - VVK
 * Rage Against the Heavens
 * The Amber Spyglass
 * Zuko
 * Rainbow Pimp Gear
 * Maple Story - This last one is why the Cash Shop is there to be used, not abused.
 * Rape Is Love
 * Luke and Laura.
 * Rapid-Fire Comedy
 * Airplane!. That is all.
 * TV Series Police Squad!
 * Robot Chicken.
 * POWERTHIRST!
 * Any Marx Brothers scene with Chico and Harpo double-teaming with each other. -Ziggy Zag
 * Laugh In, the daddy of them all.
 * Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs
 * ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA!!!
 * Monkey D. Luffy: Gomu Gomu no... Jet!!... GATLING GUN!!!!
 * AAAAAATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATA WAATAAAAAAA!!!!! Omae wa mou shindeiru.
 * Ichigo's face vs Grimmjow
 * Rated "M" for Manly
 * Manowar is so manly it hurts.
 * Duke Nukem
 * 300 is so manly it ventures into Hard Gay territory at times, even though there is only a hint of homosexuality (deriding Athenians as "boy-lovers").
 * This
 * The Man Your Man Could Smell Like
 * Reality Ensues
 * The short story "In The Cage" by Henry James
 * Real Robot
 * BattleMechs and OmniMechs in general. Specifically? Everyone pick their favourite! (This Troper vouches for the near-indestructible-for-its-size Bushwacker.)
 * Steel Battalion takes the cake-not just because of the huge controller, but the way the Vertical Tanks move. They actually FEEL like gigantic, heavy, walking gun platforms of destruction, and being able to outmanuever the enemy and not get hit is the key to victory. It really has to be played to be believed.
 * RPG wise, this has to go to Heavy Gear (though this is heavily influenced by Armored Trooper VOTOMS, arguably the most realistic Real Robot anime for it's time)
 * The Armored Fighting Walkers of Ring of Red. They are the very definition of tanks with legs; need a crew to load the shells, a supporting crew in the ground and are suitable for only one kind of terrain.
 * Really Dead Montage
 * Clannad, once a person dies, they fire scene after scene so fast it's scary.
 * Really Gets Around
 * Panty. The bitch has slept with over a thousand men.
 * Rearrange the Song
 * "Heartful Necromancer (Neko-Romancer)", based off of Orin's boss theme. If IOSYS doesn't make a flash vid to this awesomeness, I will cry rivers of blood!
 * "The Reason You Suck" Speech
 * Quagmire giving Brian the what-for about...everything.
 * In the A&E version of The Way We Live Now, Melmotte tries one of these on Mr. Alfe, but it gets hijacked towards the end, with glorious results: "What you say would be a fair criticism, if you really did move mountains. But from what I can see, all you move is money. From the pockets of other men into your own."
 * Robin Williams telling off Matt Damon in the park in Good Will Hunting:
 * Robin Williams telling off Matt Damon in the park in Good Will Hunting:

Optimus gives a damn good one to Galvatron.
 * -Ziggy Zag
 * Kurotsuchi Mayuri to Szayel-Apporo Granz in Bleach. "AND YOU CALL YOURSELF A MAN OF SCIENCE"?! --ncfan
 * No love for Canada's three hour long rant about America? America was huddled in a corner crying! England called it off out of pity! If it wasn't for England, he would have kept going.
 * Recurring Boss
 * Dr. Eggman. What other boss shows up every single level to lay down the hurt?
 * Bowser
 * Ganondorf.
 * Your rival in pretty much every Pokémon game.
 * Red Baron
 * Jack "That Damn Guy Who You Can Stab With Swords All You Like And It Won't Do A Thing, Dammit!" Rakan from Mahou Sensei Negima
 * From the same series, Evangeline has more nicknames than most people can remember.
 * Manfred von Richtofen, from World War One.
 * Hitokiri Battousai
 * The Master Chief, aka. "The Demon", to the Covenant.
 * Redemption Equals Death
 * Darth Vader
 * Redemption in the Rain
 * The Shawshank Redemption
 * Tom Waits' song "Make It Rain"
 * V for Vendetta
 * "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning
 * Bryan Hawk.
 * Mangekyou Sharingan as well as the Kyuubi.
 * Demon-Eyes Kyo.
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni
 * Asuka and Rei. My God. Asuka and Rei. Muffin-Shota, mrbits
 * Mugen and Jin from Samurai Champloo
 * Mello and Near - Benj
 * Light and L
 * Goku and Vegeta
 * Hellboy and Abe
 * Dante and Vergil are about as close to literal as this trope gets.
 * Konoko and Muro from Oni - this trope combines with Color Coded for Your Convenience quite literally
 * Naruto and Sasuke
 * Raphael and Leonardo - Well fitting considering their headband colors.
 * Red Right Hand
 * Richard III
 * Red Shirt
 * Lieutenant Leslie from Star Trek: The Original Series. He was so good that when he died, he came back to life, ready to die again! Not for nothing is he known as "King of the Redshirts".
 * Frogurt -Ziggy Zag,
 * Refuge in Audacity
 * The League of Gentlemen
 * Hiruma Youichi
 * Kurotsuchi Mayuri from Bleach. --ncfan
 * Ar tonelico
 * Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt
 * Seconded.
 * Refusal of the Call
 * Shinji Ikari.
 * Miharu "I'm-going-to-run-an-okonomiyaki-shop" Rokujou.
 * Reincarnation Romance
 * Xenogears (Fei and Elly)
 * Relationship Writing Fumble
 * Justin and Alex from Wizards of Waverly Place - so much so that during an online chat, the producers had to acknowledge that 'Jalex' existed - and literally point out that the two are 'brother and sister'. It doesn't help that in the early stages of planning out WOWP, Justin and Alex were originally supposed to be friends instead of siblings.
 * Ben 10, although maybe Alien Force outranks it since the writers deliberately try to fix what they fumbled but fail spectacularly.
 * Star Trek: The Original Series. Kirk and Spock. Full stop. Unless, of course, they were written as in love with each other in the first place, which is... unlikely.
 * Sora/Kairi is totally obvious but not official, and Sora is happy to see her when they reunite in Kingdom Hearts II, yet immediately after, Sora sees Riku and proceeds to fall to his knees, grab his hand and cry.
 * Relative Error
 * Gilbert Markham's in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - at least, the most violent, most traumatizing, and most harmful example.
 * Religious Bruiser
 * Chuck Norris.
 * Remix Comic
 * Dinosaur Comics
 * Repeat After Me
 * I comma square bracket...
 * "I want all of you to say FUCK with me!"
 * "Look, I'm gonna Ortonize for you. ME. WANT. TITLE. MATCH. SAY IT WITH ME NOW! ME!! WANT!!! TITLE!! MATCH!!"
 * Replacement Scrappy
 * Near
 * Raiden
 * Replacing the beloved, iconic, capable Maid Marian with the bitchy, whiny, useless Kate. Who on Earth thought this was a good idea?
 * Seconded.
 * Joe
 * Rolo Lamperouge, an in-universe replacement for NUNNALLY!!! - DocColress
 * La Résistance
 * The Black Knights.
 * Casablanca
 * The Rebel Alliance-Gorank
 * The French Resistance in WWII.
 * Dumbledore's Army
 * Retraux
 * Mega Man 9
 * The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
 * Final Fantasy IV: The After Years.
 * Cave Story
 * The Artist
 * The Reveal
 * I am Jean Valjean!
 * Reveal Shot
 * The end of the first issue of Ex Machina.
 * Planet of the Apes
 * Revenge Before Reason
 * Sasuke Uchicha
 * Rescued From the Scrappy Heap
 * That damn Gungan with the repetitive name.
 * Donna Noble
 * Seconded.
 * Seconded squared.
 * Luke Skywalker
 * Raiden
 * The Rock
 * Rolo.
 * Rhymes on a Dime
 * Gruntilda
 * The Fates from Disney's Hercules
 * "If I spoke prose you'd all find out/I don't know what I talk about!" -Zuul MF
 * Seconded.
 * Rich Bitch
 * Karin Kanzuki, the mixed martial artist with the miles-wide mansion.
 * Celia
 * Dorothy Catalonia, complete with gold-plated limousine
 * Eliza Reagan. Putting the BITCH in Rich Bitch
 * Rickroll
 * Megatokyo
 * The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade! He Rick Rolled the entire world!
 * "He" being Rick Astley himself.
 * Ridiculously Cute Critter
 * Potato from AIR
 * Mokona, whose design seems to have been inspired by bunnies, marshmallows, and everything that is cute and fluffy in the world.
 * Ridiculously Human Robot:
 * I'm going with Chobits on this one.
 * It's gotta be Chachamaru.
 * My vote goes to The Centurian Autons
 * Right Hand of Doom
 * The Charger
 * Hellboy
 * Roaring Rampage of Revenge
 * The Count of Monte Cristo / Gankutsuou
 * "Lament for a Toy Factory"
 * Kratos. Holy shit
 * Roy Mustang. never had a chance.
 * The Crow. The movie is a good one, but the comic is ... holy ... wow.
 * Sasuke Uchiha. Revenge Before Reason personified.
 * Naruto himself. Episode 167 of Shippuden. Let's just say that the title character unleashed a massive can of whoop-ass.
 * Shion Sonozaki in Watanagashi-hen and Meakashi-hen. A one year delayed reaction, but HOLY SHIT!!
 * Asura out classifies EVERYONE in this section, and for a good reason.
 * Robot Girl
 * Curly Brace
 * Aigis, alternatively Kos-Mos.
 * Nano Shinonome.
 * Robotic Psychopath
 * Omega from Mega Man Zero. What's worse than being programmed to only kill?
 * Rocket Punch
 * Shin Mazinger Shougeki! Z-hen
 * Sentinel in Marvel vs. Capcom 2
 * LUGNUT WILL DESTROY THESE FOOLISH OTHER EXAMPLES FOR THE GLORY OF MEGATRON!
 * Rock Me, Asmodeus
 * Sympathy For the Devil - The Rolling Stones
 * Rock Opera
 * The Wall - Pink Floyd
 * Tommy, by The Who -Zuul MF
 * Rockstar Song
 * Johnny B. Goode
 * "Hey, Mr. DJ., I Thought You Said We Had a Deal"
 * Jukebox Hero- Foreigner
 * Rogue Protagonist
 * Alex Mercer
 * Role Ending Misdemeanor
 * Michael Richards vs. the heckler. A massive career-derailing screw-up if there ever was one.
 * Romantic Plot Tumor
 * God damn it, Kate.
 * Ron the Death Eater
 * Dark Secrets. Not only a literal example of the trope, but turns poor Ron into such a splutteringly OTT Complete Monster that you can't not laugh.
 * Seconded.
 * Gilbert Markham of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall -- Seriously, why do Heathcliff and Edward Rochester get the All Girls Want Bad Boys treatment, and this guy gets villified by critics? Where is the logic?! It's as laughable as it is cruelly ironic.
 * God of The Bible. Where do you think most of the God Is Evil things come from?
 * Seconded,
 * Roof Hopping
 * Beyond Good and Evil. The rooftop chase scene is probably one of the most cinematic experiences available in that console generation. -Technogeek
 * Batman Begins -Ziggy Zag,
 * Rookie Red Ranger
 * Cole Evans, Power Rangers Wild Force
 * Rooting for the Empire
 * Avatar
 * the Trope Namer itself.
 * Rouge Angles of Satin
 * My Immortal. All of it.
 * Niles Crane. Hung [meant to be "Jung specialist. Servicing individuals, couples, groups. Satisfaction guaranteed. Tell me where it hurts."] -Ziggy Zag
 * Rousing Speech
 * "Defense! On me! Alright, now, I don't want them to gain another yard! You blitz! All! NIGHT! If they cross the line of scrimmage, I'm gonna take every last one of you out! You make sure that they remember, FOREVER, the night they played the Titans!"
 * Rousseau Was Right
 * Aria. It's not even white and gray, it's white and white.
 * The Dark Knight
 * Fred Rogers
 * Royals Who Actually Do Something
 * from Final Fantasy V.
 * R-Rated Opening
 * Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
 * End of Evangelion
 * Rubber Man
 * Monkey D. Luffy
 * Rube Goldberg Device
 * Jojo's instrument in Horton Hears a Who! (2008 remake). Awesome in the traditional pick-your-jaw-off-the-floor, can't-stop-going-"HOLY SHIT THAT WAS AWESOME!" sort of way.
 * Ruined FOREVER
 * The Left 4 Dead 2 30,000+ person boycott.
 * Transformers. I'm willing to bet that people were declaring the series dead even before the first episode of "GEEWUN".
 * Seconded. We named it, for Primus' sake!
 * Sonic the Hedgehog. No matter what they do, the fans will shriek "THE FRANCHISE IS DEAD" from every direction.
 * "HEY, WHO LET ALL THIS SANITY INTO MY EVA?!"
 * The Principal and the Pauper
 * Rule of Cool
 * Black Lagoon
 * Devil May Cry has to be the Triumphant Example for video games.
 * Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann! Who the hell do you think we are?!
 * Ninja Blade. If it is cool, he not only CAN do it, he WILL, for no other reason than to LOOK AWESOME! - Black Dragon
 * Dr. McNinja
 * Breakfast of the Gods
 * Fireborn. The Tabletop RPG of reincarnated dragons kung fu fighting the forces of darkness in near-future London.
 * Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
 * Seconded. Two words: Flying. Motorcycles.
 * Warhammer 40000, Rule of Cool is physics.
 * Grenadier, every time Rushuna pulls out her revolver.
 * Wanted, bullets go in circles because you can pretend that you never learnt they didn't. Not even really a Hand Wave.
 * Rule of Fun
 * Super Mario Brothers
 * Sonic the Hedgehog (well, the Genesis games and Sonic Unleashed, anyway.)
 * Team Fortress 2
 * Rule of Funny
 * Eight Bit Theater.
 * Who Framed Roger Rabbit?. Allow Roger to spell it out for all y'all.
 * Youtube Poop.
 * Rule of Three
 * The Legend of Zelda series. Go to three temples and collect three artifacts. Oh look, a boss. Just expose its weak spot three times to kill it. Hooray, you've earned some exposition: the universe was created by three goddesses, and the baddie is after the Triforce.
 * Rummage Sale Reject
 * Luso, from Final Fantasy Tactics A2.Just look at him!
 * Running Gag
 * That Guy With The Glasses (the abundance of them).
 * Of COURSE! -Ziggy Zag
 * Snuff Box. "Fuck you!"
 * Lucky Star has quite a few.
 * How I Met Your Mother has one of the longest lists ever, but the most well known has got to be "LEGEN - wait for it, and I hope you're not lactose-intolerant because the second half of that word is - DARY!"
 * "We were on. A BREAK!"
 * Phineas and Ferb pretty much lives off these.
 * Wheezy Waiter, a video blog series on YouTube, has SO many of these it's insane
 * "Why is every example on this page a f***ing NINJA?!"