Corner of Woe: Difference between revisions

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* In ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'', this is Tamaki's signature move, as seen above. He does it very well. (Yes, he has been ordered to "[[Lampshade Hanging|Stop growing mushrooms in other peoples' closets!]]", so bonus points.)

* [[The Dandy|Haruka]] from ''[[Lovely Complex]]'' does this all the time, especially after {{spoiler|Otani and Koizumi finally get together.}}

* Sun's Father in ''[[Seto no Hanayome]]'' does this after Sun {{spoiler|cuts her bond from the Seto family}}

** Ash, Brock ''and'' Pikachu ''all'' go into a corner after boasting their "expertise" in falling into Team Rocket's pitfalls...and May and Max point out that that's not something to be proud of.

** Alphonse has been known to do this.

{{quote| "It's not my fault I'm [[Gentle Giant|big!]]"}}

** Mustang does this whenever someone (usually Hawkeye) points out that he's useless when wet.

** Hawkeye gets her own Corner of Woe during the flashback to Ishval, when Kimblee suggests that she secretly really enjoys killing and takes pride in her work.

* In ''[[The World God Only Knows]]'', Keima did this when he was unable to beat a buggy game.

* Shiratori Ryushi did this the first time he got picked on for his 'girly looks' in ''[[Mahoraba]]''. He even got the ghost lights in the manga.

** Repeatedly.

** Every time you mention Death the Kid's "Sanzu Lines" (the three lines that only wrap around the left side of his head), he goes into a spiral of depression due to his [[Super OCD|obsession over symmetry]].

** Crona spends so much time in the Corner of Woe that s/he's nicknamed it Mr. Corner.

** [[Ambiguous Gender|S/He]] can even inflict the corner on others; Crona once wrote a poem [[Take Our Word for It|so depressing]] that Maka, Marie, Soul, and even '''Black☆Star''' crept into a corner mumbling "I wish I'd never been born," after reading it. Sid the zombie followed them with "I wish I'd never come back to life," ...[[Fridge Logic|except we never see him reading the poem]].

** Perona's Negative Hollow's force anyone hit by them into this trope.

* In ''[[Hidamari Sketch]]'', the [[Four-Girl Ensemble]] was having a [[wikipedia:Chankonabe|chankonabe]]--or sumo wrestler's hot pot--prepared mainly by the weight-conscious cook Hiro. And then Miyako and Sae uttered lines usually reserved for sumo wrestlers--likely to be incidental--and prompted Hiro herself to leave her apartment and sit in the [[Corner of Woe]] in the backyard.

* In one ''[[Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch]] Pure'' episode, it happens sometime after the heroines find a [[The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday|videoke house]] (unknowingly) set up by the bad guys that somehow had the songs they sang against their enemies. In trying out their songs, they somehow keep getting low scores. When [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo|Rina]] sings one of her [[Image Song|image songs]] "Piece of Love", when she got a measly '''16, she enters this pose.

* Happens at least [[Once an Episode]] in ''[[Oruchuban Ebichu]]'', usually after Ebichu gets [[Megaton Punch|pulverized by OL]].

* ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'' does this twice, though both instances aren't actually in corners.

** In the first instance, we see Miaka trying to cheer Tamahome up after the Kodoku arc. She tells him that none of the evil things he did, which she bluntly explains in detail, was his fault.

** Yui did this once in the Manga after Ritsu {{spoiler|tears off the protective film on Yui's guitar.}}

* Surprisingly, it happens to [[Bleach|Ichigo Kurosaki]] when he is told by Isshin to stay out of the way while Isshin, Yuzu and Karin tend to victims of an accident.

* In the ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'' anime, Kenshin does this a few times whenever Seijuuro Hiko brings up a funny or otherwise embarrassing memory of Kenshin in his youth. This comes complete with purple floating spirits.

* In ''[[Busou Renkin]]'', Kazuki has one of these instants when Okakura's report card grade turns out to be higher than his.

** England also has one as well when he and France decide to let little America choose who he wants to be his big brother. France offers America a gourmet meal, which England knows he can't compete against with his cooking.

* Even [[Millionaire Playboy|Ranmaru]] has done this in a chapter of [[The Wallflower]] when the gang [[Mushroom Samba|ate some strange mushrooms.]] Of course, it isn't really a corner, since they're outside, but it still [http://www.mangareader.net/221-57675-17/perfect-girl-evolution/chapter-102.html manages to give that impression.]

* In the ''[[Ranma One Half]]'' manga, Ranma starts sulking in a corner when he sees Shinnosuke's head on Akane's lap.

** [http://www.anymanga.com/ranma/036/008/012/ He sulks again] when he is seperated from Akane by moving out of the Tendo household.

 

== [[Fanfic]] ==

* After they break the masquerade for her via {{spoiler|mini-rocket-launcher-to-her-friend's-face}} (though he isn't too hurt by that) Alice decides to find her [[Corner of Woe]] as part of her 'panic response'.

 

== [[Live Action Television]] ==

** In order for Ninjamen to relinquish the ''[[Ninja Sentai Kakuranger]]'' Grand Power, the Gokaigers try various ways to impress him (Luka dresses up in [[Fan Service|a kimono]], Joe bakes him a cupcake shaped in Ninjaman's likeness, and Marvelous performs a comedy routine with Navi). When Marvelous' routine goes awry, the food gets ruined, and Joe was devastated when the Ninjaman cupcake was destroyed. In a [[Funny Background Event]], he spends the rest of the scene in the Galleon ''sitting inside a treasure chest'', moping.

 

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* Happened once to the Crimson Chin from ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'', to the point where a comic Timmy purchased has all the panels showing CC in a fetal position and sucking his thumb.