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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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Please list tropes alphabetically.

• Babysitter From Hell
  • Syphile Val'Sarghress qualifies for no less than 7 of the bulleted points on the main page, but isn't played for laughs at all. She's really an example of just how bad someone forced to take care of a child can become.
  • Vicky
  • Rosalyn
• Back from the Dead
  • Your own team, in most Final Fantasy games. Special mention goes to Final Fantasy X, where you don't even need to have come back to life to be back from the dead.
  • Optimus Prime. Any incarnation of him.
    • Seconded, but don't forget Optimus Primal while you're at it.
  • Roy Greenhilt
  • Gonna have to go with Jesus on this one.
  • Kara Thrace
  • The Undertaker
  • Virtually every character in Dragon Ball
  • The Joker: Cheating death since 1939.
  • The Master
  • Buffy. Twice.
  • Sigma. He has been killed at least 8 times.
  • Ridley. He's survived being blown up at least twice, having ancient artifacts attack his weak point, falling down a 16,000 meter shaft, falling victim to The Corruption twice, and of course, on Super Metroid, he was killed... and then the planet his remains were on was destroyed.
  • Spock
  • Janus
  • Whistler in the Blade movies. We actually see him brought back to life at the beginning of the second movie, then killed again at the beginning of the third, making his previous resurrection seem completely pointless. --
  • Can I nominate the entire medium of Comic Books?
  • Captain. Jack. Sparrow.
  • Jack Rakan. and this time, he's here to stay.
  • Most of the Supernatural main cast, but special mention goes to Dean - how many times has he died now?
  • Rory Williams. 'Nuff said.
• Background Boss
  • Yoshi's Island, Baby Bowser.
  • EarthBound, Giygas. The boss is literally the trippy background. -Flash Cutter
• Badass
  • Theodore Roosevelt
    • "Death had to take him sleeping, for if Roosevelt had been awake there would have been a fight"
  • John Casey
  • Chuck Norris
  • I-i-i-it's LU BU!
  • Rambo
  • Dante
  • Auron
    • Seconded, with gusto.
  • Charles Bronson
  • Bruce Campbell
  • Real Life example. Simo Häyhä.
  • Scrooge McDuck
  • Zero.
  • HarryDresden
  • Wolverine
  • Samuel Vimes
  • Guts
  • Vegeta, the prince of all Saiyans!
  • Captain Harlock. Stoic and reserved, but he is a truly compassionate and heroic man - on top of which he's an incredible duelist, marksman, strategist, astronaut and all-around awesome guy.
  • Kratos. He did wipe out nearly the ENTIRE Greek Pantheon.
  • Machete Cortez.
  • Kenshiro. Seriously, how has he not been listed yet?
  • Link, duh.
  • This Troper is offended to the very SOUL that Kamina hasn't been mentioned yet.
    • Well considering that Simon has to constantly bail him out, he would be a better fit for Badass in Distress.
  • Batman
  • The Exalted. All of them. It's what they were made for.
  • Samus Aran
  • Michelle Rodriguez --
  • Jack Rakan.
  • Asura, to Up to Eleven levels, even after only the first demo was shown
• Badass Adorable
  • Gale
  • Teddiursa
  • Kirika Yuumura
  • Reepicheep
  • Nanoha Takamachi.
  • Kirby
  • Vita. Full fucking stop. Also, Kaiji as a male example.
  • Mickey Mouse
  • Toppi. A less-than-three-feet teddy bear.
  • Toothless. [[Lady Jafaria, ]]
  • May Chang
  • Astro Boy
  • The Cheat
  • Toph
  • Amaterasu, mother of all, goddess of the sun, Shiranui reborn, and "Ammy." Also known as "Snowy," "Fluffball," "Fuzzface," and when not kicking 8 headed dragon ass, she's playfully batting around her helper fairy, taking a nap, or rolling around on her back with her tongue lolling out.
  • Maggie Simpson
  • Zoe Bell --
  • T.J. Detweiler
  • Fluttershy - You can't get much more Badass than outstaring a creature that can, and does, turn you into stone with its gaze. And you can't get much more adorable than she is either.
    • Holy shit, Fluttershy so much.
  • Yoshi.
• Badass and Child Duo
  • Leon and Mathilda
• Badass Beard
  • Guan Yu
• Badass Boast
  • "I'm the Doctor, and you're in the biggest library in the universe. Look me up!
    • "I'm the Doctor. Basically, RUN."
    • "Hello Stonehenge! Who takes the Pandorica, takes the universe! But bad news everyone, 'cause guess who! HAH! You lot, you're all whizzing about, its very distracting. Could you all stay still for a moment, because I! AM! TALKING! Now the question of the hour is who's got the Pandorica. Answer: I do. Next question: who's coming to take it from me? Come onnnnnn! Look at me, no plan, no backup, no weapons worth a damn. Oh, and something else: I don't have anything. To. Lose. So! If you're sitting up there in your silly little spaceships with all your silly little guns, and you've got any plans on taking the Pandorica, tonight, just remember who's standing in your way. Remember every black day I ever stopped you. And then, AND THEN, do the smart thing. Let someone else try first!"
  • "I'll show you what it means, to truly kill somebody"
  • "Only one human captain has ever destroyed a Minbari cruiser. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your life, be somewhere else."
  • Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Thor. So badass, IT CHARGES HIS SUPER METER.

Heed my words, evildoers! If thou doth wish to challenge the Odinson, thou will face the divine power of mighty Mjolnir! Never shall the God of Thunder relent!

• • "I'm Hub McCann. I've fought in two World Wars and countless smaller ones on three continents. I led thousands of men into battle with everything from horses and swords to artillery and tanks. I've seen the headwaters of the Nile, and tribes of natives no white man had ever seen before. I've won and lost a dozen fortunes, killed many men, and loved only one woman with a passion a flea like you could never begin to understand. That's who I am. Now go home, boy!"
  • "I don't mean to rain on your parade, but this ain't the first time I've had a gun pointed at me." Jules Winfield, Pulp Fiction --
  • "Nothing will protect you from me! Not men! Not weapons! Not armor!"
  • ""No one has ever stood in the Heavens. Not you, not me, not even God, but soon, that unbearable vacancy on the throne in the sky will be filled. From now on... I will stand in Heaven!" - Rawpower Ex
• Badass Bookworm
  • Real Life: Chris Langan
  • Yuki Nagato
    • Seconded
    • Thirded
    • Fourthed
    • Fifthed
  • Yomiko Readman
  • Brother Mouzone
  • Atticus Freaking Finch, people.
  • Zexion
  • Rupert "Ripper" Giles from Buffy.
  • Tony Stark, blah blah blah cave blah blah box of scraps.
  • Takamine Kiyomaro
  • Patchouli Knowledge.
  • Edward EFFING Elric
  • Beast- Soundwave Superior
  • Farimir in The Lord of the Rings
  • The Engineer
  • Hermione Granger
    • Seconded.
  • Donatello Not the sculptor.
  • How is it that the Doctor wasn't here already?
  • Nodoka Miyazaki
• Badass Creed
  • "I will keep fighting. To protect the people who call upon me. To save them from your domination."
  • The oath of the Night's Watch: "Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against the cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men. I pledge my life and honor to the Night's Watch, for this night and all the nights to come."
  • The old code, from Dragonheart (although it claims to be the code of the real life King Arthur I guess). "A knight shall know only courage, he voice will only speak the truth, his sword will defend the realm, his strength will protect the weak, his wrath will destroy the evil"
  • In brightest day, in blackest night...
    • Just about all Lantern Creeds are some kind of awesome but this troper's (Soundwave Superior) personal favourite is Black Hand's:

The Blackest Night falls from the skies, The darkness grows as all light dies, We crave your hearts and your demise, By my black hand — The dead shall rise!

• • "I am the Hammer. I am the point of His sword. I am the tip of His spear. I am the gauntlet about His fist. I am His sword just as He is my armor. I am His wrath just as He is my zeal. I am the Hammer! He is my shield!"
  • Yea verily, though I charge through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil, for I am driving a house-sized mass of "fuck you."
  • "I am the white void...I am the cold steel...I am the just sword...With blade in hand shall I reap the sins of this world, and cleanse it in the fire of destruction! I am Haku-Men, the end has come! "
    • Seconded.
  • "I am vengeance. I am the night..."
  • Assassin's Creed The titular creed -- "Nothing is true. Everything is permitted."
  • The Creed of the Rangers

We are rangers We walk in the dark places no others will enter We stand on the bridge that none my pass We live for the one, we die for the one

• • • With the addendum one ranger liked to add "But we don't die stupidly"
  • The viking funeral oath

{{quote|Lo there do I see my father. Lo there do I see my mother. Lo there do I see my brothers and my sisters. Lo there do I see the line of my people back to the beginning. Lo they do call to me they bid me take my place among them in the Halls of Valhalla, where the brave may live forever.

• • Sylvanna Windrunner: "We are the forsaken. We will slaughter everyone who stands in our way"
  • Mask De Smith: "Children are pure. They know who is the strongest."
  • "By Grabthar's Hammer, by the suns of Warvane, you shall be avenged"
  • "Clustering crystal dreams open the door to a new evolution! Become the path its light shines upon! ACCEL SYNCHRO! Be born... SHOOTING STAR DRAGON!!!
  • An Aiel oath,

{{quote|"...'Til shade is gone, 'Til water is gone, Into the shadow with teeth bared, Screaming defiance with the last breath, To spit in Sightblinder's eye on the Last Day.

• • I am Sanger. Sanger Zonvolt! I am the Sword That Smites Evil!!
  • "I kick arse for the Lord!" --
  • "The Devonshires held this trench. The Devonshires hold it still."
  • Creed of the Blackwatch:
    • "WHEN WE HUNT, WE KILL. NO ONE IS SAFE; NOTHING IS SACRED. WE ARE BLACKWATCH! WE ARE THE LAST LINE OF DEFENSE! WE WILL BURN OUR OWN TO HOLD THE RED LINE, IT IS THE LAST LINE TO EVER HOLD."
• Badass Crew
  • Mass Effect 2.
  • The Strawhat Pirates!
• Badass Driver
  • The Stig.
• Badass Family
  • The Ponds
• Badass Finger-Snap
  • Harry is believed in universe to be able to alter reality with a fingersnap and frequntly appears to.
  • Roy Mustang, full stop.
• Badass Grandpa
  • Series 3 Joseph Joestar
  • Iroh
  • Max Tennyson
  • Yamamoto Genryuusai, holy crap on a stick, Yamamoto Genryuusai
    • Seconded. he's the first one in the series, who made AIZEN genuinely terrified!
    • Thirded. He lost his hand during the Winter War, and he's still considered the strongest Shinigami in Soul Society.
  • Walter Kowalski
  • Bill
  • Old Snake
  • Grandpa Seth. Seriously, what other grandpa is a badass axe fighter, shoots lightning and gives molotov cocktails to his grandkids?
  • Master Asia.
  • Yoda
  • Whitebeard. He's called the strongest man in the world for a reason.
    • Seconded by Ninjadude 853! Half the man's fucking face was melted off and he still kept fighting
  • Silvers Rayleigh going toe to toe with a Marine Admiral and swimming through the Calm Belt and killing a Sea King barehandedly. That's all.
  • Wilfred Mott.
    • The Doctor himself. Well, he was a grandfather at any rate.
  • Barnard Hughes from The Lost Boys.
  • The Third Hokage, and he's a literal grandpa
  • Avery J. Johnson
  • Galuf: Grandpa. King. Dawn Warrior. So fiercely determined to take down Exdeath that he won't let a little thing such as 0 HP stop him. Even when he's getting hit by a constant barrage of meteors.
  • Professor Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore
  • Puma Loco. But I guess that's to be expected from a semi-retired supervillain.
  • Old Man Fu. He's a ninja.
  • Uncle Lonnie, Action; "You're threatening me? That's a laugh... I'm seventy-nine years old. I've got one kidney, one ball and one lung. I take Viagra just to keep from peeing on my shoes, and you're threatening me? Who are you frightening?" --
• Badass in Distress
  • Kamina
• Badass Longcoat
  • Sephiroth
  • Seto Kaiba
  • The Man With No Name
  • The Undertaker
  • Duncan MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod
  • Auron
  • Gambit
  • Omar Little.
    • Seconded.
    • Thirded.
  • "You look like you belong on the set of El Dorado."
  • Snow's coat gives him Super Strength. Need I say more?
  • Tom Reagan, Miller's Crossing --
  • Spike.
• Badass Moustache
  • Whitebeard
  • Green Arrow
• Badass Normal
  • Batman.
  • Marlin. Let's start with "killed a shark" and work our way up from there.
  • Han Solo.
  • Taki Renzuburo from Wicked City
  • Brock Samson
  • GUTS
  • Commander Shepard. That is all.
  • Sir Integral Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing
  • Jackson Lake
  • Lady. Being able to keep up with Dante while being one of the only "normal" humans in the setting counts for something.
  • Charles Gunn. - Calatoria
  • First Season HRG
  • Dean Winchester may not have his brother's demon powers or Castiel's angel powers, but he gets along just fine
  • Might Guy. He can use ninjutsu and genjutsu. He simply chooses not to. Doesn't stop him from being the biggest Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass in the manga.
  • Little Mac
  • Captain America (comics)
  • Conan the Barbarian --
  • Doomguy. Just a space marine and starting off with only a pistol and some bullets for it - He then goes on to clean both bases on the moons of Mars, enter Hell TWICE, and single handedly repel a demon invasion, effectively DESTROYING HELL the second time he went there. He's awesome when he's gibbing stuff with the BFG-9000, and when he's being a BERSERKER PACKING MAN AND A HALF, and going to RIP AND TEAR DEMON GUTS!
  • Gentleman Johnny Marcone. He once managed to sever a rope with a thrown knife while hanging upside down in the dark. Not only that, but as of book nine, he is the sole signatory of the Unseelie Accords to be a non-magical mortal human.
• Badass Pacifist
  • Atticus Finch
    • Seconded, so hard.
    • Thirded, even harder.
    • He was the first man I fell in love with.
  • Raoul Wallenberg
• Badass Preacher
  • Hrathen.
  • Pale Rider.
  • Ivan Isaacs.
  • Monsignor Martinez. Vaya con dios.
  • Real Life: Doctor Martin Luther King Jr
  • Father McGruder, Dead Alive; "I kick arse for the Lord!" --
  • Shepherd Book, who taught us all that while the Bible may have specific things to say about killing, it's somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps. And if the guy whose kneecaps you shoot out just happens to fall face-first into a big metal girder, well, so much the better. --Wrybread
  • Nicholas D. Wolfwood from Trigun. What's not to love about a preacher who looks after the orphanage he runs with combination rocket launcher/machine gun/pistol rack in the shape of a huge cross that he carries around like it was a feather? --
• Badass Princess
  • Falis.
  • Azula.
• Badass Spaniard
  • My name is Inigo Montoya...
  • "I got the biggest balls in this whole city. That's right, I said it".
  • Alatriste.
  • Michelle Rodriguez --
• Badass Unintentional
  • Chuck Bartowski. FULL SAMUEL-L-JACKSONING STOP.
• Bad Santa
  • The League of Gentlemen Christmas Special
  • Weird Al's The Night Santa Went Crazy is a perfect, and even literal, example.
  • Willie Stokes. The trope is named after his movie, after all.
• Badass Santa
  • Santa Christ
  • Santa Claus: Norse God of War.
  • Death
• Bag of Spilling
  • The whole of the Ratchet and Clank series, with rare exception there is absolutely no given explanation for how you lose all or almost all of your usually egregiously large arsenal between each game. Most of them make an attempt at explanation, but none of it really holds up when the exact same circumstance can take place later during gameplay and the weapons are kept. Can also be (in most cases) a shining example of Cutscene Incompetence, especially in Deadlocked, where you are captured by a bare handful of the same robots that you will be destroying by the dozens later in the game, often with a single round of ammo from the Harbinger.
  • All Mega Man series. The trope's nicknamed "Mega Man Amnesia" by fans for a reason.
  • Samus Aran, Metroid series. --
• Bait and Switch Credits
  • The Narutaru opening credits. Upbeat, catchy song, adorable mons, artwork that looks like it was made by second graders for second graders, opening for a show with mass-murder, Abusive Parents, horrible Break the Cutie, rape, (Twice!) implied incest, Cruel and Unusual Deaths, Eldritch Abominations, etc.
• Bait and Switch Tyrant
  • Richard Woolsey as the new leader of Atlantis in Season 5.
• Bait the Dog
  • Kazuya Mishima. There's a reason he provides the page's image. Face it; you never saw it coming and you just made the Mishima Zaibatsu worse. Nice Job Breaking It, Hero.
• Baka
  • 9. Baka
  • Akane Tendou
• Bald of Awesome
  • Patrick Stewart
  • Hunter S. Thompson --
  • Colin Mochrie
• Bamboo Technology
  • Indiana Jones
  • The Professor just for the sheer absurdity of it.
• The Baroness
  • Balalaika
  • Konishi
• Base on Wheels
  • The city units of Overman King Gainer
  • The Grindery.
  • Star Wars Expanded Universe: the base on Nkllon—basically fifty AT-AT walkers or so connected together with a small city built on top, constantly walking to stay on the dark side of the slowly-turning planet because going onto the day side would be rapidly followed by melting. Also counts as a Mercurial Base.
  • Mortal Engines. The main point of the series is all the cities on wheels.
  • Howl's Moving Castle.
  • The Arc-Gurren.
• Bash Brothers
  • Soap and Price.
  • Legolas and Gimli
    • Seconded.
  • Fulton and Portman, who else?
• Bastard Bastard
  • Ramsay Snow. He's a murderous, kinslaying, flay-happy, torturous, literally woman-chasing bastard.
• Batter Up
  • Sgt. Donny Donowitz
  • The Scout
  • Ace
  • Ninten & Ness
  • Al Capone from The Untouchables
• Battleaxe Nurse
  • Nurse Ratchet
• Battle Butler
  • Paul Moriyama
  • Butler.
  • You call that begging?! You can beg better than that!
  • Wait, seriously, no Hayate?
  • Black Butler's Sebastian Michaelis. Full Stop.
    • Seconded. He is the only character who can make Marty Stu LOOK TOTALLY AWESOME.
  • Walter It doesn't get more badass then using strings to cut down armies of nazi vampire stormtroopers. Did i mention he's 70 years old?
  • Willikins
• Battle Couple
  • Meryl and Johnny from Metal Gear Solid 4.
  • The player character and Jaheira in Baldur's Gate 2
  • Aral and Cordelia Vorkosigan
  • Riza Hawkeye and Roy Mustang
  • John Crichton and Aeryn Sun.
  • William Turner and Elizabeth Swann, who became Mr. and Mrs. Turner right in the middle of a full-out naval battle.
  • Worf and Jadzia
• Battle Cry
  • Harry Dresden: "I DON'T BELIEVE IN FAIRIES!"
  • "Do you want to live forever?"
  • LET'S ROCK!!! --
  • "The Gurkhas are upon you!"
• Battleship Raid
  • Kirby Super Star's Revenge of Meta Knight mode
• Beam Me Up, Scotty
  • Luke, I am your father
  • Beam me up Scotty!
  • I'm getting too old for this shit! --
  • The Complete Works of William Shakespeare as a whole. Almost any time a well-known line from Shakespeare gets repeated colloquially odds are its' being misquoted or used out of context. "Lead on Macduff" from Macbeth ("Lay on, Macduff" in the original) and "Alas Poor Yorick, I knew him well" are two of the most common examples. This one is the Most Triumphant Example if only because it's been going on for centuries.
    • "To be or not to be" while holding Yorick's skull
  • "Elementary, my dear Watson." Arthur Conan Doyle's detective never said it; only the film version.
  • "Play it again, Sam." The most famous Casablanca line that isn't in the movie. Sorry, Woody.
• Beat Still My Heart
  • Indiana Jones
  • Kano's heart rip fatality.
  • Prideengen Toppa Gurren Lagann paved the countryside, this show vaporized the mountain that was originally there.
  • Doom's Realm667 beastiary having a lot of zombies armed with much stronger weapons such as the BFG and mod-exclusive weapons that make that weapon look like a pea shooter such as, recently in the forums, the Devastator; (not to mention, zombies in tanks, hovercars, and segways) there's even talk of a nuclear missile launcher zombie.
  • "They would take the guy, lay him on an altar, cut his chest open, pull his heart out, and hold it up in the air while it was still beating. You know what you call that? Theater." --
• The Beautiful Elite
  • CLAMP, that is all.
• Beware the Nice Ones:
  • The Doctor. Just the Doctor.
  • Dwarf Fortress player community. Sure, we'll help you inundate your fortress in magma and dig too deep!
• Beware the Silly Ones
  • Discord. Sure, he's a funny-looking Mix and Match Critter with the maturity of a child. He's also an eons old God of Chaos who can twist the fabric of reality with a snap of his fingers, can Mind Rape even the most resilient ponies effortlessly, and doesn't care for anything other than his own amusement. --
• Beyond the Impossible
  • Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. It ain't the Trope Namer for nothing --
• Be Yourself
  • Persona 4
  • Abed:
• BFG
  • The Piecemaker can open the back door and the front door at the same time.
  • Vash the Stampede doesn't hold the gun, he is the gun.
  • The Spirit --

Dolan: Is every woman in this goddamn town out of her mind? Morgenstern: Nope, we're just prepared.

• • What else can potentially reduce a room of enemies to gibs and kill the final boss of the game it first apepars in at point blank in a SINGLE SHOT than the ORIGINAL BFG; the BFG-9000?
• BFS
  • Gundam SEED Astray. I'm sorry, I don't care even if you're the sword that smites evil. You have nothing on the guy with a 150-meter-long orbital katana for his Gundam.
  • Mobile Suit Gundam 00. The 00 Raiser's sword. I don't care what you consider the series, that is an Effing long sword.
  • Cloud "My Huge-Ass Sword Is Most Definitely Not Compensating For Aything" Strife. He's the frickin' poster child.
    • Sephiroth.
  • Exor, from Super Mario RPG. That guy was several stories tall.
  • Alternity Megatron's Tesseractal Swords are blades of infinite length. "Physical space is not an obstruction."
  • Fate Testarossa's Jet Zanbar Bardiche is the personal equivalent of the 00 Raiser's beam saber
  • The one that takes the cake: Gin's zanpakutou. It's a wakizashi, so technically speaking it's smaller than a katana—but then again, it stretches. A lot. Especially when in Bankai mode. 13 kilometers!
  • "Shut up! I am Sanger! Sanger Zonvolt! The Sword That Smites Evil! There is nothing I cannot cut!"
  • San Kan Ken!
  • Oh yeah? Try to top these.
  • Done and done. Trailblazer's 00 Qan(T) wields a beam sword that is just as long as the 00 Raiser's (KILOMETERS in length) and the same width as Celestial Being's GN Particle Cannon. Keep in mind that in the first image the 00 is simply beginning to extend its beam sword. That is NOT a beam cannon (the confusion is understandable). Also, do you see that planet-like structure in the background? It's roughly the size of the moon...
  • Fiamma of the Right. Think Gin's bankai, multiply it by three, and set it on fire.
  • Tessaiga
  • Riva Irongrip's Sword. Six feet long and made of two fallen stars it's so heavy that it needs the Orb of Aldur as a pommel stone. Oh and it burns blue fire. - Vaeshi3
  • The Dragon Slayer from Berserk
  • Final Fantasy XII; on the wall behind the counter at the main weapon shop, is a Behemoth type monster's sword. This thing's at least as long as Sephiroth's, and about three times as wide and thick as Cloud's. --
  • Jack Rakan and his 3-story broadsword.
  • Pantherlily's sword in Fairy Tail.
  • Mikuni's laserblade made of cash has the length of a small building.
  • Augus's blade from Asura's Wrath is 380,000 KILOMETERS in length, or the approximate distance from the Earth to the MOON!
• Bifauxnen: Shane McCutcheon.
• Big Bad
  • Emperor Palpatine
  • FOOLS! YOU CANNOT KILL ME! I! AM! DAVROS!
    • The Master. "Remove one tenth of the population."
  • Darkseid.
  • Lex Luthor
  • Lucifer/Satan
  • Sosuke Aizen.
  • Ganondorf. He's more evil and powerful than Bowser!
  • Exdeath. Best. Villain theme. Ever. --
  • Fei Wong Reed.
• Big Badass Wolf
  • White Fang
  • Wolf O'Donnell. He can't let you do that for a reason.
  • Okami Amaterasu.
  • Dire wolves
  • Wolf Link
  • Moro
  • Garurumon, in all of his various forms.
  • Fenris
• Big Brother Bully
  • Narumi Kiyotaka took everything from his little brother since before Ayumu was even born.
  • This trope could literally be called "The Rodrick".
  • Ushiro.
• Big Brother Instinct
  • Simon Tam in Firefly
  • Yamato/Matt to Takeru/TK in Digimon Adventure
  • Kurosaki Ichigo of Bleach.
  • Lelouch!
  • Oh boy, Komui, full stop.
• Big Damn Heroes
  • You're all clear, kid! Now let's blow this thing and go home!
  • Uh...Firefly?!
  • Rohan to Gondor.
  • What's even better than your friends showing up to save you? You, the player, showing up to save the heroes. How do you do it? You pray with all of your might!
  • Mickey Mouse, so good at this, it's a gameplay mechanic!
  • "I've been looking foward to seeing you again, Lan Fan!"
  • Kung Fu Hustle - although it cheats by using this trope 3 times in 4 minutes.
  • Akasaka's Big Damn Hero move in Kai. In a series when Kill'Em All and Groundhog Day Loop run the show, you NEVER expect a Big Damn Hero move. EVER. When it does happen, It's so unexpected, you have to stand in awe of it.
  • Mahou Sensei Negima Chapter 331. Evangeline crashes Cosmo Entelecheia's party. And she brings Eishun, Alebreio, the Principle, Takahata, Kurt Godel, and JACK FREAKING RAKAN with her.
• Big Eater
  • GAAAARFIIEEEELLLLD!
  • Kirby, Kirby, Kirby, is the name you should know...
  • Yoshi.
  • Snorlax. Literally.
  • The Saiyans.
  • Allen Walker
  • Hei.
    • I'm just going to leave this here...
  • Saber, and yet no additional fat is seen, much to Shirou's pleasure. Of course she's a Heroic Spirit, so...
  • Alex Mercer... assuming you count people-eating as well.
  • Galactus!
  • Quina
  • Scooby Doo.
  • Pac-Man.
    • WAAAAY seconded on Pac-Man
  • Before William Howard Taft, the Oval Office was round.
  • Warhammer 40,000 Tyrannids
  • Gluttony, of course.
  • Taxxons. If you injure one, it will start eating itself in a frenzy.
  • Lina Inverse
  • Nibbler --
  • Sam Puckett --
  • Homer Simpson "Arrr, that be no man, that be a bottomless beast!"
• Big Fancy Castle
  • The titular castle in The Castleof Cagliostro.
• Big Good
  • God.
  • Geser
  • Zordon
• Non Sequitur Scene
  • THE BIG LIPPED ALLIGATOR MOMENT!!!
  • Family Guy
  • Another. In a thriller anime bringing a very creepy and sober atmosphere, where Anyone Can Die, with a Creepy Doll motif and very few light-hearted moments (at least those that don't end tragically), the last thing you'd expect was to see the protagonist, in the classroom, start dancing out of the blue with the resident Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette Rei Ayanami Expy (she was giggling, even!), just to enjoy their status as Unpersons. It was All Just A Daydream, of course, that never came up again, and didn't fit at all with the tone of the series.
• Big No
  • Sarah Connor running from the T-800 in Terminator 2. It's not cheesy. She even has a few smaller ones to build up, and we know damn well she has reason to be that terrified.
  • Scar after the destuction of Ishval
  • Grim Grimoire. It somehow manages to be funny and satisfying, without a hint of narm. Partly due to the great voice acting
  • The end of the JLA/Avengers Crossover. So very, very epic.
  • Darth Vader, for its Memetic Mutation.
    • Mutation, nothing. I love it.
    • His son.
  • The Elephant Man actually used it to non-cheesy effect.
  • Pedro from Excel Saga. "VERY NOOOO!"
  • NOOOOOOOOOO I DON'T WANNA BE A WAITER
  • This El Goonish Shive does a good job of using the trope to its maximum ridiculous effect.
  • Inoue Orihime from Bleach.
  • Momo Hinamori. Poor. Poor. Hinamori
  • Calculon. "NOOOO! N! O! O! O!"
• Big Ol' Eyebrows
  • Amarao. Those eyebrows...
• Big OMG
  • They're eating her... And then they are going to eat me! Cue this trope.
  • Crow says one during his duel with Jeager, in Gratuitous English, no less.
  • "Did you say something?" OH MY GAAAAAAAAAAAWD! Poor Gai-sensei.
  • "OH MY GAH!"
• Big Screwed-Up Family
  • The Ushiromiya family.
  • The Sohmas. Even people who marry into the family are messed up somehow. - Vaeshi3
  • The Tituses --
  • The Mishima family.
  • The House of Finwe.
  • The House of Atreus.
  • The Soviet Union. -Maggie
• Big "What?"
  • Lil Jon.
• Big Yes
  • The Kool-Aid Man. OH YEAH!
  • Megatron, yyyeeessss...
  • From Sega Rally Championship: Game Over YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!
  • Real Life example. The Who. Won't get fooled again.
    • I may not be a doctor, but your opinion...(dramatic sunglasses removal) just got seconded. YYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
  • M. Bison's "YES!! YES!! THIS IS DELICIOUS!!!" from the Street Fighter cartoon.
  • Captain Falcon. YES!
  • The Brain
  • "Long live Flash! You've saved your Earth! Have a nice day!" --
• Bishie Sparkle
  • Twilight.
  • The Wallflower. Not only is one of them specifically told to 'Glow for no apparent reason', he DOES so.
  • Alex Armstrong. Because he is Fan Disservice for everyone, regardless of their sexual orientation
  • Ouran High School Host Club.
  • Teddie
  • Eyeshield 21 Taki. He's an idiot.
  • Henry Archer
  • Liam's abs will send your female baddies into Villain Decay.
    • Seconded!
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
  • "How do you do, Mr. Lawyer? I'm Matt Engarde."
  • Macy, from Trick 'r Treat
  • Sousuke Aizen. He's the freaking Big Bad!
  • Asakura Ryoko
• Bishonen
  • Don Juan Demarco, played by Johnny Depp at his poster-boy best.
• Biting the Hand Humor
  • The Simpsons
• Bittersweet Ending
  • Simoun
  • Melina Marchetta's On the Jellicoe Road
  • Any Type Moon visual Novel.
  • Final Fantasy, just anything Final Fantasy.
  • The Proposition
  • Super Paper Mario
  • Persona 3. Rest in peace, Minato/Minako. *sniff*
  • Angel Beats!. The whole anime is a tearjerker, but the ending tops it all.
  • Puella Magi Madoka Magica, no question.
• Bizarre Alien Biology
  • H.P. Lovecraft's creatures, most of whom were established as extra-terrestrial or extra-dimensional.
  • Sector General, with beings with two hearts, intelligent viruses, beings that eat radiation, a species which must carry around paint and paint itself regularly in order not to starve to death, creatures that live for thousands of years and never stop growing during that time, six-legged elephants who always stand up, and more.
  • The Doctor's two hearts. Or, you know, any of the Time Lords' two hearts. And the ability to metabolize toxins with "something salty and a big shock". And regenerating when near death.
  • The Uryuom. Shapeshifting, using limited telepathy where other species exchange pheromones and for linguistic Brain Uploading, reproduction via what they call "eggs"... The least weird description of which would be "symbiosis with a conflict-resolving DNA cross compilier" (it can make a non-sterile hybrid from almost anything, and can process twelve DNA sources). And makes sense evolution-wise if you allow the effects themselves.
  • Pretty much all of the aliens in the Animorphs series. You've got blue centauars with no mouths, a pair of eye mounted on tentacles, a razor sharp blade on their tail, four hearts (one in each of their hoofs), communicate telepathically, and absorb food nutrients through their hoofs. Then you've got the yeerks, which are giant green/gray slugs that flatten themselves out and take over your mind through the ear canal. They are blind, almost deaf, and basically helpless in their natural form, and every three days have to bask in the light of their homeworld, or they'll die. That's not even getting into Visser Three's crazy ass alien morphs, amongst which are multi headed dragon like monsters, aliens with wheels for feet, and one alien that shoots missiles out of its mouth.
  • John A. Zoidberg. He has many multiple organs, so much he can do a live comentary on his own Alien Autopsy ("Removing the heart" "Take, I've got four of them!"). Alsdo apparently his species' different development stages forms resemble every marine creature ever. And in adult form, he has tendrils for a nose, crab claws, can vomit ink like a squid, produces pearls, and so the list goes on.
• Blessed with Suck
  • Ned in Pushing Daisies.
  • Ella from Ella Enchanted
    • The fairy godmother who had that effect on her and so many others counts as a top example of "Blesser with Suck"
  • Scanners.
  • Rogue
  • Raven of Teen Titans is the most triumphant example on this site, I think.
  • Misfits - "What's your power?" "Well, I make men want to rape me."
• Blind Idiot Translation
  • Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune.
  • I once watched this Chinese version of a Barbie movie, which was made bearable only by the sound being off and subtitles like "I dislike a flower!"
  • Castlevania II: Simon's Quest. "To replenish earth, kneel by the lake with the blue crystal." "A flame flickers inside the ring of fire." It's so illiterate it kind of becomes poetic!
  • Backstroke of the West.
    • Do not want.
  • Lux-Pain. A Visual Novel, no less.
    • Seconded by
  • Chaos Wars. Nicole as a guy's name? Seriously?
• Blond Guys Are Evil
  • Murata Azrael of Gundam Seed. He's absolutely disgusting. See the Character Sheet for a full description.
  • Albert Wesker
  • Johan Liebert
  • "Custer? He had a REAL bad hair day! But he deserved it, that blond, blue-eyed criminal fuck!" --
• Blood Knight
  • Zaraki Kenpachi
    • Seconded by ncfan.
    • Thirded by
  • Lancer
  • Hugo Stiglitz
  • Dinobot
  • Iron Maiden Jeanne
  • The Major
  • Brock Samson --
  • Orkz waz made for fightin' and winnin'! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!
• Blood on the Debate Floor
  • Gaius Julius Caesar
  • "This will not be over quickly. You will not enjoy this. I am not your Queen!" --
• Bloodstained-Glass Windows
  • The church shootout from John Woo's The Killer. Doves flying everywhere, bad guys going down by the dozen, religious statues getting blown to smithereens, the works.
  • The murder of the Padre, Machete. --
• Bloody Hilarious
  • Bulletstorm!
  • Dead Alive, pretty much from start to finish. --
  • Dwarf Fortress. "Losing is fun!"
• Body Horror
  • The Human Centipede. The concept alone will give you nausea.
    • They made a sequel.
  • Tetsuo. That is all.
  • "Congratulation, Miss Quaife! It's a maggot!" --
• Bodyguard Crush
  • Code Geass Lelouch and Kallen, Lelouch and C.C., Suzaku and Euphemia, Guilford and Cornelia... the list goes on and on.
  • Roy and Riza... Seriously... especially with that one chapter with Lust. These two epitomize this trope for me.
  • Setsuna for Konoka.
• Boisterous Bruiser
  • MINSC, FOR GOODNESS!
  • Dynasty Warriors' incarnation of Zhang Fei.
  • Brian Blessed
  • Any Berserker from Fire Emblem, but for the sake of choosing one, Largo.
    • So Seconded. And I must correct you, he's not a Berserker. He's a World Class Berserker.
  • Raven in Cecil B. Demented. --
  • A female version: Momoyo Kawakami from Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai!. Also arguably the most powerful character in a series with a high amount of Action Girls.
• Bolivian Army Ending
  • Overlaps with Kill'Em All, but find me a better one than Blakes Seven. I dare you.
  • "Ram the Blade ship."
• Bond Villain Stupidity
  • Don't fuck with Dr. Mabuse. Leave that to him.
  • Dr. Evil, but you have to realize he's doing it on purpose, and that's what makes it funny.
  • Let's face it, just trying to pull shit at all in the same universe where James Bond exists. --
• Bonus Level
  • Sacred Grounds. Not only is it required to get the best ending, but simply accessing the damn thing is a Guide Dang It of monumental proportions, and it's beyond difficult. Fans of the game typically refuse to refer to it as "Sacred Grounds"; it's more commonly known simply as Hell.
  • Pretty much any of them from Final Fantasy XII. --
• Bootstrapped Theme
  • HAI YAI FORCES, HAI YAI FORCES!
• Born Lucky
  • Nell and her sister Rachel.
  • Matrim Cauthon
    • Not so much born as made, but yes. Seconded.
  • Gladstone Gander.
  • Teela Brown from Ringworld.
  • Azula. Zuko even says that Azula was Born Lucky, while he was lucky to be born.
• Boss in Mook Clothing
  • The most terrifying initialism in video games: F.O.E. They even have a song about them!
  • WarMECH. Nothing else even comes close.
  • Rhythm Game Pump It Up: Get the Party Started on either Crazy or Nightmare difficulty.
  • The Baron of Hell relatives from the Realm667 Beastiary, especially the dangerously annoying Bruiser Demon and Azazel enemies.
• Bottle Fairy
  • April from Darker than Black- her powers are literally fueled by drinking alcohol.
  • Yukari Tanizaki.
  • I don't normally like Kristin Chenowith (I'm not even sure I spelled her name right) but the character she played on Glee was my favourite example
  • Hathor
  • Misato Katsuragi
  • Yuuko Ichihara.
• Boxed Crook
  • The Last Chancers
  • The Silence of the Lambs
• Braggart Boss
  • Gilgamesh. Can there be any doubt?
    • I'm pretty sure that it was declared unanimously quite some time ago.
    • It doesn't hurt to state again.
• Brainless Beauty
  • Kelly Bundy
  • Cat Valentine
• Brainy Brunette
  • Hermione Granger.
  • Peggy Olsen. --
• Breaking the Fellowship
  • One Piece
  • The Lord of the Rings ring any bells?
• Breaking the Fourth Wall
  • EarthBound. It doesn't just break the Fourth Wall, it grabs you and pulls you into the game.
    • As does it's sequel Mother 3.
  • The end of Blazing Saddles.
  • The entirety of No More Heroes.
    • Brilliantly combined with multiple AssPulls in the ending of No More Heroes.
  • The Chorus in Henry V (especially Kenneth Branagh's version)
  • Groucho's many "strange interludes" throughout the Marx Bros. films.
    • "Can I look at the programme a minute? I might be the news weekly for all he knows!"
  • Me
    • Seconded
    • Thirded
  • Spaceballs.
  • Hideo Kojima does not believe in the Fourth Wall.
  • Northern Exposure episode "War and Peace". Brilliantly surprising because outside of this one episode, the series doesn't break the fourth wall, but just this one time they go all out, with the characters calling for the writers to write a better ending, etc. (There's an even longer version of the scene as an extra on the DVD release, which is even better.)
  • The end of Return Of The Killer Tomatoes. --
  • Order of the Stick. Mainly Elan, but everyone does it at least once.
  • No mention of 1/0? For shame, tropers --
  • Pinkie Pie. Hoooly God, Pinkie Pie.
  • Freddie, a friend of Bob the Angry Flower is the latest in a sequence of people trying to rescue Bob and Stumpy from certain death, the narrator's words indicate he is as doomed as all the others, so he shoots the textbox as he goes.
  • Bones in "Journey to Babel" who manages to get both Kirk and Spock into sickbeds, keep them there and tell them to shut up. Cue him turning to the camera with a big grin on his face as he says, "Well, whaddaya know? I finally got the last word!"

• Breakout Character
  • Strong Bad
  • Captain Jack Sparrow
  • uh, WOLVERINE!
  • Bender Bending Rodriguez
  • Zero is actually intended to be the Mega Man X, but Inafune thinks he looks too different from the original Mega Man, so he is "demoted". It backfires spectacularly, and you know the result.
    • Seconded
  • Seto Kaiba. The earlier chapters of the manga and the ones befor he returned are very diffrent from the ones after.
  • Misaka Mikoto to the point where she gets her own anime/manga.
• Breakout Villain
  • The Shredder
  • Professor James Moriarty
• Break the Cutie
  • Imoen
  • Inoue Orihime from Bleach.
    • Momo Hinamori. You know it's bad when her Fan Nickname is Pincushion. --
  • Lucas
  • Everyone in Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
    • This.
  • The first episode of Kimba the White Lion.
  • Fantine
  • Ahem. Grave of the Fireflies. That is all.
  • Puella Magi Madoka Magica shatters every one of its cuties into a billion tiny pieces.
• Breakup Breakout
  • Shawn Michaels.
  • Frank Zappa --
• Breather Boss
  • Thunder Force VI's Vasteel Nocht. What's supposed to be an epic showdown with giant versions of the TF series' ships is all but laughable with the right weapons.
• Breather Level
  • Mother 3's Chapter 6... ;___;
• Brick Joke
  • Arrested Development, specifically the one about the breast pump.
  • Eight Bit Theater: Four white mages? It'll never work... There's a reason why the latter strip is titled "The Longest Setup in Webcomic History".
  • Honestly, it's not mine.
  • Is that a Titleist?...Got a hole in one, huh?
  • "BINGO!!!"
  • THE CLAAAAAAW!
  • "See? We had a plan for that all along!" --
  • Flint's traveling doorknob from Mother 3.
• Brilliant but Lazy
  • Shikamaru was too tired to add this entry.
  • Koki Kariya was supposed to edit this, but he skived off to get a bowl of ramen instead.
  • House, why do anything yourself when it's more fun and your smart enough to get everyone else to do them for you?
  • Mycroft Holmes.
  • Nero Wolfe
  • Juno Dix solves mysteries without ever leaving his bathtub
  • Ayase Yue.
  • Yukari Yakumo is one of the greatest examples. She's a Reality Warper who is so lazy she has not one but 2 shikigami doing almost everything for her! (the player even has to go through them twice (albeit one was just stage 2, not extra of phantasm) in order to even face her, and she's the ONLY phantasm boss in the entire series!
• Broken Ace
  • Yuki Judai
  • Satellizer L Bridget
• Broken Aesop
  • You can't have an anti-gun message, when you CLEARLY USED GUNS TO SOLVE YOUR PROBLEM! IT JUST DOESN'T WORK!
  • For reasons similar to above: Shoot'Em Up
  • If you want to convince us that nudity is nonsexual, you might want to put less sexualised nudity in your fanfic.
• Broken Base
  • The MUGEN community
  • Transformers. Full stop.
  • Sonic the Hedgehog.
    • Seconded. It's quite shattered, really.
  • Code Geass, dear God, Code Geass
  • Magic: The Gathering. Which is why WotC has apparently said "If you can't please the fans, please the bottom line".
  • EVERY. SINGLE. EDITION. Of Dungeons & Dragons, but especially the transition from 3E to 4E.
  • Super Smash Bros.. Barf.
  • Doctor Who. There have been InternetBackdrafts about hair color!
  • The Bible. A base so broken, wars have been fought over the debate.
  • The Mystery Science Theater 3000 fandom, circa 1993. --
  • Final Fantasy
  • Metallica --
  • Pokémon. Never, EVER ask fans which generation they think is the best, EVER.
    • And that's BEFORE daring to say you liked -insert spinoff here- more than any main series game.
• Broken Bird: Lisbeth Salamander from The Millenium Trilogy
• Broken Bridge
  • The World Ends With You
  • The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess
    • Seconded. There's even a Game Breaking Bug involving it that makes the game Unwinnable.
  • At the beginning of the Atari 2600 Superman game you are Clark Kent and you have to walk one screen to the right and approach a bridge, which is blown up, forcing you to walk back to the screen whence you started, enter the phone booth, and change into the Superman garb so you can fly over it. The game does not allow you to bypass this extra step. And it's right at the beginning of the game!
  • Pokémon Black and White has several literal examples, and they stopped even trying to come up with semi-plausible justifications. One guard won't let you pass because there's "something ahead".
• Bromantic Foil
  • Barney Stinson.
• Brother-Sister Incest
  • Although one-sided, Azaka Kokuto.
  • Turin and Nienor.
  • Wizards of Waverly Place, for making Jalex the most popular pairing in a Disney series. By a long shot.
  • Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), by Richard Wagner, second of four operas in his Ring Cycle.
  • Jaime and Cersei.
  • Another one-sided one: Belarus and Russia. --
• Brutal Bonus Level
  • Hell Temple - thenameisbean
  • Golden Sun: Dark Dawn's version of Crossbone Isle. Especially since the rest of the game was pretty easy.
• BSOD Song (well, perhaps "triumphant" is not the right word, but...)
  • Wicked. No Good Deed.
  • Tom Waits' Woyzeck. The Part You Throw Away.
  • Jesus Christ Superstar, "Judas's Death". The BSOD Song all the other BSOD Songs want to be when they grow up.
  • "See Me Feel Me (reprise)" from Tommy. But only in context.
  • The Wall is essentially a BSOD Rock Opera.
  • Les Misérables, "Javert's Suicide".
  • "Things Get Broken" from Leonard Bernstein's Mass, because not many BSOD Songs are 14 minutes long. - Prfnoff
  • "Dust In The Wind" by Kansas --
  • "Still Alive". And a literal one at that. --
• Bullet Hell
  • Touhou
  • Ikaruga
    • Seconded - The ways this game blends its bullets and laser patterns are bound to leave its players cross-eyed.
• Bully Hunter
  • Takeshi Sendo. Full stop.
• Bunny Ears Lawyer
  • Phoenix Wright, SpAce Case Attorney.
  • Sho Minamoto
  • Suzumiya Haruhi herself.
  • Judge Maxwell Frasier
  • Boston Legal
  • L.
  • Yurika Misumaru.
  • Penelope Garcia, bright-colors-and-cleavage-wearing FBI technical analyst who persistently flirts with her coworkers over the phone.
  • Leeron.
  • The Doctor, notably Four and Eleven
  • Agent Dale Cooper. He may be a bit quirky, but he's still a great detective.
  • Captain H. M. Murdock.
  • Wesley Willis --
  • Abby Scuito
• But Your Wings Are Beautiful
  • Eureka Seven Episode 46
• The Butcher
  • Hilary Briss, the Demon Butcher of Royston Vasey
  • Bill the Butcher, naturally.
• Butter Face
  • Mileena from Mortal Kombat series. Over time she's evolved into the series Ms. Fanservice, she's easily the most Stripperiffic character in the series (and that's really saying something), she has a flawless body exposed for your viewing pleasure... and she has a face that will give you nightmares!
• Butt Monkey
  • Sunohara Youhei.
  • Shinji Ikari.
  • Gron Sad
  • You blockhead Charlie Brown!
  • Meg Griffin.
  • Xander Harris
  • Kazuma. Hah hah, no food for you!
  • Peter Fox.
  • The Jews. --
  • Rincewind
  • Jon Arbuckle's Mailman.
  • Akihisa Yoshii
  • Miles O'Brien
• By the Power of Greyskull
  • I HAVE THE POWER!
  • WHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITE PANTERA!!!
  • Henshin!