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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.

• Damsel in Distress
  • Princess Peach
  • April O'Neil
  • Lois Lane
• Dangerously Genre Savvy
  • Veidt in Watchmen.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The Joker. The only thing that stopped him from achieving total victory was the people in the boats standing up to him and refusing to play his mind games, even if it meant getting killed in the process.
  • Azula.
• David Xanatos
• Date Rape Averted
  • NGE Nobody Dies That is all

Gendo Ikari: "The lady you have drugged is the daughter of one of my scientists. Allow me to introduce you to her security detail."

• • Don't try to date rape Noah Bennet's daughter. Just don't. --
• Dark Action Girl
  • Rubi Malone.
  • Revy.
  • Shego.
  • Mystique.
  • Granny Weatherwax
  • Princess Azula.
  • Selvaria.
  • Faith Lehane --
  • Evil-Lynn
• 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 main villain of the first game, who is Darkness elemental, is revealed to have been trying to stop an even worse evil, and that he became a Well-Intentioned Extremist and lost his way. He's not only sorry for what he's done, but dedicates himself to helping the party that killed him after his death.The sheer number of heroic examples of this trope is overwhelming.
  • The dark gods like Osiris and Anubis in Egyptian Mythology.
  • The goddamn Batman, of course.
  • The Undertaker, unless he's Heel
  • The ending of Final Fantasy III. the only way the Light Warriors can beat the resident Eldritch Abomination is with the help of their counterparts, the very nice Dark Warriors.
  • Raven. --ncfan
  • The Twili.
  • Lulu. Dark is yummy. --
  • The Devil's Backbone
  • 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.
  • Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl
• Darker and Edgier
  • Speedball
  • ReBoot Season 3.
  • Warhammer 40,000
  • Ultimate Marvel
  • Daniel Craig's tenure as James Bond.
  • Epic Mickey. And this is completely apparent simply from the concept art and talk about how gameplay will work.
    • Now that it's on store shelves, what do you think?
  • The 2004 reboot of Battlestar Galactica.
    • It's not your average Book of Mormon in Space anymore
    • Thirded in two ways. First for being so dark compared to the original. Second for being such an excellent execution of the trope.
  • There Will Be Brawl, for making Kirby the most terrifying character in the series.
    • Seconded, I mean seriously there is ONLY ONE COMPLETELY GOOD CHARACTER IN THE ENTIRE SERIES AND HE DIES!!!
  • 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?
  • Power Rangers RPM As stated on the season page:
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer Seasons 5 and especially 6. --
  • 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. --
  • 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.
  • The Attitude Era -jprice66
• Dark Fic
  • Day of the Barney
  • Thirty Hs
  • A Darkened Mind for iCarly. Includes character deaths, anorexia and horrific domestic abuse among others.
  • Cupcakes, holy shit, Cupcakes.
    • 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
  • Akemi Homura
  • Lulu. --
• Dark Messiah
  • Lelouch - Seaside Messenger,
  • Dartz
  • Light Yagami
  • Cameron Vale
  • Justin Crowe. The man is the Antichrist incarnate.
  • Griffith
  • Paul Atreides.
  • Kane
  • Dracula (Castlevania version)
  • Bow to Leper Messiah! --
• Dark Reprise
  • "Friends On The Other Side" (Reprise)—man, you know you're screwed when even your catchy Villain Song gets turned against you!
  • Elvis Costello's "I Want You" --
  • Somewhere That's Green Reprise. It really makes the show. --
• Dead Baby Comedy
  • South Park
  • Drawn Together
  • Forum Warz
  • Cyanide & Happiness
    • Seconded.
  • The League of Gentlemen. On what other show would be best-loved character be a demonic polygamist blackface minstrel?
  • Eight Bit Theater
  • Anal Cunt. The entire discography.
  • Ansem Retort But really, is drowning a kid in Tequila truly such a crime?
  • 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
  • Jimmy Carr
  • Family Guy
  • David Cross --
  • The Binding of Isaac
• 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.
  • Snow Crash: Raven's personal A-bomb.
  • Dave, with Kevin Kline and Kevin Kline
  • 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. --
• Deadpan Snarker
  • Jerry Seinfeld from Seinfeld.
  • Kyon from Suzumiya Haruhi
    • Seconded.
      • Thirded.
        • Fourthed.
          • Fifthed.
  • Toph
  • Jade Curtiss from Tales of the Abyss
  • Groucho Marx
  • Roger Ebert.
  • Daria, the original.
  • Ben Linus
  • Spider-Man
  • Terry Wogan when he provided commentary for the Eurovision Song Contest.
  • Edmund Blackadder
  • John Constantine.
  • GLaDOS.
  • Dorothy Zbornak.
    • Harry Dresden The only way to keep him from deadpan snarking is apparently to freeze the fluid in his eyeballs until they bleed.
  • ...No Vlad Taltos? * goes off to sulk*
  • 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.
  • Chandler
  • Bartimaeus.
  • Dylan Moran
  • June.
  • Kerr Freakin' Avon, Just check out his highlight reel
  • Marquis de Carabus.
  • Roy Greenhilt.
  • Sir James Lester. Full stop.
  • Paul Merton. That is all.
  • Zooey Deschanel --
  • Noah.
  • Alfred Hitchcock.
  • Frank Zappa, who else can shotgun jokes with so much contempt
  • I'm very surprised the cast of Garfield isn't on here. --
  • Yuri Lowell
  • Garak
• Dead Pet Sketch
  • Doctor Steel, in Episode 1 of The Dr. Steel Show.
  • The Brak Show; Brak accidentally kills Thundercles' pet goldfish by feeding him a three ham omelet. --
  • 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.
  • Troll 2
  • Conversations with Dead People
  • 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.
  • Harry Potter
  • Denis Leary's character on Rescue Me has a lot of these. --
• Deadly Distant Finale
  • Six Feet Under.
• Deal with the Devil
  • Ahem, Faust
  • Puella Magi Madoka Magica ／人◕‿‿◕人＼
    • Seconded, so very much.
• 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.
  • On Mission Hill Death Glares are accompanied by daggers coming out of the person's eyes. --
  • Batman
  • Fluttershy
  • Victor Rodenmaar Jr. Francis Magee really sells it.
• Death Is Cheap
  • Dragon Ball.
    • Oh God, this.
  • Angel Beats! Seriously, this is a series where Heroic Sacrifice induced Dwindling Party is used for slapsticks
    • Seconded.
  • The Simpsons --

Woman: Father McGrath... I thought you were dead. Fr. McGrath: I was!

• • 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.
  • Casey and Andy - They die so often even Satan doesn't understand how they do it.
  • Mortal Kombat full stop.
• Death Seeker
  • Archer
• Death Takes a Holiday
  • Reaper Man
• Death Trap
  • This. (From Batman the Brave And The Bold.)
  • Saw
  • The giant clamp from Dr. Phibes Rises Again
• Deconstructor Fleet
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion: Deconstructing the Super Robot genre, the human psyche and YOUR BRAIN, all at once!
  • A Streetcar Named Desire
  • Metal Gear Solid
  • Discworld
  • The Tales (series): Picking apart Mana Trees, Chosen Ones, Destiny, and so much more, since the days of the SNES.
  • 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.
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Deconstructs the early Western genre.
  • The Wire and Homicide: Life on the Street for the police procedural.
  • "Puella Magi Madoka Magica": I honestly thought the whole Magical Girl genre would shatter into pieces by the time the Grand Finale aired.
  • 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...
• Decon Recon Switch
  • Puella Magi Madoka Magica
    • Seconded.
  • Pokémon Black and White aimed to be this for the Pokémon franchise, and succeeded.
• Decoy Protagonist
  • Kamina.
  • Marion Crane
  • Ga-Rei Zero - Tranquil Tempest
  • Fate/EXTRA
• 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!"
  • .hack. Now if only this was reality....
    • .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.
  • The Legend of Neil --
• Defeat Means Friendship
  • Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
    • If you disagree, we will befriend you!
  • Touhou Project
  • Dragon Ball Z anyone? - Beta Maxis
  • Robin Hood and Little John; in fact the old Robin Hood stories are full of this.
    • Robin and Friar Tuck
  • King Arthur and Lancelot's fight in Excalibur.
  • Naruto
    • Seconded. That Jesus-no-jutsu is ridiculously effective.
    • Thirded. He's even befriended the Kyuubi.
  • Pokémon. Seriously, the entire franchise runs on this!
  • Jeffrey Sinclair and the Minbari in Babylon 5
• 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.
  • Aeryn Sun.
  • Gerd, from Norse Mythology
  • Saber.
  • Celes Chere
  • Midna.
• Deliberately Cute Child
  • Break Blade
  • Flute/Aphrael
  • Billy, from Trick 'r Treat
• Deliberately Monochrome
  • Sin City
  • The Man Who Wasn't There: It actually looks like a Film Noir, too.
  • The Elephant Man
  • Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
  • Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, the best Film Noir that's a parody of Film Noir.
  • Pleasantville
  • The Twilight Zone.
• Deliberate Values Dissonance
  • Mad Men
• Demonic Spiders
  • Eggplant Wizards
  • Artificial Chaos
  • The random demons, ESPECIALLY the trident ones.
  • THOSE FUCKING BIRDS. I have lost countless controllers to those bastards.
  • The Wizzrobes from The Legend of Zelda
  • Fucking Banshees. Instant death melee attack? Check. Flash Step? Check. Plenty of health? Check. Creepy as hell? Check.
• Demoted to Extra
  • Poor Pluto...
    • *Sniff*
    • Thirded
    • Fourthed... *sniff* Poor Pluto, indeed.
  • From star character in your own series to Bit Character in the spinoff...isn't it sad, Mai? User:Willy Four Eyes
  • Toby Isaacs
  • And even on this page Yumizika Satsuki didn't merit a mention until now. As the former Trope Namer, that really is sad.
• Depending on the Writer
  • Glee Season 1. Teen Drama, parody of teen drama tropes, or quirky set-piece? Tune in and find out!
  • 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.
• Depraved Dentist
  • Orin. Seriously, just watch "The Dentist Song" and you'll understand.
  • Szell from Marathon Man
• Depraved Dwarf
  • Wonder Woman foe Dr. Psycho.
  • Dr. Miguelito Loveless
• 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
  • The requirement to activating a Behelit in Berserk
  • 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.
  • Season 3 of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX for Judai
  • Malcolm Reynolds after the Battle of Serenity Valley. --wrybread
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose In Life
  • Suzumiya Haruhi
• Destination Defenestration
  • That one merc in Mass Effect 2
• Destructive Saviour
  • The Eight Bit Theater crew.
  • Harry Dresden has this problem with buildings...
• Determinator
  • Batman.
  • de Terminator.
  • Monkey. D. LUFFY.
    • HEAVILY seconded.
  • Shidou Hikaru, ten tons of Determinator in a 40 kilo soaking wet bag.
  • Captain Malcolm Reynolds.
  • Samuel Vimes, Commander of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch.
  • Ash Ketchum, so much so that this troper is convinced that he and Hikaru (above) would make quite a couple!
  • 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.
  • Harry Powell. "Don't he never sleep?"
  • "No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise."
  • Clare.
  • Shirou
  • Rock Lee. He stood up despite 2 broken limbs while unconscious.
    • Naruto himself
  • Simon
    • To be honest, most all the main heroes from TTGL count.
    • To be even more honest, damn near everybody in that series.
  • Killy.
    • Seconded like a motherfucker
  • 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.
  • Seiya from Saint Seiya. To the point where it becomes ridiculously annoying.
  • Every major character in Hajime no Ippo.
  • O-Chul of Order of the Stick to the point where no description can do him justice.
  • The five castaways in The Mysterious Island.
  • Harry Dresden.
  • Azula. Perfect dedication in the middle of her Villainous Breakdown.
  • Charlie Brown. He suffered for 50 years, but never gave up.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Samwise Gamgee. That is all. --ncfan
  • Erza Scarlet and everybody else
  • Satellizer
  • Nanoha. Having a hand stuck through her chest won't stop her from kicking ass.
  • Vita: 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.

Vita: "This is what Eisen and I are best at. You know that? Destroying and smashing. The Knight Vita of the Iron Hammer, and the Steel Count Graf Eisen. There's nothing in this world we can't destroy."

• Deranged Animation
  • I'm Baman! I'm Piderman! I come over da house! We're best fwiends!
    • Seconded. Oh, so much.
  • Pink Floyd's The Wall
  • The surreal Fleischer short Swing You Sinners
  • The Ren and Stimpy Show, in both of its' incarnations
  • Seconded. No wonder John K. hates every modern cartoon. None could beat his in dementedness!
  • Superjail! Superjail! Superjail!
  • Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Shaft, what were you thinking...?!?!?
  • Wonder Showzen. full stop
• Designated Villain
  • Satan
  • 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??
  • Any of Those Wacky Nazis
• Deus Angst Machina
  • The Mist.
  • Fai D. Flowright, full stop.
• Deus Ex Machina
  • The 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.
  • The climax of Epic Movie. Epic Fail, more like.
  • The ending of Battlestar Galactica. FULL STOP - LE Xicon 712, Urquhart
  • The ending of the Pokémon Special RS saga. - Roihu
  • The ending of Breaking Dawn
  • 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."
  • Ending of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.
  • 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.
  • 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: 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.
  • Everything that leads to Aang achieving Avatar State and defeating Ozai in the finale of Avatar: The Last Airbender.
    • Seconded so, so much.
  • The Stand
• Development Hell
  • Duke Nukem Forever.
    • Second
  • The Neon Genesis Evangelion live-action movie.
  • Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day. Book written in 1938. Movie rights sold in 1939. Movie made in 2008.
  • The Thief and the Cobbler
  • How is A Dance with Dragons not on here?
  • SMiLE.
• Devil in Plain Sight
  • Patrick Bateman -Ziggy Zag
  • Master Xehanort
• The Devil Is a Loser
  • Lucius Heinous VII
  • Satan from South Park.
• The Dev Team Thinks of Everything
  • Nethack.
  • Dwarf Fortress.
  • Kingdom Hearts II and Kairi's panties
  • 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...
  • Scribblenauts

"The only limit is your imagination... and your twisted sense of humor."

• Diabolus Ex Machina
  • Code Geass episode 22.
    • Oh god, seconded.
    • Thirded.
    • I concur.
  • The Montreal Screwjob.
  • 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.
  • Hawkgirl quite literally.
  • Carmilla to Shub-Niggurath even more literally.
  • Harry Dresden. It's practically his trademark.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?
  • Fullmetal Alchemist chapter 107 and 108/Brotherhood episode 62 and 63. Ed literally punches out the Eldritch Abomination Big Bad that just ate God. And then everything exploded from the sheer awesome.
    • Seconded!
    • Thirded!
    • Fourthed.
  • Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Lagann-hen, wherein the Big Bad fights back!
  • How about God of War? Did Kratos just slaughtered the entire population of Cthulhus??
    • Seconded, After systematically murdering the entire Greek pantheon, it’s hard to dispute.
  • This is practically Touma's specialty in A Certain Magical Index. First off, he beats a 3000 degree Celsius fire monster, then a Reality Warper, after that follows the strongest Level 5 esper (who Won the Superpower Lottery), and it eventually leads up to Fiamma of the Right (who at that point surpassed being a Physical God. And in the light novel series, he keeps going from there.
  • Harry Dresden has made a career out of this. Well, this and blowing up buildings.
  • Yoshii defeats Ironman
  • 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?"
• Died Standing Up
  • Whitebeard
  • Cuchulainn
  • 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.
  • The Real Ghostbusters; they have indeed fought off Cthulhu, among other similar beings.
• Dirty Coward
  • Bernie Bernbaum
  • Arnold Judas Rimmer
  • Flashman
  • Petter Pettigrew
  • Druwp the Vole.
  • Rincewind
  • Daffy Duck
  • Starscream
  • Mumkhar, a Smug Snake who ran away from a crucial battle five minutes after I turned the game on!
• Dirty Old Man
  • Muten Roshi is this trope.
  • The principal in To LOVE-Ru
  • Herbert.
  • Jerry "the King" Lawler - jprice66
• Dirty Old Woman
  • Nanny Ogg.
• Disability Superpower
  • Toph Bei Fong
    • Seconded
  • Daredevil
• Disabled Character, Disabled Actor
  • Marlee Matlin
• Disabled Love Interest
  • The Heroines of Katawa Shoujo
  • Sesshomaru
• Disappointing Last Level
  • No More Heroes 2. Enough said.
  • Deus Ex (the first one). Every single level after leaving Everett's house.
• Disaster Movie
  • 2012. I don't care what the next person says, it was a blast.
  • The original Gojira.
• Disney Princess
  • Snow White.
• Disposing of a Body
  • The Health Inspector
• Disproportionate Retribution
  • Manfred von Karma.
    • Kristoph Gavin.
  • Four words: "Scott Tenorman Must Die"
• Dissonant Serenity
  • Johan Liebert of Monster always has the same smile on his face. As you can probably guess, it's freaky as hell.
    • Seconded to the fullest.
  • He was being kind.
  • 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
  • "Girl in the Tower", from King's Quest VI.
• Disturbed Doves
  • The Killer
  • The disturbed seagulls when Harry Waters arrives In Bruges
  • The Thief of Time. "There will always be doves here."
• Documentary of Lies
  • Monsters Resurrected.
  • 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...")
  • This scene, from a sequel to The Brave Little Toaster.
• Doesn't Like Guns
  • Batman
  • Virgil Hawkins
  • The Doctor
    • He never would...
• 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. His perseverance pays off in the end, making his endurance legendary.
• 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..."
• Don't Explain the Joke
  • Doctor Horribles Sing Along Blog:

Captain Hammer: 'Cause she's with Captain Hammer. And these -- [lifts fists] -- are not the hammer. [walks out] Dr. Horrible: ... Captain Hammer: [walks back in] ...The hammer is my penis.

• Don't Fear the Reaper
  • DEATH from Discworld
  • Dead Like Me. They might steal your wallet but whatever, you're already dead.
  • Death from The Sandman.
  • Death in The Book Thief.
• Don't Go in The Woods
  • Deliverance
  • Evil Dead 2
  • Marble Hornets. Dear God, Marble Hornets.
• Doomed Hometown
  • Vale
• Doomy Dooms of Doom
  • Invader Zim
    • Dooooooooooooooom!! *ahem* seconded.
    • Third-ed! DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-
  • Scott Keith.
• Doom It Yourself
  • The Three Stooges
• Donut Mess with a Cop
  • Chief Wiggum
• Doting Parent
  • Maes Hughes.
    • Seconded.
• 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.
• Downer Ending
  • Twisted Sister's ending
  • Children of Earth. Oh God, Children of Earth.
  • The Mist.
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Everyone in the MULTIVERSE DIED. How can it seriously get worse than that?
    • Seconded. It's a lot Darker and Edgier than the first book.
  • Of all but two one arc, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
• 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
  • Sephiroth. He represents the trope image.
  • Draco Malfoy.
  • Mary Crawford
  • Guy of Gisborne.
  • Hazama/Terumi Yuuki. Might as well be the 'New Age Sephiroth'
  • Lelouch vi Britannia.
  • Kyuubi
• The Drag Along
  • Iago of the Aladdin animated series.
  • Jonathan in The Mummy Trilogy.
  • Arnold from The Magic School Bus. He knew he should have stayed home today.
• The Dragon
  • Ecliptor
  • Shego
  • Darth Vader
  • Kefka
  • Dragan from Layer Cake
  • Fate Testarossa.
  • Destro
  • Ridley. Not only a prime example, but an actual dragon.
  • Midbus.
  • Ulquiorra of Bleach.
  • Jaws
  • Omega. Extremely Ax Crazy, yet very loyal to Dr. Weil.
  • Ghetsis's Hydreigon. A literal dragon, and The Dragon to The Dragon Ascendant.
• Dragon Ascendant
  • Kabuto
• Dragon-in-Chief
  • Amshel
• Dragons Up the Yin-Yang
  • Breath Of Fire IV. Yes, the entire game. It is, quite literally, made of this trope.
• Dragon Their Feet
  • Karl in Die Hard
• Dragon with an Agenda
  • Redcloak.
• Drama Bomb Finale
  • The end of the last episode of Blackadder Goes Forth
• Dramatic Pause
  • Ram in Tron.

"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."

• Dramatic Reading
  • A REAL breakup letter from a REAL person!
• Dramatic Unmask
  • The Phantom of the Opera
• Dreadful Musician
  • |Kotomi Ichinose. Full stop.
    • So Seconded, only musician to cause a Heroic BSOD
    • Absolutely thirded. I doubt there is a finer example of this trope in any other fictional story. - aNinjaWithAIDS
  • Cacofonix.
  • DeeDee
  • Squidward.
• Dream Within a Dream
  • Inception.
    • (X)CEPTION replaced yo dawg.
  • In The Sandman, the Fate Worse Than Death inflicted by Morpheus on his captor after he escaped.
• Drill Sergeant Nasty
  • Gunnery Sgt. Hartman from Full Metal Jacket, played by R. Lee Ermey
• Drives Like Crazy
  • As the trope page itself admits, Yukari Tanizaki.
  • SpongeBob SquarePants. When he drives, it's simply epic.
  • Yui Narumi.
  • Leland's grandma from Mr. Tran & the Toy Cack
  • Get Smart.
  • Elwood Blues.
  • R Kelly in Trapped in the Closet
  • Do you hate trash cans? Is that it? Do you just hate trash cans?!
  • Stone Cold Steve Austin
  • Kitty Pryde. When your driving is so crazy that you manage to scare Wolverine...
  • Sam Starfall.
    • Seconded
  • Delirium
  • "Summers you drive like a SPAZ"
  • What, forgetting Mr. Toad's Wild Ride?
  • Ms. Yukari
  • [[Friends Phoebe Buffay
  • Die Hard 2: "Are you TRYING to run over these people?" "NO! Well, maybe the mime."
• Drop the Hammer
  • GaoGaiGar: Goldion Crusher. So huge, it could smash the Sun.
  • Thor
  • Thor
  • Vita and Graf Eisen
    • Undoubtedly seconded
• Dude Looks Like a Lady
  • Amiti. A Shirtless Scene got leaked, and the European official website still didn't get the memo.
  • 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:

-Elliot: Who's this...guy? I think?

• • Hideyoshi surprisingly isn't here.
• Dude, She's Like, in a Coma
  • Shinji in End of Evangelion
    • Seconded.
• Dueling Stars Movie
  • Face Off
  • War
• Dungeon Bypass
  • Nanoha Takamachi.
    • Seconded
    • 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.
  • Triple H
• Dying Moment of Awesome
  • Whitebeard from One Piece.
  • Ulquiorra .
  • Galuf.
  • Kaji.
  • Dinobot!.
  • 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.
  • From Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann we got 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.
  • 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."
  • Asuka. End of Evangelion. Granted she lives in the end...kinda
  • John Marston
  • Zero. His sacrifice ultimately bring peace between the two species, despite being created by the one who started all the centuries-long war.
  • Solf J. Kimblee
  • "WATASHI WA SHINEN, SHINEN ZUU!!!" "FALCON PUNCH!!!!!!" *BSSSSHHHHT* "CAPTAIN FALCON!!!!" "WUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR" *BOOOOOSHHHHHHHHTTTTTTT*
  • Spike Spiegel anybody?
  • "Tell 'em to make it count."
    • What does Emile do when an Elite impales him from behind? Reaches back and breaks the bastard's neck.
• Dynamic Difficulty
  • Battle "Hi, want to piss me off? Then do anything awesome!" Garegga
• Dysfunction Junction
  • Your crew in both Mass Effect games.
    • Your party in any BioWare game period.
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion.
  • 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.)
  • Fruits Basket.

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