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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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G

• Gadgeteer Genius
  • The one and only Q. Do try and bring this trope back in one piece, 007...
  • Satomi Hakase.
  • Agatha Heterodyne
    • Seconded.
  • Dave Davenport
  • Every single one of the Kids Next Door but especially Numbah 2.
  • Forge
  • The MythBusters for a Real Life example. How in hell else do you explain cannons made of duct tape that actually fire?!
• Gag Boobs
  • SHIZUKA MARIKAWA!
  • Any and all of Eiken
  • Boobie Lady
  • TOMO YAMANOBE Boobs Puppets
• Gag Dub
  • MXC, the immortal Gag Dub of Takeshi's Castle. - Beta Maxis
  • Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series
  • Super Sentai
  • Pokémon's Mexican dub
  • Digimon Adventure's English dub, except when the stakes were really high
  • Wizard People, Dear Reader
  • Samurai Pizza Cats
• Gag Penis
  • Three Socks
  • Suburban Knights
  • A HORSE WEINER!
    • Now that's dangerous!
• Gag Sub
  • Downfall. One way to make Adolf Hitler look funny.
• Gainax Ending
  • The Prisoner - "Fall Out".
  • The one, the only, Neon Genesis Evangelion.
  • Eraserhead. Just... what?
  • Mother 3
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey.
  • Mass Effect 3. Hopefully soon to be remedied in the "We're sorry we fucked up the ending DLC"
  • Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt
• Gainaxing
  • Happens almost every frame in Highschool of the Dead, but there's this one scene that takes the cake. A Bullet passing very close to Saeko doing some combat-acrobatics, while the boobs jiggle synchronizedly so they don't get hit. In Slow Motion!
• Gambit Pileup
  • Heist. And although I do recognize that Tropes Are Not Bad, I still mean that in only the worst way. It is more like the least triumphantly yet still most extreme example. -ZuulMF
  • Code Geass specifically the second half of Season 2.
  • WITCH The whole second season. And it's awesome. Thank you Gerg Wiseman.
  • The Ivalice Alliance (more specifically, Vagrant Story, Final Fantasy Tactics and Final Fantasy XII, which share a common timeline, even if no one can figure out exactly what happened when).
  • Dune. Almost every major faction or character has elaborate schemes with multiple contingencies in place in order to achieve their goals. Some of these plans extend literally thousands of years into the future.
  • The Wheel of Time series. Hell, if there are less than literally thirty different plans taking place in the Seanchan court alone, I'll be surprised. And compared to the Forsaken, the Aes Sedai, the various nobles of Cairhien, Andor, Tear etc. and the Children of the Light, they don't even get that much screen time. And that's still leaving out Rand and his direct, more or less unambiguous supporters. And Padan Fain/Mordeth/Ordeith. And... okay, you get the picture.
  • Allo Allo How hard can it be to steal one painting and send two British men home? Very.
• Game Breaker
  • Jack "That Damn Guy You Can Stab With Swords All You Like And It Won't Do A Thing, Dammit" Rakan.
  • Black Luster Soldier--Envoy of the Beginning. Chaos Emperor Dragon--Envoy of the End. Banned for a DAMN GOOD REASON.
    • Synchro monsters. Oh god synchro monsters.
  • Aizen Sosuke. As if being far physically, magically, and intellectually stronger than everyone else wasn't enough, he's a Master Of Illusions too.
  • The End
  • The Holsety spell tome in Fire Emblem : Seisen no Keifu.
  • Blackbeard
  • Metal Blades
  • Orlandu. A previously Nintendo Hard game abruptly becomes a walk in the park unless you simply refuse to use him.
  • Armageddon. It even turns The Reaper into a joke.
• Game of Nerds
  • Dmitri Petrovich.
• Gargle Blaster
  • The best one is drunk by Steve from Life and Death here.
• Gatling Good
  • Real Life: The GAU-8 Avenger
  • The Minigun from Predator.
• General Ripper
  • Admiral Akainu would like to know why he was just added here
  • Admiral Helena Cain
• Genius Bonus
  • Futurama. The episode "The Prisoner Of Benda" actually had writer Ken Keeler create a new math theorem. Top that.
  • Okay, how about Irregular Webcomic, where the author discussions have included an explanation of Banach-Tarski.
• Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke
  • Dr. Manhattan. Silk Spectre I even points out to her daughter that she's "sleeping with an H-bomb."
• Genius Bruiser
  • Thanos
• Genius Loci
  • Mogo
  • The house from the 1986 movie House
  • Danny the Street
  • The House Of Leaves
  • Silent Hill.
• Genki Girl
  • Poemi Watanabe
  • Tomo Takino
• Genre Busting
  • Suzumiya Haruhi
  • Godel Escher Bach
  • Thursday Next
  • The Big Lebowski
  • Tangerine Dream -Ziggy Zag
  • Cowboy Bebop
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! GX
  • Doctor Who; Its a sci-fi horrific romantic comedy adventure with forays into fantasy.- Completely Different
• Genre Deconstruction
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion: Deconstructing the Super Robot genre, the human psyche and YOUR BRAIN, all at once!
  • Watchmen. Every superhero story ever since, basically, has been a response to it.
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! GX: The Evangelion of Gaming and Sports Anime And Manga.
  • Puella Magi Madoka Magica: The Evangelion of Magical Girl.
  • A Song of Ice and Fire is far and away the best deconstruction of epic fantasy.
  • School Days, or when harems go wrong.
• Genre Shift
  • Mahou Sensei Negima. There's a very good reason that it's the picture on the Genre Shift page.
  • Medaka Box. Light-hearted student council comedy to OMF WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY DOING?!
  • Wapsi Square. Nowhere else has an element phased in so slowly come to dominate so thoroughly. When's the last time a member of the original cast was even seen other than Monica, Shelly, and Tina?
• Gentleman Detective
  • Professor Layton
  • Lord Peter Wimsey, the original detective who was a true British gentleman
• Geodesic Cast
  • Homestuck. There are four kids, each with a guardian, a kernelsprite, and an exile. And then there's the twelve trolls, who also have corresponding guardians (Lusii), kernelsprites, and exiles, although eleven of their kernelsprites are prototyped with their Lusii and the remaining one is dead. We also only see five of their exiles, but they all have a counterpart in the kids' session. Then there's other characters, such as the Dersites and Prospitians, who are mirrors of each other, and Becquerel and Doc Scratch.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff
  • Maes Hughes
  • Late 1980s/early 1990s anime in Spain, Italy and Latin America.
  • Americans Love Bastard-Godfather-Marine-Knight-Criminal-Superstrong-Pirates that blow up countries and then take control over a nuclear weapon, or kill people by touching/ choking the f*ck out of them, or screw around with everybody else's plans because they feel like going Kuahahaha, and are named Crocodile.
  • Americans love Rammstein - g3m1n1
  • Jon Fucking Talbain. Get a clue, Capcom!
• Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!
  • The almighty Signum Punch -- "I held back" indeed...
  • For Gundam, it's a tie for the illustrious Bright Noah's patented Bright Slap and Jamil, whose words are quoted on the page.
  • Simon teleporting (one of only two instances of such a feat) and punching out Rossiu.
    • I second that, although Kamina's "GRINT THOSE TEETH" moment was also pretty awesome.
  • Dr. Rick Dagless, MD, punching Liz in the face at every possible opportunity.
  • Toy Story, made especially hilarious because he used Buzz's own arm to do it.
• Getting Crap Past the Radar
  • 30 Rock, hands down. A show that can slip "It wouldn't be a Lemon Party without old Dick!" past censors and moral guardians on prime-time network television is going to be a tough act to follow.
  • Michael Jackson's Moonwalker. The Angry Video Game Nerd said it best about the crotch-grabbing move: "Why would you put that in a game!? How could you put that in a game?!"
  • Rocko's Modern Life.
    • Seconded. A few episodes had Rocko working at a phone sex hotline. Even Animaniacs could never push things that far. --
  • Arrested Development, anyone? With such lines as "If mother sees this, she will blow a cow." and "That's not a Volvo.", the show might have reached new ground in Radar territory.
  • ReBoot during the first two seasons. "Capacitor is flaccider," anyone?
  • The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy Along with many, many, many, other examples: they spoofed, shot for shot, When Harry Met Sally... 's faking an orgasm scene. Yeah.
  • Avatar: The Last Airbender. Snuck a sexual prelude scene onto TV-Y7.
    • Especially since they gave him a flower necklace in his next scene. Y'know, just in case you weren't positive that he got lei'd.
    • Also, consider the B-plot in "Nightmares and Daydreams."
  • Animaniacs. It's like a sport. - Beta Maxis, Voodoo Child'
    • Seconded. No other show that I know of has made references to "making the censors cry."
  • Colette's briefest of eye-flicks in Ratatouille
  • The scene in the Phineas and Ferb episode "Dude, We're Getting The Band Back Together!", when Vanessa freaks out after finding that her father invited all of the friends to her birthday party, including the boy she's crushing on. She rants "You did WHAT? I don't want them to see this! I'm a teenager - this is for a little girl! Don't you know me at all!" As she says the word 'teenager', she looks down at her breasts and holds her hands in front of herself to emphasize her chest - and to make things even worse, Doofennsmirtz can't pull his eyes away while Perry, in an immediate cut-away, is staring wide-eyed in Vanessa's direction. That scene's not just getting crap past the radar, it's using a cloaking device the size of a planet!
  • Blazing Saddles. It pretty much set the record for censorship-barrier breaks in western cinema. Ziggy Zag
  • Mr. Mop and Mrs. Bucket Uguu. . .
  • The DCAU.
  • Hey Arnold!
  • The Powerpuff Girls, where a five-year-old girl learns "Whenever their masculinity is threatened, they shrink in size!" after she and a sister have been symbolically raped
  • Mana-Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy. Started by the main male character is dressed in his sleep by the resident Ojou, and never ends.
  • "Let's have another."
  • Dan Schneider. Hard to pick a specific series let alone instPance.
    • If we must pick one, I'd vote for Victorious, seeing as two episodes generated enough innuendo for that show to merit it's own Radar page.
  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Remember this was made by Disney and the animators got away with this - Girlonethemoon
  • Adventure Time
    • Seconded.
  • The Victorian striptease in The Great Mouse Detective.
• The Giant
  • Andre
• Giant Mook
  • Jaws
• Giving Someone the Pointer Finger
  • Professor Layton VS Ace Attorney--it contains both Professor Layton and Phoenix Wright. Just look at it.
• Glad I Thought of It
  • Kickassia
• Glasses Pull
  • Horatio Caine
  • Jake Blues
• The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry
  • Jo and Amy March of Little Women
  • Bianca and Katherina from The Taming of the Shrew.
• Glurge
  • It's a Wonderful Life. So very heavy-handed and sentimental -- and yet, proof that even this trope is not necessarily bad. - Heart Burn Kid
  • Of course, this trope can be very bad.
    • Gone with the Wind. Pure glurge, but it's downright heart-filling. -Ziggy Zag
  • Fern Gully
• God
  • Morgan Freeman in Bruce Almighty managed to take the role and make it work. -Ramidel
• A God Am I
  • Enel/Eneru. The ability to turn into/use lightning at will? Check. The ability to "hear" anything within an extremely large radius, amplified by said lightning powers? Check. The severe lack of any material that can counteract these abilities? Ladies and gentlemen, we have an semi-all-powerful psychopath!
  • Second.
  • Light Yagami
• God Is Flawed
  • Both Tron and Tron: Legacy tied this one to the back of a light-cycle and went full speed. The Master Control was a chess program that went A God Am I in the system. Then, Flynn gets in and finds out Programs regard Users the same way we regard Gods. He tries to set Tron and Yori straight about it...but then makes the mistake of whipping up Clu 2.0...
• God Mode Sue
  • Tendou Souji. Walking the path of heaven, ruling over all by obtaining upgrades from the future and making cooking and grandmother's teachings epic.
• Goddamned Bats
  • La-Mulana - Artman 40 - For most of the enemies being only a large nuisance instead of a threat and game mechanics contributing to that.
  • Medusa Heads,
  • Zubat
    • Tentacool
    • Geodude
  • The Keese from The Legend of Zelda
  • Cliff Racers from Morrowind
• Goldfish Poop Gang
  • Team Rocket
• Good All Along
  • Severus Snape
  • Zagato
  • Gin Ichimaru
  • Uchiha Itachi
• Good Bad Bugs
  • Dwarf Fortress
• Good Bad Translation
  • Aero Fighters. Who doesn't love frying over a jungle?
  • Final Fantasy Tactics.
  • ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US <-- Seriously, how come it's not mentioned yet? The most memorable line from that game's intro, and the first entry on the video games memetic mutation page.
• Good Bad Girl
  • Caitlín Mulryan, from Poul Anderson's The Avatar.
• Good Is Dumb
  • Sting. He probably has the record of most betrayals in pro wrestling, and that's saying something.
  • Spaceballs
  • Inspector Gadget
• Good Is Not Dumb
  • Carrot Ironfoundersson
  • Paragon Shepard
  • Roy Greenhilt
• Good Is Not Nice
  • Batman -Kriegsmesser, Ziggy Zag
  • Granny Weatherwax
    • Sam Vimes, as well
  • Asch the Bloody
  • Marietta, especially in Knights in The Nightmare
  • Lelouch Lamperouge, for those of us who think he's a good guy.
  • Eva Ushiromiya
  • Severus Snape -- Bucco Babe
• Good Is Not Soft
  • Nanoha is one of the nicest people you'll ever meet- and she won't hesitate to blast you in the face with Beam Spam if you give her a reason.
• Good-Looking Privates
  • Everyone in Axis Powers Hetalia
  • Fullmetal Alchemist
  • Big Boss
  • Infinite Space, particularly the Regeinlandic soldiers.
  • Full Metal Panic!. Especially Sousuke and Tessa.
  • Becker.
• Good Ol' Boy
  • Hank Hill
• Good Parents
  • |Akio and Sanae Furukawa.
• Good People Have Good Sex
  • Trevor and Roxy Lablanc from Army Wives -Dogged Nice Girl
• Good Scars, Evil Scars
  • Zuko. Never has moral ambiguity been so thoroughly symbolized by a single scar.
    • Seconded!

• Good with Numbers
  • Pi-Face Sho Minamimoto.
  • Anastasia Monroe
  • Well, Numb3rs. Duh.
  • Daniel Tammet
  • Spencer Reid
  • James May
• Go Out with a Smile
  • Hoenheim from Fullmetal Alchemist
    • From the same series, Bucanneer.
  • Any one with the Will of the D.
    • More specifically, Portgas D. Ace.
  • Jack and the Lava Monster - FREE.
• Gorn
  • MadWorld
  • Braindead
  • Gantz(especially the manga)
  • Blood C,
• Gory Discretion Shot
  • The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which has barely a drop of blood onscreen, but never feels any less horrifying because of it.
    • For similiar reasons, the original Halloween
  • The Dark Knight - this is pretty much the only thing that saved it from an R-rating. -Gwen Stacy Wannabe, deeman 45
    • Batman: Arkham Asylum did the very same, except with Bloodless Carnage, and it probably avoided the same end as a result.
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion. And then your imagination makes it worse.
  • Doctor Who: "The Sound of Drums". The Master's reaction sells it.
• Grande Dame
  • Margaret Dumont, in the Marx Brothers' films.
  • Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest-
    • There are very few modern adaptations that carry this over, but in most of the original productions, Bracknell would be a man in drag.
• Got the Call on Speed Dial
  • Tommy Oliver Power Rangers - Wswordsmen
• Got Volunteered
  • Career Tributes
• Grand Finale
  • Cowboy Bebop - Amitai
  • Avatar: The Last Airbender
  • Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation - shame about the movies, though.
  • Lost: The End
  • The End of Evangelion
• Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!
  • Sophia Loren
  • Mark Harmon. The man is pushing 60. WHAT.
  • Big Mama/EVA
  • Unohana Retsu of Bleach. --ncfan
  • Dr. Kureha
  • |Sanae Furukawa
• Gratuitous English
  • Terry Bogard (Fatal Fury, The King of Fighters) is Engrish incarnate. I don't think he's ever uttered a word in Japanese...not that there's anything wrong with that. ARE YOU OK?!
  • Hello Everynya! How Are You Fine Thank You. (OH MY GAH!) I whish I were a bird!
  • "YUU AH NUMBAH ONE!" And then there was the Gratuitous Technobabble English.
  • WE GOTTA POWER! DORAGONBORU ZETTO!
  • Soul Eater has it all over the place. the serise itself was called Sōru Ītā in Japan Pronounced "Soul Eater", the strongest weapons are Death Scythes, but Free and Excalibur's proficientcy in english deserves mention. Hilariously, the money in Soul Eater are called "Death Notes"
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's The announcer with his catchphrase: "EVERYBODY LISTEN!"
  • Date Masamune of Sengoku Basara fame PUT YA GUNS ON!!!!!
  • Lucky Star full stop. Even its opening (Motteke! Se-ra-fuku) abuses the trope.
  • Not only is the amount of English text used in Tiger and Bunny staggering, but its all accurate and grammatically correct.
  • God is Dead!
• Great Escape
  • The Shawshank Redemption
  • The Silence of the Lambs
  • The Great Escape...
• Green-Eyed Monster
  • Salieri
  • Iago, from Othello. He coined the term "green eyed monster".
  • Envy. The manga in particular, wherein Envy turns into Nightmare Fuel.
    • Seconded. That Stealth Pun alone was genius.
  • Almost EVERYTHING about Parsee says this - her title, her first spellcard (which is ridiculously hard for stage 2 - AND EVEN USED ON EASY)- her personality - SHE EVEN HAS GREEN EYES!
• Green Rocks
  • Binchotite. It not only gets New Powers as the Plot Demands (from making floating islands to being refined into fuel to capturing people to powering Musashi's special abilities to making Super Soldiers), it's also green, and a rock (when exposed to air).
  • You HAVE to admit Kryptonite is the original example.
  • You require more Vespene Gas!
• Grey and Grey Morality
  • Rose of the Prophet. Despite a setting where there are gods and their factions of followers who are specifically labelled as "good", "evil" and "neutral", nothing is ever in black and white. Even a man who borders on a Complete Monster in his actions can still be a powerful, trustworthy and even admirable ally. The final conflict is fought, not between the forces of good and evil, but the forces of chaotic neutral and lawful neutral.
• Groin Attack
  • Braindead
  • I said ve'd cut off your CHONSON!
  • America's Funniest Home Videos
  • Friday the 13 th: The Final Chapter; Jason stabs a guy in the balls with a speargun so hard he's actually lifted off the ground. Then he fires the spear while its still embedded in the guy.
  • Perfect Blue. Pizza delivery. Screwdriver. Sweet dreams.
  • Sasha Kaylo has an entire martial arts style built around groin attacks, downing several soldiers in quick succession with quick and brutal groin combos. She also ripped a monster's heart out ... through its crotch.
  • The All-Groin Attack Blast Out in Inglorious Basterds
  • "That's mah purse!"
  • The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny:

Angels sang out in immaculate chorus As down from the heavens descended Chuck Norris Who delivered a kick which could shatter bones Into the crotch of Indiana Jones...

It helps that this is set to the most epic Crowning Music of Awesome EVER.

More lyrics: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/l/lemon_demon/#share

• The Grotesque
  • Mr. Merrick
• Grotesque Cute
  • Mirai Nikki. As a rule, the cuter it is, the greater its capacity for Nightmare Fuel. No exceptions.
• Groundhog Day Loop
  • Groundhog Day
  • Suzumiya Haruhi. EIGHT. FRIGGIN. EPISODES.
  • Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
  • Chyna
• "Growing Muscles" Sequence
  • The Miniavengers, every single episode.
• The Guards Must Be Crazy
  • Arkham Asylum
  • Assassin's Creed
• Guide Dang It
  • If by "triumphant" you mean "annoying", then Milon's Secret Castle, easily.
  • The Barrel Puzzle from Sonic the Hedgehog 3. And the guide itself didn't tell you how to get past it.
    • Ah yes, the Barrel of Doom. That thing is EVIL. For those who don't know how to get past it, you need to stand on it and press up and down. May take some attempts to get it right. You're welcome.
  • Pick a Tales (series) game, any Tales (series) game. - Malkyrian
  • The Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy adventure game. There are probably grown men out there who will still break down crying at the very mention of the phrase "Babel Fish.".
  • Final Fantasy, the higher the number, the worse it gets. While not necessarily needed to beat the main game, everything else either assumes you have it, or that you'll somehow know that the only way to get the most powerful weapon in the game is to NOT open 4 specific chest early in the game that look the same as all other chests.
  • Yume Nikki
  • La-Mulana. If you (claim to have) cleared it and the Hell Temple without a guide, you're either the most intelligent gamer ever or a real liar.
  • See that Milotic? Looks awesome, right? Want to get one in your party? Go ahead. I'll be waiting.
    • Fuck it if even the guide will help you there...
  • Persona 4. The game actively tries to stop you from getting the best ending.
  • Try Finding all the djinn without the guide in the Golden Sun games
  • What's that, there's a good ending?
  • Silent Hill 3's hard puzzle mode. There's the infamous Shakespeare puzzle, then the puzzle involving the eating habits of the linnet bird (which I'd never even heard of), and then having to know when you're supposed to use your Chekhov's Gun.
  • Want to play Dwarf Fortress?
• Guile Hero
  • Rock
  • Kellsier
  • The Venerable Pius XII
  • The Joestar lineage
  • Peeta
  • Odysseus
  • Batman
• Guilty Pleasure
  • To LOVE-Ru - (Anon trooper. Hence the guilty.)
  • The Pokémon anime. I have done my research and yes, pokemon has appeared more often on the Troper Tales Guilty Pleasure than ANYTHING else.
  • My Balls. The plot is halfways decent, and it's certainly funny, but anything involving the sheer ridiculous amount of fanservice and not just straight up calling itself a Hentai (it claims to be Ecchi) definitely goes here.
  • Porn. Prove me wrong.
  • Any sort of preschool Edutainment Show. I will admit, the only reason I made pages for Special Agent Oso and Ni Hao, Kai-Lan are because I love to watch them, if only to find new riffing material.
  • Seikon no Qwaser
• Gunslinger
  • Roland Deschain
  • Rushuna Tendou, who only needs a single six-shooter, even against tanks
• Guttural Growler
  • Tom Waits

H

• Hair-Trigger Temper
  • "OVER THE LINE!"
  • Tommy DeVito - Robert Bingham
  • Quoth the Shizuo, "IIIIIIIIIIZAAAAAAAAAYAAAAAAAA!!"
• Ham-to-Ham Combat
  • Daleks vs Cybermen
  • N. Bison vs. Dr. Insano
  • The final battle of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
• Hand Cannon
  • The Ambassador from Team Fortress 2
  • Fefnir and, by extension, Model F.
  • The Anti-Materiel Rifle in Fallout: New Vegas is described as 'A fucking scoped hand-cannon'. And, baby, it is.
• Handicapped Badass
  • Maedhros.
  • Oracle! She's arguably more dangerous at a computer in her wheelchair than she was as Batgirl!
  • Joker from Mass Effect. Can barely move out of his pilot's chair, but the stuff he can make the Normandy do? And not bad with a kill-shot either.
  • Zatoichi is blind. And will kill anyone oppressing the masses. - @/Zblayde
  • Gregory and Dominic from Dominic Deegan. Gregory starts out with a lame leg and powerful White Magic, then switches the "cripple" role with his older brother, Dominic, who now has an artificial leg and false teeth and saves the world every weekend.
  • Joe Swanson.
  • Accelerator. He can't even move without technological assistance, but he can slow the Earth's rotation for five minutes.
  • Fullmetal Alchemist has many but Izumi Curtis is missing several organs and she kicks serious ass!
  • Dr. House has a cane and is not afraid to use it.
  • Shanks.
• Hands-Off Parenting
  • 'The Wandering Lanes', from Daria (as the trope was originally 'Casa Lane Parenting, it's also the Trope Namer)
  • Mandark's parents
  • The Pickles parents
  • Ira and Sheila Rosenberg: he's a famous child psychologist and they treat their daughter like this?
• Handsome Lech
  • Girls count, too, don't they? Sei Satou, step up and claim your prize. (Please refrain from handling the Yumi on your way to the podium.)
  • Igor Metzger from Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49
  • Going to go with Miroku on this one.
• Happily Adopted
  • Yotsuba
• Happy Ending Override
  • Chrono Cross. "What were we fighting for?" indeed.
• Harmful to Minors
  • President Reitman, "BABY FUCK, BABY FUCK!!!!! IT'SSS AWWRIGHTTT!!!09:49, 8 January 2014 (UTC)"
• Harmless Villain
  • Dr. Drakken
  • I AM THE BOX GHOST! (Master of all things cardboard and corrugated!)
  • Team Rocket.
  • The Phantom Dictator of Krankor. Haaaa haaaaa haaaa haaaaa haaaa haaaaa haaaaaaa.
  • "I, GARLAND WILL, uh, KNOCK YOU ALL DOWN!"
  • Dr. Insano -Ziggy Zag
  • The Amoeba boys. Good God, they littered!
  • Dr. Doofenschmirtz -- Bucco Babe
• Hate Dumb
  • The "Halo has the most generic storyline and bland gameplay" commmunity. Good grief.
  • The "All The Legend of Zelda games are the same in different coats" crowd.
  • 4th-edition Dungeons & Dragons.
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's gets a lot of this, especially considering that a good 90% of its hate base are people who have never even seen the show!
  • The "Anyone who likes Final Fantasy post 7 is a whore!!" demographic. Need I say more?
    • Seconded. The Hate Dumb for latter FF games must be seen to be believed.
  • The "My Chemical Romance are gay emos who are ruining rock music" crowd.
• Haunted Technology: Notorious BBC one-off drama Ghostwatch.
• Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?
  • Emil manages to do this to himself, when there's nobody else around. Just...just watch.
• Headphones Equal Isolation
  • Neku, most definitely. I mean, the game's theme only kind of revolves around it.
  • The Far Side cartoon with the birds and the cat
  • Shinji, of course
• Heart Is an Awesome Power
  • JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
  • Jade Sinclair
  • One Piece
  • There's a Luke Surl Comic in which Ma-Ti causes a heart failure. That was pretty cool.
  • Aquaman
    • Seconded. He even used his influence over sea life to defeat a villain who had immaculate control over water itself.
  • Squirrel Girl
  • Rin "cart away dead people" Kaenbyou
    • Kogasa Tatara, ability to surprise people. Including the players themselves.
    • Unfortunately for her it only really works once. How do I know that? in the Touhou thread on this site, I somewhat jokingly said Kogasa would be in 13. And you know what? She IS. She's the stage 3 midboss.)
  • Sandreline Fa Toren; because power over thread and cloth is badass. - Completely Different
• Heavy Mithril
  • Bal-Sagoth
• Heel Face Revolving Door
  • Sylar in Volume 3. Ye gods. -Haven
  • Cole Turner. The man could NOT pick a side!
  • Archer.
  • Long John Silver again.
  • Kain Highwind
  • Two-Face -Ziggy Zag
  • Naomi Hunter
  • Vegeta
  • Magneto. 45+ years of storylines will give you ample opportunities to go back and forth.
    • Seconded! -- Bucco Babe
  • Wait, is Peter Parker a clone or isn't he?
  • Kevin freaking Levin
  • Zuko
• Heel Face Turn
  • Axel Almer, one Heel Face Turn that is both awesome and heartwarming.
  • Dinobot.
  • Zuko, if only because it took SO FREAKING LONG to get there!
  • Everyone and their mother.
  • Magus
  • Darth Vader
  • The Grinch probably has the most heartwarming of all Heel Face Turns. I challenge you not to have your heart warmed.
• Heli Critter
  • Tails from Sonic the Hedgehog. (Flies with his own two tails)
• Hero Antagonist
  • Klaus Wulfenbach from Girl Genius. Not only does he seem to be trying to do the right thing but it's hard to argue that he isn't, at least in regards to uniting the disparate sparks of Europa. Even when it comes down to his goal of capturing or killing Agatha it's hard to argue with him given the circumstances, something the heroes themselves acknowledge. That being said, he is still, without a doubt, the antagonist in the story.
  • Dib
  • Harpuia
  • Captain Hammer
  • Kirihara Misaki
  • L
  • Inspector Zengita
  • Team Unicorn
• Hero with Bad Publicity
  • Marona.
  • Batman. He's called "The Dark Knight" for a reason.
  • Saber, to the point where her entire country erupts into civil war and her own circle of knights backstabs her.
  • Spider-Man.
  • The X-Men. Every last one of them.
  • The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the '80s cartoon.
  • Vash the Stampede.
• Heroic BSOD
  • Samus. Specifically, the Ridley scene.
• The Hero Dies
  • The Death of Superman
• Heroic Mime
  • Gordon Freeman.
  • Link
  • Chrono Trigger
  • Issac and Felix, but only if they're the main character.
  • Mario.
  • Pick any Suikoden game, excluding the Gaiden Games.
  • Why hasn't Pokémon Red been mentioned yet?
• Heroic Sacrifice
  • Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: KING KITTAN... GIGA... DRILL... BREAKER!
  • The Bible
  • "ONE! TWO! THREE! FOUR! - The Master.
  • I am programmed to protect, and sacrifice if necessary. Omega Supreme, we hardly knew ye.
  • Zero loves doing this, but the most notable is "If I destroy Weil's core, the explosion will take Ragnarok out with it...If Ragnarok is blown apart, it no longer poses a threat!" And not to mention that he finally brings the long-awaited peace between humans and Reploids. Dying Moment of Awesome indeed...
  • Simon Tam in Firefly: "You gave up everything" "Mei-mei, all I have is right here."
  • Alphonse Elric
    • *sob* Seconded. . . .
  • "I have been...and always shall be...your friend. Live long, and prosper."
  • Dinobot when he fought the entire Predicon force (that is Inferno, Black Arachnia, Waspinator, Rampage, Quickstrike, and Megatron),ALONE, and destroying the source of future informaton to prevent them from eradicating the ancestors of humanity, which would have resulted in the Decepticons defeating the Autobots in the future and winning the war. All while slowly being battered to the point of exhaustion. It's made better in his Be All My Sins Remembered speech/final words to his teammates.
  • Minato and Kushina very sad *Sob*
  • Barry Allen in Crisis on Infinite Earths. His death stuck for 23 years!
• He's Back
  • Simon and his Manly Tears.
  • Godzilla vs. Destoroyah. And lo, crustaceous ass was kicked.
  • Kaori Yae.
• Hero-Killer
  • General Grievous... but only in Star Wars: Clone Wars
  • Barbatos Goetia - ChrisX
  • Jack Noir. Just take a look at his kill list. - Shinji 117
  • Lord Darcia from Wolf's Rain. In the OVA that concludes the series, he either directly kills or indirectly causes the death of the entire cast
  • Syndrome. The list of heroes he's killed is enormous.
  • Fuhrer Bradley, aka Wrath from Fullmetal Alchemist. I mean, holy crap.
• Hero with an F In Good
  • Itachi. Can his actions towards Sasuke be anymore deranged?
• Het Is Ew
  • South Park fanfiction.
  • Death Note fanfiction.
• Heterosexual Life Partners
  • J.D. and Turk on Scrubs. They even sing a song called "Guy Love" in the Musical Episode.
    • This. Everyone, everyone pales in comparison.
  • Jay and Silent Bob
  • Yukari and Nyamo.
  • Alan Shore and Denny Crane.
  • Louis, I think this might be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
  • House and Wilson
  • Sam and Dean Winchester
  • Both Frodo and Sam and Legolas and Gimli from Lord of the Rings. - Ainu Laire
  • I'm not even going to think about why this hasn't been mentioned. Kirk and Spock
  • Solid Snake and Otacon
  • Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John H. Watson
  • Vince Noir and Howard Moon.
    • Seconded. Oh god seconded.
  • Neal Caffrey and Peter Burke were this before they even liked each other.
  • Spongebob and Patrick
  • Ikkaku and Yumichika of Bleach. --ncfan
  • Fay D. Flourite and Kurogane
  • This entire page is being glared to death beyond resurrection due to its lack of Admiral William "Husker" Adama and Colonel Saul Tigh.
  • You and your partner from the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series.
  • Matt Stone and Trey Parker (Real Life examples count, right?)
  • Cory and Shawn
  • Miyuki and Natsumi
• Hidden Agenda Villain
  • Alex. Three games and we still don't know what he's up to.
    • Oh God, seconded beyond belief. Replaying all the games, you can start to see where all the pieces come into play for him--but WHAT THE HELL IS HE AFTER?
  • Hekate's Master. After seven years we still don't know what he/she/it is up to or who he is or even if he's human.
• Highly-Visible Ninja
  • 'NARUTO UZUMAKI!!!'
    • Seconded.
    • Thirded.
    • Fourthed
    • Fifthed
  • Pick a Mortal Kombat ninja. Any Mortal Kombat ninja.
  • Taki.
  • Black*Star. "Do you even know what "assassination" is??"
    • BEHOLD THE ALMIGHTY BLACK*STAR! YA-HOO!!!
  • Storm Shadow. The dude wears friggin' white.
  • Mai Shiranui, drools.
  • The scene in the second Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie where they get up on stage and dance with Vanilla Ice.
  • Volfogg from GaoGaiGar. He's a giant purple transforming robot after all! (it doesn't get more highly-visible than that!) And yet, he's incredibly stealthy thanks his intelligent use of holographic projections and his Cloaking Device.
  • BANG BANG BANG BAAAANG!! BANG DAMASHII!!!
  • Might Guy Dynamic Entry
• Hey, It's That Guy!
  • Degrassi. Name a Canadian kids show that came out after 2000, and chances are at least 2 people from Degrassi are on it. The icing on the cake is probably the fact that they have 5 people from one show (Life with Derek) and Aubrey Graham (he played Jimmy), who went on to be the world famous rapper Drake.
• Hijacked by Ganon
  • Dr. Wily from the Mega Man series, doing so in about 8 different games.
    • Sigma in Mega Man X.
    • Wiel in Mega Man Zero, and arguably in Mega Man ZX as Model W.
  • Ganondorf, of course.
  • In Star Fox Adventures, Andross
• Hijacked by Jesus
  • Disney's Hercules-674J
• Hikikomori
  • Kiri Komori from Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei- cutest hikikomori ever.
• Hilariously Abusive Childhood
  • Dr. Doofenshmirtz: It all began on the day of my actual birth. Both of my parents failed to show up.
  • Meg Griffin?
• Historical Villain Upgrade
  • Salieri
  • Um, Oda Nobunaga? He was a freakin' demon lord in the Onimusha games.
  • Fate/stay night. I don't quite remember Gilgamesh as having the ability to whip out any weapon in existence, from anywhere, anytime he feels like it.
    • I don't even remember Gilgamesh as being a villain. Or a historical figure.
  • Vlad III Dracula
• Hollywood Cyborg
  • The Six Million Dollar Man. Full stop.
  • Ghost in the Shell
  • RoboCop -Ziggy Zag
• Honor Before Reason
  • Luke Skywalker at the end of Return of the Jedi.
  • Adell, all the time.
  • Goku
  • Eddard Stark
  • Samurai Jack
• Hope Spot
  • Bleach chapters 391 and 392.
  • The Thunder Child. FULL STOP!
• Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
  • Halloween
• Hot-Blooded
  • The most hot blooded series in the history of ever: Super Robot Wars
  • Anime Tenchou's blood is so hot, he burns!
    • Seconded.
  • Most of the men Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.
    • Don't you mean "Everyone in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann"?
  • Brian Blessed!
  • Bang Shishigami
  • Guy Shishioh
  • Natsu Dragneel is all fired up
  • Kouji Kabuto
• Hotblooded Sideburns
  • Ryoma Nagare.
  • Saint Seiya
  • Kouji Kabuto from Mazinger Z
• Hot Gypsy Woman
  • Esmerelda.
• Hot Librarian
  • Yomiko Readman. Next question.
  • Manaka Komaki.
  • Crappy though The Mummy 1999 remake was, Rachel Weisz as a librarian was... damn.

Man Without A Body

• • One of my fellow librarians. No, you don't get to know her name.
  • Rider, surprisingly.
  • Jessica Claus.
• Hot Mom
  • Debra "Patricia Heaton" Barone in the later seasons of Everybody Loves Raymond. Especially once they start whipping out the skin-tight sweaters and sexy lingerie.
  • Mrs. Incredible anyone?
  • Delia Ketchum, full stop.
  • Lois Griffin
• Howl of Sorrow
  • Marianne Pearl (Angelina Jolie) in A Mighty Heart
  • Rhonda in Blessed
• Ho Yay
  • Heroes
  • Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
  • D.N.Angel - Bright Blue Ink
  • Everyone is Itsuki for Kyon.
  • Momiji and Sakura in Blue Seed
  • Merlin, Merlin, Merlin. "Faster, Arthur, go faster!"
    • Seconded. Hard.
  • The ending of Kingdom Hearts II
  • Supernatural
  • Revolutionary Girl Utena. It's in the very premise, along with virtually every character.
  • Axis Powers Hetalia - Ardis, Squeeney Todd
  • How is there any possibility in the world that Kuroshitsuji has not been mentioned yet? It practically epitomizes this trope.
  • Get Backers. For crying out loud, is there ONE guy in here that DOESN'T have at least an entire episode full of this directed towards him?
  • Nigel and David
  • Final Fantasy Dissidia. Every single line. Then again in a game where almost all the characters are muscular tightly-clad bishonen hitting each other with phallic objects it is to be expected.
  • Frodo and Sam
  • Star Trek: The Original Series. There is a reason Kirk/Spock was the first ever slash pairing!
  • Shinji and Kaworu
  • SpongeBob SquarePants
  • Hot Fuzz
  • How is it possible that no one has put GetBackers under here yet?
  • Sherlock Holmes
  • That Guy With the Glasses
  • Metal Gear Solid
  • Judai and Johan
  • Ren and Stimpy. A 1997 interview had John K. say that, yes, they are gay.
  • House and Wilson
  • Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha. Nano Fate 4ever!
• Human Aliens
  • Superman and co.
  • Doctor Who has brought us the concept of the Time Lord and hundreds of others species identical the human race.- Completely Different
• Humans Are the Real Monsters
  • District 9
  • Avatar
  • Warhammer 40,000 - Does it need explaining?!
  • Hell Girl - It doesn't matter if you're a Complete Monster or an absolute saint who's never conciously done anything to wrong anybody else. Somebody will still find a reason to get revenge on you, and damn you to eternal torment in Hell for even the most frivolous offense (you could go to hell for scratching somebody's car.) Oh, and did I mention the Complete Monsters? They're everywhere.
  • X-Men
• Humiliation Conga
  • Darkwing Duck's defeat of Negaduck at the end of "Just Us Justice Ducks, Part 2."
• Humongous Mecha
  • Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann That is all.
  • Demonbane. Doesn't get more humongous than "pops the universe."
  • I think Macross wins for having the biggest humanoid robot, though.
  • Transformers. Entire cast of them, FTW.
    • Primus and Unicron. Both are freaking PLANETS. Try and top that.
      • Also? Primus is a god, and Unicron EATS UNIVERSES, one planet at a time. Top that.
      • Topping Primus and Unicron in size is Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, who deflects galaxies being thrown at it with its wrist, so I second TTGL as my choice.
    • At least Mega Maid wasn't voiced by someone who hated the movie and was only there for the money so he could finance Shakespeare productions.
  • Mazinger Z
• Hurricane of Euphemisms
  • The Phallic Spaceship routine from Austin Powers 2 - Wascally Wabbit
  • Much Ado About Nothing. Specifically, Don Pedro's "wit" speech.
• Hurricane of Puns
  • Xanth. - trimeta
    • Seconded
  • Any time Groucho Marx speaks
  • Elan
  • Dominic Deegan
    • Oh. GOD. Seconded. Just to give a few examples...
• Hyperspace Arsenal
  • Turok 2. User:Artman 40
  • Archer and his Golden predecessor.
  • Erza Scarlet.
  • Misato
• Hype Backlash
  • James Cameron's Avatar. Not only did it have hype backlash when it was revealed, it got another backlash when it got popular and people saw it to see what all the fuss was about. Then other people started to see it to see what the previous people were complaining about, then people wondered what was causing such polarizing opinions, etc. The sad thing is, if it weren't for all the backlash, it would just be an average action movie. The Hype Backlash actually caused more hype. -- Jonn
• Hyperspace Is a Scary Place
  • The Jaunt, by Steven King.
  • Warhammer 40,000
  • Event Horizon
• Hypocrite:
  • Emma Nelson from Degrassi the Next Generation
• Hypocritical Humor
  • Casablanca: "I am shocked - shocked! - to find gambling going on in this establishment." "Your winnings, sir." "Thank you." - Doctor Worm, Man Without A Body
  • Gentlemen! You can't fight in here! This is the war room! -Ziggy Zag, deeman 45

I

• I Ate What?
  • Soylent Green
• I Can't Believe a Guy Like You Would Notice Me
  • Sawako, of course.
• Ice Cream Koan
  • "This cosmic dance of bursting decadence and withheld permissions twists all our arms collectively. But, if sweetness can win, and it can, then I'll still be here tomorrow to high-five you yesterday my friend. Peace." Said by The Royal Tart Toter. It makes the list because it was the freakiest moment in Adventure Time. And that's saying something.
  • Cho has an Ice Cream Koan for every occasion.
  • Raocow's ramblings frequently go into Ice Cream Koan territory. Perhaps the best example.
• I Choose to Stay
  • Klinger from the Mash finale.
• I Know You Know I Know
  • The Doctor and the Master in The "Curse of the Fatal Death" bonus points for both sides using time machines to further complicate matters.
    • He tops even that in Let's Kill Hitler, which is canon.
• I Hate Past Me
  • Archer to Shirou. "Drown in your ideals and die!"
    • Seconded. When you play Xanatos Speed Chess to make sure you can kill your past self, it is hard not to hit this trope - Just a Username
  • Karkat.
• I Hate You, Vampire Dad
  • Interview With A Vampire
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel
• I'm Taking Her Home with Me!
  • Rena "HAUUUU! OMOCHIKAERI!" RyuuguuRay Ayanami
    • Seco-- Rena! Put Hanyuu down! again!
  • Elmyra
• Iconic Item
  • The Scarf. That is all.
    • The Sonic Screwdriver.
    • The Fez
  • The Hat.
  • Indy's hat.
• Identical Grandson
  • Blaze The Cat.
  • Blackadder
• Idiosyncratic Ship Naming
  • Gotta 'ship 'em all! Pokémon!
    • Seconded. Have you SEEN the official list?!
  • Harry Potter.
    • Seconded.
  • The Iron Man ship known as "Pepperoni", one of the few examples where shipping itself doesn't bother me
• Idiot Ball
  • Peter Petrelli.
  • The Investigation Team, Detective Dojima, and Taro Namatame from Persona 4. It's hard to pick which one is the worst offender.
  • Harry and Lloyd
• Idiot Hero
  • Gourry Gabriev
  • Naruto.
  • Ben Hawkins. "That boy just ain't too bright, is he?"
  • Monkey D. Luffy.
  • Homestar Runner
  • Groo the Wanderer
  • Daisuke/Davis Motomiya
  • Luke fon Fabre
  • Phillip J. Fry
  • Son Goku
  • Coop. He's destroyed two planets by accident.
  • Natsu Dragneel
• Idiot Plot
  • Beavis and Butthead Do America
  • Jodi Picoult's House Rules
• Idol Singer
  • Morning Musume of Hello! Project
  • Envy Adams
• If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him
  • Batman and the Joker
  • Luke Skywalker and Emperor Palpatine.
• Ignore the Fanservice
  • Yamato Naoe can somehow ignore Patient Childhood Friend Miyako Shiina's constant sexual jokes, her great body and her wanting to get with her for years. (He can get with her in her route though.)
• Ignored Epiphany
  • Demona of Gargoyles ("What have I... what have they done?!")
  • I can't imagine a more archetypical example than Major General Schieffenzahn's in The Case of Sergeant Grischa (which is the MTE for What Have I Become? too).
• I Knew It!
  • Wheel of Time. If you've read the books, Thom being part of the group to rescue Moiriane. There is no such thing as more obvious foreshadowing.
  • The Fourth Hokage is Naruto's father?! I never saw that coming!
• "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight
  • Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne episode 43 against Miyako
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
  • Anthy Himemiya in the last episode of Revolutionary Girl Utena.
  • In Naruto, Pain impales everyone.
  • Asuka and Unit 02 in End of Evangelion.
• Implacable Man
  • Anton Chigurh
  • Roberta. Just... Roberta
  • Broly.
  • Ichigo Kurosaki at least twice per arc.
• Impossible Thief
  • Carmen Sandiego.
  • Thief. Steals anything that is not nailed downand on fire. Note the emphasis in both "anything" and "and". This includes, but is not limited to, secrets, a soul in a sacred orb and his own Class Change from the future.
  • Keyser Soze
  • Eugenides. Steals mythical treasures, people, and world peace.
  • The Thief from The Thief and the Cobbler. He picks his own pocket, steals the three golden balls from inside a giant death machine as it explodes, and steals the film the movie is made on.
• Impossibly Cool Weapon
  • Captain America's Mighty Shield If Cap is in a room with 40 mooks, he can throw it, watch it pac man around and take them all out, catch it and do it all again.
  • All the Drills in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. Trust me on this one.
  • 99% of all Humongous Mecha
• Impossibly Tacky Clothes
  • The Sixth Doctor. Full stop.
    • Seconded.
• Improbable Aiming Skills
  • The Adventures of Dr. McNinja's The Flying Shooting Juan:
  • Legolas
    • Seconded.
  • Bullseye.
  • Vash the Stampede
  • Rushuna Tendo
  • Lockon Stratos the first one
  • Riza Hawkeye
• Improbable Hairstyle
  • Dill from Stickin' Around. I think even by anime standards, that type of hairstyle would be considered out of the ordinary.
  • Yugi Moto. And it's implied to be natural.
  • Iris. Gravity? What's that?
  • Bill. Just... Bill. His hair is like a real like version of Axel.
  • Marge Simpson anyone?
• Fundamentally Female Cast
  • Strawberry Panic
  • Azumanga Daioh.
  • Lucky Star.
  • Small Favors for having crowd scenes in a supposedly normal city that show only young attractive females.
  • There is no ghetto, only Touhou.
  • How about Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha?
• Improvised Weapon
  • Dead Rising.
  • The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction
  • Straw Dogs. The window was impressive, but the mantrap was terrifying.
  • Jason Bourne.
  • Noir - Kirika has used her I.D card, and the axel of a toy truck as weapons. - lmd_84
  • Jackie Chan
    • Nirao 01 agrees.
  • MacGyver. Holy crap MacGyver.
  • Bullseye. He can kill you with his own teeth.
  • Dwarf Fortress, Adventure Mode. "I just killed a Bronze Colossus, and you'll never guess how..."
• In Name Only
  • I Robot would have been a much better movie if they called it "Will Smith Beats Up Robots"
  • Starship Troopers, without question. This is what happens when you decide you utterly loathe the original and turn the movie into a ham-fisted parody of the book.
    • Starship Troopers, without question. This is what happens when you decide you utterly loathe the original and turn the movie into a brilliant satire on a shitty book. It is, indeed, most triumphant.
  • The Fox and the Hound (film). I know it's Disney, but what the everloving fuck - how do you turn a documentary-style novel about hunting lore and natural history that lets you read the animal characters' languageless thoughts into a talking animals musical about racism? HOW?!
  • The Catwoman..."thing" people call a movie. What the hell, Warner Bros?
  • Dragonball Evolution
  • "Deadpool" in X-Men Origins: Wolverine
  • Sonic Underground
  • WWE, these days.
  • Mario's Time Machine
  • The Animated Adaptation of Wayside School
• In Love with Love
  • Don Juan DeMarco's titular character defines this trope.
• Incendiary Exponent
  • As much as this troper loves Jack Skellington's performance during This Is Halloween, she has to give the prize to Rocky Rickaby. Are you questioning his logic?
    • No, really, are you?
  • Oh, shit; Godzilla's on fire.
  • That guy who comes the fuck out of nowhere running through the tunnels on fire in Gaston Lereux's original Phantom of the Opera novel. -Ziggy Zag
  • The fate of Boatmurdered
• Incoming Ham
  • TEN THOUSAND YEARS WILL GIVE YOU SUCH A CRICK IN THE NECK!!!
  • "WHOOOOOO! A-KA-KA-KA-KA-KA-KA-KA-KA-KA-KA 'YEAAAAAH!!! I'M DOCTOR ROCKSO, THE ROCK AND ROLL CLOWN!!! I DO COCAAAAAAAAAAAAAINNNNEE!!!!!"
  • GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD MOOOOOOORNNNINGGGGGGGGG IIIIIIIIIIIIIICCCHHHHIIIIIIGGG­GGOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
  • District 9. Hey, let's go to MNU.
  • And, of course, Indiana Jones. - Ainu Laire
  • Jack Sparrow
    • That's Captain Jack Sparrow!
  • Ciaphas Cain.
  • Prepare for trouble!
  • MISTER PILGRIM!!!!
  • I HAVE FOUND YOU AT LAST! THE DEFILERS WHO ARE CAUSING... THE DISTORTION OF SPACE!
  • Harbinger is ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL!
  • Gai Dynamic Entry
  • Ladd Russo: "THANK YOU! FUCK YOU! THE STAR IS HERE!!"
• Indirect Kiss
  • Black Lagoon (Episode 7)
  • Pushing Daisies—Chuck and Ned's entire relationship is built on these
  • Poor Rogue...
  • Captain Tsubasa - Hyûga and Maki sharing a Coca-Cola can. Remember that Maki earlier berated Hyûga, an athlete, for drinking Cola regulary.
• Ineffectual Death Threats
  • Heero Yuy
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
  • Doctor Horrible
  • Team Rocket
  • Joel Cairo. Or really, anyone played by Peter Lorre.
    • Well, anybody played by Peter Lorre except in M.
  • Johnny Sasaki
  • Toad
  • Ika Musume.
• Inept Mage
  • Rincewind
• Inevitable Waterfall
  • The Emperors New Groove
    • "Bring it on."
    • BOOO-YAAAAAAAH!!!!
  • That Far Side cartoon where they're singing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat"
  • The Adventures of Milo and Otis
• Insane Equals Violent
  • Anytime someone suffers from the Hate Plague in Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
• Insane Troll Logic
  • Red Mage, and he's damn proud of it. I'll let Black Mage sum up one of his plans: "So, you want us to build something that's the size of everything using nothing. TWICE. That is quite literally the least practical plan put together by an allegedly thinking creature."
• Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist
  • DIB DIB DIB!
  • LUPIN! I mean, Zenigata
• Insult Backfire
  • Harper Finkle. Doesn't get much more "triumphant" than rewiring your brain so that any and all insults come off as compliments.
• Insurmountable Waist-Height Fence
  • VVVVVV. Doing Things The Hard Way. Six screens of dodging spikes coming and going, all to get over a single roadblock no higher than your character's knee
  • Pretty much the only way to train range or use magic for combat in RuneScape
  • The Sims has to be mentioned, if only for it being such a well-known "flaw" in the game.
  • Golden Sun. Apparently there is no way to step over those ankle-high rocks...
• Intellectual Property Religion
  • Haruhiism. (Hail Haruhi, motherf*ckers!)
• Interactive Narrator
  • Into the Woods. Hey, your narrator can't be more interactive than when you can pull him into the story and have him killed.
• Interactive Webcomic
  • Homestuck. Full stop.
• Intoxication Ensues
  • Just Shoot Me
  • "I'm not ON antidepressants, I'm on speeeeeeed!"
  • "Drink Cactus Juice. It'll quench ya."
    • Seconded!
• Invincible Minor Minion
  • Servbots, full stop (Miss Tron!). May also be double-booked for Mecha-Mooks.
  • Gordo - The Hero Hartmut
• Invoked Trope
  • My Name Is Nobody
• Iron Woobie
  • Practically the whole cast of Fullmetal Alchemist, but literally true of Alphonse Elric - katyhalo
    • Seconded.
    • Thirded.
  • Killy. Just go read what he went through and I DARE you to disagree - Dales Kaine
  • Farseer Nobundo. - Farseer Lolotea
  • Empowered.
  • The Hero of Dragon Quest V. His life is full of tragedy but he never gives up! - Justa Username
    • Seconded. To elaborate- he gets forced into slavery as a child for ten years of his life or something like that right after his father is literally reduced to ashes in front of his eyes. Not too long after that, he gets married and presumably laid, so all's well, right? Guess again. THEN he AND his wife are Taken for Granite for another eight or so years, and his OWN CHILDREN don't even MEET him until after those eight years where they endured their own trials JUST TO MEET HIM. Don't you think, as a father, he'd feel all the worse knowing that as well? And he STILL needs to find his wife! And the worst part is that you probably named him after yourself, so this might as well double for a Most Triumphant Example as a Player Punch too. Oh, and that mother of yours you try to rescue in the Very Definitely Final Dungeon? Dies right after you meet her for the first time you EVER see her. - Cedi
  • Jesus
  • Erza Scarlet
• Ironic Nursery Tune
  • Once upon a time, there was a pretty fly...
  • Zagreus sits inside your head. Zagreus lives among the dead. Zagreus sees you in your bed and eats you while you're sleeping.
  • Twinkle, twinkle, little star...
• Is It Something You Eat?
  • Oh, Goku...
    • Oh, Goku...
  • Suu.
• Item Crafting
  • The Rune Factory series. While in most games Item Crafting is simply some side thing you don't have to bother with, here the Item Crafting system is incredibly deep and central to the game, tying the farming and dungeon aspects together very nicely.
  • Infinite Undiscovery.
  • Atelier is this trope
• It Gets Better
  • The Beatles' catalogue. Wow... just, from a smartass boy band to... that, in a few busy years.
• It Got Worse
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion. End of Evangelion especially.
    • Seconded
    • Third ed
  • Berserk loves this trope
  • Narutaru. Nothing else compares to having your father die, then having your mother die, then your best friend, then your boyfriend and your/his monster partner, and then finally saying fuck you to the world and destroying it with your incredible godlike powers. This all happens in the last 2 chapters.
  • How could he possibly be worse?
  • Grave of the Fireflies. Just... wow. It gets even more worse when you know it's based on a true story - on, really, thousands of true stories.
  • Eversion
  • Claymore
  • Now and Then, Here and There. As put by one troper, this is It Got Worse: The Series.
  • One Piece. To think this was a nice, fun, and happy series... it all went downhill when poor Luffy lost his crew, was sent to a distant island, learned his brother was going to be executed, broke into a maximum security prison, found out his brother was already gone by the time he reaches the lowest floor, ran all the way back up, went to the Marine HQ, fought the marines, and his brother still ended up giving his life to save him, causing him to go into a traumatic trance that lasted for several weeks. After learning his brother died and that it wasn't a dream, he completely breaks down and cries. Meanwhile, with Whitebeard dead, not only are islands that were formerly under his control now fighting for domination, but Blackbeard has both the Yami Yami Fruit and the Gura Gura Fruit and now declares himself the strongest pirate of this new age (At this point, it's improbable to argue). To think this was a nice, fun, and happy series...
  • School Days
  • The episode "The Graduates" of Kenan and Kel manages to be a triumphant example of this trope in a sitcom.
  • Bokurano takes this to such an extreme that it's hard to imagine how it could possibly be worse. It starts with a group of middle-school children being contracted into a "game" to fight enemy mecha. First, they find out that it's not a game at all, and the giant robots are real, causing thousands of deaths from collateral damage during the battles. Then, it turns out that the robot runs on the pilot's life force, and the contract is unbreakable -- so they're all going to die as a result of the battles. But if they lose even one battle, the whole universe would be destroyed. Sound hopeless enough? Oh, one more thing: the other robots are piloted by children from other Earths in the same situation, so they kill billions of people each time they win. Mohiro Kitoh is the master of this trope.
  • Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk, a series of short stories where everything, in every story, gets worse. The first story is "Guts", a real life Brown Note that has caused someone to faint everyplace Palahniuk read it while on tour. (Well, except in New York.) And it keeps getting worse.
• It Makes Sense in Context
  • This line:

Batman (yes, the Batman): Pigs... from a gun!

• • "Haruhi then rode me like a horse, putting me in the mount position."
  • The opening scene of the Cotton Drifting Arc in the Higurashi anime.
• It's Popular, Now It Sucks:
  • Pretty much any song you heard on the radio
  • Final Fantasy VII
• It Was His Sled
  • Snape kills Dumbledore
    • Seconded
  • Citizen Kane, because it was.
  • AERITH DIES
  • Sheik is Zelda. - Malkyrian
  • Samus is a girl
  • Jesus died. He rose again. -Ainu Laire
  • Kamina dies in episode 8!
  • No, I am your father.
  • Naoto is a Girl.
    • Seconded.
  • Dr. Jekyll is Mr. Hyde. So utterly it-was-his-sled that nowadays most people don't even know that it was originally a big reveal and plot twist in the original version of the story. -Ziggy Zag
    • I have to agree with this one. Out of this list, this was the one that surprised me the most. You learn that they're the same person before you learn that was a plot twist nowadays. In fact, most of the time, you never learn that was the plot twist unless you read it.
  • 299 Die. A spoiler 2500 years past its expiration date!
  • It's a COOKBOOK!!
  • Aizen is evil.
  • Boromir dies, but Gandalf lives. Also, the Witch-King was slain by a woman and a hobbit.
  • Sasuke leaves
  • The Masked Man is Claus
  • It was beauty that killed the beast
• It Runs on Nonsensoleum
  • One Piece
    • Seconded. Hard.
  • Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt
• It's a Wonderful Failure
  • Missile Command. After seeing "THE END" as a kid I was scared batshit to play it again for years.
  • Banjo-Kazooie
  • The Light and the Dark. You don't want to know what happens to those children before your eyes... -Ziggy Zag
  • "But... The future refused to change."
• It's All About Me
  • Gilgamesh
  • The Miz
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
  • Daidouji Tomoyo
  • Judeau
  • The main cast of Toradora!.
  • The Phantom of the Opera
  • Heck.
• I Want My Jetpack
  • Back to The Future; although things could change in four years, it's not likley.