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** [[Naruto]]. Dear ''God'', Naruto.

** [[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni|Nipaah[[ Nano desu]]]]

** [[Pinky and The Brain|Narf! Poit! Zort! Troz!]]

** I'll tell you what, dang ol' [[King of the Hill|Boomhauer]], man!

** [[Kanon]]. Don't believe me? [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT2GRpwwS8M Watch the video].

** The [[Earthbound|Mr. Saturns']] Zoom! Boing! Ding!

** [[Zoo Tycoon]]. If you like animals.

** [[Prototype (video game)|Prototype]] is this trope, to the point that (almost) all else seems like a cute puppy simulator. Just try to avoid collateral damage for one mission, I dare you.

** ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''

** ''[[Ghost in the Shell]]'' (especially [[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex|the series]])

** [[Mario|Bowser.]] But in this case, [[Tropes Are Not Bad]]

** [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|Azula]].

*** Thirded.

*** Fiftith

*** Sixth...ed!

*** Seventh...ed!

*** Eighthed.

*** Nineth...ed

*** Eleventhed.

*** Twelfth...ed

** [[Ace Attorney|Apollo Justice's]] {{spoiler|Kristoph Gavin}}. For an idea of this, he gets so mad that as he raises his fist to bang on the witness stand in frustration, the {{spoiler|dishes}} that had previously fallen on the ground behind him ''rise up into the air and fall down as he slams his fist on the witness stand.'' Please note: this man has no magic powers.

*** Same series (notice a trend?), different villain: {{spoiler|Manfred von Karma}}. After he spends hours grinning smugly at you, the guy snaps like a twig on slow-motion and bangs his head against the wall after ''screaming at the top of his lungs''.

*** Gotta give it to {{spoiler|Matt Engarde}} clawing his face out, although all of the breakdowns in the series are great. Considering it's kind of a once an episode type thing, the whole SERIES deserves to be the Most Triumphant Example, although this troper is tempted by [[Death Note|Light Yagami]] and [[The Wire|Marlo Stanfield]].

** [[The Wire|Marlo Stanfield]]: '''MY NAME IS MY NAME!'''

** [[Rurouni Kenshin|Soujirou Seta]]. His sudden change from [[Dissonant Serenity]] to this is damn ''scary'', and simply masterful

** [[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends|World,]] a [[Reality Warper]] who controls all aspects of the world inside his toybox. When he gets angry, the world literally begins to [[Earthshattering Kaboom|implode upon itself.]]

** [[Adolf Hitler]] in ''[[Downfall (film)|Downfall]]''

** Cesare Borgia in ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood|Assassin's Creed Brotherhood]]''

*** Seconded for being the most hilariously awesome villain protagonist ever.

*** {{[[User|deeman 45]] Full stop.}}

*** {{[[User|Chihuahua 0]] I guess it's offical now.}}

** [[Amadeus|Salieri]]

** Tony Montana from [[Scarface]].

*** Seconded

** [[8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|The Light Warriors]]

** [[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|'Hellfire']] by [[Tony Jay|Judge Claude Frollo]].

** [[Keith David]]'s "Friends on the Other Side" in ''[[The Princess and the Frog]]''

** [[Fern Gully|Toxic Love]] by [[Tim Curry|Hexxus]]

** [[The Lion King|Scar's]] "Be Prepared". Jeremy Irons, Nazi imagery, and mountains of ''bones''.

*** Seconded.

** [[Anastasia|"In the Dark of the Night"]] by [[Jim Cummings|Rasputin]]

** [[Doctor Steel]]. Many, since he's a musical supervillain. But "Dr. Steel" is probably the crowner. "I have become the man with a plan / With an army of toys and a mechanical band / Ruling the world making everything real / I’m Dr. Steel, Dr. Steel!"

*** So much that him losing ''at all'' will be terribly OOC.

** [[Bomb Queen]]

** [[Blaz Blue|Terumi Yuuki]]. Yes, he may look like a magnificent [[Troll]] in plain eyes, but dig in deep and you'll see he pretty much out-sues all entries above.

** [[Berserk|Griffith]]

** [[Beauty and The Beast|Gaston]]

** [[Doctor Steel]].

** [[Exalted|Desus]]

** [[Mirai Nikki|Yuno]]

*** "Don't worry Yuki, [[Murder Is the Best Solution|I'll be sure to kill her.]]"

** [[Kara no Kyoukai:|Ryougi Shiki]]

** [[Werner Herzog]] and [[Klaus Kinski]].

** [[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle|Fai and Kurogane.]]

** ''[[Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas]]''

** [[Eagle Land|Americans]]. Most of them are not loud, boorish, fat, lazy, uncultured, stupid, etc. Shocking, isn't it.

** [[Straw Feminist|Straw Feminists]]. ''So'' vocal and ''so'' triumphant that even many tropers on this very wiki seem to believe that feminism is synonymous with misandry.

** Conspiracy theorists in general. You'll be surprised to find out that most conspiracy theories actually had less adherents that it seems.

** [[The Magic School Bus|Ms. Frizzle's class]]

** [[Wayside School|Ms. Jewl's class.]]

** River's magnificent fights in [[Firefly]]'s [[Grand Finale]].

** [[Sin and Punishment 2|Orion Tsang]]. So you bulldoze through Stage 1, then comes this boss. And unlike the game up to this point, he '''does not''' fuck around.

** ''[[X-Men: Evolution]]''

** [[Persona 3]]. I mean, come on, you can't top waking up, going to school and then going ''back'' to your school during [[The Hidden Hour]] to save the world. (After your school turns into the [[Evil Tower of Ominousness]] too.)

** [[The Dresden Files|Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden]]. Take a moment to think about all the things he makes reference to (the [[Evil Overlord List]], countless movies, [[The Dresden Files/Shout Out|shout outs to everything you can think of]]). And yet this guy can't use any technology from after World War II. You've never seen someone so determined to be a [[Pop-Cultured Badass]].

** ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''

** [[Clerks|I'm stuck in this pit, earning less than slave wages, working on my day off, dealing with every backward fuck on the planet, the goddamn steel shutters are locked all day, I smell like shoe polish, ]]{{spoiler|[[Clerks|I've got an ex-girlfriend who's catatonic after fucking a dead guy]]}}, [[Clerks|and my present girlfriend has sucked thirty-six dicks...My life is in the shitter right about now, so if you don't mind I'd like to stew a bit."]] You may say that there's no good example of wangst, but this is the best one purely because, unlike most others, it's fully intentional. Smith doesn't honestly intend for you to think that moping to the extent he does is reasonable, especially when a good deal of his suffering is self-inflicted. Randal calls Dante on it, {{spoiler|Katlin comes back}} specifically because she expects him to be a wreck, and {{spoiler|Veronica breaks up with him over it.}} The absolute only way to justify, let alone play, this trope. ~{{[[User|Wackd]] Wack'd}}

** Simple Plan. Look no further than ''Welcome To My Life''

**** And thirded. Dear ''God'', the wangst...

** Most of the Justice League in ''[[JLA: Act of God]]''

** [[Mega Man X|Zero]]. [[Memetic Mutation|WHAT AM I FIGHTING FOOOOOOOOR!!]] anyone?

** [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|The Positron Rifle]]. It takes ''all of Japan's energy'' for it to shoot ''twice''. The angel it was used against counts, too, but since they destroyed it with the Rifle...

** Thor's Hammer/The Mana Cannon from ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'' and ''[[Tales of Phantasia]]''. A [[Wave Motion Gun]] so big that if you power it with the world's mana - which is what it was ''designed for'' - it ''kills the [[World Tree]] producing that mana''. The only time we know of that it was ever safely fired was at a lower capacity, and powered by the Summon Spirits instead of drawing from the local mana pool directly.

** [[Blame|Graviton Beam Emitter]] looks like a tiny handgun, except that it fire a beam 70 KM LONG laser that can blow holes in metal structures that shrugs off [[wikipedia:Tsar Bomba|big honking nukes]] like dirt.

** ''Grand Illusion'': A [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]

** [[The Lion King|"What am I supposed to do, dress in drag and do the hula?"]]

** [[Warhammer 40000|Commander Kubrik Chenkov]], whose favored tactic is to mire the enemy in melee combat with his troops... and then call in an artillery strike on them. His special rule, "Send In the Next Wave!", literally allows him to call in unlimited conscripts. After the last batch has been utterly obliterated of course.

** ''[[Homestuck]]''. After [[Arc Number|413]] days of its run, it was still the same day in-comic.

*** IT'S BEEN IMPLIED TO EVEN BE ONLY A FEW HOURS. AND THE TROLLS ARE ON THEIR SAME DAY TOO. So very seconded.

** ''[[Lost]]''; seasons 1-4 take place over 100 days and 5 and 6 a couple of weeks.

** [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Shinji F___ing Ikari]]

*** But of course.

** V from V for Vendetta

** [[Doctor Steel]].

** [[Tales of Symphonia|Mithos Yggdrasill]].

** [[Babylon 5|Severed Dreams]]

*** Seconded. The show was the [[Trope Namer]], for God's sake.

** [[Naruto|The Pain Invades Konoha Arc]]

*** ''SO'' thirded. In fact, anything from chapter 95 on-- the [[Holy Shit Quotient|HSQ]] has gone through the roof by now.

** [[Fullmetal Alchemist (anime)|Fullmetal Alchemist]] Episode 50. DAMN.

** [[One Piece|One Piece chapter 574]]. Its name? {{spoiler|The Death of Portgas D. Ace}}.

** [[Mass Effect]]. Virmire. "''There is a realm of existence so far beyond your own you cannot even imagine it. I am beyond your comprehension. I am {{spoiler|Sovereign}}!''"

** [[A Song of Ice and Fire|The Red Wedding]].

** [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|I Was Made To Love You]].

** [[8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Episode 1133.]] {{spoiler|''The Onion Kid is Sarda.''}}

** [[Death Note]], Episode 25. {{spoiler|R.I.P., L}}

** ''[[Degrassi]], Rock This Town''.

*** Episode 10? Try Episode 3! [[Gratuitous Spanish|Madre de Dios]]!

** [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS]] Episode 17: [[Unstoppable Rage]] has never before been used in such an emotionally grueling manner. [[Incredible Hulk|The Incredible Hulk]] seems tame compared to this.

** "[[Star Wars|Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father...]]"

*** Different perspective: Go look at the [[Fridge Horror]] and [[Nightmare Fuel]] pages for Pokémon.

** ''[[Harry Potter]]'', if only because the debate rages on

** Folks, it may have great writing and characterization, and it recognizes the older members of its audience, but even until the very end, [[Avatar: The Last Airbender]] ''was targeted at children''. [[Tropes Are Not Bad|Not that this is a bad thing, of course]].

** [[Regular Show]]. Just, [[Regular Show]].

** ''[[Animaniacs]]''

** ''[[Skulduggery Pleasant]].'' Just look at the [[Nightmare Fuel]] page. It has 9+ on the back of the books.

** "[[The Randomverse|Sorry Kids]], I couldn't get tickets for [[Kung Fu Panda]], so let's go watch the [[Dark Knight Trilogy|Clown open fire on a school bus, hm]]?"

*** [[Batman: Arkham Asylum]] freaked me out more than [[Dead Space (video game)|Dead Space]], [[Fallout 3]], and the more disturbing parts of [[Oblivion]] put together.

** [[Watchmen]]. Full stop.

** All of the "adult" animation that ''[[The Simpsons]]'' helped popularize.

*** [[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni/Nightmare Fuel|Yeah, it's]] ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni/Nightmare Fuel|certainly]]'' [[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni/Tear Jerker|for ages 7+]]

** [[The World Ends With You|Jesus Christ Yoshira Kiryu]]

** ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion|NEON. GENESIS. EVANGELION.]]''

** Once again, ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''.

** ''[[Cat Soup]]''

** ''[[Katamari Damacy]]''

** [[Pu Li Ru La]]

** The climax of Matthew Lewis' play ''The Castle Spectre''

** [[Homestuck|Tavros Nitram]]

** '''[[Portal 2|I DON'T WANT YOUR DAMN LEMONS!]]'''

*** Thirded! '''"I'm going to get my engineers to invent a COMBUSTIBLE LEMON, that BURNS YOUR HOUSE DOWN!"'''

** [[Ace Attorney|Franziska von Karma]].

** Have to go with a classic: [[Indiana Jones]]

** ''[[Bone]]'', specifically the [[Memetic Mutation|STUPID, STUPID RAT CREATURES!]]

** [[A Clockwork Orange (novel)|Alex DeLarge]]

** ''[[Eve Online]]''

** [[Elite Beat Agents|Are you ready? 3-2-1 Go!]]

** One word... [[Adventure Time|Algebraic.]]

*** Fourthed, and I believe you can, so long as you delete your previous vote.

** The [[Warhammer 40000|Tyranids]] are {{spoiler|fleeing from ''[[Kirby]]''}}

** [[James Bond]] is really {{spoiler|a Time Lord.}}

** [[South Park|Kyle Broflovski]]. Dear God. If canon Kyle ever came face to face with slash fic Kyle, his reaction would be priceless.

** Ashitaka of [[Princess Mononoke]]

** [[Doctor Who|The Doctor.]]

*** Especially after [[The Movie]]

** [[Questionable Content|Hannelore!]]

** [[Chrono Trigger|Magus]].

** [[Final Fantasy IX|Vivi Orunitia]]. Just about everything that happens to him makes you want to give him a nice warm blanket.

** [[Peanuts|Charlie Brown]].

** [[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|The Elric brothers]]. Crap, pretty much the entire ''cast'' of Hagaren is comprised of woobies.

** [[The Wire|Bubbles and Randy]].

** [[Pokémon Black and White|N]]

** [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|Princess Luna]]

*** Fluttershy.

** [[Twin Peaks|Laura Palmer]]

** [[Blaz Blue|Noel Vermillion]].

** [[Heavy Rain|Ethan Mars]].

** [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha|Fate]]

** [[Star Trek|Nero]]

** [[Fate/stay night|Sakura Matou]]

** [[Paper Mario (franchise)|Count Bleck]].

** [[Breath of Fire|Fou-lu]]. [[Humans Are Bastards|So]] [[King in the Mountain|many]], [[Unwanted Revival|many]], [[Sinister Minister|many]], [[Fantastic Nuke|many]], [[Back Stab|many]], ''[[Kill the Cutie|many]]'' [[It's All My Fault|ways]], ''especially'' if you throw in the portrayal in the [[Comic Book Adaptation]] of ''[[Breath of Fire]] IV''. ''[[Trauma Conga Line|His entire storyline]]'' is pretty much "How To Turn A ''Literal'' [[God-Emperor]] Into A [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]".

** [[Marvel Universe|Wanda Maximoff]]

** [[Gargoyles|Demona "The access code is...Alone."]]

** [[Batman Returns|The Penguin]]

** [[The Phantom of the Opera]]

** [[Pokémon|Mewtwo]]. Just try watching "The Uncut Story of Mewtwo's Origin" without shedding a tear.

** [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Willow]]

** Let's not forget [[Final Fantasy VI]].

** The [[Ace Attorney]] series

** "You [[Spoony Bard]]!"

** ''[[Vagrant Story]].''

** [[Shin Chan]]

*** Easily seconded

** [[J. R. R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]]

** ''[[This Is Wonderland]]''

** Right before the final boss from [[Mega Man Zero]] 4

** ''[[Doctor Who]]''

** [[Code Geass]]

** "Holy [[Narm|Narmtastic]] [[Catch Phrase|CatchPhrases]], [[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]! Our whole show is made of [[Large Ham|Ham]]!"

** [[Gurren Lagann]]. Just. Gurren. Fucking. Lagann.

** The [[Fake-Out Opening]] of ''[[Toy Story]] 3''.

** ''[[Doctor Who]]''

** ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' features [[Stoic Woobie|every]] [[Iron Woobie|kind]] [[Jerkass Woobie|of]] [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|woobie]] and then some.

** ''Just Cause 2''. The game's ''main gimmick'' is being able to attach stuff to other stuff with a grapple rope. And about half of said stuff ''explodes''.

** [[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Winry Rockbell]]

** [[Ah! My Goddess|Chihiro Fujimi]], anyone?

** Bram Stoker, at least in ''[[Dracula (novel)|Dracula]]''

** ''[[Transformers: The Movie]]''. '''[[Citizen Kane|ORSON.]] [[The War of the Worlds|WELLES.]]''' As a '''TRANSFORMER.'''

** The entire cast of ''[[Repo! The Genetic Opera]]''. [[Sarah Brightman]] alongside [[Halloween (film)|Bill Mosesley]] alongside [[Spy Kids|Alexa Vega]] alongside [[Skinny Puppy|Nivek Ogre]] alongside [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Anthony]] [[Merlin (TV series)|Stewart Head]] alongside Paris Hilton alongside [[Goodfellas|Paul Sorvino]]... and putting it all together, [[Yoshiki Hayashi]].

** [[A Song of Ice and Fire|Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish]].

** Lex Luthor, most notably in [[Lex Luthor: Man of Steel]].

** Please. He's only doing it because it works to ''[[Trope Namer|David]]'' [[Gargoyles|Xanatos]]'s advantage.

** [[Code Geass|All conditions have been cleared.]] Or are people not impressed by pre-recording entire conversations so your enemies will be talking to a TV while you sneak up?

** ''[[Bleach]]'' {{spoiler|[[Bleach|Every battle you have fought has played into my hand.]]}}

** [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|It's all according to the scenario]].

** ''[[Saw]]''

** Seconded, motion carried. Avidly awaiting name change.

** [[Second Apocalypse|Anasurimbor Kellhus]] and {{spoiler|his father}}.