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* Neurotic and emotionally unstable teenage girl falls in love with a [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampire]] who attends her high school. There is lots of talking. Eventually, the two get caught up in love triangle with a werecreature that ends with the girl and the werecreature deciding to be [[Just Friends]].
** ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' or ''[[Bakemonogatari]]''?
* These two works feature the tale of a [[Farm Boy]] who discovers a [[Plot Coupon]] sent to a [[The Obi-Wan|wise old mentor]] by a [[
** Now, are we in fact talking about ''[[The Inheritance Cycle]]'' or [[Star Wars|something else]]...?
** Alternatively, an angsty orphan discovers he has rare mystical powers. He leaves home at the behest of a stranger to study them, gaining a new weapon along the way. He later discovers it is his destiny to confront the evil [[Dark Lord]], [[Mentor Occupational Hazard|his mentor dies]] (twice!) and the villain's [[The Dragon|right-hand man]] was [[The Atoner|not such an awful person]] after all.
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** ''[[Mistborn]]'' or ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]''?
* [http://www.cracked.com/funny-4445-home-alone/ This] [[Cracked.com]] article proves that ''[[Home Alone]]'' and ''[[Die Hard]]'' are the same movie.
* Due to circumstances beyond her control, a down-to-earth working-class girl is forced to hang out with a flighty [[
** ''[[The Princess and the Frog]]'' or ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]''?
* We open with our antihero, a man with a Scottish name and a nickname that means something significant in Latin. He's a war veteran who now finds himself in a less noble line of work. In the pilot, after a meeting with a potential client goes south, the client explains that it's offensively obvious that our antihero thinks he's better than all this. But does he really? While he doesn't like to talk about his origins, we eventually learn that he grew up as a poor, adopted farmhand before a traumatic event in the war prompted him to transform himself. Now, he struggles to be honorable even as he must constantly deceive. Women in his life: well, there's the one who's been devoted to him for years, but he just takes her for granted. The woman he wants is fiercely independent, and it drives him crazy to have to stand by as she sleeps with an endless succession of other men. Then there's the much younger woman who works for him, but there's no tension there. She's just interested in the new guy, who drives our antihero crazy with his arrogant ambition and elitist style. Witty, feminist, and original, the show enjoys a cult following and critical acclaim. It's never quite made it to the mainstream. Special mention has to go to Christina Hendricks's character, a talented redhead who tries to use a marriage as a means to an end, only to have it backfire horribly.
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* Paraphrased from a wonderful person on [[My Anime List]].net: A guy beats the shit out of whiny bitches with superpowers and can negate said superpowers when his right hand makes contact with said whiny bitches.
** ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'' or ''[[To Aru Majutsu no Index]]''?
* The story mainly is mainly focused on the adolescence of a character who is [[
** Is it ''[[Code Geass]]'' or ''[[Wicked (novel)|Wicked]]''?
* This is about [[Bishonen]] [[The Hero|hero]] of a quite [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism|cynical]] story who somehow gets bad publicity. Arguably a [[Char Clone]]. Voiced by [[Johnny Young Bosch]] on at least one occasion. He has a pacifistic girl companion who wants world peace. While a girl of the [[La Résistance]] he belongs in had a case of [[Bodyguard Crush]] with him, too bad he's a [[Celibate Hero]]. To achieve world peace, he do things most people see as "questionable". His enemies include a [[Hero Antagonist]] who later helps him at the end, and a [[Complete Monster|horrifyingly evil]] [[The Emperor|Emperor]]. In the end of the story, he pulls out a [[Heroic Sacrifice]], and while other people cheered at it, his companion girl cries in sorrow. [[Earn Your Happy Ending|Earn Your]] [[Bittersweet Ending]] indeed...[[Tear Jerker|T_T]] And many fans who truly (or [[Fan Dumb|excessively]]) loves him says that [[He's Just Hiding|He's Just Hiding.]]
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** ''[[Hercules (Disney film)|Hercules]]''? Or ''[[Damn Yankees]]''? How about ''[[Rock-a-Doodle]]''?
* A blond man who's pretty good with a sword arrives in the middle of a plot he doesn't understand. His love interest, a brunette, turns out to know more about the plot than she lets on. He meets a mentor character who is strangely similar to a legendary soldier he's otherwise familiar with. He has various battles with a man who refuses to drop dead no matter how many times he's killed and proves why you should hate him by killing someone which agitates a major character. He learns that his childhood was mostly fiction and is repeatedly visited by a person of ambiguous gender with their face covered. He's swallowed by a huge, unnatural sea monster controlled by his father figure, confronts his father figure in a replica of a location he knew from a simulation and fights giant robots.
** Is this ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' or ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]''?
* A spaceship, with the same name as the series, is on a routine flight and somehow gets a huge distance away from where it's supposed to be. The limited crew, which includes a smug hologram obsessed with slideshows, attempts to get back to Earth. Their experiments with FTL travel are a disaster and most of the entertainment on board is VR gaming, much of which is presented in monochrome. The crew encounter a cyborg who succeeds in becoming unique and integrates with the original crew members, but disagrees with the ship's superior officer whenever possible. The main threats are from cyborgs and genetically-engineered monsters. A central theme is that space travel perhaps isn't as great as it's made out to be. <!-- % In "DNA", Kryten apparently has enough organic in his brain for the DNA-altering machine to make him human, so, yes, he is technically a cyborg. -->
** ''[[Star Trek: Voyager|Voyager]]'' or ''[[Red Dwarf]]''?
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** ''[[Scott Pilgrim]]'' or ''[[Gitaroo Man]]''?
* A boy who had his mother [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence|go to a different plane of existence]] when he was young grows up to be a [[Magnificent Bastard]] [[Messianic Archetype]] who controls his own army and confront his [[Magnificent Bastard]] father who abandoned him and is planning [[Instrumentality]]. One of his [[Love Interest|Love Interests]] is a [[Tsundere]] [[Heroes Want Redheads|red-head]] with a red [[Humongous Mecha]], and the other is a [[Deadpan Snarker]] [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|exotic-haired]] [[Mysterious Waif|girl with mysterious origins]]. He also confronts a secret society of people with special abilites like his own and his rival is a white-haired boy.
** ''[[Code Geass]]'' or ''[[Shinji and
* A group of British siblings [[Blitz Evacuees|sent to live in the country during World War Two]] discover magical secrets in the house where they are staying. There's a witch who intends to use her spells to win a war, and a world inhabited by talking animals with a lion as their king, and a climactic battle between good and evil, with swords and magic both in heavy use.
** Now, is the witch [[The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe|the Big Bad]] or [[Bedknobs and Broomsticks|one of the good guys]]?
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** Got to be [[Genesis (band)|Genesis]], right? Well, unless I'm talking about [[Spock's Beard]]...
* The story involves peril, adventure, and shadowy conspiratorial goings-on, but the emotional heart centers around an [[Odd Couple]] of two men who are ''very'' fond of each other. The younger one is a genius [[Guile Hero]] with killer cheekbones who has arguable sociopathic tendencies but remains on the side of good (in an antiheroic sort of way) and could even be seen as a bit of an understated woobie (or at least a sympathetic [[Broken Ace]]). The older one is a bit shorter, more cute than male-model handsome, very competent in his own skill set, and rather nicer than his partner. One of the guys has an [[Ambiguous Disorder]]. The other once served in the military and is an excellent shot. A sexually ambiguous dark-haired young man with a fondness for messing with the guys' heads makes an appearance as a villain. Who are this dynamic duo?
** Adamska and Hal, in [[
* This is a series of British TV dramas, composed of multiple very short mini-series, that is based (with notable deviations) on a series of classic British tales that are icons of their genre. The title character is a tall, thin, pale [[Badass Bookworm]] with curly dark hair, fangirl-bait cheekbones, and an aloof demeanor. He has a best friend/sidekick/foil who is a shorter, fairer-haired, more approachable [[Badass Adorable]]. They have lots of homoerotic subtext. One of the major supporting characters is an attractive in his own right older guy who functions as a [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]. A lot of the tension in the second miniseries is due to the machinations of an Irishman who has a thing against the main character. The last episode of the second miniseries involves a serious assault against the protagonist's reputation, and ends in a major character making a heartrending [[Heroic Sacrifice]].
** ''[[Sherlock]]''? Or ''[[Horatio Hornblower (TV series)|Horatio Hornblower]]''?
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