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Ray Arnold in Jurassic Park came before Jackson's popularity really took off, and was easily his least Badass role: He was a grouchy computer nerd with a bad nicotine addiction who got killed off-screen by velociraptors (he wants you to hold onto your butts).
Not true, his least badass role was in Coming to America, an Eddie Murphy vehicle. He played a one shot thug who tried to rob the fast food place and got his ass kicked by Eddie Murphy with a mop. It was sad.
Although this troper maintains that Samuel L. Jackson only lost the one arm to the pack of raptors (which were much more numerous in the book), and was able to kill near all of them before getting away. He then ran into the T-rex and went (mind you at this point, he only has one arm) on to best the Rex in single combat. The Rex was impressed and vowed to avenge Jackson, thus supplying the Deus Ex Machina scene at the end of the movie where the T-rex saves the day and saves Jackson's rep.
...And that is now officially part of this troper's personal Canon.
Well, now we now know what Jurassic Park 4 will be about.
...Agreed.
Obviously.
I would normally say how stupid that sounds, but it's Samuel L. Mutha Fuckin' Jackson. I now submit it to a vote as to whether nerds everywhere take this as canon.
Or alternately, he ripped off his own arm to beat the raptors to death with it and escape the island. He's awesome like that.
Pffft, no. He got his arm torn off, beat the raptor that attacked him to death with it, and, having slain the pack's leader, took over the pack. The raptors hunting the rest of the cast were rebels who dared to defy Jackson's authority, so he sent the T-Rex to "discipline" them. As a reward, the T-Rex is allowed to chill with Jackson's raptors and serves as His Awesomeness' personal mount. When the Costa Rican military shows up to check out the island, Jackson hitches a ride with them back to the mainland because would you say no to the guy riding the T-Rex with a squad of raptors marching in formation behind him? Then he gets his bionic arm. It probably has a lightsaber built into it. Purple, of course.
While he was on fire.
You're all loony.
We're the sane ones, you're loony for thinkin Samuel "BMF" Jackson wouldn't manage it. While having a refreshing beverage.
I'm weeping tears of joy just reading all of this. I reckon he then went back and taught the Raptors and the T-Rex how to be Jedi and gave them all bionic arms. That's why the island is so fucked up by the time of the third film. They conquered the island in brutal cyborg dinosaur Jedi combat, then left to teach the rest of the world how to be badass.
I don't even LIKE Star Wars and I still think this is awesome.|******* Oh, and you know that thing with the Force lightning in ROTS? That just gave him the power to control ice and blasted him into a parallel universe.}}
The whole Law Procedural sketch on I Won't Say I'm Guilty is pretty funny, but I burst out laughing at "...and the jury are apparently collaborating on a book called Burn in Hell, Wendell Spatz, You Guilty Guilty Scumbag."
An interesting variation of this pops up in the pilot when River climbs out of the box. Though you don't see anything from the first few shots, the camera then switches to a far-off, wide-angle shot of the entire bay that shows River very clearly, in which nothing is covering her up, but the camera is so far off that you can't see anything distinct about her.
The Brave frickin' Little Toaster. A beloved childhood classic for many children of the 90's? Yes. An irredeemably soul-scarring fount of horror and trauma? You bet your biscuits!
Celibate Hero: Batman pretty much gives Wonder Woman an entire laundry list of reasons why they won't be dating. The best is probably, "You're a princess from a race of immortal warriors while I'm a rich kid with issues. Lots of issues."
It doesn't help that Bruce's other loves are (a) a woman who turned into a murderous vigilante, (b) a criminal, (c) the daughter of a man who wants to Kill All Humans, and (d) Superman's girlfriend, and [according to Batman Beyond] (e) his best friend's daughter who started dressing like him as a teenager who was also in a long relationship with his adopted son. Someone relatively normal doesn't really work for him.
You're forgetting (f) the magician (and fellow hero) he dated in his teens (she insists they're "just good friends" however, and not in that way...) and (g) the artificially-created plant woman who tried to kill him for his money.
He presumably also added (h) the daughter of a mob strongman to his checklist.
Don't forget (i) the half-cheetah scientist who just wanted someone to talk to.
"The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash." -- Sir Winston Churchill never said this; his personal secretary, Anthony Montague-Browne, said that although Churchill did not say this, he wished he had.
Note that the British Navy abolished the practice of flogging in 1948, and that rum rations were discontinued in 1970. The modern navy runs on sodomy, and sodomy alone.
To a non-American, a Yankee is an American. To an American, a Yankee is a Northerner. To a Northerner, a Yankee is a Northeasterner. To a Northeasterner, a Yankee is a New Englander. To a New Englander, a Yankee is a Vermonter. To a Vermonter, a Yankee is someone who has pie for breakfast.
The title of For the Evulz, as well as some of the stuff on the page. The following probably takes the cake:
Averted in the Cthulhu Mythos. While the Great Old Ones and the Outer Gods are "merely" immensely powerful extradimensional entities, they are often referred as gods and worshipped by various cults (after all, what else do you call something like Yog-Sothoth, who is eternal, omniscient and pretty much all-powerful, not to mention completely unbound by our 4-dimensional universe?).
—** To his face, probably something like "AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRR MY BRAIN HURTS".
In episode 18: Vegeta discovers the Dragonball he hid away is missing. This irritates him.
From the "Better Than It Sounds: Video Games N-Z" page: The Sims 2: The same group of people's descendants are placed into the hands of the same god, who now can bring fates worse than the plagues of egypt upon them. Death itself occasionally ignores their corpse and watches their telly.
On the same page, the Prototype entry: "Man in hoodie goes out for lunch in New York despite the army's best attempts to stop him."
The Land Before Time is notable (and was quite controversial at the time) for being the first major franchise to feature a cast comprised of five different dinosaur species: Littlefoot, an Apatosaurus; Cera, a Triceratops; Ducky, a Saurolophus; Petrie, a Pteradon; and Spike, a Stegosaurus. In fact, even though the films consistently establish "Longnecks" as the most important characters, and even despite the embarrassingly stereotypical speech patterns and muteness of Petrie and Spike, respectively, credit really must be given for the portrayal of the different species existing in relative equality and harmony. Complaints continue to issue forth, however, from various "Three-Horn" advocacy groups, who insist that Triceratops are not the loud-mouthed, opinionated trouble-makers portrayed in the films, and that they do not disagree with everything everybody says.
The old description of Henry Kissinger on the Kavorka Man page. Mainly the last sentences.
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty: The president is a friendly guy. So friendly, in fact, that upon meeting bishounen hero Raiden, he decides to greet Raiden with a friendly cup check to make sure he's not a chick.
An extremely elongated, gentle cup check. You know you've been playing Metal Gear too long when things like that stop seeming strange.
The above picture is a fan's version of this very scene.
In the Hellsing television series, it appears as though Incognito enjoys stewed babies. Possibly; it is a little hard to tell what exactly he's eating there, but it sure looks like stewed babies.
—Wait, how do you know what stewed babies look li- ohhh...
This, along with many other horrifically violent happenings, occurs in the first 10 minutes of the anime, Elfen Lied.
Anybody else notice where it landed? Granted, it had no actual force of impact, and so it probably didn't physically hurt the unlucky target, but smart money says that guard couldn't get it up again for weeks.
Not to mention Kanon himself, who is quite pretty and expresses more concern for Schneizel than an advisor should for a boss. Side materials state that he's a crossdresser who had a hard time getting a job until Schneizel hired him for his talents and didn't mind his peculiar tastes.
Dawson's Creek. No black people, even in the Boston episodes.
Except the High School principal and his daughter, played by black actors.
They had black people being portrayed by black actors? Will wonders never cease.
Roger from American Dad turns into a dirty cop when he joins the police force in one episode... about three hours after joining, no less.
Took him that long?
Even the Guys Want Him: Kimihiro Watanuki. Remember the Love Triangle he thought he was in? Well... he is interested in Himawari Kunogi and she kinda likes him back, but it turns out his "love rival" Shizuka Doumeki isn't interested in Himawari like he believed, but in Watanukihimself. Oh, and you know Zashiki Warashi, that cute girl that's completely shy and has a huge crush on Watanuki? In all likelihood, "she" is a "he," according to a CLAMP interview where they say that her being female is not necessarily the case. Coupled with the fact that Zashiki Warashi spirits are normally described as being young boys and rarely being girls, along with how Ame-warashi usually says "this child" when referring to Zashiki Warashi instead of actually using a gender... yeah. Watanuki apparently has more luck with the male gender...
Fake Nationality: While Mulan, Shang and Chi-Fu = Chinese-Americans, Mushu = African-American Shan Yu = Irish-Puerto Rican, Chien-Po, Ling, the head Ancestor, and the Emperor = Japanese-Americans, Yao = Jewish-American, Mulan's singing voice = Filipina, Shang's singing voice = Osmond-American, Fa Zhou = Korean-American
Most of the stuff in the Wall Banger pages, just because of how some of it's worded. For example, consider the following from the films section:
WALL-E: A sudden, huge wallbang moment that nearly got this troper kicked out of the theater. In the final bits of the movie, a spaceship generating its own artificial gravity IS SHOWN TO TIP TO THE SIDE BECAUSE EVERYONE MOVED TO THAT SIDE. Like a boat on the sea. Despite the fact that they were in a vacuum. Because that's how gravity works in deep space. Seriously. My brain tried to crawl out and cry in the bathroom.
Why don't her eyebrows move? WHY DON'T HER EYEBROWS MOVE?!
Is... Is she actually acting? Or is she just really queasy all the time?
From what I understand, both main actors hate the series now, but only an idiot would turn down the biggest movie role since Harry Potter. So, in short, the latter.
Narm: Whenever somebody mentioned the Red Bull, I kept picturing the energy drink.
"Red Bull: Gives you wings and pushes unicorns into the sea."
On the page for Jersey Shore, Snooki is described with the trope Our Goblins Are Wickeder In fact, most of the stuff on that page qualifies. This, for instance:
Guilty Pleasure: That or So Bad It's Good. Admit it. It's a train wreck that spews out hair gel and STD's.
Which turned out be the case. To top it all off, she marks her departure from the show by becoming a God Mode Sue with powers equal to Clark's. Suetiful to the last.
Not just equal, but she also radiates Kryptonite. Making her the most lethal person in the entire world to Clark. Yes folks, that is right, Lana Lang is now the one person in the entire world, who if the circumstances made it so, could slaughter pre-Superman in a fight. If you'll excuse me, there's a wall that my cranium has an appointment with.
This, along with many other horrifically violent happenings, occurs in the first 10 minutes of the anime, Elfen Lied.
Anybody else notice where it landed? Granted, it had no actual force of impact, and so it probably didn't physically hurt the unlucky target, but smart money says that guard couldn't get it up again for weeks.
The entire Crack Pairing page is friggin' hilarious, but this bit from the Harry Potter section is absolutely fantastic:
Just for the sake of curiosity, are there any Dobby/Grawp fics out there?
And to make it even better, that's in the middle of the section—the search for a pairing not yet thought of in the Harry Potter fandom continues (in utter vain).
Nobody mentioned Fullmetal Alchemist? Several of the Homunculi qualify for this. The manga version of Envy turns into a monster-thing with screaming faces randomly scattered across its body. Pride has a Living Shadowfull of eyes. And mouths. And he's based on Father's original form, a blob of shadow with a single eye and mouth; Father eventually turns into a walking, eye- and mouth-covered man made of shadows. He doesn't even bother to form a normal face, having a single enormous eye and a too-wide mouth where his head would be. Yeesh.
The countries Canada and USA in eRepublik have a treaty that says they will "never give up on each other, never let each other down, and never run around or desert one another."
THE DOCTOR and Amy are trying to land on the Fifth Moon of Sinda Callista but the TARDIS lands on Earth instead. Oh well. At least it didn't land on Skaros or anything. Everything is good, birds are singing, the sun is shining the day is perf- OH NOS! THE TARDIS LEFT WITHOUT THE DOCTOR AND AMY IS TRAPPED INSIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!11! A day later, a man walks past a 2-story house.
"HELLO? CAN YOU HELP ME? THERE'S BEEN AN ACCIDENT."
The man enters the house, as the door slowly and spookily unlocks itself.
"HELP YOU? HOW?"
"COME IN."
ZAAAAPPPPPPPPPPPPPP. Uhoh. I think there's been an accident :).
If it takes one battleship 20 minutes to charge up enough to blow up the world, and the Atraxi have a good-size fleet, why don't they all just charge up for a minute apiece and kill Earth with a thousand cuts?
You can't have a baby in a month by impregnating nine women.
I keep going back to Signature Style to read THIS, which never stops being funny:
C-Could it be? The -- the Super Smash Bros. Brawl daily site updates!! Oh! Masahiro Sakurai, the game's master of ceremonies, writes in a heartwarming, dramatic, mildly awkward style, clearly dragged from another language -- rumour has it that it might be the fault of the localisers. Could that be...ambiguity? And then there's lots! Of! Strange punctuation? And! Onomatopoeia! Whaaaaaaaaaah!! (laughs)
Humanity runs on this. How many foods are created by letting something spoil under specific conditions? Pickles, cheese, salami, beer, butter, etc. Basically, the invention of new food goes something like this:
Step 1: Store something.
Step 2: X in my Y! It's more likely than you think.
Step 3: This stuff doesn't smell that bad. It's still good. Om nom nom nom.
Step 4: This is delicious... I'm a genius!
Step 5: ???
Step 6: Profit!
Tsukuyomi. Seriously, you could take the dialogue from the fight scene with Setsuna and replace it with porn and no one would know the difference.
The Bowdlerise page has this little gem in the form of the responses from two tropers to the entry mentioning that Terry Pratchett cancelled plans for a movie of the Discworld story Mort when the producers gave him a real Wall Banger of a request:
We apologize that "egregious" now no longer looks like a word.
Also, at the Moral Event Horizon page, it's typed that one of Grand Moff Tarkin's Moral Event Horizons was giving the males of a whole race to the Stormtroopers for live target practice. It used to be written under that:
Take a sip for every mention Bella from Twilight makes of Edward's Eyes of Gold, marble skin that sparkles in the sunlight, or his overall beauty being comparable to an angel's. You'll be under the table in no time. Twilight: Causing liver failure worldwide!
"From Chamber of Secrets", we have the magical car that saves Harry and Ron from the spiders just in time. True, it was in the Forbidden Forest, but that was months ago. The chances of it coming just in time is blatantly impossible, and there's the fact that it would have run out of gas and oil a long time ago."
—"You're worrying about oil pressure in the MAGIC, FLYING CAR?!"
"The giant robot monster emerges and begins to GROW in size, threatening the MANHOOD of all the male superheroes. He challenges the other members to DISPLAY their MANHOOD and COMPARE it against his to see whose is LARGER. The battle only serves to EXCITE the beast. It FEEDS off the EXPULSIONS of their MANLINESS and makes him HARDER. The PPGs intervene by forming a giant flaming PUSSY cat and attack the villain. The PUSSY cat RUBS UP AGAINST the robot's HARD exterior making it HOTTER and HOTTER. Eventually the HEAT from the RUBBING reaches a critical point causing him to SCREAM OUT and SHRINK into a SMALLER version of himself. The male superheroes are so grateful for the PPGs' PERFORMANCE that they wish to SUBMIT to the girls' superiority. The girls PUNISH them for their behavior by making them wear dresses. Not too surprising considering how well their PUSSY WHIPPED that monster."
Whoever pointed out on the Advent Rising page that a quickly-killed bounty hunter was named Barakah Bahma, then pointed out that if you said his name faster, it sounded like...
Mikaela from the live-action version of Transformers . She herself asks Sam, "Do you think I'm shallow?" in the first film. To which he replies, "No, there's more to you than meets the eye." Except that no, there isn't.
Even better, there is a type of bird known as "booby", plural "boobies".
—** Of course, this derives from the Spanish "Bobo", which means "idiot". That may sound rude, but consider that the booby's word for human is "asshole", which derives from the English "asshole".
From Badass Furry, we have this gem:
"I am the terror that flaps in the night! I am the vandal who blanks Wikipedia's 'Crime' article! I am Darkwing Duck!"
Also very funny if you try acting it out in Darkwing's style.
"◦Legion money, on the other hand, is actually valued higher than caps because it's made of precious metals. It can also be combined with shotgun shells to form coin shot, which is a currency accepted EVERYWHERE."
In the Ramada in York, the fire advisory signs say "Do not take unnecessary risks, but if possible, attack the fire with the instruments provided." In Edinburgh? "Attack the fire with the instruments provided." Wot's dat ye say? "Oonnecessary reesk"? We don't be knoowin' any o' dat arooun' here!"
—** You would say, if you happen to be an Afrikaner tourist in Edinburgh.
Gauron towards Sousuke. Also overlaps with Foe Yay.
It is now completely canon. Watch the TSR comedy radio show where Gauron acts as the school's "sensei." Gato is doing this on purpose. Gauron orders Sousuke to write on the chalk board "Kashim loves Gauron Sensei. Heart. ♥" as well as "Gauron Sensei's extreme attack makes Kashim's heart pound. I want to have children with him." Followed by what appears to be an attempt to rape Sousuke in front of the class. Yay for subtlety.
Although the infomercial for the Ronco Miracle Blade III set features shots of actors doing exactly what you'd expect knives to do, like cutting a turkey, but the first shot shows an actress stabbing a tomato with an inappropriate knife and apparently hitting the artery.
A great deal of that page is laugh-worthy, actually.
"Foreign Fanservice / Phenotype Stereotype / Gangsterland: Liz and Patti are blonde, wear cowboy boots, have the large breasts, and are former muggers who liked to get high. It's like the American dream."
The name of this segment is an example of Getting Crap Past the Radar. "Sniz" is slang for the female genitals, and yes it was in use before the show was made.
Oh come on guys -- Ichi from Ichi the Killer is this in spades. Albeit, he's assassinating people while he cries -- not to mention jacking off as well.
Yeah really why isn't he the page pic?
—*** Because then we'd have to hand out barf bags.
Uchiha Sasuke's good looks coupled with the fact that All Girls Want Bad Boys have gotten him hordes of admirers, all who blush and Squee at the sight of him, which he finds incredibly annoying and has no patience for it. The worst of them is Karin, who kept one of his sweat-drenched shirts for herself, and planned on "ravaging him after everyone went to bed".
So much of it. One of, and to some the only claim to fame the series has.
"You're rude, you asshole! You didn't have to hit me!"
"It's because you're so persistent. I said that I would show it to you, but not lend it."
"Please rape me, right now."
"I want to hold your dick."
A background character exclaims "Just jerkin off.."
"LEMME GO, I WANNA FUCK HER!"
"HERE, HERE." Doesn't help when Imari's voice actress sounds like your grandmother. ಠ_ಠ
The game's dialogue has it's moments, as well. Just not as many as the anime.
Between the porn, the gore, and the ridiculous attempts at portraying Kabbalistic demonology (they speak archaic Hebrew when they chant, but while their WORDS are Hebrew, the sentences don't make a bit of sense!) every last bit of drama is completely and utterly lost.
The music video for "Disturbia" by Rihanna. It looks like if Nightmare Fuel manifested itself in music video form, and didn't care about whether it made any sense or not.
Errr, how did you expect him to use a syringe on Jean when she was disintegrating everything around her? She was destroying whole buildings and humans and mutants in seconds; there's no way that the syringes would remain whole through her onslaught. It's not like they're made from the same material as Wolverine's pants.
Hide it in his pants. Problem solved. If Hugh Jackman was walking up to you and started reaching into his pants to pull something out, you'd pause your destruction out of curiosity too.
Somewhere, Michael Bay is watching this movie, dabbing a tissue at the single Manly Tear at the corner of his eye, and whispering, "it's beautiful". Then he throws away the tissue. And it explodes.
[Near] just ain't L, and some fans can't quite accept that.
In defense of his anti-fans, it sure didn't help that his first lines consisted of him dispassionately calling L a loser.
Though he could have called him a loser in the sense he lost the game. Sonova...
Somewhat averted with "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist" in that the song ultimately preaches a higher level of tolerance and peace in the world through a "don't sweat the small stuff" mentality.
"Everyone's a Little Bit Racist" promotes a Grey and Gray Morality view of racism, or maybe even Gray and Black Morality. Either of those is very different from the Black and White Morality more common to racism in fiction, especially racism in fiction aimed at children like Sesame Street. The Aesop of "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist" isn't necessarily incorrect or immoral, but it is still family unfriendly.
"The LAPD beats your ass and then decides what crime you committed; the NYPD shoots you a few dozen times then pronounces you innocent; 1930s cops are drunk Irishmen who beat you up for being Italian; 1960s cops are sober Irishmen who beat you up for having long hair; small town cops pull you over, tell you that your tail light is busted, and then bust your tail light with a nightstick."
That scene in Beauty and the Beast where Lumiere is chasing a maid/feather duster around behind the curtains: "Oh no!" "Oh yes!" Especially when we saw the maid again after the spell was broken.
"But I've been burned by you before!" In normal circumstances, a way of saying one is an unreliable partner. When a candelebra is holding a (wooden-handled) featherduster?
Any attempts to figure out what on Earth she could be talking about tend to tie the brain into knots.
If you're not sure what she could mean, consider that the most flammable part of her is her feathers — that is, her skirt, and his hands and head are flame.
In the song Be Our Guest Lumiere also says he needs Far more than dusting.
The following 'exercise, a chance to use our skills' becomes a bit dubious with that interpretation.
A Japanese legend involves a demon hidden in a woman's vagina, who would bite off men's penises until he broke his teeth on a specially-made steel dildo. The legend is commemorated with the Kanamara Matsuri, Festival of the Steel Penis where people eat loads of phallic pastries.
One Inuit legend involved a guy meeting some woman like this, who really, really wanted to have sex with him. He used a stick in place of his own body, and broke the teeth. Possibly then he had sex with her or he opened up a Japanese pastry shop.
From the Star Driver character sheet, about Takuto (the sheer laconic factor just makes it):
His entire reason for coming to the island is to punch his dad.
In Star Trek, pon farr in Vulcans can be compared to this, with the added drama of having to Mate or Die. Notable in that both males and females are affected.
Fridge Logic would dictate that this means all of the Slash Fic writers are comparing Captain Kirk to a tampon.
A-fucking-VERTED in Glee once Kurt and Blaine kissed. It was not a blink-or-you-miss-it peck, it was not played up to boost ratings (even the actors weren't completely sure until they were given their scripts!), and it came after an extremely touching Love Epiphany that was free of angst, guilt, or impulse. And then after catching their breath, Kurt and Blaine practically attacked each other! Not for nothing is this all over LGBT news, YouTube, and Twitter.
To put it another way, Glee -- a mainstream comedy on FOX - took this trope, kicked it in the balls, made it their bitch, and then sent it running away with its tail between its legs while squealing like a 60s Housewife confronted with a spider. This was a full-on, Hays Code-breaking makeout session, possibly with tongue (it looked like it had tongue, anyway).
The Simpsons: the season four Treehouse of Horror ("Treehouse of Horror III", production code 9F04, for you rabid fans) where Homer gets Bart a cursed Krusty doll from a Chinese man's curio shop filled with cursed and weird objects from around the world.
But it comes with a free frogurt!
The frogurt is also cursed.
But you get your choice of topping!
The toppings contain potassium benzoate (that's bad).
And the doll wasn't even cursed, despite coming from an occult curio shop run by a strange Chinese man. The doll had a "good/evil" switch on its back that someone flipped on "evil".
Bruce Almighty. The title character uses god-powers to exact ironic revenge on some guys who taunted him earlier in the film. Really the wrong time to say that the chances of something happening were as low as the chance of a monkey climbing out of your ass.
And even worse, when he's done with the monkey, he has it go back where it came from.
The highest Narm-factor scores the German synchro: "Was ist ... mit meinem Körper?!" (In English: "What is ... with my body?!"). Is he having a date with Rosie Palms for the first time in this sand balloon of his or what is his major malfunction?!
From Twenty Bear Asses, there's the mention of the Biblical incident where David had to collect 100 Philistine foreskins. What takes the cake is the description of the whole things as a Fetch Quest, ending with "WORST. QUEST. EVER."
For this troper, considering what a creepy Ax CrazyComplete Monster the guy is, it was rather unnerving to see Martin Keamy again. I was also more than thankful when Sayid shot the guy.
You know what is worse? This Troper literally got a sense of Uncanny Valley from him. You are not supposed to get Uncanny Valley from a real, living breathing person! I checked his previous appearances. Nada. But in Sundown, something about him just looked... wrong.
So very seconded. There was something very odd about his eyes-- maybe contacts, maybe just lighting, but it was honestly hard to look at him.
Maybe it's the fact that this particularly evil Complete Monster is actually smiling. You know something's wrong when he's cheerful.
Natsuru, main character of Kämpfer, in the anime. S/he was already dumb as a brick with special needs in the manga and light novel, but the anime went Beyond the Impossible and turned hir into a character thinking exclusively with hir non-existent penis... while being Oblivious to Love. Consequentially, s/he spends most of the series just sorta standing there with a dazed and confused expression, not even bothering to do much fighting or noting the Obviously Evil characters, or wondering what the smeg was going on with the secret magical girl war s/he was drafted into, or why the hot girls kept blushing around hir and taking hir out to eat... S/he is also a Pinball Protagonist, doing absolutely nothing of relevance whatsoever other than obliviously make all the lesbians in the room damp.
"In the Shaman of Fear when they overcome his Mind Rape and then proceed to fuck him senseless with a spear."
"** ... you... may want to reconsider the wording of that sentence. Just sayin'."
The chagrinning books also suffer from the chagrinning act of shoehorning the word chagrin, no matter how chagrinningly innapropriate, into every chagrinning sentence, much to the chagrin of many.
90% of the humor and 50% of the violence on The Powerpuff Girls is disturbingly Freudian. Just try to watch the episodes "Members Only" and "The Boys Are Back in Town" without wanting to take a cold shower. Seriously — "Whenever their masculinity is threatened, they shrink in size." Apparently, this is what happens when an action series stars little girls.
In short, Denny and Alan are dripping with more Ho Yay than every other example on this page. Combined. They're dripping with so much Ho Yay nobody mentions it because doing so would be tantamount to pointing at water and saying, "That's wet."
The way Frank Miller's page mixes tropes found in his work and tropes found in his life makes him seem a bit crazy.
A list of all the occurrences of this trope in Star Trek turned out to be longer than the Universe and collapsed into a black hole that we were only barely able to reverse by rewriting the list in reverse order, so let's just leave it at those two.
Through most of the first season of Code Lyoko, any time Yumi Ishiyama entered the scene, the camera would spend several seconds focusing on her feet as she walked. Granted, she was wearing her big gray boots at the time, but she also has bath scenes with close-ups focusing on several parts of her naked body, her feet included. She is 14 years old. Hooray for wholesome family entertainment!
Revolutionary Girl Utena: Name an episode that doesn't have someone being slapped. Forget duels, slapping is the prefered method of doing harm to someone in the show.
"You... complete me" in Jerry Maguire. It doesn't help that Tom Cruise looked like he was taking a dump while he said it.
Hell, with that rictus smile of his, he looked like he was taking a dump through half the damn movie.
From the same page:
In these films, Legolas frequently says randomly portentous lines for no discernible reason.
He has a good reason; he needs the screentime. Think of the fangirls!
Also, "Emmett looks like he smelled something nasty -- maybe sparkly BO is worse than normal BO...?"
Durarara!!: Shinra, after Izaya trolls him by handing his cellphone number to the police.
Izaya: How was it? Gave you quite the adrenaline shot, didn't it? Did you and Celty just grow to love each other even more due to the misattribution of arousal? Shinra: Ah hah hah. Go die chest-first in a clay ice shaver, Izaya.
From the Weirdness Coupon page, especially if you've been giving said coupons yourself without thinking about it:
If it's written by CLAMP, the fans give it a homosexuality coupon (valid even with most homophobes), a bizarre, twisted incomprehensible symbolic mysticism coupon, an inappropriate-romantic-pairing coupon, a Xanatos Roulette coupon, an Impossibly Cool Clothes coupon, and probably several others. Reasons are unclear, but usually boil down to either "the story/characterization is too engaging" and/or "you can no more ask CLAMP to stop doing any of these things than you can ask the Washington Monument to tap dance".
Finally the greatest amount of Gorn in the movie: the GNR's neck tearing from the body, with spurts of blood coming from the neck. And then, the head falls off, with the neck muscles and SPINE exposed. And finally, the head SPLITS IN HALF AS HER LIMBS FALL APART AND THE ENTIRE BODY MELTS INTO A POOL OF BLOOD!
They Changed It, Now It Sucks: Most people who watched the original as children (or even as parents) are horrified by Special Delivery Service. HELICOPTERS?! AND A TRAIN?! AND ETHNIC PEOPLE?! AND WHERE THE HELL ARE GRANNY DRYDEN AND MISS HUBBARD?!
Funny story: some time ago I took an evening out to format The Muppet Show character sheet and add several characters who were missing. Most of them I had at least a good half-dozen tropes to stick on them, but I couldn't come up with any for Pops. So, I took a look at the list of "Old People Tropes" and the only one I found that seemed to apply was Senior Sleep Cycle. So I stuck that there with a note implying that I could only come up with one trope for Pops because I fell asleep. Hilariously, it's been over half a year and that entry remains untouched by Wiki Magic. Either nobody could come up with anything either, or they liked the joke too much to remove it.
The Headscratchers page for Clue. For some reason pointing out the logical flaws of a board game as if it were a serious murder mystery is funny in and of itself, but I nearly collapsed in laughter when someone postulated "Maybe he explodes when something touches him" I've never heard of whatever the Pothole references, but good god that was funny.
The discussion on Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans on the Harry Potter Headscratchers page.
This line, a couple topics down:
"And how would you know how a gerbil tastes in the first place?"
"Gerbil-flavored Bertie Bott's, of course!"
The plothole about why "a family of immortal vampires has a sippy cup in their household".
Sometimes Esme's baby-mania gets the better of her and decides that one of her "children" needs a diaper change and a bed time story. Edward doesn't like to talk about those times very much, probably because he's her most common target (why else would he be so fucked up?).
This plothole:
Why did it take the Volturi so long to reach Forks? Irina runs off, and suddenly Alice sees the Volturi arriving...in a couple months. Alice and Bella get there in New Moon in less than a few days. The Volturi are rich and should have capable transportation, and everyone is already in Volterra so they don't need to spend time gathering their forces. Even if Irina didn't have access to a phone, she could have run to the Voluturi within a few days. Did they get lost at the airport? Did they misplace where they had packed their wives? Did they take a stroll through Russia?
—Now I want to read THAT book: 'The Terminal: Volturi Edition!' It'd be awesome, with Jane inflicting her psychic torture on immigration officials and Aro giggling over those turny baggage things and the entire gang taking up a whole section of the airport and creeping people out, but none of the humans say anything because they don't want to be Mistaken for Racist.
From the Mushishi Headscratchers page, as to why Ginko's Fan Nickname is 'Pimp-ko':
Because he's so incredibly cool, ofcourse. He wins the hearts of most female characters and then ditches them saying he can't stick along for long periods of time 'because of the mushis'. He travels from town to town breaking hearts and kicking ass. He doesn't need to get the girl, he knows he can, and that's enough for him and his hordes of fans.
From Up Headscratchers, explaining why Carl didn't get in trouble with the FAA:
"Hello, is this the FAA? Yeah, there's this guy flying in a house. Yes, he's attached his house to a million balloons and he's just flying it down the... hello? Hello?"
Also from that page, this comment from the argument over whether or not Russell is Asian:
Flik was blue, Sully was blue, Mike was green, Remy was grey, WALL-E was brown, Lightning McQueen was red, and Nemo and Marlon were orange with white stripes. How much more diverse can you get?
And what was Eudora's reaction when her daughter who'd been missing for three days came through the door wearing an enormous sparkly dress, along with her new husband and alligator buddy?
"Now I'll live to see my grandkids!"?
First thing this troper thought of was Louis shouting "GRAMMA!" and jumping in Eudora's arms. "I want cookies and sweaters and stories about what it was like in the old days!"
"New game idea: "I'm Batman". In this platformer-action adventure-MMORPG-RTS-Beat 'Em Up-Rhythm Game, you play as the Dark Knight, going around and holding up Gotham's deadliest villains by the neck and saying "I'm Batman". There are 'aggression' and 'volume' meters that you have to max out, as well as 'the' and 'goddamn' buttons that provide bonus points if you use them in the right situation. Playable on 'Conroy', 'Keaton' and 'Bale' difficulty levels, with an unlockable bonus mode in which you play as Adam West. Not Adam West's Batman. You're just Adam West going around shouting at people. DLC has been announced, but not yet specified. Available Fall 2010, on Xbox360, PC and Play Station 3."
Just the line, "You're just Adam West going around shouting at people," conjures up the most hilarious image I've gotten in my head from this site.
Jesus, Lucy, Violet, and Patty are CRUEL to poor Charlie Brown! They expect him to get an over-commercialized tree, made of pink aluminum? Charlie brings back a tree that looks like one that would be next to the humble manger, and they all laugh at him! Even damned SNOOPY! Although it sets up a Crowning Moment of Awesome with the "That's what Christmas is all about" speech, I just want to wring those three bitches' neck!!
Is it bad that I read the start of this entry as a list of 4 names, rather than an expletive and 3 names?
Jesus is laughing at Charlie Brown for having a great Christmas spirit! The irony!
Nope. I did it, too. As did my parents, Ayn Rand and God.
Name an episode of Revolutionary Girl Utena that doesn't have someone being slapped. I don't think it exists. Forget duels, slapping is the prefered method of doing harm to someone in the show.
But... but... -snap- DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS! FIFTY POUNDS OF RULEBOOKS! NOT FINAL FANTASY! DEATH HAPPENS! AND THEN IT UNHAPPENS! EXPEND ONE FIFTH-LEVEL SPELL SLOT AND CALL ME IN THE MORNING! THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING! I NEED +5 VORPAL SCISSORS! 1d6!
You may also want to try cracking your knuckles more often. Loosen up the joints a little. Plus, you don't have to have your other fingers down at the knuckle and flush with your palm; just enough to get the point across.
TV Tropes... where we teach you how to be an asshole.
It's called polyphasic sleep. One of my friends at college did it. You sleep for 30 minutes every 6 hours, and it forces your body to abandon natural circadian rhythms. It's intended to give you more time awake each day. Of course, if you do it improperly it causes you to hallucinate and think you're in The Legend of Zelda, but there you are.
After the Events of Victory of the Daleks the Dalek Rangers threw the most awesome victory party the universe has ever seen, in celebration of finally pulling one over on the Doctor. I only bring this up because the idea of the Daleks OF ALL RACES doing your typical wild party antics with those screeching voices of theirs amuses me.
"THE BOTTLE HAS SPUN! DALEK ETERNAL MUST SNOG DALEK STRATEGIST!"
Someone has to draw that now, complete with Dalek Scientist scuttling around at top speed with a lampshade on its head.
"MY VISION IS IMPAIRED!"
Truth or Dare with Daleks. I swear, that would be the best party ever.
Scientist: DALEK ETERNAL, TRUTH OR DARE? Eternal: ...TRUTH. Drone: WHO IS YOUR CRUSH? Eternal: ...CAN I DO A FORFEIT?
This response to the WMG that Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes is a furry in development and Hobbes is his fursona: "Bill Watterson is spinning in his grave, and he's not even dead!"
This little exchange on the Fairy Tail Headscratchers page is quite amusing:
There're still other jobs that I wouldn't really trust Fairy Tail members with. One job once was to teach a bunch of little kids magic...do you really want a Fairy Tail member to corrupt your young?
About the most recognized use of Mathematician's Answer is answering "yes" when meaning "both". "Do you prefer it shaken, or unstirred?" "Yes." This is universally understood by more or less everyone on the Internet. Which is what bugs me, since technically, mathematically if you will, such an answer would mean "yeah, one or more of them", which is nearly no answer at all. What is appalling is that no one else seems to notice the incongruity, and the Internet should be smarter than that. Am I wrong? Are they wrong? Is the Internet broken? The uncertainty is tearing me apart.
The College isn't some five-star restaurant that everyone's trying to get into. It's McDonald's. A McDonald's where whenever you try to get a burger, someone punches you in the nose and knocks it out of your hand. After a while of that, you just say fuck it and go to Burger King instead.
Troper: You mean the military that treats Zapp Brannigan like the reincarnations of Sun Tzu and Napoleon combined? Zoidberg: Sunpoleon? I love that guy!
How does Neil Kellerman know that there aren't any books in Johnny's room? It's not like he would have a reason to go there, right?
Obviously he sneaks into his room frequently to steal his underwear to smell at night... or the guy was just being condescending and assuming (probably rightly) that Johnny is not much of a reader and that that simply wasn't a believable excuse.
I feel arousal.
But this film is G-rated.
Cleanest porn ever.
The Playing With page for People Sit on Chairs. Just that someone would make that page is one thing, but... oh wait, I did that. Never mind. You saw nothing.
The So Bad Its Horrible haiku by Cow. It's pretty normal "Oh god, why!" stuff, until the last line which simply says:
This Troper probably qualifies as one. On the outside, she's either a Shrinking Violet or cynical, tough, cold, and antisocial. Which she's really not. She's just really shy among strangers and doesn't like talking, but once she gets used to people or generally starts feeling comfortable, she's a Cloudcuckoolander, very playful, endlessly talkative, tends to joke a lot, and very much the opposite of what she seems. Dinru: I don't remember leaving a story here. Hm.
Nobody move. I think you may both be me.
I didn't know I had three other identical personalities!
That's because you actually have four. Take that as you will.
Jesus Christ. Who are you people and why am I a clone now?
Who are you and how did you take over my body?
I didn't know I had female clones.
Well it turns out that you have one more here.
Someone forgot to turn the clone machine off.
The entire Troper Tales page for Biggus Dickus, starting with the very first line: Any guy who posts anything about himself on this page is a liar.
In the same vein, the Troper Tales I Call Him "Mister Happy" page. The whole thing is hilarious, but this exchange really stands out:
I was inspired by this page to give mine a name. I have decided on Odin,for reasons that are easily speculated.
This troper and his cousin had talked about going to the premiere of Revenge of the Fallen dressed as a Heavy/Medic pair, telling everyone that we were there to see the "TF2 movie". This was back before the official title was revealed and it was just referred to as Transformers 2, and we didn't bother to go through with it once the acronym didn't work anymore.
The Troper Tales for Rule 34 have made many tropers laugh uncontrollably, for varying reasons. Some find the idea that someone, somewhere is getting off on cartoon porn is amusing, others say it's the other tropers and their subsequent horror of what can be pornified that's hilarious.
This particular example is especially funny:
This Troper has seen LazyTown porn. How I wish I hadn't.
Hey, SOME of us are in fact counting the days to May 26, 2009.
What happens then, may I ask?
I'm actually sad I researched this. It's the day the actress playing Stephanie turns 18.
It happened yesterday. Er... celebrate?
Celebrate!!!
As is this one:
"This Troper once saw a picture of Princess Peach being raped by a unicycle with three penises, one of which was painted as a clown, one of which was painted as Mario, and one of which was painted as a ninja. Ugh."
This Troper's sister works at Disney World. On a recent trip down to visit I found myself finding P&F references at every opportunity. She'd only seen an episode or two and didn't understand most of the running gags so as the week went on she got increasingly annoyed at me cracking jokes at everything, including the fact that of all the merchandise they sell, I couldn't find the plush Perry that I wanted. In a Fridge Brilliance moment when I got home, I realized I had spent the last 6 days driving my sister insane.
This troper's sister has a host of Too Dumb to Live moments. She once asked what a baseball team, passenger train, and airport were.
But you could technically live without knowing what those are. Maybe an isolated, hermit's life but still a life.
She already knew what they were.
This troper is now picturing a massive, eight-tracked train -- like something out of Against a Dark Background -- with planes landing and taking off of its roof, managed by an AI assembled by combining the brainscans of a major baseball team -- like Ennesby from Schlock Mercenary -- because, of course, baseball players are excellent at teamwork and ballistic trajectories.
Please report to the front desk to collect your ten internets, sir.
Arguably, this Troper[1] is probably the youngest of which who suffers from this Trope. This is practically the invisible label that's under the invisible Berserk Button of this 13-year old kid.[1] He broke 33 pencils in his life, and had a good friend break two of those pencils because they were too hard. He even yelled at someone because that guy was the third person who asked if he could be punched for the third time, with a teacher only a mile ahead!
This Troper is writing a vampire story. At the end they have kids. How is it explained nobody finds out they're a family of vampires? Well, when you were a kid, you always pretended to be a wizard or whatever, right? Basically, children won't be believed when they say they're a vampire, and adults are smart enough to keep it a secret.
This troper had an 11th grade English teacher way back in 2001 who was a few months from retirement. He didn't censor his mouth, he showed us R-rated movies without permission slips - his excuse? "What's the worst they can do, FIRE ME?".
The absolute best example of his non-censoredness was when he told the rambunctious class to quiet down, and two boys in the corner ignored him. He went right over to them and said "This is one of those things that Joe Jacobs is not supposed to say, but GOD DAMNIT, SHUT THEFUCK UP!!!" The class had been deathly silent during that outburst, but we all erupted into uncontrollable laughter afterwards except for the two who had been admonished.
This image suggestion for Impaled Palm had this troper in giggle fits for 10 straight minutes.
This forum discussion. Since it's discussing FATAL, there's need for regular Brain Bleach, but the concentrations of sarcasm, schadenfreude, and Running Gags is extremely hilarious.
Charlatan: Mighty Anonym boldsizing his Jesus bit in his signature rubs me the wrong way. Blackmoon: "boldsizing his Jesus bit" Thank you, Charlie, I now have a new synonym for jerking off.
On December 28, 2010, the day after it was announced the It Just Bugs Me! forum was shutting down, SPACETRAVEL gave us a jumble of various recurrent topics, under the title "It's not funny anymore.":
First of all, I'm going to assume that you already understand that adaptations are never better than the originals, but to the point:
It's not cute, it's not sympathetic, it doesn't make you any more of a catboy, so cut it out. I hate it when people abuse their senses of humor this way, thinking their jokes are harmless and affectionate when they're really dehumanizing those nearest and dearest to them by doing shit like this. When you talk that way about your friends, you may not know it, but it sounds to me like you're saying they ought to put on your jammies. Dorm etiquette, man. Learn it, and someday, you might be able to support your own health care.
Besides, the crude style of comedy in question went out of style in the 30s. Yep, even in the Great Depression, when resources were tight, a whole form of entertainment was spent—because it just wasn't funny. I'm anticipating objections from the "FDR and the Atheists did Fetishes" crowd, and I challenge them to:
One: explain to me why they think such a conspiracy, if there was one, was such a bad thing.
Two: man up.
As well, it's blatantly camp homophobic. The use of only heterophones in the the centrally important iambic pentameter section to the exclusion of even the homophones that would be more concise and versatile additions to the song betrays a structure built to make a statement against people attracted to the same sex. And it's not even funny. I've been more amused by arguments about abortion, so I am for both women and men having the legal right to abort this fallacy. Death of the Author with a vengeance.
And worst of all, it's just lazy writing. Put some thought and time into your work and give us some sound quality that doesn't smell like pot. People with asthma will thank you. Transcend the Fan Dumb.
Oh, and inb4 "What are you talking about?" and "What is 'it'?" I know what I'm talking about, and if you don't, maybe you should take a look at yourself. Maybe you should stop it, because it's not funny anymore.
Hastily added expression of hope that I do not get banned for this. Lie that the thread is a self-demonstrating Headscratchers about performance art, which actually doesn't bug me at all. Series of too many apologies.
How many threads can you find in this jumble?
This suggestion from one troper to another on worldbuilding.
Get drunk. Get pen. See what happens. Not recommended for those under the drinking age, those who operate heavy machinery, or fans of Twilight.
Do we need a Lady Gaga Music Video Drinking Game? Of course we do. These are the ones a friend and I came up with.
Every time two people start making out, take a shot. Every time Gaga's costume changes, take a shot. Every time a video makes a callback to a past song, video, or some other aspect of her performing career, take a shot. Every time you see subliminal advertising, take a shot. For every instance of gratuitous foreign language, take a shot. For every cameo of her dogs, take a shot. Every time Gaga puts something in her mouth, take a shot. Whenever she pantomimes a gun, take a shot.
This forum thread. It's the only discussion I've seen which starts out complaining about an upcoming movie, then turns into an assassination plot.
Had one weird dream last night... I was watching Darkwing Duck and it just went off. The next show was on, and there were aliens that invaded lizard cavemen. (One of them even sounded like DW.) Anyway, the aliens wanted hair that was growing on the cavemen for no apparent reason. After they got enough of their hair, and some of their scales, they began eating them, which in turn merged all of them into one giant smiling jellybean. The jellybean then exploded into tons of other jellybeans, and who emerged from the jellybean explosion?
None other than Princess Celestia herself!
Then the My Little Pony theme started up...
The YKTTW that launched Dada Comics. The troper hivemind took a blank YKTTW and ran with it.
i think we have something here, i'm gonna launch it what?
Deliberate Left Fielders are common on image boards such as 4chan, where they will generally announce their presence with the cry "Thread Hijack!" (Or if on /m/, "Trombe Override!")
There are the people who start a thread where the "image is not related". In such cases it's very easy for the discussion to be about the image posted rather than the intended topic.
Boring or unpopular topics on some GameFAQs boards would often be deliberately derailed with the fad phrase "This topic sucks and is now about trains". A good 50% of the time, people would then start discussing trains for a while before the topic died.
One of the first topics made after the announcement of the train-themed The Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks was "This game sucks and is now about trains... oh wait."
A phenomenon specific to the "Anime & Manga: Adult Swim Action" board is to label a topic with "Can any [as] action character (insert blank)" with the real topic being about the (insert blank) (or not even about that). This is done in order to insert off-topic topics into the board that would otherwise be deleted.
Infamous on Usenet was Jabriol, a borderline incoherent idiot obsessed with evolution to the extent that he could turn any topic, any topic at all, into a diatribe on how evolution was evil. His most typical behavior was to get into a forum related to some form of human tragedy (rape victim support fora, spouse abuse survivors, etc.), then post about how evolutionists strongly favor whatever horror the members of said forum had experienced. Last encountered trying to argue evolutionists loved it when people killed themselves for reasons only clear to him.
Is it bad that Kriegsmesser can guess what that train of thought was?
I read a sci-fi book once (I'll put the name when I remember it), where the kids of people genetically enhanced not to need sleep were so smart, they thought and communicated in a series of complex webs. This made their conversations appear to be nothing BUT Left Fielders to anyone NOT these kids. It took me several chapters to figure out what the parents' problem with this was, ie MOST people must not think like this. I find that state of affairs mildly disturbing, and boring. And now, pie!
This troper, who has Aspergers Syndrome, has experienced this first-hand... Sometimes I will make connections that other people won't, which makes them very confused, and makes me seem like a Left Fielder (I seldom have this problem talking with other Aspergians).
This troper ain't an Aspergian (...probably) but he does the exact same thing. It gets hilarious when I recount the exactly train track of thought when someone asks how I thought of something and it's an eight-track-jump process.
alt.fan.pratchett runs on this. If a thread's been going for more than 10 posts and hasn't spawned a discussion about beer, something has gone wrong. If it's been going for more than 10 posts and is still about the works of Terry Pratchett, it's a sign of the apocalypse. (Or, possibly, that there's a new book out).
On that note, I declare this trope to now be about baseball.
In addition to his left field work, Rickey Henderson set records for runs scored and bases stolen that remain intact to this day.
He was a skilled player.
Or he had superpowers.
Baseball sucks, let's talk about pennies.
Did you know the Abe Lincoln penny was the first U.S. coin minted with a president's likeness?
FROG-BLAST THE VENT CORE! Let's see what that stirs up...
Well technically you could call them a 50's band, seeing as they were originally called the Quarrymen, who were from 1957 which evolved into the Beatles in 1959.
Nope, not even then. The Quarrymen were a '50s band, but never a 50's band. Learn your apostrophes.
Wasn't this supposed to be about Whales During the Time of Christ, or something?
Seriously, guys... baseball? So how about them Dodgers, huh?
I don't follow baseball. So I don't know what I'm doing here.
Video game example: the Love Point's "Do you remember love?" and pretty much everything the Turning Point says in Immortal Defense. (I'm a genius! What's more outta left field than putting a serious example in an article about left-fielders?)
42.
Every time a thread over at Fandom Wank gets out of hand, the discussion always turns to how sexy Alan Rickman is.
Damn it why did they remove that running gag on the Chain of Deals entry about the red paperclip trade, I LIKED that gag!
That reminds me-! Three vampires walk into a bar...
...and then Van Helsing says, "And that's how you make a bloodless Mary."
How sexy is Alan Rickman?
Screw Justin Timberlake, Rickman's the one bringing sexy back.
Isn't he the guy who plays Sev in the HP movies? I'm writing a lot of HP fanfiction, my latest ones have centered around good ol' Sevvy. I've been getting really good grades when I turn in my fanfics in English class. I need to bring up my GPA. Did you know Turk in Tarzan was female? I totally didn't know that for YEARS, now she's my favourite Disney female. Pocahontas really sucks, I used to like it but then I read up on the real Pocahontas and I'm mad. Susan B. Anthony would be ashamed of modern-day feminists. How did I get from Alan Rickman to Susan B. Anthony?
Alan Rickman can impregnate by touch alone.
Would you like to hear a funny story about tomatoes? In stores, they're located in the vegetable department, even though they're really fruit.
Tomatoes are vegetables so they can be taxed! The man is milk even more money out of us! Fight the power!
Remember that guy who tied helium balloons to a lawn chair and traveled several thousand feet into the sky on it? Also, why does everything fall apart?
Wasn't the lawnchair guy Rhys Ifans or something? Or was he in the movie about it? And isn't he the same guy as David Thewlis? Also, what ever happened to Paul Henreid? He was in Casablanca but I haven't seen him in anything else.
Man, I remember when this Wiki was actually about TV Tropes, and when you started a discussion, by golly, you either stayed on topic or somehow tied it to Doctor Who or Firefly.
Seriously guys, what's the deal with airplane food?
I wouldn't know. Unless I'm terribly mistaken, they don't give you food on airplanes at all any more. Not even peanuts, which were the best part.
Yes they do. Well, they do on the airline we used for our trip to Mexico, anyways.
Southwest does. Unless someone calls the airline ahead of time and says they're allergic. Then they'll serve pretzels. Speaking of pretzels, how relaxing is yoga?
Wouldn't it be cool if Alan Rickman had been on Firefly?
YES.
Y'know, I'm usually polite enough to wait for a break in the conversation to change the topic. Bunch of unmannered pricks. I also know someone who will try to introduce a topic (usually one of his favorite video games or Transformers) right in the middle of a discussion. Exactly how did Left 4 Dead remind you of Transformers, again? It's damn annoying, but I'm too polite to tell him to stop doing this.
Speaking of baseball, cricket. I suppose the equivalent of left field in cricket might be "cow corner", as it's kind of the same area of the field from the point of view of a right-handed batsman. It's sort of between midwicket and square leg, for those who don't know, and it's the traditional destination of a good old-fashioned slog (when a batsman just looks to clobber the ball as hard as they can without any thought as to technique).
Baseball was invented as a game for British schoolgirls to play while the boys played cricket. True story.
There aren't that many crickets where I live. Sometimes you hear them, though * chirp, chirp* . Also, who's ever seen a potato bug / mediterannean beetle? Big, ugly lil' bastards, ain't they? Riftworm.
I'm so proud... I was the one who successfully derailed a trope page. -tear-[2]
Anyone torn open a laptop for shits and giggles? I have.
You know what? I likeTomo, I don't care what anyone says.
Who the hell is that?
Why aren't there any bears in Finland?
They are damn good at hiding. Especially polar bears. And damn are they sneaky! I know a kid who almost got eaten by one! They really should start hunting them, but noooo.
I'm beginning to think you guys just don't want to talk about whales...
Go look up Ambulocetus. That thing was neat. It was a whale with feet. Hey, I rhyme!
Have you ever noticed how a lot of anime from the '70s look like vampires?
How can a leek cure anything when it's the nastiest food in the world?
Ooh, fancomics! Chess Piece is particularly awesome. It involves mostly Danny Phantom and then at least one character from almost every Nicktoon ever made. Doug's the urban planner, CatDog's a fashion designer (or rather Cat is) Oblina is a nurse, Iroh is Vlad's good friend and even Dora the Explorer has a cameo of sorts, which involves a stolen Swiper doll and will likely tramatize that girl for life. Phantom is Ax Crazy and for some reason, I thought it was funny as hell. Plus it quotes a lot of stuff... like Beatles and Buffy. Neo Yi is truely awesome.
Something I've always wondered: if someone gives you a penny for your thoughts, and you proceed to put your two cents in, where did the extra money come from?
Tiberius: Yeah! Do you have any idea how much that hurts? How bad singed fur SMELLS! It takes FOREVER to get that smell out of your fur!
In my experience, rat poison works pretty well. Although now I want to combine the two... rat poison on fire? Or maybe just go straight to the napalm. I love that gasoline smell.
Have you ever noticed how much vampires look like vampires?
Uh, to get this entry back on topic, the Urban Legends Reference Pages forum has an "Unhijackable Thread" where every new post must Left Field the previous one. And, with that said, may I ask what is the best way to attach the granny squares together for this afghan I'm making? Granny circles, for that matter?
My granny only circles when she's had too much to drink. Speaking of that, what's your favorite type of drink?
(Granny)^2 = Graham cracker.
They made a horror movie called Rabid Grannies. Just thought I'd mention it.
I can relate. WALL-E is probably the least enjoyable film I've ever seen. And I've seen Monster a Go-Go!.
We have entered an endless recursion of time.
We have entered an endless recursion of time.
We have entered an endless recursion of time.
We have entered an endless recursion of time.
Kyon-kun, denwa?
We have entered an endless recursion of time.
We have entered an endless recursion of time.
Kyon-kun, denwa?
Kyon-kun, denwa?
We have entered an endless recursion of time.
We have entered an endless recursion of time.
There is no time. Your sword is enough.
Endless Eight taught me how to say "classified information" in Japanese! Think of all the applications!
Huh. I thought this trope was about when people bring up other topics out of nowhere. Like those people that get on every news article about Obama and then bring up his birth certificate, regardless of the original topic of the article? Oh well, I guess not. So anyway, why isn't Puerto Rico a state yet? And btw, Firefly totally rocks. The previous troper is obviously a moron that enjoys bad television.
Your derailments cannot harm me, are you a fucking ass? Do you not know who I am, he must not know who I am, I'M THE JUGGERNAUT BITCH, IMA HITCHA WITCHYO OWN TRAIN! I'm bad, I'm the badder motherfucker on the word.
Back to the original topic, the Snopes message boards ingeniously created the "Unhijackable thread" specifically for the purpose of creating as many left fields as possible. Oh, and speaking of, it's Baseball Bats all the way, baby!
I pre-ordered the Star Trek MMO and it ended up being too awesome for my computer to handle. But it'll be worth it when I get a new one and retrieve my Tribble.
