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This troper took a few levels when, after years of being a Woobie so pitiful Shinji would say what the heck is wrong with you, I had enough of a girl I liked always going for this tall, blond guy. When they were talking right in front of me in the street and holding arms and talking and all that, I said, "Shut. The. Hell. Up." The boy looks around and walks over, trying to look menacing. Martial arts studies come in. I take a punch to the forehead and then slide under and punch him in the stomach, he goes backwards and I land another one to his face. I then go berserk and full body tackle him. He managed to crawl away, and say, "That kid...is inhuman!"

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This Troper gave a very nasty one that was merged with a Hannibal Lecture to a bully Jerk Jock type. It can be summed up as, "I really do pity you. . .or at least I try to. . . . You are just an empty fool who tries to erase his fear that he might not get a football scholarship by bullying those lesser than him. I continue these "geeky" behaviors because they let me form at least a core of my personality. You. . .you have nothing any more other than to try to fill your empty core up with the fear of others while watching that perfect six pack decay from one too many beers." He cried and ran away, having been emotionally dissected.

Kaiju Cage Match posted:

I like to imagine this happened but the jock beat him up partway through and was given a Roman-style triumph for his efforts:

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This Troper gave a very nasty one that was merged with a Hannibal Lecture to a bully Jerk Jock type. It can be summed up as, "I really do pity you. . .or at least I try to. . . . You are just an empty fool who tries to erase his fear that he might not get a football scholarship by bullying those lesser than him. I continue these "geeky" behaviors because they let me form at least a core of my personality. You. . .you have nothing any more other than to try to fill your empty core up with the fear of others while watching that perfect six pack decay from one too many beers." He cried and ran away, having been emotionally dissected.

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This troper took a few levels when, after years of being a Woobie so pitiful Shinji would say what the heck is wrong with you, I had enough of a girl I liked always going for this tall, blond guy. When they were talking right in front of me in the street and holding arms and talking and all that, I said, "Shut. The. Hell. Up." The boy looks around and walks over, trying to look menacing. Martial arts studies come in. I take a punch to the forehead and then slide under and punch him in the stomach, he goes backwards and I land another one to his face. I then go berserk and full body tackle him. He managed to crawl away, and say, "That kid...is inhuman!"

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When they were talking right in front of me in the street and holding arms and talking and all that, I said, "Shut. The. Hell. Up."

crowfeathers posted:

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Arguably, this Troper 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. 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!

Metal Loaf posted:

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This troperrecently (A few weeks ago) got into a....little fight with his longtime nemesis, last day of (high)school, he may not be coming(droping out, my nemesis, not me) back, revenge bluh bluh merger childish things. He decides to come at me with a meter stick with a rather intimidating war cry. I merely tilt my head ever so slightly and plunk, it hits the wall behind my head, visibly dumbfounded he then attempts to slash me. Big mistake, my headphones got unplugged from my Ipod touch, and my favorite song was just beginning. Nightwish's song [[CrowningMusic/Template:Nightwish she is my sin]] and so begins my epic battle, he keeps slashing and lunging at me all while I dodge his blows and strokes. He attempts another headshot but I deftly grabbed it from him, he fell face first onto the floor, then I said one of my favorite BadassBoast badass boasts almost immediately afterword FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren "On your knees...I want you to beg for forgiveness." my class's resident Video game gerd (Her own word she made, a combination of geek and nerd, she calls herself this all the time) said almost YELLING "Holy poo poo dude! That was awesome!" unfortunately his Girlfriend didnt think so, and tossed him the other meter stick and said "Kick that little snot into next year!"(Even though im taller then him he's like 5'4 im 5'7) and we exchanged blows which was eerily similar to aboved mentioned Final Fantasy movie, I then disarmed him and then said, "I hold no ill will, nor is this a personal matter, but thanks for the workout non-the less." He simply bowed his head in shame, his girlfriend having pure spasms of RAGE, chiding him that he couldn't beat a video game playing ultimate geek face(highly immature for a 16 year old girl I know), but I couldn't here them over the applause I was getting from the other geeks and my fellow peers, my teacher ( a substitute) woke up from her nap and simply said "what did I miss?" we all (except for my nemesis and his GF) begun laughing uncontrollably for a few minutes. I deadpanned afterwords "Nothing at all ma'am, just having some fun, listening to music, drawing, epic one sided battles..." She shrugged and went back to sleep.

Metal Loaf posted:

What does this even mean? I've no clue how often I've read this nonsense, but what he was trying to say in this sentence is still inscrutable to me.

WickedHate posted:

"I yelled at someone who was the third person who was just asking to be punched(acting annoying in a way that could be said to be "begging for it"), even though there was a teacher not far away".

Red Metal posted:

Why do they always refer to themselves in the third person? It sure doesn't help with trying to make sense of that sentence.

Jerry Manderbilt posted:

"Get dangerous, bitch!"

WickedHate posted:

"I yelled at someone who was the third person who was just asking to be punched(acting annoying in a way that could be said to be "begging for it"), even though there was a teacher not far away".

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He even yelled at someone because that guy was the third person who asked if he could be punched for the third time"

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with a teacher only a mile ahead!

Fuego Fish posted:

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Wizards of Waverly Place is an Emmy Award-winning Disney Channel sitcom about three siblings growing up in New York and dealing with the typical problems all teenagers go through. The catch? They're wizards. ...Has extensive Character Sheet, Getting Crap Past The Radar, Fanfic Recommendation, and Your Mileage May Vary pages, and is the only show to have its own Incest Yay page.

Metal Loaf posted:

What does this even mean? I've no clue how often I've read this nonsense, but what he was trying to say in this sentence is still inscrutable to me.

crowfeathers posted:

I don't know, I think the absolute best Troper Tale is still


Someone who literally thinks they live in an anime

Hammurabi posted:

I like how, even despite obviously fabricating every single word of that, he still manages to come off as an rear end in a top hat. I mean, normally one of the benefits of just flat-out making poo poo up is that you're able to make yourself sound like the good guy, the "hero" of your made up story. That guy couldn't even do that.

Lottery of Babylon posted:

(Haha, looks like someone got mad at the idea that something might be wrong with a white "critic" seeing no racism in a movie that even Disney is ashamed of.)

Nightmare Fuel: Wario Ware posted:

One of Dr. Crygor's minigames in Touched involves you spinning a black hole so that it swallows stars and planets, including Earth.

Nightmare Fuel: Wario Ware posted:

Ashley's after-boss-microgame-break after completing her stage shows her petting her stuffed bunny and asking you to do so. Doing so causes the bunnie's HEAD to fall off.

Hedgehog Pie posted:

Lame. If it's any consolation, I tend to enjoy reading the TV Tropes madness you dig up!

This isn't a classic or anything - and I may well have used it in the last thread - but I found it funny at least. I have this game for my DS. It's a children's game, but it's a fun little time-waster (one that starts to hurt my hand after ten minutes, but still).






Woooooo!

Also listed:




For goodness' sake, don't check those spoilers! You might need to pop into the scary Wikipedia article thread to cool off for a bit.

Penny Paper posted:

Where do Tropers find these obscure video games, cartoons, and TV shows? Is this a side effect of depending too much on the Internet or are there really Tropers in other countries?

Sham bam bamina! posted:

I'm pretty sure that I saw this person on another forum. She had an avatar of the "bend over" panel from this infamous VG Cats strip.

Testekill posted:

Wario Ware isn't an obscure title. It's one of the mid-range Nintendo franchises that doesn't do amazingly but sells well enough to justify it continuing. It's also a pretty drat fun series if you want to just play silly 10 second games.

Well Manicured Man posted:

It reminds me of a story I heard once that I've forgotten most of the details of, about a writer who was hired to write for a video game. He was shown a scene in which the player character callously murders someone and he asks the director if the scene is meant to cast doubt on the hero's goodness. The director responds, "no, it's just there to make the player feel like a badass." The writer is horrified.

That's Tropers.

Yeah Bro posted:

That was Enslaved and the guy advising was Alex Garland. It was made by a team of writers who went on to write a game where the hero aborts a demon baby with a sniper rifle.

Punting posted:

Wait, what? How could they possibly have considered that a good idea for a video game?

Cleretic posted:

That's a scene from the Devil May Cry reboot, so I'm not convinced there was consideration.

Punting posted:

...oh. That...that makes a lot more sense now.

Yeah Bro posted:

That was Enslaved and the guy advising was Alex Garland. It was made by a team of writers who went on to write a game where the hero aborts a demon baby with a sniper rifle.

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We got to a section where Monkey was walking down a walkway, and he sees an escaping slave trying to pull himself up to the walkway. And instead of helping the guy up, Monkey kicked him in the face and sent him to his death. They thought that projected the idea that Monkey was a badass. Whereas, to me, it projected the idea that Monkey was a bit of a oval office.

goatse.cx posted:

I didn't know that the term 'badass' meant psychopathy

goatse.cx posted:

Oh wow


I didn't know that the term 'badass' meant psychopathy

TvTropes: Journey to the West posted:

God-Mode Sue: The first part of Sun Wukong's history basically has him running roughshod over both humans and deities before Buddha puts a stop to the madness and even after he is released he gets many a Curb-Stomp Battle before they reach their destination.

Munchkin: Sun Wukong's abilities are utterly over the top.
* Small list of examples: Flying on either a magical cloud or by turning somersaults that propel him several tens of thousands of miles with each turn, changing into 72 different shapes, being able to change his hairs into different shapes (such as dozens of miniature versions of himself to help fight), see through illusions of all sorts, Super Strength, can't die due to a mixture of having crossed himself out of the Book of the Dead and eating immortality substances before being baked in a divine furnace, and is able to see for miles.
** And then there are his abilities to see through illusions, disguises and transformations, manipulate the wind, part the waters, create barriers, summon gods, walk through fire unharmed, survive underwater, pass through metal and rock, walk on clouds, freeze any kind of creature, including demons and gods, or make them fall asleep, have horses listen to his every whim, learn new spells with just a few glances and the bare minimum of instruction and open any lock. Wukong also has great knowledge of medicine and his 72 transformations actually allow him to take the form of anyone and anything, including growing extra body parts and transforming other objects by spitting his blood on it. Wukong can go as far as turning objects into living beings and then using them as puppets (though they lack souls. Movement and speech needs to be programmed into them). Add in Wukong's indestructibility plus his ability to fly across the Earth with a single somersault and you've got the most bizarre/awesome set of powers in classic literature.

Purple Prose: It's not purple prose, it's friggin' purple poetry, but descriptive asides peppering the novel defy any other definition.
* It gets downright florid when they reach Thorn Ridge and Xuanzang takes part in essentially a freestyle poetry jam.

Side Quest: Take a drink every time Wukong and company get sidetracked because 1) Xuanzang got kidnapped and/or 2) the locals are being menaced by a demon.

Stupid Good: Xuanzang, SO very much. Every time a demon disguises itself as a human in peril, you can wager your donkey that Xuanzang will insist on helping said disguised demon. Despite knowing that demons can take human form, and that Wukong can see through their disguises, Xuanzang gladly ignores Wukong's advice because he's just that compassionate of a guy. Only once in the entire book, in one of the later chapters, does he consider that Wukong might be right... only to revert back to Stupid Good when the demon (disguised as a child) puts on the puppy dog eyes.

Analysis: Journey to the West posted:

We don't have an article named Analysis/JourneyToTheWest.

Testekill posted:

If Ninja Theory weren't so great at creating some incredibly stunning visuals, they'd probably be one of the most painfully mediocre developers out there.

The Leper Colon V posted:

That is an insult to mediocrity. I'm pretty sure mediocre developers have never turned one of the coolest female video game characters into a mewling, whimpering... whatever the hell it is they turned her into.

Penny Paper posted:

Where do Tropers find these obscure video games, cartoons, and TV shows? Is this a side effect of depending too much on the Internet or are there really Tropers in other countries?

Korgoth of Barbaria posted:

Funbag Airbag: One of the guys attacking Korgoth gets flung across the room, lands right in the barmaid's cleavage, and doesn't move for the rest of the fight.

Unless one counts what sure looks like vigorous motorboating in the process of screaming sympathetically for the aforementioned Giant Mook.

Male Gaze: Used as a gag when Hargon, a.k.a Hook Hand Guy, arrives at the inn with the rest of the mooks. The camera scans the room from his point of view, passing by a serving wench, then immediately pans back to focus on her rear end.

World of Buxom: All of the damsels who appear in the show are quite busty.

The Modifyers posted:

Rule 34: Even a One Shot barely known cartoon isn't immune to this.

Adaptation Displacement: Many people have only heard of The Modifyers because it was adapted into a pornographic Fan Film.

Arcsquad12 posted:

How much do you want to bet that this is exactly how Tropers heard of this show in the first place?

CoolZidane posted:

If it wasn't, they wouldn't feel the need to clarify it with "Many people have".

Comments in an Escapist article posted:

well, cultural differences aside, It Is CIearly Censorship to alter something that already exists because It makes certain groups of people uncomfortable. If it had been designed in the more • 'modest' way In the first place, you might have a point. But Since it was not , It is clearly A form of censorship. (even If it is perhaps self - imposed). -besides, What does 'normal' have to do with the issue in the first place. wanting to depict the bloody violence in a typical horror film IS not especially normal... But lf you choose not to for fear of what people will think of it, that is definitely a form of censorship. As is taking An Idea you already had and toning down what you think might be its more Objectionable content before showing it to others.

The TV Tropes Ultimate Drinking Challenge posted:

Take a sip for every internal link you see. Yes, EVERY link, including the sidebar menu on the left and the Indexes at the bottom of the page. Afterwords, follow some of those links to their pages. Lather, rinse, repeat.
* For a ridiculous off-the-wall challenge, include red links and external links.
* If you are still conscious at this point, switch out the "sips" for "shots of brandy."

Lottery of Babylon posted:

Add "alcohol" and "drinking games" to the list of things tropers don't understand.