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>>94170823
>large all powerful being cares for the well being of a child
i always fall for this without fail
doom and valeria
golan and dylan
sesshomaru and rin
mr pickles and his kid

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>>94170823
Best Dad.
Best Husband.

>Hero about to be beaten and killed by a villain
>Suddenly, the major villain just comes in, bashes their fucking brains in, and kills the villain
>The hero asks why
>"Because there is only one man allowed to kill you, and that's me, but I'd rather watch you suffer"
That shit always gets me pumped.

>>94170823
>The hero was the Villain all along.

>>94170909
Also
>When a villain is shown to be honorable and isn't just evil for its own sake
Is Damage Control canon? Because Doctor Doom paying his bill will always be his defining character moment for me.

Bumbling goof hero makes for scarily competent villain

>>94170986
It just got my hopes up just to drop them in Dark of the Moon.

>>94170823
>In their normal identities, hero and the villain are best friends and in their superhero/villain identities they hate each other.

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>>94170823
>>large all powerful being cares for the well being of a child
This is pretty much the only reason I bother to keep reading cucumber quest

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>>94171307
I'll do you better.
>The two know their secret identities
>They disagree on how things should be done
>They're still good friends

>>94170823
HAH!! GAYYYYYYYY
I miss my dad :(

>>94170823
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxFnxBa12Vk

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>>94170823
>hero's little sister befriends one of his rogues

A character singing, humming or whistling the tune of the title song of the show

>>94170823
I liked that version of Killer Moth very much. Threatening but caring.

I wouldn't call it a trope but cute thinks trying to act big and tough always gets me.

The kind, idealistic hero gets pushed too far and snaps.

Basically fights that make me scared OF the hero are my jam.

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>Character is impaled on something
>Still keeps trying to go through it and reach their enemy

>We're gonna do X!
>No, we're gonna do Y!
>X!
>Y!
>X!
>Y!
>Y!
>X!
>Alright, glad you agree!

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>>94170823
Obligatory

>>94172817
Oh fuck yeah, that's a good one.

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>shriveld old sensei character unleashes his full power and wrecks everyone
This doesn't happen enough anymore.

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>>94170823

>>94171058
>Hero knows he's supposed to be the villain by programmation/fate/nature/blood but he tells his programming/destiny/nature/family to go fuck themselves and keeps doing what's right

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>>94172136
Coco is such a cinnamon roll.


rare, favorite trope:

female prone to slapstick, they're usually animals, or ugly/old evil humans, like Yzma.

>>94170962
One of the best side characters in the series.

>>94171250
First example I thought of. It was the one not-shit scene in the movie.
>This is MY planet!

>>94171058
>better yet, the hero never realized it until he fucks up the world

>>94173358
I felt figuratively blueballed by the Optimus vs Megatron fight in that movie.

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>>94170823
Come on Blizzard give me father figure soldier just a single panel in a comic of him training Hanna or Lucio.

>>94171223
goof villain makes for a competent hero

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>>94173829
It's honestly a shame that the comics are lore for Overwatch are so bad, but just good enough that they make you think about all the stuff they're just not exploring.

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>>94171058
>hero is actually a huge conceited asshole that only saves people for the glory and fame
>abandons his duty once he gets bored of saving people

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>>94170823
>Things go transhuman

>Two spiritual entities which gives powers.

>Heroic, Morally based spirit is set alongside a lazy and selfish character, so both can fight against crime.
>Cruel and Sadistic based spirit is set alongside a kindhearted and shy character to make chaos.

>>94174003

I always loved the Mystery Men version of it where the guy actually lets one of his old villains out because he's starting to lose sponsorships since everyone is in jail or dead.

>>94174003
>almost every hero is in it for glory or for image.
>main character is a hero as a hobby
>there's still few heroes who do it to actually save and help people

>>94174003
He's not really a conceited asshole. He just always cleaned up Megamind's mess and was pushed into an unfulfilling rule.

>>94170909
Sorry to be annoying, I don't really follow Marvel - Who is the other Doom? The one w/o the mask. Also who is the child??

>>94174126
He was an asshole to megamind throughout his childhood and the direct cause of him becoming a super villain.
Instead of trying to reform Megamind he just gives up and fakes his death because he got bored of it all.

>>94171093
Wait, what?

>>94174136
That's his disappointment of a son.

>>94173898
It feels like TF2 except without the good writing. Everything's so...PG. They've got all this material ripe for exploring and so much of it is blah.

What a waste

>>94174444
Are you asking what happened? I don't remember exactly, but... Some of Doom's henchmen had some fun and damaged one of Doom's buildings or toys. They knew Doom would get pissed if he found out, so they hired Damage Control to repair fix it before he did. They fix it, but the henchmen stiff them on the bill because they don't have the money and figure the Doom name will scare off any bill collectors. The debt collector for Damage Control visits Latveria and asks Doom to pay. He does. That says quite a bit about Doom as a character.

>>94170823
>Hero tries to reason with long time enemy and tells him that he'll destroy everything if he doesn't stop
>Villain hates the hero so much that he's willing to end everything because fuck you

Based BW Megatron

>>94174003
I usually hate this type of trope. Feels too tired out to me.

That said, Megamind's version was good. I liked that he wasn't a dick, but he just didn't feel like he was happy, combined with actually seeing Megamind as someone who could be a legit good hero.

>>94174035
Does this ever actually happen?

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>>94170823
>Hero calls the villain boring
bonus points if it stings

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>>94171223
Kim is lucky the change wasn't permanent. She would have been fucked.

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>>94175121
You're so evil it's boring, You're basic man.

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>>94170823
>Hero and main villain are fighting
>New, crazier villain shows up
>Hero and main villain team up to beat new villain
>Have some bro moments and realize they'd make good friends
>New villain is beaten
>Go back to fighting
>Bonus: they have newfound respect for each other that gets referenced in later episodes

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>>94170823
>Villain is trying to be a nice father in a non-comedic fashion

>Villain is finally defeated.
>Heroes begin to celebrate.
>Villain suddenly gets back up.
>"You think you won?"
>Transforms into a giant monster.
I blame Power Rangers for liking this so much.

>>94175121
Toffee barely reacted to that, everyone always blow that scene out of proportion

>>94173019
A good friend of mine is a buff, tall, incredibly southern, and all around grizzly looking dude and has a 3 year old daughter and I kid you not I have seen that very pic in real life.

>Com'awn now baby gurl' time to git'cher bow on~!

>>94175338
>Villain wins but it was all for nothing
>>94175573
Toffee, the stoic villain, reacting to anything is significant

>>94175502
I blame Zed for

>Villian keeps trying to defeat heroes but fails over and over.
>Even bigger villian shows up and takes over.
>New villian kicks the shit out of heroes so they have to get an upgrade.

>>94175628
Zed's introduction was so fucking great.
Even though his fall from grace was shitty, I always enjoyed his comedy stuff with Rita.

>>94174767

Steve Squad did that too.
>If you destroy us humans, there'll be nothing left!
>WRONG! There will be Kilokahn left!

>>94176156
I meant Syber Squad, friggin autocorrect

>>94174581
>the monarch and 21 dealing with the cabbies

>>94170962
meant for
>>94176381

>>94171322
It's one of many reasons I love the hell out of Cucumber Quest.

>>94170823
Otherwise cute girls being gross/doing gross things/being horrible is TOP NOTCH

>guy realize something bad about to happen
>as hard as he tries no one believes him
>he doesn't have the making to be the hero to stop the bad thing from happening
>so he'll make a hero who will
>he becomes a villain
>bonus points if villain gets away with making the hero stronger without actually doing anything evil

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>>94176540
I like the inverse, over-the-top tomboys having moments of femininity is always fun.

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>>94170823
>Villain does their own version of something the hero routinely does

>>94176751
>it hurts!!
mah ninja

>Hero and Villian hang out/get coffee on their days off
>Chat calmly and praise/berate each other like old friends
I feel like this has happened a lot but I'm drawing a blank on examples

>>94172581
https://youtu.be/k-_G6__r2nA

Makes me think of this. I loved this scene

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>the most experience member of the protagonist's group makes a last stand he knows he can't win just to buy enough time to turn the tides

Bonus points if he succeeds by some miracle.

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>normally nice character has an unconscious berserker mode
I wish this was more common outside of anime

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>>94177288

Not /co/ related, but the prime ideal example of this for me is always Kuuga.

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Character tells the others to go on ahead and stays behind to buy them some time by making a last stand against enemies or some other threat.

Bonus points if said character actually dies rather than the writers chickening out and showing him alive later.

EXTRA bonus points if the character sees this as redemption for being evil earlier in the story, or to atone for some other bad thing they did.

>>94170909
One of my favorite villains is stuck in fox movie hell.

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>>94178467

Redemptive suffering.

I feel like a vulture about it, but goddamn I can't get enough of my heroes going through shit and becoming better people as a result of overcoming it.

>>94174035
when has this ever happened?

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>>94172581
>Spider-man lifting a train

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>villain gets its shit wrecked by another big bad and teams up with the hero to stop him
>he retires after big bad is stopped
>appears as an occasional support character in the next season

>>94174003
Eh, Metroman kind of side steped it.

It's more like he got pressured into being the hero then realised as he got older that it wasn't actually what he wanted.

He, Hal and Megamind switched roles in a triangle.
Metroman went from Hero to Ordinary, Hal from Ordinary to Villain, and Megamind from Villain to Hero.

>>94172817
Yes.

>>94174511

Aren't we all.

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>>94178467
>I am a warrior. Let the battle be joined.

>>94178849
Dinobot superior. Soundwave inferior.

>>94178410
Goddman I really need to get around to watching Kuuga

>>94174330
There's a general implication that both of them where pushed into their respective roles by society, Metroman just realised it first.

I like that the narrative stuck to the idea that Metroman had no obligation to be a superhero. He had a right to choose his own path and so did Megamind.

>the villain sings a villain song while kicking the hero's ass
>bonus points if the hero sings a reprise while they turn the tables.

>>94177103
Perry and Doofenshmirtz.

>the show's most common receiver of slapstick/misfortune is a cute/attractive female with a likable personality.

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>>94178974
Well Perry's a Platymus so he doesn't talk much. Doof does the heavyliftong conversationally but the coffe still happens.

>>94178919

It was the first Rider series I watched all the way through and I love it to bits. Just a really fucking good superhero story/police procedural.

>>94179011
I watched Kabuto and that's it. I loved the SHIT out of Kabuto and downloaded several other entries, but I haven't gotten around to watching any. I think I'll try W since I think that's coming back.

>>94178849
Probably one of the best moments in my childhood.

>>94179040

W is good too. But I think we're getting off-topic in this thread.

>>94178972
I want this in a Batman musical. Have Joker kicking his ass in a grotesquely brutal fashion, maybe even with a crowbar like he did Jason. And just as he's about to land the finishing blow *CATCH.

>A superstitious cowardly lot...

>>94178348

>I have two personalities

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>long-haired tomboys
>cowardly tomboys
>slapstick-prone tombodys
>characters who are equal parts girly and tomboyish.
>characters with girly appearances but tomboyish personalities.

>I'm not doing X!
>You can't make me do X!
>jump cut
>I can't believe I'm doing X.

I can't help it. Still makes me laugh

>>94179040
Blade was my first, and I enjoyed the melodrama. W is awesome! Decade was a good story too, and even inspired me to get a Twin Lens Reflex camera.

>Transformation episode
>Character is transformed back at the end, but there's a sign that they still have some physical and/or psychological elements leftover from the transformation.

>>94178115
Stella Glow kinda did this, but instead of being a member of your group it was the oldest soldier of the former villain group buying time for the escape.

It was a video game but I became a sucker for that trope afterwards.

>animated movie has credits sequence in a different art style
>the voice actor credits are a montage of the main characters

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>One of the heroes oldest and closest friends and allies does a last stand to hold off a huge army to let the heroes get away, knowing full well he's going to die

>evil character forced into a situation where they have to work with the hero
>continualy clash over methods and intentions, knowing that one day there'll be a showdown
>veeery slowly start getting along better
>the day comes where the evil character is free to turn on the hero
>they find that they just can't and have a near breakdown over it
>hero embraces them and the two become true bros forever after that unless the evil one sacrifices themselves to save the hero

>>94174520
it's probably more like they have all this lore, but don't do anything with it. you can count all of the stories they've done so far that are in the game's present on one hand. They're playing the story as safe as they possibly can for as long as they possibly can. With TF2, this was used as a good thing; the main draw to tf2 lore (aside from the humor) was the mystery of why you were fighting constantly over these worthless plots of gravel, and so the bits and pieces of lore that focused on the past added more to the mystery.

>main cast doesn't have a designated straight man
>instead, the group dynamic works in such a way that any of the characters could potentially play straight man to any other character depending on the situation

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>Hero has a family
>family sit-com hijinks in between (and sometimes alongside) the asskicking

>Multiple different factions between the villains with their own agendas and methods
>wind up defeating each other because of backstabbing and open conflict between factions

>hyper-idealistic hero is forced to work with an very pessimistic hero

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>>94174091
I will always love Mumen Rider for this.
>it's not about winning or losing!
>I just have to stand here and face you!

>>94174035
When does this happens? I want to see an example

>There's a villain that behaves all villainous
>Has however standards that make him sympathetic
>While nobody watches he does nice things like pouring milk for cats or anonymously donating to an orphanage

>>94179334
THE truest hero. Saitama really likes him for this.

>>94178410

Ive seen this a lot before but what the fuck did that monster do to piss off Kuuga

>>94179334

Mumen Rider is too good for this world.

>>94179344

I can think of some examples of "good entity chooses someone less than perfect to try and get them to shape up", but not both of those in the same story.

>>94179349
Mojo Jojo, basically.

>>94179407

Hunted a class of high school boys and terrorized them to the point where they started committing suicide.

The Grongi are fucked up.

>Hero of the story is a minion gone rogue

>>94179084
>Character A: I'm not doing X!
>Character A: You can't make me do X!
>jump cut
>Character B: I can't believe I'm doing X.

>>94179334
If Mumen Rider isn't everyones favorite hero then they need to get fucked

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>villain's plans never work
>villain never makes progress in defeating the heroes
>later on, it turns out he can easily mop the floor of the heroes at any time, he just doesn't do it because it's not as fun

>villain is apologetically evil
>not because of circumstances or birthright, he just loves being evil

I want more tropes like these, damn it.

>>94179184
>Family member from protag/antag's home life becomes involved in their heroic/villainous life
>Family member becomes better hero/villain than they are

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>>94179334
I cannot see that scene without thinking of this image.

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>>94179742

I was thinking more Super Dad, but that works too.

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>>94179721
neither can I.

>>94179184
I recognise this artist!

>>94179661
I feel this from my very soul. I've always wanted to become a cartoon villain who doesn't actually hurt the heroes or have to assume the responsibility of ruling the world or whatever, because the lifestyle of a villain who never quite crosses a line is very enjoyable and has plenty of benefits. See: Robbie Rotten

>>94179721
Jesus, that's hot.

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Heroes with iconic costumes doing hero work in their casual clothes.

Meek, shy hero goes beserk and has to be put down by the rest of the heroes

>>94171335
I loved Heat

>>94174003
Metroman was sort of funny because he clearly thought of Megamind as a friend.
So when he left the city, he legitimately thought he left it in good hands before finding out that Tighten was unleashed.

>>94176989
Its not /co/ related but the Twins in P5 getting their own All Out Attack finish screen blew me away the first time I got BTFO by them.

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>>94180224
I can think of a lot more occurrences of this trope in Japanese media than I can western

>Hero tries to teach a younger or less-inexperienced character how to be a hero

>they take exactly the wrong lesson from it and turn into a murderous vigilante or outright villain

It can be done poorly, or well, but when it's done well it's amazing.

>>94180077
Heh. A "Busman's Holiday" one shot with these three would be fun. Imagine Alfred explicitly forbidding Bruce from bringing his batsuit and gadgets along. Which, of course, he has backups in his car/private jet/whatever, but it's the thought that counts.

It looks like Diana is wearing a Captain America shirt here.

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>>94170823
>character I dislike cries/gets emotionally hurt
Feels almost too good.

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When heroes and their villains have an amiable relationship.

>Female character gets a hairstyle change
>It actually gets longer rather than shorter.

>>94175618
He didn't even react

>>94180858
You have excellent taste anon.

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>>94172581
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu0scA8kqHQ

>>94176540
I agree.

Somehow it often makes them even cuter.

>>94175573
>>>94175121
>Toffee barely reacted to that


Dude, up until that point Toffee had liquid nitrogen for blood. The fact that he twitched at all was huge.

I really like what I have seen of Doom in some of the /co/ threads I've seen and I want to read more stories with the character

What are some good places to start?

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>>94172136
Reverse is pretty great too.

>>94181807
Hero's older sister befriends one of his rogues?

And then it turns romantic?

>Starter Villain get's outdone by later villains and powered up heroes, to the point where they become a joke
>They realise this and undergo their own character development, quietly becoming more competent and start holding their own a lot more
>Either ends up fighting the FinalBoss with the hero (but not necessarily becoming a goodguy), or takes back their place as the true villain themselves

>>94181880
Let me guess, Ludo?

>>94181874
I meant more like villain's sister or kid befriends the heroes.

>Badguys react to their team mates switching sides, either through their own volition or memory/mind shenanigans, the same way a hero would
>"Snap out of it! This isn't you!" "I know your in there somewhere, fight it!" "Come home!"

Doesn't happen enough but it's a nice humanising moment that transcends morality.

>>94180812
The Flash and Ultra Humanite Christmas story never fails to bring a tear to my eye

>>94181894
Recently yes. KamenRider does it occasionally.
I'm sure there's more out there.

>>94175121
And a top-tier villain will just shrug and grin and say something like "Don't worry. That will change sooner than you think."

>Villains are humanised, not through a tragic backstory or even sympathetic moments but through little things like having friends, having a non-evil hobby, joy over favourite foods etc.

>>94181880
LORD HATER

THE GREATEST IN THE GALAXY

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>>94178576
I got you anon

>>94180077
This photo really makes you think of a cool plot for it. Like, Diana and Bruce are the buddy cops investigating a moving company for drug smuggling and Clark is the happy-go-lucky fellow who inadvertently discovers they're undercover cops and helps them out when their cover gets blown.

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>Heroes have to fight evil copies of themselves
>Said copies bully the shit out of them as they hit every emotional issue buttons the heroes have

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>>94170823
>Villain knows the hero so well that he knows when it is or isn't him

The one time Slott did something right.

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>>94182436
Daily reminder that angry Peter is the best

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>hero defeats the villain and subsequently saves the villains life

>>94183034
Well shit now I'm invested.

>>94183034
>>94182994
Holy shit, Peter went borderline Punisher on those villains. I'll never get tired of reading that comic.

>>94180109
hate this. it's like people playing the victim when its they that made a school shooter out of the kid.

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A relationship occurs between two main characters and it actually develops

>>94182729

Perfection.

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>everything the villain does is either for a good cause, or will prevent something terrible in the long run
>the villain and the hero(es) calmly discuss this
>in the end, the heroes decide that even if the future is more dark due to them stopping the villain, lives still need to be saved

Also

>heroes that are unapologetic slobs/snobs

Trope I want to be more of a thing
>Endgame couple is genuinely non-predictable, maybe not even on the map at the start of the series
>Occurs after MC has gone through one or two more "dramatic" romantic relationships
>Endgame relationship is more mature and reflective of those characters development and changing situations

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>>94178115
it may be /a/ but Chairman Netero was a boss and he succeeded at buying enough time.

>>94183190
right?

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>>94170823
>female villain has a crush on the protagonist

>>94179344
Closest I can think of is YuGiOh.
Bakura and Yugi.

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>Two characters have kids
>Their kids are just younger r63 versions of themselves
I know there are more examples, but this is the most recent one I can find.

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One of my favorite tropes are some combination of:

>Good guy gets their power from an evil/not-entirely-benevolent entity or source
>Good guy has a "super mode" that involves going apeshit through the influence of the source of their power
>Good guy has an evil/animalistic appearance.

Honestly the closest example I can think of would be Naruto, I watched the show solely to see him grow claws and red eyes and go nuts on whoever he was fighting.

For /co/ I suppose something like the symbiote would be a good example.

>>94172939
I like this trope when it's justified.

Like come on, even a retired badass still succumbs to the effects of old age and physical fatigue. There are reasons why they don't unleash that shit every episode.

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>>94170823
>Supervillain turns face, but still uses the same tactics and methods to achieve his ends.
Fucking loved Superior Spider-Man for this. Otto becomes Spider-Man, so what does he do? Hires an army of goons, builds some big robots and goes about his business.

>>94170823
>True Lawful antagonists.
I love me some true-lawful antagonists, the guys who are only antagonists, because the hero is on the opposite side of the battlefield from them. Are more than happy to let the protags go when there is something worse happening. I know it's /tg/, but if anyone has read the MTG Aether Revolt story, then you will know why I developed a man-crush on Dovin.

>>94184796
>hasn't seen real life videos of old martial artists, being carried to the stage by their students, while they shake, then proceed to beat the shit out of said students

>>94179849
I've got a Mutants and Masterminds campaign that works a lot like this. Most of the villains aren't demonically evil and will actually team up with heroes to fight world ending threats. The player's main villain ends up becoming the mayor of the city the game takes place in.

>>94170823
>The villain has a sense of honor, isn't stupidly evil and genuinely respects the protagonist
>the quiet, mild mannered character gets pushed past their limit and becomes a force of nature
>family members or friends who bicker at one another constantly have moments where they show they really do love one another
>there's a party member who isn't really all that scared or impressed with the super evil eldritch horror

>>94185018
You got me in the mood for some Kung Pao, so please sauce me.

>>94179849
Robbie Rotten is actually a great villain because in his quest to keep Lazy Town lazy, he becomes his own antithesis.

>>94179849
are you me?

>>94180554
sauce?

>>94185216

>>94185089

>>94185160
Schemes and shenanigans are worth the effort they require, for sure.

>>94185216
Quite possibly. Remember to keep us stylishly dressed so we can look the part.

>>94185089
Oh, and this sounds great. I've been meaning to get into tabletop at some point.

>sympathetic character who has had a shitty life has a breakdown, becomes powerful, competent, if not final antagonist
>actual effects of character's abilities being shown and used in a fight (ex; a fire using character using smoke to their advantage, not just trying to burn everything down)
>Villain having a valid point, if not a slight moral high ground
>Sequence where nothing but the soundtrack plays
>characters remembering and using all their abilities in a fight, and creating cool combinations with them
>Noble, yet fatalistic main villain, not being evil out of malice, but rather sense of duty

>>94170909
>this is my future bride

>side character (or villain) hijacks the exposition because they're impatient
>mocking imitation of the MC as they do so

>The face of the hero or villain is always obscured

>In revenge stories, an object that was used to cause the incident is used again in the revenge

>Long time stoic character shows a cascade of emotion after something that held sentiment with them is lost

>The villain kills the hero. After initial joy, they come to realize that they actually didn't want such a thing. Other villains pop up, and the villain takes up the mantle of the hero, complete with a new perspective on the world.

>>94172817
I need some damn examples right now.

>>94185310
M&M is a very easy system to get into, especially with 3rd edition. If you like capes or even just superpowered stuff, you can't go wrong.

Boomerang-esque weapons. There aren't nearly enough of them.

>>94178994
Do I spy a fellow Kiyone man?

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>a tale or legend is shown using a drastically different art style than usual

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>>94179656
Speaking of Stain, I like it when the hero and or villain had a drastically different appearance in the past.

I actually like Tenno Stain.

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>>94185460
Shinzon in Insurrection?

>>94185541
I'm not familiar with that.

>>94174581
Didn't he stiff Luke Cage once, though?

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>>94185541
This Kiyone?
because yes

>>94184239
Any example?

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>>94174009
>things go parahuman

>>94185622
I feel like I'm showing my age again. She's Mihoshi's partner in Tenchi Universe (also appeared in the Mihoshi Special of the original series). Rising star of the space police who sees her career circle the drain as she gets the worst possible partner. From that point on her life is a steady stream of misfortune, often because of her partner.

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>>94175121
>hero calls out villain for being autistic

>>94172939
Tenzin mopping the floor with Zaheer was one of the most satisfying moments in The Legend of Korra.

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>>94173829
>S76 training Hana
In a sense, yes

>>94185810
Between her, Bulma and Boton there sure seemed to have been a good amount of blue haired waifus in those days. Crest of the Stars had an entire race of 'em.

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>>94178115
>They're just getting started

>Main villain's daughter falls in love with MC or one of the MCs

I fucking love this shit, especially in Power Rangers Time Force.

I don't recall any other instances but I'm sure there are a bunch of this in other /co/ material

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>>94186037
>The dark and edgy personality the main character has is simply a facade to deal with his horrible life and the horrible world he inhabits and he breaks down and cries after a while because being such an edgelord wears him down.

>>94170823
>Ineffectual villain or low level henchman is mistreated/hurt constantly and generally miserable
>Villain realizes bad things only happen to them because commit crimes/fight the main character
>Changes sides and is genuinely happy

>>94185018
>Tonight, Gehrman joins the hunt.

>>94174330
He was a kid who got applauded for stopping a kid from fucking up. Megamind kinda sucked at inventions at the start.

>>94180554
>Not preferring it on the characters you love instead
Pleb

>>94186198
Guts never breaks down and cries from the strain of being an edgelord

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>>94170823
fish out of water trope

>>94186448
He wept after that loli called him a douchebag after all the shit he went through all the way back in volume 3 I think. It's getting close to time for me to reread it anyway.

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>>94178467
>I am not moving from this spot!

>>94186845
>Nope not gettin outta this chair

>>94184630
Ever since I read that doujin of a female villain marrying the hero of a power rangers like super team after he saved her, I have had a massive love for 'redeemed female villain becoming protags love interest'. Sadly lacking in a lot of media.

>>94172883
is that a Hive doll?

>>94184782
Personally love
>hero has a villain like appearance

Bonus points if he is aware of it. Loved one of the Justice League comics where Batman changes his costume and adopts a sidekick because 'I set out to frighten criminals, not children'.

>>94187204
What's the title of it? I'd very much like to read it.

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>>94185247
Poppy O'Possum

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> villain and hero run into each other at the supermarket or doing some other mundane shit
> they try to awkwardly make small talk

>>94186448
how bout that time he got ptsd from boning Caska?

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You have failed me

>>94170823
>Character is civilized, polite, and calm most of the time
>This changes in the battlefield, the character's fighting style is described and depicted as brutal, savage, or even barbarous
I how the contrast of a character's personality conflicting with his combat style. It can be seen as an indication what the character wants to conceal or restrain about themselves, or what that type of person the character really is.

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>>94185683
He very much did. It was a really early hero-for-hire comic where Doom stiffs Power Man on hunting down his rogue doom-bots. Power Man then goes to the FF, convinces Reed to let him borrow a jet, joins an alien-led robot revolution in Laterveria, and then saves Doom's life just to get Doom to finally pay him the $200.

>>94187396
I wish more villians were like this.

>>94187396
damn i don't even know what that is but it got me pumped

>>94187396
>B...Boss!!

>>94170823
>hero's most recurring enemy isn't their most powerful
>real most powerful enemy only shows up sparingly but shit is real whenever he does, hero might even act different
>hero's most recurring enemy is either scared of the more powerful one or jealous since he thinks only he should be worthy of the hero's attention/killing the hero
>hero and most recurring enemy might even team up whenever the most powerful enemy shows up

>>94187204
There's an instance of something similar in Karate Robo Zaborgar. It's also batshit nuts, it's a fun watch.

>>94179656
I like Stain as he is a rare character who has a powerful ability but has the draw back of how it needs to activate forcing him to become skilled with blades.

I suppose that is a trope I enjoy but increasingly rare; powers that require the hero/villain to become proficient in other areas to use their powers well or at all.

>Main character can't kill the villain
>Rapes him instead

>>94187872
Gordon, we need to talk about these fantasies of yours. Why do you have a million word story of Batman raping the Joker over and over again?

>>94170823
>Low level villain becomes a serious threat

Based Ludo

>>94187771
>watching children's tokusatsus
isn't watching children's cartoon humiliating enough?

>>94187396
>villains using the power of friendship
damn nigga heroes are fucked

>>94184191
>working on the plot of muh webcomic
>this happens at the end
I'm glad somebody else likes this trope

>>94185602
Nemesis

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>>94181959
...AND THEN SHE TURNS INTO A SNAKE!

>>94171335
aren't the Rogues similar, where they have no actual animosity towards the Flash and vice versa, and they'll send each other christmas cards and shit?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl91v2Mvv94

>>94185460
Not /co/ but there was this old King Arthur movie where that's how Arthur defeated Mordred.

>Hero is actually in the wrong for once
>Recognizes this and genuinely apologizes to the villain/helps fix what he did

>>94172817
I'm reminded of die hard 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8vdwqbwf5k

>>94185891
IMO one of the best fights in avatar as a whole.

>>94172939

Agreed. Celt the same way about yamamoto in bleach

>>94187547

That\s Dancouga

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>>94172817

>>94175313

This

>>94180812
Seriously, Flash always gets some of the best moments.

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>>94179721

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>>94182720
>characters have TRUE EBIL versions of themselves
>all the evil copies have, as you would expect, eviler versions of their designs and personalities
>except for that one character, whose copy looks and behaves exactly like him

>>94179178

Not co related, but daily lives of high school boys did this very well

>>94179084
>>94179638
>I'm not doing X!
>Jump cut
>Nope, still not doing X.

>>94189306
>They beat all the EBIL COPIES
>Or do they?
>that one character's original was the one that was killed
>this is unknown to everyone but the viewer

>>94189553
BIZARRO

BIZARRO

>>94187476
>$200 dollars
Why didn't he just pay the man, thats chump change to Doom. Even if he doesn't have it in USD he could have given it too him in Latverian currency.

I mean what the hell?

>Character is mildly villainous
>Causes some extremely dangerous, life-threatening situation
>Works to fix it because he's not THAT bad
Okay, the only example I can think of is Freeze in his second episode of BTAS. Any others?

>>94189584
Doom does as he pleases, fool!

*Toot!*

>>94189584
This is DOOM we're talking about. The most egomaniacal and petty being in the marvel universe.

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>>94184782
My brother. The first episode I saw is when he beat the shit out of Haku.

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>>94185582
>A flashback is shown in an older art style

>>94189728
>Regular Show Finale
>Universe Reset
>First episode animation

I came buckets

>>94189728
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsbjcoBSuDs

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>>94171223
>>94175171
Carl from Phineas and Ferb was a pretty cool iteration of this.

And had a pretty cool song to go along with it.

>>94189634
Mabel?

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>Villains right hand man has a power level equal or higher to the hero's and becomes their personal rival

>>94182994
Whose he getting in Hell's Kitchen?

>>94189728
>Come on Mandy, that didn't even look like us!

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>>94189638

>>94173282
>Hero knows he's supposed to be the villain by programmation/fate/nature/blood but he keeps trying to do what is right until he finally succumbs to the evil, but leaves behind a way for his weaker, less competent friends to defeat him

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>new villain/anti-hero arrives on the scene
>we see a shot of them standing on a cliff overlooking the town/city where the hero is

>>94184630
Sauce on cartoon?

>>94170823
>Villain is actually a decent guy
>Heroes are the assholes who bully the villain

>>94192186
Duck Dodgers, basically Daffy Duck saving shit in space. The Martian Queen in that pic is pure sex.

>Character is a walking arsenal
>Explains exactly what weapon to use for which situation
>Demonstrates it to both the audience and other characters

>Character has giant weapon
>Actually uses it effectively and doesn't job

>>94175313

THIS IS MY FAVORITE TROPE.

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>>94182994
>>94183034
Which issue is this I'm interested I love it when heroes genuinely stop giving a fuck but don't outright become villains

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>>94178115

Too soon.

>>94181880
Carl the evil cockroach wizard!
That final fight against Nightmaster was awesome, too bad nobody talk about this cartoon anymore.

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>>94178467
I love this trope but I'm also guilty of loving the anime-tier version

>2 Characters facing "seemingly" insurmountable odds
>1 tells the other to go on ahead, better if one makes it out than none
>other accepts the offer and leaves
>the one to stay behind makes peace with the situation and accepts their fate
>2nd suddenly comes back without any warning and BTFO's the enemy

Even succeeding in both escaping gives me a rush. There's just something about using up all your charity to save your friend, only for it to be handed back to you, delivered in the form of a metaphorical cannon ball

>the scene where Ralph rehearses the heart-felt chant from the anger management class, as he finally learns who he is, as falls into the volcano
>camera immediately snaps to Vanellope glitching up through the inside and saving him at the last second

That part was way more impacting than the car destruction for me.

>>94175313
The original villain becomes a good guy

>>94178115
When Obi-Wan was cool

>>94179129
Shriek 2 did half of that

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>>94188459

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>>94178467
>Character stays behind and ultimately dies because they think they're saving their friends
>Their friends ultimately suffer fates even worse than death

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My favorite:
>All brightness and comedy comes full stop whenever the villain shows up
>Villain isn't a job and is brutally efficient
Another example is The Lich. Anyone think of any others?

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>>94170823
>villain reflects on all their evil deeds near the end of their life
>thinks, in hindsight, it was never really worth it and didn't even make them happy
>dies alone

Pic related and that guy from Fallout: New Vegas who killed people for sarsaparilla are my favorite examples.

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>>94183563
>main characters hook up while in the story and not by the end of it.
>they stay together for the rest of the show and the show explores more how the relationship develops.

I wish more shows did this.

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>While an episode is going you see hints of a story happening in the background.
>Turns out a later episode tells said story of what was happening while the first ep was playing.

>>94183563
I'm gonna need a source

>>94187204
WHATS THE NAME

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>>94193216
>Villian is dying in the hero's arms
>Tells the hero he regrets nothing, no matter what the hero has accomplished
>dies smiling proud of what he did

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>giant heavy pileup on something
>it manges to hold together
>a leaf/feather/piece of paper/insignificant weightless thing lands on it
>all comes falling down

it's the oldest gag in the book and it still makes me laugh

>>94174520
You have to remember than overwatch IS a PG game, tf2 is MA+ from the start Also valve had very superior writers to modern blizzard but that's a different thing

>Secondary protagonist takes on main antagonist before the main character.
>Is able to hold his own instead of it being one-sided against him.
Bonus if the villain doesn't expect such a challenge.

>>94179334
>even now, there is hope for man

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>>94175597
That makes me smile

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>>94193120

>>94178519
Ouch. My heart.

> Comic relief character gets serious
> is either surprisingly strong or a secret badass

i love this trope. Doesn't happen enough honsetly

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>>94193415
Speaking of old gags can anyone explain this one to me?

> character decides to lift weights
> struggles a lot but finally manages to lift the Barbell over his head
> floor breaks

It's somehow supposed to indicate the character is weak, but why the floor break?

>>94193813
Because lifting the barbell over their head adds wight to them.

It doesn't make any sense (because it wouldn't work in real life) but that how it just works in that scenario

>>94193813
its more a "fails even in success" kind of gag

>>94193776
I like it both ways.
>funny character is a secret badass
>badass everyone fear is a secret funny guy

>the villain turns good for whatever reason
>he tries to do good deeds but always fails in some way or another

>>94193813
Subversion of expectation
>You expect the character to break
>The one thing you didn't expect to break breaks instead

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>>94170823
>Character enjoys being genuinely evil/good and smiles and laughs while doing such acts

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>>94193776
>>94193874
As great as Dr Doom may be, I love that he always ends up jobbing to Squirrel Girl when they go face to face.

>>94180361
>Which, of course, he has backups in his car/private jet/whatever, but it's the thought that counts.

Nah, Bruce thinks that he has the backups but Alfred has replaced them with normal outfits and snarky notes.

>>94170986
I hate that cliche shit

>>94178115
>>94178467
this this this this
>Character is shown taking immense damage
>Through sheer willpower alone, stays standing
>If they're using some form of shield, it's shown to be breaking and starting to shatter
>bonus points if they're smiling or laughing, knowing that although they'll surely perish they're doing the best they can and they know they're doing the right thing

And if the sacrificial hero is the weak/young character, this will always get bonus points:
>Character A returns to help
>Finds situation over, either villain is defeated or the time Character B bought was enough so that the team could do the task
>Character B is lying, covered in wounds, bruising, cuts and blood
>B looks up to A
>"Did... Did I do a good job?"
>Character A agrees, they did a great job or that they're proud of them
>Character B may or may not die shortly after
Ending of Saving Private Ryan got me hard with that shit.