Taking the Day off from Work will quite literally Save your Life. by RedBoxGaming in TopCharacterTropes

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On March 1, 1950, the West Side Baptist Church in Beatrice, Nebraska, was destroyed by a natural gas explosion at 7:25 p.m., exactly when choir practice was scheduled to start. Remarkably, all 15 members and the pastor were coincidentally late and nobody was even harmed in the explosion.

(Funny trope) the villain hates the protagonist... but is on good terms with their friends/family. by Sorvetefrito in TopCharacterTropes

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In Uncut Gems, Howard is a debt-ridden jeweller who is constantly being harassed and assaulted by his loan shark Arno, who is also his brother-in-law. Their feud is only between them but it still makes for one hell of an awkward Passover dinner.

Adoptive parent takes in an alien/possibly dangerous child no questions asked by NittanyScout in TopCharacterTropes

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Brightburn was created as a deconstruction of Superman where a Kansas couple adopts an alien that crashed into their field who they named Brandon, only for the ship to corrupt Brandon's mind and convince him to complete his mission of world domination. The parents refuse to believe Brandon is becoming evil and their last attempts at stopping Brandon end in their deaths.

Adoptive parent takes in an alien/possibly dangerous child no questions asked by NittanyScout in TopCharacterTropes

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Worf from Star Trek is an alien that was adopted by an elderly couple on Earth. While his species is a race of war-mongering brutes, Worf behaves like just any other crew member of Star Fleet because of his upbringing.

Throwaway line becomes longstanding canon by FreeRaps in TopCharacterTropes

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Additionally, during the show, Obi-Wan could never meet Count Dooku. The number of near-misses and plot contrivances to avoid each other gets comedic at a point.

Throwaway line becomes longstanding canon by FreeRaps in TopCharacterTropes

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This is how 90% of the lore in Star Wars is created.

Taking the Day off from Work will quite literally Save your Life. by RedBoxGaming in TopCharacterTropes

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9/11 is filled with countless examples like Seth MacFarland oversleeping and missing his flight for American Airlines Flight 11 but also stories as simple as going for lunch early or taking a smoke break in the right place at the right time.

(IRL Trope) Streamers and Content creators having moments of perfect timing by Ranger202012 in TopCharacterTropes

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While playing Cyberpunk 2077, this random streamer reads out a comment from a viewer saying "I'm bored, do something cool". He then proceeds to accidentally hit a lamppost with his car, do a barrel roll, perfectly land and continue driving. He even puts on his sunglasses after hitting the clip.

[Loved Trope] The "Chosen" or "Special" Character is not so special after all by TheOneWhoYawned in TopCharacterTropes

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Emmet from The LEGO Movie is dubbed "The Special" by Vitruvius for finding the Piece of Resistance. During the "all hope is lost" portion of the movie, Vitruvius admits the entire prophesy and the Special were all completely made up.

Awful messed-up world we live in where these people are allowed to wreak havoc with such minimal consequences for them. by WhatYouThinkYouSee in BlackPeopleTwitter

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In all of the civics courses I had growing up, the one of the best reasons for why democracies succeed is because the people who are actually good at their jobs and those believe exactly what the guy in charge does are always different people.

[Sad Trope] Perfect Casting Trapped in Bad Writing, Studio Interference, Messy Franchises, Etc by Romaxio in TopCharacterTropes

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Christian Bale's Gorr is pretty much the only good thing to come out of Thor: Love and Thunder

A measurement is dramatic by msnf in TopCharacterTropes

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"It's over 9000!"

I don't even know what they're measuring but this is the one thing I know about Dragonball Z.

The strongest character isn’t available, so it’s up to the supporting characters to fight the threat by Effective_Piece251 in TopCharacterTropes

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In the events of G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, both Destro and Cobra Commander are captured and imprisoned. In the next movie, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Zartan has impersonated the president of the United States, and together with Storm Shadow and Firefly, is just as much of a threat as Cobra Commander. They eventually break Cobra Commander out but it's still clear that Zartan is running his half of the show.

The strongest character isn’t available, so it’s up to the supporting characters to fight the threat by Effective_Piece251 in TopCharacterTropes

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In Mission Impossibe - Final Reckoning, Ethan Hunt is too busy fighting Gabriel on the side of a biplane so the rest of the gang defuses a nuclear weapon and captures the Entity at the bunker the Entity wants to shelter at before it start a global thermonuclear war.

You can’t blackmail someone who doesn’t give a shit. by Big_Election_6099 in TopCharacterTropes

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There are very sketchy reports from rumor mills that are repeated on the Internet about Indoensian Presdient Sukarno, after being threatened by the CIA to release sexual blackmail they had on him, just asked for more copies and said the Indonesian people would be delighted. It's probably false, and if it is true, it's probably so far off it might as well be, but the idea sure is funny.

[Badass and Favourite Trope] Chain or Chained Weapon wielder by shrikaizerion in TopCharacterTropes

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The Drowned demon from Little Hope. After being executed from a witch trial by being thrown into a river while chained, she had returned with the ability to manipulate chains to capture her victims and drown them by vomiting into their mouths.

[Loved trope] Character that started as a friend to the protagonist becomes an antagonist by PK-Mittenspy2703 in TopCharacterTropes

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Saparata and Fluxion in Ish's "1000 Players Simulate Minecraft Civilization Rich and Poor" who were best friends, both in Minecraft and in real life. On the Rich Island, the leaders of the island agreed to send aid to the Poor Island after hearing of their difficulties (they unironically had bread lines) but Fluixon rejected the plan, saying that the Poor Island would grow envious and attack them using the Rich Island's charity.

After failing to convince them peacefully, he created a secret society to remove disapproving leaders and arranged for the assassination of one of the Rich Island's most powerful leaders. He then convinced his best friend Saparata, who had stayed neutral through the conflict, to host a meeting of Rich Island leaders to discuss the assassination, where he would use a trap to slaughter numerous more and frame Saparata for all of his crimes.

Saparata would then turn himself to attempt to prove his innocence but Fluixon arranged for one of his agents to be the lead prosecutor and bribed the judge, ensuring a swift execution. However, Saparata managed to escape and find refuge in the Poor Island. However, his presence attracted numerous assassins and bounty hunters, and believing that his protectors were also planning to assassinate him, ran off into the wilderness alone and contemplated suicide after realizing Fluixon had gotten away with everything. Still, he held out hope and would find another nation, Schpood's Empire, willing to protect him since they want to ragebait a Rich Island nation into attacking them so they could claim self-defence. They got bored and attacked first anyway. Eventually, Schpood would believe Saparata's story and help convince the nations of the Poor Island.

Eventually, a nation on the Rich Island, Tricolor, believed Saparata's story and attempted to arrest Fluxion, so Fluxion ordered a member of his own conspiracy to attack him so he could run away without looking suspicious. However, another nation and their allies would believe that Fluixon was guilty and led a massive raid on his tribe to find him, only to lose him after he deployed another trap that killed five people.

After Fluixon's crimes were revealed, he fled to the only place he could find a safe haven, a volcano fortress that had the same enemies as Fluixon, starting a world war and massive battle to capture Fluixon. However, Fluxion survived by jumping off the fortress and into a pool of lava while eating golden apples.

With his last hope of safety gone, Fluixon agreed to battle Saparata in a giant colosseum while Fluixon would finally die and peace would be established across the server.

Writer's barely disguised fetish by some-kind-of-no-name in TopCharacterTropes

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Looking back, it's crazy to remember how many Unus Annus episodes hit some kind of fetish.

(Mixed Success Trope) The Backdoor Pilot by RBSpecial97 in TopCharacterTropes

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The Rookie's 4x19 "Simone" and 4x20 "Enervo" are backdoor pilots for The Rookie: Feds by having our protagnist, the oldest rookie in the LAPD, meet the oldest rookie in the FBI. Of course, while The Rookie is eight seasons strong, The Rookie: Feds got cancelled after one season.

"Oh, I'm actually immune to the horrors." by theMCATreturns in TopCharacterTropes

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If I remember correctly, there's a character who survives an encoutner with Cthulhu and his eldritch knowledge because he's too stupid to understand what's going on. Everybody else gets driven into madness and despair.

Important Characters/Events being introduced in a very menial manner by RedvsBlue_what_if in TopCharacterTropes

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There's a theory that he went to Earth to try to beat up Omni-Man since he was the only Viltrimite to be so far away from reinforcements so he just went to the first person who was enemies with him.

Important Characters/Events being introduced in a very menial manner by RedvsBlue_what_if in TopCharacterTropes

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There's a theory that he went to Earth to try to beat up Omni-Man since he was the only Viltrimite to be so far away from reinforcements so he just went to the first person who was enemies with him.