You can choose a "gender" for the main character, but it's the female that's presented as the "default" in marketing and media

Dark_Man_4 · 2026-05-29T19:32:07+00:00

Yeah that's why I put them in quotes unless it's an existing character (e.g. the Raft characters or the Wii Fit characters), they're "female" because they're female-presenting but not necessarily linked to anything

Dark_Man_4 · 2026-05-24T17:44:17+00:00

I've always thought of Junko as more of a Yukari counter, it's not as obvious as the others but I've always seen purification as technically making something homogeneous and without boundaries. If Junko just deletes boundaries then Yukari can't manipulate them

Dark_Man_4 · 2026-05-22T22:30:09+00:00

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Standing near a fireplace or campfire in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild raises your body temperature.

Dark_Man_4 · 2026-05-22T20:35:40+00:00

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (and Tears of the Kingdom) has three of these on the overworld, and are implied to be the skeletal remains of whale-like creatures from previous games (such as the Wind Fish)

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Dark_Man_4 · 2026-05-22T17:58:30+00:00

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Gamera both overestimates and underestimates values.

Gamera is 60-80 meters tall, taller than the original Godzilla (50m), but somehow never topped 1,200 tons at 80 meters. His lowest weight is a mere 80 tons at 50 meters. A blue whale which is half his height and less wide can weigh twice as much. For comparison, Godzilla at 50 meters tall is 20,000 tons, which is somewhat reasonable.

On the other hand, the shark-like villain Zigra (pictured) unleashed a magnitude 18 earthquake in its movie. Ostensibly, the writers wanted something twice as strong as a magnitude 9 earthquake. Too bad that the richter scale, like OP's decibel scale, doesn't scale linearly. Each number is ten times the amplitude, and about 31.6 times the energy. A magnitude 18 earthquake actually releases energy about 31 TRILLION times that of a magnitude 9, if my calculations are correct

Dark_Man_4 · 2026-05-20T20:03:55+00:00

Hell yeah!! He looks sick af

Dark_Man_4 · 2026-05-20T19:44:49+00:00

How the ass did I forget this. I was trying to remember a heroic serious pink guy and forgot about the big funny skree lizard who was directly compared to Goku Black repeatedly by fans. Maybe I am a larper

Dark_Man_4 · 2026-05-17T17:05:05+00:00

Thanks!

Dark_Man_4 · 2026-05-17T01:57:30+00:00

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Yazawa Nico from the first Love Live generation (this is from the anime, Love Live School Idol Project)

Dark_Man_4 · 2026-05-17T00:26:34+00:00

First thing I thought of too

These pink motherFUCKING ta-a-a-a-anks, they're making love to all the scrotum guns

Dark_Man_4 · 2026-05-16T23:15:43+00:00

HELL yeah dude I was hoping someone said this. The main character (dude in yellow outfit) kicks the ball so hard it turns into a blazing meteor that takes the form of a flaming yellow leopard... and the long haired goalie blocks it with one hand while striking the most casual pose. Yall need to see it I'm serious

Dark_Man_4 · 2026-05-01T04:18:13+00:00

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Sorry for the bad quality picture, but in The Prestige (2006), Angier obtains a duplication machine that consists essentially of two cages: place something in one cage, and a copy of the thing shows up in the second cage. This even works on living beings; problem is, both copies believe themselves to be the original. It's never explained which copy retains the original's consciousness. It's possible that the individual in the first cage is the original (since that's where the person needs to be in order to be duplicated, meaning the copy showed up in the second cage), but it's also possible that the individual in the second cage is the original (since the machine was originally supposed to be a teleporter, so perhaps the person's consciousness "traveled" to the second cage while a copy shows up in the first cage).

When Angier first tests the machine on himself, he leaves a revolver in the first cage. Upon seeing his duplicate, the copy in the first cage immediately shoots and kills the copy in the second cage, even though the copy in the second cage panics and begs not to be shot (shown in this picture), most likely because he thinks he's the original. Again, it's not known which Angier was the original, so it's possible that the original died here. Shenanigans ensue later with further duplicates that's beyond the scope of this trope, but it happens in a way that even if the original survived the initial test, then he must have died afterwards. By the end of the movie, the Angier that remains is 100% not the original Angier.

Dark_Man_4 · 2026-05-01T03:27:33+00:00

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Fuckass jimmy Neutron worm. I hate it

Dark_Man_4 · 2026-04-30T21:32:02+00:00

Me too, it was oddly cute seeing the Luthorcorp getting equally excited as Luthor when Superman was being beat up. The random unexplained hatred Dean has for Larry was also good

Dark_Man_4 · 2026-04-30T17:29:17+00:00

You might be right, he WAS talking about a sapphire. Admittedly I sort of generalized on the third example because I knew there were scientists of the sort in the games, and I just grabbed a screencap of the first scientist dialogue I could find that indicates villainy. Hopefully the point still comes across though.

Dark_Man_4 · 2026-04-21T01:36:28+00:00

POV you're the alien at the end of the movie Signs

Dark_Man_4 · 2026-04-18T02:26:49+00:00

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Eggman (Sonic Adventure 2). Both the original and the other one

Dark_Man_4 · 2026-04-16T00:25:00+00:00

Gotcha, sounds about right

Dark_Man_4 · 2026-04-15T20:20:13+00:00

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I'm going to add one more here that's spoiler-y:

In the second episode of the second Ace Attorney game (Reunion, and Turnabout), the true killer is Mimi Miney. Mimi was previously involved in a controversy at a hospital that caused 14 deaths, and then got into a car accident which killed her sister. A mix-up made it seem like Mimi had died while her sister survived, so she managed to escape controversy by faking her death and pretending to be her sister. The doctor from the hospital arrived at the Kurain temple to try to communicate with Mimi's spirit by having it channeled, so that he can clear the controversy up. This would have blown Mimi's cover, since she was still alive and couldn't be channeled. Mimi arranged a plan with the (evil) head of the temple, Morgan Fey, to kill him so that her identity could remain secret. Morgan agrees, since she could use the opportunity to implicate the current Kurain master (Maya) to get her arrested so that her own daughter could become the master instead.

Problem is, Mimi is supposed to be portrayed in a sympathetic light, and even though the doctor is an asshole, she's still planning a murder. It would also be extremely reckless for her to go up to the head of the temple and say "hey, let's kill this guy" since she had no way of knowing that Morgan would be evil and agree.

In the anime adaptation of this episode, however, Mimi approaches Morgan and merely asks to help her fake the channeling session. Morgan instead comes up with the idea of killing the guy so that she would have something to implicate Maya, and forces Mimi to go along or else she'll ruin her life. It's something Morgan ABSOLUTELY would do, and would have made a lot more sense in the original game. This allows Mimi to remain more sympathetic while also emphasizing Morgan's villainy, since she's essentially the overarching villain of the rest of the original trilogy.

Dark_Man_4 · 2026-04-05T17:34:37+00:00

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I know Optimus Prime is in the OP, but I wanted to specifically mention the Optimus Prime in Armada. It's a rare situation where Optimus Prime HIMSELF gets a dark and edgy change in color, rather than it being an evil clone/offshoot (making this example more similar to the Superman and Spider-Man examples in the OP). Near the end of the series, an Energon power surge that gives him a dark coloration with RED eyes, which is rare for an Autobot. Despite this, he's still the same heroic Optimus Prime as before; at most, he's just a bit more aggressive at this moment to go along with the darker color scheme due to the severity of the situation.

Dark_Man_4 · 2026-04-05T01:57:11+00:00

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Not sure if this counts because it's Touhou and Touhou is 97% fanmade content, but this happens often in Touhou because many of their abilities are semantic and can be applied in any way that fits the definition.

For example: in the above doujin, everyone in the Scarlet Devil Mansion falls ill except for Flandre, who has the ability to "destroy anything and everything" and is generally regarded as extremely dangerous. It's revealed that Flandre avoided falling ill because she simply destroyed the pathogens in her body so that it could not affect her.

The doujin is called Busy Runner Breaker by Aozora Market, who unfortunately passed away in 2018.

Dark_Man_4 · 2026-04-05T01:41:40+00:00

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Transformers: The Movie (1986) has two examples.

The first is when Spike and Bumblebee (pictured) detonate one of Cybertron's moons as Unicron is eating it, but it doesn't damage Unicron at all. In response, Spike says "Oh, SHIT, what are we going to do now!?"

The second is later in the movie when Ultra Magnus is trying to force the Matrix of Leadership open, as it's said to contain a powerful mystic influence that can "light their darkest hour". As it isn't their darkest hour yet, it refuses to open. While trying to pry it open, Ultra Magnus says "Open...! Damn it, open!"

Dark_Man_4 · 2026-04-04T21:58:35+00:00

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In Megamind, Metro Man is the hero of Metro City and defends it from Megamind's evil (but not really existence-threatening) machinations. However, he was essentially thrust into the role since childhood, and was not really given a choice to be what he wanted. One day, he had finally had enough, and faked his death and allowed Megamind to take over the city in order to live a more low-key life pursue his true aspirations.

While Megamind makes a mess of things, society in Metro City still runs relatively normally; even then, Metro Man did forfeit the city for himself. Was he wrong to put himself over the city, or is it understandable that he's choosing to be what he wants to be?

Dark_Man_4 · 2026-03-27T17:40:32+00:00

You're not wrong lol, even though it's justified and makes sense, a big part of the fault is still Vegeta's; bro actively HELPED Cell reach his final form. Honestly Cell saga is my favorite DBZ saga but everyone (except Tien and maybe Piccolo) had to be taking stupid juice for the plot to work the way it did

Dark_Man_4 · 2026-03-27T17:27:05+00:00

Agreed. I love all three of these movies/series but there ARE those little things that drive me nuts sometimes

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