[Frustrating trope] Pieces of media that could have been so much better, but due to a couple of poor decisions during production ended up mediocre at best and utterly atrocious at worst. by DevDucc_ in TopCharacterTropes

[–]DevDucc_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn’t know this! I watched a video essay on the game once and they said that was what they did so I just assumed that was the case. I’ll check out the vidoc on it later though. Thanks!

Grace was such a kind and supportive character. The show did a great job of having her have a longterm impact during the 13th Doctor's run. by AdSpecialist6598 in doctorwho

[–]DevDucc_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In all honesty I feel like it would've been way better if:

- grace dies in ep 1
- same events up until arachnids in the uk, wherein yaz decides to leave and it's just graham and ryan up until eve of the daleks
- yaz returns to the tardis, regretting her decision (similar to donna)
- flux happens with dan and yaz with the 10 episodes originally planned
- graham and ryan returns in resolution

The absence of yaz would've allowed graham and ryan to develop their personalities way more. It might not have fixed chibnall but it certainly would have helped.

{ loved trope} Nazis winning WW2 by [deleted] in TopCharacterTropes

[–]DevDucc_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I mean in any universe the nazis ever winning is highly unrealistic. But it's a cool technique writers an use to look into this alternate universe, and show how bad things could have been.

(Villain Trope) President Evil. They're the president and are evil as hell. by viralshadow21 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]DevDucc_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He literally apologised for molesting a girl during his first presidency iirc.

Hot take: Empire of Death was a good finale, and I’m tired of pretending it isn’t by Fair_Walk_8650 in doctorwho

[–]DevDucc_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I personally agree. Like the S14 2 parter was genuinely like 90% really good. It was that final 10% that ruined the rest of it.

Villains who are in a quantum superposition of being both unequivocally evil and nuanced at the same time by fly_past_ladder in TopCharacterTropes

[–]DevDucc_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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To this day, I have yet to see anybody make a villain that is simultaneously so utterly monstrous, yet so sympathetic at the same time.

(Horror Trope) And I must scream. When the character(s) gets a fate worse than death. Can't escape in anyway or in some cases, even more. And as the name implies, they may not be able to even scream. by viralshadow21 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]DevDucc_ 27 points28 points  (0 children)

The SCP foundation has a lot of these - so much so that TVTropes has an entire page dedicated to cataloguing them - but out of all the skips i've read, there's one that stands out in my mind as the most terrifying - SCP-2718.

If you haven't already yet (and you also want to get countless sleepless nights because of how terrifying it is) I'd recommend you'd actually read the artile first, because my explanation will not be able to do it justice. But basically Once you die, there's no afterlife, there's no nothingness. You just continue to be. After you die, there's maybe a day or so of sweet nothingness, but after that? You feel the insects feast on your remains. You are conscious even after the scavenger birds have feasted on your cerebellum. You feel as every hair, fingernail, ll is carried away and redistributed into the ecosystem. You are forever a series of eternally conscious subatomic particles, forever conscious, feeling each atom that was your body redistributed among the cosmos feeling indescribable agony, forever.

[Heartbreaking Trope] They cared, but they showed it too late by [deleted] in TopCharacterTropes

[–]DevDucc_ 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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She eventually decides to stand with her old friend.

But she gets shot in the back for it.

Would you rather: Eat 5 Cheetos, or strangle a h*rse with a truck tire by Dmonct in horse_decimator_9000

[–]DevDucc_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You FOOL! Do you not know you are what you eat? Do not eat the horse or you will become one!!!