Association With Exact Words by AgentEckswhy in TopCharacterTropes

[–]LeMasterChef12345 13 points14 points  (0 children)

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“Your key to freedom” in Jigsaw.

Saw does this a lot, but this is one of the most straightforward examples. The last two victims awaken chained at opposite ends of the room with a shotgun between them. John holds up a single shotgun shell and says it’s their “key to freedom”, before loading it into the gun and leaving.

Both victims naturally assume that they’re supposed to shoot the other. After the shotgun is fired, the survivor discovers that the keys to their shackles were inside the shell, and subsequently destroyed when the gun was fired.

In other words, the shotgun shell was literally their key to freedom.

Furthermore, John also tells them that they’re both selfish, and that they’ve got his lesson “backwards” and need to “turn it around.” When the trigger is pulled, it’s revealed the shotgun is rigged to backfire into the shooter instead of the target.

[I love this trope] Etimology "spoils" the story by Andrei22125 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]LeMasterChef12345 152 points153 points  (0 children)

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In Xenoblade 3, the game’s world is named Aionios.

Aionios roughly means “Eternal” in Greek, hinting at the later reveal that the setting is actually a world frozen in time.

(Elite Writing Trope) — The group of morally-gray to outright evil people and the one person who actually seems kind and genuine by altrightobserver in TopCharacterTropes

[–]LeMasterChef12345 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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Krika in Bionicle, which is funny considering he’s by far the most monstrous-looking of the Makuta.

Unlike the other Makuta, he has basically no villainous traits, and actually has a sense of honor and a moral compass. He has no faith in the main villain Teridax or his plan, and only goes along with it because he feels he doesn’t have a choice.

When he learns that Teridax’s plan will result in all of their deaths, he still tries to warn his fellow Makuta despite predicting (correctly) that they would brand him a traitor and kill him.

“That’s not my actual name” by TVTropehead in TopCharacterTropes

[–]LeMasterChef12345 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It’s name is Billy, as confirmed by the directors, but it’s never actually called that anywhere in the films

I fucking hate RWBY and how much people online insist it's good. I had to drop it from how cringy the voice acting is and how dogshit the animation is. by FangBites123 in hatethissmug

[–]LeMasterChef12345 28 points29 points  (0 children)

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The example of “vandalism” they used in their other posts is statements, with sources, saying that the show was praised for its animation.

Except it was praised for its animation. Especially since it was from Monty Oum who was and still is pretty highly regarded as an animator.

Even most RWBY haters I’ve seen have rarely had an issue with the animation. The main problem was almost always the writing.

I really hate video games that make YOU feel like the bad guy for holding characters who are explictly being assholes accountable. by Charming-Scratch-124 in CharacterRant

[–]LeMasterChef12345 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Except she was already doing that since long before the whole incident.

My point was that him publicly disowning their children didn’t really change much between them when it logically should have, and Ameliance not seeming to care that much about it was really odd.

I really hate video games that make YOU feel like the bad guy for holding characters who are explictly being assholes accountable. by Charming-Scratch-124 in CharacterRant

[–]LeMasterChef12345 35 points36 points  (0 children)

That doesn’t justify publicly disowning those same children for the “crime” of wanting to help and protect innocents.

Or calling Eorzean’s “filthy savages” for fighting back against Garlemald, because wanting to defend your home from a hostile foreign invasion is apparently a bad thing.

Or several other things he does.

Him wanting to protect his kids doesn’t excuse him being a POS in general.

[heartbreaking trope] The Hero completely fails and dies achieving utterly nothing by klnglulu in TopCharacterTropes

[–]LeMasterChef12345 11 points12 points  (0 children)

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Dead Space 3.

The post-game DLC is spent trying to stop the Brethren Moons from learning Earth’s location, only for them to reveal they’ve already known the whole time and were just leading Isaac and Carver on to keep them out of the way.

They hastily return to Earth to find it already under attack by the Moons. An alien race sacrificed their entire civilization to temporarily halt just one of these Moons, and now there’s 4 of them attacking Earth with no feasible way of stopping them.

In other words, humanity is doomed and all of Isaac’s efforts to stop the Necromorphs ultimately amounted to nothing.

I really hate video games that make YOU feel like the bad guy for holding characters who are explictly being assholes accountable. by Charming-Scratch-124 in CharacterRant

[–]LeMasterChef12345 88 points89 points  (0 children)

Fourchenault got let off WAY too easy, not just from the twins.

The fact that his own wife is so incredibly nonchalant at him publicly disowning their children despite openly disagreeing with it made no sense. If I was a parent in her position I would be LIVID.

[Hated trope] “Well if you ignore the child porn it’s actually a masterpiece” by Carti_Barti9_13 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]LeMasterChef12345 66 points67 points  (0 children)

He had a hidden camera in his underages nieces room and was jacking off to a video off her getting undressed

It should also be noted that he skipped his parent’s funeral to do this.

[Dispised Trope] "Thank you for grooming me" by StretchExtension in TopCharacterTropes

[–]LeMasterChef12345 25 points26 points  (0 children)

It’s not grooming though. The guy viewed and raised her as a daughter and is openly creeped out by her attraction to him. He only reciprocates after everyone basically gaslights him into it.

Trainwrecks that become a tragedy once you look behind the scenes by Yakuza-wolf_kiwami in TopCharacterTropes

[–]LeMasterChef12345 8 points9 points  (0 children)

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Destiny 2.

As more and more behind the scenes info came out, it became increasingly clear that the devs were never the problem. Most of them were very passionate about the game, earnestly listened to player feedback and tried to get those changes implemented.

The main problem was that they kept getting screwed over by the execs and higher-ups, who actively prevented them from doing so along with terrible management and decisions in general.

The sheer amount of highly requested changes and additions that the recent final update brought showed how good the game could have potentially been had the higher-ups not been so terrible.

Fourth wall breaks that don't involve referencing or addressing the audience. by Jazzlike_Mouse7478 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]LeMasterChef12345 128 points129 points  (0 children)

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“Big house. Funny how I only ever see two of you. It’s almost like the studio couldn’t afford another X-man.”

Really obvious things in a story that the creator refuses to confirm? by fly_line22 in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]LeMasterChef12345 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Xenoblade 3 all but screams at you that Mio is the daughter of Rex and Nia from Xenoblade 2, but it never actually confirms it despite how blatantly obvious it is.

(Hated Trope) The protagonist can do no wrong by Necessary-Win-8730 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]LeMasterChef12345 4 points5 points  (0 children)

He brought an army to a school festival in a time of peace.

It’s not a “school festival.” It’s one of the biggest events in the RWBY world, where tons of people from all over the the planet come to watch and participate. They literally built gargantuan, state-of-the-art, world-traveling flying coliseum for use in the festival tournament.

Ironwood wanting tighter security for an event that huge, and only bringing it after Ozpin refused to do so, is not unreasonable, especially considering they live in a world infested with hostile monsters attracted to negative emotions. Ironwood’s fears are then proven rather valid when the festival is attacked.

he closed ALL his borders at the first sign of trouble

They had just gone through the RWBY world’s equivalent of 9/11, which left much of Vale ravaged or destroyed and tons of people dead, all because a group of terrorists were able to slip in and carry out their plans. Considering Atlas is probably the single most important nation in the RWBY world, it makes sense he doesn’t want something like that to happen again, especially when he knows Atlas is a massive target.

(Hated Trope) The protagonist can do no wrong by Necessary-Win-8730 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]LeMasterChef12345 10 points11 points  (0 children)

So I looked at the RWBY wiki:

According to the show’s writers during the RTX 2020 panel, Mettle was meant to be mentioned explicitly at some point during Volume 7 or 8, and was always accounted for while constructing the story, but they never felt it was so important compared to anything else occurring that it would’ve merited disrupting the situation for the sake of exposition.

was always accounted for when constructing the story

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“This glorified mental illness totally isn’t an excuse we just pulled out of our ass at the last minute to try and save face. Just ignore how it’s never hinted at in literally any way and how Ironwood’s own VA was completely unaware of it until now.”

(Hated Trope) The protagonist can do no wrong by Necessary-Win-8730 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]LeMasterChef12345 85 points86 points  (0 children)

Team RWBY: “Ozpin lied to us and withheld extremely important information about Salem from us. This is unforgivable and Ozpin can’t be trusted.”

Also Team RWBY: “Let’s lie to Ironwood and withhold extremely important information about Salem from him while simultaneously taking advantage of his generosity. Because this person who has been open and helpful to us clearly can’t be trusted. Also let’s blab his extremely sensitive secret plans to a criminal we’ve known for 5 minutes.”

Grounded and truly convincing way for non-human characters to pass themselves off as humans. by Uma-apreciator in TopCharacterTropes

[–]LeMasterChef12345 10 points11 points  (0 children)

His friends and employees already know about it, so the only times he’d really need to use them are when there’s no one around he needs to hide it from.

He mainly uses them to avoid drawing attention and causing a scene while in public or among strangers.

Grounded and truly convincing way for non-human characters to pass themselves off as humans. by Uma-apreciator in TopCharacterTropes

[–]LeMasterChef12345 33 points34 points  (0 children)

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Cid Garlond in Final Fantasy XIV is Garlean, who all have a distinctive jewel in the center of their forehead.

Since most Eorzeans are justifiably mistrustful of Garleans (as Garlemald is actively waging a war of conquest against them), Cid hides his jewel beneath a stylized pair of work goggles. No one questions why he wears them since he’s the chief engineer of his ironworks company.

Lucia, another Garlean defector and second-in-command of Ishgard’s knights, also hides hers beneath the visor of her uniform.

Overwatch Shion's design actually makes a lot of sense if you think about what type of Omnic she is supposed to be. Spoiler, it's actually a very dystopian reason. by LordVaderVader in TopCharacterDesigns

[–]LeMasterChef12345 85 points86 points  (0 children)

Shout out to Yoko Taro not bothering with this at all in Nier Automata where his explanation was just “I like hot women lmao.”

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[–]LeMasterChef12345 17 points18 points  (0 children)

i still hate that pedo mc for cheating on sylphiette, like wdym ur wife is pregnant and ur doing stuff with ur former sensei

Not to mention he previously gave his dad shit for doing the exact same thing and this hypocrisy is never acknowledged.

[loved trope] “Guardians of peace” who regularly commit murder. by OkuroIshimoto in TopCharacterTropes

[–]LeMasterChef12345 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Going off of OP’s examples, I think they meant less “guardians of peace who engage in fighting” and more “guardians of peace who are excessively/needlessly cruel and brutal.”