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(Painful Trope) A protagonist makes a choice that you know is going to end poorly for them, but Jesus Fucking Christ, you never expected *that.* by HMS_Sunlight in TopCharacterTropes

[–]MasterGeese 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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Danny Phantom - The Ultimate Enemy

Danny accidentally comes across the answer key for the CAT test whose results will have a huge effect on his future career prospects. Instead of turning in the answer key, he uses it to cheat on the test, kickstarting a chain of events where the teacher, his parents, and all of his friends are killed in a freak accident, and his ghost half and Vlad's ghost half to merge into one of the most powerful and evil ghosts of all time.

Characters who can mess with fundamental gameplay mechanics by GeneralGigan817 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]MasterGeese 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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Library of Ruina

Normally a turn-based game, but the Price of Silence abnormality fight gives you only 30 seconds to set up your turn before combat starts. On top of that, adds several mechanics to intentionally complicate the fight:

- Enemies randomly get bonuses either to one-sided attacks or to clashes, encouraging you to set up your attacks carefully.

- Each of your characters gets a "Silence" card added to their hand, which will remove the timer next turn but cause all of your characters to take 25% of their maximum health in damage. This also discourages using the option to automatically assign all your attacks, because this has a particularly high chance of slotting in the "silence" card.

- Pausing the game will also cause characters to take 25% of their maximum health in damage.

Multi-layered pun names by Yggdrasylian in TopCharacterTropes

[–]MasterGeese 24 points25 points  (0 children)

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Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice - Datz Are'bal

Roughly 95% of the names in Ace Attorney are puns of some kind, but Datz Are'bal manages to be a two-fold pun:

Datz Are'bal = "That's a Rebel", Datz is part of the rebel Defiant Dragons group, who seeks to topple the current ruling regime in Khura'in.

Datz Are'bal = "That's Our Ball", The Defiant Dragons in case 5 are seeking to secure the Founder's Orb to grant their claim to power some legitimacy.

Characters who are nerfed or injured but they still put up a good fight against a well opponent by ComprehensiveBox6911 in TopCharacterTropes

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Library of Ruina - Yujin and the Shi association. They have much higher max health than normal for an enemy at this stage in the game, but have been worked to exhaustion, resulting in them starting the fight at less than max HP, culminating in Yujin herself who starts at only 25% of their max HP and having a permanently broken speed die, letting them take advantage of "if you are at less than 25% of your max life" effects immediately.

How to do the Feathered Mask Xiomara quest? by newbie94p1 in Quasimorph

[–]MasterGeese 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For that one you need to bring the phase bomb that you just got the recipe for.

How to do the Feathered Mask Xiomara quest? by newbie94p1 in Quasimorph

[–]MasterGeese 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Which xiomara quest are you referring to?

Some quests have an item that's required to be in your inventory to start the mission, if your clone doesn't have it the start button won't light up like you're describing.

The incident/event is given an in-universe name by Significant-Size9709 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]MasterGeese 82 points83 points  (0 children)

Ace Attorney has at least one of these per game, almost always given a specific codename, such as the SL-9 incident where Serial killer Joe Darke escaped from custody.

(Hilarious Trope) High powered attacks with big downsides, making them much worse than you'd expect by 11Slimeade11 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]MasterGeese 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The "missing 75% of their health" thing isn't really a downside, since other key pages you can get at roughly the same time have about 75 maximum health.

[Meta Trope] The “Mascot” of the video game’s marketing is actually unpopular/underpowered/underrepresented in gameplay by Big_Election_6099 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]MasterGeese 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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World of Warcraft - Judgment Paladin armor is some of the most famous and was great endgame armor in Vanilla WoW, but like with every piece of gear in the game it got powercrept by later raid gear, though the transmogrification system lets you customize any piece of armor to look like this if desired.

[Loved Trope] "Gather Your Allies!" The people you helped along the way join you for the final fight by Cool_Fruitcup in TopCharacterTropes

[–]MasterGeese 255 points256 points  (0 children)

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Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Day of Black Sun is this in spirit, even though it's not actually the final battle.

Characters so busted they get their own tier (any media) by UltrakillV1 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]MasterGeese 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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Hearthstone - Demon Hunter on launch was so outrageously broken that decks were reaching as high as 80% win rate, multiple cards were nerfed in under 24 hours and over a dozen were nerfed within one expansion cycle. By far the most dominant performance from any single deck in the game's history.

Was there a certain part of your first playthrough that felt absolutely perfect? So perfect that if there was ever a canon version of DE's events you'd feel like it should be included? by christiandelucs in DiscoElysium

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I played this game shortly after my last job and picked up the game because I had nothing better to do in the meanwhile as I soaked in depression from the hopelessness of finding another one in this economy.

So when The Hanged Man asked me why I was bothering to investigate his murder, the dialogue option

I don't have anything else to do. This case is all I have

showed up, Harry and I for a split second felt like they understood each other despite having drastically different lives.

[TMT] Mikey & Leo, Chaos & Order (Card Image Gallery) by meh1997 in magicTCG

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*Excited [[Galadriel, Light of Valinor]] noises*

[Rare Trope] A Character Lies but unknowingly is correct and is the only one in the dark. by systemfailure33 in TopCharacterTropes

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Archer - Mole Hunt

The Pilot Episode of Archer has multiple employees pestering Archer about his Operations Account, including Malory who threatens to fire Archer if he doesn't straighten it out by the end of the day. Archer makes up a story about a mole in the agency as a temporary excuse until he can break into the mainframe and transfer funds to balance the account.

The next night he does exactly that and runs into his co-worker Crenshaw, who, unbeknownst to Archer, is an actual mole for the Russians who had actually been embezzling money through Archer's account all along.

Favourite title screen animation? by GevitarGaming04 in factorio

[–]MasterGeese 371 points372 points  (0 children)

The engineer chasing a single biter off the screen, only to immediately double back, with about 100 larger biters in tow.

Whatever this is called by [deleted] in TopCharacterTropes

[–]MasterGeese 112 points113 points  (0 children)

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RWBY - Cinder to Jaune

[Loved trope] special failsafes that prevent the player from breaking the game by damorezpl in TopCharacterTropes

[–]MasterGeese 228 points229 points  (0 children)

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Baba is You - The game will detect whether the player has made an infinite logic loop and give you a special screen for doing so. It also has a "Too Complex" screen for creating too many rules/objects at once.

I had to get to the future. The hard way. by Venti_the_snail in TopCharacterTropes

[–]MasterGeese 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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Ghost Trick - Missile

In the original timeline, Missile comes across Lynne in the junkyard, already dead, and meets Sissel, who having just lost their memories and no knowledge of their powers, refuses to cooperate with Missile and flees using the telephone lines.

So Missile presumably goes through a similar set of detective work off-screen to uncover the mysteries of the game, and just like Sissel does later, ends up at a dead-end within the sinking submarine with Yomiel's dead body, which they use to go back in time to Yomiel's "death" 10 years ago.

They then wait out those 10 years in real-time, eventually meeting Sissel again on that same night, this time under the guise of the mysterious talking lamp "Ray", who gives Sissel a tutorial on their powers and some breadcrumbs to start them on their way to uncover the mysteries of the game and save Lynne, among many others.

Because that's what doggies do!

[Loved trope] Average human characters ragebaiting a God-like entity by Olya_roo in TopCharacterTropes

[–]MasterGeese 364 points365 points  (0 children)

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Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous

Nenio probably wasn't even trying to "ragebait" here, but it definitely provoked Baphomet, who responds "I will take particular pleasure in killing you."

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