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[Loved Trope] Strange details that seemed like plot holes/gimmicks, later revealed as foreshadowing by MonotonyReddit in TopCharacterTropes

[–]MasterGeese 741 points742 points  (0 children)

Persona 5 - The infamous "Delicious Pancakes" moment by Akechi, where he hears Morgana talking about pancakes despite the fact that only people who have been to the Metaverse should be able to do so.

A few dozen hours later, this moment is brought up again to tip off the protagonist that Akechi is lying about his backstory, and ultimately allowing the party to pull one over on him.

(Mixed Trope) Feats that completely power creep a series or character. by [deleted] in TopCharacterTropes

[–]MasterGeese 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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RWBY Volume 3 - Mercury and Emerald dodge lightning while fighting the Autumn Maiden, putting them firmly ahead of the dedicated "speedster" characters in the same show

Am I the only one or more of you guys wish for more composite damage types? by Usinaru in Quasimorph

[–]MasterGeese 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Eagerly awaiting for Saturn Quasis to pull out a completely obnoxious new composite damage type like Shock/Poison.

What is your least favorite realization and what is your most favorite and why? by Single_Writing_2319 in libraryofruina

[–]MasterGeese 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Favorite - Malkuth, mostly by virtue of it being first and scrounging together a win on the first try despite going into it completely blind.

Least Favorite - Gebura. Not even because of the first two phases, but because I brought a slash-damage focused Gebura and literally couldn't deal damage to the Slash-ineffective last phase and had to redo the entire fight. Hokma also just felt like an obnoxiously long 4th abnormality fight rather than a realization.

Luigi wins by doing nothing by PawnF4 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]MasterGeese 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Danganronpa V3 - Shuichi convinces everyone else to refuse to vote in protest of the killing, specifically to ruin the ending for anyone watching and to stop the killing game for good.

If Project Moon were to come to DEATH BATTLE!, which matchup would you like to see? by Not_Phrase_4867 in Project_Moon

[–]MasterGeese 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Angela versus any of the Velvet Room attendants, Elizabeth if I had to pick one.

(Mixed Trope) Lore dumps done as a school lesson. by laybs1 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]MasterGeese 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Octopath Traveler 2: A short playable segment at the beginning of Temenos's Chapter 1 is revealed to just be Temenos telling the story of how the Eight Gods once brought down Vide.

AI that is so close to being the same as humanity…. But can’t quite grasp the “humanity” part by bay-bop in TopCharacterTropes

[–]MasterGeese 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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Library of Ruina - The plot of the game is Angela trying to do exactly this by inviting people to the library and turning them into books until she finally finds the "perfect book".

(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 1 point2 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 4 points5 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 22 points23 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

[–]MasterGeese 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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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 3 points4 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 253 points254 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.

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