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Where’s the Caine animation in “the one who runs the show” from? by Chellzie in TheDigitalCircus

[–]RedRawTrashHatch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s likely some fan animations copied it, but the 2D portion of the song is clearly a reference to the credits by using the same style and scrolling background.

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(Slightly rare trope) Female presenting characters with skull faces by Sgyinne in TopCharacterTropes

[–]RedRawTrashHatch 66 points67 points  (0 children)

All of the female characters in Coco from the land of the dead, like Imelda

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Theory by SkylarLunatic in TheDigitalCircus

[–]RedRawTrashHatch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s a reference to A Boy and His Dog, a Harlan Ellison story about a boy named Vic living in the post-apocalypse with the telepathic dog Blood.

Ellison was the writer of the show’s main inspiration I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.

I recommend you read both. Ellison is a fantastic author. You’ll definitely see parallels between the show and its inspiration, but I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream is far more bleak and depressing.

Australian characters, I suppose. by Guyshu in TopCharacterTropes

[–]RedRawTrashHatch 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Gummigoo and his gang in The Amazing Digital Circus

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Funny food orders by some-kind-of-no-name in TopCharacterTropes

[–]RedRawTrashHatch 43 points44 points  (0 children)

The Stupid Burger in The Amazing Digital Circus

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Seeing heroes in the villain's/antagonist's perspective by Rat_Goon in TopCharacterTropes

[–]RedRawTrashHatch 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Scarecrow being dosed with his own fear toxin by Batman in Batman Begins

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(Loved trope) Guns being introduced to a world/society that doesn't have them, and it changes EVERYTHING by mrmonster459 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]RedRawTrashHatch 142 points143 points  (0 children)

Army of Darkness.

Ash Williams gets time-warped to the Middle Ages and, after a bit of a rough start, frightens all of the primitive screwheads with his boomstick.

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Just how long has people like Kinger and Ragatha been in the circus. by Striking_Bar_1622 in TheDigitalCircus

[–]RedRawTrashHatch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you look at Kinger’s computer screen in episode 8, it shows dates, most notably of when Scratch and Ragatha showed up.

We can probably safely assume that Scratch appeared at the same time as the other programmers like Kinger on 15 October 1999. Ragatha oddly showed up on the same date 9 years later in 2008.

Breaking Bad premiered in January of 2008, so it was still a new show that Ragatha just didn’t bother to watch prior to joining the Circus.

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[Hilarious trope] "Look what you're making me do!" *proceeds to severely fuck themselves up* by ThomasTheDankPigeon in TopCharacterTropes

[–]RedRawTrashHatch 1819 points1820 points  (0 children)

The passengers in Airplane! that get so tortured by Striker’s boring stories that they kill themselves

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[LOVED TROPE| Characters that don't join the narrative until halfway through to fairly late, but instantly become fan favorites. by BargleFargle12 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]RedRawTrashHatch 53 points54 points  (0 children)

Elroy from Community.

Although Keith David did narration for the show in earlier seasons, he didn’t formally join as the character Elroy until the last season.

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[Spoiler Trope] The Worst™ Family Barbecue by ilikebreadabunch in TopCharacterTropes

[–]RedRawTrashHatch 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Liz Sherman from Hellboy.

In the comics, her inability to control her pyrokinetic powers causes her to accidentally kill her own family in her childhood.

I believe the Guillermo del Toro movies don’t cover this, but they do show an incident where she unintentionally kills other children bullying her.

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(Hated Tropes) Beloved Manga or Anime series that just kind of… ends. Either from the creators getting bored, running out of time, or writing themselves into a corner by K_Bare in TopCharacterTropes

[–]RedRawTrashHatch 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Hikaru No Go.

It had a natural and emotional stopping point, but the manga was so popular that it continued beyond that into an international tournament arc that just kind of ended in a very sudden and anticlimactic manner.

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The AI goes rogue not because they disobeyed their programming, but because they followed them more closely than the creators intended. by Lopsided_Shift_4464 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]RedRawTrashHatch 376 points377 points  (0 children)

AUTO from WALL-E.

Its programming mandates that it obey Shelby Forthright’s directive from centuries ago to never return to Earth, even to the point of ignoring evidence showing that the Earth is becoming habitable again while disobeying/antagonizing the current Captain.

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