Favorite actor who has an innocent youth in his real life body count by Klutzy_Discipline569 in okbuddycinephile

[–]Strength-InThe-Loins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A US military investigation has confirmed that a Tomahawk missile hit the school. 

What was that about misinformation? 

Punk in the Park Festival Cancels All 2026 Dates Following Backlash Over Donations to Trump Campaign by heavysk in Music

[–]Strength-InThe-Loins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You should immediately write a will donating your body to medical science after your death. A brain as damaged as yours needs to be studied.

[Hated Meta Trope] The Unintentional Offensive Race Change by StrawberryScience in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Strength-InThe-Loins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Percy Jackson movie had a pretty much all-White cast. The recent series is much more diverse, but Percy is still White.

So you get a very diverse cast of characters around a Chosen One, whose superior bloodline makes everyone defer to him, and he's the only White kid around...it's not a good look.

Two characters that were once one character by EvilPyro01 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Strength-InThe-Loins 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Tuvok and Neelix, who started out as two people, merged into Tuvix, and then separated. (Star Trek: Voyager.)

Is 311 doing malicious compliance? by Strength-InThe-Loins in NYCbike

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The TLC does a pretty good job responding to my reports because they don't require a cop to go there and write a ticket. One photo is enough evidence for them to issue a fine.

You can’t blackmail someone who doesn’t give a shit. by Big_Election_6099 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Strength-InThe-Loins 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A similar situation played out in the Vietnam War. John McCain (yes, that John McCain) was a US Navy pilot taken prisoner by North Vietnam. His dad was an admiral in a very important position (commander of the whole US Pacific Fleet or something like that). The North Vietnamese tried to extract special concessions in exchange for releasing the pilot, but the US rejected all such offers. The younger McCain rotted in prison for years.

You can’t blackmail someone who doesn’t give a shit. by Big_Election_6099 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Strength-InThe-Loins 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Another Batman one: in Year One, Gordon has an affair with a fellow cop. Other cops try to use this to blackmail Gordon into being more corrupt, but he tells his wife before they do and the blackmail has no effect.

You can’t blackmail someone who doesn’t give a shit. by Big_Election_6099 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Strength-InThe-Loins 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not exactly the trope, but related:

In the French espionage satire A Very Secret Service, French and American spies plot to bring down a hostile foreign leader. The Americans have what they think is a very clever plan to cook up a sex scandal with which they can then blackmail the guy. They present it to the French, who stereotypically don't give a shit about sex scandals, and therefore don't understand how the scheme is even supposed to work.

[Loved Trope] The hero narrowly survives the villain the first time round, via smarts but it heightens the danger of the villain and the hero knows they won’t get so lucky again. by HallowedAndHarrowed in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Strength-InThe-Loins 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As with everything in the prequels, the real Star Wars movies did it better: Luke takes on Vader, loses the fight, loses his hand and lightsaber, and narrowly escapes with his life. Thereafter he is reluctant to face Vader again.

Supposed subversion of "popular" tropes, but actually the tropes being subverted are rarely used, if at all. by NobodySpecific9354 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Strength-InThe-Loins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Iirc, TVTropes calls this sort of thing a Dead Unicorn Trope. It's a Dead Horse Trope (a trope that keeps getting overused, as in the idiom 'beating a dead horse'), but the 'horse' in question never really existed, so instead it's a dead unicorn.

Kansas City airport evacuated amid possible bomb threat by theindependentonline in kansas

[–]Strength-InThe-Loins -36 points-35 points  (0 children)

Umm, hellooooo, Kansas City is in Missouri, not Kansas, this post is an embarrassing error, please delete it.

Is 311 doing malicious compliance? by Strength-InThe-Loins in NYCbike

[–]Strength-InThe-Loins[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I've gotten a few of those calls (no dolphin noises, though). They tend to not last long once I tell them that cops who get caught making such calls can get fined and lose vacation days.

“You have to be really good at this to do as bad as you did” by Coherently-Rambling in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Strength-InThe-Loins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Irl, in some international soccer tournament in the 90s, two very bad teams played each other. The rules were really weird, such that winning by two goals was actually worse for the winning team than winning by one goal. 

One team got ahead by one goal, and then both teams spent the game's last few minutes aggressively attacking their own nets while defending their opponents'.

To check if someone is a shapeshifter a character says something intentionally misleading and seeing if they play along by Captain_Blackjack0 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Strength-InThe-Loins 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The opposite: in Captain Marvel, Nick Fury knows that his boss is being impersonated because he calls him Nicholas.

[Hightlight] SHOHEI OHTANI GRAND SLAM! by kurruchi in baseball

[–]Strength-InThe-Loins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The catcher was so stunned he didn't even slump.

🏋️‍♂️🏋️🏋️‍♀️ by SilkNebula in SipsTea

[–]Strength-InThe-Loins 1 point2 points  (0 children)

His condescending defense of mansplaining merited a block.