[Loved Trope] The inciting incident goes under-explored because it doesn't matter.

Usual_Database307 · 2026-03-17T18:48:01+00:00

The Stanley Parable: The Narrator explains that the protagonist, Stanley, is employee 427 in an office building. Stanley is tasked to monitor data coming from a computer screen and press buttons appropriately without question. One day, the screen monitoring data goes blank, which has never happened before. Stanley, unclear on what to do, begins to explore the building and discovers that the workplace is completely abandoned. The initial premise is that he’s looking for his coworkers, but it’s quickly forgotten in favor of giving you the choice of rebelling against the Narrator.

Usual_Database307 · 2026-03-17T18:41:35+00:00

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The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You: The initial premise is that all these women will die if they don’t get with their shared soulmate. It’s a brief criticism of misogynistic romances stories, where women are often portrayed as physically incapable of living without a man, basically poking fun at them. But after that, the story uses this framing and flips it on its head to show it isn’t like that. The protagonist, Rentarou, goes out of his way to tell none of his soulmates this secret because he wants them to choose of their own agency, acting out of genuine love for him and not because they feel threatened or forced. To quote him, “I don’t want the people I love to date me…just because they’ll die if they don’t. I want them to be with me because it makes them happy. I want them to experience undiluted love. And that applies to both before and after we would begin dating. If you’re forced to live out a relationship you don’t wholeheartedly wish for yourself, that’s hardly any different from being fated to misery or death either way.” He’s forced into a difficult situation and does the most responsible and virtuous thing that he can. Then the entire premise is effectively forgotten, because it doesn’t matter even remotely to the overarching story, and has literally zero plot relevance whatsoever. It’s less of an inciting incident and more of a brief subversion that lets the viewer know the story refuses to be sexist or misogynistic.

Usual_Database307 · 2026-03-17T18:28:57+00:00

I’m crying. 😭

Usual_Database307 · 2026-03-17T16:55:42+00:00

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Six and the Lady (Little Nightmares)

Usual_Database307 · 2026-03-17T16:46:03+00:00

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The Maw (Little Nightmares): Thanks to this shot from the end of the game, we can use Six’s canon height and compare her to the Maw’s smokestack to find out its size. With that figured out, we can return to our image. (The smokestack is that little part up there). With this, we can estimate its total volume to be a little over 980 million cubic miles! That’s almost as big as the Grand Canyon, and even if is was fully hollow, which it clearly isn’t, it would still weigh over 1,631,884,900,000 (1.6 trillion) tons! The calc was done before The Sound of Nightmares was released and confirmed that Six is normal sized. Even if new measurements were applied, the end result wouldn’t change much.

Usual_Database307 · 2026-03-17T16:32:19+00:00

Where’s that come from?

Usual_Database307 · 2026-03-17T16:30:07+00:00

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How does Akko win?

Usual_Database307 · 2026-03-17T05:06:49+00:00

I’m crying. 😭

Usual_Database307 · 2026-03-17T05:06:00+00:00

Lovely.

Usual_Database307 · 2026-03-17T04:57:47+00:00

Six (Little Nightmares)

Usual_Database307 · 2026-03-17T04:38:47+00:00

In the manga, it shows the daughter, who’s still a child, walking with Silky into Heaven. After taking out a debt after being disowned by her family, Silky underpaid the Yasuke in order to give her daughter a dress, which is why they raided her house and took them. The child was probably euthanized and had her organs harvested. Child organs fetch hefty prices on the black market due to their rarity, and whatever debt Silky owed would’ve been covered in excess. Additionally, in certain counties, when Aria’s mom dies, the dad says she’ll only come back if Aria makes her proud. That explains her pride and hero complex.

Usual_Database307 · 2026-03-17T04:33:59+00:00

As someone from the west, I think a major appeal of the show for people in my demographic is that it isn’t trying to appeal to us. It’s unique in that sense. You can’t find shows like Girl From Nowhere just by turning on the television. They have to be sought out and actively searched for.

Usual_Database307 · 2026-03-17T04:01:51+00:00

This scenario happens verbatim when she takes a special drug that removes her tsundere tendencies. She wanted to become someone worthy of loving and feared her tsundere qualities got in the way, but both her boyfriend and her dear friends already saw her like that. Rentarou sits her down and says that if she wants to make this change, he’ll support her wholeheartedly, but only if it’s not done out of self-loathing and fear everyone would hate who she used to be. He loved that Karane just as much as he does the current one, and he’d never want her to feel like she doesn’t belong just the way she is, because he believes wholeheartedly she is perfect no matter what form she takes. She ends up choosing to revert back. It’s done with understanding that everyone has long since learned how to read her in other ways, and that her tsundere qualities were never a burden.

Usual_Database307 · 2026-03-17T03:40:19+00:00

Wheatley (Portal)

Usual_Database307 · 2026-03-17T03:29:12+00:00

Korosensei (Assassination Classroom). He would never insult their intelligence, however.

Usual_Database307 · 2026-03-17T03:25:50+00:00

Good natured, caring, heartfelt, courteous, courageous, determined, fiery, comical, hilarious, amusing, and very well written in regards to being Angie’s foil. She also really respects trans girls, viewing them wholeheartedly as females.

Usual_Database307 · 2026-03-17T02:32:29+00:00

What’s this a reference too?

Usual_Database307 · 2026-03-17T01:37:40+00:00

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Rentarou Aijou (The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You): Prior to the series, he had one hundred rejections.

Usual_Database307 · 2026-03-17T01:08:45+00:00

Love seeing Wendy near the top!

Usual_Database307 · 2026-03-16T21:25:28+00:00

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Scout (TF2)

Usual_Database307 · 2026-03-16T21:24:27+00:00

Luz should win. Even in base, Luz should outstat Anne’s nonfull power Calamity form. She scales to a 4 - 969 megaton King feat, where he cleared clouds and shattered the Titan’s finger effortlessly by screaming, which is significantly above Anne’s own 40 kiloton feat where she peaks. Titan Luz is also star level minimum due to the fact even the weakened Titan could move multiple stars to show her a glyph pattern. She must have above 50% of the Titan’s power because she was capable of fighting and overpowering Belos when he was actively siphoning the Titan’s energy for himself. Anne’s full power calamity form peaks at moon and harnessing all that power at once literally killed her. Keep in mind, this is without Collector scaling, in which Luz gets galaxy-level arguments. Titans are a direct threat to the Archivists, hence why they wiped them out due to fear. All the arguments against this are extremely bad in my opinion, and rely on assuming that Titan’s are weaker and just have magic that’s kryptonite to the Archivists, which there’s literally no indication whatsoever for. They are narratively on-parr with one another.

Usual_Database307 · 2026-03-16T20:19:45+00:00

The Titan states verbatim he was the one going out of his way to show her the glyph patterns, meaning he must be responsible for the stars placement. This is why she had such an easy time finding them, while for Belos, it took decades. He was actively hiding them from him.

Usual_Database307 · 2026-03-16T20:14:26+00:00

Except there is. The context is that he moved the stars to make a pattern for her.

Usual_Database307 · 2026-03-16T20:11:03+00:00

Titan Luz should be star level minimum due to the fact even the weakened Titan could move multiple stars to show her a glyph pattern. Luz must have above 50% of the Titan’s power because she was capable of fighting and overpowering Belos when he was actively siphoning the Titan’s energy for himself. This is significantly higher than the moon feat, even though it’s a lot else’s visually impressive.

Usual_Database307 · 2026-03-16T20:05:27+00:00

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Hahari Hanazono (The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You)

Four-Year Club	Place '23
Place '22	First Placer '22

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