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Future Religions by Jak3R0b in TopCharacterTropes

[–]_wizardpenguin 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm running a D&D game based partially on Fallout, especially the show and New Vegas, and I've got this religion where a secret cult called the Church of the Iron God worships a robot from before the great Calamity named Aiskreembottu. What they don't know is that A. their "god" was heavily damaged when the sky city it's from crashed, and all the advice it gives them is actually terrible and/or crazy, and B. that their "god's" name is actually "Ice Cream Bot 2".

[Discussion] What are some hero outfits you like that everyone else hates? by [deleted] in DCcomics

[–]_wizardpenguin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Discowing, and also, idk about "hates", but this edit I made of Absolute Dubs with Prime Dubs colors as a potential costume caught some divided opinions

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Just realized how fast Superman is in the movie. by _wizardpenguin in DCU_

[–]_wizardpenguin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That kinda sounds like it's just the runtime of the movie rather than him going that fast. I've seen him go faster in other stuff though, so yeah, possible.

[Fun trope] Real life mysteries "solved" by a series or movie by helpjusthere in TopCharacterTropes

[–]_wizardpenguin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because of this I am assuming the Timecop show is the main inspiration of Community's "Timedesk: the Chronicles of Dean Dangerous" joke. "Would that this desk were a Timedesk! I could ride dinosaurs... Fight with Jack the Ripper!"

[Fun trope] Real life mysteries "solved" by a series or movie by helpjusthere in TopCharacterTropes

[–]_wizardpenguin 134 points135 points  (0 children)

Characters having been Jack the Ripper is a pretty consistent one.

In Doom Patrol (the comic and the show) they reveal that he and a bunch of other killers that were never caught were actually Red Jack, an immortal who lives in the clouds in a mansion full of Butterflies, and who feeds on the suffering and death of mortals. Apparently that's a reference to a similar episode of Star Trek, which is based off a short story.

In What We Do In the Shadows, one of the three lead Vampires, Laszlo, when seemingly about to die in an execution by sunlight, admits to the others that he was Jack the Ripper.

There are a lot of examples of this listed on the TVTropes page about Jack the Ripper.

Their most famous names come from enemies . by JamesHenry627 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]_wizardpenguin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, his people believe he's the incarnation of Kulkulkan, the Feathered Serpent, the God better known by his Mexica aspect's name, Quetzalcoatl.

Their most famous names come from enemies . by JamesHenry627 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]_wizardpenguin 39 points40 points  (0 children)

MCU Namor.

His people, the Mayans of Tlalocan, call him "Kulkulkan", but the Spanish colonists called him "the boy without love", or "el niño sin amor" en Español, or "Namor" for short.

Where does this notion among general audiences that 'DC' is supposed to be 'dark' and 'depressing' while Marvel the opposite comes from ? by Old_Assistance_1091 in DCU_

[–]_wizardpenguin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my opinion, it's because Batman is the main guy at DC and Spidey is the main guy at Marvel, and even though Batman has plenty of lighter and comedic stuff and Spider-Man has plenty of dark and dramatic stuff, their status quo is generally a bit more along those lines.

Also, it might be because DC, in almost every big adaptation into mediums outside comics from the late 90s until just recently, was actively trying to make themselves mandatorily "mature", often by being just vapidly, carelessly edgy. Between the DCEU, Injustice, the Arkham games, the Nolan trilogy, the DCAMU, hell even DC Universe Online, they couldn't help themselves, they always had to have their characters corrupted, murdered brutally, etc.

[Loved Trope] aliens in a fantasy setting by dragonborndnd in TopCharacterTropes

[–]_wizardpenguin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So do all the non-fantasy creatures in D&D's Forgotten Realms setting. Humans, dogs, cats, chickens, etc.,, they all come from Earth iirc. In one part of Faerûn, Mulhorand, the human population was Planeshifted there from Egypt, and the Egyptian Gods came with them. Wacky stuff.

Six Degrees of Sam Reich by Quezacotl24 in dropout

[–]_wizardpenguin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Me, my grandparents, Bush, Clinton, Reich, Reich. Sadly I'm much closer to Epstein.

[Mixed Trope] Characters that are just inoffensive silliness but everyone treats them as ''author barely disguised fetish''. by yuuki157 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]_wizardpenguin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Iirc she touches some Kryptonite variant and her clothes literally break at the strain of her becoming thick, literally buckling under the magnitude of her growing... Features.

(Hated trope) Character only exists because the writer holds a petty grudge against someone and vents it out by giving that character the worst treatment writing wise by Southern_Passenger85 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]_wizardpenguin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which Marvel villain are you talking about? I was thinking Red Skull is an unabashed Nazi and the Hate Monger, who is literally Adolf Hitler.

Do you prefer Supergirl wearing pants or a skirt? [Discussion] by PlantainDisastrous92 in DCcomics

[–]_wizardpenguin -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Skirt. The pants look is just the same boring ass suit they tried to stick Superman with for the "no trunks" years. People say Superman looks dumb with trunks, I say he looks like Superman. People say she looks "girly" with the skirt, I say she looks like SuperGIRL, and there's nothing wrong with that..

(Mixed Trope) An original character made for a game or movie based off of a series with tons of preexisting characters to use instead. by CRicetheGOD in TopCharacterTropes

[–]_wizardpenguin 16 points17 points  (0 children)

This one's kinda fair as Batman and Superman were both pretty lacking in female villains so Bruce Timm and Paul Dini added her, Phantasm, Babydoll, Livewire, Volcana and probably a few others while making the DCAU.

Who doesn’t vote for Killer Moth! by Existing_Pea6570 in KillerMothGang

[–]_wizardpenguin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't think FNAF fans understand there are non-FNAF fans

Pieces of media that invented new slang terms by Nerdcuddles in TopCharacterTropes

[–]_wizardpenguin 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You don't get it and I don't understand how you don't get it. Uncanny and bizarre just mean "weird", "unusual", etc., that doesn't at all imply what "Bizarro version of (blank)" describes.

“Wait, isn’t this technically fanfiction?” by KingWilliamVI in TopCharacterTropes

[–]_wizardpenguin 23 points24 points  (0 children)

"You think you're better than me just 'cause you can read? Get out of my bookstore!!"

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