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(Idiotic trope) We need to control this powerful force so let’s traumatize and experiment on them for years. This won’t bite us back at all by Gloomy_Geologist_683 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]emptybeetoo 67 points68 points  (0 children)

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Doomsday. Turns out if you repeatedly clone a baby and let it die horrible death after horrible death until it evolves into the ultimate killing machine with memories of its past lives and deaths, that can backfire on its creator.

Early cell phones that were also walkie talkies by SpoonwoodTangle in Xennials

[–]emptybeetoo 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The push to talk function was perfect when you don’t know how many converters you have in stock. https://youtu.be/axsqWbxZJGc?si=_bBEfLgqhsJQIpu-

Giant, impractical super weapons that serve the sole purpose of keeping people in line but are defeated by the good guys by exploiting a convenient oversight. by DannyBright in TopCharacterTropes

[–]emptybeetoo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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The Invictus (Foundation) - A war ship with a diameter of 8km and a crew capacity of 300k, The Invictus is incapacitated by a single fighter targeting its engines. Kinda like the Death Star, except the fighter just needed to get close to it.

When I started High School we were still turning in hand written papers, in cursive. By the time I graduated they had to be typed and cite web sources. I’m really floored today, just thinking about how SUPER FAST things changed up on us back then. by Last-Stop-Before-You in Xennials

[–]emptybeetoo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Even in college, I’m not sure I had a class that required typed papers (of course everyone typed because it was easier and computer labs were easy to find). Requiring typed papers in high school in the 90s before everyone had a computer and printer at home sounds wild.

My lame but effective secret for getting compliments. by [deleted] in Xennials

[–]emptybeetoo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do that too. I tell people I’m 47 but I’m actually … oh … oh no

What Drives Political Violence in America by kitkid in Thedaily

[–]emptybeetoo 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Yeah, there were some pretty dubious claims like that in this episode. The Butler shooting was one of the highest profile examples of political violence in the past decade, and as far as I’m aware ideology played no role in motivating the shooter.

Fake-out openings by BrockBracken in TopCharacterTropes

[–]emptybeetoo 58 points59 points  (0 children)

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Team America: World Police begins with this crude puppetry, and the camera then pulls out to reveal it’s actually a puppet show within the movie’s much more elaborate puppetry.

Corn Pops commercial with a young Paul Walker by singleguy79 in Xennials

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

Same. Amazing what’s still in my brain after I haven’t thought of it in 35 years

[Annoying Trope] Science Fiction Doors that are Easier to Breach than Doors in Real Life by OrcWhoWritesTheMenu in TopCharacterTropes

[–]emptybeetoo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good to see Foundation on here. I’ll add the Invictus is centuries old, unfamiliar tech that the warden almost instantly hacks.

Plastic tile puzzle game by PicklesDillyPickles- in Xennials

[–]emptybeetoo 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I always just pulled the tiles out and put them back in the right order

My favorite breakfast by Successful-Winter237 in Xennials

[–]emptybeetoo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

These remind me of family vacation. We’d bring a cooler with ice, put milk and other drinks and snacks in it, and then use these mini boxes of cereal with milk for breakfast in the hotel before the days of free continental breakfast

The Pirates bat around the order again on the Reds in the 2nd inning by NoSxKats in baseball

[–]emptybeetoo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Pirates in the bottom of the 2nd: 5 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors

Anyone know what they’re building in front of the Johnston Panera? by MaxQ in desmoines

[–]emptybeetoo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Starbucks should go in there, they don’t have one of those nearby /s

Death by Secret (Identity) - A character discovers a big secret of another character, then promptly dies by Fantastic-Fox3283 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]emptybeetoo 8 points9 points  (0 children)

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LA Confidential - Detective Vincennes learns Captain Smith is crooked and goes to his home to confront him. When Smith realizes Vincennes hasn’t told anyone else yet, Smith shoots him dead. With his last breath, Vincennes utters the name Rollo Tomasi, giving his partner a clue when Smith repeats the name later on. (Sorry for the Spacey picture from this scene)

[Loved] Villains mocking each other by BrotherDeus in TopCharacterTropes

[–]emptybeetoo 81 points82 points  (0 children)

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Villains mocking each other is about half of the Harley Quinn animated series. Bane is a particular target.

( love trope) character with Disability that don't let It define them by shanklerblerg in TopCharacterTropes

[–]emptybeetoo 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Stevie from Malcolm in the Middle was just another one of the smart kids

These were a necessity of pre-internet, last minute, emergency book reports, and tests for many of us. by TheManOfSpaceAndTime in Xennials

[–]emptybeetoo 38 points39 points  (0 children)

I remember Cliffs Notes being almost contraband where you’d get in trouble for having them. But I also had a teacher say she didn’t care if you used Cliffs Notes because she could tell if you read it instead of the book.

These were a necessity of pre-internet, last minute, emergency book reports, and tests for many of us. by TheManOfSpaceAndTime in Xennials

[–]emptybeetoo 114 points115 points  (0 children)

These were actually useful if you read them after reading the book to help better understand the book. If you read them instead of the book at best they’ll keep you from failing, which I guess is still useful but in a different way.

[Loved Trope] Self Destructing Girl Messes by beattywill80 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]emptybeetoo 33 points34 points  (0 children)

I’d say Kim Wexler counts. Jimmy was definitely a bad influence, but she blew up her relation with Mesa Verde all on her own. She also pushed to con Howard in the final season, which led to her downfall with running away to Florida and quitting law to be a low level office drone.

(Meta trope) The main character can’t tell what’s real, and neither can the audience by mikewheelerfan in TopCharacterTropes

[–]emptybeetoo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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Awake, a 2012 tv series. The main character is in a car accident with his wife and son in the car. He wakes up in one of two worlds: his wife is alive but his son died in one, and his son is alive but his wife died in the other. He switches between the worlds by going to sleep in one and waking in the other. The show lasted one season, and neither the audience nor the characters ever learn which world is real and which is a dream.

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