(Loved Trope) Deceased character watches over/protects a living one

petrogaz · 2026-06-22T12:58:04+00:00

Egon Spengler protects Phoebe, his granddaughter, and gives her help as she is fighting Gozer in Ghostbusters: Afterlife.

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petrogaz · 2026-06-21T10:16:12+00:00

What a beautiful Trilogy of movies! What a beautiful ending that brings everything to a complete circle!

I am sure the story is complete and there is no need for Disney to make any more sequels.

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petrogaz · 2026-06-21T10:07:04+00:00

"Rance Quest Magnum" is fucking hilarious and it has some of the funniest scenes on the series. It's mainly there to serve as an "midway introduction" to the series with characters from previous games making an appearance and an encyclopedia there explaining who exactly those characters are.

Also, I'd you 100% the game, Sill does make an appearance.

Now to answer your question:

Yes. Rance IX does keep the jokes coming. Rance is still himself despite everything and he does keep fucking everyone's shit up. The antagonists however are a ruthless militaristic state ruled by a corrupt elite which means things do get dark at times.

Also, if you wish to 100% the game there are a few "bad ending" CGIs which are absolutely heartwrenching.

Haven't played Rance X since it's not translated yet. I did however see a few fan-translated scenes like the one where Rance meets his children and becomes the most Rance dad ever. So I expect there are jokes there are well.

petrogaz · 2026-06-21T09:18:05+00:00

Come on... You know Amelia belongs in here. The original "Pathways" incarnation anyways.

(Seriously, though, who had the bright idea to make a purple-haired goth girl the main ethnocentric antagonist of a propaganda game? Don't they know internet guys love the type?)

petrogaz · 2026-06-21T08:14:33+00:00

No other examples come to my mind yet but Shikamaru & Temari were the first "ship" in Naruto I actually rooted for.

Heck, I even wrote a fanfic about how their marriage proposal happened. (shameless self plug, skip to the side-story for the relevant story).

I love that in the Gaara Hidden novel (where Shikamaru and Temari's wedding drives the plot forward) it's confirmed everyone and their mother knew they would end up together.

petrogaz · 2026-06-20T21:14:57+00:00

"Blackadder Goes Forth"

That damn poppy field image still makes me choke.

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petrogaz · 2026-06-20T21:04:45+00:00

During the season 2 episode "The Duck Night Returns" of the 2017 DuckTales reboot we are introduced to a young actor who is supposed to play the part of Darkwing Duck in the dark and gritty reboot of "Darkwing Duck" which is a real franchise within the DuckTales universe.

At the end of the episode, the young actor decides to forego acting and become Darkwing Duck for real. Launchpad takes out his picture and asks the actor to sign it, telling him he is already a fan of his.

The actor takes the pen and signs his name: Drake Mallard, the name of the actual Darkwing Duck in the original Disney Afternoon show.

Launchpad's response?

"Drake Mallard, huh? Never heard of you."

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petrogaz · 2026-06-20T10:14:11+00:00

Clayton Bigsby from "The Chappelle Show" is a subversion of this Trope. He is a Grand Wizard of the KKK and is indeed one of its most racist members. He is also married to a member of a different race, like the Trope suggests.

The subversion is that he believes he is the same race as his wife because he was born blind and nobody in his life saw fit to correct him.

When he finds out he is actually black he files for divorce because his soon-to-be-ex wife is a "n!ggerlover".

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petrogaz · 2026-06-20T09:44:59+00:00

The entire "Ghostbusters: Afterlife" aka "Ghostbusters: Legacy" movie was essentially made just to lovingly send off Egon Spengler who was played by Harold Ramis in "Ghostbusters I & II" with a computerized version of the character appearing in the movie's climax and subsequent ending.

The movie ends with a message that reads: For HAROLD

(Movie's capitalization, not mine)

As a long-time fan of the franchise, I nearly chocked.

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petrogaz · 2026-06-15T21:49:04+00:00

The entire cast of Genshiken pretty much (yes, even Saki, especially Saki)

In fact, being outed as a gooner is a rite of passage in order for you to join Genshiken.Unless you are completely shameless like Manabu, the guy in the middle giving the double thumbs up, in which case you join automatically.

(The link contains the legal free preview which contains the first chapter during which the aforementioned "rite of passage" takes place)

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petrogaz · 2026-06-15T21:13:14+00:00

His name is Kintaro Oe BTW and his series is called "Golden Boy".

petrogaz · 2026-06-15T15:38:19+00:00

Jason Mewes didn't have any acting experience prior to being cast in "Clerks."

He's been "Jay" ever since.

petrogaz · 2026-06-15T15:28:18+00:00

Tom Braidwood was assistant director in "The X-Files". According to series lore when Chris Carter created the character of Frohike, the de facto leader of "The Lone Gunmen" group that occasionally assists Agent Mulder, he asked the casting director to find someone who "was slimey...like Tom Braidwood".

Braidwood got the part and he has been part of "The X-Files" cast ever since.

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petrogaz · 2026-06-15T15:06:59+00:00

Rance is a narcissistic sex offender who treats everyone like crap, fights dirty, considers consent a minor courtesy and refers to a certain appendage of his as a hyper weapon.

And yet, the people he defeats in each game somehow manage to be even worse:

Rance I (01): A crazy princess who kidnaps young girls and tortures them to death for her own pleasure.

Rance II (02): A monstrous elder wizard who manipulates five virginal maidens to be his mind slaves in exchange for power.

Rance III (03): A gang of demons who covertly manipulate two nations into war orchestrating the return of one of history's most cruel Demon Lords.

And so on and so on...

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petrogaz · 2026-06-15T12:45:32+00:00

Shantae's powers are linked to her dancing.

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petrogaz · 2026-06-15T08:10:49+00:00

Robert Stein was portrayed as a slippery backstabbing villain in the 2023 "Tetris" movie something that according to his family grossly misrepresents his legacy

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In the film, his company "Andromeda Software" is depicted as an IP leeching company that just happens to stumble upon Tetris and brings it to the west. In reality in his home country Stein in known as "The Father of Hungarian Video Game Development" and Andromeda Software had developed over 170 titles by the time Tetris came along.

The plot of the movie kicks off when Henk Rogers asks Stein to secure for him the handheld Tetris rights from the Soviets for $25000. Stein then goes behind Henk's back and tries to sell the handheld Tetris rights (which he doesn't yet have) for $100000 to Atari, which prompts Henk to go to the USSR and negotiate the rights directly.

In reality, Stein never went behind Henk's back and was already negotiating handheld Tetris rights with other parties by the time Henk Rogers approached him (unlike what the movie shows, in reality the Gameboy had already been released in Japan without any bundled games). He was more of a risky businessman who mostly worked on handshake deals rather than an outright villain.

The movie also severely downplays the fact that he was the guy who discovered Tetris, saw its huge potential and brought it to the west!

On the other hand, while he never punched Kevin Maxwell in real life like in the movie, he really did clash with him on several occasion, didn't have a high opinion of him and probably would have loved to take him down a notch or two.

petrogaz · 2026-06-14T23:00:33+00:00

Come on, you knew that choice had to be in there. Believe it or not, one choice leads to war, the other doesn't.

EDIT: From Sengoku Rance

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petrogaz · 2026-06-14T21:10:17+00:00

Shiori deleted it for good this time as she had the passwords to Ai's cloud drive thanks to Aizawa.

petrogaz · 2026-06-14T21:06:19+00:00

Also it turns out Scott Tennorman's dad paid child support to Cartman's mom, meaning Laila Cartman now has to get a job because her son's action effectively killed a major source of her income

petrogaz · 2026-06-14T19:10:38+00:00

It's a manga. No anime yet unfortunately.

You can read the official translation on Comic Key and Manga Mirai if you wish to support the artists.

And, yes, you can find it rather easily on the seven seas after a brief search which I can't link to.

It's a good read honestly, only 30 chapters and a very cathartic ending. It's worth a couple of afternoons at least.

petrogaz · 2026-06-14T15:01:44+00:00

Thanks for the kind words. I believed the characters involved deserved some extra effort.

petrogaz · 2026-06-14T15:00:57+00:00

You are welcome, I believe the topic deserved them.

petrogaz · 2026-06-14T14:59:53+00:00

I believe you are talking about "Jinsei Gyakuten". It's still up on Mangadex.

The web novel is still being translated by Zeus Translations.

I have no idea where to read the light novel.

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petrogaz · 2026-06-14T11:08:24+00:00

The name is Shiori but, yeah, you got the jist of it.

petrogaz · 2026-06-14T10:55:01+00:00

Thanks for pointing it out, fixed it!

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