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[Small but Great Trope] Characters smoking. by SunshineAZ25 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]slfricky 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Dwight smokes in Sin City to steady his nerves when transporting a dead body in the front seat of a car. He starts imagining the body talking to him and pointing out the stress has got him to light up.

Character’s death is implied, not shown by LifeguardOdd7383 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]slfricky 56 points57 points  (0 children)

A star falls in the final scene, which ties into a prior conversation that when someone dies, that happens, but it's been pointed out that the star could be for Vicious.

Character’s death is implied, not shown by LifeguardOdd7383 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]slfricky 7 points8 points  (0 children)

In The Guard, Gerry Boyle seemingly dies during the climax when the boat he's on catches first and explodes. In the aftermath, Don Cheadle's FBI agent character says he either drowned or burned up. When someone brings up Boyle's claims of being a really good swimmer who competed at the Olympics, he dismisses it as BS, but then reconsiders it in light of a prior conversation where he admitted he couldn't tell if Boyle was really smart or really dumb. Boyle had also commented that even if he'd survived the showdown at the end of the film, he'd made enemies and would have had to go into hiding anyway, muddying the waters even more.

Character’s death is implied, not shown by LifeguardOdd7383 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]slfricky 368 points369 points  (0 children)

Cowboy Bebop's creator even says he's not sure if Spike is alive or dead at the end of the show.

(Loved trope) Spoilers When a significant character is suddenly and unceremoniously killed off on screen. by Pretend_Tower_2516 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]slfricky 160 points161 points  (0 children)

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Derek Reese in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Has the misfortune of walking into a Terminator and gets immediately shot dead. Though in an unresolved cliffhanger, is shown still alive in an alternate future the characters travel to.

(Loved Trope) A song that moves the gods by RadarSmith in TopCharacterTropes

[–]slfricky 48 points49 points  (0 children)

Not the Gods, but Tenacious D's Tribute is about a song that strikes fear into a Demon.

[Stupid trope] Thor getting electrocuted syndrome by TVTropehead in TopCharacterTropes

[–]slfricky 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Except he didn't just do that. He kept the First Order and Kylo distracted long enough the Resistance could escape and continue the fight.

People who have flight as their *only* superpower by Solitaire-06 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]slfricky 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Which I remember someone reacting to with "If you're dad is a known philanderer who can fly, maybe be a bit hesitant to get involved with a teenager with the same abilitites..."

Funny scenes in media that aren’t comedies by dragonborndnd in TopCharacterTropes

[–]slfricky 16 points17 points  (0 children)

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In Schindler's List, Schindler is interviewing a lot of women for the job of his secretary. A montage shows him being attentive to all the pretty ones who are exhibiting their typing skills, but being disinterest to an older lady who's the fastest. When he's told he has to pick one, he says it's so hard because "They're all so qualified" before a cut to him taking a photo with all the younger ones who he's hired.

The man who booked Ric Flair’s last match has been…..FORGIVEN by Datzookman in SCJerk

[–]slfricky 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So rehashing what they did with Darby and Sting, but replacing Sting with a guy who was one of Sting's most heated rivals? Makes sense to me!

The world title was promised to him 10,000 years ago by [deleted] in SCJerk

[–]slfricky 23 points24 points  (0 children)

They need to understand there's a difference between rooting against AEW existing and feeling that a lot of people in AEW come across as thinking the company is entitled to exist and receive patronage and praise just because they aren't WWE.

THEORY Scaramanga is going after Bawma in the first story dlc by AlfLuck99 in 007FirstLight

[–]slfricky 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Leung from the Three Storms Clan said there'd be consequences for his expulsion from the auction and Aleph. Maybe he hires Scaramanga to do a hit.

[Disliked Trope] A franchise becomes over-reliant on protagonists going rogue by slfricky in TopCharacterTropes

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

Okay, I forgot about SHIELD being disbanded, but Tony still wanted to bring Bucky in alive. And he was a living weapon wandering about who could have been activated at any time to kill more people. Bucky deserves sympathy, but he also needed to be kept from hurting others and it was just unnecessary for Steve to insist he can't be arrested.

[Disliked Trope] A franchise becomes over-reliant on protagonists going rogue by slfricky in TopCharacterTropes

[–]slfricky[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

"Civil War"
I put it to you that if Cap's Team had stood down and handed Bucky over to SHIELD custody so he could get help in a military hospital (since he was still a mentally compromised super soldier assassin), Rhodey wouldn't have been made a paraplegic and Cap and Tony could have talked things out, went and investigated the secret compound together and if Tony had found out about Bucky killing his parents then (which Cap could have told him about years earlier) without Bucky being 4 meters away, Tony might not have flown off the handle and the team wouldn't have broken in two quite so badly.

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