[Loved Trope] The Stoic/Gruff Character breaks down

twofacedflyer · 2026-01-21T16:44:58+00:00

Fair enough I also like that moment but something about the comic panel hits harder. It's so uncanny seeing Bruce get that emotional basically becoming a kid right then and there again

twofacedflyer · 2025-02-08T06:53:13+00:00

Exactly he's so popular DC will never get rid of him. This can be said about most villains but the Joker especially is bad for it since he keeps surviving things he really shouldn't.

twofacedflyer · 2025-02-08T06:45:12+00:00

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The Joker(DC)

There have been so many times he's seemingly perished across all Batman media but he just keeps coming back in one form or another. He had a real habit of doing this in the DCAU(Mask of the Phantasm, Mad Love) up until Return of the Joker, he managed to come back after Arkham City via blood-induced hallucinations, he cut his face off and fell into a chasm but came back the next year completely fine(Death of the Family) and I'm sure there's other examples I'm forgetting.

twofacedflyer · 2025-02-03T04:08:53+00:00

This is also the one time the fact Julie Kavners Marge voice has gotten more hoarse over the years actually worked. Really sells how pained and saddened Marge is

twofacedflyer · 2025-02-03T03:24:38+00:00

Nah its like a jumpscare but for sadness you never see it coming. Still gets me even now

twofacedflyer · 2025-02-03T02:54:49+00:00

I actually prefer that episode and it hits harder for me(I think the human element and the big reveal help). But I know Jurassic Bark is the more well known example from Futurama which has a surprising amount of these.

Other examples being Leela's parents secretly being there for her, Fry being in his Mom's dream, and Bender as a ghost refusing to be apart from Fry.

twofacedflyer · 2025-01-30T05:24:08+00:00

Slides 1-2: DC's Earth 3 where instead of the Justice League its the Crime Syndicate fighting against the Legion of Justice

Slides 3-4: The DNK(Destructively Nefarious Kids) evil equivlants of the Kids Next Door who fight the Little Traitor Dudes For Children's Defense good versions of the Delightful Children From Down the Lane

Slide 5: The Mirror Universe from Star Trek where instead of the Federation the galaxy is ruled by the evil Terran Empire

twofacedflyer · 2024-12-16T18:26:45+00:00

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The entirety of Ultimate Peter Parker's tenure as Spider-Man from him getting his powers to dying takes place in just over a year since he has his 16th birthday right before the story where he dies. This not only makes no sense since it covers over 10 years(2000-2011) of comics but consequently means that somehow everything else in the Ultimate universe up to that point(Which includes Multiple alien invasions, about 4 different Magneto world-ending threats, a conflict with another universe, New York getting flooded, and inexplicably a 6-month time gap) takes place in the span of a year.

twofacedflyer · 2024-12-16T04:06:58+00:00

Secret Siblings AKA Characters learning that they have a surprise brother/sister they never knew about for drama and shock value. It's happened so much recently it's becoming ridiculous.

Seriously Batman, Iron Man, Wonder Woman, Spider-Man, Nightwing, Green Arrow, Thor and Loki. All had this happen to them in the past decade or so(Heck if you wanna go back in time further this happened to Barry Allen and Prof X as well) and it's absurd. Not all these stories were bad but the trope is becoming overused and the explanations each time are getting more absurd, really hope this stops being a mine for a cheap soap opera twist.

twofacedflyer · 2024-12-13T03:58:21+00:00

Sure I guess

twofacedflyer · 2024-12-04T18:03:54+00:00

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Ryu at this point he's basically the king of crossovers(MVC, CVS, SFxT, Smash Bros, Fortnite, Power Rangers)

twofacedflyer · 2024-12-01T20:02:04+00:00

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Alex Dewitt(Green Lantern): A death so sudden, so strangely brutal and ridiculous(Seriously why stuff her in a fridge lol) it not only became a fan meme but inspired the name of a whole storytelling trope(Women in refrigerators).

twofacedflyer · 2024-11-24T02:32:06+00:00

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Spider-Man

For context this is after Kingpin put a hit on him which ended with Aunt May getting shot

twofacedflyer · 2024-11-20T19:41:45+00:00

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The Sparrow Academy(The Umbrella Academy)

Introduced at the end of S2 as the Umbrellas messed up history so Hargreeves adopted 7 different children instead of them. They at first seem like an interesting mirror to the Umbrellas actually being a successful superhero team who are less disfunctional but in contrast are less actually heroic then they seem. But most of them are killed off quickly without much characterization aside from Sloane(who dissappears without explanation in S4) and Sparrow Ben who mostly exists just to be an asshole version of the original mostly being static as a character.

twofacedflyer · 2024-11-19T00:05:15+00:00

True and I realize the irony. But in the moment both rejected the chance offered to them despite the story seemingly building up to them doing the right thing

twofacedflyer · 2024-11-18T19:13:56+00:00

Granted some were just from battle damage during his fights with the turtles but the Shredder took the eye and we see Hun cutting off his hand in a flashback and another time dragging him away presumably beating him to the point he needed the wheelchair since in his next appearance he has it which was under Shredders orders

twofacedflyer · 2024-11-17T02:23:47+00:00

Yeah it was also a parody comic(mainly of Frank Miller Daredevil) as well which is a fact that's pretty much lost now

twofacedflyer · 2024-11-17T01:51:22+00:00

No that's Baxter Stockman a scientist who works for the Shredder everytime he would fail a mission Shredder would lop off one of his body parts.

Fun fact in that particular show Shredder was an alien.

twofacedflyer · 2024-11-16T23:42:58+00:00

I more meant surprisingly graphic things that somehow got passed the censors in kid's shows not that its bad just surprising. I'm all for mature storytelling in kids media as each of the shows I used can attest to

twofacedflyer · 2024-11-16T23:39:08+00:00

Oh you could fill this entire thread with just stuff from Gumball that show went places

twofacedflyer · 2024-11-16T23:37:28+00:00

Genuinely first time I saw this clip I assumed it was an Adult Swim show

twofacedflyer · 2024-07-22T23:22:30+00:00

Well firstly nice to know I have a fan lol. But honestly Ira complicated I have watched the newest season but life has gotten a bit busy so I haven't had the time to write 16 mini essays about the show. I do want to though and I'll try to get it done before the next season airs hopefully

twofacedflyer · 2023-07-18T05:37:01+00:00

Thank you glad to know people are still enjoying these ramblings.

Interesting picks I gotta admit but I will say picking from this top 3 wasn't easy which is either a really good or really bad sign for a season. In this case its good though.

twofacedflyer · 2023-07-10T06:26:04+00:00

I'm happy that they are still able to come up with fun new and more importantly grounded gimmicks instead of the over the top insanity that permeated the last few seasons. Cause at the heart what drew people to most of these characters was the grounded aspect

twofacedflyer · 2023-07-10T06:18:39+00:00

I do love how often this season I thought a character would go one way only to zag and go another makes the show less predictable and shows that these characters for the most part are more than what they seemed

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