TV TROPES TIME!

[liebe_krieg]

TvTropes is a wiki dedicated to compiling and cataloging the various tropes, devices, and conventions present in various forms of fiction- including Livejournal roleplay. And it's been quite a while since we had a meme devoted to said website! So it's time for:

The TvTropes Meme

The rules are:

1)Click on the above link. Prepare to have your time wasted.
2)Post here with your characters or a Trope.
3)People respond with applicable Tropes or examples from C&C, or you give your own! You can list tropes applicable to game history, or simply link a relevant series/character page. Or, a thread for C&C Tropes might have a comment titled Crowning Moment of Awesome, C&C Edition, and examples of awesomeness from the game would be given.
4)I'm updating C&C's trope page, so let me know what you think belongs on there! I'm only doing tropes for the game itself and its events: since C&C has a constantly-shifting roster of over a hundred characters, trying to do tropes for individual character traits would surely lead to madness.
5)Everybody has fun and feels good! See this tag for past examples of how this thing works.

Questions?

Comments

[noelleno.livejournal.com]

Our page definitely needs Massive Multiplayer Crossover (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MassiveMultiplayerCrossover)!

[out_of_time]

I've tossed Mega Crossover on there, since that's the fan-made equivalent!

[riprosencrantz.livejournal.com]

Catch-all for my characters here because I leave for work in fifteen minutes.

Quatre from Gundam Wing
Remus from Harry Potter
Spike from Buffy. See Badass Decay.

[dragony]

Obvious Trope is Obvious.

[sorcerously.livejournal.com]

Broken Bird (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BrokenBird): There are so many of these it's like somebody gassed an aviary then went inside and just started stomping.

[out_of_time]

I will never stop loving that description.

[shiromadoushi]

Bakura so very much gets Ascended Fanboy So very much :)

And by extension: The Knights Who Say Squee

[out_of_time]

The Medic//Healing Hands- his powers.
Heroic Self-Deprecation

[scarabsuited]

Jaime shares his own trope page with Ted and Dan!

[chrysophilist.livejournal.com]

Angels Pose (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AngelsPose).

[livesarock]

Zelgadis is on a character sheet for his series, so there's a bunch there for him already. Estrogen Bait, indeed.

[pacifisted.livejournal.com]

Triton Bloom
No-Name
Trowa Barton

[out_of_time]

The Infiltration: his mission while in Mexico.
Quest for Identity: This seems to be his major character arc.

JACK BAUER

[out_of_time]

Badass Crew: STARS, the police force’s superhuman bruiser squad
Badass Grandpa
Badass Normal
Car Fu: has twice used his SUV as a weapon.
Cool Helicopter: Thanks Agatha!
Cowboy Cop
Improvised Weapon
Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique
Neck Snap
Shocking Defeat Legacy: Los Angeles hit him hard.

[spadassin.livejournal.com]

Who Wants To Live Forever? (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhoWantsToLiveForever)

Dying is so mainstream.

[out_of_time]

Hot Teacher/Badass Teacher: At Xavier's.

[brevipennate.livejournal.com]

HeartwarmingOrphan (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeartwarmingOrphan).

EDWARD NYGMA

[enigmaestro.livejournal.com]

Chessmaster (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheChessmaster). I mean, come on, he breathes this. People know he is this and he still gets away with it.

And complimenting that, he's a Manipulative Bastard. (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ManipulativeBastard) Although event-shuffling is a fine art, Eddie's true joy lurks in using people, emotionally. Ironic, because he's pretty crappy when it comes to dealing with his own emotions, but he'll have Desire make Pepper think she's pregnant if only to fuck with Bond and cause psychological trauma along the way because emotions are funny!!! Which also makes him a Jerkass (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Jerkass) but you know.

Oh how he yearns to be the Upper Class Wit (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UpperClassWit). In mimicry, he achieves it when he's playing nice, thus managing to be obnoxious even when playing nice. But it's definitely a forged aspect that Eddie strives to be and has become thanks to traumatic self-delusion and mind over matter moments. He's not blue-blooded, he just really really wants to be. Which is kind of sad :c

Insufferable Genius (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InsufferableGenius) because seriously NAME ME ONE PERSON WHO DOESN'T FIND EDDIE'S CONSTANT TALKING ABOUT HIS BRILLIANCE INSUFFERABLE even Felicia gets annoyed. But he won't stop because he's got the proof -- how else could he have gotten away with Norman's downfall, manipulating heroes and causing scores of civilian deaths?

Which leads to Grey And Gray Morality (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GreyAndGrayMorality), Cry For the Devil (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CryForTheDevil) if we remember that earlier de-aged plot and anytime Katurian touches his past, and Hazy Feel Turn (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HazyFeelTurn) in... A lot of situations concerning Eddie, Norman, Tony, EVEN BOND... Everyone...

[enigmaestro.livejournal.com]

ALSO LARGE HAM AND CAMP. I just don't feel like linking.

[hexappeal]

zatanna has a page. written almost entirely about her new, terrible series. this page is also probably written by paul dini.

[batghoul.livejournal.com]

man that page is crazy, I've never seen a tvtropes page that has multiple lines for almost every single trope

[xuffasch]

batfamily page of doom ; damian's in there somewhere.

[xuffasch]

let's see, some highlights include...
bratty half-pint
my dad can beat up your dad
troubling unchildhood behavior
annoying younger sibling
you can't go home again

jessica drew

[arakhnes.livejournal.com]

jess.....

opposite sex clone (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OppositeSexClone)
cloning blues (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CloningBlues)
gender bender (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GenderBender)

OKAY I KNOW THERE IS MORE and i swear there's more to her than just omg female clone SOB

Re: jessica drew

[arakhnes.livejournal.com]

oh yeah composite character (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CompositeCharacter) as she's a nod to like... 8 mainstream characters?

action girl (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ActionGirl), cute bruiser (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CuteBruiser), deadpan snarker (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DeadpanSnarker), blessed with suck (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlessedWithSuck), comes great responsbility (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ComesGreatResponsibility)....

okay you know what.

go to Spider-Man's (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Spider-Man) page, gender-flip almost everything and you'll get this girl.

CAPE AND COWL TROPES

[out_of_time]

Toss things like in-game Tear Jerkers and so on under this thread!

[hexappeal]

you do NOT want to know

rose lalonde

[disillusionists.livejournal.com]

rose (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/HomestuckKids) is somewhere on here

[disillusionists.livejournal.com]

butttttt my fave ones include

badass adorable (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BadassAdorable)
dark is not evil (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DarkIsNotEvil)/light is not good (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LightIsNotGood)
nightmare fetishist (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NightmareFetishist)
WELCOME TO THE PARTY MOTHERFUCKERS (http://goshdarnspam.livejournal.com/1323411.html?view=175793043#t175793043)
with great power comes great insanity (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity)

[soldieringblue]

Solja's namedropped and referenced/implied for tropes like Adaptation Dye Job, Anyone Can Die, Battle Aura, Bishounen, Celibate Hero, Disability Superpower, Heroic Sacrifice, Heroic Albino, Mind Rape, Nice Hat--er, headphones, The Obi-Wan, Oddly Visible Eyebrows, Parental Abandonment, Person of Mass Destruction, Psychic Powers, Pstandard Psychic Pstance, The Quest, Really Seven Hundred Years Old, and Shounen Hair.

ANY OTHERS YOU CAN THINK OF WOULD BE LOVELY. For in-game, I'd say things like Convenient Coma, Back From the Dead - kind of, Canon Immigrant, Heroic BSOD, Nakama, Loss of Identity....and I better go finish my news article before I get too lost in this.

[skalja.livejournal.com]

Spidey has a main page (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Spider-Man), multiple (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Comicbook/Spider-Man) different (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UltimateSpider-Man) sub-pages for (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheSpectacularSpider-Man) various (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Spider-ManAndHisAmazingFriends) series (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Spider-ManTheNewAnimatedSeries)/continuities (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JapaneseSpider-Man), a character sheet (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/Spider-Man), and is the trope namer for Comes Great Responsibility (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ComesGreatResponsibility), With Great Power Comes Great Insanity (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity) (by extension), Brilliant But Lazy (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BrilliantButLazy), I Let Gwen Stacy Die (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ILetGwenStacyDie), Psycho Electro (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PsychoElectro) (well, that's Max), Sadistic Choice (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SadisticChoice), and Spider Sense (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SpiderSense). Suggestions for in-game tropes would be lovely!

Spider-Girl (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Spider-Girl) and Spider-Woman (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/Spider-Woman) also have their own pages.

Speaking of the Spider-Ladies, there has got to be a trope for cross-temporal/universal families. And are we allowed to put Peter and Matt down for "platonic life partners" yet?

For the kid!plot: Fountain of Youth (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FountainOfYouth). (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Spider-ManTheAnimatedSeries) ()

[arakhnes.livejournal.com]

fun fact: jess is only on the spider-woman page once. SOB.

[batghoul.livejournal.com]

Cass is on the absurd Batfamily page (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/Batman) I'm sure.

Hellboy has his own page! (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Hellboy) (my favorite is that they have him listed as an Apocalypse Maiden (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ApocalypseMaiden))

[batghoul.livejournal.com]

Some favorites for Cass:
Book Dumb (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BookDumb)
Cute Mute (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CuteMute)
Name of Cain (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NameOfCain)
The Spartan Way (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheSpartanWay)
Technical Pacifist (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TechnicalPacifist)
Waif-Fu (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WaifFu)

[professorlionface]

I'M NOT PUTTING THE TIME IN TO MAKE A LIST OR EVEN LOOK AT THAT PAGE MUCH
this meme is kind of mean sometimes

Hank is listed on the X-Men Original Recipe cast page
Vic shares one with Renee
And Alex is at the top of the Runaways cast page, though you'll have to highlight most of it

[dupable.livejournal.com]

John's actually the very first listed on the kid's page. (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/HomestuckKids)

[grey1911.livejournal.com]

Aaron's obscure enough he doesn't even get a mention anywhere in that wiki, but he certainly fits some of the tropes well enough:
Friendly Neighborhood Vampire (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire)
Vampire Detective Series (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VampireDetectiveSeries)
Our Vampires Are Different (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OurVampiresAreDifferent)

[grey1911.livejournal.com]

And I believe Seras now falls under these as well.

[improvesmorale]

[eppy]

i really love the fight club trope page.

[afeatherpillow.livejournal.com]

Oh, and Creator Breakdown (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CreatorBreakdown), but this is cheating because I actually went looking for The Pillowman.

[enigmaestro.livejournal.com]

I love the Comics section under that trope...