Weekend Entertainment: the TV Tropes edition

[ashen_key]

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Does your character fit a particular or several TV Tropes? How about their canon and/or plot and/or character arc? Any subversions you think are interesting? How many tabs do you end up with while answering?

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[yakalskovich]

Teja is a rare instance of a good Nietzsche Wannabe. Usually, these are the bad guys. And of course he's the axe wielder among the original Gothic conspiracy, and he keeps that axe until his last stand, where he throws it to kill his archenemy and, as it turns out, saves his people. There's something of a 'You Shall Not Pass' in his last stand, too, because by defending the gorge as long as he can, he buys his people the time they need for the Vikings to arrive. I could keep going like that; Teja's canon, from the second half of the 19th century, is full of tropes played straight that are so tired and old by now you can't even subvert them any more, these days.

Urquhart gets Assassin Outclassed by a young thief and an old priest. In fact, his entire canon is about them finding out how to outclass this cool, strong, intelligent and mysterious professional killer between the first and second kill of his commission. Especially Jacob the Fox (the thief) has nothing going for him except his local knowledge and great pluckiness.

[miss-yt.livejournal.com]

YT is officially listed as a Plucky Girl (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PluckyGirl) and a Courier. (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Courier)

Both Commander Shepard and Tali are Action Girls. (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ActionGirl) Tali is also a Wrench Wench. (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WrenchWench)

Edward Wong Hau Pepleu Tivrusky IV is a Third Person Person. (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThirdPersonPerson)

[ashen_key]

Chief Warrant Officer Trudy Chacon is a combination of Chuck Yeager and Wrench Wench (as she's a Space Marine, the fact that she's also an Action Girl goes without saying). Despite what TV Tropes suggests, I actually find Trudy to be a subversion of the Spicy Latina, as she never loses her cool on screen (refer to the dying might be unavoidable, but losing your cool is inexcusable statement on the Chuck Yeager page). Sadly, she also runs straight into Vasquez Always Dies.

Lieutenant Yesfir Shostakovna Yazycova is also a Chuck Yeager (albeit a Russian version) and a bit of a Wrench Wench.

Camille Montes is a canonically recognized Femme Fatale ('another head for your mantel', as Dominic says), a Spicy Latina (although she's way more volatile than feisty), and an Action Girl with a side-helping of He Who Fights Monsters. Her motivation? Revenge for You Killed My Father (although I utterly love that when it comes time to deliver said vengeance, she doesn't say anything - she just goes in kicking ass and kills the guy). She also has a bit of Unholy Matrimony going on with Dominic.

(to be continued if my internet keeps holding...)

[cassildra.livejournal.com]

October Daye at TVTropes (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OctoberDaye)

ETA: Yes, she and her canon have their own page. Mostly her canon, but I am tired and lazy.

[spiderine.livejournal.com]

Our John has a bloody page (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Hellblazer) all his own. He's also a Trope Namer (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TrenchcoatBrigade) because he's simply that fuckin' cool.

[oxfordtweed]

Oh, I wasn't going to do this, but I guess I'm just that much of a masochist.

Chandler: He is listed on more pages than I can count. Of course, being part of one of the biggest things on television might be a part of that.

Jools: Need I say more?

Tim: Surprisingly, he's very rarely listed. He could also arguably qualify as a Hollywood Nerd.

Teller: It's pretty much right there in his username.

Rusty: Qualifies as quite a few as well. Of course, he was specifically written to be like this.

Nicholas: Like Rusty, he exists for the sole purpose of clogging up TVTropes articles.

Gus: This sums up his canon fairly efficiently. And this sums him up pretty well. I really can't be arsed to dig around for him, and his canon's page is sort of lame.

Harold: He inverted this one quite wonderfully. He may even be the original EmoTeen. Maybe.


I think that's all of my boys.

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

Oh no you won't get me, I've got a living room to paint today! But I do know Ben has his own page as well as his team. Maybe midday I'll poke my nose in and get some links.

ETA: Okay I'm back and after a quick look, it turns out Ben does not have his own page but his team does.

A few of my favorite tropes of his are:
Berserk Button (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BerserkButton): They're a family, and harming any of them is a bad idea (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Understatement).
Determinator (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Determinator): The Thing. The Champion (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PhysicalGod) declared him Earth's greatest hero, because even if he's not the most powerful, he will not yield.
Heroic Spirit (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeroicSpirit): Thing saves the world once just from showing how he wouldn't give up.

And let me just say that Barbie (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Barbie)'s entry is fascinating, especially Anime Anatomy (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AnimeAnatomy), Everythings Better With Sparkles (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EverythingsBetterWithSparkles),and Pimped Out Dress (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PimpedOutDress). I'm avoiding the fetish ones on purpose.

[student_of_impossibility]

ETA:Ashie, I seriously hate you. *SULK*

These are mostly copy-pasted from the character sheets, with some changes made.

Amy Pond:
* Accidental Murder: Oh, Rory.
* British Accents: She's Scottish.
* Broken Bird/Break The Cutie: Most obviously in "The Eleventh Hour"
* The Call Put Me On Hold: I think I have a fondness for pups with this one...
* Heroes Want Redheads
* Hidden Depths: She really loves van Gogh's work.
* Jumped At The Call: She was seven when she asked to come along.
* Laser Guided Amnesia: Done to her memories of Rory courtesy of the time-crack. And, it later turns out, to her memories of her parents as well.
* Ms Fanservice: Dude, she's a stripper Kissogram.
* Nightmare Fetishist: Aren't all the Companions?
* Not So Imaginary Friend: The Doctor
* Pajama Clad Hero: In "The Beast Below".
* Redheaded Hero
* Ripple Effect Proof Memory
* Scarf Of Ass Kicking: occasionally wears one. I LOVE IT.
* Stepford Smiler
* Strange Girl: "Mad, impossible Amy Pond"
* Will They Or Wont They: With Rory, but with interesting twists.
* The Woobie: See here.
o Iron Woobie
* Yank The Dogs Chain: Episode 12
* You Have Waited Long Enough: Said word for word, even.

Tavi's list coming up in another tag, because AUGH too long.

[student_of_impossibility]

Tavi of Calderon, a.k.a. Rufus Scipio, a.k.a. Gaius Octavian, a.k.a. Gaius Tavarus Magnus

* Bad Ass
* Badass Bookworm: While not as much as Ehren, he's really clever.
* Badass Normal: By Aleran standards, this makes him almost a Handicapped Badass. Although he becomes less normal as the series progresses.
* Battle Couple: With Kitai.
* The Call Put Me On Hold for which we blame you, Isana.
* The Captain: The fourth book is called Captain's Fury for a reason. However, it is pointed out on the Alera page that The Colonel might be closer.
* The Combat Pragmatist: Well, when everybody can rip you to shreds with their bare hands, playing fair doesn't seem very important.
* Crazy Awesome: I mean, good lord. He stops in the middle of a battle to sit in front of the gates and play chess with the enemy commander. Also, everything else ever.
* Crazy Enough To Work: The majority of Tavi's plans are this. So much so that Kitai can correctly surmise where Tavi chose to have the Final Battle by thinking of the one place only a lunatic would go willingly. It's pretty much his motto. And then he keeps wondering why everyone thinks he's insane, and even claims he hasn't lost his mind quite yet. Other times he actually is acutely aware of how utterly nuts he's gone.
* Cute Shotaro Boy: When the story begins, he's 15, small for age, and quite attractive.
* Guile Hero
* The Hero
* I Just Want To Be Special: Although less and less so as the books go on.
o Actually it's I Just Want To Be Normal in this world.
* I Shall Taunt You
* Like Father Like Son: although Tavi's smarter thanks to the Badass Normality.
* Meaningful Name: more than is obvious, even. Tavi is "good" in Aramaic, and is actually short for Octavian, making him a reference to Caesar Augustus Gaius Octavian--Emperor of Rome. And then he takes a new name, which leads us to the next point...
* Names To Run Away From Really Fast: Gaius Tavarus Magnus - Lord Wolverine the Great.
* Neutral Good - TV Tropes adds a "-->Lawful Good," but I just edited in a rebuttal to that. Tavi's good. Sometimes the law is convenient for it, sometimes it isn't. Sometimes he makes it convenient.
* Nice Job Breaking It Hero
* Older Than They Look: Mainly in the first book.
* Person Of Mass Destruction: Although it takes... well. A lot of spoilery things. But he is this.
* Rags To Royalty
* Refuge In Audacity: Everything he does. Ever. No, seriously. He's a lunatic genius in his way.
* Secret Legacy
* Smart People Play Chess: Or the local equivalent, ludus.
* Tall Dark And Handsome: He's a bit of a late bloomer (what with Isana slowing his growth and all), but by Captain's Fury, he's repeatedly mentioned to be quite tall and rather attractive. It runs in the family.
* Warrior Therapist
* Xanatos Gambit: Several in the last three books.

Also, although it is not shown in canon specifically, Tavi does eventually become a Chessmaster in his own right. He's pretty good at Xanatos Speed Chess as it is, but he hasn't had the opportunity yet to do serious Chessmastering. But, as noted above, he's got the potential for it. He just needs time, age, and opportunity. Also, he's got potential to be a Manipulative Bastard, too.
ETA: Starting as Captain, he begins to add another facet he'll grow into. Eventually he also will take on Reasonable Authority Figure as one of his tropes. He'll get there, post-canon.

It should also be noted that the whole of Codex Alera is a World of Badass, written literally on The Bet.

As paraphrased and imagined by this mun:
"A good story requires a good idea."
Jim Butcher: "A good story can come from a bad idea."
"No, it can't. Take one and do it."
JB: "I'll take two."
"...Two?"
JB: "How does a Lost Roman Legion wielding Pokemon sound to you?"
"...That's insane. You're insane. It can't possibly work."
JB: "Bet you it can."

And, of course, it did.

[ceitfianna]

I sorted my cable bill and ended up getting BBC America, my bill is still far too much, but that's Comcast for you.

In the meantime, I'm going to dip in and answer this and then go and buy myself waffles. So there will be only one or two links to keep me from getting lost.

Will and Robin Hood have their own page. In his section, they talk about the two versions of him, which I've played with a bit.

Demeter is a Master Character Heroine since she's been around just that long.

The Abhorsen Chronicles get their own page and Sameth ends up in a rather lot of places.

Jane Austen is always getting HistoricalBeautyUpdate, Becoming Jane was just one of these.

Narnia also has its own page, which is huge and Tumnus is scattered about.

Going Postal has a page too as Pratchett knows his tropes and pokes at them. I think my favorite trope name is that Moist likes Refuge in Audacity.

Gilbert and Sullivan knew their tropes quite well too and skewed them beautifully. According to them, a Boisterous Bruiser is the only way to do the Pirate King, which Kevin Kline did so well.

And I kept it all on one tab, because if I go deeper, I wouldn't ever come out and I want waffles.

Oh small edit, you locked this post so you might want to unlock it so everyone can see it.

[aisforamy]

I have never visited this site before, but apparently the Spiderwick Chronicles has it's own page chock full o' fun

Of course, this is from the movie, and not the books.

[bringer_of_fun]

Bobby has many:
# An Ice Person,
# Heterosexual Life Partners (With Beast),
# Ho Yay: His inability to show more than cursory interest in a girl, his long relationship with Beast, and the fact that two of his love interests have had the ability to switch genders at will have made a lot of fans speculate that Bobby is in a Transparent Closet.
# Sad Clown
# The Bumblebee
# The Lancer: In the earliest days, Bobby was loudmouthed, egotistical, and irreverant, and had a constant problem with Cyclops' leadership.
# Trademark Favorite Food: Ice cream, in the earliest days. Yes, it's an awful attempt at punning.
# Trickster Archetype
# Vitriolic Best Buds (With Beast)
# Well Done Son Guy
# Why Couldnt You Be Different
# You Fight Like A Cow

[gorgonfondness]

Now that I'm more TV Tropes savvy than the first time we received this question, I know that both Mia and Lucas have spots on TV Tropes character pages.

Mia has:

Armor Piercing Slap (which she's used on Draco)
An Ice Person
Playing With Fire (it's implied that all Ausas are both of these since Lemina also has fire and ice powers)
Beware The Nice Ones (as both canon and Death Eaters learned)
Every Girl Is Cuter With Hair Decs
Leitmotif (every main Lunar character and some important side characters have one; hers is called Fairy Rain)
Shower Scene (see icon; eta: wrong icon when I first put this up. How is it I have more than one nude icon of Mia? This game is perverted.)
Shrinking Violet (Canon/Milliways has changed this)
The Smart Guy
Squishy Wizard
Staff Chick
Tomboy And GirlyGirl (with Jess, but Mia does enjoy some tomboy-ish activities now)
Yamato Nadeshiko

Lucas has:

Big Damn Heroes
Crowning Moment of Awesome
Character Development (which should be a given, but it is difficult to do with a mostly-silent protagonist)
Combat Medic
Cute Shotaro Boy (I've already got people wanting to adopt him based on icons alone)
Farm Boy (they keep sheep!)
Good Is Old Fashioned
In The End You Are On Your Own
Kid Hero
Missing Mom ( D: )
Mushroom Samba (Oh dear CHRIST, Tanetane Island! D: )
Plot Induced Stupidity (JUST PULL THE DAMN NEEDLE!)
Gameplay And Story Segregation (SCREW THE CUTSCENE, JUST PULL THE DAMN NEEDLE!)
Simple Staff (Lucas's most powerful weapon is a stick, but you can get him baseball bats or yo-yos)
Theme Twin Naming (Lucas is an anagram of his twin brother's name Claus)
The Woobie (like you guys wouldn't believe D: )

[acts_of_gord]

Ahahahaha. I started playing Gordon because I kept running across references to him on TVtropes and I got curious. The two big ones to leap to mind are Heroic Mime- not that I play him as such, although I did go to some lengths to establish him as a fundamentally quiet person who only spoke when necessary prior to the events of his canon-and Badass Bookworm.

But you'd be better off going to the page for his canon, really.

[chanter1944]

*comes home from familyness* Oooooh.

Sariel initially fit the red shirt trope almost perfectly, and that's not all because of her canon. She gradually developed into a mauve shirt over time, and she's darn well taken on at least mauve shirt status in Millicanon. At least. :)

[the_gene_genie]

BWHAHA!

OK, I've never understood TV Tropes up until now. And now I do and they're awesome.

Life on Mars has it's own page. All of Gene's tropes are listed there but I will quote my favourite one here verbatim:

# Crazy Awesome: Gene. Flipping. Hunt.



* A character who cannot enter Sam's flat without knocking down the door first. Whose idea of foresight and proper protection from bullets is carrying three liquor flasks on his person. Who connives his way into a private sex party with an obvious prostitute through sheer balls and manly looks. His vocabulary of insults is epic. There is no way this man should be a DCI, or alive. Yet, somehow, because of the inappropriate behavior (and with help from Sam) he is all the more effective at tackling crime. He bleeds whisky.

* When Chuck Norris grows up...The Gene Genie is going to punch his lights out.

Yes. He is Crazy Awesome. *beams*

ETA:

He has an interrogation trope named after him. *dies laughing*

The Gene Hunt Interrogation Technique.

[kd7sov]

Felix himself, according to the character page, is:
Anti Hero and Anti Villain
Badass Cape
BFS, for a couple of the Psynergies he can use
Combat Medic
Dishing Out Dirt
Dramatic Unmask (only once in canon, although if Jenna ever shows up in-bar he'll remask until he determines that she's past that point)
Healing Hands - related to Combaat Medic above
The Hero (natch)
Heroic Mime - sort of. He speaks in the first game, when he's not playable, but not in the second, when he is.
Hero Antagonist
Idiot Hair (decidedly not an idiot, though)
Magic Knight
The Mario, if a bit more powerful than that often implies
Meaningful Name, more or less - all sorts of deadly situations haven't quite managed to kill him
Took A Level In Badass - a bit after he mentions he's no match for Isaac, they meet again at roughly equal levels

As I play him in Milliways, he's also a bit of Minored In Ass Kicking - or, rather, the inverse, being largely combat-related but also fairly smart. In my deviantART headcanon, he's The Silent Bob (I've used the phrase "very eloquent body language" on more than one occasion).

This is already a bit long, so I'm not going to answer for his canon. You can look it up yourself. I will say, though, that I have about 21 Tropes or Trope-directed tabs from this question. Plus at least four I checked but closed.

[mmexlibris]

Did you mean to post this as friends locked? /curious

[ashen_key]

Nope. My journal is set to friends lock automatically, and I was way too ill yesterday to drag myself anywhere with an internet to fix it.

[fowl_beast]

Because of some comments above, I went and checked if the canon I play from has it's own page, and of course, it does. Goodbye, afternoon.

Fan-fiction backstory about Amascut suffers from serious And I Must Scream, as it describes her killing off entire cities and bringing its inhabitants back to life, body, mind, and soul while keeping complete control of their bodies themselves. Their minds and souls where just along for the ride as she used their bodies to wipe out more cities and then to assault the capital city of a rival god who at the time had demons, vampires, werewolves, and other nasty creatures fighting for him. Being one of the death gods, she wouldn't let her new army die.

I imagine it was at that time she trained the first Slayers of her world as commanders of her forces.

Amascut has a bit of Orcus On His Throne. As far as the gods go, she is the only one that spends all her time in the physical plane; most of the others are banished or on a self imposed exile for fear of upsetting the nature god. You would think she would have done something by now. I think somewhere ingame it might be explained as the curse on her prevents her from keeping a physical form for very long, but I have explained it away as being stuck (and stuck mandates special things for a goddess) in a very mundane physical form. It just makes more sense with what actually happens in canon. Of course, that very same curse has a funny effect on her name -- it invokes That Scottish Trope. As a result of being a goddess and having her true name cursed, she has many names. Of course, she is a fiery redhead, a dark skinned redhead, and an evil redhead. Other tropes associated with red hair apply, as she likes playing with fire

Chicken and Lateri have been bothering Teja lately about some Epic Flail, or as Teja calls it, sickle-on-a-stick. Evil Chicken himself is an example of the use of Everything is better with Chickens (Ohhh, crack for Evil Chicken EPs!) and is a Feathered Fiend. Of course, such a ridiculous concept as an evil chicken leads to much narm (see icon)

[a1enzo]

It's a little tricky to find tropes that apply to my Enzo rather than the-one-that-became-Matrix, and of course most of these apply more to when I started playing him, rather than his in-game development.

• Tagalong Kid (listed on the show page as Bratty Half Pint, but I don't really agree)
• The Bumblebee (created specifically for that purpose)
• Hero Worshipper
• two different examples of Big Brother (or Sister) Worship
• The Glomp, of course

There may be more, but I'm tired of looking through search results.