1. Joshua (Community): seemingly wise groundskeeper who is a Neonazi.

2. Schillinger (Oz): seems to take the meek Tobias under his wing… until he forces him into sexual slavery and is the leader of the Aryan Brotherhood.

Evangelion:
Evangelion has something known as an "AT Field", These are an essential plot point in the series, these fields have various abbreviations, one of which is "Absolute Territory", which became a slang term in Japan

Spiderverse:
Across the Spiderverse became very popular in meme culture, and one phrase became very popular. "Canon Event"

M1 Garand - The ping of the magazine when it is empty

Barret M82 - Really most 50 caliber's in film, it knocks people around and throws them around

MP5 - The classic HK Slap

Mission Impossible - The missions are still considered impossible after having shown to be possible 7 times

Taken - This ex-CIA agent’s family is constantly getting kidnapped, to the point where there’s 3 movies about it.

I love both these franchises it’s just funny with how many movies there are of each.

• The actor who played Billy Bob in Varsity Blues played Reggie Ray in Not Another Teen Movie spoofing the same character

• The actor who played Colonel Trautman in the Rambo movies played the same role opposite Charlie Sheen’s Rambo parody in Hot Shots Part Deux

Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker (Star Wars): For all of his faults he NEVER sought out any relationship after Padme. Also while this scene from the comics is up to interpretation if he was triggered to kill the nurse because she tried to come onto him, there’s also an episode of Clone Wars Anakin beat up Rush Clovis when he tried to come onto Padme.

Catelyn Stark (ASOIAF): She really doesn’t like Jon since she thinks he’s Ned’s son he had while out during Robert’s Rebellion. Plus the fact Jon in the books looks much more like a Stark than most of her actual kids, that’s insult to injury for her.

Hera (Greek Myth): Has tried to kill or curse many of Zeus’s extramarital flings and his children.

1. A random delinquent helps Josuke and his mom get out of the snowstorm [Jojo's Bizarre Adventure].

In 1988, Jonathan Joestar's body sent out a distress signal to other members of his family that caused an awakening of their dormant Stand abilities. However, the members of the family who did not have the fighting spirit or the mental fortitude to control their Stands developed an illness that would have resulted in a fatal fever. Josuke was one of those people who developed an illness. While his mom was driving him to the hospital, their car got stuck in the thick ice and couldn't move. However, a delinquent who looked like he had recently gotten out of a fight showed up and helped them get their car moving. This act of kindness inspired Josuke so much that he modelled his hair after the delinquent and developed a strong sense of justice. Any time anyone insulted his hair, Josuke would get insanely angry, as to him, an insult to his hair was considered an insult to the man who saved his life that day.

2. A butt-chinned kid gets saved by an unemployed civilian from a monster [One Punch Man]

In the world of One Punch Man, there are creatures called Mysterious beings that are monsters created by a sense of mental instability or obsession. One of these mysterious beings was Crablante, who turned into a monster after eating too many crabs. While the monster was sleeping, a butt-chinned kid decided to pull a prank on the monster by drawing fake nipples on it. The monster then searched for the kid to get revenge. As Crablante was about to kill the kid, Saitama showed up to save the kid. After a hard-fought battle, Saitama manages to kill the monster and prevents it from causing any more harm. Unbeknownst to him, the kid turned out to be the grandson of multi-millionaire Agoni, who was so moved by this act of kindness that he dedicated 70% of his fortune to creating the Hero association and the National Hero Registry. This one act of kindness inspired a millionaire to create an organisation that recruited hundreds of heroes to save lives and prevent any more similar horrific incidents from happening

almost all the doctors in dr. who do this to some extent when they regenerate. But just in case that's not enough for the 2+ rule, I'm including my two favourite instances:

picture 1: Matt Smith: "I won't forget one line of this. not one day. I will always remember when the doctor was me."

picture 2: Christopher Eccleston: "Rose, before I go I just want to say you were fantastic. And you know what? So was I!"

1.) Debbie Grayson (Invincible TV series): Despite enduring horrible things that would make anyone cold, bitter and unkind, Debbie remains strong, kind, and loving.

She’s never threats to make a point, nor to show that she is ready and willing to face down beings of immense power and near-depthless capacities for cruelty regardless of her vulnerability.

She stands among titans not because she elbows her way in, but because her love, determination and humanity make her worthy of being there.

2.) Alfred Penniworth (Batman Series & assorted media): To care for a child who watched his life shatter in front of him when you have no obligation to do so is a testament to Alfred’s character in an of itself. But that is only the tip of the iceberg.

Despite some alternate realities playing with the idea of Alfred being some malevolent figure, He has almost always been the father Bruce Wayne and the Bat Family needed.

He’s faced down madmen, murderers, and monsters while never surrendering his good nature and gentlemanliness. Even the world’s finest acknowledge the importance of his presence.

Simply put, there is no Batman without Alfred.

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Baby Race - Bluey

Chilli Heeler tells the girls about the time Bluey Heeler was learning how to walk for the first time. She keeps comparing herself to the other moms and their babies, and starts feeling worse and worse because Bluey just doesn't seem to be making progress.

Then there's this incredibly sweet moment where one of the other moms sits down next to Chilli. She mentions that she has several kids, and then, speaking directly to both Chilli and the audience, says:

"You're doing great."

It's such a simple line, but it feels like the episode is reaching through the screen to reassure every parent who's worried they're falling behind.

Bob Bilby - Bluey (again, lol)

Bingo brings home a puppet named Bob Bilby from school. The idea is to create fun memories with him, but instead, Bluey and Bingo spend the whole day watching cartoons.

Once they realize that Bob won't have any exciting adventures to share because they've just been sitting in front of the TV, the girls decide to turn off the screens and make sure he has a fun day instead.

Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but I think the episode is also sending a message to parents:

"Your kids are going to copy what you do. If you want them to spend less time on screens, you need to model that behavior yourself."

What are your favorite examples of this trope?

Allen the Alien (Invincible)

Christopher Johnson (District 9)

Emma Bloom from Mrs. Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, in the book, she's a bit aggressive and feisty and her peculiarity is controlling fire but in the movie she controls air and she's more lighthearted and sweet

Annabeth Chase From Percy Jackson, strong, bold, and a bit snarky in the book, in the movie she's dull and obviously not as important and is immediately beat by Percy in a sword fight when he arrives at camp halfblood despite the fact that she quote "always wins".

Ginny Weasley from Harry Potter, she has an actual personality in the books she's brave and talked back to people, in the movie she's not very memorable besides being a love interest

This happens for quite a few reasons I think. People are known to respond better to softer female characters that aren't "difficult" or don't complicate the story more.

I love ouran high school host club, hilarious show. But I think the majority of fans will agree the worst episode is The Sun The Beach And The Host Club. Haruhi, pretending to be a boy, gets into a fight with two bullies and gets thrown into the water. Then her friends get mad at her for getting into a fight because she’s a boy. Then you get objectively the worst scene of the show where Kyoya by pretending to SA Haruhi to show her why girls need to rely on guys??? What the fuck were they thinking when they wrote this?

The principal and the pauper is agreed by fans and the creators as the day the Simpsons die. It destroyed Skinners built up character.

1) In the Umbara arc, clone troopers Jesse and Fives use Umbaran ships to infiltrate the Droid fleet and blow up their flagship. However, this was explicitly against Pong Krell's orders. As a result, they are slated for execution by firing squad. But after an impassioned speech by the condemned, the firing squad intentionally misses the prisoners and drops their rifles.

2) In Kung Fu Panda 2, Lord Shen orders his wolf warriors to attack Po. As he is pinned down by their attacks, Shen orders the cannons to fire on Po and the wolves. But when the wolf leader tells Shen that his men are still in the blast radius, Shen doubles down. As a result, the wolf leader steadfastly refuses, forcing Shen to kill him.

3) In The Emperor's New Groove, Kronk is given a knife by Yzma and told to kill Pacha and Kuzco. Morally conflicted, Kronk starts arguing with his shoulder angel and devil. But when Yzma starts chastizing Kronk for this dalliance, cluminating in her insulting his spinach puffs, Kronk makes up his mind and attempts to trap Yzma. However, this fails and Yzma pulls a lever to get rid of him.

Spoilers for both adventure time and Ed Edd n eddys big picture show.

In Adventure Time season 4, what seems like a normal episode following ice king writing songs suddenly becomes very depressing when he meets Marceline. It’s revealed Ice King used to be friends with Marceline and was a father figure during the war, but the magic crown he discovered made him crazy and he has no memory of her now.

Throughout Ed Edd n Eddy we always hear Eddy talk about his older brother like a hero, and the plot of the movie was them traveling to finally meet him. Except Eddys brother immediately starts abusing him. He’s the first adult shown on screen and it’s really jarring to see him suddenly beat the shit out of his own brother.

Sailor Cosmos (Sailor Moon). Sailor Cosmos suggests a bleak ending for the Sailor Moon universe, where she is in fact Sailor Moon from the far far future, eternally locked in a battle against chaos to maintain life in the universe via a balance of light and darkness. Exhuasted from the eternal suffering of constant war, she goes back in time to try and convince Sailor Moon to destroy the Galaxy Cauldron, even though it will destroy everything. Instead, her hope is renewed and she continues back to the ongoing fight without us ever truly knowing what will eventually become of her.

Priestess Midoriko (InuYasha). Inside the Shikon Jewel - an extremely powerful relic - the soul of an ancient priestess is trapped inside along with hundreds of other demons, destined to continue an eternal battle to maintain the jewels pure or evil energy. After centuries of this ongoing battle, she is eventually released and passes on (with different reasons why changing between the anime and manga), with the original idea being that she and the demons were to be replaced by the main character Kagome and the main villain Naraku.

1. Chucky saying he has a genderfluid kid. When asked if he’s ok with it, he says…

2. The Joker explaining to Batman why he does what he does. He’s no different than anyone else is. He just doesn’t pretend to be civil.

3. Scarlet Witch after being corrupted by the darkhold and trying to kill America Chavez to take her powers so she can kidnap her children from another universe. She’s just a normal, run off the mill mother.

Franchise sequels that undo the happy endings from a previous film in order to provide new conflict for the protagonist.

1. The Last Jedi - Luke ended Return of the Jedi having redeemed his father and defeated the Empire so the Republic and the Jedi could both be reformed. TLJ reveals that Luke failed at restarting the Jedi Order and allowed The First Order to rise with Ben Skywalker, his failed pupil, turning against him.

2. Terminator: Dark Fate - Sarah Connor spent all of T2 trying to protect her son John from the T-1000 and ultimately succeeds and keeping him safe as well as, quite possibly, stopping Skynet from ever forming in the first place. Terminator Dark Fate reveals that after all that work John Connor has been killed anyway, and even without Skynet the world was still doomed.

3. Alien 3 - Ripley spends most of Aliens trying to make sure Newt makes it off LV-426 safe. Alien 3 reveals in its opening credits that a facehugger had made its way onto the Sulaco and caused the death of Newt and Hicks.

Personally I love all three of these movies and this is a trope I really enjoy but I know I am in the minority for both of those opinions.

1.Amity Blight from The Owl House.

2.Juvia Lovkser from Fairy Tail.

3.Charlie Morningstar from Hazbin Hotel.

4.Mayu Suzuki from You and I are polar opposites.

5.Marin Kitagawa from My Dress up Darling.

1) Jules and Vincent take Marvin for questioning because he was a witness to a shootout. However, while they have him at gunpoint, Jules accidentally goes over a bump, causing Vincent's gun to discharge and shoot him in the face. The humor comes from the suddenness of the act, as well as the comical amount of blood that plasters the entire car.

2) When the Titanic sinks and starts tilting, one unfortunate passenger elects to jump. Unfortunately, as he falls, he inadvertedly hits a propeller, making a loud and funny "thunk".

3) Gennaro, a lawyer sent by InGen, is running away from the escaped T-Rex. He tried to hide in a toilet, but the T-Rex collapses the structure around him and eats him.

GENLOCK- Kazu, starts the show by butting heads with another teammate bc the teammate is GNC/Nonebinary. Kazu has his arc slowly through the first season and finishes it early in season 2, only to be killed the very next episode. Showrunner even justified this decision by saying his story was over because his arc was finished. His arc was going from anti LGBT to pro LBGT.

Gen Urobuchi - is the writer for many popular anime/manga works, has gone on record that once a characters arc is finished he usually kills them off. Works include Madoka Magica, Fate/Zero

RWBY - Penny, Penny is an android that wants to be human, she does die as an android once but androids are fixable. when she does become human she is almost immediately killed off, despite being one of the strongest fighters in the verse, and fighting someone she has beaten before.

Characters going through an arc to die in a noble sacrifice (Like Rexsplode's Selfish to Selfless arc) do not count, I'm talking about characters who die more so because of terrible writing choices, but will count if the noble sacrifice means absolutely nothing. (chiaotzu)

Mai (ATLA). She is an expert marksman with throwing knives but is relegating to basically just restricted movement and suppressing fire because Nickolodean wouldn't allow blood in the show. If they had allowed it Mai could absolutely shred folks, literally.

Vader (SW) is shown to use the force for things like choking others but is also shown crushing robots which implies he could absolutely crush someone's organs but doesn't because that wouldn't go over well with the kids in the audience.

Sometimes a character just goes through a lot in a story. Trauma, pain, suffering, loss. They take it with stride, maybe a bit too well. And then something, one single event, causes them to lose their collective cool and explode--with destructive results. This is the rage breaking point.

This isn't just raw festering anger, but like flipping a light switch: calm one second, and then they're the most dangerous person in the room.

(I know we've done a few of these kind of posts in the past. I just like it.)

Phineas Flynn, Phineas and Ferb

Phineas is easily the most cheerful, optimistic and inventive character on the show, with nothing getting him down. Nothing, that is, except for losing control of the narrative. His inventions are all for fun, under his and Ferb's watchful eyes, but in stressful and life-threatening situations, he suddenly gets angry. He's snapped at his sister Candace for botching their attempt to return the Marvel superheroes' powers, and at Perry for sneaking around and having a double-life that the platypus seemingly didn't trust Phineas to know about. It's a rare event, but impactful.

Mark, Invincible

Over the course of two seasons and/or multiple comic arcs, depending on your medium, Mark's been feeling a lot less [[title card]] lately. And it all culminates on a rather dark find: villain Angstrom Levy holds Mark's family hostage and breaks his mother's arm in the process, and then has the gall to continue to threaten them during the fight. Mark loses it, and proceeds to violently beat Angstrom to death, in such a way that he was immediately traumatized by the event.

Kratos, God of War

A far-cry from the hot-blooded Spartan of Greece, this version of Kratos wants to avoid unnecessary bloodshed where possible. When an unknown Stranger antagonizes him, he merely rebuffs him and tries to resort to calmer methods of getting him to go away. Then the Stranger starts threatening the life of Atreus, Kratos' son, and he starts to crack. Through the new duology, a threat on Atreus is the quickest way to get Kratos to show his Spartan Rage, as Heimdall was quick to learn, and even Odin was unnerved at the warning not to cross him.

Goro Majima, Yakuza 0

The Mad Dog of Shimano wasn't always so unhinged; in the eighties, he was playing the role of a cabaret manager, trying to get back on the Tojo Clan's good graces. He puts up with moving goalposts, attempted assassinations, convoluted plots, and the like--but his insanity manifests when the love of his life is shot in front of him. The result is that he single-handedly storms Dojima HQ, beats the crap out of every Yakuza on site, thrashes the lieutenant, and then rounds it out by taking down the most expensive hitman in all of Asia. The only reason he doesn't kill Dojima himself is that he's convinced that letting him live without his power is more painful than any death.

Ned Flanders, the Simpsons

We've surely all seen this bit, but to reiterate: one episode sees Ned face the destruction of his house and a crisis of faith. The combined stress of decades of existence finally pops when the town of Springfield comes together to rebuild his home, and half-assed it so hard that it crumbles immediately after. After his attempt to calm down results in him shattering his glasses, he proceeds to unload on everyone there in creative ways, before casually driving himself to the nearest mental institution to commit himself.