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<div class="proper-ad-unit mobile-ad square_ad"><h6 class="ad-caption">Advertisement:</h6><div id="proper-ad-tvtropes_mobile_ad_1"><script>propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })</script></div></div><p>From Rugby, a knot of reporters and camera men gathered around someone, usually a politician, each trying to shove forward to ask their questions and catch the answers to the others' questions. Also known as a "gangbang".
</p><p>Often the questions are things that the interviewee has not or does not want to address in a press release or conference. The reporters can and will chase the politician to their car or office, only being diverted by the appearance of someone even more newsworthy.</li><li> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/BenFolds" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/BenFolds">Ben Folds</a>' song "Cooler Than You" is a <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TakeThat" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TakeThat">Take That!</a> to hipsters and their popularity within the subculture.
</li><li> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/SayAnything" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/SayAnything">Say Anything...</a>'s "Admit It" is a brutal evisceration of hipsterdom.
</li><li> <a class="urllink" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR4n6OVoyYQ">"The Life Organic" - Dom and Adrian.<img height="12" src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" style="border:none;" width="12"/></a>
</li><li> <a class="urllink" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVmmYMwFj1I">"Being a Dickhead's Cool" - The Grand Spectaculuar.<img height="12" src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" style="border:none;" width="12"/></a>
</li><li> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/ArcadeFire" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/ArcadeFire">Arcade Fire</a>'s <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/TheSuburbs" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/TheSuburbs">The Suburbs</a></em> mocks hipsters in several songs, most obviously in "Rococo," which is in part about the band's early fanbase abandoning them once they became popular and thus no longer 'cool.' "Month of May" attacks hipstery cynicism and aloofness, and "Suburban War" tells a loose story of two friends who become separated when their musical tastes clash (mixed in with a lot of <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GrowingUpSucks" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GrowingUpSucks">Growing Up Sucks</a> imagery).
</li><li> Pop Punk band Patent Pending wrote "All Star Hipster" about, you guessed it!
<div class="indent"><em>There goes that OG suburban drifter <br/> Professional thrifter <br/> Full-time Craigslister <br/> He's an All Star Hipster!</em></li><li> <em><a class="createlink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/AugustaGone" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/AugustaGone">Augusta Gone</a></em> explicitly shows a scene of cutting while the character Augusta is at a camp for "problem" teens.
</li><li> One of the characters in the '80s horror film <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/BadDreams1988" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/BadDreams1988">Bad Dreams</a></em>.
<div class="indent">"I just make a little hole, and it all goes away."
</div></li><li> Karin from <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/CriesAndWhispers" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/CriesAndWhispers">Cries and Whispers</a></em> has a lot of issues, really, with pent-up rage and an inability to express love and a dickhead of a husband. So she stabs herself in the vagina with a shard of glass. And then she smears the blood all over her face.
</li><li> In <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheFilmOfTheBook" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheFilmOfTheBook">the film of</a> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/GirlInterrupted" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/GirlInterrupted">Girl, Interrupted</a></em>:
<ul><li> Daisy is a cutter, something that is not a part of her character in the novel.
</li><li> In a deleted scene, Lisa is shown self-harming, by <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CigaretteBurns" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CigaretteBurns">burning her cigarettes on her forearm</a> (in the shape of a cat), which is why she is seen wearing a bandage on it.</li><li> Colossus defeats <span class="spoiler" title="you can set spoilers visible by default on your profile">Juggernaut</span> by shoving a live wire up his ass.
</li></ul></li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/CaptainMarvel2019" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/CaptainMarvel2019">Captain Marvel (2019)</a></em>: Maria Rambeau threatens to do this to a Skrull.
<div class="indent"><strong>Maria:</strong> Call me "young lady" again and I'll shove my foot somewhere it's not supposed to be. <br/><em>[beat]</em> <br/><strong>Talos:</strong> <em>[confused]</em> Am I just supposed to <em>guess</em> where that is? <br/><strong>Everyone:</strong> <em>Your ass</em>.
</div></li><li> In <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/AvengersEndgame" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/AvengersEndgame">Avengers: Endgame</a></em>, <span class="spoiler" title="you can set spoilers visible by default on your profile"> Thor threatens to do this to a <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/Fortnite" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/Fortnite">Fortnite</a></em> player named <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LeetLingo" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LeetLingo">NoobMaster</a><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LOL69" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LOL69">69</a> for calling his friend <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/ThorRagnarok" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/ThorRagnarok">Korg</a> a dickhead.</span>
<div class="indent"><span class="spoiler" title="you can set spoilers visible by default on your profile"> <strong>Thor:</strong> NoobMaster, hey, it's Thor again. You know, the God of Thunder? Listen, buddy, if you don't log off this game right now, I'm gonna fly over to your house, come down to that basement you're hiding in, rip off your arms, and shove them up your butt!</span>
</div></li><li> In <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/EvenLambsHaveTeeth" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/EvenLambsHaveTeeth">Even Lambs Have Teeth</a></em>, Katie and Sloan kill Boris by ramming a branch wrapped in barbed wire and nails up his ass.
</li><li> In <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/KillerParty" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/KillerParty">Killer Party</a></em>, the fat Bee-Boy is murdered by having a spear gun fired up his ass.</li><li> Genre comedian/singer Luke Ski opens his "You might be a Trekkie" routine by rattling off a list of scifi shows, films, collectibles, and hobbies that a person needs to be obsessed with, to <em>decisively</em> qualify as a Trekkie.
</li><li> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/GeorgeCarlin" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/GeorgeCarlin">George Carlin</a>'s last recorded performance of "Seven Dirty Words" featured a list of more than two-hundred profane words.
</li><li> Greg Proops once had this as part of his routine.
<div class="indent">"I come from America, and I know that often, America seems, like kind of a, I don't know, redneck, dickhead, peckerwood, podunk, yeehaw, gun-totin', psycho-Christian, anti-choice, homophobic, truck-drivin', dog-in-the-back, gimme-cap-wearin', y'know, the-jury's-still-out-on-evolution, giant-belt-buckle-with-your-name-on-it-that-you-wear-upside-down-so-you-can-go-'[looks down] Oh shit! That's muh name!'...kind of place."
</div></li><li> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/StewartLee" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/StewartLee">Stewart Lee</a> uses this to satirise Loch Ness Monster conspiracy theorists.
<div class="indent">"A lot of people think the Loch Ness Monster doesn't exist, don't they actually? Now I don't know anything about zoology, biology, geology, geography, marine biology, cryptozoology, evolutionary theory, evolutionary biology, meteorology, limnology, history, herpetology, paleontology, or archaeology... but I think... What if a dinosaur got in the lake?"
</div></li></ul></div><div class="indent">"I tell yer, that's the first bath I've took in me life, and the last one too, thank yer kindly!"
</div><ul><li> Most of the Dibbuns (babies) would also be this way if their caretakers let them, going to impressive lengths to avoid bathing.
</li></ul></li><li> Gunner Jurgen from the <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/CiaphasCain" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/CiaphasCain">Ciaphas Cain</a></em> novels fits this to a tee. He is exempt from normal Imperial Guard peacetime cleanliness regulations due to a variety of skin conditions. Other than Cain himself, nobody wants to be around him. <span class="spoiler" title="you can set spoilers visible by default on your profile"> Of course that has more to do with Jurgen being a soulless <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AntiMagic" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AntiMagic">Anti-Magic</a> pariah, but his filthiness tends to be what people fixate on when they feel repelled by him.</span>
</li><li> Kheperu from <em>Iron Dawn</em> is grimy, greasy, and reeks so much he can disperse crowds just by taking a stroll in the marketplace. Sort of justified, as some of the stench comes from the alchemical mixtures he carries, and the rest from his being the sort of dickhead who <em>enjoys</em> being as appalling as possible.
</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/DeadSouls" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/DeadSouls">Dead Souls</a></em>: One of Chichikov's servants who never washes himself.
</li><li> Sachar always has dirty hands in <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/Oblomov" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/Oblomov">Oblomov</a></em>. And claims they were clean.
</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheTwits" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheTwits">The Twits</a></em>:<ul><li> But falls for it <a class="urllink" href="http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040305">here<img height="12" src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" style="border:none;" width="12"/></a>.
</li><li> In one of the <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/GirlGenius" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/GirlGenius">Girl Genius</a></em> 'radio plays', <em>The Sleepy Clank</em>, Agatha finds that they have just led the murderous clank (robot) to the just arrived gathering of the town.
<div class="indent"><strong>Agatha:</strong> This can't get any worse... Mr. Mayor, let me explain. <br/><strong>Mayor:</strong> There's no need! Obviously you interlopers have discovered our true nature! Lizardmen Remove Your Disquises and Slay the Mammals! <br/><strong>Agatha</strong> <long delay> ...um... yeah... Weirder maybe.
</div></li></ul></li><li> Directly quoted and lampshaded in <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/AnsemRetort" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/AnsemRetort">Ansem Retort</a></em>. After hearing that Aerith and Namine are being attacked by a werepire and Axel isn't helping, Zexion says "well, at least it can't get any worse". Immediately more werepires show up and Namine yells "Oh, you dickhead!".
</li><li> Annabel in <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/YetAnotherFantasyGamerComic" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/YetAnotherFantasyGamerComic">Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic</a></em> after Glon <a class="urllink" href="http://yafgc.net/comic/0332-glon-the-opportunist/">abducted<img height="12" src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" style="border:none;" width="12"/></a> her as a vengeance for mocking him before he became important.
<div class="indent"><strong><a class="urllink" href="http://yafgc.net/comic/0335-out-of-the-pan-into-the-drow/">Annabel<img height="12" src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" style="border:none;" width="12"/></a>:</strong> (<em>running away</em>) What could possibly be worse than being held prisoner by an orc? (<em>collides with one very unamused drow</em>)
</div></li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/Underling" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/Underling">Underling</a></em>: <a class="urllink" href="http://underlingcomic.com/page-twenty-eight/">He says it couldn't get worse -- and realizes he shouldn't've.<img height="12" src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" style="border:none;" width="12"/></a></li><li> Cliff Clavin is an unpopular, put-upon, mama's boy mailman who's only really good for spouting dubious trivia at the <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Cheers" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Cheers">Cheers</a></em> bar. Cliff's <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeterosexualLifePartners" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeterosexualLifePartners">best friend</a>, the fat, lazy Norm Peterson gets more respect than him.
</li><li> Trina Vega on <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Victorious" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Victorious">Victorious</a></em>. Unattractive <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HollywoodHomely" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HollywoodHomely">despite being portrayed by</a> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/DaniellaMonet" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/DaniellaMonet">Daniella Monet</a>? <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HollywoodToneDeaf" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HollywoodToneDeaf">Horrible Singer</a> <span class="notelabel" onclick="togglenote('note0o647');"><sup>note </sup></span><span class="inlinefolder" id="note0o647" isnote="true" onclick="togglenote('note0o647');" style="cursor:pointer;font-size:smaller;display:none;">Despite her actress providing backup vocals for a few songs</span>? <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SmallNameBigEgo" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SmallNameBigEgo">Ego too big for her actual talent</a>? <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheFriendNobodyLikes" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheFriendNobodyLikes">Disliked by the main cast</a>? <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ParentalFavoritism" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ParentalFavoritism">Her parents preferring</a> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheHero" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheHero">her sister</a> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheUnfavourite" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheUnfavourite">over her</a>? She practically exists just to show how better Tori is by comparison.
</li><li> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DiscussedTrope" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DiscussedTrope">Discussed</a> in <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Blackadder" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Blackadder">Blackadder</a> II</em>:
<div class="indent"><strong>Blackadder:</strong> It is said, Percy, that the civilized man seeks out good and intelligent company so that by learned discourse he may rise above the savage and closer to God. <br/><strong>Lord Percy:</strong> <em>(delighted)</em> Yes, I'd heard that. <br/><strong>Blackadder:</strong> Personally, however, I like to start the day with a total dickhead to remind me I'm best.
</div></li><li> In an episode of <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/TheOfficeUS" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/TheOfficeUS">The Office (US)</a></em>, <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DiscussedTrope" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DiscussedTrope">the employees find</a> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HerCodeNameWasMarySue" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HerCodeNameWasMarySue">a screenplay</a> by Michael Scott where he has an idealized version of himself named Agent Michael Scarn, whose sidekick Samuel (Dwight) "is this complete idiot causing the downfall of the United States."
</li><li> Much and Allan-a-Dale from <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/RobinHood" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/RobinHood">Robin Hood</a></em> were often characterized as this throughout <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeasonalRot" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeasonalRot">series three</a>, seemingly as a way of making new arrivals <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DamselScrappy" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DamselScrappy">Kate</a> and <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ReplacementScrappy" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ReplacementScrappy">Tuck</a> look good in comparison. This included both of them acting extra clumsy, mucking up several outlaw plans, and getting laughed at for not knowing basic general knowledge (including how to count). Given that Much and Allan were highly popular characters, and that Tuck and Kate were the <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ReplacementScrappy" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ReplacementScrappy">Replacement Scrappies</a> to Will and Djaq, two <em>genuinely</em> intelligent characters, this tactic achieved nothing except to make the fandom loathe Kate and Tuck all the more.
</li><li> The titular character of <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Sherlock" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Sherlock">Sherlock</a></em> said in the "<a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/SherlockS02E01AScandalInBelgravia" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/SherlockS02E01AScandalInBelgravia">A Scandal in Belgravia</a>" episode that he cuts an impressive figure in the media by taking "the precaution of a <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BadassLongcoat" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BadassLongcoat">good coat</a> and a short friend," much to <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheWatson" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheWatson">John's</a> annoyance. In reality, nobody who knows John thinks he is anything less than a <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BadassNormal" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BadassNormal">Badass Normal</a>.</li></ul></li><li> In <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/TheElderScrolls" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/TheElderScrolls">The Elder Scrolls</a></em> background lore, the Imga, a race of intelligent "ape men" native to Valenwood, practice these with dueling swords in an attempt to impress the <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OurElvesAreDifferent" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OurElvesAreDifferent">Altmer (High Elves)</a>, who the Imga idolize.
</li><li> The climactic duel in the penultimate chapter in <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/Uncharted4AThiefsEnd" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/Uncharted4AThiefsEnd">Uncharted 4: A Thief's End</a></em> - which was pretty much inevitable given the game's plot has been chasing after a <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Pirate" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Pirate">pirate</a> treasure this whole time - where Rafe gets a hold of a saber and Nathan Drake has nothing (and Rafe's <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SwordPointing" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SwordPointing">Sword Pointing</a> at him the whole time when he's not trying to slash him), until he evades some slashes long enough to get a sword of his own around the pirate ship they're on.
<dl><dd><div class="indent"> Rafe: You care...about that parade of losers so much...<a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AndYourLittleDogToo" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AndYourLittleDogToo">I am going to make sure they join you.</a>
</div><div class="indent"> Nate: En garde, dickhead.
</div><div class="indent"> Rafe: That's the spirit.
</div><div class="indent"> Rafe: You know how to sword fight?
</div><div class="indent"> Nate: Yeah. I stick you with the sharp end, right?</li><li> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/Blink182" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/Blink182">blink-182</a> have several short and extremely vulgar tracks, the best known being Family Reunion (a 36 second song made up entirely of profanity) and F**k A Dog.
</li><li> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/IronMaiden" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/IronMaiden">Iron Maiden</a>'s B-side "<a class="urllink" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL4tsMCIEII">Nodding Donkey Blues<img height="12" src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" style="border:none;" width="12"/></a>", a <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/ThisIsSpinalTap" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/ThisIsSpinalTap">Spinal Tap</a>-like song about a <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigBeautifulWoman" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigBeautifulWoman">Big Beautiful Woman</a>.
</li><li> Platypus by <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/GreenDay" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/GreenDay">Green Day</a>, the bridge consists of the following:
<div class="indent">Dickhead, fuckface, cock-smoking, motherfucking asshole, dirty twat, waste of semen hope you die - hey!
</div></li><li> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/FrankZappa" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/FrankZappa">Frank Zappa</a> frequently indulged in this. If you want examples, try his 1979 rock opera <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/JoesGarage" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/JoesGarage">Joe's Garage</a></em>, which contains, among other things, songs about sexually transmitted infections, <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PrisonRape" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PrisonRape">Prison Rape</a> and <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SexBot" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SexBot">hard sex with robots</a>.
</li><li> Ben Hoffman's <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CountryMusic" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CountryMusic">Country Music</a> side project Wheeler Walker Jr. all but runs on this. His very first album was titled "Redneck Shit", it had a pre-release preview on <em><strong>PornHub</strong></em>, and was one of the few albums to have topped both the Billboard country <em>and</em> comedy album charts.
</li><li> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/PSY" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/PSY">PSY</a> loved this trope too when he debuted during <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TurnOfTheMillennium" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TurnOfTheMillennium">Turn of the Millennium</a>. However, this was downplayed when he returned in <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheNewTens" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheNewTens">The New '10s</a>, with his music having some parodied <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AccidentalInnuendo" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AccidentalInnuendo">Accidental Innuendo</a>.</li><li> This is essentially <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/DwayneJohnson" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/DwayneJohnson">The Rock</a>'s <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheGimmick" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheGimmick">gimmick</a> when he's a <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Face" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Face">face</a>, especially post Rock & <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/MickFoley" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/MickFoley">Sock</a> Connection. He already was this to everyone in <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/TheNationOfDomination" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/TheNationOfDomination">The Nation of Domination</a> not named <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/RonSimmons" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/RonSimmons">Farooq</a>, buying them all expensive gifts so they could look the part like him.
</li><li> Jesse Sorensen of U Know Pro, <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/ImpactWrestling" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/ImpactWrestling">TNA</a>, <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/RingOfHonor" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/RingOfHonor">Ring of Honor</a> and many others. His gimmick is that of a former high school quarterback who still carries around a football to p his glory days. Despite that, he's a very nice guy.
</li><li> Alex Riley had a <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JerkJock" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JerkJock">Jerk Jock</a> gimmick on NXT so after his <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeelFaceTurn" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeelFaceTurn">HeelFace Turn</a> he may qualify.
</li><li> Really any wrestler who isn't a dickhead behind the scenes could qualify.
</li></ul></div>
<p></p><div class="folderlabel" onclick="togglefolder('folder10');"> Video Games </div><div class="folder" id="folder10" isfolder="true" style="display:block;">
<ul><li> The Jock villagers of the <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/AnimalCrossing" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/AnimalCrossing">Animal Crossing</a></em> series are basically this by design.</li></ul></li><li> The <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/CriminalMinds" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/CriminalMinds">Criminal Minds</a></em> episode "Elephant's Memory" had a brilliant but deeply troubled student who was the victim of truly horrific bullying hunt down and kill all of his previous tormentors. Reid, a victim of bullying, is sympathetic to him.
<ul><li> Considering that Reid's day job is hunting down sadistic serial killers, he probably qualifies as a bully hunter himself. Other members of the BAU like Hotch and Morgan chose their careers as a catharsis for the abuse they suffered during their childhood, and Rossi's barely veiled rage toward serial killers (he wrote in one of his bestselling books that the death penalty is not about justice but revenge, and <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PayEvilUntoEvil" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PayEvilUntoEvil">that it is a good thing</a>) <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AlternativeCharacterInterpretation" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AlternativeCharacterInterpretation">may show</a> that the BAU Unit the show is centered on is a team of <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BullyHunter" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BullyHunter">Bully Hunters</a> who treat their job as a <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ItsPersonal" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ItsPersonal">personal crusade</a>.
</li></ul></li><li> In Season Two of <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Glee" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Glee">Glee</a></em> Santana blackmails <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArmouredClosetGay" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArmouredClosetGay">bully</a> Karofsky into forming the Bully Whips so they can win Prom King and Queen.
</li><li> Jeff Winger in <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Community" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Community">Community</a></em> is an odd example of this. On the surface, he's a self-involved <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Jerkass" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Jerkass">Jerkass</a> who is thoroughly reluctant to involve himself in anything outside his little bubble, and isn't exactly shy about shooting nasty comments at people, whether they're his friends or not. However, he consistently appears to be unwilling and/or unable to let bullying go unchallenged; every time a bully or group of bullies has appeared, even if his friends aren't the direct victims (although especially if they are) Jeff has almost inevitably ended up challenging and getting into conflict with them. He'll usually frame it as challenging them for being an obnoxious, irritating dickhead rather than a bully, but it's a consistent trait of his. In one episode we learn he himself was bullied as a child, which might explain it.
</li><li> In an episode of <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Sliders" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Sliders">Sliders</a></em>, "The Guardian," Quinn tries to coach a younger version of himself on an alternate world to stand up to school bullies, hoping to right a wrong that happened when he was a kid. <span class="spoiler" title="you can set spoilers visible by default on your profile"> Partially subverted, as it turns out Quinn's goal is not to get back at the bullies, but to prevent his younger self from permanently disabling one of them with a baseball bat. Instead he teaches the kid self-defense so he fights them with his hands.</span>
</li><li> On <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/JudgeJudy" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/JudgeJudy">Judge Judy</a></em>, if the case is about bullying expect Judy to make the bully break down in tears.
</li><li> In <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle">Malcolm in the Middle</a></em>, one episode saw Reese realize what a jerk he'd been at school and turn into a pacifist. With the alpha jerk of the schoolyard gone, the entire school goes into chaos as over a dozen bullies all vie for the empty throne left vacant, multiple bullies harassing the same kids multiple times in a row (one of them gets his shirt and shoes taken after the first bully gets his lunch money). When several of them team up on Stevie, Reese is outraged that his wheelchair immunity is being ignored and rises up to perform a <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CurbstompBattle" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CurbstompBattle">bully beatdown of epic proportions.</a><ul><li> At certain points in the Ronin storyline you will be forced into compulsory swordfights. Your <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HyperspaceArsenal" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HyperspaceArsenal">Hyperspace Arsenal</a> just up and abandons you for no obvious reason, even if you were shooting people up right to the very moment you trigger the event.
</li><li> At the start of the Brotherhood storyline Maero offers the Boss a deal. It's obviously slanted against the Saints, but even if you want to accept it for some reason, the game just doesn't give you any option to do so.
</li></ul></li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/SaintsRowIV" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/SaintsRowIV">Saints Row IV</a></em>:
<ul><li> Parodied during the opening "The Saints Wing" mission, where one of the "moral choices" you're given is how to respond to an annoying legislator. Thing is, both options end with the Boss punching the guy, with your only choice being whether you "punch a dick in the head" or "<a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GroinAttack" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GroinAttack">punch a dickhead</a>". There's also an option given by your Vice President to sign one of two bills, either one to end world hunger or another one to cure cancer... which ends up not mattering in the slightest since <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AlienInvasion" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AlienInvasion">the Zin invade</a> and <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EarthShatteringKaboom" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EarthShatteringKaboom">blow up the planet</a> within fifteen minutes.
</li><li> In the <em>How the Saints Saved Christmas</em> DLC pack, <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlayerCharacter" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlayerCharacter">the Boss</a> gets dared to <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TongueOnTheFlagpole" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TongueOnTheFlagpole">lick a frozen flagpole</a>. If you refuse enough, one of your allies will <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/AChristmasStory" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/AChristmasStory">triple dog dare</a> you, at which point your only options are "yes" and "yes".
</li></ul></li><li> Frequently done in <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2">Red Dead Redemption II</a></em>: while the player has a fair degree of control on how Arthur Morgan behaves outside of missions, as well as to a limited degree within them, throughout the story Arthur is <em>required</em> to do many reprehensible things. This reaches Meta levels with <span class="spoiler" title="you can set spoilers visible by default on your profile">the Thomas Downes debt collection mission; it's the ONLY one of the debtor missions that's mandatory, compared to the all the others being optional, because Arthur MUST beat Mr. Downes to death and contract TB in the process for the back half of the game's story to play out the way it does</span>.
</li></ul></div></li><li> In <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya">Haruhi Suzumiya</a></em> (<em>Melancholy</em> to be specific), Kyon is about to be killed by <span class="spoiler" title="you can set spoilers visible by default on your profile">Ryouko Asakura</span> - before Yuki steps through just in time to stop <span class="spoiler" title="you can set spoilers visible by default on your profile">Ryouko</span> in her tracks.
<ul><li> <span class="spoiler" title="you can set spoilers visible by default on your profile">Ryouko</span> also does this in The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, <span class="spoiler" title="you can set spoilers visible by default on your profile">after stabbing Kyon, telling him to savor the pain, since it's the last thing he'll feel.</span>
</li></ul></li><li> In <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/FAKE" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/FAKE">FAKE</a></em>, this is combined with <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigDamnHeroes" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigDamnHeroes">Big Damn Heroes</a> and <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/SugarWiki/FunnyMoments" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/SugarWiki/FunnyMoments">Funny Moments</a>:
<div class="indent"> <em>Dee:</em> "<a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SayYourPrayers" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SayYourPrayers">Say yer prayers</a>, dickhead!"
</div></li><li> As seen in the pic, <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar">Kenshiro</a> often uses this as his way of declaring that a particular villain's actions are <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThisIsUnforgivable" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThisIsUnforgivable">unforgivable</a>. And when he says something like this? <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YouAreAlreadyDead" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YouAreAlreadyDead">He</a> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YourHeadASplode" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YourHeadASplode">means</a> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LudicrousGibs" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LudicrousGibs">every</a> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CruelAndUnusualDeath" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CruelAndUnusualDeath">word</a>.
<ul><li> And while, thanks to the anime, his "<a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YouAreAlreadyDead" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YouAreAlreadyDead">You Are Already Dead</a>" became something of a <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MemeticMutation" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MemeticMutation">meme</a>, it was far more sparingly used in the manga. In fact, he only ever said it <em>once</em>.
</li></ul></li><li> A variation used sometimes in <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/InuYasha" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/InuYasha">Inuyasha</a></em>: "Wash your neck!" (The translation notes explained, as in preparation for execution.)</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebVideo/DoomHouse" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebVideo/DoomHouse">Doom House</a></em>: "<em><strong>WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?</strong></em>"
</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebVideo/AnalystBroniesReact" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebVideo/AnalystBroniesReact">Analyst Bronies React</a></em>: When <em>Everfree</em> used the word "reputation", after all the uses in <em>Friendship Games</em>, Thespio gleefully shouts the word again.
</li><li> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebVideo/TheTourettesGuy" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebVideo/TheTourettesGuy">The Tourettes Guy</a>
<div class="indent"> IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO GET A DAMN <em><strong><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OverlyLongGag" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OverlyLongGag">WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATCH</a></strong></em>! (<em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Beat" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Beat">beat</a></em>) Dickhead!
</div></li></ul></div>
<p></p><div class="folderlabel" onclick="togglefolder('folder21');"> Western Animation </div><div class="folder" id="folder21" isfolder="true" style="display:block;">
<ul><li> American broadcasts of <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/DinosaurTrain" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/DinosaurTrain">Dinosaur Train</a></em> are bookended by The Conductor shouting <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThankingTheViewer" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThankingTheViewer">"THANK YOU!"</a> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ViewersLikeYou" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ViewersLikeYou">at the end of the funding credits</a>.</li><li> The town of Lauderhill, Florida invited <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/JamesEarlJones" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/JamesEarlJones">James Earl Jones</a> to speak at a <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement">Martin Luther King, Jr.</a> celebration, and sought to give him a plaque to commemorate the occasion. Only for the plaque (that had been custom-ordered to a company located in Texas) to come back honoring James Earl <strong>Ray</strong>, <em>the man who assassinated King</em>. <a class="urllink" href="http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/mlkday.asp">Pics here<img height="12" src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" style="border:none;" width="12"/></a>.
</li><li> A newlywed couple, literally hours after their wedding, get into a drunken fight in their hotel room, with both being injured? And ordered by a judge to stay away from each other? <a class="urllink" href="http://thesmokinggun.com/buster/battery/the-briefly-happy-couple-739502">Clearwater Beach.<img height="12" src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" style="border:none;" width="12"/></a>
</li><li> A woman awakened by loud moaning finds a naked man sprawled on her deck with a sex toy, and "bodily secretions" on her window? <a class="urllink" href="http://thesmokinggun.com/buster/moaning-guy-popped-730659">Largo.<img height="12" src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" style="border:none;" width="12"/></a> The story's headline even references a "Naked, Moaning Florida Man".
</li><li> Arrested man gives his name as <a class="urllink" href="http://thesmokinggun.com/buster/Florida/captain-dickhead-busted-198407">"Captain Dickhead"<img height="12" src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" style="border:none;" width="12"/></a>? Take a guess.
</li><li> A man arrested for beating his boyfriend? Could happen anywhere. The alleged weapon of choice being a Big Mouth Billy Bass? <a class="urllink" href="http://thesmokinggun.com/documents/stupid/billy-bass-battery-184509">Florida.<img height="12" src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" style="border:none;" width="12"/></a>
</li><li> An apparently drunk man calls 9-1-1 <em>twice</em> to tell dispatchers that his wife is <em>literally</em> a black widow spider? <a class="urllink" href="http://thesmokinggun.com/documents/florida/black-widow-spider-call-910527">Tarpon Springs.<img height="12" src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" style="border:none;" width="12"/></a> The linked report even starts with the words "A Florida Man" (capitalized, too!).
</li><li> Broward County sheriff's deputy <a class="urllink" href="https://wsvn.com/news/local/bso-deputy-arrested-for-shoplifting-in-uniform-at-walmart/">busted<img height="12" src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" style="border:none;" width="12"/></a> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FiveFingerDiscount" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FiveFingerDiscount">shoplifting</a> at a local <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/Walmart" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/Walmart">Walmart</a>. <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhatAnIdiot" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhatAnIdiot">In uniform</a>.</div></li><li> In <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheBourneUltimatum" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheBourneUltimatum">The Bourne Ultimatum</a></em> films, it's shown that all Treadstone agents have "Safe" and "Under Duress" passwords. Nicky Parsons is expected to give her "Under Duress" password when Bourne tracks her down; <span class="spoiler" title="you can set spoilers visible by default on your profile">she doesn't, signaling her defection to Bourne's side</span>.
</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/GroundhogDay" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/GroundhogDay">Groundhog Day</a></em> takes it to extremes. To prove that he really is repeating the day over and over again, Phil walks Rita through a diner, giving the trust passwords for <em>everyone in the diner</em>, none of whom remember telling him those things. She still doesn't quite believe him, until he shows he can also predict what people are about to say.
</li><li> Parodied in several <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/ThePinkPanther" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/ThePinkPanther">The Pink Panther</a></em> movies. Clouseau will ask Dreyfus what his code name is, or what the password is. Dreyfus has to think, then replies in a fury that he doesn't have a codename or that there is no password. Clouseau confirms that only the real Dreyfus would know that, but this just angers Dreyfus further.
</li><li> In <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Airheads" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Airheads">Airheads</a></em>, to determine whether a record executive actually is an exec and not an undercover cop, Chazz asks him, "Whose side did you take in the <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/VanHalen" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/VanHalen">Van Halen</a>/Roth split: Van Halen or Roth?". He incorrectly answers "Van Halen", outing him as a cop. Chazz still gives him one more chance, asking "Who would win a wrestling match: <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/Motorhead" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/Motorhead">Lemmy</a> or <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/God" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/God">God</a>?". He first answers "Lemmy", then hastily switches to "God", before Rex tells him, "Wrong, dickhead! Trick question! Lemmy <em>is</em> God!", and he's finally driven away.
</li><li> In <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TerminatorGenisys" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TerminatorGenisys">Terminator Genisys</a></em>, when Sarah encounters Future John Connor, she suspects him to be a shapeshifted terminator. Connor gains her trust by citing details of the past that only John Connor would know. <span class="spoiler" title="you can set spoilers visible by default on your profile"> Subverted, it turns out he's a Terminator-human hybrid made from Connor's body.</span>
</li><li> In <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Ghost" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Ghost">Ghost</a></em>, Patrick Swayze's deceased character is trying to convince his girlfriend that a medium can speak for him. He tries to tell her that he loves her, but this backfires, since he was reluctant to say those words in life. He quickly corrects himself and tells the medium to say "ditto", which is how he would usually respond to his girlfriend telling him that she loves him.
</li><li> In <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheSixthSense" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheSixthSense">The Sixth Sense</a></em>, Lynn Sear <span class="spoiler" title="you can set spoilers visible by default on your profile">accepts that Cole is telling her the truth — he really <em>can</em> see and talk to dead people — after this exchange</span>:</div></li></ul></div>
<p></p><div class="folderlabel" onclick="togglefolder('folder3');"> Lets's Play </div><div class="folder" id="folder3" isfolder="true" style="display:block;">
<ul><li> During <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/LetsPlay/TheDarkId" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/LetsPlay/TheDarkId">The Dark Id</a>'s run of <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/Drakengard3" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/Drakengard3">Drakengard 3</a></em>, which is a prequel to the series, he for once sees a point with Verdelet.
<div class="indent"><strong>Id:</strong> ...What? Verdelet was a dickhead, but I'm with him on the elf racism. Fuck elves. I've seen enough of those downtrodden orcs get butchered for funsies all the time. Where's the <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfMordor" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfMordor">Shadow of Mordor</a>-esque game where you're an orc assassin making elves' heads explode and punting them down ravines?
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<p></p><div class="folderlabel" onclick="togglefolder('folder4');"> Films — Live-Action </div><div class="folder" id="folder4" isfolder="true" style="display:block;">
<ul><li> As shown in <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheHobbit" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheHobbit">The Hobbit</a></em>, the dwarves of Middle-Earth <em>really</em> do not like elves. And as several flashbacks make clear, this resentment is not without reason. Thorin is so disdainful of them that he very nearly refuses to wield one of the finest and mightiest blades ever forged in Middle-Earth, purely because it is of elvish make.<div class="indent"><strong>Stifler:</strong> Observe the fucking Stifmeister. What is his defining characteristic? <br/><strong>Jim:</strong> He uses the 'F' word excessively. <br/><strong>Stifler:</strong> (genuinely touched) Thanks, man.
</div></li><li> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheHero" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheHero">Marty McFly</a> from <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/BackToTheFuture" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/BackToTheFuture">Back to the Future</a></em>.
</li><li> Several characters in <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/BadSanta" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/BadSanta">Bad Santa</a></em>, but <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DepravedDwarf" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DepravedDwarf">Marcus</a> tops all of them.
<div class="indent"><strong>Marcus:</strong> Sketch it up, you fucking moron. Fucking Leonardo <a class="createlink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DaVinci" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DaVinci">Da Vinci</a>. <br/><strong>Gin:</strong> <em>[angrily]</em> What'd you call me, thigh-high? <br/><strong>Marcus:</strong> I called you a <em>fucking</em> guinea homo from the 15th <em>fucking</em> century, you <em>dickhead</em>!
</div></li><li> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigBad" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigBad">Frank Booth</a> from <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/BlueVelvet" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/BlueVelvet">Blue Velvet</a></em> who drops F-bombs at least once per sentence. Made more apparent in that he is the only character in the film to use the word (besides a character who does it at Frank's request).
</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/InBruges" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/InBruges">In Bruges</a></em>: Harry peppers every other noun in his speech with a "fucking" adjective.
<div class="indent">"<a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LampshadeHanging" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LampshadeHanging">Geez, he swears a lot, doesn't he?</a>"<ul><li> Occurs frequently to people who park in handicapped spaces without an obvious disability. Actually a pretty terrible idea in real life, as many people have bone, muscle, heart or lung conditions that aren't visible to the outside observer but make walking long distances painful or impossible. In addition to dealing with a handicap, such people <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VandalismBackfire" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VandalismBackfire">frequently have their cars vandalized by people who assume they're cheating the system.</a>
</li><li> In Real Life in 2011 the mayor of a town in Lithuania posed for photographers after <a class="urllink" href="http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/08/03/watch-lithuanian-mayor-crushes-illegally-parked-car-with-a-tank/">crushing what he claimed was an illegally parked car with an armored car.<img height="12" src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" style="border:none;" width="12"/></a>
</li><li> Casey Neistat filmed himself crashing his bike into everything parked in a bike lane to point out how often they're blocked off. <a class="urllink" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzE-IMaegzQ">See here<img height="12" src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" style="border:none;" width="12"/></a>.
</li><li> In <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/Poland" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/Poland">Poland</a>, an offender might often find a sticker with an image of a penis and a message that roughly translates to "You get a penalty dick for parking like a dickhead". And it's usually <a class="urllink" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jNYuz3x4so">really hard to peel off<img height="12" src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" style="border:none;" width="12"/></a>.
<ul><li> This actually started in France with the "Garé comme une merde" (parked like shit) stickers. There are endless variations, like "Garé du Coté Obscur de la Force" (parked on the Dark Side of the Force).
</li></ul></li><li> There is one sure-fire way to find yourself on the receiving end of this: Park in front of a Fire Hydrant. Firefighters have no time to politely ask you to move your car, so, they'll just smash the window and thread the hose through. Or, they'll force your car out of the way with one of their trucks.<span class="notelabel" onclick="togglenote('note0mir0');"><sup>note </sup></span><span class="inlinefolder" id="note0mir0" isnote="true" onclick="togglenote('note0mir0');" style="cursor:pointer;font-size:smaller;display:none;">Which keep in mind, have more than enough horse power to shove your sedan out of the way.</span> And for bonus points, if you think you can get away with suing the department for the damages... <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShmuckBait" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShmuckBait">good luck</a>. Not only will you lose the case horribly, you'll also have to pay a hefty fine for your poor parking decision, on top of the repair cost. Oh, and did we forget to mention that your insurance rates may even go up as a result?
<ul><li> Similarly, anyone who parks right on the rear bumper of an ambulance (you should give them at least six feet) is obstructing the loading and unloading of the stretcher, which can cause a critical delay in a life-threatening emergency. It's not unheard of for the medics to just unload the stretcher anyway — directly onto the offending car's hood. Oh, and good luck with that ticket for obstructing an emergency vehicle.</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TheWitcher2" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TheWitcher2">The Witcher 2</a></em> presents the option to ally with the army or the elves, which results in a major divergence of the storyline. There are a few other big choices along the way, as well. The achievement granted for finishing your first playthrough of the game? <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LampshadeHanging" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LampshadeHanging">"Once Ain't Enough"</a>
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<p></p><div class="folderlabel" onclick="togglefolder('folder10');"> Wide Open Sandbox </div><div class="folder" id="folder10" isfolder="true" style="display:block;">
<ul><li> Spoofed in <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/SaintsRowIV" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/SaintsRowIV">Saints Row IV</a></em>, where immediately after the tutorial you're thrust into the role of President. During your walk to a press conference, your Veep gives you the option between pushing a bill for curing cancer or one for ending world hunger, a confrontation with a cranky Congressman lets you choose whether to <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TalkToTheFist" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TalkToTheFist">"punch a dick in the head"</a> or <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GroinAttack" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GroinAttack">"punch a dickhead,"</a> and finally an annoying actor asks if you want to hang out and watch <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShowWithinAShow" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShowWithinAShow">Nyteblade</a></em> later. Absolutely none of this matters because in the very next cutscene, aliens attack Earth and abduct you, putting you into the <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LotusEaterMachine" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LotusEaterMachine">computer simulation</a> you'll spend the rest of the game trying to escape from.
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<p></p><div class="folderlabel" onclick="togglefolder('folder11');"> Non-Video Game Examples </div><div class="folder" id="folder11" isfolder="true" style="display:block;">
<ul><li> In the <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WebSerialNovel" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WebSerialNovel">Web Serial Novel</a> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/DreamHighSchool" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/DreamHighSchool">Dream High School</a></em> readers get to make some big decisions off the bat, but one of the first ones that has evident repercussions throughout the rest of the story is joking to somebody who hardly knows you that your name is Grok, Destroyer of Worlds. They believe you, and it becomes your <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EmbarrassingNickname" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EmbarrassingNickname">well-known nickname</a>.<ul><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/TwentyFour" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/TwentyFour">24</a></em>: Their very own Jack Bauer in the final season after he crosses the line and goes from hero to <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AntiVillain" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AntiVillain">Anti</a>-<a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VillainProtagonist" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VillainProtagonist">Villain Protagonist</a>, as his actions in his <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RoaringRampageOfRevenge" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RoaringRampageOfRevenge">Roaring Rampage of Revenge</a> are portrayed as anything but heroic, but he's still portrayed as sympathetic, given that he's been screwed over and betrayed so many times he truly just doesn't have any other reason to go on. The same season also has <span class="spoiler" title="you can set spoilers visible by default on your profile"> Allison Taylor</span> for the most part, who despite a <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FaceHeelTurn" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FaceHeelTurn">FaceHeel Turn</a> is still mainly seen as a victim of the season's true <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigBad" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigBad">Big Bad</a>.
</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Angel" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Angel">Angel</a>'s</em> episode "Harm's Way" is done from the point of view of Angel's <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PluckyComicRelief" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PluckyComicRelief">Plucky Comic Relief</a> vampire secretary Harmony, and though she continues to be the <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ButtMonkey" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ButtMonkey">Butt-Monkey</a> of the episode, also shows why she can't bring herself to trust the more or less reasonable protagonists; from her point of view they're seeking an excuse to terminate any employee of demonic persuasion with extreme prejudice.
</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/BreakingBad" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/BreakingBad">Breaking Bad</a></em>. Series creator <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/VinceGilligan" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/VinceGilligan">Vince Gilligan</a> expressly said his goal with the series was to take Mr. Chips and <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ProtagonistJourneyToVillain" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ProtagonistJourneyToVillain">turn him into</a> Scarface. And yet, despite all the many horrible, horrible things Walter White does, a part of you is still rooting for him. As with many of the other examples, it helps that most of Walt's opponents are <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlackAndGrayMorality" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlackAndGrayMorality">a significantly darker shade of gray than Walt is</a>, though many of them get their moments as well. Which makes it even more interesting when <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/BetterCallSaul" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/BetterCallSaul">Better Call Saul</a></em> depicts more of the setting pre-Heisenberg, and all the blood, sweat and tears that went into building Fring's empire, making Walt far more unsympathetic in hindsight for destroying it.
</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/CobraKai" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/CobraKai">Cobra Kai</a></em> is all about this, as it stars <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheBully" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheBully">The Bully</a> Johnny Lawrence from <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheKarateKid" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheKarateKid">The Karate Kid</a></em> and shows that in spite of the man's shortcomings he's actually a pretty decent man at heart, and how more often than not he's reacting to things or genuinely trying to do good but simply making poor choices rather than just being a dickhead for the sake of it.
</li><li> Some episodes of <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/CriminalMinds" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/CriminalMinds">Criminal Minds</a></em> give the killer a huge portion of screentime to the point where in a couple, they're more the protagonist than the actual protagonists. Of course, some of those guys are just generally sympathetic anyway, but the bonus screentime certainly helps.
<ul><li> The best example of this is the episode "True Night", in which the perspective is with the unsub probably three-quarters of the time; we never even see the team deliver the profile, or the witnesses come forward. It is very effective.
</li><li> The episode "Parasite" is particularly remarkable in this regard: the killer was a horrible person even before he started killing people, but he gets so much screentime that he almost becomes sympathetic.</div></li></ul></div>
<p></p><div class="folderlabel" onclick="togglefolder('folder9');"> Pro Wrestling </div><div class="folder" id="folder9" isfolder="true" style="display:block;">
<ul><li> In Puerto Rican pro wrestling, it was a tradition to put men such as Stephano and Tom Danniels in a women's division for a time <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheWorfEffect" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheWorfEffect">solely to show off how strong the women were</a> (Danniels was a <em>World Champion!</em>). However, exoticos Barbie Boy and Queen Adonis actually won women's gold in the International Wrestling Association and New Revolutions Wrestling Lucha Libre.
</li><li> After <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/SethRollins" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/SethRollins">Seth Rollins</a> betrayed SHIELD-mates <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/RomanReigns" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/RomanReigns">Roman Reigns</a> and <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/DeanAmbrose" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/DeanAmbrose">Dean Ambrose</a> to join <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/TheAuthority" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/TheAuthority">The Authority</a>, and then went on to win the Money In The Bank briefcase, he declared would face a special opponent, worthy of his greatness, in an exhibition match. In true dickhead heel fashion, the "mighty" opponent he picked was notorious jobber, <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/HeathSlater" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/HeathSlater">Heath Slater</a>. But Dean Ambrose was still <em>incredibly</em> bent out of shape over Rollins stabbing him in the back, and shortly after the match started, came down to the ring to heckle Rollins and mess with the Money In The Bank briefcase. These distractions kept letting Slater get the upper hand temporarily, and ultimately lead to Slater pinning Rollins in the middle of the ring, to the <em>extreme</em> delight of the crowd, and Ambrose absconding with the briefcase in order to further screw with Rollins.
</li><li> While he was working for <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/FightingOperaHUSTLE" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/FightingOperaHUSTLE">Fighting Opera HUSTLE</a>, <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/YoshihiroTajiri" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/YoshihiroTajiri">Yoshihiro Tajiri</a> decided to invade <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling">New Japan Pro-Wrestling</a>, by himself, and managed to force his way into the 2009 G1 Climax. Despite failing to advance after finishing last in his block, he did manage to defeat the reigning IWGP Heavyweight Champion <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/HiroshiTanahashi" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/HiroshiTanahashi">Hiroshi Tanahashi</a>!
</li><li> When <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/WSU" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/WSU">WSU</a> was acquired by Beyond Wrestling, they proceeded to run over the Beyond Roster, including sweeping the guys in a face off. When <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/CZW" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/CZW">CZW</a> acquired WSU, the Juicy Product actually won the <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TagTeam" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TagTeam">tag team</a> title belts though.</li></ul></div>
<p></p><div class="folderlabel" onclick="togglefolder('folder10');"> Video Games </div><div class="folder" id="folder10" isfolder="true" style="display:block;"></li><li> Rather than becoming a <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MoralityPet" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MoralityPet">Morality Pet</a>, as one might expect given the general scenario, the little boy pulls a <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FromNobodyToNightmare" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FromNobodyToNightmare">From Nobody to Nightmare</a>, and grows up to be both a major purveyor of horror and a poster boy for <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HappinessInSlavery" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HappinessInSlavery">Happiness in Slavery</a>, because of his <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MadLove" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MadLove">Mad Love</a> for the aforementioned <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigBad" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigBad">Big Bad</a>. Also a <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BoomerangBigot" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BoomerangBigot">Boomerang Bigot</a> and <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NietzscheWannabe" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NietzscheWannabe">Nietzsche Wannabe</a> completely on board with his boss's plan to <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KillAllHumans" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KillAllHumans">Kill All Humans</a>.
</li></ul></li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/Gangsta" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/Gangsta">Gangsta.</a></em>
<ul><li> Such was the fate of many children who were born Twilights, up until a few years ago when slavery became illegal at least.
</li><li> <span class="spoiler" title="you can set spoilers visible by default on your profile">Nicolas was born a slave by his Twilight mother with his <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AbusiveParents" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AbusiveParents">dickhead mercenary father as his owner</a>.</span>
</li></ul></li><li> <span class="spoiler" title="you can set spoilers visible by default on your profile">Askeladd</span> in <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/VinlandSaga" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/VinlandSaga">Vinland Saga</a></em> was born a slave, his mother a <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SexSlave" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SexSlave">Sex Slave</a> of his father. He was eventually freed by his father after he showed promise.
</li><li> Vesta of <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Lightnovel/SlaveHaremInTheLabyrinthOfTheOtherWorld" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Lightnovel/SlaveHaremInTheLabyrinthOfTheOtherWorld">Slave Harem in the Labyrinth of the Other World</a></em> admits this is her backstory when she's purchased by the protagonist, Michio. While she claims her childhood was happy, she's purely a <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StepfordSmiler" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StepfordSmiler">Stepford Smiler</a>. Being treated like an equal, given the best available gear, regardless of expense, and treated to what's universally considered her world's lap of luxury had her confused and dismayed. When she's ordered to sit at the same table with everyone else, and served hot, fresh food, possibly for the first time in her life, she breaks down in <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TearsOfJoy" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TearsOfJoy">Tears of Joy</a>, to Michio's chagrin and confusion.
</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/Berserk" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/Berserk">Berserk</a></em>: Guts was found half-born in his hanged birth mother, and adopted by mercenaries who saw him as less than dirt. The moment his mother died he was conscripted into his father's mercenary company, sold as a prostitute, and even after killing his father he had to keep fighting for food until he could sell his contract to someone remotely stable. Half the reason the Eclipse happened was because he was driven to sociopathy from such a cursed life and made some... poor... choices based on associating his ties to his gang with slavery and the need for freedom at all costs.</li><li> In <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty">Rick and Morty</a></em>, Rick is not the type to apologize. The closest you'll get from him is "I'm sorry you think you deserve an apology." Beth realizes she's <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NotSoDifferent" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NotSoDifferent">Not So Different</a> when <em>she</em> refuses to apologize to someone too, ultimately admitting "Oh my god I'm my father."
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<p></p><div class="folderlabel" onclick="togglefolder('folder17');"> Real Life </div><div class="folder" id="folder17" isfolder="true" style="display:block;">
<ul><li> During a televised awards show, reasonably popular stand-up comedian and breakfast radio host Dave Hughes refers to 'shock-jock' Kyle Sandilands as a "massive dickhead". Everyone laughs. Except Kyle Sandilands, who proceeds to underscore the statement by proclaiming on his show the following day: "I don't care if I go to jail for three months, that guy needs a punch in the throat. Simple." Hughes responded with a press release. In its entirety:
<div class="indent">"Mr Dave Hughes has issued a public apology to Mr Kyle Sandilands, who has made comments in the past days in reference to remarks made by Mr Hughes at the 2007 TV Week Logie Awards. Mr Hughes said : 'I am sincerely and deeply sorry that Kyle Sandilands is a massive dickhead.' Mr Hughes hopes that this sincere and unreserved apology will put this ugliness to rest and stop Mr Sandilands from going to jail. Mr Hughes further remarked: 'No one deserves to go to jail just for being a massive dickhead. Massive dickheads have the same rights as normal people.' Mr Hughes is not available for further comment on this matter."
</div></li></ul><ul><li> There is a rule in the British Parliament that forbids personal insults. <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/BenjaminDisraeli" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/BenjaminDisraeli">Benjamin Disraeli</a> supposedly said "Half the Cabinet<span class="notelabel" onclick="togglenote('note1g8gl');"><sup>note </sup></span><span class="inlinefolder" id="note1g8gl" isnote="true" onclick="togglenote('note1g8gl');" style="cursor:pointer;font-size:smaller;display:none;">Committee of high-ranking government ministers</span> are asses.", He was ordered to apologize and he said "Mr. Speaker, I withdraw. Half the Cabinet are <strong>not</strong> asses." in a tone of voice that implied that the other half <em>are</em> asses.
<ul><li> It's helpful that he never specified <strong>which</strong> half of the cabinet EITHER statement was talking about.<div class="indent">"Consider yourself warned. Extremely graphic sex and violence."
</div></li><li> The <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/DisneyChannel" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/DisneyChannel">Disney Channel</a> original movies <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TigerCruise" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TigerCruise">Tiger Cruise</a></em> and <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/WendyWuHomecomingWarrior" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/WendyWuHomecomingWarrior">Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior</a></em> were the only two to have such warnings preceding them. The former (according to <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Website/IMDb" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Website/IMDb">IMDb</a>) also recommended "family viewing", so families could talk about its <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DarkerAndEdgier" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DarkerAndEdgier">Darker and Edgier</a> subject matter.
</li><li> Parodied before the opening credits of the rap <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Mockumentary" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Mockumentary">Mockumentary</a> <em>Fear of a Black Hat</em>:
<div class="indent"> <strong>ANNOUNCER:</strong> The producers of this film would like to express that they in no manner wish to support or condone the words, phrases and images — such as "ass", "booty", "yo bitch", "Bush is a dickhead", and "big-butt women in tiny bikinis" — which are used in this film. However, in an effort to maintain accuracy and journalistic integrity, words, phrases and images — such as <em>[with more emphasis]</em> "ass", "booty", "yo bitch", "Bush is a dickhead", and "big-butt women in tiny bikinis" — are necessary. <em>[Louder]</em> But rest assured, the words, phrases and images — such as "ASS!", "BOOTY!", "YO BITCH!", "BUSH IS A DICKHEAD!", and "BIG-BUTT WOMEN IN TINY BIKINIS!" — will not be used without warrant, or in any gratuitous manner."
</div></li><li> Sometime in <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheNineties" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheNineties">The '90s</a>, <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/DisneyChannel" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/DisneyChannel">Disney Channel</a> had <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory">Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory</a></em> in their rotation. They showed it in its near-entirety — unlike modern airings, the <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigLippedAlligatorMoment" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigLippedAlligatorMoment">boat scene</a> was almost entirely left in (aside from a small cut). This alone might have spurred them to put a warning in front of it declaring that it might be too scary for kids, but they were also likely concerned about a few other minor things, namely the <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MemeticMutation" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MemeticMutation">infamous "You get nothing!" scene</a> (since <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/GeneWilder" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/GeneWilder">Gene Wilder</a>'s uncharacteristic anger would catch kids off-guard) and Violet becoming a blueberry. In all, this was the only film Disney aired back then which included a warning for something <em>not</em> rated PG-13.
<ul><li> A custom warning was shown before airings of <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheBear" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheBear">The Bear</a></em>.
<div class="indent"><em>The follows wildlife adventure had been edited for television. However, some scenes may be too graphic and intense for young children. Parental discretion is advised.</em><ul><li> And the FBI agents who turn up to take over the scene are a white man and a black man who have the same last name and the same <em>extremely</em> by-the-book style. In fact, the bad guys are counting on it, as their plan only works if the FBI <em>do</em> go by-the-book.
</li><li> The white agent even tries to play this one straight.
</li></ul><div class="indent"> "Just like fuckin' Saigon, hey, Slick?"
</div><div class="indent"> (Nodding, smiling) "I was in junior high, dickhead."
</div><ul><li> McClane's limousine driver Argyle is more or less a straight example of this trope, however. Except he's not cowardly and effectively takes out the gang's IT guy.
</li></ul></li><li> In the <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/DieHard2" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/DieHard2">second film</a>, his ally, the straight-laced and bookish airport engineer, Leslie Barnes, is another aversion/inversion...
</li><li> ...and finally, in the threequel, <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/DieHardWithAVengeance" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/DieHardWithAVengeance">Die Hard with a Vengeance</a></em>, <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/SamuelLJackson" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/SamuelLJackson">Samuel L. Jackson</a> plays a serious normal (albeit badass) store owner who is forced to team up with McClane.</li><li> In the 1970s, when feminism became mainstream and Wonder Woman became a feminist icon, there was another surge in women-hating villains. See, for example, <em>The Twelve Labors.</em>
</li><li> An unusual example in <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/AstroCity" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/AstroCity">Astro City</a></em>. Winged Victory's villain Karnazon is a die-hard misogynist, always kidnapping women and talking about how they're the weaker sex, but according to Winged Victory, he used to be more a <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VisionaryVillain" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VisionaryVillain">Visionary Villain</a> but deliberately <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Flanderization" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Flanderization">flanderized</a> himself into this over the years <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ForTheEvulz" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ForTheEvulz">For the Evulz</a>.
</li><li> The Taurs from the 2016 series of <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/TheAwesomeSlapstick" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/TheAwesomeSlapstick">The Awesome Slapstick</a></em>, composite parodies of <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/TheSmurfs" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/TheSmurfs">The Smurfs</a></em> and <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic">My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic</a></em>, are shown to be very sexist toward their Smurfette equivalent Taurette, thinking that she's helpless without them to rescue her all the time and stating that it's within their rights to be condescending toward her. Just in case it isn't clear that their treatment of her is bad, the Taurs' leader is even named Patriarchy Taur.
</li><li> Just about every man the title character encounters in <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/HotheadPaisanHomicidalLesbianTerrorist" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/HotheadPaisanHomicidalLesbianTerrorist">Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist</a></em> is a misogynist dickhead solely so that whatever violent retribution Hothead inflicts upon them appears justified.
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<p></p><div class="folderlabel" onclick="togglefolder('folder2');"> Fan Works </div><div class="folder" id="folder2" isfolder="true" style="display:block;">
<ul><li> Played with in <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanFic/TotalDramaChris" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanFic/TotalDramaChris">Total Drama Chris</a></em>: One challenge has the campers pretending to be <em>other</em> campers. <span class="spoiler" title="you can set spoilers visible by default on your profile">Justin</span> is assigned Ezekiel, and takes advantage of this to rattle off a constant litany of sexist remarks, based off the <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NeverLiveItDown" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NeverLiveItDown">one</a></em> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NeverLiveItDown" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NeverLiveItDown">sexist comment</a> Ezekiel had made in <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/TotalDrama" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/TotalDrama">Total Drama</a></em>. (Meanwhile, the <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AlternativeCharacterInterpretation" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AlternativeCharacterInterpretation">Zeke seen here</a> is a <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FishOutOfWater" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FishOutOfWater">Fish out of Water</a> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NiceGuy" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NiceGuy">Nice Guy</a> who's mortified at this portrayal.)</li><li> The Ig Nobel awards are normally not this — they are given out to research that sounds silly but is actually very useful (for example, new insights on structural failure gleaned from research into how a piece of dry spaghetti snaps). However, they are also sometimes given as a criticism, such as the Medicine award that was given to several tobacco company executives who testified under oath that they believed that nicotine was not addictive; the Mathematics award given to Enron, WorldCom et al "for adapting the mathematical concept of imaginary numbers for use in the business world"; Volkswagen's award in chemistry for "solving the problem of excessive automobile pollution emissions by automatically, electromechanically producing fewer emissions whenever the cars are being tested"; and the Literature award given to the editors of <em>Social Text</em> due to their part in the infamous <a class="urllink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair">Sokal Affair<img height="12" src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" style="border:none;" width="12"/></a>. Most winners who are actual researchers do, in fact, collect their awards at the annual ceremony. The <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TakeThat" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TakeThat">Take That!</a> targets don't.
</li><li> Browse through the <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/GuinnessWorldRecords" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/GuinnessWorldRecords">Guinness World Records</a></em> book sometime. There are records in there that few people should want to have, such as "Most Facial Prosthetics" or "Largest Kidney Stone". Jonathan Lee Riches, who won the World Record for "most lawsuits" by filing hundreds of <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FrivolousLawsuit" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FrivolousLawsuit">Frivolous Lawsuits</a> from prison, <a class="urllink" href="http://news.justia.com/cases/featured/washington/waedce/2:2009cv00154/47562/">sued the Guinness Book of World Records<img height="12" src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" style="border:none;" width="12"/></a> to the surprise of absolutely no one.
<ul><li> Guinness ended up having to "retire" quite a few records because they felt they were encouraging people to endanger themselves (or their pets—The category of "fattest pet" was retired under allegations of people purposefully abusing and overfeeding their animals) or for accomplishments that could become illegal in extremes (squick-worthy example being youngest pregnancy).
</li></ul></li><li> Dutch TV used to have a consumer show which gave a golden acorn award (noting that the Dutch word for acorn, <em>eikel</em>, also means <strike>"idiot"</strike> "dickhead") to companies that had particularly poor consumer service. In a subversion of the trope and owing something to the Dutch cultural mindset, these companies' CEOs would often appear in person to accept the award and promise a change for the better.
</li><li> Another popular Dutch show, <em>Kopspijkers</em>, had an award that changed name every season, but was essentially given to the worst thing seen on TV. The evangelical broadcasting station that literally reduced an entire class of children to tears by trashing the gifts they bought for each other to give a rather convoluted message about not having sex before marriage was a memorable winner. So was the dubious but famous medium, who was displeased with the host and said that she was receiving the number 10 from the other side. Said host later left the left-wing public broadcasting station for a billionaire's pet project channel named Talpa, originally named Ten. His career never really recovered from that move. Huh, guess the other side is pretty vengeful.
</li><li> The Purple Heart medal receives a mixed welcome from various members of the American military. Some see it as rewarding failure, while others see it as proof that you're willing to put your life on the line. Some recipients jokingly refer to it as the "Enemy Marksmanship Medal". Most would nonetheless probably personally favor not ever being eligible to receive the medal (which is to say, not get harmed in combat).
<ul><li> Similarly, the Prisoner of War Medal was debated in the United States for over a decade before it was established, as some felt that receiving an award for being captured was shameful and embarrassing.<span class="notelabel" onclick="togglenote('note1c5g7');"><sup>note </sup></span><span class="inlinefolder" id="note1c5g7" isnote="true" onclick="togglenote('note1c5g7');" style="cursor:pointer;font-size:smaller;display:none;">And <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump">some people</a> prefer those who weren't captured.</span> However, it was ultimately passed, awarded to anybody taken prisoner in a combat situation (later expanded to also include being taken hostage by terrorists) and who behaved honorably in captivity, retroactive to <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne">April 5, 1917</a>. Like the Purple Heart (which can also be awarded to anybody injured while in enemy captivity), it shows that the recipient went into harm's way.</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/ThePhiladelphiaStory" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/ThePhiladelphiaStory">The Philadelphia Story</a></em> and its remake <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AllMusicalsAreAdaptations" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AllMusicalsAreAdaptations">High Society.</a> Bland Perfection turns into latent jealousy.
</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/ThePrincessBride" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/ThePrincessBride">The Princess Bride</a></em>: Not only is Prince Humperdink is Evil All Along, he's the <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigBad" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigBad">Big Bad</a>.
</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/ThePrincessDiaries" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/ThePrincessDiaries">The Princess Diaries</a> 2</em>: Bland Perfection leaning towards Let's Call The Whole Thing Off. When Mia calls off the wedding at the very last minute, Andrew is perfectly understanding about it, and he's only worried about what his mother's going to think.
</li><li> In <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/ROTOR" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/ROTOR">R.O.T.O.R.</a></em>, Sonya's fiance is given one scene to establish that he's a dickhead, then he's shot dead by the killer robot.
</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/RunawayBride" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/RunawayBride">Runaway Bride</a></em>: The protagonist realises her fiancé isn't the one for her and she's forcing herself to get married simply to break her pattern of leaving guys at the altar.
</li><li> In <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Secretary" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Secretary">Secretary</a></em>, the fiance's flaw goes beyond boring - he seems to genuinely just want to get married and start a family, and doesn't much seem to care with whom. Maggie is swept along due to an inability to say "no", plus the mixed messages she's receiving from her actual love interest. It's only when trying on the wedding dress that she realizes that she can never be satisfied with him. Her dumping of him is still quite the surprise for the oblivious guy, but at least she didn't wait until the altar.
</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/SetItUp" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/SetItUp">Set It Up</a></em>: Suze is of the Bland Perfection type. She's a fairly successful model, but she and Charlie don't have any meaningful emotional connection, and Charlie doesn't seem torn up about dumping her.<div class="proper-ad-unit mobile-ad square_ad"><h6 class="ad-caption">Advertisement:</h6><div id="proper-ad-tvtropes_mobile_ad_3"><script>propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })</script></div></div><p></p><div class="folderlabel" onclick="togglefolder('folder3');"> Films — Live-Action </div><div class="folder" id="folder3" isfolder="true" style="display:block;">
<ul><li> In <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/ScaryMovie" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/ScaryMovie">Scary Movie</a> 2</em>, the parrot does this, except it turns out it can really talk and not just mimic.
</li><li> In <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/HoubaOnTheTrailOfTheMarsupilami" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/HoubaOnTheTrailOfTheMarsupilami">HOUBA! On the Trail of the Marsupilami</a></em>, Kiki the ara commonly insults his owner Pablito, including while they both are in the process of swindling some tourists of their money. ("Crook." "Imposter." "Mythomaniac.")
</li><li> Preacher Dudley's parrot in <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/DeepBlueSea" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/DeepBlueSea">Deep Blue Sea</a></em>, among its favorite phrases include "Eat me asshole!" and "Hey, hey you dickhead!".
</li><li> The opening scene of <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheBirds" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheBirds">The Birds</a></em> revolves around Melanie at the pet store ordering a mynah bird. Later in the film, she reveals she wanted the bird to play a prank on her uptight Aunt Tessa by teaching the bird some "semantics" she picked up in a college class at Berkley.
</li><li> In <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheABCsOfDeath" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheABCsOfDeath">The ABCs of Death</a></em>, the N segment has a man buying his fiancee a parrot, which he had trained to give her a wedding ring to propose to her. But after the proposal was made...the bird starts repeating the words of the man and his mistress during sex.
</li></ul></div></li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/RatRace" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/RatRace">Rat Race</a></em>: Incompetent NFL ref Owen Templeton catches a ride with a seemingly friendly cab driver while racing to get to a cash prize; unfortunately, he doesn't realize the driver lost a bet on a football game because of Owen's botched call. The driver ends up stranding him in the middle of the desert in his boxers.
</li><li> In <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Scrooged" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Scrooged">Scrooged</a></em>, the Ghost Of Christmas Past takes the form of a sinister, cackling cabbie who drives like he's in a demolition derby.
</li><li> Probably the most famous example in cinema: Travis Bickle, the <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AntiHero" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AntiHero">Anti-Hero</a> of <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TaxiDriver" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TaxiDriver">Taxi Driver</a></em>. A disturbed, moralistic Vietnam vet, Travis makes a living out of driving a cab for passengers almost as crazy as he is. Driven to the edge by the urban decay all around him, he buys an arsenal of guns and begins an obsessive journey to save a teen prostitute from the men exploiting her.
</li><li> The page quote is provided by Johnny Cab from <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TotalRecall" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TotalRecall">Total Recall</a></em>, an android cab driver who gets hijacked by the hero, Doug Quaid. Johnny actually functions pretty well up until Quaid declines to pay his 18-credit fare ("Sue me, dickhead."), at which Johnny snaps and tries to run him over, crashing the cab into a concrete wall and exploding.
</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit">Who Framed Roger Rabbit</a></em>: Benny is a Deranged <em>Taxi,</em> a toon cab with no concern for the laws of traffic or physics. He gets the heroes out of several scrapes, usually while shouting about which sports team he hates.
</li></ul></div>
<p></p><div class="folderlabel" onclick="togglefolder('folder4');"> Live-Action TV </div><div class="folder" id="folder4" isfolder="true" style="display:block;"><div class="indent"><strong>Mako Mori:</strong> <em>[to her boss, in Japanese]</em> He is not what I expected. <br/><strong>Raleigh Becket:</strong> <em>[also in Japanese]</em> Better or worse?
</div></li><li> In <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/GeorgeOfTheJungle" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/GeorgeOfTheJungle">George of the Jungle</a></em>, one of the guides makes it very clear that the other guides only speak Swahili. Until it eventually comes to light that they're all completely fluent in English.
</li><li> Variation: in <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheThirteenthWarrior" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheThirteenthWarrior">The 13th Warrior</a></em>, the Norsemen constantly talk about Ahmed in his presence, because he doesn't know their language. This trope comes into play when he becomes fluent merely from observing them, just in time to give a witty response after they've insulted his mother. On the other hand, Ahmed is a scholar who already knows at least four languages, and it's implied he had a month or two of observing in which to learn, gradually picking up a word here and a phrase there. Early on, he communicates with a Norseman using Latin.
</li><li> In <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/MyFellowAmericans" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/MyFellowAmericans">My Fellow Americans</a></em>, the two main characters run into some Mexicans. One strikes up a conversation, insulting the other man, but after the Mexicans leave the scene the other comes back with: "By the way, <em>yo hablo español muy bien</em>. Dickhead."
</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/InglouriousBasterds" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/InglouriousBasterds">Inglourious Basterds</a></em>:
<ul><li> The Basterds' and Frau von Hammersmark's plan of infiltrating the theater involves them speaking Italian as the Germans do not know the accents (and they wouldn't have to repeat the bar incident), but one of the people they meet is Hans Landa, who knows Italian and is pretty much able to confirm his suspicions about them by their atrocious accents.
</li><li> Earlier in the film, Landa is cautious about this trope but finds that he doesn't need to be concerned because the family under the floor didn't react to any of the English he and Pierre La Padite spoke.</li><li> Google Translate, for Japanese anyway. So does Microsoft's translator.
<ul><li> Case point: as of this writing, it translates <em>temee</em> (てめえ、), a fairly rude form of "you" (see <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/JapanesePronouns" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/JapanesePronouns">Japanese Pronouns</a>) as "<a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JiveTurkey" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JiveTurkey">mothafucka</a>'".
</li><li> Google Translate also manages to turn "fuzaken'na!", simply a rather impolite way of saying "stop screwing around", into "motherfucker", for no particular reason. Fansubbers of all stripes love to render it as "Don't fuck with me!" in almost all anime it's spoken in.
</li><li> As of this writing, Google Translate seems to have topped itself by turning "tondemonai <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/Baka" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/Baka">baka</a>" (roughly "complete moron") into "fucking dickhead".
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<p></p><div class="folderlabel" onclick="togglefolder('folder13');"> Western Animation </div><div class="folder" id="folder13" isfolder="true" style="display:block;">
<ul><li> The Hungarian dubbing of <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill">King of the Hill</a></em> had great fun with this. That aside, surprisingly many dubs of cartoons meant for <em>kids</em> also use the word "shit" rather arbitrarily. Then again, it seems to have become a relatively tame word these days, as it's no longer bleeped-out in most Hungarian media, similar to "Crap".</li></ul></div>
<p></p><div class="folderlabel" onclick="togglefolder('folder17');"> Web Original </div><div class="folder" id="folder17" isfolder="true" style="display:block;">
<ul><li> There's a blog called <a class="urllink" href="http://sleeptalkinman.blogspot.com/">Sleep Talkin' Man<img height="12" src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" style="border:none;" width="12"/></a> which is the trope as <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RealLife" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RealLife">Real Life</a> as you can get. His wife records him, and very little of what he says makes sense. But is very, very funny.
<div class="indent">"I'm an advocate for hermit crab politics." <br/>"Where is all the neurons are gone? B'doing!" <br/>"God judges you. Well, I judge God. This week: not bad! Still messing up in the Middle East, though. Sort it out." <br/>"Fucking unicorns. 'Ooh, I've got a horn!' So fucking obnoxious. You're just a horse with a party hat, dickhead."
</div></li><li> One <a class="urllink" href="http://www.somethingawful.com/d/comedy-goldmine/craziness-sleep.php?page=1">comedy goldmine<img height="12" src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" style="border:none;" width="12"/></a> at <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Website/SomethingAwful" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Website/SomethingAwful">Something Awful</a> was a collection of crazy things people have said in their sleep.
</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/WhateleyUniverse" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/WhateleyUniverse">Whateley Universe</a></em>: <a class="urllink" href="http://whateleyacademy.net/index.php/original-timeline/229-the-turks-or-the-geek">The Turks or the Geek<img height="12" src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" style="border:none;" width="12"/></a>:
<div class="indent">Billie drifted off to sleep, to dream about her family. An hour later, Jinn and Jann looked over when they heard her giggling in her sleep, "Yeah Thad, you have to clean all the toilets in Hawthorne, or else..."</li><li> Also as provided in the quote page, he pretty much flips on the mere mention of <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/Batman" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/Batman">his childhood icon</a> carrying... <strong><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/BatmanAndRobin" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/BatmanAndRobin">A BAT CREDIT CARD!?!?</a></strong>
</li></ul></li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall">Atop the Fourth Wall</a></em>:
<ul><li> Linkara launches into a <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TranquilFury" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TranquilFury">Tranquil Fury</a> rant at <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/JusticeLeagueCryForJustice" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/JusticeLeagueCryForJustice">Justice League: Cry for Justice</a></em>, after <span class="spoiler" title="you can set spoilers visible by default on your profile">Lian Harper, Red Arrow's grade-school daughter, is killed in an attack on Star City</span>. Linkara is especially pissed because <span class="spoiler" title="you can set spoilers visible by default on your profile">her death was in bad taste considering her father got his arm chopped off, making her death a distasteful attempt at shock value, and the fact that being a <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Muggle" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Muggle">Muggle</a> supporting character, her death is the least likely to be retconned</span>.
</li><li> While reviewing <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/OneMoreDay" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/OneMoreDay">One More Day</a></em>, he goes into one of these after dialogue spoken by an alternate future version of Peter Parker insinuates that people who enjoy escapist fiction (comic books, video games, etc.) are all losers who only latch on to such fiction as a means of desperately groping for greater meaning in their lives. Linkara is genuinely disgusted and personally insulted by this, and directly refers to Joe Quesada (the chief editor for One More Day) as an "insulting, patronizing dickhead".<span class="notelabel" onclick="togglenote('note0az45');"><sup>Note </sup></span><span class="inlinefolder" id="note0az45" isnote="true" onclick="togglenote('note0az45');" style="cursor:pointer;font-size:smaller;display:none;">The book was under heavy editorial mandate at the time, and the editors rewrote large swaths of JMS's original script, hence why he's primarily blaming Quesada, while acknowledging that JMS might still have written that.</span>
</li></ul></li><li> During his review of the infamous fanservice anime <em>Eiken</em>, the normally <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheStoic" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheStoic">calm and collected</a> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebVideo/NecroCritic" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebVideo/NecroCritic">Necro Critic</a> goes on a massive, anger-induced tirade against the main character after a brief scene of him wiping sweat off of his face with a girl's panties, wherein he calls him a completely brainless idiot whose very existence is frowned upon by <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/Evolution" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/Evolution">Natural Selection</a> itself.
</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebVideo/WoolieVersus" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebVideo/WoolieVersus">Woolie Versus</a></em>: In the penultimate episode of <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/DeathStranding" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/DeathStranding">Death Stranding</a></em>, Woolie discovered the word Strand has a different meaning in Dutch. However, this was shown to him moments after a frustrating discussion about the unnecessary double meanings all over the game, and finding out that Strand - <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArcWords" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArcWords">a word that appears pretty much everywhere in the game</a> - actually means <span class="spoiler" title="you can set spoilers visible by default on your profile"> Beach</span> in Dutch makes him go on a pissed-off rant attacking <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/HideoKojima" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/HideoKojima">Kojima</a>'s <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SignatureStyle" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SignatureStyle">Signature Style</a>. Even months after the ending of the playthrough, Woolie remained soured on the idea of double entendres of any kind.
<div class="indent"> <strong>Woolie:</strong> You know what - You know what - <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuleOfThree" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuleOfThree">You know what</a>?</em> I finally have an answer to the <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MemeticMutation" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MemeticMutation">infamous</a> question: <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JapaneseRanguage" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JapaneseRanguage">Didjurike it?</a> NO! I DID <em>NOT</em> RIKE IT! I DIDN'T LIKE IT AT ALL! In fact, I HATED it! It was terrible! <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuckinessIsPainful" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuckinessIsPainful">The wordplay is PHYSICALLY hurting me</a>!</li></ul></li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/HerculePoirot" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/HerculePoirot">Hercule Poirot</a></em> never gets tired of explaining his genius, but since he's only ever failed to solve <em>one</em> case in a thirty-year-plus career, one might consider cutting him a little slack. Even <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/AgathaChristie" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/AgathaChristie">Agatha Christie</a> thought Poirot was an insufferable know-it-all and grew tired of writing him. Perhaps this is the reason that Poirot admits to that he too finds his own arrogance obnoxious, but explains it away as part of his facade of <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ObfuscatingStupidity" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ObfuscatingStupidity">Obfuscating Stupidity</a>.
</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/HIVESeries" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/HIVESeries">H.I.V.E. Series</a></em>: Otto is one of these, completely under the impression that being snarky (and therefore appearing more intelligent) will get him out of any situation. The series overall is pretty much a nine-book-long <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BreakTheHaughty" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BreakTheHaughty">Break the Haughty</a> as increasingly tragic events happen around and to him.
</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/Hothouse" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/Hothouse">Hothouse</a></em>: The morel and the Sodal Ye are genuinely and by a good margin the most intelligent, imaginative and well-informed characters in the story. They are also intensely arrogant and condescending, and make little secret of their contempt for other beings.
</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/InDeath" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/InDeath">In Death</a></em>: Dick "Dickhead" Berenski. He has an egg-shaped head, he is considered creepy by a number of characters, he whines a lot about how every cop expects him to put his or her case at the top of the list, and he often has to be bribed with alcohol, sports tickets, and what have you to get him to put said case to the top of the list. He is also the chief lab tech, and he is a genius in his work.
</li><li> Kirsty from the <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/JohnnyMaxwellTrilogy" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/JohnnyMaxwellTrilogy">Johnny Maxwell Trilogy</a></em> is a recognized genius and tends to win absolutely everything. However her constantly explaining to everyone just how stupid they are tends to drive most people away from her, which she assumes is a character flaw in everybody else.
<ul><li> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/TerryPratchett" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/TerryPratchett">Terry Pratchett</a> later reused this basic interpretation of the trope when he created Susan Sto Helit for his <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/Discworld" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/Discworld">Discworld</a></em> series. It's most heavily present in <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/SoulMusic" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/SoulMusic">Soul Music</a></em> when she is still a teenager, and somewhat justifiable as a combination of considerable intelligence, an upbringing in cold, hard, rationalism and an innate awareness of the <em>true nature</em> of things due to her supernatural heritage. It still makes her be regarded as rather annoying or obnoxious by most who meet her — the primary exception are children, who take well to her view of them as basically being small adults and thus treating them as such.
</li><li> The witch Granny Weatherwax is an unusual combination of this and <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BookDumb" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BookDumb">Book Dumb</a>. Her spelling (<a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Pun" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Pun">heh</a>) and grammar are on a First Grade level at best, and she considers plenty of things most people take for granted to be stupid or unworthy of her time. She also has <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Pride" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Pride">an ego the size of the Disc itself</a>, <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BadassBoast" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BadassBoast">names herself the best Witch in the world</a>, and <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AuthorityEqualsAsskicking" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AuthorityEqualsAsskicking">constantly</a> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AwesomeEgo" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AwesomeEgo">proves it</a>, being both a powerful sorceress and a genius <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GuileHero" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GuileHero">Guile Hero</a> / <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MagnificentBastard" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MagnificentBastard">Magnificent Bitch</a> who's knocked around <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilOverlord" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilOverlord">tyrants</a>, <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheFairFolk" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheFairFolk">elves</a>, <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OurVampiresAreDifferent" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OurVampiresAreDifferent">vampires</a> and her evil sister in her time. Sure, she's an arrogant <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Jerkass" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Jerkass">Jerkass</a>, but she <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JerkWithAHeartOfGold" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JerkWithAHeartOfGold">really does care</a>, is by far most insufferable to <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TooDumbToLive" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TooDumbToLive">idiots</a> and <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WideEyedIdealist" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WideEyedIdealist">idealists</a>, and reserves her <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FateWorseThanDeath" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FateWorseThanDeath">worst punishments</a> for the utterly vile.</li><li> One of the villains in <em>Brothers,</em> William Goldman's weird sequel to <em>Marathon Man</em>, calls his penis "The Envy of All Mankind," which should give you some idea of both his attitude and the book's writing.
</li><li> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OlderThanPrint" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OlderThanPrint">Older Than Print</a>: In "The Porter and the Three Ladies of Baghdad" (one of the stories of <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/ArabianNights" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/ArabianNights">Arabian Nights</a></em>), the ladies refer to their genitals as "the basil of the bridges", "the husked sesame", and "the Khan of Abu Mansur", and so the porter calls his privates "mule Burst all", because it eats the two former items and spends the night in the latter.
</li><li> In one of the <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/Outlander" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/Outlander">Outlander</a></em> books, Brianna is <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RapeAsDrama" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RapeAsDrama">accosted and raped</a> by Stephen Bonnet, who calls his Le Roi, French for "The King".
</li><li> In <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/AmericanPsycho" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/AmericanPsycho">American Psycho</a></em>, a private investigator asks Bateman about Paul Owen (whom Bateman actually murdered). He thinks to himself: "How could I describe Paul Owen to this guy? Boasting, arrogant, cheerful dickhead who constantly weaseled his way out of checks at Nell's? That I'm heir to the unfortunate information that his penis had a name and that name was <em>Michael</em>?"
</li><li> In the YA series <em>Drama!</em>, a well-endowed female character refers to her breasts as "the girls".
</li><li> "Still Life with Boobs" by Anne Harris: a short story about people whose body parts run away and have fun without them, including a woman's breasts named George and Gracie and a man's penis named Frank.
</li><li> Sue Limb's YA book series, starting with <em>Girl, 15, Charming But Insane</em>: Meet Jess Jordan, our 15-year-old heroine, <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ACupAngst" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ACupAngst">and her small breasts,</a> nicknamed <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/BonnieAndClyde" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/BonnieAndClyde">Bonnie and Clyde</a>.</li></ul></li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/ABitOfFryAndLaurie" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/ABitOfFryAndLaurie">A Bit of Fry and Laurie</a></em>:
<ul><li> In the last series, a very drawn-out version of their typical "vox pops" scenes had a woman played by Laurie threatening to write "a very stiff letter... on cardboard."
</li><li> Another sketch involves Laurie's character attempting to convince a psychiatrist played by Fry that he was mad. To Laurie's annoyance, the psychiatrist refuses to believe that he's anything other than eccentric, and he announces that he'll be writing a very stiff letter to the Daily Mail about this. <em>That</em> gets the psychiatrist's attention.
</li></ul></li><li> In the "Summer" episode of <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/TheVicarOfDibley" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/TheVicarOfDibley">The Vicar of Dibley</a>,</em> David Horton writes one of these to the water company that is actually not very strong at all. Subverted by <span class="spoiler" title="you can set spoilers visible by default on your profile"> Geraldine's letter, an excerpt of which is "Dear Mr. Useless Babboon's Bottom, It might interest you to know that down our way, you're about as popular as Judas Iscariot at a disciple reunion." It is also implied that she uses the word "dickhead" (or "dick-head, as she's unsure if there's a hyphen.</span>
</li><li> In one episode of <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/MamasFamily" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/MamasFamily">Mama's Family</a></em> when Vint finds out that he's been laid off, Iola decides to write a "scathing letter" to his company.
<div class="indent"><strong>Iola:</strong> And believe you me, they are <em>not</em> getting the floral stationery!
</div></li><li> A <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DoubleSubversion" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DoubleSubversion">Double Subversion</a> occurs on <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/TheGoldenGirls" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/TheGoldenGirls">The Golden Girls</a></em> when Rose sends a letter to Gorbachev about nuclear disarmament. She actually receives a response from him, saying he would like to hold a press conference with her, but just before the conference starts Rose finds out that Gorbachev thought a little girl wrote the letter.</li><li> Even after being talked down from his psychotic killing spree, the only thing anyone has to say about <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MonsterClown" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MonsterClown">Gamzee</a> is <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RunningGag" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RunningGag">"fuck that guy"</a>. He even ruined the one semi-positive relationship he still had by ending his moirallegiance with Karkat. <span class="spoiler" title="you can set spoilers visible by default on your profile"> In the timeline where John prevented Terezi from killing Vriska, everyone ended up just locking Gamzee in a chained up fridge and trying to pretend that he doesn't exist.</span>
</li><li> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChronicBackstabbingDisorder" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChronicBackstabbingDisorder">Vriska</a> by the time the trolls get to the meteor. It's especially clear during the Alterniabound segment, where the only person who seems to get along with her is Equius. Everyone else either hates her, distrusts her, or is just scared of her. To seal the deal, <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheHero" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheHero">John</a> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NiceGuy" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NiceGuy">Egbert</a> has confessed that after meeting her in person, he really kinda hates her for being so incredibly unpleasant. Opinions <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BrokenBase" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BrokenBase">vary</a> as to whether she really deserves the treatment she gets from the other characters.
</li><li> Equius is also on the lower end of popularity among the trolls, mostly because he's a sweaty pervert who gets off on both obeying <em>and disobeying</em> the troll caste system, and also has a thing for being strangled because why not at this point.
</li></ul></li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons">Kill Six Billion Demons</a></em>: The Sevens <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TrueCompanions" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TrueCompanions">sense of companionship</a> has <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WeUsedToBeFriends" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WeUsedToBeFriends">taken a lot of hits over the years</a>, but theyre still able to mostly tolerate each other and get along, if only for brief periods... with the sole, pointed exception of Incubus, whom the other six all hate with a passion. Its bad enough that hes a <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SmugSnake" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SmugSnake">smug, self-obsessed dickhead</a>, but hes also <span class="spoiler" title="you can set spoilers visible by default on your profile">a <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ReplacementScrappy" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ReplacementScrappy">Replacement Scrappy</a> for <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CoolOldLady" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CoolOldLady">Maya</a>; that Key in his head is <em>hers</em> and he only got it because she abandoned it for personal reasons, a fact that the others are all too glad to remind him of.</span> And on top of all that, <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheStarscream" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheStarscream">he openly plots against the others</a>, not even bothering with a facade, and they cant do anything about it without risking the tenuous peace. The only one who legitimately tolerates him is <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigBad" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigBad">Jagganoth</a>, who only does so because <span class="spoiler" title="you can set spoilers visible by default on your profile">Incubus is his <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheDragon" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheDragon">Dragon</a> and co-conspirator in the plot to restart the Universal War.</span>
</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/KiwiBlitz" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/KiwiBlitz">Kiwi Blitz</a></em>: Tigris hates everyone and isn't afraid to say it, so no one is particularly fond of her. When she tells everyone that the new boss tried to kill her, her coworkers just say "eh, she probably had a good reason."
</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/NeverSatisfied" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/NeverSatisfied">Never Satisfied</a></em> has Lucy and Sylas, for different reasons:
<ul><li> Lucy puts up a <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InferioritySuperiorityComplex" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InferioritySuperiorityComplex">superior act to hide their feelings of inadequacy</a>, and most of the competitors don't read too deeply into it. Only <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheSilentBob" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheSilentBob">Broom Girl</a> and <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InnocentlyInsensitive" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InnocentlyInsensitive">Philomena</a> make (unsuccessful) attempts to reach out to and connect with them.</li><li> In <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/TwentyFour" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/TwentyFour">24</a></em>, Jack Bauer <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EnhancedInterrogationTechniques" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EnhancedInterrogationTechniques">tortures</a> his own brother Graeme after discovering he was involved in the terrorist events of the day. His brother admits to being behind the assassination of ex-President David Palmer and to several attempts on Jacks' own life, and admits that the "terrorists of the day" more or less stole from and double-crossed his company to carry out their campaign. After Jack leaves, though, their father- revealed to be the <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigBad" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigBad">Big Bad</a> of the season- talks to Graeme and asks why he gave up that much, and Graeme admits that he had to tell Jack <em>something</em> to get him to stop the torture- no matter how bad the stuff he told Jack was, it was really just the tip of the iceberg as both of them are involved in serious, far-reaching criminal conspiracies <span class="spoiler" title="you can set spoilers visible by default on your profile"> and thus his dad <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OffingTheOffspring" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OffingTheOffspring">murders him</a> before he can tell Jack anything else</span>.
</li><li> In <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/GameOfThrones" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/GameOfThrones">Game of Thrones</a></em>, Ned Stark returns home from Robert's Rebellion with a baby boy, Jon Snow, who he presents as his own illegitimate son that he fathered with another woman while married to his wife, Catelyn. Ned raises Jon as his son alongside his trueborn offspring at Winterfell and refuses to talk about Jons mother, straining his marriage to Catelyn and leading to Jon becoming Catelyn's <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheUnfavorite" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheUnfavorite">Unfavorite</a>. However, Ned's <span class="spoiler" title="you can set spoilers visible by default on your profile">cover story</span> was far preferable to revealing the truth: <span class="spoiler" title="you can set spoilers visible by default on your profile"> Jon is Ned's nephew, not his illegitimate son. Jon (born Aegon Targaryen) is the Trueborn son of Neds sister Lyanna Stark and Prince Rhaegar Targaryen, who was just slaughtered — along with most of the known Targaryen line (save for a few) — during Robert's Rebellion and the <em>rightful heir to the Iron Throne</em>. The dying Lyanna asks Ned to <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DyingWish" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DyingWish">keep her son safe.</a> Out of love for Lyanna and Jon, Ned spends the rest of his life protecting Jon, raising and loving him as his own son, and claims him as his own illegitimate child to save him from the wrath of Robert Baratheon as Robert would have killed Jon if he knew the truth due to his hatred of the Targaryens. Ned pretends to be an unfaithful spouse, accepting the stain on his honour, while he was actually committing treason against Robert — all to protect his sister's only child.</span>
</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Rome" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Rome">Rome</a></em>. Evander is kidnapped and tortured by Pullo and Octavian until he confesses to sleeping with Vorenus' wife. Pullo is prepared to kill Evander on the spot, but Octavian stops him, realising that his ready confession is covering for something else. <span class="spoiler" title="you can set spoilers visible by default on your profile">He's fathered a child by her, who would be killed if Vorenus found out.</span>
</li><li> In one episode of <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/NCIS" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/NCIS">NCIS</a></em>, the team interviews a <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SmugSnake" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SmugSnake">Smug Snake</a> trust fund brat for the murder of a Marine officer, but the suspect is cleared when a <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Paparazzi" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Paparazzi">paparazzi</a> video surfaces of him going into a hotel with a senator's underage daughter at the time of the murder. Ziva promptly arrests him for statutory rape to get him back for being a dickhead.
</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/BattlestarGalactica2003" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/BattlestarGalactica2003">Battlestar Galactica (2003)</a></em>: The first-season episode "<a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/BattlestarGalactica2003S01E06Litmus" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/BattlestarGalactica2003S01E06Litmus">Litmus</a>" ends with a <em>Galactica</em> enlisted man confessing to criminal negligence in a Cylon suicide-bombing on <em>Galactica</em>. He's dishonorably discharged and imprisoned, but no one is implicated as a Cylon collaborator, which was what the tribunal was after. Tyrol comes clean to Commander Adama that the crewman was <em>really</em> covering for him and Boomer, who were continuing their <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SecretRelationship" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SecretRelationship">Secret Relationship</a> against direct orders from Colonel Tigh, but Adama lets the verdict stand: the crewman is now provably guilty of <em>perjury</em>, and forcing Tyrol to go back to work knowing an innocent man ruined his career for him is <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CruelMercy" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CruelMercy">punishment enough</a>. Tyrol and Boomer have a nasty breakup immediately afterwards.
</li><li> In <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/TheFlash2014" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/TheFlash2014">The Flash (2014)</a></em>, Harrison Wells <span class="spoiler" title="you can set spoilers visible by default on your profile"> (who is actually Eobard Thawne impersonating the real Wells)</span> admits to ignoring a warning that his Particle Accelerator would send a destructive wave of dark matter across Central City, but not that he designed it to do so on purpose.
</li><li> In <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/PrisonBreak" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/PrisonBreak">Prison Break</a></em>, Don Self finds out that The Company knows he's been prying into their affairs, but The Company doesn't know that he knows. They'll kill him if they find out what he's uncovered, so he does some further digging in order to find something else that isn't worth killing him over. The way he really sells it, though, is he doesn't wait for them to confront him. Instead he goes straight to The General and confronts him with multiple accusations which he pretends he thinks are much more potentially damaging than they really are. He preempts a <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HaveYouToldAnyoneElse" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HaveYouToldAnyoneElse">Have You Told Anyone Else?</a> by telling The General he's taken precautions in the event that he's killed. The General tells Self that he's actually recruited people who tried something like this, but Self <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules">doesn't go for it</a>.<ul><li> At the end of <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/HisDarkMaterials" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/HisDarkMaterials">His Dark Materials</a></em>, the Master has to fund Lyra's studies because her parents squandered their wealth on their schemes.
</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/Paradox" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/Paradox">Paradox</a></em>: Alysha Forrest's mother decided to spend her daughter's inheritance from her father on fancy electronics and other luxuries, forcing her to work at a seedy strip club to afford tuition to the Fleet Academy (yes, the Alliance doesn't know how to run a functional military).
</li><li> In <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/DanShambleZombiePI" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/DanShambleZombiePI">Hair Raising</a></em>, a truck driver's widow dumps all the life insurance money her husband had earmarked for their son's education into a hair salon, despite the fact that she's a <em>terrible</em> hairdresser. This leads the truck driver to drag her into court after he returns as a zombie and learns what she's done.
</li><li> In <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/Boomsday" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/Boomsday">Boomsday</a></em>, Cassandra's hatred of Baby Boomers began when she was all set to go to Yale, only to find out that her dickhead father used her college fund to bail out his failing company - after wasting company funds on a private jet and a fancy car. Unable to even get financial assistance because her dad's jet and car raised the value of the family's assets beyond qualification level, she ended up having to join the military.
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<p></p><div class="folderlabel" onclick="togglefolder('folder3');"> Live Action TV </div><div class="folder" id="folder3" isfolder="true" style="display:block;">
<ul><li> On <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Friends" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Friends">Friends</a></em>, Monica expects her parents to help her out, financially, with her wedding to Chandler. Unfortunately, they already spent the money on a holiday house for themselves.</li><li> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/DavidWeber" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/DavidWeber">David Weber</a> uses this technique a lot in the <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/HonorHarrington" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/HonorHarrington">Honor Harrington</a> series. Often, he'll cut away from a battle scene either A. just as the shots start firing, or B. when it's about to get worse for someone, with the following chapter having the other characters discuss the results. Tends to happen if the battle is <em>particularly</em> one-sided, or if the viewpoint characters of the battle <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KilledOffForReal" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KilledOffForReal">got wiped out.</a>
</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire">A Song of Ice and Fire</a></em>:
<ul><li> Due to not being a POV character, everything Robb Stark does after he became King in the North is relayed after the fact, usually to his mother (and POV character) Catelyn. His entire story in <em>A Clash of Kings</em> is essentially told to the reader in a three page dialogue between mother and son after the fact.
</li><li> Similarly, everything we know about Rhaegar Targaryen comes from the reminisces of others, since he's dead. However, these reminisces fall into two types: extremely positive (Targaryen supporters, mainly, who describe him as a noble, sensitive prince and great warrior) and extremely negative (his enemies, like Robert Baratheon, who describe him as a right dickhead who inadvertently started a war that killed thousands).
</li></ul></li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheCatWhoWalksThroughWalls" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheCatWhoWalksThroughWalls">The Cat Who Walks Through Walls</a></em> by <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/RobertAHeinlein" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/RobertAHeinlein">Robert A. Heinlein</a> is written from a first-person perspective as the protagonist recounting his memoirs. The climactic battle, however, is narrated in an <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ApocalypticLog" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ApocalypticLog">Apocalyptic Log</a> style, glossing over the details of what happened and deliberately leaving the audience hanging as to whether or not he survives.
</li><li> One <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/SherlockHolmes" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/SherlockHolmes">Sherlock Holmes</a> story ends up with its quote marks nested four deep: Holmes describing a past case to Watson, in which a character describes to Holmes an incident he was told of by another character, in which yet another character describes an event...
</li><li> Roughly half of Stephen King's <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/TheDarkTower" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/TheDarkTower">The Dark Tower</a></em>, <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/WolvesOfTheCalla" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/WolvesOfTheCalla">Wolves of the Calla</a></em>.<ul><li> The protagonist/narrator of the <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/Genesis" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/Genesis">Genesis</a> song "<a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin">Illegal Alien</a>", which provides the page quote.
</li><li> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/Calexico" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/Calexico">Calexico</a>'s song "Across the Wire" is rather vaguely-worded, but can be interpreted as a song about two Mexican brothers sneaking into the US.
</li><li> The political satire group Capital Steps wrote a song entitled "Welcome to the State of Arizona" (Sung to the tune of "Hotel California") centering around a man in a large coat being confronted by a police officer at the border. Then the man casts off his coat to reveal that he's a Navajo, and proudly states that <em>his</em> people had been fighting against illegal immigration since 1492.
</li><li> The Mexican <em>norteña</em> music band, <em>Los Tigres del Norte,</em> song <em>Tres Veces Mojado</em> (Three times a wetback) which tells the ballad of a Central American migrant as he makes his way from his home country, through Mexico, towards the U.S.
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</div><ul><li> Rumor has it Capcom added Tofu as a <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TakeThat" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TakeThat">Take That!</a> to people who beat <em>RE1</em> under an <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LethalJokeItem" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LethalJokeItem">hour only using the knife</a>. Capcom denies this, stating Tofu was not originally envisioned to be a playable character or even a tofu, rather it was a block the developers made to test hit detection for the game. They decided to take the joke and run with it after main development was done.
</li></ul></li><li> In most game modes in <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TeamFortress2" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TeamFortress2">Team Fortress 2</a></em>, <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheEngineer" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheEngineer">The Engineer</a> is an impossibly valuable teammate for his area-of-denial sentry, health/ammo dispenser, and teleporters. In <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoItemUseForYou" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoItemUseForYou">Medieval Mode</a>, where he isn't allowed any of these things, he becomes a joke character nobody plays as except when they're trolling, due to his low speed and health. He does get a saving grace with his special melee weapons, such as the Gunslinger (which gives him extra HP and causes an automatic critical hit when striking thrice in a row), the Southern Hospitality (which causes bleed on hit and has its secondary weakness nullified by a lesser amount of fire) or the Eureka Effect (which lets him teleport back to spawn).
<ul><li> Speaking of fire, Pyro. While his role in the main game is <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Pun" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Pun">hotly</a> contested (and his role in Mann vs Machine even more so), he is considered an overall lesser pick in Medieval Mode because, like Engi, his main abilities (flanking and fire damage) are gone. He is slightly better than Engineer, seeing as he has more health and a number of his melee weapons have decent uses; the Sharpened Volcano Fragment sets people on fire with every swing, the Axtinguisher can crit people who are set on fire by a Huntsman-wielding Sniper, and the Backscratcher deals more damage and heals Pyro more from the small health kits everyone drops on death (and sometimes the Hot Hand if they're just messing around). Otherwise, Pyro has a history of questionable melee weapons, not a good start for a gamemode where they and arrows are your only means of attack.
</li></ul></li><li> The <em>Osiris</em> in <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Videogame/MechWarrior" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Videogame/MechWarrior">MechWarrior Living Legends</a></em> was long considered to be a joke character, owing to its... unfortunate appearance (likened to a buttplug with legs), nonexistent armor and pathetic armaments. However, the final update completely revamped the <em>Osiris</em>, making it a <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LightningBruiser" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LightningBruiser">Lightning Bruiser</a> among light mechs. Its joke role was taken over by the <em>Solitaire</em>, a mech so far down the <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FragileSpeedster" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FragileSpeedster">Fragile Speedster</a> path that its entire body has less armor than the <em>arm</em> of an assault mech; it packs an enormous <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShoulderCannon" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShoulderCannon">Shoulder Cannon</a> but it's attached to the fastest chassis in the game paired with the worst firing arc, making it all but impossible to circle-of-death with, forcing the user to perform suicidal jousting charges.
</li><li> Tachanka in <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/RainbowSixSiege" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/RainbowSixSiege">Rainbow Six Siege</a></em>, a rare example of a character who <em>became</em> this. He was meant to be balanced against the other characters, but it turned out his ability to set up and man a stationary turret was a death sentence in <em>Siege</em>'s highly mobile and flank-focused metagame. This resulted in him becoming a <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MemeticBadass" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MemeticBadass">Memetic Badass</a> for his uselessness, and the developers actually admitting they have no plans to majorly improve Tachanka, because him being useful would ruin the joke. His one major buff including writing <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AscendedMeme" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AscendedMeme">his community nickname</a> of <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MilesGloriosus" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MilesGloriosus">"LORD"</a> on his turret seems to confirm him as this.
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<p></p><div class="folderlabel" onclick="togglefolder('folder6');"> Gamebooks </div><div class="folder" id="folder6" isfolder="true" style="display:block;"></li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/House" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/House">House</a></em>:
<ul><li> House claims to be an ardent fan of <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DaytimeDramaQueen" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DaytimeDramaQueen">daytime soaps</a> partly to use it as an excuse to stop dealing with people.
</li><li> Like the above, not quite a straight example, but another episode featured this exchange:
<div class="indent"><strong>Foreman:</strong> Where are you going? <br/><strong>House:</strong> To get a $400 buttplug. <br/>(<em>later in the conversation</em>) <br/><strong>Cameron:</strong> Where are you going? <br/><strong>House:</strong> The buttplug was my way of saying "None of your business." Apparently too subtle.
</div></li></ul></li><li> Patricia does this to Eddie on <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/HouseOfAnubis" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/HouseOfAnubis">House of Anubis</a></em>. It wasn't that she didn't like him, but it due to being nervous about actually having a relationship after their (and her) <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FirstKiss" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FirstKiss">First Kiss</a>. She tried to avoid him all together because she never had a boyfriend before.
</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/HowIMetYourMother" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/HowIMetYourMother">How I Met Your Mother</a></em>:
<ul><li> In an episode:<ul><li> <a class="urllink" href="https://gameofthrones.fandom.com/wiki/The_Twins">The Twins<img height="12" src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" style="border:none;" width="12"/></a> is the only crossing point over the Green Fork river for hundreds of miles. It's controlled by House Frey, who never fail to exact their toll from travelers.
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<p></p><div class="folderlabel" onclick="togglefolder('folder1');"> Video Games </div><div class="folder" id="folder1" isfolder="true" style="display:block;">
<p></p><ul><li> This trope occasionally pops up in the <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/NintendoWars" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/NintendoWars">Nintendo Wars</a></em> series, where a one-tile pass can be completely choked off by placing a <em>fighter jet</em> on the open tile. If the enemy force has no units which can attack a fighter, you've effectively created an unassailable buttplug that breaks the map in your favor.
</li><li> In order to not break the game's sequence, in <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/BaldursGateII" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/BaldursGateII">Baldur's Gate II</a></em> you start in Waukeen's Promenade and <em>have</em> to go to the Slums next, where you meet a representative of the Shadow Thieves who offers to help you and gives you a goal to shoot for this chapter. From the Slums, no matter which way you exit, you can suddenly go anywhere in the city.
</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/PerfectWorld" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/PerfectWorld">Perfect World</a></em>: Subverted. Usually, the only thing leading you to your next destination is a small path and a yellow arrow. This has led to certain new players ending up in places inhabited by <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BeefGate" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BeefGate">level 50 or higher enemies</a>.
<ul><li> It's even worse with the <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OurElvesAreDifferent" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OurElvesAreDifferent">Winged Elf</a> race. This race has wings, so now all that's guiding you is a yellow arrow if you decide to fly there. Granted, all characters get flight at level 30, so everyone has this problem.</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/House" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/House">House</a></em>:
<ul><li> House claims to be an ardent fan of <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DaytimeDramaQueen" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DaytimeDramaQueen">daytime soaps</a> partly to use it as an excuse to stop dealing with people.
</li><li> Like the above, not quite a straight example, but another episode featured this exchange:
<div class="indent"><strong>Foreman:</strong> Where are you going? <br><strong>House:</strong> To get a $400 buttplug. <br>(<em>later in the conversation</em>) <br><strong>Cameron:</strong> Where are you going? <br><strong>House:</strong> The buttplug was my way of saying "None of your business." Apparently too subtle.
</div></li></ul></li><li> Patricia does this to Eddie on <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/HouseOfAnubis" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/HouseOfAnubis">House of Anubis</a></em>. It wasn't that she didn't like him, but it due to being nervous about actually having a relationship after their (and her) <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FirstKiss" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FirstKiss">First Kiss</a>. She tried to avoid him all together because she never had a boyfriend before.
</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/HowIMetYourMother" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/HowIMetYourMother">How I Met Your Mother</a></em>:
<ul><li> In an episode:<ul><li> Featured at least once in every episode of <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Archer" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Archer">Archer</a></em>. It's practically a trademark of the show's comedy.
</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/SouthPark" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/SouthPark">South Park</a></em>:
<div class="indent"> <strong>Cartman:</strong> <em>(watching the Queef Sisters at his house with his friends)</em> "Dude! What the hell is this disgusting crap?!"
</div><div class="indent"> <strong>Philip:</strong> <em>(watching the Queef Sisters at CBC with Terrance)</em> "What the hell is this disgusting crap?!"
</div></li><li> In <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers">The Venture Bros.</a></em> episode "SPHINX Rising", after the O.S.I. defectors who had become the new Team SPHINX return to O.S.I. under new management, Gary is left behind as the sole SPHINX member. Both teams do a recruitment drive, and their orientation speeches are presented simultaneously. The result is a string of Twisted Echo Cuts built into a parody of <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TwoScenesOneDialogue" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TwoScenesOneDialogue">Two Scenes, One Dialogue</a> to highlight the difference in priorities and seriousness.
<div class="indent"><strong>SPHINX recruit:</strong> Where's the bathroom? <br/><strong>SPHINX Commander:</strong> [...] Well, if it's wicked bad— <br/><strong>O.S.I. General:</strong> There's the door. You're afraid of blood? There's the door.
</div></li><li> Done in <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Birdz" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Birdz">Birdz</a></em> on the episode "Father and Son Camp Out":<ul><li> In <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TabletopGame/GURPS" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TabletopGame/GURPS">GURPS</a></em>, having a Fat or Very Fat character give you no penalties to acrobatics and agility, at least not directly.
</li><li> Played with in <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TabletopGame/TheWitcherGameOfImagination" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TabletopGame/TheWitcherGameOfImagination">The Witcher: Game of Imagination</a></em>. Each halfling must have <em>at least</em> 3 points in Agility (on 15 scale), which corresponds to "Good". They don't suffer any penalties, even if the entire race is made by default from pudgy, tiny people. On the other hand, starting trait "Fatass" makes all rolls related with Agility and Movement harder, while also decreasing Movement for all equations by one, making it a serious case of <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThatOneDisadvantage" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThatOneDisadvantage">That One Disadvantage</a>.
</li><li> The <em>Book of Vile Darkness</em> from <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons">Dungeons & Dragons</a></em> introduces a feat called "Deformity (Obese)" in which a character becomes "grossly overweight... now at least triple the normal weight of creatures of her kind." To be fair this feat does come with a -2 to Dexterity since someone of that size would have a harder time moving around, but really, in terms of <em>D&D</em>, -2 Dexterity is a very minimal penalty and doesn't do much to stop a character from performing crazy feats of acrobatics and agility if they gain them with other feats or class abilities.</li><li> Big the Cat also qualifies. He's enormously fat but also <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StoutStrength" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StoutStrength">superhumanly strong</a>, and in <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/SonicHeroes" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/SonicHeroes">Sonic Heroes</a></em> he has no problems navigating the loop-de-loops with his teammates.
</li></ul></li><li> Darth Baras from <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic">Star Wars: The Old Republic</a></em> qualifies. He's a fat Sith sorcerer with obvious man boobs and oversized robe. Yet his class <span class="spoiler" title="you can set spoilers visible by default on your profile">in the actual boss fight you fight him in</span> is Sith Warrior, complete with acrobatic jumps and leaps. You'd expect him to be a Sith Sorcerer who relies primarily in lightning attacks since in the cutscenes he spams lightning like a typical spell caster, but nope. Get ready for Darth Fatass to knock you halfway across the map with an elbow only for him to Force Jump to your location and whale on you with lightsaber moves.
<ul><li> Also any player character in The Old Republic can be this, since the body model Darth Baras uses is available at character creation. This may actually be a subversion; the model looks fat in a robe or loose outfit, but in armor or shirtless it's clear they are barrel-chested and <em>ripped</em>. Those aren't man-boobs, those are pecs bigger than the average-size model's entire chest.</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Machinima/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Machinima/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers">SMG4's Mario Bloopers</a></em>
<ul><li> SMG4 says Mario's name out loud in "Spaghetti Law" when the latter mistakes the former for <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TrademarkFavoriteFood" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TrademarkFavoriteFood">spaghetti</a>.
</li><li> SMG3 to Bowser in "Bad Stars" when he doesn't listen.
<div class="indent"><strong>SMG3:</strong> Bowser! Get your fatass over here! <br/><em>[Bowser just spins around]</em> <br/><strong>SMG3:</strong> BOWSER!
</div></li></ul></li><li> <span class="spoiler" title="you can set spoilers visible by default on your profile"><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AxCrazy" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AxCrazy">Tricky</a></span>'s first action upon coming <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BackFromTheDead" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BackFromTheDead">Back from the Dead</a> in <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebAnimation/MadnessCombat" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebAnimation/MadnessCombat">Madness Combat</a> 11: Expurgation</em> is to screech <em><strong>HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANK!</strong></em>, the protagonist's name.
</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebAnimation/Chadam" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebAnimation/Chadam">Chadam</a></em>: When Sandy is left dying from a Pallid attack, Chadam screams her name as the episode ends.
</li><li> DanTDM: Near the end of <a class="urllink" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PBc5hi65AQ">the first part of Custom Vacation Adventure<img height="12" src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" style="border:none;" width="12"/></a>, Dan shouts his friend Trayaurus' name when he can't find him on the island.</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheInventionOfLying" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheInventionOfLying">The Invention of Lying</a></em>: Mark gets this, by everyone, pretty much the whole film.
</li><li> Almost everyone in <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/LoveActually" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/LoveActually">Love Actually</a></em> comments on poor <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HollywoodPudgy" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HollywoodPudgy">Natalie's</a> weight. Much to the confusion of the Prime Minister who, presumably like the audience, can see that <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HollywoodPudgy" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HollywoodPudgy">she's not fat at all</a>.
</li><li> In <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheInterview" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheInterview">The Interview</a></em>, Americans as a whole are the butt of fat jokes from North Korea. <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HypocriticalHumor" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HypocriticalHumor">In vice-versa, Kim Jong-un himself is mocked by Skylark for eating a luxurious way to obesity</a>.
</li><li> Knives calls Ramona a "fatass" in <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld">Scott Pilgrim vs. The World</a></em>, most likely out of jealousy and anger, as Ramona is incredibly thin in the film. (<a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AdaptationalCurves" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AdaptationalCurves">She is, however, slightly curvy in the comics the film is based on.</a>)
</li><li> In <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheProducers" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheProducers">The Producers</a></em> during their climactic argument, Leo becomes so flustered and angry at Max that all he can think is to scream <strong>"FAAAAAAT! FAAAAAAAAT!"</strong>
<div class="indent">"<a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LameComeback" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LameComeback">I'm not that fat...</a>"
</div></li><li> In <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly">The Good, the Bad and the Ugly</a></em>, Tuco taunts Corporal Wallace, an overweight - and rather sadistic - <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TortureTechnician" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TortureTechnician">Torture Technician</a>, by saying he likes fat people, because when he knocks them down it's funny seeing them try to get up.</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons">The Simpsons</a></em>:
<ul><li> A season one episode had Homer attempt to make a tree snare and end up launching a bunny rabbit over a mile into the horizon.
</li><li> And in the Halloween episode "Survival of the Fattest", he did it with a full-size tree and essentially the entire supporting cast.
<div class="indent"><strong>Moe:</strong> Oy, ya fatass!
</div></li></ul></li><li> Done in <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/KimPossible" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/KimPossible">Kim Possible</a></em> a few times.
</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadrunner" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadrunner">Wile E Coyote And The Roadrunner</a></em>: This has happened to Wile E. Coyote a time or two with trees or cacti. In one case, rather than launching Wile E himself, a cactus launched a misaimed explosive back at the unfortunate coyote.
</li><li> Done on the first one of <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheCrow" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheCrow">The Fox and the Crow</a></em> cartoons - the fox tries to launch himself this way, but just gets smacked back and forth on the ground. The cartoon was a direct inspiration for the Road Runner/Coyote series.<div class="indent"> "I'm gonna kill her! I'm gonna kill her myself!"
</div></li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/StandByMe" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/StandByMe">Stand by Me</a></em>: Twice.
<ul><li> First, Teddy to Milo.
<div class="indent"><strong>Teddy:</strong> You call my dad loony again and I'll kill you. <br/><strong>Milo:</strong> Loony, loony, loony. <br/><strong>Teddy:</strong> Ahhhhhh! I'm gonna rip your head off and shit down your neck! Oh, I'm gonna kill that asshole! <br/><strong>Milo:</strong> You come on and try it, you little slimy bastard! <br/><strong>Chris:</strong> He wants you to go over there so he can beat the piss out of you and then take you to the cops! <br/><strong>Milo:</strong> You watch your mouth, smart guy. Let him do his own fighting. <br/><strong>Gordie:</strong> Sure. You only outweigh him by 500 pounds, Fatass! <br/><strong>Milo:</strong> I know your name. You're Lachance! I know all you guys, and all your fathers are gonna get a call from me! ...Except for the loony up in Togus. <br/><strong>Teddy:</strong> I'm gonna kill you! Son of a bitch!
</div></li><li> Then Gordie to Ace.
<div class="indent"><strong>Gordie:</strong> Don't move, Ace. I'll kill you. I swear to God.
</div></li></ul></li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Stripes" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Stripes">Stripes</a></em> (1981):</li></ul></li><li> Yeon Ehwa from <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebComic/TowerOfGod" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebComic/TowerOfGod">Tower of God</a></em> is a bit immature, but she at least grows towards Lawful Good. When she's shown that her family was involved in dishonest dealings, she's shocked at first but then resolves to gain power to right such wrongs — taking on responsibility for changing the system while never questioning that she'd work within it.
</li></ul></div>
<p></p><div class="folderlabel" onclick="togglefolder('folder14');"> Web Original </div><div class="folder" id="folder14" isfolder="true" style="display:block;">
<ul><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Website/Neopets" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Website/Neopets">Neopets</a></em>: Jeran, a noble knight who protects the people of Meridell in spite of serving the selfish <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FatBastard" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FatBastard">fatass king</a> Skarl; also, King Altador, the honorable king of the city named after him, is a perfect example of this trope.
</li><li> In the <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/WhateleyUniverse" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/WhateleyUniverse">Whateley Universe</a></em>, Stormwolf, leader of the Wild Pack, is so Lawful Good that he refuses to "take the law into his own hands" to stop the sociopath Don Sebastiano from ruling the campus and attacking other students.
</li></ul></div>
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<p></p><div class="folderlabel" onclick="togglefolder('folder10');"> Western Animation </div><div class="folder" id="folder10" isfolder="true" style="display:block;">
<ul><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/SouthPark" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/SouthPark">South Park</a></em>: Eric Cartman.
<div class="indent"><strong>Stan:</strong> C'mon, fatass! <br/><strong>Ms. Cartman:</strong> Now, now, he's not fat, he's big boned! <br/><strong>Kyle:</strong> Then he must have a giant bone in his ass! <br/><strong>Ms. Cartman:</strong> <em>[<a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AccidentalInnuendo" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AccidentalInnuendo">hysterical laughter</a>]</em>
</div><ul><li> In another episode, when Cartman is sent off to fat camp, he tries to use his mother's defense that he's only big boned. She then replies, "Those were all lies, Hon. You're just fat."
</li></ul></li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons">The Simpsons</a></em>: Homer Simpson:
<div class="indent"><strong>Snake:</strong> Give me my car, fatty!</li></ul></li></ul></div>
<p></p><div class="folderlabel" onclick="togglefolder('folder9');"> Standup Comedy </div><div class="folder" id="folder9" isfolder="true" style="display:block;">
<ul><li> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/GeorgeCarlin" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/GeorgeCarlin">George Carlin</a> finds it offensive. He calls it "pumping out a unit".
<div class="indent"><strong>George Carlin:</strong> I also happen to like it when feminists attack these fatass housewives who think there's nothing more to life that sitting home on the telephone, drinking coffee, watching TV and pumping out a baby every nine months. P-poom, p-poom, p-poom, p-poom, p-poom... will seven be enough, Bob? ... p-poom, p-poom.
</div><ul><li> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/RealTimeWithBillMaher" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/RealTimeWithBillMaher">Bill Maher</a> has likewise attacked the celebration of a woman producing 8 or 9 babies, pointing out that "we're not repopulating after the Flood", so maybe it's time to stop celebrating this sort of thing.
</li></ul></li></ul></div>
<p></p><div class="folderlabel" onclick="togglefolder('folder10');"> Tabletop Games </div><div class="folder" id="folder10" isfolder="true" style="display:block;"><ul><li> In one episode, Mr. Krabs offers SpongeBob and Squidward a Caribbean vacation as a prize to whoever can be the friendliest employee. SpongeBob, already friendly with all the regular customers, seems to be winning. But Squidward spots a new customer, and asks him his name. The customer rudely replies "What's it to ya?!" and angrily storms out. Squidward chases him all over Bikini Bottom, causing a fair amount of damage along the way, but finally catches up to him. Squidward yanks the wallet from the customer's pants, looks at his driver's license, and the customer's name is... Whatzit Tooya. Squidward is then imprisoned for the aforementioned city damage, but it's all right with him, because once he's out, he's got a Caribbean vacation to look forward to! That is, until Mr. Krabs visits him in jail and says <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShaggyDogStory" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShaggyDogStory">the contest was for the brochure describing the vacation, not the vacation itself.</a>
</li><li> When Mr. Krabs tries to steal back a million dollar #1 hat from SpongeBob, he makes up a ghost that "wants his hat back." SpongeBob asks his name, but the surprised Krabs can only string together syllables in a name he thinks can't possibly exist: Smitty Werbenjaegermanjensen. Turns out <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AccidentalTruth" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AccidentalTruth">there was such a man</a>, so SpongeBob <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HilarityEnsues" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HilarityEnsues">buries the hat in his tomb.</a>
</li></ul></li><li> An episode of <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead">Beavis and Butt-Head</a></em> had Buzzcut trying to make the titular morons laugh. He starts calling attendance, with names like Butkus and Gaylord. Naturally, they're all actual students.
</li><li> An episode of <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Sealab2021" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Sealab2021">Sealab 2021</a></em> has one of the children get scolded when she calls her rather overweight classmate "Fatass McBlobicus". Turns out that's actually his name.
</li><li> In the <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse">Steven Universe</a></em> episode "Marble Madness", Connie's mom says that she doesn't believe that Steven's name is real, while we all know it is. To her credit, "Universe" was his father's <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StageName" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StageName">Stage Name</a> made legal name, but it really has been Steven's name since birth.
</li><li> This incident in the Savage Land saga of <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/XMen" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/XMen">X-Men</a></em>.
<div class="indent"><strong>Wolverine</strong>: You don't kick a man when he's down, hair bag! <br/><strong>Hairbag</strong>: Hey! Who told you my name? You making fun of me? Nobody makes fun of Hairbag!</li><li> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/Sonichu" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/Sonichu">Sonichu</a>: Magi-Chan appeared to be one of these at first, and then <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StrangledByTheRedString" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StrangledByTheRedString">he was paired off with Silvana.</a>
</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/Homestuck" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/Homestuck">Homestuck</a></em>: The main character, John Egbert, has decided to remain one as long as the SBURB session continues. (Perhaps not so surprising since the last time we saw him he was all of 14.) After he and Jade talk over their respective potential romantic interests (several of them each), <a class="urllink" href="http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006636">John basically throws his hands up in the air.<img height="12" src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" style="border:none;" width="12"/></a>
<div class="indent"> JOHN: anyway, my point is, who even cares about all that?
</div><div class="indent"> JOHN: romance and dating are dumb and boring. we are legendary heroes, and we have bigger fish to fry. like that smug fatass over there on the horizon.
</div><ul><li> Kankri has also decided to abstain from sex or romance to better focus on his social justice goals...though he seems to have a crush on Latula. He doesn't seem aware, but <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EveryoneCanSeeIt" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EveryoneCanSeeIt">everyone else sure is.</a>
</li></ul></li><li> Marlene of <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/JetDream" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/JetDream">Jet Dream</a></em>, apparently indifferent to sex of any sort, thinks of <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GenderBender" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GenderBender">her sex change</a> as a minor inconvenience that occasionally gets in the way of <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ForScience" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ForScience">Doing Science</a>. The occasional urge can be dealt with easily enough by using <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ADateWithRosiePalms" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ADateWithRosiePalms">her Jet Dream Vibrostick</a>. This attitude <a class="urllink" href="http://tgcaps.com/caps/modcomics/suedenim/jetdream/mjdr01/mjdr1_01.jpg.php">doesn't last forever, though.<img height="12" src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" style="border:none;" width="12"/></a>
</li><li> The Reverend Theo of <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/SchlockMercenary" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/SchlockMercenary">Schlock Mercenary</a></em> is a literal version, since he took a vow of chastity. He eventually gets married, averted the trope but keeping true to his vow.</nav>
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<p></p><div class="quoteright" style="width:350px;"><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/TheWackyWabbit" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/TheWackyWabbit"><div class="lazy_load_img_box" style="padding-top:72%"><img alt="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ofcorsetsfunny.png" border="0" class="embeddedimage" height="252" src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ofcorsetsfunny.png" width="350"/></div></a></div>
<p></p><div class="indent"><em>"One small corset plus another small corset equals one <strong>fatass</strong> corset!"</em>
<div class="indent">— <strong>Jiggly Caliente</strong>, <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/RuPaulsDragRace" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/RuPaulsDragRace">RuPaul's Drag Race</a></em>
</div></div><div class="proper-ad-unit mobile-ad square_ad"><h6 class="ad-caption">Advertisement:</h6><div id="proper-ad-tvtropes_mobile_ad_1"><script>propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })</script></div></div><p>A character comically dons a corset or a girdle, usually to <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WeightWoe" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WeightWoe">conceal a gut</a>. In some variations, the <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WardrobeMalfunction" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WardrobeMalfunction">unfortunate garment will burst</a>, after being put under far too much strain.
</p><p>There are two main ways this is used:</li><li> Mio and Mugi from <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/KOn" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/KOn">K-On!</a></em> tend to get worried about their weight gain at the end of the year, and are envious of Yui's high metabolism. Even Ritsu can be manipulated into drum practice with this fear, though. However according to Ritsu, Mio's weight goes to her <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BuxomIsBetter" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BuxomIsBetter">breasts</a>.
</li><li> Isana from <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/YumekuiMerry" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/YumekuiMerry">Yumekui Merry</a></em> is often shown worrying about her weight, despite her very cute and slender outer appearance. Chapter 39 shows on more than one occasion that she really is physically heavy, at least compared to Merry, just not to the point of being unhealthy.
</li><li> Ayako of <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/SlamDunk" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/SlamDunk">Slam Dunk</a></em> goes on a diet at the end of the series. Admittedly, she is drawn as curvier then Haruko and with a rounder face, but considering how many characters refer to her as attractive it's pretty obvious she's just being paranoid.
</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead">Highschool of the Dead</a></em>: Though Saya often refers to Hirano as "fatty"/"fatass", he's hardly what one would consider overweight. In the earlier chapters, he was simply short for his body mass; making him portly, at best. But as the series underwent <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArtEvolution" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArtEvolution">Art Evolution</a>, he changed from portly, to stocky.
</li><li> Nami in <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei">Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei</a></em> is often seen dieting and several characters make jibes about her weight. With the exception of Kotonon her body looks exactly the same as all the other (<a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoodlePeople" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoodlePeople">stick-thin</a>) girls in the series.
</li><li> In <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/HeavensLostProperty" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/HeavensLostProperty">Heaven's Lost Property</a></em> Ikaros says she likes that Sohara is slightly overweight.
</li><li> Saiko Yonebayashi from <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/TokyoGhoul" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/TokyoGhoul">Tokyo Ghoul</a> : Re</em>. Long before she'd actually appeared on-panel, all the audience is told about her is that she's lazy and has gained considerable weight due to being a <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigEater" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigEater">Big Eater</a>. She's actually referred to as being "fat", but when she actually appears on panel she's a pretty young woman with a rounded face and generous bust. At worst, she's a little soft due to inactivity, especially compared to her more athletic peers.<ul><li> When <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/CharlieCox" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/CharlieCox">Charlie Cox</a> got the role of <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/Daredevil" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/Daredevil">Matt Murdock</a>, he knew very little about the character. In fact, he didn't even know the character was blind <em><strong>until the day before the audition.</strong></em> Over time, he began to read comics to prepare for the role. Now, he's not only a fan of Daredevil, but comics in general and has been campaigning for Marvel to let the character crossover into the <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse">MCU films</a>.
</li><li> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/DeborahAnnWoll" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/DeborahAnnWoll">Deborah Ann Woll</a> (Karen Page) had never read the comics before the show started, so when she was cast as Karen, she started to read the beginning of the comics and the storylines that revolved around Karen, as well as series that she knew season 1 was going to bring up and base storylines around.
</li></ul></li><li> After being cast as Piccolo in <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/DragonBallEvolution" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/DragonBallEvolution">Dragon Ball Evolution</a></em>, <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/JamesMarsters" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/JamesMarsters">James Marsters</a> watched <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/DragonBall" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/DragonBall">the anime</a> to study the character. He ended being such a big fan of it that he furiously protested when Piccolo's movie design was significantly different from his original appearance. He would even later voice Zamasu in <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/DragonBallSuper" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/DragonBallSuper">Dragon Ball Super</a></em>.
</li><li> Renowned comic book painter <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/AlexRoss" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/AlexRoss">Alex Ross</a> originally could not care less for the <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/XMen" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/XMen">X-Men</a>, even more so for <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/Wolverine" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/Wolverine">Wolverine</a> who has had less than savory depictions in Ross's books (<em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/EarthX" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/EarthX">Earth X</a></em> had Wolvie as an <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TakeThat" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TakeThat">alcoholic fatass who sits around watching TV all day</a>). Then Bryan Singer's <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/XMen1" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/XMen1">little movie</a> came out and Ross jumped at the chance to be part of a relaunch for the comic line, <a class="urllink" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zKJYl7_VYh8/UXVfNMUnh_I/AAAAAAAABTw/DCqijtCTZNs/s1600/tumblr_mf42w1dvhs1rk7w2qo3_1280.jpg">even<img height="12" src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" style="border:none;" width="12"/></a><small>◊</small> <a class="urllink" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_Ms7YrqtI5g/UXVfPvjaVtI/AAAAAAAABUI/k-FbGLFpwLE/s1600/tumblr_mf42w1dvhs1rk7w2qo5_1280.jpg">creating<img height="12" src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" style="border:none;" width="12"/></a><small>◊</small> <a class="urllink" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6jzSz_zoVFc/UXVfNNgFuxI/AAAAAAAABT8/awl8uUnkAb4/s1600/tumblr_mf42w1dvhs1rk7w2qo2_1280.jpg">redesigns<img height="12" src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" style="border:none;" width="12"/></a><small>◊</small>. Unfortunately, <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhatCouldHaveBeen" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhatCouldHaveBeen">he wasn't able to be part of what would ultimately become</a> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/GrantMorrison" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/GrantMorrison">Grant Morrison</a>'s <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/NewXMen" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/NewXMen">run</a> but was still left liking the team more than he initially did.
</li><li> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebVideo/Phelous" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebVideo/Phelous">Phelous</a> didn't have a great first impression of <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003">the 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon</a> due to <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/TurtlesForever" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/TurtlesForever">Turtles Forever</a>'s</em> apparent bias against the <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987">1987 show</a>, of which he was really fond of. After sitting down and actually checking out the show, he's found himself really enjoying it, to the point of finding that <em>Turtles Forever</em> also failed to characterize them correctly, referencing the show to the same degree as the original, and wishing that '03 had a crossover episode with the <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012">2012 cartoon.</a>
</li><li> After filming <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/PokemonDetectivePikachu" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/PokemonDetectivePikachu">Pokémon Detective Pikachu</a></em>, <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/BillNighy" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/BillNighy">Bill Nighy</a> <em>immediately</em> became a <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/Pokemon" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/Pokemon">Pokémon</a> fanboy, to the point where he bought <em>every single Pokémon guide</em> to learn more about the series. He even called the Pokédex a "masterwork".
</li><li> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/RyanReynolds" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/RyanReynolds">Ryan Reynolds</a> learned who <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/Deadpool" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/Deadpool">Deadpool</a> was when he was alerted to a <a class="urllink" href="http://begin-english.ru/img/upload/5/f/b/e/96a638d104.jpg">specific panel where the character described himself as Reynolds crossed with a shar-pei<img height="12" src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" style="border:none;" width="12"/></a><small>◊</small>. From there, he dived deep into the comics, got really fond of superheroes, and aimed hard to be cast in <em>any</em> comic book movie he could (thus <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/BladeTrinity" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/BladeTrinity">Blade: Trinity</a></em> and <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/GreenLantern" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/GreenLantern">Green Lantern</a></em>) until he eventually found his niche playing the character that got him into it in the first place. Well, <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/XMenOriginsWolverine" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/XMenOriginsWolverine">that's not to say they got the character right at first</a>, but <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Deadpool2016" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Deadpool2016">eventually they would manage it</a>.</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/MegaMan" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/MegaMan">Mega Man</a>:</em> Guts Man and Cut Man both call Mega Man "the Blue Dweeb" or "Mega Twerp." Mega Man himself likes to call Wily's robots "Scum-bots."
</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/SouthPark" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/SouthPark">South Park</a>:</em>
<ul><li> Cartman has "Screw you guys" (sometimes followed with "<a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ScrewThisImOutOfHere" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ScrewThisImOutOfHere">I'm going home</a>"), "I'll kick you in the nuts," "Respect my Authority" (pronounced as "authoritah"), "Suck my balls," and for Kyle, "Jew."
</li><li> Stan and Kyle would always call Cartman "fatass." Kyle also has "You Bastard(s)" to whoever kills Kenny.
</li><li> Mr. Garrison calls his students "Retards" from time to time. In season 1, he occasionally used "You go to hell! You go to hell and you die!" He would also use "Fag" under the excuse of it being <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NWordPrivileges" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NWordPrivileges">N-Word Privileges</a> for <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DepravedHomosexual" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DepravedHomosexual">him</a>.
</li><li> You can count with your fingers the people Shelly <em>doesn't</em> call a "turd."
</li><li> Nathan always says "Shut up, Mimsy" right after <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DopeSlap" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DopeSlap">Dope Slapping</a> him for saying something stupid.<p></p><div class="folderlabel" onclick="togglefolder('folder2');"> Comic Books </div><div class="folder" id="folder2" isfolder="true" style="display:block;">
<ul><li> In <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog">Archie Comics' Sonic the Hedgehog</a></em>, despite being overly polite and against any sort of fighting, even Cream the Rabbit has her limits. When Nack captures Cheese the Chao and a Sol Emerald the Blaze the Cat was retrieving, Cream lunges at him only to be stopped by Bark. She then proceeds to rattle off the following quote, in a way only a well meaning, polite kid like her would do.
<div class="indent"><strong>Cream</strong>: How <em>dare</em> you kidnap Cheese! Don't hold him by his wings like that! Do you know how sensitive they are? And give back Miss Blaze's Sol Emerald! We have worked very hard to get that back for her, you know! This whole day has been nothing but roughhousing and rude people and I simply <em>will not tolerate it!</em>
</div></li><li> In the French comic book <em>Agrippine</em> by Claire Bretecher, the <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AnnoyingYoungerSibling" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AnnoyingYoungerSibling">little brother</a> of the protagonist starts to insult her in the worst ways - "Saggy-tits!" - "Whore!" - "Fatass!", but she doesn't even react. Then he says "Agrippine loves Dennis!", and she immediately goes <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheSimpsons" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheSimpsons">"Why you little...!"</a> on him.
</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac">Johnny the Homicidal Maniac</a></em> is fond of this, although he <em>won't</em> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AxCrazy" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AxCrazy">stop at ranting</a>. Case in point: in one story he <em>blows up a cafe</em> because some guy smoking outside called him a pussy. But first he kills certain people inside for reasons like "<em>Stop trying to bring back bell bottoms!</em>" and "Your lazy eye disturbs me!" Oh, and he <em>hates</em> the word "wacky" and anyone who uses it.
</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/RobinSeries" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/RobinSeries">Robin Series</a></em>: Jack Drake is prone to explosive rants at his son for innocuous comments or actions. A standout example being when Jack flipped his lid about Tim "dissing" him and screamed at him before yanking the television out of the room when Tim was watching a live hostage situation in a friend's neighboorhood and didn't imediatly turn it off when Jack came in and started talking at him. For bonus points Tim was already grounded over a misunderstanding caused by Jack refusing to listen to him after Tim's girlfrend's uncle tried to kill Tim and then called Jack to complain about Tim before Tim made it home.
</li><li> In <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/DeathOfTheFamily" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/DeathOfTheFamily">Death of the Family</a></em>, Damian at one point declares, "I have nothing to say that would help you manipulate me, clown." <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/TheJoker" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/TheJoker">The Joker</a> goes off on a rant in which he repeats the word "clown" several times and then goes on to point out that he doesn't really qualify as one, because he could never make someone laugh without a pharmaceutical push.</li><li> On <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond">Everybody Loves Raymond</a></em>, the revelation that Marie's dislike of Debra was because she wasn't a virgin when Ray married her ends in everyone finding out that Robert <span class="spoiler" title="you can set spoilers visible by default on your profile"> was <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShotgunWedding" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShotgunWedding">conceived out of wedlock</a>, and Marie and Frank had lied about his birthday (which happened to be that day)</span>.
</li><li> In the Israeli sci-fi teen drama <em>[HaShminiya]</em>s first seasons episode 40 <a class="urllink" href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2dyahx_<!--D7-->94<!--D7-->A9<!--D7-->9E<!--D7-->99<!--D7-->A0<!--D7-->99<!--D7-->94-<!--D7-->A2<!--D7-->95<!--D7-->A0<!--D7-->94-1-<!--D7-->A4<!--D7-->A8<!--D7-->A7-40-<!--D7-->94<!--D7-->A4<!--D7-->A1<!--D7-->A7<!--D7-->AA-<!--D7-->97<!--D7-->A9<!--D7-->9E<!--D7-->9C_tv">Blackout<img height="12" src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" style="border:none;" width="12"/></a>, the eponymous<span class="notelabel" onclick="togglenote('note0gsyl');"><sup>note </sup></span><span class="inlinefolder" id="note0gsyl" isnote="true" onclick="togglenote('note0gsyl');" style="cursor:pointer;font-size:smaller;display:none;"><em>Hashminiya</em> is Hebrew for the Octette</span> octette are stuck in their classroom due to a potential threat to their lives. The power goes out, and one of them, Natasha, mentions a custom she and her family have: as long as the power is out, they can tell whatever theyve been keeping secret, and when the power goes back on, they pretend it never happened. Most of the episode is structured around this trope, ending with her classmate Dori confessing his love for her. Before she can say anything, the light goes back on, and he refuses to listen.
</li><li> From <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle">Malcolm in the Middle</a></em>:
<div class="indent"><strong>Hal:</strong> I accidentally spent $800 on phone sex. <br/><strong>Lois:</strong> I was doing my makeup in the rearview mirror, and I ran over your golf clubs! <br/><strong>Hal:</strong> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CallBack" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CallBack">I burned a hole in your favorite dress!</a> <br/><strong>Lois:</strong> You didn't get that promotion because I called your boss a fatass at the Christmas party! <br/><strong>Hal:</strong> I lost my wedding ring three years ago! This is part of a lawnmower! <br/><strong>Lois:</strong> Your Aunt Lucy isn't angry with you. She's dead, I just forgot to tell you!
</div></li></ul></div>
<p></p><div class="folderlabel" onclick="togglefolder('folder5');"> Mythology and Religion </div><div class="folder" id="folder5" isfolder="true" style="display:block;">
<ul><li> Appears in <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Myth/NorseMythology" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Myth/NorseMythology">Norse Mythology</a>, in which Loki effortlessly embarrasses every single god in the pantheon.</li><li> In a season 2 episode of <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender">Avatar: The Last Airbender</a></em>, Aang can't help but laugh at a beginning of a <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MeleeATrois" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MeleeATrois">Mêlée à Trois</a> when Zuko's sister calls him by his <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EmbarrassingNickname" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EmbarrassingNickname">Embarrassing Nickname</a>, "Zuzu".
</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/SouthPark" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/SouthPark">South Park</a></em>:
<ul><li> In one exchange:
<div class="indent"><strong>Stan:</strong> Come on, fatass, we have to go! <br/><strong>Cartman:</strong> Ay! Don't call me fat! <br/><em>[Cartman's mom laughs]</em> <br/><strong>Cartman:</strong> <em>Mom</em>, don't laugh! <br/><strong>Cartman's Mom:</strong> I'm sorry, hun'. <br/><strong>Cartman:</strong> I can't go with you guys now. <br/><strong>Stan:</strong> Yes you can, Porky. <br/><em>[Cartman's mom laughs harder]</em> <br/><strong>Cartman:</strong> Mom, <em>seriously</em>! <br/><strong>Cartman's Mom:</strong> That's not funny, boys. Eric's not fat, he's <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IAmBigBoned" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IAmBigBoned">big-boned</a>. <br/><strong>Kyle:</strong> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AccidentalInnuendo" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AccidentalInnuendo">He must have a huge bone in his ass then!</a> <br/><em>[Cartman's mom laughs hysterically]</em> <br/><strong>Cartman:</strong> <em>GOD DAMN IT, MOM!</em>
</div></li><li> From "Imaginationland Part 1": "Say what you want about <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/MelGibson" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/MelGibson">Mel Gibson</a>, but the son-of-a-bitch knows story structure!" (After their previous portrayal of Mel, very sporting indeed.)
</li></ul></li><li> Gaz from <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/InvaderZim" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/InvaderZim">Invader Zim</a></em> is usually disdainful of her brother's obsession with Zim, but in one episode when Zim is sent into absolute hysterics after Dib hits him with a muffin (which she had initially dubbed "horrible") she snickers and comments that "Actually, that <em>was</em> kind of funny."
</li><li> On an episode of <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/MissionHill" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/MissionHill">Mission Hill</a></em>, Kevin French is brought to the principal's office for using the word "douchebag" in class, which is such awful profanity that the principal is too polite to say it out loud and instead writes it down on a piece of paper. Kevin and his older brother, Andy both crack up immediately when they see how the word's written all neatly and <em>in cursive</em>. Cursive, people. This fits as a written version of <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SophisticatedAsHell" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SophisticatedAsHell">Sophisticated as Hell</a>: profanity written in a formal, polite style. And yes, it <em>was</em> actually very funny.</li></ul><p><span class="asscaps">Webcomics</span>
</p><ul><li> In one <em><a class="createlink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/BitmapWorld" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/BitmapWorld">Bitmap World</a></em> storyline, a bus goes out of control and nearly falls into a volcano.<span class="notelabel" onclick="togglenote('note0tf3d');"><sup>note </sup></span><span class="inlinefolder" id="note0tf3d" isnote="true" onclick="togglenote('note0tf3d');" style="cursor:pointer;font-size:smaller;display:none;"><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ItMakesSenseInContext" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ItMakesSenseInContext">It Makes Sense in Context</a>.</span> Later, the mayor goes to the bus while an investigator is examining the damage. Since the investigator is under the bus, the mayor can't see him and thinks the bus is talking. A few panels later he thinks his own car is talking, too, but it's actually a couple of pigs<span class="notelabel" onclick="togglenote('note1x75i');"><sup>note </sup></span><span class="inlinefolder" id="note1x75i" isnote="true" onclick="togglenote('note1x75i');" style="cursor:pointer;font-size:smaller;display:none;">I'm telling you, <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ItMakesSenseInContext" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ItMakesSenseInContext">It Makes Sense in Context</a></span> standing behind it.
</li></ul><p><span class="asscaps"><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WesternAnimation" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WesternAnimation">Western Animation</a></span>
</p><ul><li> The plot of the <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/SouthPark" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/SouthPark">South Park</a></em> episode "Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000" kicks off when Cartman threatens to hit Token with a rock if he calls him a fatass one more time. He turns around, Kyle calls him "fatass", then he throws the rock at Token, believing him to have said it.
</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants">SpongeBob SquarePants</a></em>:
<ul><li> In the episode "Hall Monitor", SpongeBob calls to Patrick, who is sitting on a fence eating ice-cream. Patrick hears him and thinks his ice-cream is talking to him.
</li><li> This happens again in "Valentine's Day", when Patrick is makes a stone heart to give to SpongeBob on Valentine's Day. When SpongeBob speaks to him from behind, Patrick thinks his friend is trapped in the stone and smashes it to let him out.</li><li> In a non-death example from <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Westernanimation/TheSimpsons" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Westernanimation/TheSimpsons">The Simpsons</a></em>, in "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song", Bart gets Principal Skinner fired and soon realizes that he misses him as an enemy (the new principal is <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TokenWholesome" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TokenWholesome">Ned Flanders</a>, who is too nice to curb any kind of misbehavior). Lisa mentions the trope, explaining that Moriarty needs his Sherlock.
<ul><li> In a later episode, "Home Away From Homer", Flanders moves away to be replaced by a new bully neighbor who causes Homer to miss Flanders and attempts to get him back.
</li></ul></li><li> The <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/SouthPark" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/SouthPark">South Park</a></em> episode "Smug Alert" shows Cartman at first rejoicing the fact that Kyle along with his family has moved to San Francisco. But since Butters doesn't really cut it as a Jewish nemesis to him, (not giving the entertaining reactions that he thrives off of) Cartman decides to brave lethal clouds of "smug" (emitted by people who drive hybrids) to save and bring Kyle back to South Park (in secret, of course).
<div class="indent"><strong>Cartman:</strong> We just can't get rid of you, can we, sneaky Jew rat! <br/><strong>Kyle:</strong> Don't belittle my people, you fucking fatass! <em>[leaves]</em> <br/><strong>Cartman:</strong> Ah, that's better.
</div></li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons">The Simpsons</a></em> or rather the <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShowWithinAShow" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShowWithinAShow">Show Within a Show</a> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/TheItchyAndScratchyShow" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/TheItchyAndScratchyShow">The Itchy & Scratchy Show</a></em>: Itchy is inconsolable after Scratchy's death so he invents a cloning machine to bring back his friend/victim to life. Gory <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HilarityEnsues" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HilarityEnsues">Hilarity Ensues</a>.
</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants">SpongeBob SquarePants</a></em>:
<ul><li> One episode has an inverted, non-fatal example when Plankton undergoes a <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeelFaceTurn" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeelFaceTurn">HeelFace Turn</a> and converts the Chum Bucket into a knick-knack shop. Krabs doesn't buy it and continues to antagonise Plankton until Plankton finally snaps, at which points Krabs bursts into tears, partly at the thought of losing his greatest adversary and partly at the <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MyGodWhatHaveIDone" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MyGodWhatHaveIDone">realisation</a> of what a jerk he's been to the reformed Plankton. <span class="spoiler" title="you can set spoilers visible by default on your profile">Subverted when it turns out that, not only was Plankton faking his <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeelFaceTurn" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeelFaceTurn">HeelFace Turn</a> the whole time, but Krabs <em>knew</em> he was faking it and was in turn faking his remorse and subsequent acceptance of Plankton.</span><p></p><div class="folderlabel" onclick="togglefolder('folder6');"> Live-Action TV </div><div class="folder" id="folder6" isfolder="true" style="display:block;">
<ul><li> Attempted by Jenna on <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/ThirtyRock" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/ThirtyRock">30 Rock</a></em>. Upon arriving at a restaurant, the Maitre'd tells her it will be a 45 minute wait. She bends over, opens her top button... And it's still going to be a 45 minute wait.
</li><li> "When we get there, the drinks are on these!" Penny, in <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/TheBigBangTheory" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/TheBigBangTheory">The Big Bang Theory</a></em>.
</li><li> In the pilot of <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Bones" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Bones">Bones</a></em>, Angela is waiting for Brennan at the airport, but finds the arrivals board broken and therefore has no idea at which terminal Brennan's plane has arrived. She goes to speak to a serviceman, who is too busy punching keys to talk to her. After about ten seconds of being ignored, she rips open her shirt, showing off a <em>very</em> nice pair of breasts(in a very nice lacy bustier, this is network television, pervs). The <a class="urllink" href="http://www.acronymfinder.com/Federal-Air-Transportation-Airport-Security-Service-%28FATASS%29.html">FATASS<img height="12" src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" style="border:none;" width="12"/></a> man then gives her his full attention.
<div class="indent"><strong>Angela</strong>: <em>Yeah. Hi. The flight from Guatemala?</em>
</div><ul><li> Aaaand then Brennan walks up behind her.
<div class="indent"><strong>Brennan:</strong> <em>Tell me you tried "Excuse me" first?</em></li><li> In the <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YouFightLikeACow" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YouFightLikeACow">insult swordfighting</a> segment of <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TheSecretOfMonkeyIsland" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TheSecretOfMonkeyIsland">The Secret of Monkey Island</a></em>, Guybrush must memorize the insults and comebacks used by his opponents to make them easier to defeat. When fighting the Swordmaster, Guybrush learns a unique set of insults that cannot be countered by other pirates. Using them is pointless, because they prevent you from learning new comebacks, and by the time you've met the Swordmaster the only reason you'd have to fight other pirates is to learn new comebacks.
</li></ul></div>
<p></p><div class="folderlabel" onclick="togglefolder('folder3');"> Beat 'em Ups </div><div class="folder" id="folder3" isfolder="true" style="display:block;">
<ul><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/ViewtifulJoe" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/ViewtifulJoe">Viewtiful Joe</a></em> has Captain Blue as a playable character. To unlock him, you need to beat the game on the hardest setting called "Ultra V-Rated" mode, where enemies don't call their attacks, many of the mooks are replaced with their <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EliteMooks" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EliteMooks">upgraded counterparts</a>, many of those guys' attacks are faster, bosses have nearly a dozen health bars, and you take <em>quadruple</em> damage from everything. Combine that with a two-stage final boss whose most common attack now takes a monstrous eight hearts out of your life bar (the maximum being 16 with all upgrades), and you're in for a bumpy ride. Totally worth it to see that fatass fly at supersonic speeds with his hands on his hips, though.
</li></ul></div>
<p></p><div class="folderlabel" onclick="togglefolder('folder4');"> Fighting Games </div><div class="folder" id="folder4" isfolder="true" style="display:block;">
<ul><li> Getting the best equipment in <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy">Dissidia Final Fantasy</a></em>. The Lufenian gear (best armors, some of the best weapons) and the ingredients to make each character's <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InfinityPlusOneSword" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InfinityPlusOneSword">Level 100 Exclusive</a> plus the best accessories can only be gotten by a long and grueling slog through the game's Lunar Whale course. The Lunar Whale has enemies at the highest CPU strength/intelligence, at level 120 when the player is capped at level 100, in the worst stages in the game, in special rulesets, decked out in the finest equipment and accessories the game has to offer, with a hefty dose of <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheComputerIsACheatingBastard" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheComputerIsACheatingBastard">cheating</a> and <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MyRulesAreNotYourRules" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MyRulesAreNotYourRules">My Rules Are Not Your Rules</a>. Surviving the Lunar Whale course long enough to get the gear for even one character, let alone all 22, only demonstrates that the player clearly doesn't <em>need</em> it.</li><li> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/CMPunk" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/CMPunk">CM Punk</a>, through his scathing <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WorkedShoot" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WorkedShoot">Worked Shoot</a> promo on 6/27/2011, created an on-screen character for himself where he could fly between the fourth wall and reality. He even lampshaded his own fourth wall-breaking in the promo.
</li><li> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/TheRock" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/TheRock">The Rock</a> does this a lot. For example, in reference to the brief <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/JohnCena" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/JohnCena">John Cena</a> / <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/ZackRyder" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/ZackRyder">Zack Ryder</a> / <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/EveTorres" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/EveTorres">Eve Torres</a> love triangle in early 2012, Rock pointed out that Cena is married in real life.
</li><li> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/TripleH" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/TripleH">Triple H</a> is the patron saint of this, especially when teaming with <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/ShawnMichaels" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wrestling/ShawnMichaels">Shawn Michaels</a> and DX. From addressing his real life romance, marriage, and baby to the mantra of his heel Authority run being, "best for business" to flubbing a line on live TV and addressing it he does not let up, not even in video game form.
<div class="indent">"Put down the controller, get off the couch, and hit the gym fatass!"
</div></li></ul></div>
<p></p><div class="folderlabel" onclick="togglefolder('folder4');"> Puppet Shows </div><div class="folder" id="folder4" isfolder="true" style="display:block;">
<ul><li> The Cashore Marionettes do this occasionally; one of the most significant instances is the skit "The Quest", in which a puppet scales his own puppeteer like a mountain, accompanied by triumphant music.<div class="video-examples-featured">
<a class="video-launch-link video-overlay-link featured-widget-vid" data-video-approval="APPROVED" data-video-average-rating="4.87" data-video-descrip="&quot;It's disrespectful to call a grown-up by their first name.&quot; Bart proves Todd's point to their new mom, Edna." data-video-id="1hbdxs" data-video-media-sources="Recap/TheSimpsonsS23E21NedNEdnasBlend,WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons" data-video-rating-count="15" data-video-thumbnail="https://i.vimeocdn.com/video/841460742_640x360.jpg?r=pad" data-video-title="The Simpsons: Homer or Fatass" data-video-trope="Main/CallingParentsByTheirName" data-video-tropename="Calling Parents by Their Name" data-video-troper-rating="" data-video-url="https://player.vimeo.com/external/380917009.sd.mp4?s=cf4835b77ec62103c4297282e34e6873ef328745&profile_id=164&oauth2_token_id=1043337761" href="#video-link">
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<h2 class="bold font-l">The Simpsons: Homer or Fatass</h2>
<p class="_pmvv-vidbox-descTxt"></li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Machinima/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Machinima/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers">SMG4's Mario Bloopers</a></em>
<ul><li> SMG4 says Mario's name out loud in "Spaghetti Law" when the latter mistakes the former for <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TrademarkFavoriteFood" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TrademarkFavoriteFood">spaghetti</a>.
</li><li> SMG3 to Bowser in "Bad Stars" when he doesn't listen.
<div class="indent"><strong>SMG3:</strong> Bowser! Get your fatass over here! <br><em>[Bowser just spins around]</em> <br><strong>SMG3:</strong> BOWSER!
</div></li></ul></li><li> <span class="spoiler" title="you can set spoilers visible by default on your profile"><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AxCrazy" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AxCrazy">Tricky</a></span>'s first action upon coming <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BackFromTheDead" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BackFromTheDead">Back from the Dead</a> in <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebAnimation/MadnessCombat" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebAnimation/MadnessCombat">Madness Combat</a> 11: Expurgation</em> is to screech <em><strong>HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANK!</strong></em>, the protagonist's name.
</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebAnimation/Chadam" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebAnimation/Chadam">Chadam</a></em>: When Sandy is left dying from a Pallid attack, Chadam screams her name as the episode ends.
</li><li> DanTDM: Near the end of <a class="urllink" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PBc5hi65AQ">the first part of Custom Vacation Adventure<img src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" height="12" width="12" style="border:none;"></a>, Dan shouts his friend Trayaurus' name when he can't find him on the island.<ul><li> In one episode, Mr. Krabs offers SpongeBob and Squidward a Caribbean vacation as a prize to whoever can be the friendliest employee. SpongeBob, already friendly with all the regular customers, seems to be winning. But Squidward spots a new customer, and asks him his name. The customer rudely replies "What's it to ya?!" and angrily storms out. Squidward chases him all over Bikini Bottom, causing a fair amount of damage along the way, but finally catches up to him. Squidward yanks the wallet from the customer's pants, looks at his driver's license, and the customer's name is... Whatzit Tooya. Squidward is then imprisoned for the aforementioned city damage, but it's all right with him, because once he's out, he's got a Caribbean vacation to look forward to! That is, until Mr. Krabs visits him in jail and says <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShaggyDogStory" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShaggyDogStory">the contest was for the brochure describing the vacation, not the vacation itself.</a>
</li><li> When Mr. Krabs tries to steal back a million dollar #1 hat from SpongeBob, he makes up a ghost that "wants his hat back." SpongeBob asks his name, but the surprised Krabs can only string together syllables in a name he thinks can't possibly exist: Smitty Werbenjaegermanjensen. Turns out <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AccidentalTruth" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AccidentalTruth">there was such a man</a>, so SpongeBob <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HilarityEnsues" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HilarityEnsues">buries the hat in his tomb.</a>
</li></ul></li><li> An episode of <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead">Beavis and Butt-Head</a></em> had Buzzcut trying to make the titular morons laugh. He starts calling attendance, with names like Butkus and Gaylord. Naturally, they're all actual students.
</li><li> An episode of <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Sealab2021" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Sealab2021">Sealab 2021</a></em> has one of the children get scolded when she calls her rather overweight classmate "Fatass McBlobicus". Turns out that's actually his name.
</li><li> In the <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse">Steven Universe</a></em> episode "Marble Madness", Connie's mom says that she doesn't believe that Steven's name is real, while we all know it is. To her credit, "Universe" was his father's <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StageName" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StageName">Stage Name</a> made legal name, but it really has been Steven's name since birth.
</li><li> This incident in the Savage Land saga of <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/XMen" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/XMen">X-Men</a></em>.
<div class="indent"><strong>Wolverine</strong>: You don't kick a man when he's down, hair bag! <br><strong>Hairbag</strong>: Hey! Who told you my name? You making fun of me? Nobody makes fun of Hairbag!</li><li> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilerThanThou" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilerThanThou">Eviler Than Thou</a>: We're the superior villains here, so scram!
</li><li> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ExperienceEntitlement" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ExperienceEntitlement">Experience Entitlement</a>: I'm more experienced in this thing than you are, so I have every right to look down on you!
</li><li> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FanHater" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FanHater">Fan Hater</a>: You're a fan of this crap? You're a loser who needs to get a life!
</li><li> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FatBastard" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FatBastard">Fat Bastard</a>: Hey don't you dare call me a fatass, you piece of shit! Now go and bring me more food <em>right now</em>, dammit!
</li><li> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FrenchJerk" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FrenchJerk">French Jerk</a>: Vas te faire encule, salope. <span class="notelabel" onclick="togglenote('note4ng2z');"><sup>Translation: </sup></span><span id="note4ng2z" class="inlinefolder" isnote="true" onclick="togglenote('note4ng2z');" style="cursor:pointer;font-size:smaller;display:none;">Fuck you, bitch!</span>
</li><li> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheFriendNobodyLikes" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheFriendNobodyLikes">The Friend Nobody Likes</a>: My dumb friends hate me, but who gives a damn? I'm still in their little social circle.
</li><li> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheFundamentalist" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheFundamentalist">The Fundamentalist</a>: My beliefs are superior to you infidels! Accept my beliefs or burn in hell!<p></p><div class="folderlabel" onclick="togglefolder('folder1');"> Comedy </div><div class="folder" id="folder1" isfolder="true" style="display:block;">
<ul><li> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/GeorgeCarlin" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/GeorgeCarlin">George Carlin</a>:
<ul><li> He claimed in one stand-up bit that he prayed to <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/JoePesci" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/JoePesci">Joe Pesci</a> rather than God in part because of this trope.
</li></ul><div class="indent">... Instead, I pray to Joe Pesci. Why? Two reasons. First, I think he's a good actor, and that counts for something. Second, <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HairTriggerTemper" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HairTriggerTemper">Joe</a> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ClusterFBomb" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ClusterFBomb">Pesci</a> looks like the kind of guy who can get things done. For years I asked God to do something about my nosy neighbor with the barking dog. Joe Pesci straightened that cocksucker out with one visit. <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CuttingTheKnot" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CuttingTheKnot">Amazing what one can accomplish with a simple wooden baseball bat...</a>
</div><ul><li> He also made a joke in one of his books saying that the bat really is the perfect murder weapon: legal, able to buy one in any sporting store, and hey, it's the national pastime!
</li><li> Evidently he dealt with his daughter's abusive boyfriend by threatening him with a baseball bat (and a terse, frighteningly to-the-point <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BadassBoast" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BadassBoast">Badass Boast</a>: "I don't play baseball").
</li></ul></li></ul></div><ul><li> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Deconstruction" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Deconstruction">Deconstruction</a>. BoJack has a tendency to sleep with women who are half his age, but in "Escape from LA", <span class="spoiler" title="you can set spoilers visible by default on your profile"> he comes really close to sleeping with Charlotte's seventeen-year-old daughter Penny. Despite 17 being the legal age of consent in New Mexico and Penny making the first move, Charlotte still threatens to kill BoJack if he ever comes near her again, and she most likely thinks that BoJack is a child molester. "That's Too Much, Man!" also reveals that the whole event traumatized Penny and she seems to know that it wasn't the right choice, and BoJack is shocked when he finds out when he sees her at her college</span>.
</li><li> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Deconstruction" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Deconstruction">Deconstruction</a>. The one thing that Mr. Peanutbutter sees in all women is their youth and carefree nature, which unfortunately predispones him to choosing very, very young women who are barely beginning to understand the world. Hes in deep denial over this and prefers to believe he just ruins them, but as the series goes on, this becomes a worsening problem for him with failed marriage after failed marriage due to his unaware jackass behavior, immaturity and lack of intelligence picking them apart and gradually going for younger girls, culminating with Pickles, his girlfriend in season 5, who is less than half his age. When Diane suggests one way to break his divorce cycle is to start dating older women (i.e. women his own age), he actually grimaces.
</li></ul></li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy">Family Guy</a></em>:
<ul><li> Glenn Quagmire is the most prominent example of not only being a dirty old man, but being hypersexual in the process. At age 61, <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OlderThanTheyLook" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OlderThanTheyLook">despite looking half as old</a>, he frequently indulges in sexual fetishes (from frotteurism and erotic asphyxiation to zoophilia and incest and necrophilia) and strikes up conversations with women less than half his age (with many of them in high school) with the obvious goal of having sex with them. In "Peter Griffin: Husband, Father, Brother?", he finds a bound and gagged high school cheerleader in a bathroom stall, and proclaims, "Dear Diary: Jackpot!".
</li><li> Herbert, the elderly pederast shows up from time to time just to say creepy stuff in his distinctive voice, usually to an unwary or perhaps wary Chris Griffin. Like the "Greased-up Deaf Guy", he was a one note gag character that was simply too offensively funny to not bring back. He'd never be funny if he wasn't so old and feeble.
</li></ul></li><li> Cotton Hill from <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill">King of the Hill</a></em> would take any opportunity to grab or slap a young woman's butt, he regularly visits strip joints to gawk at and flirt with the women, and he married a woman about 30 years younger than him.
</li><li> One episode of <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/PennZeroPartTimeHero" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/PennZeroPartTimeHero">Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero</a></em> opens on Penn walking down a street while on a video call with his parents. After the conversation ends they get <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MakeOutKids" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MakeOutKids">distracted</a>, so Penn quickly reaches out to end the call — only to be stopped by a random old man.</li><li> Military Otaku
</li><li> Technology Otaku
</li></ul><p>Essentially, someone could be an <em>otaku</em> about just about anything: politics, sports, history, etc. When <em>otaku</em> is used by itself by a Westerner, 99% of the time it will mean "anime/manga otaku".
</p><p>Neither <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Geek" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Geek">geek</a></em> nor <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Nerd" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Nerd">nerd</a></em> is an adequate translation. However, in modern use, both words may carry a shadow of the right connotations of obsessive interest and/or social ineptitude; see the <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Geek" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Geek">geek</a> and <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Nerd" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Nerd">nerd</a> pages for details. Think of the older, more pejorative senses of <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Geek" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Geek">geek</a></em> and you're on the right track. The British term <em>anorak</em> and the Internet term <em>neckbeard</em> are also close translations. Speaking of <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheInternet" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheInternet">The Internet</a>, in more <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GIFT" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GIFT">dickish</a> online communities, autism-related terms get slung around in a similar manner. The closest <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourVocabulary" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourVocabulary">troper-speak</a> cognate would be "<a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LoonyFan" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LoonyFan">Loony Fan</a>." In Japan, the term doesn't carry a positive meaning at all. One of the first things most Japanese language classes often have to teach people is that <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DidNotDoTheBloodyResearch" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DidNotDoTheBloodyResearch">calling yourself an otaku in Japan</a> is a <em>very</em> bad thing. (Although it must be said that in more recent years this sense is mellowing out, to the extent that <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ProudToBeAGeek" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ProudToBeAGeek">more Japanese are self-identifying as otaku</a>. See <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wiki/TheOtherWiki" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Wiki/TheOtherWiki">The Other Wiki</a>'s page on this for more info.)
</p><div class="proper-ad-unit mobile-ad square_ad"><h6 class="ad-caption">Advertisement:</h6><div id="proper-ad-tvtropes_mobile_ad_2"><script>propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })</script></div></div><p>A related term is <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Hikikomori" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Hikikomori">hikikomori</a></em>, which refers to a teenager or young adult who withdraws completely from society for an extended period, typically isolating themselves within their parents' house and becoming psychologically fixated on particular hobbies; hikikomori in media are usually otaku of some sort. Hikikomori are also critically viewed as lazy and outright creepy, which doesn't help the perception of otaku much - especially after 1989, when serial killer Tsutomu Miyazaki was shown to be both an otaku and hikikomori, leading to a moral panic.
</p><p>Otakuism is associated with men, with the notable exceptions of the <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FanGirl" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FanGirl">Fangirls</a>, <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WrenchWench" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WrenchWench">Wrench Wench</a>, the <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CosplayOtakuGirl" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CosplayOtakuGirl">Cosplay Otaku Girl</a>, and <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YaoiFangirl" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YaoiFangirl">creators of</a> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YaoiGuys" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YaoiGuys">a certain kind of comic</a>. However, females seem to be either getting more common lately or becoming more relaxed about showing it.
</p><div class="proper-ad-unit mobile-ad square_ad"><h6 class="ad-caption">Advertisement:</h6><div id="proper-ad-tvtropes_mobile_ad_3"><script>propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })</script></div></div><p>The term itself comes from the very polite form of "<a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/JapanesePronouns" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/JapanesePronouns">you</a>", which can come off as socially awkward. The best guess as to how the term became associated with obsessive fandom is that the word was an inside joke among the production staff of the anime series <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross">Super Dimension Fortress Macross</a></em> in 1982, and that they would have characters (notably Lynn Minmay) use the over-polite form of address, even when inappropriate. Fans picked it up and used it in conversation between each other even well past the point when they would use other forms of "you", such as "kimi" or "Anata" or "omae". A writer for a Japanese magazine noted the meme and wrote an article that cemented the term as being used for obsessive fans.<p></p><div class="quoteright" style="width:350px;"><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Airplane" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Airplane"><div class="lazy_load_img_box" style="padding-top:66.57%"><img alt="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thebore.png" border="0" class="embeddedimage" height="233" src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thebore.png" width="350"/></div></a></div>
<div class="acaptionright" style="width:350px;">"I know I'm probably starting to bore you..."</div>
<div class="indent"><em>"YOU WASTE OF AIR. I feel like I wasted a gallon of oxygen just talking to you. Starving children could have used that oxygen you know. NOW THEY'RE DEAD!"</em>
<div class="indent">— <strong>Neckbeard</strong>, <em>Frumplequest</em>
</div></div><div class="proper-ad-unit mobile-ad square_ad"><h6 class="ad-caption">Advertisement:</h6><div id="proper-ad-tvtropes_mobile_ad_1"><script>propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })</script></div></div><p>This is a person whose conversation is so dull, you would rather watch paint dry for an hour than listen to them for a minute. The Bore may not be talkative—perhaps they just have the charisma of a wooden plank, saying nothing and doing nothing of interest. They're probably an enthusiast for <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IncrediblyLameFun" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IncrediblyLameFun">Incredibly Lame Fun</a> and take a keen interest in, say, the history of toothpaste caps. Perhaps they do have interesting stories but tell them so often or in such a way as to suck all interest out of them. Perhaps whenever they join a conversation, no matter what the subject, they can only talk about how it affects or relates to <em>them</em>. Whichever it is, The Bore is unutterably, interminably <em>dull</em>.
</p><p>Usually, they are completely oblivious to the agony they cause, and often they're too nice for anyone in the cast to want to hurt their feelings, although this isn't always so. Some of them are aware of how uninteresting everyone else finds them and simply don't care, or they'll exploit the rules of common etiquette or a position of authority to "enlighten" their victims with their droning. In any case, getting into a conversation with them is like getting caught in <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/QuicksandSucks" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/QuicksandSucks">Hollywood-style quicksand</a>: unless someone or something interrupts, you won't be able to escape being sucked down into a bottomless pit of monotony.
</p><div class="proper-ad-unit mobile-ad square_ad"><h6 class="ad-caption">Advertisement:</h6><div id="proper-ad-tvtropes_mobile_ad_2"><script>propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })</script></div></div><p>Maybe a source of <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NapInducingSpeak" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NapInducingSpeak">Nap-Inducing Speak</a>. Compare <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoSenseOfHumor" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoSenseOfHumor">No Sense of Humor</a>. Not related to <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheComicallySerious" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheComicallySerious">The Comically Serious</a>, where a boring person gets laughs by having funny things happen to her while she reacts completely seriously. Super trope to <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OldWindbag" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OldWindbag">Old Windbag</a>, a kind of Bore who is old (usually) and known for telling really long, uninteresting stories. Also a super trope to <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WindbagPolitician" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WindbagPolitician">Windbag Politician</a>, a politician who bores the audience half to death with long, usually low-substance speeches.</li><li> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/Krallice" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/Krallice">Krallice</a>, given the lyrics on <em>Prelapsarian</em> and <em>Loüm</em>, probably fit in here now
</li><li> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/LAcephale" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/LAcephale">L'Acephale</a><span class="notelabel" onclick="togglenote('note1031ma');"><sup>note </sup></span><span class="inlinefolder" id="note1031ma" isnote="true" onclick="togglenote('note1031ma');" style="cursor:pointer;font-size:smaller;display:none;">Although they've never precisely made a secret of their political sympathies (they're literally named after a secret society formed by the French leftist Georges Bataille - already mentioned as an influence on Deathspell Omega, incidentally - and <em>Stahlhartes Gehäuse</em> is based around the band's critique of capitalism, bureaucracy, and industrialism by way of the German sociologist Max Weber), these have become much more explicit with more recent releases like "Mortem" and the <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SelfTitledAlbum" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SelfTitledAlbum">Self-Titled Album</a></span>
</li><li> <a class="createlink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/Leech" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/Leech">Leech</a>
</li><li> Neckbeard Deathcamp (a humorous take on the genre, but musically serious)
</li><li> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/Panopticon" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/Panopticon">Panopticon</a> (which has overlapped with <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FolkMetal" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FolkMetal">Folk Metal</a> in recent years)
</li><li> Plebeian Grandstand
</li><li> PunaTerrori</li><li> O-chul in <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick">The Order of the Stick</a></em> combines this with <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BaldOfAwesome" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BaldOfAwesome">Bald of Awesome</a> to <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MemeticBadass" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MemeticBadass">great effect</a>.
</li><li> <a class="urllink" href="http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=543">Mr. Thorn<img height="12" src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" style="border:none;" width="12"/></a> from <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt">Gunnerkrigg Court</a></em>. Games teacher and dragon-slayer for the previous generation, and owner of an <em>epic</em> beard.
</li><li> In the "Oceans Unmoving" arc of <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/SluggyFreelance" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/SluggyFreelance">Sluggy Freelance</a></em>, Calix grows a massive beard after <span class="spoiler" title="you can set spoilers visible by default on your profile"> Stu dies</span>, and afterward becomes much more ruthless and determined, growing up from the skilled but innocent boy he was.
</li><li> In <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja">The Adventures of Dr. McNinja</a></em>, Franz Rayner <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DoubleSubversion" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DoubleSubversion">Double Subverted</a> this with his neckbeard. While normally the complete opposite of this trope (and it just led to him getting humiliated when compared to Dan's <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BadassMustache" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BadassMustache">Badass Mustache</a>) it's capable of blocking ninja punches.
<ul><li> King Radical, on the other hand, wins the award for most ridiculous beard that still manages to look badass. He also <a class="urllink" href="http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p79">gave a bunch of orphans beards<img height="12" src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" style="border:none;" width="12"/></a> just because he loves all things awesome.
</li><li> The Ultimate Diplomat is a <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BadassPacifist" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BadassPacifist">Badass Pacifist</a> example.
</li></ul></li><li> <a class="urllink" href="http://pics.livejournal.com/beatonna/pic/0004eh1s/">Sandford Fleming in this Hark! A Vagrant strip.<img height="12" src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" style="border:none;" width="12"/></a></li><li> The Komodo Brothers from the <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/CrashBandicoot" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/CrashBandicoot">Crash Bandicoot</a></em> series (Joe being the skinny one while Moe is the fat one).
</li><li> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/ToejamAndEarl" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/ToejamAndEarl">ToeJam & Earl</a>.
</li><li> Killik Hardtack and Murkel Tranchfoot from <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TalesOfMonkeyIsland" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TalesOfMonkeyIsland">Tales of Monkey Island</a></em>.
</li><li> Skinhead and Neckbeard, the security guards of Club Titiboo in <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/Mother3" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/Mother3">Mother 3</a></em>.
<ul><li> The game also has <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/AbbottAndCostello" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/AbbottAndCostello">Bud and Lou</a>, the two would-be comedians and <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine">manzai duo</a>.
</li></ul></li><li> Jill and The Queen from <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/MightyJillOff" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/MightyJillOff">Mighty Jill Off</a></em>.
</li><li> The protagonists of <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/BonanzaBros" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/BonanzaBros">Bonanza Bros.</a></em>.</li><li> Mac Sabbath, a band who perform <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/BlackSabbath" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/BlackSabbath">Black Sabbath</a> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SongParody" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SongParody">song parodies</a> with lyrics satirizing the fast food industry, and whose stage image is based on McDonald's "Mcdonaldland" characters. They always perform in costume, use pseudonyms parodying said Mcdonaldland characters, and don't do interviews - manager Mike Odd speaks on their behalf. Rumor has it that Mike Odd, who fronts the similarly theatrical rock band Rosemary's Billygoat, is more directly involved than that, though there exists a promo photo of him and Mac Sabbath frontman Ronald Osbourne in the same place at the same time.
</li><li> Marshmello is an EDM DJ who's entire shtick is that no one knows who he is, because he wears a marshmallow mask at all times and has never revealed or even hinted at his identity.
</li><li> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/TupperWareRemixParty" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/TupperWareRemixParty">Tupper Ware Remix Party</a> consists of four masked performers, who go by the names Dr. Sung, Lord Phobos, Commander Meouch, and Havve Hogan. The performers have managed to keep their identities secret for over nine years of being a band, and for now would like to keep it that way.
</li><li> Neckbeard Deathcamp are a satirical black metal band whose lyrics and image focus on mocking the alt-right. As evidenced by stage names like Kriegmeister Hatestorm and Kaiser Wehrwulf VonTolerance, their anonymity adds to the black metal spoof... But they've also said that if their targets learned their real names they'd likely get "doxxed" (i.e. have their addresses, phone numbers and other personal information shared online for harassment purposes). All that is known about them is that two members are from Chicago.
</li><li> <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/PCMusic" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/PCMusic">PC Music</a> is an online music label/art collective that <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ZigZaggingTrope" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ZigZaggingTrope">zig-zags</a> this a lot. While the names and histories of some members are public, there are just as many acts who have minuscule or straight-up nonexistent online presence aside from their music and alias, and even the more relatively public ones tend to be somewhat reclusive or <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PoesLaw" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PoesLaw">surreal</a>. Some anonymous identities have been eventually outed as <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SecretIdentity" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SecretIdentity">alternate pseudonyms</a> of one <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CollectiveIdentity" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CollectiveIdentity">or more</a> PC Music acts, contributing to the label's strange and "hyperreal" atmosphere.
</li><li> In the early days of the band <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/IDontKnowHowButTheyFoundMe" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/IDontKnowHowButTheyFoundMe">I Don't Know How But They Found Me</a>, neither vocalist/bassist Dallon Weekes nor drummer Ryan Seaman advertised or even acknowledged their latest project. They wrote songs in private, and booked shows under their new band name, where they would play to an audience that had no idea who they were. There was no information about them online until people who had gone to the shows started posting about them. For a while, both members would flat-out deny any knowledge of the band when asked. The band is not anonymous anymore, however, as both members are now fully open about their involvement. They've said that their early anonymity was because they didn't want to exploit the fans of the bands they were previously involved with (<a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/PanicAtTheDisco" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/PanicAtTheDisco">Panic! at the Disco</a> for Dallon, <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/FallingInReverse" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/FallingInReverse">Falling in Reverse</a> for Ryan) because it would feel disingenuous, and they wanted to be known and judged solely by their music.
</li><li> When the <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Bluegrass" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Bluegrass">bluegrass</a> band <a class="createlink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/HotRize" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/HotRize">Hot Rize</a> go on tour, their opening act is usually a western swing band called Red Knuckles and the Trailblazers, which is actually the members of Hot Rize themselves playfully denying that they are the same people. .<p></p><div class="folderlabel" onclick="togglefolder('folder10');"> Web Comics </div><div class="folder" id="folder10" isfolder="true" style="display:block;">
<ul><li> The trope image comes from <a class="urllink" href="http://www.theaterhopper.com/2005/12/05/im-watching-you/">a strip<img height="12" src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" style="border:none;" width="12"/></a> of <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/TheaterHopper" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/TheaterHopper">Theater Hopper</a></em>.
</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja">The Adventures of Dr. McNinja</a></em>:
<ul><li> A young Doctor McNinja does this to Frans Rayner when the latter is getting laughed at by the ninja guild for his neckbeard.
</li><li> And in a later arc, <span class="spoiler" title="you can set spoilers visible by default on your profile">in the <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BadFuture" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BadFuture">Bad Future</a></span>, to King Radical.
</li></ul></li><li> <a class="urllink" href="http://timeslikethis.com/?id=547">Nicki to Philip<img height="12" src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" style="border:none;" width="12"/></a> in <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/TimesLikeThis" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/TimesLikeThis">Times Like This</a></em>.
</li><li> <a class="urllink" href="http://www.commanderkitty.com/2009/10/25/im-watching-you-butterball/">Done by CK to Mittens<img height="12" src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" style="border:none;" width="12"/></a> in one <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/CommanderKitty" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/CommanderKitty">Commander Kitty</a></em> episode.<p></p><div class="folderlabel" onclick="togglefolder('folder13');"> Web Comics </div><div class="folder" id="folder13" isfolder="true" style="display:block;">
<ul><li> In <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/CwensQuest" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/CwensQuest">Cwen's Quest</a></em> mysterious life slave Riddly Lancer defeats a huge dragon with an equally huge DBZ style blast. Next chapter when asked to do it again to defeat the next bad guy he simply reports he can't. Luckily he apparently has a few other skills.
</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick">The Order of the Stick</a></em>: Vaarsuvius tells Durkon that V's brief period of unimaginable magical power was "a singular event" that can't be repeated and <a class="urllink" href="https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0667.html">doesn't disagree<img height="12" src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" style="border:none;" width="12"/></a> when Durkon asks if it had a heavy <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CastFromExperiencePoints" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CastFromExperiencePoints">Cast from Experience Points</a> cost. It's true that it almost certainly can't be repeated... because the power came from a <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DealWithTheDevil" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DealWithTheDevil">Deal with the Devil</a> that the Fiends <a class="urllink" href="http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0631.html">almost never grant<img height="12" src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" style="border:none;" width="12"/></a>, and comes with a debt that Vaarsuvius hasn't even started to pay off.
</li><li> In chapter three of <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja">The Adventures of Dr. McNinja</a></em>, Dan McNinja defeats Frans Rayner by punching him in the right butt cheek and exposing his neckbeard. Years later, when Dr. McNinja fights him, Frans <span class="spoiler" title="you can set spoilers visible by default on your profile"> has moved his weak spot to a different location</span> and taken extreme precautions to keep his beard from ever being noticeable.
<ul><li> Also applies to holy weapons throughout the series: it's one banishment per weapon, and if the numbers suddenly change on you, <a class="urllink" href="http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/20p67/">you'd better have another trick up your sleeve.<img height="12" src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" style="border:none;" width="12"/></a>
</li></ul></li><li> The Treasure Juju in <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/Homestuck" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/Homestuck">Homestuck</a></em> can only ever be used twice, but each use is so drastically different that they could technically be different items. The first time, <span class="spoiler" title="you can set spoilers visible by default on your profile"> it can only be used by Caliborn as a weapon against his enemies (by sealing them away inside it forever)</span>. The second time, <span class="spoiler" title="you can set spoilers visible by default on your profile"> it can only be used by Caliborn's enemies against <strong>him</strong> (by unleashing their power in one concentrated blast)</span>.
</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/SchlockMercenary" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/SchlockMercenary">Schlock Mercenary</a></em> had a <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TimeTravel" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TimeTravel">Time Travel</a> storyline; but the particular method could only work once <a class="urllink" href="https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2005-04-10">due to some of the equipment being destroyed<img height="12" src="https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif" style="border:none;" width="12"/></a> in the process (and before the effective start of the conditions that made it useable in that way), meaning only one shot...<div class="indent"><strong>Tagon:</strong> You're trying to bait me with money you don't even <em>have</em>. <br/><strong>Ceeta:</strong> But you're hungry enough to fall for it, right?
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<ul><li> On /tg/, 4chans' traditional gaming board, there are many tales of that rude, cheating, unwashed neckbeard who literally and figuratively stinks up the entire game shop... but the owners don't kick him out because he spends so much money there.
</li><li> In the <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory">Epic Rap Battles of History</a></em>, "Mitt Romney vs. Barack Obama", we get this:
<div class="indent"><strong>Romney:</strong> I'm not gonna let this battle be dictated by facts / I'm rich!
</div></li><li> Actively defied in the "Down on Moonshine Holler" segments of <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Podcast/TheThrillingAdventureHour" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Podcast/TheThrillingAdventureHour">The Thrilling Adventure Hour</a></em>. In these episodes, millionaire Jasper Manorlodge renounced his riches and took up the identity of hobo Banjo Bindlestuff to seek out the Hobo Princess he fell in <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LoveAtFirstSight" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LoveAtFirstSight">Love at First Sight</a> with. <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OnceAnEpisode" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OnceAnEpisode">Once an Episode</a>, he and his hobo mentor Gummy encounter situations that Banjo, if he were to access his wealth, could resolve quickly at the cost of sabotaging his chances of finding the Hobo Princess. Since he genuinely wishes to help, this often makes Banjo use his ingenuity to figure out how to solve the situation "The Hobo Way."<ul><li> Revolver Ocelot was known as just "Ocelot" in <em>Metal Gear Solid 3</em>, and brags that in war in Afghanistan he was known as "Shalashaska" (Russian for "prison") due to his specialisation in torture.
</li><li> Naked Snake's codename was officially changed to Big Boss after killing The Boss, but during <em>Portable Ops</em> he uses the name "Snake" due to not feeling comfortable being called "Boss" yet.
</li><li> One soldier with the real name of Jack was known in the Liberian Civil War by the nicknames "The White Devil" and "Jack the Ripper". In <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2">Metal Gear Solid 2</a></em> he is assigned the codename "Raiden", which in <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4">Metal Gear Solid 4</a></em> he is using as his main name (much to the confusion of Snake, who had apparently learned his real name at some point between the two games and liked to call him by it). By <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance">Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance</a></em>, he is still using the name Raiden but the "Jack the Ripper" identity has become a dissociative personality, capable of guilt-free <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RoaringRampageOfRevenge" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RoaringRampageOfRevenge">righteous slaughter rampages</a> when Raiden's shame is pushed too far.
</li><li> One apparently nameless, German-speaking child soldier was nicknamed "the frank hunter" due to his battle tactic being to lure enemies in with beguiling childlike innocence and then stalk and slaughter them with a knife - this eventually became his legal name, "Frank Jaeger". As a soldier in the San Heironymo conflict, he was used in something called the Perfect Soldier Project, becoming nicknamed "Null" due to having his memories wiped. When he joined FOXHOUND he became known as "Gray Fox", and in capacity as a double agent to Snake in <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/MetalGear2" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/MetalGear2">Metal Gear 2</a></em> he used the name "Snake's No. 1 Fan". In the Shadow Moses conflict everyone, terrified of him, called him "the Cyborg Ninja", but in his capacity as a double-agent to Snake he used the name "Deepthroat".
</li></ul></li></ul></li><li> Used for many of the assassins in the first <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes">No More Heroes</a></em>, with a few exceptions. Averted for the most part in <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle">No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle</a></em>, where they mostly go by their real names.
</li><li> The protagonist of <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/Persona5" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/Persona5">Persona 5</a></em> has no <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CanonName" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CanonName">Canon Name</a>, instead being called by <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HelloInsertNameHere" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HelloInsertNameHere">a first and last name of the player's choosing</a>.<span class="notelabel" onclick="togglenote('note35o4f');"><sup>note </sup></span><span class="inlinefolder" id="note35o4f" isnote="true" onclick="togglenote('note35o4f');" style="cursor:pointer;font-size:smaller;display:none;"><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/Persona5TheAnimation" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/Persona5TheAnimation">The anime of the game</a> and <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/Persona5DancingInStarlight" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/Persona5DancingInStarlight">the dancing spinoff game</a> both use "Ren Amamiya" as this character's name, but that isn't so much as suggested anywhere within the main game.</span> Instead, he's more commonly known as "Joker," his code name in the Phantom Thieves. When the character appeared in <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate">Super Smash Bros. Ultimate</a></em> as a <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GuestFighter" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GuestFighter">Guest Fighter</a>, he was referred to exclusively by his nom de guerre.
</li><li> <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/Splatoon" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/Splatoon">Splatoon</a></em> has agents of the New Squidbeak Splatoon assigned numbers as call signs. <span class="spoiler" title="you can set spoilers visible by default on your profile">Callie</span> and <span class="spoiler" title="you can set spoilers visible by default on your profile">Marie</span> are known as Agent 1 and Agent 2, and serve as the player's <a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MissionControl" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MissionControl">Mission Control</a>, while the player characters in <em>Splatoon</em> and <em><a class="twikilink" href="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/Splatoon2" title="/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/Splatoon2">Splatoon 2</a></em> are Agent 3 and Agent 4, respectively. The protagonist of the second game's <em>Octo Expansion</em> is also called Agent 8, although they aren't a true member of the New Squidbeak Splatoon.