>Character learns a useful new power they never thought they could have
>Maybe a training montage or metamorphosis beforehand
>The ability keeps showing up thereafter
>character has a crush on someone
>gets so close to becoming a thing, but in the end somehow fails.
>the movie/one-shot is actually canon
>stationary camera shot on a fast-moving vehicle with areas of deep shadow rapidly appearing/disappearing, i.e. a train entering several small tunnels or passing under large bridges in rapid succession
>character appears in a flash from within the shadows, despite not being there mere seconds ago
>begin badass fight scene
> episode about "nature is beautiful"
> cute animal is released to his freedom
> it's instantly eaten up by other animal
>>82775060
>It's the episode where the villain beats up/captures one of the MC's Friends
>MC finds the villain and goes H.A.M. on him
looking at you stuck up, up and away.
>Hero is fighting the main villain
>Subordinate of the villain teams up with the hero
>>82775060
>character in a new environment out of their element
>think that they've gone soft and weak
>they're still badass as ever if not more so
>seemingly powerful/untouchable villain is shown to be at the mercy of greater forces
That scene where Dr. Facilier gets dragged kicking and screaming into the realm of the Loa comes to mind.
>MC and Main Villain meet up for one last showdown
>Final battle takes at some badass location i.e tall tower, volcano, collapsing building, dark forest with a thunderstorm as backdrop, fuckin outer space
>MC and Main villain go all out balls out and brawl out in the hypest, edgy as fuck final fight ever.
Bonus points if MC's friends are there to witness it.
>>82777179
Where?
>you're probably wondering how i got in this situation
>cue flashback
>>82781353
>What's with Andy?
>>82781230
>Got another one. When MC and friends think they're hot shit after being Lv1 villains and thugs for the first half of season 1, then main villain confronts them mid season/season finale and bitchsmacks the considerable fuck of them. Main villain then reminds them that they ain't big fish, but guppies in a fucking ocean of sharks.
>MC Has a Rival.
>The Rival ends up becoming friends with the MC Character.
>Still acts like a dick the MC sometimes.
Smiles all around. :)
>it's a "we focus on the side characters" episode
>it takes place the same time as another episode
>>82782045
I gotta similar one because I can't think of any examples of yours.
>Side character episode.
>Side character solves dangerous problem without help of main characters.
>The main characters are also solving a problem but it's much bigger and more dangerous so the side characters can't get any help.
>>82783643
yeah everyone likes that one episode of bvs / jlu
>It's a "the hero learns the wrong lesson and becomes worse" episode
>>82775060
>Old man/retired hero.
>Decides to come out of his isolation and join the main characters for "one last adventure".
>>82784545
>yeah everyone likes that one episode of bvs
100% what I was thinking.
Are they are more examples or any examples of: >>82782045 ?
>>82775060
kind of reminds me of a trope I hate.
>Character gets a new power
>only use it once in a very specific scenario
>hero and villain both give up the ideological pretense and have one last final battle as equals because it's fun
>>82784930
Always a plus if he turns out to be a complete badass and fights with them.
>>82786111
Similar one:
>MC and villain run out of ammo/gadgets
>tired, angry
>they both just start bare knuckle brawling, punch for punch
>they get bloodier, more fucked up as time goes on.
>>82786111
>the hero realizes that while the villain was wrong to do what he did, his reasoning does have merit
>hero takes up the villain's ideological torch
>>82778564
i do love this one
>>82786111
any examples i know there was that one episode of justice league unlimited with the female pit fights
>>82775060
>tomboys
>>82786559
there's a point in the latter portion of goku and frieza's fight once everyone else is out of the way where they're just enjoying having such an exhilarating battle
not everything that happens in fiction is a trope
affable punch-clock villains
>The MC finally snaps and verbally blows the fuck out of the bully character in front of a large crowd.
>A character that's normally a hero is the villain for an episode, for a personal reason that's justified for that character.
>>82786914
Did the goku/frieza arc create a lot of these hero tropes we see now or did they just highly popularize them/perfect them for modern action cartoons?
I'm aware common plot themes have existed since man could tell a story but I'm finding it hard to think of previous animated shows that did this so well
>robots
There aren't enough robots in american cartoons.
>throw something off screen
>cat screams/sheep noises/car crash sound effects
>The hero and villain have to team up because something big and awful is happening RIGHT NOW
>>82788709
God hates american robot shows
This is a fact
>villain is delivering a big speech about there motives
>hero runs up to them halfway through and delivers the punch of the century
>Villain reforms
>They actually try to make up for what they did and feel bad for it instead of just not being actively evil
>It's an uphill battle
>>82786257
For whatever reason, I can't help but think of the Death in the Family Spider-man story.
I know it's not really an example but it just really comes to mind.
>>82775060
>'Ride off into the sunset' style endings.
>Wizened old mentors.
>The hero uses smarts to win instead of strength.
>Villain repents/reforms
>it sticks
>grizzled old timer comes out of retirement and feels out of place/struggles to keep up with the new breed
>>82789039
>grizzled old timer comes out of retirement and is a complete badass who makes the current breed look like a bunch of amateurs in comparison.
>>82775060
you love it now, but when Superman dies for the fifth time at the end of Justice League Part IV, will you still love it?
>>82785208
MLP *cough*
>>82789063
Honestly, I've never liked that variation.
>>82789095
I like them both, but I've always kind of like old people in general, and the badass variant works in more scenarios, whereas the out of place variant is almost always saddening.
>>82789166
Fair enough. I've always liked more sad stories myself, so maybe that's why I prefer the "struggling to keep up" type.
>villain has the hot female character as hostage for collateral
>"I'm afraid _______ can't be with you right now, she's a little tied up"
>character loses in a sport/fight/some bullshit
>has a huge 80s style montage
>they're now buff as shit
>still loses
>>82775060
>goes to train
>time skip
>leaves training a mystery till you see it in action and is explain with quick flash backs only to fire up the scene even more.
>>82788873
This
Even better if the reformed villain keeps getting caught in situations that make him look bad.
>>82781281
digimon
>>82785208
The one I remember the most was when AJ and Chester tried to find out how Timmy in the Fairy Odd Parents got popular. It takes place the same time as the episode where Timmy wishes he was rich.Search "lower deck episode" on tvtropes for a bunch more
>Character narrowly escapes death by blades, claws, lasers or whatever
>We see that the back of their clothes have been ripped off, revealing their underwear
>>82789039
when they started showing all the new young hip and trendy characters for the danger mouse reboot i was kind of hoping they'd go for some sort of "old action hero at odds with a new generation of spying" angle but i guess something like that would have been too elaborate for a childrens show
>>82775060
>hero and villain become rivals/buds
>>82778773
>Henchman is abused by villain constantly
>Hero defeats Villain and leaves him for dead
>Abused henchman shows up to help the Villain
>He just walks away
>>82781353
>"Now you're probably wondering how we got here.."
>Record scratch
>Cuts to the front of a high school
>Late 90's or early 2000's pop song starts playing
>>82789920
SOME
>>82789885
>hero and villain become lovers
>>82781353
>"Let's go back a little bit"
>Cuts to either their birth or some historical event
>"Um, not THAT far back!"
>>82790022
example?
![latest[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/WVYRNRy.jpg "latest[1].jpg")
>The villain is human so even he have off days.
>The villain is aware he live on Earth and doesn't want it destroyed.
>The villain can be a nice guy and choose to be so sometimes, he just choose to be evil overall at any other time.
>>82790109
by "lovers" i meant "romantically involved," not just sexually, so:
beastboy and terra
speedy and cheshire
daredevil and typhoid mary, iirc?
batman and catwoman, even though i hate that pairing
i prefer subtext where it's not blatantly spelled out of the viewers, but those are the few canon instances i can remember off the top of my head
>Villain reforms and joins the hero's team
>Something morally questionable has to be done; murder, torture, stealing, genocide, etc.
>None of the heroes can bring themselves to do it
>Reformed villain does it without any problem
>"It was the only way"
>Heroes agree
>Character gets super pissed off
>opens a can of whoop ass
>has to be pulled back from their friends or they will end up killing someone
>Power of Love conquers all
Power of Friendship sucks compared to this
>>82775060
>Main character and villain have their final "Standing here I realize" confrontation in an isolated location
>But there are cameras there and everyone in the world is intently watching
>the kind girl turns into a ruthless, ambitious mastermind
>characters are listening to a prerecorded message on a tape or whatever
>one of them complains about the contents of the message
>the message responds, telling them to stop whining
These all sound awful when you point them out.
>>82790730
It'd be really funny if at the last minute, when the male and female protag stand up to the big boss, their hands clasped and charging their final attack, and they both shouted out "FINAL MOVE: THE POWER OF -" and one of them said friendship and the other said love
And then it got really awkward
>villain used to be the hero
>villain isn't really doing all of his actions to be evil, but rather because a much greater force has deluded him into believing that his actions will make his wrongs right
>nightmare sequences
>parent characters actually give a fuck about the well being of their children
>grandma/grandpa characters
>big monster is actually a huge fucking sweetheart
>dogs
I love all of these so much.
>>82791032
>>82790661
>>82790566
>>82789895
>>82789359
These, too.
>>82791355
Then why are you reading them?
>Villain has mind control of an MC
>There a scenes that are visual representations of the hero's real personality chained up in a black void.
>The mind control personality and the real personality fighting for control.
>They also look distinctively different
>accept the disabled episode
>mc tries to be friends with paraplegic kid
>paraplegic turns out to be monstrous dick, and thats why he has no friends
>mc just leaves him by the wayside
Proud family was fun
>>82781281
The first Spongebob movie is canon iirc.
>>82791500
that sounds kind of ableist
>>82791500
That happened in The Inbetweeners too.
>>82791500
That's a great moral, honestly; teaching kids that they shouldn't be rude to disabled people, but not to take any bullshit if they turn out to be dickheads. It's a much better moral than 'you just gotta accept them the way they are!!!!'.
>>82791562
Yeah, The Replacements did the same thing :)
>>82775060
I watched season 4 of Korra purely because of this
>Bad guy from early in the story shows up to make an uneasy truce with the protagonist to take out new power-creeped bad guy that threatens both of them in some way
>He doesn't backstab him after their victory
>>82775060
I dont get it
>>82778564
Are you thinking about Clarance's The Substitute?
It was very fucking neat how they pulled it off, with all the different kid's reactions
>Someone makes a comment about the mc having a tv show
>"No one would ever watch a show about (main character/plot)"
>Everyone looks at the camera
>>82777116
Really, you like that one?
I always considered stories like that to just be filler.
>>82777116
>character finally gets a girlfriend
>the gang tries to sabotage their relationship
>character is grateful in the end
>The villain and MC meet for the first time
>it was also their last time.
>Something happens at the beginning of a story that none of the main characters acknowledge except for one character who is usually re-occurring.
>End of the episode and the main plot is finished and the character who noticed the strange occurrence asks the other characters, "What about x?".
>The main characters ignore them too.
>two character cross punches one another.
>>82791434
He'd have to read them to realize they're shit.
>>82790260
>villain considers the hero his best, if not only friend
>Something minor happens in the beginning
>That something comes back around and becomes more important at the end.
>The insane man was right about everything
>>82793427
Can't help but think of the Death of Superman for this one.
>>82791654
You watched a shitty cartoon solely because it featured a shitty asspull conceived by the previous shitty season by a shitty comic relief character out of sheer pity.
Not to mention that gif makes absolutely no sense considering how the fuck is lava that close to the surface and so easily accessible without grinding it up.
Jesus christ that's some supremely shit taste.
>>82793844
I'd imagine the most popular example is this
>>82789487
Nah, that shit's just needlessly discouraging and cheap angst drama. The villain should actually make progress.
>main villain's entire motivation is that they hate the MC
>MC disappears/dies
>they reform and become a good person
>MC comes back
>villian throws away their new life just to fuck with the MC
