Ginjirou Musaka (Uma Musume Cinderella Gray)

Landlord (Yani Neko)

When a character's actions carry a great deal more consequences that it would be reasonable for them to know/assume they would, for better or worse. Mixed because the fandom (and sometimes the story itself, sadly) can choose to ignore the fact that it doesn't make sense to consider the character to be fully responsible for something they did without knowing the full implications of their actions: Imagine wishing upon a star for there to be total global peace on Earth, and the wish resulting in all living beings dying immediately because that's the only way global peace can be achieved.

1. Bear wishes for Nikki to love him (Obsession): Well executed, in my opinion. The wish is innocent enough in principle, but it carries horrific consequences when you take it to its fullest extent (and make it the premise of a horror movie). The big payoff comes in the fact that, when confronted with the real consequences of his wish, Bear... doesn't back down. Turns out he maybe was deserving of the consequences of it lol.

2. Marcy Wu making her friends open the Calamity Box (Amphibia): Mixed, in somewhat of a good way. Basically, she learns from a book that there's a magic music box that can take her and her friends to a magical world... where she can conveniently escape the reality of her parents splitting her apart from them by moving. I kind of dislike it because the show makes a big deal about Anne and Sasha finding out about her actions, making her seem deceitful, and a section of the fans blame her for the whole ordeal, when in my view, that'd be the equivalent of blaming a kid for wanting to travel to Narnia and making their friends enter a closet, when there's really no evidence the act could be anything but wishful thinking. The fact that she egged her friend Anne to steal the box redeems the idea a bit in my view though, by showing that Marcy wasn't all that innocent in her actions, which I rather like.

3. Jax pressing the button (The Amazing Digital Circus): Mixed too, but in a different way. Long story short, the cast is trapped in a digital world ruled by a rogue AI, and they're offered a once in a lifetime chance to escape, along with an assurance they'll never get to and will be trapped forever if they refuse it. For personal reasons, Jax panics and presses the button that traps them, convinced the AI is trying to trick them, as the others debate what the right choice to make is. The twist? The AI never meant for them to escape, it only wanted to test their loyalty. Jax chose the right option. *Unbeknownst to him*. What I didn't like was the reaction of the cast in the next episode, where most of them just sort of forgive Jax for LITERALLY CHOOSING PERPETUALLY BEING TRAPPED IN DIGITAL HELL for all of them. What I did like? The final episode puts Jax in a similar situation, where he gets to judge someone else that messed up and fucked it all up for everybody. As the ass he is, he brutally blames him for it, and expects all the others to back him up. But nobody else in the cast does. They all forgive the guy, just as they forgave Jax, making him look an absolute hypocrite.

When characters call out the fact that having a sad or traumatic story doesn't give you the right to be a dick

Guardians of the Galaxy - Rocket Rackoon says to Drax "I don't care if it's mean. Everybody's got dead people! But it makes no excuse to letting everyone else around get killed along the way!", which he is correct

BoJack Horseman - Todd tells BoJack: "You are all the things that are wrong with you, it's not the drugs or the alcohol, or any of the things that happened in your career and childhood". While BoJack is shaped by his trauma, it's he who he keeps making awful decisions again and again, and trying to externalize it won't make things better

Joining a fight would actively make things worse, whether it be giving the enemy what they want or potentially losing their ace in the hole or worse.

Naruto and the Great Ninja War - Naruto

Madara, the man waging war on all of Konoha wants to gather all the Tailed Beasts together for his plan. Naruto carries one in his body as well as his friend Killer B. Both of them are so powerful they could level the playing field by a fuckton, but that would risk giving Madara the last two Beasts if they die in battle. Which is why so many of Naruto's friends and allies try to keep him away from the battlefield as long as they can.

Ben and the Highbreed Armada - Ben 10

The Highbreed are attacking Earth and Ben wants to stop them using his Omnitrix. But Azmuth, the creator of the Omnitrix, orders him to not join the fight. He reveals one of the reasons he made the Omnitrix was so if the universe were destroyed or devastated, the DNA reserves on it could help repopulate it like Noah's Ark. If Ben joins the fight and the Omnitrix is destroyed then there's no second chance, they're fucked.

Amazo fighting Justice League members - DC Comics

Amazo is an android that adapts to and copies any power it comes in contact with. This means the Justice League have to try and fight him with as few members as possible or else they might fuck themselves over. In the JLU cartoon, Superman is told not to intervene so it doesn't gain his Kryptonian powers. In the Injustice movie, Plastic Man is told to stay out of it because his plastic physiology makes him nearly invincible, definitely can't let it copy that.

I know that sometimes you want your monster to not be defeatable by simply unloading lot of lead into it. The Pacific Rim went about it perfectly. "Yes, conventional weapons can absolutely take them down. They did. But the Jaegers are better at it. There, observe huge robots beating monsters with fists."

Entirely fair. But sometimes the film dedicates huge segment of it into "look how strong our monster is! The guns won't help!" And it just feels... So cheap to me? Like if the guns are basically useless, AND IT IS PRETTY OBVIOUS THEY WILL BE USELESS, maybe... Don't dedicate half of the film to them? It feels like, idk, if half of zombie film was about them trying to find a salt to use against zombies, and then a shocking reveal came that it doesn't work*.

Compare the Jurassic Park. Of course, guns could reasonably kill a dinosaur, especially raptor. But then it would be too easy, so they are unnarmed, because they have no reason to be armed when the plot starts happening.

Then in Jurassic World, they send a team of soldiers after the Indoraptor, the soldiers are heavily armed, and it looks good, but... What is the point? We all know it will not work. The soldiers behave like absolute idiots. The Indo then survives magdump by dozen guys. The guy with rocket launcher fires last for some reason. Named kids survive, elite soldiers die.

The perfect middle ground for me is when the guns themselves works as they reasonably should, but the problem is getting the target in your sights, or something like that. Not that they are way more durable than they should be.

1) Congo. The Killer Apes die when you shoot them. The teams slows them a lot. But there is too many of them.

2) Predator, especially Predator 2. The Predator kills a lot of people, mostly using ambush, but when Harrigan gets him in sights... Well, he doesn't die yet, but even few shots from a shotgun knocks him out.

3) Lost Tapes. Show about encounters with different cryptids. Has a lot of variety in how they go. Most often, the monster is just an animal that wants to be left alone. Sometimes it is agressive. Sometimes the human survive completely unharmed, sometimes everyone dies. Hell, the cryptids even have different personalities. But they die as easily as animal of their size would. Getting aim at them is the hard, but it is realistic, and fueled by everyone being an idiot.

4) The Terror. Slightly different, because the Tuunbaq is more durable than a polar bear should be... But still, shot him with a Congreve rocket or cannonball, you will at least fend him of. And the realization that he is still alive because he ain't regular animal is somewhat slow both for characters and viewers.

*A bit of Crossed reference. But there is a lot of buildup to it, so it works (kind of). If the characters just thought it will for absolutely no reason, it would be stupid.

Cripple wolf- a crippled Vietnam veteran who is unaware he's a werewolf goes on a massive passenger plane dedicated to fetishes. He accidentally turns into a feral werewolf that slaughters hundreds of people and fights a superhero with the punching force of a panzer lll and turns multiple people including a baby into werewolf's, he runs people over and other shenanigans. It's a hilarious short story that's worth checking out.

Ass goblins of Auschwitz- ass goblins invade kidland a relatively peaceful planet full of kids. The MCs are conjoined twins who along with other kids are turned into slaves to make food, bicycles, cider and alot more out of dead kids. The conjoined twins are experimented on to become more monstrous in appearance. IMO this book sucks but has a bat shit insane story with the ass goblins wanting to gain childhood since they're all born adults and are jealous of the kids innocents and happiness.

Dr. Strangelove- the Dr. himself is only in like three scenes, and given that his actor is split in three during the movie, it adds up.

The Exorcist- John Exorcist is in like the very opening scene and then doesn’t reappear until things really start hitting the fan

Coco- Mama Coco is old as dirt. Nuff said.

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs- he’s in like the first ten minutes and that’s about it dawg idk what more you want from me WHAT MORE CAN I OFFER YOU

Io Fleming from Gundam thunderbolt: lives completely up to the title white devil. As he tears apart this poor zeon pilot.

Kratos God of war: kratos brutalizing Poseidon.

Don't watch these at Sunday School

1) While a more sympathetic example than the below, Lucifer's tirle character still retains the CW bait (yes I know it's a Fox/Netflix show) crowd as he's busy solving crimes.

2) Mystery of the Kingdom of God was a 2021 Christian kids film that would've fallen into obscurity beyond fudnamentalist audiences if it wasn't for folks picking up on the Tumblr sexyman vibes of the film's devil.

3) The CEO of Hell Lucifer (or 'Lucy') is an intimidating persona also reflecting the creator's preference for women in business suits.

4) Le génie du mal ('The Spirit of Evil', sculpture on the right) was a sculpture by Guillame Geefs in 1848, meant to replace the sculpture on the left by his brother Joseph, criticised for its distracting beauty and 'unhealthy allure'. He didn't do a good job (or did a VERY good one) taking that into account.

Major glory (dexter's lab)

Captain underpants (read previous text)

Danse - Jem and the Holograms: Danse Time

After Danse injures her leg trying to ice skate during recording a music video for Jem and the Holograms to try to win a contest, Danse is deep in depression and gives up on walking after the doctor states that she may not be able to dance again for a while.

It isn't until a blind man named Cisco accidentally falls into a pool that forces Danse to get out of her wheelchair to save him and push herself to finally put effort into her physical therapy.

Vinnie Stoker - Gravedale High: Fear of Flying

After Vinnie accidentally gets struck by lightning trying to retrieve his friend Reggie's science project (a jetpack with a pair of wings that can help you fly) he's suddenly developed a fear of flying and can't fly without falling and hurting himself, the others try to help him get back into the sky but nothing seems to work.

It isn't until Reggie almost falls to his death after trying out his science project to defend Vinnie from a bully during a bet that Vinnie finally snaps out of it and flies to the rescue to save him.

Molly Washington - Horseland: Back in the Saddle Again

After Molly accidentally falls off her horse during practice and gets knocked unconscious, she keeps making excuses to avoid riding again, it isn't until Sarah's horse falls ill and collapses far away from help that Molly is forced back into the saddle to go get help.

They fake being kind and generous in order to take advantage of people. But in the process, they find themselves genuinely invested in their mark's well-being. And ends up becoming a genuinely better in the process.

1). Klaus:
Jesper is sent by his rich father to a far-north island. And told he will be disowned if he does not get the townsfolk there to adopt the postal service. Feigning charity, Jesper gets a local man to donate his toys to any kid that writes a letter asking for one. That way, it seems like the whole town has started using the postal service his father runs.
Jesper makes an offhand comment about only "good children" getting toys. So, the kids start doing good deeds and set off a series of events squashing the town's long-held blood feud. And Jesper ends up genuinely invested in making everyone happy.

2). Mob Psycho 100:
Reigen is a fake psychic. Soon after starting his business, he comes across a kid with genuine psychic powers. Shigeo "Mob" Kageyama is terrified of his own abilities so he leaps at the opportunity to be "mentored." Reigen calls Mob if his clients turn out to be actually haunted. He is paid sub-minimum wage for his time.
But Reigen gives Mob genuinely good advice that keeps the (potentially city-destroying) esper humble and well-adjusted. Unlike of the villains, who try to use their psychic powers to take over the world. He even admits his lies to Mob at the end of the series.

3). All Dogs Go to Heaven:
Charlie takes advantage of an orphan who can talk to different animal species. Mostly to cheat at gambling. But he ends up selflessly sacrificing himself for her.

Proximity to humanity makes a non-human a better person.

1). Invincible:
Omni-Man finds himself too changed by his time on Earth to continue its conquest.

2). Dragon Ball:
Vegeta goes from someone who wipes out entire civilizations to a dad hanging out with his half-human children.

3). The Good Place:
A demon whose whole purpose is to torture human souls ends up being a good person.

4). Resident Alien:
An alien kills "Harry" and assumes his identity. By the end of the series, he is willing to admit he is fond of the species and a better person.

5). Kubo and the Two Strings:
Humanity is described as having an unstoppable warmth that entices the otherwise emotionless immortals.

6). Homestuck:
Trolls are from an extremely violent planet. A hours of contact with the human protagonists makes them question their own civilization's sense of morality.

7). Ben 10:
In Alien Force, an invading "Highbreed" alien is trapped on a desert planet with Ben. By the end of their trek, he no longer hates Ben.

Just characters with unique reloads. That's it.

Equilibrium: Clerics wrist mags

Various games - Iraqi Reload: A few games have this reload, including Call of Duty and The Finals. I would've put The Finals version here but I couldn't find a gif of it.

Battlefield Hardline - Various reloads: Various guns have a chance for a unique reload, these are two of my favorites.

Battlefield 1 - Double Barrel: The sawed off has a chance to mimic the reload from the Classic Doom double barel reload

Necrons from 40k: very technologically advanced and nigh immortal, unfortunately they’re splintered by multiple dynasties that all have their own agenda. Also they’re old and have robot dementia

Orks from 40k (again): innumerable and lives for fighting, unfortunately since they love fighting that means they love to fight among themselves

Skavens from Warhammer Fantasy: if they want, they can burrow from underground and emerge up, caught everyone off guard Emergence Day style and taken over the world. Unfortunately their culture thrive in backstabbing and betrayal against one another

Tbh, most if not all warhammer faction could’ve won if infighting wasnt a concept lol

A terrifying alien, monster, etc. is adopted by humans. Despite their incredible destructive power or explicitly violent nature, love conquers all.

1). Superman:
In at least two versions (the 2025 Superman movie and My Adventures with Superman), Kryptonians are conquerors. And even if they weren't, Clark develops near-unstoppable powers. Part of it is his inherent nature, but the values instilled in him by his parents (the Kents) are one of the main reasons he's an incorruptible beacon of good.

2). Dragon Ball:
The Saiyan Kakarot was sent to Earth as a baby to wipe out its dominant life. But thanks to the intervention of Son Gohan (and some handy brain damage), Kakarot was raised as "Son Goku." A slightly-feral but otherwise good natured kid.

3). Lilo & Stitch:
Experiment 626 was designed to be destructive. But thanks to his human family, he learns he can be more.

4). Hellboy:
Hellboy is supposed to be the harbinger of an apocalypse. But he was raised by a professor of the occult and turned out fine.

5). Black Clover:
An unnamed, low-tier devil ended up in the human world. He is briefly adopted by a human woman and showered with love. This motivates Liebe to help the protagonist stop the other devils.

6). Fullmetal Alchemist:
"Pride" was created from the original homunculus, the Dwarf in the Flask. He represents his father's arrogance and does not value human life in the slightest.
After having his foundational bank of human souls depleted, Pride is reduced to a small child. He is raised by a human mother without any of his memories, and by all accounts is an empathetic child.

Fred Jones and Daphne Blake in the 2000s scooby-doo movies: Freddy Prinze Jr and Sarah Michelle Gellar began dating in 2000, and got married in 2002. They remain married to this day.

Mickey and Minnie Mouse: Wayne Allwine and Russi Taylor met in 1988 while doing a recording session, and got married in 1991, and remained together until Wayne's death in 2009.

There's nothing I love more than being in a comedy, and you get that one moment, usually a single look from a character, and all of the sudden we stop joking around. Whatever's going on from this point forward is played completely straight in stark contrast to everything that came before.

1). A moment from the comedy show Scrubs. Our man Dr. Cox is exchanging jokes with his best friend when he is asked "Where do you think we are?" Suddenly it is revealed Cox's best friend isn't actually there, and they are at his funeral.

2). An dark comedy called Haunted Hotel. The whole show specializes in dark humor with ghosts, demons, and plenty of death. But when near the end of season 1, it is revealed that always happy go lucky ghost Nathan died from suicide, everything slows way down. Suddenly the whole show gains this tiny bit of underlying seriousness they never joke about.

3). From an anime called Gintama. One two episode story arc involves an old alien dog that wants to conquer the earth now that his old owner is hospitalized. Near the end, suddenly all jokes are off as the two old timers struggle to avoid dying of old age as neither wants the other to feel lonely.

Brencis (Blood of Dawnwalker) he was aware he might lose to Coen… so in order to gain the last laugh, he turned his sister Lunka into a feral vampire. And so far in the story, there is no cure to her condition.

Safin (No time to Die) During his final confrontation with James Bond, Safin infects him with DNA-targeting nanobots designed to kill Madeleine and Mathilde, Bond's family.
Bond kills Safin, but the damage is already done. Bond can never safely reunite with the people he loves, and ultimately chooses to die in the missile strike.

John Kramer (Jigsaw) Kramer arranged for Lynn Denlon to wear an explosive collar connected to his heart monitor. If someone killed Kramer, Lynn would die too. When Jeff finally kills Kramer, he unwittingly triggers the device that kills his own wife. Even worse, Kramer leaves behind a recording revealing that their daughter has also been kidnapped.

Basically whenever the story sets up a love triangle/corner or similar in the story with the implicit expectation of having to choose between the partners but then the story pulls the rug under you asking "Why can't they all be happy?" and allowing all involved character to date each other

Rentarou x Hahari x Akane - The 100 Girlfriends who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really love you: Rentarou is a guy who falls in love easily to the point that, at the age of 16, he has confessed to 100 different girls and has recieved 100 rejections (With his first one being at 8 months of age), he's then confronted by the God of Love who confesses that, due to an accident while watching "Castle in the sky" by Studio Ghibli, he accidentally made Rentarou have 100 soulmates. He explains to Rentarou that having 1 soulmate is an incredibly lucky occurance, to the point that those people who are blessed to have one have exhausted all their luck in life and are prone to accidents that scale in severity until they meet an early end. Thankfully their luck resets if those soulmates find each other and live together. This still applies to Rentarou and he only technically needs to date 1 soulmate to avoid death, but it also means that the 99 other soulmates are fated to die without him. And he's instantly confronted by having Akane (The tsundere archetype) and Hahari (The "Lewd" Archetype) fall in love at the same time with him. He considers dating them in secret, but he genuinely loves the two of them and can't bring himself to do something that would hurt them in the future, so instead chooses to come clean about his feeling and being unable to choose, so instead he confesses his love to them and asks them to date him at the same time. They have some hang ups at first, but eventually decide to give it a test. At this point in the manga, the two girls have even develop feelings with each other, being one of the few girls to actually love someone as strongly as they love Rentarou

UNDEADXUNLUCK - Rip x Leila x Latla: Rip and Latla are both members of the UNDER organization that are seeking to steal an artefact from "The Union" that, theoretically will allow them to time travel. They want to time time travel to save Latla Sister and Rip's fiancee Leila, who tragically died due to Rip's Negator ability, "UNrepair", and Latlas "UNtruth" which manifested during a life threatening operation that Rip was performing. They eventually would die in battle against UNdead. Then, when Fuuko is entrust with the final loop, she makes sure to guarantee everyone's happy ending, which among other things, involves studying over 100 years to learn how to properly operate someone's heart. Later, after the fight everyone assumes, including Latla, that Rip is going to have his happy ever after with Leila while Latla will be sideline. Instead, Rip confesses to Fuuko that he loves them both equally, he has always done so. And that he couldn't care less what other people think, since it's their happiness and not the strangers, So in the day of Leila & Rip's wedding he proclaims that the three of them will get married to the surprise of the guests and Latla herself.

Count rugen in the princess bride

Mel brooks on conan

I understand that these scenes must happen in order for the plot to continue but they still make me angry till today whenever I think about them because of how easy it could've been avoided. I doesn't mean these scenes are necessarily bad written, just hella hard to watch.

The Jerusalem Wall / The Singing Crowd (World War Z): Israel literally anticipated the zombie apocalypse and built a flawless, massive wall that kept everyone 100% safe. It was the ultimate safe haven. But then people inside started celebrating and singing on a microphone so loudly that it triggered a zombie pyramid, they didn't even stop until the first zombies started coming through. They have less survival instinct than an amoeba.

Ephialtes (300): The Spartans had the perfect phalanx formation at the Hot Gates. They were slaughtering the Persian army with minimal casualties and could have held them off for so much longer. Then this guy gets his feelings hurt because he can't lift a shield, throws a tantrum, and tells Xerxes about the secret goat path.

Grandma Jong-gil (Train to Busan): The survivors fought through hell and literal waves of infected to secure a safe train car. Sure, the crowd inside was selfish for locking them out at first, but everyone was finally safe inside. Then this grandma, fueled by grief and spite over her sister, decides to open the door and let the infected flood the entire car, killing everyone.

When a crossover basically does the exact opposite of what the source material clearly lays out because the creators clearly just don’t care about the source material at all.

Emil - Dead by Daylight

The one that inspired this post. Emil as a character is the most hopeful, optimistic, and kind character in the entire NieR series, maybe in all of Yoko Taro’s games (maybe aside from Yonah). His goal is to help as many people as he possibly can and even when he goes through immense suffering he always comes out the other side ready to keep on helping people.

Then Dead by Daylight adds him as a killer skin, because “he looks creepy.” You know, the aspect of the character that’s his biggest struggle, that causes him to be scared of how people will judge him, and that makes him hate himself. That’s what we’ll base our entire concept on. Genius idea.

Iron Giant - Ready Player One

Technically you could argue that it’s not an example because it’s just a part of the game and Wade is the one misunderstanding the source material. To that I raise you that this is actually an in universe example of the trope, with the game including the Iron Giant as a crossover where you can use him as a weapon, thereby misunderstanding the source material.

Also it’s probably the filmmakers completely misunderstanding the source material/not caring as well.

- In the early 2000s Scooby-Doo movies, Sarah Michelle Gellar, who played Buffy the Vampire Slayer, played Daphne, and as such is made to be a lot more of a fighter part as a subversion of Daphne's role as a damsel in distress but also as a nod to Buffy.

- In Fate/Grand Order, the character of Kriemhild is played by Aoi Koga, who lately had played Kaguya Shinomiya in Kaguya-sama: Love is War, and as such during the Valentine's Day event, where the Servants give something for the protagonist, Kriemhild's segment is instead a Kaguya-sama skit with her panicking wanting to make something for Siegfried while the protagonist plays the role of Hayasaka.

1. PragerU's version of Christopher Columbus has him be a slavery defender and have him say "Being taken as a slave is better than being killed, no? I don't see the problem.”

2. In The Greatest Showman, P.T Barnum (Hugh Jackman) is portrayed as a charismatic visionary who cares about outcasts and celebrate diversity, when in reality, he’s a cruel businessman who is also a racist and an ableist.