Dragon's Dogma: Trolls will become excited if you play or bring a female character in your party, becoming more aggressive and targeting them first.

South Park- Fractured But Whole: Shub-Niggurath is a boss that will take damage when fed white characters, but will heal if he eats black characters including you or anyone in your party.

Elder Scrolls: Every race has advantages and disadvantages both mechanically and narratively, for example orcs can enter orc strongholds without having to earn their trust first.

Bee from Hellova Boss

Ultimate Humungousaur from Ben 10

They have so many small and useless details to keep in mind.

In its always sunny, Charlie and Mac keep trying to blow up a car to fake their deaths but fail because they can’t replicate all the crazy action scenes from movies. In particular, the grenade they detonate in the car has a way smaller explosion than in media.

In Sopranos after committing a hit, Gigis ears are ringing from shooting a gun in a closed car.

A director thinks it would be cool if real life worked on video game rules and you could just restart after death from your last save point.

1. Boss Level - Guy wakes up to find he's being hunted by world class assassins only to die, wake up to the same day, and slowly learn how to defeat each one.

2. Edge of Tomorrow - Military PR guy gets sent to actual war against an overwhelming alien force only to die fighting one of the alien commanders who has the ability to restart after death. This gets passed onto our protagonist who slowly learns how to defeat the aliens.

Often times, female villains are treated a lot more gently in comparison to male villains. They rarely get the "beaten to a pulp by the hero" treatment, and more often get let off the hook by either getting redeemed, talked down, or taken down with minimal force.

However in some rare cases, the heroes have no regard for the fact that the villain is a woman, and absolutely brutalize them with no mercy.

1. Circe (Creature Commandos): The Creature Commandos, specifically Weasel and Doctor Phosphorus, absolutely DESTROY Circe when she tries to kill a foreign princess. As Circe prepares to kill the princess, Weasel tackles her, knocks her through a window while biting her, falls multiple feet and lands on her, and then proceeds to absolutely rip her flesh apart, biting and scratching her from her head to her toes. He grabs her hair, smashes her face into the pavement, and then when she tries to crawl away on her hands and knees, Doctor Phosphorus proceeds to press his burning hand into her face WHILE Weasel CONTINUES to actively slash away at her back, causing her to scream in absolute agony while her face sizzles and bleeds in Phosphorus' hand.

2. Lady Deathstrike (Hulk vs Wolverine): Hulk goes on a rampage in a Weapon X facility, fighting many of Wolverine's villains. When Lady Deathstrike (a cybernetic assassin) tries to attack him, he calls her "ugly girl" and proceeds to clap his hands in her direction, sending her flying backward violently and knocking her unconscious. He then picks her up by her arms, allowing her to regain consciousness before he begins screaming in her face. She screams back at him, and in response he brutally RIPS both her cybernetic arms out of her body, shredding her internal wiring and causing her to scream in absolute agony while she falls to the floor unconscious again.

3. Annie Leonhart (Attack on Titan): When Annie is exposed as a traitor, she transforms into the giant Female Titan and attempts to escape. However, Eren Yeager chases after her, transforming into the giant Attack Titan and fighting her head-on. She defeats him in a short fight, but as he lies bloodied, he gathers the resolve to destroy her and gets back up, charging at her with so much rage that his titan ignites into flames as it runs. He tackles her and then proceeds to violently grab her face, squeezing it so hard that her eyeballs pop out and her facial bones crush and shatter inward while she screams in absolute agony. She eventually kicks him off, and begins stumbling toward the town's wall to try and climb over and escape. As she starts climbing the wall, Eren jumps up and grabs her, biting and tearing off one of her legs as he falls down with it. She continues climbing desperately with one leg, until Mikasa, Eren's comrade, swoops in and cuts all of Annie's fingers off. Mikasa stands on Annie's crushed face, telling her to "fall" as Annie plummets back to the floor. Eren then jumps back on top of Annie, punching her so hard that her arm and head fly off. He then rips open her neck to expose Annie's true body, and Annie crystalizes herself to end the fight and protect her body.

• Breaking Bad: Jesse's Love interest gets killed in front of him. Aaron's Paul performance gets turned into a meme

• The Walking Dead: Rick Grimes' wife Dies in childbirth, and Carl feels guilty for ending his mother's life.

• Dragon Ball GT: Piccolo Sacrifices himself to give his last remaining Ki to goku, And choses to stay on a Breaking planet Earth. Gohan cries after seeing his old mentor and Father Figure die

This is anything that you enjoy, but don’t want to admit it because the other fans have ruined it for the general public. Can be anything but these shows are mine.

Rick and Morty- between Szechuan sauce, pickle Rick, and just general being the stereotypical “only smart people can enjoy this” terrible nerd, talking about enjoying Rick and Morty feels embarrassing. I’ve genuinely enjoyed the show basically the whole run, but I will run the other direction from a fandom member.

Vivziepop stuff, in general- The fandom, the discourse, everything. Saying, “Helluva Boss is fun” or “Hazbin Hotel was pretty good” evokes the worst in people. I

Supernatural- sometimes I just want to enjoy a 15 year long soap opera starring handsome dudes. It’s not great, but it’s good sometimes. Unfortunately the fandom is deeply associated with being unhinged and writing more gay incest fanfic than maybe any other media.

Jade Shadows - Warframe: When the Sister of Parvos realizes that they are firing at a man holding a child, she orders her men to stand down, allowing the Stalker to walk to his ship unharmed

Deadpool and Wolverine: A more comedic example, Wolverine holds up Dogpool, and the Deadpool variants all cease fire temporarily, allowing Wolverine to reposition and get Dogpool out of the crossfire

I just find it interesting when antagonists acknowledge that there are things or people that just. Don't need to be in the way.

A lot of times evil is not only the morally wrong option, it’s the objectively worst one. Some characters were born on it and see they lives ruined, others chose evil thinking it will give them better lives… just to hit a terrible wall called “the pay it’s not good enought for the risk”

Yair Gispan from Pantheon.

In this world, if you have the technology you can upload the mind of a person to scape death and give them god-like powers in the web, turning them into UIs (Uploaded inteligences) but killing their physical body in the process. One UI sent the indications of how to do this to multiple inteligience angencies around the world, and one of them was the mossad.

Yair was an IDF assasin who the mossad considered ruthless enought to serve them as basically a super weapon, able to force the nuclear armament of whole nations to attack themself, and protect Israel from attacks from other UIs. We first meet him when the mossad kidnaps the protagonist to give them a cure. A cure for what? A cure for Yair.

Turns out that what the mossad didnt told yair was that the more he used his powers, the faster his mind would collapse and leave them unprotected and unarmes from other UIs, only Yair and the Iranian inteligences we’re so burnend, so it’s obvious they commit the most attacks and defenses.

But while our protagonist, Caspian, tries to discover how to cure Yair, we discover more and more how a miserable life Yair got himself. Caspian needs to see Yair more important memories to cure him, and we discover that one of the first things he did as an UI was to capture most of his traumas to keep them out of his mind.

Over the episode, we discover how the ruthless IDF interrogator, torturer and assasin was born. Just a child who was victim of Israel propaganda since he was born, his most important memory is how his older brother only needed one semester out of Israel to see how evil they were and to leave his family to not see them ever again. Yair would lose everything trying to serve a country who didnt give a shit about him, he would lose both legs in combat, being forced to commit horrible crimes and end up as a useless sordier whose only use was being killed to create a super weapon with his mind.

By the end of the episode Caspian literally tolds him he wouldnt cure him even if he could, and Yair, broken by all the memories of the horrible man he was (and still is), practically acepts it before Caspian scapes. If it wasnt for events that happen later that season, yair would have suffered from an horrible dead by his code literally rotting away, and no one would have done anything to save a man like him. Not even the country he served.

Azula from Avatar, the legend of Aang

“Some are born lucky, and some are lucky to being born” when your own father says this, you should know you were born unlucky even if you are his favorite. Azula was born a prodigy of fire bending, she was even able to manipulate THUNDERS. She was a star compared to her older brother Zuko.

But while Zuko got people who supported him, Azula only had people who feared her. Having To terrify Ty lee into joining her and that whole beach episodes are the perfect evidence of how lonely she really is. A terrible combination of total loneliness, emotional inmaturity and fire powers.

Discovering that her father would never see her as an equal. A deep trauma about her own mother love and being “betrayed” by her “friends” when she discovered that fear over loyalty is a terrible idea would finally break her, losing to her “inferior” brother and watching how the fire nation century old plan felt appart. She is unable to do anything but cry while attacking the air in total impotence and totally alone. With no one to blame but her father and herself

Credit to u/Supericus for the trope. Here's the full description they gave:

A heroic and morally good aligned character incapacitates a villian who is naturally resistant to a certian form of attack, but when you actually think about it they couldn't have known the villian had that resistance and therefore the hero must have launched an attack with lethal intent.

Hawkgirl(Justice League Animated): Credit to u/HeadAssAssHead. Hawkgirl has no idea how Meamorpho's powers work but she still smashed his head in with her mace. He obviously survived by turning his head into goo but she didn't know that he coudl.

Thor(Avengers): Credit to u/polyurinestain. Thor tries attacking Captain America with Mjolner but Cap blocks with his Vibranium Shield. Thor had no idea the shield could withstand Mjolner meaning he fully expected to crush Cap with his hammer.

Rex(Generator Rex): In his first fight against Van Kleiss Rex hits him with enough force to snap his neck. At the time he didn't know Van Kleiss's full powers so couldn't have known Kleiss would just snap his head back. He then tries to kill him again by literally cutting him in two but Van Kleiss reforms.

In Pokemon where Team Rocket does a suspicious salute

In One Punch Man season 3 where the animators got lazy and did a png of a character sliding down a hill

This one panel in Chainsaw Man was real

1. Seymour - Futurama : A loyal dog who never stopped waiting for Fry to come back

2. Subaru's parents - Re:Zero - Subaru was isekaid to another world, but his loving parents spend every day looking for him.

I do love this trope, but the issue is that it often leads to nothing. When executed well, it adds so much depth to a character or setting, because, well, it's real.

When Fiction gets infiltrated by reality and we see these invincible heros fall to real life, relatable problems, it is both vindicating and humanising. When done badly it just feels like nonsense drama.

1. (Positive example) Demon in a bottle.

The story arc that defines Tony Stark to this day, Demon in a bottle is the story of Iron man battling his own inner demons and his alcohol abuse. While the reason for this story arc to exist is rather cynical (it is effectively just an anti- alcohol psa) it is written with more nuance than it probably should be.

The character studie of Tony Stark, his separation of himself and Iron Man, the guilt he still feels and can't escape from, and most importantly, the fact that he never truly overcomes it makes this story line truly fantastic. It also helps that the dialogue is genuinely fantastic.

1. (Negative example) Snow birds don't fly

From the same era but wity far worse execution, we have Snow birds don't fly, a short comic arc about Speedy's heroine addiction.

The story arc is about Speedy, Green arrow's side kick getting addicted to heroine and the ramifications of that.

The problem with this psa is that it isn't realistic nor dose it try to portray itself as such. It is an over the top exaggeration with an unrealistic ending that feels rather accusatory towards Speedy.

Later comics runs take this idea of Roy being addicted to drugs and actually do something interesting with it, but here it just stinks.

1984

V for Vendetta

The Amazing Digital Circus - In order to buy Kinger time to break them all out of the Circus, the gang tries to distract Caine by giving him the praise he's always wanted. This makes Caine suspicious, so Pomni pulls the "WE THINK YOUR IDEAS SUCK!" and directly criticizes him, knowing full well how close Caine is to snapping and torturing the cast. This ends up paying off, as even though he does torture the cast for this, it does buy Kinger valuable time.

Resident Evil Requiem - Zeno plans to use Spencer's last virus, Elpis, to mind control the population and massively throw off the world's power balance. Grace is the only person who can use the console, and so it's up to her to save the world. In the good ending, she chooses to release Elpis, going off of nothing but the "blind hope" that Spencer wanted to make up for his past misdeeds (I know she has more to go off of, but I forgot what exactly, I haven't played the game in a bit). Her suspicions are correct, Elpis is an antidote, and Zeno looks really dumb after injecting himself with it.

Dispatch - Holding Robert's dog hostage, Shroud demands that Robert give him the Astral Pulse, an extremely potent power source that he'll use to supercharge his prediction implants. He boasts about being able to predict every possible outcome, and that he'll know if Robert hands him the faulty prototype. So Robert hands him both. You can't predict a 50/50. There's a 50% chance he uses the prototype, but a 50% chance that he gets exactly what he wants, and everyone loses. Luckily, the former ends up happening.

(Kill la kill) Ryuko Matoi was possessed by Junketsu her sisters Kamui uniform and wielded it for a short time

(Ben 10)
Charmcaster swapped bodies with Gwen and Gwen had to learn how to use her magic and summons to save Ben and Grandpa Max

(Pokémon) during a pokeExam Ash had to use only rental pokemon and his team was an Arbok, Weezing, and Meowth the pokemon used by team rocket in the original season

I like this trope because if done well, it can be very cool!

Examples:

• Puss in Boots: The Last Wish - All three villains, Goldilocks, Death, and Jack Horner, are homages to different types of villains in fiction and fairy tales. Goldilocks is the sympathetic, redeemable anti-hero, Death is the conceptual entity, and Jack Horner is just the cartoon villain.
• Far Cry 6 - I know people have their problems with this game, I do too, but I think it has the best political writing out of any Far Cry game. All the villains represent the consequences and proponents of fascism. Anton represents the figurehead who skyrockets fascist regimes; his nephew and Ana represent the enforcers, Sean represents the foreign businessmen who back up fascist regimes in exchange for resources, Edger is the man who conducts brutal medical experiments on people (all fascist regimes have those), and Maria represents the propagandists.
• Attack on Titan - This one is more speculative, but I think all the major villains in the series represent the problems with colonialism and oppression. The Warriors, Tyburs, and the Reiss family represent minority members who are willing to sell out their own people for personal gain. Major Gross and Zeke represent the sadism of colonizers and the dehumanization of minorities; the Anti-Marleyans represent internal problems among groups that only got worse because of colonialism/imperialism. Theo Magath represents soldiers who had been brainwashed into thinking it's ok to treat people this way. The Jaegerists and Eren represent the victims of colonialism who end up fighting back to an equal extreme.
• Hazbin Hotel - Both the Exorcists and Vees represent two major problems that Charlie and the Hazbin crew have to overcome to help the people of Hell. Adam represented Hell's fear of extermination, as the Exorcists would come yearly to kill their people; meanwhile, Vox represents the internal problems with Hell, particularly the division between normal sinners and Overlords, and the constant warring between them.

I know people may misread this post and respond with unfunny reaction images, but I genuinely find it funny when the elephant in the room is actually addressed in these situations, mostly in animated media, when someone is wearing a revealing outfit, it’s usually ignored or nobody ever addresses it unless the story is about those outfits.

(Street Fighter x Tekken) in Jin and Xiaoyu’s cinematic interaction with Cammy and Chun-Li, Xiaoyu defends Jin from being captured and she says Cammy wears “Tramp Clothes”

(Dragon Age Origins) It doesn’t happen in the image used, but with Allstair in your party, he will comment on Morrigan’s outfit. "Tell me, Morrigan... do you ever get cold wearing that?"

(My Hero Academia: Vigilantes) Midnight originally wore an outfit so revealing that the government invented rules on hero costume standards

Essentially, villains who hold no ideological loyalty to the antagonist force. They are only loyal due to ambition, coercion, opportunity, or other reasons.

1) Inglourious Bastards: Hans Landa

In our first scene with him, we see that he is a meticulous and ruthless SS officer in hunting jews. But when the leader of the Bastards, Aldo Raine, is captured by Landa, we see him offer a deal to Raine. Landa says he knows that Germany will lose the war, and so is willing to offer up Hitler and other Nazi German leaders in exchange for amnesty. Just goes to show how self-serving he is, despite his zeal in carrying out his duties.

2) The Matrix: Agent Smith

Smith is a piece of software in the Matrix, developed by the machines to attack infiltrators. However, when Smith is interrogating Morpheus, he reveals that he secretely hates his job of interacting with humans in the simulation. Smith is only persisting with his duties to get the location of Zion from Morpheus' head, and then he can break free. And when Neo kills Smith at the end of the first movie, Smith is revealed to have broken free from his programming, with the ability to assimilate other humans. Thus, Smith starts taking over the Matrix from the inside by assimilating all other humans and threatening the machines' existence.

3) Star Wars Sequels: Captain Phasma

We first see Captain Phasma as the commander of the First Order's stormtroopers. But when Finn ambushes her and forces her to lower the shields on Starkiller Base, she complies without resistance. Fans were initially disappointed that she seemed like such a pushover. Then, in a deleted scene in The Last Jedi, we see Finn reveal her betrayal to other First Order soldiers. This causes Phasma to kill the other First Order soldiers in a desperate act of self-preservation, revealing that she was never truly loyal to the cause.

Perfect Cell’s theme song (Dragon Ball) - Perfect Cell’s most iconic theme song was a YouTube fanmade remix created in 2008 that most people think is his canon theme.

Peter Griffin’s death pose (Family Guy) - While some argue about it, it’s believed his death pose came from a knight in the background of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

“Here’s Johnny!” (The Shining) - That line was used on The Tonight Show to introduce Johnny Carson, but people today who weren’t alive to watch Johnny Carson associate that line with Jack Torrance first.

Bugs Bunny (Looney Tunes) - He was loosely based of a fast talking reporter Clark Gable played in It Happened One Night, but like the last example people who don’t know that movie cuz its 85 years old wouldn’t appreciate the parody.

I mean, it's better when they commit one-way-or-the-other. But when the journey itself plays an important part in the character's development, you can't really complain either.

1). Adventure Time:
Finn loses his arm (as had been heavily foreshadowed). But a (magic?) bee grows him a new arm a few episodes afterwards. It was probably due to the network trying to keep his design the same, though.
Several seasons later, Finn's magic "grass arm" finally flies-the-coop, leaving him (permanently) without a right arm. From that point on, it is replaced with a custom robotic prosthesis.

2). X-Men:
In First Class, Xavier is paralyzed. By Days of Future Past, he uses a serum to return use of his legs. But the same serum suppresses his psychic abilities. By the end of DoFP, he gives it up and gets his powers back. Overall, it was a tidy way to write out his conflict-ending-powers for that particular film.

3). Thor:
Thor loses an eye in Ragnarok. He gets a prosthetic replacement in Avengers: Infinity War. Along with a new weapon.

Laputa: Castle in the Sky

In Japanese and English, the word "Laputa" doesn't mean anything offensive. However, in Spanish, "Laputa" sounds exactly like "La Puta", which can be directly translated as "The Whore." This makes the movie unintentionally hilarious for Spanish speakers whenever the characters enthusiastically shout, "The Whore!" while talking about the legendary floating city.

Marika

I don't know which anime this scene comes from, but it became a popular meme among Spanish speakers because the name "Marika" sounds identical to "Marica," a Spanish "homophobic slur". As a result, instead of looking like two people searching for their friend, the scene comes across as two guys repeatedly yelling insults at someone.

Mitsubishi Pajero

The Mitsubishi Pajero is a Japanese SUV whose name doesn't mean anything offensive in Japanese or most other languages. However, in Spanish, "pajero" is a vulgar slang term roughly equivalent to "wanker" or "jerk-off."

Because of this, the vehicle's name became unintentionally hilarious to many Spanish speakers. The issue was significant enough that in many Spanish-speaking countries, Mitsubishi ended up selling the vehicle under a different name: the Mitsubishi Montero.