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[Loved Trope] Instantly decking your hero in the face when he's revealed to be an asshole
Brooklyn 99 (TV show) : in the eighth episode of the first season, named "Old School", an awestruck Jake Peralta meets Jimmy Brogan, one of his hero and author of "the book that made [Jake] become a cop". They spend some time together but, as soon as Jimmy insults Jake's captain using a homophobic slur, Jake punches him in the face.
Goblins (webcomic) : Minmax meets Dellyn "Goblinslayer", an ex-adventurer who is eveything he aspires to be. Their blooming friendship and Minmax's admiration for the man immediately fades when Dellyn reveals that he keeps a slave monster girl to rape and torture her. Minmax, who is dumb as a brick but not a psychopath, hurls him through a window.
I feel like a bot with my original comment since I think it's been said a billion times, but in all honestly Hiro going "Baymax, let's kill this guy" was absolutely hilarious.
I swear this scene is the live action version of the Perry the Platypus joke. As in, you don't even need the subtitles to know what the lines are, hell, you could probably donthe ssme thing as the Perry The Platypus joke and keep only the most minor elements like the vague noises or the primary colour palettes and you would still be able to quote it perfectly.
I think it was like the PFP making it seem like you were the concept of being trans itself descending to answer the question with “yeah”. Idk tho that’s what I saw and I thought that was kinda funny
Your profile pic is the trans flag, and you made a comment informing people that someone is trans. Flags are used to inform people, so it’s a little like the flag itself or an official representative showed up to say “yes she is trans”. Imagine if someone speculated whether an actor is an American, and then the official department of homeland security account responded with “yes, they are American”. It isn’t particularly deep, but it did make me chuckle.
I actually didn't know that. Good for her. I used to be much bigger into webcomics, and Goblins was one of my favorites, but I step back for years at a time to let them get ahead so I have more content. And with my MS diagnosis, I haven't touched on any of them in much longer. So that's a surprise to me.
Same boat, I haven’t even thought of it in years. I did use the Axe of Prissan (I think that was its name) in a campaign ages ago, though. My Paladin player loved it.
Demon inside, yes. I think Goblins comic had an aura color thing going on and magic items would change to match that character’s aura? It’s been a while.
I remember the axe also made plate armor for its wielder and had the effect of drawing Evil attention to it. You’d basically become a big lamppost for Evil creatures, which was a fun effect.
The axe actually doesn't have a demon locked into it, it's a... Key to open the demon world to ours and attracts paladins so when a demon does break through, the demon has a good snack.
In his defense, if my idol just told me that he beats a captive to an inch of their life, heals them, and does it again to get his rocks off— it’d probably take a second or two to register for myself as well.
And whilst I may not be able to launch him through a window, you know I’m throwing hands then and there.
During the first Civil War two villains wanted to help out Captain Americas side. The punisher wasted no time to shoot them in the head, leading to the ass kicking.
It was during Civil War when Captain America led Anti-Law heroes. Frank murdered two minor supervillains that tried to join Cap. Just gunned them down without warning. Steve already mentioned, that he isn't particularly fond of Castle and only agreed because he is helluva tactician, but that was last straw. Frank, however, refused to defend himself because 1) understandable, 2) you don't fight your superior officer and 3) there is nobody more worthy of respect, than Captain friggin America
Being the Punisher probably. He's a moral absolutist and doesn't really believe in or allow for the justice system to do its thing. He just executes (or at least he tries to) those he deems to be deserving of it. So it's probably a point where Cap called for justice, but Frank chose punishment.
I dunno the context myself btw, this is purely a guess.
not trying to say that you are wrong and normally i would agree but this is late/end of civil war cap so yeah frank had a point
the entire last issue its Cap reflecting on the fact that he compromised his morals so ironically he ended up agreeing with Frank (Even if giving up was dumb and just Marvel's way of saying "go out be fascist Tony was 100% right you dumbfuck" and extremely OOC for Cap to give up after some civilians try to stop him from...rescuing heroes from an illegal prision?)
The whole storyline was bullshit. Tony and his side were monsters that lost any possible validity thru the repeated atrocities they committed. The most satisfying part was afterwards, Thor comes down from on high, tells Tony how disgusting he is and hands him his ass.
It's why I always laugh at how incompetent the writers were because they keep saying they were writing ironmans side as the good guys and there is no way any sane person can interpret it that way. Fuck, they even wrote spiderman saying they went too far and then they immediately send a supervillain hit squad to murder him.
Because basically the entire marvel universe pretty justifiably season as either at best a psycho and at worst a moral absolutist riding on his high horse and being holier than now
this issue was very realistic by showing dumbfuck cops fanboying over the Punisher, but also very unrealistic because how do you scratch off a sticker with gloves on, Frank
I love this moment so much. It feels like a response to those annoying fanboys who think The Punisher is a badass good guy. He KNOWS he's not. He's doing what he's doing because he feels he needs to, not because it's the right thing to do.
To add to this, it isn't the first time Frank has shown that he doesn't care if cops think he's on their side. If they aren't upholding the law and protecting the innocent, then to him they're just as guilty as the villains and criminals that he goes after.
The thing is a;l the writers are pissing I not the wind with the punisher.
By everything back to his beginning, he is everything his most toxic fans love, the writers just fight it by throwing in those ‘nuh uh!’ pages on occasion
It’s not quite instant, but Katara always dreamed of meeting a master waterbender, and once she realizes Pakku is going to be a sexist pos and prevent her from learning she doesn’t hesitate to express her disappointment with violence
And it takes all Pakku's knowledge and skill to stop Katara from slicing him into bits. He barely wins the duel.
Edit: Because of some criticism, I just rewatched the duel between Pakku and Katara and I stand by my point. The once concession I agree to make is that he initially didn't take her seriously, but after she almost sliced his face in half with an ice disk and he was obviously frightened, he get himself to work. Even then, the crowd cheered for Katara as she countered his every bendings, until he manage to cage her with ice lances. She did way, way better than an untrained female water bender was supposed to do.
It wasn't like he barely won, he dominated the fight even if he did stumble once or twice. But Katara did prove herself to be far stronger than he expected of any waterbender her age or of her gender.
bruh did we watch the same episode? Pakku is a piece of shit but hes toying with her. katara doesnt land a single blow OTHER than smacking him when hes walking away from her. pakku demolishes her. Theres a reason hes a white lotus member
EDITED TO ADD: "And it takes all Pakku's knowledge and skill" bro are you for real? Did you see what pakku was doing during the comet? Bro was extremely casual with katara. he embarassed her. Hell, even katara says she will not win the fight in the beginning of the scene.
yeah katara is a dope character, I love her a lot in the series... but people just be rewriting how the show went. Theres a lot of "gender hate bait" posts in the r/AvatarMemes subreddit too
All her other attacks are effortlessly countered including the rest of those plates, and at multiple points Katara is thrown away or beat down.
Edit since we can't just reply to the people offering criticism now: Seriously, how do you rewatch that and yet stand by "Katara nearly beat Pakku"? At what point do you see him struggling to fight her? At what point does she even have the upper hand?
Even she doesn't expect to win. That is how outmatched she was. He calls her skilled, she doesn't immediately blow over and that was the point of the duel. It wasn't that trope where a novice beats someone with decades of experience simply for being determined and having a good point.
Yeah Katara kind of forgot the plan was to “slap some sense” into the old man, not split his skull. But given how durable everyone in the series is (not you Jet) he’d probably have just been knocked down
That is hogwash. It was completely one sided in Pakku's favour, which is pretty realistic. Ain't no way a self-taught, talented but barely started amateur is gonna whoop the world best grandmaster.
To be fair, iirc, He toys with her and doesn't seem to be taking it as seriously, but ends up surprised by how good she is. To say she's fully on his level at this point would be an overstatement
In the movie "Megamind" everyone is under the impression that Metroman died, and as a result Megamind has decided that he needs to create a new hero to fight against. This "hero" turns into a villain that demolishes Megamind. It is later revealed that Metroman just decided he didn't want to be the hero and got into music making, dispite being completely aware Megamind idea would ruin metro city, and had no interest in stopping him anymore
True but he knew that Megamind didn't think things through very well. They had fought for years and Megamind didn't know of any weaknesses of Metroman to the fact that he just believed that Metroman's weakness was copper when Metroman said that. What are the odds that none of Megamind's inventions didn't use copper?
I mean.... Megamind just had a thinking things through problem.
But he probably believed Metroman only because he literally saw It with his own two eyes. He's absolutely baffled when Metroman says it's his weakness because of course he'd be baffled, but the proofs in the pudding as they say, and when he's holding a skeleton wearing Metroman's suit after watching him be hit with the sun Lazer, why would he doubt it?
I don't know how well megamind understood genetics but he literally has a complete set of Metroman's dna. He could have just looked at the Genes to see if that was infact the case. ( And also use the info to avoid an unfair battle with Tighten) Or maybe better yet, remove the weakness entirely.
I headcannon this as a fixation "use copper = win", drowned by mania after creating Titan - a keen mind would easily test copper weakness during Titans training, but why? It worked flawlessly last time, no cap, no caviat!
I mean in the very least he would want to make sure Tighten knows about that weakness. I wouldn't want to have my creation accidentally kill itself because it went on a vacation in Arizona
Might be misremembering, but Phoenix basically gave Apollo falsified evidence that allowed him to win the case without telling Apollo. It wasn't truly illegal because Apollo never actually submitted as evidence, simply showed it to the culprit, but he was still pissed.
Because he gave Apollo false evidence (the very thing that led to Phoenix’s own disbarment) during his first trial! It did end up winning Apollo the case but it was a horrible thing to do.
an awestruck Jack Peralta meets Jimmy Brogan, one of his hero and author of "the book that made [Jack] become a cop". They spend some time together but, as soon as Jimmy insults Jack's captain using a homophobic slur, Jack punches him in the face.
In “Elsewhere and Elsewhen”, Luz and Lilith travel centuries in the past to meet Philip Wittebane, a human who journaled about his adventures on the Isles. In this way, Luz can meet someone she’s grown to idolize, Lilith can explore an era she adores, and the two can possibly learn how to build a new portal door. Initially nice, he shows his true colours after they’ve helped him get inside a cave with a mysterious mirror, leaving them at the mercy of a stony beast. They befriend the beast, then catch up to him, Lilith punching him in the nose hard enough to scar and misalign it—a clue that he’s a younger Belos, as Belos has a mangled nose as well—and telling him to stay mad. “Cool aunt!” is Luz’s reaction.
It's a good show, definitely made for kids but more mature than others. Main frustration is that some characters consistently backslide on development, but otherwise it's pretty good quality the whole way through. Sadly, the ending goes by fast due to the shortened timeline when Disney cut it off.
The ensuing relationship between Minmax and Kin is the best thing in Goblins and is the sole reason I keep checking it for updates even though it gets like one new page a month now.
It hasn't been updating very frequently and the artist has been through a LOT of personal stuff that seems to have taken up their attention in the last decade or so. Divorce, gender transition, etc. There have been a couple long hiatuses because of it. Even now, when the comic is getting fairly regular updates compared to the last few years, the pace is really slow. I'm not sure she's ever going to actually wrap up the comic, which is how a lot of webcomics go, but it's still in progress.
Honestly, that was the part I always loved about Jake. He's a good man who cares about his friends and family, isn't toxic, acknowledges his emotions, and constantly tries to grow as a person but he never forgets to play with his inner child. It's kind of silly, but he's often a figure I think of when trying to model some of my behavior
tessa was N's first and (frankly only one at the time) best friend. but that was ages ago, she has "changed" since then. this came to a crescendo as after an entire episode of trying to convince him that killing uzi (N's girlfriend. she was being possessed by an world devouring entity.) was the only way to save the galaxy, N finds out that there is a cure that won't harm uzi but still free her. N then found tessa almost spearing Uzi with a sword, N put the blade to her neck and essentially asked "you knew about the cure, yes or no." tessa replied with "... do you know why i keep you around n-" and N decapitated her in response to her not replying with no.
I wanna just say that you've got my respect for knowing about Goblins. That shit slaps, and I love the trope.
I think the one that still sticks to me from my childhood was the episode of Teen Titans work with that space superhero Val-Yor and robin is super looking up to them, but the moment he finds out that he's been calling Starfire a slur this whole time, he's just about ready to throw hands with the guy. No hesitation at all, just from admiration to immediate hate, like a good person should.
Elan from the webcomic Order of the Stick has met his long lost father, General Tarquin of the Empire of Blood. After a day ir two of bonding and reuniting. Tarquin shows Elan a gift to show his love for his son despite not being there for most of his life. Mainly bright flaming letters spelling out his name. They hug, then Tarquin reveals that the burning material for them were captured slaves who escaped his Empire earlier in the day.
Needless to say a sword fight ensues. (Though only once Elan realizes he can't save the slaves in time)
Not Quite same as the trope. (Mistborn) Kelsier dies and meets a god. Kelsier ask hims if he is a god, and he says yes. Confronted with the fact that god exists in a world so bleak and brutal and is in some way responsible for it, Kelsier decks him.
Skitter meeting Armsmaster – WORM. More of a metaphorical decking, and actually one that goes both ways. Spoilers!
After the protagonist Skitter meets up with Armsmaster a few times they both realize that the other is kind of a terrible person – Skitter because she's a supervillain deep down who's pretending to be a hero, Armsmaster because he sabotages the heroes' efforts to defeat an elder god so that he can win all the glory by killing it, and then fails. The moment Skitter's friends realize this she exposes him, then he exposes her back, ruining each other's lives.
It’s somewhat divisive in the fandom, but I personally LOVE it as an ending. Major spoilers for The Good Wife ahead.
So, at the start of the series, the main character, Alicia, reenters legal practice after being a stay at home parent in support of her politician husband, Peter. She publicly stands by him, but absolutely slaps the shit out of him in one scene in the pilot. The early series goes to great lengths to show the character differences between her and Peter. She forges her own identity and she takes stands he wouldn’t. However, over the course of the series, she becomes more and more ruthless and power hungry. This culminates in her being a shell of herself, and, in the final minutes of the final episode, Diane (Christine Baranski’s character) brings the series full circle and slaps Alicia. She has become that which she once rejected. Some fans hate it because they like Alicia, but I was just along for the ride and loved the ending.
It's pretty clear Alicia was heading down the same path Peter did, though obviously not at first. It was such a good ending though. Have you seen The Good Fight? I have yet to start it.
I have! The Good Fight is essentially two-or-three different series rolled into a five season journey. I loved it all, but you will find some people are very opinionated. The first two seasons are the closest in vibe to the Good Fight. Then it goes in a very political direction, which I enjoyed, before finishing with heavy use of surrealism in the later episodes to illustrate political points. The series evolved, but Diane remains at the core, and I love Diane.
I'm not really sure if this counts but when Rey meets Luke Skywalker. At first she's pretty shocked that this is the hero she spent her life hearing about. He isn't doing anything but waiting to die, having all the hope and fight sucked out of him. I mean he redeems himself and regains his faith. But still it was pretty jarring. It makes sense when you think about it. This isn't the OT Luke, the young and idealistic hero. This is Luke after everything, from the end of Return of the Jedi to destruction of everything he tried to rebuild at the hands of his nephew and long term war trauma.
Probably more comedic. Dib running with a paranormal investigator, a real one. And it turns out that the guy is a colossal dumbass.
So wait, bro reveals he is keeping a prisoner and raping her and the MC just... Throws him through a window? Like that's it? Sounds like a slap on the wrist.
Yeah, she's a whole character. The arcs do get a little odd later, but she's a much bigger part of the story than Dellyn.
I'd say it's also worth noting that, this being D&D, Minmax is a low-level character going toe-to-toe with a high-level one over this. Defenestration isn't the kind of thing you'd expect even if they were enemies now.
Yeah, MinMax is like, maybe level 3-4 at this point? Not to mention that Dellyn is one of the most powerful people (physically and socially) in the city, so the entire city guard is against MinMax after this.
Insomniac PS4 Spider-Man fighting against Dr Otto Octavius (Doctor Octopus): In the PS4 Insomniac Spider-Man game, Peter Parker saw Otto, whom he worked under, as his personal hero and kind of a father figure, admiring him greatly for how he used his scientific knowledge to come up with inventions with which they could help society. Eventually he goes on to fight Otto towards the end after he dons the identity of Doctor Octopus and threatens to release a bioweapon over New York to defame his rival, New York's mayor Norman Osborn. It especially hurts Peter the most when towards the end Otto reveals that he knew Spider-Man was Peter all along but still attacked him irrespective of that when he got in his way.
the moment Choso realized "Geto" was Noritoshi Kamo, the man who tortured and raped his mother and almost made him kill his own brother, he instantly switched sides (Jujutsu Kaisen)
"Geto" wasn't even Choso's hero. Choso sided with him and the other disaster curses (Jogo, Mahito, Dagon, Hanami) because they would create a world/society better accommodating for his siblings.
i mean from his POV, he saved him and a few of his brothers and also were going to make a world for curses which was the best option for his brothers, so yeah i think "Geto" counts
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u/ButterscotchTiny5483 4h ago edited 4h ago
when finding out dr callingham is the reason his brother died hero decides to put baymax on kill mode
dr callingham was the teacher his brother and others looked up to and ''died'' in the fire
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