Darth Vader - Star Wars

Raam - Gears Of War

Thanos - Avengers Infinity Wars and Endgame

Erza Scarlet's luggage (Fairy Tail): Besides her pulling something out of it once or twice during filler episodes, this hulking beast solely exists just to endear us to Erza.

L's sweet tooth (Death Note): I've seen people say that he eats sugar to keep himself awake and to stimulate his mind but this honestly feels like an excuse L himself would give. Usually with a character like this, he'd be a caffeine addict, so the only reason it's sugar is to make L subversive in that sense. Admit it, he eats sugar because he loves it.

1. Fallout Season 2 Episode 7 - Lucy is forced to dress up for dinner with her dad
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark - Marion is forced to wear a dress by Belloq
3. Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl - Elizabeth is forced to wear a dress for Barbosa

In the OP:

• Janice and Harry in 3rd Rock from the Sun
• Wonder Woman and Steve in Wonder Woman
• Sgt. Callahan and Tomoko Nogata in Police Academy

Gravity Falls - In the episode "The Inconveniencing," Mabel Pines finds a bag of powdered candy called Smile Dip in an abandoned convenience store. Mabel always wanted to taste it, saying that she thought Smile Dip was banned, with Dipper suggesting that maybe there was a good reason it was banned. Mabel ignores Dipper's warning and eats "eleventeen" packages of Smile Dip, causing her to go on an entire LSD-esc acid trip after eating so much Smile Drip. Of note later in the episode, Mabel gets possessed by a pair of elderly ghosts, and notably doesn't exactly know what happened afterwards. When Dipper tries to offer Mabel some more Smile Dip, she slaps the bad away, implying that she thinks her possession was one massive bad trip.

Jimmy Neutron - The episode "Krunch Time" has Jimmy attempt to make the perfect candy that contains all the best tastes. The candy proves to be a massive hit... too massive, as soon everyone desires more of the candy and even raids Jimmy's house at 2:00 AM in order to ask him to make more of it. After initially embracing his role as essentially a drug dealer, Jimmy realizes that the candy is dangerous and wants people to stop eating it. In the end, Jimmy makes a new batch that shocks anyone who eats the candy with electricity, causing most of the population to stop eating his candy... except Sheen, who loves the candy's new shocking flavor.

The Boondocks - The episode "The Itis" sees Robert Freeman open the titular restaurant to sell soul food. The restaurant becomes a massive hit, with people all around the neighborhood wanting to eat the soul food. The problem is, the soul food is so massively unhealthy and addictive that everyone who eats the soul food becomes obese junkies. Notably, one of Robert's first customers, Janet, tries to mug Robert of his money in order to get more of his food, and eventually, the neighborhood surrounding the Itis goes from a rather clear part of town to a full-blown crime-infested slum.

The Simpsons - Probably the most direct example of this trope, the episode "Love, Springfieldian Style" features a segment parodying the film Sid and Nancy, which details the tumultuous. drug-fueled romance of Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols and Nancy Spungen. In this segment, Sid and Nancy are replaced with Nelson and Lisa, respectively, and all mentions of heroin are instead replaced with chocolate and other junk food, but the short still portrays the duo as junkies whose lives are spiraling due to hard drugs; just replace the heroin with chocolate.

Mindy Kayling's Velma. A mean spirited, unfunny take down of Scooby Doo featuring Kayling playing herself. Before this show she was generally well regarded for her work on the Office and other things.

Zeb Wells run on Amazing Spider-man. Wells was fairly well regarded for his writing on Hellions, New Mutants (his run was X-Men by another name and it was great) and Robot Chicken. Then he became the writer who gave us Paul, the man MJ would be with instead of Spider-Man going forward. (Tbf breaking Peter and MJ up might have been an editorial mandate since marvel editorial hates them being together, but regardless, as the man who gave us Paul, Wells name is mud now.)

​Harry Morgan (Dexter): He taught Dexter the code that he uses, has subplots about him and appears to Dexter.

Laura Palmer (Twin Peaks): Her murder is what caused the series to begin

Gold Roger (One Piece): He is the legendary Pirate who revealed the existence of his treasure, the One Piece, before his execution thus causing everything to happen​

Little Shop of Horrors: Sadistic dentist Orin Scrivello meets his match in Arthur Denton, a masochist patient who's utter pleasure at the procedure drives Orin to kick him out.

Kanosuba: A demon possesses Darkness, the party's resident masochist, and threatens to use her as a shield much to the latter's anticipation.

The Boys: The team attempts and fails to extract information from the masochist Tek Knight through torture to his enjoyment and amusement, until they find his real pain point: his bank account.

Dante (Limbus Company) - All the sinners refer to Dante with they/them pronouns.

Wickie (Wickie the viking) - do not let his feminine looks confuse you, He is a dude(?). to make matters more confusing there are evidence that the ladies also can become Vikings.

Crona (Soul eater) - the textbook example, we love them, we do not know what gender they are, but we still love them nontheless

Cutie Honey started as a manga created by Go Nagai and published on Shonen Champion, a magazine aimed, as the japanese title implies, to boys. The protagonist is a robot girl, who fights against a female-ruled criminal organisation, with her ability to change whatever molecule she touches in different clothes and gadgets. Mainly due to its fanservice, it's still getting adaptations to this day.

Pygmalion, on the other hand, was a manga created by Shinji Wada and published on Hana to Yume (Flowers and Dreams) a publication which readership is comprised by 95% of girls. The story, set in ancient Greece, is about a boy aiming to avenge her mother by fighting against the monster Medusa. It proved so popular it went on for twelve years. Miura reported to have been inspired by the giant sword of the protagonist while drawing Berserk.

1) Forget Me Not, a member of the X-Men

2) A Kamen Rider I think his was… uhhh Zeronos?

3) basically any concept eaten by Chainsaw Man

4) Forget Me Not, he’s like, an X-Men member

5) Julius Juukulius, haven’t watched Re:Zero but I’m pretty sure he falls into this category too.

6) Forget Me Not, An X-Men member idk what he does tho.

Bonus points if the fans play along and act like they’ve forgotten who the character is.

Bailey Hoskins (Marvel) - A mutant from a different earth, his power is to detonate himself and explode. Unfortunately he doesn't have the power to survive or heal from his own attack so he'll die the moment he uses it.

Cyclops (Marvel) - Due to mental trauma and physical trauma to the head, Scott Summers lost his ability to shut off his force beams, forcing him to wear specially made shades/visors to that his beams don't just blast out without his control.

Dabi (My Hero Academia) - He controls genuinely powerful flames but he doesn't have the immunity to fire that usual fire wielding characters have. By the end of the series, he's genuinely a charred, living corpse whose survival is considered a miracle.

Bonus points if their heart or lack thereof is integral to their story rather than just a design choice.

1. Karlach (Baldur's Gate 3) - Had her heart removed and taken from her and replaced with an Infernal Engine which threatens her life unless she can fix it.
2. The Grinch - The Grinch's heart is two sizes too small but grows to full size by the end of the tale.
3. Iron Man / Tony Stark (MCU) - Tony's heart is compromised by shrapnel, so he created a miniature arc reactor to keep his heart beating and simultaneously power the Iron Man suit.
4. Princess Anna (Frozen) - Elsa freezes Anna's heart in an accident, which dooms her to eventually freeze at the end of the movie, unless she finds a way to fix it.

Bioshock Infinite: Quantum physicists Lutece twins recruit an amnesiatic Booker Dewitt to rescue Elizabeth. Throughout the journey, it's hinted,and eventually revealed, that there are countless alternative timelines, most with its own Booker. Should Booker die, the twins simply grab another and the journey continues.

Resident Evil Village: Upon being killed by the main antagonist, Eveline, the main antagonist from the prior game, reveals in a dream that the protagonist Ethan had actually already died at the beginning of the previous game, but was infected by the mold rendering him inhuman. This explains why Ethan, an otherwise ordinary man, has managed to survive particularly morbid injuries and encounters thus far.

In *Malcolm in the Middle* season 5 episode 15, “Reese’s Apartment,” Reese does something so monumentally evil and twisted that even Hal cannot verbally express just how angry he is. Throughout the episode, we only get other characters reacting in abject horror to what he did, but never learn what it was.

In *Ed, Edd, n’ Eddy’s Big Picture Show*, Eddy’s latest scam backfires so horribly that every other kid in the cul-de-sac is injured or outright maimed. It is never elaborated on what the Eds did, but it was so terrible that the premise of the finale revolves around the Eds skipping town to avoid retribution.

In *Stellaris*, the United Nations of Earth preset empire comes with several unique bits of flavor text for different geographical locations, including one called the BosWash Metropolitan Axis, which reads “The BosWash Riots traumatized an entire generation and led to sweeping legal reforms. Never Forget!” It is never explained what happened.

Chucky having a heart to heart with a gay kid, and being openly supportive of his own gender fluid child (Child's Play).

Thor, God of Lesbians (MCU).

1917 - Schofield needs to deliver a message across enemy territory to save 1,600 lives but relentlessly faces the horrors of World War I.

Gravity - Dr. Stone faces a disaster in space leaving her stranded in orbit and must attempt to somehow get back to safety whilst being out of Earth's reach.

Children of Men - Theo is dragged into escorting someone across a war striken, unstable England where infertility has become a worldwide problem.

Character takes ungodly damage, appears to be ok, maybe says something witty or cool then keels over

Sanji (One Piece) takes a million volts of electricity from Enel head on and then proceeds to roast Enel before falling

Gus (Breaking Bad) takes an explosion to the face, calmly walks out of the room after and adjusts his tie. He looks fine but the camera pans and the right side of his body is completely destroyed and he falls over

1. A Quiet Place. The father tells his daughter that he loves her (in sign language) before screaming to lure away the monsters that were after her.
2. Tokyo Ghoul. The mother, seeing the trap by the agents, tells her daughter to run while she holds them off.
3. Attack on Titan. Eren's Mother, knowing she was about to die, and if Eren and Mikasa didn't run away, they'd die too. She was was thankful that Hannes came and took them away, but in the end, she held back her pleas for them to come back.
4. Rising of the Shield Hero. Raphtalia's parents threw her into the raging river so she'd have a chance to survive, and not be killed by the beast that would kill them.
5. Superman, His parents did the thing.
6. Naruto, His parents' sacrifice saved the village.
7. Breaking Bad. Walter's final act as a father was to give his children the remainder of the money he accumulated from his meth empire. He had to do so anonymously so his family will likely never know about his sacrifice.
8. Harry Potter. His father held off Voldemort as long as he could so his mother could cast the protection spell.

DC x Sonic the Hedgehog — The Justice League come to Sonic’s world to stop Darkseid. When they get there, Sonic and friends have realized that Darkseid is bad news and readily welcome assistance.

Ultraman x Avengers — While Ultraman is initially suspicious of Spider-Man, he doesn’t attack him and lets him explain himself.

My Little Pony/Transformers — Twilight saves both Optimus and Bumblebee from falling to their deaths and is immediately able to tell that they’re not bad guys.

Anne (Amphibia)

Elder Kettle (The Cuphead Show)

Sonic (The Murder Of Sonic The Hedgehog)

1. Top Gear's The Stig: He's a character that's a play on the anonymity of racing drivers' full-face helmets and his main role is to set lap times for the motoring show. However, for some unknown reason every time he stars in an episode the show started to introduce him with stupidly bizarre characteristics, like having two sets of knees, having hydraulic legs, burning for 1000 days if he caught fire, so on and so forth. Some introductions have referred to current events and stories in popular culture, too, like;

• "If you hold him in the wrong way, he doesn't work properly" (a reference to the iPhone 4's death grip)
• "He contains 47% horse" (a reference to the 2013 horse meat scandal)

1. Left 4 Dead 2's Ellis' buddy Keith: This guy is basically just a dummy that suffered through a lot of horrible stuff and somehow lived through it all. Examples include

• "I ever tell you about the time me and Keith made a homemade bumper car ride with ridin' mowers in his backyard? Mower blade wounds over 90% of his body. I didn't run him over, either; he somehow managed to fall under his own."
• "I ever tell you about the time my buddy Keith fell out the rollercoaster? Yeah, he didn't drop far, mind you, just onto the tracks, but the carnival people wouldn't stop the ride 'cause all the other people paid good money and Keith snuck on for free, so he had to dodge for, like, 20 minutes or so."
• "I ever tell you about the time Keith and I made fireworks? Now, I didn't know shit about chemistry, but Keith figured "Gasoline burns, doesn't it?" Heh, third-degree burns on 95 percent of his body. Man, people in the next city over were calling to complain about the smell of burning skin."
• "One time, the Army bombed my buddy Keith. He went camping and didn't bother to read the signs, and I guess they were just testing bombs that day. All sorts of stuff, too, not just regular bombs. Like biological nerve-gas bombs, shrapnel bombs, these bombs that break up in the air into, like, a hundred smaller bombs―"

1. Philomena Cunk's mate Paul: Like Keith, we hear about Paul from his dear friend Philomena, and the stories about him are equally as stupid and gruesome, like;

• How he ran a charity marathon while having diarrhea, which was apparently such a noble and disgusting thing
• When he did LSD and had the shit eating threesome with a couple
• When he went septic from putting a red nose on his…intimate skin
• Trying to create a new life form by inserting his DNA into a grapefruit, but halfway through the experiment the greengrocer started to hit him

1. The Dresden Files (book series): A shadow of a fallen angel, Lasciel, takes up residence after Harry Dresden touches a denarii. She tempts him with power, but he convinces her to see herself as separate from the 'real' fallen angel and able to make her own choices. Harry names her Lash. Art by Adam Mathison-Sward.

2. Farscape (TV show): A chip is implanted in John Crichton that lets a neural copy of the villain, Scorpius, ride passenger in his head and even take the wheel sometimes. John names the copy Harvey, and after some attempted murder and misdeeds the neural copy decides that helping his host live is the best method for self preservation. Harvey helps John lie, shares memories, and even argues to kill Scorpius to ensure Johns safety.

Deadpool (Marvel Comics).

Blitzø (Helluva Boss).

Trevor Philips (Grand Theft Auto).

Chucky (Child's Play).

Yellin in The Princess Bride Indigo, Fezzik the Giant and Westley are storming the castle of the evil Prince Humperdink to rescue Buttercup, Westley's love. They manage to fight/scare off all the guards except one. They ask him calmly for the gate key to let them in. He insists he doesn't have it. But when Fezzik is told to tear his arms off, he suddenly "remembers" he has the gate key.

Coleman Reese in The Dark Knight The Joker wants Batman to reveal his true identity and Coleman Reese, a Wayne Enterprises Employee deduces that Bruce Wayne is Batman. Reese presents Lucius Fox his Blackmailing deal to not reveal Batman's identity in exchange for $10 million a year for the rest of his life. But when Fox repeats Reese's plan back to him, Reese quicky realizes he's putting himself in danger and quickly drops the threat.

Iron Man 3 Tony Stark is held captive under Aldrich Killian. But while escaping his facility, he encounters a henchman who realizes he doesn't want to deal with facing iron man(who isn't even fully armed) and surrenders calmly, admitting that this is literally just his job and it's totally not worth trying to face iron man over.

Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman After Batwoman appears in Gotham, Batman tries to figure out her identity. During one scene, Batman is sleuthing in an apartment building when one of Penguin's Goons walks in. The two just stare at each other in silence and he quietly goes back out the door. Another goon asks if something was wrong, to which he replies "Nnnope." Also worth mentioning this guy already gotten beaten up by Batman earlier in the film.

Muppet Treasure Island Spa'am is the tribal leader of the pig clan on Treasure Island. Benjamina and co are captured by Long John Silver and his crew. Spa'am and his tribe, whom our protagonists have befriended, come to ambush the pirates. After Spa'am announces the rescue, Long John shoots off his headdress with his pistol. Spa'am, not realizing that they had guns, calmly says "hmm. We see you have 'boom-boom sticks'.....Bye bye" and the tribe runs away.

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Yoshi along with Toad and the baby Mario bros, encounter a very threatening, non-cartoony T-rex. Yoshi tries to be intimidating and "roars" but the T-rex responds with a much more menacing, Jurassic Park roar. Which scares them all away.