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Meme: Tropes!
So we haven't done this one since September, and I've never posted a meme before but I am bored, dammit. Stolen from
decoder_rings :
A trope, for our purposes, is a recognizable concept or pattern of behavior used in fiction. Tropes are not necessarily cliches. Cliches, by definition, are trite; tropes are simply an expectation, and can be used in fresh and unique ways. For example, "Rags to Riches" is a popular trope that everyone recognizes -- Sometimes it's done well, sometimes not.
Your challenge, should you accept it, is to trawl the TV Tropes Wiki and find five tropes that fit your character. Comment here listing the tropes and explain why you chose them. Others familiar with your character can then offer additional tropes they feel are appropriate.
SO GO FORTH AND TROPE IT UP.

Sam Puckett
- Action Girl -- She's the one who takes down the security guards, rival comedians, bullies, crazed food television stars. . . .
- Big Eater -- seriously, she's got the metabolism of a hummingbird
- Comedic Sociopath -- Her best friend has to tell her not to kidnap people
- Evil Twin -- Her twin sister Melanie is nice, sweet, caring, and earned her full ride to private school with good grades, rather than court orders.
- Karma Houdini -- Oh, sure, she'll get detention, and sometimes even arrested, but for the most part? Sam just breezes on through doing things like installing potentially lethal alarm systems in her locker that blow out the fuses of the school
- She Cleans Up Nicely -- My girl's a beauty queen. I'm not even kidding.
OKAY SO I WENT WITH SIX INSTEAD OF FIVE. I still had to narrow it down to these.Edited for prettier formatting. I'll stop now, I swear.
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Blessed With Suck (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlessedWithSuck) - HIS POWER IS CANCER.
Covered With Scars (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CoveredWithScars) - DID I MENTION THE CANCER?
Evilly Affable (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvillyAffable) - He is a mercenary and started out as a villain, after all.
Medium Awareness (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MediumAwareness) - Fourth wall? What fourth wall?
Talking Is A Free Action (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TalkingIsAFreeAction) - Canonically stated as a fighting tactic. Also... Marvel. It's what they do.
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Ambiguously Autistic: His lack of social skills that this one is up in the air. In canon, he lives in his office, presumably because his agoraphobia makes it difficult for him to go outside, and he doesn't have a single friend.
Affably Evil: He's responsible for programming nonconsenting people's brains with new personalities and missions, many of which involve what could be perceived as rape. But he's also funny about it.
Insufferable Genius: It's Topher's opinion that it's okay for him to mess with people's brains, simply because he thinks of people as his toys since they're not as smart as him.
Heel Realization: Topher's major development as a character comes about when he realizes the extent of what it is that he does.
Raven
Leia
Leto Atreides II
Biological Mash Up - Leto merged with the sandtrouts and is a human/sandworm hybrid.
A God I Am - Perhaps not literally, but he will be the God Emperor. He's also good at making speeches about it.
Necessarily Evil - The Golden Path isn't that pleasant...
Genetic Memory - Lots of them.
Prescience is Predictable - Leto quote from the TV tropes page: "It has occurred to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will."
Kate Daniels
Chuck Bartowski
- Technical Pacifist (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TechnicalPacifist) - he does not like guns, or killing, it's aaaall about the tranq darts and knocking people unconcious!
- Parental Abandonment (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ParentalAbandonment) - Chuck and Ellie's mom left when they were ten or so, and only a few years later their father took off too.
- Blessed with Suck (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlessedWithSuck) - Things go wrong for him. A lot. Blame the Intersect.
- I Just Want to Be Normal (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IJustWantToBeNormal)
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Kids Are Cruel (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KidsAreCruel) - Have you seen the show?
Only Sane Man (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OnlySaneMan) - A job he tends to share with Kyle, mind.
Deadpan Snarker (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DeadpanSnarker) - It's the only way to survive South Park. Really.
Knight In Sour Armor (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KnightInSourArmor) - He'll do the right thing! He just doesn't really wanna. And will whine the whole time.
Common Sense (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CommonSense) - Sadly lacking where he comes from.
Effy Stonem
Manipulative Bastard (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ManipulativeBastard) -- she's a little better these days, but she used not to be against a little emotional manipulation.
Silent Bob (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SilentBob) -- she stopped talking at one point in her childhood, or at least talked very little.
The Ophelia (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheOphelia) -- in later seasons (as in FH), she went completely off the deep end, made herself a Room of Crazy (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RoomFullOfCrazy) and was institutionalized for a while.
Fille Fatale (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FilleFatale) -- yeah. Just... have you seen Skins?
Tony Stark
Gadgeteer Genius (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GadgeteerGenius) - Mechanics, engineering, electronics and programming! I'm sure the show will give him random other subjects of study when the story calls for it and they will never be mentioned again.
Powered Armor (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PoweredArmor) - He's the goddamn Iron Man (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LjbMVXj0F8)
Rich In Dollars Poor In Sense (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RichInDollarsPoorInSense) - Billionaire. What's this... poor thing you speak of?
Wake Up Go To School Save The World (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld) - He needs to graduate from a real high school in order to inherit his company. IT MAKES VERY LITTLE SENSE WHEN YOU WONDER WHAT HE DID IN THE MEANTIME. DID NO ONE HOME SCHOOL HIM TO GET HIS G.E.D.? BECAUSE SERIOUSLY. LOGIC IN A CARTOON.
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Deadpan Snarker (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DeadpanSnarker) - Because he is! Yippee.
Sky Surfing (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SkySurfing) - In the most literal sense, little mister solar surfer.
Teens Are Short (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TeensAreShort) - Jim is shorter than his own mother. Jim is probably shorter than you. Aww. Bite-sized Jim.
Troubled But Cute (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TroubledButCute) - He is tough and emo and he will puppy dog face you to death.
Disappeared Dad (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DisappearedDad)- Exactly why Jim's so troubled, right here. IT MAKES HIM VERY SAD.
Okay I fall over now go sleeps for forever.
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-Dawson Casting (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DawsonCasting): Well, Stan Kirsch was 24 when he first started playing Richie, who was supposed to be 17 at the time. Not as bad as some other cases, but it's still there.
-Parental Abandonment (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ParentalAbandonment): All Immortals are foundlings with no parents. The woman Richie thought was his mom was a foster mother, and then she keeled over dead in a candy store with him when he was 5.
-Like A Son To Me (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LikeASonToMe): Immortals can't have children. Duncan conveniently finds a wayward teenager (that would be Richie) to take care of and train in the fine art of serial decapitation. And then...
-Murder By Mistake (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MurderByMistake): Look, I don't want to talk about it. Let's just pretend that "Archangel" and everything after it never happened. Except the Joe&Methos buddy hour episode and the finale which was actually good.
-Took A Level In Badass (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TookALevelInBadass): The worst part about the above is that Richie really had leveled up during that season (after the last time Duncan tried to kill him while crazy). Actually, he'd been leveling up the whole series. He started out a punk kid with a petty theft problem and ended up an Immortal and a pretty decent swordsman. And then...
-Dropped A Bridge On Him (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DroppedABridgeOnHim): I know I said I didn't want to talk about it but it was horrible. And traumatic. And ridiculous. And a number of other negative adjectives as well.
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Conversational Troping (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ConversationalTroping): Most episodes consist of the "freaks" discussing music or the "geeks" talking about comedy and sci-fi. Lots of pop culture references.
The Eighties (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheEighties): The show is set in the early eighties.
Picture Day (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PictureDay): The opening credits (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IopHL3auzNQ).
Audience Surrogate (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AudienceSurrogate): Lindsay and her brother Sam are characters the audience can see themselves as.
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Deus Sex Machina: Healing Cock is canon, yo. Though so is Healing Hoohoo.
Out With A Bang: On the other Hoohoo...
Take A Third Option: Bo's unique position in the canon setting comes from the fact that she refuses to choose between the Light and Dark Fae, allowing her sometimes-grudging access to both social circles and making her the go-to girl for stuff that people can't accomplish within the rules of their own side.
Cool Big Sis: in BFF Kenzi's eyes, but somewhat subverted by the fact that Kenzi is actually cooler and more streetwise.
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Magnificent Bastard - He's a Wiggin. They're all plotty little bastards. Peter used that to maneuver himself into a spot as ruler of the world, eventually.
Young Conqueror - Started his plan to take over the world when he was twelve, and got results. Which still makes him older than his brother, who saved the world from alien invasion when he was eleven. Oh, canon. By age 22, he's going to have the reins of the world firmly in hand.
Insufferable Genius - When even Bean can't stand you... "The reason we’re in this predicament is that you think you’re smarter than everybody else, so no matter what advice you get, you go off half-cocked and do something astonishingly dumb."
Not So Different - Ender is afraid he'll be like Peter. Peter realises he has to be like Ender to succeed at his goal. According to Valentine, "My brothers are two sides of the same coin, and I'm the metal in between."
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Loners Are Freaks - Isolated since he was wee in order to become a better commander. Nowadays, that makes it hard for him to connect to anybody in a permanent way.
Manipulative Bastard - He might arguably be the nicest Wiggin, in his way, but getting people to do what he wants with the right words at the right time is just the Wiggin way. Quoth Valentine, "Ender manipulated you from the start. It's the family talent."
Guile Hero - The Jedi can go ahead and beat things up. Ender'll use his big brain and Manipulative Bastard skills to cheat until the odds are in his favor, first.
Messianic Archetype/The Messiah - What Ender eventually becomes, as the Speaker for the Dead, and which is something already heavily present in him at the present time. Martyrdom and 'let's love everyone to death' and all. Oh, Orson.
And an extra because it amuses me: Names To Run Away From Really Fast - Self frickin' explanatory.
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Brainwashed and Crazy - Self-explanatory, no?
Half-Human Hybrid - Also self-explanatory. Really would've been nice if they hadn't forgotten about these two in light of #4.
Does Not Like Shoes - Also self-explanatory.
Scars Are Forever - The three prominent ones on her forehead, which could have been surgically removed, stay because she said she earned them. Once we find out she's actually half Yuuzhan Vong now and therefore part of a culture that's all about the aesthetic disfigurement, it makes more sense.
Character Derailment - Four words: Legacy of the Force. This girl's supposed to grow up to spend the next fifteen years of her life bitter and moping over her dead teenage boyfriend (never mind that an entire trilogy had a plotline dedicated to resolving that) until it turned her evil and Sithy and Ben-torture-y. Yeah. WTFFFFFFFFFFFF.
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Break the Cutie (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BreakTheCutie) - Gabrielle basically lives to get kicked around and put in peril and everything ever that will poke at her optimism and ideals.
Martial Pacifist (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MartialPacifist) (also Technical Pacifist (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TechnicalPacifist)) - Well, up through the middle of season 4, anyway. She wouldn't kill, but she would beat the crap out of you with a big-ass stick.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NiceJobBreakingItHero) - Like I wasn't gonna go for the Portal-reference trope. Gabrielle is forever making things worse with some of her well-intentioned but horribly short-sighed actions.
Took a Level in Badass (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TookALevelInBadass) - SEASON SIX, BABY. AWWWW YEAH. Our little wide-eyed klutzy peacenik is kicking ass, taking names, and doing it with a pair of sai, a katana, and some sweet-ass moves.
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Bad Ass - More in her own head than anything else at first, granted, but yer damn right she is.
Replacement Scrappy - Girl had big shoes to fill with both the characters and the fans, and only thirteen rushed episodes to try and do it. Needless to say it didn't work so well, which earned her a--
Hatedom - So, so hated, on principle even before she was more than a casting side spoiler and people were SCANDALIZED they would dare give Willow a new love interest. (I was bitter about this for years. I may still be.) My poor girl. *sniffle*
Death is Cheap and Noodle Incident - GOD DAMMIT, STUPID COMICS, QUIT REFERENCING HOW SHE DIED FOR A MONTH AND NEVER EXPLAINING WTF HAPPENED. BECAUSE I REALLY, REALLY WANT TO KNOW, and Willow casually mentioning this to Buffy in passing like it ain't no big thang REALLY PISSES ME OFF. (Although the fact that she got to come back from it, I suspect, really pisses a lot of other people off...)
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Fish Out of Temporal Water (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FishOutOfTemporalWater) - A time-traveller who gets stuck in the Middle Ages. And now, Fandom. He isn't much pleased.
Neutral Good (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NeutralGood) - There's no more fitting alignment for Dolf, who goes out of his way to Do Good, and still feels remorse whenever that involves cheating the law. Awww.
The Heart (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheHeart) - Not always the cleverest among the Crusader pack, but clever enough, and people follow him because it's obvious he loves them.
Naive Newcomer (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NaiveNewcomer) - ... but both of the above tropes tend to be applied regardless of circumstance, thus leading Dolf into Much Trouble. Partly because he's also kind of a Determinator (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Determinator)...
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. . . has her own whole tropes page (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Batgirl).
Badass Normal (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BadassNormal) - The most Badass Normal of all the Bats. Mostly because she tends to be . . .
Always Second Best (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AlwaysSecondBest) - Cassandra and Helena both have worse family histories than she does, her skill levels aren't anywhere near Dick's or Jason's or Tim's (or Damian's for that matter), Tim and Bruce are both massive jerks about reminding her that she doesn't have the skills or the training for the job and should just go home, but she's a . . .
Determinator (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Determinator) - As Spoiler, she gets "fired" by Bruce as one of his associates, but she won't stop vigilante-ing; as Robin she gets fired again, then goes back to being Spoiler (again, despite being told to knock it off); after Cassandra abruptly gives up being Batgirl (for contrived reasons (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BatmanGambit), as it later turns out) she puts on the costume and goes out to keep fighting crime with Oracle talking at her through the cowl's headset the whole time, telling her to knock it the hell off and go home. Except she doesn't, until Oracle finally gives in and lets her have a chance. AND THEN THEY DONE WENT AND DECIDED TO ERASE THE WHOLE THING ARGH WTF DC I HATE YOUR REBOOT CRAP. :(
Buffy Speak (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BuffySpeak) - No, seriously. Particularly in Bryan Q. Miller's Batgirl run, she really, really does talk like a Buffy character. (It confuses me sometimes.) Related, she's also Genre Savvy (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GenreSavvy) and flings around pop culture references like confetti at a parade.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NiceJobBreakingItHero) - She shares this one with Gabrielle, and like the page says you really could rename this trope Pulling a Stephanie Brown. It's things like accidentally freezing Damian with a specialized Batarang, investigating a crime scene only to get herself framed for murder . . .
I could go on for a while with this girl. But I'm just gonna leave you with one more.
Crowning Moment of Awesome (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome?from=Main.CrowningMomentOfAwesome) - She slapped Bruce Wayne in the face (http://dcwomenkickingass.tumblr.com/post/2419309005/mm11). Yeah, that's right.