MEME: Tropes

[girlalmighty]

For this meme, check out the TV Tropes wiki. Click through it and return with a list of five tropes which fit your character. Share them here with explanations as to why you chose those particular tropes. Others can respond with other tropes they thing suit your character.

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[badtotheclone]

Uh, I totally cheated because Kaine has his own page there, but anyway...

Anti-Hero: Kaine almost begrudgingly helps others. He's not afraid of killing if he has to and he's willing to torture people if it's necessary. He's impatient, violent, and prone to point out how stupid the people he rescues are for needing to be rescued.

My Greatest Failure: Kaine killed the love of his life by breaking her neck after he realized she was a dirty cop. He did this because he's...

Hot Blooded: ... making snap, rash decisions out of anger. As shown above, this rarely works out well for him.

Blade Below the Shoulder: Like Spider-Man in The Other storyline, Kaine has stingers that can pop out under his wrist.

Nineties Anti-Hero: Kaine was created during the 90s for the Clone Sage, a story arc generally considered really terrible that I love.

[bellpeppers]

Nineties Anti-Hero

Could not be more a more perfect example unless he was Cable.

[badtotheclone]

Yeah, Kaine is lacking in pouches and giant guns.

[uncritical]

*gives Kaine pouches*

[bellpeppers]

Badass Baritone - Because Spike is a manly man in a cool suit with a manly voice.

Death Seeker - Spends the entirety of the series building up to what is essentially a double suicide.

Confusion Fu - BE UNPREDICTABLE. He practices Jeet Kune Do as a philosophy, but weaponized, it usually comes out as this. Spike would prefer to think of himself as a Dance Battler, but he's too destructive to be that stylish.

Person of Mass Destruction - Because he is just too destructive to live. He destroys his zipcraft, he destroys the Bebop, he destroys his marks, he destroys buildings, he destroys his bank account. If he even enters a room, it is probably going to be destroyed.

Awesome McCool Name - You wish you were named Spike Spiegel.

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Badass Adorable - He will kick your ass. He will kick your ass wearing a ferret on his shoulders and while politely calling you sir and/or ma'am.

In Touch With His Feminine Side - Makeovers. Makeovers while talking about our feelings.

Loveable Jock - The unusual jock portrayed in a positive light. He basically lacks in every stereotypical jock quality, but he really loves the sport he plays and he does it well.

Turn The Other Cheek - Beat the crap out of him, shoved him in a creepy unmarked vehicle and held him in a prison for a couple days so he could wait to be violated? It's okay, Amon. I'M SURE IT'S ALL JUST A BIG MISUNDERSTANDING.

Delinquent Hair - More grease than Christian Bale circa The Newsies.

[unbridle]

Boring, but Practical: Ichigo's entire skillset, which doesn't essentially change for the entirety of 500 issues. He is super-strong, super-fast, and can shoot beams at you. The super-ness of these skills increases and decreases and the color of the beam spam changes, but essentially he's just a strong, fast dead guy. This further describes his entire approach to everything in life.

Iron Woobie - He takes it upon himself to stand in the path of foreseeable, predictable, inevitable misfortune at every available opportunity because he deserves it.

Impaled With Extreme Prejudice - He has been near-lethally stabbed through the chest or abdomen 13 times. Seven of these times he was impaled by a current or potential ally. He hangs with a great crowd.

Shut Up, Hannibal! - Ugh, smug people. Talking is not a free action.

Sympathy For The Devil - He nearly always empathizes with the Arc Villain, partially because he's got a Superpowered Evil Side himself, given that most of the villains in the series are twisted evil spirits who were once normal humans, but also because he tends to view villain motivation from the source to believe that they're doing things because they're crushingly lonely or hurt.