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Decoy Protagonist

"Long time ago on a planet long forgotten by time, a young hero was born, a righteous Saiyan warrior who would bring peace to the galaxy This... is not his story." — Narrator, Bardock: The Father of Goku Abridged

So you've got your hero. He practically has a giant neon sign over his head that says he's a hero. It might be subtle, but it's fairly obvious you've found the guy who'll save the day, get the girl, and live a long and hap— what the? Did he just get bitten in half by a mutant T. Rex?

Some books, films, or games like to mix things up and throw viewers for a loop by revealing that theStandardized Leader isn't The Hero. This can be very dramatic; there are few more effective ways to showcase Anyone Can Die than taking out the apparent protagonist. It can also be used comedically, revealing that the guy who thinks he's the protagonist is just a glorified bit player. Sometimes the Decoy Protagonist will turn out to be the antagonist.

Intro Only Point Of View frequently is used to emphasize his importance before The Reveal.

What happens next is the guy we perceive of as The Lancer, Side Kick, or even a fringe loner takes center stage as the real protagonist (maybe even Hero). Usually they reveal a much greater level of personal integrity and strength of will than previously thought, despite their Dark and Troubled Past.

Note that this does not necessarily involve the death of the initial protagonist, although that is often how this trope expresses itself. If the target actually dies, they're often a Sacrificial Lion. If the character actually was The Hero, see Take Up My Sword. Also see Dead Star Walking.

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Every day you’ll see a new post or two containing a snippet of what the trope is about plus a link to the actual article!

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Eren Jaegar - Attack On Titan/Shingeki No Kyojin

Berserk Button

Bold Explorer

Dark and Troubled Past

It's Personal

Unstoppable Rage

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Pretty Little Headshots

And the men of the First Shikaris  Picked up their Subaltern dead,  With a big blue mark in his forehead  And the back blown out of his head. — Rudyard Kipling, The Grave of the Hundred Head

Whenever someone gets shot in the head on TV, what generally happens is that they end up with a little hole in their head - and that's generally it. There may be a little blood on the wall behind them, implying a fairly gory exit wound, but not one you're likely to see.

In Real Life, a headshot virtually never leaves a neat little exit wound. There is either no exit wound at all (the result of a low-powered or small round), or a pretty serious chunk of the skull is blown away by the exiting bullet (high-powered or large caliber bullets or a close-in shotgun blast). If the round doesn't exit the skull, the blood will be mostly around the entry wound, with possibly a bit of spatter if the victim jerked or twitched. If there is an exit wound, there's going to be bits of bone, brains and blood (and maybe teeth) all over. Often it's implied that the neat little hole we're seeing is the entry wound, and You Do Not Want To Know what it looks like from the other side — sometimes this will be lampshaded in order to keep the gore down while at least paying lip service to the messy reality.

Generally subverted in video games, where anything bigger then a pistol has the capacity to cause obvious damage. The head usually still remains intact, though.

Contrary to popular belief, a gunshot wound to the head is not actually always fatal in and of itself, nor is it an Instant Death Bullet. Probably the most famous example of this was the head wound of Phineas Gage, who managed to survive a three foot long steel rod through his brain (not without ill effects though).

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My Name Is Inigo Montoya

"Hello!. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." — The Princess Bride

Before a duel begins, one character announces himself to his opponent without any prompting because he wants his target to know who is about to pound him.

Causes can be Genocide Backfire, You Killed My Father, or there could be nothing personal and the hero is just doing this For Great Justice. It can lead to But for Me, It Was Tuesday.

This trope is also very common in Japanese anime, manga and videogames regardless of situation: It was part of the Samurai code of honour to tell your opponent your name before fighting them and not doing so was considered rude.

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One Game for the Price of Two

Gotta buy 'em all!

So you Gotta Catch Them All, eh? Well, the Marketing department has come up with a wonderful way to encourage social participation! They'll divide some of the game's content (characters, mons, subplots, or so on) between different cartridges! Sure, you can still play the game by yourself, beat the Final Boss and watch the credits roll, but the only way to get true 100% Completion is to findother people who have purchased the other versions (or simply buy the other versions yourself) and trade your exclusive content for theirs. This version is particularly common with mon games.

Of course, this means that those same characters, subplots, and mons are now effectively interchangeable in the overall scheme of things, thus making characterization inconvenient. Also, anyone who doesn't have access to large gatherings of people with the other versions of the game is likely screwed.

A variation of this involves ending a game's story on a Cliffhanger and having the sequel pick up where the first game left off, giving the player the feeling that the entire series was, narratively, one game split into multiple parts. However, this practice isn't as well regarded here as it is in other media: Individual volumes of a series of novels, films, or television shows frequently are not expected to be anything but the continuation of a single, overall work in progress. Videogames, meanwhile, are largely expected to stand as discrete, complete works in and of themselves.

Examples of one game with multiple versions:

Pokémon

Mega Man Battle Network

Examples outside of games and gaming:

Harry Potter's 7th book's movie version spans two movies.

The Hobbit movie adaptation was originally slated to be broken up into two movies. It will now be a trilogy, incorporating story elements from some of Tolkien's many appendixes/anthologies.

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Color Coded Characters

Which set of Turtles is easier to tell apart?

When a creator of a work introduces a large number of characters at once, such as at the beginning of a work, they have to find a way to distinguish them and make them memorable in the audience's mind. Some of the ways they do that is to give them memorable names or personality traits. But perhaps the easiest way ties to human's strongest sense: our sight. By giving each character a specific Color Motif, the audience can quickly come to associate one color with that character and tell the characters apart with only a glance.

Note that this is not always the only way to tell the characters apart. It is usually just one of many.

Bright, contrasting colors, particularly primary colors, are common. Regardless who they're assigned to, when characters are color coded you can almost always count on a Red and a Blue to appear. Further seeing a Green or a Yellow is also common. To round out a Five-Man Band after using the four primary colors you usually see Black, White, or Pink for The Chick. Purple, Orange and other colors are more uncommon unless you have enough units for a full Rainbow Motif or more.

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Examples:

Sailor Moon

Digimon

Super Sentai and Power Rangers

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

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Mirai Nikki

"What are you scheming?" "An interesting game."

Future Diary (known as Mirai Nikki in Japan) is a dark manga/anime about the asocial Yukiteru Amano, who obsessively keeps journals. One day, he finds that his imaginary friend Deus Ex Machina, the lord of time and space, has made his cell phone diary able to predict the future. After getting over the initial shock of having a supernatural cell phone, Yuki enjoys his newfound powers until he comes across a diary entry stating his exact time of death...

After taking out his would-be murderer, Yuki is invited to a gathering with ten other people, where Deus explains that they are now in a Battle Royale for the position of God. Some of the diary holders have personal reasons to claim the throne; others are psychotically insane. And soon enough, young Yuki finds himself without any true friends or allies aside from the curiously Yuki-obsessed participant, Yuno Gasai...

The anime features the following tropes:

Bittersweet Ending

Ominous Latin Chanting

Teens Are Monsters

Tears of Blood

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Puella Magi Madoka Magica

"With kindness comes naïveté. Courage becomes foolhardiness. And dedication has no reward. If you can't accept any of that,  you are not fit to be a Magical Girl."—Homura Akemi

Madoka Kaname is an Ordinary Middle School Student with a loving family and a close circle of friends. One day, an enigmatic girl called Homura Akemi transfers into her class, setting off a chain of events that will change Madoka's life as she knows it.

In the shadows of the city, a war is being fought between the grotesque Witches and the Magical Girls who fight against them. A small cat-like creature named Kyubey appears before Madoka and offers to grant a single wish in exchange for her services as a Magical Girl. The idealistic Madoka wants to accept so that she can protect innocent people, but Homura—who reveals herself to be a Magical Girl—seems determined to stop Madoka for reasons unknown.

Provides Examples Of:

Magical Girls

Weasel Mascot

Alien Geometries

Imagination Based Superpower

Nice Job Breaking It, Hero

Tragic Hero

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Yoko Littner -Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann<

Action Girl

Flirting Under Fire

Cool Big Sis

BFG

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Tsundere

"Oh, Arnold, how I love you. And yet I hate you! And yet I love you. And yet I hate you! And yet I LOVE you." — Helga Pataki, Hey Arnold!.

I'll describe this topic... since it figures that you wouldn't know what a Tsundere is. Look, if you reallymust know, I suppose that I'll tell you. Just... consider yourself lucky that I just happen to have an article handy, o-okay! blush

Baka.

ahem...

Yes. So. The Japanese term tsundere refers to a character who "runs hot and cold", alternating between two distinct moods: tsuntsun (aloof or irritable) and deredere (lovestruck)

The term was originally used to describe characters who began with a harsh outgoing personality, butslowly revealed a soft and vulnerable interior over time. Over the years the character archetype has become flanderized, and is now generically associated with a character who flips between the two emotional states at the slightest provocation.

The tsuntsun can range from the "silent treatment" to "lovestruck kindergartener who pushes you into the sandbox." The reasons behind a Tsundere's behavior vary widely, but usually boil down to the conflict between their feelings of affection towards a love interest, and their reaction to having those feelings.

Full article can be found here

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TV Tropes on Tumblr!

Hey and welcome! Right here on tv-tropes.tumblr.com you'll find all your favorite tropes, themes, and cliches (though we do hate that word) from all of your favorite animes, comics, and tv shows!

Every day you'll see a new post or two containing a snippet of what the trope is about plus a link to the actual article!

You'll even see posts about your favorite characters and shows along with a few tropes that really define that character!

If you have an questions or even suggestions for tropes/shows/characters for us to post about, feel free to put them in our ask box right HERE!