Basically what it says above. Both Abijah Fowler and Stephen Bonnet are antagonists who are Irish, Smugglers, Menacing as all hell, and have some sort of monologue

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Stephen Bonnet explains that he was once a cabin builder when he was in Ireland, and was almost used as a human sacrifice for the foundation of one of the cabins to fulfill an ancient custom. He was spared simply because of a literal coin toss between him and a fellow worker. After this event, he took to life on the seas and piracy, taking his life into his own hands.

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Abijah Fowler has a monologue about a famine and his experience, describing how his parents died before himself and his sister. He states that he fed his sister on his blood, and that he was up 3 nights straight after his sister died to protect her body from the starving. He later buried his sister and ate her kidneys out of desperation. After all of this, he became a seafaring smuggler.

The Ents from Tolkien's legendarium.

Made, as I recall, to keep the forests safe from dwarves. They're extraordinarily old, and tend to keep themselves and their trees.

Isengard falls to their assault during the war of the ring.

Treemen (and dryads) from Warhammer fantasy

Forest spirits that bound themselves to trees. They can move, speak, and use magic. They defend the magic forests and hate intruders. That includes the wood elves that bring more trouble than they help with.

Winter brings them to a halt, which makes the wood elves a necessary evil to them.

Unfallen (and guardians) from Endless space 2

A species of sentient trees (created by one of the "old gods"/lost)

They're defensively oriented and geared towards high approval and influence assimilation as opposed to conquest.

In honor of Coyote vs ACME finally hitting the theaters, what are some of your favorite examples of characters that ressemble the myth of Sisyphus? Basically, characters that pursue a goal over and over again, no matter how many times they fail

Coyote (Coyote vs ACME/Looney Tunes): For decades, Coyote is trying to capture the road runner and make a meal of him. He fell of cliffs, had his head smashed by anvils and was ran over by trains, but he never gave up his quest.

Scrat (Ice Age): like Coyote, Scrat has just one objective: manage to take the nut and safely put in a place so he can eat it later. But in the process, he always manages to destroy everything and the nut escapes from his hands, beginning his pursue again.

Charlie Brown (Peanuts): while the Peanuts stories tell much more things, there's a Sisyphus element to it: Charlie Brown trying to hit the football. Fans may correct me if I'm wrong, but I guess in the original strips, he never was able to kick it.

Sometimes, you don't have to try too hard to make a girl like you. Sometimes, you just have to be yourself. Your funny, goofy and honest self.

1. Mr. Bean: managed to get the attention of two celebrity women, even getting a kiss on the cheek from both.

2. Roger Rabbit: he has a beautiful wife, Jessica Rabbit, who loves him for being so funny.

These universes/settings their own unique, fictional history and culture. As such, if the author includes (fictional) stories that are canon to a particular universe, they might have a set of tropes that don't exist in actual stories.

1). Game of Thrones:
Most Westerosi people worship "the faith of the seven." A single god that exists in seven distinct forms. As such, "seven" shows up a lot of Andal culture. And stories often have the equivalent of a "Christ-figure" mirroring one of the seven gods.

2). Dungeon Crawler Carl:

• An alien corporation strip-mines Earth and forces humans to perform in a gladiatorial dungeon-crawl. A lot of the dungeon's monsters, storylines, etc. are taken from human culture. For example, the architects of Earth's crawl invented "meth-dealing llamas" for humans to fight.
  
• But because most of their audience isn't human, a number of concepts originate from alien culture. Apparently, the aliens tried to introduce certain concepts into our culture. Things we thought we invented, like "pants" or "gameshows." That way, our inevitable dungeon crawl would be entertaining to aliens.
  
• But not everything they introduced took hold. For example, the entire third floor of the dungeon is based on an alien fairytale (about a volcano). To the audience, it's as obvious as noticing Jack and the Beanstalk. But because Earthlings never learned that story, all the participants (including Carl) stumble in blind.
  
• One boss (a corrupted circus ringmaster) is fused to a "pestiferous vine" that regrows his minions infinitely. Carl doesn't know what that means. But his manager (an alien) points out that "volcano + evil vine" is a known trope in intergalactic culture.

3). Homestuck:

• Homestuck stars multiple "trolls," an alien race from another universe.
• The TLDR is that a group of trolls actually created our universe. So, certain concepts from their culture somehow ended up in ours. Like the English language (which the trolls speak), movies, John Cusack, etc.
• But trolls are a noticeably older, more advanced civilization. Movies have been around for thousands of years by the time the protagonists are born. So, films have extremely long titles that basically explain the entire plot. The shorter titles have already been taken.
• Trolls also have a markedly different system of reproduction. Which includes two different types of romantic love. One based on mutual affection (comparable to human romance), and one based on enmity and hatred. It is normal to have one of each at the same time.
  • Troll romance novels have a number of tropes, based on this concept.
  • Including accidently cheating on one partner when your hate-based romance suddenly becomes the human-like one.

Superman: wear it all the time under his clothes.

Flash: keep it in a ring, throw it to the air and wear it at super speed.

Wonder woman: spin

Green lantern: create his suit out of nowhere using the light of his ring.

Martian manhunter: is always naked, he just shapeshift to look like that.

Shazam: just say the word.

Iron man: has a lot of this, but my favorite is when he carry the armor as something else and cover him.

Thor: summon his armor with a thunder. I hate how the fourth movie mocks of this like this shit wasn't cool as fuck.

Suppaidaman: throw the suit to himself

Kamen rider: has a lot of different ones

Singed (Arcane) He is introduced as some indifferent biology scientist that works as a partner with Silco the main villain and antagonist of season 1, he creates a drug called shimmer that gives humans supernatural abilities like enhanced strength, endurance and fast healing, the only problem is it's super addictive and him producing it in high quantities so Silco can use it to control the underground causes many people there to become addicted junkies, ruining many lives in the process. Later he conducts an experiment using the main character's adoptive father, turning him into a monster with high healing capabilities. It is then revealed that all these experiments he does that are related to strong healing were all carried out so he can find a cure to heal his daughter who is basically in a coma because of some illness.

The paintress (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33) ‼️massive spoilers ahead‼️ in the world of Expedition 33 there is this mysterious being called the paintress that takes away the lives of every person at a certain age and then she lowers the number with every year, painting the new number on a monolith for all people to see, it started at age 100 and kept going down until it reached age 33 which is the age of our main characters who are going on an expedition on the continent where the paintress is so they can defeat her and save everyone from inevitable death. At the end of the second act it is revealed that the paintress is just an old lady who has gone mad after losing her son in a fire so she created a fake version of him inside a magic painting where she spends all her time in now so she enjoy the presence of her son, it's just her husband wants her to face the harsh reality and get out of the painting so he keeps fighting her to force her to leave the painting and because of their fighting her powers gets weaker year after year which is what makes the people in the painting die year after year with their lifespans shortening, the number she writes on the monolith is just a warning. Yes the world our main characters live in is just a painting being barely maintained by a grieving mother who wants to prolongue her dead son's memory.

SPOILER WARNING: Spoilers for Avatar: The last Airbender ; Dune Series ; The Witcher series

One of the most rewarding and satisfying tropes for me to see done properly is when a group of heroes who started on the back foot, constantly oppressed by their enemies actually turn the tables and plan the offensive themselves. (They don't necessarily have to be the good guys, but at least characters you root for.)

1. Avatar: The Last Airbender

The first real example of this trope I witnessed as a child when the series was airing. What a joy it was to see Team Avatar planning the surgical attack on the Fire Lord during the eclipse. It feels so rewarding to see characters you've watched grow finally bring the battle to the enemy's turf, plan the attack, and execute it (and it was still satisfying despite the attack ultimately failing). Bonus points for seeing allies from earlier seasons (the swamp tribe, Hakoda, and the warriors of the Southern Water Tribe) come together in an unprecedented alliance of tribes.

2. Dune: Part Two

(For the sake of convenience, I'll be talking about the Denis Villeneuve movies, not the books.)

After Dune: Part One, we leave House Atreides in shambles: the head of the house is betrayed and murdered, the army is ambushed and decimated, and the only surviving members of the family have narrowly escaped a gruesome fate, finding themselves stranded in the deserts of Arrakis and needing to earn their place in Fremen society just to survive. By the end of Dune: Part Two, we see Paul plan an overwhelmingly successful offensive against the forces of the Emperor himself. Is he a perfectly good guy? Probably not. Is it satisfying to see the counteroffensive of the previously oppressed Fremen and House Atreides? Absolutely.

3. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Ciri, Geralt, and his companions have been hunted down by the Wild Hunt, who see themselves as a far more formidable force. The first large-scale fight against the Wild Hunt takes place at Kaer Morhen, where the protagonists get to plan out an ambush on their pursuers, but they ultimately fail. Later on, they take the initiative and actually go on the attack, with Geralt targeting Imlerith and Ciri going after the crones.

Goldilocks. While a generic blonde girl in the original fairy tale, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish makes her an abandoned child taken into the bear family. Also they're all badasses capable of combat. Basically Goldilocks becomes Princess Mononoke, but with bears instead of wolves.

Applejack. In My Little Pony Gen 1, she was nothing but a klutzy supporting pony without much distinction besides her design. MLP: Friendship is Magic (Gen 3) not only gives Applejack main character status, but makes her a family-oriented pony with a strong work ethic, who values honesty and has a Southern accent. She also has dead parents (she inherited that Stetson hat from her father, which is also new for Gen 3).

Violet Beauregarde. In the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Book, Violet is eager about gum chewing and is said to be rude, but gets no characterization in the narrative beyond that. Every major adaptation has taken this concept and ran with it in various ways:

• The 1971 film made her a motormouth daughter of a car salesman
• The 2005 film made her a stoic overachiever with a stage mom whose made her hyperfocused on competition and winning.
• The Golden Ticket opera made her an energetic Southern Toddlers in Tiaras-esque girl who chews gum so that she doesn't eat and gain weight.
• The 2013 musical made her a L.A.-based social media prima donna whose made a huge following with her gum chewing. Additionally, the musical made her and her father black and gave them a funk/soul motif (as a black person, I approve).

The Boneless (Doctor Who)

Gavadon A (Ultraman Series)

Characters in Flatland

Also, it has to be explicitly said in lore that the entities are 2-Dimensional and animated characters doesn’t count. (Superman, Simon the Digger, and Peter Griffin for example)

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1- The Samaritan, Astro City. Unarguably a workaholic to a self-destructive degree.
2- All Might, My Hero Academia, the Big Good of the series but a man who accidentally taught the world to rely too heavily on pro-heroes
3- Metroman, Megamind. Admittedly less "good" per say than the first two but the worst you can say is that he hit *extreme* burnout
4- Phenomaman and Blonde Blazer, Dispatch. Honestly either one fits as the Superman Standin, and Phenomaman is much closer to Starfire than Superman in personality despite filling his role.

Lethal Joke characters are characters who are intentionally designed to be bad or otherwise unreliable by the creators, but with a bit of planning and skill on the player's part, become genuinely powerful or threatening.

Jigglypuff: the Smash Bros series.
-Jigglypuff is one of the easiest characters to kill, has no ranged options, slow mobility, and several of her moves leave her extremely vulnerable to counterattack. Her most infamous ability is "Rest", which causes her to fall asleep. Rest also does a ludicrous amount of damage/launch to anyone within range. That range? literally touching her. This essentially means that using rest is just as likely to get her killed as it is an opponent. Other moves, like "pound" are a pitiful jab to her left or right--except that jab also halts her descent, allowing for a surprising amount of aerial control. She's terrible, but in the right hands is capable of handing out embarrassing losses like candy.

Antiquarian: Darkest Dungeon.
-the antiquarian is something of a utility character. All of her abilities (seem like they) are complete dogshit, having names like "Get Down!" "Protect me!" and "Nervous Stab" (the icon for which shows a kukri... which isnt a stabbing weapon lol). Her only real use is that bringing her allows you to carry more gold and find special "antiques" worth even more gold, so she's only good for farming. Her health and damage are unimpressive, and her Dodge is alright so at least she *might* not get obliterated instantly... except im not being entirely honest. "Invigorating Vapors" applies a 10% (additive, so 50%+10%=60%, not 55%) to your entire party for 3 rounds. It also stacks with itself. The optimal use for Antiquarian is to have her swing her censer around and force your team to vape every single turn for a whopping 30% dodge bonus. An enemy with a 90% accuracy targeting your guy with 35% dodge will suddenly end up with only a 1 in 4 chance to actually fucking hit the guy in the first place. This can outright trivialize the difficulty of any longer, endurance based fight. She also possesses the unique ability to force others to guard her (taking hits for her) which when used on an ally that can counterattack, doubles the amount of counters theyll get while making them difficult to hit in the first place. used on, say, a Highwayman, an enemy team will just take itself out by proccing ripostes.

Conviction: Arknights
-Conviction is an april fools operator released in tower defense game, Arknights. They were given out for free, and are obviously a joke. their art style is distinctly more anime than the rest of the characters, their gender is listed as "Conviction" in their file, and they stun themselves for 10 seconds when you deploy them. Both of their skills are both gambling based as well, their first only doing double damage to a single target... but with a 5% chance of doing *800%* instead. their second does a solid amount of damage in a radius around them and also shuts down enemy passive abilities for 4 seconds--an actually strong and useful effect... but it has a 50% chance of instead hitting your allies and stunning them rather than just silencing them. Whoops. With a bit of luck and some buffs from allies, that 5% chance hit can absolutely obliterate whatever theyre fighting... but uh, dont count on it.

Meepo: Dota 2
-Meepo is infamous for being borderline impossible to actually play. Hes a silly farmer fighting gods and extradimensional beings, and his abilities all suck pretty bad. What makes him special is his ultimate, which permanently spawns 1-3 copies of him. they dont get any of his items besides his boots and so their stats are terrible, but they all have their own cooldowns and similarly shitty abilities. Theres also a catch: killing any meepo kills all of them. This makes playing him extremely intensive as you switch control between independent Meepos, none of which can actually 1v1 pretty much anyone. Actually seeing a Meepo be played is rare, and usually a sign that person is throwing. He isn't actually weak, strictly speaking. he can be in multiple places at once, farming different camps and helps out his entire team at once, its just that Dota 2 is already a game that requires a ton of attention and map awareness and game sense and reaction time, so the "Lethal" part demands so much skill that most pro players dont even bother with him--its just easier to get value out of other characters

Loki Season 2 - While everything does work out in the end with Loki weaving timelines together allowing them to live in harmony, millions of timelines were still destroyed losing billions of lives

Empire Strikes Back - While the rebels do win the final battle on the forest moon of Endor, they lost The Battle of Hoth, where several rebels lost their lives fighting for a cause they believe in

Godzilla Kaijus:

King Ghidorah (Except Desghidorah, Monster X, and Ride Ghidorah)

Ebirah

Kamacuras

Kumonga

Gigan

Biollante

Battra Larvae

Trilopods

Mutos

Scylla

Warbats

Drownvipers

Gamera Kaijus:

Viras

Zigra

Legion

Irys

King Agnarr and Queen Iduna (Frozen): After Elsa accidentally hurts Anna when they're kids, the trolls tell their parents that Elsa needs to learn how to control her powers. To that end, they give her gloves to wear and tell the sisters they can no longer go outside of the castle. Elsa is put into her own room and while she becomes emotionally reserved, Anna becomes socially awkward.

John Sr and Bernadette Stewart (Lanterns): After learning that John has the potential to become a Green Lantern, they teach him how to not be afraid. This involves having him walk through sketchy neighborhoods and shooting apples off his head.

Cora (Once Upon a Time): Stripped away Regina's autonomy, killed Daniel and forced her into a royal marriage.

Sandman (Spectacular Spider-Man) - during a job gone wrong, a tanker is set on fire and the crew is in danger. Spider-Man of course tries to help but it’s Sandman who gets the crew and even Spider-Man to safety before using his own body to absorb the explosion. This seemingly kills Sandman at first but it is shown that he survived after Peter left.

The Living Laser (Iron Man Armoured Adventures) - during a fight against M.O.D.O.K the Living Laser, who is already dying, would sacrifice himself to save Tony. The Laser would later be restored and eventually gets to live in peace.

From protecting innocent people to saving the hero or even fully sacrificing themselves, the villain gets their moment of heroism.

The Witcher - Geralt transformed from an unpleasant-looking fellow into a handsome man with each successive installment.

Condemned - In the Condemned duology, the supporting character Rosa apparently managed to lose weight, get a facelift, and have breast implants put in between the first and second games.

One Kate beringer gremlins she found out Santa wasn't real when her dad fell down the chimney and broke his neck two Donnie the wild thornberries he was adopted by orangutans cuz his parents were murdered by poachers

-Saw II

On this movie theres 2 storylines: the group of characters in the House and the police force that is with jigsaw.

Theres monitors in the room livestreaming what happens in the house as the movie goes on.

Later It turns out the monitors were just playing a recording, and everything we see happening on the house has already occured.

-Panic button

On this movie a group of people get into a private plane thinking they won a contest on a social network.

But It turns out It was all a trap and they start getting shown livestreamings of their loved ones being held captive and even killed.

They later find those people's bodies in the plane , meaning that no matter what they had done they wouldnt have been able to save them , for they were already dead before they even got on the plane.

1, 2, 3) Napolean dynamite

4) Little Miss Sunshine

5) Guardians of the Galaxy

6) The Big Bang Theory

I can't think of any more (forgive my goldfish brain) but I definitely like this "show not tell" approach because it broadens how autism can vary and isnit just limited to braniac, dumbass and super socially awkward.

(Forgive me if i sound like a dumbass)

The character can't lose all their memories after each resurrection (at that point it's just standard reincarnation), and they have to have some continuity of self between incarnations.

Characters such as the Doctor (Doctor Who) skirt the line. They are technically the same character, and you can see aspects of other incarnations within each. That said, they usually come across as different characters.

• Sekiro [Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice]
  • Thanks to the divine blood of his master, Sekiro can "resurrect" after he falls, either rising from the ground like a puppet on strings or waking up at the last idol he prayed to.
• The Creature [Frankenstein (2025)]
  • It isn't stated outright that the Creature "died" when the hunters put a bullet in his head, but I think it can be inferred that he fits this trope. The screen went black, and he woke up some time later with his wounds healed; that seems pretty indicative of this trope though you could argue it's standard regeneration.
• Phoenix [Real Life Myth]
  • Probably the most famous carrier of this power, the Phoenix is said to rise from the ashes of its corpse, born again. Of course, the specifics vary by incarnation.
• Prometheus [Supernatural]
  • In real life, Prometheus was a figure in ancient Greek myth, the titan that brought man the flames of Olympus. It was said that Zeus found out, chained him to a rock, and tasked an eagle with picking out his liver each day (it regrew on account of him being divine). In the Supernatural mythos, Prometheus had a similar story except that his curse was to die and have his liver eaten; just like the myth, he would return to normal the next day.
• Devil Hybrids [Chainsaw Man]
  • The half-devils/hybrids of this universe are humans who have fused with a devil. They have enhanced physical abilities, but they can be "killed" with relative ease though this is closer to a dormant state. As soon as they touch blood and have their "devil trigger" activated, they get up like nothing happened.

[This is a repost because Reddit thought the picture of Prometheus getting his liver munched was actual gore.]

Bob (Thunderbolts*) - When Valentina discovers the extent of Bob's powers, she gasses him up and fills his head with dreams of becoming a hero. She treats him like a king up until the moment he disobeys her. When he does, she immediately treats him like a threat and tries to kill him.

Martin Luther King Jr. (The Boondocks) - The episode "Return of the King" presents an alternate history scenario where instead of being assassinated in 1968, MLK Jr. was instead put into a coma by the attack. He wakes up from the attack in 2000 and immediately people rush to make money off his name through book and movie deals. He experiences a rise in popularity and is treated as a beloved American hero... up until 9/11. After the attacks, King is asked on a talk show what he thinks the American response should be. He replies that his Christian faith teaches him to turn the other cheek, even towards our enemies. The backlash towards his comments is fierce and all of his newfound popularity evaporates overnight, with many of the same media that was just praising him, now decrying him as a traitor.

Jesse (Breaking Bad) - When Walt decides to enter the drug game, he enlists Jesse's help since he has experience with this kind of business. Over the course of their relationship Walt often serves as a mentor/father figure to Jesse, giving him guidance and confidence that he was severely lacking. However this support isn't unconditional. Any time Jesse threatens to surpass Walt as a cook, disagrees with his plans, or otherwise tries to get out from under his thumb, Walt has no issue manipulating or abusing him to get him back in line.

Carcer City from Manhunt: the place is an utter death zone and zero chance of survival. Where it is ruled by world dangerous criminals and operated by corrupt militaries.

Night city from Cyberpunk: the place is megacorporate controls and exploitive. The weather is radioactive, extreme rampant of crimes and the justice system is corrupt.

Mega-city one from Judge Dredd: the city becomes the entire state and overcrowded population. Police state are all hyper violent. All the food and resources are scarces while recycling dead bodies as consumable meal option. The outside of the world is now apocalyptic waste.