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insertmeathere2009-06-17 09:16 pm
morphitudinous) wrote in insertmeathere2009-06-17 09:16 pm
IN WHICH I KILL ALL PRODUCTIVITY FOR A NIGHT
So I had this idea in chat and---*thwap*---it's positively evil.
Your guide? TVTropes, the site that will soon ruin your life if it hasn't already done so several times over.Not that I've ever had twenty trope tabs open, no siree!
Your mission? List every trope that you know of that applies to your character!
If you're playing a canon character, you've got it relatively easy. Your canon probably has its own page and some tropes for your character listed for you already. If you're playing an OC from a canon, that canon's tropes should be helpful. And then there's the obvious ones like werewolf tropes or vampire tropes you can easily find with a search.
And if all that doesn't help you? HIT THE RANDOMIZER OVER AND OVER. Soon you'll find something that sorta fits, which leads to something that totally fits, that leads to more things that fit, until you're lost in a pothole maze of tropes. It's fun.
Go go go!
Your guide? TVTropes, the site that will soon ruin your life if it hasn't already done so several times over.
Your mission? List every trope that you know of that applies to your character!
If you're playing a canon character, you've got it relatively easy. Your canon probably has its own page and some tropes for your character listed for you already. If you're playing an OC from a canon, that canon's tropes should be helpful. And then there's the obvious ones like werewolf tropes or vampire tropes you can easily find with a search.
And if all that doesn't help you? HIT THE RANDOMIZER OVER AND OVER. Soon you'll find something that sorta fits, which leads to something that totally fits, that leads to more things that fit, until you're lost in a pothole maze of tropes. It's fun.
Go go go!
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The Atoner (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheAtoner) - Marcus has a lot of baggage to work out.
Badass Longcoat (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BadassLongcoat) - Marcus Wright's outfit in Salvation... that he stole off of a dead guy.
Big No (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BigNo) - Right after Marcus finds out he's a cyborg. It's sort of obvious if you've been watching the trailers.
Deceptively Human Robots (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DeceptivelyHumanRobots) - Marcus. Just... Marcus. It helps if you believe you're still human.
Fish Out Of Temporal Water (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FishOutOfTemporalWater) - Marcus, after waking up in a nuclear-blasted hell of a future.
Heroic Sacrifice (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeroicSacrifice) - Marcus. And effing how.
Hey, It's That Guy! (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeyItsThatGuy) - Batman is trying to save Chekhov from an army of machines led by Bellatrix Lestrange who are using Macbeth as an unknowing pawn in their grand scheme. And let's not forget the Resistance is being led by Revok! Daryl Revok! See you at the party, Ashdown.
Implacable Man (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ImplacableMan) - The Terminators. Oh, and Marcus.
The Juggernaut (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheJuggernaut) - Terminators are unstoppable. (Unless you get their weakpoints.)
Made Of Iron (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MadeOfIron) - Potentially subverted with Marcus Wright, who spends the first 1/3rd of the film taking increasingly over-the-top blows from various terminators (including falling 50 feet and being slammed across a lake hard enough to make him skip across it like a stone). Of course, it turns out he's actually a Terminator, so...
Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping! (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OohMeAccentsSlipping) - Sam Worthington in Salvation, though not as much as you’d expect.
Our Skeletons Are Different (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OurSkeletonsAreDifferent) - His skeleton is a robot.
Redemption Equals Death (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RedemptionEqualsDeath) - Marcus is a convict, on death row for some sort of crime that resulted in a dead brother and two dead cops. There are lots of criminal antiheroes in fiction, but in American movies dead cops cross the Moral Event Horizon, so even after Marcus is executed, and even after Judgment Day overshadows everything else, Marcus can only atone for his terrible pre-apocalyptic transgressions by giving away his heart. And dying.
Ridiculously Human Robots (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RidiculouslyHumanRobots) - Taken even further in T4 where SkyNet creates a human-machine hybrid named Marcus who is actually a Terminator with his original heart and brain with a SkyNet control chip in it.
Spock Speak (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SpockSpeak) – The Terminators— except Marcus, who’s a Ridiculously Human Subversion.
Tear Jerker (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TearJerker) - "Take mine. You said every man gets a second chance. This is mine." Marcus saved Batman, you guys!
What Do You Mean It's Not Symbolic? (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic) - Marcus Wright is deliberately tied up in a crucified position while receiving his lethal injection in the film's opening foreshadowing him as a sacrificial savior by the story's conclusion.
Weaksauce Weakness (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WeaksauceWeakness) - Marcus is every bit as tough and unstoppable as you would expect from a terminator... except for his glaring exposed weakpoint in the form of his organic human heart (which isn't even covered with any sort of armor; it just hangs there in a big gaping hole in his chest, leaving it completely exposed to any stray pistol shot or well-aimed punch).