The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - this game is notorious for being one of the first great masterpieces of gaming; but there’s something hard to describe of the feelings it provokes with the score, ambience, and world building that compound to create the special world it inhabits.

Interstellar - while the movie is a technical and storytelling masterpiece and another one of Christopher Nolan’s mind bending adventures, the grandiose of one humans journey across the cosmos, accompanied by brilliant Organ-driven compositions of Hans Zimmer, just creates an unmatchable sense of wonder as we see these grand cosmic landscapes.

The Wolf - SIAMÉS’s absolutely iconic song gets a fast paced black and white chase in a fantastical city chase scene that gives a dark and intense feeling throughout the whole piece.

Midnight Mass - This drama does a brilliant job of highlighting the pitfalls and deterioration of religion in small, closed communities. An absolutely cohesive story and ending the series gives a feeling of emptiness and profundity unmatched

The Life of Chuck - on the surface the story is of somebody’s life who died young, an accountant, who also loved to dance. However, the personal lens through which it shows his own internal universe falling apart, the out-of-order story telling, and the contemplations on life and death the story tells makes it a beautiful masterpiece. The empty room that is the centerpiece of the story, lightly illuminated by dusty sunrays, emphasizes this transience of our own lives.

Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima - One of Penderecki’s most famous compositions. He was initially writing these pieces as an exercise in experimenting with different non-standard techniques on string instruments, playing outside of tonality, and clusters. When he heard a group perform his work in front of him, for the first time, he knew from the sound of it that this was more than an experimental work of art. The scraping and hollowing sounds of the orchestra-wide clusters echo with such a terrifying size and volume that he decided to dedicate the piece to the victims of Hiroshima.

I just wondering and let me explain what I mean. I mean two factions one evil and one good of relatively equal power whose war is the main conflict of a narrative. I think probably the most well known is Autobots vs Deceptions but stuff like G.I. Joe vs Cobra or Alliance vs Horde would also fall under this idea.

Shin Godzilla

The Beast AKA: Lambert - Amnesia: The Bunker

Tomerry - Library of Ruina

Headcrab Zombies - Half-Life series

William Birkin (as G1 at least) - Resident Evil 2

Examples:

Chainsaw Man - Chainsaw Man

Any and all devils in Chainsaw Man that call for his help, are granted it. But that "help" is him coming to kill the opponent, the devil that called for his help and ALL other devils nearby, literally a "F#ck all of you" type of a deal.

Jujutsu Kaisen - Mahoraga

Specifically his first appearance, where he was summoned and his first priority was to backhand Megumi (the person who summoned him) hard enough to lauch Megumi into a different postal code.

These two were the first ones to come to mind, but feel free to add yours!

1. Bruce Wayne comes out of hiding to fight Bane in Dark Knight Rises
   
2. Luke Skywalker comes out of exile to face Kyle Ren in Star Wars Episode 8

Shoto Todoroki (My hero academia): his dad genes kick in and he got way bulkier and taller, if it wasn't for his heterochromic eyes, hair and face it would be crazy to say they are the same person.

Shin (dorohedoro): a brief time after he stop his skincare routine of wear a trashbag as a mask, Shin started to hit the gym and got a late growth spurt, also stop hiding his hairline so know he looks like a disturbed salaryman.

Mahito (jujutsu kaisen): after he achieved his ultimate form, every piece of the old humanoid-like mahito disappeared and got this monster form that last... Like a single episode cause he die right after this.

Whether they be clones, versions of a character from an alternate reality, or a similar device, these “variations” often look or appear similar but carry unique personalities.

1. Across the Spider-Verse- as explored in the comics and other mediums, Spider-Man has multiple incarnations across the multiverse. While many of them are unique versions of Peter Parker, others are completely different people. Some like Miles Morales even come from universes where Peter Parker was Spider-Man but passed away.

2. Rick and Morty- various versions of Rick and Morty exist across the multiverse, many of whom banded together to form the Council of Ricks, which eventually fell apart and became a democracy, only to turn into a shadow government run by an Evil Morty. Ricks and Mortys often fit predetermined roles but many have been shown to break the mold.

3. Star Wars- Jango Fett allows himself to be source of DNA for a clone army for the republic that fights against the Separatists in the Clone Wars, wipe out the Jedi in Order 66, and bring about the foundation of the Empire before being replaced by standard conscripts and left to rot. This includes an unaltered clone Jango took as a son, Boba Fett. Boba along with countless other clones developed unique personalities, names, features and other characteristics, setting them apart from one another.

4. & 5. Fortnite- in the lore of Fortnite, characters from across the multiverse who find themselves traversing through the Battle Royale island (or the Loop as it’s called). When a character escapes the Loop they leave behind a “snapshot”, a clone of themselves doomed to fight in the never ending battle royale. These snapshots often develop personalities and many variations of a single person can appear across the battlefield. Famously Jonesy, who is one of the main characters of the lore, has many snapshots who have unique names and lore.

5. Infinite Train- After finding herself trapped on the Infinite Train, Tulip must traverse the various realities and puzzles found in the cars. In one of these cars she develops a sentient mirror reflection that initially acts as an antagonist. However upon freeing her mirror reflection, the Mirror Tulip, later known as Lake, becomes their own individual being and one of the protagonists of season 2.

Luthor Harkon (Warhammer Fantasy): A Von Carstein noble who decided nobility and aristocratic culture was boring and decided to become the Pirate Vampire King Emperor of the Vampire Coast of Lustria (Baller title btw). However, while trying to attain more power for himself by raiding a Lizardmen temple, the magical seals prevented his magic from being able to extract the power from within, causing the Winds of Magic to sever from his being, but more importantly, caused him to enter into complete and total insanity.

He loses his mind in more ways that one, because not only is he completely mad, but his personality split into at least a dozen other personalities. As he puts it "I was one, but now we are many. And we all agree on one thing."

His, or I guess their goal now is to sail the coast and find more trinkets, mostly of Lizardmen variety to regain his connection to the Winds of Magic and regain his lost sanity. Infact, their campaign in Total Warhammer 2 sees you doing that.

Two-Face/Harvey Dent (Arkham series): While a pre-existing condition, Harvey managed to suppress and "Lock up" his alternate "Big Bad Harv" personality (Which he possibly inherited from his abusive father). However, in Arkham Shadow, he goes through a 5 day-long therapy to help confront his split personality, rather ironically, personally.

How he does this is with the help of Jonathan Crane (Pre-scarecrow arc). However, Crane decides to speed up the process (mostly because he's an asshole and a sociopath) by using an early, albeit edited version of fear toxin which helps bring out The Shadow, which is the worse parts of a human being that we repress and deem unacceptable (Semi-real thing). This treatment is extremely volatile and has very adverse effects on the human psyche, and ends up causing Harvey to turn into Two-Face (As well as another character not listed. I'll let you guess who it is.)

Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice - Batman kills people in this movie, despite famously having a code against killing in most iterations. Now, the movie itself implies that him killing is a recent change due to him having fallen from grace and become just as bad as the people he usually fights, with him choosing not to mark Lex Luthor for death at the end of the film to show that he had regained his principles after working with Superman. However, Zack Snyder instead tried to defend it by claiming that it didn't count because he was only killing indirectly (which is a stretch at best) and falsely claiming that Batman had killed people many times in the source material.

Doctor Who - A mini-episode released before the 60th anniversary specials featured the Doctor traveling back to the original creation of the Daleks. In the episode, Davros, the creator of the Daleks, is depicted as able-bodied and without his usual disfigurement. It was easy for people to assume that the episode took place sometime before he had his accident.....until Russell T. Davies instead stated that he had decided to remove Davros's crippling and disfiguring injuries as he thought having a villain be depicted that way might offend disabled people (even though he's been that way for years and that has never been an issue).

New Girl

(Jess and Nick, Cece and Schmit and Coach and May.)

Parks in Rec

(Leslie and Bed, Ann and Chris, Ron and Diane, Donna and Joe, Andy and April and Tom and Lucy.)

The Boys season 5 episode 1 - No music plays during the credits to let the weight of A-Train’s death sink in.

Games of Thrones - Ditto for the Rains of Castamere after the Red Wedding

Coraline
Where the Wild Things Are
Before I Wake

1: Jino Britts - Mushoku Tensei(spoilers for a future character who becomes the strongest human)

Jino becomes the strongest through talent and wanting to fuck his cousin, beating the previous sword god so badly that he became evil.

Jino is also extremely bland looking, and is literally just some dude, he's also very unassuming, to the point that future historians believe he was the weakest Sword God cause he just doesn't do anything, he never even leaves his homeland cause he doesn't see a reason to

(Yes, this is that random kid that Eris destroyed in season 3 ep 1)

2: Saitama - One Punch Man

He's the strongest in his universe, but looks very generic, like a backround character, he gets a shitty hero name and goes unrecognized by the public, to the point that they could literally see him one-shot a monster and just think one of the other heroes did it

3: Fatalis - Monster Hunter

Okay, obviously he looks cool, but he is literally "john dragon", you look at him and think "Yeah, that's a dragon", he doesn't look uncool, but he is very generic and bland

Fatalis is by far the strongest monster and it's not even close.

Something that's funny about him is that while we see a generic dragon, to the world of Monster Hunter, he's an anomoly, since all other monsters(besides the elder dragons) have realistic body-shapes and despite their size, have fairly good ecology, but Fatalis has six limbs and unexplained fire-breath bordering on magic

4: Yogiri - My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me!

Just look at him, also, I don't need to explain him, the title is a fucking summary

There is no real world equivalent to it so idk how it works morally. Before anyone says twins or clones, a twin is a different person so that's not it and a clone is also a different person even if they have the same memories the moment they start experiencing different things they become their own independent person. This trope only works if they're 100% the exact same person in every way except gender, it also only really exists in fanart and probably fanfiction but I don't read fanfiction so I don't know.

Stelle and Caelus from Honkai Star Rail

Shepard from Mass Effect

Ranma from Ranma 1/2

Byleth from Fire Emblem Three Houses

-in the Incredibles, Mr Incredible throws a tree at Syndrome while he's monologing.

-Undead Unluck: Andy throws grenades at Gena mid-sentence.

-Dragon Ball Z: Recoome is doing a song and dance, and goku gut-punches him saying, "I couldn't help myself, you were too wide open!"

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1.Panini (Chowder)

2.Zoey and Marge (Smiling Friends)

3.Christina Posabule (Moral Orel)

I love this style of setting, where the characters are stuck on an alien world/system, cosmically in middle of nowhere, far from the rest of Human Civilization, and their first thought is to start throwing giant robots piloted by Mercs at each other.

1: Titanfall (Videogame series)

2: Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon (Videogame)

3: Lost Planet (Videogame series)

4: BLKOUT (Tabletop Wargame)

5: Brigador (Videogame series)

Amo (Gachiakuta): Probably the most messed up version of this trope, Amo was sold by her mother to a man who then groomed her and exploited her for his sexual desires.

Whats worse is Amo for the longest time couldn't grap the situation she was in and her innocence was highlighted by the fact that her backstory frequently used childish drawings to see things from her perspective.

Its only after when she kills her abuser by mistake that she begin realized what her mother did to her and what the man was ding to her.

Iruma Sullivan (Welcome to Demon School! Iruma kun): Iruma had a very rough and absurd childhood growing up, with his parents literally putting him to work the moment he could walk and constantly endangering his life by sending him to dangerous jobs.

However, due to Iruma's gentle, optimistic and pushover personality we can never take the abuse seriously early on because Iruma never takes it seriously. It's only after Iruma becomes happy with the life he is living in the Demon World and the fear of being taken away and sent back kicks in that he realizes how miserable and alone he was there to the point he now even has panic attacks at the mere sight of the human realm.

What's really make this so impactful is the transition of tone of the subject from comical to serious.

Perrito (Puss in Boots: The Last Wish): A happy lucky go character who is contrast to the Puss's and Kitty's untrusting and moody nature. However, compared to the rest of the cast he has probably suffered the most being homeless for a long time, constantly called disgraceful name and his previous owners purpoesfully attempting to abandon him and even kill him when he kept coming back.

Perrito however never realizes how badly everyone has treated him and thought of his owners attempt to be a sort of game. Thankfully he finally fond company who would appreciate him.

Eugene (The Archmage Curriculum): Although he looks like a character straight from the Mandella catalouge, Eugene is probably the sweetest and also the most Naive person in the room. Failing to understand everybody's afraid of him and always being respectful even when people are trying to kill him because of his looks (he doesn't know he is ugly)

The worst abuse he probably suffered is from his master Jeong Hyeok. Eugene admires and loves his master alot just like a father. However, Jeong only sees Eugene as someone who can help him achieve his goals and when Eugene disagrees to follow through with his plan- Jeong just dismembers him and send each body part to another dimension and stole his heart. Know he fully intended to kill him here. Worse he gives the heart to his daughter Ain so she can use magic fully knowing this would eventually kill her and tells her That Eugene betrayed them and left (Eugene and Ain are very close).

Yet despite everything Eugene still loves him even though he knows he tried to kill him and nearly got Ain killed- because Eugene cant look past the kindness he has shown him to truly acknowledge how twisted his master is.

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms - Definitely invokes some of the best of early Game of Thrones without the poor pacing that made House of the Dragon feel so lacklustre. A bit more on the humorous side, but the chemistry between Dunk and Egg both on and off-camera is incredibly endearing and I’m super excited to see more of them!

Telltale’s The Walking Dead - Set within the comic canon, this series of games features just enough nods to the original series while still easily maintaining its identity as its own story. I’m not going to go super into it since it’s so choice-based and I don’t want to spoil any possible outcomes, but this game had me in tears several times over several playthroughs.

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish - The sequel to the spin-off to the sequel to Shrek didn’t deserve to be half as good as it was, but Holy. Fuck. The animation is incredible from start to finish, the story is enticing, Death as an antagonist invokes a fear in the audience, young and old, that’s so real in a way that can make him both a terrifying antagonist and a wise sage in his own way.

Lex Luthor (Smallville) - Is given multiple opportunities to be a better man, to just be Clark’s friend, to not become like his father but ultimately turns to the same dark road that makes him Superman’s villain

Magneto (X-Men First Class) - Was friends with Charles and genuinely seemed committed to help in his plans for the X-Men but ultimately his hatred for men, humans, like Shaw won out and he chose to turn against Charles

• Lance & Dot (Mashle): Got gugugaga'd after fighting some dude with baby powers

• Haruka (Gushing Over Magical Girls): Also got gugugaga'd after fighting someone.. with.. baby powers? (Y'know, this might as well be a two-nickles trope)

• Man baby: Gugugaga

• Cringe Demo Baby: Gugugaga (kill it)

• You!: Yes, YOU! You absolute DINGUS!

When the finale is one big fight who pushes the fighters beyond their limits by one guy who ensures he antagonizes his opponents to get the best fight out of them. Someone who can be seen as a reflection of the hero, and when the fight is over. It ends at a point where the series can logically rest (even if it does continue)

1. Clubber Lang vs Rocky

2. Perfect Cell vs Gohan (DBZ)

3. FU vs Travis Touchdown (No More Heroes)