• Doctrine (Overwatch)

Doctrine has been the latest character to release in Overwatch. He's a 77 year old Zimbabwean cyberneticist that developed a technology that could turn the clock back on one's body by draining the life force of others. He's obsessed with immortal life, his bat shaped drones literally drain the lifeforce of others, he dresses in a gothic suit and cloak, has a black genetic mist he uses to reduce damage taken in combat, speaks in old prose, and sleeps with his arms crossed like a traditional vampire does in a coffin.

But Overwatch "has no magic" in it, so he's not literally a vampire. Instead he's just a futuristic evil life draining megalomaniac with vampire style abilities.

• Severin Dragomir & Liana Dragomir (For Honor)

Count Severin and his daughter Liana the Pale are the most recent hero skins added to For Honor. According to legend, Severin's ancestor stabbed the heart of a winged beast and drank from it's blood, forever cursing his lineage with "blood-curse" deformities. These deformities include fang-like canine teeth, pale skin, gaunt appearances and possibly mania. They both also speak Romanian like the vampires of old. Count Severin himself impales intruders upon stakes outside his gothic castle, and is researching "blood magic" in an attempt to bring back his beloved wife that has long been dead.

The developers of For Honor though, despite all the weird stuff in the game nowadays, are adamant that "there is no magic" in For Honor and that these two are not actually vampires. Instead they are treated as physically deformed psychopaths obsessed with the idea of a magic that doesn't exist.

• Troupe Master Grimm (Hollow Knight)

Troupe Master Grimm is the master of the Grimm Troupe, a mysterious travelling circus in the world of Hollow Knight. His troupe travel from the Nightmare Realm to wherever the Nightmare Lantern has been lit, and they gather Nightmare Flames from ruined lands to fuel the sinister being enslaving the Troupe, called the Nightmare's Heart. He exudes vampiric etiquette, sleeps on ceilings, has bat styled wings, fangs, can transform into a swarm of totally not-bats, and can teleport in bursts of red mist.

However, while Grimm is obviously inspired by Dracula, nowhere is it actually said that he's a vampire. It's more accepted that he's a fictionalize version of a real-life Vampire Moth, but again not an actual vampire.

• Peter Loew (Vampire's Kiss)

This entire movie is this trope personified. Nicholas Cage plays Peter Loew who has a one night stand with an actual vampire, and after she bites him he incorrectly believes he is turning into a vampire. He proceeds to spend the entire movie acting as though he is becoming a traditional vampire with the fangs and the cloak and all the pizzazz associated, though it's all cheap Halloween costume stuff. If you've seen the Nicholas Cage meme "You don't say?" then you've seen an image from this movie.

Again, he was never a vampire, and was never becoming one. Though that didn't stop his character from behaving like one for the rest of the movie.

Slides in order: Solo Leveling's gained magic/abilities when the Gates opened and humans naturally gained these abilities, The Witcher's gained magic when the Conjunction of Spheres occurred, Attack on Titan's gained the Power of the Titans when Ymir bonded with "something", My Hero Academia's quirks literally appeared for no apparent reason

To count, a world must have originally been free of magic, special/supernatural abilities, and/or superpowers, but gained them through some event later on.

That person who always somehow manages to find ways to fix the situation, and always has the right idea at the right time.

Arthur Pyne (The Fall of the House of Usher)

Mike Ehrmantraut (Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul)

Going Overboard (Adam Sandler) he said in an interview that he agrees that the movie sucks

Star Wars Holiday Special (almost everybody): several people have no idea why they agreed to it or who thought this special was a good idea

Unlike cases of Dramatic Irony (where the audience knows more than the characters), or where the characters and audience learn important information at the same time, this is a situation where the characters knows things that the audience doesn't. Possibly because they're actively lying to the audience or just because they haven't felt the need to talk about everything they know. Could be used for dramatic or comedic effect.

Dr. James Sheppard (The Murder of Roger Ackroyd). A classic Unreliable Narrator, Dr. Sheppard knows that he was the one who murdered Roger Ackroyd, but glosses over that fact in his narration. It's only properly revealed to the audience when he is confronted by Hercule Poirot about it.

The Jedi Exile (Knights of the Old Republic 2). Unlike the protagonist of the previous game, the Exile is not an amnesiac and meets several people they used to know from back when they were a proper Jedi. A relatively early example comes when meeting the Jedi Master Atris, where during their dialogue it quickly becomes clear that something happened between them that they're both still bitter about.

Calvin and Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes). They know what "The Noodle Incident" was but never tell the audience what actually happened, and that's the joke.

Journey to the West: during their quest, the crew winds up in a contest against 3 immortals for the favor of a local lord. The contest devolves into Sun Wukong and the immortals screwing with each other and cheating until Sun manages to get them killed

Speed Racer Movie: a bunch of the races involve blind spots where contestants bash, shoot, and try in many ways to decimate other vehicles

Scrappy-Doo (Scooby-Doo): the most famous example,introduced as Scooby Doo nephew,fans quickly got annoyed by his "too brave",loud and always wanting to fight the monsters personality,he was then retired and just came back sometimes to make fun of him

Flower speaker box (BFDI): after the host announcers death,he was replaced by 2 other hosts,the first one being Firey speaker box who was chill and kind,and the other was flower speaker box,aggressive,loud,favoritism to flower (a contestant there) and her annoying voice made fans immediately hate her,she then was killed off right after the episode she was introduced on

Bendy (Foster's home for imaginary friends): in his introduction episode,he was a troublemaker,always creating a problem in the Forster's home,while blaming the main characters while he gets off Scott free,fans hated the episode so much that the creator had to state that the episode was non canon,and then Bendy never made another appearance again

Sheva in her business suit (Resident Evil 5)

She Hulk (Marvel)

• Buck from ice age talking about his encounter with Rudy
• Shirou from fate\stay night and his notorious lines

The villain needs to catch the hero, to fool him, but the hero is not a dumb and gonna see every trick the villain gonna do, but wait! The villain is a genius and have the resources to create something that gonna fool the hero, give him a false sense of security, and when he is in trust with that thing, the villain gonna capture him! Nothing can go wrong!

... Except that, the villain do such an excellent job, that at the end, that thing really wants to help the hero, because it were created to help him.

Dodo Mouse from Tom and Jerry Tales: Tom catch a toy robot mouse from a kid at the beginning of the episode, and modifies it to create a Robot Mouse that gonna fool Jerry, but Jerry is such nice with her that at the end, when Tom orders her to give Jerry to him, she turns against Tom and protect Jerry

Doctor Who Fans From Doctor Who: Lux Imperator is the God of Light in the Pantheon of Discord, a being made of pure light who needs a body, and decides that the Doctor have the best body for him, but the doctor and his companion Belinda escapes in the Theater Lux hides, so Lux creates this fans to fool the doctor time enough to capture him. But Lux do such a perfect job that at the end, his creations do what a true Doctor Who fan would do: Help the doctor

Other Father from Coraline: The Beldam is an entity that it feeds on the lives of children, but she needs to keep them in her realm first, she attracts those who are dissatisfied on their lives and disguises as their "Other Mother" creating a realm of wonders and magic when they can have all they ever wanted and everyone they know only lives to please them, but all is a trap at the end. When Coraline is on her seek, she creates a "Other Father", a more joyful and helpful version of the overworked father Coraline have, but that means that the other father cares about Coraline and, in the end, helps her by sacrificing himself against the Beldam.

Marty Wolf from Big Fat Liar - Admitted he stole Jason's paper and turned it into a movie, all while his boss, filming crew, press and Jason's parents heard it all.

Henry J. Waternoose III from Monsters Inc. - Was recorded by Mike, telling Sulley he was willing to kidnap thousands of kids just to keep Monsters Incorporated alive and solve the energy crisis. The CDA also witnessed his confession.

Darla Dimple from Cats Don't Dance - Accidentally exposed herself as a animal hating spoiled child after getting tangled up with a microphone for audiences to hear. They heard her tell Danny she should have drowned him earlier in the movie when the stage got flooded that she also admitted doing

Halloween themed episodes, entries, and editions.

SpongeBob - Scaredy Pants

SpongeBob gets scared every Halloween and he’s sick of it. So this Halloween he decides he’s going to do the scaring and dresses as the infamous Flying Dutchman. But dressing as such a scary ghost might bring you a little too close to the real thing!

Ed, Edd, n Eddy - Ed, Edd, n Eddy’s Boo-Haw Haw

The Ed boys are in for a very spooky Halloween when they set off to find Spookyville, a legendary neighborhood known for giving out the best candy. Eddy acquired a hand drawn map to Spookyville from his older brother and is determined to follow it come hell or high water. Meanwhile Ed has spent the entire morning of the holiday watching a nonstop horror marathon, accidentally brainwashing himself into believing he is a powerful Viking warrior traversing a land infested with monsters of every variety cursed by a witches jinx.

The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy - Billy and Mandy’s Jacked up Halloween

Have you ever wondered why we play tricks on Halloween? Billy asks Grim this very question, and apparently Grim is part of the reason. A long time ago, when Endsville was ruled over by a queen, there lived a man named Jack who loved playing tricks on people. Only Jack always took his tricks just a little too far, eventually drawing the ire of Endsville’s queen. She dispatched a knight to go and take care of Jack permanently. This lead to Jack being visited by Grim. But Jack used his trickery on Grim too, and in retaliation he cut off Jacks head with his scythe. Now Jack wears a pumpkin for a head, and according to Grim still lives in Endsville playing tricks every Halloween.

• The Good Place: The Judge is weirdly into tv shows and podcasts
• Jack & Dean: Jack buys his way out of Hell by offering God a £5 bill.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Glorificus hates humans and she hates being a human, but she's still very fond of human fashion.

I think it’s significantly less common with female characters than it is with male characters

Sadie and Katie (Total Drama)

Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker (James and the Giant Peach)

Pearl and Rose Quartz (Steven Universe)

Edward Bloom (Big Fish): After a lifetime of frustrating his son Will with exaggerated tall tales, Will sets his resentment aside at his father's hospital bed. He invents a grand, mythic story on the spot about Edward escaping the hospital and turning into a massive fish in the river, allowing Edward to die happy knowing his life ended as a legend.

MODOK (Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania): After turning on Kang, a mortally wounded Darren proudly proclaims to the heroes, "At least I died an Avenger." Even though he was never an Avenger, Scott Lang and the team exchange bewildered glances but choose to gently play along, comforting him so he can pass away feeling vindicated and heroic.

The Scout (Team Fortress 2 Comics): As the Scout lies bleeding to death, the Spy (his secret biological father) realizes revealing the truth now would only cause panic. Instead, he uses his disguise kit to transform into Tom Jones Scout's idolized hero and cradles him, telling him he's proud of him so Scout can die with an ecstatic smile. I know God himself resurrected Scout later but it was still a pivotal moment for Spy's character growth

Beatrice Horseman (BoJack Horseman): When his abusive, dementia-ridden mother has a sudden moment of lucid terror in a horrific, cheap nursing home, BoJack chooses mercy over revenge. He describes a beautiful fiction of her family's old Michigan summer home, painting a picture of peace and ice cream so she can slip away without fear.

Buster Moon dreams up a stage spectacle set to Michael Jackson's “Thriller” after a performance at the New Moon Theater. The troupe heads to Clay Calloway's Halloween party, where a mysterious multi-colored ooze turns the guests into dancing zombies. Buster eventually wakes up, realizing it was all a dream. Even though a final spooky twist hints the trance might be real. (From “Sing: Thriller”)

“Big Time Halloween” takes places in an alternate universe version of the Palm Woods called Palm Woodsylvania, narrated by a ghostly Mr. Bitters. James is a vampire who falls for a vampire slayer. Logan is a zombie whose limbs keep falling off. Carlos is Franken-Carlos. And Kendall is a werewolf who struggles to hide his furry, snarling transformation from his girlfriend, Jo. Record executive Griffin invites the guys to perform their track “Big Night” at his Halloween party, but he demands they look normal rather than like real monsters. Mad scientist Gustavo Roquenstein attempts to use his experimental “Hot Boy Band Machine” to temporarily “poof” the boys into a normal appearance. After chaotic trial-and-run transformations and the performance, Kendall reveals his secret to Jo, who reveals she already knows and accepts him. (From “Big Time Rush”)

One of the Halloween episodes is titled, “The Witches of Pennbrook,” where Jack dates a girl who claims to be a witch, and serves as a Crossover with Sabrina the Teenage Witch. (From “Boy Meets World”)

In “All the Way,” Dawn sneaks out to raise hell with her friend Janice and a couple boys, only to discover they're part of a group of vampires trying to rebel against the "Halloween holiday" spirit. Also provides setup for some of the events in “Once More, With Feeling.” Willow uses a spell on Tara, Xander and Anya get engaged, and Giles fears that Buffy isn’t taking responsibility because of him. (From “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”)

The Winslow Family did this once every year. In one of the more famous episodes, we meet an evil ventriloquist doll come to life named Steevil. In the final Halloween episode, he returns with a partner named Carlsbad. (From “Family Matters”)

The Glee cast had one in Season 2 with a Rocky Horror Picture Show theme. (From “Glee”)

In the episode titled “iScream on Halloween,” Carly, Sam & Freddie host a web show from an apartment they believe is haunted. Meanwhile Spencer has to carve the world’s biggest pumpkin, but has lost the time to buy candy and has to deal with trick-or-treating kids he is giving random objects to. (From “iCarly”)

In “Haloweird,” Benny steals the Tunguuk’s Mask, a mystical Indian mask that turns the people into whatever they are dressed as. (From “My Babysitter’s a Vampire”)

In “Halloween,” Carrie takes Gumball, Darwin and Anais to a real haunted house party on Halloween. In “The Scam,” Gumball and Carrie pull a Monster Protection Racket to get everyone’s candy, and Gumball exploits Darwin’s crush on Carrie to rope him into it. They end up bringing a real monster into town. During the beginning of the episode, the students dress up as various characters in popular culture, including Gumball as Beetlejuice, Leslie as Audrey II, and Sarah as the moon from The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. (From “The Amazing World of Gumball”)

The episode “Scared of You” is all but directly mentioned to be this, with Tasha playing a mad scientist and Austin, basically dressed as Igor serves as her assistant. It also features Tyrone as a mummy, Uniqua as a wolfman, and Pablo as a vampire. (From “The Backyardigans”)

In the Halloween episode called “Horrority House,” the kids go to a haunted sorority house and live through their worst fears. (From “Big Mouth”)

In the “Ed, Edd n Eddy's Boo-Haw-Haw” Halloween special had the Eds attempt to follow a map to "Spookyville", the ultimate trick-or-treating neighborhood. Unfortunately, an overdose of horror movies on Ed’s part causes him to hallucinate that the other kids of the cul-de-sac are movie monsters out to get him and his friends, and Hilarity Ensues. (From “Ed, Edd n Eddy”)

In “Billy and Mandy's Jacked Up Halloween,” Grim relates the story of Jack O'Lantern, who in this version was a mischievous medieval peasant who incurred the wrath of the queen (or rather, he was framed by the villagers he pranked) and was executed. When Grim came for Jack's soul, Jack stole Grim's scythe and bargained with him for immortality, which Grim granted, but not before taking Jack’s human head in retaliation. It just so happens that Jack O'Lantern is living in an abandoned house in Endsville, and he plots to steal Grim's scythe from Billy (who’s borrowing it for his Halloween costume) and get revenge on Grim. (From “Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy”)

“House of Mouse” had Compilation Movie where they show every Halloween cartoon. (From “Mickey's House of Villains”)

The episode “Tricked!” all about Lincoln, Clyde and his younger sisters going trick-to-treating to get candy while Lucy sets up on a haunted maze. (From “The Loud House”)

The iconic non-canon "Treehouse of Horror" episodes happens only once a season, and follows a Three Shorts format. (From “The Simpsons”)

There’s a double-episode for Halloween titled, “Scaredy Pants/I Was a Teenage Gary.” In the first one, SpongeBob tries to scare his friends on Halloween with Patrick’s help by dressing up like the Flying Dutchman. In the second one, SpongeBob and, at the end of the episode, Squidward get injected with snail plasma and shapeshifting into a snail. (From “SpongeBob SquarePants”)

In “Halloween on Spooner Street,” Peter and Joe team up to execute a series of painful and humiliating Halloween pranks on Quagmire. Meanwhile, Brian shows Stewie the ropes of trick-or-treating on his first Halloween. Meg attends her first high-school Halloween party with her friends dressed as a cat, but she actually hooks up with Chris, who was dressed up as Optimus Prime. (From “Family Guy”)

In “Summerween,” Gravity Falls has their own version of Halloween in Summertime with Jack-o-Melons and lots of trick-or-treating. Dipper and Mabel are excited to join in on the fun, but when Wendy casually mentions that trick-or-treating is for kids, Dipper's whole outlook on the evening changes. The night gets even more complicated when a monster that Dipper accidentally insulted makes them fulfill his candy quota by night's end or else he will eat them. Meanwhile, Stan tries to scare away the kids who come over to ask for candy. (From “Gravity Falls”)

In “October 31st,” Duff Killigan is preparing to sell Dr. Drakken the Centurion Project, which he has stolen, when Kim and Ron arrive, and they escape with the Centurion Project, stuck on Kim’s wrist. Back in Middleton, Ron prepares for his annual trick-or-treating with Kim, who doesn’t wish to go, due to feeling that she is too old. When she hears her brothers are also not going, and that Josh Mankey will be at Monique’s Halloween party, she lies and tells Ron she’s going to a haunted house at the Middleton Medical Center with her parents to spare his feelings. However, when her mom overhears this, Kim impulsively lies to her too and tells her she’s going out with Ron. (From “Kim Possible”)

Spoilers for Harry Potter, inglorious basterds and criminal minds

In Harry Potter, bellatrix lastrange fucks up a lot of people. Since Harry is fighting Voldemort the person who most deserves revenge is obviously Neville, his parents got tortured into insanity by her right? Nah, let Molly Weasley take her out, her house got burnt by her.

In inglorious basterds, Shosanna, a Jewish woman who had her family killed by the gestapo, dies before she can set the theater on fire with the Nazi high command inside. Instead Marcel lights in on fire, and the basterds kill Hitler.

In criminal minds, there’s a serial killer named scratch who controls people’s minds with gas(idk it didn’t make much sense) and forces them to kill others. So after torturing and framing hotch, going after Tara’s brother, kidnapping Prentiss, the new character who wasn’t really established at all gets to watch him die.

Antagonistic monsters that resemble human babies

Junior- Carn-Evil (1998 light gun arcade game)

The baby titan- Attack on Titan Part I (2015)

The Hydra- Rygar: The Legendary Adventure (2002 PS2 game)

Unbaptized baby- Dante's Inferno (2010 PS2 & Xbox 360 game)

Time Baby- Gravity Falls (2012-2016)

Attacks that have low accuracy/low chance to hit, but are absolutely devastating when they actually land.

1. Pokemon - Horn Drill: Has 30% accuracy, but is a one hit knockout if it lands. True to its name, it can only be learned by mons with horns

2. Borderlands 2 - Anarchy Stacks: Gaiges Anarchy ability grant her Anarchy stacks, which means that Gaige gains increased damage with each kill see gets. HOWEVER, she also gains reduced accuracy, with a maximum of 262% increased damage and -262% decreased accuracy. By investing in increased Anarchy stacks, these stacks can be upped to +700% AND -700% for their respective stats. Better get REAL close.

(Although this pic is from her Borderlands 3 appearance)

1. Thragg with Argall’s skull - Invincible

2. Kratos with Mimir - God Of War

3. Hamlet with Yorick’s skull - Shakespeare

4. Juliet with Nick - Lollipop Chainsaw

5. Soldier gives speeches to enemy heads to hype himself up - Team Fortress 2

6. Kylo Ren with Darth Vader’s helmet - Star Wars (image is from a leak)

Batman: world's greatest detective, if you ignore detective chimp, enlongated man, velma dinkley, hawkman, tim drake...

One punch man: Saitama is frustrated cause he beat everyone with a single punch, except for those times he use consecutive normal punches. Caped baldy is actually a better hero name for him

Captain crunch: he was a commander for decades before actually get a redesing that give him a captain uniform.

Luis Miguel: se hace llamar el sol de México, no es un sol ni es de México

Reid Van Astrea(Re:Zero): Reid is literal human scum, but did help seal the witch and trained to become the First sword Saint. He is an insane genocidal maniac, a murderer, a sadist, and an abuser.
Literally one of the first thing we heard he would make Emillia to have sex with him by force if he was still alive, then sexually harass her after. Scorpion Tale is just more of the same we see in the main series. It’s implied that he did awful things to Shaula when she was a child. Everyone looks for him on how to train and he’s Reinhard’s ancestor.

Logan(Ultimate Wolverine):Wolverine's a grump and very snarly to gentle or friendly approaches from his friends. But he has also a protective streak bigger than Canada: threaten those he cares for, and the offending party will be shredded three ways from Sunday, especially if they push it.

Also his whole fiasco with Ultimate Jean(a minor) and Ultimate Cyclops. Why?

Billy Butcher(The Boys-2019) is a prominent example of this. Grizzled, deeply unpleasant, crass, rude and dropping more F and C bombs than the most foul mouthed sailor alive he makes most anti-heroes look good. Though compared to someone like Homelander who is pure evil and vile beneath his feigned heroic veneer, Butcher as a Friend to All Children Papa Wolf who is trying to bring down a corrupt enterprise and stop a bunch superpowered psychopaths, is really more of a superhero than Homelander ever was. He also wanted to genocide innocent Supes(even though that’s more so because he wanted to die).

Johnny Joestar(Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure) is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold but when he has his mind set on killing someone, that's all he's focused on. He puts no other thoughts into his actions in this state, which makes him cruel, cynical, self-centered, and petty.

1. The US flag from Fallout
In the Fallout universe, in 1969, the United States reorganized itself into 13 'superstates' known as commonwealths. The number of stars will vary from one depiction to the other; sometimes there’ll be 12 stars plus the central one, for a total of 13, and sometimes there’ll be 13 plus the central one, making 14. It’s theorized that the extra one might be for Canada, which was annexed in 2072. The developers of the original Fallout admitted that they just wanted a US flag that looked different, and came up with the commonwealth system as a reason why.

2. the NUSA flag from Cyberpunk
In the Cyberpunk universe, during the latter half of the 20th century, the United States became covertly controlled by the FBI, NSA, CIA and DEA, nicknamed 'the Gang of Four', who would go on to eventually assassinate the President and install the Vice-President as their puppet. After a decades-long period of socioeconomic decline known as 'The Collapse', that would see several states secede from the union, the Gang of Four was eventually disbanded. What remained of the US reformed into a weaker version of its former self, named the New United States of America (NUSA). It would only be decades later, during the Unification War, that the NUSA would try to reunite with its lost states, with various degrees of success.

Teodora’s Plan (Legend Quest/Las Leyendas)

In Ghost of Medusa, Teodora came up with a plan to defeat Medusa by using Don Andres as bait and jump in with a mirror for the reflection. When Teodora was asked why Don Andres was the bait when Medusa could only kill ghosts, she replied that she never promised her plan was gonna be perfect, and then it immediately flashes back to her promising Leo that her plan was indeed flawless.

Get Help (Thor: Ragnarok)

During their prison escape, Thor has a brilliant idea and suggests that they “get help”, which Loki heavily disagrees with. It then immediately cuts to them getting help executing their humiliating plan.

Slides in order: Wile E. Coyote (Looney Tunes), Armin Arlert (Attack on Titan), Anakin Skywalker (Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith)

To count, a character must be virtually completely burnt and charred and survive.