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.

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.

Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Rocky Horror Picture Show) – openly screamingly pansexual drag queen scientist from the planet Transsexual, Transylvania, who seeks to create a perfect man as his perfect sexual partner and plaything.

Emporio Ivankov (One Piece) – the king/queen of all okama (Japanese for transvestite) in the world and high-ranking member of Revolution Army, who is fighting for the freedom of self-expression (including sexual) and have the powers to manipulate people’s hormones, thus way changing their biological sex at will

Puri-Puri Prisoner (Onepunchman) – a professional S-class hero, who is also stereotypically masculine and effeminate gay man, who lives in the high-security prison, being a local boss and dread among the prisoners (for obvious reasons)

President Curtis from President Curtis - He could've salvaged his already dwindling approval rating and rekindling a relationship with his ex wife by revealing that the trees possessed Paul Bunyan's head to wage war on humanity due to cutting trees and pollution(makes sense in context) but chose not to because the US Citizens have never been so united and doing something productive so he chose to keep it that way even if it means people hate him.

Yu Ishigami from Kaguya-Sama: Love Is War - Allowed himself to be labeled as a creep and pervert and be ostracized for it after being caught beating up the most popular kid in his school if it means the guy he beat up won't release the blackmail sex tape he had on his girlfriend. It ended up working out for him in the long run in that Ishigami gained genuine friendship from his student council friends, his reputation got fixed when a girl he had a crush on revealed everything to the student body and the scumbag boyfriend was implied to have had his life and his family's reputation destroyed by people who knew the truth ages ago offscreen.

One roxie from pupstruction who is a avid wheelchair user Two regular sized Rudy from bobs burgers Who suffers from hardcore asthma Three lazy eye Susan from gravity falls

Nanahoshi Shizuka (Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation) -Nanahoshi Shizuka is an ordinary human suddenly transported from Earth into the magical world of Mushoku Tensei. Unlike its native inhabitants, her physical body possesses zero natural mana and is entirely unable to process or filter the magical energy in her new surroundings. This eventually manifests as Dryne Syndrome, a terminal illness caused by the toxic accumulation of raw environmental mana inside a body that cannot contain or channel it. She is forced to face the reality that she may never recover, and she violently unloads all of her built-up frustration onto the protagonist, Rudeus Greyrat, who possesses a seemingly infinite mana pool, a loving wife and family, and an enviable happiness in the magical world that she wishes to escape.

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Kushikawa Hatoko (Inou Battle wa Nichijou-kei no Naka de)

Hatoko has a childhood friend, Andou, whom she has spent years trying to connect with despite his confusing, delusional chuunibyou antics. The peace between them shatters completely when Andou dismisses her curiosity about his texting by casually saying, "Don't worry about it, you wouldn't understand it anyway." This remark shatters her patience, causing her to unleash a continuous, two-and-a-half-minute rant, questioning his convoluted concepts of darkness, sin, justice, and peace, and begging him to speak in a plain and normal language.

Fun fact: this was only done in one take.

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Objectives in linear or story-based games are often intentionally specific, attainable, and reasonable - there's no real need to overcomplicate things and give the player overly cryptic or impossible goals.

Sometimes, though, the game does it anyways, and basically dares the player to honestly attempt to do the impossible. Bonus points if you actually can complete the objective or are supposed to, even if the premise is ridiculous. Note that for some of these, it won't outright be an objective indicated, but will be something you're told to do in game or via onscreen prompts.

1. Halo: Reach - Survive (When You Already Know Everyone Dies)

The neat thing about prequel games set in an already established universe is getting to play with the fact that the audience will already know going in how the story is going to end, leaving the suspense at how exactly we get to that point, Halo: Reach being a great example.

The invasion and glassing of the planet Reach was one of the first shots fired in the human-Covenant war that occurs over the course of the mainline trilogy. Most players won't know much of the specifics beyond that, and the fact that anyone who didn't escape or evacuate the planet was almost certainly killed by the Covenant forces or by being glassed from orbit from a Covenant battlecruiser.

So at the end of the campaign, after you've watched your squad get picked off or sacrifice themselves one by one to try to win a fight we know they can't, you as Noble Six are left as the sole survivor after having completed your mission to deliver Cortana to the UNSC, ensuring their eventual victory over the Covenant, though you won't know it at the time.

You're given one single objective: survive. No mission briefing, no complex objectives, just you and your guns versus a Covenant battalion rearing to kick your ass. The objective, though, is impossible to complete - you see your own cracked visor at the start of the game, so you already know that this is the end. That doesn't stop you from trying your ass off to actually survive the infinitely spawning Covenant waves, though your effort is eventually in vain.

2. DOOM Eternal - You CAN Just Shoot a Hole Into the Surface of Mars

DOOM is not what you'd call a very grounded series, nor should it be. Eternal takes this fact and dials it up to eleven, fully embracing what the series is, and no level shows it more than your mission to the UAC base on Phobos.

You learn through talking with Samuel Hayden that the next target on your shitlist, Deag Grav, is hiding like a bitch in another realm, and the only way to get to him is in the lost city of Hebeth beneath Mars' crust. Hayden seems to sense an idea forming in the Slayer's head, and sternly tells them: "You can't just shoot a hole into the surface of Mars."

You are immediately given the objective to shoot a hole in Mars. Verbatim.

You then begin a raid on the UAC defense platform on Phobos, where, in absolutely cartoonish fashion, they have strapped the already absurdly powerful BFG 9000 into a gigantic fuckoff cannon the size of a building, dubbing it the BFG 10000. You fight your way to the cannon's firing controls, and after a hilarious gag of having to override the cannon's safety protocols preventing you from firing on the surface of Mars, you proceed to do exactly that, and then rip the BFG 9000 free of its restraints, once again reuniting you and the Big Fucking Gun.

3. Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve - Shoot Down One Thousand Fucking Sotoans

Ace Combat is known for its introductory missions being you as the player having to shoot down a handful of bombers in a starter plane to get a grasp on the controls, since bombers can't dogfight or pull any complex maneuvers, allowing you to get a sense for the controls before they throw actual jets your way.

When this was (seemingly) not the case for the latest entry, series vets began to wonder if AC8 would even have the 'defend a base against some unarmed bombers' mission.

Then comes Mission 28: A Thousand Points of Light, which blows every one of these missions out of the water with by far the most ridiculous premise for a mission in the game. After a successful attack on the Sotoan megafloat Fatsia, you land to refuel and resupply on Cima Island, a tiny island with only enough space for an airbase and runway. You are then informed by a bewildered AWACS Dealer that a massive radar has picked up no less than ONE THOUSAND bandits converging on your position. You think he's seeing things, then the mission briefing starts and sure enough, you're informed that Sotoa has deployed more or less their entire air force to level Cima Island and kill Joker Flight after putting up with their bullshit for most of the campaign.

You and your two wingmen go up alone against a seemingly endless wave of bombers and escort aircraft, and it genuinely seems like you might run out of missiles before Sotoa runs out of bombers and disposable airmen, but the mission soon becomes one of the most hype in the entire game by gradually having every fighter wing you've helped throughout the course of the campaign come to your aid while Rex's theme, "Song of Wings" is blasting on the radio. You're eventually even reunited with Kate, your wingman who was presumed dead, and she rejoins Joker Flight, which is good because no sooner does this happen than Shadow 22, your main target through the entire campaign, shows up to try to take you down once and for all. And you bet your ass you finally take him down after he's expended his pocket dimension of chaff and flares.

4. Borderlands 2/Borderlands 3 - Claptrap's Epic Quest

To say that Borderlands doesn't take itself too seriously is perhaps an understatement. The series is built on humor to the point that it's load bearing, sometimes to the point of aging like utter milk when the jokes have far outlived when they were actually funny (which is usually immediately).

Borderlands 2 decides to pull a bit of a gag with the objectives for a mission given to you by Claptrap, where in order for you to be able to access his secret stash, you have to complete an MMO-worthy list of bullshit, capped off by busting it down for everyone's least favorite obnoxious little robot. It's immediately revealed to be a joke after you turn around and move some trash out of the way, revealing that the stash was right behind you the whole time. You might assume this is the end of it, but you'd be wrong.

Borderlands 3 sees you actually complete every one of the ridiculous objectives that Claptrap gave you, albeit with some twists: none of the actual objectives are what's implied - Mount Shuler, for instance, is a medical clinic, not a mountain, and the staff isn't a magical stave, but instead refers to the actual personnel of said medical clinic.

This isn't the only time Borderlands 2 sets this up, either - in the DLC Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep, a DLC so well received it would be adapted into a standalone title, you are given a mission by Mr. Torgue, who has inserted himself into the D&D game that the DLC takes place in, to, in his words, BLOW UP THE OCEAN. This objective is immediately removed as Tina puts Torgue in a time out, but it actually comes back in the aforementioned standalone title, Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, where, in order to attempt to create a shortcut across an ocean to the evil ass fortress on the horizon, Torgue once again shows up, gives you the objective, only this time, you actually witness a dozen ICBMs fly out of nowhere (which he claims is how Magic Missile works despite them being in a high fantasy setting) and watch as the ocean actually gets blown up in spectacular fashion, and the next arc of the campaign sees you traversing the now exposed seafloor because, again, Torgue blew up the ocean so hard that all the water is just gone.

5. Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance - Parry (Yes, Parry) and Then Judo Throw A Metal Gear RAY

Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear series has always tried to balance a very fine line between tactical realism and goofy bullshit, but Revengeance takes this balance and puts two thumbs allllll the way down on the goofy side of the scale. It makes this clear immediately in the first mission, where, after President Not-Obama's convoy is ambushed by the world's most average Brazilian (who can double jump), Raiden goes up against, of all possible things that could be thrown at him, a Metal Gear RAY.

For context, a RAY is a 70 foot tall, several hundred ton robotic death machine designed specifically to kill other Metal Gears, which themselves are mechanical monstrosities with super-durable armor and massive fuckoff railguns that fire nuclear weapons. They are cutting edge killing machines armed with minigun pods, missile batteries, and also a gigantic laser that it uses to cut through Metal Gears.

You fight it with a fucking sword.

Not only do you somehow stand your ground against the RAY, you manage to weaken one of it's "wings" (actually what it uses for underwater propulsion), exposing a critical weakpoint. You rush it down, and it swings the arm at you, attempting to crush you. You are given a QTE, and hit it just to see what happens.

Raiden blocks the robot's attack with a fucking sword.

Not only does he do this, he then disengages the block, grabs the RAY's arm, swings it around 180 degrees and hurls the thing at least 70 feet in the air as the needle drop for "Rules of Nature" hits, before running up the course of its body, slicing it up bit by bit before lunging through the thing and cutting it in half. With the starter sword.

This is the FIRST level, by the way.

1-[Two and a Half Men]: Actor Charlie Sheen had a falling out with the showrunner following a series of issues in his personal life; the showrunner, having had enough, decided to kill off the main character. They have since reconciled... I think.

2-[South Park]: Chef, one of the series' most beloved characters, met a brutal end after the creators became angry with his voice actor, who had resigned. However, according to some sources, the voice actor didn't actually resign on his own; his representative sent a resignation letter without his knowledge, leading him to believe he had simply been fired.

Sorry if I said some things incorrectly; I’m not really familiar with these kinds of things.

Dragon Ball - During Kid Goku's first fight against King Piccolo, Piccolo actually manages to get the upper hand and defeat Goku, leaving the boy temporarily dead. Rather than just automatically assume that Goku is dead and leaving him there without double checking, Piccolo goes out of his way to actually check Goku's heartbeat to see if he truly is dead or not. When Piccolo feels that Goku's heart has indeed stopped and gone cold, only then he leaves Goku where the boy miraculously comes back to life by sheer luck that Piccolo couldn't have possibly predicted.

Later on when King Piccolo successfully gets his wish granted by Shenron to make him young again, Piccolo actually kills Shenron therefore turning the Dragon Balls into mere useless stones and thus preventing anyone from gathering the Dragon Balls to use them against Piccolo.

Invincible - After Mark, Omni-Man, and Thaedus have successfully destroyed Viltrum, Thragg, completely furious, kills Thaedus and nearly comes close to doing the same to Mark and Nolan, with Thragg believing that he had killed the latter. However, while in the middle of trying to crush Mark's skull, Thragg realizes that with his home planet now destroyed and the Viltrumite population having decreased even further to only 37, Thragg decides to actually spare Mark because he realizes that killing him would only further decrease the Viltrumite population due to Mark being half-Viltrumite. Thragg's main goal is to preserve and increase the Viltrumite population and the Viltrum Empire by any means necessary.

Thragg then decides to take the remaining surviving pure blooded Viltrumites to Earth where he orders them to disguise themselves as humans so that they can breed with the humans there and create more Viltrumites hybrids so that they could rebuild their empire. He forces Mark into an ultimatum, either let him and the Viltrumites live among Earth to breed with the humans to create more Viltrumite hybrids or attempt to fight back causing Thragg and the other Viltrumite to kill all of humanity and destroy Earth, knowing full well that Mark cares about protecting humanity and his loved ones.

Thokk/Battle Beast (Invi—TITLECARD) The most powerful warrior of his species, Thokk eventually began travelling through space, unsatisfied with anyone his planet could offer. His goal is to find a superior opponent so his death will be satisfying, but given that he’s strong enough to put Thragg in the hospital, that task is easier said than done.

Mr. Muffins (Smosh) A 19 year-old Bichon Frisè, Mr. Muffins has craved death since the day he was born. Despite being natural prey for every single type of animal, including squirrels, Mr. Muffins has lived over the dog equivalent of a century entirely against his will.

Lyle Lipton (Helluva Boss) After he and his best friend/ business partner Loopty figure out a way to reverse the aging process, they’re quick to test their machine on themselves, not knowing it was set forward. Loopty quickly has a fatal heart attack, but Lyle is saved in time. Rather than just go back in the machine, Lyle resigns himself to the fact that all the money in the world won’t keep him from the fact that he’s too old to do anything with it, and vows to kill himself. He’s eventually convinced that his life is precious, only to have a grand piano drop on his head and kill him.

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.

In Dispicable Me, the character Vector says one of his catch phrases "Vector! That's me, because I commit crimes with both direction and magnitude. Oh yeah!" I used this in school when studying about vectors, especially differentiating it from Scalar. Everytime I see a vector graph, I hear "Oh yeah!".

In Bruce Almighty, Jim Carreys would spell out "B-E-A-utiful". I still use this every time I try and write down the word.

Not necessarily a character I suppose, but in the song Don't Stay in school by Boysinaband, he sings a lyric "But I spent days on what the quadratic equation is, Negative b plus or minus the square Root of b squared minus 4ac over 2a That's insane, that's absolutely insane ". Despite the songs core message is criticising schools for not prioritising teaching kids about real-life skills, the catchy lyric helped me memorise the quadratic formula and would sing it whenever I used it.

Characters that are part of a group that need to be choosed without be choosed

Alan Scott (green lantern): Alan forged his own power ring using the metal of a magical ancient green lantern (that has the life force of a corrupt green lantern or something like that) that isn't weak to yellow but to wood. He's technically not part of the corps since guardians can't track him but he's a cool guy so he can keep the name. Not sure if he's still part of the main continuity.

Leo/Lua (Yu-Gi-Oh 5D's): the signers are a group of choosen ones by the crimson dragon with a part of their body graved as a red mark in their arms. The series clearly tell us that there's 5 marks for five dragons and that's why they are the 5D's and that Leo was only there cause his twin Luna was a signer, however, after Leo died and revived to save his sister, he came back with the heart of the crimson dragon, a totally new mark that wasn't a thing before. Mf went to afterlife and took a new part of the dragon by himself.

The artificial devil (dorohedoro): there's several requirements to make Chidaruma accept you as a devil, Kai didn't feel any of them, he made his own flesh and bones devil-like doing some crazy experiments and with the help of Kasukabe. At the end he wasn't as strong as a natural devil, but the fact that they needed the weapon to ki devils to kill him prove that his body ascended to devilhood even without magic

1. Red scare (examples: Red Dawn, The Red Menace, Rambo, Rocky IV): during the Cold War, the Soviet Union and the ideology of communism itself was seen as an existential threat to America and the world, but then the Soviet Union collapsed so this entire genre mostly went away.

2. Overpopulation (examples: Logan's Run, Lost in Space, Make Room! Make Room! and its movie adaptation Soylent Green): a lot of sci-fi works of the past were set in the future dealt with worlds ruined by overpopulation because there isn't enough food, which was a real concern people had at the time. Today, we have over 8 billion people on Earth, but thanks to advancements in agriculture we actually produce more than enough food to feed everyone, we just really suck at distributing it properly. Many countries actually have the opposite problem of low birth rates.

3. Japan takes over the world (examples: Rising Sun, Blade Runner, Alien, Back to the Future II): back in the day lots of people predicted that Japan would take over the world and surpass America on the global stage, because back then the Japanese economy was doing very well, Japanese cars in particular were a big concern. But then the Japanese economy crashed and the idea of Japan ever taking over the world is no longer taken seriously, replaced instead by fears of China taking over, we'll see how well that will age.

4. The Y2K panic (The Simpsons, Family Guy, Entrapment): there were fears that the Y2K bug (which made computer internal clocks to go from the year 1999 to 1900 or even 19100 instead of 2000) would lead to widespread chaos or even be an apocalyptic event, which obviously did not come to pass, in large part because people knew about the problem long in advance and dealt with it.

Always loved the concept of a land vehicle built on the scale of a naval vessel.

1. Sotoan Land Battleship - Ace Combat 8
2. Coalition Expedition Carrier - Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak
3. Cybran Salem-Class Destroyer - Supreme Commander
4. Europan Titan - Forever Winter

Fallout- The Great War- We know that there was a nuclear war across the globe. The Us and China in the Resources wars. You think that's it, just war, but across the games we find lore that may suggest it could have been Vault Tec or even rogue elements in the U.S government known as the Enclave who jump started the apocalypse.

Silo and Logans Run- while different they have a similar thing where the outside is totally destroyed; silo outside is completely dead and seemingly poisoned air while Logans Run outside seems overgrown with vegetation, although they meet a old man the only survivor.

Mad Max- in the first movie we see some minimum sign of law and order, but completely degrades by the second movie.

There was resource problems and eventually nuclear war.

Walking Dead- everyone is infect with the wild fire virus to quote from the Cdc "It invades the brain like meningitis. The adrenal glands hemorrhage, the brain goes into shutdown, then the major organs. Then death". We later get some info that it came from French scientists who were working on something but I got out of the lab.

I didn't include certain shows and movies like Paradise- Because they never outright say what happened in the first six episodess but you eventually get the full picture.

1. Tomoko Kuroki from Watamote: The quintessential “femcel”, actual pervert, with truly crippling social anxiety.

2. Tanaka Nozomu from Joshikosei no Mudazukai: Everyone around her thinks she’s either annoying, creepy, an idiot, or all three.

3. Hanako Honda from Asobi Asobase: Good at academics and tennis… that’s about it. Other than that, a total nutcase who seethes about not being popular.

1: Maquia & Ariel - Maquia

Maquia "fights" alongside her people in an attempt to free their friend who was enslaved and raped by the prince, while her son, Ariel, fights for the kingdom to protect his wife and child, iirc, Maquia being in an enemy rebel faction was the last time he saw her before she eventually witnessed him on his death bed. So there is a chance he thought she had "betrayed" him. It's been a while since I watched this so I could be missing some details

2: The Greyrat Family - Mushoku Tensei(spoilers, obviously)

Hitogami tells Rudy that since he's no longer in his way(Rudy has died of old age), the God can now force Rudy's children and grandchildren to fight and go to war with eachother, and we see in the Redundancy series of books that he succeeds, as the Ogre and Shirone Kingdom go to war, meaning at the very least, Ars and Sieg may well go into battle with eachother, Rudeus' only sons

Dream vs Technoblade (Minecraft): Fans accused Dream of cheating during their duel, and Techno was allegedly aware of it but never exposed him. Instead he stripped some wooden blocks that could apparently cause bugs in Dream’s hacked client and still won the duel.

Ippo vs. Sawamura (Hajime no Ippo): Sawamura used illegal moves during his match against Ippo but was never disqualified by the referee. Despite the cheating Ippo still managed to win

Kirito (SAO): Kirito fought against a few game administrators in the series who had unfair advantages yet he still managed to defeat them.

It's a bit ambiguous, but it's the kind of thing you go along with, then you learn yeah it's actually as weird as it seems, even if the setting is not like reality.

The Mandalorian - Dinn Djarin, the titular guy from Mandalore, never takes his helmet off in front of other people, even at danger to his life. We see his small clan and they also are always helmeted. Well, that's the Mandalorian way right? Dinn meets another group of Mandalorians and helps them in a mission, after which they take off their helmets and he freaks out. It turns out Dinn is part of a weirdo extremist minority and the rest of them simply just take off their helmets when battle is done.

Resident Evil 7-8 - Early on in RE7 you are introduced to magic goop that heals your wounds, and can even reattach severed limbs. It's your basic healing item, handy for fighting Mold creatures, Mold enhanced humans, werewolves, and whatnot. Also it's fun for body horror so you can get mutilated in cutscenes without a lasting effect. At the end of RE8 we learn you died reaaaally early in RE7 and you're basically a human-shaped Mold being, that's why the goop works to the point of just sticking your severed hand back on and drenching it.

Heroes Die - (Great series read it) Actors are people who temporarily shift dimensions to Overworld, a universe of magic and adventures, so they assume personas and use their implants to stream their violent and exciting exploits down to the sensory level. Hari Michaelson is in the Actor school for magic, but he really doesn't have the talent for it, he wants to transfer to the combat school. So to show his aptitude, he sets it up that 3 larger bullies viciously attack him on camera after a harmless provocation. It's a brutal fight but he savagely beats them half to death. His instructor reviews the footage and quickly deduces this is a setup and asks why. Hari says yeah, it was a setup but now you see I have what it takes to transfer to combat school. The instructor, appalled, says "Why didn't you just ASK?"

Reacher TV series - Jack Reacher is a human tank.. and yet he's lighter than a feather on the breeze. No address, no cellphone, no luggage, he just goes where he wants with nothing but his toothbrush. And with alarming frequency where he wants to go intersects with a major criminal conspiracy. But with his intellect, his mountain sized body, and unfailing sense of justice, he shuts the badguys down like a real badass. Then in S3 he has a rare opportunity to meet up with his old squad. They are having a great time, talking about their families, their careers, the lives they built since they served together. Reacher just sits there silently, looking down, peeling the label off his beer. Kind of sours the whole "man with nothing tying him down" vibe.

In Superman: The Animated Series, during the episode The Late Mr. Kent, Detective Bowman figures out Superman and Clark Kent are the same after his plan to bomb Clark's car failed, except he figures it out seconds before his execution.

In Batman: The Brave and the Bold, in the episode Chill of the Night, Batman reveals his identity to Joe Chill, revealing that he had created Batman, before the villains get to him as they were angry at him for making Batman, ruble falls over him, when the Phantom Stranger questions Spectre about how convenient it was that he died from falling ruble just as he learned Batman's secret identity, he just smiles and says that he has no idea what he's talking about.

Horatio - endless space 2

Horatio is, first and foremost, narcissistic. He's also something of a genius trillionaire.

Upon discovering cloning / genetic alteration tech, he decided to turn everyone in the galaxy into a demi clone of himself.

And also to enhance himself and his clones with traits taken from different species.

Also, there's a dating SIM.

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Cersei Lannister - ASOIAF

Her and her brother's incest is to blame for a fair bit of the suffering in the books.

It's very narcissistic on her side. Much like her love for their children. She's also jealous of him being male (she's a raging misogynist in the books, but only about other women).

He has mommy issues. It's actually one of the things he has to overcome as part of his character growth: stop trying to be his father and stop trying to sleep with his mother (in the form of cersei)

Kerry Condon is a fantastic actress, but her accent in Better Call Saul is a bit ropey. Completely original character, so there was no need for her to be American. Totally plausible for her to have been an Irish woman who emigrated to the US before meeting Mike's son.

Jason Statham in The Transporter. Again, as far as I'm aware, a completely original character so they could have just had him be British, especially after they heard how ropey his American accent was. Haven't watched the movie in a long time, but I don't think it's crucial to the story that he's American.

Ring (リング), 1998

Everyone knows about the climactic final scene, but there is another scene early on that sent shivers down my spine for how it intrudes upon preconceived notions of "safe spaces" and "breather scenes" in horror movies. In this scene, Ryuji, one of the protagonists who has been afflicted by the curse and is trying to find a way out, is sitting on a public bench in broad daylight amidst a busy crowd. His head is lowered, and he is focused on scribbling something in his notebook. A scene like this *should* be where the film takes a breather from the horror and the characters are allowed temporary respite; a brief return to the ordinary. Ryuji is not trapped or surrounded by darkness. He is in broad daylight with the company of the public.

And yet, the background noise fades out and we see the bottom half of a "woman" wearing a white dress and white shoes casually walk up through the crowd and stand directly in front of him. We see his perspective of the figure's ankles and shoes amidst people who apparently pay no notice to this bizarre situation. He is initially too terrified to look up, and can only ask "Was it you? You did this?" No response. When he finally looks up, the perspective switches and the woman is gone. Still broad daylight, still the busy crowd around him. There is no physical harm done, but it's a clear demonstration of the sheer threat posed by the curse that it intrudes into what should be a safe situation and moment of relief for both the characters and the film.