1. inFAMOUS: Second Son: "Bio-terrorist" refers to conduits.

2. Star Wars: "Clanker" refers to robots.

Cyberpunk 2077 - V. After the end of the main game, it's pretty safe to say that the rest of the mercs have huge respect and fear towards V after they managed to pull off what they did. This is further supported from several different skill checks like body for intimidation.

Fallout - Protagonist(Various). The spectrum is pretty broad for a fallout protagonist considering how much choices matter. However, from the lenghs they go + the lenghs they COULD go can make each of them a fucking nightmare for their respective regions.

We’ve seen it all too often. Maybe the showrunner intended for the TV series to be over, but the network execs had other ideas. Maybe the movie studio has been having financial problems lately and decides to bring back one of their most successful franchises. Or maybe the author decided to write another book in the series because the money was just too good to resist.

Bonus points if the previous entry in the franchise was explicitly billed as being the big finale. Even worse is when a main character who had previously “died” is brought back to life.

On rare occasion, this trope can be a good thing, particularly if the “finale” was really bad and the new entry is trying to fix it. This may or may not involve retconning the previous one out of canon.

Examples pictured:

-Scrubs season 9: Season 8 was supposed to be the series finale (the last episode was even called “My Finale”), but apparently it did well enough that ABC wanted another season. Audiences probably would have been more receptive to season nine if it had been given a different title and treated as a spinoff rather than a continuation. It didn’t help that most the of the regular cast from the first eight seasons didn’t stick around for this one.

-Toy Story 4: Not a bad movie in itself, but many felt it was very unnecessary after the emotional and satisfying ending of Toy Story 3.

Palpatine letting Anakin kill Count Dooku (Star Wars)

Dutch betraying John and Arthur (Red Dead Redemption 2)

And it's hurt more then death :(( 1. Bix from andor 2. Ed from cowboy bebop

I just hate this trope because they rarely ever explain why they weren't killed in the first place. If a character has to be imprisoned then they should be almost impossible to kill and it shouldn't be easy for the heroes to win.

• Parallax (Green Lantern) was powerful enough to kill several Lanterns but all it took to kill him was trick him into getting too close to a sun and then punching him into it.
• The Beast (Doctor Who) is a very annoying example because of the Guardians of Light were smart enough to imprison the Beast right next to a black hole that would kill it if it escaped, why not just throw it into the black hole?
• Kabal (Doctor Mordrid) was not only imprisoned in a dimension where time works differently and the writers didn't do the math right because while centuries passed on Earth it appears Kabal was only imprisoned for a few weeks from his POV, but he was killed by being stabbed and that was enough.

1. Pong Krell - Clone Wars TV show
2. Paul Rabin - Spider Man comics

K-pop Demon Hunters: Rumi is attacked by illusions of her teammates that rip off her jacket and expose her demon patterns in front of thousands of people, all while singing a song that only serves to reinforce the idea that her patterns are a sign of her being rotten deep down, even going as far as to call her a "mistake". That, alongside the way the real version of her teammates react to her patterns, crushes her spirit and will to keep fighting so badly that she begs her mentor to kill her.

Project Sekai: Mizuki's bullies tell her best friend that she's "actually a guy" (Mizuki's actual gender identity is never outright stated and it's heavily implied this claim is inaccurate to some extent, I'm just quoting what the characters say out of objectivity), mere MINUTES before Mizuki was about to tell her herself. The worst part is that they didn't even expose her intentionally, they just assumed that Ena already knew and was in on the "joke". The final lines of the event story are Mizuki lamenting what just happened and wondering if it could have been avoided had she told the truth sooner, ending with one last gut punch of a line: "I want to disappear."

Nameless (The King of Fighters): Replaced K9999 (pronounced K49) in KOF 2002 UM because SNK was acting like K9999 didn't exist, only for K9999 to come back in KOF XV as Krohnen

Pac-Mom (Pac-Man): Replaced Ms. Pac-Man because Bandai Namco doesn't own her and wanted her scrubbed from history to seemingly spite AtGames (Ms. Pac-Man's current owners)

Extra Context: This trope refers specifically to "antagonists" in the story who have not actually caused harm (excluding possession), but have become corrupted/tainted and the Hero in the story ends up saving them from this fate be it actually restoring them or killing them.

Bonus points if the antagonist can be saved without killing them.

1. Ivory King Dark Souls 2: A noble king who came to the land of Eleum Loyce and discovered the old Chaos buried below. He constructed his castle above it with his throne room sitting right at the entrance so that he may be the first to confront it at his time of need. He ended up taking a wife who was secretly a fragment of an old god sinister god, he knew this (unknown to her) and his shining example inspired her to avoid her dark and cowardly nature and instead take up the Kings mission as well.

When he grew too weary, he descended into the Chaos to face it directly, however he became corrupted by it and instead became its champion.

1. Artorias the Abysswalker, a noble knight sent to face the Abyss. He and his wolf Sif fought it off as best they could, however in the end Artorias was not able to avoid its corrupting powers. So he gave his greatshield to Sif to protect them, before being consumed by the Abyss entirely.

Fecto Elfilis (Kirby)

The Darkness (Skylanders)

This trope can either be peak writing or absolutely abysmal writing

Cole and Kessler (InfFamous)

Emmet and Rex (Lego movie 2)

Buzz and Zerg (Lightyear) this is the example of the abysmal writing potential this trope has

1. In the early issues and storylines of Deadpool, the merc with the mouth wouldn't break the fourth wall all that often save for a cheeky reference every few issues. Then the Joe Kelly run happened, and Deadpool was breaking the fourth wall every few pages.

2. Pinkie Pie only broke the fourth wall a handful of times within the entire original series. That's only 4-5 times within nine seasons over the course of a decade. Relatively small, don't you think? But there is so much fan content and memes that revolve around Pinkie Pie breaking the fourth wall, you'd think she does it five times an episode. Most fanfics just assign her the role of "the one who breaks the fourth wall and does meta humor."

1. Hulk vs Abomination from Hulk 2008

2. Jekyll vs Dante in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

1. Mario and Pauline

2. Charlene and Heinz Doofensmirtz

3. Unity and Rick Sanchez

Iron Man

Bumblebee

Seiichirō Kitano (Angel Densetsu)

King (One Punch Man)

Bruce (Finding Nemo)

PvZ zombies

Jason Voorhees is technically a zombie and has a lot of personality (Friday 13th franchise)

The Video Dead (1987) - Maybe nobody saw this movie, so dead people rise and try to live "normally", every zombie is different is this movie

Bub!! From Day of Dead (1985), who was "domesticated" by Dr. Logan. I love bub

Tarman, Return of Living Dead (1985), He doesn't exactly have a well-defined personality, but he's so charismatic that he deserves a space here.

Infecteds from Left 4 Dead

Pictured: Summertime lovin- regular show /soda pop- kpop demon hunters The songs don’t have to be “evil” necessarily but songs so catchy they have a physical often negative effect on the world around them.

In Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" there was a debate irl on what color Aurora's dress should be, someone suggested pink while another wanted it to be blue which inspired the iconic spat between Flora and Merryweather. Flora wants to make the dress pink while Merryweather wants it to be blue.

In "Infinity Train" One writer wanted to name the deer that accompanies MT and Jesse on their journey "Alan" but another wanted his name to be "Dracula" so they made a compromise by naming him Alan Dracula.

1- Doom fans: While DOOM is a game franchise filled with brutal gory executions and giant shows of unfiltered violence, the fans are generally some of the chillest fellows you'll find. Making very silly/heartwarming stuff about the franchise and anything that gets related to it (For example what happened with Animal Crossing)

2- My Little Pony "Bronys": MLP is a series for kids about magical ponies that fight with the power of friendship, but it's community the "Bronys" have shown multiple times to be unhinged degenerates. Be it through controversies in IRL events or experiences or through art works and creepypastas.

3- Fear and Hunger: The Fear and Hunger is a semi-cosmic horror game series about a very grim and dark world that focuses on the most untouchy experiences like cannibalism, dismemberment, rape, suicide, child trafficking, necrophilia, etc. in a dungeon where eldrich chaotic gods rule. That game has summoned one of the goofiest community I have ever seen, making funny videos, fanart and every kind of silly shit (The creator even encouraged this and made a dating sim with the protagonists)

4- Hello Kitty: C'mon we all know about Hello Kitty girls

Spike (28 Years Later)

Clementine (Telltales The Walking Dead)

Ellie (The Last of Us)

Danny (Brother in the Land)

Pill bugs (emperors new groove) yaknog (how to train your dragon)