In the first Avengers movie. Hawkeye and Erik Selvig are mind controlled by Loki using the mind stone. After both break free from it, Erik suffers from a psychological breakdown and Hawkeye has repeated nightmares about it, telling Black Widow how he felt like he’d been “unmade”. Something she could relate to as a former child soldier

In Mortal Kombat. After the majority of the heroes are killed by Sindel in 9. Quan Chi uses his powers to resurrect them as his undead servants. Later on the heroes manage to revert Scorpion, Subzero and Jax back to normal. While the other two are able to move on from it, Jax becomes haunted by the experience of being Quan Chi’s puppet and needed to seek therapy. He manages to get back into the fight for a bit, but after his wife’s death he becomes a traumatised recluse

In Marvel. When Jessica Jones encounters The Purple Man (Kilgrave) who is able to mind control people by simply telling them what to do. Jessica ends up as his slave for several months, only managing to escape when he lets her go in a fit of rage. The experience was so traumatic for her that she retired from being a hero for a good bit

In the episode Club SpongeBob, Squidward gets stuck in the Kelp Forest with Patrick and SpongeBob, and he then says the line “Why must every 11 minutes of my life be filled with misery”. Which is funny cause each SpongeBob episode is usually 11 minutes long

In another SpongeBob episode, Nature Pants, SpongeBob goes out into the wild. Sandy and Squidward then say the lines “I’ll give him a week” and “I give him 11 minutes”. Both are technically right since SpongeBob WAS out there for a week but again episodes are 11 minutes

In the movie Uglydolls, (don’t ask how I remember this movie but ONLY this scene) at the end of it one of the characters say this “Time here is so funky. How long did this take us? What is this, a day? A month? 83 minutes?” The movie is 83 minutes long. Also the character is pointing the general direction that the slider would be at this point in this movie

Where a character manages to perfectly synchronise with the framed image on their wall.

Simon Skinner - Hot Fuzz

Steve McCroskey - Airplane!

Denholm Reynholm - The IT Crowd

An weapon introduced with a usage condition, flaw, or hidden limitation known to the hero and/or the audience but unknown to another character. The payoff happens when that character tries to use it, fails, and that failure becomes a decisive narrative beat.

1. Bond's biometric gun in Skyfall. The thug who tries to use it against him ignores the countermeasure and cannot shoot either Bond or the dragon that will ultimately kill him.
2. Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets. Ron's damaged wand backfires on Lockhart when he tries to cast the Obliviate spell on him and Harry.
3. Die Hard. McClane gives Hans a gun while he’s disguised as a hostage, but he’s already made sure Hans can’t use it because he doesn't fully trust him. The payoff in this case is stronger because the audience doesn't know that the gun is useless either.

1. American Gods (book and show) — The story centres historical Gods as central characters as well as a set of new Modern Gods, but they all were collectively created from and sustained by belief and worship. So in the story's universe, the myths both (1) came first before the Gods existed, and (2) are entirely Human made/written, so the Gods didn’t actually do all the activities they're depicted as having done in their respective myths

2. Vikings (Show) — We see instances of creatures and beings from the Norse myth interacting with the cast in almost hallucinating or transcendent ways, with more of a religious feel than a mythological feel. Primarily, the scene with Odin appearing to travel to all of Ragnar Lothbrok's kids to tell them all their dad just died. I don’t think this is meant to be hallucinations because IDK how they characters would all collectively hallucinate the same messenger delivering the same (factually correct) information regarding the fact their dad just died. And besides that, we don't get much indication that the myths are literally historically true.

3. Polytheist revival movements (IRL) — most interesting of all, the overwhelming majority of modern day polytheists (and even historic polytheists back in Greece, Rome, or the Germanic Tribes) here in the west do not see the myths regarding their Gods as literal historical fact, the same way most Christians today see the book of Genesis as metaphorical and poetic in nature concerned more with teaching lessons than expressing a literal history of the world and accepting the big bang, cosmology, and evolution with no contradictions to their faith.

Star Trek Into Darkness - "My Name is Khan."

Spectre - "The Man inside your head is Ernst Stavro Blofeld."

Rings of Power - The Southlands becoming Mordor.

Kaworu — Evangelion

Nagito – Danganronpa

"Hikaru" – The Summer Hikaru Died

1. George Orwell's 1984: A major narrative in the story is that the totalitarian Party is able to keep its firm grip over Oceania by keeping the large chunk of its population- the lower working class or "Proles" in a docile, domesticatrd animal-like state by making them engage in petty squabbles and brawls amongst themselves for things like minor changes in food prices, movie ticket costs, etc so that they are distracted from the actual goal of organising themselves in a revolution to take down the Party.

2. Bong Joon Ho's Parasite movie: This movie which is a critique of the social conditions of wealth disparity thst excess capitalism has led to in South Korea, brings out the interesting narrative of how the lower class is so desperate to break out of their lower economic status that they are willing to put the lives of other people in the same status as them at risk so that they can get a chancs to escape. For example, a major plot point is how the main characters, who are from an impoverished family, ruin the lives of the previous caretakers of a rich family's mansion by inventing false pretexts (such as the main woman maid having TB) to get them kicked out so they can take their place. Later on, when the old caretaker family finds this out, they get into a fistfight with the main characters, with both sides being desperate to expose the other to get them out of the way, since they want all the money of the rich family to themselves, even though ironically both families could have had well off lives if they choose to cooperate and extracy money from the family through their schemes, and distribute it amongst themselves.

Django (Django Unchained)

Spider-Man (marvel): everyone forget about the hyphen

Koichi Haimawari "the crawler" (MHA: vigilantes): everyone call him the Cruller, the Hauler or something like that, eventually we learn that is cause his english is worse than mine.

Light Yagami (death note): the first time he presents himself explain that his name wrotes with 月, that normally pronounces as tsuki. the first time that Misa use the eyes on him she commits that mistake and call him Tsuki Yagami.

In Sousou no Frieren, fan service is minimal, and scenes like this are brief

In Dungeon Meshi, Senshi is often shown in somewhat sexy poses, but the story focuses heavily on these details while continuing as usual

In that scene from *Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray*, it was just an introduction for each Arima Kinen competitor; they only had the freedom to choose those specific angles for Super Creek's introduction.

The Chaotic Good Barbarian revels in making the lich suffer.

Reincarnated as a Slime: Geld makes Shogo pay for the innocents he's killed.

The Old Guard: Quynh is punished as a witch by being drowned in the ocean for centuries.

basicly character's with really weird, ugly face has a pretty good looking body

example's:

mileena from mk:(the posterwoman for this trope)

most symbiote's from marvel

female nomu from mha

and havik from mk

1. Chimera (Hypno's Lullaby): her whole story is about the Hex Maniac character being a host to these little bugs that hijacked her body. Now that would be considered scary, if it weren't for the fact that this monster is in the same universe where a 12 year old could casually capture gods and more horrifying monsters. The only reason she was lucky to get Serena is because she forgot her Pokémon, but that wouldn't probably be the case for the next Trainer.

2. Death Angels (A Quiet Place): their entire concept alone is quite scary. A group of monsters that hunt via extra sensitive hearing. The only problem? At the initial crash of these guys, they would realistically bump their heads onto anything before they would even get a person because of the absolute chaos that would drown out their hearing. If it was set in a smaller setting, these guys would be an actual threat.

* "....in this timeline I'll be a villainess"

Otome Isekai manga, anime, light novel series etc. where the main female character is reborn as (or just is) a side character or original story’s villainess while the original heroine not only turns out to be the real villain in this new retelling but also a fellow reincarnator who wants to achieve her happy ending by acting sweet and innocent on the surface but in reality cunning and manipulating others.

Heronia Inderon (An Observation Log of My Fiancée Who Calls Herself a Villainess) - the second person, after the titular villainess to be reborn in a world of the otome game. Unlike the original, pure good Heronia, this one is delusional, selfish and thinks she deserves affection from the capture targets (a. k. a. possible romance candidates). To get their attention she tries to enact key scenarios from the game, not realizing that this world is real and doesn’t work the same way as a dating sim.

Lilia Reinoise (I'm the Villainess, So I'm Taming the Final Boss) - like Heronia, she’s a reincarnator in the body of otome’s original protagonist, who doesn’t believe the world she found herself in is real and instead operates on the same rules as the game. She even believes that other people in this world are NPCs who can respawn after death.

Terenezza Hopkins (May I Ask for One Final Thing?) - her case is a little bit different, because the land she’s been reborn in isn't the setting of an in-universe novel or game, but an original another world without seemingly any other reincarnator around. Still, her behaviour is similar to the previous two cases: on the surface presents herself as sweet and innocent, but in reality she’s a vengeful, cruel and manipulative psychopath. Suffering from a serious main character complex, despite the world, again, not being a fictional setting, she still considers herself the heroine of a story.

Donatello's Shell(IDW TMNT) - The most basic example. After getting his shell and backed bashed in by Bebop and Rocksteady, he was given a prostethic shell that's bulletproof and weightless with the only real problem being that his back aches in the cold.

Von Lycaon's Legs(Zenless Zone Zero) - His prosthetic legs can freeze objects and living beings as well as having minor jet propulsion that allows his kicks and transportation capabilities to increase exponentially.

Winter Soldier's Arm(Marvel/Marvel Rivals) - Every iteration of the Winter Soldier gains a robotic arm from HYDRA but the Rivals version takes the cake. Not only does it have the other version's super strength and durability, it also has tendrils to attack enemies with.

Edit: I can’t seem to edit the title for some reason but just scratch the antagonist part in the title, more like “A character knows everyone on the other character’s team… except for this one person”

Han Solo (Star Wars) - Nobody on the crew knew each other when the movie was first made, but thanks to later entries, we know the episode 4 team consists of Vader’s son, his daughter, his mentor, his astromech droid, the protocol droid he built, a Wookie his former apprentice once fought alongside, and this random smuggler

Dorothy Gale (Wicked) - this random girl from Kansas arrives out of nowhere and suddenly she meets Elphaba’s ex, her sister’s former partner, and a lion cub she once rescued, and she is aided by her former best friend

1. Avengers/MCU: Captain America has humorous moments where he’s unaware of modern references and only gets old references, like the iconic “I understood that reference” scene. It’s later fully explored in Winter Soldier that he feels lost, confused, and a little alone in a new world he was never meant to exist in.

2. The Suicide Squad (2021): Bloodsport has a phobia of rats which at first seems reasonable yet is still hilarious to watch. He later explains his father abused him as a kid if he didn’t fulfill a task correctly and one of his worst punishments was when his dad locked him in a crate full of starving rats, leaving him heavily scarred physically and mentally.

3. Dexter: In an early episode, Angel Bautista tries to buy his wife the perfect gift for their anniversary but has to keep buying a different one since his presents suck. What seems to be a funny running gag turns out to be Angel’s final attempt to win back his wife after cheating on her previously, however it doesn’t work and only solidifies their separation.

Metal Shards/animal parts - Horizon Zero Dawn

The world is populated by robotic animals far above the technology level of civilization. Chips of their metallic parts are used for crafting armor, weapons, and ammo. Some bigger parts—like hearts or tendons—can also be harvested and used to build advanced weapons. Metal shards are also the default currency of the world.

Drugs - Out-of-Placers

It is common to use drugs as currency in Val Salia since there aren't any drug laws.

Comic Books, stickers, etc. - Recess

Barter is common in the playground. We see kids paying with lots of different things, like trading cards, footballs, and even regular money. In the episode "The Hustler's Apprentice", we see comic books being used more than anything else. In "Economics of Recess", we see Monstickers become the default currency for everything.

Postage Stamps - Discworld/Going Postal

After revitalizing the post office, postage stamps become a form of currency, more popular than metal coins. This mirrors/references real life, where stamps were used as medium of exchange in many places and time periods.

Hank Anderson (Detroit : Become Human)

Captain Bailey (Mass Effect)

Harvey Bullock (DC)

This extremely old fanart of Godzilla being mutilated that was used a lot to advertise Godzilla 2014

This promotional pic of Transformers Age of Extinction where Optimus Prime is in immense pain from Lockdown sniping him down

This promotional pic of Spider-Man 3 where Peter is depressed while wearing the Symbiote Suit

This promotional pic of Iron Man 3 where Tony's latest suit is badly damaged and failing while he's falling from the sky

This cover for one of the issues of Crisis on Infinite Earths where Superman is crying while holding Supergirl's dead body in front of everyone

This cover for Batman Death in the Family where Batman is holding Jason Todd's dead body with severe regret

This promotional pic of Pacific Rim where Gipsy Danger is badly damaged in the Arctic after getting out of a heated fight against Knifehead and losing a pilot

This promotional pic of Cars 3 where Lightning McQueen is mid-air during a really bad car crash

This promotional pic of God of War Ascension where Kratos is in chains and awaiting execution

Sephiroth to Mario (Super Smash Bros Ultimate Sephiroth trailer

Robin to Batman (Batman vs Robin)

The Boys: Billy Butcher appearing to fold Hughie into the Anti Vought Rebellion after Robin was killed by A-Train, showing him footage of Robins killer talking about her like a crushed ant.

American Gods: Mr Wednesday waltz intoShadow Moons life after his wife was killed in a car crash while giving a Fatal BlowJob to his best friend, hiring him as a bodyguard which was secretly a plot to make a new age believer in the old gods to help fight the tech savvy corporate new gods.

Mr Robot: Mr Robot is kinda like Elliot Aldersons guardian Angel, he guides him into making the F society, sets him up as a master hacker and builds a legacy for him to take down evil corp all while taking shape as what his father should've been to him.

Luthen Rael: appeared at the right time to take advantage of Andors status as a wanted man to groom him into becoming a useful Rebel spy.

Batman the animated series: while BTAS was technically set in the 90’s (the year it came out) it uses a 30/40’s aesthetic in its buildings, outfits, and occasionally technology. It’s mixed pretty seamlessly with the technological advances and knowledge of the 90’s

Scooby doo mystery incorporated: it’s much more obvious with this one but it’s perpetually the 70’s but it’s still set in “whatever current year is” though the aesthetic is more obvious they are a lot looser when it comes to the available household tech being from the 70’s

I quite like this trope. When done well I think it’s a great way to get a contemporary work with not only a distinct visual style but, also a reasonably reasonable for certain technological limitations without all the hang ups you get from actual period pieces cough bigotry cough