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Having Fun/You Are Fired

Here are the ways one can approach how someone can lose their job in the workplace.

* Basic definition: A person loses his/her job as punishment for doing something wrong.
* Straight: Joe is fired for screwing up on the job.
* Exaggerated: Joe is not only fired but *blacklisted* from the company.
	+ Ditto if he's blacklisted from *the entire profession*.
	+ Joe goes through multiple firings and re-hirings.
* Inverted: Joe is hired for his excellent resume, and good standing with the interviewee.
	+ Joe ends up not fired, but *promoted*.
* Downplayed: Joe is not fired. He is, however, demoted.
	+ If his employer is a sports team, he's simply benched.
	+ Joe *does* get fired, but gets so much compensation he wouldn't need to work again for the next few years anyways.
* Subverted: Joe screws up, but is let off with a warning, with the boss saying "Don't mess up again, or you're fired."
	+ Alternatively, Joe cleans up his space using disappearing paint, so he can't be fired.
* Double Subverted: But Joe screws up again and the boss makes good on his threat.
	+ "So who *can* I fire for all the damage you did to the workplace?"
* Averted: Joe keeps his job throughout all episodes.
	+ Alternatively, he failed in the *interview* and doesn't get the job in the first place.
* Justified: What Joe did goes against company policy.
	+ Joe got convicted of a crime and sentenced to life in jail with no possibility of parole. Due to this, the employer has no reason keeping him on the payroll.
* Zig-zagged: "You can't fire me! I quit!" "Well, you can't quit, because you're fired!"
* Exploited: One of Joe's co-workers conspires to get rid of him by telling on his boss.
	+ Joe, recently having been fired, files unemployment.
* Exploitation Denied: Joe gets *no* unemployment benefits whatsoever. He *does*, however, get his job back after said co-worker himself was exposed and fired.
* Parodied: Termination by Cannon
* Enforced: The company goes out of business, forcing them to let Joe (and all their other staff) go in a mass-layoff.
* Implied: Joe states that he lost his job after going against company rules. He never said he was fired, though.
* Defied: Joe, after screwing up, decides his resume would be better off if he didn't get fired, so he quits.
	+ Alternatively, Joe is like Retsuko- he *can't* be fired even if the boss *wanted* to fire him.
* Played for Drama: Joe is fired and sees his career plummet, as even if he isn't officially blacklisted, nobody except maybe a fast-food chain would hire him. He ends up flipping burgers for the rest of his life.
* Deconstructed: See above, except not even fast-food restaurants will hire Joe. With no work, he goes homeless and is forced to commit crimes to earn money. He gets busted and winds up In Jail for More than Life.
	+ Alternatively, before there's a chance the cops will catch him, Joe commits suicide.
Hard rock

A rock style dating back to the 60s, when the British Invasion was still going strong.

## Associated tropes

* Hard folk rock: A fusion between hard rock and folk rock.
* Hard new wave: A term used for any new wave song with heavy hard rock influences.
* All guitar-based New Wave is Power Pop: Exactly What It Says. Only applies to 70s new wave. The trope is a subtrope to All Citrus Soda is Mountain Dew.
* Children's rock: A more suitable-for-children version of this genre, mainly for shows like Jake and the Neverland Pirates and any children's show that finds it suitable.
* Glam rock: Usually hard rock with heavy art rock, pop rock, and rock and roll influences. Mainly used by Sweet and David Bowie.
* Smashed Guitar: Whenever a guitarist smashes his or her guitar. Usually linked to The Who.
* Proto-punk: Early punk rock. Linked to The Kinks and The Who.
* Zeppelin Hard: Any hard rock song influenced by the works of Led Zeppelin or their members.
* Heavy metal: The more harsh version of the genre, usually with references to thunder, lightning, or the devil.
* Punk rock: A hardcore sound that existed before even harsher music came about.
* Glam metal: Heavy metal with pop rock and glam rock influences. Most popular metal genre in the 80s.
* Keep on Debating You: When it is debated whether a song is a certain genre of rock or just rock.

TBA.
Jorel's Brother

*Jorel's Brother* is an obscure cartoon that was created by Juliano Enrico for the Latin American branch of Cartoon Network. As the title says, it's about Jorel, his family, and *especially* his brother.

Jorel's family is based on Juliano's own family, with Jorel's Brother being based on Juliano himself.

*Jorel's Brother* made its *only* US appearance in *OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes*, a show from the *US* branch of Cartoon Network.

## Tropes

* Exactly What It Says: "Jorel is the brother of Jorel's Brother" is not only this trope, but it's also redundant. The Portuguese lyrics, "e Jorel é irmão do Irmão do Jorel", also get redundant as well.
	+ "Irmão do Jorel é o Irmão do Jorel", or "Jorel's Brother is Jorel's Brother" also counts, despite it *also* being redundant.
* Obscurity, much?: At least outside of Latin America despite being referenced in *OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes*, a show made in *the United States*.
* Dubless Series: Lacks an English dub, like *all* Cartoon Network Latin America series outside of *Villainous* do.
* Loads and Loads of Irony: Despite having the *title* named after him, we *never* find out the name of the titular brother to Jorel.
* Unrealistic stuff: In one episode, Jorel's Brother and Billy get detention. While this wouldn't count for this trope in the United States, keep in mind that this was produced in Brazil, where there is no such thing as detention in schools.
* What's with Andy's Unanswered Questions?: Season 3 has a *ton* of continuity; thus, you need to watch the entirety of the season in order to get what was going on.
* Fauxnime: *Microwave Warriors* is basically *Saint Seiya* meets *Fighting Foodons*.
Purgatony

Stressed Eric in purgatory.

It all starts when Tony Purgatelli, somebody who helps guide souls to their afterlives, accidentally sends a person to Hell over a car wreck, alcoholism, and running over somebody who was revealed to be Super Evil. More stuff ensues from there.

Once exclusive to Blackpills, but as of July 16th, 2019 all eight episodes can be found (for free) on YouTube.

Since spoilers are ahead, it is recommended you watch the show before reading this page.

## Tropes

* Obscurity, much?: The Blackpills releases. Episode 1 has more than 16 times the views on Explosm's YouTube than on Blackpills' YouTube channel. Notably averted with the show itself (because Explosm, one of the many studios involved in the project, is uploading the series to YouTube), one of few Blackpills originals to do so.
* Size Changing: One of the powers of an angel, as revealed by Chad Bradley when he got a promotion.
* Downwards Funnel: See the premise above.
* In Jail for More than Life: The afterlife variant. Once a soul is sent to Hell, he or she is there for eternity with no chance to be re-checked. This is stated by Death himself. However, it is entirely possible for one to send a soul to Hell straight from Heaven, as proven in "Heaven? Ken, Wait!".
	+ In season 1's penultimate episode, one of the souls involved in the bidding feud (see below for how that came to a close) knew full well about this and stated specifically that he wanted Tony to send the client he was talking with (a viking) to heaven.
	+ Also as proven in season 1's penultimate episode, this can be averted in the case of a newborn soul who hasn't previously made a conscious decision. In which case one can send it back to Earth for a second chance at life.
* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon: Unlike Explosm's other work (Cyanide and Happiness is on VRV, the shorts on YouTube and the Channelate animations on YouTube as well), this show (sans the first episode) was exclusive to Blackpills. Until June 2019 when the series began being put on YouTube courtesy of Explosm.
* Super Good: Chad Bradley got promoted to angel because of this.
* Super Evil: Tony Purgatelli accidentally sent the first client we see to Hell because he saw murder as an act committed by evil figures. When Death tells him the actual facts, Tony's afterlife became more miserable.
	+ All of the souls seen as this get sent to Hell not too long after they visit purgatory.
* That's a Capital Idea: "Do Chad's Best".
	+ In season 1's penultimate episode, Tony decided that the only way to end the entire betting feud was to send the client-of-the-episode back to Earth to start a second life, since said client previously never made a conscious decision.
* Inunderstandable Language: "So sayeth Future Law" in-universe. Though it's more of an intentional use of Middle English, which does not qualify for the trope.
* You Are Fired: Going into the Soul Shredder counts as this in the afterlife, apparently.
List of Trope Namers

## Anime and Manga

### *Dragon Ball Z*

* Padding Filler Z
* Planet-or-Villain Saga

## Music

### Led Zeppelin

* Led Breakup
* Stairway to Heaven

## Channels

### Comedy Central

* Comedy Censtral
* The Colbert Effect (for The Colbert Report)

### Cartoon Network / Teletoon

* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon
* Teletoon Isn't Cartoon Network

### YTV

* Bionix Bankruptcy (named after YTV's action/anime block Bionix)

## Live-action shows

### *Seinfeld*

* No Home Release for You (a play on "no soup for you")

## Videogames

### *Five Nights at Freddy's*

* King of Five Nights at Freddy's (co-named with Markiplier)

### *Super Mario World*

* Feather/Fire Flower combo (co-named with Markiplier)

## Let's Play

### Markiplier

* King of Five Nights at Freddy's (co-named with Five Nights at Freddy's)
* Feather/Fire Flower combo (co-named with Super Mario World)

## Western Animation

### *The Jetsons*

* "Jetson, You're Fired!" (You Are Fired played Just to Get a Laugh)

### *Pelswick*

* Top Story; We're Changing Format!
* Another Drum Solo, Man!

### *SpongeBob SquarePants*

* Glove World R.I.P.
* Nasty Patty
One Step Ahead

"Then we went to this amazing ice cream shop for 24 hours. I had Chocolate Triple Fudge, Vanilla Bean Swirl, and Rainbow Unicorn Sprinkles."— **Cellita Gonzalecio**, *Unlock the Big Question*

The main character is a go-getter who wakes up each morning with their beaming eyes and multicolored hair perked up, their eyes wide open, and their determination dialed up to 11. The character is a curious, sincere, resilient, and charming young child who is beloved by their neighbors because if there's a plan, they stick to it, and they always encourage others! They often burst out of their house with a fresh goal for the day while shouting their favorite catchphrase. This character is an energetic friend who likes to play hard, celebrate, and try their best.
Food Lion

Food Lion refers to both the grocery store of the same name, and its subsidiary Bottom Dollar.

Food Lion started out as Food Town (not to be confused with Food City).

Though it's US-exclusive, it's owned by European group Delhaize.

Oh yeah, and Food Lion is the biggest grocery store chain birthed in NC (Ingles comes to a close second).

Another store similar to Food Lion in choice and ownership is Bottom Dollar, the longest-running non-Food Lion Delhaize chain in the US.

Though in 2013, Bottom Dollar became Aldi in all but name; they began requiring a quarter to operate a shopping cart, something only Aldi alone currently does in the US (the practice was more common in Europe). Eventually, Aldi Süd bought Bottom Dollar off of Delhaize's hands; a possible subversion of Buying out the competition since Delhaize was planning on closing Bottom Dollar anyway.

## Tropes

* Cost-cutting solution: Using Aldi's practice of requiring quarters to operate shopping carts. This was only used for Bottom Dollar.
* I hate spending cash: Life really is better with the lion... at Bottom Dollar.
* Cost cuts: For Bottom Dollar, it involved converting the unsuccessful stores to Food Lion or completely shuttering said stores in 2013. Then they used Aldi's practice... and eventually, Delhaize just gave up on Bottom Dollar and sold it to Aldi Süd.
* Sued for similarity: It is believed that Food City sued the owners of Food Town, so they changed the name in 1983.
	+ Suspicious rumors: ...turns out Food Town had a difficult time expanding instead, so they adopted the Food Lion name.
* Insist on the X: Food Lion's commercials can and *will* appear at any time you're watching a commercial break, though it doesn't appear every single commercial break.
* Point of discontinuation: The entire My Essentials brand was converted into Food Lion branding at some point.
Aldi International

Aldi International refers to Aldi Süd outside the US, as well as Aldi Nord.

Süd is the sole operator of the US Aldi stores, though they share German Aldi store ownership with Nord.

Speaking of Nord, at least three years after the first US Aldi opened in 1976, Aldi Nord acquired Trader Joe's, which shall not get a separate page as this page will also cover it.

Tropes specific or most prominent to the American stores go on Aldi US' own page. Otherwise, please put tropes here.

## Aldi operates:

* Süd: Basically, any Aldi stores owned by Aldi Süd outside the United States.
* Nord: refers to all Aldi Nord-owned Aldi stores.
* Hofer: A branding of Aldi-owned stores, specifically by Aldi Süd.
* Aldi USA: Has its own page.
* Trader Joe's: The US division of Aldi Nord, and Nord's only acquisition.
* Bottom Dollar: A Süd acquisition, but formerly owned by Food Lion owner Delhaize. By the time Aldi bought Bottom Dollar, Delhaize already closed the remaining Bottom Dollar stores.

## Tropes

* Foreign Export First: Trader Joe's existed before Aldi's US division began. Subverted as Aldi Nord didn't acquire Trader Joe's until three years after the first US Aldi store opened.
* Legal Foreign Name: In Germany, Aldi Nord stores are called "Aldi Markt".
* Cost cuts: Enforced in Europe, but the US Aldi decided to require a quarter in order to use a shopping cart. And you must bag your own groceries in Süd stores, too.
* I hate spending cash: A reason why some of the US Aldi store brand products are also offered in international stores.
* 100 years and counting: The original Essen store in Germany is 103 years old and is still operating.
* That's a Capital Idea: See the US Aldi's own page for details.
* Point of discontinuation: Bottom Dollar's name was dropped entirely post-acquisition by Aldi, despite Delhaize closing the stores just a few months prior.
Having Fun/The Write-off

We could give a one-liner here, but it was written off. (Not really, but...)

* Basic definition: Money loss causes a show to be written-off on a company's taxes.
* Straight: The network writes-off broadcast rights and streaming rights to a show that lost them money.
* Exaggerated: The network writes-off *all* rights to said show.
	+ Junking Tapes
* Downplayed: A foreign network writes-off the rights, but this doesn't affect the show's release in the rest of the world.
	+ A clause is stipulated that allows the write-off to be null and void whenever the network wants to re-air it again.
* Justified: The show made a huge loss financially.
* Subverted: The show is about to be written-off... but isn't, because a new guy is sworn in who likes the show and won't write it off for anything.
* Double Subverted: Then the guy is sacked, and the show is written-off.
* Parodied: *Every fictional show* in a given work is written-off, even *newscasts*.
* Averted: Nothing is written-off.
* Exploited: Tax time's coming, and guess what the network thinks the biggest money loser is...
* Exploitation Denied: The biggest money loser turns out to be some of the staff that later get fired.
* Defied: "We're not writing the rights off because of a little money loss. We're not that kind of network."
* Discussed: "The network really hates this show."
* Deconstructed: After writing-off a show, the network ends up hated and even sued by the show's many fans demanding there be at least a home video release. The network refuses, and its parent company ends up sued into bankruptcy.
* Reconstructed: The company that bought the rights to the old company's catalog decides to at least give the show a home media release, making the fans happy with the new company while shaming the old company for writing it off.
Clarence's Big Chance

*Clarance's Big Chance* is a Flash game about the titular man who ends up getting himself a date. Now he must go through his daily routine in preparation for said date.

Can be played here.

Note that as most of the tropes in the game contain spoilers, please play the game before reading the tropes below.

## Tropes

* Post-Conclusion Gameplay: Averted in the original game. Its sequel, which features both Clarence and Sally from the Best Ending, acts as this while being its own game.
* Super Evil: One of the executives at Generic Company for some odd reason.
* Super Breakup: The Worst Ending.
* Innocent punishment: See Super Breakup above.
* The Most Awesome Videogame in the World: In terms of somewhat-realistic games.
* Financial Failure: While you can buy only one item per shop, everything is 250 euros *per item*.
* All Citrus Soda is Mountain Dew: Or "all cash is euros", possibly setting this somewhere in Europe.
* Only One Setting: Partially averted. You can go through the interdimensional hub, but it's otherwise set entirely in Clarence's hometown.
* You Are Fired: If Clarence's productivity is low enough by the time he sees the boss, he'll be fired.
* Gainax Ruined the Ending: The Worst Ending has Clarence surviving his fall into the water.
* I Renounce My Position: The Bad Ending (which is a little better than the Worst Ending) has Clarence give up finding a girl to date after the last one turned out to be a disaster.
* Downwards Funnel: As mentioned above, Clarence's date *can* (and given bad choices from earlier, *will*) end up a disaster.
Jack's Giant Music Show

A show is almost *completely* made up of stuff about *music* (and if the audience is lucky, music videos). That is this trope.

Only applies to music-related programming (Clone High rarely has music videos, and Beavis and Butt-Head isn't exactly fitting this trope).

Trope Namer is Noggin's Jack's Big Music Show.

## Examples

* Concerts. Need I say more?
* Jack's Big Music Show is the Trope Namer.
* Station X, with all its clips of music videos.
* Michael Jackson originally planned a giant music *tour*, titled "This Is It". And then he died from cardiac arrest.
* Progressive rock acts of the 1970s intentionally did this for their concerts.
* Pop-Up Video, especially if there's a marathon for it.
* Station Zero

TBA.
Servamp

What can be described here as *Magical Change* meets *Phantom Blood*, Servamp is a josei manga serialized in Monthly Comic Gene.

Mahiru Shirota is your ordinary high school student who finds a black cat and names him "Kuro". The next day, he finds that said cat is a vampire, triggering the events that made Mahiru Kuro/Sleepy Ash's Eve.

An anime aired in 2016 and is licensed by Funimation in North America.

## Tropes

* Size Changing: Kuro gains a lion form by the end of the anime version. Said form is much larger to boot.
* This gave us inspiration: Averted, but this can be described as *Magical Change* meets *Phantom Blood*.
* Obscurity, much?: Outside Japan and North America. The movie, even more so outside Japan.
* The Colbert Effect: Because of the "shonen manga for female readers" aspect, this was the first series from Monthly Comic Gene to become popular enough not just for an anime but also a *movie*.
* That's a Capital Idea: Averted. Mahiru never intended to form a contract with Kuro/Sleepy Ash.
* You Messed Up, Now You're the Magical Girl: Or in this case, "You Messed Up, Now You've Got a Contract with a Servamp".
* I Have Failed to Keep a Secret: The protagonist's main enemies already knew about Servamps by the time he became Kuro's Eve. Some of them have Servamps themselves.
* Dubless Series: So far, the only anime based off a Monthly Comic Gene manga (that was not adapted from videogames or light novels, anyways) to avert this. Though the movie still plays this straight.
Comedically Masculine

He's a tough masculine fighter, he never cries, never winces at a hit, talks in a manly baritone, fights and confronts people, beats up bad guys, he's very strong, he's competent, capable, aggressive, stubborn, blunt. And he's violent too. But, wait... what?! Why is he acting silly, goofy, denser, wackier, and cartoonish? This makes no sense.

A manly-man, a tomboy, or a very masculine character who adopts some comedic and silly, goofy, yet wacky traits.
Obscurity, much?/World History and Science

Because there is more material from history (and science) than can be covered in an entire class, here are the facts that you *didn't* learn about in world history or science classes.

US history has its own page.

## World History examples

* Some countries don't have their independence recognized by the United Nations. Most of these are rarely if ever talked about, but others... let's just say that's up for debate and leave it at that.
* Outside of the German mark, which is now known for becoming extremely worthless post-World War I, all defunct currencies outside their countries of origin are this.
* Subversion: Catherine the Great, a famous Russian tsar, actually helped make Poland no longer exist. (Though Poland would eventually be re-established later on.) While it isn't in the history books, it *was* talked about in *Extra Credits*.
* The video *history of the entire world, i guess* omits some countries people know about, so in an inversion, hilarious comments on it ensued.

## Science-related examples

* Absolute zero is the coldest temperature possible (it hasn't been achieved yet, but a few are working on achieving it). However, did you know there were *negative* temperatures? If you answered yes, you were probably thinking about the Fahrenheit and/or Celsius systems. Put simply, *negative* temperatures (measured in Kelvin) are some of the hottest possible temperatures in the universe. And yet they don't really teach you that in most science classes, if they mention it at all.
* This is the reason why science was "invented" during the Renaissance. Before then, people thought the earth was flat, that the universe was infinite, etc. Then Galileo Galilei and Sir Issac Newton proved some of these beliefs wrong.
* An inversion: a substance called teflon, which itself was made from some gas that was left to cool overnight, is now in use as a non-stick substance used to make non-stick pans, among other uses.
Merciless/Tooltip

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Uncommon

Passive

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4%  **Crit Chance**
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**Unique Passive:** +12%   **Crit Chance** against **Bleeding** target(s).
Crayon Shin-chan

Japan's *longest* running Slice of Life anime series based off a manga (and one of the longest-running anime series in general).

The manga/anime is about Shin, a boy who lives with his family. He also has a dog.

The anime has had *three* English dubs thus far.

## Tropes

* Obscurity, much?: Not even close. It's *widely popular* in Japan. The only things that are obscure about this show are the Vitello and Phuuz dubs (in America).
* Slice of Life: One of Japan's longest-running anime series with this genre.
* True ending: "Cancel a Shin", the final episode of the Funimation dub.
* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon: Unlike other popular anime series (which have aired on YTV and its overnight block Bionix), the Funimation dub aired on what is now MTV2 in Canada.
* Hours of Fun: 970+ episodes equals this in Japan. And that episode count is still growing. It would take over 40 days to show a marathon of *every single Crayon Shin-chan episode made between 1992 and July 2018*. Factor in the movies and the spin-off, and it'd be more than 50.
	+ Lessened with the English dubs, but the Funimation dub in particular would still take 3 days to watch in full.
* Everybody needs to be healthy: "Are we vegans now, cause I don't think that'll play with our target demographic."
* Animal World: Level 1 in the final episode of the Funimation dub: an exact kappa replica of Shin's family live in a kappa head under the sea. Otherwise subverted, considering Shin's family is human.
* Full of Lies: "Sundays this fall on TV." Especially since Parappa was taken back to his lake by Mitzi.
* President of Everything: "I'm Joel Sandmann, president of television- yes, all television."
* Super Evil: Joel Sandmann. He once tried to get a kappa on TV by force.
* To Riches and Back: Not exactly, but Parappa got a taste of Shin's life (which is almost the same as his own, except Shin's family is implied to be a little richer towards the end of the Funimation dub) and then went back to his own life.
* That's a Capital Idea: Shin thinks that Parappa was going to make his show renewed. It didn't work, seeing how it was the last episode of the Funimation dub anyway.
* Moving Overseas: "The Noharas are moving to Paris, Texas!" However, they don't move *within* the episode.
* One-off character: Parappa is not only the last character to be introduced on the Funimation dub (aside from Joel Sandmann), but he's a one-off character in the anime as a whole.
* Hidden Riches: Well, they're technically not filthy rich per se, but the Hatogayas, despite "leeching" off of the Noharas, had money to blow on cell service (and videogames). Hiro's response? "Get your cheap asses out of my house!"
* Sacrifice of a Hero: Averted, but the Funimation dub gives us the line "Well, every finale has to kill off a beloved character".
* Gainax Ruined the Ending: Some of the Crayon Shin-chan episodes (especially the pre-Funimation dubs) tend to do this.
	+ For the Funimation dub, "Cancel a Shin", which (along with "The Bitzi Saga: Alternate Ending") happened to be the final episode legally released in America.
* Do not confuse: Parappa from "Cancel a Shin" is *not* a rapper. Or a dog.

TBA.
Only Speaks In Subtitles

Just because they're silent doesn't mean they are NOT able to talk. Semi-Silent characters are NOT completely silent. The semi-silent character still communicates with people. When the character uses this trope, they are unable to talk normally. Instead, they have to use a Thought Speech Bubble or use a SMG4-style caption talk.

The comic book counterpart for this trope is Thought Speech Bubble.

## Examples

* Almost all of the characters in the SMG4 series uses this trope a lot. Mario and Luigi are the famous ones. SMG4, Meggy, Tari, and other original characters can talk normally.
* Garfield always uses this trope in *Garfield and Friends* and the movie specials.
Point of discontinuation/Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola products that were at the point of discontinuation. Keep in mind that Sprite has its own page.

## Examples

### The United States

* New Coke. It was for the Pepsi Challenge only, but somehow it replaced "Old Coke". Ever since Classic Coke was re-introduced, though, it fell under this trope (as Coke II) and eventually discontinued.
* Fanta in Germany originated due to trade embargo in Nazi Germany. It was made using only ingredients available in Germany at the time. It was discontinued as soon as Coke retook the German branch, but they re-introduced it in 1955.
	+ The US formulation was once at this point, but eventually it got re-introduced.
	+ The Cherry flavor zig-zags this trope.
* Coca-Cola's citrus sodas that weren't Sprite, Fanta or Mello Yello. Coke discontinued all of those that weren't the aforementioned sodas. Vault and Surge were hit hard by this.
	+ Surge recently made a comeback.
* Ramblin' Root Beer became this once Coca-Cola bought Barq's.
* Zig-zagged in some areas; Coke used to have a deal with Dr. Pepper/7-UP, Inc. Then came 2003, where the deals expired. The only DPSG products Coke carries now depends from region to region (for instance, in one region, Coke carries Sun Drop, while in another, Coke either carries another DPSG product, or no non-Coke product at all).
	+ Region-specific, Coke used to carry Caffeine-free Sun Drop the minute it came out. It wasn't a hit and was discontinued (but only in that region; Caffeine-free Sun Drop retains popularity in other regions, and has returned to some store in the specific region where Coke stopped distributing it).
* Between 2005 and 2008, Coke actually threw away the word "Diet" from most of its drinks, settling on the *Zero* brand that started with Diet Sprite Zero in 2004.
	+ In fact, as of 2016, the *only* diet soft drinks owned by Coke in the US not under the "Zero" branding are: Diet Coke (though that's only because Diet Coke has a different taste than Coke Zero), Diet Barq's, and Diet Seagram's.
Bakugan

In the years since Popples fell into obscurity, a male-oriented version of the franchise (without the plushies)- *Bakugan*- was released in Japan and got pretty popular outside its country of origin.

An anime, called *Bakugan Battle Brawlers*, was released in Japan between 2007 and 2011 (with an additional season only airing outside Japan from 2011 to 2012), and was dubbed by Nelvana, the same company that dubbed the Beyblade anime prior to Beyblade: Burst.

The anime focuses on Dan Kuso, whose life was changed when special cards with special powers fell out of the sky. He and his friend invent a game called *Bakugan* out of these cards. His friends later form the titular *Bakugan Battle Brawlers* and now must fight for the fate of Vestroia.

A spin-off series, *Baku Tech! Bakugan*, was never released outside Japan. It also has a sister series in the form of Zoobles.

The first Bakugan series since the original continuity to see release outside Japan, *Bakugan Battle Planet*, has been ordered by Spin Master and Cartoon Network for a December 2018 release.

Not to be confused with *Bakuman*.

## Tropes

* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon: Once averted between the US and Canada. However, it's worth noting that *Bakugan Battle Brawlers* was one of the few anime series aired on Teletoon prior to 2014, since YTV at the time had a good chunk of anime licenses (especially kids' anime).
	+ Played straight with reruns of *Battle Planet* between Canada and the US. However, it's more due to Corus having bought out Teletoon in full during the long gap between Bakugan series, allowing YTV to air it.
	+ Why Don't We Have That example: The final season of the original Bakugan never aired in Japan, with *BakuTech!* getting the opposite treatment. *Battle Planet* eventually had the main anime returning to Japan, but future seasons of it were streaming-only over there.
	+ As of April 2021, it's been confirmed that *Geogan Rising* will play this straight between the US and Canada.
* This gave us inspiration: If it wasn't for the cards, this would've been Popples for boys.
	+ Also, the plot concerning special cards has been done before.
	+ Aside from the similarities to Popples and Cardcaptor Sakura, there's also similarities to Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Pokémon, and to a lesser extent, Beyblade.
* Obscurity, much?: Not as much as Chloe or Station X, but the anime was fairly obscure in its country of origin.
	+ So much so that Canada and the US (via Teletoon and Cartoon Network, respectively) premiered *Battle Planet* before Japan.
* Super Evil: Has at least one of these every season.

TBA.
Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer

After making Korgoth of Barbaria for Adult Swim, Aaron Springer decided that it was time to make something for kids.

Thus we have *Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer*, a Disney XD series about the titular character who has two lab partners. All three spend their summer in Subterranea-Tania.

The series is Aaron Springer's first Disney XD work, which premiered on June 3rd, 2017. After 13 episodes, the series abruptly ended.

## Tropes

* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon: In some countries, the show airs on the main Disney Channel, not XD. In a few cases, this could be due to either Disney XD not yet existing in those areas, or Disney XD shutting down in certain countries.
	+ Several websites put the first 10 episodes up before XD aired them.
* Wacky Science: The Disney Series
* Downwards Funnel: A "Cheeserator" led them to Subterranea-Tania in the first place.
	+ At the end of "Beastie Billy", all three protagonists turned into beasts, with Billy being the most affected.
* Obscurity, much?: Not as much as, say, Chloe or Station X, but Disney didn't bother to promote it until May 2017. That and the fact that they picked up some popular anime series (mainly Pokémon) doesn't help the show's case.
* This gave us inspiration: Marsha's hair may or may not have been inspired by other females with purple hair, including Misha and Reggie Rocket.

TBA.
Only One Setting/Cartoon Network

*Note*: This list is only for programming produced by Cartoon Network US and/or Adult Swim.

* Dexter's Laboratory, most of the time. Most of the episodes take place entirely in Dexter's house, but there are some that take place at his school, or somewhere else in his hometown. Needless to say, with the exception of "Big Bots", any episode with Koosalagoopagoop in it, or any episode requiring space travel, Dexter's Laboratory uses Dexter's hometown as the show's only true setting.
	+ The Justice Friends take place almost entirely in the city the eponymous Friends reside in. The one exception was just a dream by Puppet Pal Mitch.
	+ Dial "M" for Monkey subverted this.
* The Problem Solverz, with the exception of its pilots, takes place entirely in Farboro.
* The Powerpuff Girls (1998) takes place mostly in Townsville. However, it isn't 100% played straight, as the girls have been to places other than Townsville.
	+ This is definitely subverted for the anime adaptation Powerpuff Girls Z.
* Steven Universe's primary setting is Beach City, though there are times where Steven goes outside Beach City.
* Codename: Kids Next Door's first season took place almost entirely in Sector V's hometown. The second season and onward, not so much.
* Regular Show: The first seven seasons (unless the plot demands a different setting) take place in the town the park is located at. The eighth (and final) season takes place almost entirely in space (the ending sequence has the park return to Earth). Of course, the park is still there, but it's in a spaceship.
* Many adult cartoons produced by Adult Swim write in a specific setting and keep that setting. The majority of Space Ghost: Coast to Coast episodes play this straight, for example.
	+ Of course, not all adult cartoons are like this. For example, Perfect Hair Forever had consistently-changing settings over its nine episodes.
* *Gemusetto Machu Picchu* takes place entirely in South America (with the exception of the last 10-20 minutes of the final episode). Otherwise averted, since it takes the *Perfect Hair Forever* approach of changing scenery.
Hard folk rock

A fusion between hard rock and folk rock. First codified by The Kinks when they recorded "Lola", circa 1970.

Trope Codifier is The Kinks, of course!

## Examples

* The Kinks:
	+ Lola (Trope Codifier)
	+ Apeman (Studio version only; live versions from The 80s onward are more pop-influenced)
	+ Powerman
* The Beatles:
	+ Ticket to Ride (possible Trope Maker, although it's more power pop than it is hard rock)
* Led Zeppelin:
	+ Stairway to Heaven
	+ Pretty much every folk rock song they record
* The Byrds
	+ Their cover of "Mr. Tambourine Man"
	+ Turn! Turn! Turn! is somewhat like this
* Rod Stewart
	+ Maggie May (although it's more folk-influenced than hard rock)
	+ Every Picture Tells A Story
	+ You Wear It Well
* The Who
	+ Pinball Wizard (although it's more art music-influenced than folk-influenced)
	+ Bargain (again, more art rock-influenced than folk-influenced)
* Boston
	+ Pretty much every single song from their debut album
	+ Amanda, despite it being classified under soft rock
* Dokken
	+ Into the Fire is thought to be this, but the song is more heavy metal-influenced
* Heart
	+ Crazy on You
My Hero Academia

Also known as the Japanese take on superheroes, primarily those from Marvel, My Hero Academia is about a child who is always bullied for being weak... fast forward over a decade later, and that child (Izuku) is in middle school, where he's *still* criticized for being one of the 20% born without a Quirk. When he meets his idol, All Might, and eventually discovers his Quirk (well, technically, he inherits All Might's Quirk), he gets into U.A. High School without a sweat, and things change...

The manga was licensed by One-Punch Man licensor Viz Media, and the anime is licensed in English by Funimation.

## Tropes

* Don't Need a Quirk to Be a Hero: Ironically, this show both names this trope and averts it at the same time. Deku actually couldn't be a hero without a quirk.
* Size Changing: There's at least *one* superheroine who can turn into a giantess. And that's just in Deku's city of residence.
* Superheroes Have Limits: All Might may be the world's greatest hero, but Saitama could still defeat him with one punch. Likewise, All Might was recommended that he only defeat criminals for three hours a day maximum... until one final fight with All for One; after that, he was forced to retire.
* Innocent punishment: Those without Quirks who try to save people get chewed out by the heroes and get no recognition for their actions. If the heroes thought it was even *villainy*, said person might even be thrown in jail.
	+ Vigilantism is illegal in *My Hero Academia*. They may have quirks but they're still saving people without being a Pro Hero. There's a reason why a spin-off manga centered around them exists.
	+ Despite the fight between Bakugo and Izuku only occurring as Bakugo regretted All Might's retirement (with All Might even regretting telling Bakugo about it), Izuku and Bakugo were still grounded from attending classes by Aizawa. "Four days for Katsuki! Three days for Midoriya!"
* You Are Fired: Said to Izuku when he's kicked out of the dance team.
* Confined to Your Room: A rare example in anime, given that Japanese punishments are usually different from Western ones (save quite a few): After a nasty fight, Izuku and Bakugo are sentenced to a couple of days' house arrest, against All Might's wishes. Izuku's is lifted a day before Bakugo's.

TBA.
Japanese Academy

Basically, it's what the Japanese call a high school.

Japanese students come in these academies and study for an unspecified amount of time.

## Examples

* Mitakihara Middle School in Puella Magi Madoka Magica is the closest thing to one of these in the anime.
* Hope's Peak is officially called an academy, but the English dub of the Danganronpa anime refers it to as Hope's Peak High School.
* Akademi High School/Akademi Academy in Yandere Simulator.
* Ouran High School in Ouran High School Host Club.
* The Death Weapon Meister Academy, or the DWMA for short, is the closest thing to one of these in Soul Eater and its spin-off.
* Seiyo Academy in the Shugo Chara! series.
* The Academy in Naruto, Shippuden, and Boruto.
* The main characters of Lucky Star are in one of these.
* It is very likely that the Powerpuff Girls Z attend an academy.
* A stricter-than-strict version is Honnoji Academy in Kill la Kill; its message is basically "do anything wrong, and you get expelled/banned from Honnoji Academy/executed for your crimes".
* My Hero Academia has one for superheroes: U.A. High School.
* As of Pokémon Sun & Moon, Ash Ketchum attends a trainer's school.

TBA.
Stuck in a Stereotype

Characters that MUST fit into a stereotype, no matter what.

## Examples

### Web Original

* The female characters of the SuperMarioLogan series ALWAYS follows the Indefinites Barrier

### Western Animation

* The Simpsons quite fits this trope so much. The shows has no anthropomorpic animals in it and it only appeared in the Shows Within The Show.
* Zig-Zagged in Warner Bros.'s Looney Tunes animated shorts. Some of the female characters are stereotypical in these cartoons, while others are not.
* Disney shorts: In the early shorts, Minnie Mouse, Ortensia the Cat, and other female characters are damsel-in-distresses.
Sierra Mist

Now you're asking yourself, "Why does Sierra Mist get its own page first? By all means, Mist Twst should've gotten said page first."

Well, it's because Sierra Mist is older than Mist Twst.

First introduced in 1999, Sierra Mist was limited distribution-wise at the time. Many people blame 7-UP, Slice could also easily be blamed on, but one factor remains:

Distribution contracts.

That's right; if you don't know already, PepsiCo used to have distribution agreements with Dr. Pepper/7-UP, Inc., up until 2003.

When said contracts expired, Sierra Mist went all over the United States.

And guess what? Unlike Sprite or 7-UP, which are available outside of the US, Sierra Mist is confined to North America, specifically the United States. And with PepsiCo distributing 7-UP outside the United States, it's most likely it'll stay that way, even with the "Mist Twst" rebrand.

And as it goes, every good thing has a beginning and end (for example, YTV shut down its overnight block Bionix in 2010).

Several factors meant Sierra Mist's demise in-name: One was its competitor Sprite, which actually turned consumers away from Sierra Mist, causing Sierra Mist's volume to go down *big time*.

The second was PepsiCo actually taking the NBA deal from Coca-Cola. That's right; they signed a deal with the National Basketball Association before Coke got a chance to renew theirs. Either that or Coke doesn't want to renew the contract. Either way, this might mean that the days of Sprite's 6 Mix/LeBron's Mix are over.

Sierra Mist was rebranded as Mist Twst in March 2016. Any history of the drink during that time and tropes specific to the rebranded drink should go on the Mist Twst page, not here. As of 2018, the drink was brought back due to high demand.

## Tropes Sierra Mist used

* Everybody needs to be healthy: Why "Sierra Mist Natural" even showed up in the first place.
* Renamed import: There's a theory that Sierra Mist tried to mimic the approach to French Sprite by adding the sweetener Stevia, but it's otherwise subverted since Sierra Mist didn't remove any sugar from the drink at all. The relaunch omitted Stevia altogether.
* Rule of Caffeine-free: People are getting aware of the effects of caffeine nowadays, so PepsiCo didn't add any caffeine to the drink, even when people still preferred caffeinated drinks to caffeine-free ones.
* Point of discontinuation: Several examples as listed on Pepsi's own page, but the entire drink was renamed in March 2016. And then inverted two years later.
* Irrational combination: The 2014 formulation used sugar and stevia. It may be irrational, but not weird as French Sprite is already using sugar and stevia.
* Appreciation by the community: The page image for Point of discontinuation/Pepsi is, in fact, a can of Sierra Mist.
Adventure Time

Adventure Time is a cartoon on Cartoon Network. Specifically, a cartoon originally pitched to Nickelodeon, before Nick rejected it. This wasn't the first time that Nick rejected a pilot that another channel would later pick up, though; Disney Channel picked up The Proud Family years before.

Oddly enough, its pilot never aired outside the U.S. or the Philippines, making a strange case of Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon (though the series proper later *did* air on Teletoon before moving to Cartoon Network Canada).

The series premiered as a short on Nicktoons in 2008; the series proper premiered on Cartoon Network in 2010.

And oddly enough, it instantly made way for CN's comeback, along with shows like Regular Show, Uncle Grandpa, and the like.

It was recently renewed for a ninth season, making it the only CN original to be renewed for more than eight seasons, as Regular Show ended with a bang in 2017... before Adventure Time itself ended after its tenth season (the tenth season happened due to a mix-up among Cartoon Network executives), due to the decision of creator Pendleton Ward choosing to rework the ninth season to give it a Satisfactory Conclusion after CN cancelled it.

Rebecca Sugar, who worked on this show, later went on to create Steven Universe, also for Cartoon Network.

## Tropes

* Innocent punishment: Lumpy Space Princess *bit* Jake by accident, and guess what happened?
	+ Not to mention that resurrection serum Bonnie Bubblegum made in the first CN-aired episode. She forgot to add a 4 to her formula, so whoever got hit with the first batch of the serum came back as zombies.
* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon: A rather bizarre case. See, Adventure Time was, for a while, the *only* CN-produced series still airing on CITV in the UK (right up until they started showing The Powerpuff Girls (2016)).
	+ YTV never aired the original pilot, as a direct consequence of YTV not airing Random! Cartoons at all.
	+ Nickelodeon Germany airs seasons three and onward... while all Nick U.S. has is the original pilot!
* Pop culture: It's one of the highest-rated CN shows out there right now, so...
* KCA Nominee: It's the first CN original to be nominated for the KCAs in a while.
* Satisfactory Conclusion: Pendleton Ward actually decided to make one due to CN cancelling the show since he didn't want *Adventure Time* to end with No Ending at All and get swallowed up by Teen Titans Go! in the process. However, the series got its own ending and got a marathon when its finale aired, since Teen Titans Go was itself failing by the time *Adventure Time* finally ended.
* You Are Fired: In "Business Time", Finn told the businessmen this: "I am your boss! And you guys are all *fired!*"
	+ When Princess Bubblegum returns to her true age in "Too Young", she fires the Earl of Lemongrab. This example is ironic given she created him in the first place.

TBA.
Detentionaire

Detentionaire is a Teletoon series that focuses on Lee's exploits in detention.

How does the story begin, you ask? Well, Lee got detention for a year. For a massive prank he didn't even do.

He tries to clear his name, and the rest makes up this Teletoon series.

Picked up by Cartoon Network (Teletoon's American counterpart) in the United States, and the show was seen through Cartoon Network Video and the Watch Cartoon Network app.

Do not confuse with Detention.

## Tropes

* Innocent punishment: The Animated Series
	+ The whole reason why the show exists is because of Lee being framed for something he didn't do.
* Slice of Life: ...part of the time.
* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon: Subverted in the US, where it ended up on Cartoon Network Video and the Watch Cartoon Network app.
	+ Played straight in Australia, where it aired on ABC Me (though that's common with Teletoon shows airing in Australia), and even its native Canada, where it aired on YTV.