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Page Images

Page Images are the images used for illustration. Only one page image per page is used in these cases.

Keep in mind that this is *not* a trope. Rather, it's to document the tropes with a page image.

## Examples

Keep in mind that for examples, only trope pages will be counted (Just to Get a Laugh and its subpages excluded). Works such as *The Powerpuff Girls*, the network it aired on, etc. would not be counted on this page.

* Innocent punishment: The anime subpage has a page image of Naegi's execution in *Danganronpa*.
* No Home Release for You's page image is of cover art for one of the *Get Pokémon* DVD releases to illustrate how incomplete the Japanese releases of the anime are.
* The Colbert Effect's page image is of former Toonami host TOM 3.5.
* Downwards Funnel's page image is of Rikka being surrounded by X Eggs from *Shugo Chara!*.
* Cute Mascot's page image is of Doremi/Dorie and Dodo from *Ojamajo Doremi*.
* Don't Need a Quirk to Be a Hero's page image is of Saitama from *One-Punch Man*.
* Obscurity, much?'s page image is, fittingly, of a famous person holding a videogame (from before it even comes out) in *Angelo Rules*. (That said, if the episode the page image comes from was documented today, it wouldn't have inspired the page image due to rules for the trope that were implemented in 2023; the image and example were only kept due to the Grandfather Clause.)
	+ Cartoon Network's subpage has a page image of young Ashi from *Samurai Jack*.
* Samurai Jack Timeskip's page image is of the Trope Namer's titular character's appearance from season 5.
* From Rags to Bankruptcy's page image is of a former Toys R Us storefront.
* This gave us inspiration's page image is of Pepper Ann Pearson, since the color scheme of her clothes may have inspired another Disney show.
* Sacrifice of a Hero's page image is of Pops' grave from *Regular Show*.
* Wrecking Lives' page image is of a demolition crew from *The Fairly OddParents* (said page image is also a holdover from when the trope was called "Wrecking crews").
* What's with Andy's Unanswered Questions?'s page image is of the Trope Namer's title character.
* Jack's Giant Music Show's page image is of The Clash's bassist destroying his bass.
* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon's page image is of Coop, with the Disney XD logo in the bottom left to indicate that it's an example of the trope.
	+ YTV's subpage has a page image of Ian.
* Canadian Content Required's page image is, fittingly, of Voltar changing channels.
* Super Evil's page image is of the semi Trope Namer.
* Evil Videogame's page image is of the Nintega from *Super Smosh*.
* Event Countdown's page image is of the English Teletoon's countdown to its launch.
* Point of discontinuation: All three soft drink subpages have a can of soft drink, usually a discontinued variant, as the page image. As far as page images go, Coke's subpage has a can of New Coke, Sprite's has a can of Sprite Ice, and Pepsi's has a can of Sierra Mist (pre-Mist Twst).
* Glove World R.I.P.'s subpage is of Glove Universe from *SpongeBob SquarePants* (while technically not the Trope Namer, Glove Universe is from the same show providing the Trope Namer).
Don't Need a Quirk to Be a Hero

Usually, superheroes have some somewhat-strange ability in order to be a real superhero. There are exceptions, though.

When a superhero is both without any strange ability, they are still able to be superheroes, but they might need to do something ordinary taken up a notch.

Trope Namer is My Hero Academia.

## Examples

* My Hero Academia, despite being the Trope Namer, averts this: every hero in the manga must have a quirk.
* One-Punch Man, obviously. All Saitama needed to develop his method of taking criminals out with one punch was three years of hard training.
* Batman, and to a lesser extent, Robin.
* Maka Albarn and her partner, Soul Eater Evans (though he can turn into a weapon). The only "supernatural" thing Maka is doing is collecting souls (to be specific, 99 demon souls and one witch soul).
* The military of Attack on Titan definitely do not need Quirks to kill Titans. Eren is the most effective, as he kills Titans when he's- ironically enough- a Titan himself.
* Yandere Simulator: Ayano (Yandere-chan) doesn't need a Quirk to commit *mass murder* around Akademi Academy. She *can* still be arrested if she still has evidence on her.
* Scribblenauts: All Maxwell needs is his magic notebook.
* The Kinks make an aversion in a song for their album "Low Budget".
* Surprisingly not the case for OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes. While anyone within the world of *OK K.O.!* can be a hero (well, *almost* everyone), in order to officially become one, they must have a POW Card.
* A magical girl variant: anyone can partner up with a Jewelpet in *Twinkle*, but they must be compatible with said Jewelpet.
	+ Because the anime franchise runs on alternate universes (where the only consistencies are the Jewelpets themselves, and even then their anime art style changes every season), these rules can change every season.
* Cardcaptor Sakura mixes this and You Messed Up, Now You're the Magical Girl together.
Galaxy Angel

*Galaxy Angel* is a Japanese anime series loosely based on the game of the same name that relies on gags.

The main characters are Milfeulle Sakuraba, Ranpha Franboise, Mint Blancmanche, Forte Stollen, Vanilla H, Chitose Karasuma, the bishonen chief/commander Volcott O'Huey, and Normad.

As with all gag series, hilarity ensues.

The closest magical girl equivalents are *Renkin 3-kyuu Magical? Pokaan* and post-Twinkle *Jewelpet*.

## Tropes

* Financial Failure: The Angel Brigade often waste millions of GCs "wrecking things and ruining stuff" (mostly their own base), eating whatever they think is yummy ("...these food costs seem way overbudget"), and of course, testing out lost technology so often that it puts their lives in peril.
* All Citrus Soda is Mountain Dew: Or all cash is GCs.
* Padding Filler Z: Arguably the entire show, due to it being a gag series.
* Dubless Series: The English dub just abruptly *stops* at episode 8 of *X*. No one knows why, but it's possible Bandai Entertainment wanted more action-heavy titles, and *Galaxy Angel* was anything but a serious action series.
	+ Episodes 9-26 of *X* *did* come out in North America... albeit sub-only.
* Size Changing: Often the work of lost technology, but Mint once tried to make Normad look giant without the use of lost technology.
* Obscurity, much?: *Galaxy Angel Rune*, in contrast with the first series. Neither series is in Pop culture, but the first Angel Brigade is arguably more well-known than the next to get an anime deal...
* This gave us inspiration: *Renkin 3-kyuu Magical? Pokaan* followed a few years after this wrapped. And as of 2011, *Jewelpet* became *Galaxy Angel* for girls, allowing itself to recover from a blow dealt by *Puella Magi Madoka Magica* (this didn't do much in the Anglosphere anyways) until Sanrio pulled the plug in 2016.
* Just to Get a Laugh: The entire anime drives on this.
* Blame It on Development: Had the game come out before the anime, the anime would've been more serious.
Buy out the competition

If you want to Beat the competition, but not push it out or force it into bankruptcy, what do you do? You offer to *buy* it out, that's what you do!

The most common way to enforce this trope is by mergers, either horizontal or vertical.

Can lead to Antitrust Concern if the company buying it out is already large to begin with. If one company buys out too much stuff, that's a company-wide financial disaster waiting to happen.

## Examples

* *Disney itself*. They've bought out ABC, Pixar, Lucasfilm, Marvel Comics, *Marvel in general*, and Fox Family, Fox Family Worldwide, Saban Entertainment (but not the Fox Kids branding; as such, Fox was free to use the branding in Finland), and eventually the rest of Fox's library (as well as whatever remnants of Fox Kids were kept by Fox upon Fox Family Worldwide's sale to Disney), though they had to sell some sports networks to get the last deal approved.
* *Warner Bros.* as well, buying out Turner Broadcasting (owners of TBS, Cartoon Network, and TruTV, to name a few), DC Comics, and the pre-1986 MGM library as a result of the Turner buyout.
* Viacom bought out CBS in the late 90's, leading to the Nickelodeon on CBS block that lasted until almost a year after CBS split from Viacom the first time around.
	+ The buyout of CBS by Viacom resulted in a network casualty: TNN (now the Paramount Network).
* In a subversion, The Coca-Cola Company was offered to buy out Pepsi in a few separate occasions, and Coca-Cola refused.
* Another subversion was part of the reason for Blockbuster's downfall: Blockbuster refused to buy Netflix, because Blockbuster and Netflix chose to remain competitors in their area of business: home video. Netflix is now a streaming giant and Blockbuster is now gone entirely except for one US store in Oregon. You know how bad the downfall of Blockbuster was when it was parodied in South Park.
* As stated before, if one company buys out too many other companies, it creates a company-wide financial disaster waiting to happen. This is what happened to DHX Media, as they haven't bought *anything* since May 2017. After buying out Iconix's entertainment division, DHX Media *really* sank into debt (but not enough to file bankruptcy), so they decided to sell a 39% stake of Peanuts Worldwide (which owns the Peanuts comic strip characters) to Sony Music Entertainment Japan. And then withdrew the sale not too long after, rebranding to *WildBrain*.

TBA.
Only One Setting/Disney

*Note*: Fox examples will be included in this subpage as Disney bought up Fox in 2019.

* The Simpsons takes place prominently in the city of Springfield. Though it wasn't stated *which* city of Springfield, though...
	+ An example of an aversion in The Simpsons is in the crossover with *Family Guy*.
* Phineas and Ferb's primary setting is Danville, though there are other locations which are seen throughout the show.
* Gravity Falls takes place entirely in the eponymous town.
* PB&J Otter takes place entirely in Lake Hoohaw.
* Milo Murphy's Law takes place entirely in the town that Milo Murphy moved into in the first episode.
* Fish Hooks takes place entirely at the pet store (specifically, most of the show was set inside the fish tanks).
* The Buzz on Maggie takes place in a dump.
* *Star vs. the Forces of Evil* actually averts this, a rarity for an animated Disney TV series that isn't *Mickey Mouse*-related or *Phineas and Ferb*. That said, most of the action still takes place between Earth and Mewni, though.
* *Futurama* averts this by default, since it's a show about the crew visiting the past at times. The main setting's still New New York City, though.
* Cutaway gags and the *Simpsons* crossover excluded, most of *Family Guy* takes place entirely in Quahog, or at least in Rhode Island.
Himouto! Umaru-chan

A comedy manga that ran in Weekly Young Jump (the seinen Weekly Shonen Jump) from 2013 to 2017.

The manga starts off with Umaru going home from school... but when she gets home, she suddenly goes otaku mode and starts pestering her brother about anything and everything.

Received two anime seasons and a series of shorts throughout 2015 and 2017.

## Tropes

* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon: The first season was streamed on Hidive (and to a lesser extent, Crunchyroll). Since Sentai Filmworks licensed both seasons, it would obviously be streamed on Hidive for season 2, right? Wrong- until Amazon closed Anime Strike, Amazon had exclusive streaming rights for season 2. As of 2019, ultimately subverted as both seasons are now on Hidive.
	+ Averted with TV broadcasts- not only do Japanese over-the-air networks *not* count for this trope (the original Japanese broadcaster for Umaru's anime was the over-the-air Asahi Broadcasting Corporation- the same one which broadcasts Pretty Cure in Japan), but the anime hasn't been aired on linear TV in America.
	+ Played completely straight with the manga version in terms of licensing, despite Viz Media being a likely candidate for the manga. The anime in terms of licensing as well, though that can be forgiven due to the way anime licensing works.
		- Simon & Schuster, who distributes Viz manga, was to be sold to Penguin Random House, who took over Seven Seas' distribution in 2021. Then a federal judge blocked the deal a year later (more on that here), making sure the manga would continue to play this straight.
	+ Also played completely straight in the UK regarding the second season's license. In North America and Australia, Sentai and Madman Entertainment respectively came back to the anime to license season two, but the UK licensor for season two was completely different from the first season's.
* Obscurity, much?: Averted to some degree- Sentai licensed both seasons, but only dubbed the first season and *Umaru-chanS* shorts in English as of May 2019.
* Size Changing: The entire concept of the manga; when Umaru gets home she "goes chibi" and shows off her otaku nature in the process. The only time this does not happen and she still shows she's an otaku? When she's in her UMR persona.
	+ Also happens with the other girls in *Umaru-chanS*.
* Shoujo Jump: It's a *seinen* manga, which in Japan usually means moe designs. Umaru is no exception to this.
* Padding Filler Z: While only two minutes per episode, the *Umaru-chanS* shorts can be counted as this while being treated as their own thing. The main anime averts this completely.
* Innocent punishment: Umaru's brother goes to work despite Umaru being sick in one chapter. Though this is more of him not wanting to get fired because his sister was sick.
	+ Umaru also does this to the arcade owners under her UMR persona. The owners, in turn, try to set the difficulty to the highest possible when she comes to the arcade.
* The Kanade Effect: Season two exists to avert this.
Anime Adaptation

If the American cartoon is very popular in Japan, the Japanese animation studio will make the anime version of the cartoon. This is the one of the examples of the Foreign Remake.

## Examples

### Films - Live-Action

* Highlander: It got a anime movie called Highlander: The Search for Vengaence
* Ultraviolet: Ultraviolet: Code 044

### Live-Action TV

* Supernatural: There is Supernatural: The Animation

### Western Animation

* The Powerpuff Girls: It's called The Powerpuff Girls Z and complete with a Setting Update to match.
* Lilo and Stitch: There is the anime series starring the beloved Disney characters from *Lilo and Stitch* are also not too surprising. The movie’s style and Stitch’s mascot-like appearance make it perfect for a Japanese adaptation.
* Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The 1987 animated TV show had their Anime Adaptation called Legend of the Supermutants
Complete Monster/Wester Animation

**Complete Monsters** that appear in Western Animation. To make a Complete Monster Proposal, see here.

## Examples

* Adventure Time:
	+ Gunter (in Season 6, he was revealed too be Orgalorg who destroyed planets without having any remorse).
	+ The Lich (Prime World & Farmworld) (He lacks any redeeming qualities are comedic moments).
* SpongeBob SquarePants:
	+ SpongeBob SquarePants (He has comitted mass murder and mass destruction in sveral episodes and his comedic moments are not very detracting).
	+ Mr. Krabs (While he is portrayed for laughs, much like SpongeBob, they are not very detracting and his heroic acts are for self-serving reasons).
	+ Customer (not only did he not except the pizza SpongeBob was trying to give him, but he also slammed the door in his face).
Read Between The Lines

"Scientists should just figure out how to make magic wands so that everyone on Earth is happy and nobody is ever miserable again!"— **Chenable Fierabend**

To "read between the lines" is a common expression that means to perceive or deduce a meaning not explicitly stated in the text or spoken words.

This phrase dates back to the older days of letter writing. They were the primary communication between people who lived any distance apart. Letters bore information about daily going-ons, social happenings, work, family drama, and so on. You can apply this phrase to any situation that appears to be more than meets the eye. It's all about observation. The **future** is used to show that something started in the **past** and continues in the **present**.

Reading between the lines is a lot like learning a new language. When you don't know all the words, you derive meaning through context. You can perceive or detect a hidden meaning. This term comes from cryptography, where in one code, reading every second line of a message gives a different meaning from that of the entire text.
Hoarders

*Too Many Toys* taken to its extreme, all while it's *not* toys that are filling up the house.

Hoarders is a television series about the struggles of people with compulsive hoarding disorder. The show aired on A&E and Lifetime in the United States.

The series almost runs on a formula: A hoarder gets a visit from a psychologist or organizer. These people help try to treat the hoarder's condition. Cleanup crews arrive, and next thing you know, the house was clean.

Lifetime began running a series of "Where Are They Now?" episodes in 2014, before the series was uncancelled two years after its original run ended.

## Tropes

* Downwards Funnel: Sometimes a clean house would just not stay clean, because the hoarder may have not been treated of his/her disorder.
* This gave us inspiration: Indirectly by Too Many Toys, as the series' creators and producers never read the book.
* Obscurity, much?: The program's original run on A&E is more known for airing reruns on Lifetime nowadays.
* Satisfactory Conclusion: "Where Are They Now?" to the episodes several hoarders were featured in.
* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon: Started off on A&E, then moved to Lifetime, then moved back to A&E. Downplayed in that A&E and Lifetime share an owner (A+E Networks, owned 50% each by Hearst and Disney, in this case).

TBA.
Spaced Out

Spaced Out is a little French-Canadian animated series that aired on Cartoon Network... in Europe only.

Basically, it's a French version of The Jetsons, and it was cancelled after 26 episodes (you can't blame CN Europe; the series was so low-rated (compared to other Alphanim productions), Canada was the only country to receive the show besides European countries).

Another reason could be because the animation was too similar to a Cartoon Network USA show.

## Tropes

* Obscurity, much?: Part of the little presence of the show lately is a nice Wikipedia page (which didn't get created until 2007). Compare The Jetsons, which *at least* got reruns in the US.
* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon: The show never aired outside Europe and Canada. In fact, people are falsely claiming that the show aired on Disney XD in the US.
* Cartoons Mean They're For Kids: The show basically boils down to a kid-friendly version of Captain Star, another European-Canadian series (which *at least* aired in English in Canada).

TBA.
Point of discontinuation/Sprite

Every point of discontinuation related to the Coca-Cola product, Sprite.

* Sprite Zero was once "Sugar-free Sprite". Then they changed it to "Diet Sprite"... and then "Diet Sprite Zero"... before they dropped the word "Diet" from the drink altogether and just settled with the name "Sprite Zero".
	+ Not just that, but this was inverted as Diet Sprite Zero actually helped launch Coke's *Zero* brand, as Coca-Cola Zero wasn't released until a year after Diet Sprite added the "Zero" to the name.
* Cranberry Sprite zig-zags this. During the winter season, it gets sold and after that, it gets taken off the market another year... until the fall, depending on where you live.
	+ And don't expect them to send the flavor back past Christmas. They usually stop carrying it until the Christmas season once they sell out of them after Christmas.
* Sprite's 6 (or LeBron's, depending on what you saw on the label) Mix was sold for two years in a row before being believed to be discontinued.
	+ It might have, seeing how Coke lost its NBA deal to Pepsi in July 2015.
* Sprite Remix used to be a variety of flavored Sprite soda, but the grave for it was dug 2005.
	+ Sprite Remix was eventually re-introduced; however, only the tropical flavor was re-introduced under "Sprite Tropical", and later re-released *again* as "Sprite Tropical Mix".
* For anyone living in Asia (and to a lesser extent, South America), Sprite Ice is available. It's easier to list the discontinuations from certain regions:
	+ Sprite Ice in Australia AND *Indonesia*.
	+ Sprite *X* could be getting close to this.
* Sprite 3G in the UK. It was an *energy drink*.
* Any Sprite flavor that is currently not available in the U.S. (let alone the entirety of *North America*) is thought to be this to many.
* Sprite Super Chilled. It was the "chilliest" Sprite in the world. *Special packaging* was to produce *actual ice* in the bottle when it was opened. For many, it is believed to be discontinued.
* Sprite Green was to be sweetened with Truvia. It is thought to be discontinued.
* The variant of Sprite sweetened with sugar (we're not discussing the US formulation, as many other soft drinks at the time reformulated in the US; we're discussing the variant in other countries):
	+ Basically, Sprite in *France* removed *30%* of the sugar and replaced it with *stevia*. This formulation later (though indirectly) spread to Sierra Mist (the sugar/stevia formulation of Sierra Mist was dropped upon Sierra Mist's rename as Mist Twst), but without the removal of sugar.
		- Currently sold in some British areas, and the Netherlands.
* Sprite itself used to be named *Fanta Klare Zitrone* (but only in Germany; Sprite was first introduced under its familiar name in 1961).
* In 2014, this was inverted for Sprite itself; it managed to grow in sales between 2014 and 2016, and was one of the two reasons (the other being the NBA deal Pepsi took over in July 2015) why PepsiCo turned Sierra Mist into Mist Twst.
One-Punch Man

In an Earth-like continent, mysterious monsters and villains start showing up, and it's up to the superheroes to save the world. Saitama is among the superheroes up for the job. Only problem? He performs superhero tasks as a hobby.

Coming from City Z, he easily defeats every monster that comes to said city with one punch (he's so powerful, he could even kill *Chloe Rabbit* many times over if he tried).

Saitama's always looking for villains that provide a challenge to him, and once he gets just that, he takes up fighting as a bigger hobby than he has before.

Was originally a webcomic by an author under the pseudonym One, which was later adapted into a manga and an anime (the latter's even getting a second season).

## Tropes

* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon: Subverted by licensor at the least; Viz Media has the English rights to publish the manga and dub the anime. However, this is played straight outside the US.
* Obscurity, much?: The 2009 version of the webcomic is semi-obscure (it still has a US fanbase who can read in Japanese) outside Japan. We all know why; said webcomic was only published in Japanese. However, the manga version and anime actually avert this as both have been licensed in English.
	+ It was also parodied; for days, City A was the talk of the world, but after coverage died down, it became this.
* Infinite Power by Training: All Saitama needed was three years of training and he suddenly defeats all villains standing in his way via one punch.
	+ Averted by someone who wanted to be the strongest man in the world, as he drunk a potion. His Titan-like proportions and super-strength ended up killing his brother.
* Size Changing: There are some Super Evil characters Saitama comes across that grow/have grown even bigger than Saitama.
	+ Saitama himself subverts this. Aside from a new costume, turning bald, and getting super strength, Saitama is the same person he was three years ago.
* Adult-oriented Aesop/Everybody needs to be healthy: All Saitama does to get his strength is train. For *three long years*. Later on, he tells everyone that that's all they need to be as strong as him.
* Samurai Jack Timeskip: Saitama inverts this. He *sheds* all his hair instead of growing a big beard.
* Don't Need a Quirk to Be a Hero: Again, all Saitama needed was three years of hard training in order to gain super strength.
* Downwards Funnel: A good variant. When Saitama gets inducted into the Hero Association, he starts out at Class C, and he's working his way up.

TBA.
Size Changing/Videogames

* The iconic Super Mushroom from *Super Mario Bros.* can make Mario and/or Luigi tall enough to break blocks. Small Mario can even utilize this when turning into Fire Mario.
	+ Mario shrinks down (and loses a hit point) when hit by an enemy or their attacks.
	+ The Mega Mushroom (most prominently seen in *New Super Mario Bros.*) one-ups the Super Mushroom by turning Mario into a giant (and make him immune to enemy damage in the process). It's possible to clear World 1-1 alone with one of them.
	+ The Weird Mushroom in *Super Mario Maker* makes Mario taller. And skinnier.
* In *Super Pac-Man*, eating a Super Pellet turns Pac-Man into a giant (he still eats ghosts, mind you). Averted in Super Pac-Man's next appearance, *Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures*, due to the fact the game file would be too big for the game's scope if it did happen.
* As it has a world based on *Alice in Wonderland*, the "Drink Me" potion also appears in *Kingdom Hearts*. Its effects are the same, except instead of turning giant like Alice did, Sora turns back to normal if already shrunken.
* In *Sonic Colors*, whenever Sonic uses the purple Wisps (which were Wisps that became that way thanks to Eggman), any enemy the powered-up version eats makes it bigger. This lasts for however long Sonic holds the Wisp's power.
* *Pokémon*: Discounting the fact that Giant Pokémon exist in the anime, there's also the concept of Dynamaxing (which first appeared in *Sword and Shield*), which became a meme among *Pokémon* fans.
* Carmelita Fox manages to become giant in one *Sly Cooper* game.
* *Disney's Magical Mirror starring Mickey Mouse* references a cartoon short where Mickey seems to be becoming a giant... before shrinking down to mouse-size. The game recreated this scene more-or-less, in 3D, in a *video game*.
* *Yandere Simulator*: While averted in the game itself, a mod exists for earlier builds that allow you to do this to either Ayano or the students.
* The entire point of games like *Agar.io* is to eat other players' character and grow larger.
Looped (TV series)

What happens when you turn the trope The Next Day is Always the Same into a TV series.

Looped is a Teletoon cartoon that began airing in 2016.

Being from the co-creators of Grojband, expect some similarities between that show, Looped, and YTV's Sidekick.

The series revolves around Luc & Theo, two best friends that get stuck in a time loop for no reason.

And apparently that time loop always means every day is Monday.

## Tropes

* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon: Hasn't gotten a U.S. TV premiere yet, although it's legally available via Amazon Prime Video.
	+ YTV and the Canadian feed of Nickelodeon reran the show.
* The Next Day is Always the Same

TBA.
Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo

A Weekly Shonen Jump manga that can be described as *Fist of the North Star* meets *Azumanga Daioh*. Or if JoJo's adventures really *were* bizarre. An anime adaptation by Toei Animation was also made for TV Asahi (who already aired tons of Toei anime in the past).

The anime adaptation aired on Cartoon Network's Toonami sometime in the 2000s.

## Tropes

* Action-packed: Exaggerated.
* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon: Exaggerated between the US and Canada; in the latter country, Bobobo never even aired on linear TV. Averted between Japan and everywhere else, as usual for anime.
	+ Also played straight between the US and UK.
* This gave us inspiration: Exaggerated. The series actually *parodies* *Fist of the North Star* and *Phantom Blood/Battle Tendency*-era *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure*.
* Just to Get a Laugh: Probably why the manga was never serialized in the North American Shonen Jump- *Bobobo* was a comedy (well, *action-comedy* with more emphasis on the comedy), and the North American Shonen Jump only serialized series that emphasized action.
* Dubless Series: Downplayed. While an English dub does exist (the primary reason why it aired on Cartoon Network in the US in the first place), the reissue in 2012 has no *subbed* options whatsoever, so it was basically impossible to watch in Japanese. The Discotek reissue would avert this.
* Gainax Ruined the Ending: Parodied, with the line "This is how our show ends?" Still, better than No Ending at All.
* Obscurity, much?: In North America, the show's been re-issued to the point where it's almost *impossible* to be an anime fan (especially one who grew up on Toonami in the 2000s) and forget about it. Despite this, short of a dedicated fanbase in Spain, the anime's fairly obscure in the rest of the West.
* The Next Day is Always the Same: Gags and jokes. *Every battle*. This was eventually revealed to be a fighting style that is just about as wacky as the manga's premise itself.
* Satisfactory Conclusion: The anime gets as close as the series would ever get to one in the final episode. Sadly averted in the manga.
	+ "But alas, we've ran out of episodes."
* No Ending at All: The manga and *especially* its English translation. The anime averts this by parodying a different trope...
Having Fun/Junking Tapes

Please preserve media. Don't junk your masters.

* Basic definition: A show no longer exists due to the network wiping the masters for it.
* Straight: A show from the early days of television no longer exists, at least not in its entirety.
* Exaggerated: Most, if not all, of the network's early programming was destroyed.
	+ None of the network's programming survives the initial broadcast.
	+ Alternatively, for a longer-running network, none of the network's shows from before the concept of media preservation was heavily utilized survives.
* Downplayed: The Write-off
	+ No Home Release for You
	+ The media being wiped was on *FlexPlay*; the film's masters themselves are intact.
* Justified: The network is cash-strapped enough to start destroying *their* own shows since they see no use in them anymore.
	+ The masters are in a country where the concept of syndication *does not exist*.
	+ Legal issues caused by The Write-off prevent any form of release, so the network has a valid reason. Alternatively, they retain the rights to the *IP*, just not that particular show, so they opt to destroy the original and remake it.
* Subverted: The master that was destroyed was a *print*, *not* the original masters.
	+ A video file is deleted, but it turns out to be a copy rather than the real deal.
	+ A company finds *a whole show*, masters and all, after rumors started that it was completely lost.
* Double Subverted: It turned out that very copy was the last surviving print.
	+ That video file turned out to be the only copy *ever*.
	+ The masters they found were of the English dub of an otherwise-junked anime series.
* Discussed: "Why do some shows get wiped or junked?"
* Implied: "Unfortunately, we don't have masters for the show."
* Exploited: Someone decides to destroy an entire network's back catalog since he hates all of it.
* Exploitation Denied: ...in an era where media preservation is *very* important. If he *did* succeed, the guy would also be headed for a big jail sentence for destruction of property.
* Defied: The network has been all for media preservation from *day one*; it saves pretty much *everything* that isn't broadcast live.
* Deconstructed: A guy sues a TV station for the rights to a show, so the station destroys the tapes in response... and the guy *wins*, but is struck with grief over what the station did.
Bedtime Rest

"Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, time for bed. Twinkle, twinkle, rest your head. As the day turns into night, keep your worries out of sight. Close your eyes and go to sleep. All the good times are yours to keep. [...] Wishing you the sweetest dreams, as the stars endlessly gleam."— The storybook adaptation of *Twinkle, Twinkle, Time for Bed*

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Sleep has always been there for us, from the low points and high points in our lives and to everything in-between! No matter what goes wrong in life, sleep will never run away from us and will always be greeting us with a pillow and a promising pile of blankets. There's just something about it that everyone always loves! Here are some reasons why we love sleep so much.

No matter what has happened during the day, good or bad, stressful or not, sleeping always makes us feel better. That is, of course, unless you happen to wake during a stage of deep sleep – that's where the really nasty groggy mornings typically come from. But more sleep is always better than less sleep, and yields so many benefits to the body and mind that often go unnoticed. From helping us lose weight to allowing our bodies to recover from the day, sleep just has a way of making us feel wonderful almost every single time (excludes mornings where we're forced to get up, which is inevitably most mornings, unfortunately). Trust me when we say that pajamas and a pile of blankets is the best all-around remedy for anything and *everything*.
Evil Videogame

Do you have a certain videogame? Well, if you do, be warned that it's evil, and you must stop it.

There are no actual real life examples, but some may claim that a real life videogame is evil.

## Examples

* The Smosh channel Shut Up! Cartoons has a series called "Super Smosh". The series had a 2-part finale featuring the Nintega, which according to the series was the result of the best designers at Nintendo and SEGA.
	+ Then there was the Super Nintega.
* In the Dexter's Laboratory episode "Game Over", Dexter and Dee Dee play "Master Computer". They shouldn't have played it in Dexter's lab, as the game is otherwise harmless.
* The Problem Solverz had an episode called "Videogamez", with an evil videogame that threatened to destroy Farboro. Luckily, Alfe, Roba, and Horace defeated the final boss by pretending they were bored.

TBA.
Obscurity, much?/Corus Entertainment

Corus Entertainment is known for producing and airing obscure television series, so it has its own page.

Teletoon has its own page for examples, due to the amount of series they produced/aired.

A few restrictions for this one:

* With the exception of legacy examples (documented before January 1st, 2023), only ended/cancelled shows can be documented.
* This is only for series produced by and/or premiered on Corus networks, in addition to series produced by Nelvana.

* YTV has several obscure series, mainly PJ Katie's Farm, which is mostly known for its low budget.
* Nelvana has several series that are semi-obscure at best (for example, Wayside and the Donkey Kong Country cartoon), and almost completely obscure at worst (for example, Pelswick).
* The original MTV run of Clone High (which was produced partially by Nelvana) was obscured, all thanks to protests in India. Clone High *was* brought back to the U.S. via MTV Classic, but it didn't last but a few months. More info on this can be found on Teletoon's own page.
* The Edgar & Ellen books are completely obscure, to the point that ghostwriters under the pen name Charles Odgen eventually stopped writing further books. The TV series, however, is semi-obscure.
* Rated A for Awesome is rarely found on the internet (you're lucky to find a full episode on YouTube), probably due to the hatedom.
* Weird-Ohs (the TV adaptation). Only five of the 26 segments sprang up on the internet. Not to mention: it's in a similar scenario to My Life Me and Ketchup: Cats Who Cook (having been released on DVD, but hey, it and *My Life Me* at least aired in North America, unlike *Ketchup*). Not only that, but the toyline it was based on ended production not long after if various rumors were to be believed.
* YTV's Chuck's Choice is semi-obscure at best in the US. Not helping is the fact that it hasn't aired in the US yet.
Nobody's A Morning Person

"Okay, the truth is, I really hate how being a morning person is a requirement nowadays. [...] I just feel sad and sleepy all the time. I only wish we got rid of that stupid nonsense and just let people wake up naturally. Is that too much to ask for?"— **Nadella Sandecker (age 27 years)**, *Twinkle, Twinkle, Time for Bed*

How many of us hate it when that alarm rings and it’s time to get up? It’s not you, it’s your body and you can master this morning demon with a bit of help. Mornings are often the most challenging time for many of us. We toss and turn, push the "snooze" button on the phone alarm and wish we could sleep for just five more minutes, but that alarm is relentless. Yes, we would all love to remain in bed, but our version of the bugler’s call summons us, and it won’t stop.

Work, school, and appointments are on the agenda, and each requires our physical presence. What is going on? Much of this bed-induced reiteration of what the next day will bring is one of the impairments to restful sleep. But there’s more, and it has to do with your body’s biorhythms (with a few important tropes).

This is a more extreme version of Not A Morning Person, which is generally used for serious effect. Not to be compared with Sunny Mornings, Does Not Like Mornings, Just Five More Minutes, and Bedtime Rest, which can be used as subtropes.

## Examples Include

1. Not A Morning Person: Do you like sleeping in late on weekends out of work and school? For an extra shot of fun, try setting your phone alarm for your usual weekday wake-up time, and then savor the joy of turning that sucker off and going back to sleep.
2. Heavy Sleeper: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
3. Instant Waking Skills: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
4. Morning Routine: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
5. Wake Up, Go to School, Save The World: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
6. Ring, Ring, CRUNCH!: Isn't the alarm clock one of our biggest morning enemies? That's right!
7. Asleep In Class: Sometimes we're still very sleepy, and it can't wait. So you give up waiting until you go back home, and decide to sleep in class instead. Maybe the teacher won't find out, but they definitely will.
8. Slept Through The Apocalypse: No matter what goes on in our everyday activities, a nice warm bed with a fresh set of pajamas always has a way of hitting us right in the heart. It's just so satisfying.
9. Beautiful Dreamer: The child version of Nadella Sandecker from *Twinkling with the Stars*. In her dreams throughout the show's first episode, "life is exciting and dreams always come true". This is one example of how the writers blend the unfortunate reality of getting up and going to school with the fantasy of being a superhero or movie star.
10. Pajama-Clad Hero: Have you ever been upset changing into comfy pajamas and curling up in a soft pile of blankets? We see people in public wearing pajamas from time to time, and honestly, who can blame them? Pajamas are the comfiest pieces of clothing out there!
Chuck's Choice

What if you were able to make one of three choices throughout your day? Well, Chuck McFarlene (unrelated to Seth MacFarlene) is a person who does so.

Ordered by YTV and produced by DHX Media.

Not related to a previous YTV series.

## Tropes

* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon: Turner Broadcasting just snagged up the series in some countries. Plus, its Canadian parental rating means it may not be suitable for Nickelodeon, let alone Nick at Nite.
* Obscurity, much?: Semi-obscure outside its native Canada.
* Size Changing: Implied in "Grown Up Chuck", although Decision Mode just made him look older.
* Exactly What It Says: Chuck makes one of three choices, thus "Chuck's Choice". However, he makes more than one choice throughout the course of the show, but it's still no more than two per segment.
* Innocent punishment: The end of "Grown Up Chuck" has Chuck get scolded at for breaking a glass filled with *medicine*.
* That's a Capital Idea: The choice Chuck picks is usually related to this.
* This gave us inspiration: Misha is this in character design, which *screams* a mix between Lynn Loud and Vambre, with some similarities to Reggie Rocket and Stocking in-between. As for personality? It's not like that at all.
	+ Misha's hair may or may not have inspired Marsha's in some way.
* One-show redemption: The first series Kervin Faria created and already people associate him with this series in Canada. Though to be fair, this came out of somebody who wrote for Johnny Test, Supernoobs, and even something for Jetix/Disney XD.
* Downwards Funnel: Decision Mode, at its worst.

TBA.
Self-Explanatory Definitions

"After everything I've heard, there's one thing that's abundantly clear. Guys, I'm afraid you're way too chantillating. You're trying to improve your entire life by making everything more fun, exciting, fancy, or professional. That's the textbook definition."— **Miss Noodlenoddy**, *The Magic Fingerfellows*

An autological word is a word that is exactly what it describes — it fits its own definition. The classic example is polysyllabic, if a character says a word that means having more than one syllable and does in fact itself have more than one syllable. If it happens again, it's usually Played For Laughs, since it probably wouldn't take place *every single day*, right?

If the character just went ahead, it would save entire episodes... entire *seasons* of weird nonsense. Played wrong, and it can be disastrous.
Obscurity, much?/US History

Some things from United States History have been left out of several history books, or at least are barely a footnote in them.

Some of these things can often be taught in class.

* Someone at The Fairly OddParents must have forgot that George Washington's name is nowhere on the actual Declaration of Independence. Yet this is averted for the actual fact that George's name was never signed on the Declaration.
* The US Senate has a "candy desk", but those who don't know about it only find out if they're assigned to a seat in the Senate (or via a website called Read Theory, where people can read passages and answer questions related to them).
* Despite the 2008 recession avoiding this and getting big mentions in recent history books, one of its first victims, the investment bank Lehman Brothers, became this towards the 2008 election (which Barack Obama won). By the time the 2008 recession ended, Lehman Brothers was bankrupt and little mentioned outside a Wikipedia page and a Crash Course U.S. History video. Any other mentions of the investment bank since 2008 are confined to conversations about the 2008 recession.
* The Articles of Confederation only got a footnote in history books due to not lasting long in the wake of Shay's Rebellion. Its replacement, the Constitution, is far better known throughout the United States.
* No other president prior to Franklin D. Roosevelt knew they could run for a third term under the then-current laws. George Washington refused to do so, allowing John Adams to take the seat at the predecessor to the Oval Office.
* Accomplishments can oftentimes become completely obscure if the person responsible is exposed under a series of different scandals. We cannot talk about these in-depth, for obvious reasons.
* Some amendments are not known among the general public in the US. The amendments most talked about are those covered in the Bill of Rights, amendments covering further rights, the 18th and 21st amendments, and the amendment limiting presidents to two terms, or eight years (a single term lasts four years).
Failman

Oh, no! Someone's wreaking havoc around the city! And that someone is...

*Failman, the man who fails!*

That's right; Failman is a Flash game by PPLLAAYY, the developers behind Trollface Quest. You could find it here, or watch Markiplier's playthrough here.

## Tropes used

* From the Maker of: This is from the maker of Trollface Quest.
* Blow Up the Moon: The final level.
	+ "Oh, I blew up... the moon!"
* Trollface Quest Knockoff: Not exactly, as it's made by the same developers as the Trollface Quest games. It is a knockoff gameplay-wise, though...
* Is He Deliberately Doing This?: Failman always does the stuff he does deliberately.
	+ Markiplier once foreshadowed the death of the man with the phone with the dead battery.
* Malicious Man: The entire point of Failman is that he fails at solving problems.
* I hate stolen cash: Failman gives someone a bag of stolen cash on the first level. The police arrest the guy when in reality they should arrest Failman first.
* Mission Failed: Can only be achieved in three levels.
* Tire Deflation: Failman must do this, or it's "Game Over".

TBA.
Jewelrunes

Unreadable Language taken Up to Eleven, where *no* language in the world has any similarity to a fictional language.

Most of the time, it's usually only a written language, not a spoken one, though sometimes it can be both written and spoken.

See also Unreadable Language for fictional languages that have some ties to real-life languages.

## Tropes

* Jewelpet: The Trope Namer, most likely due to the written language used in Jewel Land. This language was most prominent in *Twinkle*.
* The Namekian language. So much so that it's pretty hard to use the Namekian Dragon Balls unless you happen to know Namekian.
* Little Witch Academia: Professor Pisces only speaks in bubbles. A rare example where it's only a spoken language rather than a written one.
* The language of future immigrants of South Park.
* Animalese and Bebebese in Animal Crossing. Averted with the anime film.
* Puella Magi Madoka Magica makes it so you decipher one of these languages. Turns out they were actually German phrases.
* The Klingon language.
* For rare real-life examples, some of the oldest undecipherable languages on Earth could count as these.
RobArts Cartoon Universe

Tomboys, men who are in touched with their feminine side, Funny Animals, Civilized Animals, falling anvils, mallets, dynamites, black holes, and giant robots.... Oh My! It's a one weird cartoon show... also one of the flagship franchises by Sunrise, the makers of Mobile Suit Gundam, Inuyasha, and Sgt. Frog.

RobArts Cartoon Universe (or Emmy The Mermaid if your prefer) is a long-running animated comedy franchise owned by Bandai Namco Filmworks.

## Examples

* Animal World: At a Level 2 scale. There is a lots of anthropomorphic animals in this franchise. Like, we mean, A LOTS OF IT. There is Deigo Dog, Molly Ducky, Rapid Rabbit, Quick Brown Fox, White Bear, even though who is not white, Tuffy Bear, Tutty Turtle, Freddy Frog, Janey and Linny Cat, Kennedy Mouse and Maua Mouse, Livid and Maddie Fox, Sleepy Sheep, Pucky Pig, Charles Cat, Jackie Rabbit, Danny and Dixie Deer,and Hill Bear, Helina Hare, Bubble and Squeak, and Two Stupid Groundhogs. There is also humans too like Himari, Akari, Mylan, Colette, Penny, Nicholas, Jose, Marissa Deiz Androw. We also see mer-people too like Emmy, Claire, and Preston.
* Gender Stereotype Swap: Again, there are a lots of these; female human characters have the same personality in general, being manly tomboys. The male human characters are also like this, except that they're girly instead of manly.
* Thought Balloon Talk: In JC Comic's Emmy The Mermaid and Emmy and Bros, Emmy and Preston speak in thought balloons instead of talking. Why they decide to not talk, unlike many of the human characters, is a mystery.
Need Shave Everyday

Most males need to shave. At least once a month. But, this is the extreme- shaving everyday, as opposed to once in a month (or if you like a long beard, once in a blue moon).

Trope Namer is Robotboy.

## Examples

* Parodied in The Loud House; Lincoln shaves to act like a grownup. He forgot that he does not have facial hair yet. He also forgot that he used the wrong razor.

TBA.