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20th Century Boys/WMG

## Friend is Light Yagami.

It turns out that the virus he has created is only a bluff and that the Book of Prophecy is just only a Death Note in disguised.

## Friend is The Joker.

The laughing gas is the virus that Friend plans to unleash to the world.

## Friend was trying to protect the Earth from a real alien invasion

He was only evil because there was a bigger threat on the horizon, like Scorpius, or one of those other Well Intentioned Extremists.

## Friend is Alex Mercer the real one

Maybe his death by the hands of Blackwatch is fake, and plans on recreate his virus at Japan so that he can unleash it there.

## Friend is Taro Mitsuki.

If you think he is going to Germany, think again. He is leaving to Japan and plans on causing destruction as a masked villain. Why? He lost Sara to Gackto.

## Friend is Johan Liebert.

After leaving the hospital, Johan figures he'll go start up some shit in Tenma's home country, Japan. There he meets Fukubei, from whom he takes the "Book of Prophesy" from and decides to start up the Cult of Friendship. When the going got tough, Johan picked Fukubei to be the scapegoat and the corpse for his official "death". In addition, Fukubei is not Kanna's father — Johan is, which also explains why Kanna shares a physical resemblance to Johan's sister, Anna, and is apparently the only Urasawa character to be affected by Mukokuseki.

## Friend is actually working for Asbergo Industries.

Given their goal, his working for them would make perfect sense.
2 Broke Girls/WMG

## Caroline has a sister who will be introduced as a character at some point.

When Max confronted Caroline about her father's Ponzi Scheme, Caroline responded "He told us we were having a good year." Note that she said *us*, not *me*, meaning she wasn't the only one he kept in the dark about this. There's more than one member of her family. Now, she could have just meant her and her mother, but given the comedic potential of such a thing, I suspect that she'll be revealed to have a sister later on in the series.

## Caroline and Max will fall in love at some point.

It seems painfully obvious that Caroline and Max are headed for a relationship at some point. Note the pilot episode where Max accidentally kisses a woman on the subway, perhaps foreshadowing? In episode two, they were already in bed with each other and Max claims that Caroline would be "the last les she'd be in." And even if it's not headed that way at this point, the writers may hear the fans, who are clamoring for Maxoline (Max/Caroline).

## Martin Channing will be revealed to be a good guy all along.

This was hinted at in episode 4, when Caroline called him on the phone and said that "he can't be such a bad guy." Perhaps at the end of the season, he will get out of prison, and there will be the potential of Max and Caroline "breaking up."

* Maybe not a "good" guy, but perhaps not as bad as he's made out to be. It's important to keep in mind that this is a guy who wasn't bothered by the fact that his scam probably ruined a lot of peoples' lives, so he's somewhat lacking in moral character. That said, it's already apparent that he genuinely loves his daughter and wants to make sure she's doing okay, so he probably doesn't fall into Complete Monster territory.
	+ It wouldn't be a huge surprise if it turned out that he was a fall guy for his business partners, and was as much in the dark as Caroline was... although based on things Caroline has said, it would be something of a Retcon.

## Johnny and Max will become a couple but break up... leaving him free to get together with Caroline.

It just seems like Johnny and Caroline have the potential to become the show's Super Couple. Plus they have great chemistry together.

## Martin Channing will eventually be acquitted.

As a result, the feds will unfreeze his assets, and Caroline will be able to get her old life back. She'll decide, however, that she still wants to live with and be business partners with Max.

## Martin Channing will get out of jail, but his assets will still be frozen

Once Caroline's truly addapted to being poor, he'll be freed and have to learn

## Caroline's mother will show up at some point.

She told Max back in "And the Rich People Problems" that her grandmother had gotten rid of her mother "in a society way." But Caroline's mother is presumably still alive, and might use the disgrace of her ex-husband as a reason or excuse to reestablish contact with her daughter.

## And, while we're at it, at some point Max's father will show up.

Because I said so.

Back to *2 Broke Girls*
300/Fridge

* In 300, Leonidas tells the traitor Ephialtes to live a long life. At first it seems that Leonidas is telling him "Good luck with your life," a moment later Ephialtes breaks down in tears. Why? He was trying to regain his father's spartan honor, and in Sparta, you where only respected if you fought and died in battle. - Strilight
* In the beginning Leonidas lures a wolf into a tight passage and spears it, because the wolf was basically trapped and helpless - he uses the same tactic during the battle of Termopilae: he lures the huge Persian army into a small space where they can't make full use of their vast numbers, and can only send smaller forces which get massacred.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954 film)/YMMV

* Adaptation Displacement
* Alas, Poor Villain: Nemo during the climax, although he's not really a villain.
* Designated Hero: Ned Land is kind of a *jerkass* throughout the film.
* Designated Villain: Nemo.
* Tear Jerker: Captain Nemo's Backstory. Also his his final moments where he staggers to a viewing window, collapses, and looks at his beloved ocean one last time as he dies.
* Visual Effects of Awesome: The battle with the giant squid. Even today it looks awesome.
	+ Though it was very nearly Special Effects Failure, as the story on the DVD will attest. The first tests for the final battle took place against a beautiful sunset, on a calm sea. The first Giant Squid had stuffed tentacles held up on wires; these grew heavy and hard to control as they took on water, and the bright sunset made the wires painfully obvious. Disney himself was appalled at this first footage, and demanded a reshoot. This reshoot *nearly forced the studio out of business*, and the film's nomination for Best Visual Effects at the Academy Awards proved a Crowning Moment of Awesome for Disney.

Back to *20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954 film)*
12 oz. Mouse/YMMV

* Cult Classic
* Growing the Beard:
	+ As the show began to adopt thriller and Mind Screw elements the characterization and writing improved ten fold.
	+ The moment when the show became good, in the eyes of most fans, is at the end of the third episodeTemplate:Broken link
* Love It or Hate It: Either you can stomach the poor animation and voice acting long enough to watch the interesting story, or you can't. There really dosen't seem to be a middle ground.
* MST3K Mantra: According to the lounge version theme song, "You don't understand/there's no f-ing plan." Indeed.
* Nightmare Fuel: "You found my record, didn't you? Now... spin it."
* Tear Jerker: Skillet's death near the end of the second season.
* True Art Is Incomprehensible
13 (musical)/Trivia

* Hey, It's That Guy!: Too many to name.
	+ Graham Phillips (Evan) played Ben in Ben 10: Race against time.
	+ Allie Trimm (Patrice) played Kim Mc Affee in the first revival of Bye Bye Birdie.
		- Brynn Williams (Cassie) was in the same revival as Ursula.
	+ Eric Nelsen (Brett) was in the iCarly episode "iDream of Dance".
	+ Delaney Moro played Jane in the Original Broadway cast of Mary Poppins.
	+ Joey La Varco plays young Jack on 30 Rock.
		- Allie Trimm guest starred as Bethany.
	+ Elizabeth Gillies (Lucy) is Jade in the Nickelodeon show Victorious.
		- Along with Ariana Grande (Charlotte) as Cat.
	+ Eamon Foley (Richie) and Brynn Williams (Cassie) have done multiple broadway shows.
	+ Most of the cast was on an episode of The Battery's Down.
	+ Come to think of it, Caitlin Gann (Molly) is the only one who hasn't really done anything outside of 13.
		- She posted Youtube videos before 13 fame.
13 Assassins/WMG

## Naritsugu was reincarnated 30 years after the events of the film in Imperial Germany.

Okay, so let's consider a few facts about Naritsugu. Firstly, he seems like dressing entirely in white. Secondly, whilst he's nearly always calm and polite, he's an amoral, psychopathic Complete Monster. Thirdly, over the course of film, he develops an interest in war. The logical conclusion of this? 30 years after his death at the hands of Shinzaemon, Lord Naritsugu is reincarnated in Imperial Germany, just as WW 1 is getting going. A couple of decades later, he joins the Nazi Party, and more specifically the S.S., where he rises to the rank of Sturmbannführer - or, in English, Major. He then gets an order from Adolf Hitler himself to start work on creating artificial vampires, and, well... let's just say that, eventually, he gets all the war he could desire.
"The Villain Sucks" Song/Quotes

> *"Goooooooldfingaaaaaaaaaaaar! He's the man, the man with the Midas touch! A spider's touch!"*
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> Shirley Bassey, *Goldfinger*

> *"But beware of his generous pensions,*
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> And on Fridays the lunchroom serves hot dogs and burgers and beer!
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> *"You had it all!*
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> The day you told me, told me you want me
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> I had it all.
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> But let you fool me, fool me completely.
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> Yeah, I was so stupid to give you all my attention.
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> Cause the way you played me, exposed your true intentions!
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> And one day, I'll have you begging on your knees for me!
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> One day, I'll crawling like a centipede.
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> You mess with me, and mess with her.
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> *Tori Vega singing* Begging On Your Knees *about Ryder Daniels,* Victorious

> *"Well, Kyle's mom's a bitch, she's a big fat bitch*
> She's the biggest bitch in the whole wide world..."
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> South Park

> *Everybody in the USA*
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> He's Flanders and he's really really lame.
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> Flanders tried to wreck my song
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> I hate his guts and Flanders is his name.
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> *Homer Simpson,* The Simpsons

> *I'm not a fan of puppeteers but I've a nagging fear*
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> Something terrible is going down through the entire town
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> I can't sit idly, no, I can't move at all
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> Discord, whatever did we do
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> Discord, are we your prey alone,
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> Discord, we won't take it anymore
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> I'm fine with changing status quo, but not in letting go
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> Now the world is being torn apart
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> — *Discord*, a fanmade "The Villain Sucks" Song for Discord.
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> *Well FUCK you Texas and fuck your Lone Star Beer*
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> Fuck that fucking Alamo and fuck them long horned steers
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> Fuck every Dallas Cowboy that ever drawed a breath
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> the Internet on Ghost

1. ↑ Incidentally, Homer is the only person in the universe who thinks of Flanders as a villain
2 Broke Girls/Trivia

* Actor Allusion:
	+ Max getting tasered in the pilot. Guess turnabout is fair play.
	+ Caroline's attorney Leo was asked if he was on Law & Order, to which he said he wasn't. The actor actually was on L&O, playing Assistant Medical Examiner Borak.
* Alliterative Name: Caroline Channing played by Beth Behrs.
* Dueling Shows: *Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23* has a very similar premise. Its pilot episode also had a plot thread where one of the roommates discovered the other one's boyfriend was cheating and told the new roommate, who didn't believe her until she caught the boyfriend in the act.
* Shout-Out:
	+ When Max puts up Johnny's napkin art all over the house, then finds out that he's going to come over and see it, she says that he'll think she's Dexter.
	+ When Caroline mentally counts off the locations of security cameras in the jewelry store, Max asks her "What are you doing, Beautiful Mind?"
	+ The gay couple compares Max to Madeleine Stowe in *Revenge* in "And the Spring Break." Caroline says the premise of the show is too close to home.
	+ Caroline apparently knows the Fine family.

Back to *2 Broke Girls*
2point4 children

British comedy series that ran from 1991 to 1999.

Named after the then-average number of children in a British family — today it would probably be 1.8 Children.

The main characters were:

* Bill (Willemina) Porter, a caterer
* Ben Porter, her husband, a plumber
* Jenny, the daughter
* David, the son
* Rhona, a nymphomaniac Drop in Character
* Christine, Ben's bad-tempered apprentice

The actress for Jenny was replaced in the third season. In the final season, the character was sent to university, and a new teenage child adopted.

The episodes could be very surreal — one ended up as a parody of The Prisoner. And Bill had numerous prophetic dreams given to her by her Spirit Advisor — a biker whom it turned out may have been Dead All Along due to a bike accident.

***Two Point Four Children*** is a prime example of Magic Realism. It was written by Andrew Marshall, whose former writing partner David Renwick was responsible for the more successful *One Foot in the Grave* (which was more like tragic surrealism).

Tropes used in *2point4 children* include:
* Acting for Two - Bill's mother and aunt were played by the same actress
* Arc Words - Bill's recurring dream of a biker telling her to stay out of "MIA". The dream was cut short; it was supposed to say "Miami", where she was caught in a hurricane in a later episode.
	+ In fact MIA is the three-letter airport code for Miami International, and it only occurs in one or two episodes. Two points don't make an arc, although since the seasons are only six episodes long, two episodes is a sizeable chunk.
* Brand X - the video game *Ninja Badger*
* Casanova
* Christmas Episode - five of them!
	+ All of which end with a bizarre broadway-esque musical number.
* Cousin Oliver - Declan, the Porters' foster child, who was also a Suspiciously Similar Substitute for the departing Jenny.
* Cut Short - By the death of Ben's actor in 1999
* Dead All Along - It is strongly implied that Bill's mysterious motorcycle guy was this. Bill sees his obituary in a stack of old newspapers she was going to throw away.
	+ The end of the first episode of the second series shows a TV news report (which Bill misses, due to being asleep) reporting on the accident that killed him. This implies he was alive during the first series.
* Disaster Dominoes
* Dom Com
* Drop in Character
* Gender Blender Name - Bill (full name Willemena)
* Homage
* Magic Realism
* The Other Darrin - Jenny was first played by Georgina Cates and then by Clare Buckfield.
	+ Declan was played by Mitchell Ray in his first appearance, and by Alex Kew when he became a regular character.
* Sitcom Arch Nemesis (Jake the Klingon)
* Special Edition Title - for the Christmas episodes.
* Spiritual Successor - Considered by some to have paved the way for the similarly-themed *My Family*.
* Suspiciously Similar Substitute
* Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?: Dawn, the "per-son-al ben-ker" later resurfaces as an equally deranged and annoying loan officer.
20-Year-Old Girl X 30-Year-Old Maiden

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*20-Year-Old Girl X 30-Year-Old Maiden* is a Girls Love manga by Akiko Morishima that’s Exactly What It Says on the Tin — a romance between a 20-year-old student, Emi, and her 30-year-old teacher, Keiko, focusing on how the age gap affects their relationship.

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Tropes used in *20-Year-Old Girl X 30-Year-Old Maiden* include:
* Bishie Sparkle: Emi, constantly
* Christmas Cake: Keiko, and it causes her a lot of anxiety when she compares herself to 20-year-old Emi.
* Clingy Jealous Girl: Emi goes through a phase of this.
* Furo Scene
* Girls Love
* Good Bad Girl: Kazue. She even had a threesome with two guys once!
* Love At First Sight: Keiko and Emi. They even have debates over who fell for whom first.
* May-December Romance
* No Periods, Period: Averted. In one chapter, Emi’s period ends up foiling Keiko’s plans to deflower her.
* Odango Hair: Youko
* Onee-Sama: Referenced by Youko, who identifies Keiko as both this and the Seme because she’s the older one in the relationship.
* Ronin: Emi is on her third attempt at getting into art college.
* Tareme Eyes: Kazue
* Teacher-Student Romance
* Those Two Guys: Youko and Kazue, Keiko’s Odd Couple roommates.
* Yuri Fangirl: Youko. She even makes a couple of Shout Outs to Marimite.
15 Storeys High

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British sitcom set in a flat on the 15th floor of a towerblock in South London. The flat is owned by misanthropic, cynical recluse and borderline sociopath Vince Clark (Sean Lock), who is looking for a lodger. Somehow he ends up taking in wide-eyed, cheery social butterfly Errol Spears (Benedict Wong), and misery ensues.

The series lasted from November, 2002 to March, 2004. A total of 12 episodes in two seasons.

Tropes used in *15 Storeys High* include:
* Audio Erotica: The call centre lady who makes one angry customer forget all about the late delivery of his fridge, before walking away from the phone rather stiffly.
* Bad Liar: Vince.
* Berserk Button: Vince *really* doesn't like being touched.
* Brilliant but Lazy: He may not be *brilliant*, but Vince obviously has a brain: he can describe the formation of natural gas, makes allusions to history and literature and is accused of being a middle-class ponce because he reads books for fun. He works as a lifeguard at a public pool.
* Bumbling Sidekick: Errol
* Comedic Sociopathy: This trope is pretty much Vince's entire personality.
* Cringe Comedy
* Fawlty Towers Plot: Vince's habit of lying over the smallest things, and his refusal to admit it, gets him (and Errol) into plenty of dificult situations.
* G-Rated Drug: "Blue Rat", the energy drink containing all the energy of a rat trapped in a can.
* Ice Queen: The neighbor Vince is taken with in the episode aptly titled "Ice Queen".
* Naked People Are Funny: In Series 2, Vince's naturist father makes a visit.
* Odd Couple: Vince is misanthropic and cynical, Errol is sociable, trusting and naive.
* Sliding Scale of Realistic Versus Fantastic: In this Sitcom, the situation is gritty and realistic, while the comedy is much more surreal.
* Sound to Screen Adaptation
* Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Vince
* Yes-Man: Errol admits that he "doesn't like saying 'no'", and this causes him problems when he gets a job selling car parts to angry customers. Being a total misanthropist, Vince naturally argues with him over this issue, telling him that the only time saying 'yes' is appropriate is as an answer to "did you pack these bags yourself?" in an airport.
28 Weeks Later/Nightmare Fuel

* Don. Robert Carlyle is good at creepy anyway, but him as an Infected was nightmarish, and that's not an easy thing to do. The scenes where he's first turned and what he does to Alice are horrifying, and the fact that he seems to retain some very basic reasoning just makes it worse. He's not a mindless, murderous creature like the Infected in the first movie--he's still very murderous, but he's got enough marbles left to actively hunt his children through London.
* The Infected, yet again. But *worse*, as they seem to have some sort of basic intelligence. Not enough to avoid things like snipers, but enough to ambush you, or kill you in even more exciting ways.
24-Hour Armor/Playing With

**Basic Trope**: A character wears armor everyday.

* **Straight**: Alice almost never takes off her armor.
* **Exaggerated**: Alice never takes off her armor at all, not even when washing, eating, or having sex.
	+ Or she was born wearing full chainmail, Athena-style.
* **Downplayed**: Alice wears her armour as a default outfit, but generally takes it off if wearing it would be really ridiculous.
* **Justified**: Alice buys a suit of armour from a blacksmith she doesn't recognise as the son of a witch she once killed. He curses her to wear the armour forever.
	+ Alice lives in a world where ambushes and environmental hazards are a constant threat.
* **Inverted**: Full-Frontal Assault
* **Subverted**: All of Alice's screentime is in armor... until she appears at a dinner in her honor, to which she wears a formal dress.
* **Double Subverted**: ...Of chain mail.
	+ Or she performs an Action Dress Rip to reveal she has chainmail on underneath the dress.
	+ Or an assassin sees his chance to kill her and finds out to his cost she's wearing hidden body armor.
* **Parodied**: Alice is really attached to her armor, so she will not take it off even when the rules say she must.
* **Deconstructed**: Alice is wearing the armour out of rampant paranoia after her lover Bob was stabbed in the back when he was off guard. The poor hygiene and strain from wearing heavy armor constantly starts to take its toll on Alice's health, affecting her ability to fight.
* **Reconstructed**: ...So she swaps her armor out for a magical suit of armor that's lighter and cleans itself (and her) automatically.
	+ She has multiple suits of armour and her squires are trained to reequip her so fast it would make a Formula 1 pit crew blush.
* **Zig Zagged**: Alice wears armour at all sorts of inappropriate occasions, doesn't wear it at others, and sometimes doesn't even wear it in battle.
* **Averted**: Alice only wears armor when in battle or expecting combat.
* **Enforced**: The Coconut Effect + Ermine Cape Effect = viewers would find it weird to see King Arthur wearing anything *but* armour and a crown.
* **Lampshaded**: "Don't you ever take that off?"
* **Invoked**: To emphasize their status as Elite Mooks, the Praetorian Guard are under strict orders to never be seen in public without their signature armour.
* **Defied**: Alice is well aware of how uncomfortable wearing armor all the time is, and tries to wear it as little as possible.
* **Discussed**: "I've never seen Alice off-duty before. I wonder if she'll still be wearing that bloody suit of armour?"
* **Conversed**: "How can they wear full plate all the time?"

Back to 24-Hour Armor.
21st Century Breakdown

This is a disambiguation page. **21st Century Breakdown** could refer to

* *21st Century Breakdown* (music), an album/Rock Opera by Green Day.
* A fan-written novella of the same name loosely based on Green Day's albums.

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1776/Tear Jerker

* "Mama, Look Sharp"

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* Adams' realization that he'll have to allow slavery in America to avoid a civil war. And in real life, he actually did predict that one was inevitable within a hundred years, which wasn't included in the play because people wouldn't believe it.
28 Days Later/Awesome

* Jim's Roaring Rampage of Revenge near the end - particularly the parts involving him taking a guy out with a crowbar and basically skewering a guy through stomach on his own bayonet. The whole thing. A Crowning Moment of Awesome that also happens to double as a scary mental breakdown.
	+ Hannah's CMOA is less gruesome than Jim's, but her backing the cab through the front door of the mansion so that West would be torn apart by his own infected soldiers definitely counts. Double props because she was high as a kite at the time.
21 Jump Street (film)/Funny

* Captain Dickson's rant about being an Angry Black Man stereotype.
	+ Pretty much everything he says is hysterical.
* Schmidt's Delayed Reaction to getting stabbed during a fight.

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* The car chase which Lampshades the Every Car Is a Pinto trope throughly.
* The coach getting his dick shot off and trying to pick it up with his teeth
* Schmidt and Jenko getting high.
	+ Or more importantly the screen cap for the last stage of "FUCK YEAH, MOTHERFUCKER!" to whomever is on the stuff.
* After Schmidt and Jenko throw a wild house party at Schmidt's parents' house as part of their cover, Mrs. Schmidt completely freaks out at them; at one point during her rant, she states that "I used to party with Robert Downey, Jr.. *before* he got sober!"
* Schmidt praying to Korean Jesus for help and getting yelled at by Dickson for wasting Korean Jesus' time.

Back to *21 Jump Street (film)*
2064: Read Only Memories/YMMV

* Narm: The credits song "Love Me Better" is adorned with cheesy lyrics about love and friendship.
	+ Narm Charm: Most fans agree that the song is cheesy, but that it's cute too.
* That One Achievement: Iron ROM, which requires you to complete the game without saving or retrying. Disregarding the game crashing (which happens distressingly often on the Vita version), the tail end of the game has by far the hardest puzzle in the game and one of the few that you can *fail*. This will almost certainly happen if you don't have a solid grasp on how it works, since it's random each time.
* Unfortunate Character Design: Despite the game's very LGBT+ friendly image, Sympathy looks like she was designed by someone who is very **anti**-LGBT+, being a woman with very prominent facial hair and isn't even a Hybrid in a lazy attempt to justify it. For those unaware, this is commonly used to mock trans women by saying they're just men in womens' clothing and portraying them with significant facial/body hair, which can make it very hard to look at Sympathy without being reminded of that.

Back to *2064: Read Only Memories*
11/22/63/YMMV

* Harsher in Hindsight - While telling Jake about the horrific history of alternate!2011, Harry mentions that "four of the Japanese islands are gone" due to the Earth's increasing seismic instability. This may or may not count as a Funny Aneurysm Moment, since most of the book was completed by the time of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, but the actual quake is later mentioned in the story. Speaking of the Japanese disaster, also worth mentioning is how in the alternate timeline a nuclear meltdown in Vermont irradiates much of New England.
* Jerkass Woobie - Oswald is depicted as a somewhat sympathetic character.
* Tear Jerker: At the end of the novel, Jake has a choice: Either go back to the present to save all of reality as we know but leave the love of his life and all his new friends in the past, or stay with Sadie in the past to be happy and risk damaging the future again. He chooses the former.
	+ Sadie's death. It doesn't last, but still.
* The Woobie - Harry Dunning. Not only does his essay move Jake to tears (and help inspire his journey), the universe shafts him in all three timelines; in the normal one his dad murders his entire family and cripples him (Harry) for life, in the next one he's killed in Vietnam, and in the final one he's left paraplegic in the war.
21st Century Breakdown (novel)

***21st Century Breakdown*** is an unfinished novella by S. Taramei, loosely based on the Green Day albums *American Idiot* and *21st Century Breakdown*, with hints from the others thrown in.

Gloria is graduating high school. She's pretty fine with her life.

Christian is graduating high school, too. But *he* is pissed off. He starts his own riots, taking after the example of Whatsername.

And then they meet and start going out.

And shit hits the fan.

Tropes used in *21st Century Breakdown* include:
* Alternate History: McCain won the '08 election instead of Obama. Then he was assassinated. Which means... Sarah Palin is the President of the United States! And she's in her second term!
* Anyone Can Die: Gloria's point about riots: "People could, and oftentimes would, die."
* Berserk Button: Christian reacts very negatively to religion, his name and his parents.
* Corrupt Church: ...why the hell else would Christian blow up a church?
* Crapsack World: This is how Christian views it.
* Fantastic Drug: Opal (which was inspired by Nine Inch Nails and the *Year Zero* ARG) makes you feel more confident, is a powerful stimulant, and it makes orgasms wonderful. It's delivered through eye drops or salts you melt on your tongue. It's nice until you hit the mood swings, unpleasant hallucinations, and killer withdrawal symptoms.
	+ And to a lesser extent, the oft-mentioned Novacaine, which isn't really Novacaine, just given the same name because of the 'numbing' experience you get from it. Gloria was addicted to it once-upon-a-time, which is why she's so adamant about getting Christian to stop using Opal.
* The Fundamentalist: Christian ran into a few too many of these...
* Going Cold Turkey: Subverted. Poor, poor, Christian...
* La Résistance: Christian thinks he's made one of these. Gloria really had.
* The Mad Hatter: Christian and Jimmy. And Gloria to an extent — she recognizes that the two boyfriends she's had are totally frakkin' insane, and at the end, she recognizes and laughs along with her own insanity.
* Mushroom Samba: A really dark one on Christian's part in chapter 6.
* Next Sunday A.D.: It takes place in 2013.
* Not So Different: Gloria to Christian. She actually says this upon their breakup, before going back: into her own, old self-destructive habits.
* Precision F-Strike: Gloria. Except she used to swear in a more Cluster F-Bomb style.
* Pyromaniac: Christian. And how. He tries to burn down a freakin' church! And succeeds!
* Self-Deprecation: Christian once thinks: *She wasn't into drugs... what if she was straight edge or something crazy like that?!*. The author is straight edge.
* Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll: Christian's main philosophy. With some explosions. And Gloria used to be a strict adherent of the same.
1776/Heartwarming

* The saltpeter arrives in Philadelphia. In kegs tied with ribbons and bows.
	+ John's immediate reaction also qualifies. He runs into the main room and tells MacNair to "buy every damn pin in Philadelphia" to send home to his wife like she requested.
	+ Honestly, any and every scene involving John and Abigail qualifies. Driven home when John appeals to her, "Abigail... come to Philadelphia. Please come," and then later with her reminder to him about his definition of "commitment".
	+ It was *John* who sent for Jefferson's wife to help Jefferson get out of his depression...
* "Gentlemen of the Congress, I say, 'Yea, John Dickinson.'"
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A "13-dot" (十三點) means roughly The Ditz in old Shanghai and Canton slang — which is an apt description to the protagonist of this Hong Kong Manhua published between 1966 and the mid 70s. An always cheerful, fashion-crazy girl from an impossibly rich family, 13-dots and her friends go on wacky adventures in each issue. Hilarity Ensues, but everything turns out all right in the end.

A total of 178 issues have been published. During her heydays in the late 60s and early 70s, *13-Dot* was extremely popular among working-class women in Hong Kong, who lived vicariously the life of the rich and glamorous through their favorite heroine. Factory girls would style their home-made clothes after her. Incidentally, this may be why artist Lee Wei-Chun's attempt to re-launch the comics in the 2000s was a failure: Hong Kong was far wealthier by then; fashion was easy to come by; while girl Manga have all but captured the imagination of today's youngsters.

Tropes used in *13-Dot* include:

* Food Porn — another attraction of the comics.
* Infinite Supplies — 13-Dot and her family get all the coolest things, and clothes.
* Punny Name — The name of 13-Dot's father means "made of money", her mother's "hot for her age". The names of most regular characters are likewise puns.
* Spoiled Sweet — 13-Dot
* Unlimited Wardrobe — *the* reason why 13-Dot was popular: how unlimited? how about 1,728 outfits in 28 issues, or an average of 62 per issue?
3-2-1 Penguins!/Trivia

* Hey, It's That Voice!:
	+ Jason is Sam
	+ Zidgel is Ramba Ral and J. Jonah Jameson
	+ Midgel is Naraku and Rau Le Creuset
	+ Fidgel is Bling Bling Boy and Yakkity Yak
	+ Kevin is Ryoga and Carnage
	+ Sol and Cavitus are both voiced by Optimus Primal
	+ Admiral Strap is Chief Watsup and Principal Edward Kelly
110 in the Shade

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***110 in the Shade*** is a 1963 musical based on the 1954 play *The Rainmaker* with a book by N. Richard Nash, lyrics by Tom Jones, and music by Harvey Schmidt. It followed the team's sucess with *The Fantasticks*.

The story centers on Lizzie Curry, a young woman living in drought-ridden 1930s Texas with her widowed father, H.C., and her brothers, Noah and Jimmy. Intelligent and witty, but insecure, Lizzie has pretty much given up hope of finding a husband. H.C., Noah, and Jimmy plan to invite the local sheriff, File, to a town picnic in hope that Lizzie can impress him. File refuses to go, intent on searching for a con man said to be headed their way. A man calling himself Starbuck does show up, promising to bring rain for $100. The town immidiatly falls for him, all except Lizzie, who sees through his con. Starbuck, for his part, is attracted to Lizzie, and tries to break down her many shields. After many an argument, he and Lizzie begin to have feelings for eachother and wind up spending the night together, and in the morning, Starbuck offers to take Lizzie away with him. Before Lizzie can make a decision, File shows up, proposing marriage, and Lizzie must choose between the two men. Her decision is made when Starbuck tells her if she comes with him she won't have to be Lizzie any more, since 'Lizzie' isn't a good enough name for her, and File says its a perfect name for her. Realizing that despite her one night with Starbuck when she allowed herself to dream, she is a simple girl at heart and likes being 'Lizzie.' Lizzie chooses to marry File, and Starbuck prepares to leave town, returning the town's $100, as he didn't make it rain. Just as he does, the rain starts to fall, Starbuck whoops in surprise, takes his money and leaves, leaving Lizzie alone with File, to hopefully live happily ever after.

Tropes used in *110 in the Shade* include:
* All Musicals Are Adaptations
* Beta Couple: Jimmy and his fiancÃ©e
* Betty and Veronica: File is Betty, Starbuck is Veronica
* Con Man: Starbuck
* Crowd Song: "Gonna Be Another Hot Day", "The Rain Song (Reprise)"
* Cut Song: lots
* Good Ol' Boy: File
* Happy Rain: the finale, "The Rainsong (Reprise)"
* Heat Wave: the entire show takes place during one.
* Irrelevant Act Opener: "Everything Beautiful", "Evenin' Star" in addition the 2007 revival
* "I Want" Song: "Love, Don't Turn Away", "Simple Little Things"
* Letting Her Hair Down: A memorable example. Lizzie wears her hair in a bun for most of the play, but Starbuck takes it down, telling her how beautiful she is. Shortly after, they spend the night together.
* Recurring Riff: The words 'let the rain come' or slight variations are always sung to the same melody.
* Snake Oil Salesman: Starbuck
* Tsundere: Lizzie has elements of this. She can be very hostile to what she percieves as nonsense or silliness, and is especially hostile to Starbuck.
* The Eleven O'Clock Number: "Wonderful Music"
2P Start!

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*2P Start!* is a Two Gamers on a Couch webcomic written by Tim Harding and drawn by Ray Hargreaves. It began on February 14, 2007, and ended on May 20, 2010. It is known for being made by big Nintendo fanboys; even the first comic was bashing on the Play Station 3. Tim is usually known as the money-loving Jerk with a Heart of Gold who drinks Dr Pepper, while Ray is the slightly depraved, Sonic-loving fanboy.

Tropes used in *2P Start!* include:
* Alt Text: Although it only begins halfway through.

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28 Days Later/Trivia

* Dyeing for Your Art: The actors playing soldiers attended a three-day boot camp to ensure that they'd carry themselves properly.
* Fake Brit:
	+ Frank is played by Irish actor Brendan Gleeson.
	+ Scouser Megan Burns attempts a London accent for Hannah.
* Hey, It's That Guy!: You know civilization is truly doomed when even The Doctor is a bad guy.
* What Could Have Been: The original script had a completely different second half, where the focus remains squarely on the four survivors as they hole up in the lab that started the whole mess. It was replaced by the story with the soldiers because of a problematic plot element of replacing every single drop of blood in the human body.
* The Wiki Rule: The 28 Days Later Wiki
1776 (musical)/Awesome

* "Is Anybody There?" for Adams.
	+ Made doubly awesome because the lines about fireworks and parades and all are *accurate to his letters* - he knew exactly how the US would celebrate on July 4th every year (although he predicted July 2nd).
* The film's opening shot, a remarkably complicated Oner for the time.
* Dr Lyman Hall:

> **Hall**: In trying to resolve my dilemma I remembered something I'd once read, that '...a representative owes the People not only his industry, but his judgment, and he betrays them if he sacrifices it to their opinion.' It was written by Edmund Burke, a member of the British Parliament. Georgia votes 'yea'.
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* Dickinson sticking by his beliefs and voting against the Declaration, then leaving Congress and joining the Army rather than signing a document he can't believe in. Now *that* is "courage of conviction".
20/20

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This Prime Time News series on ABC began in 1978. Longtime anchors Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters previously worked together on NBC's *Today*. Reporters on *20/20* have included John Stossel, Geraldo Rivera, Lynn Sherr, Bob Brown and the ever-popular Sylvia Chase. Began as a hard-news program but slowly devolved until it is now mainly a purveyor of Missing White Woman Syndrome stories, fawning celebrity profiles, and Barbara Walters interviews.

By the 2010s, the show only aired a handful of times a year.

Tropes used in *20/20* include:
* Face Heel Turn: John Stossel. He started as the show's consumer advocate and evolved into a champion of *corporations'* rights. He went to Fox News when *20/20* went all-True Crime, all the time.
* Long Runner
* Missing White Woman Syndrome
* True Crime
* The World Is Just Awesome: Those shows that are all celebrity profiles, and the People of the Year episodes.
* Yet Another Baby Panda: The real specialty of latter-day *20/20*.
1408/Awesome

* When Enslin decides to burn the room with the molotov cocktail, he yells "GO TO HELL!" Then while the flames grow on his bed he sits down in the chair for a quiet smoke. When the monster in the air ducts screams, he just says "Quiet down, you bastard." Then he gives his speech to the room;

> **Enslin**: *The decor is in tatters. The staff surly. But on the shiver scale, I award the Dolphin...* **TEN SKULLS! \* pwns the room with a backdraft\***
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13 Ghosts/Funny

## 2001 Remake

* This little nugget:

> **Dennis:** Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa! Where are you going!?
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> **Dennis:** Did I say there was a *petting zoo* downstairs!? NO! There are *ghosts* downstairs!
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12 Monkeys/Trivia

* Doing It for the Art: Bruce Willis wasn't paid for the movie. His salary would have nearly doubled the film's budget, and he wanted to work with Gilliam badly enough that he opted for a cut of the box office receipts instead.
* Hey, It's That Guy!: The seemingly-unimportant lab worker whose circuitous plane trip will unleash the apocalyptic virus: doesn't he look like the Jerkass cop who persistently oppresses Gregory House, MD? But... it *couldn't* be him; neither of those characters are like the infinitely kind and patient hospital resident on that oddball medical series (yeah, a long time ago), which wound up being remembered for the increasingly-complex nutjob artifices inspired by its All Just a Dream finale.
	+ Done in universe by Dr. Railly, when she sees Cole in a photograph from World War I, which was the first step to convincing her that Cole may be from the future.
* Hey, It's That Voice!: Arthur Dent is a future scientist! I mean present. Which is still the future in real life.
* Playing Against Type: Along with *Se7en*, one of the movies that helped Brad Pitt break out of pure pretty-boy type-casting. Also, Bruce Willis's character is notably more frail than what he usually plays. This was the first movie where one of Bruce Willis' characters dies.

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19 Kids and Counting/YMMV

* Acceptable Lifestyle Targets
* Acceptable Religious Targets
* Eagle Land: Type I; America is the greatest country in the world, cheeseburgers and french fries are the best, and things like Ethiopian food and bangers and mash are weird and can never be good.
* Ensemble Darkhorse: Jinger
* Flame Bait / Hatedom: Just mentioning them on some sites can cause a debate, since they bring several issues (extreme religious views, birth control) together.
* Holier Than Thou: They have their moments, especially Josiah.
	+ That might have changed now, with some of the older ones taking over for him.
* Creator's Pet: Josiah in the earlier episodes, Jackson in the later. Both are unbearably annoying.
* Real Women Never Wear Dresses: Inverted.
* Unfortunate Implications: The Duggars have very extreme religious views and practices; however, this is **not** a universal portrayal of an average born-again Christian lifestyle (or family, for that matter).
* Values Dissonance: MANY examples for viewers who do not follow the family's strict brand of Christianity.
* The Woobie: Josie surely counts- she was born three months premature and was in the hospital for almost a *year*.
2MattTV/Nightmare Fuel

*2MattTV* has had several Nightmare-worthy moments.

* Richie's face when he attacks Zed in the Halloween video.
* Rob Ross's video in which Elmo goes around killing people.
* The killer deer that attacked Zed and attached him to his car.
* The zombies from "Halloween News" are pretty scary.
* In "Gun Safety Training Course" it is revealed that Zed shot One-Eye's eye out.
* The idea of One-Eyed Willy killing Jasper the Game Warden.
* The Walking Zed considering it was a post-apocalyptic horror movie-style plot.
* The bear that ate Little Timmy in "Will Derness Episode 3".
* Richie when he gets mad.
* Attack of the Orange Remake is a video about a kid almost getting killed by the Annoying Orange.
* The Groke, the scary villain from Moomins appearing at the end of "Minutes to Memories".
* When the Boogeyman first appears in "Mr. Mcgee's Halloween Special".
21st Century Breakdown (music)/YMMV

* Alternative Character Interpretation: Is Christian a righteous soul who is fighting for the common man, or a Well-Intentioned Extremist who needs to gain more control over his inner demons. If one only looks at "Peacemaker" and "East Jesus Nowhere", one could go with the latter, but in the other songs he seems more sympathetic.
* Anvilicious/SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped
* Awesome Music: "21 Guns," "Know Your Enemy," "East Jesus Nowhere.", "Little Girl" and "Restless Heart Syndrome".
	+ What? No love for "Static Age?"
	+ "Viva La Gloria", anyone?
		- How has the epic American Eulogy not been mentioned?
		- Or the amazing Peacemaker?
	+ The ending of "Last Night On Earth" absolutely never fails to give this troper chills. Especially given that it comes right on the heels of the certifiably insane "Christian's Inferno," and closes act 1 of the album.
* Broken Base
* Harsher in Hindsight:
	+ The mindless, violent rage of Christian is much harder to sympathize with after the January 2011 shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords, wounding and killing others (including a nine year old girl born on September 11, 2001) by Jared Loughner, a psychotic "rebel" whose ideology is still unclear and, perhaps, does not exist.
	+ Could also be viewed as Hilarious in Hindsight: This album dropped before the Occupy movement started, and the "Take down the whole entire system" persona of Christian that is without a clearly-defined message of positive change is highly reflective of the Occupy movement as a whole, though they are clearly less violent.
12 Angry Men/Trivia

* Actor Allusion: Juror #3 mocks #12 by calling him "the boy in the gray flannel suit". Lee J. Cobb, the actor playing #3, was in the 1956 film version of *The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit*, as was Joseph Sweeney, the actor playing Juror #9.
* Hey, It's That Guy!: Juror #1 is the detective from *Psycho*, lots of *Twilight Zone* episodes and the lead in *Tora! Tora! Tora!*.
	+ - Also in *Tora! Tora! Tora!* is Juror #4.
	+ Juror #3 is Lt. Kinderman.
	+ Juror #5 is Oscar Madison (television series) and Quincy.
	+ Juror #6 was Walter Bedell Smith.
* Hey, It's That Voice!: The actor who plays Juror #2, the late John Fiedler, was the voice of Piglet in the Disney versions of *Winnie the Pooh*. We learn in this movie that Fiedler used his natural voice for Piglet.
	+ - Could also qualify as a Hey Its That Guy! as Fiedler later became more well known as the very very nervous Mr. Peterson on the Bob Newhart Show
		- Not to mention he had an important role in one episode in Star Trek: The Original Series.
20th Century Boys/Awesome

* Kenji standing up to Ootake and refusing to get rid of Kanna , the first sign that he's back to his old Determinator self
* "Love and peace...are on hold."
* Kanna absolutely destroying the competition at Rabbit Navakov and then pretty much single-handedly ending a mob war and gaining the united forces as an army.
	+ Not to mention she pulls the exact same trick that Jotaro used on Daniel J. D'Arby, having a crap hand but still winning by breaking her opponent with her superior poker face.
* Otcho leaping through a church window to plant himself between Kanna and her would-be assassin.
* Sadakiyo declaring that Kyoko is his student, before burning down Friend's childhood home.
* Every single aspect of Kenji's return.
	+ Especially the chapter it happens in. Right after Friend succeeds in becoming a god in the eyes of the people and the story reaches it Darkest Hour, we get a chapter that's only 3 pages long, consisting entirely of Kenji just casually driving down a highway on a motorcycle.
	+ "I guess that makes me...Yabuki Joe."
* Kenji's two-chapter long Shut UP, Hannibal to the Card-Carrying Villain who killed Kiriko's fiance, leaving him weeping and suicidal.
* Kiriko sits calmly in an isolated room for 24 hours. She injected herself with the Virus in order to test if her antivirus could work, knowing full well she would most likely die.

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* "Don't do anything."
* *Bob Lennon* in general as an anthem for the heroes and their forces, bonus points for actually existing in real life.
	+ And being *sung* by Urasawa Naoki.