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This isn't when a character has a real-sounding name that translates roughly to something describing death or lethality; this is when the character/weapon/machine/attack has a stupid-sounding name that's so on the nose about killing that it becomes funny. Sort of like "The Move that kills Sonic" except official, either as part of a joke or perhaps not. It also shouldn't be anything like "Death Beam" or "Kill Driver" from Dragon Ball; the name should FEEL ridiculous.

1. Killingyouguy!: Killingyouguy! is a villain from the fictionalized Dangeresque series of movies in Homestar Runner/Strong Bad emails. The exclamation mark and the fact that it's one word are very important. I like how the name specifies that he's the KillingYOUGuy!, just so you know he's not killing someone else.

2. Punch of Kill Everything: The Punch of Kill Everything (or POKE) is a move used by Lugnut in Transformers: Animated and others. This one started off as a fake fan-made name before becoming the official name of this attack.

3. Super Warrior Unit that Crushes Everything: Most Dragon Ball attack names are pretty reasonable. Then there's the ones, usually in games, that are named after quotes they uttered before launching the attack (e.g. Gohan's "I'm Here to Kill You"). Then there's the ones with long ass Japanese names that sound silly when translated to English (like Piccolo's Special Beam Cannon being named the "Demon Penetrating Killing Light Gun). My vote goes to "Super Warrior Unit that Crushes Everything". It's not enough to just call it a combined attack launched by a "Super Warrior Unit", it's also important to note that it crushes everything. Not just everyONE, but everyTHING. The only thing that would make this better is if the article read like the "The Move that kills Sonic" meme edit.

This is when the characters are in the middle of doing something (usually something that you wouldn't expect them to interrupt) and they stop themselves to make a statement that seems out of place given the situation, before they suddenly resume what they were doing. Bonus points if what the character is doing is completely out of their control, but they're able to suddenly stop just to make their remark before going back to being out of control.

1. Spongebob Squarepants: In the episode "Pizza Delivery", Spongebob and Squidward trek through a windstorm. Spongebob gets swept off his feet as he desperately holds on to the pizza, and Squidward insists that Spongebob let go so the wind stops blowing him around. Spongebob refuses because the pizza is for the customer, to which Squidward responds that he doesn't care about the customer. The wind suddenly stops and Spongebob freezes in place as he lets out an appalled "*Gasp* Squidward!" After which the wind immediately picks back up and Spongebob returns to being blown around.
2. Austin Powers in Goldmember: At one point, Nigel's car gets a dinosaur-shaped float stuck to it, making it look like a kaiju is attacking. Two Japanese men are panicking and fleeing, with one of them mistaking the float for Godzilla... and then the other spontaneously stops to randomly point out that it LOOKS like Godzilla, but due to international copyright laws, it's not. Still, they should run like it IS Godzilla, though it isn't. They then immediately go back to screaming and running as if nothing happened.
3. The Angry Video Game Nerd: During the episode "Batman (Part 2)", the Joker has tied the Bat-Nerd up and is laughing at the latter's misfortune as he's forced to play shitty Batman games. For the most part, the Joker simply laughs and bounces around and makes silly comments. At one point, as the Joker cackles madly, the Bat-Nerd gives him a big "shut up!" The Joker suddenly stops laughing and goes still, staring daggers into the Bat-Nerd. He says "fuck you, motherfucker!!" and then immediately resumes laughing and bouncing around. This normally wouldn't be very out of place except the Joker goes from animated and jolly, to still and super pissed off, and back to animated and jolly in the span of about three seconds, and he doesn't really get pissed off at any other point in the episode.

Many franchises employ the "multiverse" style of storytelling by stating that the different depictions of concepts in different continuities exist in "parallel universes". This is when the different depictions are supposed to be in the same universe, and there's a conscious effort to unite the depictions in a single continuity without falling back on the "they're from different timelines in the multiverse" explanation. Note that some of these franchises DO employ a multiverse with separate continuities, but avoided doing so for these situations.

#1: Godzilla and Zilla:

Godzilla has many different incarnations in many different continuities. Godzilla is traditionally depicted as an upright-walking giant monster with maple leaf-shaped dorsal spines, the ability to breathe an atomic breath, and is immune to conventional weaponry. Typically, these are explained as different interpretations of the character in different continuities.

The American 1998 Tristar adaptation of Godzilla instead has a horizontal posture not unlike a T-Rex, forward-pointing conical spines, no ability to spew any flame-like substance from its mouth, and no resistance to conventional weaponry.

Toho, the creators of Godzilla, was so annoyed by this depiction that they decided that the Tristar Godzilla actually coexisted with the "real" Godzilla, just so they could say that the Tristar version is a fake. In Godzilla Mothra King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All out Attack, a character implies that the Tristar Godzilla was simply another giant irradiated reptile that the Americans mistook for Godzilla. Since Toho owned the design for the Tristar Godzilla, further depictions of the character would be renamed "Zilla", and the two would appear alongside each other in certain works, most notably Godzilla Final Wars where Godzilla fought and defeated Zilla in about fourteen seconds.

#2: The Yardrats in Dragon Ball:

To escape the destruction of planet Namek, Goku boards a spaceship and flies to the planet Namek, where he meets the friendly natives and learns new techniques from them. In the original manga, the Yardrats were never shown on-screen aside from their clothing (which Goku was wearing when he returned to Earth), so only the design of their clothes were known.

Anime filler depicted the Yardrats as lanky creatures with bulbous heads, pink skin, pointy ears, and wrinkly faces. This design would later be adapted in the Dragon Ball Super anime. However, between these two instances, series creator Akira Toriyama introduced his own designs for Yardrats, which were shorter and stockier with melon-shaped heads with a pointed tip and cartoonish facial features, which was used in spin-offs.

Eventually, in the Dragon Ball Super manga, Goku and Vegeta return to the planet Yardrat for training, where it's revealed that both types of Yardrat exist simultaneously and live alongside each other; Vegeta even acknowledges that there are multiple types, lampshading the discrepancy in the designs.

#3: The Matrix of Leadership/Optimus Prime's spark chamber in Transformers:

In the Generation 1 Transformers movie, it's revealed that Optimus Prime is carrying the Matrix of Leadership in his chest, which is a round orange artifact with gray handles, and is passed down through Autobot commanders and contains the knowledge of all of the previous Autobot leaders, as well as possessing the ability to eradicate evil.

The sequel series Beast Wars has a scene depicting the round thing with handles in Optimus' chest as his spark chamber (essentially the organ that houses his soul), which is a fundamentally different object. It was also colored white for some reason - most likely, they had designed the spark chamber to resemble the Matrix by mistake, causing a lot of confusion.

The later comic Primeval Dawn explained that the white object IS indeed Optimus' spark chamber, and the orange Matrix of Leadership is hidden behind the spark chamber. Based on the text ("that which the spark protected"), it can be inferred that the design of the spark chamber may have been deliberately based on the Matrix's design in-universe, to act as a sort of decoy.

#4: Pseudo-example - Goombas/Galoombas in Super Mario Bros:

Goombas are the common brown mushroom-shaped enemies in Super Mario Bros, seen on the right of image 4. They're very weak and can be defeated by a single stomp. The Goombas from Super Mario World (left of image 4), on the other hand, look and act different. They have a chestnut-shaped design, a yellow patch on their face, and stomping them merely flips them over, requiring further damage to defeat.

Later games would have them appear alongside each other before Super Mario 3D World finally renamed them "Galoombas", an offshoot of the normal mushroom-shaped Goombas. This is only a pseudo-example because the "Goombas" from Super Mario World have always had a different name in Japanese (Kuribon, instead of Kuribo), meaning that they were always meant to be distinct, and this phenomenon only applies from the perspective of an English-speaker.

Did a 6 hour print overnight on my Prusa Core ONE which stopped like 1/8 of the way through because the nozzle formed a cap that blocked the filament flow. I was printing with PETG and I guess the temperature wasn't high enough. I was using 230 degrees C, which was the minimum recommended on the spool although I've heard people say 240 minimum; I've been having trouble with stringing and burns so I wanted to keep it as low as I could. The next day when I found my printer and tried to fix the blocked nozzle, the filament got stuck and the nextruder was making clattering sounds. When I took it apart, the gears seemed to be way more wobbly than before. Does this thing need to be replaced? I assume yes.

Edit: This issue has been resolved. For those that may also be wondering about this, here's what the issue was:

The planetary gears are not broken. I had misremembered how wobbly the gears were; for some reason, I was under the impression that they were less wobbly in this disassembled state, but I guess my memory is just bad. I had heard the clattering noise and thought that the gears were wobbling inside the printhead, but at one point I ran the printhead without the lid on it and found that the gears were "skipping" - basically, they would spin a bit but return to their original position with a "clank" sound because they couldn't push the filament. Turns out that there was a massive piece of unmelted PETG filament stuck down below, and the new filament was unable to push the old filament out.

I eventually dismantled part of the extruder enough to get a grip on the old filament with pliers, and it was REALLY stuck in there. It was giving a ton of resistance, but it eventually came out. Unfortunately, there seemed to STILL be a little bit of filament left in the hotend, so I cranked the hotend temperature up to 270 and the blockage finally melted away, and the new filament was able to push through, with the gears no longer skipping. Hope this helps someone else.

Apologies for the awkward title, but I wanted to include things beyond first and last name.

These are the situations where you basically go, "wow, they just named the character or thing after their surname or what they are."

I'm excluding characters such as Bongo Bongo from the Legend of Zelda and Black Noir from The Boys, since neither halves of their names seems to be a "surname", meaning that their name is just a normal given name that happens to be made of two words. However, if you can say that one part is sort of a "shared name" while the other part is a "personal name", then it's a go.

1. In the Super Mario Bros. film from 1993, Mario's full name is "Mario Mario". This means that Luigi's full name is "Luigi Mario".

2. In Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, Link can learn a number of spells, including the "Shield Spell", "Jump Spell", and "Fire Spell". One of these spells is called the "Spell Spell", with the first "Spell" being the identifier (what it does) and the second "Spell" being the shared name (it's a spell).

3. Master Shifu from Kung Fu Panda. The first "Master" is the shared part (he's a master), and "Shifu" is his actual name... except "Shifu" also means "Master", so his name is "Master Master".

4. The city of New York, New York. The first "New York" is the actual name; the second "New York" is the "shared" name, identifying which state it's in.

5. Because the scientific names of species are split into a genus first half and a species second half, the first half can be considered the "surname" while the second half can be considered the "given name". Naturally, there are many species that fit the bill, such as Boops boops (the bogue), Gallus gallus (the red junglefowl), and this is to go even further beyond: Gorilla gorilla gorilla (western lowland gorilla).

This excludes instances where someone is revealed to be alive at the very very end before the credits; if the credits haven't started rolling yet, I wouldn't count it. If you're too hasty and get out of your seat as soon as the credits start rolling, then you'll miss out on these revelations!

1. ("Missing" example) Bernard from Megamind: While trying to evade Roxanne at the Metro Man Museum, Megamind runs into its curator, Bernard. Megamind hastily shoots Bernard with his Dehydration Gun, turning Bernard into a small cube, and Megamind assumes Bernard's identity using his disguise generator. The original Bernard (in cube form) is placed into Megamind's clothes and forgotten about, until the mid-credits scene shows that Megamind's clothing was washed with Bernard in it, restoring him to normal.
2. ("Dead" example) Mirage from Transformers: Rise of the Beasts: During the final battle, Mirage has all his limbs severed by the villainous Scourge while protecting his human ally, Noah. He uses the last of his strength to transform into an exosuit for Noah to use, apparently sacrificing himself. However, in a mid-credits scene, it's shown that Noah has built him a new body, seemingly using what remained of Mirage's mind in the exosuit, allowing Mirage to live again.
3. (Debatably canon "Doomed" example) Mayor Shelbourne from Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: After the "The End" text and right before the credits, the villainous and gluttonous Mayor can be seen drifting in the ocean after he had eaten the sandwich-raft that he had fled on. I've seen some people think that he was essentially doomed to die here, but the credits show that he was recovered by the Earl and arrested, but escapes; he shows up again in the credits for the second movie in a similar manner, selling corn dogs. You could make the argument that this isn't meant to be taken literally, though, since the credits for both movies are fairly whimsical and fantastical (notably, he's no longer massively obese in the image attached because he touched a pointy arrow-shaped sign and deflated like a balloon).
4. (Possible "Dead" example) Mothra from Godzilla Final Wars: Mothra appears during the final battle to assist Godzilla, but is attacked by Gigan. Gigan slices off part of her wing and sets her on fire, but she charges out of the flames and flies into Gigan, seemingly destroying them both. The credits sequence of the movie is primarily composed of footage from the movie, though there are a few notable exceptions: there's a scene of Hedorah attacking a city, and a scene of Mothra returning to Infant Island, her fairies smiling upon seeing her return. These scenes don't show up anywhere else in the movie, and it's ambiguous whether or not the latter scene is meant to indicate Mothra's survival, or if it's simply a deleted scene not meant to be taken literally (of note is that her wing does not appear to be damaged in this scene, creating a contradiction with the film unless she can regrow it, something she's never been shown to do).
5. (Meta "Doomed" example) Humanity from Wall•E: The humans in Wall•E have not been on Earth for about 700 years, instead living in a spaceship where everything is done for them by machines, causing them to become inept and overweight. Earth has been heavily polluted, but the humans end up returning to Earth, excited to live on their homeworld again. Test audiences had trouble believing that the humans would be able to survive on the wasteland-like Earth, so the credits scene was designed to depict the humans and robots successfully restoring the ecosystem, building cities, and learning to take care of themselves and the environment and thriving.

Say what you want about Nostalgia Critic, but I think Satan (played by Malcolm Ray) is pretty cool. He's just a dude in a suit and hat, but it's a cool-looking dude in a cool-looking suit and hat. It's not a red guy with horns, but I think he still looks like the head honcho of Hell that he is, and he has the appropriate deep voice.

I also like that he can be pretty friendly and reasonable; he tortures those who do evil and go to Hell, but has reservations about objects of torment being cast into the human world due to the damage they can cause. He's also allowed to be funny and silly when the moment calls for it.

I saw a post somewhere (I can't remember where) where OP said that they hated when aquatic Pokémon aren't water-type. I'm the opposite; I think it's great for variety when aquatic Pokémon are NOT water-type, and in fact I would like it to happen more often. In my mind, just because the creature lives in water doesn't necessarily mean they have to be good at manipulating water. You can find a lot of Pokémon who live in tall grass that aren't grass-type. Most Pokémon live on land which means that they live in AIR, but they don't necessarily have to be able to be good at manipulating air. I think that it's fine for a Pokémon's type to deviate from the environment they inhabit, at least part of the time.

The noun should have no connection to the verb. "The laxatives that make you shit" is not funny because that's what laxatives do and there's a biological and chemical reason why they make you shit. "The powder that makes you say 'yes'" is funny because how does that even work

This is often meant as an exaggerated depiction of damage being taken, and/or to depict someone REALLY down on their luck. I'm not including stuff like "defeating the enemy in the video game makes it blow up" because usually those are not meant to be funny (they could still be, though), but as a development shortcut. Bonus points if nobody notices or cares about the huge explosion, as if it were expected.

1. Spongebob is full of these. My favourite example is when Squidward falls off the cliff in the "My Pretty Seahorse" episode, as shown in the image (especially since there's a slight delay before he blows up). Other examples include after the random guy gets kicked by the Seahorse in the same episode, or when Squidward falls off the cliff in the "Jellyfishing" episode. A similar thing happens to Squidward in the "Slide Whistle Stooges" episode, but that doesn't count because he was driving a fuel tanker at the time, so the explosion actually makes sense.

2. I couldn't find a better picture, but in the Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy in the "Reap Walking" episode, a parody of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends comes on the TV called "Fister's House for Crazy Weirdo Made-up People". The show consists of the Crazy Weirdo Made-up People blabbering nonsense in the foyer of Fister's House, after which it blows up for no reason.

3. In Charlie the Unicorn, the Candy Mountain Letters sing a song to try to convince Charlie to enter the Candy Mountain Cave. After their song ends, they all make their exit by blowing up. Nobody remarks on their apparent violent deaths.

4. Semi-example: in Dragon Ball Z, during the first fight between Vegeta and Zarbon, Zarbon piledrives Vegeta into the ground, causing a huge fiery eruption instead of the usual dust cloud. This isn't remarked upon in the original material, making it not an example of this trope since it was probably done out of style rather than humor. However, Dragon Ball Z Abridged makes the moment closer to this trope by having Vegeta acknowledge that yes, that was a fiery explosion that he just caused when he hit the ground, and he doesn't know why.

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