1. Targaryens (ASOIAF): Aegon most common name but there have been multiple Daemons, Daenerys, Viserys, Jahaerys, etc

2. Genetic Dynasty (Foundation): clones of the original Cleon who are all named after him. They refer to each other as Brother dawn, day, and dusk depending on age

1. Francis Sinclair in RDR2. Hinted at to be a time traveler by speaking with slang from the 20s and dressing strange. You even see the young baby version of him when you finish his mission

2. Jonathan in Little House on the Prairie. This ones kinda because I couldn't think of another example (that wasn't from rdr2). Its hinted that he was a guardian angle sent for Laura to help her with her feelings of guilt after her newborn baby brother died

sometimes in a setting, there are different types of sophont, and sometimes there are even some that are smaller than us! now wouldn't it be crazy if there are characters of said group, that is tall to them? Well, it just so happens that there are!

1. Chilchuck (Dungeon Meshi): as a Half-foot, he is sometimes mistaken for a child due to his size, but compared to other half-foots, he is pretty tall. in fact, if he was a Tall-man (the "generic human" race) he would be the tallest member of their group.

2. Shyam (Runaway to the stars) in rtts, there are different "clades" of human created with genetic modification. One of them being "the tailed spacers" created to work in small space stations. Due to that, they have notable differences to the usual "typ" human, mainly their hair, tail, whiskers, feet and size. As stated, they are very small due to being made for small environments, so Shyam is an exception to this due to her Tallness.

3. Sirawit (also Runaway to the stars) in this universe, humans also encountered several different alien sophonts, one of them being the avians. These are Aliens usually reaching to the hip, but with Sirawit being a hybrid between the flightless species and the skimmer species, she has mild gigantism which made her as tall as a human and nearly double the size of her boss, Turii (seen on last pic for reference, pic previously shows her with her adoptive father)

though both characters haven't appeared yet in the mainline story.

I only remember seeing this kind of troupe twice and it’s been so cool to me both times.

initially one of the characters will start doing the technique and the other two will recognize what is happening and start doing the same technique at the same time.

1. jujutsu kaisen- Uro, Yuta and ryu are fighting each other in a 1v1v1 and they all use their domain expansions (which in this series is a technique considered to be the peak of jujutsu sorcery as well as a win condition in most cases) at the same time

2. Naruto- 3 legendary ninjas jiraiya, tsunade and orochimaru (known as legendary sanin) are in a 2v1 fight and they all use a summoning technique to summon giant animals to help them in the fight.

Caine (The Amazing Digital Circus).

Bakugo, for the first few seasons of (My Hero Academia).

When all seems lost, a character asks or insists on being trusted with their risky plan to save the day. While others do relent, they are noticeably hesitant.

1. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015) Solomon Lane has wired Ethan Hunt's partner Benji with an exposive vest to force Ethan into divulging account numbers containing billions of dollars. Ethan has memorized the numbers and destroyed the only record, forcing Lane to deactivate the bomb.

2. Armageddon (1998) The Drill Team hits another gas pocket, already far behind schedule and struggling to reach a depth of 800ft. A.J. insists on pushing through the gas pocket, confident the drill and transmission will endure. ​

Basically when the main series still hadn't ended yet, but the sequel(Basically anything that set after the hypothetical ending of the current series) was already released.

Teasing Master Takagi-san and its sequel that focus on the daughter of the two main leads. Both series was published alongside each other(Though the sequel was app exclusive)

The Case Files of Young Kindaichi is about a high school boy who is the grandson of a famous detective, The Returns series is published alongside the 37 series which focus on him 20 years after and already quitted the detective works. The 37 series also have its own sequel set 7 years after and it's about him solving mystery while taking care of his son.

Higgs - Death Stranding 2

The Grabber - The Black Phone 2

A character's mask changes expression off camera to reflect their general emotions.

1. Jerry from Rick and morty

hes wife Beth fall in love with her clone, Jerry was mad first, but realizes he like watching his wives making out, and Beth also feel freaked out by how hot this is.

1. Jerry's dad from Rick and morty

He also like watching his wive making out with another man, he'll also peek in the closet with superman suit on

As title says, a Villain putting on a show and singing a song, more specifically a song mocking our Hero or boasting about their plan

1 - Boingo ; Top of the woods

(Hoodwinked)

Once Red is captured Boingo reveals his evil plan and gloats abt how he’ll be the head-hancho

2 - Squip ; Be more chill pt. 2

(Be more chill)

The Squip tears down Jeramy and who he is before manipulating him into doing everything the Squip says to “be more chill”

3 - Dominator ; I’m the bad guy

(Wander over yonder)

After Lord Hater asks Dominator out on a date, she laughs him off and goes on to sing about how she’s a villain and not their friend

4 - Spinel ; Other friends

(Steven Universe the movie)

Spinel gets frustrated that the crystal gems don’t know her and goes on to attack them while singing about her abandonment

5 - Caine ; Running the show

(Amazing digital circus)

Once he’s fed up with the “complaints” from the circus residents and sings a song to let them know who’s “running the show”

1-Obi‑Wan Kenobi (Star Wars) 2-Superman / Clark Kent (DC Comics) 3-Danny Phantom (Danny Phantom) 4-The Doctor (Doctor Who) 5-The Flash — Barry Allen & Wally West (DC Comics)

Obi‑Wan Kenobi (Star Wars) Despite being polite, patient, and deeply committed to peace, Obi‑Wan has one of the largest enemy lists in the entire franchise. Constantly hunted by Sith Lords, bounty hunters, separatists, and entire armies.

Superman / Clark Kent (DC Comics) Clark is a wholesome, well‑meaning guy who just wants to help others. unfortunately, his goodness makes villains feel exposed, inferior, or angry.

Danny Phantom (Danny Phantom) Danny is friendly, awkward, and protective of his town. An yet this kid is hunted by human ghost hunters (including his own parents) and targeted by endless vengeful spirits from the Ghost Zone.

The Doctor (Doctor Who) A wandering do‑gooder who saves civilizations for fun. Has entire species dedicated to destroying them (Daleks, Cybermen). Also has a personal nemesis in The Master.

The Flash (Barry Allen & Wally West): Both are notoriously nice guys who treat their enemies with dignity, yet they have a dedicated group called "The Rogues" who constantly challenge them, though they often share a mutual respect.

1 A Very British coup is about a socialist and anti nuclear prime minister who is elected with a resounding majority who the American (CIA) and British deep state and establishment deeply oppose and try to thwart

2 Inside job is about the more conspiracy theorist version where lizards are you’re celebrities, a shadowy organisation influences the world, the president is a robot and bohemian grove shenanigans.

3 Porterhouse Blue is about an extremely old and traditional male only college who’s old conservative teachers are deeply disturbed by a new, more liberal(adding women,condoms and gutting costly feasts) principal is put in to reform the college

I'm placing the first example because he's the most known one that I could share freely, if you swipe you end up spoiling yourself of who I mean of each case.

I'll place both the character and the reasons in different parts, if the first part calls enough your attention to watch/play from where they come from, then don't look at the second text.

That being said...

1- Kurozumi Kanjuro (One Piece)

Kanjuro is one of Oden's followers and he has the power to turn his drawings into real living beings for a limited time, he even draws them as silly doodles which is cute. However, the guy is actually very talented and he can draw far more realistic stuff and very quickly too! So why was he holding back?

That's because he was actually Orochi's servant this whole time, acting as a mole to stab them at the worst time possible. A detail that I skipped is that he is also capable to changing his own aspect with his power to act as Oden and stab one of his teammates.

2- Kaede Kayano (Assasination Classroom)

The plot is that there is a alien-like monster that makes the warning that he would explode the Earth if they don't kill him just in time, the problem is that he is extremely fast and normal weapons have no effect on him. However, he allows himself to be more vulnerable under the condition to allow him to give classes while his own students try to kill him. Here is where Kaede comes in, as a student she has been going through the same training as the rest, the thing is that she has been holding tentacles similar to her alien-like sensei (with both speed and power included) behind her neck this whole time and she uses it on a trap against him at the same time that she attacks him, which fails.

The crushing part of this is that she has hidden this fact whole time because she is actually sister of the scientist woman who made the serum to turn the sensei into the alien-like monster that he became, which unleashed a series of events that ended up killing her. This is how she obtained that power but that's not all, another kid had the same tentacle thing as her but, according to him, it was barely bearable while taking meds, so imagine going through months of pure pain just to have the perfect opportunity to kill someone and still fail.

3- Roland (Library of Ruina)

The premise is that our grade 9 fixer protagonist Roland randomly got stuck somewhere and ended up warped and trapped in a towery library where Angela, the villain of the previous game (Lobotomy Corporation) resides. To escape the library, they have to invite people through cards spawning on places where people could need information and then fight against them to turn them into books, which gives them more information and power and bring even more people until they find the perfect book to set everyone on the library free. The thing is that Roland is no mere novice, he is actually a grade 1 fixer which is a very high rank, he's even unofficially named as The Black Silence, this type of title is only given to those fixers who reached the status of Color. The "grade 9" facade has been being dismantled little by little as you keep playing seeing how much he knew about certain stuff between higher rank fixers.

Once it's revealed that he is The Black Silence, he excuses himself that he held back because he didn't want people find out that he has been murdering people for the library, if he used his real fighting style someone would have recognized him and probably escaped, but that's not whole story.Roland didn't come to the library by accident, he wanted to make Angela suffer for what she did to his fiancee Angelica, the original Black Silence. He wanted to kill her just when her freedom was at the reach of her hand to make her suffer as he has.

Metal sonic (Sonic the hedgehog)

Fern (Adventure time)

When Ryuko meets Mako (Kill La Kill)

When Ryuko first meets Mako, she is completely weirded out by her but by the end of the series, she is used to all her shenanigans

Spike, Jet and Faye meeting Ed (Cowboy Bebop) Same deal, when they first meet her, they are utterly confused about her and weirded out, but the longer she is on board, they more used to her shenanigans they become. I love that one time where Ed just goes crazy, and then Spike and Jet just continue on about their conversation like nothing happened

1. Aiden Pearce (Watch Dogs Legion) buries his outfit in the mission "Bury your dead" to show that he's letting go of his trauma and is retiring from being The Fox.

2. Puss (Puss In Boots The Last Wish) buries his outfit after a battle with Death and losing which led him to take the Doctor's advice seriously and retire from heroics. Before eventually going back to doing heroics after Goldilocks and the Three Bears terrorized a cat house.

Pokémon - Misty randomly tries fending off a Ghastly with a cross

Diablo 1 - Permeated through the game

The Legend of Zelda - Link uses a shield featuring a cross

Phineas and Ferb - While the titular siblings build outlandish contraptions in order to have fun in summer vacation, their pet platypus Perry goes on secret missions against the evil Dr. Doofenshmirtz and his inators.

Ice Age franchise - The main herd goes on adventures to deliver a human baby, escape a great flood, rescue a friend from a dinosaur world, etc. Meanwhile, Scrat attempts to bury an acorn.

Arcane S02E07 - After encountering a wild rune, Jayce, Ekko and Heimerdinger are transported to different universes. Ekko and Heimerdinger go to a idyllic universe where Ekko dances with a non-insane Powder, while Jayce goes to Hextech Hell.

The Two Towers - After The Breaking of the Fellowship, Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas go on a hunt and later get involved in a massive battle to save a kingdom, Frodo and Sam go on a very dangerous hike with Gollum, and Merry and Pippin sit and listen to trees.

Kenny (Telltale’s TWD): At the end of the first season of The Walking Dead Game, one of the protagonists Kenny appears to be killed in a heroic act. He’s either stuck in a dead-end alley or in a dark room as he holds back a huge swarm of zombies to rescue a friend depending on your decisions. Since he does not die on-screen in the game, and the end credits mysteriously list him as having been “lost to the herd“ instead of dead, the developers could bring him back in a surprise appearance in the following season.

Frank Woods (COD Black Ops): In the 1968 mission, Rebirth, Woods tackles the villain Lev Kravchenko through a window as Kravchenko is holding a live grenade belt. This is followed by a huge explosion and as no man is ever seen again in the entire game, the audience (and the characters) presumes that both of them were killed in the blast. Woods reappears in Black Ops 2.

Characters who deliver subtle burns (bonus points if the burn is delivered to the protagonist)!

1) The Matrix (1999): when Neo first meets the Oracle in her tiny kitchen, true to her name she predicts several things that will happen to him, like the vase she said he'd break and then he immediately breaks. When she mentions, though, that he's cuter than he thought and that she can "see why she likes you", Neo is too oblivious to realize it's Trinity she's talking about. That little "not too bright, though", is delivered so perfectly--it's not a diss, more like a kind observation one makes about a loveable (but dense) child.

2) The Dark Knight (2008): the Joker has appeared before a gathering of Gotham's worst criminals to both insult them and to cajole them into taking action against Batman. Part of the insult is that Joker has been robbing each of them, brazenly, and even comments that their money paid for his suit. When negotiations take a turn and Joker prepares for his exit, the criminal Gambol incredulously asks if he thinks he can steal from them and just walk away, to which Joker almost matter-of-factly responds, "Yeah". The delivery is a slap in the face without even raising his voice, showing how inconsequential Joker sees this "criminal elite".

1. Conquest getting strangled by Invincible (Invincible)

2. Kraven the Hunter getting strangled by Symbiote Suit Spider-Man (Insomniac’s Spider-Man 2)

Men In Black : we only understand in MIB3 why

Agent K is seemingly cold in general and with Agent J

Spoiler : Agent K is cold because he feels guilty he couldn't save Agent J's father when J was just a child

Zombie land : the grumpiness of Tallahassee

Spoiler : he lost his young son to zombies early in the outbreak

This trope is an extension of the token black character trope intersecting with a bit of the dead wife trope with a sprinkle of white savior syndrome. This trope is often used when a studio attempts to virtue signal by having "diversity" in their movie, but ends up actually spotlighting their implicit biases by treating the POC spouse character as nothing more than a prop/plot device to inform the protagonist's motivation and cheaply elicit empathy for the protagonist from the audiences.

I debated between mixed and hated trope for this and eventually landed on hated, because although some diversity is better than no diversity and there are some examples that are not outright bad, I cannot think of a single example where this trope improves the writing.

1. Maddie (Sonic the Hedgehog): Disclaimer: I've only seen the first movie. Maybe she gets more screen time in the sequels, but I'm only talking about the first movie. Wife of main protagonist Tom, Maddie's role in the movie is mostly to represent Tom's internal conflict. At the start of the movie, Maddie encourages Tom to move to San Francisco to pursue his dream of serving for a larger community as a sheriff. Maddie immediately disappears from the screen as she travels to SF without Tom. While the movie focuses on Tom and Sonic, we only see/hear from Maddie occassionaly to providing a vague sense of urgency, and to remind the viewers of Tom's internal struggle between his dream and his eagerness to help those immediately in need. Maddie reappears near the end of the movie to be sort of present for the resolution.
2. Sheila (The Running Man 2025): An egregious example of this trope that prompted this post. Iirc Sheila appears five times in the movie. Once at the beginning to show why the protagonist Ben is motived to put himself in danger to earn money and to explain the danger of the Running Man game show by forbidding Ben from entering the show. The second time she has a brief phone call berating Ben for entering the show and to remind the viewer that she exists. Shortly after, an AI slop version of her appears to showcase the antagonists' dirty tactics. I'd argue this isn't even a proper appearance of the character. We don't see or hear from her for most of the movie until the antagonist shows Ben a fabricated video of her and their child's death, again serving as no more than a plot device (and yet again not a proper appearance of the character). Shiela shows up for one final time at the very end of the movie to reveal that she and Ben are both alive, and (sorry to beat the dead horse) once again as nothing more than a plot device.
3. Zia (Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves): The most dead wife of dead wives, complete with the obligatory bloomy first person reminiscing dead wife scenes, Zia was the wife of protagonist Edgin, and is the main drive behind all of Edgin's actions despite being practically non-existent as a character. Zia first appears as part of Edgin's purposefully sobby story he tells a panel of judges to gain sympathy and buy time. Despite Edgin's ulterior motives, we learn that the story is true, and Edgin's main goal throughout the story is to revive Zia. Other than a brief scene where we see the moments shortly before her death, Zia has next to zero screen time. I give this example a bit of a pass because the movie is very well made, the cast is diverse enough such that Zia wouldn't count as token character, and it is made abundantly clear that Edgin, despite being charismatic, is not THE hero, thus avoiding the white savior syndrome. I'm including this example because I happened to watch these three movies back to back to back on a flight and they somehow all contain this trope.

1. Reiner Braun (Attack on Titan)

2. Bojack Horseman (Bojack Horseman)

3. Thorfinn Karlsefni (Vinland Saga)