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The Funniest Trope Showdown: Semifinal Poll 2

Which trope is funnier?

Extended Disarming

Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking

Voting ended onJan 19

Extended Disarming

A long sequence of a character removing all the weapons they're carrying.

A character is told to drop all his weapons, or is frisked. He lays down the shotgun, takes the pistol or pistols out of their holsters, and

Propaganda:

I have never seen this trope miss. And since this tends to happen to bodyguards or trigger-happy characters, you also get the bonus of having the stoic one act eccentric for once, or have a character get comically sad or frustrated at having to part with their things, respectively. Funny, and character informing!

Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking

A joke in which several extreme or shocking things are listed followed by one much milder/more mundane thing.

When listing three or more things, the comedy rule is to not finish strong, but to list some strong examples followed by a very weak example

Propaganda:

Both a reversal of expectations and useful for characterization. Also very funny if the character getting accused let's the Arson and the Murder go by but insists that they would never ever Jaywalk.

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The Funniest Trope Showdown: Round 2, Poll 8

Which trope is funnier?

It's For You!

Brick Joke

Voting ended onDec 29, 2025

It's For You!

Character A opens the door to find scary dude/monster/something unpleasant facing him. Character A shuts the door and turns to Character B and cheerfully quips 'it's for you!' Or some variation thereof.

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Propaganda:

It's the most succinct way to 'nope' out of a problem, and make it someone else's problem. Especially effective if Character A is not usually one for cheerful humor, or is at a combat disadvantage compared to Character B.

Brick Joke

Jokes where there's a long time between the set-up and the punchline.

Named after an old joke, which seems at first blush to be a pair of unrelated jokes. At the end of the first joke, a brick is tossed away, l

Propaganda:

When they pay-off, they're some of the funniest things ever and they can make being a long-time fan of something feel really rewarding

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The Funniest Trope Showdown: Round 3, Poll 4

Which trope is funnier?

Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking

Brick Joke

Voting ended onJan 11

Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking

A joke in which several extreme or shocking things are listed followed by one much milder/more mundane thing.

When listing three or more things, the comedy rule is to not finish strong, but to list some strong examples followed by a very weak example

Propaganda:

Both a reversal of expectations and useful for characterization. Also very funny if the character getting accused let's the Arson and the Murder go by but insists that they would never ever Jaywalk.

Brick Joke

Jokes where there's a long time between the set-up and the punchline.

Named after an old joke, which seems at first blush to be a pair of unrelated jokes. At the end of the first joke, a brick is tossed away, l

Propaganda:

When they pay-off, they're some of the funniest things ever and they can make being a long-time fan of something feel really rewarding

#the funniest trope showdown #tfts polls #tropeaganda #arson murder and jaywalking #brick joke

The Funniest Trope Showdown: Round 1, Poll 10

Which trope is funnier?

It Will Never Catch On

Noodle Incident

Voting ended onDec 14, 2025

It Will Never Catch On

A character from the past or an alternate world scoffs at the idea that something currently popular would ever catch on.

Anachronisms are funny. As are "prophecies" uttered by people who are in a position to lose a great deal of influence, money or credibility

Propaganda:

Ahah I'm smarter than a fictional character who doesn't have any of the hindsight I have

Noodle Incident

An incident is referenced without being explained to make it funnier or worse in our heads than anything they could explain.

The Noodle Incident is something from the past that is referred to but never explained, with the implication that it's just too ludicrous fo

Propaganda:

The incidents can be so funny and absurd, especially with the whole bit being never explained or out of context

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The Guilty Pleasure Trope Showdown: FINAL POLL

Which trope makes the best guilty pleasure?

The Military-Grade Power of Friendship

No One Kills Him But Me

Voting ended onJun 22, 2025

No One Kills Him But Me

Somebody doesn't want anyone, sans themself, to defeat someone else.

One person or group considers another person or group as their rival, and will not allow anyone else to be the one to defeat them. This can

Propaganda:

Objectively speaking, a villain who is so obsessed with the hero that they will fight other villains who dare to threaten their murder-bestie is not a villain who is going to succeed in anything. It's stupid behavior, but I just love the idiots who indulge in it.

The Military-Grade Power of Friendship

A subtrope of "The Power of Friendship" where that power is very literal, and manifests in ways such as combined energy attacks, group powerups, etc.

A major theme in all media. The villain or Ineffectual Loner mocks the idea of relying on others, insisting that friends make you weak and o

Propaganda:

It's cheesy and a little silly and over the top, but I love it so much! How rad is it that just by being really good friends and trusting each other, you're suddenly able to one-shot Lord Evil with a rainbow-coloured laser?! Especially if there is an in-universe explanation (even if it's kinda contrived) of how and why does that work! / I love friendship so much

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The Funniest Trope Showdown: Round 1, Poll 1

Which trope is funnier?

Unknown Rival

The Running Gag

Voting ended onDec 14, 2025

Unknown Rival

Character A thinks of Character B as their rival; Character B doesn't think of Character A as a rival, or sometimes doesn't even know who Character A is.

Two characters can be competing for the same goal, without one of them even aware of the competition. Maybe the reason they haven't picked u

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The Running Gag

A joke that recurs throughout a work or an episode.

A joke whose humor derives from repetition, ideally becoming funnier each time it is repeated. Must be repeated at least three times, otherw

Propaganda:

There is nothing funnier than the inevitable reappearance of a well-established repeated joke….especially when they manage to slip the setup by you and drop it as a genuine surprise that you SHOULD HAVE SEEN COMING but DIDN'T. Highest art form in humor.

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The Funniest Trope Showdown: Round 1, Poll 9

Which trope is funnier?

Extended Disarming

Identical Stranger

Voting ended onDec 14, 2025

Extended Disarming

A long sequence of a character removing all the weapons they're carrying.

A character is told to drop all his weapons, or is frisked. He lays down the shotgun, takes the pistol or pistols out of their holsters, and

Propaganda:

Identical Stranger

Two strangers look almost identical.

They say that everybody has got a double somewhere. After all, the Earth has a human population that is more than a immense amount of people

Propaganda:

Can be a great subversion of the Paper-Thin Disguise

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The Funniest Trope Showdown: Round 1, Poll 5

Which trope is funnier?

Who's On First?

Deadpan Door Shut

Voting ended onDec 14, 2025

Who's On First

A comedy scene where the proper names of persons, places, or things sound like lexical parts of speech, pronouns or exclamations, such as Hu, Watt, Mee, Yu, etc, leading to misunderstandings.

A comedy scene where the proper names of persons, places, or things sound like lexical parts of speech, pronouns or exclamations, such as Hu

Propaganda:

Compounding humor

Deadpan Door Shut

A character opens a door to see something bizarre, then simply closes it with very little reaction.

A scene where someone opens something, usually a door, to something completely unexpected: a Crapsack World, Cloudcuckooland, a supposed thr

Propaganda:

The fact that the character doesn't even have a reaction outside of just shutting the door gets me every time. Also, it's so versatile; what's behind the door doesn't have to be a monster.

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