What is your favorite shonenshit cliche?For me, it's introducing an enemy group with "that guy you beat was just the weakest of us". Gets me every time.
When a character seems about to die but doesn't. Bonus points if it takes several chapters
When a villain that takes themself super seriously and tries to act suave and ruthless all the time has to fight someone with goofy powers/gimmicks who keeps pissing them off
>>288855949For me it is the loudmouthed best friend who is a complete jobber and loses all his fights but still talks trash as if he is some big important member of the team even though the MC is doing 90% of the heavy lifting.
>>288855949The giant organization group shot in the beginning of the series at the end of the first arc or during the second. "This is the main characters group you'll find out about this guy in 60 chapters and everyone will say hes peak"
>>288855949Everybody is strong as fuck at the end of an arc where they beat the shit out of the Smugtalk bad guys through the power of friendshipAnd then the next episode at the start of a new arc has those same characters getting one shot by a random shitter walking by on the sidewalkAlso known as the Fairy Tail method
>>288855949>heh I can go all out against you>does retarded obvious shit like starting to use their hands instead of only kicks, removes training weights, opens closed eye etc>fuckhuge power up
the strongest character going up against the antagonist already, setting up to either lose badly or die
>>288855949Tournament arc. Wish there were more. Complete ones.
>>288855949I now remember this post >>237813911Has anyone ever filled out a chart of this?
Not sure if this counts as a troupe but for me it's>villain with the most basic bitch abilities from the first seasons comes back to fight the new villain with more advanced and hax abilitiesKinnikuman is my absolute favorite with these kinds of moments
>>288855949Whatever this is.
>>288855949Sudden vocal theme.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osoIJPhuG2A
>>288855949I don't keep track of cliches because I'm not a nerdy faggot
>>288858351> I'm not a nerd>is on /a/lol, lmao
>>288858351Way to out you don't have pattern recognition
>Series involves supernatural powers, broken abilities, magic stuff>Last fight is the main character and the antagonist leaving all of that aside and just straight up pummeling each others with their fists
>>288856036What about the opposite: one of the important characters gets knocked unconscious that's seen in passing, only to be revealed as dead later on (I'm looking at you, Midnight).
>>288856570One Piece? Did they ever got rid of that character?
>>288856770Ash Ketchum's Pikachu in a new region moment
>>288860779It's not just One Piece. Think Joey from Yu Gi Oh or Kuwabara from Yu Yu Hakusho or Bejita from Dragon Ball Z or Renji from Bleach
>>288857849More points if it happens during the final battle.
Mystery niggas
>>288855949HxH did the opposite, Uvogin was among the strongest of them and died first
When the main character dies and is removed from the story for like 5 to 8 chapters
>>288855949It's more romance shonen but> Lesbian fridge obsessing over the snack end up falling for the male MC anywayUsually in shonen harem, but this can happen in non-harem shoujo too and it gets me giddy everytime.
>>288855949Loudmouth with a heart of goldstrong evil group that the heroes need to beatgetting stronger from losing battles
>>288855949>main character loses their signature ability>main character later reacquires their signature ability
>character has pompadour>automatically becomes the best character in the seriesI don't make the rules.
>>288856570Half of the first season of Initial D was this trope. At least it didn't go on like that.
>main villain shows up way too early and smokes protagonists easily>sensei character forced to pull out techniques that completely and utterly outclass anything seen up to that pointmost recent example I can think of is qifrey with the dragon (sort of)
>>288855949I like when there's an edgy rival who becomes bros with the protagonist.
>support cast member has to step and fight because there's no one left>he's a badass
>>288866421I do love this.
>>288855949old sensei ends up dying protecting the new generation.
>>288866417Iggy was such a jobber
>>288855949piano playing main villain
Act 1 villain comes back to join the team to face down the true villain
>>288855949How do they determine the "weakest" of them?Is he just the equiv of a midget they keep around because it's funny?
>>288855949Opening song out of nowhere for the final battle even though it's complete tone deaf
Fighting under a fuckhuge moon at night, bonus points if it's red
>>288864790Bleach multiple times
>bro character has been hiding his power level and unleashes it when the MC is KO'd
>>288855949the main character losing it and goes berserk, the close up camera angle, his companions/friends who are shiting the bed, the enemy who's kinda on edge etchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XCKamWlCEohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPITLOb99JE
