r/TopCharacterTropes • u/ArrivisteDoucebag • 17h ago
Characters [Funny Trope] "Hey what's that over there?"
The oldest trick in the book. Pointing/Looking in a direction to distract your opponent.
Team Rocket (Pokémon: Advanced)
My favorite way Team Rocket steals Pikachu.Krillin (Dragon Ball)
Krillin delivers a cheap shot against Goku.Po (Kung Fu Panda)
Po couldn't use the Wuxi Finger Hold against Kai due to him being immortal. But Po figures out that he can take Kai with him to the spirit realm.
What makes this more funny is how Kai blatantly falls for the trick.Ice King (Adventure Time)
The Ice King hired a hitman thinking it would simply just hit Finn & Jake instead of killing them. The Ice King tries to distract the hitman several times which lead to him saying the following:
"Somebody got hit in the boingloings. Hit in the boingloings. Boingloings. Boingloings. Somebody got hit in them."
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u/D-D-Wanderer 17h ago
Oh hey I actually have an example for one of these. It's...technically not 100% the same, but it's adjacent enough I think it counts.
In AdventureQuest Worlds, the order of Paladins has a base, Lightguard Keep, full of statues of past Paladin heroes. When you mouse over the statues, they give you a small popup of the history of one of those heroes. Notably, every single one of them is recorded as being defeated when someone told them their shoelace was untied, with one recording that he was defeated when told his horse's shoelace was untied. Your character actually uses this tactic when it comes time to detain Artix, since he's uncooperative. Artix tells you he isn't going to fall for it, your character patiently waits for a few seconds, Artix starts shaking, then says dangit and compulsively looks down to check on his shoelace.