In the early 00’s the Swiss army was performing a training wargame in which one company took over a small Swiss town and another would attempt to liberate the town. The villagers, caught unaware, went along with the exercise. When they were finish the Swiss realized they had made a huge mistake, and had in fact…

“character pulls tarp off of something they thought they'd put away for good," be it car, motorcycle, or costume. 

Commando’s armor up scene is so good they stole it for Operation Wolf.

I think one of my favorite examples of this trope is, if not visually, at least in terms of audio one of the more quiet/somber takes on the trope.

Cause Goddamn, the scene near the end of Fury Road with Nux flipping the rig over on Rictus, taking himself out and pulling a John Landis-grade multi-car pile-up on the rest…

When the guy everyone thinks is a joke reveals themselves to be fucking awesome.

No way am I going to name my favourite cliches. Nuh uh. Forget it  Never gonna happen.

Rooted in readings of Lovecraft from an early age, I’ve always thought of the ominous warning as the Cryptic Local (more of a character than an event). Cryptic Locals excel at delivering incomplete exposition. Some Cryptic Locals have nearly incomprehensible accents or are drunks, so the protagonist may struggle to…

Im a massive sucker for the Heroic Last Stand cliché. We’re not gonna make it! I’ll hold them off! Play dramatic music as the hero cuts down as many bad guys as possible before dying.  Whether its a game like Halo Reach or something historical like the Alamo.  I love it.

So it tested my knowledge of 80s music since I grew up then. The results are interesting how it shows how low % of that era is to Gen Z- but there is one assumption I think that’s being made there. We can’t assume because someone in Gen Z doesn’t currently know a song that this means they never will. Gen Z is as young…

Yeah, I was expecting some formic based racism or one of the ants saying that Hitler at least kept his hill in order or something.

Not just worse business sense, but the ability to create drama and negative attention like nothing else. I have so many issues with Kardashians, but they have always been ruthlessly effective with how they make their money and they were rich to begin with! Every moment of Kim and crew over the last fifteen years has…

There’s a reason TV Tropes has an article for “Worst News Judgement Ever.”

Like everybody else my age (39), I love the BTTF films, and I think the biggest part of that is the absolutely effortless chemistry between Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd. You don’t question why Marty would befriends with this eccentric old professor. They have an easygoing friendship that just works the whole…

It’s Confuse that you have to avoid at all cost. If you can resist that, you can Remedy the rest of the shit away. Even if one person can resist it, you might be able to cure the other two (or 3, if FF9) and survive.

They’re chicken gefilte, batter fried.

Yeah, it’s hard to see how the reprogramming system could really work at any sort of useful scale. Putting the failed subjects in Minority Report or Demolition Man jail seems pretty unnecessary compared to just killing them (a system they already have in place with the dumb “crime app”) or even putting them in...…

Essentially, the internal workings of an energized transformer.

I got halfway through the article, to the point where you started doing ill-advised experiments on other items, and suddenly I realized I had not read the byline ahead of time and I had unwittingly stepped into The Carruthers Zone.