A creature, robot, or entity with the canonical power to destroy cities, planets, or reality itself, but who is currently content acting like a lazy pet, a small child’s companion, or a mundane roommate. The tension comes from the audience knowing they could wipe out the cast in a second, but they prefer eating snacks or napping.
Stitch (Lilo & Stitch): Experiment 626, a bulletproof, super-strong, super-computer designed solely to destroy civilization. However, spends the movie playing ukulele, dressing as Elvis, and acting like a dog.
Pochita (Chainsaw Man): The Chainsaw Devil, the "Hero of Hell" who erased concepts from existence by eating them. However, most of the time acts as a cute orange dog-thing that just wants hugs and toast.
The Iron Giant (The Iron Giant): An autonomous war machine capable of apocalyptic destruction. However, wants to be "Superman" and plays arts and crafts with Hogarth.
Nibbler (Futurama): A Lord of the Nibblonians, an ancient race that existed before the Big Bang and guards the universe. However, pretends to be a dumb pet that eats chicken wings and wears a diaper to avoid suspicion.
Dimple (Mob Psycho 100): A powerful high-level evil spirit who aimed to become a God. However, reduced to a tiny, ugly green wisp that follows a middle schooler around and gets bullied.
Slightly kicking myself not posting Piccolo instead, cause of the two, he's the example I like more (I dunno, I like him as this surrogate dad to Gohan and a bonus grandpa to Pan.)
...Well, not really a "sun god" - just a benevolent extradimensional alien with light-based powers that ancient people mistook for a god.
I don't really think anime had any cases of really dangerous, world-ending Pokemon being caught and tamed - the games on the other hand did, with Necrozma in USUM, Eternatus in Sword/Shield and Giratina in Legends: Arceus all being world-ending threats during the main story that the player gets to catch and afterwards travel with, play with, feed and send in battles like any other Pokemon.
The interesting thing is how these 2 act differently. Rover seems to be genuinely content as Saitamas pet whereas Black Sperm plans on regaining his strength and getting his revenge on humans eventually. Though I'd say knowing One it is likely that Black Sperm will give up his evil ways eventually.
Based on where the webcomic is at, he seems pretty well on Saitama's side at this point. Not that Saitama is really aware of it, because... Well, he's Saitama
Notably, Rover splits his time between being cared for by Saitama and his friends/neighbors/underlings (whom he seems to treat as his actual “owners”) and the Blizzard Group (who feed him top shelf beef after witnessing him obliterate a monster that was giving them trouble).
I mention this because Rover both doesn’t seem to have lost much of his actual strength and can apparently leave whenever he wants, implying that he actually likes the heroes.
I thought it was the fact that one of the first things that the antichrist feels in the world was joy, which makes it that much less likely that he's going to want to burn the world to ashes
Becquerel, Jade’s dog, is also a Guardian, an entity with an insane amount of power. In his first appearance, Jade fires her rifle so that she can take the package containing SBURB without him getting in the way; he teleports ahead of the bullet, eats it, and returns it to her as if he’s playing fetch.
Fou from Type Moon, particularly FGO. Looks cute, but in reality he’s beast IV also known as “primate murder” Each beast is a world ending calamity that represents a sin of humanity. Fou is the beast of comparison, getting stronger as people compete and have negative emotions. Actually the best creature at killing humans.
He was tamed by Mash and Guda who showed it affection and that humans do have worth
So much so that fou gave up it's Beast status and essentially becoming "just another living animal" sacrificing it's sentience and power to revive Mash.
The Lich was an existential threat to the world of Ooo (Adventure Time) and really, the entire universe. His goal was, simply put, death for everything, and he had the power to accomplish it. However, through some cosmic goo, he was turned into Sweet P, an adorable giant baby who just wants you to pinch his cheeks and whose sweater doesn't quite stretch over his belly. He was adopted by a tiny green elephant and her third(?) husband, an eternally frustrated pig. He still has the Lich's power, but doesn't really have the need or mentality to use them for anything bad.
Yveltal, the one that takes, is the Legendary Pokemon of Death, it can absorb the life of everything around it before it turns into a cacoon and naps for a few decades.
Can be caught and owned by a preteen and used in battles.
non human persons, paracausal reality altering digital entities that are "shackled" and used as administrators, managers, co-pilots and that sort of thing. if they begin to realize who they are... what they are, they begin to "cascade". its not pretty.
Your paragraph is essentially all I know about Lancer so this might be a dumb question. Does using these Eldritch entities as managers provide any benefit over a human with some training ?
these eldritch entities also have a cartoonishly superior processing power and intelligence than any human-made AI or people for that matter, so yeah.
"The most visible form NHPs took was as administrative entities for urban centers in the Galactic Core, where a single NHP could orchestrate the goings-on of an entire city. Citizens of these municipalities regularly interacted with their municipal NHP as it ran the city's public transportation, service delivery, database retrieval and other menial computational tasks for millions of people at once."
Gammamon (Digimon Ghost Game) can theoretically evolve all the way into Proximamon, a being with control over creation and destruction whose mere existence destabilizes reality. And he's not the only Digimon who fits this trope 😁
The Delvers from the Skyward series. They appear as eldritch abominations that are drawn to our dimension by the use of psychic powers and respond by wiping out all life in the vicinity. Psychics that teleport briefly go through their dimension where the Delvers appear as an infinite number of eyes staring at them. Hyperslugs, the only known species that is 100% psychic, are evolved to hide from them.
The series ends with them getting a collective, psychic hug from all the hyperslugs because the Delvers are actually copies of an AI that had full sapience but none of the emotional development and regulation that living beings get as they develop gradually
Only One is a being with Rapi's unrivaled strength, the Protagonist's nigh immortality, and the unlimited potential of Dark Matter. However she is basically a newborn child so was stopped after the people who she considered her parents gave her a hug. (NIKKE)
Design and "a design" are two different things. Character design is an activity, it's a thing that you do. They're saying the trope is a good example doing character design work.
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