Troll - TV Tropes. A gadfly screws with other people because it's amusing. Then there is the infamous Troll.
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What separates this character from a gadfly is that it is not supposed to be funny—or at least not to anyone but (in darker cases, usually) themselves. All they want to do is see other people make a fool of themselves. The term trolling comes from fishing, rather than the fantasy creature.
Trolling in a fishing context means casting a baited line out in the water and dragging it through the water behind you as you move. The idea in the Internet context is that you set out some bait in much the same way and watch as your victim grabs it and writhes for your amusement.
Malcontents on the internet protected by anonymity have been doing this for years, hence the widespread usage of the term. When encountered in a game, a Jerkass troll is often called a Griefer. While the word and concept are based on these beginnings, the term has spread from there such that it has become a widely used term to discuss pointlessly cruel characters. Compare and contrast The Gadfly, who is relatively harmless, but can be easily mistaken for a troll on the internet. Contrast I Shall Taunt You, in which someone gets on an opponent's nerves in order to gain a tactical advantage.
Supernatural versions of this trope can also be a Jackass Genie. Also compare and contrast Attention Whore, which nearly all trolls are accused of being, since their evulz rely on people actually responding to them. For characters whose trolling has become memetic, see Memetic Troll.
Sadists just want to have fun.. See also Trolling Creator. The film of the same name is over here. Due to his ability to Body Surf, he acts as a flesh- and- blood . He holds everyone in contempt, but whenever he's even remotely threatened or challenged directly, he retreats and declares himself the winner. And he does it all For the Evulz. She cheerfully admits to murdering Ryuko's father during her first appearance, and then later disguises herself as a male student just to screw with Ryuko all over again.
After running into a troll, he restrains himself. However, the troll later bumps into him in person, and is punched to the ground by the gang leader without either knowing who the other really is. Sayonara, Zetsubou- Sensei has Meru Otonashi, who (true to her name) is extremely shy around others, and only communicates through text messages.. And don't even think about taking her phone away, because she has extras. And don't bother waiting for the battery to die. His Arch- Enemy, Shizuo Heiwajima, maintains that 9.
The sad part is that he'sright. Her initial reason for having Nodoka play with her stuffed penguin, Etopen, was to collect . She also allows Momo to get the impression that something happened between her and Momo's close friend Yumi, causing her to freak out. He is probably the trollest character in the entire Yu- Gi- Oh! He often makes cheeky remarks and plays pranks on Inuyasha, and needless to say, it never ends well for the young Kitsune.
She plays pranks on her friends, on other people and sometimes even on her own dogs, which are also trolls to some extent, or even herself, while keeping her emotionless- looking face the whole time. Sometimes he does it on purpose and other times he's oblivious to the fact that people might be annoyed when you point out their flaws. Some good examples are. When he fights the king of the sea, the king starts a speech saying that he's the strongest in the world until he is cut off by Saitama saying . Look, could we hurry this up, it's raining out here.
When her underlings ask him if he knows who she is, he simply replies with a . It doesn't help that he is a huge fanboy of the Straw Hat Pirates. She's certainly not malicious or evil, but the moment she says . She gets called out on this by Guren, who tells her that continuing this behavior for her own amusement will get someone killed. His currentincarnation(s) are also very tech, internet, and fandom savvy, not to mention Medium Aware. He and Celestia take it Up to Eleven in a few of the non- canon stories. Sometimes she'll prank someone else and leave Reisen to take the fall like the Karma Houdini she is.
He is the wielder of the Kaleidoscope, the operation between parallel worlds, making him able to travel anywhere across the multiverse. See 'Keep calm and blame Zelretch.'. In Origin Story, after a homophobic man at the diner they're eating in tells Alex and Louise Harris (a lesbian couple) that God and the Bible says they're sinners destined for Hell, Alex asks him to specify which God. When the man responds with . Flash was on the track team in high school with Nick and Nick notes that if Flash . Such instances include deliberately misunderstanding what he walked in on at the library between Gilda, Twilight Sparkle, and Fluttershy, dyeing Princess Luna's coat pink, and making a former enemy board with him in hopes of returning home.
Instances include: Naruto and Sasuke staring longingly at each other in public, Sakura and Sasuke arguing whether Naruto or Anko is better in bed, and Sasuke getting into an extremely childish argument with Konohamaru (petty name- calling included). I made you lose control. And they'll kill you for it. Even when Kristoff explicitly tells then that she is already engaged, they continue to ship them and ignore Anna's progressively worse frozen heart until she faints from it. The movie also ends with them flying to each troll's house and beating the ever loving hell out of them.
Just look at his face during . Grant, who is (mostly) benevolent in granting wishes, considers messing with people to be the best form of entertainment there is. His trash- talking and belittling ranges from harassing Andrew for his tempo and comparing him to a little girl to mocking his personal history. By the final performance, Fletcher even fools Andrew into thinking his new class will be playing .
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The Martian invaders towards humanity in Mars Attacks! They progressively get worse and she's almost Driven to Suicide. They claim that they were going after the main character because she trolled on a girl's video, which led to her being harassed online. The abuse was so bad that the girl started cutting herself and eventually killed herself. However, the troll's motives aren't because they had any special relations with her.
They also trolled her and were ten times worse than Casey. Rocket Raccoon from Guardians of the Galaxy says that he needs a prosthetic leg as one of the items for the prison breakout.
After Peter Quil (Star Lord) got the leg, Rocket reveals that he only asked for the leg to see the owner hopping around without it. He later attempts this trick on a Ravager with the prosthetic eye. A lot of his actions can be summed up as . Step 1: Troll message boards.
Step 3: World domination! Pretty much the entirety of Edgar Allan Poe's only full- length novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, is a long, mean- spirited practical joke at the expense of readers. In an age where exploration narratives were one of the most popular forms of literature, he published it without a label indicating it as fiction, made it completely unbelievable, and turned most of the plot into a series of anticlimactic moments, and the ending is infamously abrupt. First editions tend to have marginalia along the lines of . Despite this, the work has often been analyzed, especially the final chapter, which is also notable for being one of the earliest known examples of Cosmic Horror. Wes himself similarly enjoys trolling Wedge, who plays straight man for him unless a line is crossed, as in Solo Command, which led to a truly amazing reversal.
Finnick seemingly tries to seduce Katniss, offering her a sugar cube and asking her to . They're all just having fun fucking with the newest, . But, most manage to restrict it to extreme snarkery of various descriptions and have some reason behind it that follows other goals and motives, even if they do cross the line. But, for balls- out, pointless, verbal sparring just to be as annoying as possible expressly to get a rise out of the poor victim? You really can't beat Lord. Walder. Frey: he's built a reputation on it and manages to take a perverse pride in it. He even admits to it being one of the few pleasures in life he has left (well, apart from his young wife).
And, then he serves up the Red Wedding with the help of his Family and all the . And, then posting it on You. Tube. That's when you realize, that, although he's also being used, he's not kidding about how seriously he takes his petty amusements.
Fafhrd and the sorceror Ningauble of the Seven Eyes are frequrently the target of these remarks. Apparently, when he can't sleep, he spends all his time thinking about how much various public figures annoy him, and vents his anger by drafting abusive emails to them, which his assistant edits down into heavily Bowdlerized, friendly versions — such as Malcolm's suggestion to Bono that he go and contract AIDS getting turned into a 'radical new proposal to increase AIDS awareness', and 'fuck off and die, pal' becoming 'have a fucking great day, pal'. However, when he sends the draft of a foul email to Sky News presenter Adam Boulton to Sam, it gets returned saying that there's 'nothing wrong with it', so Malcolm sends it as is. Other times he's rather less of an asshole. As the show continues, he eventually becomes a bit more friendly, but then in the finale, after tearful confessions of camaraderie, he beautifully comes full circle when he unexpectedly shoots Tsukasa in the face for a season- ending cliffhanger. Best exemplified by his cameo in the Kamen Rider Den- O movie The Onigashima Battleship (where he trolls someone else for once), which is nothing more than teleporting in, siccing copies of past Riders on the Den. Liner crew, and teleporting out.
This leads to them having to quickly run for the state border after their . None of them are above that, really.
In Universe, he trolled on The Other Wiki as well.
Chinese Photoshop Trolls Part 3: This Time It’s Personal. Just when you thought it was safe to ask someone to touch up your photo, China’s Photoshop- proficient wags are back to corrupt people’s innocent image processing wishes. In case, you missed Part 1 or even Part 2 of the series, the process involves someone asking for their photo to be improved, only to have the meaning of their words intentionally twisted for the sake of (our) humor. For example, the lady above was hoping she could look “sexier” through doctoring. Alas, she soon found that sexiness is in the eye of the beholder, or rather the person doing the .
It changed my life.” ! She’s using the freaking rope for Crissakes!! Fight dirty Red Rooster!”! It’s embarrassing to show to girls.”. Maybe put a lady in there?”.
But don’t get carried away; you look plenty like a hero already.”. I wanna put this on a dating website.”. If she’s on that site, you’re golden.”? Like from A Chinese Ghost Story.”? Tougher than you already are? Don’t change anything else on me.”?
Make me like a gangster or celebrity in this photo.”? She doesn’t have to be hot.”. Can you make this a good invitation?”. Hope you like the proletariat.”Caption: “United we will continue to win greater victories”. Especially when the lil’ ones are sick.”.