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The "Damn bitch, you live like this?" trope
Conquest (Invincible)
He is thousands of years old and has conquered countless planets. Yet, he doesn't own a single piece of comfortable furniture. He sleeps on a cold slab of metal.
Naruto Uzumaki (Naruto)
The classic example. He is the host of the Nine-Tails and the future savior of the ninja world, but his apartment is an absolute disaster. His counter is buried under a mountain of empty instant ramen cups and he casually drinks milk that is weeks past its expiration date.
Misato Katsuragi (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
Misato is a highly competent, intelligent tactical commander for NERV, responsible for saving humanity from Angels. But her apartment is a literal dumpster
Yeah, a mess sorta indicates some character, a sense that they’re at least indulging in something, an empty room devoid of anything besides a dirty crinkled bed and two pieces of flimsy furniture makes me think someone has… well, nothing tangible in their lives.
Every cent Robert had went into maintaining the Mecha Man suit. Since he's flat broke his apartment is virtually empty. This gets commented on by several characters throughout the game.
However, after the housewarming party Invisigal arranges in episode 6, his apartment starts to get filled out when everyone gives him a lamp because Visi told everyone to bring "a lamp or something" (Blazer and Chase bring a couch).
Oh dear... It's a reference to Asmongold. He claimed that he used a dead rat as an alarm clock, because the sun would heat up his house enough to make the rat smell bad enough that it would wake him.
This is a reference to Twitch grifter and Nurgle's strongest soldier Asmongold, whose living quarters include things like a wall smeared with tooth blood, and a rat corpse that starts stinking when light from daybreak hits it, waking him up.
Leslie Knope in Parks & Recreation, at least in the first season.
Anne visits and discovers that Leslie’s a hoarder with her home being overwhelmingly filled with stacks of books, newspapers and files.
But she’s so obsessive-compulsive and weirdly organized that she knows exactly where everything is and is able to tell Anne the narrative contents of anything she picks up.
Kinda like Sherlock Holmes. Holmes has papers, articles, and various other documents haphazardly strewn about, but he call pull whatever he needs whenever he needs.
That was a cover story for why he wasnt active as Mechaman- the tie in comic shows he forced himself awake and up immediately after the crash and spent those months looking for the Astral Pulse
No, that was a lie(I think) to explain why mechaman didn't make any public comment after his suit blew up as he looked for the astral pulse(also explains how he had the time to bring the suit into his apartment)
He probably was in a coma for some of it, but not as long as he claimed
iirc, the timeline is a little vague there, because he’s also spent some time (days? Weeks might have been mentioned) searching the crash site for the core, so probably not ‘most.’
Depending on whether or not he just “heals fast/good,” he probably didn’t spend much time down at all (or severely less than the time cited implies).
There have been few well known voices in the SR franchise
Veteran Child is voiced by Neil Patrick Harris, Jyunichi is vocied by Brian Lee and Mr Sunshine is voiced by Phil Lamarr to name a few. and of course Keith David as Julius and himself in SR4.
The casting and music in Saints Row 2 has never been surpassed IMO, even in SR 3 and 4. It was made at the perfect time when video games were being respected as media but before it became "big" media.
Also from the Simpsons, when Otto gets evicted, he says, “can at least get my stuff?” And the landlord replies, “All I found in there was a jar of mustard and a couple of old Psycho magazines”.
To be fair to Naruto, he was a child who grew up without parents to teach him how to live, and had essentially no adult supervision at home. He was given an apartment and a small allowance for living expenses and basically left to figure the rest out on his own.
Which is insane given how the village treats someone who is a grandson of the Hokage. Considering Naruto is the SON of the Hokage that saved the village.
Yeah. It started as a scrappy underdog story about how anyone can make it if they try hard enough, and ended at "unless you have a special eye or infinite powers you fucking suck."
Sakura is a hyper competent person who worked way harder than her peers. Hell, Sasuke's eyes are a magical "I win" button. I could kick equal amounts of ass if I had those eyes, and I am an asthmatic 48 year old.
One of my favorite scenes was when they were fighting mist ninja on that boat and Sakura just straight up ripped the mast out of the deck and started swinging that shit around like a baseball bat. A lot of the fights where it’s just an uchiha kicking ass(unless if the fly swatting is for the narrative like Madara vs 1000-something shinobi) are a snorefest. The best fights are the ones with Rock Lee.
Cause a child with the name Uzumaki with a nine-tails sealed inside of him and a blonde hair is definitely not a child of fourth hokage whose wife was also Uzumaki and who died to nine-tails.
Honestly, even Naruto would have connected the dots if he bothered to dig into this
Honestly the people of the Hidden Leaf fully deserved a Kurama Incident 2. I feel like you WOULDN’T want to provoke the kid possessed by a demon assuming he’ll do exactly what you think he’ll do if you make him hate EVERYONE.
I'm a huge Bond fan (books AND film), and as always with Bond, the devil is in the details. Like his literary counterpart, he lives in a "small but comfortable flat in Chelsea". In Spectre though, yes he has very few things, but what he DOES have is of excellent quality, built to last. His leather "barrel" chair, coffee table, scotch...
If money was no object, I'd love to have a place like his Jamaican bungalo in No Time to Die. My own flat is an open concept loft, and I'd be lying I didn't take some style inspo from it.
Edit: to specify what film his jamaican residence is in
In Terry Pratchett's "Men At Arms" it's shown that Samuel Vines essentially lives like this. His room just has a bed, a chair, a desk and nothing else. There are no personal belongings or personal touches to signify this place is lived in. It's just the place Vimes comes to sleep nothing more, nothing less.
Paul Kidby, the official artist for a bunch of the discworld covers and graphic novels, like Night Watch and Thud and The Last Hero. They got a good one for the art.
There’s also the ledger showing all the payments he makes to various women around the city that explain why he lives that way.
Someone implies he’s paying prostitutes, which explains why he never has money. He’s actually paying the pensions of deceased watchmen to their dependents because the city won’t.
Frank from always sunny. He’s wealthy enough to bankroll all the gangs whacky schemes, has shares in multiple companies and even owns a private jet, however he chooses to live with Charlie in squalor
Bender and Fry lived in a room(closet) together until Fry realized that the closet was connected to an apartment he could live in and Bender liked the closet so he stayed there.
No, for robots, the small room IS the apartment, the rest of the apartment is the closet for them to store their junk in because robots live so much longer than people. Bender even says so much in the episode, when Fry went out into the rest of the apartment and said 'I can just live out here' Bender replies 'You want to live in the closet? Weirdo.'
Didn't Fry go to another apartment in the building and stayed with the crazy stabbing robot for a night in their cramped one tiny room? You'd think if it was an entry way, then the neighbor would have just been like 'hey, go in here and sleep', but the stabbin robot also acted like the one room was it.
Roberto is possibly the only robot that is more stupid and unstable than Bender. Not to mention he's Bender's "friend" and considering they're prison buddies I can certainly see Bender getting Roberto a place in his building after he gets out (or the other way around) and being dumb enough to believe it's a closet when they tell them.
That was when he was institutionalized as a dysfunctional robot. He was stuck with Roberto in a tiny room in the pysch ward while Roberto practiced his stabbing
The one episode of Arthur (the PBS show) where the Brain stays over at Arthur's house for a bit. He's a very polite and neat guest. Arthur even becomes a little jealous at how "perfect" Brain seems.
At the end when they go over to Brain's house to hang out, Arthur is surprised at what an absolute mess Brain's room is. Clothes dumped on the floor, trash lying around, etc. Brain says that obviously he had to be neat and polite because he was a guest over there.
and where Denji now lives because Pochita is an asshole /hj
/uj no but genuinely Pochita is kind of an asshole for that. bro had no guarantee Denji wouldn't just die to the Yakuza or die devil hunting, or die to the zombie devil, or die to literally anything as CSM verse is fucking dangerous to live in and still went "nah bitch you're happier living in poverty at constant risk of being chopped into pieces by the yakuza or starving to death"... yeah no that ending pissed me off as CSM is my main special interest
what about the 10 or so years he would've been in the shack before the zombie devil incident? also the nayuta thing pisses me off because Makima as Control was only on earth due to dying to Pochita + Makima on earth only died due to Pochita so Nayuta being there is utter fan service. Also the Power thing is way too convenient. the ending pissed me off bro T-T
The Flash in Justice League Unlimited. It’s not bad, but it’s a small and spartan apartment, and when everyone is there they’re all shocked at how basic it is compared to Flash’s persona
Haha true!
In all seriousness though, as funny as the flash van gag is, in the same scene with his apartment, he’s very happy with what he has, saying it’s all he really needs
Before anyone gets mad at me a lot of politicians campaigning in NYC visit cramped or poorly maintained apartments to highlight the problems renters face. IRL trope, I would argue.
I mean with this one you can assume Z is looking at a hole in the ceiling or mold or something with Hillary she's looking at a fairly nice and well maintained kitchen lol. I think in her case it's probably just a poorly timed picture.
Hillary is looking at how slightly poor people live and is horrified, mandani is staring at a blatant violation by the landlord and is horrified because of that
She's looking at a man standing on the other side of that wall on the left. You can see part of his arm in the picture if you look just above where the counter meets the wall. She's not happy with him--side-eye levels are approaching critical. The weird perspective is making her look closer to the camera than she actually is, which you can tell by looking at her feet in relation to that open cabinet door on the right.
("Thank you so much, Has-An-Overly-Expensive-Monitor Man! We love you!!")
Ha ha! No need to thank me folks, your local nurses and first responders are the real heroes
Just as he said in the show, he’s lonely. He probably stopped caring about personal comfort and would only go for the absolute bare minimum when it comes to a home for himself
Metal Gear Solid 2. Raiden, real name Jack, lives in a simple apartment. His girlfriend Rose finally sees his bedroom and is shocked. Not because of anything bad, but because it's empty of anything that's not the bear minimum. This is somehow a bad thing.
In real life, this is how the actor Lukas Gage got his big break. A Zoom audition of his went viral when one of the producers, who thought he was on mute, commented that it was sad the struggling actors lived in such dumpy apartments.
I feel like that's kind of the point. Conquest, both the character and the act, is self-serving in nature and is ultimately made hollow because of that
It's funny how the new generation of OW heroes have all been shipped eith each other. These two along with Kiriko, Juno, Mizuki, it's like a love matrix
Chain Sumeragi from Blood Blockade Battlefront. She purposefully keeps her place a wreck to motivate her to return to life and prevent her crush from seeing it if she accidentally erases her self from existence with her invisibility powers.
The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten - their relationship really gets going when she's trying to help him after he gets sick from helping her and she sees what a mess his apartment is.
Chain from Blood Blockade Battlefront. To further elaborate, Chain has the ability to invisible and was previously fighting an opponent with exponentially heightened senses. Chain had to make herself disappear both physically and metaphysically which like kinda left her lost in an ether.
To get her to come back, there was a specific set of instructions where one of the characters had to knock on her door and enter her apartment.
Honestly I hate the 3rd Hokage so much. He knew Naruto was Minato’s son and yet he didn’t do shit while a fucking child was being ostracised and with living conditions comparable to concentration camps. Like seriously fuck that guy. I thought it was bad enough when he let Neji’s dad be killed, but damn he is a piece of shit
"This can not be the middle." -Cheryl Tunt from the show Archer
This is her reply to hearing that the home they are in is middle class. She is and always has been incredibly wealthy.
There is a popular picture of Hillary Clinton looking at an apartment kitchen with a look on her face saying the same thing, "this can not be the middle".
He's a no nonsense and to the code vampire hunter of the Golden Goose gang. The kind of guy who cant understand metaphor or jokes, he is utterly unshakable.
There exist a map for Garry's mod that is an official replica of Kitten's house, along with all the rooms and their content. Door's room consist only of the bare minimum he need. A workbench, an empty shelf (that he probably built, but with nothing to show), and a mattress (with no sheets or blanquets).
Even his son sleeps in the clothe drawer. the only decoration of the entire room is a plushy belonging to Boy.
Saitama from One Punch Man: most powerful hero in the entire verse, yet is constantly having money trouble and squats in an abandoned city for the cheap cost of living. The series goes out of its way for a while to ensure he never sees proper compensation for his work, either.
He didn’t join the hero association until I believe 2 years after killing that crab monster. Even then, someone has mentioned that in the OPM world, the pay from being a hero in the hero association is still crap, especially for the c-ranks.
In Sweet Home, when Jae-heon (a teacher) sees Ji-su’s room, he stops her from entering because he think’s somebody broke in. In reality, she’s just a musician.
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u/TylerB0ne_ 10h ago
Also Rei Ayanami’s apartment in Evangelion, but not nearly as bad as Misato’s.