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So you have a character who has achieved some incredibly difficult or elusive victory that they've been working towards for just about forever. Now that it's finally over and all their efforts have paid off, they've got it made, right? Not if Victory Is Boring. If the character is a villain, now that they actually went ahead and pulled off their plan to Take Over the World, they have to actually run it. And fill out all the required paperwork. In triplicate. Man, those days when the heroes would foil your latest plot every single week only to let you slip away at the last minute were so much more entertaining than this! (Wait, is that why the heroes did it in the first place?!!) On the other hand, if the character is a hero, then maybe winning and having finally shown up The Rival or won the big tournament or game they've been dreaming of since they were a kid leaves them saying So What Do We Do Now? If the hero is particularly Hot-Blooded, battle addicted, fond of adventure or just plain crazy/sociopathic, he might start going out and trying to find/create new challenges that weren't there before. If only there was some reliably recurring villain that could keep them occupied... The Trope Namer is Mai from Avatar: The Last Airbender, who proclaims the phrase after catching siblings Sokka and Katara during second season episode "The Chase". Before we get into any examples, we should note that every Video Game will eventually fall into this trope. No matter what, some players will beat everything, get the Infinity +1 Sword, 100% Completion, etc. and even they will still quit eventually. So please, limit it to in-universe examples. See A Winner Is You for games with unsatisfying endings. Compare It's Easy, So It Sucks!, for when a game is boring even before reaching victory due to its lack of difficulty. Yet more proof that Status Quo Is God and that Failure Is the Only Option, for everyone. May invoke Wanting Is Better Than Having. Compare with Pyrrhic Victory, Vengeance Feels Empty, Was It Really Worth It?, No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction, and Lonely at the Top for other times when winning turns out not to be all it's cracked up to be. See also And Then What?, Rich Boredom, The Perils of Being the Best, and Comically Invincible Hero, which may overlap. As this can frequently be an Ending Trope, unmarked spoilers abound. Beware. |
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Sherlock ends up having this in the conflict between Jim Moriarty and Sherlock Holmes. In "The Reichenbach Fall", when it looks like he's defeated Sherlock, Moriarty starts whining about how he doesn't have any challenges anymore, and has to go back to "playing with the ordinary people." He solves the problem by eating his gun. | |
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After the school bully stops being a bully in an episode of Everybody Hates Chris, Chris spends a long amount of time telling his friend how miserable Superman, Batman, and other superheroes would be without their archenemies. | |
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Megamind: Once the title character defeats the hero, he realizes that playing the supervillain whose plans are always foiled was more enjoyable than actually conquering the city, and even winds up trying to create a new hero for him to fight. Also applies to the hero himself, Metro Man, who was Faking the Dead as he had gotten tired of defeating Megamind over and over and finally lets Megamind win for once to pursue a career in music. |
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In the The Adventures of Superboy episode "The Road to Hell", Superboy ends up in an alternate universe where its adult Superman has turned Earth into a utopia and Lex Luthor reformed and became a doctor. Superman admits that although he is proud of his accomplishments and he is loved by everyone, he is a bit bored that he has no bad guys to fight and nobody needs saving. He ends up finding a new purpose in helping to raise another alternate universe version of himself whose ship landed in the jungle, making him a Wild Child. | |
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In Sonic the Hedgehog in the Fourth Dimension Sonic manages to go back in time to prevent the accident that transformed the friendly Dr. Kintobor into the evil Dr. Robotnik. All of his animal friends don't treat him like a hero, because he never became a hero, and the only practical use of his abilities is searching for the final Chaos Emerald; neither of which our hero is enjoying. | |
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Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony: In the world outside the killing game, they've solved most if not all of the big societal problems and there's no longer any war or conflict of any kind. Humans, bloodthirsty savages that they are, have all been left quite bored due to the lack of stimulation in their lives. So they decided to adapt a popular series of murder mystery visual novels into a reality TV show, where teenagers willingly sign up to become brainwashed with the identities of Danganronpa characters and kill each other for real on live TV for the world's entertainment. When the characters discover this, they are horrified, especially when they see the tapes of what their unbrainwashed selves were like. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics): There is a dimension where Knuckles the Echidna went mad with power and, in an attempt to "bring order to chaos" as he phrased it, he began to conquer the entire planet. He vanquished all enemies, hero (Sonic, Shadow, Tails, etc.) and villain (Eggman, Ixis Naugus, Snively) alike, making sure to take their souls to form the core of his army for extra insurance. However, upon ruling it, he became extremely bored and allowed a few Freedom Fighters to exist — despite knowing their location already — so as to keep himself entertained. Eventually, dark Knuckles, better known as Enerjak, decided to look for other worlds to conquer three decades after this all had transpired, and in turn, sealed his fate. A similar thing occurred after the first Robotnik was finally defeated. Mobius is free, Mobotropolis is reclaimed, everyone is happy... except Sonic, who's completely overwhelmed by the tense political climate, the overwhelming hatred of the Robians, and of course, the lack of a single enemy to fight. He goes so far as to wish Robotnik was back, so he'd know what he was fighting. Fortunately, Naugus showed up soon after followed by the second Robotnik. The reason why Dr. Eggman, then Robo-Robotnik, decided to invade Mobius Prime. He succeeded in conquering his own Mobius, wiping out the Freedom Fighters in a massive nuclear attack in the progress, but without any worthy enemy to fight, he got bored with his victory and so arrived in Mobius Prime, claiming the late Dr. Robotnik's empire and began the Second Robotnik War in order to "fill the void". |
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Transformers: Robots in Disguise: After winning the election to become Cybertron's leader following the end of the Great War, Starscream realizes that he's stuck actually running the planet, which has been ravaged by millions of years and is suffering from severe resource shortages. And since he's running a democracy rather than a totalian military dictatorship, he's got to maintain an appearance of being benevolent and heroic. | |
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Noob reveals that Tenshirock, the hacker who wants to drive people away from MMORPG, was hoping for this to happen in the one in which the story is set. One of the three player factions was secretly given an unfair advantage (by someone else than him), so he was hoping that the players of the other significant faction would end up giving up out of frustration and that the third, newer and underpopulated, would be easily beaten, leaving only one faction with very bored players who would end up quitting as well. However, by the time the readers find out about this plan, the unfair advantage has been made public and taken care of, making the faction that used to have it now be the one in a position of weakness. | |
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In the first Madagascar movie, the Penguins are trying to get to Antarctica, and eventually succeed when they hijack the freighter that the rest of the zoo animals are on. When they reach Antarctica, they find it to be a complete frozen wasteland with nothing to do but stare at an iceberg, so they use the freighter to go to Madagascar, where Alex, Marty, Melman, and Gloria all wound up. | |
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Bleach: In his backstory, Baraggan Louisenbairn conquered Hueco Mundo to become its God-King but eventually became so bored that he was about to have his own army fight each other to the death before Aizen, Gin, and Tousen showed up to usurp his rule. | |
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The evil law firm Wolfram & Hart from Angel takes the trope to heart. "We're not interested in anything as prosaic as winning". They just want to throw evil spanners in the works. | |
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Sonic The Hedgehog is prone to this. For instance, in Sonic Adventure, he plans to take another vacation after his quest ends and ends up running off at the end of the game. | |
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The Simpsons: Sideshow Bob spares Bart at the end of the episode "The Great Louse Detective" because he feels he'll end up this way if he kills him, as he explains by singing "The Very Reason That I Live". The same thing happens again in the "Treehouse of Horror XXVI" segment "Wanted: Dead, Then Alive", when Bob finally kills Bart, but then quickly realizes that life is boring without Bart around and that the only thing that brought joy into his life was killing his Arch-Enemy. Bob then creates a Reanimator machine that brings his Arch-Enemy Back from the Dead, then proceeds to start killing him and bringing him back to life over and over again. Similar to the Recess example above, Lisa and Bart build a fort out of packages and end up in a huge, Lord of the Rings-style war against the delivery men. Upon winning the war, they get bored and wonder what to do now. They choose to use a hose to soak the fort into a pile of mushy cardboard. |
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Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando starts out this way; the titular heroes have saved the world and been through the cycle of praise and fame, and now they've got nothing to do. Fortunately, it is the start of a sequel...They get significantly better about their downtime later in their careers. In Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, Ratchet is feeling this way again. At the beginning of the game, he says that he's not even sure if he still counts as a hero since it's been at least five years since he's done anything heroic. Later, this is realized by Emperor Nefarious, the more successful Alternate Universe version of recurring villain Dr. Nefarious. After achieving what he thinks is total victory, he cuts his own celebration short because he doesn't feel any different. Of course, rather than learn anything from this or Dr. Nefarious pointing out his problem directly, Emperor Nefarious decides the reason he isn't happy is because he hasn't completely won by conquering the multiverse. |
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In Ah! My Goddess the Queen Sayoko arc has Sayoko enter a demonic contract that grants her mind control powers so she can finally defeat Belldandy. At the climax of the arc, Sayoko has reduced Belldandy to an obedient slave only to abruptly cancel the contract. As she explains to Mara, a victory achieved through somebody else's power meant nothing compared to personally crushing her rival. | |
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In I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream this is part of the premise. The evil machine intelligence AM already succeeded in its war against humanity over a century ago, and so its only purpose now is to torture the last five human survivors endlessly as a means to cope with the sheer boredom of its eternal hate-filled existence. | |
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An episode of the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon had the turtles dream about what would happen if they had never existed. Shredder is now king of a ruined world and is so bored and fed up with running the place that when the turtles encounter him and mention a world where he doesn't rule, Shredder begs them to take him along. | |
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The 2012 version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has this happen in the final story arc. With Shredder and the Foot Clan defeated, the turtles are bored out of their minds and left with no meaningful reason to protect New York City aside from regular crime. | |
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Justice League Unlimited: In the episode "Hereafter", Vandal Savage (an immortal, fast-healing, superintelligent human conquerer and former caveman) is enduring the solitude and loneliness of having destroyed humanity in stoic fashion when Superman is transported forward in time by Toyman. Upon Superman's arrival, he receives his former enemy with friendship and sends Superman back into the past to stop him, having decided that his former plans for domination were meaningless. "Kid Stuff" has Mordred succeed in taking over the world by simply exiling anyone older than him to another dimension. Cut to him, sitting on his throne ruling over his kingdom, bored right out of his little skull with nothing to do but fulfill the requests of his child subjects. When the Justice League shows up to fight him, he's utterly overjoyed at not only having something to do but also getting to see them as children. In "A Better World", the Justice Lords are rather bored, sitting in the watchtower, since they have conquered the world, and the best crime they have to fight is the occasional college protest. You can even see how eager Martian Manhunter was when he heard of a storm and questioned if they needed assistance in evacuating, only to quickly become depressed when it was stated the area was already evacuated. It is actually because of this that the Justice Lords decided to invade the Justice League Universe to help "fix" it. |
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In the Teen Titans Go! episode "Super Robin", Robin gains a bunch of superpowers and solves all the world's problems in three seconds. With no crime to fight, the Teen Titans disband because they no longer have a purpose. | |
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Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: After Simon defeats Lord Genome, the people build a city and the fighters that won the war are now left to run it. Most of them are quite bored with it, as they're just figureheads without the aptitude or desire to govern. This is averted the second time around, where Simon chooses to become a wanderer rather than take a leading position in the government. | |
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The eighth Gym Leader in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, Volkner, has an apathetic attitude to you challenging him because he's won every challenge he's ever had and spends all of his time renovating the Gym out of boredom. You snap him out of it when you beat him and he breaks into laughter. | |
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The Joker has often said that he doesn't want to kill Batman, because if he did then it would spoil all their lovely fun. But in Emperor Joker, it's revealed that he literally cannot imagine a world without Batman... no matter how hard he tries, despite having gained cosmic power and become the ruler of reality. In the Going Sane storyline, Joker actually regains his sanity and settles down to live a normal life when he thinks he's killed Batman; after he's beaten Batman, there's no point in being the Joker anymore. The same thing happens in his Knight Terrors tie-in (though it was actually an accidental death), where the Joker ends up joining Wayne Enterprises to fill the void, initially thinking that he can find some way to take advantage of the company's resources to commit crimes. But later, he starts joining the other employees at parties and gatherings, and when rumors start spreading that Batman is Not Quite Dead, the Joker... flips through channels in his TV at home. According to the story, this is the Joker's greatest fear. There is evidence that Batman himself could succumb to this if he would ever "win" his war on crime. He's somewhat uninterested in actually keeping villains put away, when someone with his intelligence and vast fiscal resources probably could, simply preferring to let others (who really suck at it) do that for him. Them breaking out defines his purpose and justifies putting on the cape and cowl every night (which is why he has been accused of being as insane as the people he fights). Other stories posit the opposite. He nearly went into a Heroic BSoD in one story when the Joker broke out of Arkham three hours after Batman captured him, and the Joker left a message taunting Batman about it. Batman's greatest dream is a Gotham that doesn't need a Batman. |
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The eventual fate of Father in ''Solutions to a Hollow Victory. After his lifelong plan to become God succeeds, he finds he has nothing else to do. After a year of ennui, he snaps and kills his remaining children because they're more entertaining to him dead than alive. | |
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Darkwing Duck: In a Bad Future episode where Gosalyn disappeared and Darkwing became Darkwarrior Duck and managed to capture every villain and take over the city, he's shown to have nothing to do. When two villains from the present come to the future, he's thrilled to have a good old-fashioned battle with them, only to be disappointed when it turns out that his security robots made short work of them too. | |
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The second episode of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People: Strong Badia the Free follows this trope, with both Strong Bad and The King of Town taking turns at this. After The KOT levies a new email tax and places Strong Bad under house arrest, Strong Bad launches a coup to dethrone The KOT. After rallying the people of Free Country USA to his cause and succeeding in said dethroning, Strong Bad realizes he is now stuck in the King of Town's castle with responsibilities, subjects, and food he does not want. Ultimately he decides to goad the KOT to retake his throne. On the flip-side, the whole plot of the episode was started by the King of Town getting tired of running the town and living in his castle. To the point where he sneakily provokes Strong Bad into launching his coup against him through an anonymously coup-encouraging email right before he comes by to enforce his tax. By the time Strong Bad reaches the castle, the KOT leaves without a fight and goes to Strong Bad's house to relax and gorge himself on Swiss Cake Rolls. Of course, he is spurred back into action when Strong Bad levies a tax of his own on Swiss Cake Rolls. By the end of the episode, after he retakes his castle again from Strong Bad, he glumly realizes he's right back where he started. |
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In the Mortal Kombat 11 Arcade Mode ending for Kano, he initially starts off doing the kind of perverted things one would expect of him, but he eventually got bored of godhood. So he rewrote time to create a reality where things could challenge him, accepting some losses in the process, yet he would still win in the end when it mattered. He even snagged Shinnok's amulet for himself. | |
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Played straight in the Humanx Commonwealth Flinx books, in which the protagonist's last words, having saved the galaxy from inexorable doom after spending years scouring it for a solution, are: "I'm bored". | |
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Urquhart spends the second and third seasons of House of Cards (UK) constantly feeling the need to stir up trouble just so he can have something to do. | |
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The one-shot G.I. Joe: Deviations from IDW Publishing deals with a world where Cobra won...and Cobra Commander finds that ruling the world is just plain boring. Major Bludd agrees, as there's not much use for a mercenary in a world conquered and kept peaceful by Cobra. The whole situation is Played for Laughs, much more than other Joe comics tend to be. | |
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In Mystery Men, Captain Amazing is bored because he has managed to put away every supervillain in Champion City, leaving only thugs. His solution is to use his influence to get his arch-nemesis Casanova Frankenstein out of the mental asylum. It doesn't end well for him. It is left somewhat vague just how much it is this and how much it is a desire to keep his sponsorship money (his agent suggests that Amazing's fights being boring to the public is at least a partial reason for him losing sponsors), but given that the scene that culminates in him coming up with the solution starts off with him ranting about the bad quality of the fight, it is at least partly this. | |
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This is the impetus for the book The Last Hero: Cohen the Barbarian is bored stiff as the Emperor of the Agatean Empire. He decides that being Emperor is no fun...but more than that, neither is getting old or living past the age of barbarian hero. He and his Silver Horde (of seven other veteran barbarian warriors, all septuagenarians at the youngest) go out to destroy the gods for allowing this to happen. | |
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Dragon Ball: In the Bad Future that Future Trunks hails from, it's heavily hinted that this is why Androids 17 and 18 dragged out their fights with Trunks and Future Gohan for so long before ultimately going for the kill. In fact, when Trunks returns to challenge them after the defeat of Cell in the main timeline and Future 18 decides to kill him to blow off steam, Future 17 gives her the okay but nonetheless points out that they'll be throwing away "weeks worth of fun" if she does. From Dragon Ball Super is Universe 12's God of Destruction, Geene. He carries out his job ruthlessly and indiscriminately, leaving his universe with the second-highest quality of life in the multiverse (allowing him to skip the universe-ending Tournament of Power)... and leaving him with almost nothing to do, thus he's grown very bored. |
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In The Divine Comedy, Dante encounters the ghost of Ulysses (Odysseus). Ulysses explains that he died after leaving Ithaca and sailing out into the Atlantic Ocean after the whole taking-twenty-years-to-make-it-home-from-the-last-adventure thing. Yeah, it was just too boring being king of a great land and having a queen who adores you. Ithaca in real life was thought to be a small island kingdom with a few shepherds and a small city (there are about a dozen places claiming to be Ithaca, all pretty similar). You really can see the crafty genius of the Trojan war getting bored from that. |
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Done interestingly with both Tenchi Muyo! and Tenchi Universe — in Muyo!, Tenchi's more than happy to go back to a regular life. The five girls he's shacking up with make that quite impossible. In Universe, Tenchi and the girls go their separate ways at the end, but when Ryoko returns, she points out that the others are coming back to him because they missed the fun. Tenchi's melancholy prior to Ryoko returning makes it clear that he missed it too. | |
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This all comes back in The Dark Knight Rises. With the Joker defeated and new laws in place shutting down nearly all organized crime, plus with Gordon running a cleaner, more efficient police force there's simply no reason for Bruce Wayne to don the Batman suit. However, he's unable to readjust to normal society and becomes an antisocial shut-in. This comes back to bite him hard when Bane arrives... while at one point Batman would have been able to fight him off, years of inaction have dulled his senses enough for Bane to physically dominate him. | |
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Scrubs: The adversarial relationship between Dr. Cox and his boss Dr. Kelso is established very quickly in Season 1. So you'd think that when Cox winds up destroying everyone's fear of Kelso, (which makes even Ted, a combination of Butt-Monkey and The Eeyore willing to stand up to Kelso) and leaves Kelso a broken man, Cox would be rejoicing. Instead, he complains that the game is no fun unless Kelso is playing it too, and quickly irritates and humiliates Kelso into returning to form. That's how JD and Elliot's relationships work. As JD himself said, when he got something, he doesn't want it anymore. This changes by Season 8. |
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In Wall Street, Gordon complains about how difficult it has been to turn around Teldar even after he's fired most of the management. For that reason, he initially rebuffs Bud's suggestion that he buy and turn around the airline his father works for. | |
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In Rick and Morty, it's revealed that some of the dinosaurs survived, became ultraterrestrials, and they reclaim the planet, turning it into a utopian Vichy Earth. However, with all the world's problems solved and nothing left to do in a post-scarcity society where they don't even need to work, everyone is bored out of their minds except Butt-Monkey Jerry whose unemployment had basically made this his default state of existence. | |
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Dilbert: Dogbert once conquered the world in minutes using Mind Control. He didn't actually do much with his power other than force people to hold signs praising him while wearing brassieres. In the end, he told everyone he was retiring to go sit on a soft pillow. | |
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In HeartCatch Pretty Cure!, Erika is obviously the only one who misses romping around and being "beautiful 14-year-old superheroes" at the end. | |
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In the anime of Excel♡Saga, when Il Palazzo finally does conquer F City, his urge to conquer is so shocked at being suppressed that it pulls a Split-Personality Takeover. | |
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Supernatural: Lucifer goes through one of these when he finally wins out and ascends to Heaven, essentially taking over and running both Heaven and Hell. It turns out he's so bored he can't even be bothered to sit on the throne and be worshipped. He finds interacting with the angels (who are so reduced in number and without purpose that they're constantly seeking direction) unbelievably annoying, hates answering prayers because they're all so mundane, and hates the demons (which he created) even more. | |
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In Saki Shinohayu -dawn of age-, Kanna was undefeated at games, and as a result, got bored with winning all the time. She then got into mahjong, and while she did fairly well at first, she then lost to Hayari Mizuhara. Judging from her reaction when she lost, though, perhaps she was happier when she was undefeated. | |
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Parodied in a Garfield strip: | |
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An episode of The Fairly Oddparents had the Crimson Chin getting distracted by a Romantic Plot Tumor. This left the villains free to do as they wish. This ended up boring the Bronze Kneecap so much that he'd burst into the Chin Cave with stolen money, daring the Chin to try and stop him. When he didn't, he commented on how everything was no fun anymore. | |
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Star Fox: Falco seems to feel this way. The manual for Star Fox Adventures notes that after Star Fox 64, he struggled with feelings of boredom and purposelessness for years after, and in one of the endings for Star Fox Command everyone is celebrating after beating the Anglar Emperor, but he just says it's only a matter of time until the boredom sets in. | |
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Discworld: This is the impetus for the book The Last Hero: Cohen the Barbarian is bored stiff as the Emperor of the Agatean Empire. He decides that being Emperor is no fun...but more than that, neither is getting old or living past the age of barbarian hero. He and his Silver Horde (of seven other veteran barbarian warriors, all septuagenarians at the youngest) go out to destroy the gods for allowing this to happen. There's also references to a Discworld parallel of Alexander, named Carelinus, who apparently conquered the entire world, save for Fourecks and the Counterweight Continent (Fantasy Counterpart Cultures of Australia and China respectively). Cohen observes that it's no wonder, since one's all dried up, and you can't get a decent beer in the other. The minstrel they've captured (long story) tells Cohen the line "and Carelinus wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer." He explains that seeing Cohen looking down at the Disc ("bin there... bin there too... bin there twice, I think... bin everywhere I can see") reminds him of this. Cohen appreciates the comparison: "Yeah, maybe a bit like him. 'cept without the sissy crying, of course..." At another point, it's inverted to reflect the actual quote (see Real Life below) — that some scholar told Carelinus that every star out there might be another world, and he cried because he realized he couldn't conquer them all in one lifetime. That becomes Cohen's real grievance — that there's so much to do no one, no matter how dedicated, could get it all done in one life. Duke Felmet (a Macbeth Expy) experienced a variant of this when the people of Lancre didn't rise up and rebel against him after he killed his cousin and seized the throne. (They figured that being assassinated counts as "natural causes" for a King). His frustration about the fact is summed up in this quote: At the start of Making Money Moist is fueled by complete boredom with running the Post Office —he made it work so well that it wasn't fun anymore. Luckily Vetinari has a new project for him... |
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Through Her Eyes: Pyrrha's lack of opponents that could give her any real challenge in her arena days has given her this attitude. When she learns that Ruby beat her to second place in the first test rankings (Weiss being first) by a three-point difference in their History test, she's excited at having too put in the extra effort, with a feral smile. She also asks Ruby to train with her and teach her how to wield a scythe, a weapon acknowledged In-Universe to be very hard to master. This is also why she enjoys the fight against the berserk Ruby in the original story so much, it was more challenging than any fight she'd had before. | |
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In Dragon Wars, it's eventually revealed that Namtar has become bored with his success. When you encounter him for the first time, he briefly rants about the amount of administration work he's had to do in order to run the empire and reveals that he's only sparing your little band of heroes because your efforts to oppose him thus far have been the most entertainment he's had in a long time. | |
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In the Stormblood arc in Final Fantasy XIV, Zenos is already established as the conqueror of both Ala Mhigo and Doma. Despite his victories, he's extremely bored with no one strong enough to oppose him. Upon hearing about the Warrior of Light's feats in beating The Empire and other adversaries, he grows quite interested in them. Zenos even starts subtly pushing for the rebellions to happen just so that he can have someone worthy to fight. While he does beat the Warrior of Light twice, he's very intrigued by their strength and encourages them to grow even stronger. | |
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In World of Warcraft, Maiev Shadowsong has spent most of the last 10 000 years either acting as Illidan Stormrage's jailor or chasing him. When she finally defeats him with the aid of the players, Illidan says that "The Huntress is nothing without the hunt." Maiev regretfully agrees. | |
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"It's So Easy" by Guns N' Roses is pretty much this trope in song form. | |
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At the start of Making Money Moist is fueled by complete boredom with running the Post Office —he made it work so well that it wasn't fun anymore. Luckily Vetinari has a new project for him... | |
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Time Scout: Skeeter's life post Heel–Face Turn is rather disappointing. It comes to a head: You just beat up a knife-wielding thug and handed him to the cops! You just carried the woman he was beating to the hospital, receiving warm congratulations! You just handed a truant kid over to the cops and felt a connection with a formerly antagonistic cop! You just got to stand up to a bigot! You... just got fired. Now what? | |
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This is the entire gag in the Huntsman segment of Freakazoid! Crime always seems to be in a lull, so Hunstman finds out that being a superhero is boring when there's nothing around to beat up. Instead, he does mundane things with his time like visit his brother or go to the aquarium. Extra comedic effect when contrasted with the intro to the segment, which is much more action-packed (and longer) than the actual segment itself. | |
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The flash game Mastermind: World Conqueror, in which you control a Diabolical Mastermind trying to conquer the world, ends like this. He destroys the planet (same as conquering, he looked it up), and escapes in a one-man shuttle with nothing to do but gloat and reflect. "I guess I didn't think this through". Still, he decides that it's totally worth it just to flip off the floating debris that was once Earth and the worst thing to him was the fact that he didn't bring any cheese snacks. | |
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In Injustice 2, this happens in Bane and Catwoman's arcade mode endings. Bane incites a convict uprising but eventually finds himself without any heroes or law enforcement to fight, and doesn't know what to do with himself at that point. In Catwoman's ending, Selina fully commits to a relationship with Bruce Wayne, but realizes it was only exciting when it was forbidden, and being a billionaire's girlfriend means never having to steal again. She leaves him to return to her old life. | |
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The Tim Tebow CFL Chronicles: In the utopia of Greenland City, human advancement has reached its end state. There's nothing left for their scientists to discover or invent, and they've even plumbed all possibilities of human culture (for example, they have Season 65 of The Wire already). It's boring to already know everything, so they've all become sports fans — because athletic competitions are the only remaining unknowns. | |
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In the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog episode "The Last Resort," Robotnik claims to have retired, and Sonic slowly goes crazy from the lack of evil plots to foil. | |
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One week of strips in Madam & Eve began with Mother Anderson successfully driving away the neighborhood Meilie Ladynote a loud street vendor who sells ears of corn with her incessant slingshot attacks. After a brief cheer of victory, she falls into a deep funk due to having nothing to challenge her. When the Meilie Lady returns at the end of the week, they exchange warm hugs, then Mother grabs her slingshot and gives chase once again. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1959): In "A Nice Place to Visit", a deceased crook having been mistakenly sent to heaven soon becomes bored and restless from getting everything just handed to him, feeling that he is getting everything too easily for him to really appreciate it, so much so he asks to go to "the other place." Of course, he's already there. In "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville" an evil bastard CEO quotes the Alexander line when he finds himself bored with his success. He ends up making a Deal with the Devil to go back in time to when he was a young man so that he can have the fun of re-conquering the world. (Hilariously, he has to pay the devil in cash because the devil already has his soul.) This being The Twilight Zone, things don't end well for him. |
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Same thing happens in Sonic Boom with Sonic trying to convince Eggman (who is depressed) into trying to take over the world again. | |
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In Westworld, this is the Man in Black's dark motive: after thirty years of being able to rape, murder, and torture the Hosts of the park, he's become bored and seeks the Maze to find the ultimate rival, a Host that can properly fight back. When the Hosts gain sentience and begin their massacre of the park's guests, his response is to grin gleefully. | |
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Belkar in The Order of the Stick. After beating his nemesis, Miko, unconscious, he realizes that the battle is over, leaving him with nothing to do. So, he wakes her up just to continue the fight. | |
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In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, we have The Ebony Warrior, an incredibly powerful foe that can only be battled when the Dragonborn has reached level 80 or over. The Ebony Warrior explains that he has done so many legendary deeds and has grown so mighty that nothing is able to pose a worthy challenge to him (the Dragonborn themselves will most likely feel the same way by level 80). He sees the Dragonborn as his last remaining Worthy Opponent and the only one who can give him the honorable death in battle he needs to enter Sovngarde. | |
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In the first Persona game, this is what the Big Bad Kandori feels by the time you reach him. After basically achieving godhood, that there's nothing else to conquer, nothing else to do, and no one else to oppose him, and is so depressed by this revelation that, by the time the heroes show up, he willingly surrenders himself. Then, he is insulted by Nanjo, who taunts and mocks the god-like being for his failures. Naturally, this pisses him off and he fights you. | |
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Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice gives us a truly twisted take in its Big Bad; Super Hero Aurum, after defeating Mao's father, the Overlord, became depressed that there were no more villains to fight. To fix that, he becomes Geoffry the butler and raises Mao to be the strongest Overlord. | |
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The Joker expresses this in The Dark Knight: | |
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The beginning of the Faces of Evil has Link saying "Gee, it sure is boring around here!" to which the King gives us the (in)famous line, "Mah boi, this peace is what all true warriors strive for!" | |
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xkcd has this happening to Google in this strip, when they realize that they don't have anything evil they can do since they already have everyone's information | |
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Dragon ShortZ: In "Yamcha Strikes Out", Yamcha is released from his baseball team after hitting his 500th consecutive home run. Why? Because the fans have stopped coming to his team's games since all they do is win. But at least he doesn't go away empty-handed: after signing a no-compete agreement with his release, the owner of the team gives Yamcha 20 billion zeni. In "DTF", Vegeta is going stir crazy since there are no bad guys to fight, and none of the ones that could give him even a remote challenge will fight him, either because they don't like fighting (Gohan), hate him (Piccolo, Android 18, possibly Tien), or he can't find them (definitlely Tien). |
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Ash himself eventually admits to feeling this way in the final episode after becoming world monarch, stating that he doesn't really feel like a Champion and how it wasn't his actual goal when it came to wanting To Be a Master. He then comes to realize that It's the Journey That Counts and goes Walking the Earth. | |
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Marvel Universe Secret Wars II, issue #3. The Beyonder takes mental control of every living thing on Earth, then gets bored and releases them. | |
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The Dark Knight Trilogy: The Joker expresses this in The Dark Knight: Also his revelation why he doesn't want to kill Batman. While at the beginning of the movie the Joker blackmails Batman to try to get him to unmask, later he changes his mind and calls into a talk show where Coleman Reese is about to expose Batman's identity. This all comes back in The Dark Knight Rises. With the Joker defeated and new laws in place shutting down nearly all organized crime, plus with Gordon running a cleaner, more efficient police force there's simply no reason for Bruce Wayne to don the Batman suit. However, he's unable to readjust to normal society and becomes an antisocial shut-in. This comes back to bite him hard when Bane arrives... while at one point Batman would have been able to fight him off, years of inaction have dulled his senses enough for Bane to physically dominate him. |
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At the end of the Codex Alera series, the First Lord Octavian a.k.a. Tavi implies this, as the normal day-to-day task of running Alera seems a bit boring compared to the wars that have just concluded. | |
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Dragon Ball Z Abridged After successfully wiping country music off the face of the globe and terrorizing humanity for 10+ years, Future 17 realizes that running around killing people and blowing up cities for kicks is actually pretty boring and that he's going to quit to become a park ranger ...and then Gohan kicks him through a building and 17 decides he's going to wipe out all of humanity purely out of spite, and then ranger the shit out of some parks. |
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Spoofed hard in Slayers. One episode features a treacherous prince who plots to murder his older brother in order to become first in line to the throne. Lina asks him what he plans to do once he is king. The prince is absolutely dumbfounded by the question and awkwardly says that "Ummm...I was kind of planning to rule and stuff...I guess." | |
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In Superman II, there's a scene showing the complete boredom of the three Kryptonian supervillains after they conquer the world. (And before Lex Luthor arrives to get things moving again). | |
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Mojo Jojo from The Powerpuff Girls (1998) actually managed to succeed in taking over the world in the 10th anniversary special "The Powerpuff Girls Rule!". Surprising everyone, he proves to be an extremely benevolent ruler who makes the world a much better place to live. However, after fixing all of the world's problems, he has nothing left to do but just sit at a desk all day in total silence. Finding this far too boring, he promptly returns to his usual villainy. | |
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A huge part of the plot of One-Punch Man. Saitama is the most powerful superhero on the planet (for all it gets him) and never loses a fight ever, as he obliterates almost everything he fights with one hit. However, this strength has made him completely apathetic, as there's no challenge to any fight he's in, making it all rather boring and tedious. Throughout the series, he's never had to fight seriously, because he's just too strong, and even during the rare few fights he's had to do more than just provide his version of a love-tap to win, his expression almost never changes even as his foes unleash planet-busting attacks that he counters with semi-serious punches. The first really serious villain, Boros, is a dark mirror of Saitama, being a super-powerful alien invader who's aimless and depressed with his life because he's become so strong and so good at conquering that it's not any fun for him anymore, as he never is at any risk of losing. Then a seer told him there is a mighty warrior on Earth — Saitama — who can give him the challenge he seeks. He gets it, all right, as Saitama gives him his first and only taste of what it's like to be the underdog before utterly and fatally pulverizing him. |
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In Shin Mazinger Zero, this is the only reason the storyline didn't stop before it could start. Juuzo Kabuto used Mazinger Z to easily Take Over the World...and was so underwhelmed that he had Minerva X send them back in time and sent his research to others so they could give him a challenge. | |
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The train of logic behind Lord Dominion's actions in Freedom Force. He's already conquered every other dimension, and rather than just steamroll over the Insignificant Little Blue Planet, he decides to give evil humans Energy X and let them tear the planet apart for his own amusement. | |
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The Inhumans: At the end of Silent War, Maximus the Mad finally achieves his goal of overthrowing his brother Black Bolt and ruling Attilan. The next time we see him, at the start of Secret Invasion, Maximus is having to deal with the day to day running of an entire species... and he's bored out of his skull. He can't step aside fast enough when Black Bolt comes back, and behaves for the better part of the next decade's worth of stories. | |
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In Die Hard, Hans Gruber quotes the line about Alexander after taking over the Nakatomi building, implying that was his favourite part of the plan. | |
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In Avatar: The Last Airbender, Mai proclaims victory to be boring after she and Ty Lee easily lay a smackdown on Katara and Sokka in Season 2. Their victory is short-lived, as Appa shows up and knocks them into the nearby river. | |
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After the events of Batman: Arkham City the crime rate in Gotham reaches an all-time low, with Batman spending most of his time building tools and gadgets he rarely uses. Upon seeing the modified Batmobile the Arkham Knight comments on how bored he must have been. | |
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In Maverick, after Bret and his dad have successfully pulled off their scheme and are now living the pampered high life, Bret intentionally leaves a large portion of the money they won in a position to be stolen by Annabelle Bransford "because it's going to be a whole lot of fun getting it back!" | |
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One episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine quotes a snippet of a Klingon epic poem illustrating this trope: | |
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In the Axe Cop episode "No More Bad Guys", Axe Cop is bored because he has killed every bad guy on Earth. In the end, he wishes for every alien in the universe to be evil just so he'll have something to fight again. | |
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Rival Schools' ending for Hyo Imawano, the main boss of the game — he wins and has everyone under mind control but realizes that no one truly loves him. | |
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The last episode of Band of Brothers examines this trope. With the war effectively over in Europe, the rest of Easy Company have nothing to do. Those that don't have enough points to go home have to wait around in Austria not doing a whole lot — waiting until the war either ends or they're called to Japan to fight. Thankfully the former happens. It seems to be subverted in the "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue which reveals the post-war fates of the men — as only Ronald Speirs remained in the army. | |
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In Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, Ratchet is feeling this way again. At the beginning of the game, he says that he's not even sure if he still counts as a hero since it's been at least five years since he's done anything heroic. Later, this is realized by Emperor Nefarious, the more successful Alternate Universe version of recurring villain Dr. Nefarious. After achieving what he thinks is total victory, he cuts his own celebration short because he doesn't feel any different. Of course, rather than learn anything from this or Dr. Nefarious pointing out his problem directly, Emperor Nefarious decides the reason he isn't happy is because he hasn't completely won by conquering the multiverse. | |
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In Mortal Kombat: Armageddon, Shao Kahn's ending reveals him to have finally achieved his goal of conquering all the realms... and going insane with boredom as a result. | |
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Pinky and the Brain: The Brain once succeeded in taking over the world by building a full-size replica of the Earth out of papier-mache and luring the population there with free T-shirts. Unfortunately, that left him as the ruler of an empty planet. A comet then destroys the real Earth, leaving Brain and Pinky stranded in the fake Earth, where their plans start anew (much to Brain's relief, one may imagine). In another example, as an accidental result of a time-travel scheme, in the present day, all the citizens are replaced with Pinky-like morons. This technically means the Brain has won, since he can easily rule the world with citizens like that. But Brain is horrified, since as he explains to Pinky, while this makes it easy to rule the world, who would want to? He immediately goes back in time to try to change things back. |
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In the film version of Camelot, the idea that evil people will never be satisfied, even in victory, is spelled out to Mordred by Arthur. | |
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In the second season Beyblade Burst, the series is introduced to Free de la Hoya, the #1 Blader in the world. Free is so ridiculously strong, his default expression is an apathetic, bored look. Because of this, he rarely attends any training sessions with his teammates and even feels like having a team is pointless as, quoted from himself, he'll win each and every time. However, what's funny that Free himself stated that although he does get bored of blading sometimes due to his strength, he feels like winning is the only thing that makes him happy. However, character development does kick in when he bonds with Valt whom he sees as someone with potential to give him a good match. Free's first on-screen loss was to fellow Big 5 member Lui Shirosagi where Free, upset at the loss at first, was still happy to have found someone that was on his level. | |
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In The Great North, Season 1 "Feast of Not People Adventure", after winning the Daver Dash multiple times with his brother in previous festivals, Beef decides to skip this year's race because he lost the thrill of it but decides to compete again when Wolf wants to do it with him. After seeing Wolf's setbacks before the race and still pushing through it, Beef is happy to have the thrill of the race he was missing and doesn't mind that they won't win this year because he's proud of Wolf's determination. | |
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Phineas and Ferb: The episode "Phineas and Ferb Get Busted" has Candace actually getting Mom to see the boys' antics, which results in them being sent to a hellish reform school. However, upon seeing what the reform school is doing to the boys, Candace realizes how much she truly loves and misses her brothers, and embarks on a mission to rescue them. (In the end, though, the episode turns out to be a Dream Within a Dream...of Perry!) In the Series Finale, after 104 days initiating his not-so-evil plans to take over the Tri-State Area that invariably fail, the show's Big Bad Dr. Doofenshmirtz finally formulates a really brilliant one by creating a political position known as Tri-State Governor and successfully getting himself elected for the office. To do so, Doof sets up 30 traps to keep Perry busy, and after winning the election, he takes the opportunity to sign a law forbidding any agent from thwarting him until his term is over, leaving Perry depressed. However, his daughter Vanessa points out that similar to Doof's Hilariously Abusive Childhood, Doof's victory didn't bring him any happiness at all. Realizing now that it's not worth it, Doof decides to retire from evil. |
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Zoom in Season 2 of The Flash (2014). He spends the first two-thirds of the season scheming to steal Barry's speed so he can cure his own drug-induced speed disease. Eventually, he succeeds... and promptly tries to take over Earth-1 and then destroy the multiverse. Why? No particular reason other than that he's bored ruling his own earth. | |
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Epithet Erased's second Arc Villain won the Superpower Lottery, which leaves her pretty frustrated. | |
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Tromaville in The Toxic Avenger was originally a corrupt little New Jersey town filled with cartoonishly over the top street thugs that seem to get away with terrorizing the innocent populous due to the machinations of the corrupt mayor and the Nazi police chief. After a "harmless" prank led to innocent nobody Melvin Junko to fall into a vat of chemical waste, he turned into Jersey's first hideously deformed creature of superhuman size and strength - later referred to as "the Monster Hero" and officially "the Toxic Avenger" - and would go on to reform Tromaville one brutal criminal massacre at a time. By the time the first sequel starts, Tromaville has become so rid of crime that Toxie ends up feeling useless without any evil to fight. | |
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Duke Felmet (a Macbeth Expy) experienced a variant of this when the people of Lancre didn't rise up and rebel against him after he killed his cousin and seized the throne. (They figured that being assassinated counts as "natural causes" for a King). His frustration about the fact is summed up in this quote: | |
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The final boss Ouroboros in Bravely Default wants to fill the universe with strife and destruction because peace is boring and conflict is exciting. | |
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The same thing happens in his Knight Terrors tie-in (though it was actually an accidental death), where the Joker ends up joining Wayne Enterprises to fill the void, initially thinking that he can find some way to take advantage of the company's resources to commit crimes. But later, he starts joining the other employees at parties and gatherings, and when rumors start spreading that Batman is Not Quite Dead, the Joker... flips through channels in his TV at home. According to the story, this is the Joker's greatest fear. | |
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In Transformers: Armada Megatron was able to kill Optimus, but afterwards, it had left him empty and bored with his Arch-Nemesis gone, and spent the next few episodes doing nothing. When Optimus is resurrected, he is back to his old self again. | |
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But in Emperor Joker, it's revealed that he literally cannot imagine a world without Batman... no matter how hard he tries, despite having gained cosmic power and become the ruler of reality. | |
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Taken to the extreme in one of The Lost Books of the Odyssey. Achilles abandons the Trojan War on Odysseus' suggestion and goes to faraway lands, and defeats the strongest warriors here and there until there is no doubt that he is the strongest man in the entire world. Then, desperate to be rid of him, an emperor gives him the key to heaven, where Achilles ascends, killing demigods and demons until he finally kills God himself — and is left, sitting on God's throne, wishing he had never been born. | |
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My Hostage, Not Yours: In the third story, Gaz starts expressing this attitude after she and Zim succeed in conquering Earth. | |
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Mappy: Decades after getting away with an art heist in the 80s, Goro hires his nemesis Mappy to work at his company so he can try to foil the crime that he's planning. Why? Goro misses him. | |
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Midway through Final Fantasy VI, Kefka succeeds in murdering Emperor Gestahl, draining the power of the Warring Triad, and effectively becoming a god, and the source of magic. However, upon obtaining such power, he discovers that there's nothing meaningful to do with it. One year later, this line of thinking has fueled his rapid descent into nihilism. | |
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Thorkell from the manga Vinland Saga, defects from the Danish army to align himself with the English because he thinks it would be more fun. Afterwards, he decides to become the vassal of Prince Canute, the clear underdog in the competition for the Danish throne, as if he did not have enough to fight against to begin with. The man is a huge, Older Than He Looks, man's man of a warrior, so it is almost expected. However, despite being on the strongest side in England with rival factions constantly uprising against them, Thorkell is extremely bored because his worth as an intimidation-based commander means that he has to sit on the sidelines. | |
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On 30 Rock, Jack Donaghy finds himself working for a Brand X version of Comcast which doesn't do anything but take in money from its affiliates; he is informed it's the "perfect business" since they can essentially just sit back and let the money make itself. A natural innovator, he is aghast and quotes the "Alexander" line at the top of the page, attributing it to Die Hard. He's also depressed in the final season when he successfully completes the goal he's been working towards the entire series and becomes a CEO. The final episode has him quitting NBC and going back to GE, allowing him to work his way back up. | |
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On multiple occasions, segments of "Ask Axe Cop" end with the complete destruction of all the bad guys. Axe Cop finds this incredibly boring. | |
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Star vs. the Forces of Evil: After saving Mewni in the Season 3 premiere, Marco Diaz gets honorary knighthood and everything, but once he returns home, Marco can't quite celebrate his achievements back there, and feels life on Earth is just too limiting. | |
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Light has this attitude in Seigikan: | |
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League of Super Redundant Heroes has Mayor Kurgh of Shitropolis. He was originally an alien conqueror who attacked the city, only instead of resisting, the then-mayor happily surrendered. Now Kurgh is stuck with the monotonous, thankless job of making sure a City of Adventure, where two-thirds of the population are either superheroes or villains, actually functions. And then there is Josie Perkins, The "Desperate Housewitch". She's essentially the Alpha Bitch who grew up and didn't become a Future Loser; She's married to a handsome and successful lawyer, and when she first appears she's expecting their first child. However, she finds her responsibilities incredibly stifling, and envies her former classmate Eva / Buckeress for still having a "youthful" lifestyle. So she turns to witchcraft for both revenge and to spice up her life. |
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Discussed in Red vs. Blue by Grif and Simmons with an iconic conversation. They are in a boxed canyon, and if they were to suddenly win against the Blues, whether that be killing them all or forcing them to surrender, the only prize they would get would be having the honor of saying that they have two bases in the middle of a boxed canyon. Deconstructed when it comes to the character of Sarge from this series. This is perhaps possibly his greatest fear as fighting the Blues, and to an extent actual bad guys, is what gives his life meaning and purpose. When Grif points out in Recreation that they might just never fight anymore Blue soldiers Sarge ends up deciding to undo his victory of erasing the Blues so that they can get back to the status quo of fighting Blue soldiers. This fear remains consistent from this point forward and is finally admitted directly in Season 15. |
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In ReBoot, Hexadecimal, an insane virus who describes herself as the "Queen of Chaos", infects Mainframe with the Medusa Bug, turning it to stone. All of its inhabitants are petrified. She won. Nobody could do anything about it, except for Bob, who thanks Hex for making Mainframe so peaceful and predictable. After thinking about this for a few seconds, Hex realizes she doesn't want peace and order, so she returns Mainframe to normal by literally snapping her fingers. Though it was less "Victory Is Boring" and more "That particular victory would be boring" since Hex wants chaos and upheaval above anything else. | |
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Similar to the Recess example above, Lisa and Bart build a fort out of packages and end up in a huge, Lord of the Rings-style war against the delivery men. Upon winning the war, they get bored and wonder what to do now. They choose to use a hose to soak the fort into a pile of mushy cardboard. | |
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In the Batman: The Animated Series episode "The Man Who Killed Batman", The Joker is clearly unconvinced of his nemesis' demise and goes about robbing a diamond store to force Batman to come thwart him. After a standoff several hours long, he grudgingly admits his greatest foe is gone and that crime is no more fun without him. He orders his gang to take nothing and leaves empty-handed. | |
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Animorphs: After 54 books (and 4 Megamorphs books)note though only the first one of those had any real bearing on the overall plot, the Animorphs FINALLY defeat the Yeerks, and prevent the Andalites from bombing Earth to oblivion to defeat the Yeerk Empire, though at the cost of Rachel and Tom dying in the final battle. Jake (and all of the surviving Animorphs to some extent) suffers from PTSD and guilt, while Marco and Cassie are the only ones who truly manage to recover (and behind all his celebrity status, Marco is still secretly bored to tears, which is probably why he's willing to join Jake and Tobias on a possible suicide mission to rescue Ax from the One). K.A. Applegate, in her Dear Negative Reader letter, explained that in real wars, there is no triumphant final battle, that sometimes good people die and bad people live, and even the people who survive are permanently changed. |
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From Dragon Ball Super is Universe 12's God of Destruction, Geene. He carries out his job ruthlessly and indiscriminately, leaving his universe with the second-highest quality of life in the multiverse (allowing him to skip the universe-ending Tournament of Power)... and leaving him with almost nothing to do, thus he's grown very bored. | |
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Tom Strong is a Downplayed heroic example. He's outlived his nemesis and only intellectual equal Paul Saveen, and without Paul, he's at a bit of a loose end. When he meets Paul's ghost, he admits that he misses his enemy. | |
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In the Marvel: The End series, Thanos succeeds in acquiring the Heart of the Universe and defeats the entire Celestial Order (Galactus, Infinity, Eternity, Order, Chaos, etc.) and finally ends all existence in the universe other than himself, but finds his efforts to be utterly pointless. He then discovers that a power other than them may have even been manipulating these events to the point that Thanos himself will realize this, so using the Heart of the Universe, Thanos restores the Universe to the way it was before. | |
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Sonic the Comic: After Dr. Robotnik's defeat and the fall of his empire in Issue 100, Sonic quickly found himself bored to tears with no enemy to fight. He practically jumped at the chance to investigate an issue on the Flickies' island, on Tails' advice. Around the same time, during the EMP that caused all of Dr. Robotnik's technology to fail, Shortfuse the Cybernik ended up missing everything due to his flight systems having cut out while he was over a volcano, and, upon being found by the other Freedom Fighters, lamented the fact that he could no longer take revenge on Dr. Robotnik for his Unwilling Roboticisation. He found himself unable to hold down regular jobs, but, when the Insectra Empire requested assistance in their war against the Blurrgh, he took the job with gusto. Such a shame that this war had been going on for thousands of years, with neither side really sure what started it anymore. |
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One of the alternate universes featured in The Multiversity is a world where the Justice League defeated every villain and created a utopia. As a result, all the Legacy Characters and new heroes have nothing to do, reducing them to vapid celebrities who waste the day away with hedonism and simulations of old battles. | |
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In A Song of Ice and Fire, King Robert suffered badly from this. A conquering king who saw the girl he fought the war for die and was forced into a loveless political marriage afterward, he's grown fat and keeps talking to his old friend Ned of abandoning the throne and becoming a sellsword. The only joy he seems to find is in the occasional tournament... though it's soon pointed out to him that no one in their right mind is going to strike the king in a melee. | |
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The Good Place: After four seasons of trying, Shawn has finally won in convincing the Judge to reboot the Earth and the Soul Squad are out of ideas. After about a minute of Evil Gloating to try and encourage Michael to come up with another plan, he admits that being their enemy is the most fun he's had in a long time and agrees to help them save the Earth. He later makes a full Heel–Face Turn along with the other demons and finds a new purpose in designing the tests for the afterlife. | |
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One Piece: Done subtly in regard to the world's greatest swordsman, Dracule Mihawk. While what he was like when he was younger is a mystery, as an adult he seems to have no secondary goals and has become bored with nothing to accomplish, and jaded because so few people can give him a challenge. As a result, he tries to pass the time by doing things such as wiping out Don Krieg's fleet and chasing the survivors halfway across the world (though only because they disturbed his nap). Which seems to do nothing at all to alleviate his boredom. When he meets the main crew's swordsman Zoro, who's aiming for his title, he's impressed by the younger man's determination and encourages him to surpass him. This is also why Gold Roger turned himself in to the World Government in the first place. He had seen everything, done everything, and had nothing left to do. Seeing as he was dying from an incurable disease anyway, he figured he would turn himself in and do one final thing: tell everyone, right before they executed him, that he had hidden all his wealth somewhere, and that whoever claimed it would be rich beyond their wildest dreams — so long as they could find it. And so it began... Kaido rose to become one of the contenders for the title of World's Strongest Man and is a Nigh-Invulnerable monster regardless. Unfortunately, twenty years on top of the food chain with no one to challenge him have left him a depressed, alcoholic Death Seeker who's so tough that he can't die, further adding to his depression. When Luffy comes along and seems likely to kill Kaido upon unlocking Gear 5, Kaido seems almost happy. |
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In Record of Ragnarok Lü Bu and Thor both experienced this, and regarded the other as a Worthy Opponent in their fight as they were the first to provide each other a challenge. Lü Bu was the World's Strongest Man in his time, and spent his entire life in search of strong opponents only to realize that nobody could match him and allowed himself to be executed by his rival Cao Cao soon after. Meanwhile Thor had similar struggles, as he was disappointed after single-handedly wiping out the Jötunn with minimal effort. | |
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Pokémon: Implied to be the case with Red in Pokémon Gold and Silver. After completing the Kanto Pokédex and becoming the Indigo League Champion & presumably a Pokémon Master, he withdrew from society entirely and hadn't even contacted his mother in years, spending all his time training at Mt. Silver. It isn't until he's defeated by the player that he returns to public life, joining the World Tournament in Pokémon Black 2 and White 2. The eighth Gym Leader in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, Volkner, has an apathetic attitude to you challenging him because he's won every challenge he's ever had and spends all of his time renovating the Gym out of boredom. You snap him out of it when you beat him and he breaks into laughter. |
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Futurama: This happens on one of the episodes of the Show Within a Show The Scary Door, where a man is hit by a car and then wakes up in a casino. In another episode, a non-canon segment features Professor Farnsworth having answered the last scientific question ever, and soon grows dreadful of his seemingly eternal victory. Then Fry inspires him to try to find out why the universe exists in the state that it does instead of some other way, and he and the Planet Express crew celebrate. |
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In his 100th episode, The Angry Video Game Nerd came to the realization that his purpose as The Nerd is meaningless without bad video games. In the beginning, he was wishing that his game room wouldn't be cluttered with so many bad games. But when ROB the Robot removed them from existence (for its own purpose), that victory felt hollow. | |
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In the Deathstalker series, after the Empress is finally overthrown, many of the main characters react to their new lives with almost uncharacteristic ennui. Jack Random, in particular, crawls into a bottle, and Ruby Journey joins him whenever she's not contracted to take down another foe well below her skillset. This being the Deathstalker universe, though, the peace doesn't really last. | |
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In the episode of The Annoying Orange where Orange and Pear go to England and (predictably) meet an expy of Sherlock Holmes, the culprit turns out to be Watson all along. He was trying to help Holmes relive the thrill of the chase by pretending to be a criminal. The world of Annoying Orange being what it is, both Holmes and Watson become supervillains by the end of the episode and promptly begin to turn London into a smoldering wasteland using a death ray. | |
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Nearly every game after The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time has Link start another journey after or during the credits. | |
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This is the reason for the main arc's launch in Kid Radd — the player of the main character's game has beaten it and put it to rest. | |
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Robert Baratheon of Game of Thrones. He lived for combat and the challenge of conquest. Once he wins and becomes King, he quickly becomes tediously bored with the only things that remain in his life: luxury, drinking, hunting, and sex. The man himself perfectly sums up this trope: "I was never so alive as when I was winning this throne, or so dead as now that I've won it." | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog: In the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog episode "The Last Resort," Robotnik claims to have retired, and Sonic slowly goes crazy from the lack of evil plots to foil. Same thing happens in Sonic Boom with Sonic trying to convince Eggman (who is depressed) into trying to take over the world again. |
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Inigo Montoya of The Princess Bride, after defeating the Six-Fingered Man: "Is very strange. I have been in the revenge business so long, now that it's over, I don't know what to do with the rest of my life." Luckily, Westley wants to return to a "normal" life with Buttercup. | |
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In Harley Quinn (2019) The Joker manages to take control of Gotham City and turns it into a nightmarish dystopia, but gets bored with it after a week. He doesn't even have fun torturing Batman anymore, and it gets even worse for him after The Scarecrow unmasks him. | |
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The New Grapper Baki series of Baki the Grappler opens with five of the world's greatest martial arts masters, who also all happen to be death row inmates, escaping prison and coming to Japan in the hopes of experiencing defeat for the first time in their lives. Although most of them turn out to not like defeat or take it very well... | |
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This happens in the first episode of Leverage as the team makes a multi-million dollar payout and are all mentioning how they could retire. Instead, they continue working together using their skills for good. | |
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Castlevania: Symphony of the Night: Richter Belmont banished Dracula in 1792. Four years later he summoned the castle in an effort to destroy it and become a hero yet again. (Or, more specifically, he was mind controlled with that alibi.) | |
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My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!: In the canon of Fortune Lover, this is the keynote of Prince Geordo's characterization. Being able to effortlessly succeed at anything he tries has left him incredibly bored with life, going through the motions and deriving most of his pleasures from sadism. Maria is supposed to break him out of this by providing a source of interest and novelty in his life. In the actual show, his engagement to Katarina has allowed him to avoid this, as her antics and eccentricities provide him with a constant stream of new experiences and her essential kindness has helped keep him from turning sadistic. | |
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Acnologia of Fairy Tail happily lived a life of carnage and destruction until running into a problem — he became so ungodly powerful that burning the whole world to the ground and destroying everyone was no longer even a challenge. He ended up lying low and doing almost nothing for centuries, only occasionally reappearing to check on unusually strong people (and curbstomp them effortlessly). | |
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Among the Warhammer 40,000 community, there are a lot of complaints about fans of the Ultramarines Running the Asylum, causing the official lore to constantly show the Ultramarines doing almost everything important, and being wildly successful at everything. If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device plays with this, as the Ultramarines are all portrayed as somewhere between The Ace and Mary Sue... except their commander Calgar. He is strongly hinted to have made a deal with the Chaos Gods to make the chapter always successful, and he is permanently frustrated with the effortless success his chapter has on even blatantly impossible missions, not to mention his underlings' resulting egos. | |
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The final scene from Blazing Saddles: | |
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Mulberry helps a robot run for President of the United States in one of her comics. After he wins, she cheers, then nonchalantly gets up and walks away, giving one of her friends a turn at the robot's controls. | |
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Subverted in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: When Discord breaks the friendship between the mane cast and finally demoralizes Twilight Sparkle so much that she gives up, at first it looks like he's not having any fun without opposition. But then he once again displays just how sadistic he is when he reveals his elation at Twilight's misery, and immediately goes back to raining chaos (and chocolate rain) upon Equestria. | |
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The Dalek comes to this realization in the Doctor Who audio drama "Jubilee". | |
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The Platypus Comix story "Raiders of the Lost Arc" has a reincarnated Joan of Arc fight Osama bin Laden in the Middle East. After she defeats him, all the terrorists of the world surrender, which in turn leads to the disbandment of the US Army. The comic ends with Joan apparently unable to find anything to do with her free time other than mundane chores. | |
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Villains Don't Date Heroes!: Night Terror starts the book bored out of her skull because she has the entire city completely cowed. The villains all obey her rules and pay her a percentage, the heroes largely avoid her, and the police only make the most token of attempts to stop her; she's even on a first-name basis with the commissioner. Then Fialux shows up and beats her to hell and back. | |
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In the Grand Finale of Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, after the gang solves the mystery of Crystal Cove and cause the whole town to reset, turning it into a peaceful community where everyone is happy and the tragedies they suffered never happened, they quickly find themselves bored with no more mysteries to solve. Luckily for them, they are given a chance to travel the country solving more mysteries along the way. | |
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In DC Comics Presents #56, Superman and an alternate universe Supergirl fight Maaldor, a villain with godlike powers who challenges them because he's conquered his whole universe... and now he's bored. | |
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Superman: In a heart-wrenching issue, Superman competes against someone who has similar powers which his opponent got via a method of rejuvenating himself that would eventually kill him. Because of a technicality (the rejuvenation process is considered cheating), Superman wins. Superman then reveals that he's learned his opponent was not only The Last of His Kind, but also from the same solar system as Superman, and sorrowfully asks "when you're Superman, what's one more victory?" A pre-Crisis story had an old pre-WW2 supervillain (despite the fact that this was Earth-1, where Supes himself was supposed to be the first superhuman) give up his life of crime to go star-hopping with his "alien friends". He comes back to Earth to see home again while he can but is a bit peeved that his tales of traveling in space are disbelieved and that he's mostly been forgotten in favor of Superman, so he gets his friends to rejuvenate him temporarily so that he can have one last splash of super-villainy. He fights Superman, who lets him win so that he can die in triumph. In DC Comics Presents #56, Superman and an alternate universe Supergirl fight Maaldor, a villain with godlike powers who challenges them because he's conquered his whole universe... and now he's bored. |
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Discussed in a No Reservations episode where Anthony and a chef discusses the success of another chef whose signature dish was sauteed Brussels sprouts. The chef in question had to take it off the menu because he lamented "I'd be in the damn Brussels sprouts business." | |
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In These Are the Damned, Jake says that he felt like the war was easier in some ways because he only had to focus on survival everyday, whereas now he has loads of problems to deal with. | |
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The Worm Ouroboros: The protagonists win, but find nothing else interesting for them to do after their victory. They wish for the conflict to happen all over again, causing their enemies to resurrect and send the same ultimatum that started the original war. This is the purpose of the title, as the Ouroboros is a symbol of a snake or dragon eating its own tail, symbolizing cyclicality. | |
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Dracon in Heroes of Might and Magic III dedicated his life to becoming the greatest Dragonslayer ever. In particular, he dreams of slaying an Azure Dragon, the mightiest of all dragons. In the final mission of his campaign, he does just that. The ending cinematic depicts Dracon sitting on his fallen foe's body, dissatisfied with his victory. He realizes that he had wrongly built up the moment of victory as the key to contentment and validation and he wonders what he will do next. | |
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In Dota 2, this is the backstory for Bradwarden the Centaur Warrunner; having bested all worthy opponents in the gladiatorial arena, he grew bored, and set off into the world to find greater challenges. | |
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Probably the most ancient example: Beowulf as an old king rides out against a dragon, even knowing he can't survive, simply from a desire to die fighting. There's a bit of logic here: according to Norse beliefs, if you died of old age, you'd be denied entrance to Valhalla, in which only heroes who die in battle are welcome. | |
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Pokémon: The Series: The Orange Islands champion Drake. He was wondering how long it would be before a challenger would defeat him when Ash made his way there. Taken even further by the anime versions of Cynthia and Leon. The former is so strong that she can't find any joy in battles anymore. Cynthia even considered retiring from battling after the World Coronation because she felt that there was no challenge in Pokémon Battles anymore. It wasn't until she ran into Ash who finally manages to defeat her that she regains the joy of battling. On Leon's side, being the World's Best Warrior he stood way above everyone else, including other Champions. It's why he's so desperately seeking out new challenges that can push him to the limit. And like Cynthia, he gets the opponent he seeks in Ash, who manages to defeat him and become the new world champion. Ash himself eventually admits to feeling this way in the final episode after becoming world monarch, stating that he doesn't really feel like a Champion and how it wasn't his actual goal when it came to wanting To Be a Master. He then comes to realize that It's the Journey That Counts and goes Walking the Earth. |
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Paizo, the company behind Pathfinder, said something along the lines of, "Gee, it's almost like we want a world that needs a bunch of heroes to step up and save it." | |
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Ben 10: Omniverse: Bezel is the most powerful wizard in the universe, which is exactly why he hates magic. He can make anything happen with his powers, meaning life is no fun for him if he uses them for everything. He prefers using stage magic instead, because that still has limits to what it can do. He only reluctantly uses magic when it becomes clear that Ben, Kevin, and Rook have no means of reaching Charmcaster, and could have easily taken her out by himself, but chose to let her capture him to he could watch Ben and Gwen figure out how to stop her. | |
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Another comic (but not DuckTales) has Magica venting over her inability to steal Scrooge's #1 Dime. When her familiar asks if she really needed Scrooge's dime for her Midas Touch amulet, Magica realizes that no, she doesn't. She still has the other dime Scrooge gave her in her first appearance when she was collecting the dimes touched by the world's richest. (She originally wanted Scrooge's Number One for extra power.) Making the amulet, Magica gains the Midas Touch and becomes supremely wealthy — but is still upset because she never did beat Scrooge. Even flaunting her new fortune doesn't work, as Scrooge is just happy to know she won't bother him anymore. When she destroys his money bin by turning it to gold (making it too soft to contain his cash), he logically decides to sell the gold to pay for a new one, and then some. This is the last straw, and Magica destroys her amulet, thereby turning the transformed gold back, before Scrooge could do just that. | |
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South Park: Turns out in the episode "Smug Alert" that without Kyle to rip on, Eric Cartman gets pretty bored. Averted in "Cartmanland," however. When Cartman gets what he's always wanted his whole life, a theme park all to himself, Kyle figures Cartman will bore of it before long. Kyle turns out to be wrong, however, as Cartman's ecstatic joy never ever slows down, though in part because he knows he succeeded where Kyle did not, and he derives literally endless joy in feeling that way. |
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In Once Upon a Time, it's shown in "Welcome to Storybrooke" that when Regina "won" by casting the curse, she took a day to really relish it. But she quickly realizes that the town that the curse created is so unchanging that it's the next best thing to a "Groundhog Day" Loop. It takes her three days to get bored. It's hard to enjoy a victory over people when they don't even know they were fighting, let alone that they lost. Case in point, Day three. |
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Conspiracy (2001): After Reinhard Heydrich blackmails the conflicted Wilhelm Kritzinger at the conference to cooperate in the Holocaust, Kritzinger warns him where this genocide will lead by telling Heydrich a story about a man he knew whose life was rendered meaningless when his father, whom he fiercely hated, died. Heydrich later reflects on this and the Nazis wonder what they would do with an ideology built around hate if all the Jews in the world were gone. Heydrich promptly ignores it and heads back to his HQ in Prague. | |
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At the very beginning of Black Cat, when the mob accountant they have captured asks the duo if they would do him a favor and let him see his family once more, Train immediately says OK, because catching and taking him right to the cops would be too boring. | |
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In the Emperor Doom graphic novel, Doctor Doom succeeds in conquering the world by brainwashing everyone. By and large, he's a fairly benevolent monarch and does much to solve many of the world's problems... but in order to maintain this utopia, he has to attend all the meetings and make all the decisions. Unfortunately, he's bored out of his mind, such that when the one unaffected hero manages to break the spell on a few others, he lets the rebellion win. He'd rather be a conqueror than a Desk Jockey, indicating his Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist nature. | |
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Oscar's Orchestra: In the episode “World Tour�, when Thadius is under the impression that Oscar and his orchestra have been dealt with by Lucius, he gets very bored and starts taking out his boredom and anger on his henchmen and any random people who happens to cross his path. | |
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In Baldur's Gate you find a book about Jergal, once-god of the end of everything; as the god of strife, death and the dead he was immensely powerful and fell into despondency as he realised that having absolute power and absolute impotency was practically the same. As such he practically jumped at the chance of being ousted by Bane, Bhaal, and Myrkul and even prevented them from killing each other over his power. | |
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Although it's not exactly the same as "victory" would really be getting home, Star Trek: Voyager sort of had this trope in the episode "Night". After having four years of endless attacks, death and mayhem you think that travelling through an area where they're more or less safe might be better. But even Janeway says "Strange as it sounds, I almost long for the days when we were under constant attack. No time to stop and think about how we got stranded in the Delta quadrant." | |
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This trope is the focus of the Breaking Bad episode "Gliding Over All": Everybody who could pose a threat to Walt is now dead, he has more money than he could possibly hope to launder or even spend in a lifetime and thanks to his new deal with Lydia, his "empire" has basically become an average 9 to 5 job. Walt even decides to quit only for things to get complicated again due to Hank discovering Walt's secret. | |
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In Rocky Balboa, Dixon agrees to fight the aging Rocky because no current boxer can touch him. The fans also seem to agree with this trope. Dixon dominates his opponents so easily he's become a boring Invincible Hero, and people are quickly losing interest in watching him. | |
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Hemulen of The Moomins (that is to say, the particular Hemulen who lives with the Moomins) is initially obsessed with collecting stamps, but in The Finn Family Moomintroll, he finally has "all of them". As this means there's no collecting left to do, it causes him a life crisis. Subsequently, he finds a new purpose in collecting plants. | |
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Happens twice to Morgana in Merlin (2008). Twice she ends up conquering Camelot but it's established that she spends so long scheming and planning to get on the throne, she has no idea what to do once she actually has it. Notable is the Season 4 finale where she has to resort to having the knights spar with each other in the great hall, which serves to kill time until the protagonists arrive to save the day. | |
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In The Little Pony Legend, this tends to crop up a few times. While neither Korra nor the ponies ever think life is boring, they do sometimes hit ruts in their lives. Such as when Korra managed to fix the spirit vines in book 3. Or the beginning of Shadow of Ronin. Even after getting her own palace, marrying, having a daughter, and establishing peace, Korra still missed the adventures and drama of saving the world some. | |
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In Tigtone episode "Tigtone vs. Nothing", Helpy uses an Artifact to stop all crises and dangers in Propecia, leaving Tigtone without any quests. By the end of the episode, Tigtone has declared that peace is for the weak and uses the same artifact to flood the kingdom with monsters so that quests return. | |
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Night's Favored Child: Nightmare Moon admits that the thrill of having defeated Celestia and of being worshipped as Empress wore off after a few centuries. | |
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The LEGO Batman Movie: Batman celebrates his latest victory against the Joker and his henchmen by eating lobster thermidor, practicing his guitar, and looking at his family portraits, all by himself. | |
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Lupin III's cop, Zenigata, actually manages to capture Lupin. Inevitably, Zenigata begins to realize that without Lupin to chase around, his life is empty and boring, as Lupin was the only criminal that truly challenged him. In one story, Lupin sits in jail for an entire year awaiting his execution. Zenigata spends the year getting more and more depressed and dreading the execution day even more than Lupin. When Lupin escapes at the last minute, Zenigata is overjoyed, and the chase resumes. | |
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In Hellsing, Alucard's main motivation is trying to find a human that can kill him because he's bored of being practically a god to the point of agreeing to reduce his power level to make fighting more of a challenge. | |
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Yusuke Urameshi from YuYu Hakusho falls victim to this after he wins the dark tournament, although he is then punished for his complacency as the next arc starts with him getting kidnapped. It then happens AGAIN after beating Sensui, because being an S-rank demon leaves him as the most powerful fighter in the human world by miles. | |
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Succession: Matsson, a self-made tech billionaire, has become bored with simply making money, saying, "Success is boring. Analysis plus capital plus execution. Anyone can do it." He's become more interested in failure, studying and exploiting people's weaknesses. | |
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Mr. Nick of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus has always known this, which is why he usually tends to give the doctor another chance, so that they can resume their perpetual game. Parnassus himself is genuinely surprised to discover this, considering he always believed that Nick simply enjoyed watching him suffer by winning. | |
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In the Village Tales novels, it's an In-Universe Running Gag that a bored Duke of Taunton is a danger to the village ... and that he gets bored after he pulls off yet another Gambit Pileup and Xanatos Speed Chess match. Wherefore he goes looking for another crisis to solve, and, for their own sakes, his neighbors help him find one, to keep him occupied and out of their hair. | |
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The Transformers fan comic Lil Formers illustrates this here... which isn't too far from what actually happens in the storyline it's making a parody of. | |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas has the protagonist Jack Skellington depressed and burnt out from spending Halloween every year at being the best at scaring, his popularity, and his lack of anything relatively close to competition. As a result of this, he ends up discovering Christmas Town. After gaining an interest in the holidays and a disastrous sleigh ride, Jack rediscovers his enthusiasm for scaring. | |
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In the Dexter's Laboratory episode "Dee Dee and the Man," Dexter finally gets Dee Dee out of his lab for good by firing her in her role as his sister. However, without Dee Dee sneaking into his lab anymore and causing havoc for him to stop, Dexter quickly finds himself growing from elated and happy to depressed and bored, and by the end of the episode, Dee Dee has her rightful place restored. | |
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Cody in Final Fight saved Metro City, got the mayor's daughter, and is the baddest street fighter in all of Metro City. What does he do? Start picking fights until he gets thrown in jail. He escapes from jail just in time for Street Fighter Alpha. To quote the guy: "I saved the city, saved the girl, but couldn't save myself..." | |
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Hero's version: about midway through The Chronicles of Amber, Corwin starts realizing that he doesn't have any real interest in holding the throne, and that superficial ambition and spite towards one of his brothers was the only reason he was trying to claim it in the first place. Even before someone else is picked to be King, he announces his intention to abdicate. | |
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