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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Probably one of the most hated characters in a movie or series fandom, The Load is a liability to the heroes. They are not always the proximate cause of the heroes' failures, but they're weak, they're often Too Dumb to Live, and for some reason they've just got to hang around with the cool heroes and be a part of the action all the time. It doesn't occur to The Load that, being an unathletic Muggle, it really might not be such a good idea for them to rush headlong onto the battlefield along with the heavily armored and super-powered heroes. Said heroes will usually have to spend at least half the battle keeping The Load alive. It's not hard to see why the fans hate them so much. The Load must be played carefully, lest they become The Scrappy. If they must be protected, or come along despite lacking any useful skill, there should be a good reason for it, and not just as interaction, or perhaps they were not invited to the battle but brought themselves along. If a character who was once clearly the Load starts upstaging the characters who are competent or powerful, they are even more likely to be hated. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })The Load is the TV/movie equivalent of a powerless NPC in a video game Escort Mission — only, unlike a video game, you don't have the power to press the "B" button and throw The Load to the zombies if you start getting irritated by them. What makes this trope especially grating is that The Load often actually does have powers or an ability that will come in handy for the heroes, which is, of course, why they must keep dragging The Load around with them. The one instance where The Load uses this power to save the heroes, however, does little to make up for the 99 percent of the time that they have spent being a screeching boat anchor. Closely related to the Damsel Scrappy, Non-Action Guy, The Team Normal (if this character is the load because of a lack of powers), and the Satellite Love Interest. Can lead to a Live-Action Escort Mission, Badly Battered Babysitter, or similar. Might result from a Story-Breaker Team-Up where one of the members is out of their league. The character may be a Living MacGuffin. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); })If a Time Skip occurs in the series, expect The Load to have Taken a Level in Badass. Compare The Millstone, who is much more proactive in making failure the only option, and Helpless Good Side, for when a character with a Split Personality is the load half the time. Contrast The Drag-Along, who wants to avoid danger, but is forced to join a party of heroes against his will. |
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Mach in SC2VN starts out as this. He gets better. | |
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In Sluggy Freelance, Kiki is by far the most useless character in a fight, and her tendency to play with anything shiny has often put the characters in danger from explosions, dimensional portals, and radiation poisoning. However, because she is The Ditz, the Genki Girl, and the Team Pet, most readers love her anyway. To be fair, it's not Kiki's fault that only Bun-Bun has figured out how to utilize (read: weaponize, using a pixie stick and a cardboard tube) her. | |
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What would it be like to assemble a team of so-called heroes where every member is The Load to everyone else through stupidity, greed and general antisocial behavior? The answer is the Light Warriors of 8-Bit Theater! | |
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Chou in the Whateley Universe thinks that she is becoming The Load for Team Kimba due to her complete lack of powers when not doing what the Tao wants, which has lead to serious injury for her in some battles. Not wanting to be this trope any more is the cover story for her leaving Team Kimba during the spring term. Pretty much the only current members of the Vindicators training team who aren't liabilities are Sizemax and Lemure, and neither of them are really good enough to carry the rest of the team. Of them all, it is probably Kismet (the team leader) who is the worst offender; when she is knocked out cold during a training session, the others manage to pull things together enough to successfully complete the mission. Cerebrex and Dynamaxx would be passable team-mates if it weren't for their personality flaws (serious enough in the case of Cerbrex, aka Captain Canada!, that it's been used against him in a Combat Final), but Donner is just an incompetent boob. |
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The Golden Age Red Tornado (Ma Hunkel, not the android) was part this, with a heaping dollop of comic relief. She was tough enough to at least hold her own in a fight against non-super-powered thugs, though. | |
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My Little Unicorn: Lightning Dawn. Despite his physical strength, most of the villains use magic and his inability to use magic is quite a liability in battle. Anytime he finishes a battle is with his Uniforce. Krysta is more of a hindrance to the others than anything. Brain also qualifies. |
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Bucky of Captain America seems to be the ultimate (comicbook) example of The Load that Took a Level in Badass. He went from being saved from Hitler twice a month to a Badass Normal Legacy Character. | |
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At one point in The Keys Stand Alone: The Soft World, the narration mentions that outworlders have started to refer to Ringo as “the Load,” because he's never seen to do anything except cower next to John. Hoo boy, are they wrong. | |
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Po in Kung Fu Panda 2 is a literal example. He is a capable kung fu master and can direct the members of the Furious Five in battle fairly well. However his mobility is so poor that he is often literally thrown and carried around by his much quicker comrades. | |
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Homestuck: Among the Pre-Scratch trolls, Kankri a) never realised his Seer of Blood powers, and b) when shown onscreen, does nothing except deliver trillion-word sermons that manage to passive-aggressively insult everyone they are directed at, so they could probably have done without him entirely and would quite happily have done so. | |
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Sally Avril, prominently featured in Untold Tales of Spider-Man. Heady with the idea of being a super-hero, she created a blue-and-white costume, called herself BlueBird, and tried to help Spider-Man with an arsenal of egg-themed gadgets. Unfortunately, her inexperience and malfunctioning eggs caused her to be such a burden that Spider-Man even allowed one villain to hurt her quite badly in an attempt to dissuade her. | |
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The Order of the Stick: Elan the bard. Once he's separated from the party (and stuck in a prison cell, no less), he takes a level in Dashing Swordsman. In social encounters (or actually any encounters that require something other than wanton violence and destruction), Belkar takes over the role of The Load from Elan, as less useful than rocks when it comes to negotiating. |
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Robin usually subverts this, but not always. Let's just say there's a reason the Boy Wonder is sometimes called the Boy Hostage. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons. In early editions, amongst the many scrappy mechanics — a big one was how experience points were allotted. Besides completing the quest or dungeon, the vast majority of your experience came from being conscious in a fight. That's it... there is no bonus or penalty to whether you do anything in a battle. This leads to some players becoming the Load. They would go picking their butts or jerking off in a safe corner and earn thousands of xp, while someone who fights in 90% of the battle but is unlucky enough to get knocked out will get 0 xp. To top it off, there was an experience reward earned from finding loot too so the Load would get that as well while the unconscious participant might not if the party doesn't give him or her a share while they're still knocked out. | |
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Iki of Off-White is a Big Eater wolf that is bad at hunting, is clumsy, and slow. If he was not part of a pack, he would have died by now. | |
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Mary West, the mother of Wally West, became a particularly notable Load during his early years as the Flash. What are her Load bonafides? Start with the fact that she treats her twenty-something son (with years of superheroing experience) like a fourteen-year-old. This leads her to beg Wally not to help people, and basically act unwilling to let Wally out the door at all. She also behaves like a shrill banshee regarding Wally's girlfriends, calling them gold-diggers — even when Wally is dirt poor! She manages to get herself into various dangers due to her own wanderlusts, and she also blindly sets up several dangerous situations by telephoning the villains and giving up important information because "they seemed nice". Readers undoubtedly cheered when she married a European secret agent; you can have her, buddy. | |
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In Noob, Valentin seems to be this to Relic Hunter guild, via going Casanova Wannabe on female players at very inappropriate moments, such as in the middle of a fight. His actual talent in battle in unknown, but the webseries version has him beaten offscreen by one of the protagonists and resort to running away when two of his magic-using guildmates basically become People Puppets and start attacking him. The webseries and novel version show Saphir having that sentiment towards Omega Zell after he joins Justice. |
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Lucky Luke: No example is better suited for this trope than Rantanplan. He is a total moron who never quite understands what's going on, fancies himself a heroic hound but is too easily distracted and contributes nothing but trouble for Lucky Luke. In the video games the player even has to avoid shooting him, while in a fight with dangerous villains. It is no surprise that Jolly Jumper dislikes his company. A few times, Rantanplan saved the day without realizing it and completely by accident. | |
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The Undertaker saw his long-time friend and manager Paul Bearer as that. He had no choice but to get rid of him by burying him in cement. Six years later, this is actually proven true when Kane lost focus in his matches when Edge kidnapped Paul. | |
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Aunt May is such a load in sixties comics, it's frankly bizarre. This isn't helped by her tendency of referring to "that awful Spider-Man," and her belief that Otto Octavius is a polite and charming man — while he's holding her hostage and Peter is trying to rescue her. Aunt May is a bit different from the usual instances. She isn't insisting on following Spider-Man around, for example, or trying to hang out with him. She's a Load, but she's Peter's Load, not Spider-Man's — and with the number of times Peter's had move back in with her, he's probably Aunt May's Load too. She's such a Load that everyone worries about her well-being when her nephew is a superhero... but not because she's so ridiculously old. And then... then there was One More Day. Aunt May became such a Load that Peter Parker lost his marriage in a literal Deal with the Devil just to keep her from dying (thanks to circumstances Peter brought upon her himself). In a subsequent storyline, she unknowingly dates a supervillain, but nothing could have ever come out of it because we had already seen reality itself get altered for the sake of her not dying. | |
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Spider-Man: Aunt May is such a load in sixties comics, it's frankly bizarre. This isn't helped by her tendency of referring to "that awful Spider-Man," and her belief that Otto Octavius is a polite and charming man — while he's holding her hostage and Peter is trying to rescue her. Aunt May is a bit different from the usual instances. She isn't insisting on following Spider-Man around, for example, or trying to hang out with him. She's a Load, but she's Peter's Load, not Spider-Man's — and with the number of times Peter's had move back in with her, he's probably Aunt May's Load too. She's such a Load that everyone worries about her well-being when her nephew is a superhero... but not because she's so ridiculously old. And then... then there was One More Day. Aunt May became such a Load that Peter Parker lost his marriage in a literal Deal with the Devil just to keep her from dying (thanks to circumstances Peter brought upon her himself). In a subsequent storyline, she unknowingly dates a supervillain, but nothing could have ever come out of it because we had already seen reality itself get altered for the sake of her not dying. Sally Avril, prominently featured in Untold Tales of Spider-Man. Heady with the idea of being a super-hero, she created a blue-and-white costume, called herself BlueBird, and tried to help Spider-Man with an arsenal of egg-themed gadgets. Unfortunately, her inexperience and malfunctioning eggs caused her to be such a burden that Spider-Man even allowed one villain to hurt her quite badly in an attempt to dissuade her. |
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Simon Lane, while hardly useless in the Jaffa Factory series (part of the Yogscast Minecraft Series), does less work than Lewis Brindley or Duncan Jones and spends a lot of his time easily distracted, forcing them to get him back on track. | |
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One could interpret the Squeeze Toy Aliens in Toy Story 3 in this role, as they exist either as superlatives or hindrances to the toys escaping from Sunnyside. From almost alerting Big Baby to getting stuck in the dumpster and (indirectly) causing the toys to get sent to the dump. Inverted in the incinerator scene, in which the Aliens save all of the toys via the claw. | |
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Darths & Droids depicts Jyn Erso/Bria Tharen as a useless, terminally stupid NPC that the party is having to escort for their quest. She pisses off the party's contacts, repeatedly wanders into the middle of firefights, forces the pacifist Cassian into killing to save her, accidentally shoots K-2SO (forcing the DM to pretend she hit a different droid to prevent the game from derailing), and generally just gets in their way. Jim's character in the same campaign (Saw Gerrera/Kyle Katarn) nearly becomes this, thanks to being a near-crippled old man who accidentally cut off his own legs while using a lightsaber. Fortunately for the party, Saw ends up getting killed shortly after they meet him and Jim takes over Bria, making her at least somewhat more useful by taking her out of the DM's hands. |
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In Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, it seems like Brent will be this when he invites himself along to help save the world, but he turns out to be a Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass. | |
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In Gods Of This New World Matt is this to Mello and Near—he spends all his time eating their food and playing video games rather than plotting with them on how to take out Kira. | |
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Bogey in Kid Radd, who, being a One-Hit-Point Wonder who can only attack by walking into people, is outclassed by nearly everyone else. He knows it, too, frequently angsting over his general uselessness, which eventually causes him to perform a Heroic Sacrifice to give Radd his power-up before he gets killed by the Final Boss. | |
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Critical Role: Trinket barely ever contributes to the group's exploits in a meaningful way. On the contrary, the group frequently has to go out of it's way to make sure he isn't left behind since he's too big to fit on the flying carpet, or to save his bacon when Vex actually does send him into the fray (which she usually avoids; he could get hurt, after all!). Subverted once the "pokeball" is acquired, as Trinket can be easily carried and only come out when needed. Doty is even worse. It only attacked a couple of times and was quickly destroyed twice in the main story and once in the Battle Royale. |
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Kyle's character in Statless and Tactless is the team's load. Having his stats spread out to make him a generalist (as well as having terrible dice rolling luck), means he pretty much can't pass any check. Joe attempts to be the load as a form of coercion, but is actually fairly useful. | |
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Justin of El Goonish Shive feels like The Load during the Painted Black Arc because everyone assumes he's not strong enough to help rescue Elliot. (All of the other candidates for the team had magic and/or super powers.) In fact, his dream that night casts him as a helpless hobbit who's forced to stay behind while the girls who saved Elliot are cast as the Fellowship. | |
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Russell in Up at first seems to fit this category: he loses his Wilderness Explorer GPS, literally acts as a deadweight while Carl is towing the house, cannot put up his tent, and reveals to Muntz that he and Carl have met "the Monster of Paradise Falls" (i.e. Kevin the Bird). Probably meant to be an inversion of how in many films where a crotchety old man is paired up with a spunky kid, it's the adult who's portrayed as inept and in need of rescue. Plus, Russell has the excuse that he has no real way of getting home under his own power. If Carl doesn't do it, the poor kid is toast. However, he eventually takes a level in badass. | |
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In Survival of the Fittest, Cara Scholte becomes this for Maxie Dasai. The latter has to literally pull Cara around for a good half a day and was prevented from fleeing from a dangerous encounter with Adam Reeves in concern for her companion's well-being. Sure, Cara was catatonic at the time, but given the outcome of the fight... | |
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Such as Superman's pal Jimmy Olsen, the JLA's Snapper Carr, and the JSA's Johnny Thunder. Modern comics have managed to avert this to an extent, such as by making Jimmy a closer friend of Clark Kent's than Superman's, or by making Johnny a hero in his own right. | |
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Tin of the Metal Men is a very fragile guy (what with the metal he was made out of and all), yet he does his damndest to prove he does not fall under this trope, with little success. Tin isn't so much a Load as a kind of ablative armor for the team and comic in general. Need to show someone's a serious threat but not damage anyone that actually has useful abilities? Let Tin take one for the team — he's not strong, tough, or fast, but he's very brave. | |
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In The Darkness Series Wormtail is this to the Death Eaters and Harry considers Ron to be this in his other life. | |
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Calvin and Hobbes: The Series Socrates tends to fit this category. Hobbes seems to be the only one who likes him, but over time, even he starts to find him annoying. Of course, Socrates does pull through for the group from time to time, often saving their lives. Sherman, the MTM, and Jack have all taken their turns as this also. |
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DSBT InsaniT: Andy is The Load quite often, and proud of it! In fact, he usually invokes this trope because he thinks its funny. | |
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In the various The Transformers comics, there's Nautilator. In theory, transforming into a lobster monster should make him an oceanborne killing machine, what with the giant claws and a gun that crushes enemies to death. It also means he should be highly efficient in his function of performing undersea excavations. In practice, he's a bungling dolt and career loser who can't even swim properly. Inexplicably for a member of the Decepticons' underwater strike force, he has Super Drowning Skills and No Sense of Direction. He's been defeated by the undertow of all things. He also never owns up to his mistakes and his team sorely wishes they could just be rid of him—a sentiment that is apparently shared by the rest of the Decepticons. He's so bad that when they combine to form Piranacon, the Seacons discovered that they're much less effective when they let him form a limb rather than force him to transform into the team's gun. If he didn't somehow have a knack for bringing back useful salvage to Decepticon HQ when they have to fish him back from the bottom of the ocean, they probably would have left him to rust ages ago. | |
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The main character in the blog novel Flyover City! is a slacker / fanboy in a world where superheroes are real. His mundane call center job for the “big evil empire” eventually leads him to the sidelines of several super-powered battles. | |
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Reynir from Stand Still, Stay Silent is a good example of this trope done right. Reynir is pretty useless (at least to begin with), but unlike most Loads he keeps out of harm's way, listens to instructions from people who know better, tries to develop his skills and has a good sense of his own limitations. | |
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Although every member of the team in Sturgeon's Law is incompetent or a sociopath or both, Jenn is too much of a slacker to be of much use to the party. | |
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