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— President Bartlet, Some characters have pervasive or extremely noticeable personality quirks, but remain steadily employed because they are simply just that good at what they do. Coworkers, superiors, and friends find themselves willing to overlook these informalities (e.g. A hypothetical highly successful lawyer who happens to wear fuzzy pink bunny ears during all his cases) so long as the job gets done. This is a cost/benefit ordeal: if they weren't so good at their job or their quirks were too obstructive, no employer would consider them a necessary sacrifice for sanity. In larger numbers, you'd have a case for a. Much like the, it is a strange mixture of brilliant and bizarre. Their quirks don't seem to be intrinsic to success, a la, and the unexpected quirks only tend to bother new characters who don't know them well.

Compare the, whose quirk is more often just being a. The might insist everyone address him as 'sir' or '; the Bunny-Ears Lawyer might not answer unless addressed as 'Grand Duchess Abigail Chester Wilson Snapdragon Lemmywinks Brian Brain McFisticuffs the Negative 10 to the Fifth Power'. There are lots of Bunny-Ears Lawyers out there (we had to make subpages because of how many), mainly because having the character be an expert allows the writers to plausibly put them in any situation they want while the quirks make the characters interesting and unique. There is some to this trope — Authorities in educational or professional environments will sometimes ignore quirks, especially if they don't have any relevance to the degree or job at hand. While you're unlikely to see something as extreme as an actual bunny ears-wearing lawyer, you will find plenty of examples of people who remain employed despite their personal peculiarities. For situations where the strange guy is the one in charge (and uses their strange behavior to run their business) see. Uniformed examples may overlap with the.

Not to be confused with the, though they may overlap in some cases. Contrast, who will care about their behavior and appearance as much as their work discipline and skill.

Luckily, they're rarely. (Not never.) For an ultra manly-man who pulls off some girly hobby and nobody minds, take a refresher in the fact that. Remember: In order for a character to qualify he must keep his job through sheer unquestionable competence. Sometimes you have incompetent characters that happen to be quirky and keep their jobs through means that have nothing to do with their competence. That is not this trope. If they are actually competent yet are seen as 'renegade' due to their unusual behavior and often are at risk of being fired for their unusual quirks, you are looking at instead. Also, in order to qualify, the character should have an unusual quirk or eccentricity, not just be slightly more informal than his colleagues.

Not to be confused with, that's different. • Bobby Zimmeruski is shown in to be skilled at rigging A/V equipment and in the sequel to be excellent at extreme sports. He's also completely ridiculous, doing such things as,, and nonchalantly wearing Goofy's afro that Max pointedly threw away. Korean Fender Showmaster Serial Number. • Benjamin Clawhauser from. He has a, is a huge of pop star Gazelle, and is extremely flamboyant. He's also a dedicated, reliably helpful front desk officer, who gives friendly service with a smile, delivers consistently accurate information in a reasonably timely manner, and is quick to apologize for any perceived transgressions or failures. His tough-as-nails boss, for whom capability is the number one priority, is perfectly willing to let his idiosyncrasies slide.

• In, Po starts out as a humorous bumbling glutton prone to extremely awkward moments. By the end of the first movie, and remaining so throughout the second, he becomes a kung fu master capable of plowing through hordes of with ease and going toe-to-toe with other masters. And who is still a humorous bumbling glutton prone to extremely awkward moments. • This is further shown in the animated series, where Po is still disobedient, undisciplined, gluttonous, clumsy, accident prone, and the biggest fanboy on the block, but can learn highly advanced techniques after seeing them one time (Including one that blind anyone who sees it performed. Which he not once, but repeatedly after learning it, forgets to close his eyes so he doesn't blind himself.) and can even master techniques from reading about them that Master Shifu is unable to perform. • Georges Hautecourt from. He takes 'you're only as old as you feel' to heart despite being genuinely really old, yet Madame loves that about him and has kept him as her lawyer for decades.

• of the is assumed by everyone to be a total moron because he can't speak English very well. He's also completely lacking in the common sense department and improves his speaking skills only marginally over the course of four years. However, he knows more than his professors about economics and manipulation of people, doubling as well as a. • Some members of V.F.D. • Everyone in the book falls into one of two categories: weird and hypercompetent, or weird and incompetent. The Baudelaires just have the misfortune to mostly be in the care of people who fall under the second category.

• A very controversial example in the novel is a spy who, while very competent, believes in every anti-Semitic conspiracy theory under the sun. The character ends up assassinated, showing the problems which come from pursuing false conspiracies and overlooking real ones, but he is still treated with respect by his colleagues prior to that. • Violin-playing, drug-addicted, outwardly disorganized, self-aggrandizing master detective makes this. Holmes regularly conducts very malodorous chemical experiments, decorates his wall with bullet holes, and keeps tobacco in a slipper and correspondence pinned to the mantle with a knife. He's also a, so much so that even Watson doesn't always know it's him. • His older brother Mycroft would seem to suggest that it's.

Mycroft lives down the street from his government office, frequents a social club where none of the members are allowed to speak or even take the least notice of each other, has an almost obsessive hatred of going anywhere besides his apartment, his work and his club. And functions as a living database, archive, and computer for the British government. Holmes himself says that Mycroft is even smarter than he is and could be an even better detective. It's just that the man is. 'Why do you not solve it yourself, Mycroft? You can see as far as I.'

'Possibly, Sherlock. But it is a question of getting details. Give me your details, and from an armchair I will return you an excellent expert opinion. But to run here and run there, to cross-question railway guards, and lie on my face with a lens to my eye — it is not my metier.' • Robots and some staff of Institute in. Special mention should go to robot Roznakin, who does his job even too well and is constantly arguing with his own printer (printer is another instance of Roznakin.

It's complicated), as well as rocket scientists who are a real crazy bunch, but invented rocket-shooting rocket and shot it in the sky. It succeeded.

•: • Butters is the best pathologist in the city. But he loves polka music more than is healthy and wears bunny slippers.

• Harry himself from many view points: • From the point of view of the, Harry is a weirdo with, a sense of humour as dodgy as his sense of personal hygiene, and a tendency to mouth off at authority figures without provocation. The cops at Special Investigations put up with his proclamations that he's a wizard because he gets results note since he really is a wizard. • Also, the Wardens recruit Harry despite his severe authority issues (especially regarding the White Council) and history of dark magic because he's one of the only really powerful wizards left and is famous for rebelling against the Council, so if someone so anti-council is on their side, they must be doing the right thing. • We also get to see Harry's bunny-ears from Murphy's perspective. Harry is a guy who walks into a scene with an outfit that El Dorado, asks a few questions that make absolutely no sense, occasionally does something strange like take a strand of hair from a brush, vanishes for two days and somehow makes an envelope with the exact information necessary to crack the case wide open and an invoice for twenty billable hours appear on her desk next Monday morning. Knowing he's a bona fide wizard doesn't help, especially since he loves to play up the mysterious and all-knowing aspects of wizardry.

• Bob the Skull is an extremely powerful spirit of intellect that has worked for wizards for centuries and has such a wide span of magical knowledge that the White Council considers him a serious threat and they'd be seriously pissed if they knew Harry has him. And he really •: Miracle Max has clearly got a few screws loose (and honestly, who ever heard of a miracle worker named 'Max'?) but he did get the job done. •: Everyone, or at least the main recurring characters, falls into this trope. • The Librarian of Unseen University is an orangutan. He didn't start out that way, he got accidentally transformed and decided he prefers it. He hasn't been replaced or transformed back against his wishes because a) he's still very good at his job (in fact, he's probably better at it than he was before note He can shelve books with his feet and fearlessly read books that Man (note the specification) was not meant to know) and b) an adult male orangutan is considerably stronger than an adult male human, and the Librarian is not necessarily averse to expressing his displeasure physically. It also helps that bananas are cheaper than an actual salary.

These days, if someone told the wizards that there was an orangutan in the library, they would probably ask the Librarian if he'd seen it. • The Bursar of the university is literally insane. It's downplayed in that he has to take dried frog pills in order to perform his job, but they don't actually make him sane, they just make him hallucinate that he's sane, that he's a bursar, and, incidentally, that he can fly. Note When a wizard hallucinates that he can fly, it's a bit. Different from anyone else hallucinating they can fly. He's not allowed above the second floor. Archchancellor's orders.

• Continuing with the Unseen University staff, there's Archchancellor Mustrum Ridcully. By most people's standards he's no stranger than other wizards, but to other wizards he's completely mad. He not only enjoys but actively encourages healthy exercise, puts a homemade and highly volatile condiment on everything he eats, and is about as subtle as a sledgehammer. He handles most matters through, on the assumption that if someone is still trying to explain something to him after several minutes, it must be important.

At the same time, he brought stability to UU, ending the tradition of by being unkillable himself. • City Watch Captain Carrot Ironfoundersson, a 6'6' dwarf (biologically he is technically human thanks to an odd birth defect commonly known as 'both his birth parents are human') who is also (probably) the long lost heir to Ankh-Morpork's throne. Having been raised by dwarves, he has no concept of irony and has become either a or a master of. He also has to arrest anything, up to and including a dragon and all the soldiers in two opposing armies who are about to fight a battle, for 'Behavior likely to cause a breach of the peace.' • This is common amongst reformed vampires: and onto a subject which is less likely to get you staked. The one with a coffee obsession was particularly memorable.

There's also Otto Chriek, who is a damn good photographer and a pretty nice guy, helpful to anyone who needs it. And a vampire who obsesses over photography like most vampires obsess over blood. He's regularly harmed or reduced to ashes (he gets better) by the flash, much to bystanders' consternation. • Jeremy Clockson, a clockmaker with no sense of fun who is, in fact, too sane.

• Leonard of Quirm, a parody of. Despite a habit of stopping in mid-sentence to play with folded-paper gliders and doodle schematics for working instruments of destruction in the margins, Lord Vetinari still employs him, and finds uses for all his ideas. Though 'employs' is, perhaps, not quite the right word: the Patrician keeps him imprisoned in a tower and well supplied with parchment. Leonard genuinely appreciates both these things, since it keeps him from being distracted from his thoughts and sketches. • Also, after talking to Nobby in Leonard is even happier with Lord Vetinari's 'imprisonment': not only does he get all the materials he wants, but he is also well away from everyone who'd seek to turn his genuinely well-conceived ideas (such as guns, nuclear explosives, etc.) into weapons. • Marco Soto - one of the best field agents the Monks of Time have - refuses to cut his hair, as he believes it to be a separate entity that simply happens to live on his head.

• Maladict, a vampiric Borogravian soldier, is a coffee addict who suffers deprivation hallucinations others can see about wars that didn't even take place on the Disc, carries a rapier he can't use properly to deter attackers because the only other option is to tear them apart with his fists, and is actually a woman. • Rincewind the 'Wizzard' is the Disc's biggest coward, actively craves boredom, and is as competent at magic as a fish is at mountaineering, but when Ridcully is faced with the task of sending him on a very dangerous mission, he doesn't hesitate.

Because no matter what the danger, Rincewind always survives. He spends the entire adventure running away screaming, but he makes it back, even from another dimension, the beginning of time, outer space, or hell itself.

• Vetinari is a very subtle example, but he definitely has a quirky side. Like showing some with a spoon in (and with an inkwell in —and that while the city's head religious official was waiting to see him!) Or preferring to read mu.