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openMorton's Fork but it's just someone finding any reason to justify doing what they want to do
Like, Lily & Marshall making a bet where if Marshall wins, they have sex in the bathroom, but if Lily wins, they have sex in the bathroom.
Or Hitori Bocchi noticing that someone is shy like her, so she shouldn't speak to them, then noticing that someone else is super outgoing, so she shouldn't speak to them.
openx, y, and z walk into a bar...
Do we have a trope for the stock phrase "an X, a Y, and a Z walk into a bar"? I see jokes with that particular set-up everywhere.
openI'm Caught...Actually no
It looks like someone is going to be caught, only for someone else to get blamed.
- Dexter: In season two, Dexter is called to the police station in the middle of the night. He thinks this means they've realized he's a Serial Killer. However, it turns out that the police believe someone else is responsible for his crimes.
openHappen to choose September 11 for minor disaster Literature
In a book published in 1997, September 11 is the date when a sinkhole opens under a row of temporary buildings. Everyone is rescued alive and only minor injuries reported, but the connection with the date 4 years later is an intersting coincidence.
openThe Dismissive Friend Group
Do we have a trope for when someone is super excited about a certain event coming up, but none of their friends seem to take it seriously, and that leads the person to get increasingly disappointed/angry? Off the top of my head, I can think of "The One Where No One's Ready" from Friends, as well as that that MLP episode, "Suited for Disaster."
openout of season songs
I vaguely remember finding a trope about non-seasonal songs being played during specific holiday seasons (e.g. The Cranberries' "Zombie" getting played around Halloween even though it has nothing to do with actual zombies), but I don't remember the name.
resolved A work in one medium presented as another.
Pretty self explanatory, when a work has the aesthetics of another medium, here are some examples:
- The Original "Alan Wake" game was framed as a tv show with individual levels as "episodes", the Dlc's are "specials" and each episode begins with a Previously on…...
- "Cuphead" has the aesthetics of a Max and Dave Fleischer cartoon.
- "MythForce" is a Roguelike Action RPG that looks like a Saturday-Morning Cartoon like He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983)
- "#Blud" is a Legend Of Zelda like-game with the look and feel of a The '90s cartoon you'd find on Cartoon Network or Nickelodeon, for example the chapters each have an Episode Title Card that looks like something out of My Life as a Teenage Robot and Becky's house looks EXACTLY like Dexter's.
Edited by MuppetopenMurder The Suicidal
Bob has been voicing suicidal thoughts. Alice pulls out a gun and tries to force it into his mouth, then stops. She then argues that since Bob struggled against being killed, he wasn't truly suicidal/being so close to death gave Bob the epiphany that he didn't actually want to die and that most of his problems could actually be solved.
openTrope where character infiltrates an institution with the sole aim of destroying it from within.
I am looking for the trope where a character gets into some organization or facility in order to crush it. Maybe not necessarily be a spy and just someone with a grudge or plan.
openA village of many tongues
It's a small town, and almost everyone grew up here, but for some reason everyone has a different accent and/or dialect. For example, in Ponyville from MLP:Fi M Rarity has a British accent, Applejack has athe accent associated with the southern U.S., and Pipsqueak has a cockney accent, despite all being native to the small town as revealed in their flashbacks throughout the show.
openRich Friend/Poor Friend Contrast?
Do we have a trope for when a character's two main friends come from households on either extreme of the socioeconomic scale? Kinda like A.J. and Chester from Fairly Odd-Parents.
openDoubt about this scene Anime
My question is if this scene counts as camera abuse or as a rupture of reality since when looking at it closely there is a scene in which the broken glass is behind the two spheres, if it were camera abuse they would be in front, in addition to that at no point do the spheres collide with the screen or get close to it, that's why maybe I think it's breaking reality, since as far as I can remember, the scenes that I can remember are one from the movie Dragon Ball vs Broly in the one where the fighters bump fists breaking reality, but I'm not totally sure.
The only thing that matters to me is that you confirm if that is an abusive camera or not.
I put the scenes in this reddit link where I ask the same thing, the ones I'm referring to, the one above is the scene from Sousou no Frieren and the one below is from the movie that I'm giving you as an example.
https://www.reddit.com/r/tvtropes/comments/1cdr7p4/doubt_about_this_scene/
openCharacter is treated as dead due to their profession or choices.
I feel like this is a trope we have (or fits under one) but I can't find it. Basically the idea would be that a person is still alive but their family acts as if they are dead (sometimes to the point of holding a funeral) due to traditions related to their career or life choices. The examples I'm thinking of would be Dwarf Knockermen from Discworld, Canim Hunters from Codex Alera and Nora Deathseekers from Horizon Zero Dawn. In each case the person is going into a profession with a high mortality rate (and in the case of the Canim one that is also dishonorable) so their family/friends basically holds a funeral for them ahead of time and treats them as if they are dead.
There would also be the negative examples where a family holds a funeral for someone who's choices they disagree with, such as leaving a religion but the examples I was thinking of are positive ones (for certain values of positive)
I was thinking about these three examples and trying to find a trope where they would fit but couldn't really find one. Tropes I considered:
- Legally Dead - sort of fits except that everyone involved knows that they are alive (for now)
- Death of Personality - doesn't really fit since who they are hasn't changed, just what they are doing. This also appleis to sub-tropes for this such as That Man Is Dead.
- Un-person - in some ways this is closest except that people aren't denying their existence, just holding a funeral ahead of time. The same goes for I Have No Son!.
Any thoughts on this?
Edited by Adeonopen"Copy. I killed your friend."
When there's silence from an operative's radio or communicator, leading to concern and repeated "do you copy?" from other operatives or higher-ups, until the silence is broken by the voice of a known enemy gloating or threatening them, implying that said operative is killed or captured. It came to mind after seeing a clip from the Clone Wars where Asajj Ventress hears the voices of troops over the radio of a dead clone, trying to communicate with him. She smiles and I thought for sure she was going to answer the radio herself, but no.
The only example I could think of, however, is from this movie Run, Hide, Fight, where a school shooter kills a lunch lady while she still has an active call open with her husband, then the shooter picks up the phone to brag about the murder to him.
openStep Activated Trap
When a character sets on a floor panel, which is actually a button trigging a booby trap.
openDescribe this power set for villain! Apollo (God of the sun)
•Sun Manipulation: When the sun is out, he can create and manipulate things made directly from the sun. Can summon by shouting into the sun while reaching out.
>Η οργή του ήλιου (Fury of the sun): Can summon miniature crossbows on his wrist and shoot tiny arrows at a rapid speed.
>Δοξάστε τον ήλιο (Praise the sun): Blast people with sunlight. Can either blind or kill them depending on usage.
>Μελωδία του φωτός της ημέρας (Melody of the light of day): He can summon his lyre and start playing beautiful that can sometimes control and cause people to dance to their death.
•Healing potions
•Immortality:
>Eternal youth (Forever looking like he’s 21)
•Prophecy
•Plague creation
Notes:
- Partially inspired by Lore Olympus Apollo and MK 1 (2023) Shang Tsung
openOne last little thing
Which best covers these, when one last little thing happens, perhaps as part of a magical process?
- Mary Poppins: At the end of the "tidy the nursery" scene, when the furniture is still dancing about, Mary Poppins yells "When you've quite finished". Everything goes silent, apart from the cupboard doors, which make one last plink.
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: When Dumbledore and Slughorn put the wrecked house back in order, the chandelier returns to the ceiling; one last piece is caught under Harry's foot, which eventually flies back into place.
opena king/queen (or something similiar) is friends with a peasant
Basically, the platonic version of Uptown Girl. Is there a trope for it?
Different gods create their own types of life, which fight.
Example being Evangelion where Humans, created by lilith, engage in war against the Angels, created by adam.