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So there's a heavily guarded stronghold somewhere and the place has tons of guards. When trouble is afoot, the target tends to stay in a heavily guarded area with huge doors. Suddenly, someone knocks on the door and the guards in the room check to see who it is. They see their commerade standing outside, so naturally they open the door, only to have said commerade slump forward to reveal the assassin/agent that was sneaking his way towards the target!
What trope is this?
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Is there a trope for supporting (or even major) characters being casually killed by a new Big Bad to demonstrate how powerful he is? This happens all the time in superhero comics; for example, in one issue of New Avengers a new villain killed the entire Alpha Flight (a superhero team which used to have its own comic book for more than a decade) in one panel. Usually the fans of the dead characters are pissed off by them getting killed so easily, and often they are revived later on.
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What's that one where when a character does an ultimate attack of some sort, then the screen explodes into pure white with only a sillhouette of them in black? This mostly shows up in animation of various types, but I know Kirby does it too in some of the games when you use Crash.
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I'm looking for that trope for Beautiful Dead Women. It's a romantic image used a lot in Victorian literature. The best example I can think of is the Lady of Shalott. It was also kind of parodied in the poem "the Leper" by Charles Swinburne. I don't think it counts as a Lost Lenore, because it's not necessarily a dead woman in the eyes of someone who was in love with her.
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Something I know as "Role Jealousy": In a Five-Man Band (or large group of heroes), a character will come along who fits the role of one of the members, much to their annoyance. For example, The Chick will resent the fact that she's no longer the only object of male attention, the Big Guy doesn't like the new guy who's bigger/stronger than him, The Casanova is steamed that the girls are ignoring him in favor of the new guy, etc.
Since Status Quo Is God, the new character usually doesn't last long, whether killed, Put on a Bus, or until An Aesop is learned.
Does this exist?
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Alice and Bob are not in love. At all. They have no Unresolved Sexual Tension, really. They're also the main characters / two of the main characters in a TV show or movie, so if they *do* actually hook up, it has to be near teh end or else it's RUINED FOREVER!
Then they meet Carly and Dave. Carly and Dave are expys of Alice and Bob. Maybe they show up for one episode/a ministory-arc, or they come in the end of the film, either way. Alice and Bob won't notice the similarities, but everyone else will. If it's Played for Laughs than Alice and Bob won't notice anything and status quo is god. If they do, it's the realization they need to know they do love each other.
Does this ring any bells with anyone?
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Okay, so we have a trope for Precursors, with examples and sub tropes for when they still come back or are off hiding somewhere. But what about where the precursors never left at all - they're a civilization in the verse that just happens to be far older and more advanced then the rest of the lot.
It's not as common as the idea of vanished precursors, but it's still pretty common in speculative fiction. Surely we have this?
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Examples:
- Here at about 2:00
- Also a great example here at about 0:20.
- Another motorcycle example (with handcuffs) here at about 1:45 and again at 5:40.
Now are these instances simply inversions of Back-to-Back Badasses, or can it be considered it's own trope, as there are instances where the two people involved are not on equal footing regarding badassery?
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I've seen this mostly in anime of the "real world then magic comes in" type. The first character (completely normal) we see is suddenly confronted by one of the series' antagonists obviously using magic or wghose existence should be impossible, then the other main character comes in and proceeds to destroy the opposition. Later on, Sorting Algorythm Of Evil sets in, but the first fight scene is always a Curb-Stomp Battle.
Too specific?
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I'm trying to add the dream sequence from Phoenix Wright Justice For All (which appears during the intro, then right before the conclusion of the final trial) as an example, but I'm not sure where to put it. Book Ends? Ironic Echo? Call-Forward? Somewhere else?
Help.
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Hydorah contains two songs with lyrics that are backwards Spanish. I can't figure out if it is an example of a trope or not. I would say Ominous Latin Chanting, but of course it's not Ominous, it's not Latin, and it's not Chanting!
is there a trope for trucks pretty much driving themselves? seen a lot in western tv and movies, but also in some anime, usually someone will be in the middle of the road for some reason and a truck will hurl his or her way. the truck won't stop or make any evasive moves, at most it will hunk but it will continue driving, even after something happens. examples are from "the frogger" episode in 'seinfeld', a truck destroys Goeroge's frogger machine and keeps on going like nothing happens.in BTVS, Cordelia, blind from a spell stands in the middle of the road and a delivery truck is driving her way (not at such a high speed even) and doesn't bother to stop. may also happen when character is driving and going off the lane, a truck (always a truck!) will come at him (honking, of course) which will cause the character to realize he's off the lane and quickly go back.