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openAffectionate face touch
When a character place in his hand on his loves face in a sign of affection or understanding,protection , romance, or love.
openX So Not Y
A gag in which someone or something is recognized as being not what it's supposed to be because of a particular factor that's clearly out of place. For example, in The Encounter from Animorphs, a group of "park rangers" clearly are not actually park rangers because "Park rangers don't carry machine guns."
openCritical Comparisons
Critics compare a work to another. For instance, gritty Spy thrillers get compared to the works of John le Carré.
openAlien Time System
Do we have a trope where the characters use a time system different than the "60 seconds = 1 minute" system we're familiar with?
For example, in Literature.The August Few, the Kivouachians use the following time system:
- Tick = kivic minute
- Bell = kivic hour, 70 ticks
- Chime = kivic day, 40 bells
- Tone = kivic month (3 earth months)
- Stanza = kivic year (7 tones)
openHand over mouth
A character covers their mouth from embarrassment, shock , horror, or implication of themselves.
openMarkers/Pings Videogame
A mechanic in some games where you can place down a set marker or send out a ping to your teammates to say "stand here," "shoot that guy," "move that box," "jump off a cliff" etc
Edited by AwkbutTVTopenDescribe these tropes and deviations of Demeter
Demeter:
•Manifested in a forest along with her sisters.
•Her sisters are Hestia and Hera (No blood relations to Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades.)
•Created Persephone using magic.
•Was killed by Hera when she went to save Persephone from Apollo.
•No mentions of killing people during her depression but Persephone mentions her driving a king to eat himself over the accidental murder of some nymphs.
openStanding out by looking plain in trendy society.
Do we have some trope about that when you look plain, you actually stand out because most of the people are generally very fashionable?
This is somehow becoming Truth in Television in some parts of the world.
openFlanderization Projection
Similar to Psychological Projection, but instead of "everyone thinks and acts like me", it's "everyone thinks and acts the way I think they do". Basically, when Bob needs to put himself in Alice's shoes, he uses the flanderized (often insultingly so) version rather than his own viewpoint, and is just as wrong.
e.g.
- Alice is Bob's adult daughter's girlfriend, which he does not approve of (Bob lives in a small town in the Deep South and believes homosexuals drag innocents to Hell with them). When Alice is known to have gone missing he suggests searching bars, drug dens and other places where lowlifes live, since to him that's where his imagined version of Alice spends her days.
- Carl is asked what to get his coworker Diana for her birthday. Since she works in accounting and says she enjoys it, Carl answers "a high-end calculator", since his imaginary version of Diana does accounting for fun (and since Accountants Are Boring, can't imagine her wanting to go on a tropical vacation).
- Ed is on vacation in Yosemite, when he runs into a bear. Since he thinks All Animals Are Dogs, he tries throwing a stick for it to catch and gets mauled.
openAge-inappropriate buxom.
A girl's bust is rather too developed for her age.
Example is Eins of Three Forbidden Books who is 9 but appears to have at least a B-cup.
Edited by sohibilopenPushing someone's words back onto them
Used when Alice insults Bob but instead of Bob getting hurt he twists the insult and uses it to hurt Alice, which ends up working
Ex: In HH's "Stayed Gone", a duel vs Alastor and Vox, Vox starts the song by saying "Welcome home; I'm gonna make you wish that you stayed gone. Say hello to a new status quo, everybody knows that there's a brand new dawn - Turn the tv ON" and, at the end of the song, Alastor says "Let's begin - i'm gonna make you wish that I stayed gone. Tune on in~ When i'm done, Your status quo is gonna know it's race is run~ Oh, this will be fun!"
openRemember the bounty hunter in Ord Mantell? Film
When characters refer to an offscreen event, that is never explained, they are very familiar with but we are completely in the dark. The first mention of the Clone Wars was this. Not exactly Shrouded in Myth, sometimes they are offhand jokes like: "We saved you in World War II !!" "Yeah, well,we saved YOU in World War III!!!"
openAbsent Antagonists
A work that features a central conflict against someone or something (foreign country, aliens, zombies etc.) as a backdrop also has a conspicuous absence of them, focusing on the antagonists on their own side.
e.g. A work set in the trenches of WWI (on either side) that never shows the enemy, only the occasional bombardment but never any soldiers, and most of the conflict is between soldiers and officers, deserters and loyalists, two soldiers who hated each other before being conscripted into the same battalion, etc.
resolved The entire work is a Villain Episode
The entire work follows the point of view of the very obviously less moral faction
open"The colors are too dull or depressing"
Is there an existing Audience Reaction or YMMV for this?
A work is criticized for its choice of colors being too "dull", "depressing", or unsaturated. For example:
- Fans do not like that a work (or a sequel) uses the Real Is Brown trope.
- The work originally has a vibrant color palette for the first half, but then the second half uses unsaturated colors which fans don't like.
- Some fans like the work for having a general unsaturated color palette, but others don't, hence YMMV.
openA duo made of a warrior and a diplomat
I don't think we have a trope for when a warrior and a diplomat are part of a Red Oni, Blue Oni duo. Sort of like Combat, Diplomacy, Stealth, but without Stealth, and it's two characters.
Unless Athens and Sparta can apply to characters.
resolved Conversation During Gameplay Videogame
A plot-heavy videogame with voice acting will allow players to continue moving and playing the game (solving puzzles or platforming) while the character is holding a conversation with someone - in modern day/sci fi games, it's implied they're using some sort of communication device to recieve orders, while in fantasy games, if it's not magic, you're supposed to assume the characters are talking loud enough to be understood despite the action going on.
This trope is opposed to when games will stop the gameplay to deliver exposition, either through a cutscene where the player can't control the character, or through a Wall of Text where the action buttons just make the dialog boxes move faster.
openVillain harms a female minion before the male hero can.
It's kind of like Designated Girl Fight, only it's the villain that conviently disposes of a female Mook just so the male hero dosen't has to harm her.
Someone becomes (or pretends to be) a part of a religious order despite not believing in any of its creed in order to reap benefits of being a part of the organization.