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openMedia where there's a lot of profanity used by the characters/narrator.
I am looking for a trope that deals with stories with lots of swear word usage
openFluff Hater
A character who hates saccharine and "girly" stuff like ponies, plushies, pink, etc.
openPet Grieves over Lost Owner
Reverse of Lost Pet Grievance: a pet's owner died, and/or the pet becomes someone else's, and the pet acts in grievance to that (like waiting for its owner to come back even though they might never)
Tried checking that page, I can't find the related trope.
openIn-Universe Allegory
Just a quick question: is Allegory applicable to Show Within a Show In-Universe?
openSounding silent letters
Is there one for when somebody says silent letters out loud, out of ignorance, or for comic effect? I know there's Funetik Aksent, but I don't think that's the right one. For example:
- Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator: Mr Wonka sounds the "K" in Vermicious Knid.
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail: The French talk of "King Arthur and his silly English k-nig-gets."
- Flanders and Swann: In the Gnu song, the G-nu wishes he could g-nash his teeth at you.
openKnight of Cerebus Not Quite Inversion
This is when a character makes the other characters scarier. It's not really changing the tone of the story, but the character is sort of teasing out the other characters' potential to be scary. The only example I can think of is in seasons 3 and 4 of Rolling With Difficulty. There's this one antagonist who gets to be scary in their introduction, but then the protagonists all get turns to scare the antagonist.
openFake religiosity
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.
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."
openHand over mouth
A character covers their mouth from embarrassment, shock , horror, or implication of themselves.
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)
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.
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!!!"
openPushing 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!"
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 sohibilopenStanding 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.
resolved The entire work is a Villain Episode
The entire work follows the point of view of the very obviously less moral faction
Do we have one for this, where somebody is in a desperate situation, and they cling desperately to some "authority" which they may have? This can sometimes be covered with I Am the Trope, but this would not cover the Nanny Mcphee example.
Two examples involving Imelda Staunton:
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