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0 8High Altitude Homicide
Deliberately dropping someone to their death.
Created: 22 hours ago
0 4Gun Acquisition Explanation
A work goes out of its way to demonstrate how a character is able to acquire a firearm in a setting where gun ownership is unusual or heavily restricted.
Created: May 18th 2024 at 7:35:52 AM
1 18Love Makes You Saner (launching May 20th)
A person feels sane only because of their love for someone else.
Created: Mar 23rd 2012 at 2:52:13 PM
0 26Sexual Predator Bully
A bully who is also a sexual predator.
Created: Aug 21st 2023 at 5:54:22 AM
2 8Cthu-Lookalike
Expies and Captains Ersatz of HP Lovecraft's Cthulhu.
Created: yesterday
0 3Multilingual Work (adopted by Defective Detective)
A work uses two or more languages equally at the same time.
Created: Aug 1st 2018 at 10:29:51 AM
1 9"Trying to Socialize" Plot (Needs Title Help!)
A plot where an introverted character tries to be more social.
Created: May 15th 2024 at 5:19:24 PM
0 2Being the Brush
When a character douses themself in paint, and uses their body to paint the canvas.
0 11Artificial World (Looking for discussion -- should worlds created by magic count?)
A world that was built, not formed naturally.
Created: May 13th 2024 at 11:54:39 AM
3 17Seal Of Impending Doom
The moment it becomes clear a character is going to die and nothing can prevent it.
Created: Sep 12th 2020 at 5:31:03 AM
0 16Intramarital Affair (LAUNCH 24)
A couple has an "affair" with each other.
Created: Jan 20th 2024 at 8:57:49 AM
0 0Opposites Juxtaposition Tropes
Tropes for the juxtaposition of opposites.
0 21Nudity Equals Vulnerability
A person is naked to show how vulnerable they are.
Created: Apr 26th 2024 at 7:56:18 AM
0 9Songwriting Eureka
The writing and composition of an iconic song revolves around a single Eureka Moment.
Created: Aug 30th 2023 at 11:59:12 PM
0 2Universal Multiforce Balance
Balance in the universe is composed of more than one or two forces
Created: 2 hours ago
1 30Terrified Transformation Witness
A character reacts to another character's transformation - the moment or the aftermath - with shock and fear.
Created: May 6th 2024 at 7:35:40 AM
0 1Tropes That Will Never Happen/Silly Puns- Entries A To ???
Splitting from TropesThatWillNeverHappen.Silly Puns because the page is becoming too long
Created: 2 hours ago
3 17Deadly Game Of Chance
A villain uses a game of chance to decide whether a character will be killed, or at least harmed.
Created: Apr 30th 2024 at 2:45:37 PM
1 18Gibberish Perspective (formerly Human Noises)
Dialogue or written words are gibberish from the perspective of characters who don't understand them
Created: May 21st 2022 at 9:51:36 PM
Dialogue or written words are gibberish from the perspective of characters who don't understand them
Sponsor: AmourLeFou Created: May 21st 2022 at 9:51:36 PM Last reply: 2 hours ago by DefectiveDetective View draftLooking for a discussion you thought was here? One of two things could have happened.
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0 3Bastard Begetter
A character has a lot of kids out of wedlock as a result of constantly sleeping around.
Created: 7 hours ago