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openNo Title
Do we have a trope for when two people are chatting (Alice and Bob), Bob is being very self-deprecating, and Alice uses "I Have This Friend" to tell Bob to not insult himself?
openRomantic Comedy - Sincere advice from Comic Relief Film
Is there a trope for when a comic relief character in a Romantic Comedy, maybe one of the protagonist's Amazingly Embarrassing Parents, stops being Played for Laughs and gives the protagonist an earnest bit of insight/advice about romantic love that's relevant to their relationship with their love interest. Like in Friends with Benefits where Mila Kunis' mom stops joking about not being able to remember the identity of Mila's father and says that her dad was the only man she ever truly loved?
openHuman Bowling Ball Gag Western Animation
I think I have seen this gag in several cartoons but it looks like it doesn't have a trope page.
The gag usually goes something like this: A clumsy, unlucky, or just dumb guy, who usually is also fat, tries to play bowling. When he tries to throw the ball, his fingers get stuck in the holes and the momentum carries him into the lane and he ends up sliding all the way down the lane and into the pins. And of course, it is usually treated like he got a legitimate strike even thought this is both dangerous and obviously against the rules of bowling.
I am pretty sure I have seen this gag in several cartoons but most of them I only saw a really long time ago so it would be hard for me to list them. I think I also once owned a toy that was based on this gag, a figure of a cartoon character lying on their belly and clutching a bowling ball in front of them that had wheels on the bottom to make it look like they were sliding.
I was reminded of this gag because it appeared in a Nikiciy video (here), although in that case the bowler tripped on a Banana Peel and rolled into the lane instead of sliding.
Related to Be the Ball but not quite the same thing.
If this trope doesn't exist, I might try to launch it.
Edited by legendaryweredragonresolved I know you too well
A character is able to tell how another is feeling because they know them intimately. The Social Expert but for one specific person, essentially
openSomeone covers a corpse with a blanket as a final gesture of kindness/respect
Similar to Comforting Comforter, except the one being covered has passed away. Is it even a trope?
openYes/No object
What trope would fit the following situation?
A character has a pillow with the words "yes" and "no" printed in each side and pulls it up when she feels too lazy to answer simple questions.
Searching in google, I found from this Reddit comment, that kind of pillow has naughty implications of Ready for Lovemaking, but that's not how it's being used in this example.
Edited by animuacidopenSwinging Trapeze
The classic circus trope, where acrobats swing to one another with trapeze?
Do we have that trope?
Edited by StoucaopenMisleading Intonation Western Animation
It!s basically that funny dialogue. Say after a crazy event, Person A talks to Person B and tells him a short "Reason You Suck" Speech, as it seems like it’s leading to Person A to counter it with their benefits…but he doesn’t. He just ends it right there. Leaving Person B sad.
Here are some examples https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SChpZdyMpS8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB3eHHY_Vk0&t=44s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auw60X3ZmP4&t=47s
openUnintended victim of parents Live Action TV
A man runs a hedge fund, his daughter invests in it and looses all her money. Then her father is sent to prison for his crimes with the fund and its investors, and his wife for the murder of a reporter who would have told the world about it. Now the daughter has no money, and is being threatened by other investors in her father's fund.
openMind, Body, Heart Trio
A trio of three characters — one is smart and logical, one is strong and aggressive, and one is openly emotional and wears their heart on their sleeve. (ex. Blossom, Buttercup, and Bubbles from The Powerpuff Girls)
openChimera Transformation
When a character, villain or otherwise, aborbs other beings (or at least their powers) and that person gains a new form with all their victims' features at once.
Pretty much like Ultimate Kevin or Ultimate Aggregor from Ben 10.
openLast seconds well-spent
Is there a trope for when people who are about to die accept it and spend time with the people they love?
One example would be in the song "Neon Glow" by Glass Beach, where the singer goes to watch the bomb drop with the person she is in love with.
Another example would be in the movie Don't Look Up, where the protagonist reconciles with his family and eats dinner with them while the meteor drops.
openDoubt about this scene
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.
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/
openThe unhinged character has a wobbly stance
Do we have a page for the one where the unhinged character likes to wobble around like an inflatable tube man?
Like Orcus here from Final Fantasy XIV, who spends his entire questline ranting about eating souls and how delicious their rage is (he does not know that the person he is provoking is the ridiculously powerful Warrior of Light) and does this exact pose when he wants to unsettle people with how eeeeevil he is.
openYes-men are the best soldiers
Do we have a trope where soldiers who obey every command from their military officer are seen in-universe as the best type of soldier? Think this scene from Forrest Gump: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4gCt1rUEpE
resolved Foreign cover song
I was curious if there was a trope about something like this (also as a way of finding music to listen to) - Basically, media using a "foreign" (i.e. non-original (typically English) language) version of a pop song.
For example, Orphan Black uses the singer Eileen's German-language version of "These boots are made for walkin'" for a scene where the protagonist disguises herself as a German socialite.
Or like Minions: The Rise of Gru takes inspiration from Kung Fu Movies and spy capers and uses a sort of "James Bond-y" Chinese-language cover of the Cher song "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)"
openPronouncing unfamiliar words after your native language
How would you describe a character seeing an unfamiliar word or name from a different language they speak, and they attempt to pronounce it according to their native language's phonology?
It's probably not Funetik Aksent, since that trope is more about eye dialects than mispronouncing things.
An example would be: an Italian speaker seeing the French word "travailler" for the first time, and tentatively pronouncing it /tra'vai.l͡ler/, as opposed to the correct French pronunciation /tʁa.va'je/.
openSarcasm-Intolerant
Do we have a trope where a character dislikes snark to the point of intolerance? Like say a person is cynical, but does not convey sarcasm. Even their seriousness is intimidating to the snarky character that they lose the will to snark?
openInterim Leader Overspecialization
A situation where The Leader is absent, and the one who takes charge in their place leads differently (according to their own idea of what's good for the team), which usually leads to problems.
For example, the CEO of a tech company gets sick/arrested/dies, so one of the department heads is given temporary CEO powers to avoid a Too Many Cooks situation. The problem is they start running the company as though it were their department: Marketing spends a lot more on advertising and less on quality, R&D pushes towards making Awesome, but Impractical(ly expensive) products, Accounting starts pinching pennies everywherer they can, Sales gets the company in legal trouble by making promises the company can't keep, HR and Legal focus on reducing company liability in any way they can, IT starts The Purge of those employees who need their password reset five times a day, etc.
In Animorphs, Rachel takes over the team for one book in Jake's absence. They start hitting the Yeerks harder and faster, befitting Rachel's Blood Knight tendencies, but also leads to them getting caught in a trap and Cassie nearly being infested.
Edited by Chabal2
When the owner of a skill-based attraction (like a shooting range) makes it impossible for the customers to win, unbeknownst to them.
Edited by Lyendith