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I think there's a trope like this, I just don't know what it's called. You know when characters are so prudish that it's like being touched is their Berserk Button? Men visibly shudder and women can throw guys through a wall. And sometimes it's doesn't have to be Thanks For The Mamaries; sometimes it's just an innocent display of affection or even just skin contact. Probably applies to extreme germophobes.
Anyone know if that trope exists and what it's called?
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What is it called when a character has a widely-known personality in fanon, but that personality doesn't have a firm basis in canon? But it still fits them and isn't a simplification. It's not Word of Dante because there wasn't a single work that actually created it, but everyone still uses the non-canon personality.
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A monster/creature/etc is violently grasping for a hero who is backed against a corner. The claws/teeth/apparatus of death is thrashing inches from the hero, but can't quite reach. Is there a trope for this?
Or, how about when a hero is hiding from some deadly creature. The only thing between the hero and the creature is something that, if simply looked over/around, will reveal the hero. For example, the mirror in the newer War of the Worlds, or Frodo hiding/moving behind a column as the cave troll searches for him.
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Significant character from established medium is adapted to a new medium. During that adaptation, character gains a new trait which does not exist in the source. Later adaptations (or later versions of treat trait as if it were canon ever since the source material.
Kinda like Canon Foreigner but a trait, not a character.
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I was watching the new Sherlock series (the one written by those two Doctor Who writers), and there was a scene where Watson asked Holmes about a case that Holmes was ignoring, and Holmes said, "I'm putting my best man on it." Watson replied along the lines of "Ah, good" — only after a delay realizing that Holmes was talking about him. When I saw that, I thought of another scene: when Roy got a job as a bodyguard from Hinjo. In both these cases, the one character talks about the other in abstract terms ("my best man", "an idea where I can hire a bodyguard"), and the other doesn't realize immediately that they're the subject of the conversation.
It's related to Got Volunteered, but I think it's a little different.
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When there's a video that appears to be what it's labeled, but halfway through it cuts to a different recording—I'm thinking like a self-recorded video or something—and then cuts back to the regular video.
I started thinking about this because of an example in Oyasumi Punpun, where the porno the characters find has a random guy confessing to the murder of his whole family in the middle, but this has gotta exist in other media too.
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A conflict where, for some reason, creatures which have no business being on a battlefield as anything other than a leader or rare monster are being used as cannon fodder.
For example, a fantasy battlefield where dragons aren't rare beasts, ridden only by the general or a high mage, capable of smashing whole units of infantry apart. Instead, they appear in wings of a dozen or more, and while still as powerful, drop like flies. Both their numbers and their casualties are treated as just another statistic in the grand scheme of things. This despite the fact that dragons are supposed to be rare, long-lived and solitary.
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Is there a Trope:
- Where a particular actor becomes ludicrously famous in one role, and they're in EVERY major movie that comes out for the next few years? Generally in a starring role, but even if the actor has no business being in that role? I'm Thinking it overlaps with WTH, Casting Agency?, but isn't exclusive to it.
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Do we have something that covers when there is an announcement that the president is being moved to a secure location in Disaster / Zombie Apocalypse type films?
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Is there a trope for a situation when a villain (or an anti-hero) comments on someone else's quality item, only to be shown using it later, the violent acquisition having happened off-screen? For example, T-1000 says, "Say... That's a nice bike..." Or "Slash" from Six-String Samurai: "You've failed me for the last... oh, nice shoes."
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A Happily Ever After that actually doesn't go into any details of how they end up doing so in the future? i.e. No epilogues.
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Bob is in love with Alice but doesn't know what to say so Carl his best friend using an earbud for he
can tell Bob what to say but somehow Carl ends up talking which has nothing to do with Alice Bob not
knowing ends up using it
Carl:no Mom I don't what pizza Bob:no mom I don't what pizza Alice:I'm not your mom
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Is there a trope for characters that are notably short in stature but it doesn't affect their personality like The Napoleon or Bratty Halfpint, nor are they routinely compared to someone (or something) larger than themselves Huge Guy, Tiny Girl?
Is there a trope for when an inventor becomes attached to his inventions and calls them his babies like Cyborg from Teen Titans and his t-car or Tech E Coyote from Loonatics Unleashed? Not exactly Cargo Ship but the character treats his inventions like his children.
Edited by MarkLungo