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openClasses in shooter games
When shooters have classes such as
- Standard soldier
- Heavy weapons guy, low damage but typically high fire rate and have abilities that increase their survivability
- Sapper, guy who builds stuff
- Sniper
- Medic
openGrounding Character Print Comic
What do you call the character in a grand universe sized adventure where all life is in danger, but the character helps keep you grounded. With so much going on, they are they reminder of what the little things are to be lost. An example I can think of is during world saving adventures, Spider-Man still takes time to save the little guy, this keeping us grounded.
openMorton's Fork but it's just someone finding any reason to justify doing what they want to do
Like, Lily & Marshall making a bet where if Marshall wins, they have sex in the bathroom, but if Lily wins, they have sex in the bathroom.
Or Hitori Bocchi noticing that someone is shy like her, so she shouldn't speak to them, then noticing that someone else is super outgoing, so she shouldn't speak to them.
openA trope where someone reaches down another person's throat
Trying to see if there is a trope for when one character (let's say Alice) reaches their hand down the throat of another character (let's say Bob), and pull something out. It could be that Alice is pulling something out of Bob's "stomach of holding", or is trying to grab something stuck in his throat, or is feeling malicious and is ripping something out against his will. Is there such a trope for this? It seems like something that would be common in most forms of animation.
openx, y, and z walk into a bar...
Do we have a trope for the stock phrase "an X, a Y, and a Z walk into a bar"? I see jokes with that particular set-up everywhere.
openSupernatural Compass
A trope where someone has a compass or similar trinket that, rather than pointing towards North, uses supernatural powers to point towards something else.
- Holly's pendant that points towards the Phoenix in Monster Rancher.
- Jacks' compass that points towards the holder's greatest desire in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
- Syaoran's Compass in Cardcaptor Sakura can point towards Clow Cards, and I think Sakura's staff can as well? That one I may be misremembering.
- In Are You Afraid of the Dark Universe?, Nestor (and later Hunter) has a scale from The Creature that points towards where the Black Lagoon is currently located.
openI'm Caught...Actually no
It looks like someone is going to be caught, only for someone else to get blamed.
- Dexter: In season two, Dexter is called to the police station in the middle of the night. He thinks this means they've realized he's a Serial Killer. However, it turns out that the police believe someone else is responsible for his crimes.
openHappen to choose September 11 for minor disaster Literature
In a book published in 1997, September 11 is the date when a sinkhole opens under a row of temporary buildings. Everyone is rescued alive and only minor injuries reported, but the connection with the date 4 years later is an intersting coincidence.
resolved A work in one medium presented as another.
Pretty self explanatory, when a work has the aesthetics of another medium, here are some examples:
- The Original "Alan Wake" game was framed as a tv show with individual levels as "episodes", the Dlc's are "specials" and each episode begins with a Previously on…...
- "Cuphead" has the aesthetics of a Max and Dave Fleischer cartoon.
- "MythForce" is a Roguelike Action RPG that looks like a Saturday-Morning Cartoon like He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983)
- "#Blud" is a Legend Of Zelda like-game with the look and feel of a The '90s cartoon you'd find on Cartoon Network or Nickelodeon, for example the chapters each have an Episode Title Card that looks like something out of My Life as a Teenage Robot and Becky's house looks EXACTLY like Dexter's.
Edited by MuppetopenFind a suitable trope, please! 5
Hello! I need your help to find a trip about that:
Character won't hearing about something, what he hates. Possible about Lotso from Toy Story 3, who starts dislike Daisy. Just, if character hears what he won't to hear, it makes him angry.
Please! Help me find examples for this discussion.
openFan with strings on them to show when the air is flowing Film
So in visual medias, you very often have little strings of fabric or paper attached to the blades of fans, vents, etc. Presumably the purpose is to show when they're running (and starting/stopping, although in some cases the fan is just on and this doesn't seem to be relevant in any way), but naturally nobody randomly attaches stuff to their fans in real life, so it's a bit jarring. Is there a trope for that?
openMurder The Suicidal
Bob has been voicing suicidal thoughts. Alice pulls out a gun and tries to force it into his mouth, then stops. She then argues that since Bob struggled against being killed, he wasn't truly suicidal/being so close to death gave Bob the epiphany that he didn't actually want to die and that most of his problems could actually be solved.
openA village of many tongues
It's a small town, and almost everyone grew up here, but for some reason everyone has a different accent and/or dialect. For example, in Ponyville from MLP:Fi M Rarity has a British accent, Applejack has athe accent associated with the southern U.S., and Pipsqueak has a cockney accent, despite all being native to the small town as revealed in their flashbacks throughout the show.
openRich Friend/Poor Friend Contrast?
Do we have a trope for when a character's two main friends come from households on either extreme of the socioeconomic scale? Kinda like A.J. and Chester from Fairly Odd-Parents.
openHuman Computer
An occupation found in some science fiction/fantasy settings where Omnidisciplinary Scientists or similar folk serve as general-purpose intellectuals, usually in service to a noble.
Examples off the top of my head are Mentats from Dune or Maesters from A Song of Ice and Fire. Are there any other examples for this to be trope-worthy?
openCharacter is treated as dead due to their profession or choices.
I feel like this is a trope we have (or fits under one) but I can't find it. Basically the idea would be that a person is still alive but their family acts as if they are dead (sometimes to the point of holding a funeral) due to traditions related to their career or life choices. The examples I'm thinking of would be Dwarf Knockermen from Discworld, Canim Hunters from Codex Alera and Nora Deathseekers from Horizon Zero Dawn. In each case the person is going into a profession with a high mortality rate (and in the case of the Canim one that is also dishonorable) so their family/friends basically holds a funeral for them ahead of time and treats them as if they are dead.
There would also be the negative examples where a family holds a funeral for someone who's choices they disagree with, such as leaving a religion but the examples I was thinking of are positive ones (for certain values of positive)
I was thinking about these three examples and trying to find a trope where they would fit but couldn't really find one. Tropes I considered:
- Legally Dead - sort of fits except that everyone involved knows that they are alive (for now)
- Death of Personality - doesn't really fit since who they are hasn't changed, just what they are doing. This also appleis to sub-tropes for this such as That Man Is Dead.
- Un-person - in some ways this is closest except that people aren't denying their existence, just holding a funeral ahead of time. The same goes for I Have No Son!.
Any thoughts on this?
Edited by AdeonopenStep Activated Trap
When a character sets on a floor panel, which is actually a button trigging a booby trap.
openDoubt about this scene Anime
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.
The only thing that matters to me is that you confirm if that is an abusive camera or not.
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/
A scene that reveals a Twist - Bob recieves a call from Alice, who sounds like she's feeling one thing (scared, in love, friendly). Then we cut to Alice's side of the conversation, and she's acting cold and unemotional. It becomes clear she's lying to Bob about her feelings, and since they're on the phone, she doesn't need to fake the facial expressions to sell the lie.
It feels like it doesn't make much sense to me - if someone's pretending to be crying, even on the phone, they'd probably be making the facial expressions regardless - it'd be harder to act by only changing her's voice, but not her physicality. Especially if she's used to lying in person to begin with.