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openLove Heart Hands
Do we have a Stock Pose trope for making a heart shape by holding both hands together resting your fingers together upwards and your thumb down over to make a heart shape with the gap, see this article for a picture of what I am talking about:
https://kotaku.com/final-fantasy-xiv-valentiones-day-love-heart-emote-1851217811
openSister Trope for Can't Live With Them, Can't Live Without Them
I thought the trope I needed was Can't Live with Them, Can't Live Without Them, but maybe not. I'm looking for a trope about siblings or cousins who do not get along well at all. Like, one sibling is on the good guys team and the other is a villain or a rebel rogue off on their own, or they just have two completely different personalities. One sibling gets so mad at the other's antics. Maybe they threaten to disown them, or they purposefully shut themselves away and commence the silent treatment, only to realize that, despite their sibling's shenanigans, they still love them, want to bond and hang out, no ill will or harm is wished upon the one whose pulling things.
openImpartiality Failure
A character who's supposed to be impartial/neutral about something (such as a judge or mediator) realizes that they're leaning towards one side (and sometimes requests to be replaced for that reason).
In The Simpsons, Marge and Homer go to Reverend Lovejoy for marriage counseling. After Marge lists Homer's innumerable failures as a husband and human being, Lovejoy confesses that this is the first time he's sided with one spouse so completely (the other couple we see are both horrible, but in equal measure).
openTwo mystery tropes
- Everyone Did It: All the suspects played a role in committing the crime.
- Nobody Did It: None of the suspects committed the crime.
openfake medical reports to avoid standing trial
Is there a trope where a criminal would submit bogus medical reports claiming he was feeble-minded to stand trial as part of a broader effort to evade justice?
openThreaten the lawyer with lawsuits Live Action TV
A person is planning a mass murder, and the police think a particular witness (who has no idea this person is planning this) can lead them to this person. However, the witness's lawyer tells the witness not to cooperate. The District Attorney gets the lawyer out of the way with the threat that if the mass murder occurs, the DA will first sue the lawyer criminally for causing the deaths, and then resign as DA and sue the lawyer while representing the families of the victims.
openOffscreen Evacuation
Compare the Bye in Stealth Hi And Bye , this could happen in many types of situations.
A) Say Sophie allows Bob to leave, and in the second the camera looks back at Bob, he already disappeared. Sophie: Go on now, go back to your fa- Oh wait, he already left.
B) Say Sophie discusses about how she can rely on Bob for a situation, and when she looks back at said Bob, he’s already gone. Sophie: Don’t worry, if anyone can do this, so can Bob…Bob?
C) Sophie finally traps Bob so he wouldn’t get away with anymore misdemeanors, but just when she looks back at him, he’s already gone, leaving nothing but the ropes used to tie him up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4A4MBGY6lY&t=45s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNbSkPctzYw&t=28s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MJXNIKt9PM&t=4m10s
Edited by StoucaopenSimultaneous Gameplay and Story Integration / Segregation
What's the trope for this situation:
An RPG where the longer you take to reach the final boss, the stronger he gets (subverting Take Your Time). While this is true, it turns out that the growth is so small as to be negligible (e.g. the boss starts at 100,000 HP and adds only 10 HP and 1 damage for every 10 hours of gameplay). Basically, it is Gameplay and Story Integration since the boss' HP does go up with time, but also Gameplay and Story Segregation since the difference is barely noticeable even by completionists.
openGood coworkers, so can't be all bad Videogame
Looking for a trope to describe a situation where a character who is morally ambivalent (say, too close to a Knight Templar, or a Designated Hero) gets a little morality boost by being shown to have a good working relationship with someone unambiguously heroic.
The case I'm thinking of particularly is Kayle and Ryze in League of Legends. Kayle was originally a figure of angelic righteousness against her fallen sister Morgana, but they got a lore update to have them represent the opposite sides of To Be Lawful or Good. This has led to the fanbase dismissing Kayle as a Tautological Templar or worse, finding Morgana far more sympathetic because she never claims to represent true justice. In Legends of Runeterra, however, Ryze (who is good, noble, and self-sacrificing but not at all nice about it) is shown to be one of her colleagues, who comes to her aid because she sent him a messenger. And while Ryze can and would do just about anything to save the world, he would NOT work with someone who had forfeited her humanity while trying to be 'justice.'
Thoughts?
Edited by Charisetresolved First kill is the most important
Trope where a characters first Murder is highly emphasized compared to their subsequent murders. This potential trope also probably includes where a characters first act of murder causes a sort of descent or change to them
openBad music performance compared to cats yowling?
Couldn't find a trope for this.
When someone likens a Dreadful Musician to torturing cats, choking geese, or something similar — is there a trope that covers this? It really doesn't seem to be Cat Concerto, as there's really no value judgement inherent in that trope, best I can tell.
Thanks!
Edited by BoltDMCopenThe Press Is Worthless (or Absent)
Do We Have This?
This is where the journalists in the area in which the plot takes place are, at best, shown to have ZERO relevance to the plot when one would think that they would be all over the case in question, or that the protagonists could likely solve all of their problems by going to them and making certain key facts public (that the Police have been stonewalling them on or such). Often the press isn't even shown or discussed (as a factor to be taken into consideration) at all to begin with, when again you would think they should.
Another angle is in a work when some event would seem in danger of breaking the Masquerade or revealing the Conspiracy, but no reporters ever show up and report on the weird incident in question despite the trail of destruction or assorted monster/alien bodyparts strewn all over the place. Could sometimes be justified in-universe if they are in the pocket of the villains (don't know about the Masquerade/Conspiracy per se) or DO know and are an active part of it.
openAnnoying Video Game Helper is the player character Videogame
Is there a trope for when the Annoying Video Game Helper is the player character themselves (not an ally to the PC)? Or would that be an example of AVGH?
openhanging by the fingers Film
Can someone give me a list of movies and tv shows that have this trope and have female spies or agents doing this?
Edited by ryd1234openKelleran Beq in The Phantom Menace?
I found out that Ahmed Best has a cameo (outside of the Jar Jar role) among the Jedi on Naboo at the end of The Phantom Menace (behind Chancellor Palpatine), and that in recent years this has been considered an early sighting of Kelleran Beq, the role he would take in The Mandalorian, but that is nowhere official.
Which trope would that fall in? The Cameo, despite the character not being envisioned yet? Retcon, even though it isn't official? Fanon? Fan-Retconned Cameo?
Edited by StFanresolved Unused Exotism
Is there a trope for this situation: A work takes place in a different country than the protagonist's, but little to nothing is made of it (not even The Theme Park Version) and the story could just as well have taken place at home.
e.g.
- A heist movie that takes place in Hong Kong with mostly American characters, but because it all happens in a modern office building at night the only indication it's not in the US is that the signs aren't written in English, so there's no Culture Clash.
- A Spanish movie that takes place in Mexico with so few Mexican elements (accents, exterior shots etc.) that you can't even apply the Spexico trope.
openeleventh hour villain
A brand new (and usually unforshadowed) villain suddenly appears really late in a work (often in the final episode/installment, or at least within the last few episodes)
openVenting Prevents Explosion
In some works, I've seen this plot point that is almost always Played for Drama, in which some sort of machine, generator, dispenser, hose, or pipe is at risk of exploding due to it being plugged up, or in general, having no outlet for it's pent up pressure. A few good examples of this trope in action would be in the very first Fleischer Superman cartoon, when Superman ties the electrothenasia ray in a knot; The Simpsons episode "King Size Homer", when Homer fails to vent the radioactive gas tank; and the Spongebob Squarepants episode "Selling Out", when Mr. Krabs shoves the self-checkout register into the synthetic patty dispenser. If anyone knows what this trope is called, please let me know.
Edited by HipsterDog02openGame Decides Your Actions For You Videogame
A punishment for being slow in a game which features a Time Limit in some capacity. After it expires, it forces your character to do something rather than just do nothing or instantly give you a gameover.
I'm looking for a trope that's sort-of-related to the Invincible Incompetent, except that, while that trope describes a character, this trope describes a single event where a clumsy or unintelligent character who usually isn't the Invincible Incompetent manages to win a challenge or competition, against all odds, by sheer luck.
May manifest as a way for the author to Throw the Dog a Bone.
Edited by sRAMrelevrat