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openImmediately wasting rations/supplies
A character or group of characters, after preparing for an adventure and stocking up on supplies, wastes or uses an important resource like food or water almost as soon as the adventure starts. Usually comedic in nature, e.g. ten minutes after leaving the Big Eater has already polished off several weeks of food to the group's chagrin.
resolved Mafia TV show, long episodes 10-20 years ago
Can you please find a show for me here is its plot 2 kids lost their mom, mafia killed her and want to kill these kids as well cuz they saw too much one random woman is running away at the start when she took the kids they ran away with a boat from one harbor with them to somewhere else this woman does not know much about them but knows their mom got killedshe is trying to save them by contacting police firstly but unfortunately, a high ranking police detective or smth like that is corrupted and trying to get these 2 kids only for the mafiaso she became wanted and marked as kidnapper of themcuz she cannot rely on the police, she trying to get to the paris for a help some ppl finds out she is that wanted one in the train while she was trying to escapeshe came to the one house where was her partner or smth like that and old man who owns that big house, but later mafia arrives there, trying to get info on where are these kids and that woman, then mafia kills both cuz they dont wanna cooperate anyways one of the kids saw that, and that corrupted cop saw him as well, and makes gestures so that kid can leavethat corrupted cop starting disliking his cooperation with that mafia and their actions, so he would like to change the sides, but ofc he cannot do that so quickly and simply, otherwise he might die kids were like 12-13 that woman was mature, brown hair ig, was not very skinny there was also one scene which happened after the train incident, where she tried to disguise herself one the girl was sick so she tried to get her help one doctor contacted them and invited them to his house he acted like does not know them but he knew that doctor just recognised them from the TV where it was showing her being WANTED but they escaped the episodes are long and it was released about 10-20 years ago
Edited by MaiLuxopenSpear counterpart of Absurdly Elderly Mother
Is there a Spear Counterpart of Absurdly Elderly Mother, or is it just Not a Trope?
Edited by AlfexopenTrigger Question
Compared to a Trigger Phrase, and Contrast to an Armor-Piercing Question that would leave a person insecure and nervous, a Trigger Question would rather enrage a person, causing them to reach their breaking point, and comeback at them with an aggressive answer.
Edited by StoucaopenUnited by Uncommon Purpose
The party comes together because they want the same thing but for very different reasons.
Example im thinking of; The princess has been kidnapped and the hero comes together to save her. One because she's their friend, one because the country needs good governance, one because earning the princess' favour would be beneficial, and one because she wants to be friends
openRapid-Fire Contradictory Orders
Someone keeps giving orders in response to a situation, but because the situation changes so rapidly they end up giving orders opposite to the previous ones in quick succession (often exploited by their opponent due to how much time gets wasted going from one extreme to the other). Sometimes leads to Attack! Attack... Retreat! Retreat! .
- In the Disney Cinderella movie, the Grand Duke orders the castle gates closed to stop Cinderella from escaping, then opened to send horsemen after her.
- The "open the gate a little" meme, which goes "Open the gate", "close the gate", "open the gate a little" in response to an event perceived as positive, negative, and not all bad.
- One Lucky Luke comic has Luke and a cavalry officer argue about what to do about an Indian raid, which has them repeatedly yelling at the men to mount up or stand down, until the men ask if they could sort it out once and for all.
openA race's member is "born" within a single location only
Is there a trope for a certain location where members of a specific race are born and resurrected?
Example: In the gacha game Eversoul, the titular Souls are a magical humanoid race that are Made of Magic, and as such do not reproduce or experience mortality like humans. They're all "born" or "reawaken" near the World Tree found within the Fayren Union, one of the world's seven nations, making them a bonafide Truce Zone that no country, powerful or otherwise, can ever intrude upon or antagonize.
openFew tropes
1. All of reality is just a dream of a god-like being. Examples include the Godhead from The Elder Scrolls and the One Being from Mortal Kombat.
2. Related to the above, if a person from The Elder Scrolls series acknowledges the fact that he/she is just a part of a dream, they can achieve CHIM and become a god-like being or vanish from existence.
3. It's very important to the plot to have a character that is only mentioned and never appears in person. I'm not sure if this is just the ghost trope or just a subset of this trope.
4. A character that originated in spin-off media later becomes part of the main media. For example, Lugia from Pokémon was created for the second movie, but this Pokémon was liked by game developers, and they added Lugia to the second generation.
5. A character is hidden, and we are getting subtle hints of the existence of this character. I'm not sure if this is foreshadowing or a subset of it.
openPassive watchers of conflicts
There is a medium or small crowd in a street, a bar, or any location.
Then two characters start to fight. Verbally fight, or physical fight, anyway, no one watching dares to intervene to enhance, moderate or stop the fight. Because, out-universe, they know the fighters need to perform the fight for sake of the show.
They may be two lovers loudly arguing, or business enemies, or love rivals about to punch each other, and no one says a word. A stressed lover may be giving a hate full-speech, ridiculizing his/her antagonist, and no one dares to shut his/her mouth. People just stares in awe, not producing a single sound or making a minimal move towards them.
In real life, a situation like this would surely produce a mayhem.
Does this trope exist?
openThe Integrated Loudspeaker
Does this trope exists? Generally noticed in old ages stories (medieval, the roman empire, etc.), a leader speaks to a very large crowd, and he doesn't need any modern loudspeaker because everyone in the audience seems to hear him loud and clear. Geez, I've been in not so big theaters and people in the farther seats can't understand well the actors words.
I don't remember exactly but I saw one in which the audience area was impressively huge, and no one complains because they couldn't listen the speech. Indeed, the whole audience reacts to the speech.
Edited by JuliusHGopenSlowly turning head back when sensing danger
I was sure this trope exists but I can't find it. It occurs mostly in horror movies, but it's typical in other genres.
The character is hiding from danger or simply exploring any location. Suddenly, he/she senses a danger behind, and starts to turn his/her head back very slowly until the menace is seen, which conveniently does not attack until the victim is facing it.
I swear that, in real life, I would instantly turn back if I discover there is a monster or a beast or a ghost or anything horrible behind me.
openPlanet 4.5
There used to be an idea that there was another solar planet between Mars and Jupiter that was destroyed in some cataclysmic event to from the asteroid belt. Commonly referred to as Phaeton from Religious and Mythological Theme Naming
Kinda like Counter-Earth it's popular to show up in throwbacks
examples include:
- Turog from Werewolf: The Apocalypse
- Vulcan from Space 1889
- Scarlet Traces has the the invaders from War of the Worlds originally from the destroyed planet who previously invaded Mars and wiped out the native martians (based on the ones from John Carter of Mars)
- Ocean has a crew discovering the cryogenically persevered remnants of the planet who destroyed it in a violent civil war
openTime Tropes
A video game has a mechanic where two children, a boy and a girl, are both exploring an abandoned location that the former has become trapped in (the girl being free to leave at any time, but choosing not to to help the boy), albeit at different points in time, with the girl seeing it as it was pristine, while the boy sees it while it's dilapidated, and they communicate through a telepathic link that also lets them perceive what their counterpart sees. I'm looking for three tropes pertaining to the different ways this mechanic can be used (or just one trope for the whole thing), plus a 4th one pertaining to one of the game's endings.
- If the boy finds a hole in the ground, shifting to the girl - where the floor is intact, going down the hall, then shifting back to the boy reveals he is now on the other side as well, having somehow gone over the hole.
- The duo need to get an item out of a closet. The door is locked in the past, but fell off its hinges in the future. However, the item in question was destroyed when another object landed on it from a high shelf. To get around this, they use the above-mentioned "shift" to put the girl in the closet, she moves the still-intact version to a safer place, and when they shift back, the object's future self is fully intact in the new location.
- When extant circumstances require the boy to hide an object, he unfortunately doesn't have any means. As the object's past self is incidentally nearby, the girl picks it up, and lo and behold, the boy's version disappears into thin air just in time for the thing he needed to hide it from to show up. After it passes, the girl puts the object down at the boy's feet, and sure enough, it appears for him, and they conclude that the girl could carry anything with a past counterpart as long as the past version doesn't have to stay where it is, so the boy only needs to carry things that lack a counterpart. Basically; a justified Hyperspace Arsenal for him, in that the objects are "stored" in the past instead of a pocket dimension.
- During the good ending, after the boy escapes, they agree to meet up in his time, choosing to meet up at a particular bench in a nearby park. Leaving the building kills their link, but when the boy gets there, he sees an old lady sitting on said bench, and when they notice each other, the old lady reveals herself to be the "future" self of the girl.
resolved Walking Spoiler but no
Like the trope Walking Spoiler, but instead of a character in a piece of media being a Walking Spoiler , a media itself is a Walking Spoiler. Examples include but are not limited to Undertale/Deltarune, There Is No Game, and The Stanley Parable, with the latter(TSP) being the most on the nose in terms of this trope
Edited by GxchxFxndomsopenNoodle Words
In "Ask the Storybots", the Storybots have a job where they answer phones for kids. Kids will ask questions, and they Storybots will give answers. At the start of each episode, we hear one of the Storybots, Hap, answering phones back to back, and we can hear his questions but never the answers. (Ex I made up: He'll pick up the phones and all we end up hearing "Lasangna! Pink Dragons! Basketball!") I know these count as Newhart Phone Calls, but I wonder if there's another trope that fits under it, for when the situation isn't a phone call
openConcealed emergency beacon?
Is there a trope for when a character has a device concealed on their person to send a Distress Call? I'm thinking the ring that rich Alliance guy had in the Firefly episode "Trash", Jimmy Olsen's signal watch, things like that.
openArrest the right person by mistake Live Action TV
A man is arrested, by his own confession, for running a Ponzi scheme. The police believe he's also guilty of murder; to pressure him to admit that, they arrest his wife. In the process of her arrest, they naturally process her fingerprints; turns out a fingerprint at the scene of the murder is hers.
Edited by Someone1981openSound Barrier Burst
Showing how fast someone is going by creating a ring burst to represent breaking the sound barrier.
A couple of weeks ago I found a trope where a media has a trope in it but acknowledges it's downer qualities as well and the image for it had a comic of "Tom and Jerry" and it featured Jerry hitting Tom in the head with a hammer and then getting arrested for it. Can someone please tell me what it is?