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opena king/queen (or something similiar) is friends with a peasant
Basically, the platonic version of Uptown Girl. Is there a trope for it?
openAdopting your kill's relative
A character kills someone (whether as a Professional Killer, a brawl, or in a battle), then decides to adopt and raise the deceased's relative (usually their child) as their own.
openAccidental Oathbreaker
What would the trope be for this situation: A knight is assigned to guard a princess and her handmaiden during a long sea voyage towards the princess' Arranged Marriage, chosen specifically because he has no interest in her. The knight is regularly visited at night by the handmaiden and they sleep together with the lights out, but he's kind of upset that the handmaiden barely acknowledges his presence in daytime given her enthusiasm after dark. Once the trip ends, the bombshell drops that it was the princess who was sleeping with him all along, and he realizes he's broken his every vow of loyalty to sleep with a woman he wasn't even attracted to in the first place, not to mention the diplomatic consequences.
openThe Dismissive Friend Group
Do we have a trope for when someone is super excited about a certain event coming up, but none of their friends seem to take it seriously, and that leads the person to get increasingly disappointed/angry? Off the top of my head, I can think of "The One Where No One's Ready" from Friends, as well as that that MLP episode, "Suited for Disaster."
open"Copy. I killed your friend."
When there's silence from an operative's radio or communicator, leading to concern and repeated "do you copy?" from other operatives or higher-ups, until the silence is broken by the voice of a known enemy gloating or threatening them, implying that said operative is killed or captured. It came to mind after seeing a clip from the Clone Wars where Asajj Ventress hears the voices of troops over the radio of a dead clone, trying to communicate with him. She smiles and I thought for sure she was going to answer the radio herself, but no.
The only example I could think of, however, is from this movie Run, Hide, Fight, where a school shooter kills a lunch lady while she still has an active call open with her husband, then the shooter picks up the phone to brag about the murder to him.
openPushing someone's words back onto them
Used when Alice insults Bob but instead of Bob getting hurt he twists the insult and uses it to hurt Alice, which ends up working
Ex: In HH's "Stayed Gone", a duel vs Alastor and Vox, Vox starts the song by saying "Welcome home; I'm gonna make you wish that you stayed gone. Say hello to a new status quo, everybody knows that there's a brand new dawn - Turn the tv ON" and, at the end of the song, Alastor says "Let's begin - i'm gonna make you wish that I stayed gone. Tune on in~ When i'm done, Your status quo is gonna know it's race is run~ Oh, this will be fun!"
openSubtle exploration limiters in an otherwise wide-open game Videogame
In a game that is otherwise a Wide-Open Sandbox or at least a particularly wide-open example of it's genre, there are subtle limitations put in place keeping the player from exploring too high of level areas or getting exceptional gear too early. It'd be in a similar vein to something like a Beef Gate or Ability Required to Proceed, but less overt.
For example, in Unicorn Overlord, there are several literal Broken Bridges to side areas throughout the game that require getting a certain amount of a certain resource to repair. Some of them lead to really good items, but the game doesn't offer enough of the required resource until you've progressed through most of the region in which they're located, at which point the items are still good but less game-breaking.
TIA for anything!
openBe the Brush!
Not to be confused for Body Paint, when painting takes a level of extreme. Say an artist has a big canvas, and the artist covers their body in paint, and smash their body across the canvas, making a great art piece!
openIncessant chatting leads to character's downfall
Are there any tropes on characters who are endless talkers but are unaware their conversation is being recorded? Engineered Public Confession seems one, but are there other tropes that pertain to criminals and villains being taken down this way?
openMarkers/Pings Videogame
A mechanic in some games where you can place down a set marker or send out a ping to your teammates to say "stand here," "shoot that guy," "move that box," "jump off a cliff" etc
Edited by AwkbutTVTopenIn-Universe Allegory
Just a quick question: is Allegory applicable to Show Within a Show In-Universe?
openDesperately screaming their authority
Do we have one for this, where somebody is in a desperate situation, and they cling desperately to some "authority" which they may have? This can sometimes be covered with I Am the Trope, but this would not cover the Nanny Mcphee example.
Two examples involving Imelda Staunton:
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: As the centaurs carry her away, she screams "I am senior undersecretary to the Minster of Magic!"
- Nanny Mcphee: As the children are tying her up in the kitchen, she says the repeated line "they do not come in here, I have it in writing".
Also:
- The Madness of King George: As the King is being tied to the chair, he yells "I am the King of England!"
openMedia where there's a lot of profanity used by the characters/narrator.
I am looking for a trope that deals with stories with lots of swear word usage
openFluff Hater
A character who hates saccharine and "girly" stuff like ponies, plushies, pink, etc.
openFake religiosity
Someone becomes (or pretends to be) a part of a religious order despite not believing in any of its creed in order to reap benefits of being a part of the organization.
openPet Grieves over Lost Owner
Reverse of Lost Pet Grievance: a pet's owner died, and/or the pet becomes someone else's, and the pet acts in grievance to that (like waiting for its owner to come back even though they might never)
Tried checking that page, I can't find the related trope.
openCasual Alien Intermingling
Im trying to find a trope that captures a certain specific slice of extraterrestrial scifi. The type of scifi where alien intermixing is so common that the clerk at the convenience store is as likely to be a Xu'ruto with 3 heads as they are to be a human
Examples of what is this trope Star Wars Star Trek The Ascent Mass Effect Futurama High on Life
Examples that are not this trope: Stellaris/Twilight Imperium - these setting have many alien races but they for the most part keep to themselves and their own worlds
Space Invaders/Destroy All Humans/Mars Attacks: The most common type of alien media I see, these aliens are normally just atogonists
Ive been able to use the trope pages of the media I listed to find more examples but I haven't found a single specific trope that links them
Tropes like many many races, galactic civilization, and even space opera are similar but they arent specific to the type of casual alien intermingling Im talking about.
Im really passionate about this genre (I even tried to start a blog about it at one point) and tvtropes has been the only really helpful site in finding more. If this trope doesnt exist I really think it should.
I am looking for the trope where a character gets into some organization or facility in order to crush it. Maybe not necessarily be a spy and just someone with a grudge or plan.