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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.
openSounding silent letters
Is there one for when somebody says silent letters out loud, out of ignorance, or for comic effect? I know there's Funetik Aksent, but I don't think that's the right one. For example:
- Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator: Mr Wonka sounds the "K" in Vermicious Knid.
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail: The French talk of "King Arthur and his silly English k-nig-gets."
- Flanders and Swann: In the Gnu song, the G-nu wishes he could g-nash his teeth at you.
openCritical Comparisons
Critics compare a work to another. For instance, gritty Spy thrillers get compared to the works of John le Carré.
openKnight of Cerebus Not Quite Inversion
This is when a character makes the other characters scarier. It's not really changing the tone of the story, but the character is sort of teasing out the other characters' potential to be scary. The only example I can think of is in seasons 3 and 4 of Rolling With Difficulty. There's this one antagonist who gets to be scary in their introduction, but then the protagonists all get turns to scare the antagonist.
openKnight of Cerebus opposite
is there a inverted/opposite version of the trope Knight of Cerebus where somebody light and happy makes a very dark and bleak story cleanly light, instead of a scary and evil antagonist appearing to make the lighthearted story dark
openAlien Time System
Do we have a trope where the characters use a time system different than the "60 seconds = 1 minute" system we're familiar with?
For example, in Literature.The August Few, the Kivouachians use the following time system:
- Tick = kivic minute
- Bell = kivic hour, 70 ticks
- Chime = kivic day, 40 bells
- Tone = kivic month (3 earth months)
- Stanza = kivic year (7 tones)
openAffectionate face touch
When a character place in his hand on his loves face in a sign of affection or understanding,protection , romance, or love.
openX So Not Y
A gag in which someone or something is recognized as being not what it's supposed to be because of a particular factor that's clearly out of place. For example, in The Encounter from Animorphs, a group of "park rangers" clearly are not actually park rangers because "Park rangers don't carry machine guns."
openHand over mouth
A character covers their mouth from embarrassment, shock , horror, or implication of themselves.
openDescribe these tropes and deviations of Demeter
Demeter:
•Manifested in a forest along with her sisters.
•Her sisters are Hestia and Hera (No blood relations to Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades.)
•Created Persephone using magic.
•Was killed by Hera when she went to save Persephone from Apollo.
•No mentions of killing people during her depression but Persephone mentions her driving a king to eat himself over the accidental murder of some nymphs.
openStanding out by looking plain in trendy society.
Do we have some trope about that when you look plain, you actually stand out because most of the people are generally very fashionable?
This is somehow becoming Truth in Television in some parts of the world.
openFlanderization Projection
Similar to Psychological Projection, but instead of "everyone thinks and acts like me", it's "everyone thinks and acts the way I think they do". Basically, when Bob needs to put himself in Alice's shoes, he uses the flanderized (often insultingly so) version rather than his own viewpoint, and is just as wrong.
e.g.
- Alice is Bob's adult daughter's girlfriend, which he does not approve of (Bob lives in a small town in the Deep South and believes homosexuals drag innocents to Hell with them). When Alice is known to have gone missing he suggests searching bars, drug dens and other places where lowlifes live, since to him that's where his imagined version of Alice spends her days.
- Carl is asked what to get his coworker Diana for her birthday. Since she works in accounting and says she enjoys it, Carl answers "a high-end calculator", since his imaginary version of Diana does accounting for fun (and since Accountants Are Boring, can't imagine her wanting to go on a tropical vacation).
- Ed is on vacation in Yosemite, when he runs into a bear. Since he thinks All Animals Are Dogs, he tries throwing a stick for it to catch and gets mauled.
openAge-inappropriate buxom.
A girl's bust is rather too developed for her age.
Example is Eins of Three Forbidden Books who is 9 but appears to have at least a B-cup.
Edited by sohibilopenRemember the bounty hunter in Ord Mantell? Film
When characters refer to an offscreen event, that is never explained, they are very familiar with but we are completely in the dark. The first mention of the Clone Wars was this. Not exactly Shrouded in Myth, sometimes they are offhand jokes like: "We saved you in World War II !!" "Yeah, well,we saved YOU in World War III!!!"
openAbsent Antagonists
A work that features a central conflict against someone or something (foreign country, aliens, zombies etc.) as a backdrop also has a conspicuous absence of them, focusing on the antagonists on their own side.
e.g. A work set in the trenches of WWI (on either side) that never shows the enemy, only the occasional bombardment but never any soldiers, and most of the conflict is between soldiers and officers, deserters and loyalists, two soldiers who hated each other before being conscripted into the same battalion, etc.
resolved The entire work is a Villain Episode
The entire work follows the point of view of the very obviously less moral faction
open"The colors are too dull or depressing"
Is there an existing Audience Reaction or YMMV for this?
A work is criticized for its choice of colors being too "dull", "depressing", or unsaturated. For example:
- Fans do not like that a work (or a sequel) uses the Real Is Brown trope.
- The work originally has a vibrant color palette for the first half, but then the second half uses unsaturated colors which fans don't like.
- Some fans like the work for having a general unsaturated color palette, but others don't, hence YMMV.
openA duo made of a warrior and a diplomat
I don't think we have a trope for when a warrior and a diplomat are part of a Red Oni, Blue Oni duo. Sort of like Combat, Diplomacy, Stealth, but without Stealth, and it's two characters.
Unless Athens and Sparta can apply to characters.
resolved Conversation During Gameplay Videogame
A plot-heavy videogame with voice acting will allow players to continue moving and playing the game (solving puzzles or platforming) while the character is holding a conversation with someone - in modern day/sci fi games, it's implied they're using some sort of communication device to recieve orders, while in fantasy games, if it's not magic, you're supposed to assume the characters are talking loud enough to be understood despite the action going on.
This trope is opposed to when games will stop the gameplay to deliver exposition, either through a cutscene where the player can't control the character, or through a Wall of Text where the action buttons just make the dialog boxes move faster.
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.