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openWar between different deities creations
Different gods create their own types of life, which fight.
Example being Evangelion where Humans, created by lilith, engage in war against the Angels, created by adam.
openImagining person is there
An on-screen depiction where one character imagines another character is there, and so you have a scene with both actors in it, but it's understood that one isn't "really" there.
Like there's a scene where Alice interacts with Bob, who died or is gone. If there are other characters in the scene, they cannot see Bob, only Alice can. This is a representation of Alice working through her thoughts and feelings about Bob and his death. It's not Hallucinations, per se. It's understood more as Alice imagining Bob, or having intrusive thoughts of "Bob would say X were he here." She knows he's not really there.
openAddictive Ability
A superpower or ability is treated as addictive, usually with the kind of phrases associated with drugs ("I can quit whenever I want", "Give me the X, I need the X!", etc.)
In Nodwick, Artax looks into a magic orb that gives omniscience and can't go back to only seeing what's in front of him.
openTrope pertaining to a character dreaming about someone they haven't met
Character A meets Character B in real life. They describe the encounter to Character C. Character C later dreams about Character B. Character B has a significantly different personalty and appearance in the dream compared to real life, owing to the fact it is only based on Character A's description. Is there a trope that can describe this for Character B's character page?
openWhat would this trope be called?
Character A and Character B chatting until they suddenly hear loud rap/rock music being blasted from a car pulling up. The person then steps out of the vehicle with a cold/arrogant look on their face.
openTwirl of love
When the taller lover grabs his love and effortlessly twists and spins around in a romantic embrace.
openKilling someone to spare them a worse death later.
It's like a Mercy Kill, only the "mercy" part hasn't happened to the victim yet. There are several possible scenarios:
-Let's say Tony knows his rivals are closing in on his friend Nino, and if they catch Nino, they will torture him to death. In this scenario there is no other way out other than Tony killing Nino himself quick and painless.
-A mother finds out her son has a terminal illness. He's fine now, but it will wreck him later. So she poisons him. I'd think this falls more in line with Mercy Kill than the first example, but maybe not.
In either case, the core idea is sparing a lot of suffering for the victim later by killing them now.
Edited by neckinhalfopenAre there tropes for this
Is there a list of tropes for a You Tube video called “Sing Official Trailer #1 (2016) - Scarlett Johansson, Matthew Mc Conaughey Movie HD”
openHello “MyName IsJack”
Do you know the trope where someone mistakes the name of someone with the words they used.
For example in TAWOG,
Richard: Who’s your friend? Gumball: It’s me Dad. Richard: a hello “Its Me Dad”
And in Disenchantment,
Referee: What’s your name? Zerg: It’s King Zerg ya jerk. Referre King Zorch Yajerk!
openMocking the Outfit
It's like Atrocious Alias, but for an outfit. It's an outfit so bad or so silly that they are mocked for it In-Universe or told to go back and change.
I'm thinking of like the time Deadpool went into a laughing fit over voodoo practitioner Black Talon because he looked like a chicken.
openSeize the inspiration
Is there a trope (or trivia item) in which a writer seizes an idea as it occurs to them, by writing it down at once?
Roald Dahl describes how he kept a notebook of one-sentence plot ideas, writing them down as they occurred to him, and that every book of his started out in this way.
openChildren's stories: the action happens at their temporary home.
Lots of children's stories have this: when they have an adventure, it's not at their usual home, but somewhere they go to stay. For example, Harry Potter has most of his action at Hogwarts school, and feels scared when he might not be able to go back. Another such story is Stig Of The Dump: all Barney's adventures are at the dump near his grandmother's house, and when he goes home, he worries that Stig and the dump might not be there when he returns. This means that they have their adventures "occasionally", instead of all the time, and when they return home, their adventures must come to an end.
Is there a trope to cover this?
openIntended all along ;)
When a show or something of the sort receives an unexpected major or at least noticeable change in it based on something in real life, but the change was given an in-universe explanation
EX: On the F Na F You Tube channel Eth Goes Boom, one of the characters, Toy Bonnie had 3 different voices through the entire series. In real life, Eth had no idea how to voice Toy Bonnie at first, and try to try a few times to find one he liked. But in universe, Toy Bonnie kept changing his voicebox because the kids weren't responding to it. In his case, it led to it's very own storyline that went on for many let's plays
Edited by GxchxFxndomsopenAre there tropes for this
Is there a list of tropes for a You Tube video called Happy Tree Friends - Flippin’ Burgers (Ep #30)
openChimera Transformation
When a character, villain or otherwise, aborbs other beings (or at least their powers) and that person gains a new form with all their victims' features at once, turning them into a sort of chimera.
Pretty much like Ultimate Kevin or Ultimate Aggregor from Ben 10.
Edited by TheSuperShinyMegaGengaropenMacGuffin is still out there
It's the end of the story and the MacGuffin still hasn't been found.
A character is causing problems for everyone else through no fault of their own, or rather, they had no intention of causing problems but it's still the case.
e.g. Bob has allergies, and he sneezes loudly and often. Everyone at work sympathizes with him, but as the day goes by everyone starts dreading the next one, Alice The Stoic starts showing teeth every time Bob sneezes, Carl the Nice Guy starts to fantasize about how easy it would be to strangle Bob, etc. The solution they find is to put him to work in an isolated office where his sneezes won't interrupt, which isn't great for Bob but it lets the rest of the team work.
Edited by Chabal2