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0 15Peer As Teacher (Launching May 1st)
A teacher is close to the same age or peer group as their student(s).
Created: Apr 25th 2024 at 2:24:30 PM
1 4Aid Refusal
Help or attempt to help is met with or rejected out of fear, distrust, hatred or hostility.
Created: 8 hours ago
1 4A Lady Rides Aside
Sidesaddle Means Feminine
Created: Apr 20th 2024 at 11:52:26 AM
1 9Search for Adventure
A character leaves home in search of adventure.
Created: Apr 25th 2024 at 7:32:34 PM
0 19Bad Reason To Do Good
When someone does the right thing for the wrong reasons.
Created: Apr 22nd 2024 at 7:03:12 PM
5 5Angsty Teen Door Decor
A form of indirect characterization present on a bedroom door to convey the character is angsty.
Created: Apr 19th 2024 at 10:42:09 AM
2 32Memetic Soundtrack
When a song from a work's soundtrack attains meme status.
Created: Apr 4th 2024 at 7:47:49 AM
0 16Post-Mortem Possessions
A person dies and finds they still have their physical possessions with them in death.
Created: Apr 4th 2024 at 9:05:02 AM
15 9Criminal Underworld Purge
A purge inside a criminal organization
Created: Mar 1st 2024 at 5:35:34 PM
0 11Unquenchable Fire
A fire that cannot be put out by ordinary means.
Created: Apr 21st 2024 at 4:59:42 PM
3 11Pulling Out Scarves Trick (Is it Launch Time yet?)
When someone pulls scarves out of an implausible location for entertainment.
Created: Apr 18th 2024 at 12:53:14 PM
1 32Credits Fakeout (adopted by supernintendo128)
Playing the credits before the story is actually over.
Created: Nov 13th 2022 at 10:39:30 AM
0 1Early Professional Wrestling
Index of Professional Wrestling personalities and promotions prior to 1970
Created: Apr 25th 2024 at 11:21:41 AM
4 2Toddler Trinket Test
A young child is made to choose between various symbolic objects as a test of character
Created: Apr 23rd 2024 at 6:04:06 AM
0 6Fight Dancing
A character skilled in fighting/magic uses the physical movements of those other skills in place of dance skills.
Created: 21 hours ago
2 13Language Fluency Reveal
A character reveals their fluency in the language everyone else speaks
Created: Apr 18th 2024 at 7:11:47 PM
2 0Deliberate Outlier Cap
Making Caps not follow the pattern of other caps of their type, because they apply to something special.
1 7Antipathy Induced Indifference
Someone is so frustrated by another character that they go beyond hatred to downright apathy.
7 6Big/Small Juxtaposition
A juxtaposition between something big and something small.
Created: Apr 10th 2024 at 8:46:02 PM
A juxtaposition between something big and something small.
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3 7Flat Pack Architecture
Buildings, rooms, boats, and other large structures that can be folded or unfolded. Often rendering them portable.
Created: Apr 23rd 2024 at 9:29:57 AM