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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.
Pretty much like Ultimate Kevin or Ultimate Aggregor from Ben 10.
openInterim Leader Overspecialization
A situation where The Leader is absent, and the one who takes charge in their place leads differently (according to their own idea of what's good for the team), which usually leads to problems.
For example, the CEO of a tech company gets sick/arrested/dies, so one of the department heads is given temporary CEO powers to avoid a Too Many Cooks situation. The problem is they start running the company as though it were their department: Marketing spends a lot more on advertising and less on quality, R&D pushes towards making Awesome, but Impractical(ly expensive) products, Accounting starts pinching pennies everywherer they can, Sales gets the company in legal trouble by making promises the company can't keep, HR and Legal focus on reducing company liability in any way they can, IT starts The Purge of those employees who need their password reset five times a day, etc.
In Animorphs, Rachel takes over the team for one book in Jake's absence. They start hitting the Yeerks harder and faster, befitting Rachel's Blood Knight tendencies, but also leads to them getting caught in a trap and Cassie nearly being infested.
Edited by Chabal2open3D switch Videogame
A game is made in a 2½D format in which roughly 90% of the game takes place in 2d space. During the final boss battle, the boss goes out of your reach by simply moving back - into the 3D space in the background, meaning the hero can't hit them, though they still respect 2½D by only moving in two dimensions, just on a different "layer". After getting shot at for a few minutes, the hero defies game logic by launching themselves at the boss, then the game seamlessly switches to true 3D as the player resumes their attack.note If you can't envision the switch in your head, think of it as a PC game in which you only use A, D, and Space for movement, and use the cursor to aim your attacks. After going 3D, W and S now see use as Forward and Back, and the mouse moves the camera while the aiming icon stays in the center of the screen. The tropes I'm looking for are as follows:
- A game that starts off as a 2D platformer/shooter becomes a 3D shooter at a pivotal moment.
- During the last section of their fight, the boss is almost completely incapable of hitting the hero because they're so used to fighting 2D targets.
openOnly Insane Man
The opposite trope to the Only Sane Man, where as in a scene while the majority of characters take the main issue seriously, the one goofball messes up the conversation. With the same people getting annoyed of the goofball’s contribution.
openEspanish-influenced espeech Western Animation
What is the trope for when a Spanish-speaking character (or at least one whose speech has been influenced by the Spanish language) puts the letter E in front of a consonant cluster starting with S?
Example: The Casagrandes Movie - Upon arriving in Mexico, the Mercado van lands on top of a giant cactus called Señor Espikey.
openLow Standards
Someone has very low standards on who they'll date.
- Scrubs: When one of his patients offers to set up JD with her granddaughter, he asks to know a little about her before going on a date with her. She tells JD that her granddaughter is single. Cut to JD at the restaurant, awaiting his date.
- Bob's Burgers: According to Gayle, her ideal man has a face and can go outside.
openLet's all agree that it happened like this.
To hide the truth and/or escape potential pursuit by law enforcement a group of people agrees on a fake made-up testimony.
Edited by sohibilopenOut of order scene filming Film
A scene at the end of the film is the first scene to be shot.
Edited by jordanar21openSurprise Nonhuman Narrator
The story's narrator turns out to be been something else all along, sometimes an animal but even an object (in a setting where animated objects aren't the norm.
There's a 40K comic where the narrator keeps talking about his accomplishments and who he served with over images of a Space Marine fighting, ending on how he doesn't want to end up abandoned as the Marine dies... and then it turns out it was his gun talking all along.
Edited by Chabal2resolved Certain gory scenes are censored even if AdjustableCensorship is disabled Videogame
A video game has Adjustable Censorship to censor or outright remove otherwise-prevalent Gorn; however, there are specific gory scenes which are deliberately censored, even if the Adjustable Censorship is disabled. I'd normally classify this under Gory Discretion Shot, but I can find no examples where shots are left as-is, but, instead, censored. Is this in fact an example of Gory Discretion Shot? Another trope? Or not an example of a trope?
openInnocent Unbelievable Story
A character is innocently telling their completely outrageous (but true) story to someone who's left confused by it.
In Baskets Of Guts, Anna recounts everything that's happened to her to a cop (involving undead, pimps, explosions, golems and sewers), who's left dumbfounded once she's done (it helps that she's hooked up to a lie detector so the cop knows it's not a total lie).
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.
openRomantic Comedy - Sincere advice from Comic Relief Film
Is there a trope for when a comic relief character in a Romantic Comedy, maybe one of the protagonist's Amazingly Embarrassing Parents, stops being Played for Laughs and gives the protagonist an earnest bit of insight/advice about romantic love that's relevant to their relationship with their love interest. Like in Friends with Benefits where Mila Kunis' mom stops joking about not being able to remember the identity of Mila's father and says that her dad was the only man she ever truly loved?
openIrrelevant Conversation
Two characters carry on a ridiculous conversation whose subject matter is completely irrelevant to the story. The only reason it matters is because there is an ongoing conversation, either so they have something to do before something important happens or possibly to provide a reason for why they might be distracted.
openYes-men are the best soldiers
Do we have a trope where soldiers who obey every command from their military officer are seen in-universe as the best type of soldier? Think this scene from Forrest Gump: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4gCt1rUEpE
openHolding Out For A Hero
Hello.
This time I am looking for something that is exactly like the trope name indicates, that is, a person that feels trapped and desperately wants someone to be their knight in shining armor to come and save them from their situation. It is not necessarily that they are a Damsel in Distress but they still feel trapped and they hate their situation. The actual Holding Out for a Hero does not appear to cover this instance.
Anything that might fit?
resolved Tropem related to invention
What is name of trope related to something like "scientist created New invention, good right? Well they doesn't understand how it even works. Oh, that might be the problem"
openMistaken For Fictional
A character finds evidence of something that actually happened, but they mistake it for a work of fiction. For instance, coming across the scene of a crime and thinking it's the set of a horror film.
The closest I can find is We Were Rehearsing a Play or Fiction as Cover-Up, but this is obliviousness, not deception.
Edited by LendriMujina