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0 4Holding Back Backfire
A character's insistence on holding back in a competition/fight ends up screwing them out of a victory.
Created: May 13th 2024 at 8:26:15 PM
0 9Spurning The Salacious
A promiscuous character encounters a particular character who rejects them as a sex partner.
Created: Aug 29th 2023 at 6:57:12 PM
1 8Antipathy Induced Indifference
Someone is so frustrated by another character that they go beyond hatred to downright apathy.
1 11Bastard Begetter
A character has a lot of kids out of wedlock as a result of constantly sleeping around.
Created: yesterday
1 2Opposites Juxtaposition Tropes
Tropes for the juxtaposition of opposites.
Created: yesterday
0 1Big/Small Juxtaposition
A juxtaposition between something big and something small.
0 0Horny Truckers
All highway truckers are horndogs. [NEEDS EXAMPLES]
Created: 26 minutes ago
0 6To Earth By The Moon (needs better name & more examples)
When something approaching Earth is shown passing near the Moon without a clear reason
0 18Combat Drugs
Performance enhancing drugs when the "performance" is "combat"
Created: May 2nd 2021 at 1:02:55 PM
1 17Next Stop, Andromeda
The Andromeda Galaxy is a common focal point for extra-galactic stories.
Created: Sep 12th 2020 at 8:40:47 AM
0 9Forcing A Mistrial
An Amoral Attorney "wins" a case by deliberately causing a mistrial and halting court proceedings.
Created: Apr 30th 2024 at 11:29:24 AM
0 6Knights in Powered Armor
Warriors with mecha or powered exoskeletons take on knightly trappings.
Created: yesterday
2 4The Band Manager
A band's manager is an important player, just like the band itself
Created: Dec 15th 2023 at 1:11:43 PM
0 43Accidental Pain Guilt (launch this weekend)
A character accidentally injures someone they care about or gives them a disease and is wracked with guilt.
Created: Feb 21st 2024 at 5:02:54 PM
0 9Self-Proclaimed In-Law
A character thinks of their crush's relatives or their relative's crush as their future in-laws.
Created: Feb 28th 2024 at 10:40:43 PM
10 13Vindicated by Adaptation
A work that was unpopular when it originally came out, but became more popular thanks to an adaptation of the work.
Created: May 15th 2024 at 7:08:52 AM
0 6Lulled Themselves To Sleep
A character sings a lullaby, tells a bedtime story, etc... but they fall asleep instead of the person they wanted to.
Created: yesterday
A character sings a lullaby, tells a bedtime story, etc... but they fall asleep instead of the person they wanted to.
Sponsor: Unicorndance Created: yesterday Last reply: 2 hours ago by taotruths View draftLooking for a discussion you thought was here? One of two things could have happened.
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0 8High Altitude Homicide
Deliberately dropping someone to their death.
Created: May 19th 2024 at 10:16:25 AM