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Started:

* EducationThroughPyrotechnics
* AndManGrewProud
* CrystalSpiresAndTogas
* {{Americanitis}}
* UltraSuperDeathGoreFestChainsawer3000
* FalseReassurance
* SoBadItsGood
* SoBadItsHorrible
* CrapsackWorld
* CrazyPrepared
* ExtranormalInstitute ( now WizardingSchool )
* RefugeInAudacity
* WakingUpAtTheMorgue
* FaintingSeer
* IstanbulNotConstantinople
* TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon
* BonusLevelOfHell ( now ToHellAndBack )
* NonstandardGameOver
* ArchiveBinge
* PerverseSexualLust
* SillinessSwitch
* TelevisionIsTryingToKillUs (an index)
* LewdLustChasteSex

Will have to start:
* Time compression/Mu/Whatever
* DarknessShroudedWorld
* DemographicNightmare
* [[strike:SittingAroundBeingEvil]]
* [[strike:{{!}}]]
* [[strike:NPCElevator]]
* NotInControl
* EschersGarden
* ItFliesAgain (Note to self: From the Earth etcetera gave dropping Armstrong's name a clear lead-up compared to the rest of the Mercury Seven. A moment of awesome that draws on savoring past awesome. (Ridiculously too common?))
* ForcibleAirlockInsertionOrSomething
* DonationMeter
* {{Automap}}
* Re-entry (when is it not necessary to use atmospheric braking?)
* Not using a parachute / drop pod / spacecraft / space suit (too much overlap?)
* UnncecessaryUnderstroke (what was this about again, genius? Oh yeah, nicks.)
* Strategy game with tactical combat
* The so very creepy way people being torn apart by alien energy weapons retain their outlines and general shapes during the process
* SmuglyOffToDoom
* InGameEncyclopedia
* HarvesterUnderAttack
* ResourceRelay

Did NOT start:
* {{Precursors}}
* AffectionateParody
* TheThemeParkVersion
* TheSpartanWay
* FalseReassurance
* PortalSplat
* ShapeShifterShowdown
* PaintingTheFourthWall

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SCRATCHPAD TIME!

TPM lacks any kind of useful dramatic device.

I'll add this: In the first five minutes of Star Wars, Vader walks into the carnage of battle, picks a captured soldier up by the neck, holds him dangling in midair at arm's length and questions him before offhandedly snapping his neck with one hand and tossing the body aside. Bad guy established in less than 2 minutes. While it is cheezy sci-fi schlock, it is also effective storytelling. You knew right off the bat that Darth Vader was an evil badass that you didn't want to get involved with.

Darth Maul gets introduced half way through the movie and despite the cool makeup we have to be told that he is a bad guy. Also, despite being a much better stunt man and athlete and having much cooler fight choreography, Maul never reaches the level that Vader does in that introductory scene. Therefore his defeat is no more intriguing than getting past the chompy things on the assembly line. He's not a character, he's just another obstacle for our hero to jump over.


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There's always worse things coming. If you run once, and it doesn't work, you'll spend your life running. They've seen those people... homeless, near-mindless drifters, always trying to stay ahead of "worse." They weren't willing to chose that for their families.

Being poor means fighting to be treated like a human being.

i knew that if our luck turned they would ostracise me

Up here, the reason they are doing good works for the relocated people is because that is the "in" thing to do and it's looking good for the church and so forth. At least that's a motivation for many of the helpers. There are always the true Christians and humanitarians.

http://www.journalfen.net/community/otf_wank/297653.html?thread=11046325#t11046325


World War I recruiting posters.
causes people to hurt themselves or other people.
attitudes. It may do.
I added KissOfLife due to authorial fiat. Depicting lip-locking with a near-corpse or

BeliefMakesYouStupid.


openly defies not just physics but the most elementary logic. Just That Good

Rule Of Funny

* WalkingTechbane
* LethalChef
* DreadfulMusician
* TheSandiego

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{{Kizor}}:

prone to inflation. Flight... [[ac:without wings!]] was
without a whiff of the RequiredSecondaryPowers.

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Examples:

In space... [[ac:without a suit!]]
* In some ''Star Wars'' drafts, Darth Vader was to board the rebel transport while it was still in open space. Hence the armor and the breathing mask.
* In ''Macross/Robotech'', Breetai the ProudWarriorRaceGuy is ejected into space and shows his constitution by scaling it on the outside and making it back in.


Atmospheric re-entry... [[ac:without a ship!]]
* In the DarkerAndEdgier ''Transformers: Generation 2'' comics, Megatron falls from orbit unshielded.
* [[http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=48&issue=11 Dr. McNinja]].

Falling... [[ac:without a parachute!]]
*
* One of the better sequences in ''Animatrix''.

Examples:

* Bob from ''BobAndGeorge'' can kill holograms. This later receives a forced HandWave, but the rationale at the time is that he's just that good.
* Homer Simpson of ''TheSimpsons'' and Jon Arbuckle of {{Garfield}} are so bad at cooking that breakfast cereal bursts into flame when they pour milk on it.
* Vexorg in the webcomic ''Here Is A Question'' is so strong and tough that he doesn't have a brain - only a nuclear warhead.
* ''EightBitTheater'' loves this trope. Thief is sneaky enough to steal a new outfit from his future self. Black Belt is bad enough at navigating to break the laws of physics and wander outside the normal confines of space-time. Fighter is strong enough to fold a hole into itself, and seems to hold a knack for the definitionally impossible; [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/daily.php?date=041211 this scene]] receives an explanation a few strips later, but that doesn't diminish the one, single, sublime moment. Black Mage is both destructive and irritating enough to fire [[EyeBeams lasers from his eyes]], wile wielding no power but that of an escalating mayhem {{montage}}.
--->''(Thief sneaks several hundred meters upwards without any method of gaining altitude)''
--->'''Thief''': ''Don't even ask. It wouldn't make sense anyway.''
* The sticky-fingered filcher known as Carmen [[TheSandiego Sandiego]], star of more than a dozen computer games and passive works, could've surely made off with the equator if she'd put her mind to it.
* Tabitha Smith in ''{{Nextwave}}'' is a blonde who done growed up in a trailer park. When a villain traps everything in the vicinity with a mind into a fiendish LotusEaterMachine, she goes completely unaffected.
--->Tabitha: "The little guy did something to your heads. I gave him the explodo because I am clever."
* The eponymous [[TheGunslinger gunslinger]] in ''Lucky Luke'' is fast enough to out-draw his own shadow.
* {{Batman}} may not have superpowers, but [[http://www.shortpacked.com/d/20050131.html he can breathe in space]] because he's Batman.
* Max, the deranged lagomorph of ''SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'', has penetrated an invulnerable barrier. The franchise seems fond of giving Max impossible properties for no reason whatsoever: Max gives absurd results in carbon dating, Max has no [=DNA=] and is formally considered a mineral.

* This sort of tomfoolery is explicit and codified in Narbonic, and fits Girl Genius with only the slightest of fanwanks. The Mad Scientists can build physically impossible things because it's them doing it.

http://www.richardcobbett.co.uk/codex/articlelibrary/filingcabinet/the_horror_of_hopkins_fbi/

* http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=592

The ultimate example being a 3x3 grid showing every alignment with varying pictures and captions, but [[DependingOnTheWriter the same subject]]: [[{{Comicbook/Batman}} Batman]]. [[http://kundor.org/pub/batman-alignment.jpg Here it is.]] (Warning to dial-up users: It's a BIG picture.)


-->Words of praise for metahumor.
-->--TheTitleOfTheTrope
http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/BHI.jpg

Declaration of an intrisically degenerating nature of [[RunningGag Running]] and OnceAnEpisode gags. Elaboration that effects of humor get stale by repetition ([[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20021123.html Link to exception]]), requring an escalation in variants to stay usable. Biting yet [[AffectionateParody affectionate]] snark with just a hint of superiority.

Proposal for wringing slightly more life out of old gags by
formula
template
Bashful admittance of rarity. Note of the virtual quarantee of a state of NoFourthWall due to high level of GenreSavvy. Needless self-referential caution against overuse. Dismissal of a logical flaw that's obvious to anyone who obsessively analyzes TV shows and other media.

Horizontal line.
Formal indication of the beginning of a collection of instances.

Dot. Mention of recent ''[[SamAndMaxFreelancePolice Sam & Max]]: Season One'' AdventureGame. Description of cheerfully anarchistic atmosphere that allows trope execution without even [[NoFourthWall breaking the fourth wall]]. Admiration of psychotic lagomorphs. Quote:
-->'''Sam''': ''Random but innocuous comment.''
-->'''Max''': ''Irreverant reply that hints at mental instability!''
-->'''Sam''': ''[[CatchPhrase You crack me up, little buddy.]]''

Dot. Mention of the band "Da Vinci's Notebook" and its elaborate track ''Title Of The Song.'' Expression of a mix of awe and terror. Self-explanatory reference to TheTitleOfTheTrope. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc1Js9P3urw Link]]. Order to listen to the song without delay. Quote:
-->''Penitent admission of wrongdoing''
-->''Discovery of the depth of my affection''
-->''Regret over the lateness of my epiphany''

Dot. Mention of a concise skewering of ''TheTwilightZone'' on ''Futurama''. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LERiQos7gB4 Link of questionable legality]].

Dot. Mention of the 21st-century trend of creatively named self-aware parodies (expression of disgust at content), such as ''Scary Movie'' and ''Not Another Teen Movie''.

Dot. Mention of a spontaneous IRC execution of the trope and its status as the most liked quote in all of bash.org. Horrendous pun of some sort. [[http://www.bash.org/?23396 Link]]. (Clarification that Miles_Prowler was the temporary name of Fishfood.)

Kiroilupyörä.

Mirrors are eerie things for the mundane tools that they've become. They show a space that isn't there and a you that isn't you, the sides wrong, different details accentuated, and every once in a while don't you get the feeling that the reflection might blink both eyes at the same time?

It's not surprising that mirror images have been thought to do far more than deflect photons.

reveal or even capture the soul or inner self. This is why Dracula doesn't reflect, and where the superstition about seven years of bad luck comes from. Expect fiction to milk the symbolism for all it's worth.

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''1.'' Letting the inner self out

Split personality

Examples:
* ''[[Heroes]]'' has a character start seeing her alternate self in mirrors (and spend a lot of time hammering on them from the inside while not dominant). An illusionist later throws her for a total loop by posing as that alternate.
* Gollum in the ''LordOfTheRings'' movies.
* A couple of mirror images talk in the ''Harry Potter'' books, but this is not particularily dramatic or alarming. The mirrors are just wisealecks.

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''2.'' Showing the outer self in
In ordinary circumstances, a miorror that shows what the user looks like is

Examples:
* In ''QuantumLeap'', the protagonist Sam does this all the time to show who he's essentially possessed for that particular episode, while he and the viewers otherwise see him as himself. This has resulted in a few nice TomatoInTheMirror surprises as well as a shot of Sam wearing an evening gown, a sash, a tiara and the most embarassed smile in the history of television.
* In an episode of ''Weird Science'', the geeky duo find out when they see girls in the mirror that the local ArtificialHuman slash TricksterMentor has decided to give them an [[GenderBender up-close look]] at gender issues. It takes them less than fifteen seconds to end up staring slack-jawed at said mirror, one of them with his shirt up to his armpits.

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''3. Funhouse slaughter extragavanza''

Less traumatizing (in the psychological sense, not in the "getting a foot of steel shoved through your ribcage" sense)

Examples:
* ''Reboot''
* The video game ''Quest for Glory 3''

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/coleen-rowley/criminalizing-of-dissent_b_144022.html
http://books.google.com/books?hl=fi&lr=&id=xokJAmOVImIC&oi=fnd&pg=PA37&dq=Childhood+%22middle+ages%22&ots=4TEmPTfZju&sig=1rhCPyycWP4LyXC4wNhYaqAgP0k http://www.lemon64.com/?mainurl=http%3A//www.lemon64.com/reviews/view.php%3Fid%3D395 http://www.dentist.ie/resources/news/showarticle.jsp?id=530 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hA5T1G7rxg

takia. Alkanut jo pari vk sitten, siihen käyttänyt Buranaa. Pelännyt säären halkeavan ja sen
vuoksi hälyttänyt ambulanssia. Tänään runsaasti nauttinut alkoholia,

, josta lihasta pursuaa ulos. Runsas vuoto.

Time, time, time, time, time. SWAT trains to hit a location as simultaneously as possible,

Because people in terrifying situations they have no experience in just don't think. People die in crash landing

fires because they can't process the thought that they have to take off the seatbelt to escape, what chance have

they got of creating and enacting such a complex line of reasoning? Half of military training is purely so that in

stressful situations you can still think clearly.

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A video game theme: the game world is tangibly damaged during the game.

Alternate titles: HarmingTheWorld, EarthDiesScreaming (marvellous - but too grandiose?)

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Examples:

[[foldercontrol]]

[[folder: Real Time Strategy ]]

* The goal of ''Earth2150'' is to collect enough resources to get off the planet in time. As time passes, terrain changes from wintertime to spring, summer, desert and then Venus.
*

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[[folder: [[Role Playing Game Role Playing Games ]]


[[/folder]]

[[folder: Turn Based Strategy ]]

* ''Nieuwe Aarde'' is a 48-hour game where the goal is to flee a dying world. As time passes, monsters
* ''[[UFOAfterblank UFO: Afterlight]]'' begins on a blasted post-apocalyptic Earth, populated by mutants. [[spoiler: Then [[AlienKudzu something starts eating it]].
* ''MasterOfOrion 2'' can potentially lead to this.

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Other ]]

* ''StarControl 2'' has a time limit. Events unfold
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