Constructive Body Disposal
When Disposing of a Body, you need a place where the body is unlikely to come to light again. One method is to find a site where a building or road is being constructed and bury the body in the foundations. Some murderers find a hiding place for their body where it will soon be covered up as construction progresses; others prefer to get hands-on and pour cement over the body personally.
Failure-Induced Transformation
There are many penalties for failure in fiction, but by far the strangest is transformation. Here, the loser in a battle, duel, or contest is transmogrified into a new and usually detrimental shape — often automatically.
The reasons for the transformation are many and varied: maybe it's part of some kind of supernatural contest, with losing resulting in automatically being punished by transformation; maybe there's a magical contract that
| 1 | 2 |
|---|---|
| Literature: SkeletonKey2002 Revision [1] | 13 seconds ago |
| Recap: ShadowsOverMeridianChapter30Judgment Revision [16] | 13 seconds ago |
| Characters: HadesOtherCharacters Revision [368] | 17 seconds ago |
| Recap: StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E24TheQuickening Revision [71] | 17 seconds ago |
| RefreshingStories: TropesSToZ Revision [4] | 27 seconds ago |
| 1 | 2 |
|---|---|
| Forum Games Mad Libs 2.0 | 16 seconds ago |
| Live Action Film Sonic the Hedgehog film series general | 25 seconds ago |
| New Media General V-Tuber thread | 1 minute ago |
| Forum Games Your avatar just DOMINATED the above avatar | 1 minute ago |
| Forum Games Guess the Warner Bros Character | 1 minute ago |
| 1 | 2 |
|---|---|
| Eye Covering Surprise Created 2 weeks ago | 10 minutes ago |
| Serial Adulterer Created 1 week ago | 27 minutes ago |
| (Launching May 13) Toxic Family Influence Created 2 weeks ago | 29 minutes ago |
| Funny Sick Bucket Created 2 days ago | 39 minutes ago |
| Big/Small Juxtaposition Created 3 weeks ago | 51 minutes ago |
Tropes Community Podcasts
Episode 409: Episode 359 - Demo Derby (Vol. 1) April 16, 2024
