Batty Lip Burbling
While insanity is not always something to laugh at, the kind of madness that leads to someone batting at one's own lips is usually the kind that is Played for Laughs. Characters batting at their own lips is used as a punch-line, requiring a set-up (characters being taken-aback by something irrational or surreal) for them to work off of (motorboating themselves the only kind of reaction they can give, responding to strangeness with more strangeness).
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 |
---|---|
Characters: OnePieceWorldGovernmentDiscussion Revision [31] | 4 seconds ago |
YMMV: DigimonStoryCyberSleuthHackersMemory Revision [58] | 4 seconds ago |
Characters: AdventureTimeMultiverse Revision [307] | 5 seconds ago |
ComicBook: Wolverine2020 Revision [85] | 13 seconds ago |
PlayingWith: MeanBoss Revision [28] | 27 seconds ago |
1 | 2 |
---|---|
Projects: Long Term/Perpetual too-long page repair. | 26 seconds ago |
Forum Games Comment on the above troper's contributor page | 4 minutes ago |
Webcomics Dumbing of Age | 4 minutes ago |
Forum Games ITT: We Make Obscure References. | 4 minutes ago |
Trope Talk Is this tropeworthy/Chairs? | 6 minutes ago |
1 | 2 |
---|---|
Celestial Space School Created 2 days ago | 15 minutes ago |
Underground Alien Civilization (Formerly Underground Martian Civilization) Created 1 month ago | 26 minutes ago |
No Index for the Wicked Created 3 weeks ago | 27 minutes ago |
Bad Reason To Do Good Created 2 weeks ago | 33 minutes ago |
Version Exclusive Boss Created 1 month ago | 53 minutes ago |
Example of:
There Is No Kill Like OverkillExample of:
Good-Times MontageExample of:
Idiot SavantExample of:
Hates Being TouchedExample of:
Fake Video Camera ViewTropes Community Podcasts