A Mouse Named Cheese
- Tinkerbell: Cheese the mouse
- Bob the Builder: Pilchard the cat
- Geronimo Stilton: Geronimo Stilton the mouse
- Mausritter: Names in name tables
Dying Catchphrase (Catchphrase Last Words?)
- Doctor Who: River Song
- Game of Thrones: Ygritte
Penned in Prison
- Con Air: One of the convicts wrote a novel in jail that became a New York Times bestseller and is being made into a movie
-er Sequel Title
Slice-of-Life Spinoff
- Cooking with emiya family
One Letter Title
- Series/V1983
- V.
Real Game Show, Fictional Contestant
Suicide Prevention Race
A character is going to attempt suicide. Someone at another location finds out and has to race to the suicidal character to stop them before it’s too late.
Minority Hero, Majority Sidekick
CPR Is Romantic
See also Rescue Romance and CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable.
- A Touch of Cloth:
- Stōked: Subverted when Emma and Lo talk about the time Ty had to give Emma mouth-to-mouth after she wiped out surfing. We’re shown Emma’s Self-Serving Memory of it being cute and romantic, but Lo quickly points out that everyone else was worrying about if she’d be okay, and she was puking water and snot everywhere.
CPR Works For Anything
- A Touch of Cloth: Played for Laughs at the climaxes of Series 1 and 2. In both cases, CPR is used on characters who were shot.
Foreign-Language Pet Name
Bigot-Minority Friendship
- All in the family
Audio keepsake
- That charity ad I saw
- Criminal Minds True Night
Wannabe Cool Teacher
- SNL
- Bad Education?
Raising your victim’s kids
- Buddy Daddies
- Daredevil: Kingpin and Echo
- Fantastic Four: Alicia Masters and the Mad Thinker
Evil professionals index
- Amoral Attorney
- Corrupt Corporate Executive:
- Creepy Gym Coach:
- Depraved Dentist:
- Depraved Kids' Show Host:
- Evilutionary Biologist:
- Evil Puppeteer:
- Hanging Judge:
- Mad Artist
- Mad Doctor:
- Mad Scientist:
- Mad Mathematician:
- Monster Clown:
- Morally Ambiguous Doctorate:
- Obscene OBGYN
: - Pedophile Priest:
- Psycho Psychologist:
- Sadist Teacher:
- Sinister Minister
- Sociopathic Soldier:
- The Wicked Stage:
- Wicked Toymaker
Signature special effect
- Sherlock: Text messages and Sherlock’s thoughts appearing onscreen
Cynical Comic Relief
Irish Builder
Stereotype trope that no longer exists. Found in British works made or set in the second half of the 20th century.
"Lost Ark pan-out" reveal
Wham Shot, Reveal Shot
- Raiders of the Lost Ark: The immensely powerful and highly sought-after Ark is hidden inside a shipping crate. The crate is then shipped to a Secret Government Warehouse full of identical crates.
- Black Adam (2022): After Black Adam is locked inside a holding tank by Task Force X to prevent him from using his powers, the camera slowly pans out and reveals dozens more tanks.
- Criminal Minds: At the end of "Amplification", the last sample of the Artificial Plague engineered by the villain is locked in a vault by the military. The camera then pulls out to show dozens more vaults, each presumably holding another bioweapon.
- The Amazing Maurice
Divine Double-Casting
Opposing divine figures are played by the same actor in the same production.
- Oh, God! You Devil stars George Burns as God and the Devil.
- Last Days In The Desert: Ewan McGregor plays Jesus and the Devil during the forty days in the desert.
- Brimstone: An angel and The Devil are both played by John Glover.
Gloomy Girl, Gregarious Guy
Gender inversion of Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl, sort of. That’s “edgy hero must be brought out of his shell by friendly lady”, this is “friendly hero must bring edgy lady out of her shell”. Possible overlap/redundancy with Ice Queen and Defrosting Ice Queen.
- Ant-Man: Scott and Hope
- Film/Hercules: Hercules and Meg
- Web Snimation/RWBY: Blake and Sun (technically a gender-inverted BBGG example based on my prior definition but I can worry about that later)
Mostly has opposite-gender friends
A person’s friends are mostly or all the opposite gender. Can lead to Mistaken Gor Gay. See also Fag Hag.
Inspiration For The Character
Catches misuse of Inspiration for the Work
Encumbrance System
We have Critical Encumbrance Failure for encumbrance systems which work like The Last Straw but nothing for encumbrance systems in general.
Doctor Who Adam Westing examples
- Tom Baker:
- His work on Little Britain as The Narrator is an exaggeration of his on-and-off-screen eccentric personality. "Have you ever done it gaywise? It's a hoot."
- He provided all the linking material for BBC2's "Doctor Who Night" in the '90s in the same ridiculous style, using all the Doctor's creepiest mannerisms and cracking jokes about his offscreen reputation for drunkenness, sexuality and bullying.
- When he chaired Have I Got News for You, he spent a fair amount of it pretending to be psychotically jealous at David Tennant for stealing his job, and the rest of it being the Fourth Doctor playing Tom Baker.
- In a weird reversal of this trope, it's not uncommon for more comedy-based Expanded Universe Doctor Who material to port Tom Baker's personality traits into the Fourth Doctor, such as a reputation for heavy drinking and swearing at K-9. Even one televised Sixth Doctor storyline cracked a joke about the Fourth Doctor's reputation for hard-drinking party animal behaviour, something associated with the actor but that the character shows virtually no signs of in the show itself. This is sometimes even used as a basis for going Darker and Edgier with the Fourth Doctor, with certain stories (especially the Big Finish audios) taking inspiration from the actor's history of depression and some of his more damaging life experiences to flesh out the character.
- The entire point of Bakers End, which features Baker playing himself as a macabre, fairy-tale-ish Cloud Cuckoo Lander 'King of Cats' who is constantly sexually menaced by old ladies, decided to 'return to space' rather than die, and is at best Ambiguously Human.
- Christopher Eccleston parodied Doctor Who on The Sarah Silverman Program, playing the title character on the Show Within a Show, Dr. Lazer Rage.
- Pretty much anyone involved with Doctor Who gets this treatment in The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot, which is full of Self-Deprecating Humor:
- Peter Davison and Colin Baker are depicted as has-beens who are desperate to relive their glory days and aren't respected by their families. Davison, meanwhile, fantasizes about being idolized by Steven Moffat, Matt Smith and Jenna Coleman.
- Sylvester McCoy won't shut up about his role in The Hobbit films, and is considered a nuisance by both Peter Jackson and Ian McKellen.
- John Barrowman has a huge ego, never stops singing show tunes, and is constantly giving away copies of his music, which happens to be legal tender at the Doctor Who Experience. Also, his dark secret is that he is straight and has a wife and two kids.
- Steven Moffat is depicted as a Manchild who still plays with his Doctor Who action figures.
- Russell T Davies is more desperate to be included in the 50th anniversary than the former Doctors, and throws out a bunch of horrible ideas to work himself into the plot.
- David Tennant is so focused on "The Day of the Doctor" that he's forgotten his wife is giving birth.
- Paul McGann is the only one depicted as remotely professional, but he's secretly Not So Above It All and keen to get into the 50th anniversary.
- Sylvester McCoy Adam Wested in an episode of the BBC daytime soap Doctors, in which he played a has-been actor best known for his kids' TV role as "The Magical Lollipop Man".
- Peter Davison appears in Toast of London, in the midst of a Hollywood Mid-Life Crisis and living with Toast after his wife threw him out.
Mausritter
Mausritter is an Action-Adventure Tabletop Roleplaying Game.
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Mausritter provides examples of:
- Adventure-Friendly World:
- Cats Are Mean: Cats are cruel overlords who forcibly make mice their servants.
- The Fair Folk:
- Loads and Loads of Races: You can only play as a mouse, but
- Mouse World:
- Resourceful Rodent:Dice are dangerous. Clever plans don't need to roll.
- Scavenged Punk: The item card artwork includes things like a Sewing Needle Sword, a shield made from a button, and a mace with a polyhedral die for a head.
- Sewing Needle Sword:
- Status Effects: Conditions like Injured and Frightened are given to player mice as a consequence for bad rolls. They take up slots on the Grid Inventory, which means a mouse with more Conditions can carry fewer items before becoming encumbered. Some are also gained when certain things happen in-game, such as a mouse who goes too long without eating becoming Hungry.
- Stock Animal Diet: There’s quite a few references to cheese throughout the book, including an adventure set in a town of cheese-makers.
- You Dirty Rat!:
Supernatural Cop Show examples
