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Famous Parents Suck

Alternative names:

Emotionally distant famous parent
Famous Parent Neglect
Absent Famous Parent

Depictions of the experiences of children of famous people as being miserable.
Reasons vary, from parents being too busy with whatever they are famous and thus neglect their kids; kids being teased by other kids for their famous parents; getting unwanted attention; kids living in the shadow of their famous parents
Compare "Well Done, Son" Guy, Inadequate Inheritor,
Can overlap with Hates Their Parent, but not necessarily.
Contrast

Aaahh!!! Real Monsters: Ickis' father Slickis is the most famous graduate of Monster Academy, something that causes Ickis to great deal of insecurity on his own abilities. His father isn't really demanding and is quite understanding of him, but it's having to live in the shadow of his reputation what makes Ickis the source of Ickis insecurities.
My Dad the Rock Star: Willy doesn't hate his parents, but being son of a rockstar means he has never lived a normal life and desperately wants that.
Kageki Shoujo!!: Ai's mom is a famous actress who barely ever had time for her, greatly neglecting her as a result. This
Mariko's father in Dear Brother is a famous erotic novelist, something that gets her sneered by her peers. This, along with his father's infidelity, makes her loath men in general.
Sailor Moon: Rei's father is a famous politician and she only sees him on her birthday each year. She hasn't really gotten along with her father since he couldn't be bothered to take some time off from work to be with his terminally ill wife some years before. She began living with her maternal grandfather after her mother's death because she refuses to live with her father.
Jewelpet Twinkle☆: Miria's parents are famous musicians who so spend the majority of time away from home, making Miria feel lonely. It was during one of these periods of angst that she met her Jewelpets.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders: Jotaro Kujo's father wasn't around often due to being a jazz musician that was frequently on tour.

Performing family

When a whole family has a tradition in the performing art. Drama ensues usually when the title character is bad/uninterested on it.

Maybe could be expanded into all kinds of art-inclined families

Wood People

Plant People

Kid's First Errand

Magic Artisan/Magic Artisanry

Literal Ghostwriter

Psychic Nausea

Mirai in Yan Tiehua

Surprise Fantasy-scifi/Late Reveal Fantasy-Scifi

Written By A Kid

axecop
super turbo atomic ninja rabbit
that one tiny toons episode

Fantasy Manhua

I want to remove the manhua examples from the Anime & Manga index but theres no Manhua nor Other Media fantasy index help

My Cultivator Girlfriend

Fantasy Manhwa

Romantic Beach

Romantic Beach Walks? Beach of Romance? Beach Means Romance?

The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
The Little Mermaid
Ariel Needs Legs
Ouran High School Host Club's Tamaki has an Imagine Spot of him and Haruhi walking along the beach together and watching the sunset.
Vertigo: Scottie and Madeleine kiss for the first time on a beach.
Body Heat
Always Remember Me romantic beach walk
You Must Be Cold: The Net (1995): In The Net, Angela and Devlin are walking down a beach at night, and noticing that Angela is cold, Devlin wraps a sash around her bared midriff. This is, of course, all part of Devlin's ploy to steal the disk that Angela has come into possession of, and then kill her.
NightmareFuel.The Many Saints Of Newark: The Many Saints of Newark: Near the end of the film, Dickie and Giuseppina have a romantic walk down the beach together.
Koshish: Romantic walk
Teen Beach Movie
You Must Be Cold: In the Star vs. the Forces of Evil episode "Lava Lake Beach", Marco is with Kelly, watching the soulrise, when Marco puts his hoodie around her. Kelly asks him about it and he mentions that he thought she was cold. Kelly thanks him and says that she was cold.
You Must Be Cold: A great subversion in Men Behaving Badly where Gary is attempting a romance a woman who isn't his long-term girlfriend. While taking a romantic walk along Worthing beach he notices she's cold and starts to remove it to give to her in a chivalrous gesture. He gets it about a 1/4 way off before realising how cold it really is and suggesting they go inside instead.
Flirtation Walk
Falling-in-Love Montage: Ride Your Wave: Hinako and Minato's first date is followed by a montage of all their subsequent dates and moments together, including camping, fireworks, running together on the beach, and more.
Falling-in-Love Montage: Played for Laughs in The Naked Gun when Frank Drebin has a date with Jane Spencer. To the tune of "I'm Into Something Good," they have the typical dating montage, including a beach scene with them holding hands, running and clotheslining another couple running the other way, and both laughing joyfully as they leave a theater... that was screening Platoon.
Falling-in-Love Montage: "Rome-Old and Juli-Eh": Song "Is She Really Going Out with Him?" by Joe Jackson plays during Abe and Selma's love montage. They have a picnic (Lap Pillow-style: Abe lies on Selma's knees); they sit on a bench close together (turns out they are watching a poster, not enjoying a view of the town); then it looks like they make out in a car, but actually Selma is giving Abe a cardiac massage. And finally they spend time at the beach, lovingly splashing water on each other.
First Kiss: The Summer I Turned Pretty: Belly has hers with Cam at the beach party. She dishes to her best friend Taylor about this, delighted that it finally happened.
First Kiss: The Vazula Chronicles: In A Kingdom Discovered, Heath and Merletta share a brief kiss on the beach of Vazula before Heath and Rekavidur rush back to Valoria to help Percival.
The Palm Beach Story
Walking on Sunshine
Pseudo-Romantic Friendship: Miranda and Semirah in Dr. Franklin's Island, after becoming castaways together and soon losing the one other person stranded on their beach, come to depend on each other absolutely, to a rather codependent degree especially after they are "rescued" by people who just end up experimenting on them. Even through and on the other side of Painful Transformation, they hold hands for as long as is possible; when The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body kicks in and Miranda starts to lose herself, she still remembers Semi.
We'd been friends and allies, but Miranda had still been Very Cool Girl to me, someone so distant and admirable she was not quite human. Then we'd been as down as two people could be, and had come through only by clinging to each other. There was no distance left between us by the time we got back. There was no fear.
Bridal Carry: You Are (Not) At Fault: When Shinji discovers Asuka has fallen asleep on the beach and has not yet realized it is starting to rain, he carries her in his arms to a service station where she can have shelter from the rain.
Bridal Carry: In Beach Party, Frankie carries Dolores into the beach house, only to trip on one of the guests. Later, Sutwell carries her out of his plane after she gets motion sickness.
Bridal Carry: In Bedtime Story (1964), Freddy, who is Obfuscating Disability and can't walk in front of other people, drives a riding lawnmower to the beach. Afterwards, Leon carries him back while he complains about how weak and helpless he is.
Violet Goes to the Beach
Miracle Beach

Sad Flute

Comedic Shitty Flute

Outsider Art

Outsider Music

Comical Underreaction

Animalistic Lust

Alternatively Feral Lust.

Lust makes you act like an animal.

Lust being portrayed as feral behavior.

When lust makes character behave in uncivilized ways, bordering on animalistic behavior. Uncharacteristically aggressive at best, straight up like a dog at worse.

Alternatively, characters saying that sexual desire is animalistic.

Might involve Metaphoric Metamorphosis

Examples

Anime & Manga

Denji?

Films — Live-Action

The Mask: When wearing the mask, Stanley morphs into a cartoon wolf wherever when he sees an attractive women, completed with WolfWhistling in a tribute to Red Hot Riding Hood.

Live Action TV

Animal from The Muppets, true to his name, goes completely animalistic at the sight of a woman. His uncontrollable lust is portrayed to be part of his animalistic behavior. Frank Oz once said that he had his character down to five words: Sex, sleep, food, drums, and pain.

Webcomics

Ariel in Ariel Needs Legs gets massively turned on by Eric infodumping about Pokémon, stating "Ohhh I can't not fuck him". She proceeds to rip her own dress and scream.

Web Original

Bao The Whale: She tends to devolve to barking whenever she comes across an anthropomorphic canine she finds hot.
"I WANT BLAIDD TO BREED ME I WANT HIS PUPPIES PLEASE I WANT THE LEASH I WANT THE COLLAR I'M DROOLING WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF BARK BARK BARK"

Western Animation

Animaniacs: Yakko and Wakko sometimes drool in the presence of a pretty girl often while panting like dogs.
Classic Disney Shorts:
- In "The Clock Watcher": As Donald hurries to his post in the gift wrapping section of the department store, he runs past a sexy female mannequin, but briefly doubles back to stare in lustful ecstasy, his head turning into that of a howling wolf in the process.
- "Two Chips and a Miss": As they watch Clarice perform, Chip 'n' Dale become so lustful that their heads briefly turn into those of drooling wolves.
In old Tex Avery cartoons, men would often bug out and even literally turn into wolves at the sight of an attractive woman.
In one Woody Woodpecker short, Woody and Buzz Buzzard turn into wolves when they see a beautiful woman. When they realize they are unable to buy her expensive gifts, they turn into giant ice skates with $1 price tags- a pair of cheapskates, if you will.

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Stylistic Suck music playing/playing instruments. Counterpart to Hollywood Tone-Deaf.

A non-singing example is Klink's violin playing in Hogan's Heroes. His violin playing is hideous but he's the only one who doesn't seem to notice. Of course, in real life Werner Klemperer was a concert-level violinist.
In the DuckTales (1987) episode "Launchpad's First Crash", Launchpad plays his harmonica, and Scrooge says the sound is "torture". This leads to a Flashback story of the time they first met, where he's able to use it to confuse some giant bat monsters who use echolocation to fly in the dark.
Clash from Jem is a groupie who really wants to be a part of The Misfits but can't actually sing or play instruments. "One Jem Too Many" has her masquerading as Jem to ruin her reputation. Her disguise was perfect until she was challenged by Jem to sing. People outright threw tomatoes at her.
In Samurai Jack, the Scotsman's bagpipe-playing is really bad. This actually comes in useful in "The Scottsman Saves Jack" when his playing proves an efficient counter for the Sirens' enchanting singing. In addition, the Siren's singing can't hypnotize the Scotsman because he thinks it is ugly and he can't stand it.
Darlene Edwards would often sing in a high grating voice, change keys without warning, and make weird sounds for no reason. Her husband Jonathan Edwards would do equivalent on the piano, playing an untuned piano, switching meters as the winds changed. (See The Kentucky Fried Movie for their rendition of "The Carioca".) They were actually a comedy duo played by respectable musicians Jo Stafford and Paul Weston, who enthusiastically claimed the two were a lounge act they had discovered.
An instrumental example: The George Garabedian Players And The Awful Trumpet Of Harry Arms parodied Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass by playing standards like Spanish Flea just a little... off.
The Bonzo Dog Band were in the direct line of descent from people like Spike Jones twenty years previously - extremely competent musicians who realized they could have more of a comedy impact by playing seemingly badly. Their take on trad jazz has to be heard to be believed.
Jack Benny's violin playing. In reality, he was a very talented violinist, and counted virtuoso Isaac Stern among his friends. Jascha Heifitz, another virtuoso violinist and friend of Benny, once remarked of him "It takes a lot of practice to play as badly as he does." (i.e. that a genuinely bad violinist would play in a way that was unlistenable rather than laugh-out-loud funny)

Golden Age of Adventurers/Explorers

A period of special prosperity for adventurers, explorers, treasure hunters...

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One Piece
SoulSov

Fictional Golden Age/Golden Age of X

"a period of happiness and prosperity"

Humans Look Alike

Compare Ditto Aliens and Racial Face Blindness.

Token Gay Hamerette

Harem Anime where a single member of the harem is the same gender as the protagonist. Often played for laughs by making them a Hopeless Suitor due to Incompatible Orientation, but there are cases where they are taken as seriously as other members of the harem.

Some misuse of Gay Option is this.

Examples

Anime & Manga

Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts:
- Played for laughs with Kubo, who only has eyes for Akihisa but Akihisa makes it clear he feels no attraction to other guys
- Also played for laughs with Hideyoshi, whom Akihisa feels If It's You, It's Okay. Mizuki and Minami view him as a love rival and Akihisa is very open about finding Hideyoshi hot despite knowing Hideyoshi is a guy with a girly face. Player more seriously in later novels, that indicate that he has developed actual feelings for Akihisa.
Jōjū Senjin!! Mushibugyō: Long-Haired Pretty Boy Nagatomimaru is interested on the protagonist Jinbei.
Shima in Kiss Him, Not Me is the Token Lesbian Hamerette of Kae's reverse harem.
Subverted in Love Flops: Ilya is initially presented as Asahi's potential gay bride, but this gets subverted when it's revealed that Ilya is actually Irina, a girl who was Raised as the Opposite Gender
Seiya in My Girlfriend is Shobitch is the single boy in Haruka's harem. Haruka doesn't realize he's in love with him.
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Kaworu is sdfhuadfiasdf
Rosario + Vampire: Played for laughs, as Fang-Fang Huang is often mistaken for this as his attempts to get Tsukune to join the mafia get mistaken as him being gay for Tsukune. In the epilogue however, he does sort of embrace his status as the unofficial gay hamerette of the harem, if only for a joke.
Played for Laughs with Hanagata in Saber Marionette J, who considers himself to be
Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei: The end implies that Jun was also in love with Itoshiki because he had a blood transfusion from Kafuka, meaning that he's also in the harem.
Sekirei: Homura is the only male in Minato's harem. While he begins developing female characteristics after reacting to Minato, he continues to identify as male, and his relationship with Minato is for all intents and purposes treated as being between two men. The girls are madly jealous that Homura is the only one who can sleep in the same room as Minato without Miya getting angry because both are guys.
UQ Holder!: Subverted. Kuroumaru has No Biological Sex, but presents themself as male and is part of Touta's harem. Kuroumaru does have the option of becoming physically female later on and the process is already starting with growing breasts when Kuroumaru admits their crush on Touta.
In ×××HOLiC, gains a few people romantically interested in him, including Doumeki.

Literature

Haganai: Played With Yukimura. At first, it seems Yukimura is a cute effeminate boy who is part of Kodaka's harem. Then it turns out Yukimura was assigned female and didn't know it themself until much later in the series. Yukimura is still adamant about wishing to be seen as a man and stays in love with Kodaka despite of this.
Saika Totsuka in My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, as I Expected. Hachiman, despite knowing Totsuka is a guy, doesn't really have any problems privately remarking how cute he is. He also doesn't ever push Saika away whenever the latter is being somewhat affectionate towards him.
Nyaruko: Crawling with Love!: Hasta is the only boy in Mahiro's harem, although he still looks and acts like a girl.

Webcomics

It Hurts!!: Chick Magnet Pasq has the gay Bartelby among his suitors.
Lookism: Jae Yeol becomes this for Hyung Suk.

Other

Non-human creatures assuming that human anatomy works like theirs/ having misconceptions about humans, thinking their bodies works like their. Having weird ideas/misconceptions about human anatomy.

Missing media by nationalities indexes

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Individual songs with their own pages, wherever singles or released in an album.

See also Albums Index and Music Videos. Not to be confused with Musical Number Index.

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Individual songs with their own pages, wherever singles or released in an album.

See also Albums Index and Music Videos. Not to be confused with Musical Number Index.

Alstroemeria Records
- "Bad Apple!!"
Rebecca Black
- "Friday"
Michael Jackson
- "Beat It"
- "Billie Jean"
Foster the People
- "Best Friend (2014)"
Lady Gaga
- "Bad Romance"
Bjorn Arild Lynne
- "Wormsong"
Major Lazer
- "Bubble Butt"
Katy Perry ft. Snoop Dogg:
- "California Gurls"
The Smashing Pumpkins
- "1979"
Taylor Swift
- "All Too Well"
- "Mean"
- "You Belong with Me"

Songs of unknown authors:

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