Loser
Sorry for being late to this thread, but given some of the discussion about Drop What You Are Doing being a Stock Phrase title, I think it is probably fair to make a rename crowner. That being the case, there is now one of those here
. Feel free to tell me if you think making that was a bit premature.
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There seems to be a lot of overlap between this and Slow-Motion Drop and/or Dramatic Shattering. Maybe some sort of recombination would be in order?
Note that Slow-Motion Drop is medium-specific. It can only happen in a medium where it's possible to have slow-mo, so it only really happens in animation or live-action film; it's also not necessarily caused by Drop What You Are Doing, since there are other reasons why they might drop something in slow-mo—He's Dead, Jim is a common one. And Dramatic Shattering is a supertrope that covers things like smashing through windows.
edited 27th Jan '12 12:25:57 PM by troacctid
Rhymes with "Protracted."
Trapped in a Human Body
I don't mind renaming it, but what are the contenders for the new trope name?
We don't have to be mean. Remember - no matter where you go, there you are. —Buckaroo Banzai
I see the Awesomeness.
Eeeeeeeeh, I've seen books try to invoke Slow-Motion Drop. It's a really common thing where time slows down for the POV character.
Fight smart, not fair.
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But that might be more on the lines of Bullet Time?
I see the Awesomeness.
It generally only happens when it's dramatic though.
Fight smart, not fair.
Calling in favour of rename.
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
Loser
There is now an alternative titles crowner for this trope here. Feel free to add names as you see fit.
Bump for at least one more vote.
I thumped the old name suggestion since we are NOT supposed to use the old name in an Alt Titles Crowner.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
someone
Dramatic Drop has got a solid lead there.
something
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Calling crowner.
I didn't write any of that.
Ravenous Sophovore
There was consensus to swap the name with the redirect. Please follow through.
edited 25th Apr '12 6:26:25 AM by ccoa
Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.
Ravenous Sophovore
Still waiting on action here.
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Ravenous Sophovore
133 wicks left here.
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Looks like the moving had been done already (and it's been more than a month since last post). Shall we send this to the morgue?
I now go by Graf von Tirol.
Morguing as complete.
"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - Fighteer
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It's not always shocking news, though.
People can drop things because someone grabbed them, or they fainted. So across all those examples, people are literally dropping what they were doing at the moment of the shock/grab/faint/sickness/trouble etc.
We don't have to be mean. Remember - no matter where you go, there you are. —Buckaroo Banzai