Rescued From The Stepford Suburbia: A Manic Pixie Dream Girl takes The Everyman out of his boring, everyday neighborhood and moves him into a City of Adventure.
Rescued From The Mark: One con man saves another from a man that he conned, looking for revenge.
YOU'LL PAY FOR THE WHOLE SEAT, BUT YOU'LL ONLY NEED THE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDGE!!!Someone refuses to con someone else and their home is destroyed by that person.
Dumbass Knows Where You Live: Despite being a complete idiot, this guy can still always find his way to you.
I like cute things. You gotta deal with it.The Obi-Wan Knows Where You Live: If you ever need wisdom, your mentor will reach you wherever and whenever.
Fastball Special Always Dies: Throwing your allies at other people tends to get them killed.
I like cute things. You gotta deal with it.Does Not Like Fastball Specials
A person is characterized primarily by their dislike of being flung into combat.
edited 28th Feb '13 10:42:50 PM by Speedchesser
Does Not Like The Artifact: The audience is tired of The Artifact.
Indy Escapes! Everyone (Else) Dies!
A character manages to escape from the rolling boulder of doom, but in the process he/she accidentally kills several plot important characters with said rock chunk, and now the author must figure out how to solve this friggin' mess!
Really cool game/thread, by the way! Lots of potential for unbounded hilarity here!
edited 1st Mar '13 10:28:10 AM by VPhantom
"It's better to burn out... THAN TO FADE AWAY!"Batman Can Breath, Everyone Dies
Batman's ability to breath in a roleplaying game ticks off the GM, causing him to kill everyone.
edited 1st Mar '13 11:18:28 AM by Speedchesser
Batman Has Researched Breathing!
The existence of a character's new ability is Hand Waved by stating that he/she spent some skill points off-screen since the last time he/she appeared.
edited 1st Mar '13 12:31:45 PM by VPhantom
"It's better to burn out... THAN TO FADE AWAY!"You Have Researched Things Man Was Not Meant To Know: Doing too much research leads to unsettling technologies that could break your very sanity, or worse.
edited 1st Mar '13 12:40:38 PM by NineTailedCat
I like cute things. You gotta deal with it.These Are Things No Man of Woman Born Was Meant to Know: A curse placed on a specific tome stating that "No man alive" can read it without going insane can be circumvented if a woman reads it, or a zombie, or something similar.
YOU'LL PAY FOR THE WHOLE SEAT, BUT YOU'LL ONLY NEED THE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDGE!!!Shark That Man Was Not Meant To Know
A shark that will drive you insane if you discover it.
If a shark thank is shown at any point in the setting, it's inevitable that some fool will be feed to the aquatic predators, and it will be incredibly messy!
"It's better to burn out... THAN TO FADE AWAY!"Shark Pool Excuse: The villain became evil in the first place because he was thrown to the sharks as a child.
I like cute things. You gotta deal with it.Iron Shark Pool: A particularly inescapable Shark Pool.
Love Makes You Take A Level In Dumbass
A character gets progressively stupider with each romantic relationship he/she has. For example: Bob starts as a TV Genius, but after going through 10 different relationships, he's Too Dumb to Live, and it only gets worse from that point onwards.
"It's better to burn out... THAN TO FADE AWAY!"A character begins to like sending people dumb, nonsensical, pointless, or ad emails, or possibly receiving such emails, after they fall in love.
edited 3rd Mar '13 1:43:35 PM by Speedchesser
Love Makes You An Action Girl: A normally passive female character Takes A Level In Badass once she falls in love.
EDIT: Also, another variation.
Action Girl Makes You Dumb: Hanging out with the badass warrior woman causes your brainpower to drop like a rock.
edited 3rd Mar '13 1:52:23 PM by NineTailedCat
I like cute things. You gotta deal with it.
Take one of the tropes used in the previous troper's post and combine it with another trope. Then write a short description of what the resulting trope would be along with a name that's a combination of the two. Please use part of the trope name to link to one trope and another to link to the other to make sure other people know what tropes you combined.
Bloodless Scrappy Heap Rescue
When it is revealed that someone doesn't bleed, the fans stop disliking them.