Trope Idea Sounding Board

I'm wary of any trope that boils down to "character wears a thing". Most of those have been cut or will be cut since Appearance Tropes are one of the earliest examples of a massive Chairs problem.

just bumping this.

It'd be the same area as Too Many Belts and Zipperiffic, and argument I'm not sure if good or bad.

Edited by Amonimus on Apr 26th 2024 at 2:54:48 PM

IDK, like wearing a bunch of bows isn't as impractical as zippers or belts since the entire point of a bow is to be aesthetic while zippers and belts have a function that isn't being utilized, plus they can just be spammed across the outfit in a way bows almost never are.

Maybe it can instead be a supertrope for aesthetic costume spam, which would indicate what's noteworthy about it better.

Isn't the function of bows to tie/hold things?

Depends on the bow. The type of bows I'm thinking of just look cute and aren't actually doing anything, they're kinda like the bows you'd stick on a present but they're instead just attached to clothes

Zippers and belts however always have a purpose

The ones used as those tropes images surely are just decorations.

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I think both ideas will make good tropes and TLP drafts are worth pursuing!

Bumping

I did mean to make this trope the equivalent of Too Many Belts and Zipperiffic. Sure, bows are for aesthetic purposes, but so are multiple needless zippers and belts. I do think that we can establish a minimum amount of bows needed for this trope, though, so we don't veer into People Sit On Chairs territory.

Thank you Tabs!

Tabs was responding to a different person, tho.

Oh crap nvm lol

Adaptational Apathy where a character is made less sympathetic in the adaptation.

I don't really see how that would be distinct from Adaptational Jerkass and Adaptational Villainy. Adaptational Sympathy works because a character can become more sympathetic while remaining unchanged in morality, but I can't imagine a character being made less sympathetic without resultingly becoming more unpleasant.

I suppose that can be done by removing or downplaying a character's Freudian Excuse without actually changing their personality and actions. Not sure if Adaptational Apathy is a good name to reflect that sort of change though.

Is Cartoon Hunchback a trope, where the hunchback looks like they have their head sticking out of their chest. Mr. Boss from Kids Next Door and Kingpin from Spiderverse count.

Hmm. Is there no Hunchback-type trope already?

Edited by futuremoviewriter on Apr 28th 2024 at 11:42:48 AM

There used to be a trope called RTP-Style Period Piece Location Shooting, which involved the use of historical Stock Footage edited in order give the idea the characters where in location as said event was ocurring. While that trope has been removed, could the use of stock footage/ still images, edited to add characters, create Allohistorical Allusion, or create a completely different context/plot in order to aid in storytelling, be made into a trope?

Some examples:

• Iron Harvest intro has footage from WW1 edited with the mechs of the game

• Ring of Red does the same thing with WW2 footage.

• Captain America: The Winter Soldier has an image during Zola's Holding the Floor speech pretty much states that the Winter Soldier who is Bucky shot JFK at Dallas, and before that there is footage of Cap edited into a propanda reel escorting German soldiers and a image of Zola among German scientists recruited as part of Operation Paperclip

• The ending of Call of Duty: Black Ops shows an edited picture of the day of JFK assassination with protagonist Alex Mason edited into.

Sorry for making such a large post, I'm stuck between not knowing how to adjust the pic's size and wanting them to be clear.

Edited by DirtCrusher on Apr 29th 2024 at 6:16:08 PM

RTP-Style Period Piece Location Shooting was cut because it didn't have enough examples (and was described too specifically and named after a Portuguese TV broadcaster), not that it wasn't worthy of a trope. You already have three examples and I can name a fourth, so you can try TLP-ing that.

Edited by Tabs on Apr 29th 2024 at 10:38:37 AM

I'l start by making a sandbox page then, before going to the TLP

Was there ever a trope that had the (full) moon be a motif for romance? It's a fairly common association, and if it's not seen before on TV Tropes it should be made one.

Edited by TropeRoper on Apr 29th 2024 at 7:48:35 PM

We already have College Is "High School, Part 2" for fictional depictions of college that feel more like an exaggerated version of high school. But there's a flip side to this trope that I've noticed several times, even though there doesn't seem to be a trope for it. Basically, in a lot of kids' shows— especially ones aimed at elementary-school-aged kids— elementary school is often portrayed as high school in all but name. I've seen this in Arthur, Hey Arnold!, Doug, Recess, and The Loud House, among many, many other shows in the same genre.

Some key traits of this "elementary high school" trope would be the following:

- The child protagonists socialize and talk more like teenagers than their actual age group (usually ages eight to ten).

- When we see the characters doing schoolwork, the work in question is more appropriate for students much older than the protagonists.

- There may be an Absurdly Powerful Student Council more typical of a high school than an elementary school.

Edited by Booplesnoot on Apr 29th 2024 at 11:38:21 AM

I can't find anything on Index on the Moon, no. I think it has potential as a trope.

Edited by UchuuFlamenco on Apr 29th 2024 at 11:37:50 AM