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openonly known by a pseudonym Literature
Only Known by Their Nickname's description excludes characters who are only known by an explicit pseudonym. So what trope should I use instead?
Thinking of characters like Motoko Kusanagi (said to be a pseudonym in several continuities) and Oliver Horn (concealing his real surname for Myth Arc reasons: his parents' surnames are Groves and Halford).
openOverruled from Upstairs Literature
Is there a trope for a situation where a representative of a higher power (like a god) passes judgement on someone and then an even higher power reverses that judgment, even if it undercuts the authority figure?
Two cases in the Heralds of Valdemar books
- Son of the Sun Solaris [read: female Pope] puts a spell/curse on a king who mistakenly assassinated one of her friends, binding him so that he can't lie, even to himself. A book later, an army from another country — which worships the same god, though no one knew it at the time — comes down specifically to ally with that king, and does so when Solaris is personally there on a state visit, shocking and embarrassing her.
- In The Last Herald-Mage trilogy, Gala, a Companion — the Bond Creature and Morality Chain for a Herald — rejects Tylendel, the Herald-trainee she Chose, because he was about to commit minor genocide. She then performs a Heroic Sacrifice trying to save the people he wanted to kill. Tylendel commits suicide and the rest of the Companions perform a ritual they do only for dead Heralds. The implications are either that they knew he was out of his mind when he did it (which he was) and that Gala was wrong to repudiate him. (It doesn't help that she had at least a month to intervene as Tylendel was slowly going insane and did nothing... but then, he was hiding it really, really well.)
openChange of style Literature
Bob is writing a book series. He creates few tomes, then takes a break. A really long break. He returns to the series years later, writes a new entry and it's in different tone and with distinctively different style, while still using the same characters and picking the plot right where it was.
Do we have any sort of trope for this, or it's just a really long description that applies to a subverted Orphaned Series?
Edited by TropiarzopenWhen animals eat humans Literature
Is there a trope for when animals eat humans in stories? Like how in the jungle book, shere khan eats humans even though its against the jungle law.
openFriend Today, Foe tommorrow Literature
This is a common thing spoken about in historical, literature, video games and anything that really has to do with Politics.
Short statement is : "How long Before I'm fighting you?" "You may have to fight me. You do understand this." "War may come to our people"
this isn't a personal betrayal or freinds turning against eachother or they hate eachother. It's just two folks who have the understanding they may have to take arms against eachother. They'd prefer to NOT fight, but outside forces are making it so they Have too.Usually over a stregic resource or political objective that is just too valuable to ignore.
openCasanova Indifferent to Beauty Literature
A character, who might be attractive himself, doesn't care about the appearance of his many sexual partners.
opendynamic name Literature
when a character is called a different name by the narrator
- the Ib fanfiction Mary, Quite contrary. under normal circumstances, mary is referred to as marcella by the narrator, but whenever confronted by garry, she’s referred to as mary also by the narrator.
openLightNovel namespace video remnants? Literature
Just asking this for a question: There has been a point somewhere that all works with the "Light Novel" namespace have to be moved to Literature namespace equally without discern, but I seen at least one video link (Tsukimichi Moonlit Fantasy, here) has it's link still redirect to the old nametag of Light Novel, despite the main page has been moved to Literature. (said video is shown as one of the video examples of Jerkass Gods trope) Is there something that can be helped about it?
EDIT: Wrong Query location, IGNORE THIS
Edited by JustNormalMusicLoveropenunworthy Literature
What is the trope where a character (usually due to past trauma)believes deeply that they are unworthy of love?
Edited by mishtullyopenEldritch Shopkeeper Literature
There is a fairly ordinary shop where something magical can be obtained, but the shopkeeper is marked as just "other" enough to be slightly uncanny.
I checked in Shopkeeper, but nada.
- The bookshop keeper in The Neverending Story
- The toyshop keeper in The Ogre Downstairs
- The costume shop keeper in Mr. Benn
- Mr Wing in Gremlins
openCharacter emotionally overwhelmed from learning too much too quickly? Literature
Is there a trope for a character becoming emotionally overwhelmed by learning too much too quickly? Sort of like a much milder version of My Skull Runneth Over?
openAbsurd text that forces the reader to use their imagination Literature
This is a trope that really can only apply in literature and other text mediums
The basic idea is that the narration says something absurd and the reader has to piece together what it actually means.
An example could be in a novel where the text says "Sally clapped with one hand loud enough to wake up John"
I plan on doing an YKTTW post if this is not uncovered.
openAny tropes regarding the frustration of military deployment and being absent from family? Literature
I have a page I'm editing for a Halo fanfic saga called the Natalie Cooper series. There are moments in the stories with the two main characters feel frustrated about being sent to combat deployments and having to leave their children behind.
I know there are shows or even books that are military-focused, so I wonder if there's a trope for what I mentioned above.
Edited by Hawkster94openLetter Literature
a story about a letter and a horror movie where the main characters are trying to fight
openSuccessful technology prediction Literature
Is there any particular trope when a writer successfully predicts development (or even creation from a scratch) of some new technology, or cites a purely theoretical situation that later is proven correct by research?
openForeword spoiler Literature
There is Trailers Always Spoil and Spoiler Cover, for, well, what the name says. Is there any specific trope when a foreword for a book tells the whole story, rendering it pointless? And no, foreword is not on the cover, which would greatly simplify my life
Edited by TropiarzopenOblivious to fraud? Literature
What trope is this? Specifically the part where the colleagues can't see the obvious falsehood and assume he's just being humble:
Of course, Tiberius couldn’t resist embellishing his sermons with wild stories of his exploits and grandiose claims of his own divine power. But to his shock, the crowd ate it up. They believed every word he said and soon he found himself elevated to the highest ranks of the church.
Despite his best efforts, Tiberius couldn’t shake the feeling that he was a fraud. But every time he tried to confess to his colleagues, they simply smiled and said, “That’s just your humility talking, brother. Embrace your gifts and keep preaching the good word.”
Is there a trope where there are two (not blood-related) siblings are of different species. For example one is a human and the other is a robot.