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Is there a trope for a particular type of Montage where someone is dead or leaving, or the village is about to be destroyed or have some someone leave it, and the characters look back on happier moments in the life, hanging out with that person or living in that village?
I'm asking about this because there's a parody of this in the South Park episode "Red Man's Greed". The town was about to be destroyed, and Stan says, "We had such great times here." However, all he could remember is scenes of the town being attacked from previous episodes.
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What I'm looking for is a stop-motion animated short, made in the early or mid-90s. It tells a sort of a faux Japanese folk tale about a samurai who has to save a girl from a demon. The animation is the made to look as if we're watching a play, so the camera remains stationary, and instead of cutting from scene to another the props behind the characters change all the time. Also, since it's supposed to be a play, it has a on-stage narrator, an old guy with a beard. I don't remember much about the story, except that the samurai beats the demon and gets the girl. The narrator then walks to the stage, takes of a mask he was wearing and reveals that he's not actually an old guy but the samurai of the story, who's joined by the girl he saved. You'd think the story would end there, but all of a sudden the camera moves (for the first time in the movie) much closer to the characters than previously, and we see the demon attack the samurai and the girl. The demon kills both the samurai and the girl in a rather gory manner, and the short ends with that. It's quite a Mood Whiplash, as the rest of the story was more like a classic children's animation. I think the short won some big price for short films, but I can't remember which one.
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Is there a trope for this? "Illiterate Universe": Usually seen in animation. We never see writing of any kind. In the odd chance a newspaper or something shows up, it is covered in scribbles, gibberish, or other weird symbols. This is usually because of two things: The producers want to export the show to many different countries, or because the outsourced foreign animators have too much difficulty drawing it. Example: Almost every DIC cartoon.
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Is there a trope when a character sees a TV ad that is convenient to their situation? Like Squidward seeing the ad for Tentacle Acres when he couldn't take Spongebob and Patrick anymore or Mordecai and Rigby seeing the ad for Party Pete when their party sucks.
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Lets say character A is on a conveyor belt inching toward an incenerator and the belt is operated by a lever. Character B finds said lever and tries his hardest to pull it to the OFF setting or whatever, but ends up...
1- Breaking the handle in half, which makes it inoperable. 2- Turning it to a higher speed. 3- Both 1 and 2.
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Do we have a trope called something like All Animals Age The Same? Good example will be in Bambi how Thumper and Bambi took the same amount of time to grow up. Another example would be in Ice Age 2 Ellie, Crash, and Eddie were all seen as babies at the same time in a flashback despite the fact that possums only live to be about five and a mammoth wouldn't be full grown until at least 15 or so.
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Do we have a trope for when the kids in the grade above the main characters are huge and look like teenagers even though they are in elementary school? A really good example is The Tough Customers from Arthur. I am also pretty sure this happened on Hey Arnold and Recess.
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Not sure if it's a trope or not, but is there a trope for this:
Whenever construction work is going on in a cartoon, you always hear the sound of a Jackhammer, even though Jackhammers aren't used for building work (least not the type that's supposed to be going on) This might also extend to the presense of any random constuction sound effects that don't fit with the tools the characters actually have in the scene
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Is there a name for a Western Animation trope where a character cries so hard they flood the place with their tears? I've seen that quite a few times in cartoons.
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I'm not sure if we have this trope, but it's where in old cartoon, a character is eating corn on the cob, and it makes typewriter sounds.
It's becoming a Discredited Trope now, naturally.
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Do we have a trope for bizarre superheroes? For instance, a guy has a toaster on his head and fights crime with toast?
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It's most seen in western animation but it I've seen it in other media. The trope is a men vs women competition. Most of the time it goes like this: man or men laugh at women saying men are better at X (where X is more than frequently a sport). Then women react saying they could kick men asses colectively, and there we go. Also when it starts like this women will win because after all the man was being a chauvinistic pig and he totally deserved it, in fact I don't remember ever seeing the guys winning even if they didn't think they were better. Sometimes we'll get also An Aesop and yadda yadda.
It appears most in Western Animation series with Negative Continuity so the aesop can be easily discarded in the next episode.
Yeah, it pretty much seems like it's You Go, Girl!. Thanks. Edited by DrMcNinja
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Do we have this one? Is this a trope? Characters will sometimes be depicted lounging around the house in their underwear, or at least sans pants and shoes.
Examples: Homer Simpson of the Simpsons has been seen on the couch in his underwear with a can of beer, I'm sure. Peter Griffon of Family Guy fame has also slacked off in his underwear once or twice, also drinking beer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BddCq1zFI4 is an example of this in action.
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Is there a page on a character who is more over-the-top and cuckoolandy than the rest? The character feels like they belong in a Sugar Bowl and usually invokes Toon Physics and other silliness more than others do. Somewhat like an inverted Vile Villain, Saccharine Show, but the setting doesn't necessarily have to be a Crapsack World.
Some examples would be Pinkie Pie from My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic and Spongebob Squarepants (and, to a lesser extent, Patrick Star).
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Someone KO'd by physical force is more likely to fall backward; someone KO'd by an energy or mental attack is more likely to fall face forward (sometimes after a couple of ambiguous seconds on his feet).
I lisetd this under Western Animation but it appears in other visual media, as I recall.
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Is there a trope for something that sounds really outlandish, but actually happened? For instance, an episode of Regular Show was based on a billboard-sitting contest held in 1983.
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Do we have something on a situation where a telephone is not only able to communicate and translate sound information, but can also send bad breath, saliva, and other physical matter to the receiving end?
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Recently I've seen an episode of Total Drama World Tour called "Awwwwww, Drumheller". However... at one point the cast has to find some barrels of oil buried in Drumheller's badlands as a challenge. After the explaination of the challenge Cody came up with this line to say how harder the challenge is: "There must be twenty miles of badlands. It's like looking for a needle in... twenty miles of badlands!". Now I would like to know where this example should be put. I've thought of Shaped Like Itself, Buffy Speak or Metaphorgotten. It seems to fit with each of them, especially the first two... what do you think? Or maybe it fits in another trope I don't know? I'm waiting answers.
Is there a trope where a character paints a surface(mostly a tunnel) and the hero falls for it, and the hero goes through the painting.The villan then wonders about it, and tries to go through it, only to be smack head first?