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openGreen Visor Accountant Western Animation
An accountant will stereotypically be portrayed as wearing a green visor over his eyes, especially in older works.
If a character is acting like an accountant or pretending to be one, he'll put on the visor for the role. The visor's also used by dealers playing poker.
openAny trope that fits this?
I can't find anything to fit these and am hoping for some help.
-I've got a character who has been repeatedly sloughing off their reincarnation-based life lessons. The deity in charge is fed up with them and wants to change their species to facilitate their needed transformation. The sloughing-off character then verbally banters with them, trying to influence the choice of species they'll be changed into (preferring to become something more heroic, like an eagle or tiger).
-The character doesn't focus on their karmic betterment because they constantly get distracted by more exciting things (charging off to war, chasing fame, etc.).
Thanks!
Edited by BoltDMCopenAbrasive American
Something that supposedly happens in East Asian countries where the culture is all about hierarchy and respecting superiors, where they hire Americans to have someone who can call out the boss on their misbehavior without losing face (which the American is immune to since he doesn't, y'know, care).
Not quite "Ugly American" Stereotype since there's not necessarily any Cultural Posturing involved.
Edited by Chabal2openDrugged for Battle
When characters get high in order to go berserker in combat. Think the War Boys in Fury Road that get high on spray paint to prepare for death in combat
openCriticizing The Assailant
A character criticizes the technique of someone assaulting, torturing, or trying to kill/intimidate them.
- The Dark Knight:
- Batman dangles Sal Maroni off a balcony for information on the Joker. Sal isn't intimidated and simply points out that a fall from this height won't kill him. As it turns out, that is exactly what Batman is counting on and Maroni ends breaking a leg when Batman drops him.
- Batman begins his interrogation of the Joker to learn Harvey Dent's location by slamming the clown's head into the table. The Joker tells him not to start a torture session this way because it numbs the victim's sense of pain, as demonstrated when he doesn't react to Batman punching his hand.
- Star Trek: The Original Series: The first thing Khan does when he wakes up is hold a scalpel to Dr. McCoy's throat and demand to know where he is. McCoy casually answers that he is in the medical bay, holding a knife to the doctor's throat. When Khan once again demands answers, McCoy simply tells him it would be most effective to cut his carotid artery just behind his left ear, which impresses Khan enough to let him go.
openMen Are Degenerates
Something like a more literal version of All Men Are Perverts: A setting where women are interested in sex (unlike All Women Are Prudes but not to the extent of All Women Are Lustful), but men are the only ones with weird/disgusting/immoral/illegal/pathetic fetishes and fantasies, acrobatic positions, costumes/roleplay, BDSM (usually as the sub), etc.
Usually goes hand-in-hand with Lousy Lovers Are Losers.
Edited by Chabal2openAbandoned Premise
Is there a trope here about a work abandoning it's original premise? For example Uncle Grandpa was originally about Uncle Grandpa solving kids problems but it was dropped later on. Also I'm talking about the premise itself not the title so I don't want to expect Artifact Title.
Edited by KawhiMidoriya1openA trope on manifestos
Is there a trope (that fits) for when a bad guys makes a manifesto to be shown online or in print?
resolved A product with a fatal flaw becomes popular
In at least a few different western cartoons, I have occasionally seen this plot where the main character(s) create this new product that becomes an instant hit and best seller, only to later discover that the product has some sort of flaw that, more often than not, is not foreshadowed, and does not appear until after dozens, if not hundreds have already been sold to the masses. Does this type of plot exist as a trope on this wiki yet, or does it need to be proposed?
Edited by HipsterDog02openWhat is this trope?
OneyPlays was playing an Avengers video game and there was a scene where Kamala Khan and the Hulk find an enemy base. Kamala tries to come up with an intricate plan on how to infiltrate the base, while the Hulk just runs in and starts smashing things. The guys complain that this is a joke that's been made many times before. Is there a trope for this?
openLiteral Game-Changing Spells
I don't think there's already a trope about spells or abilities that temporarily relax or completely nullify some of the estabilished rules of the setting, especially in games?
Take for example the "Room" Moves from Franchise/Pokémon- for a max of 5 turns, they change the in-battle rules: one Room deactivates all held items, one switches the values of Defense and Special Defense for all mons, and especially Trick Room, which makes slower mons move before faster ones.
Another example that I remember could be a Yu-Gi-Oh! card that allows the user to have more than 6 cards in their hand, I guess it's called "Infinity"?
openGrounding Character Print Comic
What do you call the character in a grand universe sized adventure where all life is in danger, but the character helps keep you grounded. With so much going on, they are they reminder of what the little things are to be lost. An example I can think of is during world saving adventures, Spider-Man still takes time to save the little guy, this keeping us grounded.
openAngelic/divine possession
Inverse of Demonic Possession, this is when a divine being possesses someone in order to closely see the mortal world, or to "talk" to certain people directly, or to assert more influence in the immediate surroundings, etc.
openParanormal/Supernatural Law or Clause
Is there a trope where a city or organization has a law or clause in a contract explicitly for dealing with the supernatural, regardless of whether the setting is explicitly supernatural or not?
- The example that prompted this query is from Are You Afraid of the Dark Universe? After a series of mysterious pranks during Broadway shows turn deadly, the actors go on strike, and it's stated that they can do this indefinitely because Actors Equity has specific bylaws on dealing with hauntings and the owners are required to hire a paranormal investigator to either exorcise or disprove the haunting.
- I'm sure I've seen some things like this pop up in Marvel stories, but they don't stand out as much because of all the superhero stuff.
- I also know there are real life practices in some places where real estate agents must disclose if they're showing a house that is haunted, and also in New Orleans how you can't call cabs to certain older parts of the city because there have been too many reports of ghosts getting picked up and then disappearing before the cabbie is paid.
openInterplanetary Genre Live Action TV
There might be more than trope to answer this question, but is there a name for the subgenre of sci-fi show that deals with multi-planetary societies of one sort or another? The story could be exploring these multiple societies like in Doctor Who or Star Trek, or it could be about the tensions between different planetary societies (Star Wars, maybe?)
openA play in the song Music
Hey, do we have a trope for when a song is sort of like a little audio play about the characters singing the song? This is especially common in children's music, and especially when it's based on pre-existing franchises.
Like, the characters aren't just singing, they're also saying stuff like "Okay, now it's your turn to sing, Bob!"
Remember how, in "The Chipmunk Song", it starts with Dave telling the chipmunks it's time to sing, and yells at Alvin for being inattentive? And only after that does the song actually start?
(The Pokémon song "Christmas Medley" is the best modern example.)
Is that a trope?
Edited by MisterMusic
Kids are on their own for an episode, often having to learn how to take care of themselves.