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When there's a video that appears to be what it's labeled, but halfway through it cuts to a different recording—I'm thinking like a self-recorded video or something—and then cuts back to the regular video.
I started thinking about this because of an example in Oyasumi Punpun, where the porno the characters find has a random guy confessing to the murder of his whole family in the middle, but this has gotta exist in other media too.
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A conflict where, for some reason, creatures which have no business being on a battlefield as anything other than a leader or rare monster are being used as cannon fodder.
For example, a fantasy battlefield where dragons aren't rare beasts, ridden only by the general or a high mage, capable of smashing whole units of infantry apart. Instead, they appear in wings of a dozen or more, and while still as powerful, drop like flies. Both their numbers and their casualties are treated as just another statistic in the grand scheme of things. This despite the fact that dragons are supposed to be rare, long-lived and solitary.
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Is there a Trope:
- Where a particular actor becomes ludicrously famous in one role, and they're in EVERY major movie that comes out for the next few years? Generally in a starring role, but even if the actor has no business being in that role? I'm Thinking it overlaps with WTH, Casting Agency?, but isn't exclusive to it.
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Do we have something that covers when there is an announcement that the president is being moved to a secure location in Disaster / Zombie Apocalypse type films?
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Is there a trope for a situation when a villain (or an anti-hero) comments on someone else's quality item, only to be shown using it later, the violent acquisition having happened off-screen? For example, T-1000 says, "Say... That's a nice bike..." Or "Slash" from Six-String Samurai: "You've failed me for the last... oh, nice shoes."
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A Happily Ever After that actually doesn't go into any details of how they end up doing so in the future? i.e. No epilogues.
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Bob is in love with Alice but doesn't know what to say so Carl his best friend using an earbud for he
can tell Bob what to say but somehow Carl ends up talking which has nothing to do with Alice Bob not
knowing ends up using it
Carl:no Mom I don't what pizza Bob:no mom I don't what pizza Alice:I'm not your mom
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Is there a trope for characters that are notably short in stature but it doesn't affect their personality like The Napoleon or Bratty Halfpint, nor are they routinely compared to someone (or something) larger than themselves Huge Guy, Tiny Girl?
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Mostly seen in animation, the obviously looped and often exaggerated back-and-forth movements made by characters trying to keep something steady, like the big wheel on a sailing ship. Apparently in fiction it is impossible to keep a ship going in a straight line without constantly turning the wheel left and right. Similarly, when a character floats in the air, they always bob up and down, never in place. Finally, something I've often seen in Hanna Barbara cartoons like Wacky Races, you're watching the cars from the side. They are obviously drawn on two transparent cards which are being moved back and forth, to give the (unconvincing) illusion of a dynamic race.
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Alright, this is one that's bothering me. What do you call the trope when the hero and the villain have to die, but it was't predetermined? For example...
Bob is the hero, John is the villain. John tied Bob to him at the beginning of the story, so if John dies, Bob dies, but if Bob dies, John doesn't have to die. At the end of the story, Bob lets John be killed, and is killed himself.
It's a sort of Heroic Sacrifice, obviously, but I searched through them and I couldn't find the one I'm looking for. =/ Help?
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There's two types of people. They may be different species, or subspecies, or whatever, but the point is they have different physical capabilities. A member of one of them does something that the other can't do, and the second race commends that person for their skill and bravery, etc... only what the first person did has nothing to do with them personally, it's a side-effect of their race.
Maybe an example would help: In World of Warcraft, you, a tiny fleshy being, are working with giant rock people. One of them sends you to these caves where you fight one of their most dangerous enemies: rock-eating worms. The guy is amazed by your ability to kill the worms, as they would eat through him in a few seconds. He tells you how brave you are, how skilled of a fighter, but your victory over the worms had more to do with the fact that they couldn't hurt you nearly as much as they could someone made of stone, not from any personal skill (although it played a part).
There was another thing like this in the Fairly Odd Parents, where the Yugopotamians revered Timmy for his ability to not be burned by flowers, chocolate, hugs, and niceness in general, but that was more Rule of Funny.
So is this a trope? Could it be?
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Is there a trope for the overriding feeling in some works that the world is a crazy comedy? Not in the sense that it's necessarily hilarious (although it is) or absurd (although it is) but the notion that the world and the universe deliberately set up amusing ironies. This is the spirit behind works (IMHO) like, say, Third Rock From the Sun, most comedy sketch shows, Fry & Laurie, Stella. I'm talking about the spirit behind H.L. Mencken's "The liberation of the human mind has ... been furthered by gay fellows who heaved dead cats into sanctuaries." (Gay in this here of course refers to happy) Maybe what I'm looking for is that the feeling that "It's a Mad World," but mad more in the sense of "amusing, eccentric" and not the "crazed, irrational, terrifying" sense. It's *not* the sense that "Hey, these are eccentric characters in a normal world" or "Hey, these are bad characters in a good or indifferent world" (see "It's Always Sunny"), but "These are weird characters in a world that is weird in itself." The lighter side of "Twin Peaks" is like this. I know this a bit abstract, but there's gotta be a trope for this...
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Is there a trope for when people always get interrupted whenever they start to say someone's name, and as a result that name is never revealed to the audience? (example: "Combustion Man"'s real name in Avatar The Last Airbender)
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A character demonstrates his/her knowledge of another character by spouting out a long list of completely irrelevant facts.
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Kaffee: You don't even know me. Ordinarily it takes someone hours to discover I'm not fit to handle a defense.
Galloway: I do know you. Daniel Alli Stair Kaffee, born June 8th, 1964 at Boston Mercy Hospital. Your father's Lionel Kaffee, former Navy Judge Advocate and Attorney General, of the United States, died 1985. You went to Harvard Law on a Navy scholarship, probably because that's what your father wanted you to do, and now you're just treading water for the three years you've gotta serve in the JAG Corps, just kinda layin' low til you can get out and get a real job.
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What's the trope where a character is misinformed about the exact circumstances of an event, thus drastically changing their perception of what happened?
For instance, in Spider-Man 3: Peter finds out that Sandman killed Uncle Ben, and hates him for it. It's only later that he finds out that it was accidental.
I found that quite few fictional military leaders tend to be have their last name be 'Shepard'. From Commander Shepard in Mass Effect, to General Shepard in Modern Warfare 2.