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A film (or book or whatever) is successful enough to warrant a sequel — but all the loose ends have been tied up and the main gimmick of the original is now gone (the lovers got married, etc), making any attempt to extend the story feel very artificial. I'm not finding it on the list on Sequel or other linked pages…
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Is there a trope where a villian (or the Big Bad) is revealed to have came from another canon? Hijacked By Crossover?
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So what do we call a situation when Work A and Work B, separated by years and countries and possibly mediums too, have nearly identical scenes concerning similar characters in identical whereabouts doing very similar things, but the similarities are limited to the one scene and, with a high degree of probability, this is NOT a Shout-Out?
The scene I'm thinking of is the Opera House level from Hitman Blood Money, as one of the assassination options for the level is to shoot the target with a sniper rifle when he is "executed" on-stage as part of the play. An exact same scene, complete with the exact same opera - Tosca - and the same exact assassination method appears in the (much earlier) Polish-Soviet movie "Deja Vu" as the protagonist's introduction scene. It is probably not a Shout-Out, as the movie didn't get wide marketing outside the East Bloc. (Otherwise it would've had a page on this wiki - not often you see such an application of Zig-Zagging Trope about Trauma-Induced Amnesia).
Surprisingly Similar Stories seems to be too wide a definition (after all, the similarities begin and end with one scene), and though I may be mistaken, neither scene is probably a Shout-Out to something entirely different that both works reference.
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How about a text-format trope for when an entire short phrase is rendered with its words strung together by hyphens? Usually this phrase is presented as a descriptive (e.g. "her lips curled in an I-know-something-you-don't-know smile"), or as a more intense and snarky alternative to a common figure of speech (e.g. "he wasn't falling-down drunk, he was climbing-the-walls-and-howling-at-the-moon drunk").
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Do we have a trope for that? Speed Echoes is not the case.
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Is there a trope for the moment, typically at the conclusion of a one-on-one fight, where there's a delay between the final blow and the moment the person falls over, giving the victor time to refresh a little, straighten her hair (if female), sheath the sword, and assume a nice pose in front of the body of the fallen foe? (A good example is here.)
Not quite You Are Already Dead, since the battle is pretty much over and everyone knows it — it's more about the hero having a second or two to put himself/herself together before things are completely over.
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What's it called where, regardless of setting, characters can operate machinery and technology with apparently natural aptitude, eg. using a forklift truck in a fight?
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Is there a trope for a comically bad magician? One who might say, "Pick a card, any card! ...No, not that one. Not that one either." Here's another: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MViuNWN5Q7s&t=2m32s
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Is there a trope for how, no matter how large or small the source might be, male characters nearly always have deep voices and female characters, higher-pitched ones? The physics of sound dictate that the pitch of a voice should vary in proportion to the size of the larynx that produces it, yet pint-sized hobbits and giant ogres are still portrayed with the vocal range of human beings who share their gender. Subverted only for Rule of Funny, or if it suits the plot for the outsized creature's voice to be so high- or low-pitched that it's unintelligible to humans.
Is there a trope that covers Seto Kaiba's constant refusal to acknowledge magic? Each 4 to 6 episodes, there will be a new magica plot device, but each time he will again refuse to believe in magic at all, even though he has seen Yugi transform half a hundred times. There are probably more examples in more "mature" works of fiction, but I don't remember any at the moment. Thanks in advance!