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Sorry, but is there a trope that covers how babies/children would see the world? A "Through The Eyes of Innocence" form of discovery, where things are displayed more fantastical or at least appealing than an adult, who takes them for granted, would consider them?
A sort of example might be in Rugrats, where things they come across are exaggerated and more often than not turned into fantastical adventures. I'm more after the former than the latter though, if possible. The only thing I could find on the Rugrats page was Imagine Spot, which is usually just a quick cutaway rather than an interpretation of ongoing events; and What Do You Mean, It's Not Awesome?, which is not succict enough to what I'm after.
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I'm looking for two tropes if they exist.
One is for that echoing distorted voice whenever someone wearing a mask/helmet that causes that voice speaks. (Darth Vader, Warhammer 40k's Space Marines and eldar for example)
The 2nd trope is a machine or a device that allows someone who would be dead to continue fighting. However, he must permanantly be inside or be connected to the device or else he will die. (Warhammer 40k's Dreadnought, Iron Man's reactor heart, Dingo in Jehuty in ZOE 2 for example)
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I checked the page for Hostel, and if it wasn't there, I don't know where it'd be. Basically: Never Go To Continental Europe As A Tourist Because You'll Die (Alternately: An American in Paris Who's About to Die, because I love coming up with names for these things, even if they probably have them already.)
As seen in the Hostel movies, the Human Centipede, that one with the wrestling team on the train, and probably a score of others that I'm forgetting. Other possible example: Frontiers, which is French people getting killed in France, but by a family of Germans and (I think) right near the border. I think this overlaps with all those "Don't go into the country!" movies (e.g. Texas Chainsaw Massacre), but on an international scale. Sort of like an anti-travel brochure, which makes it clear that if you go to Europe— especially if you're an American— you will immediately be set upon by bloodthirsty psychopaths. Oh, and one thing I've noticed with these movies that separates them from TCM and its variants: there's usually some great big operation behind it— or at least something grander than "I want to eat you" or "I want to rape you".
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Are there entries for these superpowers? I looked through the Stock Superpowers index, but I couldn't find them.
The first is when a character shapeshifts into/copies the abilities of an animal.
Examples: Vixen, Beast Boy, and Animal Man from DC Comics.
The second is when a character touches something and his skin becomes made of that object.
Examples: Marvel supervillain the Absorbing Man. Kevin Levin from Ben 10: Alien Force
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What's the trope for the situation where the Big Bad has a minion who's much more Genre Savvy then he is, but whom he never listens to? Common with Contractual Genre Blindness and parodies in general; this is the guy asking Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?.
I know we have this, but I can't remember what it is.
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Is there a character trope for a shy girl with a troubled past? I mean like, something bad happened to her or she's hiding something and now she is uncomfortable around people. I'm thinking that this would be common for romance novels, where the male protagonist has to show that there are good people in this world as they fall in love.
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Do we have a trope for characters/creatures with one eye? I've been searching for awhile now, and the closest I can find are Cyber Cyclops and Extra Eyes, but nothing for a plain cyclops.
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What's the trope called when one character states some number or quantity, and another character corrects them with the right quantity?
Guy A: You've been arrested 6 times? Guy B: 9 times.
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Do we have a trope where the story goes like this?
It starts off in a semi - utopian civilization, but they've Got a Bigger Problem Now: the civilization they spent centuries building has a Fatal Flaw and is doomed. However, they will survive and rebuild again, because that's what happened before: it turns out they are descendants of survivors of a previous fallen civilization which fell in a similar manner.
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Looking for a trope along the lines of 'Klingon paradox' where a group of violent people who would be highly unlikely to form a working society somehow manage to create things like nuclear power and space flight. Other examples would be the Predators and the Krogan (Mass Effect).
Do we have any tropes about siblings who fight a lot/hate each other, but the cause is in no way related to Sibling Rivalry?