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I am curious what trope this falls under. I have a case of severe "break the cutie" where the female character joined the wrong group or organization and had her whole world upended on her making her regress from a young adult into that of a 5 year old (mentally of course)from all the abuse they did to her and also to her family which she had to watch multiple times in the storyline. Besides "break the cutie", what trope is also going with this? This is for a novel series I am working on.
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Last time I posted this it got sandwiched into someone else's query as if it was a reply.
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Sup, Tropers. Me can't find a few general tropes for a work page.
1) Scientist in general. Female, to be specific, but neutral will do as well. Not Hot Scientist. It's just not.
2) Paranoid person in general.
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Is there a trope for when someone talks about something mundane while in the process of murder? Patrick Bateman does this all the time in American Psycho, and it also happens in Dexter and many, many other things, but I can't find the trope for it. I could just be because I'm skim reading them.
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Is there any inverted trope of Deconstructor Fleet? I feel like doing the inverted trope of the aforementioned trope.
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Is there a trope for a superpower that causes other people to weaken around them? It's not Power Nullifier, as that just works on powers and they can still function as normal human beings )or whatever they are). I'm referring to someone who fights opponents stronger than they are by, well, bringing them down to their level or worse, or placing limitations on someone one by one until they're outright crippled. That is, these guys don't affect their foes' powers, but their ability to function.
An example of the former is one of the Shadow Dragons in Dragon Ball GT: He has the strength of a regular human but gave the ultra-powerful Goku and Pan trouble through his toxic aura that made them progressively weaker and weaker (without them knowing) until they were barely able to stand.
An example of the latter is Wobbuffet in Pokémon. It has some pretty pathetic stats, but it can not only lock in the enemy's Pokémon and prevent them from switching, but it can use Encore to restrict the opponent to only one move—the opposing Pokémon is not any physically weaker, but what it can do is severely limited, allowing Wobbuffet's user to take full advantage of the subsequent predictability.
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What is the trope when in the middle of a battle the hero suddenly stops fighting and starts giving advice to the villian on how to be more dramatic. Usualy the hero is the advice giver, but the vilian can be too. example: hero: ha! i have come to stop you! villian: no,i am unprepared! you have thwarted me ag- hero: you're doing it wrong villian: what? that was very dramatic. hero: you said it so tersly.try drawing out the "no" a bit villian: what, like, "NOO Ooooo...!" hero: yeah, much better!
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Pretty common, probably overlooking it, but what's the trope for when a character has a strong emotional revelation to something watched on a television/monitor/screen? I'm thinking of scenes like this one in The Fifth Element, or this one from Sex Lies And Videotape, or even this classic from American Beauty?
I know it crosses over with tropes like Thousand-Yard Stare or Heroic BSoD, but those more describes the character's cathartic reaction (and is too specific; said reaction could be joyous) rather than what inspired it — namely, a video screen.
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Alice and Bob are in love, but both think it's unrequited and that they don't have a chance with the other.
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Oh thank God, this place exists! I keep trying to find the right tropes, but then I end up wandering off and then I fall asleep. So many questions! Do I pile all of them in one post, or do I spam the place up with individual queries? Anyway.
Seeing ghosts as a sign of insanity. Or more specifically, the FEAR of seeing ghosts, due to one's belief that it would be a sign that they've gone insane. I get the feeling that the latter might be too specific even for TV Tropes. PROVE ME WRONG.
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Do we have a trope for a powerful weapon which corrupts its user, such as Frostmourne?
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Is there a trope for this scenario? A character (typically an old square) settles down to relax (wine, a book, bath, etc.) and listen to some soothing music. However, just as they are getting comfortable, loud rock music starts blaring. Hilarity Ensues as they freak out. Examples: The mother in Detroit Rock City when one of her classical records is replaced by a Kiss record. Kitty from That70s Show when she tries to listen to Judas Priest in the bathtub.
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'And now you get to be a tree'
You get to the end of your great big adventure, and for some reason you turn into a tree.
I actually saw the big plot twist at the end of a long novel, within the first few chapters. Not because I was clever, but just because I've seen this 'trope' so many times. Let's count them off (warning this is an ending trope so spoilers ahoy): 1) In Summoner II your main character. 2) Final Fantasy Adventure (and it's remake Sword of Mana) has the heroin thansform into the mana tree. 3) In Secret of Mana you discover your mother is part of the tree. 4) Seiken Densetsu 3 your farie friend is actually a seed of the tree. 5) Legend of mana ends with you killing the mana goddess inside the tree of mana and then dissapearing from the world. No explaination is given at all, but we can expect you've become a tree again because it keeps happening in the mana series. 6) Dawn of Mana: Yup, the big shock at the end of the game. Very sad, very tragic, unless you saw it coming from a mile away by now. 7) Elfstones of Shanara. This is the novel I mentioned, I wouldn't be surprised if this novel is the reason for the trope, nor would I be surprised if it's been around longer.
Also I'll add, this is not about shapechanging back and forth, and may include other largely inanimate things aside from trees like 'now you're the moon'.
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