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A God Am I covers villains who think they are gods. Do we have a trope for villains (or others, but it's usually villains) who aim to become a god?
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I tried searching around but I can't seem to find any examples or tropes that come near it. At least not with any commonly used words.
It's mainly an anime trope where you can visually see someone's soul emerging out of their mouth or another open orifice because they suffered some kind of sudden shock or wound that leaves them so stunned that they feel like they could die at any moment. In short, giving up the ghost.
I've seen it numerous times in manga and anime series like:
- Historys Strongest Disciple Kenichi (two such examples among numerous others)
- Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood
- Love Hina
And many other series that I can't think of right now. I've seen it all over the place though. Among others. If this trope doesnt' exist, then I'm gonna go make it on YKTTW in a couple days.
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I remember, a while back there was a trope for this, but I can't find it now:
A person says something they think the character they're talking to knows. As the second character is shocked, the first replies along the lines of "Oh. I thought you knew that."
It's not You Just Told Me, or Accidental Public Confession, because it's only between two people. Any ideas?
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I looked at all the different types montages and I didn't see one that looked like it described a research montage. Is there one that described when a character is in a flurry of factfinding? Often it involves long stays in the library, reading old newspapers or books, or just scanning headlines on Google.
I just noticed one in the Bourne Supremacy when he was looking up his past assassinations.
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Looking for a trope focusing on the children of Immigrant Parents, especially "conservative foreign culture versus freewheeling American/western ways".
Immigrant Parents itself seems to imply the trope I'm looking for in the description, sort of, but it also appears from the examples that any sort of immigrant parents are okay for that trope.
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How about a trope for when an injured person is being taken to the hospital, or from one room in a hospital to another, and their journey is shown from their strapped-to-a-gurney POV? Lots of ceiling shots, double doors opening, paramedics or doctors leaning over them to ask questions, etc. Often the sound will be muffled or the image will blur in and out, representing how they're flirting with unconsciousness and/or how their injuries have impaired their senses. Over-the-top examples may even show the rim of a breathing mask they're wearing, at the bottom of the frame.
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Is there a trope for how characters with a cavity will usually have this depicted by having a swollen cheek and/or a bandage wrapped around their head?
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Is there a dialogue trope for dialogue that ends with something along the lines of "And by X, I mean Y?" I feel like I've seen it a bunch but the only one I can think of off the top of my head is from The Shoebox Project: "You need to hurry up and get out here mate, else we shall be forced, FORCED I say to get you on the NEW MOTORBIKE and steal you away to our tropical paradise, if by "tropical" you mean "Devonshire" (and I do.)"
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In speculative fiction, when a character reinforces that it is The Future by reciting a list of names of historical figures, with a made-up name or two appended to the end.
Example: "He's gone mad with power; he wants to go down as one of history's greatest warlords, like Alexander the Great, Ghengis Khan, Adolf Hitler, or Bob."
Real world example, from Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama: "Rama needed the grandeur of Bach or Beethoven or Sibelius or Tuan Sun, not the trivia of popular entertainment."
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Looking for a possible variation of Offscreen Teleportation, teleportation than happens on screen but while a character is blocked from view by a passing object such as a car, bus, train or even another person.
Example: The drell assassin from Mass Effect 2 vanishes in a crowded corridor when a person walks in front of him. Blocked line of sight/ blind spot teleportation if you will.
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Do we have a trope for using violence to "let off steam"? That is, a character destroys an object or beats someone up expressly for the purpose of processing negative emotions that are really about something else. In-Universe Catharsis was the closest I could find, and I'm not sure if that really fits.
Is there a trope about rugged manly men from the country or wilderness with poor social skills? It's a pretty common cliché - the serious, gruff guy who seldom speaks and because of his isolation tends to be uncomfortably blunt when he does. There is Mountain Man, but that one seems to focus more about the circumstances surrounding him (like the fact that he lives in the wilderness, he's a trapper, wears furs, etc), whereas I'm looking for one about the personality of such types. Like, say, Country Mouse meets Rated M for Manly.
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