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Is there an RPG trope for when a critical decision can cause a number of characters to leave your party? Examples I'm thinking of are Knights Of The Old Republic (turning to the Dark Side) and Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 (deciding whether or not to register, which divides your party regardless). Or would this just be a combination of Moral Event Horizon and Dwindling Party?
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Is there a trope for when a scene is shown from the perspective of a blind person, and it's all a featureless gray or black, except that objects perceived by other senses (sound, touch, smell) phase into view as they're detected? It's a way to convey how the blind person becomes aware of his or her surroundings only piecemeal, with much of the environment remaining a mystery.
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Similar to Hope Spot and Not so Fast, Bucko!. The plot could have been resolved earlier in some way, but characters don't find out that such a way existed while it still matters.
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Should Death Star Trench Run be a Stock Shout-Out? I can think of at least two examples in Powerpuff Girls and Duck Dodgers.
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Do we not have a trope for "Thank you Heroes, your reward is looting the treasury?" I don't think it's used much anymore, but I remember it being common back in the day. Only mention I find is The RPG Cliches Game.
We also don't have a Video Game medium on the list here?
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This may touch on several tropes, but it's mainly a form of Exposition. The trope I'm looking for is when the Hero is looking for answers, and after going through a lot of trouble, he finds someone who knows what he wants to find out: the Truth.
The exposition which follows is usually something the Hero isn't supposed to know; it's secret, it's dangerous, and it's completely at odds with the 'official' story that everyone else accepts as the truth. Usually begins with "I shouldn't be telling you this."
X-Files was fond of this trope, but it's been so long ago I don't remember concrete examples. Babylon 5 used it in season three when the informant told the Command Staff about the Shadow vessel she'd seen on Mars, ending with, "Okay, now you know. They can kill me if they want." Played with in the Serenity movie when the Crew finds out the truth about the Reavers from a dead woman in a hologram. It's typical for the informer to die after imparting this knowledge to the Hero, actually — leaving them as the sole living possessor of the Truth.
Is there a name for this type of exposition scene, or should I start a new YKTTW? Do I need more examples first?
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So you get 2 health points, but you barely get hit any more. Now the only things that hit you are those Goddamn Bats. Wait, they just killed you in one hit! You might as not have a health bar, as it's more of an exception than a rule that getting hit removes life and not lives.
... No, seriously, why the heck isn't there a video games category?
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Alright, this is when the Trope Namer doesn't use the trope itself... I know it's not Beam Me Up, Scotty!, but I can't find a link to it anywhere.
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A character sees something, and points to it, saying "look". The other character or characters look, but by this time the thing has gone. The other characters think the first character was imagining it.
Example: In the film Prince Caspian, Lucy sees Aslan, but the other children don't, and don't believe her.
Variant of the above: The other character (in this variant there is only one other character) says "what?" but doesn't look straight away. After a few seconds they look, but by then the thing or person has gone. They then say "there's nothing there".
I remember an episode of Starsky and Hutch with this.
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Is there a trope that something along the lines of "screwing the boss's wife"? tried to look for it but can't find it. i'm only thinking of this cuz i JUST realized that J.D. from the Scrubs show has done this in the first season since Jordan is the ex-wife of Dr. Cox who is pretty much J.D.'s boss(technically wife because we found out later that their divorce wasn't offical) as well as Christa Miller who is Jordan's actress being the real-life wife of the creator of scrubs. I think there should be so maybe i missed it. if this trope hasn't been made i'd be somewhat disappointed
I'm looking for a trope I call "Circular Speech". That's when someone, usually a hero, is standind/sitting/lying on the floor in some room, while someone else (usually a villain, but in any case someone who in one way or another opposes the first person) walks in circle around him while doing a speech. It can be a "The Reason You Suck" Speech, a boast, or whatever, the key element is that there is someone speaking while circling around the person(s) being addressed.