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So we have Alice and Bob. Bob gets together with Alice, usually for ulterior motives, but somewhere along the way he falls in love with her. When he's found out, there's general outrage, tears, and "I never want to see you again!". And then this line is spoken/paraphrased:
- "Maybe it started out like that, but then... then I fell in love with you!"
Examples can be found in The Fast and the Furious and Avatar. Sometimes, but not often, Alice will do this to Bob. What's it called?
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Do we have a trope for when an actor or other show worker gets visibly tired and goes from being a "normal" actor to phoning it in? For instance, Richard Dawson as a panelist on Match Game went from a lovable joker to a laconic Jerkass who was clearly bored out of his gourd.
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Is there a trope for the ninjas in this video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dcmDscwEcI
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You know how, whenever a character is being really passionate about something or wants to drive home a point, a spotlight focuses on them and some sort of angel choir starts singing (or some other cherubic imagery ensues)? Do we have a trope for that? Sorry for the inconvenience.
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I'm not sure if this is a thing, but hear me out.
In Punisher 2099, a Para-Psychologist is concerned about how policeman Jake Gallows is coping with the death of his family. More precisely, she's concerned about how despite showing no outward signs of distress he doesn't seem to be coping at all.
She says that according to his profile, she would expect him to become morbid and obsessed with punishment, to develop a complex system to give meaning to his family's death. Using antique notions of morality and justice, he'd see all crime as a personal attack on him that needed retribution. Instead, she sees Mr. Nice Guy, everybody's friend - a man who isn't well-adjusted, but over-adjusted.
So my question is twofold.
1. The parapsych described Jake's secret life as the Punisher exactly, despite never having met him before, based solely on his profile. Is that something or related to something?
2. Jake's status as "over-adjusted" being taken as an indication that he's hiding something sounds like some kind of deception trope. Any ideas?
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Do we have a trope for when a character claims that their friend, relative or lover has changed, personality-wise, beyond recognition? The typical Stock Phrases (not listed in this wiki) are "I don't know who you are/who (s)he is anymore," or "What happened to the X I used to know?"
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Is there a trope about how works involving school life tend to either throw the main character into Class X-A/Class X-1 (X being the year), and/or have the said class be the weirdest one in the school?
Off of the top of my head, I've seen this happen in Negima (Classes 2-A and 3-A), Megaman Battle Network (Classes 5-A and 6-A), Megaman Star Force (Class 5-A), and Rosario + Vampire (Class 2-1), so I was wondering if there was a trope for it or not.
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Do we have a trope that covers when a sudden power surge results in objects around it being levitated off the ground because of it?
A few examples:
- Chrono Trigger: When Lavos awakens, you see chunks of the earth floating in the air from the sheer amount of energy erupting from the ground. Those objects eventually go flying off but for a couple seconds are seen just floating.
- Apollo Justice Ace Attorney: Kristoph Gavin shows a sudden surge of power during his Villainous Breakdown that momentarily levitates the dinner plates and a lobster that was left behind from when a previous witness had passed out.
The closest I can find is Mind over Matter, where someone has telekinetic powers that let them actively move objects, but I don't think it counts for those two examples.
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Many media franchises have entire and exclusive wikis (wikias) dedicated to them which often do enough research to get you a ph.d on the subject, often having information seldom seen anywhere else. Plenty of fuel available for finding out all sorts of tropes An an example the Star wars wiki...now what would you call this phenomenon ?
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I know this trope is here somewhere, but I cannot remember what it is called. The trope is when a hero has someone in their life who doesn't consider them heroic because the person knew the hero back before the hero became heroic, or because the hero did something to royally screw the other guy when they were both younger, and thus rather than a hero the other guy just sees someone who screwed him over.
For example, the guy who grew up with Kirk, and thus to him, Kirk will always be the runty, zit-covered teenager running around the Iowa cornfields he remembers from his childhood.
Can anyone help me with the name of this trope?
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1. A character attempts to justify owning a gun or aiming it at someone he shouldn't with the phrase "But it's not loaded!"
2. A character is hiding, then revealed to be in an extremely small, cramped space. Example: Bob has somehow managed to cram himself in a small urn. (Usually when they're told to get out of there, there get out with relative ease...despite there being no logical way for them to have even gotten in there in the first place.)
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I've got three:
- Character A makes an unexpected confession under the influence of the situation (such as Character B moving to a different place, their lives being in danger, etc)? You know, like two friends being about to die in the clutches of some monster and one of them going "I always wanted to tell you...", "I want you to know..."?
- Character A appears to be approaching Character B, but in reality is moving towards something/someone directly behind Character B?
- Character A throws forks/knives/some sharp objects at Character B who is leaning on a wall, but none of them hit the target, instead, they make a perfect outline of Character B?
A trope for throwable spears or other stuff with ropes, such as Scorpion's one? Normally used for getting victims close to the user. I know about Weapon Of Choice, but this isn't what I was searching for.
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