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resolved What is this trope called?
What is the trope where a character seeks revenge on the person who killed their love interest?
resolved Depressing Facility Daycare Live Action TV
An evil government facility or private laboratory is performing experiments on children (or, if not so evil, keeping children who might be dangerous otherwise under control), and they'll have this sad underground daycare with a bureaucrat's idea of what makes kids feel happy and safe - old toys and puzzles, faded out painting on the walls, an artificial "outside" look with fake clouds, trees and grass...
Is that a trope?
resolved Evolving Chorus
A song's chorus isn't exactly the same every time it's sung.
The French song "La pêche à la morue" has a sailor tell his captain he won't go back on the fishing ship without first courting/kissing/marrying/burying the woman he loves.
resolved Leading a mount with food tied to a fishing pole
A thing where someone riding an animal or using one to pull a load directs it by dangling a piece of food from a string tied to a pole or a fishing rod, which makes the animal try to reach it by walking forward, which carries the rider with it and keeps the morsel always just out of reach.
resolved Can't hear you conversation
Gag with charcters trying to have a dramatic conversation but because they too far apart/it's too noisy so they end up shouting at each other about how they can't hear them. Examples:
- Kung Fu Panda 2 when Po confronts Shen from the rooftop in the finale
- The first episode of The Wizards Of Aus when a warrior tried to banter
- South Park: Snow Day! Stan and Cartman have trash talk before the fight but cause they on opposite sides of a field in the middle of a blowing snow storm ends just yelling about how they can't hear each other
- Family Guy The Janes Bond parody "Take This Job and Love It" has the heroes confronting the villain near his helicopter which drowns the big speech out
resolved Refreshingly Imperfect
Do we have a trope for when a character is relieved that another seemingly perfect character is not as perfect as everyone thought they were?
- My Driver Academia: In the spinoff Decimo Either Way, Tsuna finds it comforting that his perfect older sister Tenka, who always got great grades, has a powerful quirk, and always popular and cool, is acting like a lovestruck maiden for Yuuki and ruined a lot of her dignity in the process.
Basically an inversion of Broken Pedestal but I didn't find it there.
resolved Competent villains
I know we have a lot of tropes for villains that are harmless and incompetent. But do we have tropes for villains which are the opposite (very competent)?
I require it for a Big Bad from a work for which I'm currently in the process of creating a page. The character in question single-handedly (as in: they alone without any help or Mooks) took over Earth while the heroes were offworld, a feat no other villain in that work had managed before (which include the previous Big Bad, a technologically and physically superior alien species which has been conquering and destroying planets for thousands of years and which also invaded when the heroes were offworld). And the character did it in just 10 hours. Taking over the Earth wasn't their goal, however, so it's not a case of The Bad Guy Wins. Rather, the villain just wanted to use Earth as leverage against the protagonist to surrender themself as the villain has a Villainous Crush on said protagonist.
resolved Pet thinks human is a pet?
What is the trope for when a pet thinks they are the one in charge and the human is the one who is the pet? Examples would include 101 Dalmatians, where Pongo considers Roger to be the pet.
Edited by BigBadShadow25resolved Hero impersonators
Characters who impersonate the heroes in order to make use of their reputation for their own gain
Examples include "Live Fast and Prosper" episode ofStar Trek: Voyager and Vize The Legend from Skies of Arcadia
resolved Names Gives Boosts
In Lazy Dungeon Master, the very act of naming a monster grants them something. Even the lowliest rats become more intelligent upon receiving a name. More powerful monsters that have sapience to begin with are also excited to get a name as it makes them unique.
What trope is this?
resolved No Title
New character being introduced in a long-running series causes a Seasonal Rot.
What is this trope?
resolved Coming up with a name for disguise based on surroundings Western Animation
What's it called when a character, who's disguised, comes up with a name based on the first things they see? For example, character A asks who character B is and what their name is, so character B comes up with "Wall-Couch-Window" because those where the first things they saw. Also sometimes character A responds with something like "Oh it must be a foreigner name"
Edited by junemewresolved saying DIE!!! before killing someone
some examples are Shaw to the Engineer in Prometheus, Optimus to Shockwave/Unicron in TF 3/Rise of the Beasts, Papa Hades to the captive women in Hills Have Eyes 2. What's this called?
resolved Solar Eclipse, Completely Black Sky
Well this is inspired by seeing the total eclipse last week - in media, I've noticed a total solar eclipse is usually portrayed with an entirely black sky like it's the middle of the night, when in reality it is dark but more like dusk/the sun just set. Is this a trope we have?
This Trope Is That In Season 3 Of "The Epic Tales Of Captain Underpants" The Past Villains Were Halograms, But I'm Wondering If Theirs a Trope Were The Past Villains Are Real.