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resolved Knocking Things Over to Impede Persuers
Do we have a trope for when a fleeing character knocks over boxes and such to create obstacles for those chasing them? I could have sworn we did but can't seem to locate it.
resolved Terrible at Undercover Slang (SOLVED) Western Animation
A character has to go undercover, and, even if the disguise is not Paper Thin, he exposes himself by the awkard and stilted way he describes himself, getting slang wrong and being overly formal. For instance:
"Not a Cop": Hello, fellow crime-commiters. Boy, I sure do enjoy breaking the law, and disrespecting police officers, despite all the hard work they do. I, much like yourselves, enjoy smoking marijuanas, sometimes as many as three a day. Come, fellow evil friends, let us continue to menace society with our disregard for rules!
Criminal: You're obviously a cop.
Edited by Mac_Rresolved The narrator doesn't know something the audience does (SOLVED) Web Original
Suppose there's a novel that ends with the twist that the cavemen are actually people from Post-Apocalyptic earth. Through the novel, the narrator mentions the cavemen finding strange objects they've never seen before, shiny and angular, which they assumed to be magic. It's obvious to the reader who knows the twist that these are old high-tech devices, but the story doesn't say it because the characters don't know it.
Is there a trope for the euphemisms used to describe a technology that readers know about, but characters (including First-Person Narrators) don't?
Edited by Mac_Rresolved Battley drumming
I was watching Aquaman and they actually have an octopus playing those drums, which is obviously Playing with a Trope - if it is a trope. Has anyone else noticed how battles are announced with a characteristic sort of drumbeat?
resolved Optional balance patch
Arkham Horror: The Card Game at certain point released so-called "Taboo" rules, which alter balance in some ways (some cards are cheaper now, some more expensive, and other such changes).
Thing is, they are not enforced: players are free to ignore them if the want (but only in their entirety: use or discard all rules, not only specific ones).
Originally it was suggested to cover as Self-Imposed Challenge, but I highly doubt it counts. Can it be covered by Obvious Rule Patch instead, or theres something else what can fit?
resolved Former partner became corrupt Live Action TV
An episode features the main character meeting up with a former partner/friend/whatever. Before the episode is over, it's revealed that the partner is now corrupt/evil/incompetent/whatever. That leads the main character to angst about what happened to him.
Then the bad guy gets punished and is never heard from again.
resolved Different locations seem like different time periods(?) Western Animation
Okay, this one's a bit complicated:
Is there a trope for fantasy stories, both serious and comedic, being based on wildly different time periods depending on the location the characters are - or even the type of place?
For instance, the character starts the story out in a farm, where technology and culture seems identical to 4th century europe. Then he gets to a castle and the armor and weaponry is straight out of the 15th century. Then he goes to a merchant's guild town, and everyone's wearing 18th century powdered wigs and high-heeled shoes.
resolved Unaware of boss' incompetence Western Animation
Is there a trope for when a character idolizes his boss/relative/teacher/mentor/leader even though it's obvious to the viewer (and sometimes most other characters) that said boss is evil/incompetent/cowardly/a pathological liar?
The example I'm thinking of is Hank's praise towards Buck Strickland in King of the Hill.
resolved No Title
We have Adaptation Explanation Extrication for when an adaptation leaves out the explanation for something.
Do we have the inverse, where an adaptation adds an explanation for something that was unexplained in the original?
resolved Credits for extra-official work? Videogame
So, some videogames have the main character being member of some organization, like a school or military body, and stuff like Experience Points and scores have in-universe explanation. Thing is, the character is still rewarded even if he's acting outside the organization knowledge or control - or somtimes even going against it.
For instance, in a Harry Potter game, the player is awarded house points for stuff the characters are forbidden to do, like going into the forbidden 3rd floor hallway.
resolved Angry Nerd Western Animation
What trope(s) could be applied to characters that are stereotypically nerdy, and are angry at each other (for getting fandom stuff wrong, being too nerdy, ruining their chances at socializing or dating, ruining the fandom, being into creepy or obnoxious stuff, taking financial advantage of others interests, destroying valuable fandom material, or demanding they get a job)?
resolved Secondary Characters that are only silhouettes Videogame
A visual novel in which all the secondary characters are only silhouettes/shadows, with no expressions. What is the trope for this? It isn't an animation, so Faceless Masses doesn't seems right.
resolved New villain easily kills old villain
I remember us having this trope, but I can't find it at the moment:
At the beginning of a new season/instalment, a new more dangerous villain appears, and to demonstrate how much worse they are than last season's big bad, they casually kill off last season's big bad themselves.
resolved Sequel has Inverted Themes or Characters Videogame
Is there a trope describing a sequel that's thematically, a 180 degrees turn from the previous work? Like, if the first movie's about ice, the sequel's about fire, if the first movie has the character become super rich, the sequel's about him becoming super poor.
I've also seen this working with sequel villains being the antithesis of their predecessors - if the villain of the first movie's a nazi, the sequel has a communist. If the first movie has a big muscular bad guy, the sequel has a Lean and Mean one who uses his brain, or something...
resolved "Everyone is super easy to kill in the future" Print Comic
Is there a trope for a scene, in the beginning of the story, where the characters are desperately trying to get to a time machine, and the villains start killing them, one by one, despite the fact that those characters are extremely powerful (or have Plot Armor) in regular continuity? And then, the one survivor manages to reach the time machine to go back into the present and Set Right What Once Went Wrong?
resolved Klingon Romance Print Comic
A society is structured so that if a guy kills someone, the victim's fiancèe/wife is now bethroded to the killer.
resolved Ascended Joke, or Fake-Real Turn
"Expansion" to the game was announced on April Fools' Day, which replaces all player characters with dogs. This, of course, was a joke... but fans demanded this expansion being released for real, and publisher complies.
Is there any specific tropes for this kind of situation? It think it may be Pandering to the Base, but I'm not sure. And the more variants, the better, anyway.
If it may help, you may check this link for actual announcement, and this link for original April Fools' Day joke.
resolved Don't use the character's name! Print Comic
I've been reading some superhero comics paperback collections, and I've noticed that on supplementary material, the creators avoid using the names of characters published by a different company - for instance, in the Batman: Hush deluxe edition, Jim Lee mentions he wanted Nightwing to jump around like "a certain spider-theme hero", instead of saying Spider-Man.
I dunno if that's just a joke, or if they're not allowed (either legally or by editorial mandate) to mention the competition... is there a trope for that?
resolved Omnidisciplinary Cop Film
The cop who's involved with every aspect of the olice procedural - he's working a beat when he finds the drugs, then leads the investigation to pinpoint the distributors, drives across states to catch them, leads the SWAT raid on the distribution facility, drives the prison truck to jail and watches over the criminals when they're talking with their lawyers.
Alice accidentally used Bob's shirt as a rag, thinking he no longer needs it, which enraged him once he found out. Specific conversation:
Bob: "This shirt was mine! It was in the closet! Why you thought I no longer needs it?!" Alice: "I found it lying in the corner, dirty, with one button missing".
What could possibly cover this situation?