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openSelfish Defector
We have a trope for people who defect on moral grounds. Is there a trope for people who defect for selfish reasons, like personal gain.
openConsistency within book/scene?
So, we have a lot of tropes about consistency/continutity and I’ve looked through those, but I’m wondering if there’s any related to continuity within a single scene/book, as opposed to, say, a Series Continuity Error or Continuity Snarl.
For instance, in the fourth Harry Potter film, in the scene where Harry gets out of the lake, the blanket/clothing/etc and who’s wearing it keeps changing between shots. Or that’s something that happens in Warriors books often - a character is mentioned to have died but then shows up perfectly fine later on in the book, or one character’s in camp and present when something was happening, but after the chapter break in the same scene she walks into camp as if she was gone and has no idea about the thing she was just giving opinions on.
Edited by DawnwingopenFlower Ninja tropes?
I just had a thought not too long ago while browsing through the index for ninja-based tropes; you've got ones with different motifs (such as cats, frogs, cyborgs/robots, etc.), and I noticed that there isn't a page for ninja associated with flowers (especially cherry blossoms and other Japanese blooms), which seem to appear quite a lot. Does a trope similar to this already exist, or should I maybe give making it a go?
openPost-title comedy scenes in movie trailers Film
Trope of post-title comedy scenes in movie trailers
This is really bugging me because I cant for the life of me find what this trope is called but its so so common. In so many trailers from the past few years, they always have the usual scenes with music, then music stops and they show the title of the film, then they have a short comedy scene, then the release date etc.
trailer scenes -> title -> music stops -> comedy scene -> release date and production small print
This has to have a trope? Surely? If no one has any idea what I'm talking about I'll come back with a few hundred examples but Im hoping its not needed because it is so very common.
openCrazy Family Tree
Jokes and actual instances of incest resulting in the family tree looking really weird.
openA lighthearted that takes itself "seriously"? Videogame
What do you call a lighthearted work that does take itself somewhat "seriously"? "Serious" in the context where it may not take itself seriously but it treats itself as a serious adventure. Think Donkey Kong Country (SNES) trilogy or the Sonic Adventure games.
openI Said "I" Never Kill
Have a no killing policy, but have no qualm letting others do the killing.
openDidn't need a rescue (solved)
Characters come to another's rescue, only to find that they didn't need any help.
Edited by BobtheBoldoreopen"Everyone laughed at Galileo" fallacy
Is there a trope for this: someone believes something completely absurd and, when everyone tells them how ridiculous it is, they say something like "Everyone laughed at Galileo, but he turned out to be right?" The fallacy, of course, being that just because one idea that's widely mocked and considered far-fetched turns out to be right, doesn't mean that any given far-fetched idea is likely to be right.
Edited by BootlebatopenInnocent Scandal
I'm thinking of two country songs. Mark Chesnutt, I'm In Love With A Married Woman. Bill Anderson, Wild Weekend. Both songs set the listener up to think a man is running around on his wife, but then it's revealed he is actually running around with his wife.
Also, an episode of The Love Boat featured a man who appeared to be having an affair, but he turned out to be dying of cancer, and the woman with him was his daughter.
Would these be Not What It Looks Like, Mistaken for Cheating, both, or something else?
openInternally Justified Racism
Fantastic Racism is justified in-universe because of some historical reason. Like how orcs in Bright are hated because they once sided with the Dark Lord.
openTactical Suicide Boss or Shielded Core Boss? Videogame
I am not certain which trope this falls under, but this is the example I have in mind:
The boss is a large self-repairing robot. It repairs itself through a small unit that's normally protected by an impenetrable shield. In other to defeat this robot, you must damage at least one of its parts until that part can no longer function, after which the repair unit will be vulnerable for as long as it's repairing the part. Then, it zips back into its shield the moment repairs are complete. As the repair unit cannot repair itself and is itself the robot's core, destroying the repair unit will cause the rest of the robot to shut down, winning the battle.
Is this Tactical Suicide Boss because its vulnerability is caused by its own actions, albeit there is a good reason it's doing it? Or is it a Shielded Core Boss, as the weak point is normally guarded and has to be coaxed out? Or is it more general than that and just a Puzzle Boss?
Edited by ZombieAladdinopenRecognition & identification with fictional portrayal?
Come from Away is based on a real, recent story.
Kevin Tuerff told the writers that he would never wear buffalo plaid, as his fictional counterpart did. Now he makes sure to wear it to the musical's opening nights.
Similarly, Derm Flynn is portrayed in the show (only for a quick gag) as wearing a certain kind of hat (as the same actor, Joel Hatch, plays all the mayor characters in the show, distinguished by a costume detail. Flynn was the then-Mayor of Appleton.) The real man went out and bought that kind of hat so everyone would know it was him onstage.
Additionally, initially the couple Kevin T(uerff) and Kevin J(ung) were fictionalized as a couple both named Collin, in a bid to protect Jung's privacy. However, Jung contacted Caesar Samayoa and told him "I heard you're playing me in a show!" After that, the characters were renamed back to Kevins.
Bottles of Screech liquor sold in Newfoundland now have "The official drink of Come From Away" stickers on them, and the Dover Fault has a plaque about Diane and Nick's relationship.
What trope(s) would these be? Would the last one be counted as Defictionalization?
Edited by annieholmesopenMisfit Hideout Trope?
Reposting this - Is there a trope for a misfit character having a secret little hideout with a bunch of quirky knick-knacks they've collected inside and the main character usually discovers it and finds it endearing?
(Like Vanellope from Wreck It Ralph, Sonic from the Sonic The Hedgehog movie, and 22 from Soul)
openStory takes place in the same year as the release year
You know how each MCU film prior to Endgame took place in the same year the film was released in? Or how each new Yakuza game takes place in the year they were released in?
Edited by ReapeageddonopenA rare rhyme Music
Is there a trope for when a song puts some obscure and hard to rhyme word in its lyrics, but still manages to rhyme it? An example would be "Nemesis" by Shriekback, which takes the word "parthenogenesis" (meaning asexual reproduction) and rhymes it with nemesis.
openMystery Tropes Live Action TV
What is it called when the first non-reoccurring person the main characters meet in a murder mystery series is the guilty subject. Of course with the standard "there is no way it is the Janitor" style of avoiding suspicion.
This is called out in Craig of the Creek: The Final Book and Mystery 101: Pilot.
I am also curious about the self-poisoning poisoner. Similar context, the first person to get poisoned is the person who is poisoning everyone else.
openVindicated by a Child
Similar to Protected by a Child, this is where a person has just made a Heel–Face Turn (or was Not Evil, Just Misunderstood), and no matter what else happens, if a small child approaches the former of their own free will, maybe even hugging or petting them, that automatically proves that they're a good-guy, or at least not a bad-guy.
Edited by Gofastmike
When a work usually uses Translation Convention, but drops in bits and phrases of the language the characters are actually speaking, to remind the audience of it.