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openBlind enemy
In a suspenseful scene, the one advantage you have against your enemy is that they cannot see you, but this means you must be more careful about not making noise (or, in non-video game cases, the enemy's sense of smell). The cases I can think of are monsters (the Janitor from Little Nightmares, Ballora from FNAF: Sister Location), but there may be human cases.
openThe special countdown
A very special event is just about to happen, and everyone is looking forward to it. We are just ten seconds away, so everybody cries "ten... nine... eight..." (and so until one, and the moment).
Surely made popular by the countdown to launch rockets.
openBathroom Scene
Two characters have a conversation in a (usually private/home) bathroom, indicating their closeness and intimacy. Bonus points if one character is on the toilet at the time. Violates Male Restroom Etiquette.
openDescription As A Title Anime
Do we have a trope for titles that are oddly specific, to the point that they practically just made the title a synopsis of the work? I feel like I see this especially often in anime.
openGetting to the Party Plot
A plotline, common in teen comedies, that involves the characters trying to get to an impossibly cool party (in the characters minds, the equivalent of the Coolest Club Ever), often one they weren't invited to. The plot conspires to keep them from the party, and wacky adventures ensue as they try to get there.
Edited by naturalironistopenLearning the lesson out fo screen
Character A (mostly a background character=) shows some good character development in an episode. It's still the jerk we know, but it has grown up a little by the decision is made. But Just episodes ago, A was a total mess until something happened to them.
Basically, the whole character development happened between the episodes he wasn't around until the show meets A on screen again.
openInverted Characterization Fix Print Comic
In The Eltingville Club, two muscular guys try to convince Bill to give up comic books and toy collecting. Bill is such an Uber-geek, however, that he ends up convincing them to pick up the hobbies.
Is there a trope for that? Like, Alice wants to change one of Bob's characteristics, but Bob is such an extreme example of it, in the end Alice is the one who acquires Bob's characteristic?
openEvil scientist with bald head, dark sunglasses and a goatee
Do we have this? I've seen it with Hugo Strange from Batman, Doctor Steel, etc.
Edited by MichaelKatsuroopenStopping the apocalypse
A plot about having to prevent some impending apocalyptic event from happening.
openperson thinks being a scientist makes them an expert on everything.
For example: someone who is an expert chemist or physicist thinking that automatically makes them an expert on philosophy as well, even if they've never so much as skimmed through a single philosophy book. Edit: this can apply to people with other professions requiring a lot of smarts, like medicine.
Edited by BootlebatopenDeath by being cooked alive
A character dies from being cooked alive, usually in an oven.
openStarting with a Bang Film
A movie starts with a sex scene, or a character is introduced with a scene of him having (casual) sex.
For instance, a character asks "Oh, you know Bob, what's he like?", and the movie cuts to Bob in bed with a beautiful woman.
Usually that means the movie is edgy and "mature", and works as a Establishing Character Moment for Bob as a badass who gets laid all the time.
Doesn't have to be a movie, since it happens in comics, manga, et cetera...
Edited by Mac_RopenA trope related to how we are able to tolerate more outlandish versions of legitimately bad things
This trope is more on the meta side, and is about how we as entertainment viewers tend to be more lax with more cartoonish and unrealistic depictions of real-world bad things (like a cartoon where a female main character, who we're supposed to root for, flashes an audience and it's treated like a big funny moment) than with the more realistic counterparts (like a more realistic portrayal of sexual assault and perversion).
This can apply for stuff like gore- someone's head violently exploding can often be tolerated easier than something more mundane like an arm being cut off because the former is far less realistic, as nobody is bound to really experience or witness that.
openI Knew The Whole Time
Is there a trope for when someone is aware of how someone else feels about them or knows something about them but doesn’t reveal that they know until they’re alone. Like if character A doesn’t like character B but character A doesn’t give any noticeable hints to character B and character B doesn’t look like they know but when A and B are alone B tells A they knew how they felt the whole time.
openI Need You Now You Need Me Too
Is there a Trope were person A, who is one-sidedly dependent on person B, strategically/purposefully creates a bilaterally dependent relationship between the two?
Example: Person A is some kind of sapient parasite that infects Person B but replaces a vital organ so that it can not be removed.
openMisinterpreting one answer as another
Say Alice is presented with two different flavors of candy. In Bob's right hand is peppermint, in his left is cinnamon. Bob asks Alice to pick which flavor is which. Alice (correctly) deduces the one in his left hand as cinnamon, while the one in the right as peppermint.
There's just one problem: Bob thought that Alice said the one in the his left hand was *peppermint*, and the one in his right is *cinnamon*.
What trope would this fall under?
openWork was originally aimed for a different age range
So for example: Regular Show was supposed to be an Adult Swim show, but because CN run out of slots the creators decided to cut the inappropiate content and instead turn it into a TV-Y7.
openBetrayal Insurance Backfire
Betrayal Insurance is when someone has something in place to keep them from being betrayed by someone. A blackmail file, knowledge of their weaknesses if there's ever a fight, or some tech that can weaken/kill them if they get out of line. Stuff like that.
I'm looking for a trope where that very thing ends up being used, but either hurts the one who had it, or was invoked at a time where it was unnecessary.
The specific case I'm thinking about is in Batman: Arkham Knight. We find out that Hugo Strange psychologically implanted a hallucination of himself in Quincy Sharp's mind that would lead to Sharp killing himself if he ever went to jail/prison for crimes related to Hugo. The problem is, Sharp ends up killing himself after Hugo Strange is dead.
Edited by neckinhalf
A more specific version of the Planet / Gang of Hats where every character is obviously based on a specific person or character. Basically, instead of "Every man on this planet is a 1920s gangster", it becomes "Every man on this planet is 1920s Al Capone".
In 40K, every Catachan is essentially Rambo, every Tallarn is essentially Lawrence Of Arabia, etc.