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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 neckinhalfopenDeath quirk
A character who has died in the past (now resurrected, or in the afterlife, or back in the narrative by some other means) shows signs of how they died. For example, someone killed by a Neck Snap has an Exorcist Head, someone who was dismembered is Pulling Themselves Together, etc
openDifferent Personality, Same Lesson
Character A is so different from Character B. A is reckless, Authoritarian to the core, always wants to be in charge of things, and does orders to make things better; while B is passive, doesn't like to give opinions, and always tries to make things better for their friends. Both can be quite forceful to make the rest get to their goals
And yet, both have to learn the same lesson of giving their friends some space to do their own stuff and at the same time without feeling left out from them.
Which trope relates more to that? I mean, to the fact that they are different but have to learn the same thing. I'm pretty sure myself that there's nothing really like that, but if you guys find something similar, I will pretty much appreciate it
Edited by carlitagtopenStory arc has to do reset button? Anime
I don't know if there's a trope for this to add to the work pages:
Anime and Manga
- Dragon Ball Z: Because they weren't in the original manga, the Journey to Namek, Garlic Jr. and Otherworld Tournament Sagas had to do a Reset Button and revert back to normal via Status Quo Is God when the anime was very definitely not this, and continuity-driven.
Live Action TV
- Code Black was accused of pushing the Reset Button in Season 2 to get rid of Early-Installment Weirdness that Dr. Leanne Rorish and some characters had.
- Nurses (2020) may be doing a Reset Button in Season 2, although Season 1 will still be canon for the most part.
openCharacter briefly finds out about the character’s true identity, but dismisses it.
Can someone help me find this one if it exists. Basically though circumstances, a character briefly sees another character’s true identity or sees hints to start to make connection (such as a character in their disguise making similar gestures to their true identity or what not), but quickly dismisses it for whatever reason or doesn’t make the connection.
One example would be the scene where Phineas and Ferb end up coming across Agent P, only to think he is a toy error, never realizing he’s actually Perry. https://youtu.be/iwGO2csh20M
Edited by Tylerbear12openEvery line in a song has a certain word gag Music
The only example I can think offhand is "Tosh" by the band Fluke, where every line has the word "super" in some form (E.G "Super grass for gain/ Super power-games/Super-secret spy/Undersupervised), and its clearly Played for Laughs
openWainscot Society For Talking Animals
Hello.
I am curious, is there a Wainscot Society style trope, when it comes to Talking Animals or Partially Civilized Animal?
What I mean is, you have regular animals, but they have their own society, with things like bars, clubs or even a system of currency, that is not seen by the human world?
This trope is somewhat similar to Mouse World, however, it also applies to other animals, such as cats, dogs, birds or any other animal, not just mice.
Is there a trope like that, or are they what I listed above?
Edited by BabClaytonopenArtistic Business License
Is there a trope for how starting a business is often much easier in fiction than in Real Life? For example, unless it's relevant to the plot, characters don't seem to bother with business licenses, and if it's a restaurant, they're able to open without a preliminary health inspection. If these things are assumed to happen offscreen, they take much less time, and a character can open their new store within a day or two of buying the property.
It seems similar to Casual Car Giveaway, where they never need to fill out paperwork when selling or giving away a car. I was looking through the Artistic License index, but I can't find anything that quite fits it.
openAbuse Continues Within the Family
Bob and Alice have a child named Carl, and they're Abusive Parents. Carl eventually has a child, Jack, and becomes a abusive parent thanks to his parents' actions. Jack grows up to have Tiffany and Henry, who also become abusive parents when they grow up, and this continues.
openEnemies on the same side
Is there a trope for when two parties seem to be opposing one another but it's later revealed they're both contributing to the same end?
open"I know everything."
Do we have something for when a villain proves how formidable they are, not by beating up the local Worf or demolishing a building, but by showing off that they know things about the characters, even things they've never told anyone. Bonus points of they've never directly interacted with the characters before them.
openrelative differences seem more important than absolute differences
Are there any tropes about this phenomenon? For example: if you pick up an item weighing 2 pounds rather than 1 it's usually easy to feel the difference, whereas if you pick up something weighing 50 pounds instead of 49 you can barely tell the difference, even though in both cases it's the same (1 pound.)
openRope with blade
Do we have a trope for a weapon that's a rope or chain with a bladed weapon (knife, claw, hook, etc) at the end?
openA few things
- Denying the Freudian Excuse. Alice asks Bob if they did all those evil things because of his Freudian Excuse, and Bob denies it and says he had different reasons for doing it.
- Someone with incredibly bad taste in clothes. As in "this shirt is horrible! I LOVE IT"
- Having incredibly annoying neighbors - loud at weird hours, and such.
- Normally I would put this under Go Look At The Distraction, but now that's a disambig, so here: Alice is captive and has several guards, and Bob needs to rescue her, so he calls the resident Person of Mass Destruction as a distraction. He even says "X seemed like a good distraction".
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.