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openBound to a Vessel, which you can be summoned to and from with ease, much to your annoyance.
Is there a trope for beings bound to a vessel that can be called forth and sent back into the vessel or object in a Sealed in a Can sort of way?
And not specifically Genies, but they probably count as the main contender for this kind of thing.
Edited by OldNorthridgeopenTropes from scenario
I'm looking for a series of tropes that come from a scenario I came up with. Due to the sheer number of tropes, I also TL;DR'd it into a series of laconic statements in a separate folder, and set up a 3rd one to compile each situation's respective trope as they are found. There may also be many other tropes in there, but at this point, I've already started to lose control of it.
- The Big Bad is about to perform on a stage, but when the spotlights focus on the microphone at center-stage, nobody appears. A few seconds later, the good guys' Token Mini-Moe fox-girl crawls out from backstage like a toddler and goes up to the microphone, then - after a series of failed attempts to reach it by jumping end with her landing on her butt - grabs the mic-stand and overturns it, managing to tip it over far enough that she can reach the mic without removing it from the stand or dropping it on the ground. After tapping it a few times:
- Fox-girl: [to audience]: Sowwy, he's not avaiwable wight now, he's a bit of twuble at the moment.
- (A loud crash is heard coming from backstage, causing her to flinch.)
- Big Bad: [backstage] How many times do I have to kill you before you stay dead!?
- Hero [also backstage] More than you can manage, asshole!
- Fox-girl: [to audience]: Ok, maybe he's in a bit more twubble than nowmal. Just hang on fow a bit.
- After this, she drops the mic and bounds back to the backstage area, though she stops halfway, doubles back to center-stage, takes the mic off the stand, then jogs back to the backstage area with the mic in her arms. a minute later, the backstage "argument" starts emanating from the stadium's speakers, suggesting that the fox-girl had carried the mic to some out-of-the-way location near the fight, which not only reveals the Big Bad's villainous nature to the audience, but also everyone within the stadium's vicinity, as well as anyone who happens to be watching worldwide.
- A small child - or someone who's at least prepubescent - not only doing something that would normally be done exclusively by adults, but doing so in a manner that suggests they're not Wise Beyond Their Years.
- Something big and dramatic is expected to happen, but a more mundane thing happens instead.
- Someone explains that something minor is occurring, then some incidental background event reveals the event to be very major.
- Something happens in which the possibility of injury ranges from "likely" to "definitely", and someone who isn't even in the vicinity reflexively flinches as if they were part of the chaos.
- The Big Bad's true nature is inadvertently revealed to a large group of people due to him being near a live microphone.
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openUnintentional Wimp? Film
I wanted to put in a trope relating to Cole Young's fighting skills in Mortal Kombat 2021, but I dunno what trope to use. He is consistently shown to not be able to defeat anyone in a one-on-one fight and needs help in every fight. I can't do Adaptational Wimp since he was made for the movie. Can't do Badass Decay because he wasn't really a badass at the start (his first scene is him getting beaten badly in an MMA match). Don't really want to use Failure Hero because he gets saved before actually being defeated, and in two of the matches the intervention allows him to win via Second Wind. I don't think there's an Unintentional Wimp trope. Anyone know what I can use?
openBurning things as a means of sanitizing
Is there a trope when somebody burns something that may carry a virus or something? (Zombies have nothing to do with this).
openMind Control Strings
Visual representations of mind control are shown in the form of puppet strings.
openLoading and unloading a weapon
A character "plays" with a gun by inserting and removing the magazine multiple times. Possibly out of boredom or stress.
openstubborn to the point of malevolence
Is there a trope for when advisors/experts/etc keep recommending the leader(s) of some country or place do something that they've proved works better than the current policy, only for the leader(s) to refuse, mainly because they are too stubborn and prideful to admit they are wrong, even if people suffer and die as result?
openHurting People is Not Easy
Normally, in any kind of action fiction, the only barrier for characters to fight is if they have learned how to do so. On the order of hitting and injuring other people there doesn't seem to be many troubles, beyond a character wanting to stop an unnecesary fight. There are more qualms about killing, but that's it.
But is there a trope for when a chacter acknowledges how hitting someone is morally hard for them to do? I don't simply mean the Main/Pacifist archetype. I mean when the story directly adresses how difficult and uncomfortable it can be for a normal person to willingly hurt someone. Even if they might deserve it. Basically an inversion of the idea of "violence is easy". In this case, is very difficult to resort to do it.
Examples I can think of is a scene of Ultimate Spider-Man in which Peter acknowledges to Mary Jane how little he enjoys to have to hurt people to protect others. Or that episode of Family Guy in which Cleveland discovers Quagmire has been sleeping with his wife, but no matter how angry he is with him and wants to hurt him, he finds himself uncapable to do so.
openSkinniness of Sorrow or Obesity of Angst
A character going through a bad time loses or gains a bunch of weight. The former is usually accompanied by Beard of Sorrow and Mess of Woe, since someone who's too depressed to eat is probably too depressed to clean. The latter is often caused by Heartbreak and Ice Cream and may result in comments like "She's really let herself go!"
Edited by Madison14openMatch three causes damage Videogame
A form of combat involves making matches of at least three pieces to inflict damage on an opponent.
opengroup isn't on the right page regarding information Anime
A bunch of people in one group aren't on the same page regarding important information.
openHistorical In-Joke, but w/ mythology.
The title is Exactly What It Says on the Tin. Is there anything like that, but with mythology instead of history?
Edited by MissRobotoopendeath of the hypotenuse but also not ??
Okay, there's a love triangle. Bob and Alice both pine for Charlotte, and can't stand each other due to this. Eventually, Bob and Charlotte get together, but Charlotte dies. Due to them both grieving over the same person, Bob and Alice become friends and/or at least respect each other once again.
openCharacters gaining awareness of a real world criticism
What inspired this is the vshojo vtuber Iron Mouse did a review of her own character article on TV Tropes on stream. More generally though, do we have an applicable trope for when a fictional character becomes aware of real world material written about them like an encyclopedia article or written critique?
openfalse apologies
Is there a trope on characters faking their apologies (such as lacing it with sarcasm)?
openIndecisive Animal At The Door
Commonly seen - a dog or cat scratches at the door to go out (or come in), but then when the door is opened, lingers at the doorway instead of going through. Alternately, they go through, and then immediately want back in (or out), possibly repeating this multiple times, to the owner's frustration.
openLet The Boss Take The Blame
A character is displeased to find out his employees have been taking advantage of working for him to further their own plans (even if they aren't directly harming him or working to usurp him) but with the general idea of "if we're caught, people will assume it was on his orders". Sometime the employees are surprised that he'd take exception to what they're doing, having assumed he'd be fine with it.
For example, Bob the dictator freely uses Police Brutality whenever protests against his rule pop up. Then he learns that some of the police are actively abducting some of the protestors under the guise of arresting them and selling them to human traffickers and pet food companies. Bob is furious at this, not out of Even Evil Has Standards or Pragmatic Villainy, it's that he demands obedience from all his subjects and he sees the police doing this without being told to as overstepping their bounds.
openImaginary utopia Web Original
In episode 30 of Battle For BFB, as Four merged into the desert, it's revealed that he's well alive and only in his own little world where all the eliminated contestants worship him as their biggest idol. Flower and Gelatin are the first Spanner in the Works which prompts Four to demand them to let him stay where he is forever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRUHJDB75IE
Edited by MitchellProductionsopenWhen a sport not played by both sexes on the same team is shown as that. Live Action TV
What trope can describe a team sport shown as played by men and women on the same team, when it reality it isn't?
Bob is putting the team together and goes looking for Alice, whom he's never met. He finds her, and she kills a bad guy (or creature) who happened to attack him just then, thus proving she's both a trustworthy ally, and a proper Bad Ass.
Edited by Mac_R