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openHypnosis Episode
An episode that generally revolves around someone getting hypnotized; Hilarity Ensues.
openNamesake And Identity?
Do we have such a trope for this:
- In general, the plotline revolves around Names The Same and using the identity of the more well-known one with their ID despite the namesake looking nothing like the person on the photo in the ID, to get into a place they normally wouldn't. I'm sure I've seen this in media before but not sure if we have a trope.
Couldn't find anything on Social Engineering or Naming Conventions.
openImproperly Equipped Thieves
Is there a trope where criminals are shown committing a crime without anything near proper equipment, or something more general that describes this?
For example, the video for "Partners in Crime" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dup4teLAkno), which has an excellent song but in my opinion, is a terrible music video. The thieves are apparently supposed to be competent, yet they wear casual clothes to a bank robbery and their only means of concealing their identities are wearing sunglasses.
Edited by etherealblueopenTaking care/fixing/improving something nobody likes
What's it called when a person takes stuff nobody likes like poor quality toys and takes care of them/repairs them/improves them/etc.?
openSomeone looks visually different in a crowd of people
So I've had a draft currently titled Conspicuous in the Crowd going. It's specifically about people acting differently to the rest of a crowd to make them stand out.
A few people have suggested examples which are similar, but about people who're visually distinct within a crowd.
Do we have a trope that covers that (if we do, I want to put it in the description, if we don't, it might be worth expanding its definition).
openPlot doesn't revolve around protagonist
Do we have a trope for when the plot of a work largely concerns a different character than the protagonist? Like, the protagonist is definitely still The Hero and is involved in resolving the plot, but they have no direct connection to it?
The work in question I'm thinking of is Wynonna Earp, where the title character is The Hero, but starting with Season 2, the majority of the plot revolves around her sister Waverly Earp and her angel heritage. Basically everything revolves around her abilities and her connections to other characters. Not that Wynonna has nothing to do in the show, she has her own subplots that revolve around her, but the A-Plots of most episodes concern Waverly.
I was thinking Decoy Protagonist, but that doesn't seem right because the show is still from Wynonna's POV.
openAdaptational Mauve Shirt
Is there a trope for a character that was a Red Shirt in the original source material, but got more development and screen time in the adaptation so that his character's death felt more impactful, thus making him a Mauve Shirt and not a Red Shirt?
openNon-Flying Flying Animals
Do we have a trope for when fiction gives animals that can't fly in real life the ability to fly? I.E. Tails and Cream from Sonic the Hedgehog are able to fly when foxes and rabbits can't.
openHistorical / characterization trope
Is there a trope for these situations, before I add them to the page:
Live Action TV
- Although there were Black Vikings, in Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands, there are Indian (as in Asian) Vikings, but there were never any Indians in England during the Anglo-Saxon era, so this couldn't have happened. Of course, the out-of-universe reason is due to diversity.
- An episode of BBC drama Silent Witness was a Webisode which the character Nikki Alexander was different to her normal characterization with her being more morally gray than usual and having an Oral Fixation for fudge / toffee. Some fans saw it as non-canon, but the 30-minute webisode, was confirmed as completely canon to the series. However, it's removed from the BBC website. It only had a Minimalist Cast of three actors and the one guest star had already appeared in the 2016 episode "Flight".
Web Original
- A Canadian car website on Geocities during the 2000s made reference to a "1998 Chrysler Voyager 3.3 LX", but, in Canada, there was no Chrysler Voyager in 1998, as this website shows, it was the Town & Country. This same guide also made reference to a 1992 Chevrolet Century sedan and stationwagon as existing in Canada, but this did not exist in Canada, only Mexico where it was the 1992 General Motors Century Limited.
openShe's Just My Friend!
Bob slowly realises he loves Alice. However, he himself denies it by saying Alice is his friend.
openNo problem with being cheated
This character hasn't a problem with their SO cheating on them.
openDon't Know What I'm Disguised As
A character is disguised by supernatural means but doesn't know who/what they're disguised as because the illusion depends on whoever's watching.
- Hellsing Abridged had a vampire create a hallucination of someone they'd love and trust in order to distract some soldiers while she killed them. The soldier No Selled (No Sold?) her attempt at making a cute little girl, so she went with something from inside his mind, and came up with... Sonic The Hedgehog sporting a foot-long erection. That worked, but the vampire was clearly a little creeped out afterwards.
- One Ciaphas Cain story (probably The Traitor's Hand) has a sorceress disguise herself as whoever her enemies love most. Cain sees Inquisitor Vail and is about to shoot another soldier (who sees his own lover) for daring to look at her and calling her the wrong name. When Cain's wits clear up, he shoots the sorceress, quipping "Impersonating an Inquisitor is a capital crime" (who obviously had no idea she was impersonating one).
- In The Martian Chronicles, a martian can shapeshift into whatever the humans looking at him wanted him to be (usually a long-lost/dead relative). Unfortunately, the stress of taking on so many disguises (especially when there were multiple humans around him) killed him.
openSuggestive question
Questions that are meant to direct the asked perdon to a certain answer. An extreme example would be something like this: "Who is your favourite Avatar character and why is it Iroh?"
openDiverse Prejudice-Free World
Stemmed from a discussion on this discarded draft. Do we have a trope for works that have a very diverse main cast, but never calls attention to the diversity, to the degree that bigotry may as well not even exist in the world of the work? I know we have Colorblind Casting but that's more for production stuff and doesn't specify that the works have to live in a prejudice-free world.
openLimits on power trope Live Action TV
This applies more to my own Worldbuilding for a superhero universe but is there a trope for this:
- A character has Power Copying (Final Fantasy-type, i.e. gaining new abilities by being hit by them), but their powers are limited to learning only four new ones, to avoid Story-Breaker Power
openThree stages laugh
Mostly found in manga/anime I think, but also in some cartoons and maybe even movies? When a character says something that is then followed by a silence as the audience is shocked by what it just heard, and then another character (most likely a vilain) starts to giggle, then laughs and finally explode in a maniacal laughter.
Does it already exist?
openStoic Professional, Easily Excitable Newbie?
This trope is when there are two characters, and one of them is rather stoic/serious, and is an expert/professional at a certain thing, and the other character is completely new to that certain thing, and they are very excitable/energetic.
Some examples are; Peter Parker and Tony Stark
Masaki Hinaoka and Sho Akitsuki (the surfing anime Wave!!)
There are DEFINITELY a lot more examples out there which I can't think of at the moment.
Edited by MVPrinceopenFood Horror
Horror based around food, cooking, and eating. Common scenarios include eating non-food items, eating living beings, and being turned into food.
openHumans Are Unequal / Diseases that effect different species
Not sure if we have something that fits either of these ideas I thought about:
- A race is seen as inferior to others, and so someone works to have them either brought up to the same level, or be made unique. Like how the Illusive Man from Mass Effect thinks that Humans are going to lose to the other alien races and so his goal is to prop humanity up.
- A setting where various races/species can contract diseases, but the diseases affect different groups. For example; Humans get sick with a disease that will outright kill them, while the same disease will make an Orc weaker or sickly, but not outright kill them.
Basically the inverted trope of [[Exposed to the Elements]]. Is there an actual trope for this?