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openBetter Off Single Film
Do we have a trope about the ends of movies where a character decides to stay single rather than reconnect with a love interest or choose between the guys vying for her affection? Obviously, this could also happen with a male protagonist but I think more female protagonists have romance as their main plot/character arc. I think this probably happens the most in rom-coms but it might also happen in sitcoms or period pieces if that helps narrow it down.
openDelayed closed-captions
Closed captions tend to appear earlier or later than they should be. Example: Since November-December 2020, all commercials on Disney Channel have their closed-captions appear eight seconds earlier than they are heard.
openSimilar Species Domestication
A fantasy trope where beastmen often use the same kind of animal they're hybridized with as nonsentient pets and beasts of burden and battle (sort of like if humans only domesticated other apes).
For example, the Kroot (bird-men) in Warhammer 40 K specialize in domesticating nonsentient evolutionary Kroots, most notably the Greater Knarloc which is essentially a T Rex; the Lizardmen in Warhammer Fantasy use all manner of reptiles and dinosaurs to fight; one Elder Scrolls book has Khajit (cat-men) using huge, nonsentient, animalistic Khajit (born in a different phase of the moon) as mounts, etc.
Edited by Chabal2openPositional Game Mechanics Videogame
Explicit game mechanics where your or your enemies can have different formations that affect gameplay. Things like "Does something for units in front/middle/back row" Strategy games don't count because positioning is implicit in those games.
Examples: Etrian Odyssey (your units), Earthbound (enemies), Darkest Dungeon (both)
openBeating up guys who touch your wife
In which a boyfriend is super protective and aggressive towards his girlfriend/wife to the point of beating up anybody who crosses her path. In this particular scenario, a woman almost gets groped by a creepy dude, but her boyfriend swoops in and beats the creepy dude to death. The closest I can find to that scenario is Wife-Basher Basher but I don't know if that covers sexual assault. We have Violently Protective Girlfriend but I can't find the trope for the boyfriend whose protective nature is exaggerated to violent proportions (but not to the degree of being grossly possessive).
Edited by mightymewtronopenRope Almost Breaks, Holds Last-Minute
I'm looking for the name of that trope where a rope, net or some other lifeline starts to fray and break, but holds at the very last minute by a single, often dramatically-stretched thread.
openWeak only by comparison-SOLVED
A character is considered weak/ low tier in their setting, but would be impressive in pretty much any other situation. Think pretty much any non-Saiyan character in late era Dragon Ball or even someone like Akane Tendo from Ranma 1/2.
Edited by MenaceofMysterioopenAmbiguously "some fantasy race/monster"
A character has traits of some kind of fantastic creature, but it's never confirmed if he/she really is one. Or, said character claims that she's (descended from) a fantastic creature, but this claim is not yet confirmed to be true or false.
In my case, the character I'm thinking of is "ambiguously vampire".
Do we have something like this?
openAnti-Mob, Anti-Boss Videogame
Weapons, characters, or other tactics in a game that works better against either multiple enemies (i.e mooks) or singular ones (usually bosses).
Do we have something like this?
openCollective Character
A situation where a group of characters in a work exist only as a collective. The group as a whole may receive a name, consistent characterization and other things you'd expected from an established character, but the individual people within it don't stand out from the crowd or each other. In essence, a group of people who for all intents and purposes are a single character.
Or, for that matter, The Dividual but with more people.
openReviewer takes a joke seriously
When a critic mistakes a joke in a work for something serious. I.E. The Mysterious Mr. Enter talking about a Spoof Aesop from Family Guy about going to your library to learn about drugs because there's probably somebody who sells them as if the show is genuinely encouraging the audience to do drugs when it's clearly played as a joke.
I guess it fits under Misaimed Fandom, but I thought we had something like this. I might have misremembered and confused it with Spoofed the Ironic Film Seriously which is about parodies.
openDon't Let Me Down Music
All I remember of a song are the repeated lyrics "Don't let me down", but it's not the one by The Beatles or the Chainsmokers.
At one point it get all synth-pop ish and it sounds like "Don't let me down, royce"
openThe Movie Theater had ONE Job!
An entire audience enters a theater/auditorium/stadium, await their shows, and to their chagrin, when the show starts it turns out the wrong show started playing.
I actually saw this in a few anime, including one chapter of Doraemon; although for some reason this occurence tends to happen more in Real Life, once every few years.
Like that time a theater was supposed to play Guardians of the Galaxy but shows the audience Rise of the Guardians instead. Or another incident a year later when a different theater shows children Insidious 3 instead of Inside Out. Or more recently (2018), a British theater accidentally shows Heriditary instead of Peter Rabbit.
Anyway, do we have this trope?
openExalted Slave
A slave who is highly respected or regarded by their owners for whatever reason, and given some level of independence or authority.
Edited by ObservanceopenArt and dialogue segregation Print Comic
Is there a trope for when the visuals of something don't match what's being said? I'm specifically asking about speech bubbles in comics, but it could be seen in other media. Basically, when a character's speech bubble has them saying "I absolutely hate burritos," but they're drawn happily eating a burrito. And it's not played for laughs, lampshaded, mentioned by another character, or anything. It's almost as if the dialogue was written by someone who wasn't even looking at the art. Related would be intentionally-comedic redubs of TV, like what Bad Lip Reading does. But this would be unintentional, or at least appear as if it COULD have been unintentional.
I'm thinking it's somewhat related to Gameplay and Story Segregation, or Lyrical Dissonance? It's not really Art-Style Dissonance.
openHappiness before Tragedy
You all know the scene: when we see a moment of a picturesque, idyllic life we know that it's going to be ripped from the protagonist in the most horrifying way possible. And sometimes the happy moments borderline on Saccharine Sweet before it's brutally destroyed. Examples include:
- A family is happily enjoying a perfect day for a picnic before being gunned down.
- A couple is on the perfect date, bonus points if one is going to propose to the other, before someone dies or a bomb goes off.
- A child is playing with their dog and the moment couldn't be cuter until a truck comes out of nowhere and flattens someone.
Usually moments like this have dramatic slo-mo to really capture how happy the people are before disaster strikes. It doesn't have to involve death, but the sharp contrast between happiness and tragedy will hit like a freight train. Many parodies would amplify the number of sweet, innocent moments just to twist the knife further or telegraph that something terrible is going to happen. What trope is this?
openUnknown Rescue
Where someone is saved from a threat they never know exists by someone they probably never get to meet. If we don't have this as a trope, is it tropeable?
openPan to dropped item
The camera moves back from a character to reveal they left something behind.
Should there be a separate trope for titles like this (e.g. The Falcon And The Winter Soldier, The Dragon And The Wolf, The Farmer and the Viper, etc.), or just put it on The X of Y?
Edited by Chabal2