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openOldGuardVersusNewBlood
Old Guard Versus New Blood is mentioned on the Mob War page in the context of up-and-coming mobsters fighting against the established mobsters. However, the trope itself is actually about pleasing both older fans of a franchise and attracting new ones.
What's the trope for a conflict where one side is well-established and somewhat set in its ways, and the other young and rebellious?
openMen are only good for one thing
The song "Silence On the Line," Covered Up by Chris Le Doux, is an example of I Have This Friend. But what about the wife's attitude toward men? Is there a separate trope for that?
To illustrate: Verse one, the cowboy has played his last rodeo and calls his wife, asking if she wants him to come home. She eagerly agrees, stating that she could sure use his help with all the heavy work there is to do on a ranch. Verse two brings in the I Have This Friend, a really good guy who can no longer walk due to a rodeo injury. Can he bring his friend home with him? Wife strenuously objects, again listing the many chores that need to be done, and "that rodeo bum" would be dead weight. If a man can't help with the chores, then what use is he? Verse three, of course it's the cowboy himself who has suffered a career-ending injury, and he sadly decides not to go home.
So the notion that men are good for heavy labor, and not much else, what trope is that?
Edited by BradyLadyopenEnemy Takes Your Shirt
Someone who wears an item of clothing they've taken from someone they've killed or otherwise defeated.
open"Same but worse" gag
A character is presented with two options, both of which are essentially the same but one is obviously worse in some way (sometimes inconsequentially so, sometimes not).
- One Animorphs book has the Helmacrons say that if the Earthlings surrender, the Helmacrons will kill them. If they don't, the Helmacrons will prod them with sharp sticks before killing them.
- One Dave Barry column on college says that if you don't go to college, you'll enter the job market with no useful skills, whereas if you do, you'll enter the job market with no useful skills and be hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt.
openGeneric mainstream song composition trope Music
Is there a page about most mainstream songs follow roughly the same basic pattern of:
1st verse
chorus
2nd verse
chorus
alternate 3rd verse
chorus
This trope is followed in the mainstream music industry almost completely while being nearly totally averted with dedicated soundtracknote be it film or videogame one and indie/underground music.
Edited by sohibilopenPoorly-Hidden Danger Western Animation
A comedy thing where a villain gives someone something dangerous (like poison, a bomb, a trap), that's terribly poorly disguised, either to show how incompetent the villain is, or how dumb the person who accepts it is. For instance, a sandwich with a bunch of dynamite sticks, or a bottle with the word POISON crossed out and "Beer" written on top of it.
open"Oh come on!"
Is there a trope where a character made this statement? For instance, in Civil War when Rhodey nearly gets blown up by a fuel truck that Ant-Man thought was a water truck?
openFriends break up, but then come back together when it’s important
Two or more friends end up breaking up, but ultimately come back together when it’s important (such as when they have to face the villain).
openPlot-Induced Monster Rival
The main characters are lead towards a location by another character. Said character conveniently forgot to mention that they angered a monster that was in said location.
openAdaptation gender change
Do we have a trope where a character's gender is changed in an adaptation? I think I have some examples, but can't think of them right now.
openSassy/Witty ?
A character is known for having very good comebacks or roasts, that they can think of almost instantly and are usually creative in nature
openStalker Shrine or Shrine To The Fallen
A character has a shrine to someone deceased whom they admire, filled with various trinkets that were significant to the deceased character.
I can't tell if this would qualify for a Stalker Shrine (having possessions similar to that of a Stalker Shrine) or if it's more of a Shrine to the Fallen (The character that the shrine is dedicated to is deceased)
Edited by LexiconaopenAdaptation Title Change
When an adaptation tells the same overall story as the work it came from, but with a different title.
openNo COVID alternate universe
Is there anything for works set and made in The New Twenties that deliberately ignore COVID?
openFixed Number Species
A species whose numbers cannot increase, although they may or may not decline.
openIt's not Arc Words?
I thought that the trope Arc Words would be appropriate, but then I looked at the trope definition and it doesn't appear to fit right as the phrase is not recurring. So a series started with two characters saying something to each other, then at the end of the series the same characters tells each other something that is almost word for word what they said to each other at the beginning of the series.
openHuge effect, understated name
What I'm thinking of is when a device, especially a weapon or a magic spell, has a name that drastically understates what it actually does. The Noisy Cricket from Men in Black (a tiny pistol that can blast a hole through a steel door and whose recoil sends J flying) and a projectile used in Grrl Power that treats the human who was shot with it like they were put in a food processor that's just called an "Unwinder round". Do we have anything to this effect?
Characters attend a parent-teacher conference (more frequently known as a parents' evening in the UK). I can't see a specific trope for this (examples off the top of my head include The Simpsons episode "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie", the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "School Hard", Freaky Friday, and Calvin's mother attending one is the origin of the Noodle Incident), which seems odd given there's tropes for Picture Day, Measuring Day and Science Fair.