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openSomeone who lost has his former fans turn to his rival Videogame
Some big superstar's defending his title against someone else, be it in a baseball game, wrestling, boxing, basketball, etc. He's real famous, not a single person expects him to lose against this newcomer. Newbie doesn't have a chance anyway.
...right?
Well, his supporters certainly THOUGHT the newbie didn't have a chance. And guess what? The champ's lost his title, and now his fans are heartbroken, devastated, etc.
Basically, they've become so disappointed in the champ, that they've even stopped rooting for him altogether, instead rooting for the one who defeated him. What would this trope be?
openStar playing a fish
When a big name star is hired to play a silly character like a plushie or a slice of pie.
openMorality pet or something else?
I'm looking for the right trope to describe this Game Grumps intro, which suggests that Arin's wife Suzy is the only thing to keep him from being grumpy. Would it be Morality Pet or not really since it's more about his mood than how he treats others around him? Alternatively, do we have a "cooldown kiss" trope akin to Cooldown Hug? (I know we have "Shut Up" Kiss but I don't think this is that.)
openDumped in the wilderness
Someone has to go through Training from Hell, so they are left out in the wilderness all alone to survive.
Edited by sifsandopenCanadian Horror Setting
Is there a Canadian equivalent to Lovecraft Country, Campbell Country, Southern Gothic, Weird West and Uberwald?
openPicard Uses The Force
Same principle as Gretzky Has the Ball but for non-sports examples, a gag where someone mashes up a bunch of names and concepts from different works (usually in the same genre or type of work: shonen, fantasy, sci-fi...) as if they were a single work, prompting an Eye Twitch or worse from fans of those works (in-universe and out).
Something like this:
- "My favorite Captain Picard moment would be when he uses the Force to realize that the Dalek he's talking to is actually a Terminator and he kicks him through the Stargate to rescue Ripley."
openEyes fit within the frames
When a character is drawn wearing glasses, the character’s eyes seem to fit perfectly within the frames.
openEmotionally-suppressed time bomb
A character has their emotions suppressed within, but never fully eliminates them, meaning that they’re full of tons of dormant emotion waiting to go off all at once.
openPortrait Bait And Switch
Bob is sitting for a portrait drawn by Alice. The audience sees that Alice is actually focusing on something else and the Bob is sitting still/smiling "naturally"/holding a pose for nothing.
Alternately, Bob only thinks he's being used as a model and all the posing is on his initiative, the artist is actually drawing something else that's next to Bob.
openPossessive Bully Western Animation
Kind of like a reverse We Want Our Jerk Back! trope, where a bully or another type of jerk gets mad when someone else is annoying his favorite target, and sometimes goes as far as beating the rival bully up.
openFantastic Ableism?
Is there a trope for this kind of thing? I.E a world with superpowered/magical/transhumanist etc characters who look down on normal (non-super) people?
openManipulation realization
Someone figuring out that all of their actions have happened due to being manipulated.
openIs there a trope for this?
I'm looking for the phenomeom common in giant monster movies — i.e. various Godzilla films, Pacific Rim, etc. — where the monsters and giant robots are somehow standing upright and waist-deep in water that should be well over their heads?
openbeauty-lethality correlation
Two questions about a scene in a Star Wars novel.
Star Wars: Honor Among Thieves: Han Solo's party is trekking through a swamp when a large ugly monster rears out of a mud puddle in front of them. Han tells his companions not to shoot it because its flat teeth and wide-set eyes mark it as a herbivore; "Don't shoot it for being ugly." Shortly afterward, a beautiful butterfly-wasp thing appears, and Han is the only one to skip ogling it and go for his blaster, but not soon enough to keep it from stinging the Mauve Shirt to death. Bright colors in a dangerous swamp denote it as the most dangerous thing of all.
Leia and the others are surprised at Han's insight and concern for the innocent swamp-monster; this is pre-Empire when he's still mostly just a rogue to them. Is there something better or more specific than Hidden Depths?
And there has to be a trope for the situation itself, the contrast between big-ugly-harmless and small-beautiful-deadly.
openParental Miscommunication
One parent uses Lies to Children on their kid without the other's knowledge. The kid ends up parroting it to the other parent, causing drama and/or humor.
Like this SMBC, where a child now thinks falling off a roof sends people to sleep and recommends it to her stressed-out father.
Edited by Chabal2openAntidote trope? Western Animation
Trying to find a trope for WesternAnimation.The Grim Adventures Of Billy And Mandy?:
- In the episode "Chocolate Sailor", the antidote for Billy being turned into a chocolate being was... chocolate and a flavor labelled antidote, but more specifically hard chocolates not soft chocolate. He chose the soft ones and exploded into chocolate. This despite the titular Chocolate Sailor telling him to only eat the hard ones.
What trope is it for when the antidote is the thing itself?
Edited by Merseyuser1openAccidentally destroying set/equipment (trivia) Web Original
Is there a trope where a prop/set was destroyed behind-the-scenes?
My example: https://youtu.be/wdgiTQffiwk?t=145 by Mehdi Sadaghdar
I know it's not quite behind-the-scenes, but in that case, Mehdi actually destroyed his phone in the process of making that video.
Edited by ExaskliriopenCharacters not using oven mitts? Live Action TV
Hey, I tried finding anything about this on the site but nothing came up.
I've been watching 2 shows in a row now where the characters pull something that should be freshly cooked and hot out of the oven but aren't wearing oven mitts. Their hands should be burning, but it's all fine.
This happens multiple times on Frasier, especially any episodes where they're trying to throw yet another failed dinner party. I'm watching Regular Show and it just happened again in the season 5 Thanksgiving special.
This is something that seems like more of a continuity error than a plot convention. Is this worth cataloguing, and is it something that happens often enough?
openAdaptation corrects aspects of the original?
Is there a trope for when an adaptation of a work aims to rectify a flaw of the original? For example, if a mystery story originally had a Conviction by Counterfactual Clue, an adaptation of that story changes the clue to be something, well, factual. Or if one character had an Informed Attribute in the original, the adaptation attempts to showcase that trait more. That kinda thing.
Non-binary characters are frequently given androgynous appearances.