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openHair Appendage
When the character's hair is actually a part of the body, like some sort of tentacles or tendrils.
As an example, I can list Lilac from Freedom Planet, whose hair are actually tendrils, which is made more clear in the scene where she gets captured by Brevon, who cuts off her hair-tendrils, and you can see them hanging on a pole near her chamber, complete with blood, showing that these are not simply hair, but actual appendages.
Edited by I--Vanya--Iopenpoc characters sacrificing themselves for white characters?
as the title describes. is there a trope for poc characters dying, usually to "protect" or defend a white character? kind of like Bury Your Gays or Black Dude Dies First.
openRhymes with "Miextra Miletters"
Something is described by adding/changing only the first letter of each word and saying it rhymes with those (usually nonsense) words, making it obvious what's actually being discussed.
e.g.
openLike defeats like
When the only thing that can harm or defeat the antagonist is sourced from the antagonist, like a piece of their body or somehow redirecting their power against themselves.
Edited by ObservanceopenDeath by annihilation
Killing someone by completely physically annihilating them.
Edited by jandn2014openWhat would this Big Name Fan misuse actually be?
i wrote this in DJMAX a long time ago and it got removed without reason (i'm assuming it's misuse, considering its TRS thread):
- Big Name Fan: As noted in this interview, the rather unusual Guilty Gear crossover DLC pack happened because Arc System Works approached Rocky Studio first. Daisuke Ishiwatari even (supposedly) provided the master tracks himself for the Respect dev team to play with.
i'd still like to mention this crossover in some fashion, because that and its Girls' Frontline crossover are pretty unusual for a rhythm game, especially when a majority of its DLC is other rhythm games.
openDeutagonist is also antagonist, but not a villain
This might be too rare to trope, but:
Alice and Bob are investigators, called in to find who stole a jewel from a museum. Eventually it's revealed who is behind it - Charlie - but it's also revealed Bob was the one who took it and he's working with Charlie. However, Bob explains that he did it because the jewel is actually an ancient magical artifact and Charlie was keeping it safe but accidentally sold it.
openFallen On Hard Times Reunion
Two characters meet each other years after last seeing each other, but one is now much lower than the other in social rank if not outright homeless. Gloating may ensue if they parted on less than amicable terms.
- The Far Side has a cartoon where a music professor meets a homeless man playing the guitar and laughs at him, recognizing a former student who never paid attention in music class.
- SMBC has a former college student encounter his now-homeless literature professor and "help" him out.
- The Necklace ends with the Cruel Twist Ending that the protagonist completely destroyed her life and finances to replace a lost necklace that was actually a fake.
openOld People Are Hideous
A gag where seeing old people naked/having sex is traumatic to the psyche of younger people (or even the audience), similarly to Parental Sexuality Squick or Primal Scene but for non-family members.
For instance:
- There was a scene in a Samurai Deeper Kyo Hot Springs Episode where the male half of the cast is trying to peep at the girls through a hole in the fence, and instead they get an eyeful of an old woman crouching down naked to take a leak.
- One Titeuf strip has the kids at the beach hoping for wind to blow the towels of women changing. It does happen... to their 60-year-old teacher.
- One Questionable Content strip has Marten walking in on two older coworkers having sex in the break room and is clearly disturbed by it afterwards.
openCringey/Nerdy Improv Comedy
A form of Acceptable Targets I see in a lot of media is that improv comedy troupes are particularly embarrassing, even compared to other forms of theater. Is there a trope that covers this, and would it be tropeworthy if not?
openAnti Xerox
A single member of a family has one genetic trait that is not shared by any other member of their family.
Example: Touka from Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! has red eyes for seemingly no reason. No one else in her family does, so they might just be eye contacts or a genetic mutation.
Edited by KingOfStickersopenProud Hunter Race
So we've already got Proud Warrior Races, but do you suppose Proud Hunter Races might be a distinct subtrope - or possibly a trope all its own? Planets whose Hat is a pith helmet - dedicating everything to hunting the biggest, nastiest, rarest beasties they can find. Off the top of my head, there's the Hirogen from Star Trek Voyager, and the Trandoshans from Star Wars (and to a lesser extent the Mandalorians). Any more?
openvision of the dead Film
Wwarning, Spoilers of the rise of skywalker
Hello, I've been looking for a specific trope, where a dead person, usually strictly related to the protagonist, come back as vision in order to talk to them, usually it happens in a single scene and it's a definining moment for the protagonist, kinda like Han Solo appearing to Kylo Ren in rise of skywalker. I've tried looking in "back from the dead" but that kind of applies to resurrections, not visions. Any idea?
openThe Mom Nobody Likes (AKA the Karen stereotype)
What happened to the TLP draft about obnoxious, white, middle-aged mother who always demand to speak to the manager?
openKiss proof
Is there a trope where someone makes another person kiss someone to prove that: A) They're straight, B) or gay, or C) genuinely a couple with someone?
openFound page for fanfic whose existence I have never been
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/MyLittlePonyRockIsMagic
There is this page for a "part Fan Fic, part comic series, and part author tract" called My Little Pony: Rock is Magic. The thing is, though, I have been unable to prove the existence of this fic: the wayback machine does not indicate that a link page was ever posted (at least back to 2016)
The edit page only indicates three edits: one by someone who basically created the page, and two more who do edits. Notably, on the page creator's author page, this fic is not listed under "Work pages started"
I think this page should be cut? Should I proceed, or wait to see if more evidence of this fic can be found?
Edited by DayBreakChannelopenBaby-faced Japanese
Just curious if there's a trope about Japanese or generally Oriental people naturally looking young in comparison to Westerners. I've seen it mentioned in various places, generally by Japanese individuals and people who moved to Japan. For instance, in the webcomic Let's Speak English, the main character struggled with people always thinking she was much older than she was, often adding around ten years to their guesses, and feeling this was in part due to the fact that the average people there really looked much younger at that age. For another example, in "I Shall Survive Using Potions", the heroine is reincarnated in a world and land that is basically Western/Caucasian, while she retained her original body pushed back to around fifteen years old. She frequently overestimates people's ages (for instance thinking a maid is sixteen when she's really twelve) and in turn people tend to think her much younger than she is. The author specifically talks about how many Japanese women whose work has them travel or interact with foreigners experience this very frequently, sometimes even being legitimately mistaken for children.
openRating ignorance
A character plays a video game or watches something they must not, as they are younger than the rating allows. Usually Played For The Laughs to show how "bad" someone is.
Is there a named trope for the recurring use in anime of German words, German characters or elements of German culture? I mean how often Germany or characters with German names seem to be employed in anime, with many fictional settings just being a Fantasy Counterpart Culture of Germany itself.