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openGetting the grade but failing the test Film
Is there a trope where a character passes an exam even though they failed it, and this happens because of an unrelated action the character did in the past. "You saved my/father's life" is one that comes to mind. This is specifically not them trying to cheat it. Thanks.
openreverse funny aneurysm
in a flashback when a character facetiously says "i hope [this thing] happens" when we've already seen it happen in the main story. usually it's a tragic thing. kinda like harsher in hindsight or reverse funny aneurysm or reverse foreshadowing. like in three billboards when the daughter is like "i hope i get raped" or in the wilds when fatin tells jeanette "this plane could take a nosedive into the ocean and i would not give a shit who you are"
i guess it's kinda like tempting fate but we've already seen fate play out so there's the added irony?
openConviction by facial expression mismatch?
I remember a trope where someone may be convicted of/accused of something they didn't do because their reactions aren't what's 'expected' (e.g. a nervous/fearful grin being taken as an unrepentant, 'I admit to guilt and regret nothing' grin).
openAdaptation family expansion Live Action TV
Is there a trope where a new version of a property gives the main character a big family expansion?
For example, a series had its main character be an only child and their parents only occasionally appearing, no aunts or uncles, and no children until near the end of the series. Then, a reboot happens, and suddenly the parents are regulars, the main character has siblings, and they not only have kids, but multiple teenagers as well.
openEverything is gonna be alright again
A character believes that if they do X anything will be okay again. Usually, it's not. For example, a character plans to bring a loved one back from the dead and if it succeeds, everything will be good.
openGood meal relief
When a character is moved to tears after tasting a good meal for the first time in ages (after a famine or some time on the run for example).
Edited by LyendithopenSatisfying Level Ending
Ending a level off on a high-note, such as with a fast-paced journey to the exit where you're basically invincible.
Drawn to Life has a bunch of these; levels tend to end with the player getting to do things like snowboard, surf, zipline, and bounce directly to the exit, with tons of coins and no enemies.
openTLP draft about twins begetting twins?
I could have sworn we had a TLP draft about someone being a twin as foreshadowing (either another relative is a secret twin, like Gravity Falls or they themselves will have twins). I can't find it in my history or through search; was it discarded? I was reminded of it with WandaVision's third episode.
Edited by SynchronicityopenA fire or an explosion started by accident with a cigarette
Is there a trope for when someone starts a fire or an explosion by accident with a cigarette? For example, in Idol Hakkenden's post-Act 2 vignette, Midori decides to have a cigarette break, but she lights one next to fireworks and it triggers an explosion. Thank you
openThat's Where I Was Going Again!
A deliberate aversion of Now, Where Was I Going Again?. This may include a story summary in the menu, rewatchable cutscenes, a log of what you've done in the game so far, or friends and party members reminding you what you have to do.
I find it kind of messy to mix in straight examples and deliberate aversions. Do we already have a trope that's the inverse? Or should one be made?
openLasers Attract Cats
Cats being attracted by laser pointers, which I've occasionally seen used or alluded to with other kinds of laser-type stuff, like the laser light show in Phineas and Ferb which had a bunch of cats following it. I think I've also seen a popular Internet joke along the lines of "lasers are one of the most versatile things mankind has ever created, and we use them to entertain cats".
openComedic artist's interpretation or re-enactment of an event
A comedic trope where an event will be represented with a re-enactment that is comically, obviously exaggerated or barely anything like the real thing, often to the detriment of the people that were actually in it. Perhaps something like Facial Composite Failure but for events. Or "Rashomon"-Style but it's only one retelling.
Edited by CookieFiendopenOverlapping Non-Overlapping Commandments
A list of rules, desiderata, maxims, principles etc. is enumerated, but one particular item is repeated, perhaps more than once. For comical effect, the list is presented as a fairly set in stone sort of thing where you would expect the set of items to be carefully selected to be exhaustive and mutually exclusive - so that any repetition seem incongruous.
Variant one: the repeated item is clearly something that the lister is preoccupied with. E.g. a homophobic boys' club, every other rule being "no poofters" (Monty Python).
Variant two: the lister confidently promised n items but runs out and tries to blag it. E.g. the five Ds of dodgeball. "Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive... and Dodge."
Variant three: the repetition is presented as genuinely different. E.g. "single yellow line: no parking; double yellow line: _absolutely positively_ no parking"
openBlind wedding
An Arranged Marriage where you don't meet your spouse until the wedding or shortly before
openDating a girl you don't like to get closer to her friend.
The title basically covers it. A character who starts a relationship with a girl he finds unattractive so he can try to win over her attractive friend.
openDenied Reveal
In one episode of Boboiboy Galaxy note (the soft reboot and sequel series of BoBoiBoy), the main ensemble of heroes retrieve a power sphera note (type of spherical space robot) called Databot from an old space archive in hopes of finding the info to unlock Boboiboy's Light power, since Databot contained info on all power spheras.
However, after asking how to unlock said elemental power, Databot took some time to answer - 5 days in fact - by that time the heroes had already moved Databot to their headquarters and were losing hope. Just as almost everyone leaves the storage room with the processing Databot in it, only does Databot stop loading and speaks:
- "Data processing complete! The Light Element! From Sinarbot. Has three levels. To activate. Users need to increase. Their intellect. To a higher level. Eh? Where did everyone go?"
There is one person left in the room, the Token Adult (of the humans) Papa Zola, who replies
- "What kind of a joke is this?! The Light power comes from Ochobot! Not some Sinarbot!""Well actually—"
This is quite a reveal to the audience at least in the sense that it has been known since the start of the original series that Boboiboy's powers as well as his friends' powers were given to them by Ochobot, so it was highly assumed that the powers came from him, not from another power sphera. Databot's response highly alludes that - not just the light power, but rather - every power Ochobot gave the main ensemble was from a different source. I'm unsure if they did check in on him later, but basically The Reveal was made, but it wasn't believed in.
Other tropes regarding this scene I guess I'm also looking for a trope regarding that the heroes were so close to getting their answer but left just before it happened. I'm also not sure if Dramatic Ellipsis is the right trope regarding that Databot just talks slowly.
Clip is here. I recommend turning on captions.
Edited by BlackFaithStaropenAlternative Lyrics Interpretation?
Is there a trope that defines song lyrics which are subject to multiple interpretations about what they really mean? I'm specifically thinking about Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind": "How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man? (...) The answer is blowin' in the wind". According to Wikipedia, some people believe that the singer is stating that the answer to his question is as obvious as the wind blowing in the listener's face; whereas others believe he is saying that the answer is impossible to grasp, much like air itself.
opennewfound alies level only Videogame
a stage in which the main character only has allies gained during stage
Edited by Baolen2445
Written-In Infirmity is for characters who have their actors' injuries, but this example is just an actor being injured and the episode being written to prevent her exacerbating her injury.
Specifically, Jenna Fisher injured her back before shooting for Season 4 of The Office and so they had her and Jim walk during the Fun Run, but at no point is Pam said to be injured, so it isn't Written-In Infirmity.
Can I just put it under Actor-Inspired Element?