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openWatching through fingers
Is there a trope for when someone watches a horror movie, covers his eyes in terror, and parts his fingers just enough to continue watching.
Referenced in Ready Player One:
- Aech: I've never seen The Shining. Is it scary? Sho: I have to watch it through my fingers.
openDoor tropes
1. Is there a trope where people beg to come inside a room by banging on the door when it's locked? 2. Does Door Fu count when people barge in by kicking the door off its hinges?
openName-dropping future "classics"
You've all seen this one. The work takes in the future and you hear a line like, "classical composers, like Mozart, Beethoven, or Lil Nas X".
openNaming baby after friend
When somebody names their new baby after a close friend. Obviously a supertrope to Dead Guy Junior but I can't seem to find something broader.
openAbrupt zoom-in for spooky effect Western Animation
The camera suddenly zooms in on a scary-looking tree or ghost or whatever. Used a lot in the Thomas the Tank Engine music video "Boo Boo Choo Choo!"
openDiscard the Weapon
A character has a weapon—gun, sword or whatever—and they throw it away so they can engage their enemy in hand-to-hand combat. Reasons for this may vary. The enemy may also discard their weapon(s) out of agreement.
Edited by Kevjro7openSave File Pathos Videogame
Where a game treats save files with a sort of emotional importance (i.e., asking if you're sure you want to delete one while making you feel sorry for it, or making the file representative of something like having it represent your town in animal crossing). It feels almost like a subcategory of Player Punch, though I'm not sure if it would quite fit. Not sure if this occurs often enough to be a trope, but I've seen a few examples of it.
openMeta Madness
A character in a fictional who is insane (or in an altered state of mind, e.g. drugs or hallucinating), and this insanity is shown by noticing the Fourth Wall and knowing he's a fictional character.
Best example would be Deadpool.
openOfficer-Enlisted Rivalry Live Action TV
Mr. Harridan, a Navy veteran who reached the rank of chief petty officer, expects an apology from Commander Rabb in the JAG episode "Heroes." Rabb wants to talk to Mr. Harridan in private. Mr. Harridan says this is because officers don't like to apologize to enlisted in public. Of course Rabb's not there to apologize, but that's not relevant to this trope.
This is a little bit like Interservice Rivalry and Don't Call Me "Sir", and I thought either of those would point me in the right direction, but no luck.
openPoor drawing skills independently verified
Lt. Commander Harmon Rabb on JAG has many different skills, none of them in the visual arts. In "Jinx", he makes animal-shaped pancakes for Anne Pendry and her son Josh. One of the pancakes is supposed to look like a pterodactyl, but Anne says it looks like a cow. Anne leaves for work and Lt. Roberts shows up and seems to be genuinely impressed by the pterodactyl pancake, saying "Cool, a cow!"
I feel like we already have this trope listed but I don't think I would ever guess what the title of it is.
openSeeing someone you lost in someone else. Anime
Trope when a character meets someone who reminds them heavily of someone they lost due to looking like them and similarities in behavior. This isn't a ghost though.
openSeeing someone you lost in someone else. Anime
Trope when a character meets someone who reminds them heavily of someone they lost due to looking like them and similarities in behavior. This isn't a ghost though.
openProbably related to Adoptive Peer Parent.
Let's say, legally, Alice (21 years old) is Bob (4 years old)'s adoptive mother, which of course makes Alice Bob's Adoptive Peer Parent. However, other than in legal papers, both Alice and Bob construe their relationships as siblings, rather than parent-child.
Is there a trope for the italicized part?
openRapid-Fire Cutting
A sub-trope of a Montage, this is when the video repeatedly cuts between various similar things happening in rapid succession, usually to exaggerate just how many times it happens without disrupting the pace of the rest of the work.
Two examples immediately come to my mind, this clip from The Iron Giant (also an example of the cutting gradually speeding up), and this clip from a Minecraft video to speed up resource gathering.
Do we have a trope for this? Or should I take it to the Trope Launch Pad?
openWish Induced Reset Button
A wish is made to the genie/whatever to have never met them, like in Wishmaster, thus being a Reset Button on the series of events
openboss in mook level/rank
That One Boss is on same rank as a mook you encountered ex: The Dragon mela is aren't promoted to Elite Mooks but hits really hard than Big Bad evulz
When a work such as a book gets adapted into a film, it gets a special alternate cover based off the film.