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openFind a person wants McGuffin
The Hero had MacGuffin (latter or sooner) and the plot want hero sends the macguffin
openYou Don't Need to Know
Is there a trope for the character who reflexively keeps secrets, usually "for your own good" or "for the public good?" I'm not talking about making information classified, but routinely either burying it or hiding it behind a cover story, even when there isn't a need for it. This would be the polar opposite of "Loose Lips" and sometimes results in a character challenging them with If You Won't, I Will, to force a revelation.
openTemporary theme tune
Do we have a trope for when a show replaces its theme song for a single episode? Replaced the Theme Tune seems to be about long-term changes, but I'm thinking more about when the theme song gets replaced for a gag, or to introduce a Lower-Deck Episode or something. BoJack Horseman and South Park did it a few times.
openFaking an injury
More or less Exactly What It Says on the Tin, a character fakes being injured or exaggerates a real injury for some reason. The specific example I'm thinking of is a character overplaying a real injury so they can sue someone, kind of like Ambulance Chaser but focusing on the injured party and no the lawyer. Similar to Obfuscating Disability but regarding less seriously debilitating.
openCute Gluttony trope?
Is there a trope for when a character (most often a girl) has a "flaw" where she really loves food and eating, but it's just there to make her seem cute and relatable? I've seen it pop up a few times now so I wonder if a variant already exists, kind of like the faux-clumsy trope as a character flaw.
openTechnically Alternate Identity
I wanted to put this on the Launch Pad, but I want to check that it isn't already taken. Is there a trope for where a shapeshifter uses their ability to create at least two different public identities for themselves? I'm not talking like Clark Kent and Superman, I mean like two people who look nowhere near physically alike are actually the same person. I don't want examples where shapeshifting is a side-effect of the other identity or where one of them is a known superhero, more like they made the other-selves to live in another way. Take this for example, Ray is the sous chef of a five-star restaurant, however he is also the war chieftain of a tribe of bipedal feline hunters. It doesn't matter which one is the original self.
openHistorically-Themed Supervillainy
A supervillain or evil organization whose gimmick is based on a historical period or culture— for example PYRAMID from Astro City and The Egyptian Conspiracy from Astro Boy (Ancient Egypt), Turner D Century (The Gay '90s), Maxie Zeus (Ancient Grome), and Hammerhead (1930s gangsters).
It’s a subtrope of The Gimmick and Disco Dan, but is it common enough to be a trope of its own, like Animal-Themed Superbeing?
Edited by KaiYvesopenDept Store TV Displays Film
In a department store, the display T Vs are all showing images from a nearby unseen video camera. The hero (sometimes the villain) will be "broadcast" on 20-40 TV screens. For some reason, the devices are still operating long after the store has closed for the day.
Edited by BeechmereopenPoison vs Poison
hit by rock and your get poison, hit by same rock and poison disappear
openRegarding a trope on RWBY Web Original
In RWBY, Cinder's backstory revealed that she was enslaved by Madame and her two stepsisters for five years, and even wore a shock collar. Then, one day, Cinder snapped from the abuse, destroyed Madame's shock collar and killed her and her stepsisters.
Which trope best fits this description?
Edited by gjjonesopenBig armor mage
he looked like Magically Inept Fighter (The one weak against magic) but when Wizard Duel happens, he doesn't carry any physical weapon instead using magic and when hit by physical weapon it only scratches them
Edited by Baolen2445resolved A dog name Charles Print Comic
Is there a trope for characters such as aliens/monsters/cavemen/animals/robots having regular-sounding names, usually as a joke, or a form of Translation Convention?
openIrrelevant trait
Do we have something for characters that have some sort of trait or ability, but it's moot because of something else about them (or was moot until it comes up, and never comes up again)? e.g. a character who's really good at rock climbing, but owns a jetpack anyway, or a character with Super-Strength who serves as Mission Control (or conversely, Mission Control turns out to have Super-Strength).
Probably a sister or super trope to Ironic Fear (where they don't do the thing they can do because of a phobia) and Acrophobic Bird (when they just keep forgetting they have a useful ability).
- Vogans in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy are from an aquatic species who can swim to absurd depths, but their hat is being an Obstructive Bureaucrat to the universe so they never have time.
openJoke villain actually is useful? Western Animation
I've seen this in some cartoons:
- Alice the protagonist fights Bob who looks like a joke villain, but he's far from a joke in reality; he's as much of a Badass as Alice. However, he isn't a Lethal Joke Character, he's dangerous but no-one In-Universe believes he's that; everyone sees him as a joke.
I'm sure it was a stock trope in eighties cartoons unless I'm wrong.
Fighting Clown is the only one I can think of right now as well as Cassandra Truth.
Edited by Merseyuser1opencollector's item
Something being valued in-universe for collector's reasons, such as being a rare edition or issue #1 of an old comic series.
openFear of Being the Friend That Nobody Likes
Either one friend was jokingly told they're The Friend Nobody Likes, or they fear their friends view them as this (but it's not said out loud). They separate themselves from the group or act jealous at the friendship others in the group have until the group reassures them that they're True Companions or something like that.
The hiro encounter an impostor then rages, in gameplay it instantly kills him