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openAgents categorised into specialty groups
Is there a trope that describes a system where those involved are categorised fill a specific role in a team?
In Ejen Ali, the agency of M.A.T.A. has each agent fill one of four "cores" or "pillars", those being Tekno, Neuro, Kombat and Inviso.
- Neuro agents are the strategists and leaders, usually wearing yellow outfits with hints of green.
- Tekno agents specialise in gadgetry and appear in mainly red and white.
- Inviso agents are agile, cunning and masters of disguise and deception. Usually wear silver and gray clothing.
- Kombat, as the name implies kombat is Malay for combat, are masters of combat, in primarily blue attire with yellow as a secondary color.
openWhen constant resurrections and invicibility stop being a problem
Normally is considered that things like constant resurrections, and the heroes always coming on top because they are way more powerful than their villains, are a problem for narrative stakes. There is no fear or tension of the hero losing because he always demostrates to be stronger, and no fear of not seeing a character again, because everyone else already died and came back.
But what I'm thinking of is that nowadays, there are coming a lot of stories that run with that kind of tropes straight. Completly aware of them, many times making them front and center of their narrative, and still making it interesting. I'm thinking works like Immortal Hulk, Jonathan Hickman's current run on the X-Men, Overlord 2012 and One-Punch Man.
So I wanted to know, is there a named trope that tries to describe this phenomenom? I know that in general you could simply see them as examples of subverted tropes. But I just see something more specific on it. Just picking a trope that is considered completly detrimental to any kind of story in any instance, and make it work anyways. Or do you think it's simply not specific enough to be worth naming?
openBreakdown on stage
A person breaks down crying or something while performing something live, such as a play.
openTaking the place of your alternate self
Ok, this may be complicated, so bear with me.
This is a Time Travel trope. Basically, Alice travels back to the past and changes something there, in turn changing the future. Alice-1 returns to the future to find that some things have changed regarding her life, for example, her sibling has ceased to exist or she never met her original timeline love interest. Also, Alice-2 had a completely different personality than Alice-1. So now Alice-1 is stuck in a new timeline, without memories of the new timeline, or the characteristics of her new self.
Does that make sense? It’s happened in Eureka and Back To The Future, so I know there’s a trope in there, but it doesn’t seem like there’s anything like it on here.
openSaving yourself into a corner Videogame
Is there a trope for when a person saves the game at a bad spot so that they are guaranteed to just die again when they reload (such as being really low on health and saving just a split second before a projectile is about to hit you and you don't have time to dodge)? Typically this only happens in games with at-will saving, as game designers are generally smart enough not to put a Save Point somewhere super dangerous, although it could still happen if said save points don't also refill the player's health/ammo.
openPooping unicorns
Unicorns are usually portrayed as animals who poop a lot, often with technicolor poop.
openreluctant pining
I saw that phrase in a YT comment and I don't really know what it means? But I guess it's like when someone likes someone else romantically but lies through their teeth about it. Like... A likes B, C says that B is cute or something like that and A reacts like "I have no statement or opinion on this matter" but on the inside every cell in their body is yelling in agreement
openTear Breaking Point
What trope is like Rage Breaking Point, only for someone to lose their sadness instead of rage? I really need some help here.
openWhen only one gives the chilly reception
The kid agent is introduced to the academy and all the students there are rather receptive towards the newcomer because the tale of his takedown on the Big Bad last season became known throughout the agency.
All but one. That one student who gives our hero the cold shoulder in his introduction.
Is there a trope for when only one person is mean/doubtful of the newbie?
openExposed Shield Generator
A particular bit of unquestioned Fridge Logic (the reason is obvious from an outside perspective: the player needs something to do) common in sci-fi games where a force field generator (or other obstacle like defensive turrets) isn't covered by its own shield.
Edited by Chabal2openTrapped when the thing begins moving
A characters gets a part of their body or a thing attached to their body stuck to some thing while said thing begins moving.
Edited by jandn2014open Team vitals monitor
This is some sort of station or monitor where the vital signs and other information about the members of a team or crew are all kept track of, and drama can ensue when people's vital signs change or end as they're injured or killed. I'm thinking of the station in the APC in Aliens where Gorman is monitoring the vitals of the Colonial Marines, the Vitals station in the Polus map in Among Us where you can see which players are alive and dead, and the NERV station in Neon Genesis Evangelion where the stats of the Evas and their pilots are observed during battle.
Do we have something for this?
openPouring Gasoline to create arson
What's the trope where a character gets a jerry can to douse a victim with gasoline and then lights them on fire?
openFantastic Medals and Awards
Do we have anything for fictional medals and honors? Couple of examples the Silver Star for Valor in Babylon 5 and the Order of Merlin from Harry Potter.
For that matter do we have an index for such things? There's an Awards Index, but that seems to be exclusively real life awards.
Edited by TallensopenPutting off Death
It's when a terminally ill character puts off their death through willpower until they reach an event of some sort, like a birthday or celebration, and then allow themselves to succumb to the inevitable.
A character whose primary motivation is to nullify something that threatens their life.
Dirty Coward probably fits, but I feel like there's something more specific as well...