Do we have a Fake Ultimate Attack trope? Not like when a real ultimate attack doesn't work, in Worf Barrage, but when a so-called ultimate attack actually does something far more benign and usually humorous. Like the Thousand Years of Death of Naruto fame. Or the Saotome School Ultimate Technique - run away until you think of something better. Or a couple of other attacks from Ranma 1/2, like the Bakusai Tenketsu, which doesn't actually work on people and is a mining technique.

I feel like I've seen this somewhere, but is there a trope for when a character is talking about one thing, but they're actually thinking of more than one thing? I'm not sure this is the best description, so I'll provide a lampshaded example from Avatar:

Does anyone know the name for this sound effect?

It's a high-pitched, continuous rattling sound, generally used in Western Animation (usually in kids' shows) when Friendly Tickle Torture occurs. I'd like to find the trope for it, assuming there IS one, because I'm hearing it everywhere and it's driving me up the wall.

Is there a trope for when there's a big plot twist, and they show a montage of all the moments that foreshadowed it? E.g., The Usual Suspects and Batman Arkham City.

Been searching around for this but can't find it anywhere. An episode begins with one of the main protagonists seemingly betraying or killing another protagonist, usually as the pre-credits cliffhanger. The episode then jumps back several hours/days and shows how we got to that point. It usually turns out the betrayal is either faked as part of a gambit, one of the characters is really a doppleganger, or sometimes because one of them has actually gone crazy or is being mind controlled.

Some examples include The Last Aibender episode The Runaway, where Kitara blatantly allows Toph to get captured by the Fire Nation, and a season 1 ep of Sanctuary where Will seemingly kills Helen at the start.

I want a list of the pages that involve categorizing tropes bye how little they links they have to them, its either the opposite of Overdosed Tropes or close to it. I know there is at least one page like this but i can't remember it.

Is there a trope for how classes (by this I mean individual classes during a school day) tend to last about five minutes at most? Like students walking in a classroom, sitting down and having a 3-5 minute conversation, and then the bell rings?

I was looking through the Stuff Blowing Up index looking for what covers good, old-fashioned C4, but none of them seemed to match. What would it be?

How about a trope for a character who has an impossibly teeny-tiny brain? Examples include Pinky from Pinky And The Brain, Deedee from Dexters Laboratory, and Homer from The Simpsons.

Is there a trope for multiplayer maps that are sections of levels that have been swapped over from the single player campaign of a game?

What's the entry that describes the rule where details irrelevant to the plot will have a lower chance of being mentioned in the story?

War movie tropes. That is, tropes that tend to pop up in war movies a lot. Do we have an index for those? They're not all about war per se, so Military And Warfare Superindex and its subindices aren't quite what I'm looking for, but they often pop up in war movies (and especially in parodies of war movies)

I went through a big MASH phase about 20 years ago, I should know these anyway.

Have we got this trope? It is primarily seen in Comedy. The scenario is basically this, The Hero is on the run being chased by the villain until he comes upon three lids and hides under one of them. The villain then picks up the lid, but doesn't see the hero, because the hero is hiding under the lid, and the process repeats itself with the other lids for around 30 more seconds. Of course, it doesn't have to be lids, as it can also be jars, garbage cans, or vases. Do We Have This One?

Do we have a trope for the "Is the glass half empty or half full" scenario? I guess that since it might be thought of as a Stock Phrase, we can't add it if we don't have it, but the number of variations and jokes now made about it ("the glass is filled with petrol", "the glass is broken", "whatever's in the glass isn't what I ordered") seems to warrant it...

Is there a trope for where there's a clear discrepancy between Stock Footage and the actual circumstances? For instance, if a Magical Girl in her normal form has Clothing Damage before her Transformation Sequence, but her fully intact outfit is briefly shown at the start of the sequence? Or more jarringly, she is wearing a different outfit for whatever reason, then briefly flashes to her standard civilian clothes at the start of the transformation sequence? Or if a group transformation sequence shows a character who is actually not there, and it's not a Reveal or a Big Damn Heroes, and she's still not there after the sequence; she was only in the sequence because They Just Didnt Care and couldn't be botherd to cut her out?

Also is there a "Generic Background" trope?

Where is complaining about shows you don't watch, except you do watch and hate every minute of them?

Looking for a comedic trope in which someone treats something fairly innocent as if it's far more erotic than it actually is.

e.g. Treating an exposed ankle like full-frontal nudity or getting hot and bothered by watching someone eat normally (and not by actual Erotic Eating).

Don't we have a trope on tumbleweeds?

Is there a trope for that thing in video games where the player loses the last bit of health getting knocked to the ground, but they don't die until after they get back up into their default pose?

Is there a trope for a weapon in videogame that you can equip use like a normal one, but it kills you right away or even brings about a non-standard gameover?

Is there a trope for this?

In The Mask, everyone except Kellaway assumes Dorian was The Mask the entire time, even though Stanley Mask and Dorian Mask look and act very different.

Alright, suppose the you have a setting in which there are multiple religions, but only a few actual deities. The few deities take prayers/faith from ALL of the many religions, even if those religions don't specifically address the right deity by name, on the basis of relevance. In this way, you can acknowledge many beliefs without needing to dive into All Myths Are True.

For example, in the The Last Battle (last book of the Chronicles of Narnia), Aslan mentions that all well-intentioned prayers go to him, no matter who speaks them or what god they're supposedly meant for. Conversely, all ill-intentioned prayers go to Tash, Aslan's satanic counterpart.

I think this is a trope, or used to be, but I can't find it, and I looked through the whole religion index.

Could somebody remind me of the trope where one writing system is written in the style of another? I specifically remember the page image being a scene from Aladdin where the sign over the stand is an example.

Is there a trope for when someone who looks big and hulking shows off uncharacteristic grace and agility?

Not being a Lightning Bruiser per se but the deliberate comedic mismatch between "slow and ponderous appearance" and "nimble fighting style." More like Acrofatic with muscles instead of fat.

Doesn't necessarily have to be limited to fighting, though the example I'm thinking of is. Could be ballroom dancing or buildings ships in bottles or something.

Do we have a trope about when the bad guy lives close enough to the heroes that he can attack them on a regular basis and anytime at all, but they're not visibly worried about this? Like Igthorn living close to the gummi bears, or Gargamel always planning some new way to get at the smurfs. I guess it would be a subtrope of Angst What Angst

Do we have a video game lives trope where "extra lives" are actually successors, heirs etc?

Putting to YKTTW.

In comic books, there are some situations where we can see aliens or foreign characters talking among themselves, with no English speaking characters around. In old works, Aliens Speaking English was enough: all characters from everywhere talk in English, and that's it. More modern comic books are aware of the trope and try to avoid it: the texts are written in English because the reader has to understand what's written there (unless it's Black Speech), but the text follows some convention that points that the characters are actually talking in another language, and the text in English is just for the reader's convenience. For example, the texts in foreign language may be tagged as <foreign text> or <<foreign text>> (for example, here◊), they may be written with a special font, etc.

Is there a trope for a situation where a character exclaims "I have a great idea!" and it turns out that the idea, rationally speaking, is totally nonsensical or absolutely stupid... but it works anyway, at least for a while? I can't think of a specific example, but I know it happens a ton in recent cartoons like Adventure Time.

Is there something for What The Hell Hero without the "What the Hell"? That is, a hero does something bad but no one calls them on it (but the audience wants to)?

The main page suggests Moral Dissonance, but that seems too extreme; sometimes the series isn't saying what the hero did was necessarily right; they just had a moment of weakness and no one called them on it.

Is there a trope for something humorous that happens off-screen that we only get to see a very little bit of or are left with only the implication of what happened?

Is there a trope for an episode that's based on a noir-esque setting, with the main character acting as a detective? I know that I've seen it in a couple episodes of Codename Kids Next Door, but I'm not sure.

Is there a trope for when the creators of a work troll their fanbase in the work? Example: in The Legend Of Korra, when Katara is about to reveal what happened to Zuko's mom but is interrupted by one of the characters.

Is there an entry here for when the sequel undoes some change from the end of the first movie to keep the sequel more like the first one?

For examples: At the end of the Transformers movie, Bumblebee gets his voicechip repaired, but it breaks by the time the second movie starts. Or at the end of Men in Black, Tommy Lee Jones retires from the MIB and Will Smith gets a new partner. Then in MIB 2, his new partner is gone, and he has to bring Tommy Lee Jones out of retirement.

Maybe just Status Quo Is God, but maybe More Specific than that.

The detective (or similar character) is not really sure whether or not a particular suspect committed the crime, but intentionally — and very emotionally — accuses him anyway, hoping that he therefore confesses, if he is in fact guilty. Not identical to Lying To The Perp because the person may well not be the perp (and probably isn't, since it's such a simple method that it's not a terribly interesting way to reach the end of the story).

The heroes/villains are looking for someone in a crowd, when they see someone from the back with similar same hair/clothing, run up and grab them, sometimes while shouting an angry accusation...only to find they're a complete stranger. Sometimes the fugitive in question has given them their clothes as a deliberate distraction.

There's a certain trope of anger that I'm not sure of what to classify. I think it's somewhere in between AxCrazy and Freak Out, but here's the general idea of it.

A character sees something that they really shouldn't have, and go from normal and calm to...well, the appropriate description here is that they have completely and utterly lost their shit. I'm not talking about Angrish spewing roid-rage that results in someone being beaten up, profanities being yelled, stomping around and breaking things - no, this is above and beyond that type of anger in all ways. They are gone. All sense of restraint, fear, pain, and concern for the person's own well-being have been completely driven out of the character's mind. All they can think of doing, all they can fathom in their state of mind is destroying or killing whatever it is that has harmed them. I'm talking about gnashing teeth, slobbering trails of spit at the edge of the mouth, nothing but howls and snarls and occasional gibberish with no sign of articulation or even communication linked to them, the use of teeth and nails to hysterically try to dig out the villains jugular vein as if though their life depended on it, weapons more complex than a club or a baseball bat are seldom if ever used, and the character affected by this state of mind will stop at nothing, literally /nothing/ to crush, kill, burn, and destroy everything about the object of his or her uncontained hatred. To laconicize all the above examples, the character's consciousness has reverted to an extremely primal and animalistic state of mind, which can only understand one thing and one thing only: MAIM, KILL, BURN, MAIM, KILL, BURN.

So, basically the Berserk Button trope, only cranked up to 11-billion and beyod. What would you call that?

What's the trope for something is new in an old series, therefore it sucks?

Is there a specific trope for when men get Helium Speech from a Groin Attack?

A person is on death's doorstep, but if they stay down, they'll survive. They don't stay down and move, ensuring their soon death. I know it's a Heroic Sacrifice, but is there anything specific to where a person could have survived, but didn't?

Is there a trope to describe someone who's annoying, but the annoying part (or personality) is the charming part of the character? Is it possible for a character to be lovable (to the audience, at least) and annoying at the same time?

Is there a trope name for when a film (possibly sometimes something else, eg. a TV series, but it's usually a film) appears to be a pure sequel to another film (or sometimes an independent installation using the same basic premise), but in the very last minutes, in a kind of twist ending, it's revealed that it's actually a direct prequel to the original film? Usually the film is purposefully set up as if it were a sequel, and it being a prequel is kept as a surprise until the very end. (This isn't a very common trope, but it is sometimes used.)

What's the trope that involves those special weapons or tools that the heroes carry, which more than just being useful, serve as a symbol of their status as the heroes, often it's a special item that The Chosen One will recieve upon accepting his destiny.

There's a page for No Antagonist, but do we have an article for works that have no protagonist? Like the movies Koyaanisqatsi and Bodysong, or Peter Kuper's comic book The System. Mostly these are collages of vignettes focusing on processes instead of people. Sometimes they don't show humans at all, and only depict natural phemonena and things like that.

I don't recall any fictional examples but it sounds like something that should be in fiction. Basically someone does there job and then suffers serious harmed for a reason related to their job, and it is the employer who does it (or an associate or whatever). for example people who helped build the Taj Mahal got their hands cut off so they couldn't make any more awesome stuff, that way nothing could approach the one of a kind masterpiece that is the Taj Mahal. Another example is the Builders of Chin's (the first leader of unified china) grave where put to death so no-one would know where the traps are.

Is there a trope for a musical or an animated musical movie (like disney's stuff) Where the good characters start singing a song and the villans or the complainer starts to join in too, but willingly? For example, In the PB&J otter series when the other two otters start singing the blue one never wants to join in but starts dancing as well.

I'm sure this has happened in every medium ever, but the two examples I can think of immediately are from: "Glee" (don't ask...) where Jane Lynch tells Lea Michele and some other girl that they've each been badmouthing the other behind their backs, AND THEY FREAKIN' BELIEVE HER; and "The Simpsons," where it was parodied in S 20 E 18 "Father Knows Worst, when Lisa takes Homer's book on popularity and tells Lenny and Carl, "One of you said something bad about the other."

A character uses his bandage to smuggle around an object, such as stolen goods or a Mac Guffin.

Is there a trope for when in foreign dubs, instead of translating on-screen words with subtitles, the scene is actually edited so the text is changed to the country's respective language?

Is there a trope for when people fight over something in a store?

Is there a trope related to the frequently encountered assumption that writers of horror must be creepy characters themselves? (They almost never are. The prototypical example is E.T.A. Hoffmann, early-nineteenth-century writer of stories about deranged characters, widely reported to be deranged himself, which couldn't be farther from the truth.)

Edited to add: This surely belongs on the Public Medium Ignorance index, but I didn't see anything quite relevant there.