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One person is humiliated by two people at once, who are teasing them and treating them like the next Meg Griffin
What is this trope?
openIs there no "Deliberate Fanservice Girl" trope?
We have the Innocent Fanservice Girl, who either doesn't notice what's showing or doesn't realize that there's anything wrong with showing it, the Reluctant Fanservice Girl, who seriously hates how she ended up showing it, and the Shameless Fanservice Girl, who knows what's showing, and why she shouldn't show it, but honestly doesn't give a flip about such rules. However, there's one "Fanservice Girl" we don't seem to have: the "Deliberate" Fanservice Girl who specifically seeks to show it. May extend to people that deliberately let a certain person catch a peek to get their attention/desire, all the way to exhibitionists who get a kick out of showing. Thing is, Shameless Fanservice Girl is rather clear that it isn't this. The laconic version is someone who knows but doesn't care, and the long description specifically notes that things like exhibitionism where one is actually seeking to expose themselves are not part of this trope. While it's not as common, I have seen a fair number of stories with exhibitionists, and a lot where people deliberately dress to give people an eyeful, but I haven't seen any specific trope used to reference this in such characters, or often they're labeled as "Shameless" despite them being quite distinct from said trope.
opencharacter from a dream appears in real life
What's the trope for when someone has a dream (usually a recurring dream) about some imaginary (or so they think) person, only for them to later meet the dream person in real life?
resolved How did you get into my room?
I'm pretty sure that Batman does this a few times, but in any case, what is the trope for when a character breaks in another character's place and waits till they return to talk to them? I can't seem to find it.
openNo Title
In "The Giggle", there is a scene where a communication satellite is shot by a laser, and the screen goes "SIGNAL TERMINATED" exactly as if it was your actual TV losing signal... I can't help but feel there's a trope here, maybe some kind of Metafictional Device, but can't quite put my finger on the exact one. Help, please.
openSink-or-Swim Tutorial
A game that does not have a tutorial, or at least only has a very short and trimmed one — you're dumped into the game world with little to no instructions or tips and are expected to basically just figure things out on your own.
openParent doesn't like friend
A mom or dad who doesn't like the friends their child has. Doesn't matter if it's romantic or platonic, they don't want them to be friends with their child.
openAsk and you shall receive?
Is there a trope for when a character wants something and gets it simply by asking nicely?
Politeness Judo is the closest one I've found. Is there a more appropriate trope?
resolved Character Thinks The Past Villains Are Holograms When Surrounded But They Are Real
This Trope Is That In Season 3 Of "The Epic Tales Of Captain Underpants" The Past Villains Were Halograms, But I'm Wondering If Theirs a Trope Were The Past Villains Are Real.
openVictims NEVER have a gun
I know this is a case of being necessary for the plot, but while watching so many films of innocent people being stalked, terrorized, robbed, killed, etc. by the villain/gang member/serial killer/burglar/carjacker/stalker/crazed husband/crazed ex-husband/crazed boyfriend/crazed ex-boyfriend/crazed wife/crazed ex-wife/crazed girlfriend/crazed ex-girlfriend/territorial drug dealer/recently released ex-convict/psycho cop/creepy neighbor/school bully/stalker with a crush etc., I'd like to see more scenes of the small defenseless woman getting threatened by the serial killer and doing a "say hello to my little friend" while pulling a gun out of her purse and emptying the magazine into him. For films set in the US, we need a trope called No One Ever Heard Of The Second Amendment or something. I know much of this is due to this troper being an ex-cop and combat veteran who carries a gun everywhere, and that if we didn't have this than most of the movies I go to would be over before I took the first bite out of my popcorn. NOT trying to use this to start a debate on gun rights or gun control.
openSuspiciously similar visual
Do we have something, be it trope, YMMV or tivia, that covers the case when some work's visual/artwork is similar to another's?
openAquaman Unavailable For The Job
Instead of "highly-specific scenario happens to give specialized character time to shine", it's "for dramatic / Cringe Comedy reasons, the scenario happens to the least-suited character".
e.g. the heroes need to Bring News Back, but all of them are in some way incapacitated, and so it falls to the scrawny, asthmatic, nerdy guy to run through two forests and a mountain without getting lost. Or The Big Guy is stuck trying to fend off a Media Scrum that The Face could have handled in his sleep; the guy who Cannot Talk to Women needs to persuade The Baroness to give up the cause of evil instead of The Casanova; the Shrinking Violet needs to cosplay a Genki Girl, etc.
Usually they succeed.
Edited by Chabal2openWhat is this trope again? Literature
Character A is an orphan, adopted into a very wealthy family. Character A has a hard time adjusting to his new life, but character A's sisters, with various professions, starts teaching character A. When he gets tested in an exam from each of them, character A, for some reason, passes it with flying colors by accident, as he just does them half-assedly, to the point he accidentally invented something new for humanity.
openawoman has no social skills in a relationship due to nature
Poor Things Little Mermaid My Stepmother is an Alien Splash
I'm told Born Yesterday is like this
resolved What is this trope called?
What is the trope where a character seeks revenge on the person who killed their love interest?
openSurprisingly Cynical Moment
Alice and Bob live in a Sugar Bowl of happiness and healing. The sun is always shining, there's never a bad word, all the villains can be reformed, and with effort, hope and friendship can overcome all. Bob says life is just fine!
Alice stops smiling and turns to the camera. Life's not fine at all, she intones. There's several wars going on with no end in sight, powered by a tribalistic human desire to cause suffering to the other tribe. Political divisions are at an all-time high because greedy Mega Corps drive extremist viewpoints for profit. Your ability to focus has been shattered by consumable, forgettable pop culture. And for the kids in the audience, Growing Up Sucks. You're going to watch your parents die when you get old. Kids are going to bully you just because. You're going to be stuck working a job you hate just to keep a roof over your head, wishing desperately to be anywhere else as your dreams of being an astronaut or a movie start disappear completely. And even if you somehow find happiness, you're probably going to get cancer and die out of the blue someday.
Bob is sobbing. Suddenly, Alice is all smiles. She's just kidding! Back to your regularly scheduled happiness!
TL;DR: A really cynical moment in an otherwise very lighthearted work, especially one that goes against the show's themes — Humans Are Bastards in a work where the only bad guys were simply trying to save their family, how no one will miss you when you're dead in a work that emphasises The Power of Friendship, romantic love always being doomed to fail in a work that preaches being kind.
Examples include the Spongebob joke about "life on the outside" being no different from prison or The Powerpuff Girls episode where they move to a crime-ridden Urban Hellscape where everything they do either hurts someone or invites vicious mockery from asshole kids.
Related: Black Comedy Burst, Author Tract, Out-of-Character Moment, Hard Truth Aesop, Parental Bonus, Deconstruction
Edited by MsOranjeDiscoDanceropenRetroactively Important Backwater
A work introduces the protagonist or other important character as coming from a place or faction that is a complete obscure backwater, so that it's a surprise someone from there would have such an influence on global events. However, when a prequel comes around, due to trying to reproduce the nostalgia of the original, major characters and plot points continue to originate from that place/faction as if it's the center of the fictional universe rather than just picking new places in the setting to give characters an obscure origin from.
I.e how in Lord of the Rings it's noted to be very unusual that humble hobbits, who mostly stick to their corner of the world, are playing a role in global events, but then in Rings Of Power hobbits are still playing important role even in the second age. Or in The Hunger Games where it's unusual that the protagonist is from District 12 which is mostly forgotten and doesn't produce winners of the games, but then the the prequel centers around district 12 again rather than another of the districts (this doesn't contradict previous canon since it was established there were 2 winners from there, but they still made a choice to use the same district as the focus twice despite it being said to be rarely focused on). Or, I'm not that familiar with Star Wars, but as I understand it was a complaint that the original movies introduced the protagonist as coming from Tatooine which was established to be the middle of nowhere where Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here, but then in the prequels everything important seemed to happen there.
Two characters carry on a ridiculous conversation whose subject matter is completely irrelevant to the story. The only reason it matters is because there is an ongoing conversation, either so they have something to do before something important happens or possibly to provide a reason for why they might be distracted.