Are there any villain tropes regarding evil pharmaceutical companies, or the representatives of said?

Is there a trope for when someone whose plot function is just to be kidnapped in every story arc?

Two similar ones, 1.) a trope similar to Im Dying Please Take My Macguffin, but instead of giving the character something plot important, they just give them something as a "parting gift", so to say, 2.) or a trope where after a character dies, another character wears something similar to what the dead character had worn in their memory.

is there a trope for when someone thinks they found the choosen one but they arn't really the choosen one

Hey yo. I've got two for you.

1. In Rangers Apprentice, Halt, who everyone looks up to, gets seasick. It's a Running Gag whenever the party has to travel by ship. No one is allowed to mention this and they all kind of ignore him, even though they find it hilarious.

When Kevin Bacon cameo'd in Family Guy, he feigns innocence and denies any involvement when Peter asks him about Footloose.

So basically, an Old Shame, Weaksauce Weakness, etc. that is not allowed to be exploited or brought up.

2. In Angel Densetsu, Tokiko beat up gangs and got away with it by saying "I tripped and tried to break my fall, and my foot accidentally hit you."

In the latest chapter of Kurogane, members of the kendo club can't get into fights because it endangers the entire club. So when a member gets provoked into fighting a gang, another member steps in and the two of them beat up everyone. After that, the dude says that he was just practicing swings and the other dude was shadowboxing, and the gang just happened to get in the way. That's the way they should report it, OR ELSE.

My niece told me she wasn't sticking out her tongue at me. She was just tasting the air.

Getting away with something by insisting it was something else.

Is there a trope for the following situation? :

Someone is ice skating. At one point, he keeps circling a single point, going round and round and round... then somehow manages to cut through the ice by doing this, causing either himself or who/whatever he was circling to fall into the ice-cold water.

Note that there is nothing special going on with the skates, and that the ice is sturdy enough to carry the skater; it's apparently just caused by the circling motion.

This is a cliche I've noticed for a long time that appears in films, TV shows, comic books, and other, mostly visual, media. It's when a character will pick up a picture, usually framed, in their home or office that is of someone significant (spouse, child, friend, family member, etc) and stare longingly or sentimentally at, in silence for a moment, as a way to cheaply convey that this pictured person/memory is currently on the character's mind. I see this all the time and it's kinda become a pet peeve of mine. Is this a trope?

Is there a trope where someone finds out that other characters had sex on a piece of their furniture, and then depending on what the object was, the person throws out the chair, scrubs the kitchen table, etc.

Is there a trope for how family members tend to be extremely different (particularly with regard to intelligence) despite the fact that this is unlikely due to similar genetics/environment? For example, Homer/Bart vs Lisa Simpson, Malcolm vs Reese in Malcolm in the Middle, Haley/Luke vs Alex Dunphy in Modern Family. If not, I propose naming it the "Simpson Gene", after one of The Simpsons' rationales.

Is there a trope for when something evil/noteworthy is going on but nobody/few know about it?

Also, is there a trope about using softened/deceptive/dumbed down language to make things sound not as bad as they are? I think Would Be Rude To Say Genocide and Never Say Die are basically subtropes of what I'm talking about.

Do we have a trope for a person who has superpowers/magical powers, where the bad guys know of these powers, who therefore invents a "normal" Secret Identity so they can go about and fight the baddies without said baddies instantly recognizing them and hiding? Sort of if Superman lived as Superman during his day-to-day life, and changed into Clark Kent in order to patrol the streets?

Is there one for works in which the bad guys, instead of being defeated directly by the heroes, end up confined together in a situation where they'll wind up killing themselves or each other? They could be Locked In A Room and drugged with Psycho Serum, or dumped on a deserted island where they'll soon start viewing one another through Meat O Vision, or whatever.

Is there a trope for when someone attempts a bribe and the attempted bribee refuses to do whatever they're being bribed to do, but they still pocket the money anyway?

Is there a trope for when an adaptation or spinoff is a completely different genre from the main series?

Is there a related trope to Convection Schmonvection where the character IS touching the fire or flames, but takes little to no damage?

Examples would be: 1)Cartoon (or even Live Action Comedy) characters who get engulfed in flames. The worst that happens is that they're covered in black soot for a few seconds, which they shake off and continue angrily. 2) The brave knight who goes toe to toe with a dragon, gets engulfed by the dragon's breath weapon, but he's okay because he has a tiny shield. 3) The comic-book hero or villain that gets blasted with a fire-based attack which somehow knocks them off their feet but does no other damage. (other than maybe thin smoke trails coming off their costume)

Do we have a trope for AI emotional constipation? In the early stages of Humanity Ensues, AI characters will say things about the emotions they would be experiencing, but obviously couldn't be because they "aren't programmed for emotion".

Star Trek TNG: Data notes in one episode on approaching the Neutral Zone "if I were human, I would be... nervous."

In Inspector Gadget 2, G2 tells Gadget "althougth I'm not programmed for such emotions, I must admit I find you strangely... likeable."

Is there a trope for works of fiction where the protagonist unwittingly puts the story's major conflict into motion? Like, they do something accidentally and/or impulsively that kicks off a whole series of bad events?

for example, in the novel Virtual Light by William Gibson, the whole reason one of the main characters is being pursued by the antagonists is because she stole a pair of sunglasses from a guy who was being creepy to her at a party. Unbeknownst to her, the glasses were actually a new technology the man was supposed to deliver to his employers. Several people end up injured or killed when the glasses don't reach their intended destination.

It's maybe similar to Nice Job Breaking It Hero, but I think there are distinct differences...

Looking for a trope along the lines of "Put your seatbelt on and pray" where a character is being transported in a vehicle that held together with spit and hope, that they are told "probably won't kill us". An example would be 'the crate' from Chicken Run

Nick: [aboard the flying machine] The exits are located here and here. In the quite likely event of a emergency, put your head between your knees—

Fetcher: And kiss your bum goodbye!

Do we have a trope about baritone rockers? - singers that sing with a relatively low voice despite being in a rock band. It bothers me, because i find 80-90% of rock singers to be tenor ones (while among general public it's around 30%, perhaps even lower), and i don't know anyone with a bass voice in the genre.

When the sidekick/lancer gets the lead female instead of the hero getting her

Do we have a trope where the Mac Guffin the protagonists were looking for turns out to be in the first place they started out from?

Is there a trope for when a Magnificent Bastard takes advantage of a deluded person's beliefs to make them do what they want because playing along with their distorted view of reality is the only way to reason with them?

Are there tropes for when an artstyle is cutesy, but dark things are portrayed using it? ie, cute little forest animals go on killing sprees in graphic detail.

This is where all the buildings in a certain area are completely identical, at least from the outside, either to save on animation or to create some kind of mood-setting atmosphere (usually creepy or depressing, but sometimes played to be comforting instead, which is probably much harder to do). Cut And Paste Suburb would be a sub-trope of this, but I've also seen areas with rows of identical skyscrapers, apartment buildings, factories, or what have you. Maybe these should be separate, sister tropes instead. I don't know.

EDIT: =============== Sorry, I spaced out and phrased that as if it were a suggestion and not a trope I assume is already listed but that I can't find. I'm not suggesting it. I'm just looking for it (but I also don't feel like going back and rewriting all that). Unless it doesn't exist, in which case I am suggesting it, but I'll take that to the appropriate forum should it become necessary

Is there a trope for when someone imagines kissing someone else, and they end up kissing something in the real world?

Is there a trope for when a female character (usually a teenage girl) enjoys being fawned over by guys, even nerdy ones?

is there a trope for when some one has a guardian that stays hidden so the person there protecting dosent know they exist

What do you call it when a character who is living an ordinary life finds out he or she is really royalty or The Chosen One or anything else like that?

Okay, so we have Light Is Good and Dark Is Evil, Light Is Not Good and Dark Is Not Evil as the Inverted Trope of each other. We also have The Sacred Darkness as the "ultimate logical conclusion" and "extreme form" of Dark Is Not Evil. So, do we already have an Inverted Trope counterpart to The Sacred Darkness?

Is there a trope for when a grandparent has some kind of skill or ability, the son/daughter doesn't inhert the power, but the grandchild ends up getting the exact same powers/abilities the grandparent had?

Is there any trope regarding a character doing some kind of good deed but keeps it a secret. Perhaps, for example the person may sacrifice something they've really really wanted in order to help somebody else but doesn't tell that person they've sacrificed anything. Or maybe the person secretly pays for something in order to save it (a struggling business or medical bill or something else usually expensive) but does so anonymously so the person they're helping doesn't know. Things like that. Any tropes?

Is there a trope for when a character who's been established as normal starts doing something weird once they're alone?

I couldn't find it in Queer As Tropes. I think it counts as a retcon, but I'm not sure...
In Mass Effect Deception, a character who was homosexual in the Mass Effect canon is straight, with absolutely no explanation or even any reference to his homosexuality.

Is there a trope for a story arc in which the main characters are fugitives?

Do we have a trope for the perception vs. reality gag? Here's a simple example provided by The Dog House Diaries. It's extremely common in webcomics, newspaper comics, and currently in a series of memes.

Is there a trope for when the reader (usually also the protagonist, but not necessarily) knows what's going to happen next, but most of the characters don't?

Example in Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, Harry explains that he is the true owner of the Elder Wand, and the reader gets to feel smug as Voldemort (predictably) ignores this.

Subverted in The Dresden Files Blood Rites, when Harry has spent some time preparing a counterspell, and he and the reader are feeling smug while the villainess monologues... until she reveals she messed up the counterspell already.

Played for tragedy alongside But Thou Must in Apollo Justice Ace Attorney, when we know Phoenix was disbarred because of forged evidence, and we know what that evidence is, but have no choice but to present it in the flashback case.

Do we have a trope for a drastic reshaping of the global geopolitical scene (e.g. significant redrawing of national borders, multiple and/or extreme instances of balkanization and large-scale union/annexation, upsetting of the Balance Of Power, and/or entire countries being literally erased from the face of the planet), which is usually (in)directly caused by either a global war (or several technically unrelated but simultaneous wars around the world), a planetary-scale catastrophe or some huge socio-political revolution, if not left as one huge Noodle Incident in cases of works set in the distant future?

Note: The Great Politics Mess Up only addresses conflict between a story's events and real-life geopolitical changes that make said events impossible within the bounds of Twenty Minutes Into The Future and Like Reality Unless Noted, and thus forcing the story into the realm of Alternate History / Alternate Universe.

Is there an evil version of screening the call? It seems focused on "well meaning meddler prevents heroism" rather than "S Omeone deliberately prevents the hero from getting The Call."

Is there a trope for supernatural healing of curses or other maladies by destroying the source? For example curing a guy of vampirism by killing the vampire that infects the guy in the first place.

I've actually got a few.

A group of people work/live/fight together but they don't really like each other and make little to no attempt at hiding this. They could just split up and work alone but they are stronger together and ultimately need each other.

A person who is powerful and knows it but is to much a coward to use their full potential so they simply follow the lead of others.

A person betrays their group of friends and tries to kill them. When their plan fails or they realize they've made a mistake the group welcomes them back regardless of their actions. This could be a one time thing or it could happen often.

A person who tries repeatedly to kill the same group people and has more than enough power to do so but always fails because they over estimate their enemy.

A person who feel compassion for hideous abomination and wishes to help it even though everyone else want to destroy it.

A person does a large deal of work for someone they think they can trust. They thinks their doing good but when they look back and put all the pieces together they realize they've been doing terrible things all along.

Is there a trope for when a character tries to get people's attention, but they only sort of notice or recognise him? Sounds like a Twilight Zone thing. like he's been Dead All Along or doesn't really exist or something. If it's not a trope, what works could this be from?

When a character screams, either out of pain or frustration, the camera zooms way out or cuts to some far away location, so their scream is heard faintly from a distance.

Is there a trope for this?

Is there a trope for when we learn the real name of a character that was hitherto only known by an alias or a title?

Is there a trope for getting attacked by a flock of birds?

Help needed identifying which of the various mucking about with gun tropes this one is.

Character picks up an antique flintlock pistol that was on display and waves it around as threat. Against all logic it is loaded since it goes off in someone's face, thankfully though it seems to have just been loaded with powder as all it does is give the person a vaguely sizzled looking face.

Actually, what is the trope for having a smoke blackened face?

I'm not sure how this trope is called: when no matter how badass and powerful character is, there is always someone, who will remember him when he was much younger and weaker and will always treat him this way.

Flowers For Algernon used to be a trope. Now the work has taken its place, but the trope is not on the Renamed Tropes page. What became of the trope?

What is the name of the trope for when two characters are having a conversation (usually an establishing relationship moment), with their backs to each other? Back-to-Back Badasses is the only trope I can find about being back to back, but this is more about two characters being emotionally unable to face each other during a conversation, rather than any combat advantage.

Do with have a trope for when a character voluntarily admits to their partner that they cheated on them.

Is there a trope for when aliens abduct one thing from Earth and immediately assume Earth is a Planet Of Hats based on the one thing they found?