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openBad Guy Kinda did Something "Good" by Accident Webcomic
I need help with an example for the Sandra on the Rocks character page, 'cuz it's kind of like a circle.
Sandra is the POV character who the readers are meant to sympathize with and root for because she's a nice gal type. Except she repeatedly cheated on her boyfriend, Pierre, without him knowing about it.
Eloise is an antagonist to Sandra, because it's one of those stories where the good guy always has what the bad guy wants and is seemingly better than them at everything. That includes Pierre, who just so happens to be Eloise's cousin and her secret crush.
So: After finding out about Sandra's infidelity, Eloise arranges it so Pierre finds out about it in order to break them up so she can have Pierre for herself. The plan works, causing Pierre to dump Sandra and Eloise hooks up with her cousin afterward.
This makes it seem that The Bad Guy Wins, except had Eloise not brought Sandra's cheating habits to Pierre's attention, they'd still be together and Sandra would've continued to cheat behind his back because she was never going to tell him about it. So Eloise sort of did Pierre a favor, albeit for selfish reasons.
How would you categorize that situation?
Edited by MiinUopenCo-ed living situations Webcomic
I'm trying to find a suitable trope for a detail in the webcomic Magellan. I'm just not sure how prevalent it is in any other medium. In it, the superpowered cadets have a co-ed living situation, which includes sharing not only their dorms, but also their showers with both sexes. It's partially to inoculate them to the uniforms they'll be wearing later on, since it's hard to be distracted by a boob window or a skimpy leotard when you've already seen that person naked for six years.
openA sequel that's more of a coda. Webcomic
Is there a trope name for story that's technically a sequel but really doesn't stand very strongly as a unique story? It's the case where the reader really has to have read the first installment in order for the sequel to make sense? Basically, the sequel is really more of an extended coda to the first installment.
openExpressive body part? Webcomic
This is a weirdly specific question. One of the main characters in Headless Bliss is a humanoid who learns eventually that she is a character out of someone's unfinished story. At one point, she loses the end of her right index finger, but instead of nothing being there after, there's a black squiggle where the end of the finger should be. It occasionally forms words, such as here and here. Do we have a trope that covers this?
openDivine tech support Webcomic
The main character is "called" in a dream by the forces of good about incorrect billing information. Would this be Afterlife Bureaucracy or something else?
openFan Webcomic Continuity Tropes? Webcomic
Which of these Continuity Tropes applies to Archie Sonic Online, a sort of quasi-Continuation of Archie Comics Sonic The Hedgehog:
- Broad Strokes (it accepts some of the original story as canon, but not all)
- Continuation
- Truer to the Text (trying to keep to original source material?)
I was going to add to the article some Continuity Tropes but wasn't sure which ones fitted the work page, so thought I'd ask here.
Edited by Merseyuser1openSome form of Acceptable Break From Reality? Webcomic
In El Goonish Shive, the author does a thing where when characters chat online, rather than show people typing, their avatars actually interact as if they were the actual persons. The author does this explicitly because in most cases, people typing is boring. What trope would this be?
openWhat trope is this? Webcomic
The Order of the Stick: The fiends that are offering Vaarsuvius a Deal with the Devil point out that, instead of taking their offer, V could kill themself, have Qarr bring their head to the Azure City fleet, get resurrected, and Send to their master, who would defeat the ancient black dragon before she could steal V's children's souls. The purpose of pointing this out is to make sure V knows that they only accepted the deal out of Pride, as this alternative would require them to admit that they couldn't solve the problem on their own.
This feels like a variant of Last Chance to Quit; does that sound right?
openPerson wants spouse to die but won't murder them Webcomic
Is there a specific trope for a person who wants their spouse to die but is waiting for them to die naturally instead of murdering them? Basically, a male gold digger is waiting for his terminally ill wife to die so he can inherit all of her money for himself.
Is there something like Til Murder Do Us Part but without the murder?
Edited by MaidloidopenACTS DEADPAN BUT REALLY ISN'T Webcomic
There's a largely minor character in Gloomverse who seems deadpan when we first see her, but later, it appears that she's horrible at hiding her emotions when she messes up a minor thing. Is there a trope for this?
Is there a trope for when we're following a main character going through something and we learn about it, but in the end, it turns out the seemingly normal friend is going through the same situation - the point being, we were so focused on the main character we didn't notice the telltale signs?
For instance, Alice is anorexic, she's been refusing to eat, her friend Betty compares their weight, notice Alice's been getting thinner, Betty offers Alice her food but Alice refuses, and eventually Alice's family manage to get her some help. Then, we cut to Betty, alone, throwing food away, and we see that while everyone was worried about Alice, Betty hadn't been eating anything, either.