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openBe the Brush!
Not to be confused for Body Paint, when painting takes a level of extreme. Say an artist has a big canvas, and the artist covers their body in paint, and smash their body across the canvas, making a great art piece!
openHello “MyName IsJack”
Do you know the trope where someone mistakes the name of someone with the words they used.
For example in TAWOG,
Richard: Who’s your friend? Gumball: It’s me Dad. Richard: a hello “Its Me Dad”
And in Disenchantment,
Referee: What’s your name? Zerg: It’s King Zerg ya jerk. Referre King Zorch Yajerk!
openMocking the Outfit
It's like Atrocious Alias, but for an outfit. It's an outfit so bad or so silly that they are mocked for it In-Universe or told to go back and change.
I'm thinking of like the time Deadpool went into a laughing fit over voodoo practitioner Black Talon because he looked like a chicken.
openSeize the inspiration
Is there a trope (or trivia item) in which a writer seizes an idea as it occurs to them, by writing it down at once?
Roald Dahl describes how he kept a notebook of one-sentence plot ideas, writing them down as they occurred to him, and that every book of his started out in this way.
openChildren's stories: the action happens at their temporary home.
Lots of children's stories have this: when they have an adventure, it's not at their usual home, but somewhere they go to stay. For example, Harry Potter has most of his action at Hogwarts school, and feels scared when he might not be able to go back. Another such story is Stig Of The Dump: all Barney's adventures are at the dump near his grandmother's house, and when he goes home, he worries that Stig and the dump might not be there when he returns. This means that they have their adventures "occasionally", instead of all the time, and when they return home, their adventures must come to an end.
Is there a trope to cover this?
openIntended all along ;)
When a show or something of the sort receives an unexpected major or at least noticeable change in it based on something in real life, but the change was given an in-universe explanation
EX: On the F Na F You Tube channel Eth Goes Boom, one of the characters, Toy Bonnie had 3 different voices through the entire series. In real life, Eth had no idea how to voice Toy Bonnie at first, and try to try a few times to find one he liked. But in universe, Toy Bonnie kept changing his voicebox because the kids weren't responding to it. In his case, it led to it's very own storyline that went on for many let's plays
Edited by GxchxFxndomsopenAre there tropes for this
Is there a list of tropes for a You Tube video called Happy Tree Friends - Flippin’ Burgers (Ep #30)
openChimera Transformation
When a character, villain or otherwise, aborbs other beings (or at least their powers) and that person gains a new form with all their victims' features at once, turning them into a sort of chimera.
Pretty much like Ultimate Kevin or Ultimate Aggregor from Ben 10.
Edited by TheSuperShinyMegaGengaropenMacGuffin is still out there
It's the end of the story and the MacGuffin still hasn't been found.
openOddly modern worldview
Do we have a trope for instances where a character in a distant past that has wildly different values expresses oddly tolerant and progressive views on things like sexuality, gender, or race? Think Captain America being plucked out of the 1940's and apparently being totally cool with gay people and having not a hint of racism or sexism about him. Or a protagonist in the 19th century who the work takes great pains to show is a total racial egalitarian.
I figure it might be YMMV, but I can't quite find this.
openYou can't (think) ___, that's ____'s job/role!
When a character mainly expresses one character trait or action or idea, and then another character expresses that same trait or thought or idea, and they get "called out" for it
An example, since I know this explanation sucks, would be in TADC, if Pomni were to have one of her mental breakdowns and Jax says something like "Hey Pomni, you're not supposed to be the one that goes insane, that's Kinger's job!"
Never (or almost never) used in the context of actual jobs or roles
Edited by GxchxFxndomsopenFateful moment of destiny
It's a moment in time where you are split between two choices: either one is completely different, and will impact you in different ways. It can be used as a trope in time travel, in which you have to change timelines according to these small events. But, it must not focus on the timespace continuum, the multiverse, etc. as a whole, but on these moments of consequence.
Edited by luigirovattiopenMeta Resource
A game with resources that are used outside of normal gameplay but still influence it.
- In Starcraft II, the normal resources are minerals and vespene gas (used to make units on missions). Completing bonus objectives and missions gives you resources that are used in between missions to empower units and abilities during missions (credits and Protoss / Zerg research ; Kerrigan levels ; solarite).
- Most idle games have a secondary resource only obtainable by resetting the game, which removes all progress and regular resources but gives bonuses to getting those resources/can be spent on upgrades.
openSatire Displaces Genre Literature
Is there a trope for when a work satirizing a genre becomes more famous than the thing its satirizing, to the point where many people’s only knowledge of the genre comes from the satirical work? (Sometimes to the point where the satire is no longer noticed.) Examples are usually historic works.
Examples: - Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey was satirizing melodramatic Gothic novels like The Mysteries of Udolpho, but Austen is far more famous now than any of those novels.
- Don Quixote was satirizing a genre of chivalric romance, but nothing from the genre it was satirizing is remotely as well-known as it.
- Romeo and Juliet was apparently satirizing a genre of romance plays but has displaced them in fame so greatly that it’s far from obvious these days that it even was a satire.
Edited by GaladrielopenNatural Continuity Lapse
Unlike Revealing Continuity Lapse, where a continuity error is explained with a fantastic and surreal meaning, a continuity error is explained with a more natural, and normal reason.
- Battle for BFDI: In "SOS: (Save Our Show)", the Announcer Speaker Box calls out how Gelatin has never been eliminated in BFDI history, but later in BFDIA's continuation, "Taste the Sweetness", Gelatin actually does get eliminated, so before his departure, he asks for the Puffball Speaker Box to keep his elimination a secret from the Announcer, as he finds him scary.
- SpongeBob SquarePants, In "Krusty Love", Mr. Krabs falls in love with Mrs. Puff and learns she's single despite her prefix.
- Mr. Krabs: Then what happened to Mr. Puff?
(cut to a live-action shot of a hand turning on a blowfish lamp)
SpongeBob: She doesn't like to talk about it.
- In Bob's Burgers, when Tammy first debuted in "Bad Tina," her hair was brown, but in later episodes, her hair is blonde. This is then explained in "Sit Me Baby One More Time" that it reveals that she dyes her hair and that blonde isn't her natural color. As she had to wear a purple headband to hide her "dirty roots" in that episode.
openSame Skills as the character they play
A person plays a character with specific skills or habits, and it's assumed by viewers and fans that they have those same characteristics in real life. I'm specifically looking at two things that occurred with the cast of commodoreHUSTLE. Following the episode "It's Magic!", which featured Alex using sleight of hand to cheat at Magic the Gathering, one of the crew's real-life friends who works at their local game store (Nelson) pulled them aside and asked if he had to keep an eye on Alex when he came in for game nights. Later on, when Nelson became a recurring character on the series, many people assumed he was the manager for the game store when he was actually just a worker who was available to film more often.
Maybe we do have this, but the ones I thought would I apply don't quite fit. …But I Play One on TV is apparently specifically about people being referred to by the name of the character they play. I thought that was I Am Not Spock, but apparently that's about people only being cast as a single character. Role Association is when seeing an actor play one character makes you think of another character they played, Cannot Tell Fiction from Reality is about people who genuinely don't know someone isn't their character, and Actor/Role Confusion is just that but in-universe. Or am I missing something and one of these is the one to use?
openWisecracker can't speak
A character who snarks a lot or makes jokes can't speak for an episode.
Is there a list of tropes for a You Tube video called “Sing Official Trailer #1 (2016) - Scarlett Johansson, Matthew Mc Conaughey Movie HD”