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openCan We Take It Home With Us? (Sort of like Taking You Home With Me)
I think I remember something like this in <a href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Migration">Migration</a> at the end of the movie where ||the youngest tries to take the pet crocodile they found home|| but as I now look at the page I realize that the trope for that scene is Taking Them Home With Me.
Anyways, I'm asking because I need this trope for a backstory I'm writing, and the part where this comes into play is a Heel-Face Turn where this ex-angel/artificial weapon rescues a child from the village they just set fire to accidentally and takes them just out of the village before losing consciousness and collapsing, then waking up in a cabin in the woods with the child tending to their wounds and the angel vows to protect the child from any harm from that point on (Like a Caretaker) and eventually the child and guardian meet up with the child's (long-gone) elder sister, who is incredibly suspicious and doubtful of the guardian (In a similar relationship like Lucifer and Alastor arguing over Charlie) and the child is like "Can we please adopt them?" And the elder sister keeps trying to convince the child that the angel can take care of themself.
Edited by BluedealeropenPulling Out Scarves Trick
Do we have a trope of the clown trick, where the clown pulls out a rope of scarves from it’s throat?
open[Work X] but [Y] Is Different
Something similar to Series Minus Series Core, where a work has one major aspect changed but otherwise plays out as it did.
There's two Starcraft 2 fan campaigns that follow the plot of Wings Of Liberty, except that in one you play as the Protoss, and in the other you play as the opposite side for that mission (so a "Hold the Line until rescued" mission becomes a "Timed Mission to wipe out the humans before they escape", etc.)
There's a French comic where a princess living in a tower is good friends with the dragon guarding her, and they work together to fend off the unwanted rescues of meatheaded knights.
openSwitching from animation to shooting with real actors
An animated character in some episode becomes outplayed by a real life actor
Edited by KonstantinVakhtangovopenDisappearing feature
What trope is equal to this: SpongeBob has visible eyelashes that disappear whenever his eyes are closed or his brows are lowered.
openreally bad situation makes slightly less bad situation look better
The exact quote I have here is "her dumpster fire of a life makes me feel better about mine."
Is there a trope for when a really bad life situation or habits or something are deemed better when compared to another thing? I'm not sure how to describe it but it's not the first time I run into this. I asked Trope Finder before (and didn't get an answer) about a mom who doesn't worry about her son's lowkey law-breaking because she was so much worse at his age and compared to that what he's doing is nothing and she'd be a hypocrite.
openLook it Up
Basically, in a show, a character will learn about a crazy thing that actually real/ something that's obvious to everyone. And then the joke plays out where the character has to look it up to learn about the said thing.
Other ways the trope is used is when the character talks to the viewers, telling them to look it up, for it's actually real.
resolved Which Trope is it?
Hello, I hear some characters say "pathetic excuse/sad excuse for a human being" when calling someone, particularly unpleasant, out.
I'm using a search-tab about where it leads, but no luck. Do you know what that trope is called?
openGame within itself (not game within a game?) Videogame
Looking for the correct trope to list a videogame being played within the game itself. Game Within a Game sounds obvious but that seems to only cover other games which exist in-universe and are played temporarily, whereas in Battle Isle the whole setup is that the game's protagonist himself is also playing the titular game in-universe.
Edited by kopyrightopenBig event happens in the main setting
In Community Shirley gets back together with her ex-husband and they get married. However, their wedding takes place at Greendale Campus, as opposed to at a church. I'm wondering if there's a trope for when events occur at the show's main setting, when they should happen somewhere else.
openTailing someone (as a PI)
Wondering if there's a specific trope that mentions a private detective who tails/keeps an eye on someone from a distance.
openDid you just embarass Cthulhu?
Doing something so lame / failing so spectacularly that even a grotesque abomination can't help but feel embarassed.
openEveryone deserves niceness but me
When a heroic character, due to Heroic Self-Deprecation, thinks that they don't deserve the nice things (material or otherwise) that they fight to give to everybody else.
openTime compressed for dramatic purposes Live Action TV
Events that, in the real world, would occur over months or years are portrayed in fiction as taking place over a few hours, days, or weeks. Some examples:
1. Trials: On television, they make it look like a person gets arrested, and then their trial happens a few weeks later. In reality, it can take months or years. They do the same thing with civil cases: The car accident happens, the next day someone gets served with a complaint, there are one or two depositions over the course of the following couple of weeks, then there is a dramatic trial. Pretty much every legal procedure show (The Practice, Law and Order, JAG, etc.) does this.
2. Medical problems: Someone goes to the hospital with a medical problem. Over the next day or two, their doctors do a long list of scans, blood tests, biopsies, and other tests. Once the problem is diagnosed, surgery is scheduled for the next day, and then after a couple of days of recovery the patient, now cured, goes home. House, MD is a prime offender.
Is there a Troupe for events that would normally take place over a long span of time being portrayed as occurring in an unrealistically short timeframe for dramatic purposes?
openPositive version of Scary Librarian
I'm aware of the Scary Librarian trope which describes a librarian who enforces rules via fear. Are there any tropes which are the opposite? In other words, a libarian who uses kind and loving methods to maintain order.
openWhat trope does this gag fall under?
So, in a children's cartoon, Character A has gotten herself stuck in an Absurdly Spacious Sewer, and the other characters have realized she's missing and thinks she's gone for good.
Character B: "Oh, she was such a nice girl..."
Character C: "And she had such a pretty voice..."
Character A's muffled voice: "I'm down here!"
Character C: "It sounded just like that..."
Does this count as Not Now, We're Too Busy Crying Over You, or is there something else that fits it better?
openGroin Attack Disrection
Basically, someone gets kicked in the kiwis, but the camera shows it offscreen.
For example, Dexter’s Labratory, Dexter Dodgeball, Dexter gets a dodgeball hit on his crotch. While we only see his face, tearing from the impact, as he crouches after the hit.
openPride in Service
Something like a step above Happiness in Slavery: A character (and often a family) is quite proud of willingly serving someone/thing else (and usually looks down on Happiness in Slavery since in their case it's not a voluntary choice).
e.g. a line of nobility with Undying Loyalty towards the reigning house, a family where almost every child joins the police/armed forces/firefighters, etc.
openSome Tropes form the 2021 Film Stillwater
1. Guy who stays relatively calm under pressure-I might describe Matt Damon as having an anti-berserk button when he gets beaten up in a parking lot by the guy who got away with the murder his daughter got imprisoned for
2. They both say "life can be cruel" at one point....is that arc words?
3. Stereotypical of a nationality: Virginie is very stereotypically French: An avante-garde theater actress who's sex positive, multicultural in her friend circle and has a slight disdain towards American cultural attitudes
4. A kind of Rosebud/Citizen Kane moment mixed in with a Title Drop in which (Spoiler Alert): The guy who's been the main suspect believes his is about to be tortured, so he blurts the word Stillwater which is the title of the movie and the key for Matt Damon's character to understanding everything.
A character picks their nose (usually with their pinky finger) to indicate they are brutish, unhygienic, or some other negative trait.