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openHuman Animal Habits
A situation where Little Bit Beastly or Beast Man characters have mostly-human quirks, save for tiny details that reveal their true nature. For example, human Bob and Cat Folk Alice are making themselves breakfast, but while Bob makes himself a full sandwich, Alice grabs a can of cat food from a drawer, pulls it open, then plonks a fork in it and goes for the couch. Edited by Gofastmike
openIntentional narm
Is there a trope for this? I thought maybe it was Narm Charm, but it seems like it should be a non-YMMV trope if it's intentional.
openArtstyle Self-Deprecation Western Animation
A fourth wall break trope where the characters poke fun about the artstyle they are in.
Example: The Powerpuff Girls trying to play Rock-Paper-Scissors but cant tell which symbol the girls are trying to use.
openEscapist World
A world or universe where the audience want to live in.
- Harry Potter: Due to it being an Academy of Adventure where students learn magic, there are some fans who wished they'd gotten a letter from Hogwarts.
- Star Wars: Many fans wish to visit the Star Wars galaxy to explore strange worlds, interact with unique alien races, and maybe learn how to use the force.
- Avatar: Some fans committed suicide, hoping to be reincarnated on Pandora.
- The Office (US): There are fans of the show who would like to work under Michael Scott at Dunder-Mifflin.
openword saturation
a word used so many times it becomes dull to the ears and loses all meaning it used to have. examples being darkness from kingdom hearts and family from fast and furious.
openVillain is turned good as a punishment
Is there a trope for this? The idea being if the villain is now good they will likely be filled with guilt and shame over their evil deeds for the rest of their lives.
openCostume joke?
In Sera Myu: Petite Étrangère, the villains create copies of the heroes. The Runt at the End comes in with a costume that looks like a typical fan cosplay or off-the-rack first-season anime Sailor Moon, in contrast to the other copies (and the real heroes') sparkly, high-budget costume. What kind of joke would this be? Mythology Gag?
Edited by annieholmesopenOpenly Biased
A character is openly biased towards something subjective or otherwise portrays his opinion as undeniable truth, but played for laughs.
openThe boyfriend's hoodie
Wearing clothes or accesoires of your partner as a little romantic expression.
openUgliness Equals Incorrect
I'm trying to find a trope for where 'ugliness' is used for what (the creator thinks) is bad. This doesn't necessarily mean evil. Anything from Wario deliberately being ugly and greedy (greed is bad) to one side of a divisive debate being ugly (where the other side is favored). I'd swear I've seen it on this site somewhere before, but I can't find it. I know it's a thing in general, I've seen it in way too many works.
openCharacter either succeeds instantly or doesn't try
Is there a trope for a character who either has such high natural aptitude for certain things that they're effectively instant experts but never really bothers with skills that don't come easily to them?
openThe Speechless, or Elective Mute?
Toda in Ah... and Mm... Are All She Says is a girl who, in her words, is "slow in arranging her thoughts"—or, in common parlance, has a mouth that's much, much slower than her brain—which means unless she reads out from a piece of paper, it's so hard to a make line out of her and so she speaks mostly in grunts (thus the title).
She's now troped as examples of Elective Mute and The Quiet One. However, it appears to me she doesn't do that on choice, so I wonder which Silence Tropes would fit the case better.
Edited by SamCurtopenHitting it too close to home Anime
A professional hentai creator originally pitched to his editor of a story about a woman with a very specific Speech Impediment that the creator thought was purely imaginary. Soon after that, that creator somehow befriends (platonically) a woman with that exact impediment. On the next day, he calls his editor and tell him that he no longer intends to go on with that story since it's now "hitting too close to home" for him to move on with the project.
Given that the creator never had a fetish on the topic in question, are there any tropes that describe his decision to terminate the project?
openUsage of 3D background models for webcomics Webcomic
I see this a lot in webcomics, particularly those of the Korean Webtoons variety. Basically when it's (obviously) shown that the characters are hand drawn while the backgrounds (and sometimes background charcaters) are 3D models.
Is there a trope like this somewhere?
openVillain is so horrible the actor is uncomfortable playing them
For example: Mark Hamill stated he felt uncomfortable playing The Joker in Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker due to a certain thing he does in the movie, which I won't spoil here.
Edited by BootlebatopenThe ability to "know" things
Technically this fits under Psychic Powers, but I don't know if there's a better subtrope, for the ability to know things/receive knowledge about a thing without external input (so not Psychometry, because there's no touching). The specific example I'm thinking of is The Archivist from [1]
openTempting Suicide by Gun
Someone points a gun at their head, and it looks as if they want to pull the trigger. If it's a villain, it's a bluff and their way of saying "Haha, I cheat death!"
Photo example: https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/c/ca/TheJokerArkhamKnight.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20191108192636
Edited by LordPandon49openDelayed OneHitKill
Does One-Hit Kill still apply if there's a substantial amount of time between the start of the attack and the actual damage?
For instance, a turn-based RPG where the caster does nothing for a number of turns after casting, and only after those few turns does he deal the maximum amount of damage allowed by the game engine.
Or an RTS spell that pushes a unit in one direction until they hit a cliff, at which point they're destroyed with no escape, but interrupting the caster is enough to stop the spell.
Or an FPS gun that instakills the target if the user spends 15 seconds in a "lock-on" state.
Edited by Chabal2
Character seemingly has an exotic looking name, until you actually pay attention and it actually just reads George or Kyle something.