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open"Be Careful what you wish for" in the form of a person Live Action TV
What is the name of the trope where a character gives you wanted with no strings attached but they give you what you wanted, you just didn't want it or it was what you wanted just not in the way you wanted it? Like how you wanted someone to do something for you, only for it to be exactly what you wanted but you hate it.
openThe Regent
Someone who's role it is to be the acting ruler until the real ruler is able to, be it that they're incapacitated, busy overseas or too young to assume direct control
openbarely qualified mentor
A mentor with limited experience who nonetheless is the best option available.
openOdd enmity
Is there an opposite to Odd Friendship? Like, you have two people who have a lot in common and have all the same values/ethics, but are still enemies for some reason.
openFuneral march
Is there a trope for when somebody in-universe plays a funeral march, to mark a momentous happening?
openBiology means love
Sometimes, two characters taking biology class together or doing biology homework together is subtext for them being/becoming attracted to each other. Is that a trope?
openBeing Good Takes Effort
A moral lesson where positive qualities only count if they take some kind of mental effort (e.g. "be nice to people you dislike" requires more than just avoiding them in social settings). Can overlap with Wants a Prize for Basic Decency if the character demands to be rewarded for it.
Something like this:
- Alice: Charlie's so brave, he rushes headlong into battle without even caring about the odds!Bob: Then he's not brave, he's insane. Bravery doesn't mean not feeling fear, it means feeling fear without being ruled by it.
- Alice: I've never flirted with men, nor let them think they had a chance with me.Barbara: Well sure, but you're fat, ugly and poor. Your virtue isn't exactly under constant siege here.
openReal Life Event Mimics Fiction
There's a gas leak causing a flamejet in the Gulf of Mexico
Link to footage (warning: scary stuff)
This reminded me an episode of Thunderbirds, right down to the oil rig dangerously close to the flames. Atlantic Inferno is the episode in particular.
Is there a trope for ridiculous plots happening for real after the fact?
openYes No arguing
when two characters are arguing but devolve into shouting "yes!" or "no!" at each other?
openAlmost a lonely birthday but one visitor comes in. Live Action TV
Is there's a another form of One-Person Birthday Party where a person unable to celebrate their own birthday because either their family members are all dead, they're poor or they are in prison, but there's a surprise visitor who comes in to celebrate their birthday? Because I saw it on Wildflower (2017) where a main character decided to visit their rival (who's now crippled and lost all their family members) in prison with a cake not only to celebrate their birthday but to forgive them. Note: I put gender neutral pronounce on characters to avoid spoiler. Note: Please answer it asap. This is very important.
Edited by BubblepigopenA survivor
A character often fails, but finds a will to get back up and go on despite the failures or even in the face of imminent death. The Determinator does not apply since the character is a villain half the time, nor does he doggedly stick to a single goal. What character type is that?
openThe groups unite
In a work that follows multiple groups of people at once, the groups end up in the same spot near the end. The specific example is from the show The Mist, which follows three groups in three different spots - a mall, a church, and a police station - and by the end, all three groups have consolidated in the mall
openworkaholic persuaded to take a vacation
It's somewhere in between Tun In Your Badge and Cutting the Electronic Leash
Edited by 1nightonlyopenAdult character reincarnated into a younger body Anime
It's about a character who reached their cusp as a powerful character but for some reason reverted back to a younger body (either theirs or someone else's). They retain all their memories and sometimes they also retain some of their powers.
I've seen it more in Eastern media (Japanese/Chinese stuff) than in Western.
openRomantic Stunned Silence?
When someone with a crush, or a strong emotional bond with somebody, is dumbstruck by hearing that persons praise. Possibly a result of I Can't Believe a Guy Like You Would Notice Me at play.
The scene I have in mind is in the lead up THAT moment, in The Dragon Prince S3 E5 "Heroes and Masterminds" and if you know, you know.
Edited by Avenger09openCross-gen porting? Videogame
What was that trope when a game is released on both current-gen and previous-gen hardware, like for example the Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess?
openFused equipment Videogame
so in Dungeon Fighter Online, there's normal epics and raid epics, and you can fuse them together so you benefit from both the Set Bonuses simultaneously on the same equipment slot. do we have any tropes for that?
closest things i could think of are Mix-and-Match Weapon and Swiss-Army Weapon, which are obviously just about weapons...
Hello.
Is there a trope for when a character is in some type of simulation, however things get too much for them during the simulation, so they press a type of panic button to call for assistance?
Case in point being the plot twist in the "Twilight Zone" episode: "Where Is Everyone?".
I also remember hearing of another example in Heir Apparent where a game had a failsafe put in so, should the player get stuck and begin crying, the NPC's would break character and help them out. Or, does this example count as Anti-Frustration Features?
So, is there a trope for a panic button?
Edited by BabClayton