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openBeing both a child and aspect
A character being both the offspring and an aspect of another, ie God/Christ or Akatosh/Alduin.
openI've got a threefer!
openActor ages, but we're supposed to believe the character is the same age
Is there a trope or Trivia item for when an actor naturally ages, yet we're meant to believe that their character is still the same age?
openSuddenly, Narrator / Narration Cameo
This is when a character's possible choices are narrated, usually occuring one or multiple times. Narrators are otherwise not present in the medium.
For example: Character A mentions pistachios. A narrator then suddenly describes how Character B can either make a jarringly inappropiate joke, or simply mention that almonds are better.
openDialogue-drowning background sound
Sounds and/or music that make the dialogue of a film, series or game hard to understand. Can be intentional or unintentional.
openI just want to be acknowledged
A child would do ANYTHING to get their parent's attention and be someone in their eyes, whether it's good or bad.
openA line is simultaniously In Universe and aimed at someone in real life
For example:
- Metal Gear Solid 5 has the line "Kept you waiting, huh?" in the trailer, which is both something Snake is saying to his mission contact, and a nod to how anticipated the sequel is.
- Life is Strange: True Colors trailer has Steph say "You think it's easy getting rid of me?", which she's saying to someone in universe, but aimed at the audience, since she's making a surprise return from LIS: Before the Storm.
- In The X-Files, one episode ends with the words "Goodbye. It's been nice working with you" left on a board by the main villain, which was also a message from the writer Glen Morgan, who was leaving the show.
openOnly Six Voices
A trope where a dub is done by a cast of a few voice actors playing all of the characters, making them sound alike.
Example: The Kazakh dub of the Alice & Bob cartoon was done by a dubbing company consisting of five voice actors doing all the voiceovers for the characters.
openExcuse Me While I React
A character just learns some piece of news. He stands up, excuses himself, goes outside to react to the news offscreen (joy, anger, frustration...), and returns as though nothing had happened. Sometimes this happens several times in a row.
The reason why varies, sometimes that he doesn't want to mock a character to their face or see their coworkers see he can be Not So Stoic.
- Overlord 2012: Albedo goes outside to vent at her coworker apparently being favored by the boss over her, then returns to resume her duties.
- One Garfield strip has Garfield go off-panel to laugh himself sick at Jon announcing he has a date (and Jon is perfectly aware he's being mocked). He does it again as Jon continues his story.
- One Simpsons episode has Homer learn that Bart's gotten himself into particularly deep trouble. He excuses himself to put on a hazmat hood and scream his frustration until the hood is all fogged up.
- One Blackadder the Third episode has Blackadder learn his life's work (a book) was thrown into the fire and asks to be excused. He screams "OH NO!" offscreen and returns.
openPopular fancast actually gets cast
Is it Ascended Fanon if a popular fancast (not Hypothetical Casting, as the fans are uninvolved) for a role is actually cast in the adaptation, or something else?
Ben Barnes for example shared that he was cast in Shadow and Bone in part because he was frequently fancast as the Darkling.
openAdaptational demonization
I've been adding tropes for ...Or is He Both? and I found something. Do we have a trope for when someone or something is hated more in an adaptation? In the original story, the Shield Hero was just seen as really lame (I think. I don't have any experience with The Rising Of The Shield Hero), but it the fic it's a full-blown Satanic Archetype.
openMultiple Realities Plot Film
Is there a trop for a plot that follows the usual bullet points:
- Main character is introduced as a sad sack, side characters are introduced.
- Main character uses magic/technology/whatever to change reality so side characters' roles are reversed.
- As things fall apart, he tries it again and again, each time something else fails.
- In the end, he pushes the Reset Button and learns to accept things the way they are.
I'm thinking about stories involving genies' wishes, time travel, parallel dimensions, being trapped in fairytale land, and so on.
openStrangulation by rope
Character A strangles character B with a rope or something similar like a Cable, bath towel, etc
resolved Life-saving introduction (SOLVED) Western Animation
Bob is putting the team together and goes looking for Alice, whom he's never met. He finds her, and she kills a bad guy (or creature) who happened to attack him just then, thus proving she's both a trustworthy ally, and a proper Bad Ass.
Edited by Mac_RopenBound to a Vessel, which you can be summoned to and from with ease, much to your annoyance.
Is there a trope for beings bound to a vessel that can be called forth and sent back into the vessel or object in a Sealed in a Can sort of way?
And not specifically Genies, but they probably count as the main contender for this kind of thing.
Edited by OldNorthridgeopenTropes from scenario
I'm looking for a series of tropes that come from a scenario I came up with. Due to the sheer number of tropes, I also TL;DR'd it into a series of laconic statements in a separate folder, and set up a 3rd one to compile each situation's respective trope as they are found. There may also be many other tropes in there, but at this point, I've already started to lose control of it.
- The Big Bad is about to perform on a stage, but when the spotlights focus on the microphone at center-stage, nobody appears. A few seconds later, the good guys' Token Mini-Moe fox-girl crawls out from backstage like a toddler and goes up to the microphone, then - after a series of failed attempts to reach it by jumping end with her landing on her butt - grabs the mic-stand and overturns it, managing to tip it over far enough that she can reach the mic without removing it from the stand or dropping it on the ground. After tapping it a few times:
- Fox-girl: [to audience]: Sowwy, he's not avaiwable wight now, he's a bit of twuble at the moment.
- (A loud crash is heard coming from backstage, causing her to flinch.)
- Big Bad: [backstage] How many times do I have to kill you before you stay dead!?
- Hero [also backstage] More than you can manage, asshole!
- Fox-girl: [to audience]: Ok, maybe he's in a bit more twubble than nowmal. Just hang on fow a bit.
- After this, she drops the mic and bounds back to the backstage area, though she stops halfway, doubles back to center-stage, takes the mic off the stand, then jogs back to the backstage area with the mic in her arms. a minute later, the backstage "argument" starts emanating from the stadium's speakers, suggesting that the fox-girl had carried the mic to some out-of-the-way location near the fight, which not only reveals the Big Bad's villainous nature to the audience, but also everyone within the stadium's vicinity, as well as anyone who happens to be watching worldwide.
- A small child - or someone who's at least prepubescent - not only doing something that would normally be done exclusively by adults, but doing so in a manner that suggests they're not Wise Beyond Their Years.
- Something big and dramatic is expected to happen, but a more mundane thing happens instead.
- Someone explains that something minor is occurring, then some incidental background event reveals the event to be very major.
- Something happens in which the possibility of injury ranges from "likely" to "definitely", and someone who isn't even in the vicinity reflexively flinches as if they were part of the chaos.
- The Big Bad's true nature is inadvertently revealed to a large group of people due to him being near a live microphone.
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- Engineered Public Confession
- Extras:
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openUnintentional Wimp? Film
I wanted to put in a trope relating to Cole Young's fighting skills in Mortal Kombat 2021, but I dunno what trope to use. He is consistently shown to not be able to defeat anyone in a one-on-one fight and needs help in every fight. I can't do Adaptational Wimp since he was made for the movie. Can't do Badass Decay because he wasn't really a badass at the start (his first scene is him getting beaten badly in an MMA match). Don't really want to use Failure Hero because he gets saved before actually being defeated, and in two of the matches the intervention allows him to win via Second Wind. I don't think there's an Unintentional Wimp trope. Anyone know what I can use?
openBurning things as a means of sanitizing
Is there a trope when somebody burns something that may carry a virus or something? (Zombies have nothing to do with this).
openMind Control Strings
Visual representations of mind control are shown in the form of puppet strings.
When a character is present in a story despite there being no logical reason for them to, just to avoid They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character (particularly for the sake of comic relief).
For example, in the Tintin album Explorers on the Moon, the Thompsons end up on the rocket to the moon not knowing it was going to leave, even though they weren't supposed to be part of the mission, just because they're iconic characters.
Edited by nw09