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openFood Horror
Horror based around food, cooking, and eating. Common scenarios include eating non-food items, eating living beings, and being turned into food.
openHumans Are Unequal / Diseases that effect different species
Not sure if we have something that fits either of these ideas I thought about:
- A race is seen as inferior to others, and so someone works to have them either brought up to the same level, or be made unique. Like how the Illusive Man from Mass Effect thinks that Humans are going to lose to the other alien races and so his goal is to prop humanity up.
- A setting where various races/species can contract diseases, but the diseases affect different groups. For example; Humans get sick with a disease that will outright kill them, while the same disease will make an Orc weaker or sickly, but not outright kill them.
openI Do This Because Videogame
Character has an in-universe reason to do something that the player wants to do that contradicts their established personality.
openFriendship denial
A character does something really embarrassing, and their friends are quick to assure the onlookers that, no, they are not friends. They've never even met this crazy loon their whole life.
openDramatic Magic
I am thinking of adding this as a Trope, but I do not know if it already exists:
A magical, supernatural or otherwise abnormal power or phenonemon only works, or works better or worse if it makes the current situation more interesting/funny/dramatic/cool. For example: the hero cannot use a magic spell teleport out of prison, because a daring prison break would be more interesting. Or the magic requires some theatrics to be involved and actually need to perform this in a suitable dramatic, cool or funny manner.
Similar to the Rule of Funny/Cool/Drama, but instead of an author allowing themself artistic license because doing otherwise would mean missing an incredible opportunity, the reality of the setting itself bends to the plot. This can actually be a part of the setting itself, and (some) characters might even be aware of this.
It also is similar to the idea of magic working Because Destiny Said So, except that the supernatural power doesn't fail or succeed because it would otherwise override a predetermined destiny. The working of it is only dependent on whether it is dramatic/funny/awesome enough.
May overlap with Magic Dance/Song, and might be associated with Bard Magic.
I also considered the following titles:
- Plot Magic(Though it doesn't actually have to tie to the main plot, it can also tie to the current situation, or the "presentation" of the magic by its user.)
- Irreality Ensues(Although it is more that the Rule of Cool is part of the reality, not overriding it.)
- Magic of Cool
- Only when it's X (See the Roger Rabbit example)
A few examples:
- Order of the Stick (webcomic): Elan's Dashing Swordsman prestige class can allow him to become a far more competent fighter, but only when he makes it more dramatic. He can use a quip to actually strengthen his attack with a rapier, for example. Also, the airship Mechane flies faster the more is at stake.
- Hell's Kitchen Sink (Literature): Bard magic does not seem to work to make things less interesting, only more. This seems to be a trait in this setting with other kinds of magic, and even Fate itself. For example, the Rule of Threes(things can happen once or thrice, but never twice.)
- Tempting Fate(real life superstition): You do not say that something cannot go wrong, or it will. The idea here is that calling the odds changes them towards the unpredictable.
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Film): Toons can do supernatural things, but "only when it is funny".
openSoft ban Videogame
What trope would work for the idea of "soft banning" something? I.E some weapon, power, etc is so overpowered that all the players just agree not to use it. For example. the cleric's Wraithverge in Hexen. The strategy guide for the game even recommends doing this in deathmatch.
Edited by BootlebatopenStuck In The Surgery Room
Characters, for one reason or another, dress as doctors while running around in a hospital. They then end up in the surgery dome, expected to operate on a patient. Seen in Drake & Josh, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, and, in a Played for Horror variant, A Series of Unfortunate Events.
Edited by WarJay77openRandom muggle from a fleeing pack turns back and faces the villain
An empowered villain is causing mayhem and sending frightened muggles fleeing in horror left and right. Except suddenly one of the muggles turns back, assumes a fighting stance and stares the villain down.
They may even be able to stand up to the villain or even kick his ass. And even if the muggle meets a swift demise the act still comes of as heroic and dignified.
The motivation doesn't necessarily have to be heroic. Just a simple refusal to be a victim despite not having the upper hand
Is this a trope?.
Edited by sohibilopenQuestion And Answer From The Same Person
Alice is chewing out Bob. Alice asks a question of Bob, but interrupts him or even yells the answer at him before Bob can even answer.
Paraphrased from Twisted:
- Achmed: Blood, on my ass cheeks. Tell men, Ja'far, how did it get there?Ja'far: Well because-Achmed: IT IS BECAUSE YOUR PRINCESS SICCED A BENGAL TIGER ON MY ASS!
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Relatedly, what's the trope where Alice is chewing out Bob and repeats his name in nearly every sentence, usually at the end? Not Full-Name Ultimatum, since it's just the first name.
- Alice: Congratulations, Bob. That's five thousand dollars gone, fifteen hours of work wasted, and three people hospitalized, all thanks to you, Bob. What is so hard to understand about "Don't let go of this rope", Bob? Why would you let go of the rope, allowing the chandelier to fall on the stage before the technicians could secure it, Bob? Were you dropped on your head as a baby, Bob? Is that why you can't follow the simplest of directions, Bob?
openGross thing described in flowery language
Is there a trope for when something vulgar or disgusting is described with poetic language to create a comical contrast? It's not Sophisticated as Hell since the tone of the text remains the same all the way through.
Would that fall under Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness?
openSelf-Cover Music
This is when a musical artist covers themselves, usually to revise an old song.
For example, “21st Century Digital Boy” by Bad Religion was originally on “Against The Grain,” but was rereleased and re-recorded in “Stranger Than Fiction”, to better fanfare.
Same thing with “Welcome to Paradise” by Green Day and “The Carpet Crawlers” by Genesis.
openVery cold hands
I wonder if there is a trope for reeeeeeaaally cold hands. Not An Ice Person, probably doesn't have any superpowers, but has really cold hands. Is there a trope for that?
openGiving Worf The Flu
Is there a trope like Worf Had the Flu except "Worf's" enemies deliberately make him weaker before the fight? It could be with a literal disease or poison, or something more fantastical like stealing some superhero/supervillains power source.
openLast Second Success
A character is racing against the clock to get somewhere, escape somewhere, etc. Then at the last second they succeed, sometimes off-screen, which leads to the reveal that they did in fact make it in time. Basically, they run up against the clock and make it just seconds before disaster hits.
openCharacter doesn't like a fictional version of themselves
Is there a trope for when a character reads a story in-universe that's based off their life and gets mad at how they're portrayed. Examples:
- Modern Family: In one episode Manny asks Claire, Alex, Haley, and his mother to act out a play he's written. It becomes clear that the character roles he assigned them are based off of their real personalities. Alex's character is smart, but a spinster. Haley's character is a Brainless Beauty. Claire's character is a bitter alcoholic (Claire is even pouring herself a glass of wine as Manny reads the character description). Needless to say, they all take offense to how they are portrayed.
- Brooklyn Nine-Nine: In one episode Gina and Amy find out Terry has written a children's book and based two characters off of them. They fixate on the characters' flaws and believe that this is how Terry views them. Terry has to point out that these characters have many positive qualities.
- The Fireman: Harper's husband is working on a novel. She decides to read it and finds that the novel's main character is clearly based off of her husband. He's stuck in a marriage with a woman who's much less intelligent than him and engages in a series of affairs. Harper angrily notes that the women the protagonist sleeps with are based off women her husband knows.
openWho's bigger?
Is there an identified trope in which two male characters are having a argument, and at some point a female character, listening to them, suggests that they "whip 'em out to see who's bigger"?
The disagreement in question is generally at least somewhat heated, but can be a valid, serious disagreement or something completely ridiculous (sometimes there seems to be a subtext in the employment of this trope that any disagreement between two men can be boiled down to a question of "who's bigger"). The upshot would seem to be that the female listener in question thinks that the argument is petty, that the two male characters are just in a "pissing contest," and/or need to move on to other things (sometimes valid, sometimes just out of annoyance).
Example: An episode in (I think) season 3 of Farscape has Crichton and Aeryn forced to work with Crais, who has been one of their primary antagonists throughout the series. At one point Chrichton and Crais are having a heated discussion of past greivences, when Aeryn appeals to Talyn (Crais's sentiant ship) and asks "Talyn, you've seen them both naked. Tell us who's bigger."
openJust Die Already!
The fans want a certain character to get Killed Off for Real for any reason (will often overlap with The Scrappy, Hate Sink and/or Karma Houdini)
This trope is when there are two characters, and one of them is rather stoic/serious, and is an expert/professional at a certain thing, and the other character is completely new to that certain thing, and they are very excitable/energetic.
Some examples are; Peter Parker and Tony Stark
Masaki Hinaoka and Sho Akitsuki (the surfing anime Wave!!)
There are DEFINITELY a lot more examples out there which I can't think of at the moment.
Edited by MVPrince