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openLiteral foreshadowed truth Anime
There was more truth in a title then someone realized before.
openEasier time adjusting to bad situation due to terrible childhood Anime
Due to having such a horrible childhood, this guy finds finds himself in another terrible position other people would think would be hell but he just shrugs it off like nothing wishing he could have came there sooner.
openArrogantly late
Is there a trope for when somebody appears late deliberately, for a performance, meeting, or other matter, because they consider themselves more important than everyone else, or believe than an audience is more eager if you make them wait?
openTaking the Weaker Side Film
Is there a trope for the story beat where a heroic character sees someone outnumbered in a fight and jumps in to even the odds, even though they don't know the context? This is of course very common in the classic Arthurian stories and in those types of heroic fiction that share the same ethos.
I'm thinking of things like the meeting of Lancelot and Arthur in the 50s movie Knights of the Round Table, where Arthur sees Lancelot beset by an ambush and jumps in on his side, knowing nothing about who is who, or in a similar vein, the Babylon 5 episode "A Late Delivery from Avalon," where G'Kar sees the ersatz Arthur outnumbered by thugs and jumps in to aid him, despite not knowing the cause of the fight.
openMagic Interfering With Life Literature
I've seen this trope in a lot of places but most recently in a book series. Basically, when a characters magic/superpowers interfere with their day to day life to a detrimental effect.
openInconvenient Powerup
Something similar to Power-Up Letdown, but not so much a letdown as a temporary inconvenience.
In this case, a game perk that increases the length of time a buff spell stays active. The game also has a perk that's unlocked by casting a certain amount of spells. So while grinding for the second perk, the first perk is inconvenient because it takes longer to reach the number of spells even though spells lasting longer is a positive effect.
openThe Presumptuous
People who presume very quickly and take a assumption for granted even if they have little evidence (and sometimes it results in bad things)
openDoesn't realize they're a genius
Genius character doesn't realize they're gifted, assuming everyone is just as knowledgeable as they are.
open"Please tell me you're innocent"
Alice and Bob: *trying to figure out who killed Charlie*
Alice: *finds evidence suggesting that it was Bob*
Alice: Bob, no... please tell me you didn't...
Bob: *telling silence*
Alice: Please, just say it, say it wasn't you...
Do we have a trope for the "please tell me you're innocent" thing going on here?
Edited by wingedcatgirlopenJustice League Expies
Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
This is to the Justice League what Superman Substitute is to Superman. This trope describes whenever a superhero (or in some cases, supervillain) team pastiche clearly inspired by The Justice League happens. If it doesn’t already exist, it may as well get it’s own trope. As for examples, there’s the Squadron Supreme and the Great Society from Marvel Comics, The Guardians of The Globe from Image Comics, The Seven from The Boys, The Alliance from The Red Ten, The Power Pals from Fairly Oddparents, The Authority/Stormwatch from Wildstorm comics, etc...
Edited by MisterOMopenAware of other worlds?
Is there such a trope for these situations affecting video games - I'm thinking like Medium Awareness or Leaning on the Fourth Wall:
- In a DC Comics' licensed game with Stargirl/Courtney Whitmore as one of the player characters who's undergone an Adaptational Badass and Adaptational Super Power Change, she says during the game:
Stargirl: I wonder why that version of me in another universe chose to stay with King Arthur. She probably hasn't got my fighting skills or my speedster abilities. Who the hell made me like THAT?
She's obliquely referencing Series.Legends Of Tomorrow but not naming it outright during the game; is there a trope for that?
Also this:
- Alice somehow notices the In-Universe Camera during her Gaiden Game and any of her attempts to move it fail to move it from its fixed place. She actually discusses it when playing:
Alice: OK, now why won't this camera just MOVE?? Who put it there?
Also, Alice is based on Megan Thee Stallion esthetically, but otherwise shares no similarities with her.
Edited by Merseyuser1openAdvance situational question
So one character ask another what they (the one being asked the question) what they should do if a particular thing happens and they expected to give an exact answer.
"If you hear something downstairs what do you do?"
"Go out the window and wait for you."
A sort of making sure their ready to respond to a situation that is planned out in advance.
Any trope that covers that?
openThe game/movie is a visualisation of someone telling a story.
A piece of visual media where what goes on is a visualisation of someone reading a story. Most of the time, this is when the story starts and ends with someone narrating what is happening on the screen.
openWasn’t told they were adopted
A parent doesn’t tell their child that they were adopted.
open"It's on every channel" trope?
Do we have a trope for when something is so newsworthy it's on every channel, even sometimes in spite of that not making sense?
I remember seeing it a lot at one point but it's definitely a dead horse trope now with the advent of specialised TV channels (except for parodies "Even the cooking channel?!")
openAmbiguously Mundane
Supposedly the information given about a character indicates that they're as mundane as the average Muggle, but some stuff indicate otherwise.
This primarily comes from me feeling like Ambiguously Human is the wrong trope to catalog the questioning of whether or not Howie Honeyglow is actually a Mundie, given that the Inscribed characters are basically humans with Semantic Superpowers.
EDIT: Here's what the entry describes:
- Ambiguously Human: He's a mundie, but has stats that outrank most Inscribed and steam seems to rise from him after the Banzai Blasters interfere with his job.
Giovanni Potage (whose Epithet is Soup) was also capable of emitting steam from his body when preparing to "teleport" behind his target.
Edited by SomeLibreopenAudience-participation in magic shows
Fictional show magicians tend to pick audience members as "assistants".
open"Yeah, and this statement is false" rebuke.
Is there a trope for when a character says something suspect and another character replies "Yeah, and (obvious lie)." to express their doubt.
For example, this exchange from The Faculty:
Or from this recent Uber Eats commercial featuring Wayne and Garth from "Wayne's World":
openSaved from the archive
A franchise has ended some years ago, and it seems that is effectively over. And then, when nobody expected it... they release a new work and they are back in business!
Definition: A slave is euphemistically referred by another name.
Example:
Bob sees a throng of slaves working on a field, overseen by a man armed with a whip. He points out to a guide, in which the guide nervously says Bob should refer them as servants.