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openG-Rated Bar
A kid-friendly bar. They have all the things that is acceptable for PG-rated television, but in a bar! For example, you have the kids that are literally Drunk on Milk, filled with intensely sugar-coated G-Rated Drug's. The occasional adult or Absurdly Powerful Student Council may come along to bust the kids that are trading illegal pokemon cards.
Paranatural has this in the form of a literal student bar. Codename: Kids Next Door also has this trope, but I'm unsure if it was a literal student bar as well.
Edited by KingOfStickersopenModern youkai
Youkai doesn't have anything on the specifically Japanese supernatural creatures that were invented in modern times (the kuchisake-onna and hasshaku-sama come to mind). Is there a page for them, or should there be a new one?
openAuthor Cultural Myopia, or something like that
I started following My Next Life As A Villainess All Routes Lead To Doom, and I noticed a particular issue of the author not doing enough research, and thus applying Japanese customs into what's supposed to be a Medieval European Fantasy universe. Specifically, several nobles have adopted, or discussed adopting, distant patrilineal boys as heir. Japanese nobles did frequently adopt heirs, even now, but my knowledge of European history tells me it's unlikely.
I know there're several tropes related to the (lack of) research, but this is the first time I seriously thought about applying one of those. So which trope is it?
openCharacters named after actor
Is there any particular trope where the characters specific actor play retain the name of said actor? So said actor Bob Smith keeps playing characters that are named Bob, too.
openSnarky But Reliable Omniscient Narrator Live Action TV
As in Arrested Development:
Character on the phone: I am so sorry. // V/O: He wasn't.
I did not know. // He did.
I'll do everything to make it up to you. V/O: But he wouldn't.
openI object to your wording!
Bob describes something he does. Alice describes the same thing in terms that are equally accurate but nowhere near as flattering. Bob says something along the lines of "well when you put it that way it sounds stupid!"
openUnsolvable Mystery Misdirection Literature
A mystery story begins with something apparently illogical going on - readers get interested because they want to know how the writer is going to get out of that one.
But then it turns out the actual hook of the story is just a bit of misdirection by the villain, either to keep witnesses and the detective away from the real mystery, or to attract the detective's attention, because It's Personal between the two of them.
So, the solution to the mystery is, there was no mystery because it was all a hoax.
openBetraying a friend for popularity
A character, usually in middle or high school, turns on their unpopular friend in order to curry favor with the Alpha Bitch.
openBattle School War Sim
In a Military School, or maybe just a normal school, there's a war sim involving students fighting a mock war with some of them acting as generals or leaders. Usually the protagonist learns valuable lessons about war, or abuses the rules, or makes a crazy innovation, and usually they either win or do incredibly well. Examples would be all of Enders Game, Parts of Old Mans War and Red Rising, and parts of HPMOR.
openCutscene injury immunity Videogame
Is there a trope for when a character is seriously wounded in a cutscene but when it ends they play exactly the same? Like in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance when Raiden gets the crap kicked out of him by Armstrong but he's fine when the boss battle continues, or how in Spider-Man (PS4) Spidey's seemingly uninjured after the beatdown from the Sinister Six.
Edited by BobtheBoldoreopenKicked out of their house
Exactly What It Says on the Tin- A character is literally forced out of their home. I'd be surprised if we don't have it, but...do we?
openUsing something true as an excuse
Kind of like I Need to Go Iron My Dog except they do "iron their dog", but only to get out of something. Examples:
- In an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Picard goes back to the Enterprise to get his saddle to get out of a boring party.
- In Monsters, Inc., when the Yeti sees Sully and Mike arguing, he awkwardly says, "Oh, would you look at that? We're out of snow cones! Let me just go outside and make some more." Then, in the next scene, we see that he really did make more snow cones.
openforged by holy steel but not powerful as rapier
a powerful weapon in story but in game it sucks
openAscended Parody
Sort of an inverted Parody Assistance, when the subject matter of a parody likes the parody so much they use it in their advertising. Subtrope of Approval of God, and related to Misaimed Marketing but this is a deliberate tongue-in-cheek decision.
I'm specifically referring to The Simpsons's parody of THX that was later repurposed as an actual trailer.
openRage against the monitor
What's the trope for when the villain is on a monitor taunting the hero and they get mad enough to shoot, smash etc the monitor (which isn't always a bad idea, as sometimes the villain can see through the monitors, and breaking one puts one of his "eyes" out.)?
opentrope for songs with lyrics that contrast with the music itself? Music
"knife" and "two weeks" by grizzly bear are big examples of this although they're about lying straight to peoples' faces and the breakdown of a relationship respectively they still sound "romantic"
openScary geography
Is there a trope for when geographical features deliberately look scary (such as an island looking like a bone or skull)?
What do you call a flashback that shows what really happened over the voice of an Unreliable Narrator?