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openProof of going to every country
Are there any tropes for when a character does a wager they'll travel all over a country/world/whatever and bring things from each place visited as proof? Like how Asterix and the Banquet has the duo collect food from every city while journeying all over Gaul, or how Around the World in 80 Days (the game) has Mr. Fogg collect a stamp from every country he visits in each country's last level? Thank you.
openPerfect candidate's subpar replacement
Is this more than just a very specific interaction of Decoy Protagonist and The Unchosen One?
A problem comes up and a perfect candidate with all the qualifications is selected to solve it. Too bad they're then immediately incapacitated, and now it's up to our decidedly less qualified actual protagonist to tackle the problem.
Edited by OnerisopenThe Haunted Well
Wells are often associated with ghosts or hauntings. Mostly popularized by movies like Ringu, but there's a bunch of older films that follows this trope.
Like the Shaw Brothers movie, Curse of Evil, the curse originates from an old well where a family of 13 is massacred and disposed in the well.
Anyway, do we have this one?
Edited by RobertTYLopenNot an actual stab reveal
Basically, a character lunges at someone with a sharp weapon, then a cut to the character seemingly impaled... only to then reveal that the weapon instead hit the wall behind them, or had hit the person's clothes in a way that made it look like they were impaled.
openInterrogating Dance
Is there a trope for when someone dances with another as a way to discretely interrogate them?
openCharacter wants to quit but company doesn't allow it so they retaliate Anime
Is there a trope for a character who works for a company is done with them and just wants to quit and bury the hatchet but the company doesnt like that one bit. So they try to use blackmail and emotionally abusive tactics on them so they stay. That just makes them want to dig their heels in more and they make it so much harder to work with them they're sorry they even opened their mouths.
open"Hero adopts an edgy look; evil counterpart steals it!"
Do we have something that covers an evil counterpart adopting a look the hero has for a while as their own iconic style?
- Metroid Prime: Near the end you acquire the Phazon Suit, which is grey/black with red highlights It's naturally stolen by the final boss, who returns in the next two Prime games as Dark Samus.
- Venom, Spider-Man's nemesis is, of course, the result of a symbiotic suit that Peter Parker wore being rejected and merging with Eddie Brock.
- One episode of Teen Titans concerns a villain adopting a villainous persona Robin created as an undercover identity.
openStabbing the map
Is there a trope for when a character marks something on a map by stabbing a knife through it? It's usually pure Rule of Cool since there are other ways of marking information that do less damage to the map and whatever's behind it, like thumbtacks.
Edited by phalanxopenOrphaned Bits of Business
Is there a trope for a line or a bit of business in a the final cut of a film that refers back to a deleted scene? I've been watching The Breakfast Club recently, and noticed that there's a scene where Allison, Ally Sheedy's character, is checking out a Prince album at her table in the library; there's no explanation for where this album came from or why she has it unless you know that there's a deleted scene in which she finds the album in a teacher's locker.
openPeople fear Frankstenstein due to how he looks
In the movies and the book, anyone who witness the creature created by the mad doctor fear him by how he looks, making the monster feel lonely and isolated. Only a blind man could like him because he does not see him.
What would be the closest trope? I looked in the literature tropes and found not what I was looking for.
openUnable to answer a question? Live Action TV
What is the name of the trope where you are caught in a question and you choke because you are unable to answer it? Let's say you are in a conversation with someone where you casually mention Artificial Intelligence and you get asked "What is Artificial Intelligence?" but you cannot answer it. What is that called?
openNo Title
Not Breaking Fourth Wall Not Breaking Fourth wall Breaking Fourth wall EX: This Magic Cannot Attack Twice Cannot Perform Critical Hit And Causes (Sometime) Seizures
openAnimal Execution as the Final Trial
The typical scene in which a character is passing a series of tests of trials to prove their worth, in which the last one is to stab or shoot the animal pet they have been taking care of all this time. Many times the pistol is empty, and that was done only to prove their willfulness, and others is played straight, ending the life of the animal. Examples I can think of are KingsmanTheSecretService and an episode of AmericanDad.
Is there a named trope for that?
openAbrupt perspective change
In literature, when a story told through first person is radically changed to third person in a later chapter.
Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
Do we have a trope about time-travlleing characters who suffer mentally and/or physically due to the circumstances of their time-travel?
For example, they try and try to prevent the death of a loved one, but it always fails because You Can't Fight Fate?