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openEnemy Uses Party Mechanic Videogame
An enemy or enemies, particularly bosses, have the unusual ability use a mechanic in a video game that's normally reserved only for members of your party - i.e. limit breaks, special buffing/debuffing moves, etc.
openAwesome Made Mundane
A trope where something normally rare, exceptional or otherwise Too Awesome to Use in reality is actually the norm or perfectly ordinary in fiction.
For example, tribal chiefs being carried on shields by their warriors only happened on special occasions in post-Roman Gaul, in Asterix it's treated as the chief's equivalent of driving a car (down to the chief's wife being carried by his shieldbearers to go do the groceries). Similarly, boar was a rare food for the Gauls, not an everyday meal.
openPhysical distance=emotional distance
Characters sit far away from each other (i.e., opposite ends of a long table) to represent an emotional barrier between them
Edited by CosmicGhostopenRunning across a bridge that collapses just behind you Western Animation
An animation trope: a character is running across a collapsing Rope Bridge, or some long staircase, with the planks/steps falling down one by one; the character is running at just the right speed so that on each step they step on an intact plank, which falls down as they move. In short, the whole structure collapses just behind the running character.
Edited by FlorestanopenTheme Song, Casually Live Action TV
In "Mr. Monk and the Leper," Lt. Disher picks out the original Monk theme on the murder victim's piano. I don't think this is Awesome Music, even if the theme does get used in that capacity elsewhere on the series...
Edited by AlonsodelArteopenIgnored Feast
Someone gets or prepares a large amount of food, only to eat only a tiny amount or none at all. For example, in the memetic "Crazy Hamburger" video by FatTV, the guy makes a giant hamburger, only to throw it into a river.
openMade himself a bigger target Videogame
A boss's One-Winged Angel form just makes him easier to kill
openRunning haphazardly through an obstacle course of doom and succeeding
Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
Someone may even begin to speak of coordinating a plan to get through the obstacle course of doom right before someone else decides to randomly run into it.
The latter dodges the death traps seamlessly without a care in the world and, although there may be a few close shaves, makes it out completely unscathed.
I feel like I've seen this plenty of times but here's an vid example from the top of my head.
Edited by BlackFaithStaropenImplied cruelty
Example:
- Hunter: Once, I was tasked to investigate a missing person case. A young daughter, probably enough to play with toys, was abducted from a village in Transylvania. By werebeasts. My hunting group tracked down the werebeast, and we discovered a shack in the deep woods. We forcibly entered the house to find the girl. Instead, there was a werewolf mother and her daughters, gathered on the dinner table. We found a pile of bones on that table.
What trope can be inferred from the quote above?
openSecretly Gay
I actually can't find this, but I'm having difficulty believing we don't have it.
Do we have a trope for someone who is explicitly LGTBQ, but has to hide it due to homophobia or other circumstances? I've found tropes for it having to be masked, like Get Back in the Closet, but so far these are for when the author has to be coy about it. Not when the character is trying to keep it secret.
openCreepy Crying
A Horror trope where the sounds of crying / people in agony are Played for Horror, to make the atmosphere really unsettling. It shows up in video games sometimes to keep the player away from a specific area, or just to scare them.
openTricked out Fate
I remember seeing a TLP draft that concerned the prophecy equivalent of Tricked Out Time; more specifically, those instances where You Can't Fight Fate, but characters manage to manipulate events that match the wording of a prophecy so that it reaches a favorable, but still technically correct outcome. Like for example, tricking a meteor destined to destroy a certain town named Tropeville into striking another, abandoned Ghost Town named Tropyville by swapping the fifth letter of both towns' names so that the meteor falls on "Tropeville" instead. Where is it now?
Edited by Unnerving_PosterioropenAlliterative group of characters
What's the trope for when a group of characters all have names starting with the same letter? Like Alliterative Family, but not restricted to families. There's Theme Initials but I think that's only for when they share the initials of at least a first name and a last name.
openGeek-Out Moment
A character who may or may not already be a nerd/geek to begin with has a moment of exceptional excitement regarding a subject/person/item they have a passion for. Squee is the action, I'm looking for the trope about the character's personality corresponding to this. Nerd Gasm also isn't it, as it's sexual in nature.
Edited by AlleyOopopenDoorStopper for non-literary media?
Is there an equivalent of the Door Stopper (extremely long book) that applies to thinks like movies, television, or music?
openEmotion-embodied-personality tropes
The villain attacks the superhero gang with a ray gun which makes their emotions go haywire. Each of them only acts as a certain emotion while affected, and later reconfront the villain to obtain the antidote. Change of eye color also appears to be a side-effect. Once again, this is a BoBoiBoy episode, and it's tropes describing each of their emotions I wish to find. I've done the first one so far.
- Ying (Chinese girl in glasses): Improperly Paranoid, often Quaking with Fear and hiding under a leaf.
- Yaya (pink-wearing hijabi): A giddy box of constant laughter. (Solved:Cheery Pink and Genki Girl)
- Gopal (brown dude in green): Super confident and showily heroic. Has shades and slicked hair for an additional "cool" effect.
- Boboiboy (boy with orange hat): depressingly melodramatic. Has a spotlight over him for most of the times he speaks. (Perhaps Drama Queen)
- Fang (spectacled boy with darkish spiky hair): ...flowery and... heartfelt? (Not too sure about this one...)
Dialogue example (with clip although this dialogue is at 1:32):
openSecret test of moral character Anime
Is there a trope for a hero who's been betrayed before he launches a secret test of character at some of his friends to see what they'd do and if they'd betray his trust when he got back? They have no idea the test is happening either.
Hello people. I watched a tv series briefly a while ago but now I can't remember the title. The things I remember about the tv series are as follows; There tv series was set in an apocalyptic time period, the main characters of the tv series was looking for a working satellite and eventually the found the only working satellite partly covered in snow/ice through their communication systems. The characters travelled over a bridge to the other side and they found zombie like people but these people were smart and organised and they even had a leader. The characters ran from the zombies and they blew up a building occupied by the some of the zombies. The remaining zombies and the main characters ended up on the bridge and a part of the bridge was divided between the zombies and the main characters by an explosive. So the characters were able to evade the zombies. Lastly, The episode recap of the tv series had a spinning satellite all the time as symbol for the tv series. Please let me know your title suggestions for the tv series. thanks.