The TVTropes Trope Finder is where you can come to ask questions like "Do we have this one?" and "What's the trope about...?" Trying to rediscover a long lost show or other medium but need a little help? Head to Media Finder and try your luck there. Want to propose a new trope? You should be over at You Know, That Thing Where.
Find a Trope:
openThe abuser is someone else
Rita gives classes to senior people, and one of her students, an elder woman, has a broken hand, and when asked gives lame excuses and is too terrified to talk about it. Suspecting domestic abuse, she follows her home, and confronts her husband. He's a nice person, but Rita is sure that it's all a facade, someone has broken her hand, and she does not buy the lame excuse! Then their son, a Jerk Jock, comes home and starts bullying his mother. Rita apologizes to the husband, who had not done anything after all, and confronts the jerk jock.
Can't be Not Me This Time, because the husband is not a recurring villain, in fact it's the only time he shows up. Can't be Misblamed either, because that's a YMMV about audiences misblaming creators over something.
openProud Craftsman Race
An entire race of people who's famous for making real high quality stuffs, like weapons, armors, amongst other things.
openUsing a fire extinguisher as a weapon?
A variation of Improvised Weapon, seen it in a ton of media where the protagonist will randomly grab a fire extinguisher nearby and use it to beat off his opponents. Most of the time it involves the character blasting foam on their target's faces. See Diamonds Are Forever, Taken or Cowboy Bebop for examples.
Do we have a trope for this?
openBeen There, Now Know How To Do That
Do we have a trope for when a time-travelling character uses their ability to get knowledge about a certain situation, object or person, then rewinds time and uses that knowledge to their advantage?
For example, Alice gets lost in a maze. She chooses the right path and ends up triggering a death trap. So she rewinds time to before she made the choice, now knowing which path not to take and goes left.
Edited by JustmenoworriesopenNon-Actor Character Is Cast In Film
There is this Story Type, you some times see on Television Shows, or some times Comics.
A Character, who is not normally an Actor, happens to be on a Film Set, some thing happens, and the Director sees the Character and is like; "YOU'RE GOING TO BE THE STAR OF MY NEXT WORK!".
This has happened on both "101 Dalmatians" Shows, Bay Watch, Stingray, and I think in an Issue of Savage Dragon, too.
So, is there a trope, for a Story type, where the usually Non-Actor gets cast in some thing?
Edited by BabClaytonopenAdults Not Believing Kids Outlandish Truths Anime
Is there any tropes about when children telling adults about what they saw or heard and they all dismiss them for being outlandish despite what they're saying being 100 percent true?
openPopular with Creator
I think it's a YMMV trope, it's about a work or a character that the author completely adores, but has a mediocre or downright bad feedback from the audience or sells little.
openOpening Quote Trope
When a piece of work opens up with some sort of quote, like The Bee Movie, or The Lego Batman Movie. I've seen it so many times, I'm sure the "opening quote" is a trope.
openCut one slice, take the rest
A character cuts off one small slice of (usually a cake) and takes the rest.
openTropes Gone Bad
Do we have an index somewhere about situations or archetypes that are similar to each other, but one is (usually) good and the other bad?
For example, The Power of Friendship is good, Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! is bad; Thicker Than Water is good but Nepotism is bad; Brave Scot vs. Violent Glaswegian, etc.
openNot-So-Tight Knit After All
Bob: "I was surprised by the fact they were bickering amongst each other. I know I hate them but even I'm surprised because they always seemed to have this "tight-knit community"-type thing between them. I guess they're not so tight-knit after all."
Edited by JC96resolved Trope used to describe character titles when they show up for the first time
Not sure which trope covers this. It's in anime/manga, but I've seen this in 24 for instance.
openPersonality Powers but for settings
An interview about the Disney Chills series said that the settings of each book were informed by the Disney villain the story corresponds to, so Ursula the Sea Witch's story is set in a seaside California town with an aquarium, while Dr. Facilier's story is set in New Orleans and the bayou. Yu-Gi-Oh! Capsule Monster Coliseum has this too, with many duelists' stages reflecting some aspect of their personality, with Bandit Keith's stage being a trove of stolen treasure and Shadi's stages bending the rules. Is there a trope for this kind of thing?
openSelfish Selflessness
A character insists they are doing something for somebody else's sake. Digging deeper into their emotions reveals that, even if they are not completely aware of it, they are actually doing it for themselves.
openTransparent underwater scene
Is there a trope for when water is treated as being as transparent as air (and thus it's possible to spot things much further away than would be possible in real life)? This is especially common in animated works and video games.
openPeople in another world comically mispronouncing names or concepts from our world
The hero from our time is in the future/the past/on a different planet/parallel universe/whatever and says something like "I wish you had television", and the native accompanying them will ask "what is a Tel Eh Vizh En?" or something like that. Sometimes they will continue to use the mispronounced word and the hero will correct them angrily when they get fed up with the situation.
(I could also use language drift in the future, like "Lost Urath".)
Edited by Blilit
Is there a trope describing a society or an attempt to make society that eschews all play for working towards advancement and improvement of said society, frequently being oppressive towards the people with their leaders a form of Well-Intentioned Extremist? Like a non-military version of The Spartan Way or just the Discipline part of Harmony Vs Discipline.