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openHated for refusing to sell him out Live Action TV
A dramatic situation where Alice can get something good, but only if she throws Bob under the bus. So, she refuses. Bob, unaware that he was the reason for Alice's decision, proceeds to nag her about the decision. Alice refuses to fess up to spare Bob's feelings, at least up until the dramatic moment of the reveal.
The examples I'm thinking of are stuff like "lead singer of a band is offered a great contract, but only if she abandons the other band members" stories.
openAdaptational Voice Change
We don't seem to have anything on Adaptation Deviation that covers characters having different voices in different adaptations, with the exception of dubs. Not just because of actors, as that's a given, but just different sounds to their voices altogether.
The example I have in mind is how the Whammy in Press Your Luck originally had a very high-pitched "chipmunk" voice (and has it in the 2019 version as well), but Whammy changed it to a different gravelly voice.
Edited by mightymewtronopenKnowing someone before and after the transformation
Two characters used to know each other well. They meet again after one of them has undergone some sort of transformation, like being turned into a vampire, and the other one is usually shocked by the change.
openPsychokinesis is the most dangerous power
In a setting featuring characters with various superpowers, a character with psychokinesis powers is shown to be the most dangerous.
openVisual Echo Anime
Is there a page for specifically visual versions of Meaningful Echo? Things like Sasha's uppercut that she uses against her dad and again against a Titan, in a kind of Chekhov's Trauma way, or Iroh's use of other bending stances to improve his firebending.
I've listed this as anime because AoT was the show that brought on this question, but this can really happen in any visual medium. It could even be in a book, I guess, if it was narration/action instead of dialogue that's being repeated. Any term for this kind of Call-Back?
Edited by TintenseheropenPosthumous disrespect
Bob recently died, his last will said "Despite everything she did, please let Alice be part of the family again" but everybody does the exact opposite. Basically, a character makes a wish, but after their death, their wish is ignored or disrespected.
A Real Life example is the creator of Spongebob, his wish was "please don't make official Spongebob spin-offs" but after his death, Nkickelodeon made plans for three new spin-offs.
openBeing stronger means guns shoot better
Player character being more powerful somehow makes the same gun(or any weapon that shouldn't be logically affected by the wielder's own ability) does more damage.
openLove / hate list
We have Enemies List, but do we have anything for when a person or character has an established list of things they either like or dislike and refer to it in-show, especially if it involves adding something to the list?
Edited by WillbyropenRepetitive list gag
A gag that relies on having the same thing appear multiple times, in a list. For example the ingrients of chocolate list sugar 5 times.
openCanon trope for series? Live Action TV
I'm not sure if there's a trope for these situations about canon:
- Alice and Bob's City Living:
- Bob, The Protagonist, is in a universe where he should not logically be able to Time Travel as it's Like Reality, Unless Noted and aims for lifelike realism where possible, yet he manages to Time Travel back to June 2006 in an episode that's like Yet Another Christmas Carol but without Christmas. The episode violates established canon already.
- In the Lifetime Movie of the Week Compressed Adaptation Alice and Bob: Onwards to California! (which essentially is Arc Welding from the series)she's shown to have a different trademark favorite food - cream scones, and drives a Chevrolet Optra sedan, and became a high-ranking manager earlier than in the series.. But in canon, Alice likes blueberry bagels and drives a Honda Accord sedan and hasn't yet become a high-ranking manager. The differences from canon are major, yet no official pronouncement on the movie's canonicity is given.
- In the same movie as above, Carol is half-Nigerian and half-Italian, and has a Money Fetish and an addiction to snack foods, effectively contradicting the series'characterization of her. series, Carol is shown as having gotten to CEO by aged 30, yet the movie adaptation says she got to CEO aged 35, contradicting the series, also, some details of Carol's life don't mesh up; in the series, Carol is half-Nigerian and half-Samoan with a Trademark Favorite Food of white chocolate bars, and doesn't have a Money Fetish.
openImmortals Do Historical Work
Is there a trope for the tendency of immortals (or at least very long-lived characters), when they have a day job in modern times, for said job to be very past-oriented (historian, museum curator, history teacher, antiques dealer, etc.)?
openPotential Trauma Stress
A situation where a disaster was barely averted, but the heroes keep subconsciously reacting as though it had happened.
In Harry Potter, Harry saves Ron from death by poisoning at the last second. Afterwards, he keeps waking up from nightmares where he hadn't gotten there in time.
openOne unit suit of armor
Is there a trope for how in most editions of Dungeons & Dragons (and, by extension, Pathfinder) suits of armor are usually treated like onesies (i.e the whole suit is treated as a single unit, rather than each piece having its own stats like in Video Games?) The main reason being that it's just easier than calculating the entire armor bonus from all the pieces, especially if a character is wearing mixed types of armor, as well as both games lacking Subsystem Damage. Pathfinder does have a variant called piecemeal armor, and it's just as complicated as you would think. Anyway, I was thinking of putting it under Acceptable Breaks from Reality, but that's more of an index than a trope unto itself. I'm also not sure if most tabletop RPGS are like this, as I've only played a few.
Edited by BootlebatopenSuper uncomfortable costume Film
Is there a trope for a costume that's really uncomfortable or downright painful to wear? Usually, this happens due to a Comic Book or animated character's costume not "translating" well to live-action, so to speak.
openliteral strawman
do we have a trope for the Strawman Fallacy being parodied by having a literal strawman? or can that just go under Straw Character or something similar?
openOld Shame but for past history
Characters/the main ruling body of people are deeply ashamed and guilty about/over a horrific, morally compromising event that happened in their country's past, like modern day Germany being ashamed of the Holocaust or the United States being ashamed over slavery.
openenemies to lovers but without villains
Is there a particular trope for people who are antagonist to each other due to circumstances but not villainous, and eventually fall in love? Because I don't think that Dating Catwoman fits.
openOveranalysed due to popularity Literature
Do we have this? It’s for works where every little detail is scrutinised by fans and critics and the slightest inconsistency pounced on and analysed, debated, dissected and the creator is repeatedly asked about, called out on or forced to justify it in a way that doesn’t apply to less popular works.
For example J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books are subject to atom by atom forensic analysis of every minute detail in a way that Jill Murphy’s very similar The Worst Witch series is not.
Could have a related trope in that something like Potter was (at least initially) written for children and wouldn’t normally be subjected to line by line scrutiny but due to the expanded fanbase gets the treatment - people are not generally slavishly dissecting Noddy books the same way.
Edited by Exxolon
A character with much the same worldview as the Naïve Newcomer, except that he has years of experience and should really know better by now.
i.e. Bob is disappointed to learn that his favorite actor isn't actually a world-class piano player, they used a Talent Double for those scenes. If Bob is an everyman, this would be excusable, less so when Bob is a Hollywood executive.