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open"House in a X" Webcomic
What's the trope for when a character lives in a regular-looking, all-american two-storey house - but the house is in a wacky place, like a Desert Island, inside a cave or volcano, covered by a dome underwater...
Usually a comedy trope, but also found in nonsense-fueled stories about dreams or the afterlife. If that's too specific, it doesn't have to be a house - something like an office building, vehicle or city work too.
openIs there a trope for this? Webcomic
This would probably fall under YMMV. A normal slice-of-life story suddenly and jarringly injects fantasy and/or sci-fi elements completely out of nowhere. I've mostly seen this happen in furry webcomics, where it almost gives the impression that the author got bored with their own creation. It's mostly normal slice-of-life for the first few hundred pages or so, but then one day there's alternate timelines, epic anime fights, alien invasions, gods and magic, time travel, and whatever else the author can throw in there.
I'd describe it as a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment that turns into a complete Genre Shift, if that makes sense.
openBlood treated as wine Webcomic
So in Unholy Blood. The vampire Lucien owns a night club which serves blood instead of wine. It's still treated as wine even being given name like 21 year old female , 44 year old male. Do we have any thing like this ?
openJohn Jameson and James Johnson Webcomic
Is there a trope for situations where a character's name has a variation that's usually a Paper-Thin Disguise fake name, a [[Those Two Guys best friend's name], the name used for an Expy or parody, an Evil Twin or the name of the Similar Squad equivalent?
The variations can be alternating the first and last names, using opposing words (Jack Black's opposite would be Jill White), rhyming words, similar name formation (Luke Skywalker would be Lars Groundflier), equivalent Pop Culture references or jokes, and so on?
openParody Personality Opposite Webcomic
Is there a trope about parodies of characters having the opposite personality of the originals? A Sherlock Holmes parody is stupid, a Superman parody is evil, Queen Elizabeth is laid back, Robin Hood is greedy, Hercules is weak, and so on...
openCool People Don't Talk Much Webcomic
Is there a trope for a character, established as stereotypically "cool", talking very little with others - just saying 'sup', 'cool' and 'sure'?
The opposite, in that case, is a talkative character being lame, and talking a lot because he wants attention, is trying to impress people, or is unable to get social hints.
open"I finally got to draw it!" Webcomic
I've seen it mostly in webcomics but I'm sure it crops up in other media.
The author plans a specific scene long in advance, but for whatever reason, they can't or won't create it until it actually shows up in the work. When it does, the author is elated that after all this time, they've finally drawn/written/filmed it.
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Gunnerkrigg Court rant text:
"I've been waiting since Chapter 3 Page 23 to draw this."
https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=214
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Daughter of the Lilies rant text:
"this freaking page that i got to draw and ink after over a year of waiting
totally worth it"
https://www.daughterofthelilies.com/dotl/556
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Wilde Life comment by the author:
"This is one of the scenes that I pre-drew in 2013 when I was working on the script. It's always exciting for me when I get to them for real!"
https://www.wildelifecomic.com/comic/199
Edited by Pumpkin_Cakeopen"Other character is in the same situation" twist Webcomic
Is there a trope for when we're following a main character going through something and we learn about it, but in the end, it turns out the seemingly normal friend is going through the same situation - the point being, we were so focused on the main character we didn't notice the telltale signs?
For instance, Alice is anorexic, she's been refusing to eat, her friend Betty compares their weight, notice Alice's been getting thinner, Betty offers Alice her food but Alice refuses, and eventually Alice's family manage to get her some help. Then, we cut to Betty, alone, throwing food away, and we see that while everyone was worried about Alice, Betty hadn't been eating anything, either.
open"Stationary TARDIS"? Webcomic
Is there a trope for a magical location or building that features several time and/or space portals?
Like, a castle with several doors, and each door leads to a different era - or works as a portal to a different city, with the owner passing as a denizen of all of those cities?
openFan Webcomic Continuity Tropes? Webcomic
Which of these Continuity Tropes applies to Archie Sonic Online, a sort of quasi-Continuation of Archie Comics Sonic The Hedgehog:
- Broad Strokes (it accepts some of the original story as canon, but not all)
- Continuation
- Truer to the Text (trying to keep to original source material?)
I was going to add to the article some Continuity Tropes but wasn't sure which ones fitted the work page, so thought I'd ask here.
Edited by Merseyuser1openSome form of Acceptable Break From Reality? Webcomic
In El Goonish Shive, the author does a thing where when characters chat online, rather than show people typing, their avatars actually interact as if they were the actual persons. The author does this explicitly because in most cases, people typing is boring. What trope would this be?
openWhat's going on here? Webcomic
NOTE: Comics are NSFW, take care when checking links.
In Ennui GO!, Sarah has a number of strips where she takes something said by someone else and goes off on tangents of odd examples, such as here and here, which usually annoys whoever's around her. I'm almost certain we've got a trope for this, but I have no idea what it could be.
openDark Thoughts Webcomic
What would it be if a character briefly thinks about killing themselves, but doesn’t?
openPerson wants spouse to die but won't murder them Webcomic
Is there a specific trope for a person who wants their spouse to die but is waiting for them to die naturally instead of murdering them? Basically, a male gold digger is waiting for his terminally ill wife to die so he can inherit all of her money for himself.
Is there something like Til Murder Do Us Part but without the murder?
Edited by MaidloidopenTradesnark, but what else? Webcomic
Panels 4 and 5 of this Ennui GO! strip are definitely Tradesnark™ (thanks, ~St Fan), but do they fit something else? It feels like a weird take on Saying Sound Effects Out Loud but I'm not sure that it really fits.
Edited by Willbyr
Is there a trope for a common Take That! towards fanboys being that they're interested in a work because they're perverts who are sexually attracted to the female characters? Or at least take the Wish Fulfilment aspect of the work in the direction of using it for sex?
The idea there can be that the character likes something terrible because he's not sexually active and the fandom is "filling a gap", or that he's so into the fandom that it's taken over even his sexual preferences.
Another thing that might be related is a character who's a creator being unable to keep his fetishes separated from his work. Usually that comes in the form of a director that starts acting creepy whenever he's shooting a sex scene.
Those are mostly comedy tropes but I've seen them around in dramas too - usually pearl-clutchy stuff about fans being unable to separate fantasy from reality.