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What's the trope for when a character get's washed away or crashes without his plane/ship in the middle of nowhere which is inhabited?
it usually forces the guy to cope with the new place as a Fish out of Water.
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What's the trope for when a character rubs his nose with his index finger to show he's easygoing/cocky? Luffy does this a lot in One Piece.
variations include a simple thumb/index finger(sometimes starts with his forearm or back of his hand) swipe under the nose. Nero of Devil May Cry does this variation and it shows his cockiness.
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Is there a trope for a situation where one character acts as a "bridge" or a uniter of two conflicting groups of people because he somehow belongs to both groups? Usually because he's a mix of two different races, or he was born in one community but raised in another.
- I wanted to say that in Thor, Odin hopes Loki will become this for Asgard and Jotunheim, but it doesn't work out for him.
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I haven't found a trope on Mentor Detectives. A subtrope of "Team Dad"/"Team Mom". In crime shows the older guy (rarely a woman) with world experience and often contacts and police experience. Usually the team leader, but not always. Sometimes "Da Chief". Examples: Gil Grissom, Jim Brass, Raymond Langston and D.B. Russell (CSI), Leroy Jethro Gibbs (NCIS), Hetty Lange (NCIS: LA), Jason Gideon and David Rossi (Criminal Minds), Joe White (Hawaii Five-0).
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Is there a trope for a particularly horrible thing that a character does, maybe even a Moral Event Horizon that is pretty much completely dropped and ignored as though it never happened later on?
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When the leader of a five man band dies and his group tries to continue fighting the good fight without them, but prove inept without the character to lead them.
(one example I can think of is when the hero dies in Jade Empire. Though it could be argued that thats not a good example.
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Is there a trope or concise description for Space Opera lunar surface Scenery Porn? Specifically when the porn is in the extreme white/black contrast of light and shadow? I am thinking of anime, for example the final unfinished movie in Millennium Actress or the scene in Valvrave the Liberator where the protagonists are stranded on the moon. Both scenes are similar in the contrast of the unearthly stark black/white lunar landscape and the isolated orange pinpricks of the characters' space suits. But I've also read older Sci-Fi stories, and books by Apollo astronauts, where the black and white and lack of an atmosphere (i.e. walking distances are deceptive) are used to create a sense of vastness, isolation, or desolation. How can I describe this sort of Scenery Porn?
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Is there a trope for when two characters fall in love, either for the first time or rekindling old feelings, while performing and/or composing a song together? This happens on "Nashville" on an almost weekly basis, and I have come to refer to it as "song-f*cking" because it is often portrayed by steamy glances between the two characters while they sing.
There are several more examples of this in the hilarious comedy "Walk Hard".
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Is there a trope for only really liking a female character when she's receptive to male advances and hating her if she rejects them, or does that fall under My Girl Is a Slut?
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Songs about men asking women to forget their former lovers and pay attention to them instead. Do we have a trope for that?
Don't close your eyes, let it be me
Don't pretend it's him in some fantasy
Darling, just once, let yesterday go
You'll find more love than you've ever known
Just hold me tight when you love me tonight
And don't close your eyes
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An animal character that has no hands or opposable thumbs was able to perform a feat that would normally require hands using other body parts instead of their paws or such.
Example: A pig was able to fold a piece of cloth around a doll to make a dress using only its mouth.
Is there a trope for that or something close?
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What is the trope for when two characters are running toward each other, like in the Meadow Run trope, but it turns out one of them runs right past the other to embrace somebody else?
It's similar to when a character waves her hand and someone thinks its directed at them, but soon realizes that the wave was meant for someone else, not before making a fool of himself by waving back.
Or when apparently two people are walking towards each other to shake hands, but one walks past to salute someone else, leaving the other hanging, and feeling like a fool.
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Is there a trope that describes that there are different versions of what happened to the character after a certain point in the story? I'm trying to create entry for Ariadne. Different ancient authors claim different things about her fate after sailing away from Crete: either Theseus left her on Naxos willingly or was forced to do so by Dionysus, or she died during childbirh, or she was slain by Artemis, or she hangged herself... I'm looking for a trope that would reflect there are many versions of her story.
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This might be a bit People Sit On Chairs, since it's so common, but do we have a trope for that old upside-down "this side up" box gag?
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Do we have a trope for how fiction (especially video games) note and, by extension, some real-life people who have had their perceptions and beliefs affected by fiction tends to wrongly equate "commando" with One-Man Army instead of the actual definition of "a soldier or operative of an elite light infantry or special operations force often specializing in amphibious landings, parachuting or abseiling"?
A character is reluctant (or regrets) giving a piece of information, not because of the knowledge itself but how they got it. For example, knowing a particular bit of science trivia because it was on the Magic School Bus, being certain they recognize someone from a movie (until they finally remember it was a porno), recognizing the methods used by a criminal (because they themselves are/used to be one), etc. Can be played for drama or laughs.