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Can Broken Base apply to occasions where the base is broken as a result of the base itself rather than the work? I've noticed some people who may have been a fan of a work before mention the fanbase itself is what killed the work for them (apparently really overly obsessive fans, mostly rabid fangirls, are usually to blame).
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Is there a trope for when someone is reluctant to do something until something happens that makes him much more motivated?
An example would be that scene from Jurassic Park when Alan, Lex, and Tim look hesitant to climb the (depowered) electric fence until they hear the T. rex roar, and then they're scrambling to climb it.
Or Fred Kwan in Galaxy Quest being afraid to try using the digital conveyor to beam Jason Nesmith up (especially since the last subject came up inside-out and exploded) until the girl he's crushing on walks in, at which point he decides to go for it.
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Do we have something like 'Wound reveal Shot' where a character is wounded - we might or might not know that yet, if we know it then we do not know how or where exactly - and then there's a shot dramatically showing off the wound, as kind of a shock effect? For example, in one episode of Hannibal, it was clear that something had happened to Mason Verger, but it didn't get clear what it was until moonlight briefly touched his face after it had been in darkness, and revealed that it was badly mutilated. I checked a few work pages which should have this and couldn't find anything.
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Left the Background Music On is for a case of a work with a soundtrack, which suddenly reveals that the music exists in-universe (someone left the radio or the TV on, someone is singing or playing an instrument just outside camera sight, etc.). I'm looking for the inversion: a song is introduced in-universe, and then the narration continues, but keeping the song as a soundtrack in scenes that departed from the specific location where the song was being used.
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We have Wrong Genre Savvy but I wonder if this might fit a new trope better. Wrong Genre Savvy describes a person who thinks they are in one kind of movie when they really aren't. However, in several webcomics I have seen characters who think they are being genre savvy when they are really just being stupid and their stupidity causes the real danger.
For example, I just read a webcomic in which Chad came home to find a scarecrow version of Chad had taken his place. Scotty, thinking he was genre savvy, decided that either Chad or the scarecrow was an evil twin and needed to be killed. Scotty complained about how difficult it was to tell the difference between Chad and the assembly of sticks that wore a green shirt.
I would say that Scotty was Too Genre Savvy instead of Wrong Genre Savvy and since he's not the villian, he's also not Dangerously Genre-Savvy.
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Phlebotinum that causes people to go insane when exposed to it. Basically Phlebotinum-Induced Stupidity, except it makes them crazy. Very common in science fiction/horror stories.
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Videogames and Tabletop RPG situation A character can't perform certain action without having at least a single rank in it, regardless how basic or obvious the action in question might be (i.e. can't punch someone without 1 point in Punching, even if that still makes them pathetically bad at this)
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Is there a term for a plot or plot element that appears to be contrived and actually turns out to be just that, carefully planned out with a specific purpose? For instance, a long series of events seem almost too coincidental, to the point that it almost seems staged when one thinks of it, like someone had set it all up as a scenario for the hero to experience, and it turns out that this is exactly the case: someone is setting up a series of more or less contrived crises for the hero to deal with.
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Can Awesome McCoolname apply to the names of things other than the characters? Like, say, the Cool Starship?
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Generally occurs in Western Animation.
When you have an anthropomorphized animal, but they do something exactly as a human does, even if their bodily features don't match up...an egregious example would be the characters in Arthur, who are all pretty much humanized animals, pressing the sides of their heads to shut out noise, even though their ears are on top of their heads.
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Tropes for Starscream of Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark?
- He's arrogant to everyone he talks to.
- He mocks his partner Shockwave at any chance he gets for having him participate on a mission that he believes is unnecessary.
- He finds the Insecticons (a subspecies of Transformers who transform into insects rather than vehicles) to be hideous, disgusting, revolting, inferior cretures.
- He doesn't believe that the MacGuffin he, Shockwave, and Soundwave he was sent to retrieve doesn't exists.
- Did I mention that he's arrogant to everyone? As in Megatron?
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MacGuffin or Plot Coupon? In Transformers Rise Of The Dark Spark we have the titular Dark Spark, an ancient weapon that can manipulate space, time, and create zombies out of fallen warriors so they can fight in your place. Only the villians can use it, one of the Co-Dragons was charged with finding it and bringing it back to Megatron, where it promptly flies into deep space after ensuring battle between him and Optimus. Flash forward to the Age of Extinction universe where our favorite doomsday weapon winds up in the hands of Lockdown the mercenary, who plans to Time Travel for Fun and Profit. After Optimus kills the mercenary leader, the Dark Spark is sent flying into deep space. It's next destinitation: the G1 universe of the Transformers franchise...And then the game ends
What's the difference of MacGuffin and Magnetic Plot Device?