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openWhen comics introduce plots to mirror movie adaptations. Print Comic
Civil War II came out in comics right after the Civil War movie. I think the Apocalypse stuff happening in X-Men comics right now is probably because of the new movie. Is there a trope describing when comic book plots reflect their recent movies?
openOffscreen Legacy Character Print Comic
Is there a trope where a superhero (or other secret-identitied character) is stated to be the latest in a long line of previous bearers of the mantle, but none of the previous incarnations ever actually appear as characters (usually because the mantle only gets passed on when the previous bearer dies)? There often seems to be some sort of secret society involved with perpetuating the tradition, but I see no reason that should be mandatory. The Phantom is a good example, and the Dread Pirate Roberts would be a non-superhero example. Weirdly, the two dress very similar. What if the original Phantom and the original Dread Pirate Roberts were the same guy...
As I understand it, you only get to be listed as an example on the Legacy Character page if more than one of them actually shows up in person for at least one story.
Edited by BrokenEyeopenTrope about killling someone to get what they desire. Print Comic
an example Alice tells Bob that she can resurrect his wife Edith but he has to kill jack and then she would resurrect Edith
openUsing too often a newly-found, obscure word Print Comic
Do we have a trope for when a character starts using a word he has just found in a dictionary far too often, usually trying to seem sophisticated? Author Vocabulary Calendar seems to cover real cases, should it be given an in-universe section?
I'm thinking of the one-time antagonist of Lucky Luke who ran a newspaper and used "inique" several times in each sentence. (Don't know how this was translated.)
openIncoming superhero signal Print Comic
Is there a trope for the thing mentioned on Atop the Fourth Wall recently, used a lot in older superhero comics, where a hero does something to announce his presence to the villains before coming on the scene himself? The video mentioned things like Spider-Man having a flashlight that projected a spider symbol on the wall.
openBlue Skinned Child? Print Comic
Do We Have This One The Beano recently added a new character. Her name is Hayley Comet, a pun on Halley's Comet, and she's a little girl who crashed her spaceship and enrolled at Bash Street School to learn about human behaviour. She has blue skin, but being a child definitely wouldn't count as a Green-Skinned Space Babe. So what trope is she? Her other defining features are a pair of rocket boots (which allow her to fly) and a pair of orange braids.
openCast differentiation Print Comic
This is a pretty common trope in comics, but can apply to anything with superheroes. It's basically what happens when you gather several superheroes together and the only other way to tell them apart aside from their superpowers was their personalities, so a certain aspect of them gets exaggerated when they're in a group.
Compare the shows Superfriends to Justice League. Superfriends was pretty bad about this since all the members had the same personality with different tights, but when you look later in Justice League you'll notice that there's a lot of different personalities that contrast well with each other. Flash tends to be a lot cockier and reckless with the League than when he's solo. Batman tends to seem gloomier and darker when compared to the League, etc.
openBlack Sabbath's Iron Man: Bootstrapped theme? Print Comic
So we know Black Sabbath wrote Iron Man completely independent from Marvel Comics and originally had nothing to do with him, but in time it eventually became Tony Stark's de facto theme. Odds are when people think of Iron Man's theme, they'll be thinking of those riffs. Does it count as a Bootstrapped Theme if a song that was originally written independently of a franchise/work/character/etc. practically becomes its theme by pure accident or is this a completely different trope?
openA character thinks really hard and really long while walking in circles. Print Comic
And they do it for so long that their walking eventually starts carving a circle into the ground/floor/whatever they're walking on. I've seen it countless times in Donald Duck comics.
Okay since I haven't been able to get any responses on the Is This An Example? Thread and have been advised to try here instead, But could someone take a look at the following examples and see whether they are being used correctly:
Future Quest:
Wacky Raceland: