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In a setting that uses some sort of super / magical powers, some characters are so particularly gifted that they don't need to use spells, utter incantations, need wands, weapons, whatever, but they can use their powers in just about any conceivable manner they want to just by will and ingenuity. They need not be infinitely powerful gods for this.
This sometimes goes so extreme that they can be using their abilities while their real attention is engaged in other stuff, but it doesn't distract them.
Usually the result of long years of training and experience. It's sometimes Lampshaded by others who aren't in their class.
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Do we have a trope in which someone is never taken seriously because they just look too pretty? Or rather someone who's a geek, but it's somewhat unbelievable because said person just looks too attractive? Booth babes who are actually fans of the game they advertise are a perfect example.
eg: Alice is a famous supermodel. When she's seen playing a PS 3 everybody thinks she's just posing for the geeks, even though she really is a huge gamer.
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So there are kinghts/cavemen etc, they come to future and they fight cars/lanterns etc, thinking it is a dragon or something. Sometimes it goes inverse, the machines come to their age with time travelers. What is this called?
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So you've got a side character, and the main characters haven't seen them for several years. When they last knew them, they weren't all that good looking, but now they're suddenly amazingly attractive. Kinda like She Is All Grown Up, but I'm looking for something a little more specific. Anyone heard of something like this?
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so i was thinking about the most common saves in action gerns where the main character is hanging or climing down slowly and then...FALLS, only to find that a) he/she weren't that far to the ground/step or b) a covenant tree-mattress-riveroffscreen breaks the fall and lampshades is convenancy
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Do we have a trope for where a very obvious clue fails to queue in a person, but a random unrelated statement makes them think of it immediately?
two cases of this i can think of is
1. in the simpsons homer is given hints to getting marge pregnant with bart, even moe going so far as to say "way to get marge pregnant" and he still didnt get it, but when someone congratulates him on his new job, he freaks out about marge being pregnant
2. in DBZ abridged, krillin's screams for help are interpenetrated by goku as a space duck, but when krillin quacks goku figures it out and goes to help.
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Is there a trope that has something like weapons grade insults in schlock mercerises?
Basically, using simple words as weapon. If not I will make a new ykttw with this.
http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2003-05-20 (example and probably picture I would use in this trope)
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I am looking for a personality related trope.
About characters that are always in a positive mood. And always happy. Like son Goku from Dragonball Z, he is always happy but will get angry or sad if the need arises.But will always have a positive actitute regardeless of that.
Not like The Pollyanna who is always unrealistically happy.
I will YKTTW if there isn't anything
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A main character is Killed Off for Real, there is a Really Dead Montage, everyone cries on each other's shoulders... Then the next day they're no longer in mourning, they remember their dead pal fondly but life goes on.
Do we have something for a five-minute mourning like that?
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The classic Love Triangle in which the protagonist (usually female) is torn between someone exciting-but-impulsive (a sort of Manic Pixie Dream Girl) and someone Boring, but Practical. What's it called?
Also, I'm wondering if there's a trope about a character having to choose between lifestyles which are distinguished in this way (one is predictable and "practical", and the other is messy and "fun"; sometimes the latter involves adventuring and saving the world).
Any tropes that describe a character who's particularly skilled (usually due to Training from Hell) to the equivalent of a virtuoso in their field — could be anything.