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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).
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Is there a trope for when the intro to a show is slightly different/interrupted or broken during, with or without relevance to the episode plot?
Such as that one time in the Family Guy intro when peter falls down the stairs, or that one episode of Doug when the pencil is a paintbrush instead, and kinda screws him over?
Or like the cereal episode of Drawn Together, in the intro, it's like BREAKING NEWS! Then goes back to the Intro still in progress?
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Is this already a trope? The culprit or villian of the week is about to be revealed, the camera switches to the astonished faces of the heroes, who gasp in astonishment. They all say: "It's YOU!" or even just "You!" After the ad-break, the villian is revealed to be someone completely unexpected. Basically, everyone in the scene knows the identity of the Man of Mystery, but the AUDIENCE doesn't know. Usually because the shot has the villian standing with their back to the camera, or it's just their shadow, or their face is hidden etc etc. I'm sure I've seen this in every Saturday morning cartoon ever, but I can't find it.
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So a major character dies, off-screen, in an accident, others are informed post factum. Natural disbelief ensues - but no, the dead guy has really been Killed Off for Real, they will have Finally Found the Body soon after. With Really Dead Montage properly convincing the viewers that the character is dead dead, this one leaves a weird "uh buh what?? that was a major character!" feeling. Do We Have This One?
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Is there a trope about adaptations where some or all of the characters are replaced with different characters? Or adaptations where characters' names are changed?
Like, in Around The World With Willy Fog, instead of Phileas Fogg, Jean Passepartout, and Aouda, you have Willy Fog, Rigodón, and Romy. The names are different and the personalities are somewhat different, but the story is more or less the same, and the characters fulfill the same roles as their original book counterparts.
I don't think it's Expy or Captain Ersatz, because it's not a suspiciously Fogg-like character in an unrelated work; it's a not-quite-Fogg character in Fogg's shoes. It's not Suspiciously Similar Substitute because Phileas Fogg never existed in this show and isn't being replaced. I thought it might be Same Story, Different Names, but that's something else entirely.
What is this called?
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Are there tropes for characters giving another character the silent treatment or refusing to speak to them directly out of anger? I know there's Farewell My Friend for when friends fight, but I can't find anything specifically referring to friends refusing to talk to each other. It could also include family members or coworkers.
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Is there a trope name for situations like the mine-car pursuit in Temple of Doom, or the ice-sliding scene in Ice Age? Cases when the characters are all sliding/rolling/speeding out of control, and colliding with things at speed poses a greater threat than whatever they might have been fleeing from when they started? It's been used so often, it's bound to rate a trope name.
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Looking for a cross between Pulling Themselves Together and Transformation Sequence where somebody heals/ comes back to life in a really elaborate way.
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What I'm looking for is really cool looking, pimpy tombs. I'm talking about pyramids, down to Romani(or Gypsy depending on what word you prefer) tombstones, which are way more coloured and decorated than non-Romani. Right now I can't really think of an insanely cool-looking burial site in fiction, but I'm sure I've seen one somewhere.
"Cool Grave" would be a bit of a snowclone, I've searched that and it didn't turn up anything. I don't think it's just chair-sitting either.
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Is there a trope for when sequels (or later seasons of a TV show) in a series with continuity feel they have to "top" the predecessors with respect to plot?
I'm thinking of things like Pokemon here: Gen I: Main villain organization (Team Rocket) takes over an office building. Gen II: Main villain organization takes over a radio tower, manipulates the airwaves, and brutally abuses Pokemon (Slowpoketails). Gen III: Main villain organization's goal is to cause climate change (global effect) Gen IV: Main villain organization's goal is to reset reality (universal effect)
It's sort of the reverse of Villain Decay, except that instead of the villain per se it's the plotline.
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Do we have a trope for when an actor, either by intention or by coincidence, shares the same name as his character? The coincidences are more interesting to me specifically.
By intention: Jackie Chan is often "Jackie" in his movies.
By coincidence: Max Records was found in a massive casting effort to play a character who was already named "Max" in Where The Wild Things Are.
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It's something like Spoiled by the Medium or so (not Interface Spoiler, but its very close). It's that one where you're reading a book and you know how much of the story is left because of how many pages there are so you know that the ending is coming soon, etc. I can't seem to find it.
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Is there a trope for a "out of genre" character? What I mean is a character who refuses to participate in the tropes often associated with the genre that he is currently in. Like in a musical, the guy who refuses to sing and dance. In an action film, the guy that is physically inept and never Took a Level in Badass. In a happy, family friendly film, this is the Grumpy Bear on the cynical side of the sliding scale.
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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