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Yes, I am looking for two certain tropes.
Anyway, the first trope is where you can take characters from a certain setting, put them in a new setting, but still have them work in that setting.
The second one is when a character asks another character a question, and while that character is thinking, the "Do-Do-Do" theme from the Price Is Right is playing.
Help is very much appreciated!
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Looking for a trope that I'm not finding in the only source I recall on this site. The trope in a nutshell is "no future for mankind without the opposite sex". In this movie a small group of soldiers are holed up and going stir-crazy because of the apocalypse and so far as they know they make up the entire human population: a dozen men. They have nothing to look forward to and nothing really to live for, they have no future no matter how successful they are at survival. This example obviously lacks women but it could really be either. I saw the single gender/gender rarity tropes but I don't think what I look for falls under them. It's likely a subtrope of them. But at it's core it's a refined equation:
The world is dead + no breeding partners = It's over, why bother living?
Edit: Wasn't sure of markup; the movie in question is Twenty Eight Days Later.
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There's this trope that's very commonly used in video games, and occasionally in other media, where each world or section would have a very specific theme, usually a natural element of some sort. Example: Lava world, ice world, haunted world, water world (not the movie), cavern world, sky world, you get the idea. And these themes would be very discrete, there's no transition or mixing of themes anywhere.
Commonly seen in many of Nintendo's works, like Super Mario series, Zelda, Earthbound, Metroid Prime, Donkey Kong Country. Can also be seen in Chrono Trigger (though it's justified there), Mega Man, Final Fantasy Series, Castlevania, etc.
Veeeery similar to Single-Biome Planet, except it doesn't have to be separate planets.
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Alice hears Bob is a pretty bad guy, but doubt he'd be so bad as to do X, right before he does.
Basically Who Would Be Stupid Enough?, but replace "stupid" with evil".
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Spanner in the Works has become the Someone Has to Die, but not a case of Alas, Poor Scrappy.
Kinda like "Hey, the idiot's life is in danger. Just let him go before he becomes a problem later."
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In a scene, character A will be giving advice or instructions to character B. Character A will say something like "And one more thing: Whatever you do, don't under any circumstances-" and get interrupted. He'll either lose communication or get distracted somehow. Character B will usually be left in a panic, saying "What? Don't WHAT?"
What's this trope called?
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Is there a trope that is a variet of Sorry, I'm Gay, except another person says it? Dude, She's A Lesbian?
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Basically, a trope when a man explicitely counts the days he spent in an isolated location, usually by carving/drawing notches on the walls. May overlap with a Deserted Island or a Room Full of Crazy.
Do We Have This One? Couldn't find any.
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Looking for a 'concept art compromise' like trope, basically the fact that the final version of something will look considerable less awesome than the concept art. For example rivet city from Fallout 3 Concept art◊ and the finished product◊
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Basically, a videogame trope (unclassified due to the fact there's no videogame medium in here). Unlike many other "main menues" which use a screen with static buttons, certain kinds of these may either have scrolling panoramic menues a-la Earth 2140 (yes, the prequel to that Earth2150) or the fully-controllable character like in Psychonauts. Is it me or this trope doesn't exist yet?
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Plot in which a scheme is explained while the actions described in the scheme occur on screen. Ocean's Eleven is one of the most triumphant examples, but I'm not sure it is the first. Other shows that use the plot usually are made as parodies of Ocean's, and it's been at least double subverted by Codename: Kids Next Door, in which, after the entire plot is explained with the scene playing out, the scene cuts back to Numbuh 1 finishing the briefing, met with Numbuh 4's, paraphrased, "That plan'll never work!" Cut FORWARD, to the scheme's end, "I can't believe that worked!" The convention is recognisable and very in line with other plot tropes, but I can't seem to find it anywhere.
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What's the one where a Japanese character (usually a Team Pet or Cute Shotaro Boy) says "desu" a lot to show that s/he is supposed to be sweet and cutesy?
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What's the trope for a religion without faith? Like, there's a Physical God, everyone knows he exists, nobody needs to believe in anything, they just pretty much ask him for favors personally.
I cannot believe we missed that. It's ridiculously popular.
I was wondering what it's called when someone thinks there is reason to be scared, but it turns out there is nothing to worry about.
Example: 24 Redemption has one of the boys Jack is looking after going through his things, stealing his knife and shirt before he sees Jack watching him. The boy is afraid, thinking Jack is going to do something or at least be angry, but it turns out he was only fetching some work gloves, and after a few calm words gets the boy to give the knife back.