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I'm trying to remember where we put examples of common mistakes about tropes. I thought it was "misapplied trope," but it wasn't. It's usually filled with examples of tropes that have a lot of people Complaining About Shows You Dont Like. One solid example is that rather than put in an example of Narm when listing a show on its page, they'll list the show and say that the drama fell flat or it was overblown, which isn't Narm exactly, is it?
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Whats the trope for the fact that no one ever seems to clean up After the End.
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What is it called when someone's Crowning Moment of Awesome speech or What the Hell, Hero speech backfires? For example, in an episode of Frasier, Daphne overhears Frasier complaining how Roz has been (seemingly) spending the money he lent her during a difficult time on frivolous things. Daphne reminds him that he once asked her (Daphne) to loan him some money so he could buy something he wanted and she obliged, but had yet to pay her back. Daphne gets angrier and angrier, pointing out that he is constantly spending money on frivolities while she clips coupons, so maybe he should cut Roz a break. A triumphant moment for Daphne-until Frasier calmly points out that not only did he pay her back by paying for a parking ticket she had gotten, but the parking ticket was ten dollars more than what she had loaned him, so technically she owes him money. Cue a very chagrined Daphne.
Can anyone tell me what this trope is called?
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The second movie of Cardcaptor Sakura does a similar thing in the final scene that stops halfway on a cliffhanger. But apparently the missing scene comes on an official image that's found on some devoted sites for one and yes its genuine as you can clearly see (if not convinced see the copyright logo. In copies where the illustrator's name at the bottom is readable, it is revealed to be the chief animation director of the movie ! ) What was CLAMP thinking? What sort of a trope is this? Deleted scene? Or All there in the manual? Or Print Bonus? Or Bonus Material ? Side story bonus art? Interestingly the ccs wiki also mentions this image on this page here http://ccs.wikia.com/wiki/Sakura_Kinomoto Take a look and decide if that qualifies as an additional trope Said image can be found if you google "cheerio fan site image gallery movie 2" and click the very first search result and do some searching around in anime —> Films -> II (http://ccs.sky-bound.org/gallery/categories.php?cat_id=200&page=3) or search up in tineye. Alternatively google this up "cardcaptor sakura movie 2 final still image". You'll get it in the very first link What sort of a trope is that? Would you update it on your pages?
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I'm sure we have this one, but I can't seem to search for it: whenever parents (of opposite sex) get into a conflict over a child, or whenever a child acts in a way that's disappointing to just one parent, it's generally the father who acts cold, stern, and disappointed, while it's the mother who still shows open love for the child and expresses it.
Could be related to Closer to Earth or any one of a number of parent tropes.
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Looking for a trope about vocal changes as a character becomes, some one/something else. A kind of 'fantasy voice breaking'
examples include
- Mort sounding more like death (using THE VOICE) as he does deaths job
- Jaime, a human becoming a ghoul in Fallout 3 starts using a raspy voice
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What is the name of the trope that refers to when a "stronger" character can't open a jar or something and then a "weaker" character comes along and opens it with no problem whatsoever. I've seen it so many times that it has to be a trope now.
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Do we have a trope for where a member of a team has to go on a solo mission, and the rest of the team gives him or her small parts of their unique abilities? As in, the alchemist gives her a potion, the swordsman gives her a buckler, the mage gives her a buff spell, that kind of thing.
This was in a comic I was just reading, and it seems like a general trope, but I can't for the life of me remember a name.
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The second movie of Cardcaptor Sakura does a similar thing in the final scene that stops halfway on a cliffhanger. But apparently the missing scene comes on an official image that's found on some devoted sites for one and yes its genuine as you can clearly see (if not convinced see the copyright logo. In copies where the illustrator's name at the bottom is readable, it is revealed to be the chief animation director of the movie ! ) What was CLAMP thinking? What sort of a trope is this? Deleted scene? Or All there in the manual? Or Print Bonus? Or Bonus Material ? Side story bonus art? Interestingly the ccs wiki also mentions this image on this page here http://ccs.wikia.com/wiki/Sakura_Kinomoto Take a look and decide if that qualifies as an additional trope Said image can be found if you google "cheerio fan site image gallery movie 2" and click the very first search result and do some searching around in anime —> Films -> II (http://ccs.sky-bound.org/gallery/categories.php?cat_id=200&page=3) or search up in tineye. Alternatively google this up "cardcaptor sakura movie 2 final still image". You'll get it in the very first link What sort of a trope is that? Would you update
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In Tales Of MU, the golem Two is named such because the runes on her forehead resemble the word. It's not treated as a joke in-series, so is this an example of Punny Name or something different?
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I have been wondering if there actually exists a phenomenon that could perhaps be called "inverted typecasting": Some actor or actress is very well known from a part in eg. a TV series of a certain genre, which causes that he or she will not be suitable for any other TV series of the same genre, lest it cause enormous confusion among the viewers. For example, imagine if David Caruso had been cast as one of the main protagonists of NCIS: It would confuse the heck out of the viewers.
So it would be kind of the polar opposite of typecasting: Because the actor or actress is well-known for a specific role, he or she would be a bad casting choice for a different show of the same genre.
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Just been looking at Evil Is Cool, and it really surprises me we don't seem to have an inversion - that is, a Good Is Cool type trope. Is there something out there for that, or is this one for YKTTW?
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Is there a trope for just Harem? We have tropes for unwanted harem, but in some shows there are some characters that have a harem that isn't unwanted.
To be more precise, when I say "harem" I am talking about the sort of harem where the "harem girls" are loyal, love and serve the "master" or the Oujo.
How should I tag this?
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So a rock artist I like is having a comic book hero based on him. Currently I've listed it as Fictionalization but this is a red link. Is there any trope that matches that, the concept of a real person having a fictional persona based on them created?
Do we have an article for the time-honored school life trope of students being given clean-up duty after school?