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openOld Adjective
Is there a trope for people naming something Old followed by an adjective; like Old Faithful?
Edited by LadyJuseopenAdult story, child protagonist
is there a trope for non-family-friendly stories with a child protagonist?
openTransformation into an Eldritch Abomination
A trope wherein a character, either mundane or otherwise, ends up transforming into something not only larger, but truly grotesque. Could be nicknamed "Going Tetsuo," after what happened with him at the end of AKIRA's film adaptation. I think there are some other examples, but I have not seen any as of yet.
openCops are good
Do we have a trope for works where cops are the good guys? Often times the hero is an Ideal Hero police officer struggling against all the evil in the world. Often prone to Protagonist-Centered Morality.
I guess this is an implicit part of the Cop Show and Police Procedural but do we have a trope for the general concept?
openA chararcter questions their own sanity when seeing something out of place.
Similar to No More for Me but not caused by any chemical substance. A character sees something bizarre which may or may not be a hallucination and begins to question their own sanity.
- Example: Heavy Metal F.A.K.K.² the heroine Julie catches a glimpse of semi-transparent monster which note is actually real and notices her and disappears shortly thereafter. Julie then states she must be losing it and maybe should go back to bed.
openReligion IN SPACE
Trope(s) about real-world religions being practiced in a speculative fiction context. Often involves things like wondering if a Muslim astronaut needs to pray five times per orbit, or a rabbi deciding if Space Whales are kosher.
openOne Minute Drug Addiction
A character is shown to be addicted to a substance (like coke or meth) for an episode or two, and then it's only mentioned that episode and never brought up again? But the entire episode revolves around it being a huge deal and life ruining, but the character recovers within a day and doesn't need rehab.
open"The future is in your hands" Aesop
Often in a story dealing with Time Travel, the last scene shows the main characters who decided while changing the past impossible, changing the present and therefore the future isn't.
openExpy or something else?
I'm working on creating a work page for One Night Ultimate Werewolf and its expansions. I saw that most of the roles for One Night Ultimate Super Villains fulfilled the same roles as earlier games. (For example, Self-Awareness Girl's action is to check her card at the end of the night phase, just like the Insomniac from Werewolf.) Can it still be an Expy if it's still the same work?
openElite redshirt (Kinda solved)
The protagonist realizes it is in trouble when the most capable of the group is killed like nothing
Edited by IvannopenWhat trope is this character?
Razor Mane from Bloody Bunny is a My Little Phony character that has absolutely no merchandise (unlike the rest of the characters), not even a mention on the official website for the series, likely because she's a clear My Little Phony character and the people behind Bloody Bunny doesn't want to get into legal trouble with Hasbro. Heck, she doesn't even have an official name! Razor Mane is a commonly accepted Fan Nickname.
Edited by KingOfStickersopenCharacter introduced early, but only significantly characterized way after
Do we have a trope about, a character is introduced relatively early in source material with skeleton details, and is only significantly characterized way after?
For example: Cathy is introduced as Alice's Big Little Sister in S01E04 of The Adventures of Alice and Bob. For several seasons after that, Cathy appears when it's natural for her to appear, but with little characterization. It's only at season seven that she is appropriately fleshed out.
openGone horribly right?
a character want to clean someone curse but it partly successful and became stronger ex: someone forced sacrificed their soul to Big Bad and became soulless husk but it not late so the hero cleanses their body and soul and they became ally but not their power
Edited by Baolen2445openSubstance Overdose Trope help
What is the Trope for substance overdose for suicide? I can't seem to find a trope about overdoses with the intent of suicide. I just wanted to add an example on a potential trope.
Edited by Mr-ex777openThematic Evildoing
The evildoing (or what other act) is done multiple times, but said actions follow a specific theme (like colors, the Greek Alphabet, etc)
Example involving my character in GET THAT PIZZA!:
Libre's methods to obtain the Pizza during [insert forum pages] involve him invoking the Fears from The Magnus Archives:
- He immobilises Mad with the word "cheese" that has been empowered by the Vast to be overly long, loud, and bold.
- He sends out Technoblade and Hoshimachi Suisei to kill a bunch of people to use as a roadblock for Superjohn's tank, then chop Superjohn and his tank into pieces with the corpses, thematically invoking the Slaughter.
- (Libre performs action, invoking/involving a Fear, this goes on 13 more times)
openBenevolent dictator
The ruler has 100% power, but it's presented as fine because they're well-intentioned
openEven the author hates them
This characters are The Scrappy but not even their creator likes them.
openSpy story naming convention Live Action TV
I feel like there's a Naming Convention trope in spy / espionage / thriller novels, but don't know how to find examples of it.
In the video game Hitman (2016) there are special missions called Escalations that have this convention: The Eccleston Illumination, The Gladwyn Simulacrum, The Scarlatti Covenant, The Scorpio Directive, The Zunino Disintegration, etc.
There's a Bourne series on USA called Treadstone whose episodes have the same naming convention: The Cicada Protocol, The Kwon Conspiracy, The Berlin Proposal, The Kentucky Contract, The Hades Awakening, etc.
Where does this come from?
I know of British spy novelist named Len Deighton who's first novel—a hugely successful novel, at that—was titled The Ipcress File....
But it's not like the rest of his books have that convention.
The Ipcress File (1962)
Horse Under Water (1962)
Funeral in Berlin (1964) ...and so on.
Edit: It's Robert Ludlum! His books are all named like this: The Scarlatti Inheritance (1971) The Osterman Weekend (1972) The Matlock Paper (1973) The Rhinemann Exchange (1974) The Gemini Contenders (1976) The Chancellor Manuscript (1977) The Holcroft Covenant (1978) The Matarese Circle (1979) The Bourne Identity (1980)
Edited by Doommunky
A character stares down at a city or another view from a window. May be done by a villain.
Edited by BobtheBoldore