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openhistorical situation flip
An alternate (or far-future) history trope where the positions of a conflict (or other situation) are reversed.
For example, South Park has an episode where Native Americans give disease-filled blankets to whites to kill them off.
openmaking the prophecy happened in a different way
I'm looking for a trope for when there's a prophecy, someone tries to make it happen in another way. It's like invoking Prophecy Twist using Loophole Abuse.
I only remembered it having "Ragnarok" in the title.
openArmor+mobility combination?
When you have to pick two between armor, firepower and mobility at the expense of the third (due to balance reasons for example), you get the Mighty Glacier if you pick firepower and armor, and Glass Cannon if you pick firepower and mobility. Is there a trope name for the armor and mobility (thus at the expense of firepower) combination?
openCharacter joins at max level. Videogame
Currently playing a game where the majority of the characters power up their skills via Level-Up at Intimacy 5 by growing closer to the main character through character events. The final character is an exception as she's in love with someone else and joins with all of her skills already unlocked. What would she fall under?
openLosing someone's trust/Betrayal
Is there a trope for when someone is betrayed and loses trust in someone/or everyone? Or they don't know who to trust?
openCynic that accepts how things are
What do you call someone who looks at things in a way that is considered cynical, but isn't mad. They are just matter of fact about it, and even find joy in explaining it to people. Sort of like if you live in a world with corrupt politicians and they are like "Oh yeah elections! I wonder how they will manipulate the people this year", not ironically, but they have fully accepted, and maybe even be excited to watch.
Edited by TheKing42openEcnereffid
How are Win The Crowd and And The Fandom Rejoiced not each other, both in theory and in practice?
openPlot 1 doesn't effect Plot 2 Film
In a film where there are Four Lines, All Waiting, where the plots are happening in close enough physical proximity that what happens in one should effect the others, yet it doesn't.
For hypothetical example, in the film Alice and Bob and Charlie and Dora and Ethan and Frank and...[etc.], about multiple couples all of whom live in Manhattan, early in the "Alice and Bob" segment there is a blackout that hits the entire city. They have to deal with the aftermath of that. But Charlie, Dora, Ethan and Frank's plots, which also take place in Manhattan on the same day, don't have a blackout or suffer any aftereffects from it.
Edited by randomsurferopenA useless power
A power a character has that isn't good for much. The character has other powers/skills, sure, but one ability isn't any use. Such as being able to change the color of your nails and nothing else. Is there a trope for this or doesn't it show up enough? It doesn't seem like something writers would use much.
openThis works in TV!
In a telenovela, the hero's girlfriend is out of town, and his daughters want to her to return. They tell her that he's dating another woman, expecting her to come to the rescue and fight for her love. It happened in a telenovela that they watch! It does not work: she breaks up with him and delays his return, and things get unraveled when they clarify that it was all a deception by the girls. He gives them a lecture, and reminds them that things do not work like in the telenovelas.
Wrong Genre Savvy, Reality Ensues, This Is Reality, or all of them?
openWhen the universe proves you wrong
A character taps on a car/ship/plane/some sort of machine saying something along the lines of "This thing is sturdy!" and said machine immediately falls apart.
openLove Makes You Dazed
That moment when character A is trying to get character B's attention, but B is too busy staring into space, daydreaming about the person they are attracted to or in love with. Character A calls their name and B turns around saying "huh?" with a dazed, stupid look on their face. Taken as a sign of that character being in love.
openFight the best immediately after entry
Is there a trope for a person entering a competition-based establishment (esp. a school) and immediately having to prove himself in a competition against someone close to the top rank? This seems to be a popular thing these days, with a range of excuses. The most popular seems to be making the strongest individual a woman and having the hero (a boy) see her nude or almost nude, thus justifying her rage and desire to claim some manner of "payment", but other causes exist including minor slights, "insubordination" or an attempt to protect someone else from unfair treatment. The ultimate result is the same whatever the trigger: the hero is forced to fight one of the strongest people in the establishment at the very beginning of the story, thus forcing him to either demonstrate how incredibly skilled/powerful/lucky he is or get kicked out and end the story before it even starts. Examples include Asterisk War, Rakudai Kishi No Eiyuutan, the new series Hundred, and more.
Edited by LyneropenEnemy Constructive Criticism
A scientist (Bob) submits an invention for approval and arranges for his archrival Charlie to be on the approval committee. The idea being that Charlie will be much more motivated to find and attack every single mistake (and thus find one that might have been overlooked by the others) in his effort to discredit Bob.
openAccelerating Drums
Is this a subtrope of Standard Snippet where a piece has a single drumbeat that grows into more drumbeats, that eventually speed up into a huge accented note?
Edited by EclipseMTopenFictionalized true event as a minor part of a story
What trope would apply to an in-story event that has the following characteristics?:
- It's obviously based on a true event, though with details changed.
- It's a small part of the story, not the main plot. The main plot is totally fictional. (So none of the listed variants of Based on a True Story seems quite right, because they apply better to the story as a whole.)
- The Inspired by… or Suggested by... stock phrases are not used.
I feel like Ripped from the Headlines would come close, but in the specific example I'm thinking of the event wasn't actually recent when the book was written.
openMagic girl/Knight boy?
That thing where a girl/boy character duo has the girl using magic to fight and the boy use like, physical fighting? Usually with a sword, but I've seen some others. Some examples would be like the Prince and Elika from 2008 Prince of Persia, Shannon and Raquel from Scrapped Princess, or maybe Katara and Sokka from A:TLA?
I'm looking for a trope about magic forcing someone to fulfill a promise they made, makes them binded to it. The magic could range from a simple spell to an accessory that appears on the person, as a reminder.