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I have a feeling this has to be an already existing trope. It just has to. Too many people have experinced this for it to not be. But I searched, and nothing came up. Honestly.
When you rewatch something from your childhood, the you remember in a positive light, and it suddenly dawns on you how aweful/stupid/weird/surreal/unitentionally funny it is. You suddenly begining cringing at the songs you loved, or realize how much this should have teriffied you as a kid but didn't. The reaction is usually upset or shock, and possbily a refusal to watch anything else in case the same thing happens because you'd rather have your untarnished memories.
Come on, that's got to exist. Right?
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What's that one where when a character does an ultimate attack of some sort, then the screen explodes into pure white with only a sillhouette of them in black? This mostly shows up in animation of various types, but I know Kirby does it too in some of the games when you use Crash.
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I'm looking for that trope for Beautiful Dead Women. It's a romantic image used a lot in Victorian literature. The best example I can think of is the Lady of Shalott. It was also kind of parodied in the poem "the Leper" by Charles Swinburne. I don't think it counts as a Lost Lenore, because it's not necessarily a dead woman in the eyes of someone who was in love with her.
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Something I know as "Role Jealousy": In a Five-Man Band (or large group of heroes), a character will come along who fits the role of one of the members, much to their annoyance. For example, The Chick will resent the fact that she's no longer the only object of male attention, the Big Guy doesn't like the new guy who's bigger/stronger than him, The Casanova is steamed that the girls are ignoring him in favor of the new guy, etc.
Since Status Quo Is God, the new character usually doesn't last long, whether killed, Put on a Bus, or until An Aesop is learned.
Does this exist?
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Examples:
- Here at about 2:00
- Also a great example here at about 0:20.
- Another motorcycle example (with handcuffs) here at about 1:45 and again at 5:40.
Now are these instances simply inversions of Back-to-Back Badasses, or can it be considered it's own trope, as there are instances where the two people involved are not on equal footing regarding badassery?
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Is there a trope for supporting (or even major) characters being casually killed by a new Big Bad to demonstrate how powerful he is? This happens all the time in superhero comics; for example, in one issue of New Avengers a new villain killed the entire Alpha Flight (a superhero team which used to have its own comic book for more than a decade) in one panel. Usually the fans of the dead characters are pissed off by them getting killed so easily, and often they are revived later on.
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I noticed that in almost all anime the characters can hear eachother no matter how far away they are, just as long as the person they're speaking to is in sight. A guy stands on top of a skyscraper a half a mile away? No problem just say hi he'll hear you. No need to scream either.
Anyways is there a trope for that?
A zig-zag of sorts for this can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tH60cNil1g#t=3m40s
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Alice and Bob are not in love. At all. They have no Unresolved Sexual Tension, really. They're also the main characters / two of the main characters in a TV show or movie, so if they *do* actually hook up, it has to be near teh end or else it's RUINED FOREVER!
Then they meet Carly and Dave. Carly and Dave are expys of Alice and Bob. Maybe they show up for one episode/a ministory-arc, or they come in the end of the film, either way. Alice and Bob won't notice the similarities, but everyone else will. If it's Played for Laughs than Alice and Bob won't notice anything and status quo is god. If they do, it's the realization they need to know they do love each other.
Does this ring any bells with anyone?
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Is there a trope for; a character to have a minor to huge changes in their personality then the franchise they are a part of get adapted to a new medium? Like then a character in video game that gets adapted into a novel, and then the character has a different personality in the novel then in the game? I have an example that involves a change in one characterization trait, but is kinda major so I think it should be mentioned.