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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?
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Do we have a trope covering an animal or other nonhuman creature mistaking an artificial recording of someone he knows for the real thing? The classic example is "His Master's Voice", where a dog peers curiously into the cone of a phonograph presumably playing a recording of its owner speaking; also in Harry And The Hendersons, Harry sees his human friend George on some display T Vs and keeps trying to take them (and, as far as he can tell, George) home.
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Do we have a trope for characters who do not qualify as Sleepy Head who fall asleep in class? I'm thinking more for characters falling asleep due to grueling training, being worn out the day before, etc. as opposed to characters who are just sleepy in general.
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Empathic Powers. Sort of like Empathic Weapon, except mixed with Powers as Programs. In short, it's the actual powers themselves that are sentient (such as The Phoenix Force in X Men or Demonic Possession).
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.