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What do you call the trope when a character dies just as they finally achieved something in their lives and have grown as a person. Best exemplified by the Nostalgia Critic's comment on a lot of Hilary Swank films in his review of the The Next Karate Kid:
- Yay, I'm finally a complete person! (explodes)
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Is there a trope for No-Holds-Barred Beatdown in the context of Domestic Abuse?
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Do we have a page for people trying to invoke a Rescue Romance?
(as in, for example, Marty and George in Back To The Future arranging for George to "rescue" Lorraine from Marty so that Lorraine will be interested in George)
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Is there a trope for when a character says/thinks "I need to get laid"? Like Nature Abhors a Virgin without the "virgin" part.
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We have Adaptation Explanation Extrication for when an adaptation leaves out the explanation for something.
Do we have the inverse, where an adaptation adds an explanation for something that was unexplained in the original?
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Is there a trope for relationships which are out of order relative to each other, due to time travel? The Doctor's relationship with River Song, for example, or Karkat's relationship with John in Homestuck. Time Travel Relationship could have been that, but it's clearly about something different. I had the term "Asynchronous Relationship" in my head, but it doesn't seem to relate to anything on the wiki, and I don't know if it's a self-explanatory name anyway. I also don't know if there's a fourth instance of this (I haven't read The Time Travelers Wife, but from what I do know I assume it would also qualify)
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In some stories, the good guys will cover up a villain's actions and cast them as a hero after the villain's death. Adcox in Backdraft and Ventresca in Angels & Demons come to mind. I'm sure there is a trope for this, but I'm having trouble finding it.
The closest matches I could find are Villain's Dying Grace and Death Equals Redemption, but both of these cases involve the villain doing a Heel–Face Turn, which doesn't always happen.
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Is there a trope for foolish bravery? Some does something incredibly brave and Bad Ass, but that is also incredibly stupid, probably in terms of the danger it poses. They don't necessarily have to be holding the Idiot Ball or be Too Dumb to Live.
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Do we have a trope for pet character archetypes specific to writers? Like with Tim Burton and his pale-skinned, misunderstood loners played by Johnny Depp, or Mike Leigh and his aspirational lower-middle class housewives? It doesn't necessarily have to be a character audiences are meant to sympathise with or direct author surrogate.
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Is there a trope for when a usually neutral-to-dour character does something they enjoy and they just light up, like a weight has been lifted off their shoulders and they're happy and carefree? Something more specific than a Heartwarming Moment.
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Is there an appropriate trope for some work (e.g. video game or show) where an actual police force exists, but has some slight changes to it in terms of force name or motto? For example in Sleeping Dogs, the Hong Kong Police Force is known as the Hong Kong Police Department.
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Maybe two things to ask for today:
1. Is there a trope (existing or YMMV) that illustrate when a character needs to "dispose" of something so that he cannot be easily identified? (e.g. badges, identity card, etc)
2. Is it plausible to put tropes that can classify fictional terrorist from Central Asia (the -stans) and the Caucasus into the Far East Asian Terrorists trope?
Do we have a trope for when somebody is able to precisely control their body precisely, even parts of it that aren't usually under conscious control?
Like, Superman used to be able to speed up and slow down his heart at will, the Bene Gesserit in the Dune series can do it (the demonstration that sticks in my mind is being able to move their little toe independently), and in the book I just read the hero is able to meditate and move the poison he's just been injected with through his bloodstream into the tip of his little finger where it won't do him any great harm.