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resolved Woman Lies About Age
Do we have a trope for women lying about their age?
("Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. Lady Dumbleton is an instance in point. To my own knowledge she has been thirty-five ever since she arrived at the age of forty, which was many years ago now.")
resolved Parents not approving of their children's friendship?
Is there a trope that describes the situation in which the parents do not approve of their child's friendship? So something like the platonic version of Dating What Daddy Hates.
Update: marking as resolved as the scope of Dating What Daddy Hates does include platonic friendships.
Edited by ixfd64resolved Falling Through Thin Ice
Is there a trope for falling through thin ice and into the water below? It's related to A Crack in the Ice except that is for pre-existing crevasses hidden by snow or crossing visible crevasses on snow bridges.
Edited by darkemystresolved Reverse Shout-Outs?
We have a Shout-Out trope for references to other works. Do we have a "reverse shout-out" trope for listing other works that reference the item in question?
I looked everywhere but can't seem to find one. The best I know is that any such trope would probably go on "Trivia" pages.
resolved Finding a trope on criminals recruited with no reason?
Asking on a trope on whether there is one to describe a criminal who gets recruited for an operation without any care for ideology or reason.
resolved Question on fictional country trope
Hey guys. Been wondering if there's a trope that centers on a fictional country that ends with a "-stan". Looked at "Quarac" as the closest examples, but I don't think it makes sense to me.
resolved Trope relating to an impossible task
Hello. There was a trope whose name i forgot and can no longer find after searching a lot. It's basically this: "You need to do X to get Y, but you also need to have Y to complete X." "You need the can opener to open this box, but the can opener you need is already inside said box." I think it usually exists in video games. Thank you for enlightening me in advance.
resolved Hindsight Question Western Animation
Is there a trope for "important episode in hindsight" or something like that? I'm doing some recap pages for Codename: Kids Next Door and want to mention how Operation: C.H.A.D., a episode in season 1, seemed not important to the show at the time due to being a simple Slice of Life story, the only to be important later down the line due to introducing a character that would become a major supporting character/villain later on.
resolved Trope hunting
Looking for a trope that describe a fictional country name, but it's really a real country in its entirety except by name. At least in live-action, this can be found.
resolved Object of Attraction POV Shot
What's the trope for when a character has fallen in love and there's a shot from their POV where the object of their attraction is surrounded by bright lights and floating hair and slow motion and stuff?
resolved Killer Mascots
Is there a trope about ghosts or demons who take form of company or theme park mascots or is there a trope where a serial killer disguises themselves as a mascot to commit murders? because this seems to be becoming a frequent trope in media.
resolved Trying to uphold reputation
Is there a specific trope that mentions a person's inaction due to protecting the reputation of a person/group/country?
resolved No Title Videogame
Tropers help me here.
So I just updated to v. 8.6 of Puzzle & Dragons and tried multiplayerco-op mode. The music style is noticeably different. Instead of "Orb Festival", it's a completely new soundtrack that sounds like a mix of the bg for the Final Fantasy collaboration and the overall soundtrack of PADZ. Would you classify this music shift as a subset of Art Shift? I don't know the name of the trope of it. Or is it a completely new trope?
For reference, here's the normal and boss soundtracks. And here's the video of the co-op mode with the new soundtrack in question (I haven't found a yt video of the bgm separately).
Edited by edararesolved No Title
Not sure if a particular trope (YMMV or otherwise) illustrate a situation where a character stumbles onto a place that has loads of items/evidence/information on an event that would make the owner of said place the main suspect.
Example I can think of is "The Bridge" where the police raid a house and they find loads of maps, photos and diagrams. And one of the photos has a supposedly deceased FBI agent on it posing with one of the protagonists.
resolved No Title
"Good bad luck".
A piece of bad luck turns out to be a good thing, because it prevents something even worse from happening.
Example: Bob has booked a passage on the Titanic. At the last moment, however, something happens — there is an accident and Bob gets his legs broken, or there is a break-in in his flat and his passport gets stolen, so that Bob cannot sail — which of course ends up saving his life...
resolved No Title
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 a sequel to or remake of a show set 20 Minutes into the Future moves up the date it's set in because the original date has become too close to be plausible?