Trope Finder
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0 Sep 4th, 2016 at 12:12PMFilm
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2 Sep 3rd, 2016 at 11:11AMA character is only interacted with via non-personal methods, so it's a surprise when they really are the way they projected themselves: the Internet Tough Guy really does have real combat experience and martial arts skills, the incredibly beautiful "girl" really is a supermodel, etc.
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So, what you are looking for is when the Voice with an Internet Connection's online persona is Real After All, And You Thought It Was Fake. In other words, the Internet Tough Guy was Mistaken for an Imposter. These should cover the case, methinks. -
No, it's not necessarily online, just not in person. The basic assumption by the characters is that the person making the outlandish assertions is the complete opposite in real life, and these expectations are subverted when they meet in person. For example, a medieval kingdom exchanging threats with a barbarian warlord via diplomats and letters. The barbarian makes a lot of boasts about his personal strength, which are dismissed as hyperbole to intimidate the king (i.e. he's strong as ten men, something he mentions every other sentence). Then when the armies meet, they find out the warlord really is capable of what he says (he's seen lifting a ten-man battering ram singlehandedly).
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0 Sep 4th, 2016 at 2:02AMThe trope where something (not just romantic attraction) is obvious to everyone but the main character. In Kung Fu Panda 3, Po sees an older male panda who's looking for his son, and tells him he's lost his father. The two wish each other luck in their respective searches, resulting in the entire crowd facepalming as it's so obvious the two have found what they're looking for.
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0 Sep 4th, 2016 at 2:02AM
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0 Sep 3rd, 2016 at 11:11PMWas watching a WW1 movie and during a charge, it clipped to the Germans and to an over the shoulder shot of them on a machine gun with some random German being shouted. I've seen similar shots in Band of Brothers, Company of Heroes, Saving Private Ryan, Fury and most other WW1 / WW2 films. Is there a trope that covers this?
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2 Sep 3rd, 2016 at 8:08PMFilmIs there a trope for movies—specifically bad horror movies from the 50s and thereabouts or parodies of such films—having titles like "It Came from Outer Space" or "It Came from Beneath the Sea" or "It Came From The Sky" or "It Came from the Fridge", etc.
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There's No "B" in "Movie" files the concept under Exactly What It Says on the Tin- might be worth a YKTTW, though. Very, very common title both for parodies and actual B Movies -
The Joy of X is an umbrella trope for stock titles like that - if it is not there it probably doesn't have a page
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2 Sep 3rd, 2016 at 2:02PM
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1 Sep 3rd, 2016 at 7:07PMIs there a trope for the inverse of Feels No Pain, where a character constantly feels pain? IE. Dr. Gregory House
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6 Sep 3rd, 2016 at 4:04AMSo there's a sequence in a Web Video show I was watching, which unfolds like this
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*images of the film* …Troll 2 is a horror film, and a horror film is supposed to be scary. In that sense, it is indeed a bad film, since I think the only way to be scared by Troll 2 would be to watch it on a smartphone, chased by twenty hungry wolves. *cut back to Karim Debbache* And that's something I'll never do again. *back to the film*
…What trope would this fall into?
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Ah yes, that would be one... But would there be a trope for that "feint" where you think it's just an example, before he reveals that he did it for real? Bait and Switch? -
Ah. That would be a Literal Metaphor -
Noodle Incident covers the whole thing, methinks. -
Noodle Incident is one of the Opposites to the scenario. If one sees it, it can never be called a Noodle Incident -
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4 Jul 30th, 2012 at 10:10AMIs there a trope other than Idiot Ball and Too Dumb to Live for when someone catches a criminal in the act or figures out they're the culprit and then tells the criminal right to their face that they're going to call the police?
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YES! That's exactly the one I was just looking for. It annoys me Every. Single. Time. -
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That would be a sort of inversion of Have You Told Anyone Else?, I think. -
This is not an inversion, it's the setup.
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2 Sep 2nd, 2016 at 4:04PM
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2 Sep 2nd, 2016 at 11:11AM
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Predator Turned Protector for a Hitman with a Heart doing this, and continuing after they realize the person's identity. If it's not just friendship, but romance, it's In Love with the Mark. If they still try to go through with it after the reveal, you might have a Punch Clock Villain and/or Nothing Personal. -
Thanks
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6 Sep 2nd, 2016 at 8:08AMIs there a trope that describes the relationship between two characters that are not related, but have known each other their entire lives to be considered brother and sister? I heard there was a Like Brother and Sister trope, but I think it's about two characters that are closer in age. I'm looking for one that describes two characters with a big age difference.
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Like Brother and Sister doesn't have an age component to it, so it could still apply. Also, maybe look at Big Brother Instinct if the older one protects the younger one. -
Thank you for answering. What if there was also this character that the younger one finds annoying because their dedication and responsibility it the extreme? Is there a trope for that? -
How extreme? Knight Templar Big Brother is the logical extreme Big Brother Instinct. -
I'm sort of confused about the Knight Templer Big Brother. I said that the younger character finds a different character (older), annoying because he keeps telling her she should be like this or she should be more dedicated to her studies-ironically, she is-but he still tells her anyway. -
Unwanted Assistance, if he's genuinely trying to help. -
Thank you.
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1 Aug 31st, 2016 at 8:08PM
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I think the Closest Thing We Got is exaggerated Emerging from the Shadows- the reveal isn't just a single character, but a whole building emerging from the shadows.
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2 Aug 31st, 2016 at 1:01PMI'm certain I saw a trope with this name, but when I tried linking to it, it resulted in a redlink. I searched for it, and nothing that matched what I was thinking came up, I'm not crazy, right? There is a trope like that, right? As the name I tried implies, it's when something (sorry, someone) is referred to as "it" and dislikes that.
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1 Sep 1st, 2016 at 10:10PMSo lately I've been hearing a noise from various media that I recognize from Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. It's a metalic explosion/impact noise which sounds like a "Bwah!" Or "Brawh!" In particular in MGS PW when you fight an A.I unit and part of it explodes or you deal explosive damage to it the sound plays. I also heard it in Blue Exorcist during Yukio's possession transformation when his claw forms. Any idea what this sound is called?
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Check out Stock Sound Effects.
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1 Sep 2nd, 2016 at 10:10AMLive Action TVIs there a trope for when a character tries stand-up comedy and fails miserably? It's quite prevalent in Live-Action TV and animated shows, but it's not Dude, Not Funny!, as that more focuses on offensive jokes. Nor is it Cannot Tell A Joke, because that just adheres to simple jokes, but not stand-up. Any ideas?
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Maybe So Unfunny, It's Funny, or just plain Unfunny
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1 Sep 2nd, 2016 at 2:02AM
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2 Aug 31st, 2016 at 6:06PMWhen a character is watching a movie in 3D and something comes out of the screen in real life, Like a subtrope of All Part of the Show.
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No, I'm referring to when the object has nothing to do in the movie. Like in Chicken Little when they watch Indiana Jones and a ball crashes through the screen coincidentally while the climactic ball rolls into the movie, or in Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension when Linda and Lawrence assume the robots crashing through the screen are part of the 3D movie (despite being a romcom).
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2 Aug 31st, 2016 at 4:04PMWhat the title says. Is there anything close to a Real Life or In-Universe version of this as a trope?
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A celebrity being a fan of something popular in general can qualify as One of Us. -
Celebrity Paradoxes are especially dangerous when they happen in real life. The resulting Fame Spiral can build into a Celebrity Vortex that, left unchecked, could lead to yet another Dread Convergence like the one that took down the old studio system. ...Ahem.
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3 Aug 30th, 2016 at 10:10PMIn Manga.New Game, a Work Com about a game studio, a beta tester found the player can see Panty Shot of Non Player Characters at some conditions. Programmers want to fix it as a bug as it was never in the specs, but the Producer overruled the programmers and asked the CG artists make sure all characters have panties rendered. I would see this as Ascended Glitch, but the boundaries between this and Throw It In isn't that clear. So, which trope is it?
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If it's an In-Universe thing, that's Left It In. Ascended Glitch would be if they made the bug an official game mechanic. Though I suppose it would count as an Easter Egg if they left it in, but kept it secret. -
^ The issue is it's about developing a Fictional Video Game. -
Ascended Glitch generally implies some sort of further polish being applied to the glitch-turned-feature. For instance, the entire concept of Combos in fighting games is only one of a number of tropes that started life as glitches in Street Fighter I- fighting games are now intentionally designed to incorporate what started as a Good Bad Bug. If he had just said not to fix it, it'd be throw it in, but given that they went to the extra trouble of altering all the character models/textures, it'd be an ascended glitch.
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4 Aug 31st, 2016 at 5:05PM
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I'm pretty sure it is, probably something to do with Stealing the Credit, maybe Glory Hound? -
Yeah, those are close, but aren't quite this trope. This happens all over: wanting to be a great athlete but not do any training, wanting that cushy office job without being a mail room grunt first, etc. -
Exactly what you want depends on the scenario. For the general character type, see the The Wannabe Index. especially I Just Want to Be Special, I Just Want to Be Badass, and I Just Want to Be You. The Resenter, The Slacker, many of the Sour Grapes Tropes are also frequently involved. Usually part of an Evil Is Easy or Misery Builds Character aesop. -
I'm also reminded of when Calvin told his dad that he wanted to inherit a fortune and let his dad do the hard work.
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4 Sep 1st, 2016 at 12:12AMVideogameThis one comes up a lot and it bothers me: when you have a human antagonist but when you finally get to fight them, they turn into a monster of some sort. This is different from a Bait-and-switch boss because for that trope it's generally a different person/creature replacing the boss in question. Similar to Make My Monster Grow, except in this case the person's size doesn't have to change, just their shape. Typically this is done with human antagonists who aren't viable threats to the hero(s), but can often be done with people who would legitimately stand a chance in human form. Example that springs to mind is Credo from Devil May Cry 4, who is shown to be a highly skilled warrior and captain of the holy knights, yet still feels the need to turn into an angel monster to fight you... Is that a thing already? Because if so I can't find it for the life of me.
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One-Winged Angel, maybe? From the page itself: "Sometimes you never even fight their human form at all and they immediately turn into a monster." -
There's also Not Even Human, for when it has the handy benefit of making it OK to kill the villain. -
I was thinking strictly of antagonists who are never fought in their human form at all, but One Winged Angel covers it well enough. Thanks! -
For the reason why this happens so frequently, see What Measure Is a Non-Human?.
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2 Sep 1st, 2016 at 6:06AMWe have Madness Mantra and Survival Mantra, but I don't think we have an equivalent where someone uses the same concept as a motivation to help them accomplish a task, like a major personal achievement or simply getting through work. The Little Engine That Could's "I think I can I think I can..." is a classic example, but there's another one relating to a comic book artist that I thought of recently. Are there enough examples of this to warrant it becoming its own trope?
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That's Survival Mantra- there's a reason that The Little Engine That Could provides the page quote. -
Ehhhhhh...I think calling that a "survival" situation is quite a stretch. Methinks I may need to do some digging on that one.
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0 Sep 1st, 2016 at 7:07AMI know we have Diplomatic Impunity for diplomats abusing their immunity, but should we have an actual page (rather than a disambiguation) on Diplomatic Immunity? An example I had involves two envoys sent to Julius Caesar asking for help during the Egyptian civil war, who then kills the one he's decided not to ally with. I put it under Sacred Hospitality, but that's not quite the right one since he's a guest in the country.
