Trope Launch Pad (Formerly YKTTW)
You have a trope that you have seen a million times. It just needs a snappy name. Discuss it here! This is also a good place to call for examples.
How this works: Cruise through the list looking for a title or synopsis (which we call the 'laconic version') that might interest you. View the draft description with attached discussion, then give the sponsor your feedback and maybe an example or two of where you have seen the trope in media.
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An individual trait in an episode is highlighted.
A character who is graceful and light on their feet.
Stories of suspense, usually crime dramas, with an emphasis on lawyers and legal machinations.
Witness Protection in fiction never works.
When you have caught the attention of the cops, you need a plausible explanation.
Phlebotinum that makes superpowers do the opposite of what they usually do
Someone wears a veil that adds to their mystique
Someone dies horribly, comes back equally horrible, or worse
Like a Moop Whiplash only more gradual
A scene where everyone in it cries at the same time.
A character is either given back or finds their partner's ring to indicate the relationship is over
A robot character consists of a floating part, similar to a Surveillance Drone.
Killing a large group of people to save a larger group of people
Cuban cigars equal connections.
You get less experience than usual
A type of Alternate Timeline that was Not Supposed To Happen, and inevitably withers or collapses or causes everything in it to die.
Seals portrayed as cute and friendly.
In comedies umbrellas are doomed to be reversed and possibly destroyed
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