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Author: TTurtle

Apr 23rd 2011 at 5:23:17 PM

I'm the one who  mentioned envelopes, and I never came back and said anything about it, partly because I'm still not sure that what I was thinking of actually fits in the trope as you're describing it. Let me give you a non-envelope example first: how about the scene in WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory where Charlie dramatically rips open the first bar of chocolate to reveal . . . nothing! Then the second time, he opens it more slowly and cautiously, and reveals a tiny glimpse of gold. I don't think that really fits in this trope, as described, but it seems to me that it's related.

The other example is of people opening envelops to find out whether it contains a rejection or acceptance to a college, or to find out test scores. Again, that seems like something different from this trope, but related, and I'm not sure that we have a trope that covers that. (Do we? I might be missing it.) So maybe I'm really just suggesting a need for a possible sister trope to DramaticImageReveal?  This YKTTW could be just for turning over cards to reveal an image, but there could be some kind of separate trope for dramatic opening of boxes, envelopes, and whatnot.