You bring down the thunder!
Tropes about electricity, lightning, and thunder.
Named for a lyric in "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen.
Tropes:
Related:
- 30-Second Blackout: A very brief power outage.
- Big Blackout: An entire city or region goes through a major power outage.
- Bolt of Divine Retribution: Piss off a god, get a lightning bolt coming at you.
- Cerebro Electro: Electricity is associated with knowledge in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields.
- Chain Lightning: Lightning that likes to move from one target to another.
- Cumulonemesis: A sentient cloud can use lightning as a weapon.
- Dramatic Thunder: Lightning and thunder can really punch up a moment.
- Electric Black Guy: Black Lightning, and his copycats, have electric powers.
- Electric Instant Gratification: Electric-driven orgasm.
- Electric Jellyfish: A jellyfish sting is either made to look like an electric shock or is actually one.
- Electric Joybuzzer: Shaking hands with someone to administer a shock as a prank, often with actual lightning.
- Electric Love: Love and romance represented by electric sparks.
- Electric Slide: Travelling on, or through, power lines.
- Electric Torture: A tool in Cold-Blooded Torture.
- Electricity Knocks You Out: Electricity causes unconsciousness.
- Electrified Bathtub: A common way to make a Deadly Bath.
- Electroconvulsive Therapy Is Torture: Electroconvulsive Therapy is useless and painful.
- Fast as Lightning: Lightning or electricity is associated with speed.
- Fear of Thunder: A phobia of the loud noise it makes.
- Fire, Ice, Lightning: A common Elemental Powers trio.
- God of Thunder: A deity that rules over electricity.
- Harmless Electrocution: When 100,000 volts aren't even as bad as stubbing a toe.
- High-Voltage Death: When 100,000 volts is lethal.
- Hydro-Electro Combo: Water and electricity go hand-in-hand someway.
- Improvised Lightning Rod: Lightning is hard to control unless you use this.
- Instant Thunder: It's not as cool if the light and sound delay means we can't see the flash and hear the boom all at once.
- Lightning Can Do Anything: Can make monsters, give superpowers, and bring back the dead.
- Lightning/Fire Juxtaposition: They make a lot of heat, and do a lot of damage, so why not pair them up?
- Lightning Glare: Two Death Glares at each other make mini lightning.
- Lightning Gun: Any device that shoots lightning.
- Lightning Lash: Electrified whips or whip-like weapons made out of lightning.
- Lightning Reveal: Using the "light" in "lightning" for showing things in the coolest way.
- Lightning/Wind Juxtaposition: Two elements occuring naturally in the weather, paired up and juxtaposed.
- Magical Defibrillator: Electricity to the chest always revives people.
- Power Cable Attack: When you can't use magic or advanced tech to attack with lightning, use these instead.
- Power Cord Tail: It just looks cute to use that as an appendage.
- Power Outage Plot: An episodic plot where characters deal with a sudden disruption of electrical power in their buildings.
- Pull the Plug on the Title: The Title Sequence involves plugging on/off the title, whose font is made of lights.
- Psycho Electric Eel: Somehow being able to generate electricity isn't cool enough, so fiction makes them spark and glow.
- Psycho Electro: Electricity can be chaotic without grounding, and the same applies to the sanity of those with electric powers.
- Raiju: Youkai of lightning in Japanese Folklore.
- Ride the Lightning: Using lightning or electricity as a teleportation medium.
- Shock and Awe: Having electric powers.
- Shock Collar: A control device that delivers an electric shock to the wearer.
- Shock Stick: A stick or club that generates electricity.
- Static Electricity: Using electricity as a powerful... annoyance tool.
- Taser Tag Weakness: Stun guns can drop even the toughest targets.
- Thunder Beetle: Stag beetles, fireflies, and other creatures are associated with lightning for various reasons.
- Thunder Hammer: A hammer that can channel electricity or summon lightning.
- Thunderbird: A giant bird connected with storms, lighting, and more generic electric powers, usually drawn from Native American myth.
- Thunder Drum: Pairing drums and thunder, due to their booming noises.
- Thunder Shock: Lightning flashes on the 4th wall, to emphasize a moment.
- Umbrellas Are Lightning Rods: You won't get wet... but you will wish that happened instead.
- X-Ray Sparks: A favorite visual for one getting shocked.
- Yellow Lightning, Blue Lightning: The two most common colors fiction uses for it. But that doesn't mean they are the only colors used.
very very fright'ning me!
