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- Make sure that the example makes sense to both people who don't know the work AND don't know the trope.
- Wrong: The Mentor: Kevin is this to Bob in the first episode.
- Right: The Mentor: Kevin takes Bob under his wing in the first episode and teaches him the ropes of being a were-chinchilla.
- Never just put the trope title and leave it at that.
- Wrong: Badass Adorable
- Right: Badass Adorable: Xavier, the group's cute little mascot, defeats three raging elephants with both hands tied behind his back using only an uncooked spaghetti noodle.
- When is normally far less important than How.
- A character name is not an explanation.
- Wrong: Full Moon Silhouette: Diana
- Right: Full Moon Silhouette: At the end of her transformation sequence into Moon Princess Misty, Diana is shown flying across the full moon riding a rutabaga.
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Edited by Synchronicity on Sep 18th 2023 at 11:42:55 AM
Is this Power Glows or some idea we don't have?
- Sunset Overdrive: One poster in Sunset City warns against drinking glowing water, because it's toxic.
The glow implies it's radioactive, so is that Power Glows?
Or should there be a Dangerous Glow trope?
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As long as everything goes well, it'll be fine!
Kurumi Ebisuzawa (from School-Live!) and Rize Tedeza (from Is the Order a Rabbit?) looks very similar to each another. Considering that the former's source released earlier, it seems convincing to me that Kurumi herself is Expy of Rize.
The fandom for their respective work's character pages
(Rize, Kurumi) state that they have similar personalities and are typically seen with things that can be considered weapons - Rize is typically depicted with a gun, while Kurumi is typically shown holding a shovel.
EDIT: Additionally, Rize Tedeza, who is voiced by Risa Taneda in the anime, is probably The Danza (at least in the anime), due to the rhyme of the names between both.
Edited by JustNormalMusicLover on Jan 16th 2024 at 2:56:49 AM
How many games got ported into Nintendo Switch? A lot of them.
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I highly doubt that. An expy needs to intentional for it work. This seems more like a coincidence tbh.
^^^ Technicolor Toxin might be able to cover glowing.
Seems like what you really want is a slightly broader version of Sickly Green Glow. Could be considered a downplayed example.
Edited by IronAnimation on Jan 16th 2024 at 12:29:42 PM
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If an aspect is changed from a rough pilot or series of shorts before becoming a full-fledged series (i.e. going from Oh Yeah! Cartoons to a series), and fans wish something that was changed had been kept in the switch to a full series, is that Fan-Preferred Cut Content or They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot?
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.
Although it could be both, if the "content" still exists in the final work but people wish it was explored further.
Edited by IronAnimation on Jan 16th 2024 at 12:24:28 PM
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I found this on DramaticIrony.Live Action TV:
- Fans of Are You Afraid of the Dark? consider "The Dead Man's Float" the scariest episode of the series, but the Midnight Society don't think the story is good enough for Tucker's friend Stig to join.
This strikes me more as just Irony. Should I move the example there?
- Checked up on the exact wording of what I'm trying to trope. It just says:
"Don't drink glowing water! Toxic Wastes"
We don't know what color it is, or why it's glowing, we just get told it's bad. I guess that's Technicolor Toxin by technicality??
Edited by Malady on Jan 16th 2024 at 9:11:36 AM
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Big Catch, Sparkle Edition
We're told it's glowing and toxic. That's enough for Technicolor Toxin, I think (kinda hard to glow if you don't have some color)
Current Project: Incorruptible Pure Pureness
- After a messy divorce from her first husband, Laurell K. Hamiliton, author of Anita Blake, had love interest Richard (heavily based on him) grow increasingly "Jerkass" in mannerisms, and was only allowed to have sex with Anita when no one else in her "Rotisserie of Dicks" was available, and implied with the weight of a 16 ton anvil that he lost out on a very good relationship by leaving her. It must be noted, however, that, for many readers, this was something of an Insult Backfire.
While the insult clearly backfired, it doesn't actually count as to qualify as Insult Backfire the target of the insult must take it as a compliment.
If we even want to talk about that it backfired, it's gotta explain how, which seems that it's because he (became?) Strawman Has a Point, according to YMMV.Anita Blake.
Edited by Malady on Jan 16th 2024 at 11:18:00 AM
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Owl House / Infinity Train / Inside Job Fan
Would the Ted movies count as fantasy films, due to being about a teddy bear brought to life by a magic wish?
The Owl House and Coyote Vs Acme are my Roman Empire.
Very Spooky
Wikipedia categorizes both films as fantasy comedies, and I'd agree with such an assessment.
Homebrew example:
- Fashionable Asymmetry: Alice's "casual" outfit has her wearing an oversized T-shirt in which one arm goes through the shirt's collar like a one-shoulder dress, putting the empty sleeve under her armpit, while the other arm goes through a hole in the shirt's armpit, putting the sleeve on her shoulder.
The Mask Does Not Laugh
YMMV.Infinity Train Blossoming Trail
- Americans Hate Tingle: While popular on A03, Blossoming Trail has garnered negative reception on sites like Spacebattles, Serebii and Bulbagarden due to the treatment of Ash, as the Pokémon forumgoers on those sites see him as being needlessly belittled and mistreated by the fic's narrative. Even when the author took the criticisms to heart and Ash and Chloe start rebuilding their friendship in Act 2, most people had already given up on the story. Especially as the equally horrific treatment of Goh and serious dislike of theirs over Chloe made them unwilling to go back to reading the story, to the point that bringing up the story in those sites is more likely to incite mockery and potshots at it than anything else.
Can Americans Hate Tingle apply to other websites or is it exclusively physical location-based?
I mainly fix indentation issues
Don't think so. The trope description focuses exclusively on markets and places, with no mention of Internet culture anywhere.
Valdo
I need help deciding if this qualifies for Unbuilt Casting Type:
- Pedro Pascal achieved new levels of fame and acclaim by portraying hardened survivors befriending orphans they escort on dangerous journeys, building off of the praise that Prospect received in the indie movie circuit. While Pascal's best-known performances of this type boast a stoic and reclusive facade that the orphan breaks through, Prospect gives him a jovial and talkative personality; the scene in which the orphan tries in vain to shut him up appears to invert instances of Pascal's subsequent protective characters becoming impatient with their mischevious wards.
Edited by dsneybuf on Jan 16th 2024 at 9:50:08 AM
Am I a weirdo?
I'd say no. That reads like a slightly different character type rather than a deconstruction of his future character type.
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@30358: Could it be Magnum Opus Dissonance even if it's the characters saying it's not a great story as opposed to the creators?
Honestly I've been wondering if there's potential for a trope where fans want to see an in-universe story made when it's not meant to be good.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.
Daemons of the Shadow Realm, considering 4Kids’ dub of Yugi-Oh, does this fall under a real-life example of Unfortunate Name?
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Found this on Loan Shark
- The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero: Harold Hayworth, in his past, was done in so bad by a loan shark backed by The Mafia that he sent his daughter to a friend (who then sent Renne of to be a Sex Slave) for safety, only to find the place burned to the ground once out of debt. This made him into The Atoner as a cheritable merchant and spoil his second child, Colin, who was the main reason he and his wife didn't kill themselves out of guilt.
While the Loan Shark is there, it goes off topic and that makes me unsure of this entry
Found this on Grin of Rage
- Tokyo Xanadu: Mitsuki, being The Ojou, gives a few dissonant smiles as a way of shutting people up. The first time is when she's giving a Last-Second Chance to her fiancé. The second time, it's threatening to crush any rumors that she's dating her longtime friend Shio.
Mitsui isn't really mad but is deliberately invoking a passive aggressive image to threaten people. I don't think it counts for the trope.
She/Her | Currently cleaning N/A
Showtime!
...Why would it? Genuine question
Loan Shark is definitely rambly and off-topic, I don't know enough about the work to fix it though. Grin of Rage doesn't count as written
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Hid the former example and removed the latter example.
Yeah that ain't a cleavage window