A thread discussing similar tropes. If thread participants agree that two (or more) tropes really don't seem distinct enough to be separate, one can start a thread in the Trope Repair Shop for further discussion.
Before asking "What's the difference between these tropes?", check the Canonical List of Subtle Trope Distinctions and Laconical List of Subtle Trope Distinctions lists. They may contain the answer. Feel free to contribute to them, too.
I've decided to start a new cleanup thread dealing with trope similarities. This thread is for discussing tropes that appear to be a duplicate of another trope, and if it's agreed upon that the two tropes talked about are similar enough, one should start a thread about it in the Trope Repair Shop.
I'll start with my issue...
Asian Hooker Stereotype and Mighty Whitey and Mellow Yellow are pretty much the same trope—they both involve a white man and an Asian woman.
Edited by Tabs on Nov 1st 2022 at 10:57:37 AM
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- Yeah, as "Same Situation, but split between performer and audience POV"... I say Merge.
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You Can Always Tell a Liar is a trope about how someone has a "tell" for when they're lying.
Pinocchio Nose... is a trope about how someone has a "tell" for when they're lying.
The former claims the latter is a subtrope for "direct lying", but I'm a little unclear on what that leaves to the supertrope?
Trouble Cube continues to be a general-purpose forum for those who desire such a thing.
You Can Always Tell a Liar wants to establish a difference concerning indirect and direct lying but I fail to see how it would make for a meaningful difference. Look like merge candidates to me.
Heel Face Mole and Falsely Reformed Villain are both defined as villains pretending to turn good.
One is specifically being The Mole. The other is not; they can just be civilians (its old title is "Civilian Villain")
...Is that really a worthy distinction?
I believe it is. HFM is about working with the good guys. FRV is usually about deflecting suspicions from their latest scheme.
DFL is the subtrope, specifically when someone in the bad guys' side defects because of love, usually towards one of the good guys.
Love Redeems can be used in context of, say, causing a gangster or a thief to stop their criminal ways.
We can never truly eradicate the coronavirus, but we can suppress its threat like influenza
Un-Confession and Aborted Declaration of Love? The page quote of the former is the page image of the latter.
Is there a difference between Artistic License – Law and Hollywood Law.
- Given that the latter says this, no:
The former is simply a collection of all the times that people get something wrong. The latter is for when some errors make a pattern to the point of being a convention.
This is in fact the more general distinction between Artistic Licence-X and Hollywood X pages.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Hollywood X is therefore Tropes in Aggregate, right?
Hello, I recently posted this ATT
, where I noted a few problems with the trope Signature Line. Among them, it was the fact that its description is remarkably similar to that of Signature Scene. Another troper instructed me to bring the topic to this thread. So, what do you think?
A line is a quote, a scene is a scene.
Easy to differentiate...
We can never truly eradicate the coronavirus, but we can suppress its threat like influenza
All There Is To Know About The Crying Game is literally just an exaggerated version of It Was His Sled. The Same But More Specific pretty much.
How are Warring Natures and Halfbreed Discrimination any different?
We can never truly eradicate the coronavirus, but we can suppress its threat like influenza
They're not lmao
Any thoughts on the crying game and it was his sled
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Warring Natures is when the fact that someone is half-and-half causes trouble because the halves don't get along. Halfbreed Discrimination is when they're discriminated against for being mixed.
Wouldn't one causes the other? They're inseparable.
Not seeing a meaningful difference either though they spent an entire paragraph on All There Is To Know About The Crying Game to explain it.
There is no meaningful difference. Crying Game is literally just "It Was His Sled but it's the only thing people know about it". That's just an exaggeration of the trope.
A.k.a, something that could happen between raiding warring tribes.
Without Half-Breed Discrimination, because such "half-breeds" are an expected results of such "raiding", and are treated as belonging to the culture of the father, or something.
And then there's cases which don't mention any discrimination, like the Literature.Dresden Files one, where the warring natures are all about characters' dealing with their hybrid natures.
... I think the original title was making a Nature vs. Nurture pun.
A.k.a Warring Parent Races / Species.
Edited by Malady on Jun 15th 2020 at 7:58:15 AM
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What's the difference between Leaving Audience and Walking Out on the Show? (Walking Out seems unaware that Leaving exists, while Leaving is kind of starved of wicks for a trope launched in 2007.)