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Edited by MacronNotes on Feb 27th 2022 at 1:49:11 PM
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There should be a cleanup thread for Only One Name or to put it in TRS.
Edited by Nen_desharu on Sep 9th 2021 at 12:24:56 PM
Kirby is awesome.Turn No Last Name Given into a disambig or retarget once the new trope launches.
Edited by Malady on Sep 9th 2021 at 9:54:50 AM
Disambig Needed: Help with those issues! tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13324299140A37493800&page=24#comment-576I was thinking of making a draft for "Fear sends a woman into labour", however:
1. Many maternity crises leave it ambiguous as to whether it was the fear or just a coincidence that sent the woman into labour, and
2. Should that include birds laying eggs out of fear? Because that's currently on Bowel-Breaking Bricks despite babies usually being quite far removed from poop.
For every low there is a high.One that could work:
Fake Interaction
They look like they're interacting in the same shot... but they're not. Sub-Trope of Special Effects Failure.
Nothing to do with Fake Interactivity which is a whole different trope.
Inspiration from this Cover Version of "Owner of A Lonely Heart" by Max Graham - link
, which was commented on below the video.
Edited by Merseyuser1 on Sep 11th 2021 at 10:49:09 AM
That just sounds like The Same, but More Specific to Special Effect Failure, TBH.
Here's one I just thought of, hope we don't already have it somewhere, lol.
Heel Face Door Opener- the character who offers a chance to the villains in hopes of redeeming them. Ben from Descendants, for example, or Princess Celestia when she freed Discord. The character who willingly lets villains into the fold under circumstances to try and see if they can be made better.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallA partial repost: I'm still considering putting Pack In Game (a Trivia page for video games that were sold with the console they were created for, like Wii Sports) through TLP. I decided that it would make a better title than Pack In Title (from my last post), but there's still two other concerns I wanted to get some feedback on:
- Should I list special console bundles that include games that the regular retail consoles don't? (For instance, in late 2010 there was a special red Wii that came with Wii Sports and New Super Mario Bros. Wii; by that time, the regular console came with both Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort.) I ask because I fear the page may become bloated if I list every console bundle in existence - but I'm not sure if I'm thinking about this the wrong way, and perhaps this wouldn't be an issue.
- I know that People Sit on Chairs is specifically about tropes, but I still have doubts that my idea might still be too trivial to warrant a trivia page (as absurd as that may seem).
Yeah, I mean I guess. It's not exact, as The Redeemer doesn't need to set out with the express purpose of being the redeemer, and the character I'm thinking of isn't always directly responsible for the redemption, but yeah I guess it's covered.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallI keep encountering a trope which is a car crash (or near-accident) related to oral sex being given to the driver. The example I encountered most recently is American Gods season 1, episode 4, with Laura fellating Robbie while he sings along to the radio and subsequently has a fatal car crash, killing them both. I'm sure others can name more examples. I cannot find the trope in any form except for the closest being Auto Erotica
, which emphasizes sex in the back seat and vaguely refers to moral retribution for sex in the car. Any thoughts? ![]()
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Edited by danrobjay on Sep 12th 2021 at 4:07:38 AM
I think it happens in Army of the Dead too. It might be too specific though... and may prompt concerns about being NSFW.
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there's also Anything That Moves and, for the more extreme, Extreme Omnisexual.
Edited by mightymewtron on Sep 11th 2021 at 2:14:20 PM
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.
That sounds like an unnecessary aversion of Evil Is Cool, especially since Evil Is Cool is only notable in itself because audiences are usually expected to find the heroes cooler than the villains.
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I don't know if it would. Evil Is Cool mostly works for subverting the notion that villains are unlikeable. Good Is Cool would probably just devolve into "cool hero" and is that notable?
Edited by mightymewtron on Sep 12th 2021 at 10:33:40 AM
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.None of those is quite right. Depraved Bisexual is about bisexuality underscoring a wicked or psychotic nature.
Anything That Moves isn't limited to bisexuals.
And Extreme Omnisexual is, well, extreme.
Not sure if specifying that the characters are bisexual and pansexual isn't quite enough to be a distinct trope though. Might be worth a try, IDK.
I was thinking of a trope for Sketch Fiend, a low tech version of Camera Fiend who sketches things all of the time, but Significant Sketchbook is already a thing, and since pretty much every Sketch Fiend sketches in a Significant Sketchbook, it seems like there would be almost 100% overlap and there's no point. Thoughts?
Clown To Clown Handshake Initiating...I've found Terrible Artist, Starving Artist or Mad Artist, but not something alike "likes to draw in spare time". I'd think it's a pretty common archetype.
TroperWall / WikiMagic CleanupA possible new trope I found from watching Noddy, Toyland Detective on Netflix for research for here:
G Rated Dementia
Laconic: Not dementia but a stand-in for it.
Dementia / Alzheimer's disease is a difficult topic to talk about, a taboo topic at times, and when it has been discussed, it's often in documentaries, or a Very Special Episode.
But in a more fantasy (as in sci-fi or Sword and Sandal-type context, or even a Funny Animal cartoon), dementia will be shown by another name or referred to by euphemisms.
Compare with Scatterbrained Senior which is about old people depicted as Cloudcuckoolander-types.
Where this trope differs is the context; it's not specifically old people-focused and not confined to our world, and the symptoms are recognizable as dementia, but it's never named explicitly.
See also G-Rated Mental Illness, which has some overlap.
Examples:
- Dexter's Laboratory had Dexter becoming old due to an Overnight Age-Up and his future Retired Bad Ass self in Ego Trip (also shown in the show itself), plus his Grandpa, all referring to people as "Billy" and misnaming people, although dementia was never mentioned itself in the show. Dexter in his elderly form is himself an Identical Grandson of his grandad physically suggesting Generation Xerox in play.
- Noddy, Toyland Detective had the episode "Noddy and the Case of Deltoid's Strange Behavior", where Deltoid, a Superman Substitute who is sort of The Heart began acting strangely, in scenes that were reminiscent of dementia. However, in this case, the dementia was due to a battery failure that Deltoid had - It Makes Sense in Context.
Edited by Merseyuser1 on Sep 14th 2021 at 11:04:45 AM
I feel like Scatterbrained Senior already covers that; I don't see how the "context" really makes a difference here, and I don't see if the whole metaphor thing like in the Noddy example is common enough to split off from that and Does This Remind You of Anything?.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.
OK, maybe too specific.
But one that could work:
The Factory Visit / Factory of Fear
Factories, in fiction, are sometimes depicted as über-efficient, highly industrialized places.
But they're also the scene or backdrop for a conflict or the plotline. In stale-beer-flavored Spy Fiction, it's a scene for The Infiltration.
Expect to see No OSHA Compliance and for it to be used for action-packed settings.
Not to be confused with Charlie and the Chocolate Parody, which is a parody of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and often follows The Stations of the Canon, it's an entirely separate trope.
Examples:
Live Action TV
- The Blacklist would often have factories as a backdrop due to the genre of the show, but there were some episodes that specifically focused on them:
- "Lipet's Seafood Company", with the namesake company of the episode being a Front Company and actually Demoted to Extra in its own episode, as it focuses on a terrorism plotline.
Western Animation
- The Angry Beavers had the brothers, Norbert and Daggett infiltrating a cereal factory to get a street-sweeper after winning it via Competition Coupon Madness (It Makes Sense in Context).
- Archibald's Next Big Thing had Corny-O's and its owl employees having to deal with excessive orders, as the protagonist Archibald had ordered tons and tons of cereal from the factory. Although it was only seen in glimpses, this was Played for Laughs.
- Dexter's Laboratory had two factory-themed episodes:
- "Photo Finish", a James Bond Pastiche/Parody, where a photo-developing business (tying it explicitly to the early 1990s) had Dexter infiltrating the photo developing factory and being confronted by the Big Bad who was a Goldfinger Captain Ersatz.
- "Golden Diskette", a Charlie and the Chocolate Parody that featured No Celebrities Were Harmed Professor Hawk, based on Stephen Hawking.
- Madagascar episode "Private and the Winky Factory" had the penguins initiate a raid on the Peanut Butter Winkles factory, the Winky of the episode.
- Scooby Doo used this trope a fair bit, and as a Long Runner there were some notable episodes:
- The New Scooby-Doo Movies: "The Haunted Candy Factory" had the "Scooby-Doo" Hoax being candy glob monsters.
- The Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo Show episode "The Chinese Food Factory" had Scooby, Scrappy and Shaggy taking on jobs as night watchmen (security guards) in a Chinatown factory that produces noodles and capturing a burglar. This one was one of the few episodes of this show where there was no ghost and it wasn't a "Scooby-Doo" Hoax either.
- What's New, Scooby-Doo?: "Recipe for Disaster" was set in the Scooby Snax factory and focused on industrial espionage.
- The Mask episode "The Mother of All Hoods" had a scene set in the Cornitos (a Bland-Name Product version of Doritos) factory as it was revealed the Big Bad of the episode, The Hood, really police chief, Lawrence Lorenzo, was Playing Both Sides.
- The Pink Panther had the Back Door Pilot "7 Manly Men and the Kid" which featured the titular characters going to the factory of Bongo Cereals over a defective spinner toy, and confronting its Corrupt Corporate Executive, a Fat Bastard who created the spinner toy for Mind Control via mass hypnotism.
Edited by Merseyuser1 on Sep 15th 2021 at 3:42:04 PM
Currently, Good Counterpart redirects to Evil Counterpart. Think it's worth splitting off? "Good version of established villain" tends to have a different vibe than "evil version of established hero".
Suddenly I'm... still rotating Fallen London in my mind even though I've stopped actively playing it.

Given Name Reveal?
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