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Edited by MacronNotes on Feb 27th 2022 at 1:49:11 PM

amathieu13 Since: Aug, 2013
#4251: May 4th 2022 at 12:48:04 AM

I made a Trope Finder post but no one responded so I'm bringing the idea over here

Trope idea: Out Of Touch With One's Feelings

When a character, usually The Quiet One, The Stoic, or Ice Queen, has difficulty recognizing or addressing their feelings. It's different from What Is This Feeling?, since that suggests the character doesn't typically feel these feelings. Characters that are out of touch do feel, they just have a hard time processing or naming their feelings. And it's not Emotion Suppression either, since they are not intentionally suppressing their feelings more that they are emotionally repressed.

Is this worth drafting or is it already covered by / too similar to / redundant with other tropes?

Edited by amathieu13 on May 4th 2022 at 3:49:16 PM

Malady (X-Troper)
#4252: May 4th 2022 at 4:04:25 AM

[up][up] - How so? What's Romantic The Bet?

Edit: ah.

A common Romance or Romantic Comedy version of The Bet is when a character is bet that they won't/can't win over/date/sex up a certain lady. The guy will almost inevitably end up developing genuine feelings for the girl, and the girl will just as inevitably be pissed off when she finds out about the bet, thinking that she is some prize or object (in most cases, was not completely wrong, at first). Trust is lost and she wants nothing to do with him. This may lead to The Grovel when he asks for her forgiveness.

I'd say it's different. Not all The Bet is a Romance Novel Plot. Would clean up the indexing.

Edited by Malady on May 4th 2022 at 4:08:11 AM

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The Draftsman of Doom
#4253: May 4th 2022 at 12:29:47 PM

I think my question was ignored.

Also, would it be worth creating a subtrope of Weaponized Animal called Beastly Bombing?

[down] I mean, Frankenstein himself has been known to show up outside of Frankenstein adaptations.

I believe he has even showed up in TMNT.

Edited by SkyCat32 on May 4th 2022 at 4:17:51 AM

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Twiddler (On A Trope Odyssey)
#4255: May 4th 2022 at 12:52:54 PM

It would be a subtrope of Public Domain Character, like Frankenstein's Monster, Dracula, etc. I guess it would depend on how many examples there are. Currently it is covered by the supertrope.

Edited by Twiddler on May 4th 2022 at 12:53:59 PM

Malady (X-Troper)
#4256: May 4th 2022 at 2:56:09 PM

Was reminded about how saves in games are hard to differentiate unless there's something special about them...

Save Game Naming would be a valid trope, no? Some overlap with Hello, [Insert Name Here], where a save slot is named for the character name.

Edited by Malady on May 4th 2022 at 2:56:39 AM

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Tabs Since: Jan, 2001
#4257: May 4th 2022 at 3:00:54 PM

[up] Sure some save files can be named and some can't, but that doesn't sound tropeworthy or very interesting.

Palindromee Relax, Ice Queen. from the Celestial Wasteland (Y2K) Relationship Status: I sleep in a big bed with my wife.
Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#4259: May 4th 2022 at 3:28:15 PM

You're just naming a file, (if it's not acknowledged in the game) it doesn't have a meaning. Using icons for save files is a bit better but still just interface design.

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Malady (X-Troper)
#4260: May 4th 2022 at 5:01:21 PM

[up] - Why would it have to acknowledged by the game to be a trope? That's sorta cutting off all Paratext?

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It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (8,356/50,000)
#4261: May 4th 2022 at 5:05:40 PM

It's still not a trope, though. It has no narrative impact or meaning. At least Hello, [Insert Name Here] can impact the game on a surface level, and some games even have easter eggs for certain names.

Edited by WarJay77 on May 4th 2022 at 8:05:51 AM

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Malady (X-Troper)
#4262: May 4th 2022 at 5:15:46 PM

[up] - Ok.


New topic... Number Only Title, a Title by Number Sub-Trope for well, titles that are just a number, no "The [Number]", nothing.

The utter lack of noun information compared to The 4000 or Eureka Seven, makes those titles more than just One-Word Title overlaps?

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Malady (X-Troper)
#4264: May 4th 2022 at 5:25:29 PM

Yea

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AmourLeFou You'll never find out who I am from Colorado Since: Apr, 2021 Relationship Status: One Is The Loneliest Number
You'll never find out who I am
#4266: May 5th 2022 at 8:15:51 AM

Hi, do we already have this? Sandbox.Story Mode Please let me know.

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Palindromee Relax, Ice Queen. from the Celestial Wasteland (Y2K) Relationship Status: I sleep in a big bed with my wife.
Malady (X-Troper)
#4268: May 5th 2022 at 10:42:51 AM

Similar, but I think they're looking for Story Campaign vs. Multiplayer type games.

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Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#4269: May 5th 2022 at 10:42:55 AM

Unless that meant a casual game where a campaign mode is secondary.

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ImperialMajestyXO Since: Nov, 2015
#4270: May 5th 2022 at 3:25:52 PM

I wonder if there's a trope for "government by elders", where an organization or society selects older people as leaders.

Malady (X-Troper)
#4271: May 5th 2022 at 3:55:50 PM

A Gerontocracy?

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Twiddler (On A Trope Odyssey)
#4272: May 5th 2022 at 4:06:56 PM

I just skimmed through the Elders index so it's possible I missed something, but I'm surprised we don't seem to have that. There's Wasteland Elder but that's more specific.

Synchronicity (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#4273: May 5th 2022 at 9:11:26 PM

Mild spoilers for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness I guess but while watching it I remembered this old query of mine:

Sorta like an inversion of Dead Alternate Counterpart — the "main" counterpart is dead or otherwise gone, so the character tries to replace them with versions from alternate universes/dimensions/timelines/continuities. Seen recently in Voltron: Legendary Defender and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, among others. Do we have this? Is it worth troping, or can it be folded under Replacement Goldfish and Dead Alternate Counterpart?

Everything Everywhere All at Once also has a "multiversal replacement" motivation. Might this actually be workable as a motivation trope, or still too high concept to be common/Replacement Goldfish but "from another universe"?

Edited by Synchronicity on May 5th 2022 at 11:12:36 AM

Palindromee Relax, Ice Queen. from the Celestial Wasteland (Y2K) Relationship Status: I sleep in a big bed with my wife.
#4274: May 5th 2022 at 9:46:31 PM

There’s an example of that in Transformers: More than Meets the Eye, where a character’s husband dies and is later replaced by his alternate universe counterpart, and there’s some friction over the alternate-universe character not being the “same” person. I’m not sure if that’s quite what you’re looking for, but it fits a similar mold.

Edited by Palindromee on May 5th 2022 at 12:47:35 PM

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Malady (X-Troper)
#4275: May 6th 2022 at 4:02:27 AM

Something like Close-Enough Timeline, but a person and not close enough?

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