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Edited by MacronNotes on Feb 27th 2022 at 1:49:11 PM
Thank you to the above for potential examples for Glitter Is Messy. I think we can make it work.
they/she/xyr; editor of Minecraft SMPsAmbiguous Time Frame: It's unclear if the scene shown is a flashback or is parallel to the previous scene, and if it's a flashback then when it happened, because it's a plot point. Ambiguous Time Period is not it.
TroperWall / WikiMagic CleanupNo, the idea was specifically about beings that are created entirely by the "summoning" act. If there's a preexisting being that's being embodied then that's, if anything, the opposite of what I was going for.
That seems more concerned with customization than with how the minions are being created, and includes examples of things like creating golems or animating toys or other inanimate objects. I imagine there might be overlap, as I also imagine that it has overlap with things like Maker of Monsters, but they don't look like equivalent concepts.
There might be a trope for this already but couldn't think of it
the wizardly equivelant of a Knight Errant, a mage who travels around aimlessly and either helps out of the goodness of their hearts or offers their services at a reasonable rate. Unlike, say, Gandalf, these mages are not in the business of grand quests or plans, they simply wander
There's a passing mention to Hedge Wizards in A Song of Ice and Fire. They're dismissed as frauds by Maester Luwin.
You (2018) and Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2024) both have scenes where a murderous couple goes to therapy and have to pretend to be "normal". The closest thing I've found is All Therapists Are Muggles, but there's no fantastical Masquerade to hide. Does anyone have a third example of "person has to hide their outrageous life secrets from their shrink"?
Some relation to You Wouldn't Believe Me If I Told You?
Disambig Needed: Help with those issues! tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13324299140A37493800&page=24#comment-576There's also the original Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). There was an episode of Dexter where Dexter went to therapy to investigate a therapist who he suspected of killing his patients. When asked about his childhood, Dexter claims he did a lot of "normal father son stuff". This is followed by a flashback to his childhood where Harry trains Dexter on how to be a serial killer.
Edited by SharkToast on Mar 2nd 2024 at 5:24:16 AM
- Trope: Forced Dance of Romance
- Laconic: A character is forced by another character to dance with them when they visibly don't want it.
When it comes to an Abhorrent Admirer, there are two types - the ones that are oblivious to the hatred and keep trying, and those that don't care about the fact that they're hated and impose their will on them anyway.
This trope is for the latter.
There are many reasons they do this - if there's an audience, they may expect them to cave into the social pressure, they want to show off their beloved to everyone else, maybe it's a power play, or maybe they think they're that entitled to it.
Compare Involuntary Dance, where the character is forced to dance and cannot stop.
See also Entitled to Have You, No Sense of Personal Space, Oblivious to Hatred and It's All About Me.
- In the opening of Honoo no Alpen Rose, we see Jeudi dancing with Count Georges de Garmont, and she visibly doesn't want it. It then changes to Jeudi dancing with Lundi, and she's happy. In the series itself, Garmont forces this on Jeudi at the grand ball at his palace, and no one objects to the fact that a fully grown adult is dancing with a thirteen year old child in this manner.note
Edited by deerhornsaresopretty on Mar 2nd 2024 at 4:31:20 PM
I don't think it has to be romantic. Some non-romantic forced dances are:
- The climax of Coco has one character trying to take something from another during a live stage performance by forcibly pulling them into a dance. This allows them to cover up their actions from the in-universe audience.
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Discord dances with Twilight during the song "Glass of Water" just to be annoying and dramatic. Can be seen here (the link is red, but it works), about halfway through the video.
Also since Count Garmont from Honoo no Alpen Rose inspired this trope, I was wondering...is Depraved Nazi also tropeworthy?
Examples: Anime & Manga
- Honoo no Alpen Rose: Count Garmont is a French Nazi Nobleman, who, while not involved in the action, uses his wealth to funnel the Nazis into Switzerland. He has a lustful crush on the 13-year-old main character, Jeudi, because she looks a lot like a woman he once loved (but ultimately ended up cutting off their marriage). After Jeudi flees Switzerland to evade him, he follows her all the way to kidnap her again and even holds her friends and loved ones hostage to lure her to him.
- Schindler's List: Amon Goeth is a Nazi lieutenant woth a one-sided sexual attraction to his Jewish maid, Helen. While he contemplates having sex with her, he's too proud to admit his feelings for her (since Jewish people are "inferior") so he heavily batters her instead.
Edited by deerhornsaresopretty on Mar 2nd 2024 at 4:29:50 PM
I have an idea for Watch for Rolling Objects where rocks and other rolling objects act as hazards. Unlike Indy Escape where one has to run away from them, in Watch for Rolling Objects, you have to jump over them or just time your movement. I already found over 20 examples.
I just don't know where "Rolling objects thrown by enemies" starts and "Rolling objects as environmental objects" ends.
Would this count as as trope?
Edited by artman40 on Mar 3rd 2024 at 2:43:35 AM
Would it be fair to say that Depraved Nazi is a subtrope of Unsexy Sadist?
I don't think Depraved Nazi would be related to Unsexy Sadist, though they would share indexes.
TroperWall / WikiMagic CleanupWhen I drafted the idea of Depraved Nazi I had something like Pedophile Priest in mind - i.e. a person in a position of power who uses the position to get away with doing heinous things to weaker people.
is there a trope for genderqueer robots, or robots that use pronouns that don't fit into the gender binary?
some examples i can think of are
Bot from Inanimate Insanity (uses they/them)
Biograft from PHIGHTING! (uses any pronouns)
and Mettaton from Undertale (heavily implied to be trans)
a stupid name i thought of for it is probably something like. non-binary code
Edited by inkuiry on Mar 3rd 2024 at 9:54:39 AM
You Are Definitely Going To Kick: My AssNon-Human Non-Binary probably covers most significant examples.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.- Princess Student: A transfer student, who is a royalty fascinated by commoner's / another country's culture.

Just making a body for an existing spirit doesn't count? Because I have Minions Customized at Creation for that.
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