Roger Rabbit Effect: Latter-day Star Wars movies tend to be rather CGI-heavy, as shown when live humans interact with CGI aliens.
Heartwarming Moments: Mr. McBadguyvillainson may be a child-abusing, animal-abusing, fascist edgelord, but he still goes out of his way to feed the poor. What he feeds them is liquid bleach, but still.
Obligatory Bondage Song: "Chains" by The Cookies (Covered Up by The Beatles). It's even specified that the chains in question "ain't the kind that you can see", clearly a reference to the singer being blindfolded.
Fake Brit: Ralph Fiennes in The Menu, because we all know that British people aren't real.
Heartwarming.Real Life: Ted Bundy worked a suicide hotline despite being a serial killer and serial rapist.
I Let Gwen Stacy Die: "I failed to protect Martha, now she's dead."
Edited by YourEternalTroper on May 3rd 2023 at 11:28:12 PM
The stage is my opera! The race is my play! This performance is my drama! I am...T.M. Opera O!The Bus Came Back: We bumped this thread.
Suddenly I'm... still rotating Fallen London in my mind even though I've stopped actively playing it.Bus Crash: In Final Destination 5, a bus full of civilians is on a bridge that's under construction. When the bridge starts to crumble, all of the passengers safely get out, except for one unlucky individual who was in the back taking a phone call. This results in him dying when the bus falls off the bridge and into the water below.
Mellow Mantas: In the Dinosaur Train episode "Carla Cretoxyrhina", the kids meet a friendly shark, which are close enough to mantas because they're in the same subclass.
The Cretaceous Is Always Doomed: Played with in Walking with Monsters. The third episode covers a different mass extinction, the Great Dying.
Edited by NitroIndigo on Aug 14th 2023 at 7:44:12 PM
- Breaking Old Trends: Super Mario 64 is the first game in the series where Mario's clothes are pure #FF0000 red.
Back from the Dead: This thread.
The pessimist sees a dark tunnel, the optimist sees a light, the realist sees two lights and the engineer sees three idiots.Mocking the Mourner: Alice makes fun of Bob for losing his toothbrush.
The Scrappy: One of the many abilities introduced in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire is Scrappy, which allows Normal and Fighting-type moves to hit Ghost-types.
Femme Fatalons: Crazy Bitch from The Boondocks slashes a BET producer to death with her long, clawed fingernails.
Currently Reading: N/ARed Shirt: Yellow shirt in this case, but in Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Mami Tomoe, the Cool Big Sis, is the first to kick the bucket.
"Happy Halloween, I suppose..."Messianic Archetype: The titular character from Wander over Yonder wants nothing more than to help those in need and show people a good time, and also endures many challenges and tribulations over the course of the series.
Currently Reading: N/AInformed Species: The giant pterosaurs in Prehistoric Planet are said to be Quetzalcoatlus, but their wing tips are slightly too rounded.
Tomato in the Mirror: If you hold a tomato in front of a mirror, you can see its reflection.
Beady-Eyed Loser: Chris McLean from Total Drama has these, and he's not well respected by the campers. It doesn't have anything to do with his war crimes, though. It's totally the beady eyes.

Write examples of tropes that are massive stretches to claim fit that trope. That's it that's the game.
"Does this include YMMV and Trivia?" Sure.
"This sounds an awful lot like 'That's an awful Hindsight shoehorn!
' but less specific." ... No it doesn't.
Developer's Foresight: At the beginning of Pokémon Red and Blue, you normally take Charmander because that's the obviously correct choice. However, there are two other Pokémon on the table, and taking them doesn't glitch out the game — instead, there are entire alternate movesets and evolution trees for this exact scenario
Edited by wingedcatgirl on Oct 12th 2025 at 6:15:00 AM
Suddenly I'm... still rotating Fallen London in my mind even though I've stopped actively playing it.