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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 16th 2023 at 5:37:57 PM
Here are some tropes for Another Apple Sleep Experiment.
• Instant Sedation: During the fight with Applejack at Sweet Apple Acres, Twilight is knocked out with something shot out of a tube by Apple Bloom.
° It is later revealed by Apple Bloom that this is what happened to Rainbow Dash, as Twilight heard what she thought was Rainbow's death, but Rainbow was more likely knocked out in the same way that Twilight was.
• Ironic Echo: After being slammed across the room by Applejack using Sweetie Belle's bedroom door while trying to stop Applejack from killing Sweetie, Rarity hears Applejack shout the word "guilty" three times. After Applejack flees and she finds Sweetie Belle dead, Rarity echoes the word "guilty" three times as well after seeing it written all over the bedroom in Sweetie's blood.
• Say My Name: After creating a hole in the wall of Starlight's bedroom with her magic (the door was locked and she couldn't break down the door with her magic), Twilight screams "STARLIGHT!" when she finds her, beaten and bleeding from a severed jugular.
Edited by KBoult on Mar 25th 2025 at 9:16:16 AM
CommonKnowledge.Sonic The Hedgehog:
- Many assume the time stones from Sonic the Hedgehog CD can allow their user to Time Travel. However, while the Time Stones can control and manipulate time and space, they don't allow for time travel and none of the manuals mention they can do such a thing. In Sonic CD, the only way Sonic can travel through time is with the past/future signs scattered in the zones and not with the time stones; all collecting the time stones does is guarantee a good future in every zone and the Golden Ending without having to destroy the robot transporter in the past. Even some later Sonic media like Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics) and the Sonic Generations remaster make this mistake.
Edited by Tylerbear12 on Dec 1st 2024 at 1:07:29 PM
- GoAnimate:
- "Caillou's Birthday Punishment Day (PARODY)
":
- Someone who were squemish towards child abuse content were deserve to die and go to hell.
- Caillou is the root of all of the problems in the world. Get rid of the entire franchise is the only way to solve all problems and everyone in the world would live happily ever after.
- "Caillou's Birthday Punishment Day (PARODY)
Edited by XiaoBangDian on Dec 1st 2024 at 5:17:56 AM
@Alpinist
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...into the mechanics as they build the First War Rig to the role of mechanic.
The emotional investment Skye inspires and the sheer potential ramifications implications of her public death...where Skye has only...
^ "ramifications" and "implications" are redundant. Please remove one of them.
...and earned rave reviews for the strength and...
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Edited by Arivne on Dec 1st 2024 at 8:52:30 AM
Many assume the time stones from Sonic the Hedgehog CD can allow their user...In the CD itself...all collecting the time stones does is guarantee a good future in every zone and the Golden Ending...
Someone who is squeamish towards child abuse content were deserves to...
Getting rid of the entire franchise...
Edited by Arivne on Dec 1st 2024 at 9:01:39 AM
Thank you, Arivne.
CommonKnowledge.Sonic The Hedgehog (revision)
- Many fans assume the Time Stones from Sonic the Hedgehog CD allow their user to Time Travel. However, while the Time Stones can manipulate and control time according to the manuals, nothing suggests they are capable of Time Travel. In-game, the only way Sonic can go to different periods is by utilizing the time warp posts; all collecting the time stones does is guarantee a good future in every zone and unlock the Golden Ending.note Even some later Sonic media, such as the Archie comics and the remaster of Sonic Generations, make this mistake.
WebComic.Reveal Out:
- Ripple-Proof Memory: Despite going back to her teenager body and making massive changes to her past, Eeden manages to retain her memories of the original timeline, which allows her to make changes that she didn't make originally thanks to hindsight.
- My Greatest Second Chance: The premise of the comic, as Eeden is given the opportunity to make things right when she is teleported back in time to when she was 18, leading her to do the things that she wished she could've done, like getting together with Bell and standing up to her father.
YMMV.Reveal Out:
- Base-Breaking Character: Bell has become this following episode 26 due to her perfectionist attitude and her betrayal of the "Dream Team" to join Hailey's team. Now granted, most agree that what she did was bad, but it's up for debate how "understandable" it was. Some argue that what Bell did was unforgivable and not at all justified no matter how rough it is, with some calling her a Jerkass and a bad friend, while others point out that Bell has a lot of trauma thanks to pressure from her parents and that while she wasn't in the right, her actions are at least sympathetic, especially since Eeden did go behind her back and do the mural sketch without her approval.
YMMV.Transformers One:
- Draco in Leather Pants: While this version of D-16/Megatron is more tragic and sympathetic than most versions of him, he is still Megatron and the movie is clear that his vendetta against Sentinel is more out of personal vengeance than any desire for justice and it is later shown that he has zero regard for anyone but himself, to the point of letting his best friend die and going on a destructive rampage in Iacon City after killing Sentinel to become a tyrant, all while having no qualms hurting innocents. Despite all of this, many fans prefer to either focus on who he was pre-Face–Heel Turn or try and make him more rightful, arguing that he is justified for killing Sentinel and that Optimus was wrong to exile him, ignoring that while Sentinel is a bad actor who needed to be taken down, Megatron is just as bad, if not worse than him.
Edited by Tylerbear12 on Dec 2nd 2024 at 3:54:13 AM
I have some trope entires to check for spelling and grammar errors.
- The Dog Bites Back: After enduring a Trauma Conga Line throughout the season, in part due to the other contestants, Gabby is able to get at her tormentors by causing their eliminations; in short order Gabby eliminates Tom and Aiden for Force Feeding her live animals, eliminates Yul for electrocuting her and abusing Grett whom Gabby becomes friends with, eliminates Priya for trying to vote her out, and eliminates Riya for voting out Grett, tormenting her in the Truth challenge, and trying to exploit Gabby’s Sanity Slippage for her own gain.
- Graceful Loser: After getting injured by Riya, Alec calmly acknowledges that he’s unable to continue on the game where he chooses to withdrawal from the competition with his dignity still intact, simply warning MK to be careful around Riya,
- Laser-Guided Karma: Riya’s elimination is ironically karmic in many ways:
- Firstly Riya is left with no allies after she betrayed her alliance partner Alec in the last chapter and when she is unable to win immunity in "A State of Shock", the remaining contestants are able to join forces and vote her off just before the finale.
- Secondly Riya orchestrated Grett’s elimination who Gabby has recently befriended so it’s only appropriate that Gabby returns the favor by orchestrating Riya’s elimination.
- Lastly Riya ends up getting eliminated in the exact place she eliminated Rosa Maria after Riya betrayed her and pulled her Face–Heel Turn in her previous season: 5th place.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Recognizing that Riya would be an extremely dangerous opponent is she made it to the finale, Gabby gets Riya eliminated in the Final 5 citing, that with the Villains’ Alliance basically dissolved where Riya is the only "true villain" left, Riya is no longer useful to Gabby and should get eliminated in the final elimination ceremony.
- Misplaced Retribution: Chase blames to producers for his second elimination despite the fact that they have no control over who gets eliminated and it was his own team who voted him off for not contributing to the challenge.
- Forgiveness: All the kids (except for Cartman) are trying to earn Kyle’s forgiveness out of guilt for contributing to Kyle Jumping Off the Slippery Slope and indirectly caused Canada to get nuked. It takes awhile for Kyle to consider forgiving them, especially Heidi, but he decides to do so in the end after recognizing the lengths that they are willing to go to atone in their past actions.
- Retroactive Recognition: Howard Hessman of future WKRP in Cincinnati fame has a few scenes as a stoner drama teacher at the Freedom School in the second film.
- Real-Life Relative: Young folk singer and Freedom School student Carol is played by Laughlin's daughter Teresa.
@ Franchise Original Sin/Halloween
- Michael Myers being an Invincible Villain who can never be killed or defeated and will keep returning to menace the protagonist is done in a subdued and not too disturbing fashion in the first movie, where he is defeated, badly injured, and kept from killing the more sympathetic characters, with his victory merely consisting of his escape. However, various later films in the series take this up to a Too Bleak, Stopped Caring level where many films end with the symapthetic cast dead, kidnapped, or corrupted from the trauma, sometimes even to a Too Bleak, Stopped Caring The Bad Guy Wins level. And since decades of franchise slasher and psychological thriller films that do the same thing arguably got their real start with Halloween, it can be argued that Halloween is the Franchise Original Sin for entire genres experiencing Too Bleak, Stopped Caring in standalone and series films alike.
- Serge's impromptu rap number in front of a hostile crowd at an implicitly mobbed-up nightclub. He channels everything he finds disenchanting about modern Florida into catchy song lyrics that earn a standing ovation from people who were thinking about killing him and his companions a few minutes earlier.
- Cry for the Devil: Percival may be a murderous backstabber, but his rant about how disillusioned and purposeless he is with everything and his brief suffering of the Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique can still evoke feeling for the character.
- He's Just Hiding: It can be nice to wonder if the blonde Stasi agent and his equally Made of Iron fellow hotel Mooks were merely passed out and not dead at the end of their fights with Lorraine.
- One-Scene Wonder: The two Made of Iron henchmen Lorraine fights on the stairway are more unforgettable than some of the main cast.
@ The Little Giant Book Of Whodunits
- Church Militant: One of the nuns at a covenant where a woman in Witness Protection hides in one story carries a gun her brother insisted she take to the city.
- Dying Clue:
- In one story, a murdered football coach who was investigating a player rigging a game is found clenching the last page of the book he was holding when he was mortally wounded. The cops suspect that since that page concludes with the words "the end," the coach was directing them to the football team's tight end.
- In another story, a detective who has long been convinced the trope is a myth finally encounters a real dying clue when a woman managed to get to her keyboard and type a seemingly nonsensical message before dying. She tried to her killer's name but woozily put her fingers a row above their normal position.
- Subverted in a third story where the victim clutches cards to form a royal flush then though that clue doesn't refer to any of the suspects and other cards or bottles of whiskey he could have grabbed instead would have pointed to any one of those people. The killer planted the clue and was trying to frame another suspect, Joe Blush, due to having misheard his name as Joe Flush.
- Vanilla Protagonist: The detectives and prosecutors are layered characters, but their personal lives remain largely off-screen and their motivations and methods often stay the same for most if not all of their runs on the show. Killers, suspects, relatives, defense attorneys, and victims tend to be deeply explored have fascinating backgrounds, dynamics with each other, and motivations that can dominate an episode and sometimes make a viewer temporarily forget these people aren't the main characters and wish that they were more than just a dead body, defendant, or source of information for a single episode.
@ Bottomless
- Corporate Samurai: Fuller is a renowned ex-cop turned head of security for a MegaCorp and conducts investigations and temporarily a cover-up before ultimately choosing to Take This Job and Shove It rather than let his employers get away with involvement in a deadly scheme.
@ Ymmv Bottomless
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Lily Yee is The One Who Made It Out and a rookie lawyer who shows some spunk and intelligence in defending her immigrant parents against a Frivolous Lawsuit that leads to a Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot. That she is the victim rather than a presence throughout the investigation and that her murder and character are quickly pushed to the side as the investigation focuses on SavingsMart can feel disappointing, especially given how many fans found the other guest characters (save Fuller) and plot subpar for the show.
@ Melancholy Pursuit
- High-School Sweethearts: Ray and his wife started dating in eighth grade and were married for forty years, happily on her part, although he constantly cheated on her.
- Karma Houdini: Ray died peacefully without ever being exposed as a serial philanderer and statutory rapist (his son Brendan's mother was sixteen and Ray was old enough to already be married with two sons).
- Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: The detectives note that Gary's maternal brothers Dan Jr. and Mark, while officially the sons of Dan Ryan, look enough like Gary and Ray that they could have also been born from their mother's long affair and never mention whether their DNA tests established their paternity in addition to their innocence.
- Self-Serving Memory: Gary's recollection of how he accidentally killed Lily paints what happened as just him trying to get to know her, when the semen on her pants suggests an attempted sexual assault.
- Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: The only reason the police ever track down Gary as their killer is because his half-brother Brendan had his DNA put in the system for not paying for a subway ride when he was in a hurry one day.
- Suspect Existence Failure: Stella Blanchard's son with Ray looks like a promising source of the mystery DNA on Lily's body until it turns out he died in a traffic accident ten years before Lily's murder and his only full sibling is a girl.
- Two-Timing with the Bestie: In a mistress version, Stella ended her years-long affair with Ray because he was also sleeping with her best friend from school.
@ Turn Urn Bones
- Ambiguous Situation: The description of the fight with Daniel the killer describes leaves it open whether the killing may have been self-defense or an Accidental Murder (in which case the killer may not have reported the crime due to fear of ruining their relationship with Todd).
- Gold Digger: Sarah is accused of this, as she has dated other rich men before Todd and her family lost their money sending her to fancy colleges frequented by the wealthy. The episode establishes that she really does love Todd beyond his money: being included in important parts of his life and being highly protective of him, but also has some Ms. Red Ink tendencies.
- Grail in the Garbage: The weapon that killed Daniel, a $50 million historic artifact, has spent the last few weeks in a gym locker after the killer had no idea what else to do with it.
- Hospital Hottie: Sarah is a glamorous neurosurgeon who mingles with The Beautiful Elite.
- My Beloved Smother: Mrs. Mirga accuses any woman Todd knew of being his mistress and constantly shows up uninvited at his house to try and control his life.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Downplayed, but the team notes that they are investigating Todd and his loved ones as murder suspects with equipment that Todd donated to the Jeffersonian.
- Toxic Friend Influence: Todd and Sarah describe Daniel as a friend but, while they are committed to Todd getting sober, Daniel wanted to welcome Todd back from rehab by having heroin ready for them to shoot together.
@ Bird Street
- Adaptational Wimp: Boruch stabbing a guard who tries to chase Alex is cut from the film.
- Ascended Extra: Boruch (who goes from an Honorary Uncle to an actual one who lives with Alex and his father) and the Grynn family appear repeatedly for about the first quarter of the movie after having far fewer appearances in the book.
@ Wrath of Khan
- Alternate Character Interpretation: Khan's navigator and the other woman on his bridge crew constantly look unhappy while following his orders, such as to attack the Enterprise, is this a suggestion that they don't share his hatred for the Federation and would rather not attack them, Pragmatic Villainy fear they will get killed going against Kirk, or both?
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Khan's Red Shirt crew are generally agreed to be greatly underused given their Ragtag Bunch of Misfits look, past experiences with Khan on the planet and/or the Eugenics War (some sources claim several of them are children of the original crewmembers), and how several like Joachim show Punch-Clock Villain hints.
@ Denial Law and Order
- Break the Cutie: Mrs. Talbert, the only member of her family who is (probably) the least innocent of any wrongdoing is confronted on the witness stand that either her daughter or her husband is either the cold-blooded killer of her grandchild or, at best, covered up the murder if Tommy did it.
- Dance of Despair: Tommy's version of dancing to "Endless Love" with Christina is that it was a way to distract themselves from the pain of her delivery and their conflicted feelings about leaving behind the baby. McCoy doesn't believe him, but like so much about the episode, Ambiguous Situation applies.
Edited by Alpinist on Dec 2nd 2024 at 12:43:43 PM
Hi Arivne, here's a new trope for Miraculous Ladybug villain, Lila Rossi.
- Dark Is Evil: In "Miraculous London", she wears a simple black dress when she becomes the new villainous Butterfly Miraculous holder and she has proven herself to be a far worse holder than Gabriel ever was, by trapping and paralyzing Nooroo and making a wish which would have destroyed the entire universe.
- The Gochizos trying to protect Shoma from the twins really shows how loyal they are to him.
Edited by Tycoonninja on Dec 2nd 2024 at 12:06:42 PM
- Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, an FPS/TPS game take place in Palestine, was banned in Australia and Germany for not going through the countries' respective classification boards. It was also banned in the United Kingdom
in December 2024. The game's developer, Nidal Nijm, claimed that was due to political issues.
- GoAnimate: "Caillou RUINS Bob's Birthday/UNGROUNDED
": Stealing someone else's McDonald's Happy Meal and somehow set the restaurant on fire is not good, but if you do these things just to ruin a jerkass' birthday, you'll receive no punishment for these things.
Edited by XiaoBangDian on Dec 1st 2024 at 11:10:12 AM
Here are some tropes for Another Apple Sleep Experiment.
• Asshole Victim: Sweetie Belle counts as one. It is revealed that she abandoned Apple Bloom because she blamed Apple Bloom for the latter being partially paralyzed.
• Children are Innocent: The Cake Twins. They witness Pinkie kill their mom and see their house go up in flames with their dad still inside after they escape along with Pinkie.
• Ominously Open Door: While heading down to her secret lab, Twilight finds the door to the lab open slightly, with the magical lock lying on the ground.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: While fighting a monstrous version of Applejack in the orchard, Rainbow Dash says that killing Applejack is the right thing to do.
° After arriving at the Sweet Apple Acres farm, Twilight has decided that because having mercy on Applejack for killing ponies 7 years ago by putting her in prison hadn't worked to stop Applejack from killing Starlight, Twilight must kill her instead.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Apple Bloom. After being abandoned by her friends and brother because she is partially paralyzed, finding out that the ponies she trusted had lied to her about her sister being dead and seeing said sister being put in a coma in a fight with a prison guard while trying to escape, she decides to expose Twilight and her friends to a gaseous version of the Sleepless Potion that caused Applejack to kill thirteen ponies 7 years ago, causing them to do the same thing that Applejack did, kill ponies and, in Fluttershy's case, animals.
...efforts, [[spoiler:she and Bell still ultimately part ways, with Bell getting together with <missing text>]].
...given that Eeden did go behind her back and do the mural sketch...
...than any desire for justice, <- comma and...if not worse than him.
Edited by Arivne on Dec 2nd 2024 at 9:41:32 AM
@G-Editor
...and abusing Grett (whom Gabby becomes friends with), eliminates...
...Alec calmly acknowledges that he’s unable to continue in the game and chooses...
Firstly, <- comma Riya is left with no allies after she betrays her alliance partner Alec in the last chapter, <- comma and...
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...opponent if she made it...in the Final 5, <- comma citing <- no comma that with...dissolved, <- comma where Riya is the only "true villain" left, Riya is...
Chase blames the producers for his second elimination...
...are trying to...for contributing to Kyle Jumping...indirectly causing Canada to get nuked...atone for their past actions.
Edited by Arivne on Dec 2nd 2024 at 9:58:39 AM
@ Denial
- Jerkass Has a Point: Conley may present his argument in a Kick the Dog fashion, but he is absolutely correct that there the new information about Warren's activities raises a reasonable doubt that his clients are innocent (to the point where even the viewers may be unsure at the end)
Edited by Alpinist on Dec 2nd 2024 at 11:05:56 AM
@Alpinist
Howard Hesseman of future WKRP in Cincinnati fame...
...later films in the series...many of them end with the sympathetic cast dead...
...and his brief suffering from a Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique...
...encounters a...a woman manages to get...a...dying. She tries to <missing text> her killer's name but woozily puts her fingers...
^ She tries to what her killer's name?
...form a royal flush, <- comma then though that clue...grabbed instead could have...
...tend to be deeply explored and have fascinating backgrounds...
...to attack the Enterprise. <- period Is this a...them, [[Pragmatic Villainy fear they will get killed going against Kirk]], or both?
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connected together by a comma splice
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and how several (like Joachim) show Punch-Clock Villain hints.
Conley may present his argument in a Kick the Dog fashion, <- comma but he is absolutely correct that there the new information...raises both ...unsure at the end) and <missing text>
^ And what?
Edited by Arivne on Dec 2nd 2024 at 10:38:48 AM
...an FPS/TPS game that takes place in Palestine, was banned...
Stealing someone else's McDonald's Happy Meal and somehow setting the...
Edited by Arivne on Dec 2nd 2024 at 10:32:22 AM
Thanks
@ Skeleton Crew (2024) S1E1 "This Could Be a Real Adventure"
- Black Dude Dies First: The first of the ship's defenders to visibly fall to the pirates' fire is a dark-skinned man.
@ 24
- As of 2024, four presidents who had far less to lose than Allison have pardoned relatives (including Bill Clinton, whose wife Taylor is based on). Allison might feel more sympathetic to Olivia after compromising her desire to strictly follow the law. And, after losing everything else in her life, she might want a chance to repair her family or at least throw her ex-husband a bone.
@ 24
Plenty of fans will admit to feeling bad for her and understanding her motives by the end of the season, but comparatively few of them find her actions remotely impressive or will argue that she brought much to the show besides implausible, frustrating, and unnecessarily sad Padding.
- He's Just Hiding: Many fans like to think that either the missile approaching the plane containing Hauser, Yonica, and Natalie at the end either narrowly misses or was only powerful enough to cause a non-fatal crash-landing, especially since the missile was built by an Evil, Inc. group implicitly not big on quality control.
@ Dependent Law Order
- Accomplice by Inaction: Charlotte stood by while her boyfriend attacked her family and did nothing, although she ends up not being held morally or legally culpable since it turns out she was too drunk to be able to move to help despite wanting to.
- Ambiguous Situation: Ryan's urine traces at the crime scene indicate a blood alcohol content high enough he might not have remembered committing the crime at first (although the way he runs from Stabler suggests that, if he didn't realize it when the detectives first questioned him, he did later on).
- Big Sister Instinct: Charlotte's first reaction to hearing about the attack on her family is to go see her little brother and try to help him.
- Freudian Excuse: Charlotte was often ignored by her parents, her family was constantly harassed by people mad about her father's cases (to the point of the family pet being dismembered and swastikas being painted on their property), her father moved out, and her mother started turning physically abusive over Charlotte being a Bratty Teenage Daughter before Charlotte fought back. Downplayed in that she's not the killer, but it does provide some context for why she's the kind of person to get too drunk and high to be able to remember if she was the killer and pushed her mother down the stairs in one past fight.
- It's Not You, It's My Enemies: Sidney moved away from his family to stop them from being harassed by people mad about the cases he took. It succeeded, but both of his kids are clearly hurt by his absence.
- Turn the Other Cheek: After his investigator got proof that a former client's son was writing him death threats, Sidney didn't turn the man in due to feeling bad for the family.
@ Swimming Sharks Law Order
- Be All My Sins Remembered: After Melanie's role in framing her is exposed and Melanie gets her Motive Rant, Luna sadly admits that Melanie's list of grievances is pretty accurate and that she deserved that betrayal, if not necessarily the form it took.
@ How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
- Doomed Predecessor: It's mentioned early on that all the previous ships of warriors that set out from Berk never came back. When Stoick and his army do find the nest, sure enough, there's an ominously wrecked boat belonging to their predecessors there
- Sink the Lifeboats: The Queen burns the anchored Viking longships as they try to retreat, determined to slaughter them all.
- Stantin's boss assures him the tragic end to the Berger hostage situation wasn't his fault and urges him to rest.
- Sarah is reassuring and gentle toward Norman as they cross a canyon in a cable car, turning a terrifying situation into one he can almost appreciate.
- Every moment where Knox comes back for Stantin when it's clearly a matter of life and death rather than abandon him.
- Knox and Stantin finding proof that Sarah is still alive and a hostage after she and her captor crossed into Canada is a touching moment of relief.
@ Control law order
- Juliet begs the court not to dismiss the charges against her if it means arresting her daughter, tearfully insisting that Hilary is Taking the Heat for her (which she is, for the murder charge, anyway) but the court still lets her go and arrests Hilary.
- Family Versus Career: Juliet lost her modeling career when she had Hilary, although she bounced back in other businesses.
- Cruel Mercy: Hilary could have killed her rapist after knocking him out when he mocked her but decided that castrating him would make him suffer more.
- Left Hanging: The episode ends before revealing what, if any sentence Hilary faces for castrating her rapist and lying to protect her mother, although Novak implies that it will be a far shorter sentence than if she had killed Gorman while telling Olivia not to feel so guilty about arresting her.
- Parents as People: Juliet openly implies she would have aborted Hilary if she had been conceived before Roe v. Wade, refused to believe her claims of being raped in the past, cut off contact with Hilary years ago, and holds grudges for how Hilary and her addictions have hurt Juliet's businesses and marriages. But when she learns Hilary really was raped, she goes to comfort her daughter and apologize. Upon learning Hilary castrated her rapist, Juliet does everything she can to protect Hilary, including killing the rapist, and repeatedly claims she is responsible for both that crime and the one actually committed by Hilary.
- Board to Death: Years ago, Drago presented himself to a gathering of Viking chiefs, claiming that he could control dragons and that they should all swear fealty to him as a result. When they laughed at this claim, he had his dragons burn down their meeting hall and only Stoick escaped.
@ Faster
There is also the fact that Driver and his woes started because he chose to help an outclassed bank robbery crew led by his brother in a dangerous heist despite having a pregnant girlfriend to support and who he was implicitly able to support fine without robbing banks.
- Despite how Wim struggled to take the whole thing seriously, he is savvy enough to hide his money before entering the port and sets a small fire to briefly escape from a hostile crowd.
- The other prisoner summoning the cell key with the Force.
- Various suspects from the Long List of kids the Mollys have upset like one-eyed Alvin and prank victim Lisa remain offscreen when what little is said about them makes them feel like interesting characters and suspects.
Edited by Alpinist on Dec 3rd 2024 at 1:40:24 AM

@ fun jungle
@ Serge Storms
@ Incident At Loch Ness
@ Carrie: Awakening
@ Wasteland Cities
Wretched Man Recruit
A member of the Wretched who is recruited into the mechanics as they build the First War Rig.
@ Smile 2
@ The Three Investigators
@ Amateur Sleuth
@ Ambiguously Evil
@ Busman's Holiday
@ Doing In the Wizard
@ Evil Nephew: The Little Giant Book Of Whodunits: Several Inheritance Murder stories have the suspect pool limited to the nephews and nieces of the victim (although they are at least never all working together) and a robbery story has a man steal jewelry from his aunt.
@ Exiled To The Courch
@ Grand Romantic Gesture
@ Hoist by His Own Petard
@ I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Ham
@ Sibling Triangle
@ The Little Giant Book Of Whodunits
The Little Giant Book of Whodunits is a Hy Conrad anthology of 80 mysteries involving various thefts, murders, threats, and other crimes around the globe. Each story is accompanied by an illustration, and most squeeze in a large number of suspects and clues in just three pages.
Tropes:
@ Bottomless law and Order
@ Adaptational Heroism
Edited by Alpinist on Dec 1st 2024 at 6:00:38 AM