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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 16th 2023 at 5:37:57 PM
Reposting from 515
Here is an example for the Clans Skryre section of the Skaventide folder on Warhammer: Age of Sigmar: Grand Alliance Chaos page that I would appreciate having looked at:
- Powered Armour: The Arch-warlocks of the Clans Skryre go into battle wearing techno-arcane suits of armour that are powered by shards of warpstone. These suits grant the wearer the highest Save characteristic of any Skaven character, and include built-in weaponry such as Warpfire Gauntlets and Piston Claws.
Is Cultural Translation the correct trope, or would American Kirby Is Hardcore be more appropriate?
- An Ice Person: He threatens to freeze Link in a cutscene, implying he has ice powers.
- Piano Drop: Discussed with a sentence saying that cats always fall back on their feet. The Cat is covered in bandages, saying that a piano may sometime follow. [No need to mention that it's a drawing; it's a comic.]
- Water Guns and Balloons: Water pistols and water balloons (called water bombs) are part of the arsenal in Revolution, Clan Wars and Battleground.
- Dub Name Change: His name in the Canadian French dub is "Pirouette".
- Extreme Omnivore: Early in the movie, one of the dogs eats the head of a ceramic garden gnome.
Edited by MichaelKatsuro on Jun 23rd 2021 at 5:39:21 AM
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Despite being a main character in the first game, Burger Dog is reduced to small cameos in later installments.
Edited by Melinda on Jun 24th 2021 at 5:54:08 AM
- Adapted Out: Carmine Falcone calling Bruce Wayne the son he never had to snub his actual son Alberto implies that Alberto's brother Mario doesn't exist.
- Alternate Character Interpretation: Anthony's upset reactions to the sabertooth's kills are clearly at least partially because of the financial liability and disgrace they are exposing him to. However, there are some ambiguous moments where he seems upset on a deeper level.
- Badass Mustache: Jimmy and Gene's thug Mickey, the man who kills The Duke and Slasher, has a well-groomed mustache.
- Broken Pedestal: The narrator, Gene, and Morty view Jimmy with deep respect and loyalty right up until they hear the tape where Jimmy sells information about their friends to the police for money. He also offends Morty with a racist slur, mocks Gene as Dumb Muscle, and expresses contempt for the narrator while trying to get him arrested.
[Gene's] listening to the geezer he was devoted to for twenty years selling information Gene's told him in confidence to [The police and not only that, belittling him, talking about him like he's a fuckin dog.
- Chekhov's Gun:
- The gun Gene gives the narrator is a literal example. The narrator uses it to kill Jimmy, assuming that it will be untraceable. It turns out that Gene used the gun to kill a briefly mentioned Posthumous Character. When the police reveal that the same gun was used in both murders, Gene realizes that the narrator killed Jimmy.
- In the book, a bunch of rejected sex toys for Mortimer's money-laundering porn shop become unexpectedly important when the gang accidentally takes the boxes contains those sex toys to their drug deal with Eddie while leaving behind the boxes with the drugs. This allows them to recoup their losses when Eddie steals the boxes they brought to him at gunpoint. This is averted in the movie, where the gang knows that Eddie will double-cross them from the start, bring the right boxes, and then have the Liverpool gang ambush Eddie's men as they take the drugs away.
- Death by Adaptation:
- In the book, Mr. Lucky the sniper isn't shot by the Serbians sniper. Instead, he accidentally shoots an Innocent Bystander and his target escapes.
- The ambush that kills Eddie's bodyguard Mr. Troop is original to the film.
- Massive Numbered Siblings: In the book, the narrator describes his assistant Clarkie as coming from "one of those fuckin huge families that you just don't get anymore, not since the arrival of the pill anyway."
- Related in the Adaptation: Sidney is the Duke's nephew in the film but their just old friends in the book.
- Spared by the Adaptation:
- Terry dies in a random act of violence in the book's epilogue, but the film omits that, along with the rest of the epilogue.
- Dragan's book counterpart, Klaus, is killed offscreen by Gene's men, but he lives to return to Serbia in the film.
- Freddie eventually dies from the effects of the No-Holds-Barred Beatdown in the book, but seemingly survives in the film.
- Suicide, Not Murder: In the Backstory, Kilburn Jerry, a member of Mortimer's gang, committed suicide at a party (due to drug-induced delirium in the book and from the trauma of being raped by their leader, Crazy Larry, in the film). The rest of the gang panicked, feeling certain that the cops wouldn't believe the story of Jerry's suicide and would think that everyone at the party conspired to kill him. So they sent Morty to dispose of the body, and he was caught in the act. Ironically, the cops did accept the story behind Jerry's suicide, but Morty still went to prison for several years for unlawful disposal of a body.
- Tantrum Throwing: In the book, Trevor spends a minute screaming obscenities and smashing furniture after hearing that the police seized three tons of marijuana that he'd bought.
- Wham Line: The narrator listens to a tape that initially seems to feature his boss Jimmy bribing a cop for information, then shows that Jimmy is selling information to the cop. The end of the tape even has him contemptuously attempt to sell out the narrator.
Detective Inspector Albie Carter: [T]here's only so much in those informer funds.
Edited by Melinda on Jun 24th 2021 at 6:08:39 AM
For Clap Your Hands If You Believe Video Games:
- Inverted in I=MGCM. In the I=MGCM Arc 1 of the main story, Kamisaman tells Iroha, who gets revived into the White Room after she's brutally impaled by Nemesis Iroha thanks to Omnis' random ability, that the Kamisaman's teleportation revival technology only works if they don't think about the (hope of) physical revival after death or think that they'll revived by that technology after dying (especially when they're dying). Otherwise, they'll be dead for good, and only Omnis' ability will save them. This is true in one of Pretty Warriors' dress stories, where the three Pretty Warrior alternate selves of the heroines choose not to tell the Pretty Warrior version of Kaori how they came back to life.
Kaori (Pretty Warrior version): Whaaa? I mean, you three just smoothly came back to life!Seira (Pretty Warrior version): Don't worry about it, Kaori. That's what it is.Eliza (Pretty Warrior version): That's right, if you care about it, you'll lose.
Edited by Minorica on Jun 24th 2021 at 9:26:58 PM
"No matter how bad the heroes can get or how bad the situation is, we're sure we can overcome it and get our happy endings..."An idea for Legends of Runeterra.
- Supernatural Fear Inducer:
- The Fearsome keyword prevents cards with two or less Power from blocking Fearsome cards, leaving the Nexus vulnerable to their attacks. The keyword is associated with the Shadow Isles, Noxus, Bilgewater, and Shurima.
- Some cards are capable of granting Fearsome to their allies. For example, Cithria the Bold
grants Fearsome and an additional Health and Power to her allies whenever she attacks. Another example is Terror of the Tides
, whose effects grant its Sea Monster allies with Fearsome and lower the opponent's cards' Power by 2 when it attacks to reduce their chances of blocking a powerful tide of sea monsters.
- Elise, upon leveling up, grants all of her spiders both Fearsome and Challenger. As a result, the spiders can grab the opponent's high-powered cards to divert them while their weak cards can do nothing to stop Elise and her spider minions from directly attacking the Nexus.
Edited by mariovsonic999 on Jun 23rd 2021 at 9:37:41 AM
D'oh, my dodgy Shift key strikes again. That is no excuse however as I should have noticed it, especially as a posted it twice
I don't see any mistakes in the English in that post.
However, it appears to be Not an Example of Chuck Cunningham Syndrome, which is "A character disappears from the work without a specific explanation and is nowhere to be seen or mentioned again."
Edited by Arivne on Jun 24th 2021 at 8:12:18 AM
- Not in My Contract: When Jango Fett shows up to collect the bounty on Reti-
Nym: Reti?! Reti has a BOUNTY on him?
- -he cuts his cameo short to pursue the fleeing Toydarian, since his current employer never mentioned anything about fending off a full-scale offense.
Edited by Avenger09 on Jun 24th 2021 at 9:43:23 AM
@Melinda
In the book, <- comma Kilburn Jerry commits suicide. <- period
The narrator, Gene, and Morty view Jimmy with deep respect and loyalty right up until they hear...
...accidentally takes the...gang knows that...
In the book, Mr. Lucky the sniper isn't shot by the Serbians' sniper.
Sidney is the Duke's nephew in the book but they're just old friends in the book.
^ One of the two examples of "book" above should be "film".
Dragan's book counterpart, Klaus, is killed offscreen by Gene's men, <- comma but he...
Freddie eventually dies from the effects of the No-Holds-Barred Beatdown in the book, <- comma but...
Ironically, the cops did accept the story bending Jerry's suicide, but...
^ Did you mean "behind"?
"* Cultural Translation: The faces of the female characters were changed in the Japanese release of the game to match their beauty standards.
[No, I think Cultural Translation is the right trope here.]
The Ms. Fanservice thing is zero context.
- He has a Germanic name and a Scottish accent, lives in a giant tree based on the Yggdrasil of Norse mythology, and has dark skin. As you can imagine, he stands out in the far-eastern inspired setting.
"Reti?! Reti has a BOUNTY him?" seems to lack a word.
"full scale" needs a hyphen.
Transformation Is a Free Action: Usually played straight but once amusingly subverted by Guts when fighting a group of Apostles. Apostle: [just before Guts cuts him apart] No... no fair! Attacking while we're transforming!
Thunderbolt Fantasy Tearjerker
- Despite Wan Jun Po finally turn his back on his master Huo Shi Ming Huang who refuses to deal with Zhao Jun Lin, he still refuses to freed Shang Bu Huan from his seal wooden prison since he sees him as a threat. Wan Jun Po wants to stop Zhao Jun Lin by using Sorcerous Sword Index against her without Shang Bu Huan's help. It clear that he will do anything to save his country against Zhao Jun Lin even though it's impossible to defeat her without Shang Bu Huan to aid him.
I Guess I Became the Mother of the Great Demon King's 10 Children in Another World
- Chained by Fashion: The chains that were used on Delnier during her imprisonment can't be remove since it been enchanted to seal away her powers. After she was freed by her son and his children, she doesn't mind wearing her chains around her wrists as accessories.
- Dispel Magic: Queen Ciel has ability to dispel any magic abilities or weapons in her presence since she dislike fighting. In reality, another reason use this is ability is because it will prevent them using their magic powers to stop her evil plans to start a war.
- Woman Scorned: Delnier believed her husband Shinichiro betrayed her and hand her over to human's army to be captured and imprison for many years. She was planning to get revenge on him after she was freed from her prison until Akari manages to clear this misunderstanding by revealing that her husband was actually searching for a sacred flower from the World Tree to give to her. She doesn't hate Shinichiro anymore and decides to search him at the World Tree with her family.
Edited by Stardust120 on Jun 24th 2021 at 11:12:50 AM
Orror: You forgot to capitalize the word "a" in Transformation Is a Free Action. Otherwise, your English is good (but your formatting is off).
Thank you. Here are the example from yesterday. It is for Legends of Runeterra.
- Supernatural Fear Inducer:
- The Fearsome keyword prevents cards with two or less Power from blocking Fearsome cards, leaving the Nexus vulnerable to their attacks. The keyword is associated with the Shadow Isles, Noxus, Bilgewater, and Shurima.
- Some cards are capable of granting Fearsome to their allies. For example, Cithria the Bold
grants Fearsome and an additional Health and Power to her allies when she attacks. Another example is Terror of the Tides
, whose effects grant its Sea Monster allies with Fearsome and lower the opponent's cards' Power by 2 when it attacks to reduce their chances of blocking a powerful tide of sea monsters.
- Upon leveling up, Elise grants all of her spiders both Fearsome and Challenger. As a result, the spiders can grab the opponent's high-powered cards to divert them while their weak cards can do nothing to stop Elise and her spider minions from directly attacking the Nexus.

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Aiko
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Edited by Avenger09 on Jun 24th 2021 at 9:49:36 AM