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From page 670 @Minorica

...wrestlers' old stuff and selecting which stuff should be gotten rid off.

...punish Zero. This is because Melody's mother has...leans more into...

Edited by Arivne on Jan 18th 2022 at 8:17:41 AM

From page 670 @Donquill

The city of Gotham turns out to be sapient.

...that much, <- comma since...written off the ghost attacks...town [[delete:off]] as...

The modern world is the apparent result of what's left after going through thousands of years of rebuilding.

Yusei Exalts, <- comma while nearly drowning in the process of saving Rally from the sinking boat.

Kozue and Miwa first see Ageha when she's standing on the edge of a bridge, and presume that she's going to jump.

Thanks.

@ Psych

• In "He Dead," there's the way that a Spoiled Brat complains about his father "Taking away my Porsche, making me get a job, selling my tiger."
  • Shawn and Gus repeatedly piss off their wealthy client enough that they get chased off the estate by some Angry Guard Dogs. The second time, Shawn has just assured the Claytons that he's found a new suspect and everyone in their family has been exonerated. Then, it turns out the new suspect is the estranged White Sheep of the family. Their client gives a Death Glare, and when Shawn nervously glances at Gus for support, his partner has already pulled a Stealth Hi/Bye.
• "Bollywood Homicide"
  • Shawn's client repeatedly slams the door in his face out of exasperation for his earlier laziness preventing him from taking the case seriously.
  • Shawn causes the police to suspect his client's brother and gets chewed out for it. Shawn angrily and haughtily lists all of the things he did to find evidence exonerating the brother, but ends by saying that he also got him arrested in the first place.
  • During the middle of Shawn's summation, a holy man abruptly walks by and tosses paint on him.
  • Shawn and Gus's reaction to the Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce while Abigail is able to down it with no trouble.

• Even Evil Has Standards: The three women flinch and two of them cover their ears when they think they hear Batman and Robin screaming from Harry's Conveyor Belt o' Doom.
• Tomboyish Ponytail: Okie Annie is a female gunfighter who has a ponytail tied back with a pink ribbon.

@ Batman (1966)

• Similarly, in the climax of his season 2 appearance, Shame is handily beating Robin until Batman intervenes.

• In "It's How You Play the Game," Shame and his gang wound Robin in the foot while shooting at the heroes, forcing them to retreat (although Hollywood Healing allows for a near-instantaneous recovery). Seeing the villains avert A-Team Firing for one of the only times in the franchise is quite startling.

• In The Dragon Business by Kevin J. Anderson, a princess is seemingly abducted by a dragon and some Monster Protection Racket types are told that dozens of nobles in town for a wedding have saddled their horses and left. In a nice Bait-and-Switch Comment moment, it's built up as if they've gone to rescue the maiden, then it's clarified that they've cowardly fled the kingdom.

• Several slimy Mesan officials hiding in a bunker are herded out with the gas that they've spent centuries using on slaves and end up vomiting on each other as they fly through a narrow corridor. The military and government officials who are shown the surveillance video have a hard time stopping themselves from laughing.

• Maya being reunited with her childhood best friend, who seemingly escaped being turned into stone with the rest of their village, only to discover that the girl is an imposter.

• Just Here for Godzilla:
  • Plenty of people don't like the heroes (save maybe Merrick) or the premise, but are still drawn in by the villains: Creepy Awesome Complete Monster Master Org, Jindrax and Toxica (for their hilarious Butt-Monkey moments and cute Minion Shipping), and Noble Demon Zen-Aku.
  • The heroes Animal-Themed Fighting Style is another thing that some fans enjoy.

• Chekhov's Gun: Jimmy picks up a brochure for a gun in Harry's store and ends up using the flowery ad as the opening of an impromptu sermon that he's forced to give in front of a crowd.
• Helping Granny Cross the Street: Escaped convicts Ned and Jimmy insist on helping Mrs. Blair carry some groceries from the Canadian side of the border to provide themselves with an excuse to cross it. This gets foiled when the sheriff and his chief deputy insist on sending one of their men with her to save the two supposed priests the trouble.
• I'm a Man; I Can't Help It: Downplayed. The chief deputy cheats on his wife with Molly the local prostitute whenever his duties take him away from his wife and near Molly's house for prolonged periods of time. He blames this on the "constant state of temptation", but clearly agonizes over it due to his religious beliefs and blames himself for dragging Molly into sinful activities rather than blaming her for enticing him into them. Molly finds the whole thing annoying (he apparently calls himself "filthy" and "swine" while they're having sex) and wishes that he'd just stop visiting her or stop making such a big deal about it.
• Impersonation-Exclusive Character: Renowned theologians Fr.'s Brown and Riley never arrive for the ceremony, for unexplained reasons, allowing Ned and Jimmy to impersonate them for the whole film.
• Made of Iron: Bobby is shot in the stomach during his attempts to cross the border and the people on the scene are initially unsure whether he'll even survive long enough to be sent to the electric chair. Nonetheless, he recovers enough to break out of the jail cell he's placed in and try to cross the border a second time with little visible difficulty.
• Never Mess with Granny: The elderly local Mrs. Blair pulls a shotgun on Ned and Jimmy when they first approach her on the side of the road.
• Sure, Let's Go with That: When Jimmy introduces himself and Ned to Mrs. Blair with a biblical quote about being kind to strangers, she asks if they're priests in town for a major ceremony. Ned and Jimmy quickly say that they are.

Edited by Melinda on Jan 19th 2022 at 7:09:53 AM

For Trivia.Legacies:

• Promoted Fanboy: Most of the younger cast but in particular Kaylee Bryant. Bryant once revealed that she became a huge fan when she binged the first five seasons of The Vampire Diaries when she was fifteen and from there went on to watch the rest of the series and the other series in The Vampire Diaries Universe, The Originals. She also described joining the cast of this show and being able to walk onto the set of the old Salvator Mansion as a dream come true and is not afraid to fangirl about the franchise in interviews.

Any corrections?

For It's a Kid's World YMMV page:

Catharsis Factor: After all the atrocities he has committed, seeing Chester being devoured alive by bats is very satisfying.

Honest Trailers 2022 Episodes

Folder: Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach

• Starring... Intensive Care Hare (Vanny), You Don't Have to Put On That Red Light (Roxanne Wolf), Gex Enter the Gecko (Montgomery Gator), Chick Magnet (Glamrock Chica), and Freddy Mercury (Glamrock Freddy)
• "Oh hey, if we're gonna keep switching up the genres and keep making the games not-scary, I vote for FNAF Tactics."

Edit: Nevermind wrong thread. Sorry.

Edited by Bullman on Jan 18th 2022 at 3:17:29 AM

Hi guys. It's me again. Let's have another try.

Character tropes for Despair Island:

• Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: In canon, it's mentioned that Harold's unnamed little sister thinks that he is "weird". Here, Harold's little sister Carrie is shown to love him, even asking him when he is gonna come back so he can be the "dragon" for their mother to rescue her.
• Stop Being Stereotypical: He doesn't like Duncan constantly referring to Ezekiel as "Preachy" due to his religion and calls Duncan out for doing it.

A Headscratcher for Sing 2:

• During the show, why is Meena allowed to break character to talk to Alfonso? Yeah, his presence helped her to kiss Darius and not ruin the performance, but it's out of place to talk to people while in the middle of the performance. Doesn't it ruin the show?

Edited by ElJuaco on Jan 18th 2022 at 1:34:19 AM

For the film chaos (2005). I'm making a page for it.

• Cowboy Cop: Detective Quentin Connors is a ruthless police offer who bends the law and is prepared to go to any length to uphold it. His gungho tendencies with his partner led to the death of a hostage and this results in him becoming a Dirty Cop and bank robber after the disgrace.

• Dirty Cop: Detective Quentin Connors is a police officer who has secretly become a bank robber and thief and is using his position to help with his crimes.

• Kansas City Shuffle: A bank is taken, hostage but no money is taken. This seems to instead be a strike back against a Saudi prince who had a personal vault in the bank but in reality that is a misdirection as well. The true reason for the robbery is to install a computer virus into the system in order to siphon off funds from the bank.

For Wrestle Angels:

• Ascended Meme: Wrestle Angels 2 spawned a meme called "来島さんじゃ勝ってない" ("You Can't Win with Kishima-San" in Japanese) among the fanbase, as they interpreted Megumi Mutou's speech as "You cannot win the match if you use Bomber Kishima in the tag match" ^note In the actual game, Megumi mutters that not even Toshimi Minami or Bomber Kishima can win against both Beauty Ichigaya and Jena Megalight, right after Mighty Yukiko is defeated with both of her legs being broken due to their combined attacks in the preliminary tag match. This is later acknowledged by both Success and Tryfirst in a form of Victory Quote in Survivor 2.
  Bomber Kishima: What do you think? I've proven that even I can win!

Edited by Minorica on Jan 19th 2022 at 11:56:01 PM

Thank you Arivne.

@Melinda

The second time, Shawn has just assured the Claytons that he's found...

During the middle of Shawn's summation, a holy man abruptly walks by and...

Shawn and Gus's reaction to the Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce...

They just spray her with amnesia gas instead.

...then it's clarified that they've cowardly fled the kingdom.

Plenty of people don't like the heroes (save maybe Merrick) or the premise, <- comma but...

...local local prostitute...temptation", <- comma but is clearly...

...survive long enough to be sent to the electric chair.

The elderly local Mrs. Blair pulls a shotgun...

@Bullman

Most of the younger cast, <- comma but in particular Kaylee Bryant.

@Dr Scavenge 27

I don't see anything wrong with the English in that example.

@kawaiineko333

There really isn't any English to correct in those examples.

@ElJuaco

...so he can be the "dragon" for their mother to rescue her from.

@miraculous

...police officer who bends the law and is prepared to go to any length to uphold it. His gung ho tendencies with his partner lead to...

^ If he bends the law, he really isn't upholding it.

A bank is taken, hostage but no money is taken.

^ A bank what is taken hostage? A teller? A customer?

^ Did you mean to write "A bank is robbed, but..." or "A bank is taken over, but..."?

This seems to instead be targeted against...who has a...bank, <- comma but in reality that is misdirection as well.

Edited by Arivne on Jan 19th 2022 at 9:44:21 AM

@Minorica

Wrestle Angels 2 spawned a...fanbase, <- comma as...defeated with both of her legs being broken...Tryfirst <- no comma in...

Thanks Arivne.

@ I Will Punish Your Friend for Your Failure

• First Family by David Baldacci begins with a kidnapping where one of the kidnappers, Darryl, accidentally kills a young girl's mother, to the outrage of their Tragic Villain boss, Darryl's father Sam. Due to their relationship, Sam can't bring himself to kill Darryl, but he feels that he has to kill someone over what happened, and so, despite his son's pleas, he shoots the man who accompanied Darryl on the kidnapping.

@ I Never Told You My Name

• Batman (1966): In "The Bookworm Turns", Batman and Robin realize that a woman is a Decoy Damsel and use truth serum to find out her identity and the plans of her employer. Then, they use amnesia gas to make her forget what just happened so that they can take the villain by surprise. Unfortunately, she realizes that they're wise to the deception when Robin dresses her by name, even though she doesn't remember telling him her name.

• Hero of Another Story: At the beginning of the story, two of Mitch's coworkers, Kozinski and Hodge, are trying to escape from the firm's grasp and are scheming to help the FBI bring down the Amoral Attorneys. This gets them killed before they can appear onscreen.
• Thrown from the Zeppelin: Lawyers who've been working at Bendini, Lambert & Locke for a few years find themselves being summoned to a private meeting with the firm's partners, who tell them that the firm engages in tax fraud and money laundering for The Mafia. In fifty years, only two lawyers (three in the book) have ever dared to quit. All of them promptly learned the meaning of the phrase Make It Look Like an Accident the hard way (as did two others who tried to go to the FBI).
• What Happened to the Mouse?: In the book, it's mentioned that four other lawyers besides Mitch are currently uninvolved in any of the firm's criminal activity. As it becomes clearer that the authorities are snooping around, the partners debate about whether or not to fire the lawyers to eliminate a security risk, but it's never revealed whether they do so or whether the four get caught up in the FBI investigation despite their innocence.

• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Cath can feel underused, especially given the film's long run-time. She never seems to find out that her husband killed her father and married her for her money, and her wartime friendship with Lady Ashley (despite the other woman's enmity with Cath's husband) only gets a few short scenes.

• Cool Big Bro: Julien's brother is usually patient and cordial toward him and shares some of his contraband with him.
• Draft Dodging: Joseph points out how Moreau, the exercise instructor and dorm monitor, is making himself scarce when the authorities show up looking for draft dodgers, although it's later suggested that he may be a Resistance fighter or a Jewish refugee in addition to or instead of being a draft dodger.
• Flat Character: Dupre, who gets almost no screen time or characteristics, unlike his fellow Jewish students, and isn't even seen being captured onscreen.
• Foreshadowing: Jean declines another boy's offer of the last piece of pork during an early cafeteria scene. He's a disguised Jewish refugee.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: The cook, Mme. Perrin, probably didn't realize that making a scene and getting Joseph fired for stealing lard would cause him to spitefully summon the authorities and get her employer and three Jewish students sent to concentration camps.
• We Used to Be Friends: Julien and Joseph, his former black market friend, at the end. Joseph tells a Gestapo soldier not to bother Julien and offers him a cigarette, but Julien only stares in horror as he realizes that Joseph sold out Pere Jean and the Jewish students, and Joseph quickly gets defensive and accuses Julien of being Holier Than Thou.

• The stilt jousting match between "Negus" LaFarge and Lavrion at recess.
• Julien outrunning the other team and finding the treasure during the flag football/treasure hunt game, although Mood Whiplash kicks in once he realizes that he got lost in the process.
• Pere Jean's sermon denouncing those who are selfish and greedy during the occupation.
• The restaurant scene where two thuggish French militia collaborators try to expel a Jewish patron. The headwaiter refuses to, saying that the man has been a customer for twenty years. When the militiamen threaten to revoke his permits, Julien's brother calls them collaborators. They angrily turn their attention to him and many (although not all) of the other customers voice support for the boy and the Jewish customer. This culminates in a German pilot (a young man with an Iron Cross hanging around his neck) ordering the militiamen out of the restaurant.
• Moreau tries to protect Negus and get him to safety rather than merely saving himself as the Gestapo raid the school.
• Julien lies to two Gestapo Mooks in an effort to keep them from finding Negus and then warns Moreau to flee before the nurse can sell him out. Two other students in the infirmary also remain silent and don't betray the fugitives' hiding place.
• Pere Jean hiding the three Jewish students in the first place, despite the risks involved, which end up being realized in the worst possible way when he's caught.

• When Johnny's students first suggest that they recruit girls for their dojo, he asks if any of them know any girls, at which point all of them awkwardly look away before Devon is brought up.

Edited by Melinda on Jan 20th 2022 at 10:17:50 AM

For TLP Proposal:
Trope Name: Human Jungle Gym
Laconic: Smaller and younger people playing/hanging out with a (usually) large person and treating them like a jungle gym.
Description:
Children are playful, so they often manage to use anything or anyone as a playground. Human Jungle Gym is where children play by hanging onto or clinging to the arms or legs of another person (usually an adult) who is larger than they are. Common human jungle gyms are parental figures, big and strong people, etc. If the aforementioned person is reluctant, Hilarity Ensues. This trope often justifies that those people who become human jungle gyms are friends to all (or loves) children or to show that Children Are Innocent. Compare Clingy Child (a child who is always near or holding the arms or legs of someone they trust, due their compassion, fear or shyness), which may overlap. Contrast Would Hurt a Child.

Edited by Minorica on Jan 22nd 2022 at 8:54:42 PM

@Melinda

...realizes that they're wise to the deception when Robin dresses her by name, <- comma even...

At the beginning of the story, two of Mitch's coworkers, Kozinski and Hodge, <- comma are...

...the partners debate about whether or not to fire the lawyers to eliminate a security risk...

...and isn't even seen being captured onscreen. <- square brackets <- period

Pere Jean's sermon during the occupation denouncing those who are selfish and greedy.

^ The way you wrote this, he was only denouncing those who are selfish and greedy during the occupation, not those who are selfish and greedy at any time.

The restaurant scene...expel a Jewish patron.

...don't betray the fugitives' hiding place.

...despite the risks involved, and which end up...

Edited by Arivne on Jan 20th 2022 at 7:52:56 AM

@Minorica

Smaller and younger people playing/hanging out with a (usually) large person and treating them like a jungle gym.

Children are playful, so they often manage to use anything or anyone as a playground. Human Jungle Gym is the moment where children play by hanging onto or clinging to the arms or legs of another person (usually an adult) who is larger than they are. Common human jungle gyms are parental figures, <- comma or any big and strong people, etc.

Edited by Arivne on Jan 20th 2022 at 7:52:34 AM

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S23E11 "Burning with Rage Forever"

• Coming-Out Story: The end of the episode has Noah reveal to Benson he's bisexual.
• Kids Are Cruel: The episode starts with a kid from Noah's school, Hudson, putting him in a dog cage and making him wear a collar while filming it on his phone. Noah draws the line at eating dog food. The end of the episode has Noah reveal he's the school bully, having gone after a kid named Corey whose pronouns are they/them.

Thanks. Actually for the sermon example, the impression I got of the scene was that the priest was in fact calling out people who are being greedy and selfish during the occupation and not just in general with that specific sermon, so I think that my original version was correct.

@ Power Rangers Ninja Storm

• Tori fighting a bunch of Kelzaks while unmorphed in "I Love Lothor." She almost succeeds in defeating them and escaping and when they do capture her and tie her up, she undoes her bonds with her teeth.
  • Later in that episode, Blake (who's taken a love potion to make him fall for Tori) takes the full force of an alien blaster barrage to shield Tori and doesn't even get knocked off his feet. The cheesy The Power of Love comment that follows does little to undermine the awesomeness.
• Sensei Watanabe has a fancy Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy vibe as he wipes the floor with a bunch of Kelzaks after switching bodies with Shane. He then proceeds to give the Monster of the Week a Curb-Stomp Battle almost single-handedly.

• When Tori tells Sensei that Lothor is trying to brainwash people with their television sets, Lothor comments that "He's too late."

• He's Just Hiding: Given how out-of-focus Choobo is when he gets taken out in the finale, many fans believe that he only got knocked down and survived.
• Moe: Marah, due to her happy-go-lucky nature, Open Mouth, Insert Foot tendencies, and how she has more moments of emotional vulnerability than the average villain in the franchise.

• He's Just Hiding: Some fans like to hope that Jinxer (and maybe even the Batling Mooks who accompany him in stealing the Omega Megazord) survive the robot's destruction in the finale.

• Girlish Pigtails: Jan is normally calm and pleasant-natured despite her criminal temperament and has pigtails tied with bandanas.
• Villains Out Shopping: Annie spends a while goofing off and pretending to play a self-playing piano while Shame's gang is laying low in a ghost town.

• Adaptational Nice Guy: Pre-werewolf bite Ted. In the book, he made his girlfriend Marjorie abandon her career as a photojournalist after they got together, but in the film, they both maintain careers throughout their relationship.
• Adaptational Villainy:
  • In the book, Ted only kills one person as a werewolf, while in the film, he amasses a much larger bodycount. He also provokes Thor to attack him in the film, while Thor does that without being provoked in the book due to realizing that Ted will threaten the family and that killing or badly injuring him is the only way to remove the threat.
  • The salesman never tries to kill Thor in the book.
• Death by Adaptation:
  • The salesman who tries to fake being attacked by Thor and sue the family leaves in humiliation after his scam is exposed and documented (with a photograph of his unhurt leg and a statement he's forced to sign) in the book. In the film, he comes back for revenge and is killed by the werewolf.
  • Ted kills the werewolf that bites him and kills Marjorie, while the book implies that the beast escaped its encounter with him.

• The Rat King is as impressive as he is creepy in "I Monster", given the way he stealthily follows the Turtles and Casey and then fights all of them at once while displaying skill and ferocity that even the Shredder might have been impressed by.

• Catharsis Factor: Racist Rabble Rouser Owen Abercrombie getting painfully disarmed and then hauled off by the police when he brandishes a gun at an African-American stockbroker.

• Badass Bystander: In "Death Shall Overcome," the exposed murderer flees through the halls of the New York Stock Exchange and is overpowered by an unnamed U.S. Steel specialist who takes in how he's running from the cops.
  U.S. Steel Specialist: My boy, I don't know why they want you, but...
  With that, he pivoted and landed a competent rabbit punch. He followed this up with a short, powerful jab. The murderer folded. He did not slump to the ground since he was held erect by the crushed tangle surrounding him. The U.S. Steel specialist might be sixty and overweight, but he had not boxed at Dartmouth for nothing.

• Badass Boast: Rourke gets one after arriving at the police station.
  Frank Hill: New York? How the Hell'd you get all the way down [to Dallas] then, huh?
  Rourke: I drove.
  Background survivor: All by yourself?
  Harker: Wait a second, you've been on your own ever since the plague started?
  Rourke: Yeah. Hunting.
  Dugan: Fuck you! Hunting them? What are you gonna do, kill 'em all? There's millions of those goddamned things out there.
  Rourke: Yeah, well there's a lot less of 'em from here to the Bronx, asshole.
• Better to Die than Be Killed: After zombies surround Dugan and bite Earnesta during separate attacks, both of the latter put guns to their heads and pull the triggers as the camera cuts away.
• Vasquez Always Dies: There are two female combatants in the group of survivors. Sam comes across as The Chick, was studying to be a lawyer before the Zombie Apocalypse, has some UST with The Hero, and while she does help fight zombies and marauders, she's not the best shot out of the group. Earnesta is a more skilled gunfighter, and she and her husband have a blue-collar look to them. The trope is ultimately played straight when Earnesta is bitten and shoots herself, while Sam survives.

• Arab Oil Sheikh: Proof features an unnamed oil-rich Arabian prince interested in horse races. The narrator (a bartender) avoids interacting with him due to expecting that the Sheikh will express virulent disapproval of his work in the alcohol business. Other characters who do interact with the Sheikh describe him as a Fat Bastard and Straw Misogynist who looks down on everyone and is so paranoid about assassination that he makes his three armed bodyguards stand at his side in the dentist's office. He dies in a random car accident early in the book.

• The Thundercats fighting a whole horde of mutants (as opposed to just the usual trio) at the end of the pilot. Cheetara and the twins have some action scenes that are cool enough to be included in the opening theme song for the rest of the show.

• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: CJ's decision to volunteer her uncle's cabin for Michelle's bachelorette party has the unfortunate and unforeseen side effect of putting the girls in the same neighborhood as a homicidal Bigfoot-creature, which seems more enticed than repelled by the noise from their celebration.

@ Power Rangers Samurai

• Jayden and Lauren's reunion, and how enthusiastic everyone else is about welcoming her to the team even before they realize what's going on. Sadly, this is quickly undercut by the reveal that Lauren is replacing Jayden rather than acting as the Sixth Ranger, causing people to behave more coldly to her.

Edited by Melinda on Jan 21st 2022 at 6:55:12 AM