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openRhyming nickname Live Action TV
2 examples from the same episode:
- The episode calls the obvious antagonist "Dale the Whale". (Dale is his actual first name and he is extremely fat.)
- Dale calls the protagonist "defective detective".
resolved When someone suddenly looks more attractive Live Action TV
A woman removes her glasses and suddenly becoming gorgeous in the eyes of her love interest.
openDerogatory nickname Live Action TV
An extremely fat person named Dale has the nickname "Dale the Whale"
Edited by Someone1981resolved Experiment on orphans, so no one will care Live Action TV
A Deadly Doctor wants to do illegal experiments for AIDS treatment. In order to minimize the risk that he will be stopped, he uses orphans.
openIntentionally put someone in a position where they are likely to kill Live Action TV
A girl was raped by her father's friend when she was 8. Now an adult, she expresses her wish to kill him. A producer of an In-Universe TV show gives her a hunting knife and sends her, alone, to confront her rapist. She does, indeed, kill him.
openKeep my girl out of it Live Action TV
A man is murdered. An 8-year-old neighbor hears the man screaming, opens her front door and sees the murderer escaping. Her father, when questioned by the police, says that she had been asleep at the time, and she—having been told by her father what to say—agrees. When the police figure this out and confront him, he says that he did this so she would be kept out of the case.
Edited by Someone1981openStatusupdate: OMG! Live Action TV
Hi all, I'm looking to find the trope where in TV or film a character posts statuses about their mood - as a form of inner monologue/voice-over/exposition. Like: "status update: SO BUMMED :(". Mostly posted on a fictional social media and with a weird device/phone, as in Icarly.
openMurder a name Live Action TV
Multiple individuals with the same name are murdered in a single day. Evidence is clear that it was the same killer.
- In Monk episode "Mr. Munk and the Three Julies", two women named Julie Teeger are murdered. Natalie Teeger, who also has a daughter named Julie, becomes extremely protective of her daughter, including stopping the daughter's driving test. Turns out this was unnecessary—the husband of one Julie murdered his wife, and murdered the other because the mailman got the two of them confused, and the second Julie had evidence which would prove the husband guilty.
- In Law & Order episode "Criminal Law", three women named Sylvia Rossi are murdered. Turns out that a criminal who was worried about being convicted had a hitman murder several people including Sylvia Rossi, but didn't specify which Sylvia Rossi he wanted killed.
openDesecrating a religious book Live Action TV
A person enters a house of worship (not of his own religion), picks up a holy book, and rips out the pages.
openNo Title Live Action TV
is there a trope or tropes for a good guy seemingly being forced to work for the bad guys maybe under threat of death but he later reveals to the other good guys he is the bad guy leader and lied about being forced so they wont expect him
Edited by BzrkfayzopenKill the person who reported you Live Action TV
A person is found murdered. It later turns out that he had reported an Abusive Parent to the authorities, and was probably murdered by that parent.
openWhen It Doesn't Make Sense That Someone Claims Not To Know Something Live Action TV
Someone says that something revealed before him is completely unknown to him and a complete surprise, and he isn't lying, despite the fact that he was around when that something occurred and it would be impossible for him to be ignorant about it.
openHide the horse's quality Live Action TV
A person embezzled 3 million dollars in order to buy a race horse. In order to hide this fact, he intentionally caused the horse to underperform for a while.
resolved Effective life sentence Live Action TV
A person is convicted of several crimes, not one of which comes with a life sentence. However, due to the number of these crimes, he's sentenced to 240 years in prison.
openConvicted because of this, but not for this Live Action TV
A healthy child dies of the flu. Investigation turns up that he and 18 others died because they got fake vaccines. The creator of these vaccines is ultimately tried for 16 of those 18, but not this child, and is convincted.
Edited by Someone1981openCeltic Second Sight Live Action TV
Is there a trope for characters getting premotions or visions of the future being particularly associated with Celtic culture e.g. a work set in Oireland featuring a wise old crone who claims to have "the second sight"?
openlets get married now Wedding trope Live Action TV
this must be a trope, when two characters that are engaged to eachother don't want to wait for their already planned wedding and decide to go down to city Hall now and get married. I've mostly seen it in sitcoms, I think the big bang theory had it with one of the pairs
resolved you have to overcome a fatal flaw to fight the villain at hand Live Action TV
this is more of a "do we have this trope" but I think it happens in Power Rangers a lot and it's like Die or Fly but without gaining super powers
Edit: the trope I was originally describing was Crisis Makes Perfect but after looking at it I realized I was looking for a more broad "you have to get over a Fatal Flaw in order to fight a villain"
Edited by Wild-Starfishresolved No divorce? Pay with your life Live Action TV
A particular Jewish woman wanted a divorce. Unfortunately, under the religious rules, only the husband can grant it to her; if he refuses—which he did—she remains married to him for the rest of his life. (Note that this is not Artistic License – Religion.) Once she realized that no pressure would change his mind, she payed to have him murdered.
Edited by Someone1981
A person says that something he did or said in the past isn't his fault, it's the fault of some medication he was taking at the time.