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openBlindfolded Trip Live Action TV
openCharacter title Live Action TV
Law & Order has an episode called "Judge Dread". This episode starts with someone attempting to kill a judge with this nickname, and get killed in the attempt. The rest of the episode is about the question of who hired this shooter and why. Is there a trope for the episode title?
resolved Good for the Actor, Bad for the Character Live Action TV
A character in a TV show keeps experiencing failure because if he succeded, it'd mean the character would be written off, or the show would end. I'm thinking in particular about the last episode of Community^ where Annie imagines a future where she fails at her dream FBI job to move back to Greendale (for what is clearly supposed to represent a seventh season of the show), meaning the character would still be on the show, but people would feel bad for her.
Or, it could be the inverse - something's bad for the actor, but good for the character - an actor gets unceremoniously fired, and the character is Put On A Bus To Heaven and given a happy ending offscreen.
openDistrustful groups Live Action TV
Are there any tropes for groups where one of the group's defining characteristics is distrust between participants?
For example, mutually wary co-conspirators (common in works about organized crime).
Thank you for looking into this.
openEveryone ignores a character who notices something important Live Action TV
I have memories of this but can’t place it:
Character 1: (notices or figures out something important) “guys…”
Other characters: keep talking
Character 1: “guys…”
Other characters: keep talking
Character 1: (unusually loud/assertive for them) “GUYS!!”
Everyone shuts up, and they explain…
openFaked insanity Live Action TV
A person hears/reads about some psychological problem, and then pretends to have had it in an Insanity Defense.
Edited by Someone1981openparental version of I want my beloved to be happy Live Action TV
Looking for the name of a trope wherein a parent wants their child to be happy. In the series page I'm creating, the protagonist's mother doesn't want her son to work in the mines (because her husband/his father died there). Wondering what the correct trope for this is. Thanks
openUse a crime to hide your own Live Action TV
A pair of robbers robs 600$ from a store. The store clerk then steels an additional 600$ from the safe, and claims that the robbers took 1200$.
openInsult someone to defend them in court Live Action TV
At a hearing intended to determine if the prosecutor had known that a specific accomplice was murdered by his partner, a police detective testifies that, given what he (the detective) had said, it should be obvious to a detective that the partner had murdered the accomplice. He then proceeds to say that many prosecutors are too stupid to make that logical conclusion.
openScared witness Live Action TV
A witness knows the answer to a question he/she is being asked, but is afraid to answer truthfully. Such a witness may even lie on the witness stand, as the risk (real or perceived) for telling the truth is higher than going to prison for purgery. Frequently the statement would help bring down some criminal gang.
openClaim doesn't match timeline Live Action TV
A murderer of a baby did so by taking pesticide from the room of the person who was caring for the baby, and adding it to the baby's food. What ultimately gave him away is that he claimed not to be in the house for a week before the murder, and to have seen the pesticide (there's no case of I Never Said It Was Poison, as the pesticide information was already out before this statement was made), yet the pesticide had only been bought the day before the murder.
openThe First Law of Monster Geography Live Action TV
Just like closer locations are more familiar to characters than distant locations, creatures from closer places are less scary and/or powerful than creatures from distant places. This is a Justified Trope because it takes more time to reach those regions, so heroes can follow the Sorting Algorithm of Evil and get stronger by the time they reach them.
For example, in Star Trek, aliens from the Alpha Quadrant are the comparatively humanoid Klingons and Romulans, while at the Delta Quadrant we have the more dangerous Borg and Species 8472. In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Westeros and Essos are home to more recognizable monsters like dragons and giants, while Sothoyros holds weirder creatures like firewyrms and giant turtles.
openBuy grades Live Action TV
During the investigation of a case, the police find out that a teacher was receiving money from students in return for getting good grades. The victim was murdered by one of the students in question, because she discovered this.
openRacist defense Live Action TV
In a murder trial, the primary defense is that the alternative suspect (who the defendant is accusing of the crime), the person who gave the alternative suspect his alibi, and a police officer with access to the major evidence are all Jews.
openMurder of a teacher Live Action TV
A student in a school murders a teacher who works there.
openKidnapping ends in death Live Action TV
A person attempts to kidnap a child, but the child resists and ultimately ends up dead.
openKidnapped for other parent Live Action TV
One of a divorced couple hires a third party to kidnap a child of the couple, who the other parent has legal custody of.
openBottle collector Live Action TV
A person who collects bottles that other people have discarded, in order to get money for returning them.
openMurder, true motive discovered later Live Action TV
A murder takes place on screen with an apparently obvious motive (Mama Bear/Outliving One's Offspring combo). The true motive is discovered later in the episode.
Edited by Someone1981