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open"two dogs strive for a bone, a third runs away with it" Print Comic
Is there a trope for such phrase, when a third party is oppurtunist and wins the game, and the rest looses?
"The Smerfolymippic Games" used this, but I don't think me giving examples is necessary.
openJustice League Parodies Print Comic
So, there are tropes for parodies of characters within the Justice League, such as Captain Fishman, Superman Substitute, and Batman Parody, but what about a parody of the League as a whole? The Seven from The Boys (2019) and its comic are obvious examples, as are the Squadron Supreme from Marvel Comics, and I'm like 80% sure The Fairly OddParents! had a parody called "Power Pals" or something of the sort? Does this seem trope-worthy? Maybe something under a title like "A Justice League of Our Own"?
Edited by PhyrexianAjani95openWhat is the trope where something said behind someone's back is repeated by a child in front of them Print Comic
Not in Front of the Kid covers swear words but what trope covers more G-Rated insults that another person doesn't want repeated in front of another person when a kid says it? This is a very common gag is the US Dennis The Menace strip but I'm not sure what trope that fits.
openBlack Hole Stomach Print Comic
A character's blessed with a metabolism that allows him to be a Big Eater and not gain weight.
Usually a comedy trope that highlights the character as a glutton without worrying about the consequences, making other people jealous of this "power" (especially if we're talking about a woman with an attractive lean figure).
But, also a form of Wish Fulfilment where characters will indulge in junk food because that's cool and modern, but everyone on TV is attractive regardless. "Friends" Rent Control applied to food.
openPeople sit on logs Print Comic
In a representation of their rustic innocence and relationship with nature, people in Arcadia use a fallen log as a makeshift bench. When it comes to dates, it can also mean isolation from other people (and privacy), as well as showing couples getting more acquainted by sitting closer and closer to each other with each passing date.
open"He's sure to win because he's the main character!" Print Comic
I'm making the page for the crossover comic between BoBoiBoy Galaxy and Lawak Kampus, there may be more than one query for this work.
Aditas says that Vanness is sure to win the football game because the latter is the main character of Lawak Kampus. I wouldn't think this to be Plot Armor, which is for (typically) main characters being most likely to have their life preserved.
If nothing goes for this, good old Breaking the Fourth Wall will do it.
openSlow burn roaring rampage of revenge Print Comic
During WWI a British corporal is wrongly shot at dawn for cowardice. During the interbellum, a soldier whose life he saved seeks revenge for this by killing the officers present at the corporal's court-martial.
openMarvel Silver Age Title Parody/Homage Print Comic
The often boisterous and grandiose titles used for superhero comics issues (and parodies thereof), usually associated with copy by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, who were famous for advertising their comics as epic sagas (including by the very use of the word "saga"). For instance:
- The Menace of (Supervillain)!
- Enter... (Supervillain)!
- The Coming of (Supervillain)!
- Lo, There Shall be a(n) X!
- The Merciless (Supervillain)!
- A (Supervillain) Rises!
- A (Supervillain) Walks Among Us!
- The Mysterious (Supervillain)!
- Man or (Superhero name)?
- The Dreaded (Supervillain)!
- Behold! A (mysterious object or creature)!
- In the Clutches of (Supervillain)!
- Beware the (Supervillain)!
- The Coming of (Supervillain)!
- The (Startling) Saga of (Superhero)!
- When Strikes the (Supervillain)!
- Where Strikes the (Supervillain)!
- This Man... This (creature the superhero is based on)!
- Where Lurks the (Supervillain)?
- His Mission: X!
- Be This the End of (Superhero)?
- (Superhero) No More!
- At the Mercy of (Supervillain)!
- (Superhero), X! (Where X is killer, slave, villain, monster, et cetera)
- The Power of...(Supervillain)!
- The Man Called...(Supervillain)!
- Lo, this (Supervillain)!
- If this be/Be This X?
And so on...
openThe funnies pages Print Comic
A style of golden era comic (usually revolving around small, cute cartoon animals) where it complies a bunch of comedy one shot comics into one book. Keyword is "funnies".
openMusic Notes of Calmness Print Comic
Music notes used around a character to denote that they're calm, happy, or relaxed. Primarily a comic strip trope — for example, in Garfield: His 9 Lives, in the prehistoric chapter, Garfield is shown with music notes around him before the caveman attempts to tame him, to indicate that he's relaxed.
Edited by EthanLacopenThe hero gets beaten up on their first crimefighting outing Print Comic
A trope where the hero goes after a gang of criminals or evildoers for the first time, and ends up getting severely beaten up due to their inexperience. Like Hank's first time as the Golden Man of Bravery in The Shadow Hero, where he tries to save who he perceives to be a helpless, innocent woman from a gang of thugs, but ends up getting stomped and has to be rescued by the woman he thought he was saving.
openNo Stacked Buffs Print Comic
By slamming their power rings together TNT and Dan the Dyna-mite can create a small explosion which gives them superpowers for a brief time.
They cannot slam their rings together over and over to get more powerful, nor can they slam their rings together more than once a day.
Therefore they cannot slam a stack, unless it's of Pringles.
open"Kill them now or never!" Print Comic
This is when the villian is captured or weakened and the side characters beg the hero to kill the villain.
Happened in One-Punch Man Webcomic
And in the Invincible #60, where his brother begged to kill a villain too.
The hero usually either refuses to do so or really thinks about it.
openTropes about metaphycial seperation? Print Comic
Fantastic Four (2022): Reed Richards had plunged the Baxter Building (which the FF were not in, but their kids were) and the surrounding area a single year into the future. Much of the story afterwards dealing with the Richards family grappling with the fact that they are unable to see their kids until the building returns.
Fire Emblem Heroes: the eponymous goddess of the antagonistic Embla empire has the ability to seal away areas into nothingness.
Want to ask if there is an umbrella concept for these disparate cases specially around the idea of separation or severance.
openRecognition Right Before Death Print Comic
When a character who is brainwashed recognizes the character right before death. An example of this that I remember is Link's Dragon in the Ocarina of Time manga.
openAnti-Consumerism Aesop Print Comic
The moral of a story is it's bad to spend your money (or your parents' money) on expensive products, you are being fooled by advertisers into buying stuff you don't need and won't make you happy. Except, of course, the book/movie/game that's telling you that.
Also comes in the form of an ad: Buy our product, and you'll be free from the consumerist lifestyle of having other people asking you to buy their product.
openAbrupt anatomical changes Print Comic
Is there a trope to describe a sudden biologically absurd change in character appearance within comic? Like one that happens here with Garfield's teeth: https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1989/12/08
openSequel title that adds a word to the original title. Print Comic
Do we have a trope for a sequel title that simply adds an extra word to the work the sequel follows up on?
Like this example, for instance:
- The second main issue of The Loud House adds the word "More" to the first issue's title (There Will Be Chaos), with the resulting title being There Will Be More Chaos.
What do you call the character in a grand universe sized adventure where all life is in danger, but the character helps keep you grounded. With so much going on, they are they reminder of what the little things are to be lost. An example I can think of is during world saving adventures, Spider-Man still takes time to save the little guy, this keeping us grounded.