The TVTropes Trope Finder is where you can come to ask questions like "Do we have this one?" and "What's the trope about...?" Trying to rediscover a long lost show or other medium but need a little help? Head to Media Finder and try your luck there. Want to propose a new trope? You should be over at You Know, That Thing Where.
Find a Trope:
openChild rapist Western Animation
Exactly What It Says on the Tin. A child that rapes people. Is there a trope for this? Eric Cartman is a good example, since one episode of the show is literally about him raping Butters.
openRelation Shapes Western Animation
The main character has a round nose, and their love interest has a pointy nose.
openPicture Face (or Exactly As Depicted) Western Animation
The audience is shown a picture, drawing, etc. The audience is then shown the person in said picture, and they are making the exact face as in the picture.
Edited by Rico677openA silly face juxtaposed with a picture of the face in-universe Western Animation
To grab an example: in PUNCH PUNCH FOREVER!, Gogo Matsumoto is shown with a dumb photo of her on the large stadium screen as she's chosen to fight. She is shocked and makes the same silly face as the photo, down to the angle, juxtaposing them as unserious.
Any name for this trope?
Edited by GumballFallsFanopenTeacher Treatment Western Animation
The teacher gives you good grades because they are hanging out with your family like dating or sleeping with them.
openFake Ice Cream Truck Western Animation
When a character rides around in a fake ice cream truck in order to lure someone, usually a child, towards them for whatever reason. For example, Herbert the Pervert once tried to order an ice cream truck, presumably to lure children for pedophilic purposes. Another example would be with The Minions. In the second movie, there is a point when a fake ice cream truck is used to capture them. Yet another example would be with Sandy in the episode “The Fish Bowl,” where she has a fake ice cream truck to lure SpongeBob and Patrick, since she wants to perform experiments with them.
openWhat's a good trope to describe a dated joke that the writers should have known was dated Western Animation
I'm specifically talking about a joke in Western Animation/Velma. At one point someone is holding up a sign saying "Lock her up but by her we mean him".
It's a Hillary Clinton reference but the problem is the joke is horribly dated because 2016 was years ago.
I'm trying to find a good trope this would fall under. Unintentional Period Piece wouldn't count because this would have been in production long after the 2016 election.
Can someone help me figure this out?
openStarting new trends Western Animation
What would you call it when a work starts a trend that others quickly follow suit of, and use said initial work for inspiration? For example, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse started a trend of using Stop Faux-tion to get a comic-book like look, that would inspire the likes of Puss in Boots: The Last Wish and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem.
Edited by cwallace135openLow Framerate CGI Western Animation
This probably isn't a trope, but it should be. When an All-CGI Cartoon has low framerate as if it was a 2D animation
- The LEGO Movie and its spinoffs have very choppy movement for the most part to make it look like stop-motion
- TRON: Uprising and Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015) zigzag this. Characters move on 2s and 3s except during slow-mo shots. Vehicles are always seen animated on 1s. The former has at least one shot where vehicles are moving much more smoothly than their drivers.
- Later seasons of The Mysterious Cities of Gold
- Puss in Boots: The Last Wish has several sequences with low framerate
- Spider Man Into The Spiderverse
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem has low framerate throughout (except during slowmo shots) to add to the claymation-like look
openInverse of Cain and Abel Western Animation
Cain and Abel describes when the older sibling is the evil one while the younger sibling is the good one. I find that the reverse is true very often, with Scar, Fire Lord Ozai, and Emperor Belos just being a few iconic examples off the top of my head. Is there a trope that describes this?
Edited by cwallace135openLoose Core Premise/Abandoned Premise Western Animation
A show establishes a core premise, but only very rarely actually happens in the show.
Examples:
- Tiny Toon Adventures billed itself on being something of a high school setting about the young toons learning to be professional ones. But most of the show's episode's concerned themselves on random gags unrelated to the school.
- Helluva Boss started out as a show based around the shenanigans of an assassination business. But as early as Season 1 of Episode 2, it mainly pivoted to two things: The Stolitz relationship and/or the backstories of each member of the business.
openHit by one's own falling weapon Western Animation
So I've seen two instances of this, but first I'll explain the examples and then state the possible elements of what I'm looking for:
- In BoBoiBoy, "Multi Monster Mayhem!", one of the Multi Monsters roars from above the elemental hero(es) in an impending leap attack, but BoBoiBoy Lightning points up to the scrap magnet about to fall on the monster, who panics before getting hit in mid-air. (English timestamp, Malay timestamp in case the first doesn't work)
- In Steven Universe, "Coach Steven", Pearl causes Sugilite to trip off a cliff and inadvertently send her weapon flying. She says, "Is that all that you got? You think that's enough to beat-" before her own hammer whip drops on her head and breaks the Sugilite fusion. (timestamp)
So the overlapping elements (from most to least important):
- A delay before (half-expected) impact of falling weapon, the opponent expresses confidence before being unceremoniously defeated.
- Done in by their own weapon (one Multi Monster threw the scrap magnet to attack the heroes, but it was BoBoiBoy Earth who sent it flying, causing it to fall on a different Multi Monster).
openThe credits part of the show (Totally spies) Western Animation
Basically, at the end of each episode of Totally Spies!, there’s this portion where the girls talk to the audience about something. It’s not Credits Gag though.
Edited by AlicornGaiaopenAnimation: human creator = God? Western Animation
The animation trope where the characters of a franchise or universe consider their human creator to be their "God." I know it's a variation of "breaking the 4th wall," but I'm having trouble finding the exact name.
openLiar tricks everyone, makes innocent guy look bad Western Animation
Some new guy comes along and tricks the characters into thinking they're an angel, hiding the true nasty side that only one other character knows about, and all attempts to expose them results in the innocent guy look guilty while the liar continues they're false good guy masquerade until the end. If you've ever watched "Everyone Knows It's Bendy" episode from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, you know what I'm talking about. What's the name of this trope?
openJob Search Episode Western Animation
A character has to get a job to pay off a debt that they caused. The character involved goes on a job hunt throughout the episode until they find the job that suits them.
openExpressive pupils Western Animation
That thing where the eyes don't move but the pupils do.
openNon-speaking appearance due to actor availability Western Animation
A character appears in an animated show. Their voice actor is established. Later, they appear again, possibly in a short, minor appearance. During this appearance, they are silent and do not speak at all, because their voice actor is unavailable. Maybe it's because the voice actor is a celebrity, and the show couldn't afford to get them on again (i.e. Sugilite from Steven Universe). Maybe it's because the voice actor is dead (i.e. Death from Adventure Time in Together Again). Either way, this is side-stepped by having the character simply not speak.
Edited by TheredglowboxopenA battle cry version of Reactive Continuous Scream Western Animation
In "The Fry Cook Games", during Spongebob and Patrick's bun wrestling match, when they make their first jump, both let out a cry. It cuts to Spongebob first, then Patrick. Then back to Spongebob, then Patrick, gradually showing each for fewer seconds than the last time.
What trope would this be?
Seen this a couple of times before in cartoons, but it seems to have use in films as well and especially this one from a clip of a web animation, mostly for a gag propose.
Is there really an exact trope like this or similar? Since searching it up barely yields me any results besides ones with the obscured face picture one