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openTexting the wrong person
Is there a trope for accidentally texting the wrong person, usually something either that they were not at all meant to know or hear, or that is at least embarassing
openPride Rock Parody Western Animation
A Stock Shout-Out to The Lion King's opening/bookended ending sequence. Do we have this? Or maybe a pre-existing trope that covers a similar sort of presentation-atop-a-cliff-or-castle-wall sequence?
Edited by UnsungopenGiving it for free with extra steps
Back in the communist days, Poland (and other Eastern Bloc countries) would produce various things or extract resources and give them to the Soviet Union in exchange of... more resources to produce these things, rinse and repeat. For example, producing heavy machinery in exchange for more materials to make more machinery for the Soviets, or bags of wheat in exchange of more bags to package more wheat. If you didn't quite catch that, it's basically giving things away disguised as fair trade. Which trope would fit this kind of exchange?
Edited by TunaMouthopen"Unbeatable challenge" trope?
Is there a trope for where someone proposes an impossible challenge with the expectation that no-one will manage it?
Like "Beat me in a chariot race!" in Greek myth.
Or "Come to me naked but dressed, on foot but on horseback, with a gift but without one!" in a Slavic fairytale.
Oftentimes there's a valuable reward offered, the assumption being that no-one will get to claim it. Someone - like the protagonist - usually eventually does, and it may cause the challenger to look for a way to not uphold their own promise.
Is there anything of the sort in here?
Edited by XemylixaopenPeople in-universe can hear the background music gag Film
What trope would this be? I know several Mel Brooks movies used this (typically it would be revealed shortly after that a band nearby was playing the music.)
openSilly fear
A character turns out to have a really ridiculous fear, something usually so mundane or random that nobody else can take it seriously.
openProtagonist is unlikeable?
Do we have such a trope for this?
The protagonist is unlikeable, and while not a villain, and ends up being a Hate Sink, despite not being designed as such, but the other four important characters in the female Five-Man Band are far more likeable.
Is there a trope for main character being a Hate Sink?
openTV Store Trope?
This trope is when a crowd of people are seen watching a broadcast in a store display of TV's, usually with multiple TV's. One example I can think of is in the Spectacular Spider-Man intro.
openReverse Empty Nester Sitcom Live Action TV
Is there a trope about stories where a character's parents move in with them after middle age - for instance, after their kids move out, the parents move in?
opencontrasting reactions
Is there a trope for a scene that shows two (or more) characters having wildly different reactions for something? For example, if A shows a bug, B is disgusted while C is excited
openwelcome interruption? or literally "saved by the bell"?
A character is about to finally knuckle down and get started on a task they've been avoiding... or perhaps they're spending time one-on-one with another character they usually aren't paired with and making awkward attempts at conversation. All of a sudden another character / explosion / deus ex machina enters the scene and our character breathes a sigh of relief or an "oh, thank god!" at suddenly having a distraction... even if the thing interrupting is not something they'd normally be happy to have to deal with...
I'm sure this is in the database, but not under "saved by the bell"— any other ideas? I just found "Conveniently Timed Distraction" which seems close but is missing the relief element. Rather than a distraction giving a character the opportunity to do something (like win a battle), I'm thinking of an interruption that allows the scene to end or conversation / task to be dropped completely. A flimsy excuse for procrastination might be a better description. Maybe the point where "Conveniently Timed Distraction" and "Laborious Laziness" overlap.
Edited by dirkbeenopenAn object that forces other people to attack whoever holds it?
Let's say some bad guy's plan of the week involves giving one of their enemies some kind of object that, once put on, they can't take it off, and any time someone else tries to attack the bad guy, they are either mentally compelled or literally forced by an unseen force to attack whoever is wearing the object. What was this trope be called?
openTrope for taking a hit
Is there a trope for when one character if grieving or just really pissed off and punches another character whom is usually the one they're mad at, but said character just takes the attack and lets that person vent out their anger? Not sure if there is one.
openA character who is a doctor/midwife/nurse has to deliver a baby with limited supplies
When a character is forced to help a pregnant woman deliver a baby when they have no experience and limited to no supplies. Looked in Pregnancy Tropes and it wasn't there.
Edited by MacronNotesopenCMYK as a color motif?
Basically, I'm talking about cyan/Magenta/yellow specifically as a color motif. I assume this is probably a Too Rare To Trope category of Chromatic Arrangement, but I don't see it over there. I'm looking for other examples, the only one I can think of off hand is Uxie, Mesprit, and Azelf from Pokemon.
openChibi Spin-Off
Exactly What It Says on the Tin. There are so many of these for some reason. For example, Miraculous Ladybug and HXH both have one. Also, My Little Pony got one as well.
Edited by KingOfStickersopenLeft Out Of Merchandising
A main character appears to be ignored by the creators for unknown reasons.
For example, Razor Mane has seemingly 0 merchandise compared to the rest of the cast, and she doesn't even get her own character page on the official website. Heck, I'm fairly sure that Razor Mane is a Fan Nickname and everyone just rolled with it.
openPop-Up Sword
The blade of a sword comes out of the hilt by pressing some sort of button.
What I'm looking for is a trope where there's some form of large-scale operation going on, and at one point, some little kid is shown doing the same thing in their own way.
The only real example I can think of is a ship I'm creating in Kerbal Space Program, in which the main ship is a massive asteroid miner made predominantly of size-4 parts, designed so that you can mine out the asteroid while you haul it to Kerbin. At the same time, it also has a mini version made of size-0 parts that's basically inteneded to just scoot around and do its own mining seperate from the main craft, as if the mini ship was some space-miner-in-training tagging along for fun while a seasoned veteran is manning the main craft.Also...
Edited by Gofastmike