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openVillain Music, but not exactly. Music
Hi, I'm searching for some genres of music to start up a Villain Music but Not Exactly playlist (or, not exactly Disney villain music due to sheer lack of Disney). I'm seeking music similar to the following, and I would like help finding similar genres/songs/musicians. When I look up "villain songs" all I get are Disney songs, and while they encapsulate the vibes I want from these songs, they are certainly not the songs I want. I want new things, for my cravings for these songs has become almost like a Mad Scientist seeking forbidden knowledge... or rather, what the Youtube algorithms don't think I want but I absolutely do. Now, behold, the Examples List!
Villainous Thing by Shayfer James - Genre unknown to me. Love the vibes and direct villainous references. Any song with direct villainy within is a bonus.
When You're Evil by Aurelio Voltaire - Definitely some kind of tango. Is very nice. Stalker's Tango by Autoheart - Another dark tango thing. Very enjoyable.
Birth to my Creation from Frankenstein, A New Musical - Genre unknown; I'd love to know this genre, as it gives me immaculate Mad Scientist vibes.
That's... all I have. I just need more villainous-vibed songs, if anyone has them. I don't know genres very well at all, but these seem to almost surpass those... Any help for improving this villainous endeavor of absolute jams would be much appreciated.
openPower Greater than You Can Comprehend
The trope for when someone's power is supposed to have no known upper limit, and through the story, it keeps surprising everyone. Either on how many things it can accomplish, its destructive capabilities, or simply because literally speaking, the human mind can't completly comprehend its workings or its nature. It is named already?
Edited by JohnnyElRedresolved Lying to the Dying Western Animation
Suppose Bob and Alice are fighting some enemy to save Charlie. Bob is mortally wounded, and is losing consciousness. He asks Alice if Charlie's alright, and Alice lies and says they achieved their goal, that Bob's death wasn't meaningless, so he can die happy. A super sad scene.
Is there a trope forthat?
openBackwards Music Music
Music played backwards, not for backmasking/speech-related, and not note-by-note (e.g. Bach's Crab Canon). I even know a few examples offhand: the beginning of "Hooligan" by the Heart Throbs; bit of the Charlatans; the Beatles used it either. Immediately spottable by the somewhat eerie sound. Tropable?
openGetting close to someone in order to get to a love interest
Bob decides to be cordial, be friends, or even date Alice just so he can get close to Claire, Alice's sister/friend who the one he is actually interested in.
Edited by MacronNotesopenPeople of Fur
Is there a page for the trope of using humans with animal traits in fantasy settings, as a stand in for the discrimination of racial minorities?
openCharacter doesn't change after a long time in a different setting/era
(Spoilers for Ninjago and Legends of Tomorrow)
A character gets trapped in another time (most likely the past) and spends years or maybe even decades in that time period, adopting a new identity and lifestyle, possibly as a brainwashed villain. Once they meet back up with the other characters who haven't aged at all, they return to their pre- Slow Path self almost instantly and this period of their life is never mentioned again. A version of Static Character. Compare Easy Amnesia.
Examples:
- Legends of Tomorrow:
- Kendra, Ray, and Sara are left behind in the past for two years by accident, toward the end of the season. They're back to normal by the end of the episode and while it may be justified for Kendra as she's been reincarnated multiple times so she lives a lot longer, Ray and Sara never mention these two years again after this season.
- A similar thing happens with Mick Rory, who is captured by the Time Masters and brainwashed and trained for "lifetimes" into becoming a bounty hunter. After he realizes the error of his ways he returns to the team and this is also never brought up again.
- Ninjago: It turns out the Big Bad of the second half of Season 11, the tyrannical Ice Emperor who took over the Never-Realm and ruled there for 60 years, is actually the kind-hearted robot ice ninja Zane after being brainwashed. This is never mentioned again after he regains his memories at the end of the season.
Edit: Taken to the Trope Idea Sounding Board
Edited by Troper48openCharacter jingle Videogame
I'm looking for a trope where a character introduction in a game where their arrival temporarily changes the music to their specific jingle before it reverts back to the level music?
I was thinking Background Music Override, but then it occurred to me that this specific case would be too short to be considered an override.
Edited by NouctopenNew word is created by mistake
Is there a trope for this? A Real Life example would be the word "messuage", meaning a household and it's adjacent property. It's generally thought to be a mangling of the word "menage", meaning more or less the same thing.
openStealth Remix
Is there a trope for a certain piece of music which firstly appears and begins completely unrelated soundtrack from the same franchise or series and than morphs into or at least contains parts of an already known soundtrack?
openJarring and sudden use (often used to comic or relieving affect) of a unusual weapon?
When the laws or expectations of combat, set by the viewer, are broken by a sudden use of another method. For example, you have magic users fighting, using lots of fantastical elements in battle, but the norm for what we see as the audience. Then all of a sudden, a character hits a rampaging baddie with a car. Cars and technology are part of the established universe, but the tension is relieved slightly by this sudden and jarring use of something we've not seen used like this. It's often accompanied by characters reacting in a shocked or surprised way, usually a comic relief character.
Another example is in a comic centering around fist fighting and martial arts. It cuts from each main character's fight, each one full of cooler and more interesting fighting styles. Things are looking dire as we cut to the next protagonist, he's up against what looks to be an undetectable foe. And all of a sudden, they pull out a gun, and one of the enemies becomes comically aghast and shocked, giving the audience a slight breather while also building suspense for what's to come next.
The examples that come to mind came from Anime and comics respectively, but I've seen it in just about everything, from YA novels, to live-action movies, to TV shows. I've tried searching, but to no avail.
openAdaptation-excluded plot hole
Inversion of Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole, where a problem in an original work is fixed in an adaptation.
openInexplicably Rich
Is there a trope for someone who seems to have a much higher-end lifestyle than what their income should be able to afford?
For example a part-time barista who can somehow afford to go on expensive vacation every weekend, despite not being from a rich family?
openSlowly growing into the classic character
Is there a trope for when a character in an adaptation seems to have undergone Adaptation Deviation but over the course of the story they gradually start to more and more resemble the original incarnation of the character?
e.g. Alice is a character in a book who has a prosthetic arm, blonde hair, and a surly personality. The book is made into a movie, where Alice has both arms, brown hair, and is very outgoing and cheerful, but in the first act she loses her arm, in the second act she dyes her hair, and by the finale she's undergone a Cynicism Catalyst.
Is there a trope more specific than Adaptation Deviation subverted? I swear there was a trope for this at some point.
openConspicuously Absent
A character is missing from a scene, the reason which becomes important later on.
openArtistic license trope? Live Action TV
I don't know if there's an Artistic License – Law trope for this, but I've seen it on British Series like Emmerdale, where a trial seems to be done in weeks, with an instant verdict and judge with wig gavel-banging, rather than months, as compared to the Story Arc taking months In-Universe and Real Time.
Sort of like crime, instantly found guilty.
Also, is there an Artistic License trope for Supergirl (2015):
- Andrea Rojas/Acrata's VR technology that featured prominently in the Season 5 Story Arc is released to the public, and seemingly has had no beta testing etc. - it's just released as soon as made In-Universe. This is a Discussed Trope on one episode.
Finally, is this X-Pac Heat or not for YMMV.Supergirl 2015:
- Julie Gonzalo got almost the same reaction from some Supergirl fans as Anna Gunn who played Skyler in Breaking Bad and a bit of Actor/Role Confusion when it was really Mean Character, Nice Actor.
openKills the parents, adopt the orphan
Adopting the child whose parents you've just murdered
openLast Altruistic Thought Anime
Character does a Heroic Sacrifice to shield or push someone from mortal danger. Just as they're about to die, their last thought is "I'm glad X is okay" to remind us that their own safety is the last thing on their mind.
Seriously, I feel this pattern has a become a cliché at this point.
openPainful Splits
Is there a trope where someone does the splits and it ends up being painful, sometimes for laughs?
When studios use the same actors in a whole bunch of movies, mainly for convenience. Under the old Studio System, this was the norm (see Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers), but nowadays, actors aren’t beholden to contracts, so they may have other reasons for doing this (like they agreed to star in a not good movie so that they’d be cast in a better one, they just really like the studio, etc). For some reason, Disney does this a *lot*. Notable examples are Amy Adams, Sarah Silverman, and Taika Waititi, all of whom did multiple movies in a row with the studio. This can also with non-actors, such as Tim Burton directing most of his filmography at Warner Bros. Tangentially related to You Look Familiar, which is about actors being reused in the same continuity.