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openNewborn Live Action TV
openAdvertisements trying to Invoke Blunder-Correcting Impulse?
I've seen a lot, and I mean a LOT, of advertisements, over and over again, for mobile device games showing clips of some not-shown player playing the game, almost solving a puzzle, and then making a great big obvious blunder that fails the game. Are the advertisers trying to get the people watching these advertisements thinking "I can do better than that moron" and downloading the game to prove it?
Edited by Miss_DesperadoopenHall of Moments
A character is going through a time portal or something similar, and various moments from the past, present, and future are seen flashing by. Example 1 Example 2 (harder to see but definitely there)
openLame Claim to Fame
A character claims to be famous, but it is only in a very small way. An example would be in Singles where Matt Dillon's character claims that his band Citizen Dick is "Huge in Belgium."
Edited by TheWhistleTropesopenEnemy Shilling
Similar to Character Shilling, but done from the other side.
For example, instead of Alice and Bob having excited conversations about how badass Charlie is, we get whispered mutterings between mooks about Charlie and how utterly powerless they are before him. If Charlie is a Creator's Pet or Scrappy it comes off as the author trying to weasel around the "look how AWESOME this guy is!" aspect by using different people to hype Charlie.
And a similar trope that's not quite shilling where two characters talk about how they don't like another one, but a reader who doesn't like the character to start with sees that he's managing to hog the spotlight even while absent.
Not necessarily out-of-universe, for example, if Bob Just Wants To Be Badass and pays someone to fake evidence of his deeds to get people talking about him.
Edited by Chabal2openStrawman Silence
An argument scenario where the opponent doesn't need to say anything to show just how badly the other person has lost the argument.
Something like this:
- Alice (a human): You ever consider that maybe Klingon Scientists Get No Respect is a bad idea?B'ob (a Klingon): Bah! Scientists are weaklings, utterly useless if they cannot fight!Cha'rlie (also a Klingon): B'ob! I have sent all our starships into the sun while they were stuffed with all our scientists!B'ob: You? What?Cha'rlie: They were created by weaklings and as such, to use them brings shame on our race! We will now conquer the universe by yelling at space-time until it teleports us to other planets, like real Klingons!Alice: -just looks at B'ob in utter silence-
openWrong man for the right job
Do we have anything about the situation where a person who's very competent at X suddenly finds themself in a situation where an expert in Y is needed, and they know nothing about Y so all their competence is useless? Basically the exact opposite of Right Man in the Wrong Place.
Thinking of the scene in The Avengers (2012) where Captain America is on the Helicarrier with Iron Man. He's looking at a circuit panel that needs some repairs and clearly has no clue what he's dealing with here because he missed the decades where all the electronic technology that goes into it was invented. "Well, it... seems to run on some sort of electricity."
openCute people/creatures can get away with more
Would this fall under Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful!?
openWell Now I Don't Want To Fight You
A trope where Chaaracter A wants to fight Character B and Character A says that they have lost the urge to fight, or something like that. Maybe Character A even offers Character B to talk it out with them.
openEvil Mirror
We have a trope called Mirror Monster that seems to be about monsters living inside mirrors. But I can think of quite a few examples of mirrors themselves being evil, sometimes sentient objects. They often corrupt people by showing them what they could become if they turned to the dark side, and the people do just that.
Is this tropeworthy?
openSpare Chosen Ones
This trope when there *is* a Chosen One but there's a waiting list of other possible Chosen Ones (*not* Unchosen Ones) in case they fail.
For example, in Percy Jackson there's this prophecy about "A child of the Big Three that reaches 16" and there are 4 or so kids that fit the description and the first who was supposed to take it avoids it, and Percy decides to make the prophecy about him so it doesn't fall to the next in line.
Other examples could be Neville in Harry Potter, as he also fits the prophecy, or Bean in Ender's Game, as he was to be the leader if Ender fell.
openChild adopted by siblings (not their own)
Two of my characters are twins that live together (one of them being being the Evil Twin and Manipulative Bastard), and through their father's pressure (which will lead to Resentful Guardian from at least one of them), they adopt a child, to carry the family name. I was looking for any tropes that might be applied to this whole situation. Thank you!
openLancer = Dragon
I'm looking for a trope having to do with a saying a friend of mine came up with. "Sometimes, your best friend is also your worst enemy." Which to me sounds like something akin to the title, where the good guys' Lancer is also the bad guys' Dragon. Alternatively, it could be something like in a crime show, where the Big Bad himself could also be the good guys' primary source of evidence against his own case, without explicitly revealing himself as the villain.
openIntentionally Moronic Sample Gameplay Videogame
Is there a trope for when sample gameplay for a game, in either an ad or an Attract Mode, is presented with the demo player playing incompetently with the hopes that viewers think "Oh, I can do better!" and try the game out?
It's definitely a thing, but it might be YMMV and hard to fully pinpoint. Is there maybe another more general trope the phenomenon could fit into?
openDo Not Call Me "Bob"
Someone is isn't on not being called by a shortened version of their name (i.e., Robert refuses to be called Bob)
openEvil Bastard has a Normal Life/Job
I'm looking for a trope for my antagonist, who is a Manipulative Bastard, Spree Killer, The Hedonist, but he has like a normal job and acts normal when he's on the job, only really shows his true colors when he gets home to his prisoner.
openCharacter looks at someone differently due to love
Is there a trope name for when a character is so in love with someone, that their point-of-view of that person is always depicted as heavenly? Like, when they look at that person, the screen is tinted pink or the person resembles an angel or something like that.
openhelp! the doctor is sick!
is there a trope that explains the moment when The Medic of the team is actually the one who's injured/sick?