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openWhich gag trope does this qualify as?
If there is a gag that a work keeps on building up throughout its entire runtime and which only receives a punchline at the very end, then is this a Brick Joke, an Overly Long Gag, an Overly Pre-Prepared Gag, or perhaps something else?
openreflexive power up
someone is unaware of their powers but they activate instinctually when they are put in danger
openThe scale of balance Videogame
High damage low armor penetration - High armor penetration low damage
High health low armor(Bad against high damage or health percentage damage) - High armor low health(Bad against armor penetration or attacks that straight up ignore armor)
Slow Attack With High Damage(High risk high reward) - Fast Attack With Low Damage(Low risk low reward)
High damage single target(Bad against swarm) - Low damage Ao E(Bad against elite unit)
Pure physical damage(Good over but not particularly effective against anything) - Elemental damage(Situational but extremely good against enemy with the right elemental weakness)
openHorizontal versus vertical tactics
A game lets you decide between having many weak [thing], or focus on just a few [thing] and make each one more powerful. Making more [thing] and making [thing] more powerful use the same resource, so you do have to decide one way or the other, or at least early on.
openVideo Game - Buff
Saw Gameplay Buff in the TLP and was wondering if we had a trope about characters in RP Gs/what have you that are support their group but buffing their stats (strength/speed) or debuffing the other team/enenmies.
open5 minute humiliation
Is there a trope for the idea that people have such short attention spans, that the big drama/news/humiliation one day will be immediately forgotten as soon as something new comes along? It can apply to school kids or society as a whole.
openCreator confusion
Creators with similar (or identical) names are often confused with each other
openUnknown Enemy X
You know you have an enemy because they keep doing things to harm you, but since you have no clue who that person is you have to refer to them with a codename like "X" or "the devil".
openCouch Gag, but only for one episode
Is there a version of the Couch Gag, in which the intro is changed for only one episode, and then it's back to normal the next time? Kinda like how Bojack Horseman became Bo Bo the Angsty Zebra in the episode INT. Sub, or how the Ducktales theme was swapped with the Glomgold version in Glom Tales?
openCrowning moment of anger/fury
There’s Crowning Moment of Funny and Tearjerker, where something makes you laugh or cry, but what about moments specifically designed to invoke anger in the audience? Professor Umbridge unjustly punishing Harry Potter, Honor Harrington being persecuted by sexist zealots, or a character being bullied? Is there a trope or sub category for moments like that?
openMeme is really outdated and uncool
Is there a trope for when a meme becomes really outdated and uncool (due to a combination of over-use and just getting old in general). Would Deader Than Disco cover this?
openAggressive Affection
A Cat Girl, or other Half-Human Hybrid with similar ears, meets up with a group of friends, and the youngest one of the groupnote or the character's girlfriend, for those occasional male examples greets them by leaping onto their back like a Jockey and nibbling on their ear.
openVacation at Home
Someone's vacation plans get cancelled for whatever reason, so family+friends recreate the vacation destination at home.
Examples would include the honeymoon from It's a Wonderful Life, and the Toy Story Toon Hawaiian Vacation.
open child finds teenager attractive
A work that contains a character that is usually an Annoying Younger Sibling (which may or may not have the typical Girly Girl And Tomboy protagonists) between the ages of 9-13, finds his older sister's best friend (or one of her many friends, who knows) attractive and usually tries to hit on her, failing most of the time, with the girl in question finding the kid either annoying or cute, depending on her personality.
Usually is a male child hitting on a teenage girl, but this can also be Gender Inverted.
openWork is set in a future that's already passed
What trope would this be? There are some other tropes, such as Zeerust and I Want My Jetpack that reference this, but I can't find a trope for the phenomenon itself. For a specific example: Back to the Future 2 takes place on October 21, 2015, which is obviously in the past now (but it was a pretty big deal when the date actually happened, mainly because works set in the future rarely say the exact month and day.)
openProhibition Episode
An episode of a series where something gets banned and the protagonists try to get around the ban or get the ban overturned. Will often involve an Aesop about personal freedom.
openThe main character becomes... the least interesting?
I've seen this trope before but never found the name: It's when the secondary characters become more interesting than the main character, making the main character kind of forgettable in some cases.
openLGBT/queer as trope for villain? Anime
Do we have such a trope for this:
- The Arc Villain is gay and although a Manly Gay, is only attracted to Twink men, so Bob, despite being manly and straight, has to seduce the Arc Villain because he's got the Twink look the villain likes and the team know the villain's weakness. Bob is disgusted at having to do so, but only does it because he thinks it'll stop the villainy from going further.
- The Arc Villain finds a Man in a Bikini a turn-on In-Universe (and Bob has to become one), but the audience wonder why the scene of Bob flirting with the villain is included and consider it disgusting.
- Alice goes on a crash-diet in a Filler episode after a Jerkass makes comments that she looks too fat when she decides to wear a crop top and is too weak to do anything and the repercussions are felt for the rest of the Story Arc, causing a conflict that won't be resolved until the next story arc.
Are there any Villains tropes or Queer as Tropes tropes for this?
Edited by Merseyuser1openMusic break
When an unfortunate thing happens, the music playing during the scene “breaks down” (I don’t know the correct term) and stops.
Do we have a trope for when Eldritch Abominations consider a human or otherwise mortal character The Dreaded?