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openTime Skip Slideshow
- A character looks at photos on his phone and said photos are used to explain the time skip between the events of the previous installment and the current one
openVillain reflects real world anxieties
A trope where the villain in a piece of media is meant to be a stand-in for some kind of real world problem. This can be blatant, like how The Great Dictator has Adenoid Hinkle as an expy of Adolf Hitler, or subtle, like how Invasion of the Body Snatchers can be seen as an allegory for communism. I was thinking about this trope when I watched Spider-Man: Far From Home, and thought about how Mysterio was kind of an allegory for modern day fake news and the like.
openAmor fati
Is there a trope for the general concept of "Amor fati" (basically the person thinks You Can't Fight Fate but is fine with being that way)?
openEthnic Name Dissonance
Similar to Multiethnic Name, but instead of two or more ethnicities in a single name, the name and the person/thing it represents are completely different.
For example, a character is first heard of by name (Tchien Mo) and is naturally assumed to be Chinese, and it turns out he's African-American. Or the characters see an ad for O'Flaherty & Sons Authentic Indian Cuisine.
openWhat kind of Slacker is the VideoGame.CuteKnight Slacker ending?
What kind of Slacker is the VideoGame.Cute Knight Slacker ending?
It's in a slashed entry for Professional Slacker and The Slacker, and slashing is wrong...
The ending is that she just sleeps for 16+ hours a day, because people thought she's meditating she's while actually being asleep. Then she rolls with it such that she founds a new religion based around doing nothing.
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It was also under Lazy Bum...
Edited by Maladyopen"Lucky Guess" Trope? Web Original
I'm looking for a trope to fit a particular entry and, I confess, I'm not 100% sure this is the right place to ask.
I initially tried a play on Entertainingly Wrong, but it doesn't really fit there as it's not really "wrong". The closest I can think of is I Was Just Joking, but not sure if it fits either. I'm not sure if this merits the Is This an Example thread, but I might try there if this isn't the right place. It's not really Achievements in Ignorance either. The name fits, but there's nothing really impossible happening.
What I suppose I'm looking for is some kind of "Lucky Guess" trope.
If it helps, the entry in mind:
- Kingdom Smarts: The premise of the podcast is Kingdom Hearts fangirl Shannon explaining the series to KH-ignorant Jake. During the prologue of Kingdom Hearts II, which introduces Roxas, Jake has just enough context from what Shannon has told him of the first Kingdom Hearts and Chain of Memories to ask the question "Is Roxas Sora's Nobody?" but does not, by his own admission, have enough context to know what that question actually means. Despite this, Jake's question proves to be a correct guess of reveals to come.
openRoommates from hell
Situation: Alice finally convinced Bob to live with her (if context matters, they are in relationship, but not yet married).
Now, Alice considered this to be her worst nightmare, since Bob is terrible roommate: he can't sleep in one bed with her without accidentally kicking her out of it in his sleep and, worse, he creates total mess out of her apartments, despite all her attempts to keep it clean, or just meddles with her cleaning it by different means (unintentionally). And theres a lot more.
But Bob considers this to be living paradise, for exactly the same reasons. This is yet another case of Odd Couple, or theres something more specific for this situation? Them having vastly different view on living together is plot point, and is more important (for now) than just them living together, since story is about them coming to agreement, so if this can be covered by something else entirely, this would cut the knot.
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Theres also another case, which maybe covered by The Friend Nobody Likes, but since theres only two characters, and only "Alice" (or, better, Andrew, since it was two guys in this case) considers Bob to be his friend, while Bob can't stand him for many, many reasons and actually only stopped from killing him here and now by this being illegal, but can't just leave him either, because they share same ward (they are at the hospital). Is Andrew's case is just "The Friend Nobody Likes", or there's something more specific?
Edited by AazkaalopenOffended over one sentence only
The scene is someone getting so offended/angry at a person who told him that he only knew one person, so the "mysterious associate" he was talking about was pretty obvious.
openNerfed by team-up
A villain, when alone, is a serious threat to the hero. When they team up, their combined threat level rises by, at most, 20%, and each villain becomes significantly easier to beat. Would that be a manifestation of the stormtrooper effect?
Examples:
- The Sinister Six
- An entire tribe of Sith Lords is a mild inconvenience for Luke Skywalker and two teenagers
openDead person was an asshole in life, but people remember them as being better than they were
What would this be? Nostalgia Filter?
Edited by Bootlebatopen"I'm NOT dead"
What's the trope for when someone is a ghost or the like but is in denial and refuses to listen to anyone who point this out, no matter how ridiculous their "explanation" for why they are in fact still alive is.
Edited by BootlebatopenTip-off wink
Winking at someone to tip them off that you're acting, e.g. you're pretending to betray an ally so you can catch an enemy off guard, and you wink at your ally to let them know what's up.
openFoil Replacement
Is there a trope for when a character has a fight with a friend due to a certain negative trait and decides to replace them for someone completely opposite, but that person make them realize that the "negative trait" is actually something good, or to learn that there is "too much of a good thing"?
openTradesnark, but what else? Webcomic
Panels 4 and 5 of this Ennui GO! strip are definitely Tradesnark™ (thanks, ~St Fan), but do they fit something else? It feels like a weird take on Saying Sound Effects Out Loud but I'm not sure that it really fits.
Edited by WillbyropenCharacterization trope for drama in 2010s? Live Action TV
I'm planning on updating WhatCouldHaveBeen.Live Action TV but what trope fits this example:
- For Halt and Catch Fire, in the episode "Up Helly Aa", Scarlett Johansson would have played the booth babe in the episode, but problems with Scarlett's filming schedule prevented it even happening and they didn't even get to negotiate with her.
- In Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, in 2016, an episode centered around a trans man who was the perpetrator of sexual assault hoaxes around Manhattan and East Village was considered, but due to the more receptive attitude in The New '10s towards transgender and non-binary people, the idea was deep-sixed for sensitivity reasons, even though, we don't know if such an incident happened in Real Life, but it would probably be a controversial episode.
Also:
- For Adventure Time, an episode featuring Finn and Jake becoming worms alongside Shelby the worm was apparently pitched, but the "lost episode notes" were later revealed to be nothing more than a hoax by a fan on Tumblr in 2016.
openSame Goal, Conflicting Methods
Two characters on the same side are working towards the same goal, but because their methods are mutually exclusive they can't agree on what to do.
For example, a new system of identifying criminals from crime scene evidence is invented but has not yet been revealed to the public. Alice wants to make the system publicly known, arguing that people will commit less crimes if they know they have strong chances of being caught. Bob, on the other hand, wants to keep the method secret, arguing that making it known will allow criminals (who were going to break the law anyway) to figure out how to can get around it.
Both of them want to keep crime down, but sees the other's method as being counterproductive.
Similarly, Alice wants to make the destructive capabilities of her nation's superweapon well-known so no one will dare attack them, Bob wants to keep it secret so other nations won't figure out countermeasures (or even get into an "if we can't have it, no one can" mindset and attack anyway).
openBeat Him Up? Too Easy!
- A character discusses with his friend about getting revenge on a school bully. When the friend suggests why doesn't just beat him up, seeing how he's more physically larger than the bully. The latter agrees but he believes dishing out physical pain would be too easy and temporarily. He feels that the bully deserves to be punished in a more physiologically humiliating way because it's more humiliating and potentially long-lasting.
openA Non-mother Character Acts Like a Mom
Is there a trope for a character described as 'motherly'? e.g. always fussing and worried for others, looks after others, caring, supportive, etc.
I'm not sure if this is actually a trope, but what do we call those character artwork/facesets that's common in Eastern-RPG type games, to give a visual aid for what the character's pixelated forms actually looks like.