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openKissing the macguffin?
Hi i was wondering if there was a trope where the villianess gives the macguffin a kiss after she stole it/obtained it. This video from is an example. 1:18-1:33 https://youtu.be/z6ivqqzOFlQ
also this video from 15:28-16:00 https://youtu.be/Wimz-BZQYwc
Also what is the reason the villianrss usually does this?
openWoods witch and wizards
Herbalists, woods witches, practitioners of folk medicine/magic
openDiplomat And Strawman
Alice (a diplomat) and Bob (a general) are sent to negotiate with "freedom fighter" Charlie. From the very start of the negotiation it becomes clear that Alice and Bob have completely incompatible goals: Alice wants Charlie to surrender peacefully, Bob wants to nuke Charlie's homeland two or three times and be done with it. It's made clear that Bob's solution will be carried out if Alice can't come to an agreement with Charlie.
Bob also has zero tact, using only racial slurs to refer to Charlie (and thinking of Alice as a Straw Civilian), regularly cutting them both off to declare that negotiations obviously aren't going anywhere and he's calling in the bombers, and generally being a living caricature worthy of a political cartoon.
The idea being to get Charlie to side with Alice just to spite Bob, sort of like Good Cop/Bad Cop. Sometimes it's all an act on Bob's part, sometimes it isn't.
openYou Wouldn't Like Your First Time In The Sun
First Time in the Sun seems to be specifically idealistic, i.e when the outside world is portrayed as bright and "alive".
I want to know an opposite trope where the outside world is revealed to be bleak, dark and/or even "dead".
openAccurate, but obviously a fake Live Action TV
In one episode of The Big Bang Theory, the nerdy Leonard learns about football to impress Penny's friends. He does learn it, but, during the game, he drones off about statistics and rules in such a forced, artificial manner that they figure out he's not a fan.
Is there a trope for that? A character is faking something, and despite not making any factual mistakes, he's unmasked because he's too unnatural at it?
openStudent dating Daughter/Son
Pretty much the opposite of Teacher/Parent Romance where it's a student of a teacher that has the hots for that teacher's son or daughter. The only instances I've seen this happen are Shark Boy and Lava Girl and that one episode of Drake and Josh where Drake finds out that the girl he is dating is his teacher's daughter.
openEscaped captivty victim experiences the real world Film
After seeing films like "Soldier" and "Unleashed"
I'm wondering whats the term for a story where a person escapes their harsh violent upbringing and experiences the normal world like a fish out of water story, while at the same time knowing their upbringing is gonna come back and get them somehow
openAccidental Duel Challenge
I just want to find that one page which covers accidentaly making some gesture or action towards a member of an alien culture that just happens to see said gesture as a challenge for a duel to the death.
openClone Retains Original's Memories
Is there a trope for where a clone of someone retains the memories of the original? (i.e. Bob is a clone of Charles, and yet he remembers Alice saving his life, even though Alice saved Charles's life and not Bob's.)
openAdaptational Neutrality
What do we call it if the adaptation makes a heroic character take a neutral stance instead? Does that qualify for Adaptational Villainy, or is there a better trope? Conversely, if a villain gets turned into a neutral or apathetic agent, is this Adaptational Heroism?
I think I might have asked this question before, but I'm not sure when and where.
openActively Neutral
The neutral guy/faction that helps both (or even all) other sides of the battle, whether secretly or openly.
What do we call this?
openDramatic Arm Grab
A character is about to swing a Molotov cocktail before he's grabbed by the arm by a mysterious hand, which reveals a fellow character trying to stop him.
openIs this characteristic a trope?
Someone who is really oblivious to things which often ends up making them an easy target for teasing.
Like, they'll have done something, and someone else will hint at it or ask them a question leading up to that something that they once did, but they don't realize it because they're so oblivious. The other person then "tells the punchline" by mentioning what they did, and then they'll get angry or start freaking out about it.
I can give some examples if needed. Thank you.
openVillain/ghost tropes? Western Animation
I'm planning on doing some cleanup to WesternAnimation.Scooby Doo And Scrappy Doo and am trying to find tropes for these situations from the show:
- In the episode "Sir Scooby and the Black Knight", the antagonist of the episode is mistaken for sentient knight's armor, but is actually just the owner of the castle and he isn't an antagonist or evil really.
- In the episode "Scoobygeist", the villain isn't a "Scooby-Doo" Hoax, and turn out to be Real After All, but In-Universe Daphne wants to prove the haunted house isn't haunted.
- In the episode "The Dinosaur Deception", there's no bad guy in a mask as a "Scooby-Doo" Hoax (unless you count the In-Universe attempt to treat the dinosaur as a hoax); it's just a robot crane used for a mining operation in Mexico for the episode's Villain of the Week to do his job.
If anyone could help I'd appreciate it.
Edited by Merseyuser1openWasteful Wealthy
Is there a trope for when rich people are portrayed as being extremely wasteful, like only wearing clothes once before throwing them away?
openSome kind of camera shot trope?
It's pretty hard to explain, but I'll do my best. Typically comedic. It's when something that looks insignificant or tiny to the average person, it's actually pretty intense once it cuts to the actual thing. For example, let's say a character throws a ball, but this ball actually has several microscopic ants over it. The character doesn't see them and throws the ball as usual. We cut to the ball's closeup of the ants screaming in terror, then the character throwing the ball (which can look surprisingly calm to the viewer, knowing that the ants are there) and this repeats until the ball lands to the floor.
What's this called?
Edited by KitzMisopenCasually Religious
The character's not atheist but he isn't that devout of his religion.
openCalling a Bluff. Holding to Ransom. Forced Hand.
[First time poster. Hopefully this is articulated well enough. Trying to keep it as simple as possible.] Group A governs Groups B and C and is composed of members drawn from those groups, some even from infancy. Masquerade involved. Group B is given information from Group A (or people claiming to be representative of Group A) which conflicts with its Utopian worldview. Group B believes it can continue if only it can gain, via appeal to Group A, the mandatory participation of Group C (who are Voluntarist in outlook), preferably by the application of Benevolent Tyranny of Useful Idiots. Yet, Group B is reluctant to subjugate themselves to said Tyranny, and would much rather exempt themselves from such a system which would Break the Masquerade. And now It's Crunch Time. Either the data is false, or the narrative is. Yet both come from Group A. So Group B hold Group C to Ransom (via some impositional mechanism) to Force the Hand of Group A to resolve the paradox.
Edited by Coraxo
A character believes the world is too beautiful for them to be a part of it. Usually this character is a Broken Hero or something similar. The reverse of Too Good for This Sinful Earth, as you can tell by the title.