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openIntro/Outro Only Appearance Anime
When a seemingly important item, monster, place etc. only shows up in intros or outros, but never in any of the episodes. Sometimes they make a one-time appearance on a different format such as an manga or a video game, but I guess that's an aversion?
One example: The rock mimics that are as seen in both intros of Kono Suba. They're never present in the show itself, but I think they made an appearance in the manga. Also, that giant turtle thing.
Edited by KingOfStickersopenSecond Love Upgrade
A hero's first love is a normal civilian but they have to break up because they grow apart, he doesn't want her to get hurt, wants her to have a normal life, or she straight up dies. He gets a second love interest who has powers or skills on par with his own and is less likely to be put in danger by being with him. Examples include Ethan and Ilsa from Mission Impossible franchise, Lelouch and C.C. from Code Geass (kind of; technically he and the original love interest I'm thinking of weren't officially an item but it's implied that mutual feelings were there), Bruce and Selena from The Dark Knight Rises, quite a few cases from other comic continuities I believe. Gender reversed cases probably exist but I can't think of any offhand.
Edited by DestinyStar123openStory-breaker power trope? Anime
I know we have Story-Breaker Power trope for when a character is over-powerful and could end the story in a matter of seconds (such as Alien X from WesternAnimation.Ben 10) but is there a story-maker power from a character's powers - a character is powerful, but that causes the story to happen rather than ends it?
openFollow The Letter But Not The Spirit
A character follows the instructions given, but because they don't understand the motivation behind it, it ends up done wrong or backfiring.
For example, higher-ups at a company decide to hire more minorities for good PR. Once this is done, it turns out the new hires were all put in the same department and weren't given any real responsibilities other then looking happy when the people from marketing come by to take pictures. When questioned about this, the higher-ups are genuinely confused as to why people think there's a problem, since they did exactly what they were supposed to do: hire more minorities.
openRevelations Film
A scene in which character A. who is very close friends with character B. of the same gender witnesses two people they didn’t know were in homosexual relationship and realizes or questions their feelings towards character B.
Thought for sure there was a trope for this, since I’ve seen it quite a bit. Any ideas?
openSpoken episode title
I noticed a lot of TV series, especially shows aimed at children who are presumably too young to read, will have one of the show's characters saying the title of the episode when it comes up. (Arthur is one example I can think of at the top of my head.) Is there a trope for this?
openDatamining Videogame
Datamining is a popular activity the Undertale and Deltarune fandom likes to do. Is there a trope that covers, or is for datamining or should I just add a section for it in Deltarune?
Edited by KingOfStickersopenSleepless Obsession
One of the easiest shorthands for showing obsession seems to be that the obsessed character won't fall asleep, doing nothing but working on whatever it is they're obsessed with.
In iCarly, Spencer stayed up for days playing Pack-Rat, and then Carly herself stayed up all night to play it when she realized how fun it was. In Dad, one of the first signs he was becoming addicted to Minecraft is that he didn't go to sleep, instead staying up to play for several hours.
openAmbiguously Monstrous
A character looks like a monster (of a clear type or a vaguely defined one), but the possibility exists they might be something else entirely. Maybe another kind of monster; maybe an odd human.
If it helps, the character I'm thinking of is The Count from Sesame Street. I'd say without question, he's intended as a vampire.. yet the Muppets wiki has an article about whether or not he is one, and Flip-Flop of God means there's no official answer there.
But thinking about it generally, this could be the inversion of Ambiguously Human; I think of that trope as "presented as a human, but monstrous enough to make you wonder", but this is more "presented as a monster, but could well be a human"- which might be Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane applied to a character. Though I can't think of any examples of this, is there a trope for it?
openShocked By The Bilingualism
A character, though American but has parents are from another nation, pretends not to speak English and only his parents' native tongue. Suddenly, another character, who is billingual, tries to speak to him in that language. The former is understandably shocked.
Edited by JC96openUndesired reunion
A character unexpectedly meets a person from their distant past, where their previous encounter had been at best awkward.
openMacGuffin combo
When several Mac Guffins are brought together, something happens, or new powers are unlocked
Possibly distinct from Dismantled MacGuffin in that in this case, the individual Mac Guffins aren't necessarily pieces of something. Individually, they may be pretty useless or can actually do something.
- The Infinity Gems from Marvel. Individually, they give the wielder control over a certain element. When put together with an Infinity Gauntlet, they give the wielder control over the fabric of reality itself.
- The Mon Mon Items from Mon Colle Knights, when brought together, can be used to create "gates"
- The Omega Keys from Transformers: Prime. By themselves, they're just keys, but they can be linked together to produce a map to the Omega Lock.
openLanguage Trope
Is there a trope for when a fictional language is a real language by a different name? The writer uses a real language as a stand-in for a fictional tongue.
openManufactured world
Character lives in a manufactured, simulated, or otherwise contained setting.
For example, in Dad, Dad has claimed that his entire town is inside a place called the "Facility". He has free reign to leave, but doesn't have to, because everything is in the Facility. It's also all redundantly named, with the characters living in a Neighborhood in Town, going to Work, eating at Restaurant, living next to Neighbor... it's a very artificial environment, though a functional and large one at that.
Edited by WarJay77openConvenient childless couple
Magical babies are always found and adopted by childless couples who just so happened to be in the neighborhood
openRecursive Ownership
I feel like we have this already, but I forgot the name.
It's something like "this guy's servants have servants" or "this guy has a pool inside his pool".
openTrans Women Characters With Lower Voices Than Cis Characters?
There's this entry on You're Under Arrest! and I'm curious if it should be moved somewhere else:
- Anime Accent Absence: Variation. In the English dub, Aoi has a naturally feminine and high pitched voice. In the original and the Latin-American dub, her voice is a bit lower than the other girls.
A character is introducing his best friend/sidekick to other main characters, specially telling them that "they're partners,". The other characters look at him and his friend funny before the character says, "Not like that!"
Edited by JC96