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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.
openBacklash Hype?
Is there an opposite trope to Hype Backlash? Something that fits the situation "I liked it just fine, but then I saw people hating on it, and now I would die for it"?
openBreaking up the couple in the sequel Film
What is the trope called when they Break up the romanitcs leads in the squeal, You know like in ghostbusters 2,Star wars the force awakens,Bridget jones's Baby
openRe-using a character Literature
In The Two Noble Kinsmen Shakespeare uses the legendary Theseus and Hippolyta as characters, and they also appear in A Midsummer Night's Dream. But there's no sign that the Theseus and Hippolyta in one play are the same characters as the ones in the other play—they're just two different portrayals of a couple of mythological people. Is there a trope for that?
I know that we have Reused Character Design, but I'm not sure that this is it, since it's not a character design, but a character, who wouldn't necessarily have been played by the same actor, or have worn the same clothes (and possibly the same wig) in both plays.
Also, maybe the fact that Theseus and Hippolyta are pre-existing fictional characters plays in. (While they might have had some sort of real-life basis in real, historic figures, the mythological versions that formed the basis for Shakespeare's characters must be said to be fictional.)
Edited by MichaelKatsuroopen I Didn't Do It For You. I Did It Because It was Right.
A character, and only him, finds out and that his high school crush has been kidnapped. Though he has justifiably cynical reasons not to save her, he does not because he still loves her but because he knows he'll eventually regret not doing so.
openIgnorants are intellectuals' prey
Do we have a trope about an idea about how ignorants are at the mercy of the intellectuals? I'm thinking society-wide but it may also happen between individuals.
openFrom Cute to Badass
Easily described with Squirtle's evolution path; Squrtile = Cute, Blastoise = Badass.
openStaircase of family photos
Some conveniently placed family photos hanging on a wall for a character to look wistfully at as they pass
openNot so rational after all Western Animation
What do you call the trope where a character thinks that they are the rational one but aren't really as rational as they like to believe that they are?
openImplied Window Escape
A character is startled by a noise in a room and when investigating it, find the room empty. But there's an open window, usually with wind blowing the curtain dramatically to emphasize it, implying someone was in the room but sneaked out via that window.
Do we have something like this?
openKid-friendly adult work
Do we have a trope / audience reaction for "works that is marketed for adults but have little to no adult content"? I've seen people use What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids? to describe this phenomenon, even though it's a completely different trope.
openUnknowingly Similar Timelines
What would the trope be for this situation:
Timeline A is known to the reader (be it history or a canon work). The work focuses on Timeline B, which happens much the same as A but for different reasons (due to event X). A character comments that if X hadn't happened, things would have been much different, when the reader knows this is not the case.
In this case, an Alternate History where the US wins the battles of Midway, Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima thanks to nuclear-powered giant robots, culminating in Hiroshima and Nagasaki being nuked not by planes but by said giant robots walking into both cities and detonating their reactors, followed by Japan's surrender and post-war reconstruction happening much the same as in Real Life. A Japanese character tells the inventor of the robots that "if you hadn't brought in giant robots, the war would have gone entirely differently for us".
Edited by Chabal2openMagical weapon security measures
I'm looking for a trope in where magical weapons have means of keeping those not chosen by them from using them, at least reliably.
Examples:
- The Mighty Thor's Mjölnir prevents anyone unworthy of lifting as easily as a hammer of its size.
- Fire Emblem Elibe: Played with? The Mani Katti is a sacred weapon. When the bandit Glass tried to unsheathe it, it wouldn't budge. But when Lyn was offered it, it glowed in her hands and chose her. That said, the priest tending to the sword mentionsed having cast a spell over it to keep Glass from drawing it. It's also a Prf rank and only Lyn can wield it.
- Magic Knight Rayearth: The Magic Knights' Escudos have their individual security measures. Unfortunately, this also operates even in each other's hands.
- Umi's in the hands of another will melt into water before reforming once it's out of their hands.
- Fuu's in the hands of another becomes cumbersome and unwieldy. (I've only seen the other Knights hold it, so I don't know if it will scale against stronger folks.)
- Hikaru's in the hands of another sets the violator ablaze. It also has the side effect of removing braiwnashing magic.
openOnly Guy Allowed at an All-Girl Institution, Etc. Anime
A guy (always the protagonist) is given special permission to live at an otherwise all-female school, dorm, boardinghouse, or military academy. Do we have this one?
My first thought was The One Guy, but the last sentence specifically states that it doesn't apply if the male is the protagonist.
openA type of fantasy genre
I don't really have a description for this because I don't really have a concrete idea for what this "trope" would be, but I've run into three works that seem to share a genre, but I'm not really sure what that genre would be:
- The tabletop game Exalted
- The videogame Asura's Wrath
- The webcomic Kill Six Billion Demons
The best I can describe it, all three have an aesthetic that draws ancient mythology from around the world, but with a particular focus on Greco-Roman, East Asian, and Indian myth. Their main characters and antagonists are all Purposely Overpowered. (in an out-of-universe sense) They all have "gods" who are only really "gods" because they seized control of the universe in the same way a mortal king seizes control of a kingdom. They all liberally mix sci-fi technology into their culturally old-fashioned setting.
My first thought was Mythpunk, but after reading the description of that page it doesn't really seem to apply.
openWhat example is this?
A character is playing with the daughter of his best friend (now dead) and at one point, watches her run around while imagining said friend playing with her, which is even sadder because the best friend didn't live to see her born.
openRedistributing spoken lines Film
I just finished watching the latest movie version of Cymbeline. One thing I noticed was that a line that was spoken by Cymbeline in the original play was given to the Queen in this version. Is there a name for that?
openArtistic License - Getting A Job
Is there a trope that covers characters being underqualified for a job? For example, anyone can be a librarian without training.
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".