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openfan of decadence
Is there a trope for when a rich person (or royalty) is depicted holding an elaborate fan (as in a hand fan, not a Deadly Rotary Fan) and waving it at themselves? Seems to be a pretty common image but I can't name an example off hand.
Edited by BootlebatopenNot sure
A weird tv show which was described as the all singing all dancing comedy. The first episode was shown on Dave or E4 or something. It was about a man and his family. He has a random name like humperdink. The first episode started with the front door shutting on him and the doors features makimg a face and laughing and geering at him. The family are trying to get ready to go out with many house hold objects singing and dancing. The man is trying to write a radio jingle for a scary mans taxi company. The family go to a car boot sale. Can anyone help?
openAssisted by a child Videogame
I'm looking for a trope where, when the player does certain things, NPC children will come up to the player and interact with them. Example:
- In this setting, there's one child that randomly wanders around the town that serves as the player's home base. Should the child's wandering put them near the player, or if the player walks up to them, they'll hold up a low-tier item and offer it to the player.
- If the player has just come back from a battle, and is low on health, they may offer a piece of food, or another small item, that will restore just enough health that they can survive long enough to get a proper healing potion.
- Should the player's health be critical, said child will not only seek out the player if they're nearby, but will begin to offer actual healing items like small health potions.
- If the player's health is near-full, the child will mostly ignore the player unless approached, but will start to offer various "trinkets" ranging from Vendor Trash, to food, all the way up to rare items like small gemstones that would normally never be found in the hands of a child, but would be a god-send for the player.
- If the player drops a small item on the ground, and subsequently forgets it, the child will pick it up, and will offer it before anything in their "inventory."
openSoda Shaking Prank
Shaking someone's soda as a prank so when they open it, it'll spray everywhere.
openReal name basis
If every other people call someone by their nickname, then this guy calls them by their real name. That someone may be irritated because of it, or that guy only "allows" certain people to call them by their real name.
What do we call it?
openAdvertising to Nostalgia
Is there an advertising trope about advertisers trying to seem down-to-earth, personable, and nostalgic? For example, they name their products after people (Amy's, Uncle Ben, Aunt Jemima. etc) and feature vintage images on their packaging or in their ads (Old Mcdonald's farm, old dutch ovens, etc). It's a supertrope to Grandma's Recipe.
Edited by Pichu-kunopenLoves their job
Unlike most people who probably go to work, not looking forward to the daily grind, this person enjoys their job, thoroughly. They don't love it for the pay or for the benefits or the fame, though those are certainly nice bonuses if they're there. They love their job, because they love what they do in said-job. I can't find anything remotely like this and I'm wondering if a trope needs to be created for it, since there are people both in media and real life who love their work and do their jobs because they thoroughly enjoy what it entails.
openDeath trope for villain? Live Action TV
Do we have this one?
In the previous episode, Alice and her Five-Man Band had got the Big Bad of seasons 1 to 3, Bob, killed, through one of his own schemes. Next episode focuses on the funeral of the Big Bad, but also shows the start of the next Big Bad 's scheme.
Is there a trope for this sort of situation involving death of one villain, start of new villain's reign (other than Arc Villain)?
openFaux Tragic
In universe characters treat something as tragic when it shouldn't be, usually played for humor. Like crying over spilt milk.
I thought I remember having it, but...
openPossible Double Standard Trope?
Basically, quite a bit of works have a mostly all-female cast, and the heroes will all be female, but the Big Bad is a male (example: every Pretty Cure series). This seems to be suggesting that men are inherently more evil and suited to villainy than women.
Females Are More Innocent does this too, but I think that trope requires a female villain/antagonist (just one who is portrayed as less evil than the men). What about a work where there are no female villains, just female heroes and male villains, because it never crossed the mind of the author that women can be evil?
Edited by MasterNopenSelfcest Shipping?
Is there a term for when two versions of the same character are shipped in fandom? Not talking about Screw Yourself which is about canon instances of such a trope, but the fanon variant, usually between characters as portrayed by different actors or after a large personality shift. The most infamous example would be Oncest from The Lorax but it's still a case in some other fandoms.
openWhat Example is this
This excerpt from an Nostalgia Critic episode on the 2000 film X-Men: "When it came out, nobody took comic book movies seriously, mostly because they followed the source material even less than this film did. So attempting to be taken seriously, talking about prejudice while also trying to be somewhat faithful to a source nobody took seriously, was kind of risky. It had to take baby steps, find a middle ground, so that future comic book movies could take more chances and risk higher budgets."
openEvolving Motto
A character or company has a motto that, for some reason or another, gets changed to better fit the situation or the current times.
Some examples
- The General Insurance commercials: The old motto used to be "For the best car insurance rates in town, call 1-800-GENERAL now!" But as the Internet became more prevalent, they eventually changed it to "For a great low rate you can get online, go to The General and save some time!"
- Pokémon: Jessie, James, and Meowth tend to change their motto every few seasons. One time when they used their old motto again, they expressed how good it felt.
- Quidditch Through the Ages: After eighty years of failure, the Chudley Cannons officially changed their motto from "We shall conquer" to "Let's all just keep our fingers crossed and hope for the best."
openOblivious Pain Slinging
A sister trope to Oblivious Mockery and Oblivious Guilt Slinging where two characters are talking, one character's words secretly hurt the other but they don't let it show. Usually played for laughs.
For example, Bob is hopelessly in love with Alice, and Alice is so hopelessly ditzy she doesn't notice (or Bob knows they can't be together for some reason but he still hangs out with her, Alice has serious misandry issues and Bob is the only exception, etc.). Instead she sees Bob as her best friend and pours out her heart to him on multiple occasions, the audience seeing how much it hurts him to hear her talk of her boyfriends, along with phrases like "All Men Are Perverts, and sometimes it seems you're the only one who isn't interested in dating me", "I wish I could find a boyfriend as patient and understanding as you, but better-looking/rich/taller", etc. Conversely, Bob and Charlie are talking about Alice, both in love with her but only Charlie mentions it, and he's a much better prospect than Bob, so Bob says nothing but every word of Charlie's hurts him.
Doesn't have to be romantic, could be Bob talking about how he loathes group X and Alice is secretly part of that group, Alice is announcing her plans which put Bob's in jeopardy but he has to hide it, etc.
Edited by Chabal2openObligation love
A character is with their romantic partner partly out of a sense of obligation to said partner.
openSo is TokenMinority like SeldomSeenSpecies but for people?
I'm trying to look for a trope where a story depicts someone who is from a country/ethnicity/nationality/race that usually isn't represented in media? Would this be Token Minority? Although some of the examples I had in mind may not really count "minorities" as most people would consider them in the West.
Examples:
- Frozen: Kristoff is Sami, which the general American/Canadian audience doesn't know of.
- Elena of Avalor: A show made in the U.S. and Canada, Season 3 features a kingdom of Jewish Latinos. Also, another kingdom seems to be based on Argentina.
- The Japanese Visual Novel Fate/hollow ataraxia introduces Luviagelita Edelfelt, who is Finnish. However, she might as well be from any other non-English European country since it mainly just serves the purpose of her being exotic to the Japanese audience since she comes from a lesser known European country (as opposed to Russia, Germany, England, France, etc.) and nothing specific about her Finnish background is brought up. The Tohsaka family also has some Finnish blood since an Edelfelt married into their family around the 1940's.
- Young Justice does its best to represent people from various backgrounds and identities:
- Artemis and Jade/Cheshire are half Vietnamese and half French, their mother is Vietnamese, Jade/Cheshire's daughter Lian is a quarter Vietnamese and three-quarters white.
- Ed (El Dorado) and his parents are Argentinian.
openDa Conductor
Is there a trope for dictatorial orchestra conductors in the same vein as Da Chief and Da Editor?
openNo Title
Do any tropes cover pet stores being depicted in a negative light? I had a TLP for this but I think it's Too Rare To Trope. What about a shady pet store employee?
What's the trope for when an event meant to be entertaining only entertains one person out of the whole group?