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openHome Base Cross Section Print Comic
Is there a trope for when a comic book shows a Cross-Section map of the heroes' Home Base, as a sort of "sneak peek" for the readers? Usually, the map makes no sense since artists are making the base up as they go, and they need to fill space with stuff like "supply room" and "bunker".
openA tree falls on someone
Is there a trope for deaths caused by trees falling on someone?
Edited by Pichu-kunopenOverly broad question fallacy
Is there a trope for when someone asks a deliberately overly broad question, and if someone answers "yes" to any of it, the person asking claims that proves him right? Example: a Phony Psychic claims to have a vision of a person's deceased mother, and says "I see a woman with brown hair, green eyes, glasses, about 5 feet tall, and in her 60s. Is this correct?" If the person answer "yes" the audience will likely think the questioner really is psychic, as how would anyone know that? The problem being: we have no way of knowing what he was saying "yes" to, it could be all five details (which would be pretty impressive) or just one of them (not very impressive at all, as the "psychic" listed five details, none of which are particularly uncommon, so that the chances that at least one of them would be right is probably more than 50 percent.)
Edited by BootlebatopenLove confession, immediate sex
Two romantically involved characters (either already dating or having the Will They or Won't They? thing going on) finally get around to confessing how they feel. Immediate sex follows. Do we have a trope for this?
openRobust Speedster Videogame
A character is not physically sturdy or well-armored, but has powerful defensive spells or abilities. this can range from "glass cannon with an emergency cooldown for balance reasons" all the way to "full-on dedicated tank, but mage or rogue flavored"
openFirst Person Disadvantage
In this game, being in first puts you at a disadvantage, so others can catch up. May be due to general mechanics, or in-universe reasons (such as in the MHA sports festival, where things where intentionally designed to be hard for the person in first)
openPlayed this one before
A cast of characters has to participate in a Deadly Game. Usually they're completely out of their depth, or even never knew it existed to begin with. One of them, however, has already played before and won, or at least escaped. These characters usually do not live long, sometimes by design. There's a mystery associated with why you'd want to go through this again, especially if there's no prize in it.
Examples: Togami in Danganronpa 2, Junpei in Virtue's Last Reward, Kokopelli and Koyemshi in Bokurano (though it's more of a 'previous game's team manager becomes the next game's player'), Shogo Kawada in Battle Royale, and so on.
openWhat is the trope about books and libraries in videogames with barely to none information called? Videogame
You know, like for example you see a bookself full of books in a NPC's house but not matter how many times you touch it doesn't say anything apart of "There is a lot of books here!" or some generic phrase like that instead of useful information.
openSpoiled by Genius Bonus Videogame
For when Genius Bonus spoils/gives away/overtly foreshadows a plot point, that would otherwise go unnoticed to the layperson. Is there a distinct trope for this or is the just a specific variation of the trope itself?
eg. a reveal in Rakuen is that a certain character is suffering from a certain condition, however this reveal becomes obvious to anyone who is familiar with the medication that they are said to be taking early on in the game.
A similar phenomenon could happen with Bilingual Bonus where a reveal would rely on the audience not being able to understand something being said in another language.
Edited by iloveserperioropenSleeping Abomination
An Eldritch Abomination that is literally or symbolically "asleep", and is closely associated with sleep and dreams. It may even unconsciously warp reality via its dreams. Waking it up is likely a very bad idea, either because it would cause a Dream Apocalypse, or because it being asleep is the only thing keeping it within its Leaking Can of Evil.
Examples:
- "In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming" is the Trope Codifier, if not the Trope Maker. Many of the examples below are direct references to it. Azathoth, whose dream is the universe and who must be kept asleep to maintain its existence, is also an example.
- Dagoth Ur, the Humanoid Abomination Big Bad of Morrowind, is closely associated with sleep and dreams. His Arc Words are "THE DREAMER IS AWAKE", and his Elite Mooks are called "Ascended Sleepers".
- The Leviathan of Dis from Mass Effect is the corpse of a Reaper. Despite its death, it is still capable of Indoctrinating people who enter it. When a member of Cerberus realizes they're being brainwashed by it, they say "even a dead god can dream".
- The Dreamers from The Secret World, who are not literally asleep, but are not very lucid and warp reality through their "dreams". Their influence manifests in the world as The Virus.
- Sacheverell from Exalted sees infallible visions of the present as long as he is asleep. All the other factions in the setting, no matter how hostile, work together to keep him asleep, because if he woke up he would see infallible visions of *the future* instead, and thus destroy the concept of free will.
- "Sleeper" from Worm is a superhuman with unknown abilities who is capable of "subsuming" entire planets in relatively short amounts of time.
- The Great Ones of Bloodborne, a group of Lovecraftian beings responsible for the creation of the Hunter's Dream and the Nightmare.
Edited by phalanxopenEnding Trope
What trope covers when a work's ending Fridge Horror that makes it seem not-as-happy as it's presented?
openBecause First Movie Film
Is there a trope for when a sequel does something that was in its predecessor just because it was in the previous film? I suppose it could apply to TV seasons too.
openImplied Sex Aftermath
The chapter starts up with an man picking up his pants as a woman rises to her feet and wiping her off face, implying to the audience that the two characters might have engaged in oral sex.
openBranded
In a book I want to make a page for, Flawed, revolves around a society where people are expected to be perfect, living under strict guidelines of what does and doesn't constitute someone being flawed. Those who are convicted of the crime of being flawed are then branded somewhere on their body, depending on what it is they did- lying, for example, gets the brand on the person's tongue. Because of this, flawed people are constantly marked, not only with their branding but with a red armband, for the purposes of making them stand out, allowing people to enforce the harsh guidelines flawed people must then live under.
I already know that this counts as a nation-wide Disproportionate Retribution policy (I mean, even just helping a flawed person will get you imprisoned or marked as flawed yourself), but is there a trope that would cover the Scarlet Letter style branding punishment? Or any other tropes that may fit this society, for that matter? (Dystopia is another obvious one).
Edited by WarJay77open"Man of a Thousand Identities" Hero
Unlike Batman, this character fights crime but under many identities.
openTrope for when a character asks another character a question but the other doesn't answer?
A bad situation comes up. Alice asks Bob if it's not as bad as it actually is because he did that one thing earlier, right? Right?! But Bob doesn't say anything reassuring, either saying anything other than "Yes, it's not as bad because I did something about it." or being silent and looking away guilty.
Examples:
- Lego Batman Family Matters: Bruce/Batman reveals he sold Wayne Enterprises (only for it to turn out Two-Face bought it). Dick/Nightwing asks him if this won't affect the trust funds Bruce made for his adopted kids.
Dick/Nightwing: Haha, okay, but this won't affect the trust funds you set up, right? [Bruce/Batman doesn't answer.] RIGHT?!
- Digimon Adventure 02: Davis and Flamedramon witness one of their human partner friends doing something selfless for their Digimon. Flamedramon asks Davis if he'd ever do the same for him and Davis mutters something like a half-hearted "Yeah, sure." Flamedramon gets mad and tells him to give him a straight answer like "Yes, anything for you."
- Monsters, Inc.: Before everyone goes home after their shift, Roz asks Mike if he's done the paperwork that he's been putting off.
Roz: Your sudden silence is very reassuring.
- Transformers: Animated: Happens twice to Sari in the Season 1 finale. Sari notices that Ratchet's hand is broken, but says it'll be okay as long as they use her Key to heal it, she just needs him to give it back to her. Ratchet sheepishly glances away and Sari realizes what happened ("YOU LOST MY KEY?!"). Later, when her father says that Megatron's return is his fault, Sari jokes that it's not like he hid Megatron in his lab and she has the same reaction when his embarrassed silence confirms it.
openGuy wants his friend to flirt with his wife because... Literature
Is there a trope for when a guy lets his friend flirt with his wife because he’s actually attracted to the friend? I’m writing the A Place of Greater Safety page right now and this exactly describes Desmoulins behaviour towards Danton.
openCan't Predict The Unpredictable
Enemy can't possibly know what you will do if you don't even know what you're doing.
Someone gets an absolutely terrible picture taken. Usually in a situation where they can't retake it for whatever reason. I could have sworn we had Terrible Drivers License Photo, but I can't find it. Embarrassing Old Photo is the closest I can find, but this tends to be for new photos.