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openGirl chooses neither during a cock fight
Cock Fight but the girl chooses neither, or chooses someone else, which results in both guys becoming friends.
openPyromancy is free, Hydromancy requires water.
A trope where some Elemental Powers can create the element out of thin air, but others can only control the element. Examples include Avatar the Last Airbender where firebenders can summon fire, but waterbenders, earthbenders, and airbenders require the element to be around them to control it.; One Piece, where most Logias can summon the element out of thin air, but Crocodile does not appear able to do that as well as most can.
openUnsound Hiding Method
A tries to hide from B or spy on someone, but decides to hide in an unconventional place. In this case, lets say a trash can. They manage to go unsuspected by B they're spying on, but some random guy who's not in on it decides to throw away his trash in the trash can that A is in.
This is an Unsound Hiding Spot. When a character finds a place to hide or a way to hide, only for their plan to backfire on them by an unwitting third party, usually by uses the hiding place for realistic purposes.
Is there a trope for this? I've seen this a couple of times around.
Edited by Junebug25openBoobs Cross The Finish Line Anime
Girl with bigger boobs cross the finish line first with their "protruding endowment".
openinterruption "fallacy"
Is there a trope for the fallacy (if you can even call it that), where someone asks someone a (typically extremely loaded and bad faith question), then cuts off the other person before they can get their entire answer out and claims they must support/believe something bad. E.G person A says they are in favor of universal health care, person B says something like: "So you want to give the government more power?" Person A starts with something like "Yes, but.." only for person B to cut them off and say something like "Ha! You must be in favor of tyranny then!"
Edited by BootlebatopenToo Accomplished To Be Impressed
Guy 1: "I've mastered three kind of elemental magic."
Guy who can control the reality itself: "Good for you."
openHistory tropes?
Am I correct with these tropes on history and settings?:
Period Piece vs 20MinutesIntoThePast vs Unintentional Period Piece
- Period Piece: It's very clearly set in a specific year, and often the creators will have Shown Their Work on the period concerned. Hard Alternate History (Type I) often falls into this.
- 20 Minutes into the Past: The year (1993 in the example above) is the setting and it's there for verisimilitude purposes.
- Unintentional Period Piece: A work that was set in Present Day at the time of filming or broadcast is later seen as a Period Piece, unintentionally and retrospectively. It does not age well, and things like technology, politics (pre- The Great Politics Mess Up and references to Why We're Bummed Communism Fell), fashions and automobiles can date it badly.
For Want Of A Nail vs In Spite of a Nail vs Close-Enough Timeline:
- For Want Of A Nail: Small change has big difference, starting a major event.
- In Spite of a Nail: Changing one small thing in the past doesn't mean the entire future will have a drastic change. Some things never change, as they say.
- Close-Enough Timeline: It's not quite the usual timeline, but it'll have to do, as it's the best we can get via Time Travel. Common in anime and fantasy genre.
openCharacter can't be killed in a standard way.
To kill this character, you must destroy something, that is connected to this character. Very often, this character doesn't have physical form.
Example: Tom Riddle from second Harry Potter movie. Edit: Tom is just a living memory. When Harry stabbed Tom's diary, Riddle disepear.
Edited by Seventy1openWhat example is this
This character is an boxer and unlike flashy and/or flamboyant boxers, this boxer has an no-nonsense approach. Just get in the ring, win the fight, collect the paycheck and go home.
openDesert/Sea Juxtaposition
Similar to Fire/Water Juxtaposition, but with sand instead of fire.
Examples:
In The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Lanayru province is a desert that used to be an enormous sea, and most of its puzzles revolve around using timeshift stones to transform portions of it back into this original state.
In the Prince of Persia games, monsters associated with the "Sands of Time" are harmed by water.
Journey and Abzu are two videogames with similar themes and gameplay that share a Production Posse - one set in a vast desert, and the other in a vast ocean.
Groudon and Kyogre from Pokemon R/S/E are as much this as Fire/Water Juxtaposition, as Groudon is more associated with drought and unending, oppressive sunlight than it is with literal fire.
In the movie Aquaman, the only part of the movie that takes place neither in or near the sea is the sequence where the protagonists travel to the Sahara to find an Atlantean ruin left behind by settlers who inhabited the region before it became a desert.
Edited by phalanxopenSpinoff having a higher age rating than the original
Cells at Work! is classified as Teen in the US, which is the usual age rating for manga. Its spinoff Cells at Work! CODE BLACK applies several Tone Shift tropes rather heavily—Ascended Fridge Horror, Bloodier and Gorier, Darker and Edgier and Hotter and Sexier. As a result of all these, it gets a relatively rare 18+ rating in the US.
Is there a trope that discusses age rating differences between an original work and derivative work, or is it too Chairs to trope?
openMutual Symbiosis (SOLVED)
Is there a trope related to this? Basically two lifeforms have a mutually beneficial relationship, such as honey bees getting food from flowers and helping them pollinate, or the bacteria in every living organism's stomach that helps break food down, or clownfish living in sea anemone, which gives the fish a home safe from predators and keeps the anemone clean and provides nutrients.
Are there any examples of fictional species behaving like this?
Edited by DelphineTheDelphoxopenBad picture
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.
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?
The main Character was a girl and she didn’t know she had super unnatural powers but she don’t know until she went to this party and and bumped into this guy and she said something but no one else’s could see the guy and he was surprised and later on she figuered our that her mother also gave a necklace to protect her from the danger but when she aged she was unprotected
Edited by torie