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openLooking out windows
Is there a trope for characters looking out windows usually to emphasis their sadness or loneliness.
openteam formation
Are there tropes about the founding/formation of a team? The closest I found was Avengers Assemble, but that seems to be about the members being introduced to the viewers in a montage.
openHeroic Jealousy
- The villain hates the hero because how's he adored by the public because he's more subtle about saving the day whereas the villain, who was also an hero was disliked because of his "going in guns blazing" approach of saving the day.
openWhat example is this?
The main character finally hooks up with his romantic love interest but he never had sex before. The love interest's aware and decides to ease him into it.
opengroup formation of power
Is there a super-trope to Circle of Friendship about groups standing together to increase their power?
openInappropriate Photo Taking
When in a normally completely serious or dramatic scene, a character randomly whips out a phone or camera and takes a picture, usually a form of comic relief. Different than Camera Fiend in that it's a one-note gag and isn't about the character rather than the occurrence itself. Do we have this?
openDestroy the Things You Love
Do we have a trope about a character who is addicted to ruining (killing, if it involves people as well) the things they love?
My description is lackluster, but anything else would make the trope too specific, and I've seen this trope in several books and movies.
openShipping Dissonance
is there a trope where a specific Ship is well liked in the Fandom, but dosen't appeal to those outside the Fandom. (but still like the work anyways) it dosen't always have to be a Fan-Preferred Couple though.
Edited by Eevee123openClothing as clue
Someone finds someone else's discarded clothing, as a clue that they're nearby.
openCorrect name for a Slow Reveal
I'm sure I've seen this trope before but I can't for the life of me remember the name. It's when a dramatic/horrific reveal comes so slowly and innocuously it's a surprise when you're suddenly in the middle of it, essentially the opposite of a single Wham Line or Wham Shot. An example of the trope in action would be the Red Wedding in the Song of Ice and Fire books (not so much the TV series), where the massacre starts so subtly and without fanfare that readers may get several paragraphs into it before realising what they're reading, and may have to re-read the last page or so just to check how it actually starts.
resolved Tricked into Investigating for Evildoer Literature
To paraphrase, I am looking for relevant TV tropes for the following situation a few of us had come up in a LARP recently (put it under literature because it feels like something that might happen as a plot twist in a book and didn't see a category quite fitting LARP):
A group of people breaks into the office of someone they suspect is a spy for a major enemy to the kingdom, looking for information, while one person plays decoy. The decoy gets identified as part of the group because one of them blurts out something blowing the decoy's cover of pretending to not be part of the group. The baddie lets the decoy leave with the group (knowing that their cover is blown)- for the moment.
Baddie then goes to the secretly invading group to let them know what happen. They hire a PI- who is generally a decent, "lawful good" type and cite the various minor laws the group of people that did the break-in violated, say the decoy was a co-conspirator, and ask the PI to investigate the decoy and find out who is linked to them and who might've been one of the intruders in the office. PI provides information on the decoy and identifies 2 other people.... and unwittingly ends up enabling the kidnapping and torture of the decoy and those two with their information, making the three innocent people trying to stop baddies victims of far worse crimes than the few they committed (breaking-and-entering, vandalism, theft, trespassing)
What trope or tropes is that?
openLooking For the Proper Trope
Hey all! I’m looking for a trope that best describes a scenario I’m thinking about and I’m hoping y’all can help me out. The scenario is when someone casually reveals shocking information about either themselves or something else that shocks everyone else but to them it’s no big deal. Like if you’re having tea with a friend of yours and they said, “Yeah, I use to be a henchman for a supervillain who was trying to blow up the world.” and then casually goes back to sipping their tea as if they just told you what time it is. I ask this because I was thinking about American Dad and how Francine in one episode casually revealed to her family how she killed her roommate in college and acted like it was no big deal while her family was in shock. But anyway, sorry for the long text. Does anyone have any ideas of what’s the best trope for this?
openA character or entity having "Nightmare" as a name or as a part of the name
Being evil and/or related to/being Anthropomorphic Personification of actual nightmares is optional. Just having "Nightmare" in the name or as a name.
openWhat is the Trope?
For when a work that was once Overshadowed by Controversy becomes more well liked/popular overtime? somewhat of a subtrope to Vindicatedby History.
openYour Heaven Is My Hell
Is there a trope where heaven and hell are the same place, and the villain's punishment is to spend eternity seeing the people they fought in life be rewarded forever?
For instance, in Titanic Rose is reunited with Jack and all the passengers of the Titanic, including Cal, who's basically Forced to Watch his former fiancée be happy with a man poorer than him.
In Chronicles Of Wormwood, Islamist suicide bombers end up in the same heaven as other people, it's just that they spend eternity with 72 virgins... that is, caring for 72 permanently shrieking babies. So they get to suffer while watching everyone else be happy.
There was a comic book (might have been Hellblazer) where a married couple both end up in Hell, but the long-suffering wife gets to torture her abusive husband (who very much deserves every second of it). So hell for him, heaven for her.
openBoss pissed me off so I killed him
When an underling has had enough with the boss' jerk attitude or stupidity and goes to (try to) kill his boss. This is usually not without some consequences.
Do we have this?
openWinged Animal
Is there a generalized trope for an animal which has wings that wouldn't normally? For example, the characters of Butterbean's Cafe have a winged/flying cat as a pet.
openDefied Trope Acknowledgement
Two brothers work for their family business and work quite well with neither man wanting full control of the business. Even they quipped about not engaging in a sibling rivalry
Is there a trope of a logo that changes or evolves during a series, based on a singular recognizable format but with meaningful changes like the tails on the logos for Super Mario 3D Land and Super Mario 3D World reflecting the games' main powerups, or the Luigi's Mansion logo looking like three-dimensional jelly for Luigi's Mansion 3 to indicate Googi's role?
Logo Joke refers to the work putting its flair on the logo of their parent production company, so I don't think that's it.