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openConfused Plot
Is there a trope where the plot suddenly loses focus and goes completely out of control?
openThe new arrival did it!
Alice shows up someplace where something bad just happened. While she's examining the aftermath, Bob shows up, sees her standing in the wreckage, and immediately accuses her simply because she's there.
openHero that came back from grave/capsule after long time
For example, like the Legend of Zelda: breath of the wild, Link was asleep in some temple and someone awake him to his journey. Same example like the doom slayer from the game DOOM(2016), and Zero from the GBA game Megaman Zero.
Edited by SwanfalopenImmitation
Can Irritation Is the Sincerest Form of Flattery apply when the person being immitated is fine, indifferent, or even pleased with the immitation?
openParentheses Lips
An artistic choice where characters with plump lips are drawn with curved lines above and below their mouth.
openSignature Word
Where a particular work uses a particular, somewhat obscure word, repeatedly (often in place of swear words, eg how Father Ted uses "feck", or Red Dwarf uses "smeg") to the point that the word is linked indelibly to the show. Not the same as Smurfing as the word has an identifiable and consistent meaning.
openSurprisingly Sophisticated
Is there a trope for when someone at first appears to be uneducated, primitive, or the like, but then reveals themselves to be highly intelligent and possessing unexpected skills, like a Barbarian Hero who turns out to be a renowned abstract painter.
Edit: or a missionary go to teach English to a remote tribe and find out that the people there not only already speak English, they're also fluent in five other major languages, know calculus, and are able to repair the missionary's camera.
Edited by BattleMasteropenstrangers get stuck in a bad situation and become friends as a result
Typically because they have to work together to survive and escape.
Edited by BootlebatopenFictional Version Of Something, But The Change Is Unrelated To Copyrights
What trope refers to fictional counterparts not done for legal reasons but because a work isn't in "our world"? For example, Sundoe instead of Starbucks. Fictional Counterpart? Or is it still Bland-Name Product?
openAre there any tropes about nice LGBT people?
Just wondering since there's Depraved Homosexual, Psycho Lesbian etc. Is there any Good Counterpart? Or would that just be People Sit On Chairs.
openLove-Revealing Drug
This character, drugged up, is having sex with a woman. The hallucinogen causes the character to visualize the woman as another main character, revealing his long love for her.
openI Thought You Would've Known By Now
- One main character is mad at another character because they found out something the latter could've mentioned before. The latter, in his defense, actually thought the former knew about it to begin with.
openCreating danger to solve it.
Someone who created dangerous situations to be the one to save everyone. Ex: Lighting a building on fire to put it out and save everyone.
openPets not wanting to be called pets
Is there a trope where a pet does not like being thought of as someone's pet, because they don't think of themselves as being owned by someone else?
openMotiveDecay but in-universe?
Characters knowingly or unknowingly forgets about the reason why they were doing something in the first place, but this is acknowledged by the story because it's part of their Character Development?
openResponsibility
Is there a trope that describes someone that believes that the situation around them is improving so much that they don't need to worry about it or get involved with trying to help fix it more, even though it's technically everyone's responsibility?
openFace swap trope? Live Action TV
Do we have this one?
Alice and Bob are a couple and have been together for 4 years In-Universe.
One night, Bob wakes up and finds he has Alice's head and face instead of his, but retains his own body otherwise. Alice is unaffected, not getting her face changed.
There's no explanation yet In-Universe why this has happened. Fans speculate why.
I'm not sure - it's not Clone by Conversion is it, but it's not an Affectionate Parody or Homage of Film.Face Off?
It can't be Man, I Feel Like a Woman or could it be?
I know that Epileptic Trees fit the fan speculation part.
What trope could this be?
openNew thing is automatically military property unless it's useless
Short version: Whenever some newly-discovered thing with potentially world-changing abilities is discovered, who do you think will want it more? The weapons-development division of military? Or the small-town scientist that could possibly find a way to do something practical with whatever this new thing is?
Using the crystal as an example: Say some random third-world mining company that couldn't possibly dig up anything of value stumbles across a cave in a mountain that contains a bunch of previously undiscovered crystals that somehow hold more energy in a fist-sized chunk than the entire NYC power grid. The moment they make their discovery public, the military buys out the company under the guise of an "investor", calls their "discovery" a hoax and kicks them out, then fences off the whole area, declares it a military site, and turns the entire mountain into a crater with bilion-dollar strip-mining equipment in an attempt to get every last one of the not-actually-fake crystals that they can get their hands on. After which point the following happens, usually in this order:
- First off, can the crystals be used in a weapon with a yield similar to a nuke?
- Failing that, can they be used at any point in the process that would make a conventional nuke more powerful?
- If not, can they be used in any way to make a nuke better?
- If they can't be used for nukes, can they be used to make any sort of weapon better?
- If they can't be weaponized in any way, can they be used to make the usage of a weapon (EG, a nuke) easier?
- If they can't be used for anything even remotely weapon-related, can they be used in a way that would make any form of combat easier?
- If they can't be used in any way that would give your guys an edge in battle, send them to RnD and get them to find some way that can make their guys better than the other ones.
- If there's no way for them to be used in anything even remotely related to the military, hand them off to a less private organization (EG, DARPA) and tell them to try their hand at it.
- If not even they can do anything with it, the process repeats on down the line until they finally reach a backwater techie that can somehow make a device that can let people use the crystals for their original purpose: A battery!
Is there a trope for when a character is either sick (e.g. a high fever) or not sober and they act out and typically have some plot-related progress only to forget it once they recover?