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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!
openWhat is it when someone pushes their opponent into the trajectory of said opponent's own attack?
Let's say the Hero is having a sparring match with his rival. Hero tries to hit Rival with a projectile attack, but Rival manages to push Hero into the trajectory of Hero's own projectile attack.
openHoliday Hater
Do we have a supertrope for all the "hates various holidays" tropes like Valentine's Day Vitriol, Birthday Hater, The Grinch, etc?
Edited by HeroGal2347openShowing off the abilities of a new power/party member? Videogame
Pretty much what the title says; you gain some sort of ability or someone joins your party, and the next couple fights/puzzles/etc. are built around letting the new addition shine. Like for example all the enemies in a dungeon have fire weaknesses, and the new guy specializes in that element
openZombie Conformity
That one place or situation where everyone is slowly being 'turned' and they're all empty masks, but want you to join them, generally due to a substance, or government control
openOddball In The Merchandise
Is there a trope that covers rather unusual merchandise? AKA the merchandise equivalent of Oddball in the Series.
openCancelled Localizations
What trope covers partial No Export for You? Part of a series gets localized, but not the entirety.
openCombination Of Drugs
EXAMPLE: A character's who drunk but also on a 'roid rage' from taking anabolic steroids
openWham Episode Psych
An episode builds its way up to be a Wham Episode, but later reveals the major evolving details were actually fake.
openCity Guards = Cops Western Animation
People seem to assume, even on This Very Wiki, that in medieval and ancient times, city guards were the equivalent of cops - that they would perform arrests, lock people up and so on. Is there a trope about that? And, of course, in more comedic portrayals, the guards are exactly like cops, eating donuts and patroling the town in their carriages, using torches as flashlights and so on.
Character: "The song's not good or bad. It's just...boring.