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openLucoa & Tohru's One Liner
In Chapter 77 of the main manga of Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid Lucoa delivers this line of dialogue to Azad "No one is supposed to protect you now. I will not be your savior. Now... your savior is here." After this Tohru delivers the line "This is the end of your road." After this dialogue the scene cuts away to Kobayashi, Kanna & Kimun. What One-Liner trope is this dialogue?
openOnly Friends For Image
What's the trope for when people are only your friends because they want something from you or because you're rich/powerful/popular? False Friend?
openItem misuse
What’s the trope in where an item is misused in a comical way?
For example,
Person throws gun for self defense rather than using it as it would normally would
openThe wind being associated with the afterlife
Is there a trope for wind being associated with spirits? Like, how wind blowing signifies Mufasa in The Lion King.
openCancer Causes Murders
A character learns that he has some fatal disease (usually cancer) and decides that since he's going to die anyway, he might as well go ahead with any murders he had planned because he might as well die to the hangman as to the disease.
Shows up in Agatha Christie and Sherlock Holmes stories a few times, but there might be other authors as well.
Edited by Chabal2openImmediate Change of Mind
A trope where a character is given a request to do something. The character acts unwilling to do it at first or are at least apprehensive, only to cave into the request a second later. Usually along the lines of, "Oh, I couldn't. (Beat) Okay I could."
I know there is probably a trope about this somewhere, but I don't see it.
openWhich Religious Trope Fits Better?
Is it Ambiguously Christian or Church of Saint Genericus if a character is explicitly Christian, but it's unknowing what type of Christianity they worship? For example, this example from Ambiguously Christian:
- In Runaways, Klara starts off as a devout God-fearing Christian. Precisely which brand of Christianity she belongs to is never specified, but her strongly-expressed belief in her own damnation suggests that she might be Calvinist.
open"Not really a secret" (Solced) Live Action TV
Is there a trope where a character (who Did Not Do The Research, in-universe) discovers and/or threatens to reveal another character's secret, but the secret is actually public knowledge?
Like:
Alice: If you don't pay me a hefty sum, I'll expose to the world these picture of you kissing another man. Bob: That's my husband. This is a picture of our wedding.
Edited by Pisthetairosopenbeing able to move your character when falling even though you shouldn't Videogame
The most common example of this is when a game lets you move a falling character along the X and Y (horizontal) axes by pressing the movement keys even though logically this makes no sense unless said character has something like a flying squirrel's gliding flaps, as otherwise they'd basically be walking on air when they moved.
Edited by BootlebatopenInverse of Cerebus retcon?
Is there a trope for the opposite of a Cerebus Retcon, where something later in the work makes previous serious moments more lighthearted?
openclaiming you were joking to cover up a dumb mistake
What's the trope for when someone makes some really dumb mistake (such as using a word extremely incorrectly or making a really basic geographical mistake) and, when everyone calls them out of it, claim they were just joking (usually unsuccessfully) and didn't really make a mistake. "Just Joking" Justification doesn't seem to work as that's about claiming you were just joking to get away with being a Jerkass instead.
Edited by BootlebatopenMagic words always rhyme
Is there a trope for how words for a spell, if they're in English or some other real language and not just nonsense words almost always have the last words in each "verse" rhyme?
Edited by BootlebatopenThis was totally made in America Film
A film or live action series is made somewhere other than America but wants you to think it really is there (usually in ways that are pretty obvious such as prominently displaying an American flag on the wall or having a character say "God Bless America" or something like that). I thought California Doubling was this but I just looked and it's not.
openBoys are from Mars, Girls are from... Macy's?
I've found a lot of tropes related to this (like Men Act, Women Are, Clarke's Law for Girls' Toys, Girl-Show Ghetto, Men Can't Keep House — just to name a few), but I'm curious if there's anything that better hits this nail on the head? Even Playing House turned up nothing, not even a mention that it's frequently the girl who wants to play house, and boys get involved for other reasons (for comedy, or to showcase some family love).
But after seeing a certain movie about toys, my SO and I were comparing the toys we had as children, and noticing a very distinct dichotomy: toymakers tend to believe that young boys want to go on wild, weird adventures, full of danger and combat, while young girls would rather stay home and play house. Or go to the mall and buy a cute purse. Maybe take care of some animals. Anything that can be grounded in a safe, domestic reality that outlandish boys' toys would rather forcibly eject themselves from.
The best example came from comparing two related toy lines, Polly Pocket and Mighty Max. His descriptions of the MM playsets were filled with aliens, monsters, and a lot of dungeon traps, including a waterfall of acid spiders. My most memorable PP playset was a schoolhouse, came with a group of ordinary looking girls, and sported working doors and a light-up clock. (Whoa, lights?? Slow down there, Polly, you don't want to get too crazy!)
For a broader example, there's the notorious prevalence of baby dolls in the girls' aisle versus action figures in the boys' aisle. On the flipside, this also means that girls tend to be the target audience for toys that make something real, like beading and crafting kits and the highly coveted Easy-Bake Ovens. For boys, there doesn't seem to be much equivalence, unless they can put a crazy sci-fi spin on it like Creepy Crawlers.
open‘Not really cheating’ trope
Alice is attracted to Bob. Bob is in a relationship with Kate. Kate is presented as not a nice person/it’s shown that Bob and Kate are close to breaking up. Alice and Bob share a few moments where it’s made clear that Bob is also attracted, they might even share a kiss. However, we as an audience think this is more okay because Kate isn’t a nice person and Bob was going to break up with her anyway.
openDo we have the superfluous heterosexual? Film
This character exists solely because without them, the movie would be really gay. Features include: - Film would only need minor changes to erase this character from it. - Film heavily focuses on the relationship between two same-sex characters. - The character's most clearly defined feature is "is the love interest of main character," and possibly has no others.
Examples: - Sharon Carter (Captain America Civil War, to prevent Steve/Bucky) - Cliff Pantone(Bring it On, to prevent Torrance/Missy) - Emmett Richmond (Legally Blonde, to prevent Elle/Vivian) - Joe (Bend It Like Beckham, to prevent Jess/Julie)
What's the trope for when a character is written off a show because of controversy involving the actor? Or, in another case, the sequel ignores a previously major character because the actor's real world behavior.