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openThis story is entirely true. Web Original
Is there a trope about how in some (usually creepypasta) stories, it starts with an assurance that the story is entirely true? Because that's something I'd like to add to The petscop webvid page. Petscop does that.
openLimited (graphical) resources is explained/handwaved in story
What trope would fit this?
- Honkai Impact3rd: The event "Seele's Diary" is set in the past, back before Rozaliya and Liliya get their enhancement that gave them horns and tails of Honkai Beasts. And yet, they appear in the story with the 3D model of their playable appearance, i.e after their enhancements. The explanation for this is that, in the flashback story, they're apparently "props" made by Roza to enhance her unique persona as a superstar.
openSpawn Of The Undead
A child conceived by a member of The Undead, be they the rotting zombie, lich, ghost or decidedly not living The Grim Reaper. Sister trope to Dhampyr, notable for the strangeness/irony of a technically dead being bringing life into the world. For example, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy has Irwin's mother be a decayed Mummy, which Billy points out the issues with the logistics
openNo Title Live Action TV
Looking to see if there is a Trope that if there is, is a cousin of Elimination Houdini and mainly shows up in cooking shows.
In Elimination Houdini a constant in a reality show is saved even though they don't have the talent for the show. In this trope, a constant is eliminated despite both contestants having the skills, even though one fails a challenge or the contestant is eliminated for something that had nothing to do with the challenge/should not have been judged on (The host may even comment the item being worked on is not something that will be judged, or when this trope is triggered.) or, in a cooking show, is eliminated despite the judges saying that a "must use" item cannot be tasted and as such there is no proof it was used.
Example of what I am looking for:
Alice and Bob have made it to the final round of "TV Tropes Cooking Challenge" Our final round is "Hamburgers" Alice and Bob both decide that hamburgers won't win the challenge alone and make a side dish.
Judge Carl tries both dishes. He says that while Alice's side dish is amazing, her hamburger tastes like something from a fast food joint. Bob's review is the reverse, his french fries are average at best, but after the show Carl wants Bob's hamburger recipe. As Carl prepares to judge, the winner seems clear to us. The round was on Hamburger, Bob has this in the bag, right.
Wrong! Alice wins! Alice is happy, Bob fakes it in front of the judge but in his elimination speech does a calm version of a WTF pointing out the challenge was burgers and yet despite delivering a superior burger lost.
Is this too close to Elimination Houdini or is there a trope that meets this?
openWe need something, anything, with Thanos on the cover!
A pair of months ago Marvel started a comic starred by Thanos. It has no relation with the films... except for the detail that it was released when Endgame had just hit theaters and the hype was at its highest.
Which is the trope, YMMV or trivia for this?
openDeaging To Nothing
When the Fountain of Youth goes horribly right, and the character is at the risk of or suffers decreasing in age so much that they cease to exist(or reach such an early point in their development they are at serious risk of dying from the elements). Examples include JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders (Alessi's Stand inadvertently de-ages a woman into a fetus which Polneraff is trying to keep alive), Dorkly (the Fetality sketch where the Babality accidentally causes the target to become a fetus, who then dies with no womb), The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (when the character's hourglasses are put upside down, they start deaging until they vanish from existence), Futurama (Farnsworth's attempt at undoing their becoming younger not only makes them even younger, but threatens to continue until pre-life! Then death), Eri (her Quirk to reverse actions has the potential to de-age people to the point of Ret-Gone)
openSmarter than it looks
What I'm looking for is a trope similar to Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass or Obfuscating Stupidity, except applied to inanimate objects. As an example, here's an episode of an Avengers tv show that I've unfortunately forgotten the details of:
The main plot is that Thor is on an uncharted island fighting a fellow asgardian who, via an unmentioned series of loopholes, has managed to beseech the asgardian oath of honor without actually violating it, and is now fighting Thor in a noticeably dishonorable way. In one scene, as they're fighting, Mjolnir gets knocked out of Thor's hand with enough force to send it over the horizon, which in most cases means it's going to be a tad wet when it returns. However, in the next scene, we see The Hulk on an oil platform trying to (singlehandedly) find Thor. A few seconds later, Mjolnir arrives on a trajectory that suggests that it's not just blindly tumbling through the air like a mortal hammer anymore. Once the two get close enough, Hulk promply leaps into the air and grabs Mjolnir, with predictibly useless results, except that once Hulk has a hold of Mjolnir, it promptly makes a U-turn and races back to thor even though he hadn't recalled it yet. And once he does, it simply changes to a more precise course. And once it arrives, Hulk promply bodyslams the unfortunate adversary while Mjolnir returns to Thor.
If that was a tad wordy, here's a version that's simpler to understand: Under normal circumstances, Mjolnir's basically a normal hammer that can't really do anything except fly when not wielded by Thor. And even then, it's autonomous flight is limited to "Get back to Thor ASAP when called", and just sits there like a(n unnaturally stubborn) brick if not told to do so. In this situation, Mjolnir's enchantments are apparently inteligent enough that when it's separated from Thor by a significant margin whilst he's fighting a vastly superior opponent, it starts to seek out a sutable "playing-field-leveler" as if it knew what was happening. Granted, Hulk trying to grab Mjolnir went about as well as expected, but the fact that it was able to act without Thor makes it a unique situation.
Edited by GofastmikeopenDestroyed title
I definitely have already seen this one, but I can't find it in the search anymore. When the words on the title card are physically destroyed. I remember seeing it linked to the Avengers: Infinity War ending title, but I can't actually find what it was called.
openDisguise Failure
A mundane version of Glamour Failure where any disguise from Paper Thin to Magic Plastic falls apart somehow or gets destroyed and you get caught.
Edited by CivanfanopenPopular Non-canon characters.
Is there a trope about certain characters that are extremely popular to the fans, but at the same time non-canon?
openLine Breaks
Is there a way to create a line break bigger than the one created by two backslashes, but smaller than the one created by three backslashes?
Edit: Sorry, just realized I put this in the wrong place. Ignore.
Edited by CyokieRevottopenPaper canopy Western Animation
Characters are able to converse with each other while one is flying a sealed helicopter and the other is on the ground, with no apparent communication equipment.
Edited by CurtisMarauderopenBorn from powerful emotion
Do we have a trope for creatures which are born from powerful emotions
openSucks at arguing
A character tries to argue a point, but is so bad at it that he ends up defeating himself.
For example, Bob tries to argue with Alice (who has Lack of Empathy) that empathy is a good thing. When she asks him to describe it, he says it's something that lets you feel other people's pain and suffer when they do, which prompts Alice to very reasonably state that empathy is certainly not something she wants if it causes her more pain.
openMeta Examples Of A Work Being Overshadowed By A Similar Work
This example from Days's YMMV page use the wrong trope. Is there a better trope, besides Dueling Works, for when a work is overshadowed by another trope?
- Overshadowed by Awesome:
- The anime, while unable to achieve the popularity of Haikyuu!! or KurokoNoBasuke, did help to improve the sales of the manga. It is also the produced in 2016, the same year that its creator would later make Yuri!!! on Ice and In This Corner of the World.
- For the manga, it has several strengths that would make it stand out compared to the others (most prominently the protagonist joining a powerhouse team and not the underdog, and the unusually warm relationship between Kazama and Tsukushi), but that alone wasn't enough to keep people hooked, especially since the series displayed many of its strengths too late, found Tskushi too wimpy to root for at the start and its anime series being underfunded. Thus, while being rather successful in its magazine and genre, it falls behind compared to the big leagues for the time period in the likes of Haikyuu, Kuroko no Basket and Yowamushi Pedal.
openYou are not the first
A character with a certain role discovers that they were not the first person in that role, and their predecessors failed, are dead, and/or are otherwise gone. Sometimes there's a deceitful mentor figure who manipulates the character into filling said role, without telling them about their predecessors. Sometimes overlaps with There Is Another, Hero's Evil Predecessor, Precursor Heroes, Eternal Recurrence or The Bluebeard.
Examples: (SPOILERS)
- Ego in Guardians Of The Galaxy pretends like Quill is his only son, but in fact he had countless children and has been killing them after they failed to inherit his Celestial powers.
- Neo in The Matrix learns he is not the first The One.
- Daughter in I Am Mother learns that there were two other Daughters before her, who were killed by Mother for failing their "exams".
- A variant with Sam Bell in Moon. He knows there were previous employees at Sarang station, but he later learns that all of them were *him* - they're all clones.
- The Doctor in the Doctor Who episode "Hell Bent" learns he was not the first person to find themselves in the mysterious castle and try to escape. Similar to the Moon example above, he and his predecessors are all clones.
Edited by phalanxopenManmade Devil
The Devil, God of Evil or other cosmic menace was created in some way by mortals, usually to give reason for why evil exists. Examples include The Idea of Evil created from man's desire to explain suffering, Slaanesh being born from the Eldar's excess, Angra Mainiu being made The Scapegoat of a God of Evil by the citizens for an explanation for evil, The Robot Devil built to punish bad robots in Robot Hell
Edited by RJ-19-CLOVIS-93
During the final battle of the GMG arc, 7 dragons show up from the past and wreak havoc. One of them is Atlas Flame, a literal "fire" dragon, covered in flames. Natsu, a character who eat fire, proudly declares that he is going to eat AF. AF, a dragon, responds to the notion of a human eating a dragon with incredulity.
Is there a trope here? A character saying something so ridiculously absurd with such confidence that another character is stunned by it?
Refuge in Audacity is close, but a key part of that trope is that the absurd statement is believed, which I don't think applies here.