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openPolite to the Sexy
When a character seems to be normally smug, ill-tempered, abrasive and the like at first. Whether they be a Smug Snake, Bratty Half-Pint, Insufferable Genius, Jerk Jock, Jerk with a Heart of Jerk, Jerk with a Heart of Gold, Bitch in Sheep's Clothing and the like they tend to showcase their abrasive ways often.
Unless someone attractive comes along then they suddenly become a lot more polite, cheerful and being quite eager to put on the charm for this Ms. Fanservice (or Mr. Fanservice). In which often the aforementioned Ms. Fanservice or Mr. Fanservice will either naively take their advances and appreciate their kindness or see through their false pleasant tone right away. (In which the latter can often lead to I Love You Because I Can't Control You.) However either way a Deadpan Snarker will most likely call them out for being suddenly friendly towards someone attractive at least once.
While several tropes in The Jerk Index (some FAR more than others). But in an effort to remember that Tropes Are Not Bad this is not inherently villainous. This can also be done by those such as the classical Lovable Rogue and other sorts of Charming Chaotic Good Anti-Heroes such as those who have little regard of authoriity but would gladly save a beautiful maiden from danger for example.
openReviewer thinks there's a plot hole when there really isn't
Whats the trope for a review or the like where someone complains that the story contains a Plot Hole when in fact the "plot hole" is actually fully explained and justified within the work? For example, I noticed Cinema Sins tends to make this kind of mistake a lot.
openDog Pack Army
A character who has a whole pack of dogs, wolves or other canine-looking creatures for protection and for use in fighting. Can be used for heroic characters because Heroes Love Dogs or for villainous characters as the logical extension of Right-Hand Attack Dog.
openSong Made From Random Objects
I can't think of a good title, but in musicals, a song is started when someone hears an object making sounds, then hears another object making sounds, hen another, and another, until it builds up into a melody, then the character gets inspiration and makes music with those objects making rhythm.
For instance:
- Spongebob gets to drive the rogue jellyfish back to the Jellyfish Fields using Gary's hammering eyes as the base.
- Goofy in A Goofy Movie sings "Down The Open Road" starting off with the car key trinkets.
openYou Have No Choice in How You Were Used
I'm trying to look for a trope in which certain people are made to do some certain set of actions, but they can't object nor defy anyone because they physically cannot. The trope is different from Morton's Fork and Forced to Watch because in this situation, it's not a villain or somebody forcing their hand, they just can't do anything because they didn't have the means to and were used however someone wished, and the people using them are genuinely oblivious to their free will because it's not apparent.
For example, in Bakamatsu Tenrouden, the main characters sing about how as inanimate objects they were used however they liked by their masters, but they still carry a lot of guilt over what they were made to do (such as being isolated for display or being used as a tool of war).
Edited by lalaTKGopenRecyled tune, different instruments Videogame
This is mostly a video game thing, but it's when a song is used in different places but has different instrumentation. It's not Variable Mix, which blends musical effects with actions, but not omnipresent enough of a tune to count for Theme-and-Variations Soundtrack. It's like a group of bosses all have the same battle tune, but each one has it played with different instruments and this tune does not appear outside of these boss fights.
Edited by 8BrickMarioopenPerson takes an instant disliking towards someone for no apparent reason.
I'm sure a lot of us have had this happen or been on the receiving end.
openJew enslaving jews
There is a human trafficking network that scams jewish women from Europe, in the time of the world wars, and take them to distant countries by promosing them a better life, but once there they must work in forced prostitution in brothels. In the case of the main character, it turns out that the man that owns the brothel and forces her to be a prostitute is actually a fellow Jew (and no, he does not liberate her when this issue comes to light). Does it count as a case of Hunter of His Own Kind?
openScary-looking Clouds Mean Danger
Do we have a trope more specific than A Storm Is Coming about clouds being signs of ominous things? For example, a cloud is shaped a certain way.
openVictory High Five
A character high fives another character after successfully doing something, usually defeating an opponent.
openStarting training from the beginning Live Action TV
I'm looking for a trope which involves a martial arts teacher forcing his students to abandon what they already know up to that point and start over from the very beginning.
Edited by Tenma-YuukiopenHeroism Delusion
A trope where a villain with mind control powers makes his victims think they're doing the right thing, as seen from their point of view.
For example, bank employees are brainwashed into committing a heist. When we see it from their point of view, it turns out they think they're stealing drug money from a crimelord.
Or the villain is one of those creepy-little-girl-with-psychic-powers whose only goal in life is to kill people, but her victims see her as an innocent little girl targeted by the global conspiracy responsible for giving her powers in the first place, and thus fight to the death to protect her.
One Batman Beyond villain brainwashes people into committing crimes for him but the victim is completely unaware of what they're doing (from one man's point of view, he's carrying a wounded soldier into a medevac helicopter instead of stolen goods, from another's he's participating in a game show stuffing the most objects into a sack instead of looting a shelf).
openDrown Out The Shot
From a Cracked article:
"You know that action movie cliche whereby an evil hitman will wait until the big parade gets loud or the symphony orchestra reaches a swell so they can fire a shot without being noticed?"
Which trope would that be?
openSplit personality trope for situation? Live Action TV
Do we have this one? Checking before I make a TLP!
Alice (a redhead - this is important to the plot, see below) has a Split Personality and has the following four split personalities:
- Janine, a Fiery Redhead who's not actually evil, just over-exuberant and passionate.
- Michelle, a No Celebrities Were Harmed version of Amy Adams who's virtually similar to Amy Adams
- Danielle, an Awesome Aussie who's a Girly Girl and hates being called a tomboy.
- Becky, an American-Canadian Intrepid Reporter who's as Girly Girl as possible but noted for Kicking Ass in All Her Finery.
She can switch to whichever Split Personality is relevant for the situation, and they all are aware of one another, but she doesn't seem to suffer Alternate Identity Amnesia.
Is there a Split Personality Tropes trope about being able to get the right split personality for the situation?
openMook Conversations
This is usually when we see two henchmen/workers/guards conversing about some random subject, usually for humorous reasons, but occasionally the conversation can be exposition. For example, stealth games usually allow you to hear what two mooks may be talking about. And in some cartoons, usually guard characters of this type talk about something funny. For example, in Venture Bros, when they're not doing anything the Monarch's henchman usually converse about pretty ordinary things such as whether or not Smurfs are mammals.
openSkeeballing
Is there a trope that covers when a character finds themselves being being bodily skidded across the floor or other surface in a comedic fashion, usually after being beaten by a supposedly inferior opponent? The big example I can think of is when Granny from The Beverly Hillbillies was accosted by Mr. Drysdale's formerly unbeatable hired muscle only for the next scene to show him sliding across the mansion entryway's floor and out the door after Granny sends him flying.
Edited by AsherTyeopenThe Wool Trap
When woolen cloth shrunk on a person and get stuck on them. Usually strangling them as a result.
Edited by Andermann
Is there a trope for when weapons and/or armor are made from the remains of monsters? Examples: The dragonbone items from skyrim and almost all of the equipment from Monster hunter