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openNothing to be grateful for
Bob is considered an Ungrateful Bastard by Alice. However, the audience is clearly not expected to side with Alice on this.
For example, Bob has repainted Alice's house. Because Alice is a performance artist, she pays him in tickets to her show and is outraged that Bob would prefer money to the once-in-a-lifetime chance to see the great Alice on stage.
openBad timing
So 2 opposing party is fighting each other when suddenly an external source interrupt both of them and make the situation worse, it's kinda like a combination of Deus ex Machina and Diabolus ex Machina except neither party benefits and the situation for both of them got worse, a common line that they would say in this situation is: "Oh this is just the worst possible timing for this to happen."
openEntering at the worst time to the point of being contrived
I was wondering if this is an existing trope. This trope would be when characters X and Y are waiting for Z and to pass the time they start discussing many various different things. Then they make a mocking comment or just one sentence about Z only for that to be the exact moment for Z to enter, hear it and become upset. There was nothing guiding or driving Z to enter at that time except for the writers to have a conflict. So this is when in a discussion where 1% of it could cause a conflict if a character sees or hears it said character independently enters at that 1% in front of the others.
This wouldn't eavesdropping as the entering character isn't sneaking around and being hidden. I was thinking this could be a conflict or drama driven similarity of Inadvertent Entrance Cue.
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openI need to get to work!
So Bob has a job to do, but he keeps getting pulled away from it. Not in the sense of procrastinating or being easily distracted, but getting waylaid and dragged away by people who don't seem to grasp that he needs to get his work done.
openNon-obvious optional interactions Videogame
Do we have a trope that describes hidden or non-obvious optional interactions in a video game? For example, I believe that the Lands of Lore games allowed the player to search holes in trees, sometimes finding useful items.
openA female give herself up to save someone else.
Basically the classic "free her and take me in her stead" or, if said by the enemy "I kidnapped your friends, if you have sex with me I will release them". Sex or slavery is usually what await this altruistic female.
Edited by DraculeaopenScrappy (NaruHinaFan)
Has there been a case a non-Scrappy character is replaced and the newcomer is The Scrappy but is Rescued from the Scrappy Heap and the original comes back and people liked the replacement so much more that the original becomes The Scrappy even though he was not originally (and maybe even was a fan favorite in beginning.)
Edited by NaruHinaFanopenCharacter mispronounces hometown Live Action TV
Example: On Family Affair, the kids are supposed to have moved from Terre Haute, Indiana to live with their uncle after their parents died. That's where they're from. So you'd think they'd know how to pronounce it, right? Wrong. They pronounce it Terra Hut, while anyone actually from there would have said Terra Hoat, rhymes with goat.
Is this The Mountains of Illinois, Critical Research Failure, or something else?
Edited by BradyLadyopenMinion flubs things up for Big Bad?
I was watching on You Tube an episode of Little Clowns Of Happytown (out of Bile Fascination) and saw the minions of the Big Bad flubbing things up for him.
Is there a trope for this? (the flubbing)
openUnresolving compromise
Alice tells Bob to do [A] so that [B] can happen. Bob (maliciously or not) instead does [B] directly (or arranges for [B] to happen through different means, or sticks to the letter of Alice's orders), which causes problems because Alice needed [A] to happen or Bob's way prevents [C] from happening.
For example, Alice tells Bob to infiltrate an enemy castle and lower the drawbridge so their army can get in. Bob instead blows a hole in the castle wall. Alice is pissed off because while their army does now has a way to get inside the castle, they'll have to repair the wall once the castle is theirs.
Poor Communication Kills and Did Not Think This Through is often involved.
In Les Miserables, the Thénardiers extort money from Fantine by claiming her daughter Cosette needs a new dress. Fantine buys a dress instead and sends it to them, to their anger (they had no intention of getting a dress, of course, they just wanted the money).
openLook Away From Kill
When a character is about to shoot an enemy, but they turn their head away before pulling the trigger. For example, in RWBY Ironwood turns his head away before shooting a Beowolf in the head.
openCharacters watching a real life movie Film
If characters in a work are shown watching a movie that exists in real life, is that a Show Within a Show or a Shout-Out? Or both? What if the implication is that the work is bad?
openOverlapping voiceovers Film
A film cuts between scenes, but the dialog from the first scene plays over the second scene. Basically, like Diegetic Switch but for dialog. It's not Two Scenes One Dialog because the dialog is definitely from only one of the scene, the other one being silent, but the dialog has some sort of thematic bearing on the other one.
openWorthless for some, valuable to others
What, if any, is the trope where someone offers something they consider (nearly) worthless but the receiver considers very valuable. One example is Phil of the Future where there time machine produces diamonds as a byproduct so they have little use for them but where able to purchase a house with it because they were stuck in the early 21st century where is far more valuable.
openDon't even know if this even a thing
Is there any trope that's about a character being displeased (in this instance, the definition of displeased can range from slightly irritated to full-on berserk) whenever they're waked-up unwillingly?
Edited by AndermannopenRenaming yourself
What is the trope when a character renames themselves (or another character), whether formally (with ID cards) or not?
Is there specifically a trope for when a character makes a threat against another only to carry it out anyway?
Example: Character A threatens to harm Character B's friend if Character B does not complete a specific task that Character A demands of them. Character B accomplishes the task, but Character A harms Character B's friend anyway despite promising not to if the task was completed.
I'm not sure if I asked about this beforehand. If I did, my mistake.