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openIncorrect retraux
Is there a trope for retraux works that exaggerate compared to contemporary works? Like, how VHS tapes always have lines and glitch out like they're perpetually broken or 8-bit style games don't look like 8-bit games.
openTrope about power levels?
Is there a trope where, in a group of people/creature with powers that can be leveled up, it turns out that one member of the group is actually a power level ahead of the rest of the group?
For example, when we find out Gatomon in Digimon is actually a Champion level, Or in Steven Universe when we find out that Garnet is already a fusion?
openRule Of Distance
EXAMPLE:
- A main character is sitting on the edge of the bed, holding his newborn daughter but not close. The distance is supposed to be an allegory for the character's doubts about fathering the baby.
openSurprised Promotion
EXAMPLE:
- The main character has been working at this specific company for at least a decade. He personally doesn’t care about promotions but as long as it put food on the table. So, one day, the head of the department he works in is retiring and announcing a replacement. Everyone, including the main character, expects this certain co-worker to get it because he’s openly gunning for it. However, the main character gets the promotion, much to his surprise.
openNOT 'Small Reference Pools'
Years ago, I came across an entry on this site. It was about people decrying an artist or a work as copying a recent popular artist or work — when the work criticized is either older or based on an older original.
For example, this could be someone watching the 'Lord of the Rings' movies and saying that Tolkien had obviously taken elements from 'Elfquest' simply because both works contain elves, trolls, magic, and humans.
openDoes That Sound Better?
EXAMPLE:
- Then Cinnicinati Bengals defensive coordinator and current Minnesota Vikings coach Mike Zimmer was asked a question about his time with former Falcons head coach Bobby Petrino. For excrutiangly understandable reasons, Zimmer called him a “gutless bastard” and when reporters told him that they couldn’t use “bastard” in the paper, Zimmer responded with “How about this? A gutless motherfucker.”
openCaged inside a Monster
Is there a trope That deals with characters being imprisoned either inside or on the surface (commonly on the chest) of a monster?
This monster is often a boss, more times than not you have the ability to target the imprisoned character meaning you can accidentally hit them, and the monster can often drain energy from the imprisoned target.
The main thing though is some person is trapped somehow in the monster as some separate entity.
For some examples: Breath of Fire II - There is a boss with an old man chained up to the side of it, for the best ending killing the boss without killing the man is preferable.
Final Fantasy VIII - A near end game boss imprisons a party member on their chest, and will drain energy from them during your fight.
Arc the Lad - Obtaining one of your party members requires fighting the boss that is holding him A large blue genie like creature holding a smaller person between its hands.
I've considered a few tropes. Human Shield does not seem quite the fit as it is not very opportunistic and in some cases the person has been caged for a while. Further rarely do these creatures threaten to harm the prisoner directly should they be attacked, also the prisoner is much smaller so it is not like the creature is hiding behind the prisoner.
I would think it a special case of Sealed Good in a Can (or evil), sort of like Sealed Inside a Person-Shaped Can except that the can is monster shape which does not seem to be covered in that trope. My only thing against either of those is they seem more related to a long term solution of storing somethings essence, as opposed to trapping a physical being inside somethings flesh, as most of the examples the can is not really indicative of what is sealed there.
Edited by Rymyll_the_WandereropenNon-Combat Badass Longcoat
Badass Longcoat, but the character isn't fighting, he's dancing, or performing in some other way (like an illusionist, for instance).
The effect is the same, it makes the character look awesome.
There are some rock band examples under "music" that aren't stated as an attempt to evoke a sci-fi or action setting, though some are. If they're not trying to fight at all, do they still count?
openStop making us look eviler than we are!
Something like a villain-exclusive Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: Bob is the kind of antagonist who believes his actions give him the moral high ground (Knight Templar, Utopia Justifies the Means, Visionary Villain...). Unfortunately, whenever he tries to convince Alice the hero of this, she only has to point at Bob's minion Charlie, a Chaotic Evil Sociopathic Soldier who revels in the evil he causes... and is one of Bob's greatest sincerely (if not fanatically) loyal supporters. Even if Bob pulls a Shoot the Dangerous Minion, Charlie doesn't hold a grudge because he trusts in Bob's plan to cause even more destruction and misery under the pretense of helping humanity).
openPlotline tropes for Live Action TV? Live Action TV
Before I add any of these entries to WhatCouldHaveBeen.Live Action TV, what's the trope for these plots:
- On Doctor Who, when the Tenth Doctor was the incumbent, there were plans for a plotline where it would have been only the Tenth Doctor, and a similar-looking individual (both played by David Tennant) filmed in one room (plans were either the TARDIS or another room), but the idea never happened, even though planned for 2007. Very little exists about this now online though.
I think Minimalist Cast and Bottle Episode could fit that, but are there any other tropes for one-man show or that sort of thing?
Also for What Could Have Been:
- In Mr. Robot they would have included more archive footage of Donald Trump saying "this is fake news" but had not had time to clear the rights for the footage, and the idea was abandoned.
- There were plans for a Supergirl Spin-Off focusing on Krypton, but although the basics of Supergirl (2015) and Kara arriving on Earth would have happened anyway, it would have focused more on the DEO and aliens, and things would have played out slightly differently in this timeline. The idea was considered in late 2017, but never got beyond script meetings and working out how to make it feasible as a series. It was never stated if it would fit into the Arrowverse continuity or not, even though for budget reasons, it would largely use the same sets as Supergirl. Information online was very minimal and largely removed with nary a trace.
If anyone could help me, I'd appreciate it - not sure what tropes fit these three What Could Have Been situations.
Edited by Merseyuser1openThe first isn't the best
What would the trope be where the first person to discover/learn something teaches it to others, and it turns out they're all much better at it than him, picking it up faster than him or getting far better results than he ever did?
Not so much Always Someone Better as it is Everyone Is Better.
Edited by Chabal2openThe trope for the sin of Wrath
Reading Seven Deadly Sins, Wrath has nothing potholed onto it. Probably because Unstoppable Rage or Hair-Trigger Temper aren't quite fitting, or...?
openAnother Trope Question
Now I got another question for trope:
We have a trope called BFS which is essentially a character holding a big sword, We have a trope called BFG about a character wielding a huge gun. However, I wonder if there is a trope for people who wield a very huge mallet or huge hammer in general such as Harley Quinn holding a giant hammer for her weapon.
openI like girls but I’m still straight Anime
You know when a girl in a show who likes women and talks about her love for women and there body’s but still bring up she wants to date men despite showing no interest in men?
openBelieving that drinking milk = body/breast growth
Many times — mostly in anime/manga, but sometimes in fanfics — I've seen characters that are either young children or physically underdeveloped (of both sexes, mind you) make a point of drinking milk note sometimes it's just the one scene, sometimes it's done multiple times in the same story as a Running Gag, and sometimes it's the former but with exaggerated quantities being consumed specifically out of the belief that will hasten their natural body growth/development or onset of puberty or, in cases where they're explicitly well into adolescence/adulthood, fix what they believe to be a case of "delayed puberty" (which more often than not is just them being in denial of reality). The most common form of this involves girls with A-Cup Angst believing that they can induce natural Breast Expansion by drinking lots of milk (which typically does not work); however, I've seen more than a few examples where it's general height/body size that is the problem the drinker is trying to address (in which case the belief has a grain of truth in it, but is unfornatutely far less drastic in its results than the drinker believes/hopes).
Is there a trope for this?
openWearing a paper bag over your head because you're ugly
Character wears a paper bag over their head either out of shame, or because someone forced them to, but always to conceal their ugly appearance. Pretty much always played for laughs.
Alice says to Bob "If you keep doing X, then Y is gonna happen", the idea being that X is a behavior that Alice finds unacceptable and Y is, for her, an undesirable outcome. Bob, however, wants Y to happen, and this encourages him to keep doing X.