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resolved There's only one Vigilante (SOLVED) Print Comic
Is there a trope about the Fridge Logic that applies to countless superhero stories - that is, the fact that people in-universe always assume the superhero is a single guy, despite not knowing anything about him - and despite the fact that the superhero costume makes it easy for impersonators - for instance, J. Jonah Jameson always assumes Spiderman (the chameleon or Mysterio) robbing a bank is "proof" he's a criminal, rather than some other powered character buying the same costume.
Edited by Mac_Rresolved Sickly sweet Literature
There's a character who has chocolate (sickly, vomit-inducing sweet chocolate) as his motif. This isn't used to make him cute; on the contrary, it's used to portrait him as disgustingly sweet, both in- and out-of-universe.
Character has tendency to distort most words he uses to sound "cute" (including his name, which now sounds just ridiculous), but achieves opposite effect. He tries to act "kind", but only makes people trust him less due to this "sweetness" hiding quite sticky personality. Even his body is literally made out of chocolate (long story), which characters in-universe find to be just disgusting.
And yes, he is a villain, though of a very low grade. Backstabbing, snitching and generally annoying.
While he is certainly Faux Affably Evil, what I seek for is something about his "so cute, it's disgusting" vibe, because it's really important part of his characterisation, and characters react to it with disgust in-universe even before he had a chance to betray anyone specifically because he is sickly sweet.
resolved Lying to the Dying Western Animation
Suppose Bob and Alice are fighting some enemy to save Charlie. Bob is mortally wounded, and is losing consciousness. He asks Alice if Charlie's alright, and Alice lies and says they achieved their goal, that Bob's death wasn't meaningless, so he can die happy. A super sad scene.
Is there a trope forthat?
resolved Fake Foreign-Sounding Name is Insult in Work's Language (SOLVED) Web Original
Is there a trope for when a foreign character has a (foreign-sounding) name that's an insult (dirty or mild) in the work's original language? For instance, a korean character in an american story being named "Suk Mah Dik", or an arab called "Fa'atass Assuholi"?
Edited by Mac_Rresolved Distopyan Flag Spam Literature
Is there a trope for when someone (often a Fish out of Temporal Water) travels to a place and sees creepy flags everywhere, which are a visual aid to the fact that the setting is a political dystopia? The flags can be replaced with the leader's portrait, too.
resolved Didn't know when to stop Live Action TV
A character goes to legal or illegal casino. He starts out winning some money, gets a lot of chips, wins a fortune, but keeps gambling and gambling in hopes of getting more, until he starts losing, and ends up losing everything. Had he said he had enough, he'd go out a rich man.
resolved People Know What the Author Knows (SOLVED!) Print Comic
I remember a trope in this wiki about authors (especially amateur ones, like Fan Fiction writers) assuming, either consciously or subconsciously, that the characters know the same things they do - the examples listed were how random characters assumed Supergirl was Superman's cousin, even though that wasn't common knowledge - she might be a sister, friend or even just a fan. Another example was the old Star Wars expanded universe, wherein characters somehow "knew" Darth Vader was Luke's father after the fall of the empire, despite Luke never going public - and nobody knowing Vader's real name and background to begin with.
Edited by Mac_Rresolved The Cultist Always Dies Web Original
A worshipper performs a ritual to summon the devil or a dark god. When the creature shows up, either because the ritual worked, or by coincidence, it kills (or eats) the cultist.
resolved "Purple People" Eater (SOLVED) Music
Is there a trope about the joke format wherein an adjective doesn't refer to what the viewer thinks it does? Like, a Great White Hunter is just someone who hunts great whites, a man who shot an elephant in his pyjamas wasn't wearing pyjamas (the elephant was) and so on
Edited by Mac_Rresolved Your enemy is also my enemy
Villain sides with the heroes for pragmatic reasons, not Heel-Face Turn
resolved Stupidity is the real danger (SOLVED) Western Animation
Is there a trope for when a character/thing is considered very dangerous, but is actually harmless and/or unaware, and people are just getting themselves killed or wonded by their own idiocy - often by being so scared and cautious that they end up getting hurt.
For instance, the Fake Ultimate Hero is rumored to have killed a thousand people. He threatens a bad guy, the bad guy gets scared, runs off, trips and falls off a cliff. Then in the next episode, the hero is rumored to have killed a thousand and one people...
Edited by Mac_Rresolved Character was conceived and raised solely to have their magical power harvested
But this would imply on their death. Is it living battery or is there a more appropriate trope? It is more like Walking Transplant but with magical power instead of organs.
resolved Conveniently (to the plot) Illegible
When a character finds an old document with important information, but most of it is Illegible due to damage to the paper. Bad for the character, convenient for the plot.
resolved Shadow/Silhouette of an important character not yet fully revealed.
An character appears multiple times in a work, but the viewer sees only his silhouette/shadow/small part of his body, because it's not yet the occasion for the big reveal. I'm looking for it to add to a visual novel's page, but a similar example I can think of is L by the start of Death Note. The visual novel's character in question is the villain, only his completely black sprite is shown.
resolved New, worse villain
The heroes have a villain threatening them, a great villain that will be difficult to defeat, but there is hope. Suddenly, before that villain is even dealt with, another villain surprisingly comes up, one even worse that they have no chance against.
resolved Offending the wrong person
It's something like that: Alice is a good friend to Bob and Claire, but Bob and Claire hate each other. While on a fight, Claire says that Bob has a "ridiculous hair color", while on Alice's presence... and Alice has the same hair color.
resolved "But I never said SPECIFICALLY this"
Alice wishes to buy an exotic, super rare and illegal pet. She knows that Bob owns one, and, seeing that he takes a cage covered with a blanket everywhere, goes to him and asks to buy it, offering an unholy amount of money for it. Bob accepts, and, after the transaction is complete, says that she "may have the contents of the cage"... which turns out to be a rock.
Edited by Linfiaresolved Child is the Password
Do we have trope where the password is the name of a kid of whoever set it up? Something used to show how important the kid is to them.
What trope would fit the character of a snooty, young male Ivy League student, who's part of an old fraternity he joined thanks to his old money family connections, acts pompous and towards the main characters, drinks expensive booze, wears cardigans around their neck, plays tennis, lacross or rowing, and gets humiliated in a gross manner in the end?