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resolved Ghosts being blown by wind
Is there one about ghosts being blown by wind? In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, a pupil is given the task of wafting away the paralysed ghost of Nearly Headless Nick with a fan.
resolved Blinkenlights
I was fairly certain we had this, but it shows up as a redlink: the addition of blinking lights to electronic equipment so the user knows something's happening/the viewer doesn't fall asleep.
Edited by Chabal2resolved English All Along
RESOLVED: Signs of Disrepair
A name presumed to be in an alien or fantasy language turns out to be a fragment of a word/phrase from english or another real language. Often coincides with an Earth All Along reveal.
Examples:
V'Ger(Voyager) from Star Trek: The Motion Picture
WondLa(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum) from WondLa
Calima(Cation, Live Animals) from Planet of the Apes (2001)
Zardoz(Wizard of oz) from Zardoz
Edited by Aegarainresolved The Villain & Hero Gets Defeated At The Same Time. Western Animation
The Villain Is About To Be Defeated, Killed, Taken To Jail Or Something Else, The Villain Takes Down The Hero As well Or Taken To Jail Alongside The Villain In Some Way Shape Or Form (By Either Using a Surprise Attack Or Exposing The Hero's Dark Secret To Cops), (Which Is Like: "If I'm Going Down...YOUR GOING DOWN WITH ME!").
resolved A video game character that's explicitly an exception to the game's rules Videogame
When browsing MARVEL SNAP, I stumbled across this.
My Rules Are Not Your Rules: So long as there's a location to go to, Jeff the Baby Land Shark can be played or moved into it. This includes bucking a Sandman or Electro's restrictive "only play 1 card a turn" ongoings, allowing his user to play him and another card during the same turn provided they have enough energy. He can also move into and out of locations where cards can't be added nor removed, such as the locations where Prof. X is. Reading through the trope itself, I saw that this applies to video game AI. This isn't AI. I wonder if there's a trope relating to things in games whether player character or item bends a certain rule.
resolved No Title Literature
Character that Blends in physically but is bold and speaks their mind
resolved Chocobo Travel Anime
Is there a trope listed that essentially covers the replacement of horses in a setting with large terrestrial birds like the Chocobo? I know that Shield Hero also does this, but I'm curious about other series (even outside of anime) that follow this trope.
resolved Character has a halo that reflects her emotion
A character has a Holy Halo that gains a sweat drop when she's nervous or angry and rests gently on her head when she's asleep.
resolved Identify Friend or Foe
I couldn't think of what to call it. One character sneaks up or barges in on a friend or ally and startles them, causing them to draw their weapon before putting it down after realizing who they are. In the case of a sword, they would swing it on instinct before stopping themselves.
resolved Immediately losing interest
A character is gushing about something they want to experience when someone else tells them about a single drawback of it. Upon learning that, the character immediately loses interest in what they were gushing about earlier.
resolved Bow = Gun Film
Is there a trope about bow and arrow users behaving like gun users? Either as a source of comedy, or because the writer Did Not Do The Research and assumes the two weapons are similar enough they can cross out gun and replace it with bow if he's setting the story far enough into the past.
resolved "Intelligence Excuse" trope draft?
There was a draft on TLP a few years ago called something like "Intelligence Excuse" or "Intelligence Justification." It was about when a character is proven to be innocent of something because they're either too smart or too dumb to have done that thing.
Does anyone know what this is? Was it ever launched?
resolved It's better to work for something you want
I've seen this a bunch and I'm pretty sure it's already a trope, but I can't pin it down. An Aesop where a character who ends up getting something too easily or fraudulently ends up not enjoying it because they don't feel like they deserve the reward. In contrast, if they put in the effort and hard work, they're much more likely to wind up satisfied with it.
resolved Impress the Love Interest Failure
Like, a character wants to show their love interest that they are tough but immediately faints from blood loss. It's not relevant what the love interest ends up thinking about the character.
Do we have something like that?
resolved Sheathing swords in a shield
Before I actually start working on another draft for a trope I've detected, and waiting for the "Smart People Shoot" draft to be approved, there's something I need to ask.
I've noticed that in fiction sometimes a shield doubles as a scabbard for swords or knives; maybe other weapons as well, but I've never saw other examples than with bladed weapons myself.
I'm quite familiar with this sight since I'm Sardinian, and some Nuragic bronze figurines famously depict warriors wielding round shields with up to 3 short swords stored within; and some of them even dual wielded those, for a total of 6 (SIX!) swords sheathed in two shields. This also proves that this concept is at least Older Than Feudalism.
More recent examples come from toku instead; I don't remember examples from animations, comics or games.
I wanted to ask how common it actually is, since I might make this a separate draft, instead of including it in my planned draft.
Another thing: is this realistic? Are there recorded cases of swords being sheathed in shields? Or is it just fiction, even if old fiction? I'd try to research it, but I don't know where to start from.
resolved Cliff Fall Fakeout
A character has someone else, most often a villain, cornered at the edge of a cliff. The cornered person steps back and falls off the edge of the cliff, only to float back up a few seconds later while hanging onto a helicopter or something.
resolved A Character is eaten by a bird and comes out in an egg... Western Animation
I saw this in the Trolls movie and I've also seen it in other cartoons as well. A character gets eaten by a bird and comes out the other side in an egg.
Which one is it when people who don't like each other are made to work together?
For example, in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Dumbledore asks Snape to teach Harry Occlumency, with little success, because of the animosity between them.