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openLower Prices
A trope for prices in fiction being much lower than what you would expect them to be?
openLethal Cuteness
A character is so incredibly adorable that they could actually kill someone with their cuteness. (i.e. looking at something that cute causes a fatal heart attack or your brain to explode from too much cuteness.)
openSapient Celestial Object
A trope where some celestial object is shown to be aware and sapient. Not just a Celestial Body, which is just aesthetics, but a full on star, planet or sun that is shown to be capable of thought and interaction with other beings.
openWipe Of Disrespect
Bob needs to wipe something off (hands, nose, blood-slicked weapon...). He chooses some part of Charlie's clothing or even Charlie's hair as a wipe, as an unsubtle reminder of how much contempt he has for Charlie. Charlie is usually helpless at this point (i.e. Bob's hostage or prisoner) and can't respond without getting himself killed (which may even be Bob's intent).
Edited by Chabal2openAppeal To More Deserving People
Bob is a lazy Basement Dweller who makes no effort to get a job. When called out on it, he says there are plenty of people who need that hypothetical job far more than he does, and equates looking for a job to deliberately taking money away from them.
Bob is technically correct that not looking for a job frees up a position for someone else, but it'd be hard to justify him as being in the right.
openLosing the Knack? Western Animation
I'm trying to find a trope for Western Animation.Dilbert:
- Dilbert loses the knack for technology after drinking from the Pointy-Haired Boss 'cup (It Makes Sense in Context) and the world devolves to medieval times since Dilbert hasn't got the knowledge to fix the satellites that keep the world going in that episode.
openIf Fiction and Animation went extinct and/or Didn’t exist at all.
While I don’t know If such a trope exists (or even if one can think of such a concept) I’m just gonna ask.
openDark Bone Hurting Juice
Eyes and arms are strangely susceptible to dark energy being the cause behind their pain. The usually edgy character dramatically covers their Magic Eye or arm and goes "My eye/left arm is hurting!!" Is sometimes a Chuunibyou.
openVillainous Overworld Roaming
This may be hard to describe but... Is there a trope where, on an overworld map, an icon marking a location of an enemy can be seen on the map? Mr. Chau from Scott Pilgrim is an example, and I think a Kirby did this once. Mario games usually do this with the Hammer Bros. Bonus points if there is ominous music playing.
openForeshadowing with Jokes
Since it's not supposed to be taken seriously, the author uses a joke as foreshadowing to conceal the fact that it was foreshadowing.
Example: Shiranui from Medaka Box turning into a big chomper because she's a◊ Big Eater. It wasn't just a joke. It was her using Real Eater before it was even revealed to be her power.
Edited by KingOfStickersopenMagical Weapon Literature
I've been unable to find a trope on this. Specifically I'm thinking about an enchanted sword, but the weapon could be anything really. Do we actually just not have a trope for magical weapons? I find that odd if so.
openWhen a professional/expert won't solve a problem because for all they know it's unsolvable.
Like the title suggest, is there a trope for when a person who is educated in a specific field finds a problem that they wont solve because they have been taught that it cannot be solved, despite their expertise.
It's not necessarily out of lazyness, but that they genuinely think there is no point.
For example:
A doctor finds out he is diagnosed with a certain disease and doesn’t bother trying to do anything about it because he knows for certain it is incurable.
Like this: https://youtu.be/I1xEQI4ORrE
openMiserable Mine
Is there a trope for how mines are often depicted as horrible places (usually in conjunction with slavery, in order to make the villains enslaving people seem more evil?)
openA dead body's face is not shown
Someone just died, probably in a very gory way, and their face is not shown to the viewer, whether that'd be because the body is facing away from the camera or because their face is obscured by something.
Edited by BassikunopenNever getting over a friend's death
What we know from the work without getting into Fan Wank are the following:
- Betty, Alice's Heterosexual Life Partner, dies rather early in their lives. Alice was clearly very sad when Betty died, but she also mentioned Betty left her something Worth Living For.
- It is generally agreed that Alice never fully got over Betty's death for her entire life—Alice wished for Reincarnation Friendship and it was granted, which is taken to mean she's been thinking of it all her life.
- No further information is given in the work.
openWarning from a ghost
I've sen this trope in 'A Christmas Carol' the song 'Ghost Riders in the Sky' and the poem 'Tale of the 13th Floor,' where a ghost warns a living person to mend his ways or not do what he is planning lest he join the ghost's terrible post-mortem fate. Surely there's a name for this.
openEvil race genocide dilemma
What trope would it be when there is a member of some Always Chaotic Evil race who is the Last of His Kind, so there rules that they can't be killed no matter how bad they are their race is? For example, at the end of Critters 3 Charlie has the last two Critter eggs, and is about to destroy them when his boss shows up as a hologram-call and says doing so would violate interstellar law. When Charlie says something like "but they're really dangerous", the boss guy just responds with something like "aggression factor is irrelevant."
openThe First Family
Stories featuring and exploring the president's immediate family, such as notable relatives(some famous IRL examples include First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and presidential brothers Bobby and Ted Kennedy)
openDon't tell anyone, or else!
A criminal warns their victim about the dire consequences that will befall them if they tell anyone. For example, a rapist tells his victim that if word gets out, everyone will think she's a dirty slut.
For example: In Avatar: The Last Airbender the leader of the Water Tribe is a borderline Straw Misogynist, while the evil Fire Nation mostly treats women as equals (one of the rulers is female, even). Would this be Deliberate Values Dissonance?