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openMusic in first person Web Original
In this scene, the music plays when the character looks through the binoculars and stops as soon we’re back in third person, as if the music was in the binoculars. Is there a trope for that?
Edited by LyendithopenAccidental cover-blowing
One character accidentally blows another's cover. For example, John is undercover as Bob the drug dealer, and everything goes fine until John's neighbor sees him and says, "Hi, John! Congratulations on becoming a detective!"
openSecular Magic
What the modern audience recognizes as being physics or chemistry at work is thought of as magic in-universe (sometimes coexisting with actual magic).
- In one Gotrek And Felix novel, a telescope is referred to as using "secular magic" because it makes things that are far away look bigger without any enchantments on it.
- Several Discworld machines are viewed with distrust if they aren't powered by tiny demons inside them.
- The Name Of The Rose has William refer to "natural" magic on occasion, usually something involving what the reader would see as early science (notably William's reading glasses).
openSource Material About Themselves
A fanfic trope about how a group of characters have the media that they are based on sent to them. For example Harry Potter and friends are sent all seven HP books. The fanfic would be a retelling of the material and have the characters comment on them. It would be related to Oh, Crap, There Are Fanfics of Us! and Reading Ahead in the Script.
Edited by JonathanSCEopenMythology Gag and/or Continuity Nod, but for gameplay mechanics Videogame
i swear we have a trope like this, but anyway here's the example i had in mind for The Division 2:
- The Striker's Battlegear Gear Set is functionally identical to the original set in The Division, with its backpack and body armor talents making it similar to the first game's six piece Set Bonus.
- The System Corruption Gear Set alters the functionality of armor plates - instead of holding the armor plate button for 2 seconds for full armor, pressing the button instantly gives the player 50% bonus armor for a few seconds, making it function similarly to medkits in the first game.
i don't think either of these has a story justification, they just felt like reusing certain gameplay mechanics.
openOnline Storytelling
This is a recent TLP draft, but the name has changed and I can no longer find it on the TLP.
Basically where a story uses techniques that make it look like the characters are communicating online. Like a book that has written out chat logs, or a live-action work made to look like the characters are video-calling each other.
openhippie guru spiritual leader type?
the typical hippie guru spiritual leader- its a specific stereotype- usually long hair & a beard, free-love, new agey type, vegan, usually either a loon or a scam artist
Edited by Tremmor19openOdd/dark/spooky song/track in otherwise mostly upbeat album. Music
You're listening to an album/soundtrack of mostly upbeat or at least generally positive sounding songs and the next track suddenly takes a turn for the darker side.
To put it bluntly musical version of something between Mood Whiplash and Cerebus Syndrome. Surprise Creepy is optional.
I already went over some tropes but none of them match what I'm looking for. I went over: Dark Reprise Descent into Darkness Song Last Note Nightmare Soundtrack Dissonance
Edited by sohibilopenA Disguise Trope?
What is the trope for when someone pretends to be in a profession they are not to sneak into a certain place or to solve a case? Like when someone pretends to be a detective to find the truth about something or someone pretends to be a doctor so they can meet with an important patient and the like? I can't seem to find the trope in the disguise index, so...
openFormat shift? Live Action TV
Trying to find a trope for What Could Have Been and Trivia.Love Island:
- On the 2018 series of Series.Love Island in the United Kingdom there were plans for a Something Completely Different episode where the format was more serious in tone for one episode, and the episode would have felt like it was from a different genre altogether, but this was pulled over fears of it being an Audience-Alienating Premise.
open"If you were lying, you'd be more convincing."
A Stock Phrase and a form of Refuge in Audacity. Alice has a secret she needs to tell Bob who is already suspicious of her. But the secret is so absurd. So over the top that it's bound to be a Cassandra Truth.
To her surprise though. Bob instantly believes her.
"If you were lying, you'd have thought up a better lie than THAT." he explains.
openVictim/Pity gambit
Alice wants to name their kids after either Bob or Erling. Bob mentions that Erling is an awful name. Erling fakes a mental breakdown, pretends to be horribly upset and even plans on changing his name. Alice feels bad for him and agrees to call the kid Erling. He later reveals that he was just pretending.
openEsacpe isn't worth it
A) A story focuses on a group of characters escaping some confined area to "freedom". They start off Beneath the Earth, they Escaped from the Lab, or some other isolated place, and are trying to reach the glorious outside world where things will be better. B) Once the reach the outside world, they realize it's not all it's cracked up to be. It's actually a False Utopia, a post-apocalyptic landscape, or something like that.
Is there a trope that covers A+B or either of them alone? Gurren Lagann is one example.
openInconsistancy Live Action TV
When a character is not holding something, then the camera angle changes or there is another take filmed and suddenly he/she is holding something. A variation could be a character's pose changing during above situations.
With the switch there is no reasonable time for the character to pick anything up or change position.
What would this trope be?
Edited by BuffyannopenMagically switching objects trick
A stock trick of the Stage Magician, which involves objects seemingly magically switching position.
openParanoia actually worked? Live Action TV
I'm sure I've seen this trope in some shows:
- Bob is Properly Paranoid, and tells Alice who ignores his paranoia; in the end, his paranoia is actually right and he was largely ignored. Bob's paranoia becomes a useful skill in his A Day in the Limelight episode.
Put the pan upside down Heat it up until it is cherry red Crack an egg and put it on Add the flour Put it all in a (metal) bowl and add water (order up to personal preference (but if pan first you must use a metal bowl)) Put it in the oven and bake it When the previous step is done, put it all in a blender
When someone who doesn't know how things work tries to explain things, calm down, take a breath, and make them some pancakes.
Edited by dutyclaus