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openSinging in cars Film
This has to be a common trope, yet I can't seem to find any such topic. I'm basically looking people singing together in cars. We've all seen it a million times. Help?
openCanonical Choice Videogame
Is there a trope in a Video Game where the you can choose a player's story including name, traits, etc. but instead you choose to stick with canonical choices as much as possible.
Examples in Pokémon, you choose the names of their anime/manga counterparts and the Pokémon they chose. Another is in Knights Of The Old Republic II The Sith Lords, you make the Player Character female and name her Meetra Surik.
openHealth bar
Are there video game related tropes for when a health bar appears above an enemy? More specifically, there's this one case: in The Hobbit (2003), the elves have health bars above them but you can't actually hurt them, they're just there to remind the player that they must be avoided.
openNew Writer Breakup Print Comic
Though I've seen this in longrunning TV shows, it seems to be a mostly Comics thing, where a Canon couple has been through thick and thin, life and death, and then a new writer takes over the series and within an issue/episode "oh, we're not together anymore," and may not even give an explanation why. Do we already have that trope?
openSecret Identity Trope
I remember reading a book about a teenager who's secretly a world famous blogger. He finds out a girl he has a crush on reads his blog. Knowing this, he makes a post that discourages her from dating a Jerk Jock she was interesting in seeing.
openDeath epiphany Anime
Hi
Do we have a trope for a character that has an epiphany or the like when they are close to death? I can remember seeing a trope like that in the past but I can't seem to find it.
openWork is so juvenile and ridiculous you have trouble believing it was made by adults
Is there a trope for this? Like it's just so absurd you can't believe it wasn't just the product of someone giving a 11 year old a million bucks and saying they can make any movie/cartoon/whatever they want.
openRe-telling trope for comic book universe? Print Comic
What's the main difference between an Ultimate Universe and Alternate Continuity?
Is Ultimate Universe "an Alternate Continuity that's effectively often Darker and Edgier but does not cancel out the original continuity, but re-tells the story in its own way?".
openPost-Upgrade Inheritance Anime
I've noticed that in some Mecha shows, when the protagonist gets a Mid-Season Upgrade, the Super Prototype that they upgraded from gets left to someone else.
Maybe it applies to other contexts too?
Examples:
- All over the place in Gundam, usually with the 'inheritor' being a more experienced pilot than the rookie protagonist:
- Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: Emma Sheen getting the Gundam Mk. II after Kamille upgrades to Zeta Gundam.
- Taken a step further, in Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ; after Judau Ashta spends a short time piloting Zeta, he upgrades to the Double-Zeta, leaving the Zeta to Roux Louka while Elle Vianno pilots the Gundam Mk. II.
- After War Gundam X: Jamil Neate pilots the Gundam X after Garrod gets the Gundam Double-X
- Mobile Suit Gundam SEED: Once Kira Yamato starts piloting Freedom Gundam, Strike Gundam is left to Mwu La Flaga.
- Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny: Lunamaria Hawke starts piloting Impulse Gundam after Shinn Asuka upgrades to Destiny Gundam. Unusual example in that Shinn and Luna have roughly the same level of experience.
- Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: Emma Sheen getting the Gundam Mk. II after Kamille upgrades to Zeta Gundam.
- Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion: An unusual example in that niether of the mechs involved belonged to The Hero. Ryuji Kiyosu originally drove the Shinkalion N 700 A Nozomi, but later, after the N 700 A is damaged, he upgrades to the Shinkalion Doctor Yellow. Later after that, Ryuji's little brother Tatsumi becomes a Shinkalion driver and drives his brother's N 700 A.
- Gravion: After the team upgrades from God Gravion to Sol Gravion (using the Gran Kaiser as a core), Klein Sandman takes the Gran Sigma, but but combines it with God Gravion's old Gran Divas to form God Sigma Gravion.
openrobot short-circuiting
Is there a trope on robots or cyborgs shorting out and malfunctioning after being knocked with an object?
openKilling off lots characters at the end of a series Literature
I chose the medium literature but this could apply to almost any type of work.
Is there a trope about how tons of characters seem to die in the last episode/book/movie/etc of a series? It seems to happen a lot in works where almost nobody dies before this final culling of the party, making it even more jarring when it happens.
It doesn't seem to be exclusive to the climax of the story either- a good example is the final Harry Potter book, where tons of fairly important people bite the dust before the book is even 2/3 of the way over
I'm sorry if I over-explained it, but there are so many examples of this that I feel like there are tropes within this one trope
openPhoto in Front of the Camera
Placing a photo or picture of some sort in front of a camera lens to trick the person on the other end. Like Transformers Victory features a scene where Hellbat and the Dinoforce imprison Jan and Holi in a room with a security camera, so Jan uses his art supplies to make an error screen that he places in front of the camera to convince their captors that their camera is broken and give him and Holi time to escape.
openMagic Silver
Silver (as in the metal) being depicted as having magical or otherwise unusual properties.
openEmotional Indicator Anime
A sort of visual indicator as seen in this image that shows a character's emotions (happiness/contentment in the case of this image), typically seen an anime or anime style work? (Actually the video game The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III in this case, but I feel like I've seen this type of thing also in other works that are either anime or have an anime sort of look.)
Edited by JMQwilleranopen"Wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy" sorta thing.
"Wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy" sorta thing.
What is it? I can't see it linked from Even Evil Has Standards, which is sorta an inversion of the concept.
Because Open Sorcery has a "Even bigots don't deserve this" comment on someone's situation.
openRecasting the Characters
It's a trope where the characters are put into the roles of another story, almost like the characters become actors who are now playing the part of a different role. Maybe a bit hard to explain, but for example The Simpsons have multiple episodes, often in a Three Shorts style, where the Framing Device has a character telling a real world story (with some Artistic License) and it is represented by Simpsons characters. Such as The Simpsons S 12 E 21 Simpsons Tall Tales and The Simpsons S 15 E 11 Margical History Tour.
My idea is a little bit broader, as it could also be fictional genre episodes or have some In-Universe justification like the Holodeck Malfunction in Star Trek has the characters playing out a Film Noir or Spy story. The core idea is seeing the main cast in roles and appearances they are otherwise not known for.
Closest I've found so far is more like broader genre shift tropes like Parody Episode or But You Were There, and You, and You (which is more part of Or Was It a Dream?).
openWanted To Get Caught
Someone wants to get caught for a bad thing they plan on doing, are currently doing, or already did. Do we have a trope for this?
Any tropes for when the last verse of a song changes just enough to reveal something or change the meaning of the verse? For example, in Bowling for Soup's "Highschool Never Ends", the chorus goes:
But the last verse goes: