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open Possible New Tropes - Reflective Sunglasses Posters Film
Just saw on a slide on Imdb showing a bunch of Reflective Sunglasses Posters 50+ just wondering if possible trope.
open I've been looking for this for hours and I still don't know what it was! Film
This was either a film or an episode of a TV series but I distinctly remember a man walking around a hospital or something, and he kept hearing a little girl singing a creepy version of the Hush Little Baby nursery rhyme. By the end of fhe film/episode, the man tried to set himself on fire and I can't remember whether he was successful or not . . . I know this isn't much to go on at all, but if anybody has any wuggestions and nos to what it might be I would be very thankful.
openDisagreement on whether or not Bucky Barnes qualifies as The Hermit Film
There's a small edit war on the characters page
for allies of the MCU version of The Avengers.
Please make sure that the tropes fit the example. Bucky is not The Hermit: he is hiding both because he has triggers in his head and because as a former assassin he is a wanted fugitive.
Would I be right if I said that as long as a character is willingly hiding or isolating himself, regardless of the reason, he qualifies as The Hermit?
Edited by RayAP9open The Dark Crystal: Who is this character? Film
Found this character which appears to be one of the mystics from the movie among my dads belongings. He was a film fan and artist. I think he may have made it himself but am not absolutely certain. unfortunately I don't see how to post a photo to share it. It has a mole on what would be its left cheek....Any ideas?
openYMMV for Film/Boomerang Film
Why was the YMMV for Boomerang eliminated? I am hoping to establish one for the film, not the channel. Is there any problem with there being one for the film?
open The Accountant Film
Why does younger brother Braxton give his Mom the finger when she is by the taxi about to leave the family?
openState Fair Remake Film
If 20th Century Fox seems to consider the 1962 version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's State Fair an Old Shame, but I don't know what Rodgers himself thought of it (Hammerstein died a few years before it premiered), which of the Old Shame subpages should I put it on?
open Classic cartoon Film
Ok so I got one of those DV Ds a few years ago that has like 170 old classic cartoons on it, & one in particular was about 2 heros that end up on a ship with party goers. One hero was big & strong & got all the attention, & the other was a small guy that always seemed shy. They get split up & something happened that caused the little guy to end up in a lifeboat with a lion. Later on he discovers the lion is actually a beautiful girl in a costume, & they like each other but she gets taken away from him & he goes inside some kind a encampment to rescue her. The setting is in a jungle, I don't think their mouths move when they talk, & it has really good flapper/jazz music playing all the time. It's kinda like a technicolor kind of cartoon. I think the girl had red hair & if I remember correctly the little hero kinda looked similar to the little Caesars logo dude. I really want to see this cartoon again. Does anyone know what it's called?
open DO YOU KNOW THIS KIDS MOVIE NAME? Film
I am not good at explaining but i will try my best.. So it was a movie that aired on either jetix or diseny in the year 2009 i think so. the story was about a boy who is always sad and depressed becoz he was dumb i think so later he meets a pumpkin or potatoe like creature who knows magic.the creature was small not very big he was approximately 2 to 3 feet tall so yeah. they both became friends then.and that creature helps the boy with his magical powers but later it turns into a big problem and so the movie was with a happy ending. here are some scenes that i remember from the movie so in a scene the patatoe like creaure give him some foods to eat like noodles burger etc with his magical powers. in this the creature helps the kid by helping him in exam but it turns into problem becoz he copied the whole answer sheet of a girl he copied the girls name to in the boys paper so the teacher comes to know that he had copied. so...i tried my best to explain you now ur trun plzz help me i cant focus on anything else
openCharacters/TheLastBoyScout has a TON of Zero Context Examples Film
I stumbled upon this page and every trope for each character is a Zero Context Example except for one. There is no description for the characters as well.
Edited by SithPanda16openConversation Trope Film
Where would you file the idea of two people having a higher conversation usually a protagonist and antagonist both knowing who each other are but not breaking the other's cover?
I'm remembering a scene where a conversation gets deadlier and deadlier without the room knowing what's going on and ending with something like "Are we quite done with this game?"
open Title of a movie I can´t remember-- HELP Film
Don´t know why I was remembering a very weird movie that I watched a long time ago. It was about a group of women living in a house (kind of a school), then a new girl came into, and started to tell them that they could swim naked, because they were all girls. I just remember this scene.. Do you identify the movie?
open I'm new here... I hope you can help! Film
Hi there. My work colleague and I both have the same memory of a film/video but cannot remember the name of it. It may have been an educational film shown in schools in australia, but I was in Victoria and she was in South Australia. We are the same age so put it early 80s as we remember it from primary school days. It may have been made in late 70s and likely was from overseas. All we remember is that it was a live production. Filmed on a black stage. There were white sets. The kids wore white and some musical score. Not much talking but everything was communicated through paint. I remember at one point there is a big paint fight and paint goes everywhere. It might have been some sort of social studies lesson aide or something but I am not having any succes in relocating this. It'd be great if someone else remembered it... especially the title. Would love to solve this one. thanks. Sorry the details are sketchy but that's all we've got!
openEntry- Crowning moment of ? Film
How does a person put the entry "Crowning Moment of —-?" into a TV Trope page?
Edited by SeptimusHeapopenThe Army Coming Over the Ridge Film
I don't see this trope covered in your website.
It happens all the time when one army is staring down another. To demonstrate the steep odds facing the one army, the ominous music (or sound effects) plays, the camera cuts to a vacant ridge, then we see the whole of the opposing army slowly emerge until they darken the entire ridge.
EXAMPLES
Mulan = the Huns charge the Imperial Army through The Tung Xiao Pass.
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace = the Droid Army's tanks slowly approach the Gungan force fields.
The Return of the King = the Riders of Rohan arrive at the gates of Minas Tirith.
Game of Thrones, S 07 E 04 = We hear the Dothraki screamers for a long while before they charge the Lannister Supply Train.
I'm sure there are dozens, if not scores, if not hundreds of additional examples.
Edited by Hughmsweeneyopen Tell Me Everything You Told Them! Film
I'm not sure this is a trope because I can't seem to find anything simply by searching, but I see it so often that is should be. Why.. do the "bad guys" always track down their traitors and instead of just killing them or simply packing up potentially compromised operations and reorganizing/restructuring, they demand to know what they told their interrogators. Why bother? If you have the chance to execute them, do so! Stop screwin' around. Or, just leave them be to prevent further exposure and just reorganize whatever resources were potentially compromised. I see so many "bad guys" make this mistake that they wind up throwing their entire organization into the drain just to recover from this one Human Resources issue. When the organization is heavily compartmentalized; it makes violating this trope so much more baffling.
open Lex stabs Superman Film
What do you call it when Lex Luthor stabs Superman in the side and leaves him to drown rather than cutting Superman's throat and ensuring he bleeds to death there and then?

I wanted to add a Tearjerker page for the Hachikō page, but I wonder if it's the kind of page that isn't supposed to have one? I feel like some moments of the films need mention, but there doesn't seem to be any tropes for the films specifically at all there, and I thought at least a Tearjerker page could be needed. But I hesitated to make one in case it's not "supposed" to have one?