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openNo Title Live Action TV
I know the rule "fix it yourself" but since I've never seen Firefly, I have no idea what's true within the four-bulleted argument/natter on the Photographic Memory page:
- River Tam from Firefly exhibits this when she memorizes the exact locations and cover arrangements of three soldiers in a room and shoots all three in rapid succession, a bullet to each, with her eyes closed.
River: No power in the 'Verse can stop me.
- That only required her to memorize three points, and retain that memory for a few seconds.
- Remember them exactly and then unerringly hit them in an instantly fatal spot. She captured their exact location and stance in an instant. Let's see you try that - with a Nerf gun, though. Shooting people is generally frowned upon.
- Not only that, but she also spun her body around. She was facing them when she saw them, got shot at and ducked in behind cover, picked up Kaylee's gun, stood up and then spun her clockwise, extending her left arm, while her eyes were still closed. She would have had to not only remember exactly where the guys were, but also calculate the exact angle she turned her body, how high she should point her arm (and the gun) in relative position to how far clockwise she spun her body.
Kaylee: Not even the captain could make a shot like that!- This is more a case of perfect coordination than perfect memory. You could set up basketball goals all around someone with perfect memory, but that doesn't mean they'd make every shot with their eyes closed.
- Possibly photographic memory (for locking the position of the targets in her mind), perfect coordination (to be able to move and attack with the necessary precision to the image in her mind) AND perfect calculation (for the position, trajectory of the bullets, possibly deviations, etc; she can kill you with maths)
- That only required her to memorize three points, and retain that memory for a few seconds.
Could someone who knows Firefly better please help out? Again, I would love to do it myself but I have little knowledge of the show. Another question, is this the right thread to ask for this type of thing or should I have put this in the discussion section of Photographic Memory?
open What trope is this example? Live Action TV
Hi all. I'm fairly certain the answer to my own question is Survivor Guilt, but I think that is a bit more broad than the example.
I'm referring to a season 2 episode of The Newsroom, where Maggie recounts her harrowing experience in Africa; the orphanage where she is sleeping is attacked by cattle raiders and she and the other adults evacuate the kids onto a school bus. Turns out, one of the kids was left behind, so she went back into the orphanage to get him, and carried him out on her back. But while heading back to the bus, her colleague dropped his camera, causing her to turn around... just as a gunshot meant for her hits the kid in the back, killing him.
This event is why she spends the entirety of the season in a state of Heroic BSoD, and I'm trying to determine if there's a trope here beside simple Survivor Guilt. There's an element of Failure-to-Save Murder, in that she tried and failed to save the kid, but it's not that, because nobody blames her for the kid's death... except herself.
I could take this to the TLP, but as I'm not even sure how to distinguish this from the two tropes mentioned, or if there are even any other examples, I thought I'd ask here.
Edited by ginsengaddictopen TV Show with Skull Floating Room to Room In Intro Live Action TV
Apologies if detail is sparse, but in the late 70’s as a small kid I remember going to my grandma’s. Some days she would have her TV on and a show would come on that I can best describe it started with a skull beginning to float off a shelf and through a room, perhaps to other rooms. Then after the show, the skull would float itself back to its original location. The show may have been black and white, and may have been much older than the era I was seeing it. I wish I could remember more. Does anyone have any idea what show this was? I don’t think it was a movie, I think it was a TV series.
openDouble Meaning in "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." ep "Afterlife" Live Action TV
While browsing the double meaning / double entendre tropes, I was surprised not to see Jemma and Fitz's conversation listed somewhere. On the surface they appear to be arguing about Jemma helping "The Real S.H.I.E.L.D." to whom Fitz is adamantly opposed. With a slight twist, though, it's really about Fitz, having realized Jemma's making a fake Toolbox, confirms he should appear to quit so he can get the real one to Coulson. I'd add it myself, but I'm not sure what trope it would fall under. (I also wish I could find the conversation online. I guess I'll have to re-download the ep from iTunes and transcribe it myself.)
openNo Title Live Action TV
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/el.php?findfor=theschwab34
and his newly recruited friend https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/el.php?findfor=Confession0791
Can someone tell this guy to stop inserting incorrect trope usage into an article just because he ships a certain pairing?
He can't tell the difference between BST and UST, or how the tropes are being played with, won't bother reading the entries that clearly explain why the entries are, re-edits the article every time it's changed back to the correct version.
Then he goes off to start wikilawyering here
accusing people of bias, which is silly, since myself and the other guy who have done most of the edits on the show have been trying to get the show to qualify for Trope Overdosed and rejecting a trope because of a "bias" wouldn't help that goal.
open Recaped episodes are still said to be not indexed Live Action TV
Normally, after indexing the main Recap page itself, a blank edit on that is enough to index the individual episode pages, but for some reason it just doesn't work on The Punisher
. Is that simply a bug or is there an editing error? Help would be appreciated :)
openScary Story Halloween Special? Live Action TV
I remember this special very vaguely however it most likely aired in the early 2000's. There was one particular episode apart of the special itself that I remember most of. The episode appeared to have people working on a kids show television set where there was a creepy doll. The only way I could possibly describe it is a cabbage patch kid mixed with Barney's height (at least from what I recall). The particular line that stands out to me is it talking to one of the cast members who happened to be a mail man on the kids show, she basically said something along the lines of "I'll cut out your heart and you can cut out mine." The man of course thought the doll meant paper hearts as there were materials to make them on a nearby table. Unfortunately the doll stabs him in the heart with a pair of scissors and says something mentioning a baby, I don't know. What I think I remember is the cast member who played the mail man had romantic relations with the woman who provided voice over work for the doll and recently discovered she was pregnant. This is all I really remember from it, it's been a while.
open Sci-Fi Show Live Action TV
So I used to watch this reallife show which aired around 2004 in my country. It was in English. It was def a Sci-fi show. It has 3-4 Teenagers from what I remember. 2 guys and 1 girl I think. There was this futuristic car/vehicle (from what I remember, was very fast, could maybe fly and be invisible)(and has soo many features inside it). The Teenagers discover this car. And Inside this car One of the teens could put armour on and make him self like a robot and fight crime ( the armour was shiny silver). The Villain from what I remember was a Girl dressed in red leather. Everyone went to the same high school. One scene I remember was one of the teenagers (the asian i think) was captured and tied to a chair and he manages to get help/or contact by typing on a laptop with his hands tied backwards cause he's so smart. Thats all I remember, please let me know if this rings a bell to anyone. Thanks.
open Crime Mystery Whodunnit Drama TV Show Title Help, Please Live Action TV
Do you know the name of that crime mystery whodunnit drama show that took place in New York, USA and aired for two seasons and was from the 2010s? (I think it aired either from 2011 to 2012) and one of the main characters is a woman and is divorced. In one of the episodes, a girl had looked like as if she had committed suicide by hanging herself, but her older sister and her boyfriend had killed her and made it look like as if she had hanged herself and in another one of the episodes, the victim was a woman who was found dead in her pool and she was, like, the president of a beauty/fashion magazine company and the murderer was a woman who had gotten into a fight with the victim and had shoved her into the pool.
Can you please help me and tell me the name of the show that I'm talking about?
openLuke Cage YMMV Entry Live Action TV
- Tough Act to Follow: Given the universal acclaim of the previous Marvel Netflix entries, this show will have very high expectations going in. Not helped in the least by Daredevil's second season airing earlier in the same year.
Now that the show has actually come out, this sounds like it could use an update. (Plus, the part suggesting that Daredevil season 2 could become a Tough Act to Follow sounds Harsher in Hindsight.) I can't perform the update myself, because I haven't seen the show yet, and have thus tried to avoid reading reviews in detail.
openTitleTrope dispute on a Recap page Live Action TV
Someone keeps deleting the Double-Meaning Title entry I made on an Arrow Season 6 recap page. Here's my entry:
- Double-Meaning Title: At first glance the episode title (which is "Doppelganger'") seems to only refer to Black Siren (the Alternate Self of a deceased main character), but the episode also features the return of Roy, a man who took the identity of the Arrow to take all the blame from Oliver back in Season Three. It also shows Diggle, Oliver's most constant stand-in, expressing his desire to officially don the Green Arrow mantle.
I think I made a valid explanation, but I don't wanna cause an Edit War so I'm here for second opinion(s). You guys think its Ok to put this back?
Edited by makarovak47openRL examples in Crowning Moments? Live Action TV
What's the policy for real life examples in Crowning Moments of Awesome/Funny/Heartwarming/etc? I was reading the Columbo page and came across this example:
"Real life example- after Falk's death, his estranged daughter from his first marriage, Catherine Falk, tried to sue for control of his estate. The judge denied her request and left Shera Danese as executor. This is awesome as Catherine Falk had not even spoken to her father or showed him any attention while he was alive and especially not in the years when he was dying, whereas Shera Danese had been with him since they met on set to the day he died."
It really feels like a backdoor to troping real life and/or real people. Not only does it not have to do with the show itself, which I know is probably good enough reason to remove it, it's not really something that feels right to be well... celebrating especially as the public isn't exactly privy to all the details of the relationships involved to know why Peter Falk and his daughter were estranged. But this is YMMV territory and I don't want to remove examples just because I don't agree with them, whether it be this one or any other RL examples I might come across.
Thoughts?
openLocked recap pages? Live Action TV
I've taken it upon myself to develop the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers Recap pages. Before I started my work, they didn't go past the first dozen or so episodes of the first season. I've made my way up to the fourth Green With Evil Saga episode and on submitting it, I found that it just took me back to the blank recap page for the episode. Why is this? I grant that my recaps are detailed but they do not substitute for the full episodes or scripts, and nor have I ever seen a rule forbidding detailed recaps (indeed I have seen many others for other works). I haven't gotten a PM relating to the matter either, not yet at least. Instead I think this must just be some kind of locking glitch but not sure why it would have happened? Please can someone fix this so I can continue to work on the recaps. I also noticed that the fifth episode of the saga had the same predicament and, one might assume, so on and so forth for other episodes after that point. I checked and I was able to re-edit previously submitted recaps.
Edited by FlashStepsopenRegarding a disputed MEH example on AOS Live Action TV
I think Hellfire enjoyed being under the sway, unlike Daisy, and some cracks in Daisy demonstrate that even Inhumans under the sway appear to have some moral agency, at least. Also, Jiaying herself said Hellfire was too dangerous to undergo Terrigenesis, if I remember correctly.
openRecap page without works page? Live Action TV
I've come across an old draft of mine, which was to be a recap for an episode of a Genre Anthology. I'd like to finish and post it, but I'm hesitating because the show itself doesn't have a page. My focus really has been just on that one episode, and I don't think I know the series itself well enough to list many overall tropes for it or to give a description that's better than a stub.
So: Would it be okay to set up an episode list in the Recap namespace, install that one recap (once it's completed) there, and work up a page for the Series namespace at a later date? Or should the Series page exist first?
Edited by MasoTeyopenName of UK children's TV show with man and cartoon version of him as a child Live Action TV
I am after the name of a UK children's TV show that aired within the last 10 years. The two main characters were an adult and a cartoon version of himself. Being the same person (albeit at different ages) they had the same name but were prefixed with 'big' for the adult and 'little' for the cartoon boy.
openNo Title Live Action TV
This is a minor issue, but I'm questioning one of my own additions to the Jessica Jones (2015) page and wanted to have other tropers weigh in. I added Mundane Luxury to the page because the series villain, Kilgrave, in the backstory used his Compelling Voice powers for some minor and common things: He made a rich guy give him his very nice jacket, had a concert cellist perform for him, and had a woman follow him around smiling all the time. Another character, after hearing of these events, observes that Kilgrave was just obtaining clothing, good music and a pretty woman's smile, remarking that these items are so petty compared to what he can (And other times does) do with his powers.
However, I'm waffling on the trope because it's not only about when someone obtains or desires something mundane, it's thematically about when they want these things because they've been so deprived that even the mundane seems luxurious. Kilgrave doesn't limit himself to just the mundanities, at other times in the series he is shown using his powers for expensive food and housing, mountains of money, sex with women, and every other way you can think of for exploiting his Compelling Voice power.
So, he's not been deprived of the mundane luxuries of life, but he does still go out of his way to get them in a way that other characters actually comment on. Would this fit the trope, or not?
Edited by JBK405openNo Title Live Action TV
Very long edit war on Anvilicious on the new Supergirl's
page. Started back in May, recently popped up again.
Basically, one person keeps putting in what amounts to a justifying edit. Other people keep trying to say "prove it." Edit reasons are getting a bit rude, too. Not great form all around.
Personally, I think it should stay gone. It's a Justifying Edit that doesn't really add any context to Anvilicious itself and it reeks of Examples Are Not Arguable.
Pulling to discussion for the moment.
Edited by Larkmarn

Hey there, I was led to the No Nonsense Self Defense link on I Just Want to Be Badass and reading through the page I began thinking about Buffy The Vampire Slayer. You know how she goes out on patrol looking for demons and such? Well as many people would guess that would likely get someone killed. I have in my mind writing up a detailed prose on this. How would I go about doing it? Where would I post it? Or would it be better off to leave that to self defense experts?