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openFake Leaked Content Web Original
A piece of work is shown as leak from an upcoming update, but under that it's just a fanmade fake meant to impersonate official content.
openOne frame scare? Web Original
In the episode "Show for Children", a skeleton named Cadavre is looking into graves at cemetaries. The first one contains a more realistic skeleton with a scary expression, and the second contains an unidentifiable but living (undead?) bird-like creature. However, after Cadavre escapes the second grave, the skeleton shown in the first grave is briefly overlaid on the gravestones as it fades out to the next scene. For only about one frame. Would this be considered a Jump Scare... or something else?
openEvil.exe Web Original
Seen It a Million Times. A Naming Convention where a character's name ends with a file extension, typically .exe (after bootleg Windows apps) to denote it's an Evil Knockoff or otherwise not the genuine thing.
Example: Sonic.exe
Edited by DarklingArcheropenNot That Far In The Future Web Original
Modern Rogue referred to 2021 as the far future in a 2017 episode. Is there a trope for now being in that “distant future”, rendering the whole thing sort of silly?
open"Oh, please report me" Web Original
Someone sarcastically urges someone else to call the authorities (a boss, an inspector, the police, etc.) on them, knowing that it'll have no effect. There are generally two scenarios I see it in:
Scenario 1: Bob finds out that Alice is evil/corrupt/etc., and threatens to report her to the authorities. Alice replies, "Oh, please report me" or "I'd like to see you try." She's confident because the authority is in her pocket, biased toward her, or incapable of doing anything about it.
Scenario 2: Bob has some bone to pick with Alice, and threatens to report her to the authorities. Alies replies, "Oh, please report me" or "I'd like to see you try." She's confident because Bob's complaint is baseless and the authority is reasonable.
This may or may not fall under Threat Backfire, but I was wondering if there was something more specific.
openexaggerating own age as a joke Web Original
Lindsay Ellis appears to have an occasional recurring bit where she offhandedly implies she's much older than she actually is, e.g. claiming to have started making videos "in the 1960s". Not sure what if any trope this'd fall under; it's not quite enough for Historical Longevity Joke, and the context doesn't work for When I Was Your Age....
openIs there a term for Star-Crossed Lovers but for platonic friendships? Web Original
I'm writing a fanfic of a fandom that doesn't have a page here, but because of the fandom's controversial nature I'm not using the characters' names.
"A" does have (unrequited) romantic feelings for "B", but this is a flashback sequence when they were kids so friendship is completely platonic here:
They first met at the same time their fathers met. Both of their fathers are dictators of two neighbouring nations. When their fathers discuss about their plans and all that, "B"'s father would usually tell them to play outside. "A" is oblivious that both of their fathers are evil until "B" convinced him about it so they tried to run away somewhere until the latter's father caught them.
Now because of this, "B"'s father doesn't bring him to whenever he has meetings with "A"'s father anymore. "A" missed playing with "B". Few years later, they're now in their early teens. "A" meets "B" again in the hospital but their conversation didn't last long due to "B" still recovering from trauma from his father's abuse.
openWhat's the trope for this moment? Web Original
In the You Tube animation "Celebrities babysitting Olivia Rodrigo" by Darianas Eggs, baby Olivia walks into a bar and orders a drink. Taylor, the bartender, seems bothered that the drink is being ordered at 7 AM, but not that it's a baby who's ordering it. What trope is that? It seems a bit like Skewed Priorities, but I'm unsure.
openTyping in all white Web Original
When a character types their text in all white (or other color that's unreadable against the background), such as Doc Scratch from Homestuck
openOne role of a celebrity playing another Web Original
A character who is played my Actor A performs, in-universe, another role that in real life Actor A performed. For example, Spock playing the title role in the Royal Shakespeare Company's Sherlock Holmes
I would expect this to be mostly a fan works trope. In fact I am planning that in a Love Live Elsewhere Fic , where my characters watch the Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight stage musical in the fall of 2017. The role of Hikari is brilliantly played by Umi Sonoda. (In real life both are Suzuko Mimori)
Or is this just a form of Celebrity Paradox?
openHypocrite subtrope? Web Original
On Raven's section in Characters.RWBY Anima:
- Hypocrite: Raven has a problematic view of family responsibilities. She feels Qrow's abandonment of the Branwen tribe is turning his back on family, but he feels she has no business lecturing him when she abandoned Taiyang and Yang. Qrow also points out to Yang that Raven only contacts him when she wants him; after Yang seeks out Raven so she can take her to Qrow and Ruby, Raven complains about family only visiting when they need something.
Wyldchyld raised up the possibility for a subtrope for Hypocrite
. That said, is there a specific subtrope available for this?
openYoutubers with borders around their videos Web Original
This is a weird one, but is there a trope for when a creator always formats their work with some weird border as a sort of watermark / copyright prevention measure? There's the orange borders in Game Grumps and Scott The Woz made a whole video about the blue border that surrounds his video. I think other works may have it too... maybe the South Park "SpookyVision" thing with pictures of Barbra Streisand staying onscreen the whole time would count?
openReading the books fanfic Web Original
Do we have a trope for fanfictions where the various characters read about their own adventures (often with a mix of characters familiar with the adventures, and those who are not). Usually includes comical reactions to the various adventures and mishaps the main characters get into.
resolved Happy to be Hated Web Original
A character is disliked or rejected. It seems like he'd be in hell, but he's actually happy - because the one(s) hating him do so because of a quality he's proud of.
The standard joke I'm thinking of (from Saturday Morning Breakfast Theater) is when a woman breaks up with a man because she thinks her penis is too big, and he's smiling about it.
One example that's not R-rated I remember is an episode of The Simpsons where a teacher is mean to Lisa despite them sharing academic interests, and in the end, the teacher reveals she's always been jealous of pretty girls like Lisa, so Lisa feels good about being hated "for that reason".
openThe wrong use of what's being given Web Original
In episode 22 of Battle for BFDI, specifically this timestamp https://youtu.be/wluh0U2wZuY?t=596
Leafy gives Teardrop a typewriter to document the court case, but all she does is write a comic.
openWhen an inactive person is found Web Original
Looking for a trope about how Wazzo TV found several inactive people to work on his online animated show with him Or something to describe the in-universe counterpart of how Wazzo found several people who had left for a long time
openWhen something exist before it was invented (RESOLVED) Web Original
There's Twitter being used in Aldrivers, Devourer of Cos. Nothing wrong at first but the date shown is Sep 11, 2001. Twitter was invented in 2006. Know that trope for that kind of humor?
Edited by AlicornGaiaopenThinking it was the finish line when it isn't Web Original
In episode 5e of Battle for Dream Island Again at this timestamp https://youtu.be/RZB7nTzSl3g?t=409
FreeSmart reaches the summit of Yoyle Mountain as the goal of the challenge is, but Firey Speaker Box comes up and says that this isn't it and that they need to do some climbing up that pole first.

Which trope would best fit the process of replacing sound files like this? Manipulative Editing? Gag Dub?
Edited by DrNoPuma