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openTwo visual anger tropes Print Comic
Are there tropes for either of these scenarios:
1 - A character gets angry, or threatens to start a fight so he pulls one of his sleeves up while balling his fist (either to show his muscles, or to avoid getting blood on his shirt). Also done by cartoon animals that don't even wear clothes.
2 - A little girl / young woman gets angry, so she balls her fists and moves them perpendicular to her arms, keeping them straight down - this shows she's angry, but still cute.
resolved Klingon Romance Print Comic
A society is structured so that if a guy kills someone, the victim's fiancèe/wife is now bethroded to the killer.
resolved "Everyone is super easy to kill in the future" Print Comic
Is there a trope for a scene, in the beginning of the story, where the characters are desperately trying to get to a time machine, and the villains start killing them, one by one, despite the fact that those characters are extremely powerful (or have Plot Armor) in regular continuity? And then, the one survivor manages to reach the time machine to go back into the present and Set Right What Once Went Wrong?
open"Time travel makes my head hurt!" Print Comic
Do we have a trope for when a character complains that the details of time travel are complicated to keep track of?
openDreamed the solution but it was gibberish Print Comic
This has been told verbally (or printed in magazines) as a joke, and as a Dave Berg "The Lighter Side" comic in MAD Magazine. I would give a cosmic gold brick to learn what was the original source for this.
Someone has been struggling with a problem at work and is still thinking about it while going to sleep. A few hours later, Eureka! they wake up with the perfect answer. It's so profound it'll solve everything! They write it down so they won't forget.
So then they get up in the morning and look at the note and it says "five dollar gardener." (Or in the Dave Berg cartoon, it was complete gibberish).
Edited by CaptEquinoxopenQuick to pick sides Print Comic
A character is thrown into a strange scenario, wherein two groups are fighting. He immediately sides with one of them, despite knowing nothing about the conflict (usually because Beauty Equals Goodness). He's usually right, but if not, it can be a Tomato Surprise.
For instance, our heroes land on an alien planet and see a Green-Skinned Space Babe. They look at her for about three seconds, then Big Creepy-Crawlies show up, and they're already fighting by her side - though she might be the evil one in the first place...
Edited by Mac_RopenComic-Book Trope? Print Comic
Is there such a trope for when works are re-issued for nostalgia reasons, even though the content is obviously an Unintentional Period Piece?
I'm basing this on a What Could Have Been for when Motor Trend planned to re-issue the November 1996-2003 issues as a collector's item for fans, with no edits to the original (the idea was nixed).
It's not a comic book, but is there a trope for re-releasing a comic-book or other print medium with no changes ?
open"Old People Reminisce" Plot Print Comic
Is there a trope for a story built around a Framing Device of a group of decadent and/or disfunctional characters getting together (sometimes against their will), with the plot being told through flashbacks to their younger, more active days?
openDeep-Cover Hero Print Comic
Is there a trope for when a a bad guy is actually a hero in disguise or Fake Defector, who uses his influence among bad guys to keep them performing Innefectual Villainy, but never Becomes The Mask?
openradiation gives you superpowers Print Comic
Is there a trope for radiation being portrayed as something that gives you superpowers? Or is at least beneficial somehow as opposed to poisoning people? I put this under print comic as it's VERY common in old-school superhero stories likely due to scientists back then not entirely understanding how radiation works, but can appear in other media. Also, on a related note, is there a trope for how radiation (even when portrayed as dangerous) is usually shown in comics and cartoons as a sort of green light/fire that vaporizes people or the like, as opposed to being invisible and basically being a slow-killing poison?
openSuperman discovering his full power. Print Comic
So basically, Superman couldn't unlock his full potential when he couldn't accept his Kryptonian heritage. It was only when he could accept that he unlocked his full potential. I guess the trope is more like, unwillingly mentally preventing yourself from getting to your full power?
Edited by Oshawott777openTrinities Print Comic
Is there a trope related to a trinity of lead characters such as Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman? Aside from the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I cant really think of anything yet the concept seems to legendary
openCharacter published very frequently, but not just for publicity grabs Print Comic
Specifically, Deadpool. Some of his appearances are Wolverine Publicity, but there are months where he's a genuine title-starring role in multiple things at once.
Here's what I've written up so far, but... what is it?
- Deadpool's appearances exploded starting in 2008, with multiple simultaneous comic books of his own and concurrent appearances of varying significance in other comics. For instance, his new appearances released in February 2016 (cover: April 2016) to coincide with the Deadpool film premiere: ongoing series Deadpool vol. 4, Uncanny Avengers, and newly-launched Spider-Man/Deadpool; limited series Deadpool & Cable: Split Second and Deadpool & the Mercs for Money; and a guest appearance in Black Knight. The prior month, he also made six new appearances, along with several True Believers reprint issues anticipating new readers from the film's audience. As Deadpool later tells Gwenpool in her issue #13:
Deadpool: Do you know who's heard of me?! Everyone. I have had hundreds of issues. I don't know how many series. I guest-appear everywhere. Comics. Video games. TV shows. And so much merchandise. And never forget... the highest grossing R-rated film of all time.
(Heck, I might even change the "For instance" stuff to an example from March 2017— ten issues from 9 different titles, 4 of them his own)
openSupporting cast doesn't cross-over Print Comic
It's common for superheroes to show up in each other's comics, but their non-super supporting cast usually doesn't. So the Fantastic Four might show up briefly in an issue of The Amazing Spider-Man, but their mailman Willie Lumpkin never does.
Is that a trope? (Please note that what I'm talking about is the kind of cross-over where it's not a team-up book; I mean where it's clearly one character's, or one team's, book.)
resolved People Know What the Author Knows (SOLVED!) Print Comic
I remember a trope in this wiki about authors (especially amateur ones, like Fan Fiction writers) assuming, either consciously or subconsciously, that the characters know the same things they do - the examples listed were how random characters assumed Supergirl was Superman's cousin, even though that wasn't common knowledge - she might be a sister, friend or even just a fan. Another example was the old Star Wars expanded universe, wherein characters somehow "knew" Darth Vader was Luke's father after the fall of the empire, despite Luke never going public - and nobody knowing Vader's real name and background to begin with.
Edited by Mac_RopenExact car trope Print Comic
So this guy has a Real Life '69 Charger, which is already a Cool Car, but then because he's a Ghost Rider, it comes with a whole bunch of supernatural powers.
Without the powers, the car has, and I quote: "A fuel-injected BDS 9-71 Roots-style blower, supercharged Hystler 426 Hemi V-8 and 900BHP." I don't know what any of that means but it sounds awesome.
So... Is this a Pimped-Out Car or something specific, or does "Cool Car" cover it?
openWhy Is The Sky Blue? Print Comic
Hello
I am trying to think of this trope, where some one asks some thing like; "Why must this happen!?", and some one responds with some thing like "Who Knows?".
Case in point, in "House Of M", Layla asks why it must be her who must help restore reality to Normal, before Emma Frost responds; "Why is the Sky Blue?".
Then, there is another trope, where some one takes the question literally, and answers that with the scientific explanation as to why the Sky is blue.
Does any one Know if there are tropes with some thing like the above?
Edited by BabClaytonresolved There's only one Vigilante (SOLVED) Print Comic
Is there a trope about the Fridge Logic that applies to countless superhero stories - that is, the fact that people in-universe always assume the superhero is a single guy, despite not knowing anything about him - and despite the fact that the superhero costume makes it easy for impersonators - for instance, J. Jonah Jameson always assumes Spiderman (the chameleon or Mysterio) robbing a bank is "proof" he's a criminal, rather than some other powered character buying the same costume.
Edited by Mac_R

I've been reading some superhero comics paperback collections, and I've noticed that on supplementary material, the creators avoid using the names of characters published by a different company - for instance, in the Batman: Hush deluxe edition, Jim Lee mentions he wanted Nightwing to jump around like "a certain spider-theme hero", instead of saying Spider-Man.
I dunno if that's just a joke, or if they're not allowed (either legally or by editorial mandate) to mention the competition... is there a trope for that?