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I've seen (or at least heard of) this one a lot in cartoons: a pet acts cute and well-behaved towards one individual, but is a complete asshole towards another (usually his friend or another pet). Two examples I can think of off the top of my head are "Stimpy's Pet" from Ren And Stimpy and the infamous "A Pal for Gary" from Spongebob Squarepants.
Edited by MadMan400096openNo Title Western Animation
Do we have a trope about a specific type of fourth wall breakage where a character in a show talks about or interacts with things that he shouldn't be able to see, such as the channel logo or subtitles?
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Is there a trope for when a character gets ill or swallows something, then his/her friends shrink themselves to go inside them (tee hee) and "fix" said character?
There are many examples of this including:
- Spongebob Squarepants, when Squidward swallowed his clarinet and the gang went to retrieve it.
- Mona The Vampire, when they went inside the teacher who had food poisoning.
- Phineas And Ferb, in the episode Journey To The Centre Of Candace.
- Futurama, in the episode Parasites Lost.
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Is there a trope for when a fat/otherwise large character jumps into a pool and makes an unnaturally large splash, usually at the end of a bunch of other people jumping in? I'm thinking immediately of Chien Po in the pond scene from Mulan, but I've seen it a bunch of places.
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A classic comedy, gernerally animated trope is where an object falls, or is knocked around, and ends up stuck temporarily teetering on its balance point, and then falls over, usually off a cliff or into a lake or something equally final.
It's used everywhere, and I just can't find it
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Is there a trope name for a when a cartoon character's pupils spin in opposite directions (usually to indicate head injury or dizziness, less commonly to show insanity). Wingding Eyes covers the "swirlies" common in anime to show dizziness, but not this. G-rated Mental Illness also covers this slightly, but that's more of a related trope.
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Is there a trope for when one character whispers to another, but all viewers hear is "ssvshsvshshvshshpsvhsvps"? Usually done in Western Animation, when the characters are talking about... ahem... in which this trope usually ends with one character going "Ohhhh!"
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Do we have a page for the shows in the old block of Marvel Cartoons - basically the old 60's Marvel superhero shows that, unlike Spider-Man or the Fantastic Four of the time, were basically images from the comics simply strung together (motion comics). Cap's is probably the most famous, but Iron Man's got a nod in the recent movies.
Here's what I'm talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlH8zcUMRyA
Also, I know we have a page for motion comics in general but I can't find it.
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Does anyone know the name for this sound effect?
It's a high-pitched, continuous rattling sound, generally used in Western Animation (usually in kids' shows) when Friendly Tickle Torture occurs. I'd like to find the trope for it, assuming there IS one, because I'm hearing it everywhere and it's driving me up the wall.
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Do we have a trope about when the bad guy lives close enough to the heroes that he can attack them on a regular basis and anytime at all, but they're not visibly worried about this? Like Igthorn living close to the gummi bears, or Gargamel always planning some new way to get at the smurfs. I guess it would be a subtrope of Angst? What Angst?
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whats it called when a character's heart is pounding outside of their chest?
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Is there a trope about a planet having only one culture? I've not seen in before.
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After reading through the "I'm melting" page, I got to thinking: Is there a trope for the more cartoony style of melting? You know, when a character is so overcome with lust that they melt into a puddle?
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Is there a trope for getting hit on the head by something? Like, anvils, coconuts, and even other people. I can remember a Looney Tunes cartoon where a character gets hit on the head by an anvil, but that's all I remember.
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I remember reading it somewhere, but I don't remember if it's a trope page or work page. Anyway, it was talking about how in animation such as fma or avatar characters can jump three times their height all over the place without dropping like a stone, as it is in our world. I don't think it's "in a single bound," I'm pretty sure the article had "gravity" somewhere in its title, or it was Headscratcher for Avatar: The last airbender.
As an example: consider Ty Lee from Avatar. She is shown hopping from tree to tree in one episode, as though she was light as a feather.
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Reading tropes such as You Know What You Did
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I've tried to add this several times to Batman The Animated Series, first under Even Evil Has Standards then under Squick, but it keeps being deleted.
Almost Got'Im. After hearing Penguin, Two Face, Ivy and Croc tell stories of their bids against Batman, The Joker reveals Harley had captured Cat Woman and is about to have her chopped up into cat food. The others look suitably wigged.
What trope should this go under?
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So there is a Episode Y. A character X does NOT appear in it. Then, in an Episode Z, character X shows pictures from Episode Y showing that (s)he was in that place near the main characters, despite the fact that character never appeared in the actual episode.
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I was watching an episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003 series, season 2 which introduces the crocodile character Leatherhead. The episode features three of the turtles fighting Leatherhead, while they're standing in ankle deep water, into which the 8 foot tall crocodile suddenly dives in to head first becoming fully submerged. The three turtles then proceed to stand exactly where he dived and not fall in to deeper water. They themselves only become submerged once the Leatherhead starts dragging them under.
I'm sure I've seen this in other cartoons and possibly films where characters seem to have the Jesus like power to walk on water that is much deeper than appears, or they can apparently fully submerge in water only a few inches deep. Is there a trope for this?