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openFrom a previous Generation Western Animation
What is it called when you see an item in the background that had importance in a previous generation of the show? As in the item being from My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic being seen in My Little Pony Make Your Mark?
Easter Egg? Call-Back? Mythology Gag? Or something else?
openProposed trope: Subverted bees and the flowers Western Animation
I'm testing the waters for a new trope where either a character or the plot itself sets up to explain where babies come from. A straight example would have the story include actual elements related to child birth and occasionally bizzare explanations Rashomon-style but then subverts Once More, with Clarity by having the final explanation turning out to be just as nonsensical as the rest.
Compare Ikea Erotica, The Talk and Not Actually the Ultimate Question
Examples so far:
- Codename: Kids Next Door: 'Operation D.I.A.P.E.R' takes place in a birthing center where Sector V abducts babies because Numbuh 1 is under the delusion that babies come from eggs much to the bewilderment of Numbuh 5 who's convinced she knows the truth.
Numbuh One: (completely and utterly speechless, mouth hanging open)Numbuh Two: (same reaction, until he starts gagging, falling out of his chair in the process)Numbuh Three: (running in circles, hands over her ears) Ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew!Numbuh Four: (same as 1 + 2, except his face/hair have been blasted backward)Numbuh Five: (nodding in seriousness)Numbuh One: ...wait a second! That's preposterous! Babies don't come from New Jersey! They come from Philadelphia.
- Cow and Chicken: Cow spends the whole episode 'The Day I Was Born' asking everyone around her about the day she was born only to repeatedly get ridiculous origin stories. Finally Cow meets the Red Guy who reveals that he is her midwife, but even his story amounts to just the Red Guy pushing baby Cow out of the delivery room on a table.
openLand Before Time Syndrome Western Animation
When a movie is really good but then it spawns several trashy direct-to-video sequels?
openFast Blurred Hands Western Animation
Someone does something like building something, or wrapping bandages (Peso From the Octonauts) so fast that their hands and/or body appear like blurs.
openNo intro episode Western Animation
For when a series doesn’t have an intro episode that sets up the plot, introduces the characters, etc, and dumps the whole show in media res.
The show usually has continuity. Elements that would normally appear in an intro episode (like how the main characters met) are referenced in the show, but never portrayed on screen.
These shows often communicate their premise through the series description alone.
openVehicle Abandons Driver Western Animation
I was wondering if we have a trope like this, such as when SpongeBob and SquidWard's boat drives off without them in SpongeBob SquarePants S 1 E 5 "Pizza Delivery" / "Home Sweet Pineapple".
Edited by Siliwatson12openIf I knew that this was all you wanted, I would have given it to you willingly Western Animation
Tribbles are cute little animals, but they reproduce extremely quickly and the Klingons hate them. The Enterprise find a Klingon ship chasing a small one-man ship with Cyrano Jones, who has some tribbles with him. After the Enterprise pick up Jones, the Klingons attack them, claiming that Jones is an ecological terrorist. Eventually they clarify that what they are actually after isn't Jones himself, but a prototype predator of tribbles which he stole from them. Kirk, the captain of the Enterprise, had been insistent that giving them Jones was out of the question, but he willingly gives them the prototype predator.
openArtistic License – Literature Western Animation
The claim that the Queen of Hearts having people executed (and the associated quote "off with his head") is from Through the Looking Glass, when in fact it's from Alice in Wonderland.
Edited by Someone1981openA character has a power they don't like using Western Animation
I'm looking for a trope involving a character who has a specific power, but personally dislikes using (especially notable if the power's useful and not useless).
Here's a sample example:
- Hazbin Hotel: Word of God states that Charlie has wings similar to those of her father Lucifer, but doesn't like using them, hence why she's never seen sprouting wings in the series itself despite fitting her power level and heritage.
openOverly long "moment of shock" Western Animation
Looking for the classic cartoon trope where a character is SO utterly shocked that the show shows various clips of several moments of the day (or just days entirely) where the character is just still completely questioning everything (it's usually accompanied by backgrounds of people going on with their lives)
openAmerican Pop Western Animation
At the end of American Pop, Pete Belinsky performs a medley of Carl Perkins's "Blue Suede Shoes", Shorty Long's "Devil with a Blue Dress On", and then Heart's "Crazy on You" (which were all arranged by the film's composer Lee Holdridge) in concert. Which trope fits this example?
Edited by gjjonesopenThe Random Enemy greeting at the camera during a chase/invasion Western Animation
Picture this: A shot of an invasion/chased caused by the main antagonist, chaos everywhere, and one of the minions decides to break the 4th wall by greeting at the camera man.
I seen this happen in the Mixels Minisode "Wrong Colors" and some of the ghost invasion scenes from Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures.
open(Back to) Normal Episode Western Animation
An episode or story in a series wherein the protagonist doesn't have superpowers or interacts with Speculative Fiction elements... or so it appears. Basically, the story starts out trying to convince the viewer that everything that happened before was All Just a Dream, and the hero is just a regular person.
It's revealed that a villain is manipulating the hero's mind or reality itself (like through Time Travel) to get the hero to give into The Final Temptation - but there are flaws in the hoax which allow the hero to realize the truth and either break free from the spell or Set Right What Once Went Wrong.
openCharacter's appearance is changed under the radar over the course of a series Western Animation
What's the trope for when a character (usually a minor one) quietly has their appearance changed without an explanation, but the audience doesn't know it until later? (Specifically within the same work, especially in a series.)
Example: In The Loud House, Boy Jordan, a minor background character, originally looked like this
in Seasons 1-3. In Season 4, he got redesigned to look like this
(which makes him look like a completely different character), but he wasn't addressed by name in this design until the Season 5 episode "Frame on You".
resolved Never Unspectacled Western Animation
A character is never shown without glasses or sunglasses, even when showering, sleeping or swimming.
In the case of sunglasses or Scary Shiny Glasses, that means we never see the character's eyes.
openHome (2015) Western Animation
Happens when oh and tip meet each other
I don't know what was called but it was like reactive continuous scream but with exclaim or just AH
openNarcissistic Housing Western Animation
When a character owns a house either shaped or themed around themselves. Overlaps with but is unique from Bizarrchitecture
resolved Good Guys do the Dangerous Work Western Animation
Both the heroes and the villain want something, but there's some sort of menace in the way, something that isn't on either side - a monster, trap-filled dungeon, guards...
So, the heroes do the dangerous work of getting - for instance, if there's treasure in a dungeon, they get past the traps, beat the monsters and solve the puzzles. Then, the villain either shows up, or waits for them outside, to overpower them and take the treasure for himself.
Depending on the situation, the heroes don't have much of a moral ground - they're also stealing from the dungeon, but at least they're brave enough to face the danger. Usually, it's a case of the heroes stealing something from someone actually dangerous, then being pickpocketed by the Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain.
Edited by Mac_R

Is there a trope like this? For instance, in Batman: The Animated Series, Mr. Freeze's backstory proved so impactful that it's been made his default backstory in most adaptations, and even made its way into the comics, or how the spyglasses from A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) made its way into the Netflix show, or how after the now-defunct DC Universe from Man of Steel had Laurence Fishburne as Perry White, works where the character was black became more common.
Edited by PhyrexianAjani95