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Do we have a trope for when a character in a comedy drives around in circles for a ridiculously long time? For example, the "Hey look kids, Big Ben!" scenes from National Lampoon's European Vacation.
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looking for a trope usually involing a trainee/younger hero fighting a villain only to freeze up (although not neccessarily) and which usually ends up with a older character/mentor killing the villain... basically the key point is that the mentor is frag-stealing to protect his apprentice from having to kill someone because he's not ready yet... a situation like this happened in Peacemaker Kurogane (anime) with Tetsunoske freezing up while fighting Yoshida, and Okita stepped in and killed him...
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Is there a trope for when someone misbehaves or something and they get a reward because the other person is impressed or moved by their actions?
Example (not from anything specific, just general):
Boss: Bob, are you telling me that you completely bypassed my desk and went straight to the CEO with your report in an effort to get my job?
Bob:...Yes...I'm sorry, go ahead and fire me, I deserve it.
Boss: Fire you? You remind me of myself at your age, I'm promoting you!
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Do we have a trope for works that count as Character studies, where the Character is the focus and their personal struggles, feelings, and action drive the story, instead of an over-arcing plot driving them through the story?
Different from Slice of Life, classic literary device.
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A trope where Alice makes Bob feel horrible, but is completely unaware of that fact, usually because Bob is The Stoic or a Consummate Liar.
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A character meets someone they greatly admire, and has something of theirs physically touched in some way by this person. They then say "I'm never washing this _____ again!" or something very close to it. Is there a trope for this Stock Phrase and/or scenario? If not, How Did We Miss This One?
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Ok im thinking of a trope someone tells an authority figure a story the authority figure thinks it's absurd and it would be. But it turns out that absurd story is true.
Examples: * the first terminator film
- that episode of Torchwood where Gwen gets impregnated by an alien tells her parents and they think she's just making it up.
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Is there a trope for that momwent where an author cannot resist the temptation to get a really big dig in at his publishers, generally for the piss-poor amount advanced in royalties, or a suspicion that the publisher may not be above fiddling the books to get away with paying the author as little as possible?
I can think of two: the sub-plot of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel Maskerade in which Nanny Ogg is nearly cheated by her publisher out of a lot of money.
There is the early scene of {{Philip José Farmer}}'s Riverworld, in which the resurrected science-fiction writer who is Farmer's Marty Stu meets "Sharko", a publisher who bilked him, and exacts lethal revenge.
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I'm wondering if there's something akin to "All Unnamed Characters are Mindless Tools"?
An example would be Palpatine addressing the Senate in Star Wars, Episode III to announce that the galaxy now is going to become a dictatorship with him at the helm because an assassination attempt at his life is evidence that their structure of government doesn't work at all. This is met by cheers and applause from the entire Senate... Except Padmé, who sees it for the obviously bad change it is. It would seem only the character with a face stopped to think it all through.
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Is there a trope where in science fiction/fantasy, a mundane word is capitalized to make it significant? Such as The Sharing (from Animorphs), the Smoke (from the Uglies), The Maze, Variables, The Scorch, The Trials, The Flare, The Bliss, The Gone, The Safe Haven (from the Maze Runner), and The Scratch and The Reckoning (from Homestuck).
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Is there something for junkyards that seem to consist entirely of old tires? e.g. The Burning Tire Yard in The Simpsons, the junkyard level in Earthworm Jim
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I've always called it the "Wall Slide," but it's when a character starts crying then leans back against the wall for support and slides down into a sitting position. They lampshaded it in that "He's Just Not That Into You" Chick Flick Cliches featurette. I most recently saw it in Sucker Punch.
It's not the Wall Slump, as that is a Death Trope and this is not.
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Is there a trope where someone says something that if you knew a little bit more there would be a completely different meaning then what you interpreted it as? like in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Voldemort tells Wormtail that he will get to preform an task that many of the Death Eaters would give their right hands to preform, but it isn't until the end that he meant that literally. I could think of a bunch of different other examples the other day but I can't remember them right now.

Remind me what the "internal fighting" trope is called?