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Say Alice and Bob have a deal. Alice doesn't want to carry on with it, and for some reason she doesn't want to ditch Bob herself. She forces him to break the terms so he'll get all the blame.
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Alice and Bob are in a relationship. Again, Alice is not happy with Bob, and she makes Bob cross the line, putting him in a situation where he has no other choice. That way Bob will ruin the relationship, without Alice's participation.
Any trope suiting a situation like that?
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Is there a trope about Interspecies Friendships? The closest I've found is Interspecies Romance, with Odd Friendship overlapping some examples.
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All mediums, really, though the example I have in mind is from webcomics. A trope for: A guy who lives downstairs from two sussed-out girls who have it more-or-less worked out. He is socially inept, clumsy, not attractive although essentially benign and good-hearted. Middle twenties and has never had a girlfriend and is puzzled as to why not and generally unknowing about romance. In a bid to work it all out - he is also lonely and socially disadvantaged - he latches on to his upstairs neighbours for society, clues and advice. While he'd like to go out with either of them he knows it's a non'starter, so he isn't a stalker in the accepted sense. The girls accept him up to a point but are alarmed by the weirder aspects of his behaviour and his left-field interests, even though they believe he is fundamentally harmless and at worst just a nuisance. They are at a loss as to what to do with him.
The webcomic, for precision, is Jen Babcock's Cest La Vie and the character is Michael.
Any idea?
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Do we have a trope for characters whose motivation and drive comes from a past event. Usually bad but not always the case. But for a character who cannot let go of something that happened in their past which leads to moments of heroic resolve/will power/ectra in the current age?
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Anything out there for when a character has multiple bodies (could be Me's A Crowd, or they could be shapeshifters with a swarm-form) and has trouble keeping track of them all? Sometimes this could be just a nuisance, as with Miss Level leaving her glasses on her other nose in A Hat Full Of Sky, while other times it could be a big problem or even dangerous, like the villain in Last Call losing track of his senile original body.
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Is there a trope for something similar as follows?
The Series Grew Up when a series gradually gets a Tone Shift, such as the more common from Lighter and Softer to Darker and Edgier. Sure, there may be a light in the dark period and some different tonal period episodes that signal a tone shift, but when you go look at the beginning and the end they are so different it seems surprising until you remember all those moments.
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Is there a trope that's like Tomato Surprise but specifically for the narrator, who turns out at the end of the story to be a monster or alien or some such?
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I know this is a trope, just can't remember it's name. It's when a villain who pulls a Heel–Face Turn becomes weaker upon switching sides. The character is stronger and more competent as a villain than he ever was as a hero.
The green ranger in MMPR is a prime example, nigh unstoppable as a baddie, no stronger the rest of the team as a goodie
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A trope about an interaction between the serious guy/gal and The Ditz, where The Ditz is bugging the srs guy/gal who is trying to do something important, then the srs guy/gal snaps at The Ditz and The Ditz runs away in tears, making the srs guy/gal feel guilty.
...Or something.
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There is a trope where the rich dad offers a guy money to not date his daughter. (The rich dad's daughter, I mean.) This was on the "Death Lives" episode of Family Guy, when Carter offers Peter one million dollars to stay away from his daughter. If memory serves, it was also on Beverly Hills, 90210 in the mid-90s, and Dylan was the guy who was offered the money. Is there a trope page for this trope? I did a search, but the "Overprotective Dad" one was the closest thing I could find.
Also, does anyone have more information about that 90210 episode or other TV shows that have done this?
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Is there a trope for magical trees that can store memories and communicate with other trees and/or sentient beings?
Thinking of Avatar (*both* the film with the blue kitties and the animated series by Nickelodeon), Enders Game and A Song Of Ice And Fire, but there are probably more examples zerky missed somewhere.
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Do we have a trope that covers cases of hair changing color in a similar way to Kaleidoscope Eyes? Multicolored Hair is strictly about hair that is simultaneously of multiple colors/shades, so it technically excludes Kaleidoscope Hair.
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Is there a trope that's the reverse of Fake Guest Star where an actor is credited as a main character but only appears in at most half of a season?