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openEngineered Rebellion
The Rebellion (or part of it) is intentionally engineered by the government for one reason or another. For example (Andor Season 2 spoilers) the Empire purposely engineering the Ghorman rebellion in order to have an excuse to take control of the planet's resources for themselves.
Edited by BackSet1openPeople As Programs
The idea that you can predict what someone will say/do by saying the right thing to them or carrying out the right actions involving them, in the same way that putting the right sequence of inputs into a computer program will always produce the same output.
Basically, this Dave Barry quote on Dating Sims (and also seen in the Entitled to Have You mindset), but applied to people in general.
- I don't want to get too heavily philosophical here, but the sad truth is that this game perfectly reveals how a lot of guys wish that sexual relationships really worked: You'd just click in the right place, and: Bingo! Score! No need for all that ... talking.
resolved Insincere philanthropy Film
A Bourgeois Bohemian family does a lot of performative philanthropy that exists simply to stroke their own egos and show-off to other rich people. Said philanthropy isn't just showy, it's also incredibly shallow and even cheapskate due to the actual pocket change sums spent on any of their causes.
I know there is We Care, but description of the trope suggests it's only applicable to companies, not a group of people or a family. The case I've got isn't about their business scoring PR points, it's explicitly about the family and the ego of the matriarch of it.
openNone Of You Are Real
A character so self-centered they literally believe they're the only "real" person in existence, and so what they do to other people doesn't count(along the lines of harming an NPC in a game).
openCouple broken when hospital staff convince one parent to vaccinate child Live Action TV
Assuming the husband is telling the truth, and ignoring the controversial question of Artistic License – Medicine applying, are there any good tropes for the following?
A couple have refused to vaccinate their child because the husband's niece had serious side-effects from vaccination. Their child gets hospitalized due to what looks like it may be polio, but isn't. The doctors try to convince the parents to vaccinate their child; the mother asks them to do it, and when the father finds out that she did, he is angry at her and it's implied that the couple will.soon get divorced.
openRevival Macguffin Videogame
I've been able to find Healing Potions and Elixers of Life, but for some reason I can't narrow down a Macguffin that specifically revives a character that previously died in the story. Surely there's a trope for that but I can't find it for the life of me
openLong lost siblings
What is the trope name of someone finding out that they have a long estranged siblings?
openMedia analysis as a story element
This is a bit of a weird and specific one, but I've been chewing on it for a long time. The best way to explain it would be the example that made me think about it in the first place, that being Station Eleven:
A big part of the series is the eponymous Show Within a Show graphic novel that several characters are involved in the creation of or relate to on a personal level. A driving part of the story, and the conflict between two major characters, is differing interpretations of its themes and Ambiguous Ending.
One of them interprets the comic's finale as a Downer Ending and the story as being about the futility of life. The other is an Anti-Nihilist who interprets the comic's finale as a Stable Time Loop circling back to the beginning, and the story as a whole as being about persevering in the face of the inevitable.
Both draw their respective interpretations from childhood trauma that we learn about over the course of the story and how they've dealt with it, and those interpretations also directly parallel their actions and decisions throughout the story. One scene has them directly discuss the fact that they interpret the ending differently, to highlight their differences in opinion on other matters.
Any idea what tropes might fit best for describing and cataloguing this? Plot Parallel is the closest I can think of but I'm not sure it completely fits. I'm sure that there's more works of fiction that have this semi-metafictional theme of how fiction and people's interpretations of it reflects/influences their worldview.
Edited by Dirtyblue929openGroup Push/Pull/Lift
Is there a trope for when a group of people come together to move something; either push, pull, or lifting something out of the way?
open"It's you" romantic quote? Live Action TV
In The Big Bang Theory, there's an episode where Penny tries to do something nice for Leonard and she buys him a first edition copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Leonard states that he already bought one and Penny gets sad. In an attempt to prove she does value Leonard, she brings out a box with stuff he gave her: a plane ticket to visit her family, a wilted rose he left on her windshield and an 11-page thank-you letter after they slept together for the first time. Leonard remarks "I can't believe you saved all this stuff", to which Penny simply replies "of course I did, it's you!". Are there any more examples of characters in TV (or other media) simply stating "it's you" as a romantic gesture? Like, no further explanation is needed, simply stating "it's you" is enough.
openMostly Seduction-Proof Fetishist
Bob is immune to a Honey Trap because his fetishes are so extreme, disgusting or immoral that he doesn't fall for anything so mundane as a woman hitting on him when his fantasy involves at least three women, a tub of jello and four pounds of fresh fruit. But once that fetish is found, he folds completely.
- In Succubus, the titular Shapeshifting Seducer protagonist tries to seduce a Hermit Guru, who remains completely passive to her temptations no matter what shape she takes. However, when a pebble hits him in the head and he moves, she figures out he's a masochist and summons up all manner of torture equipment, getting him to sell his soul in exchange for the devices.
- In Hellsing Abridged, one guard resists a vampire's hallucinations, until she shows him Sonic the Hedgehog with a foot-long erection. He caves immediately, she's left feeling profoundly disturbed.
openFilmed alone from a single camera angle Film
Is there a trope or trivia entry for when someone is filmed almost exclusively in closeup and without anyone else present? Like when a famous actor only has a short window of time to appear in something and so the production hurries them in front of a camera to capitalize on their one free hour they can commit to the project, or if they're filling in for someone else at the last minute and the production can only afford so much for reshoots?
openAll your objectives are in one area Videogame
Is there a name for a trope where all of your objectives in a game just so happen to be in the same area? World of Warcraft and other MM Os specifically come to mind, where you'll get a bunch of quests from different characters, and yet everything you want to accomplish all happens to be bunched together in a small area. Bonus points for Star Wars: The Old Republic, where all of the different class storylines also happen to hit up the same areas in the same order, despite their totally unconnected plots.
openWe love you, that's why we made decisions you don't like Live Action TV
Two examples in the same episode:
- A mountain climber who just turned 18 is hospitalized for am injury resulting from a fall. The doctors suggest 2 possible treatments, one of which is lower risk but would effectively end her mountain climbing days, the other more risky (but low enough that the staff is willing to suggest it) which would allow her to keep climbing. She chooses the second, but her parents get a court order to let them decide on the first.
- A single mother (after the father abandoned the family because he couldn't handle the child) with a child with Fragile X Syndrome. She ultimately decides to send him to an institution which specializes in kids with this disorder.
openFritaly
Conflation of France and Italy, in a similar vain to Scotireland. Because both are home to good food and have generally romantic-sounding languages, so they must be the same, right?
openUnintentional Cruel Mercy
Alice does something that would be considered morally good. Unfortunately, it turns out to be a Cruel Mercy, completely unintentionally on her part.
Theres A Hair In My Dirt has Harriet constantly screwing up the ecosystem out of well-intentioned ignorance (feeding invasive species, dropping a tortoise in a pond, putting a bird back in its nest where its sibling pushes it out again, killing a snake that was about to eat the mouse, etc.) that ends up killing her (the mouse had a virus on its fur).
openSympathetic But Annoying
A character who retains audience sympathy while also annoying them.
For example, Bob has a bad case of I Just Want to Have Friends, and we get a lot on Sympathetic P.O.V. showing just how lonely he is. Unfortunately, the way he solves it is by constantly inviting himself to his employees' parties and nights out. None of them want him there, but because he's their boss nobody outright tells him to leave, causing a lot of mutual resentment once Bob finds out they're deliberately planning events to coincide with him going on business trips.
Basically Bob's behavior is understandable, but not condonable.
(Yes, I know there's The Friend Nobody Likes, but he's not a friend by any definition.)
openName as a Statement
In lieu of describing a badass/important character's power or abilities, simply stating their name is enough.
- Pirates of the Caribbean: "When you marooned me on that godforsaken spit of land, you forgot one very important thing, mate... I'm Captain Jack Sparrow."
- Doctor Who: "Of course, the real question is, where did I get the cup of tea? Answer: I'm the Doctor. Just accept it."
- The Ballad of Edgardo: "Goldnharl got a free counter attack because fuck you he's Goldnharl."
- How It Should Have Ended: "Because I'm Batman!"

Is there a trope similar to The Power of Friendship or The Power of Trust, but about hope? I could swear themes of "hope carries us through hard times," "hope gives us a vision of a better world," etc. are A Thing, but I can't find a trope for that.
I think Hope Springs Eternal is related, but it's more about hope never being totally lost than about what hope can do. As Long as There Is One Man would be a subtrope, but only that.
Edited by Kestrelguy