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openTurbo: A Power Rangers Movie Film
In the second half of Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie, Adam Park fights one of the Putra Pods on the Ghost Galleon. After he throws it off into the waters, Adam's hands gets covered in slime due to the former beating it on the head repeatedly. Which trope fits this description?
Edited by gjjonesopenLook there, I'm here! Film
A kind of specific visual slapstick joke: A persecutor who lost his quarry is observing a situation where he expects the subject to be. He's being joined by exactly the same subject he's looking for, who ALSO starts observing the situation, assuming that something interesting must be happening, as there is a already another person observing. Both are so distracted, that it takes them a moment (often a double take) to realise they are after one another. And on goes the chase…
I'm sure I've seen it multiple times, but I can't exactly remember… Is this a trope?
openChase scene stop and slam Film
One character on a motorcycle is chasing another character in a car. The car suddenly brakes, causing the motorcycle to slam into it.
openJuxtaposed reflection shot Film
This poster trick (probably shows up in non-posters too but those are the ones I remember): staging it so that a character is reflected, but what's shown in the reflection is different to tell us something about them
openNo exotic pets Film
Anytime a person, usually child or teen, finds a mysterious person, creature, or robot that they usually live with, have an adventure where someone tries to obtain or kill the mysterious being, and then at the end the two are separated, despite victory, by a sacrifice, someone going to live elsewhere, or legal red tape.
Examples: The Giant in Iron Giant sacrifices itself for everyone else. Creech in Monster Trucks is alive but moved to a protected, isolated habitat with others of its kind. BFG in The BFG goes home to his isolated island while Sophie gets adopted. In E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, E.T. leaves on a spaceship back home with his family. The robot dog in A-X-L self destructs to keep the military from capturing it.
openFake Out Narration Film
Isn't there a trope about when there's narration at the start of a film that seems like it's for the sake of the audience, but then it's revealed that the narrator, who is also one of the characters in the film, was talking to somebody else in universe, or recording some sort Captain's Log? An example I can think of is from Wreck-It Ralph, where the film starts with Ralph explaining who is and some of his background, only to reveal that he was actually speaking in a Bad Guys Anonymous meeting. Also Iron Man 3 where Tony's narration throughout the film was revealed in the after credits scene to be Tony speaking to Bruce Banner like a therapist.
openAncient technology dramatically revealed from sand/dust Film
The ancient(or at least hidden) technology gets turned on and all the sand that was on it gets off and somehow the whole thing is completely clean afterward without a trace of the initial sand. Used as a dramatic reveal.
openStudios with a niche Film
Is there a tropes for film studios and production companies that focus on a specific genre? Like how Marvel Studios does superhero films or Blumhouse does horror?
openHigher boss protecting from lower boss Film
Character's immediate superior hates him, but is powerless to do much about it because a higher superior, who likes the character, is protecting him. One or both of the following inevitability happen:
1. Character loses the protection of the higher superior, at which point immediate superior now has a free hand to cause real problems, or 2. After it looks like Immediate Superior has won the day, Higher Superior swoops in and puts everything right.
Some Examples: MASH (Frank Burns / Colonel Blake to Hawkeye) Good Morning Vietnam (Sgt.Maj. Dickenson and Hawk / Gen Taylor to Cronauer) Troop Beverly Hills (Velda / Frances to Phyllis) Down Periscope (Adm Graham / Adm Windslow to Dodge)
open"Wrong Guy First" but for spy/crime movies? Film
Is there a trope for the moment in a crime film or a spy comedy where they're interrogating/torturing someone who claims to not know what they are talking about or that they "got the wrong guy" and it turns out to be true?
I'm thinking of the plot of "The Man Who Knew Too Little" when Peter Gallagher's character gets captured and interrogated or when the bots ask CV-11 the whereabouts of DB Cooper in the Rise of the Triad video.
openFair For Its Day, Narm Charm, or Something Else? Film
A while back, after watching a behind-the-scenes documentary on the film, I added a Fair for Its Day entry on YMMV.Earth Vs The Spider talking about how, at the time of its release, it was considered a legitimately scary film with well-done effects.
On a revisit to the page this morning, I noticed someone had changed it to Narm Charm but left the edit reason of "I'm not sure if this is the right trope either."
To avoid an Edit War, I want to make sure the information is listed under the correct trope.
openSpeech-image opposites Film
Possibly related to ironic juxtaposition: a character is holding a speech (or, alternately reading or writing a text) lauding something or someone - but then that something or someone is shown in a context opposite from the one they are being talked about in: e.g. parents are saying how proud they are of their smart, well-behaved children, but the film then cuts to those same children fighting and shouting profanities; a teacher tells a student they have a properous future, but the scene then cuts to the future (now adult) kid, who appears to have turned into a homeless, unemployed alcoholic; a man is being described as an example of a devout Christian and family man, but is then shown doing drugs and participating in orgies; someone is being described as youthful and energetic, but is then shown asleep in an armchair. Etc. etc.
Does anyone know the name of this trope? Thank you.
openExplaining plot to a character Film
When a film (or any story, for that matter) has some complicated plot points, they usually put a layman character together with the "specialists" (scientists, doctors, technicians etc) so they have someone to explain things to, so as to not alienate the audience. I remember seeing that a lot in Michael Crichton's novels, where there's always a "normal" person with the "science people" asking things, just so they can justify plot exposure in layman's terms.
What is the trope for that?
Edited by luizfalvesopenOld Logo Callback Film
When a film opens up with the previous version of the studio logo instead of the current one, probably because the work is a Retraux or Genre Throwback.
Edited by DS9guyopenCountry A/Country B pairings Film
So the Film.Shanghai Noon and Film.Rush Hour movies are basically about an Asian character (Jackie Chan) going to America and teaming up with an American sidekick? Is there a trope for that? A guy from Country A going to Country B and joining forces with a local?
Edited by BigBadShadow25openI Won't Kill you Yet Film
What is the Trope called when a bad guy captures the good guy but doesn't immediately kill the good guy. Instead, he wants to talk and talk to the good guy giving the good guy enough time to think of a plan to kill the bad guy. The whole plot of James Bond centers around this trope.
openBorn to be Wild Film
Wonder if there is a trope about this. It seems like anytime you see a character taking a long trip in a movie, particularly in an older car, some 60's "Road Trip" heavy rock music will play when the trip first gets started, like "Born to be Wild". The movie can be taking place in 2020, but that music will still play. Looked in Music Tropes and didn't see it (but there must be 50 music tropes so I could have missed it).

The climax of Pig involves the hero and his sidekick (who is the villain’s son) cooking a meal for the villain in order to get him to open up about the fate of the hero’s abducted pet. Does this count as the Villain Over for Dinner trope? Or perhaps a Played With variation?