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openDouble agent forced to do evil Literature
In the Harry Potter series, Snape is a double agent against Lord Voldemort. One fanfiction says that as part of this role, he was forced to do terrible things such as torture the Minister of Magic for information on where Harry is being hidden.
openMagic which only allows specific individuals through Literature
In one Harry Potter fanfiction, Snape works as a potion maker for Voldemort. To prevent other death eaters from damaging his work (as Bellatrix has already done), he sets up a special lock that he, and one other death eater he trusts not to harm his potion work, get through without any difficulty, but no one else is able to get in.
openHated for not being chosen to be killed Literature
Voldemort receives information that based on a prophecy, the one who can kill him will soon be born. Ultimately, 2 babies meet the known criteria: Harry and Neville. Voldemort decides that the prophecy refers to Harry, and kills Harry's mother in his attempt to kill Harry. Snape, who was in love with Harry's mother, hates Neville because if Voldemort had chosen him, Harry's mother would still be alive.
openBorn yesterday as a sexy eighteen year old Literature
I find this trope is really common in Romantasies and Platform/({Webtoon}}s. Is there a trope name for the "Sexy born yesterday"?
openUnintentionally Unmasqued World? Literature
So a week ago, this Troper was sound asleep when he had a dream. This dream was ostensibly set in the world of Bitten, with a scenario that involved a Werewolf getting Drafted into the US Army during the Vietnam War. The Alpha of the Pack at the time was faced with a dilemma: Werewolves in this setting are involved in a very strict Masquerade in which all humans, even the Government, are explicitly forbidden from knowing that Werewolves exist (Werewolves are explicitly instructed to kill any human who watches them Change). This becomes impossible with a Werewolf getting Drafted; Draft-Dodging is illegal, going AWOL to Change is illegal, and killing any of your squad-mates for watching you Change is HIGHLY illegal, and the Government WILL come after you for doing any of these. And the Pack can't really do anything either because the Government WILL come after anyone who murders active service personnel of the Armed Forces. Then this Troper woke up, thought about this scenario, and came to the conclusion that this sort of airtight Masquerade would have been unsustainable under the Selective Service system; the existence of Werewolves WOULD be exposed if a Werewolf got Drafted.
And the thing is- the Government was simply Drafting a new Army recruit, they weren't even intending on exposing the existence of Werewolves, which the Army didn't even know about. Creating The Unmasqued World was simply an unintended consequence of the Army doing Army things.
The only other time I've seen this archetype, of a Masquerade being blown open by someone who was trying to do something unrelated, was in the Worm/Twilight crossover fanfic Twisted Masquerade, where Director Emily Piggot doing a background check on Charlie Swan could have exposed the existence of Vampires, and the Cullens had to do some last-minute string-pulling to keep that from happening.
How common is it for The Unmasqued World to be the result of an accident, carelessness, bureaucratic processes, unintended consequences, or pure random chance, rather than deliberate action? Is it common enough to be a trope?
resolved Retitled in Home Country due to Censorship reasons Literature
The localized title of a certain Chinese danmei Web Serial Novel, Thrice Married to a Salted Fish, is a direct translation of the novel's title as a Web Novel. While the novel also received domestic publishing deals, China has a rather heteronormative policy on officially "published" material (i.e. published books and professionally created live-action shows and animation), and because of this the title is changed to the equivalent of Thrice Met a "Salted Fish" in print. Is this a Clean Dub Name? A Market-Based Title? A Publisher-Chosen Title? Or something else? (I have not read the insides, so I can't say if the gay sex scenes were also cut, so I'd hold off on the Bowdlerisation claims for now)
Edited by SamCurtopenWhen a character/detail of a book comes from a short story or another source Literature
One of the characters in Our Share Of Night came from an unrelated short story by the same author, and I was interested in potentially adding this information to a Trivia page, but I couldn't find anything similar enough to it. I tried checking on on Flowers for Algernon or The City We Became and the only thing I came accross is Adaptation Expansion, but doesn't quite fit since the book in question is not exactly an expansion of the short story.
Edited by alittlebookopenCanon-matching through cross-timeline coincidece Literature
An alternate timeline in the Harry Potter works, in which:
- While the Harry/Neville friendship has some reasonable likelihood in this timeline, the connection with the Weasleys and Hermione, years before the golden trio starts at Hogwarts, is an odd coincidence.
- The Malfoy family giving Tom Riddle's diary to a Weasley child in the child's first year at Hogwarts, although in this timeline it's Narcissa and Draco on Percy, not Lucius on Ginny.
- Harry getting the Marauder's Map, years before he does in the books and from a different source.
openLittle kid imitates parents' profession Literature
Young Hermione Granger, whose parents are dentists, plays dentist on her teddy bear
openRacism stops when hated race saves one's child Literature
Parents are racist. One day, their child nearly dies, and is saved by the hated race. Parents stop being racist as a result.
resolved The Relationship between Magic and Destiny? Literature
Magic as a force of Destiny. I'm particularly interested in tropes that describe the universe as deeply connected.
openJane Austin redacted Literature
In Jane Austin and similar, some place names and sometimes personal names are replaced with a dash (- - - - shire). What is this called, why did they do it, when did writers stop doing it?
resolved Storyline-exclusive villain. Literature
In Give Yourself Goosebumps, there’s usually two different storylines you could follow, depending on an early choice you make. Is the main villain considered a Big Bad if they only show up in one of the storylines? Or is it a slightly different trope?
open"Chicago is a hellscape in cyberpunk" Literature
I was speaking to a friend about the new Cyberpunk game that got announced set in a Chicago turned post-apocalypse and it reminded me that in Shadowrun the city of Chicago is under quarantine-or-a-nuke because of bug spirits.
Is this common enough to be a trope, or is this just a coincidence? Is Chicago uniquely terrible in Cyberpunk fiction?
openThe "Victory" brand in 1984 Literature
On Nineteen Eighty-Four, it says:
- The Dreaded: Anything bearing the "Victory" brand. Victory Coffee is undrinkable swill; Victory Gin smells bad, tastes much worse, and hits like a club to the head; Victory Cigarettes are so badly made that the tobacco falls out half the time; and Victory Mansions are decades-old apartment buildings coming apart at the seams.
openTrope for love Literature
one where the character cannot love, in the sense that he cannot feel affection for others and can only feel other emotions (in the case of a mother or father, it could be respect, in the case of a brother, companionship, in the case of a friend, just a sense of interaction, or in the case of a girlfriend/wife, love is confused with something that causes excitment).
Edited by tetradimensional

Is there a trope for, when a book receives The Film of the Book or another adaptation, the book is reissued as a tie-in with the movie’s poster or artwork as cover art?