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openSlow burn roaring rampage of revenge Print Comic
During WWI a British corporal is wrongly shot at dawn for cowardice. During the interbellum, a soldier whose life he saved seeks revenge for this by killing the officers present at the corporal's court-martial.
resolved Superpowered Hero, Normal Villain? Print Comic
Do we have a trope for when the hero has superpowers while their main villain is a badass normal? Kinda like Lex Luthor and Superman.
resolved What trope is it called when a speech balloon is a different color than just white? Print Comic
I'm adding tropes to the Fairy Quest comic page and there are several characters who have their speech balloons as different colors.
Woof's is dark blue Tinkerbell's is green Cinderella's is blue and Captain Hook's is black and red
resolved Victory pose on defeated foe Print Comic
So I've noticed quite frequently in superhero comics (but also animated shows) that one character may pose on another whom they defeated in battle, usually by putting one of their feet on the other's stomach, side of the head or chest but without applying too much preassure that it could be considered Cruelty by Feet. Rather it's more like a Captain Morgan Pose but on a person (in case I didn't explain it well enough, this
◊ is what I mean).
I haven't been able to find any fitting trope on my own. Does anyone know a fitting trope?
openBlack Hole Stomach Print Comic
A character's blessed with a metabolism that allows him to be a Big Eater and not gain weight.
Usually a comedy trope that highlights the character as a glutton without worrying about the consequences, making other people jealous of this "power" (especially if we're talking about a woman with an attractive lean figure).
But, also a form of Wish Fulfilment where characters will indulge in junk food because that's cool and modern, but everyone on TV is attractive regardless. "Friends" Rent Control applied to food.
openWhat is the trope where something said behind someone's back is repeated by a child in front of them Print Comic
Not in Front of the Kid! covers swear words but what trope covers more G-Rated insults that another person doesn't want repeated in front of another person when a kid says it? This is a very common gag is the US Dennis The Menace strip but I'm not sure what trope that fits.
openJustice League Parodies Print Comic
So, there are tropes for parodies of characters within the Justice League, such as Captain Fishman, Superman Substitute, and Batman Parody, but what about a parody of the League as a whole? The Seven from The Boys (2019) and its comic are obvious examples, as are the Squadron Supreme from Marvel Comics, and I'm like 80% sure The Fairly OddParents! had a parody called "Power Pals" or something of the sort? Does this seem trope-worthy? Maybe something under a title like "A Justice League of Our Own"?
Edited by PhyrexianAjani95open"two dogs strive for a bone, a third runs away with it" Print Comic
Is there a trope for such phrase, when a third party is oppurtunist and wins the game, and the rest looses?
"The Smerfolymippic Games" used this, but I don't think me giving examples is necessary.
openGrounding Character Print Comic
What do you call the character in a grand universe sized adventure where all life is in danger, but the character helps keep you grounded. With so much going on, they are they reminder of what the little things are to be lost. An example I can think of is during world saving adventures, Spider-Man still takes time to save the little guy, this keeping us grounded.
openHelp me identify few tropes Print Comic
Excuse me, I would like to ask anyone, if they could help me identify few tropes in other to add them for the tvtrope pages of the two graphic novel
- Which trope has a person who was cursed or turn into an evil monster is killed by their loved one and said their last words “Thank you” before reverting back to normal in death ? For example in the episode of Codename: Kids Next Door Operation: D.O.G.H.O.U.S.E., after Numbuh Four defeated the weredog Valerie, she said “Thank you” before she and the other weredogs revert themselves back to normal, in the episode of Regular Show Skunked where the villainous wereskunk after being defeated returns to normal and said “Thank you” before he loses consciousness and in the final volume of Cleopatra in Space where the villain Octavian (formerly Cleo’s friend Gozi) is killed by Cleo with the Sword of Kebechet and said his last words “Thank you” before being reduced to dust.
- Which trope has an alien missing their home planet ? For Example E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the main character ET misses his home planet and in the final volume of Making Friends Together Forever has Mortha a moon goblin who disguised herself as Linda Dany’s mom missing her home world, the Moon.
- Which is the trope where a character dreams of having an object or vehicle to travel like a convertible ? For example, Ralphie from A Christmas Story wanted a BB gun and Mortha in the final volume of Making Friends Together Forever wanted a Moon Yacht.
- Which is a trope where someone doesn’t feel like watching their favorite show anymore? Like for example in the final volume of Making Friends Together Forever, Dany after dealing with the aftermath from the previous volume no longer feels like watching Solar Sisters.
- Which is a trope where someone had a crush on another person ? For Example Danny Phantom, Danny had a crush on Paulina and in the final volume of Making Friends Together Forever, Daphne st cloud had a crush on Prince Neptune.
openA trope where a character realize they are descendants to a famous person Print Comic
Can you help me find a trope which is used for a reveal where the main character realize they are descendants of a famous person, like the final volume of Cleopatra in Space that it's revealed that both Cleopatra and her descendant Yosira are descendants of Kebechet who is also Anubis' daughter.
And will it be considered Tomato in the Mirror ?
resolved (Only) Stealing is Wrong Print Comic
So, is there a trope for a the Fridge Logic of a character drawing the line on some sort of behavior because he doesn't want to become a "criminal", but has no qualms about doing all sort of stuff that's also illegal?
For instance, in the Spider-Woman origin story, she's reduced to stealing to survive, so she breaks into a store, but gets caught by a detective, so she kicks him, runs off, pulls out a lamp post to throw at him, then knocks him out, before beating some more cops on the way out - but, she stopped before actually stealing anything, because she refuses to turn to crime despite her dire situation.
Of course, breaking and entering, invasion, assault, destruction of property, vandalism, vigilantism and obstruction of justice are also crimes. She can't even claim she didn't do any harm to the store itself, since fixing the damage she did would cost the owners a lot of money.
Because the message to the target audience is that stealing is wrong, the story glosses over everything else and delivers a Broken Aesop.
openOffered a cure, but tricked Print Comic
I've been rewatching old Death Battle episodes and something caught my eye on the Deadpool/Deathstroke episode:
Wiz: Facing the inevitability of death, Wade gave up. He abandoned his heroic dreams, stopped his chemo treatments, and dumped his girlfriend to free her from the burden of a man doomed to die.
Boomstick: Doomed, until he was offered a cure by Department K (...) And by cure, I mean he actually was handed over to the Weapon X program
In other words, Deadpool was offered a cure for his cancer, but was tricked and became an unwilling test subject for department K.
openA (back)story is featured in supplementary material before the actual work Print Comic
The Malaysian-animated series BoBoiBoy had a monthly series of magazines that I'm making a page for. Sometimes, stories or characters that first appeared in said comic magazines were later welded with the show (one such example on Canon Immigrant for Nut, in the "Animation" folder).
What trope would fit for that, but applied to a story? In two of the earliest issues, there was a short comic called "Battle Robot Probe" (Part 1
, Part 2
) which is the backstory of how the villain, Adu Du, found his Robot Buddy, Probe. Some time later, the comic was used verbatim (now with color) in the show (like an official comic dub in an episode) to explain Probe's backstory
.
openIs this an example of BugWar? Print Comic
Image Comics began releasing a mini-series called Bug Wars in which a human teen discovers his dead father's backyard is home to multiple societies of tiny humanoids called "Mytes" who live alongside (and sometimes interbreed with) insects, frequently using them as beasts of burden and war. In particular, the first issue opens with a full-scale war between barbarian hordes of beetle riders and one of the ant nation-states, with both sides using bugs as battle-beasts. Is this a valid example of the Bug War trope?
openPanel-To-Panel Interaction Print Comic
A type of Mind Screw and Stable Time Loop where a character in a comic strip is able to interact with adjacent panels.
Usually to take something they already have from the panel below (which is also their imminent future) so they have two sets of the thing, at least until that panel where the original is taken by the past version. Or a bottom-paneler tossing something up to their top-panel past self.
openShould have read the damn report Print Comic
The backstory for the Captain America villain William Burnside involves him discovering that the Nazi spy who assassinated Dr. Erskine, the man whose Super Serum formula created Captain America, had actually copied the formula and sent it to his superiors before he died assassinating Erskine and destroying his lab, thus preventing America from creating an entire army of super soldiers like they planned. However, his Nazi superiors never read his report and instead just stuck it in their filing, thus preventing them from using the Super Serum too. Does anyone know if we have a trope to describe this sort of self-sabotaging bureaucratic/managerial incompetence?
openGiving someone else's name? Print Comic
Do we have one where a character, when asked their name by someone who's grateful to them ("I'd like to name my child after you", etc.), gives someone else's name instead? I usually see this in superhero stories.

Is there a trope for male characters who are exclusively attracted to intelligent women, even having the opinion that looks don't matter?
Or, is there a trope for which this would be an Inversion? A character who only likes dumb women - a Jerkass whose misogyny manifests itself by only being interested in Brainless Beauties, presumably because they're easier to manipulate and make him feel superior.