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A road or train track as seen from a distance / panoramic view takes the shape of a sine wave/rollercoaster with characters navigating it with or without a vehicle defying the law of gravity...often in a chase scene. More 2-dimensional in UPA-style or lower budget cartoons.
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1. Not sure if this is Disney Death or something else: when a character is briefly horrified a friend has died, but realizes a second later that it was a false alarm and he actually saw evidence of something completely unrelated.
2. When a mother can recognize her adult child after not seeing him since he was a baby.
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Found this one Trivia.Static Shock. I know it's the wrong trope, but not sure what the RIGHT trope is. Anyone?
- Real Life Writes the Plot: More than Real Life Does the Voice Acting for the Mexican Spanish dub: To this date, it's the only non-Looney Tunes series from the Warner Bros. animation division being dubbed in Mexico (rather than Venezuela due to internal policies regarding Latin American voice acting) due to a nation-wide strike against then-president Hugo Chavez in the 2000s that forced Warner Bros. to dub the series in Mexico during the Venezuelan strike.
- It also caused the side-effect for Batman to be voiced in Mexican Spanish for the first time, when Batman (at least his DCAU incarnation) is always dubbed in Venezuelan Spanish, at least until Injustice: Gods Among Us came out.
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Another trope query (my iPad's been eating my posts)
A character is getting their furniture rearranged, or they are looking for "the perfect outfit". They go through many different changes and variations before settling on something they like...which ends up being exactly what they started with.
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A person's emotions inside his/her brain are personified as a gag. Two examples I remember are in "Tiny Timmy" (The Fairly OddParents!), where Timmy turns on Vicky's kindness lever; and "Tests" (Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide), where Ned's emotions scramble to look for the answers. Now that Pixar's releasing Inside Out next year, I really need to look for the trope name because the movie's main focus is on that trope.
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I'm looking for this: A character (usually a child) is told to go sleep, but he is doing something else, without the knowledge of those who told him to sleep (usually the parents). Then the child puts something under the blanket, to create the illusion of he is there, sleeping. Either the child can return before the parents found out he's gone, or the parents go to the child's bed, and realize the child is gone when they pull away the blanket.
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Is there a trope that would cover this exchange from Hey Arnold!?
Phil: I'm old, and out of practice... and I'm fat.
Arnold: Grandpa, you're not fat.
Phil: Well, no... but I'm old and I'm out of practice!
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Is there a trope for when characters in cold settings don't have their breaths animated because it is hard to do so, or is it just a case of People Sit On Chairs?
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Characters often have their own signature item: a hat, a weapon, a scarf maybe, and, without fail, they are found with that item every single time, so that the audience and other characters associate that item with them. Then, the character dies (or, as the case usually is, they don't), and the proof: their signature hat/weapon/scarf/etc.
To be clear, the trope I'm trying to find would be characters making the assumption that a certain character is dead because all they found was a specific item that the "dead" character never parts with.
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A character frantically paces back and forth thinking of a plan. Often seen in Looney Tunes cartoons. Sylvester comes to mind when I think of this trope.
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So Princess Bubblegum in the episode The Cooler after Flame Princess finds out PB was spying on her and calls her out on it, PB says "I'm PB. I spy on people. It's what I do." in a way as if she sees nothing wrong with it. So what's the trope for this, where a character treats actions like these as if they were a hobby or a quirk? I've been told it could be I Did What I Had to Do, but I feel like it's some other trope.
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K, so I'm looking for a "Voice of Reason", but not "Closer to Earth", as that's about 2D Mary Sueish minorities. I'm looking for the guy that makes the reckless rebel look reckless. Kind of a "Portent of Doom", only less...doomy.
Chucky in Rugrats, for example. Tommy wouldn't look half as adventurous were it not for his red-tousled friend constantly warning of danger. Captain America too, esp. in the latest Avengers: Assemble series. Every time the man says that something Tony's doing might go wrong, you can just bet your eyeteeth that it will. Close to "Cool People Rebel Against Authority", except this is actually to make the rebel look reckless, not cooler. Also contrasts with "The Conscience", except that this is less 'what you're doing is wrong' and more 'I don't think this is such a good idea'.
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I'm looking for a trope title in regards to a character on "Hey Arnold!". Sid is one of the bullies on the show but in the episode "Sid's Revenge", you can see that he lives in a run down apartment. It might also explain why he loves his expensive looking boots (because his living condition implies that he and his family don't have a lot of money). Shame of his living conditions (in "Arnold's Room) and greed ("Bag of Money") also might be a big factor in his behavior. So what trope title would describe a bully that doesn't have a lot of money or a character that you might have little sympathy for until you realize that their motivations might have to do in some part to their lack of money?
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Looking for more of a clarification between choices!
This show has political ads for certain characters in the show that are referencing certain iconic commercials, specifically an old Dr. Pepper ad and a Hilary Clinton political advertisement. They are not making fun of the commercials, just look similar to them intentionally. (This was said in a behind-the-scenes thingy, so it's not a coincidence) Is this Shout-Out? Homage? Something else? I'm leaning toward Homage, but it's not clear whether it's meant to "honor or give tribute" as it states on the Homage page...it's more like it just references it as an easter egg to those that remember them, or to give familiarity.
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I'm wondering if we've got a trope for the kind of interchangeable "kids having normal lives and some stuff happens" shows they always used to make? like Goof Troop, Arthur, Doug and so on?
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Infinite Cliffs - Many Disney animated adventure movies (and some others) seem to always have one more huge cliff, no matter how far the characters have already fallen. Examples abound: A Goofy Movie, Lion King 2, Adventurers Down Under and Emperor's New Groove come to mind immediately. This happens as needed to create non-violent drama. (I might give ENG a pass on this - it does take place in the Andes.)
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Is there a trope for taking a pet out and "releasing" it to the wild in order to dispose of it? Like taking a dog out on a trip to the country, letting it out of the car, then driving off. Related to but not the same as Released to Elsewhere.
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Okay I want to know if the eponymous appendage of the Star vs. the Forces of Evil episode "Monster Arm" is a Lovecraftian Superpower.
- The way the tentacle is introduced seems to be inspired by Lovecraft fiction, with the Spell Star used being found in a different language and the Manual of her wand bringing to mind the Necronomicon.
- The tentacle itself hits the 1st and 2nd marks but I;m not sure if hits the 3rd or 4th marks.
- It is "used" by the other protagonist, since he was the one affected by the Spell, but it seems to have affected his well I guess desire to fight and ruthlessness (he was training for a martial arts contest)
- As the show is just started and there are no other sentient tentacles, it can be seen as unique.
- In spite of that, the only unusual things about the tentacle is that it can talk (and that it has a mouth to match), and can control itself and seems to have an influence. It doesn't seem to have Reality Warper powers like the tropes implies
So what do you think? is the tentacle form the episode a Lovecraftian Superpower or just plain Body Horror?
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Recently seen in the FAIRLY ODDPARENTS "Good Old Days" a stock running visual gag in Golden Age cartoons like POPEYE-a villain is defeated/humiliated and retreats out of sight, often running, sometimes helplessly rolling in a receptacle like a barrel or trashcan, on a road through a setting of rolling hills (implying a great distance) - sometimes a disguise is exposed prior to the retreat but the villain is also on fire/burned, knocked out cold, shot with arrows, buckshot etc. Not exclusive to Paramount/Fleischer/Famous studio but IIRC used often in their cartoons. Somewhat related to the Paramount CASPER "Escape" theme where someone being frightened, yells "A-GH-GH-GH-GHOST!" in horror, turns pale, hair raised, and runs away out of the scene in fast motion, rows a boat over dry land, digs then escapes into a hole, etc. (which seems related to Tex Avery style themes as well-e.g. WOLF evading DROOPY) Humans scared by Herman Munster would do like wise in live action in double/triple-time in THE MUNSTERS. Don't know what you call either of these.
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