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openThe Big Nod
Roger Ebert describes it in his "Little Movie Glossary
": Comes after the Last Words. After a character is fatally wounded, first he lies motionless and recites an incredibly meaningful statement. Then his head nods to one side.
Just saw it in The Transformers: The Movie here
and thought it was hilarious. I am pretty sure we never troped it separately because it's quite an ubiquitous gesture. It's mentioned at the end of the first paragraph of Almost Dead Guy but it's not actually part of that trope.
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Edited by eroockopenPerfect Tropes for these Descriptions Anime
Recently I made a page called Jujutsu Kaisen and needless to say, it needs a bit of Wiki Magic Love. However, I came here to ask some of the tropes that fits nicely with these descriptions for the page and here it is:
1. One of the student in Jujutsu Speciality Highschool is a talking panda unlike any other students who are mostly human.
2. One of the characters, a teacher called Goujou Satoru, used a blindfold all the time. However, it's because he was concealing his true power and he only opens his own blindfold to use said terrifying power in order to fight the cursed demons.
3. I might used the subverted trope of Please Spare Him, My Liege! but it can be replaced with the description that I will tell you: In chapter 2, Goujou-sensei spared Yuji even though that the latter was supposed to be executed by asking the higher ups of Jujutsu Exorcists after swallowing a cursed body part of the King of Cursed Monsters, Ryomen Sukuna. But it was revealed that Goujou-sensei and the rest of the higher ups will execute Yuji at a later future after Yuji swallow all of Ryomen Sukuna's body parts. (Keep in mind that Goujou-sensei/Goujou Satoru wasn't a villain and becomes Yuji's teacher in later chapters.)
4. One of the students of Jujutsu Speciality Highschool, Inumaki Toge, used only food ingredients as his only vocabulary to talk to people.
5. In chapter 13, Goujou-sensei trains Yuji by letting him watching movies along with a creepy cute doll which is revealed to be the cursed corpse that was implemented by the school's principal that will attack Yuji all the time if he doesn't emit the constant flow of magical power by controlling his own emotions.
6. The principal of the Jujutsu Speciality Highschool loves to make a creepy cute dolls. However, it was revealed that the cute dolls itself was actually a cursed stuff that was implemented by him which could resulted the dolls being aggressive. (Mind you, while the principal was antagonistic towards Yuji at first, he actually mellows a little bit after Yuji passed his test when asking him an Armour-Piercing Question.)
7. After Yuji is getting spared by Goujou-sensei and the higher ups of Jujutsu Exorcists, he now made his own goals: Helping more people that was surrounding him and lead them to a proper death. And also letting himself to be executed at a later future for his own proper death in order to liberate humans from curses.
8. One of the students from Kyoto Jujutsu Speciality Highschool asked Fushiguro about his favorite type of women in which the latter answered that his type of woman is a person who has a moral compass that isn't easily swayed. However, the student himself found Fushiguro to be a boring person. As his question regarding woman type could reflect everything about him and if someone has a boring taste in woman, these guys are boring themselves from his own perspective.
That's all for now. Will ask more tropes at a later time.
openEscort the fake so the real stuff is safer
Something like this:
Pu 239, Kazundo Ghoda tasks Section 9 with escorting a case of plutonium through a refugee zone, acting as security in case the refugees try to get their hands on it. At the end of the episode, Ghoda reveals that there was no plutonium inside the case, and the Japanese Self-Defense Army relocated the actual plutonium without incident.- In the film of Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, Abe and a few crewmen are securing a train that carries silverclad things to be used against the Confederacy vampires in the Civil War. Predictably, the vampires - including the Big Bad, Adam - tries ambushing the train... Only to find out that the train contains no silver, except for Abe's pocket watch (which he uses to kill Adam). The real silver stocks are in a separate train that goes underground, and that convoy goes safely, allowing the Union side to decisively win the war with silver bullets.
openDeliberately disappearing dead body:
Bob has just found Alice's body, he confirm's she's really dead and isn't pretending. However something distract's Bob for a short amount of time and when he return's Alice's corpse has gone missing...
Some reason's for the body vanishing include:
- The killer has taken the body to dispose of it, Or to Gaslight other characters.
- Someone's peckish...
- The Victim was killed in a way that eventually resulted in No Body Left Behind
- The Victim was the victim of a Ret-Gone (Likely that character's will not remember there ever being a body)
- Someone (Including the victim) has brought them Back from the Dead and they've simply walked off.
- There was never a body there and Bob is having Hallucinations brought on by some Sanity Slippage.
Not Never Found the Body because both character's and the audience know/knew the character is dead. May provoke the reaction of It Was There I Swear. Possible Sub-Trope of Horror Tropes and Paranoia Fuel
Do we have this one? Or a variation on the theme?
Edited by Jester_PunslingeropenA version of MarriedToTheJob that applies to hobbies instead of jobs.
A version of Married to the Job that applies to hobbies instead of jobs. Note to self: Triptych Chapter 40 - The wife
Does such a trope exist, or is Married to the Job flexible enough to work?
Or is it one of the other obsession tropes? Whatever they are?
Edited by MaladyopenDiscovery of Being Watched
A person stumbles across a channel on the TV that shows their own living room, opens a binder to find it full of secret photos along with their medical data, or discovers that their bathroom mirror is a one-way mirror connected to a secret monitor room. Is there a trope for this? Emphasis not on the surveillance (that'd be Big Brother Is Watching You) or the knowledge of being watched (that'd be I Know You're Watching Me) but on the act of discovery itself.
openWeird sodas Anime
Is there a trope for weird soda or fruit juice flavors that a character likes to make them a little quirky?
Edited by LyendithopenFanservice causes angry spouse
Some kind of fanservice (lingerie ad, good-looking character, Wardrobe Malfunction, etc.) causes admiring looks in a crowd, with one admirer standing next to his/her angry-looking spouse.
open"It's OK to be Different" Aesop
Not a Be Yourself Aesop because the character in question is BEING themselves, which the other characters have a tough time swallowing. All the other boys and girls write quaint little mysteries, bizarre novels, sharp political commentary, except Bob, whose stories are only one page long, inoffensive, unconnected to each other, have no rules, and completely defy the laws of physics. The other characters criticize Bob's stories as being "weird" and "dumb" but finally Alice realizes that maybe they don't NEED another Take That! to on principal Gruffy Mc Grufferson, and that there are quite enough Noirs, thank you very much. It ends with the characters giving Bob's stories a try and being pleasantly surprised.
openflee now, mourn later
A Mauve Shirt has suffered a gruesome death in front of Albert, who stands there in a Heroic BSoD, forgetting the ongoing danger until Bob yells something along the lines of, "We can mourn him later when we're safe, now let's move!" A Get a Hold of Yourself, Man! slap is optional.
Edited by Miss_DesperadoopenHide in rolling laundry hamper, get taken somewhere else
So, say, some kid is sneaking around in some place, and he decides to hide in, say, a laundry hamper to avoid detection from some of the place's tenants. Only someone takes the hamper to put the laundry down the laundry chute, leading that kid to be taken through the chute along with the dirty clothes. A variant of this sometimes replaces the laundry with the trash.
I've seen that happen many times in many shows, including even in a classic episode of The Simpsons in which Bart Simpson attempts to invoke this to escape the box factory, but ends up subverting it by going through the back door instead when nobody came. For the life of me, I can't seem to find the exact name for this trope, even with looking for "hides in laundry" on the search engine. Any names ring any bells?
Edited by fergzillaopenGiving Part Of Your Life To A Diary (or Fictional Character)
In many works of fiction, Bob the protagonist, usually victim under the All the Other Reindeer curse, keeps a diary which he writes (via “Dear Diary” or “Dear Charlie”), in which he write all the wronggoings in their life. As he opens his heart to “Charlie” with each entry, expressing all his hidden dark wishes, Bob starts to give a part of his life to Charlie. Then, by some kind of magic, Charlie actually comes to life, as a dark version of Bob. Alternatively, Charlie may be the Villain Protagonist of a work of fiction Bob is writing to express his angers.
Diary Example: In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Tom Riddle says that as Ginny Weasley “wrote” to him in his diary, she gave part of her life to him, allowing it to leave it’s pages.
Fiction Example (though some may not agree): In Goosebumps, R.L. Stine says the characters he wrote in his fictions came to life. Jack Black, who plays Stine, also voices Slappy the Dummy and the Invisible Boy, so it’s possible that while the others were just monsters brought to life, Stine gave parts of his life to Slappy and IB.
Edited by JohnShel91open"Add just a drop.." trope? Western Animation
This trope is almost exclusively in cartoons to my recollection, if it has been made. So a person is given a potion and told to add "just one drop" or other similar limited amount. The person then, either because of impatience or an accident, adds much more than they should. Wacky Hijinks ensue. What is this trope?
openEldritch Tactics
There are some shows in which the characters must apply their supernatural/superhuman abilities to resolve conflicts whilst taking into consideration the supernatural capabilities of others. Is there a name for this trope? I don't think it's quite the same as Outside-the-Box-Tactic.
Edited by HethalosopenEyes rolling back into the head
So I see this trope a lot in movies and TV. A character faints, or passes out, or is hit on the head, or taken over by some magical force and their eyes roll into the back of their head. It's a common thing. But I can't seem to find it anywhere on the site. Examples: Most recently I've seen it on the television show Legion. David Haller passes out under duress and his eyes roll back.
Edited by HighFalutin-FreeopenScrew the Rules, I'm a Celebrity!
You know how there's the trope Screw the Rules, I Have Money!, is there a trope where a person uses their celebrity status to get whatever they want or avoid any trouble with the Law?
Example: King of the Hill had an episode where a former Dallas Cowboys player moves into Hank's street. Despite being a horrid neighbor such as teaching Bobby fowl sportsmanship and having rowdy parties late in the night, he uses the fact he used to play for the Cowboys to avoid legal trouble with the police. Even the police tries to pin the blame on Hank when the latter tried to report to the former.
If there isn't a trope, might if I suggest it to the Trope Launch Pad as a subtrope for Screw the Rules, I Have Money!, because sometimes you don't have to be famous to be rich or vice-versa.
openYMMV/Trivia Trope?
Is there a trope for when a series has a dead/very unactive fandom?
openDark twist on But Now I Must Go
It looks like But Now I Must Go is mainly for heroic examples, and it doesn't have a Playing With page. But what about for villainous characters? Unlike Jake the hero, Bob returns to his hometown, wreaks havoc and murder, and leaves once his old nemesises are eliminated. Where Jake's family regret his impending departure, often Bob's family can't wait to see the back of him again (especially if he's the bad egg of the clan). While Jake is saddened that home isn't what it used to be to him and is wistful for the past, Bob is cynical about the hometown and wants to burn it, looking forward to departing it forever. Is this subverting the trope, inverting it, deconstructing it or is it a distinct alternative to the trope?
Edited by FlashStepsopenInverse of Mainstream Obscurity?
Mainstream Obscurity is when a lot of people have heard of something but only dedicated know more than the most basic information about it. Is there a trope with the opposite, where something has a large audience but either is rarely talked about or mostly ignored by fans of related things?
The example I have in mind is StreetPass Mii Plaza: Hardly updated on this site, mostly absent in other trope pages, and largely ignored by Nintendo fans, yet is big enough to have million-sellers among its DLC.
Actually, I think found it: It may be Silent Majority, which refers to a fandom that stays quiet and keeps to itself, thus being large but remaining largely invisible to other fandoms.
Edited by ZombieAladdin

A trope that often occurs is white vs white, white vs gray, or gray vs gray (but typically that last one). Two sympathetic characters face each other, often to the death, and realize that the other person isn’t evil or bad, and that in a different life they could have been friends or allies. Can be a massive tearjerker trope if handled well