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Flexibility is Sexy
A man is describing an attractive woman, and one of the most attractive things about her is how flexible she is. Seems to be used as a way to imply having wild sex without actually giving any details. Not Contortionist or Rubber Man (this is specifically about the attractiveness of flexibility, not flexibility itself), not Power Perversion Potential because it's not about superpowers.
Example, from the show I'm working on a page for: "My little acrobat girl, the things she can do, she's made of rubber, she's incredible." But I'm pretty sure I've seen this several times in other places as well.
VCD Scene Videogame
I'm looking for any tropes that occurred during a round of Viscera Cleanup Detail.note
- I was playing a game on Core Sample with two friends. My friends took one each of the two teleporters and went to work cleaning the level, while my job was to stay in the lobby area with the other end of the teleporters stocked, buckets on the blue one, quantum binsnote on the orange one. While also taking any full ones that are returned and throwing them into the incinerator. At one point, I decided to swap the next bin with the Big Banger radio just to mess with them.
- (I put the radio next to the red teleporter, set the volume to max, and the song to Goo
. When my friends send the next full bin back, I put the radio on the teleporter instead of the next empty bin, turn it on, then activate the teleporter myself, instead of waiting for them to trigger it.)
- Friend 1: Hey!
- Friend 2: ...
- (The teleporter completes it's cycle, sending the radio into their midst. While also bringing back the bin that had just been sent over, which now has a severed head in it.)
- Friend 1: Oh god, Big Banger!
- Friend 2: Send it back! Send it back!!!
- (The teleporter fails to do anything, suggesting that their end malfunctioned. Meanwhile, I've put the next empty bin on the teleporter, disposing of the one with the head.)
- Friend 1: AH! THERE"S TWO OF THEM NOW!!!note
- Friend 2: Mike, help!
- Gofastmike: What happened?
- Friend 2: The radio just popped in through the teleporter. And when we tried to send it back, it just made two.
- Gofastmike: Ok, I'm sending a laser welder up with the next bin.
- (I do just that. Soon, the thumping bass of the radio(s) is punctuated by the sound of the laser welder being fired, until both are silent. The teleporter then activates, with the bin bearing two purple-colored piles of melted scrap atop it, though the welder doesn't follow.)
- Gofastmike: Um. Where's the welder?
- Friend 1: I'm keeping it for now. In case that accursed radio comes back.
- Friend 2: lol
- Gofastmike: Alright. Might want to kill the lighting scars while you have the gun, just don't hit the teleporters.
- (At this point, everything goes back to normal, save for the occasional blast from the welder being heard.)
Feel of earlier seasons?
I'm not sure if we've got a trope for this one, but here's examples:
Live Action TV
- British Edutainment series Police, Camera, Action! had the Season 10 episode "Diversion Ahead!" produced in 2002 but not aired until 2006, which, although technology progressed (for 2002, but by 2006 when it aired was Zeerust), had the feel of the Season 6 episodes in terms of style and tone. This was despite the Darker and Edgier tone it took, the episode, despite covering a serious topic, had a Lighter and Softer tone that Season 6 in 1998 used (despite covering serious topics) and a Satire/Parody/Pastiche of James Bond including The Name Is Bond, James Bond, to lighten the mood of the episode.
Western Animation
- Dexter's Laboratory episodes "Chicken Scratch" and "Height Unseen", although in Season 4, had the feel of Season 2 of 1997-1998 in terms of tone and humor, if not animation; the Art Shift was obvious as the new 2003 character models appeared.
- Steven Universe episode "Back to the Barn" in Season 2 and "Restaurant Wars" in Season 3 had the feel of the first season in style and tone, although as claimed by Word of God and Word of Saint Paul, they were explicitly not Filler episodes (even though a proportion of the fandom claim they are both filler), despite tying into the larger Story Arc and Myth Arc. In the early seasons of the show, it was largely episodic, until half-way through the season.
Loud damsel
She may be a captive but she's not gonna sit quietly and wait for help
Character finds an easy way to solve the problem they just solved?
There's an Achievement Hunter video where Jeremy accidently floods the base while opening Chance Cubes. He frantically asks if anyone has any sponges. No one does. He and Matt manage to remove the flood anyway, and then the next Chance Cube he opens spawns a pair of sponges.
No Title Western Animation
Is there a trope when a major plot episode of a TV show is tagged along with a short, concise, almost misleading description? The closest example I can think of off-hand is S 7 E 6 of Steven Universe, where major plot episode “A Single Pale Rose” is accompanied with the description, “Steven helps Pearl find her phone.” Not necessarily restricted to TV shows, just any sort of episodic series. Like ep.69 of the Balance arc of the podcast “The Adventure Zone” is accompanied with the description, “Our heroes reach their journeys end.”
Fake heel face turn
Do we have a trope name for when a villain pretends to be reformed but is later revealed to still be evil?
Plan with leaps of logic
I have a plan to, let's say assassinate Someone and I put myself in harm's way. What trope is best suited for it?
Edited by Tropetalker
Time flies
A character realizing or lamenting how-well time flies.
Slow Down Aesop
An Aesop that a character or characters need to stop doing everything so quickly and slow down to smell the roses or else they won't be able to get things done properly and/or will miss the little things in life that they can only enjoy if they take things slowly.
Characters Who Made Bad Decisions Are More Likely To Be Hated?
Is there a trope, in a similar spirit of Jerks Are Worse Than Villains, that in a YMMV manner, explain that sometimes the fandom has no patience for 'good characters' who made bad decisions for whatever reasons? Especially if it becomes detrimental to the heroes' quest. I was thinking to probably try to launch a trope for it (with justifications that the audience more likely would relate to such stupid decisions and tried to assure themselves that that there's no way they're going to pull that bad decision given the situation, thus they Will Not Be a Victim or won't have something that they will never live down), but I'm not sure if there are already a similar trope or it's worthy to even get into the Trope Launch Pad...
Thanks!
Unable to eat
Is there a trope for a character or species who is/are unable to eat regular foods? For Instance, the vampires in [What We Do In The Shadows] cannot digest solid food and can only drink blood. (If I'm remembering correctly. I haven't seen the show, so they may be able to drink other liquids.)
(Also hi this is my first post! Apologies for any formatting issues.)
Like a Brother to Me
Characters seeing other characters as a cool older sibling archetype, even though they're not related. (Not related to Like Brother and Sister.)
Hates everything
A character dislikes almost anything.
Multidimensional Video Game
So there's this pretty specific trope I've seen in a couple of horror video games recently. The main character plays a usually haunted video game, and the events in the game correspond to actions that take place in the real world. Sometimes the in-game map of the video game world matches with the map in real life, often with the video game characters doing actions in the game getting copied in the real world. For example the player makes the character jump in the game, and they hear a thud in their room, as though someone actually jumped. But it's just a game, right?
One such example is Janitor Bleeds.
It's sort of like The Game Come to Life, but maybe a bit more complex than that.
Edited by KingOfStickers
Malicious Alienation?
Is there a trope for someone driving a group or a community of people away (that they're a part of) in either a malicious way or they're like "I'm going to do what I want and if other people don't like it I really don't care". Probably like most associated w/ villains I would guess.
Person uses voice from a previous role for another one
A thread on another website had me wondering about this. Do we have a trope where a voice actor uses the same exact voice for one character for another character on a different show?
Quest keeps getting more convoluted
A character sets out to do a simple task, but it becomes more and more convoluted to succeed. For example:
Bob asks to borrow Alice's car. Alice will let him if he gives her his bike. The bike's tire breaks, so he asks Jim to fix it. Jim will only fix it if Bob lends him his suit. The suit is stained, and the cleaners will only wash it on such short notice if Bob yada yada, so on.
known for creative/fluent invective
Some make their point through sheer volume & repetition. (Cluster F-Bomb) Others save it all for a the moment of greatest impact, and trigger a Precision F-Strike.
This one... is artistic. Their cussing will be creative, non-repetitive, literary, and very much on point. Expect others to settle in to listen in awe.
Bonus points if they manage it without using any conventionally vulgar or offensive terms. (Thinking of a young woman who held out for nearly five minutes with "A string of... curses that were neither blasphemous nor prurient")
Is this just a flavor of Sir Swears-a-Lot? Or do we have something more specific?
Brought together by tragedy
Two people bond over a tragedy and become a couple
Foreign language dubs have language-specific terms that change context?
A specific case I have in mind is in Outbound Flight, where Thrawn introduces Thrass as his brother, and the Japanese translation specifies that Thrass is his younger brother (otouto) because there isn't an informal word for just "brother" in Japanese.
Edited by CommanderVisor
Blast from the past message
A character is contacted out of the blue by someone he hasn't talked to in years or decades, often someone who played a major role in his past.
Foreigners only named about their origin
A foreign character who is refered by the country/place they come from- like "The Australian", "The Indian", "The Norwegian".
Romantic Sequel
Is there a trope for the idea that if a movie doesn't have a romantic plot, if it gets a sequel, romance will be ghe main plot of the new movie?