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Nazca lines in fiction (Notzca Lines?)
A work features something very similar to Nazca Lines but possibly altered or missized. Do we have something like this? Or does this fall under Landmark of Lore even if it's not -the- Nazca Lines?
Only attracted to looks
Trope for a character only attracted to looks
Full Crushed Western Animation
A character calls their crush by their full name.
Example: Bob calls Alice by Alice Addams.
miss archer
looking for multiple tropes
1. When a guy secretly fixes a girl's broken item (e.g. a broken door handle, table, etc.) as some sort of an Act of True Love.
2. When a character hates the community/group/organization that their loved one belongs to.
3. When the movie already ended, but the credits include a scene of what happens after the ending. Not a post or mid-credits scene like The Stinger, nor the "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue type of montage that usually appears in biographical films. Not even like the ending for Call Me by Your Name where the scene just continues through the credits.
4. When two people who initially hated each other start to like each other (not necessarily romantically) until something happens and basically, one of them says or thinks "I never liked you for a reason" or "I was right about you all along."
5. When a character is in a major, life-changing event but they chase after their loved one who's about to leave for good. Something like the intro scene for 17 Again (2009) where Zac Efron's character chases his pregnant girlfriend in the midst of an important basketball game.
Kitschy Tourist Trap
A location meant to provide cheap, yet overpriced attractions and even cheaper, overpriced garbage in their gift shop.
Media makes something popular
Which one is it if a a certain media popularises something in real life, often unwittingly, and without actively merchandising? For example:
- Brassed Off sparked a resurgence in brass band music.
- The Conjuring may well have popularised the game "Hide and Clap".
- Bird Box led to people trying to do things blindfolded.
Limitations of magic
Which trope best covers the limitations of magic? For example, in Harry Potter, it is discussed in-universe that food cannot be conjured from nothing. It is highly notable that in magic schools, including also The Worst Witch, magic cannot replace traditional methods of learning; i.e. the pupils still have to sit in a classroom, and learn by rote and repetition.
Hermione's future husband
Funny FictionalDisease
There is this Haywire Hospital, a Chinese game (with English language) which is about a hospital run by cats.
The patients are mostly based on some mental condition in Real Life and social problems. This is hard to explain so I will give some examples below.
For example, there is a bat who is a Wifi addict, called Wifi Whacko or sth. There is also a patient who looks like a bowl, and is based on the concept of Kpop Idols.
Also, in the Fun Hospital game, another hospital game, beside the common, realistic one like fever or cold, there was also Long Nose (based on Pinocchio), Werewolf, and Badness (based on The Joker).
In the Theme Hospital game there are also plenty of fictional funny disease.
So what is the trope when there are funny fictional disease?
Adapted In
When a plot element is added to a fanfic, the opposite of Adapted Out.
Sensei Shrines
Would the Sensei Shrine cutscenes from Skylanders: Imaginators count as Establishing Character Moment or something else?
DJ Cheep Tuna
What would be a trope for a DJ?
Technologies ahead of their times Videogame
In the 90s, the Philips CD-i had a light gun with an infrared technology (and a module akin to the Wii sensor bar) that would end up making it work on modern LCD televisions, something which no other console light gun could achieve.
Is there a trope that fits on this case of technologies ahead of their times? The best I could find was Born in the Wrong Century, but it applies only for characters, not things.
Edited by calil_bfr
The Fool
No Dirt On Him
A character tries to prove that an other is a jerk or evil (or atleast not perfect), but no matter where they search, they can only find good deeds done by them.
Example:
- The Good Place: In "Tahani Al-Jamil", Eleanor tries to prove that Tahani is not as perfect as Chidi and everyone else thinks she is and that she knows Eleanor's secret and may be out there to get Eleanor. She talks to her to get out some bad deeds or a dark story from her life, but she can only get good things out of her. She then steals Tahani's diary, but after being convinced by Chidi, she doesn't read it. After she sees Tahani crying she comforts her and realizes that even Tahani's hugs are perfect.
Adaptational Fate Reveal
In the original game, four characters appeared only in the prologue of the story. And later, when there is a huge conflict killing lots of background characters, they just disappeared, with no information on which side they joined, how they died or whether they even died or not. In the fanfic, all four took part in the events of the conflict and were revealed to be dead or alive.
Giant crabs
Any other tropes about giant crabs?
Fear me
Only You Didn't Know
A character isn't in on a secret everyone (including the audience) else knows.
For instance, Bob genuinely believes he got a job on his own merits, when every character (and the audience, since it's stated outright by other characters) that it's because he's the CEO's son, and in fact Alice has to ensure Bob has zero influence with the company because of how catastrophically bad he is at the job (e.g. social media manager that links to PR-toxic content, floor worker who's abusive to clients, machine operator who gets drunk and then tries to use the machine, cleaner that leaves an office dirtier than when he started, etc.).
Thus when it's finally revealed to Bob that no, he sucks at his job and would never have gotten it without connections, he looks to his coworkers for support, only to get responses like "You didn't know?", "Oh, so you finally figured it out?", and "Finally we can stop pretending you're useful!".
changing mind song?
Not in a literal sense, but is there a trope that covers characters refusing something at the beginning of a song and then opening up and changing their mind at the end?
Time travel
I'm trying to find the type where a character goes back in time and shapes history and is remembered as a 'mysterious figure' or something, but the timeline always existed in that sense even before they went back in time, implying that other versions of themselves went back in time before and did the same as their present universe is unchanged by their actions (It may be the way it is BECAUSE of their actions).
Observational Offense
Two characters are fighting, and one notices something unusual/specific about the other's fighting style/moveset, so they perform another, possibly weaker, attack to get a more detailed look at the opponent's style/moveset.
Misandrist Man
A man who will happily explain that All Men Are Perverts, Guys are Slobs, Women Are Wiser, Men Are the Expendable Gender, etc. Usually played for laughs, such as the Boyfriend-Blocking Dad who is all too aware of the loathsome thoughts teenage boys harbor regarding his teenage daughter.
For instance, Bob is asked for relationship advice by various women:
etc.