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Hating someone who acts like you
A character dislikes someone who acts like them, but is oblivious to the similarities between them.
LGBT Parent Reveal
A character is shocked when they found that a parent that they once thought was straight/cis is actually gay/trans/LGBT.
Is that tropable?
Edited by MacronNotes
Visual Story?
A work that is told mostly using visuals and body language with little to no dialogue
Non-Malicious But No Consideration For Others
What's the trope for a character who isn't evil, a jerk or Attention Whore (and in fact often quite friendly and well-meaning), doesn't think in terms of It's All About Me, but because they never think about how their actions influence people around them, they're just as destructive as someone doing it deliberately? They're often The Load or The Millstone.
Examples from Gaston Lagaffe, who's a Kindhearted Animal Lover and genuinely wants to help:
- He once tinkered with the office building's heaters, nearly causing heatstroke across the entire 6th floor because he wanted to see if you could make toast on it.
- Devised an "anti-pollution" system consisting of a giant balloon on the end of his car's tailpipe, and of course emptied it at the end of the trip, knocking out a whole street with carbon monoxide poisoning.
- In order to provide a warm place for birds in winter, he rerouted the heating system outside the building, leaving his coworkers to freeze.
- His chemical experiments have done everything from spreading knockout or laughing gas across the building to obliterating a flight of stairs to creating sentient acid that was then locked into the cabinet containing important files.
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digression
Big creature gets smaller as it gets weaker
Whats the trope for when a really big creature gets physically smaller as its power is drained, as sort of a visual metaphor? It's kind of like Shameful Shrinking, but not the same.
People who are just out of shape, without regard to weight
do we have a trope for people who just simply don't get enough exercise? the closest thing i've found so far is Geek Physiques and the example i have in mind (a supposed "idol" who, as her friends put it, "dances like an old lady") doesn't really fit that trope.
Chakras
Is there a trope for the concept of chakras and how fictions portrays them. Avatar: The Last Airbender and Naruto use them but its obviously been portrayed in other works.
Edited by MacronNotes
Adaptational Handling of a Flashback
In the source material, the protagonist gives a flashback after establishing his character. In the adaptation, though, that flashback is put in the beginning, and then Time Skip to Present Day, where the story continues.
- Is there a trope for this change?
- In the adaptation, that "flashback" is started by saying it was in the past. Is that a trope, or is it too Chairs?
Momentum-Breaking Vacation
This character has been currently seeking revenge against those in his hometown nonstop. Then, a good friend invites him to go out of the country for a month vacation. The character agrees, seeing he has nothing to lose. However ,when he returns, he experiences a creative slowdown when trying to come with new ways to hurt those who hurt him.
Weaker Husband
A trope where a husband is not technically a Henpecked Husband, but his wife has a lot more power or wealth than he does (through her family or connections or her own work), and this gives him issues due to the usual perception of men being in charge. The wife is often perfectly nice instead of domineering.
- In The Trojan War, one of the main reasons Menelaus needs Helen back is that he's only king of Sparta through his marriage to her.
- In Craig Rice's novels, the lower-class Jake Justus marries an heiress who can easily support the two of them. But because it's the 1920s, he's obsessed with getting a job that he feels can give her a life worthy of her (despite everyone, including his wife, telling him it's stupid).
Car tail lights go off
When a character is introduced or they enter the scene, the camera focuses on tail lights while they turn off.
Fridging, Collateral Angst, or something else?
In the Sherlock Holmes fanfiction "The End of All Things" by Marcia Wilson - Mary and Arthur Watson are killed in a cab accident. There are people who wish the Watsons harm, but they weren't responsible for the accident. Watson had been holding back on telling the authorities all he knew about the villains in order to protect his loved ones, but the death of his wife and son enabled him to begin cooperating fully with Scotland Yard to bring the villains to justice.
1. What is the trope regarding Mary's death? She was Put on a Bus in the Holmes Canon, and a vague reference to Watson's sorrow is our only indicator that the bus crashed. Arthur is an original character to the fic. Marcia Wilson fleshed out Mary more, making her a central character almost equal to John Watson, and I certainly got attached to her as a person and not a cardboard cutout while reading. They Were Holding You Back, maybe?
2. Does that make Watson a Crusading Widower? He doesn't directly go after the cabman who crashed into Mary and Arthur's car, or express any murderous intent. He only fully commits to the investigation.
Edited by annieholmes
This feels like a casting gag Live Action TV
In the Community episode Community S 3 E 22 Introduction To Finality we find out that a character has a novel called The Science of Death Faking by Chris Branan. Christopher Branan was a set designer on Community. I don't know what this Shout-Out to the set designer would be? It feels like it should be a trope or trivia trope yet I don't know which one.
Rearranging Internal Organs
We have Man in the Machine for someone needing to be put in a life-support suit. Do we have a different, more specific Body Horror trope for that someone's internal organs being rearranged to fit inside said life-support suit?
Past work too embarrassing to show to a particular person
Let say, Alice wrote a few romance novels where the Love Interest is based on the image of her crush Bob. And now the two are in a stable relationship, and Alice finds those works too embarrassing to show to Bob. However, there're no indication that the work has any quality or Values Dissonance problem otherwise.
- Is this still Old Shame?
- If it isn't, does this belong to any trope?
baby shoves their face into their birthday cake
What would this be? I'm thinking a combination of Jabba Table Manners and Pie in the Face
I’m too dangerous for you to be around
Pushing someone away because you think you’re too dangerous to be around.
Child is the Password
Do we have trope where the password is the name of a kid of whoever set it up? Something used to show how important the kid is to them.
Straw Fanfic
When fanfic shows up in fiction, it always seems to be treated as part of the lower 90% in quality, as a negative trait or used to further highight was a loser the fanfic's author is. Almost always mentioned as being erotic in nature, very long, usually starring the Author Avatar as a Mary Sue, etc.
Plush shaking
Stories told through moving plushies around, like SuperMarioLogan and Cute Mario Bros. Asking because I found a media page on the side of the road. It's Web Original/Vesterandfriends.
Father embaressed by his children flirting Literature
The father while isn't overprotective is horrified by his children flirting and will often walk out of the room or put on a embarrassed face. Is there a trope for that?
Two best friends mistaken for a gay couple Literature
Is there a trope for two best friends who are gay but aren't for each other? They raise a child and a share a bed together (for financial purposes) but aren't actually a thing. They aren't asexual either. Though they are mistaken for being a couple, all the time.
Edited by Gintama200
Media adaptation trope?
I looked through Media Adaptation Tropes but don't know if we have a trope for this sort of situation:
What sort of adaptation trope is it when original material from an adaptation is used as source material rather than the original work itself?
Edited by Merseyuser1