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.

Losing your Godhood Literature

What trope do we have for a deity that loses their godhood status.

Implied Love Confession Literature

A character implied her attraction to another character. I didn't find this in Love Confession.

Example:

Girl: If I say that I want a boyfriend, what will you do?

Boy: Actually, what will I do?

Girl: Nothing. Never mind.

Exotic Non-Extended Marriage Literature

I'm looking for a trope into which to fit this example:

In an alien society marriages are monogamous but only last for a limited time. Before marriage a contract is written up saying how long the marriage will last, and when the contract is over the marriage dissolves without it being a divorce. The contract says which parent any resulting children will go with when the marriage is over. Sometimes a couple will have such compatible personalities and/or compatible ambitions that they'll make an open-ended contract with no set termination date, but that's rare.

Exotic Non-Extended Marriage Literature

I'm looking for a trope into which to fit this example:

In an alien society marriages are monogamous but only last for a limited time. Before marriage a contract is written up saying how long the marriage will last, and when the contract is over the marriage dissolves without it being a divorce. The contract says which parent any resulting children will go with when the marriage is over. Sometimes a couple will have such compatible personalities and/or compatible ambitions that they'll make an open-ended contract with no set termination date, but that's rare.

Universeral framework all living things are made of. Literature

In this particular universe, there is a framework that all living beings are apart of. Something like the Power Grid from Power Rangers except everything in the universe has access to it and is even made of it in some way. I don't know how else to describe it. :")

Romantic horse ride? Literature

Do we have a trope where the girl and guy ride a horse together? One or both of the couple is probably using this as an excuse to get really close and wrap arms around the others' waist. I imagine it's related to the "crying equestrian" trope, since riding double is rarely practical or good for the horse.

Odd metaphors/similes? Literature

Is there a trope for odd-sounding or bizarre metaphors/similes, like describing a group of surrendering soldiers as having 'as much fight left as funnel cakes'?

A novel consisting of standalone novellas of differing lengths Literature

Do we have a trope for works that consist of shorter stories, which have standalone story arcs but also contribute to the whole? I realize that this is the basic idea of the serial format, but serialized episodes usually have a standardized episode length, which doesn't fit the two novels I have in mind for this, A Hero of Our Time (five novellas, the longest of which easily 3-4 times larger than the others) and Kara no Kyoukai (seven novellas, with the longest being five times longer than the shortest one).

Protagonist was evil all along Literature

Hello. I am looking for examples of a subtrope of Evil All Along.

So we have a protagonist. Not a Decoy Protagonist, but a real one. He can be a hero or an anti hero, whatever. There is a conflict with a villain or an anti-villain, whatever. The protagonist either suceeds or fails, whatever. But in some point of the story it is revealed to the audience (either via Tomato Surprise or any other way) that the protagonist, firstly assumed good, was a bad guy all along. After the Reveal the story main shift either to Evil vs. Evil or protagonist may switch side with an antagonist.

Do you guys have any examples? They might be in a literature, might be in a film.

A spy give away Literature

Is there a specific trope when a spy is found out over their pronunciation of certain words in a language (even when their accent is otherwise fine) failure to abide by an obscure custom etc.?

Narrator immortality Literature

The main protagonist is the first-person narrator of a anyone can die novel. Everyone assumes that said protagonist will survive by the end of the series because they are narrating the story: if they died, there would be no one to continue delivering the commentary to the events of the book from their perspective.

Of course there may be subversions to this but my question is, is there a trope for this?

Using a real song as an in-universe song Literature

Several of the songs in Ancillary Justice are real-life hymns and folk songs, but they're used as songs from fictional cultures on different planets. What is the trope for this? The closest thing I can think of is Public Domain Soundtrack or Real Song Theme Tune, but neither of these address the in-universe aspect.

Translation changes Literature

I've noticed that some translations that I've compared to the original, which I like to do, just change things. Not change them for the better, like a Woolseyism, and not change them because the translator was too incompetent to do a good job, but like, the line "J'ai mangé un hamburger" will read "I ate a hot dog," for no reason at all.

Is that a trope?

Character dying before big event Literature

I'm just wondering if there's a trope for characters who die very early and never get to experience a world-changing event or the world after it.

Example: someone gets killed the day before a nuclear war and is spared the horrible fate of living in that new world, etc.

real estate ads language Literature

Perspective shift Literature

Its a simple trope I know exists but don't know the name of. We basically switch to a different characters perspective.

Say in chapter 1 we're following Bob, but when we get to chapter 2 it's Alice.

Looking for possibly a Star Trek novel / fanfic Literature

All I remember of it is that it's a world / system (subsector??) that's (lawless and) at war, may be trying to gain entry into the Federation and have both child soldiers & super soldiers at their disposal. Please Help!!

Female heartbreaker Literature

My sister is looking for books / films / japanese or western animation, with a specific kind of female character, where: - she's a Gender Flip of The Casanova; - or a stereotypical heartbreaker; - popular, and people of the opposite or both genders admire her, even pine for her; - in the end of said film/book, they get Character Development, fall in love with the main lead, and stop being a heartbreaker altogether

P. S. Preferably in the following genre: historical romance

Ex-fanfic/"strongly inspired by" Literature

So Alex writes a major fanfic. Then Alex decides it's better of as officially not a fanfic, renames canon events and (if any were present) canon characters, and does some alteration job on the setting. But the strong inspiration remains, and quite a few things are Expies, an outright Captan Ersatz might be noticed, and quite a few Serial Numbers are Filed Off.

The most famous example is probably Fifty Shades of Grey - but it does not seem to list any trope for this.

Is there a trope? if not, should I launch one?

(Context: working my way to doing just that)

A taco truck in Mordor. Literature

The idea behind fantasy is that everything is possible. BUT it has to have a reason to exist. You could drop a taco truck in the middle of Mordor as long as the reason was good enough. However, sometimes a writer would describe everything about such a "taco truck" at great length - how the engine works, the ingredients inside, etc. but NOT the reason for the taco truck being there. Another example would be a rule that women can't use their left hand. The author explains how they get around that in their everyday lives. But the reason for such a rule is never given. There isn't a religious one, there isn't a historical one, nothing. So what is this trope's name?

The "It's Ok If It's Fantasy" Trope Literature

Trying to find the trope where something where it happens in real life would be terrible and genuinely considered bad by anyone with general decency, but that the imaginary/escapist element of the same thing depicted in a book or movie makes it okay to enjoy.

Re-using a character Literature

In The Two Noble Kinsmen Shakespeare uses the legendary Theseus and Hippolyta as characters, and they also appear in A Midsummer Night's Dream. But there's no sign that the Theseus and Hippolyta in one play are the same characters as the ones in the other play—they're just two different portrayals of a couple of mythological people. Is there a trope for that?

I know that we have Reused Character Design, but I'm not sure that this is it, since it's not a character design, but a character, who wouldn't necessarily have been played by the same actor, or have worn the same clothes (and possibly the same wig) in both plays.

Also, maybe the fact that Theseus and Hippolyta are pre-existing fictional characters plays in. (While they might have had some sort of real-life basis in real, historic figures, the mythological versions that formed the basis for Shakespeare's characters must be said to be fictional.)

Weapon in a tongue piercing Literature

No Time Like The Past, an Orion pirate has a miniature hypospray with a toxin concealed in what appears to be a ruby tongue stud, which she uses to kill a Red Shirt. What would that fall under? Unusual Weapon Mounting? A bizarre and deadly variation of Sleight of Tongue? They're in a brawl when she uses it, but it seems likely it was intended for. . . shall we say, gentler circumstances.