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Fractal Series [FOUND] Literature
Is there a trope/trivia for a (book) series that gets increasingly more detailed and multi-threaded as it approaches the ending, with the end result that each new installment covers half of the in-story time that the previous one in the same volume of text?
Edited by Koveras
Depraved supernatural club Literature
Do we have something for depraved superntural clubs. In essence in some fantasy works, you'll get places wherein people will go to get there often depraved sexual fetihses which invlove superntural elements. These can be everything from the vampire clubs of Guild Hunter where people pay to be bitten and drained for sexual pleasure to the demons club of Nightside where people will pay for demons to torture them
Forced cannibalsim Literature
Do we have something for when a villain forces somone to consume human blood or flesh ?
Power of blood Literature
In October Daye, the heroine Toby has the power to increase her focus and gain a kinda boost when she consumees blood (mostly her own)
She also has the ability to discover a person's memories from tasting there blood.
Any ideas on a trope for this?
Evil individual with shadow powers Literature
Smoke and Shadows features the "Shadowlord", an Evil Sorceror whose literally composed off, empowered off and uses shadows to do his bidding.
Any ideas on what trope this is?
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ShoutOut or VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory? Literature
Asking another question about Chance and Choices Adventures.
In the fifth book there's a scene where the characters are passing through a dangerous swamp at night. A local Bandit Clan tries to ambush them, but is frightened away by phantom soldiers that only they (the bandits) are able to see.
I know for a fact this idea comes from a fairly well known sermon, telling the story of a group of missionaries in Africa who are saved from a tribal raid in the same manner.
I'm not sure what this should be listed as.
I want to say Very Loosely Based on a True Story, but it's just one tiny element of the story that gets carried over, so I'm not sure it counts. (Also the veracity of the sermon is highly debated, with many people believing it's just a parable, but I don't think this would count as Based on a Great Big Lie because I think that requires intent.)
I was thinking it could be Shout-Out, but can you do a Shout-Out to a sermon?
EDIT: I also have Very Loosely Based on a True Story listed for the fact that a lot of the locations in the series are real - for example, the main characters' hometown of Harmony, Arkansas is a real place and is even in the same spot it's at in real life, however all of the characters and events are fictional. Is this proper usage of that trope, or should it be something else?
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Not A ShoutOut Literature
I'm working on a page for Chance and Choices Adventures novel series. As of the second book (of five, so far) a major element is the characters traveling the country in wagons, and there are numerous scenes of the characters having to go through river crossings, sometimes with disastrous results.
It reminds me a LOT of Oregon Trail, so much so that I originally listed it under Shout-Out... but I don't think it counts because I'm fairly certain it's unintended. I feel like this would be some form of Audience Reactions, but I have no idea what it might be. It might even be Not A Trope...
Anyone have any idea?
Specific type of prequel (answered) Literature
In this novel series I'm editing, the third book is a Prequel to the previous two books featuring completely different characters that are only mentioned (or had a brief cameo) in the previous novels. The following books pic from where the second left off. Is this Origins Episode or something else?
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Magic systems Literature
Is there a trope where there are multiple magic systems in the setting that work independent of each other?
Ferryman curse rellay Literature
What trope is this? The hero or antagonist who rush for some treasure needs to go over river and see the ferryman on boat. He throws ferryman out of the boat and sits in his place. He finds out or ferryman shouts on him that he cant get out of the ship and must serve as ferryman until another gready individual throws him out of boat. It is common trope in european folklore but may go even older.
outline to blog Literature
female disguised as male heir
first date Literature
Is there a known trope about the first date when it turns out it was a bad idea altogether?
Thank you!
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groups Literature
What trope is used to describing being put into various groups? for example, the Four Houses of Hogwarts in Harry potter, the Cabins in Percy Jackson, the Factions in the Divergent series, and to a lesser extent, the districts in the Hunger Games.
Two Identically Structured Installments Literature
For example: the second and third books in the Septimus Heap series play out like this:
Book 2: Jenna gets kidnapped and Septimus has to go rescue her, but she turns out to be fine, and together they have to return home to stop his crazy older brother. After which, they work on curing a boat.
Book 3: Septimus gets kidnapped and Jenna has to go rescue him, but he turns out to be fine, and together they have to return home to stop her crazy ancestor. After which, they work on curing the townspeople.
What trope best fits this use of a repetitive plot structure?
Pardoned too late Literature
I just read an old play where news of a criminal's pardon reached the executioner just after he'd done his job. Is there a trope for that? It can't be Acquitted Too Late, since that one's explicitly about innocent people.
Narrative nonentity, or barely acknowledged character Literature
Is there a trope for a character who exists in a written work and is "onscreen" at least once (so not The Ghost), but who is usually not mentioned or acknowledged even in scenes where they would logically be present?
I'm kind of thinking of a specific example (the main character's little sister in The New Job). She is mentioned like three times over the course of 100 pages, but during all that time she's living in the same small household as the main character, meaning she's almost certainly present in other scenes where the narrator just doesn't bother to mention her. (Several times while reading it I actually found myself thinking, "Wait, is Theofil's sister still living here?" When she is mentioned, it's confirmed that she is.)
This example almost feels like it would fit in Behind the Black, but that looks to be exclusively a visual-media trope.
Beneath Notice also seems close, but that's about somebody not being noticed (and, usually, seeking not to be noticed) by other characters. Would it also apply to somebody who is hidden from the reader because of narrative choices?
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A weird question on continuity Literature
So uh here's a weird example. Ghost Roads started off as a collection of short stories. When they were being grouped together in a complete book called Sparrow Hill Road, one of these short stories ("Bad moon rising") was removed in a Canon Discontuity case as the author felt it didn't fit with the theme of the others. Now when a sequel to the original book called Girl in the green silk gown was released, this story was re-added to the plot of that book(albeit with some slight tweaks to the beginning and end to make it fit with it being a sequel but was largely the same). Do we have something for this?
Moat Monster Literature
Whenever there is a moat in a fantasy genre, or even a lake by a castle, odds are there is a monster of some sort in it. Whether the giant squid at Hogwarts or the squiddy thing in front of the gates of Moria. If this doesn't already have a page, and from what I see there isn't one, I wouldn't mind making one if that's how this is done. Long time reader, first time poster, etc.
"best of" compilation Literature
The closest trope for what I'm looking for is a Greatest Hits Album, but the page is heavily slanted to one medium. It also occurs in Literature and television series (animated and live action), where a book (or DVD) is released as a "best of" compilation of short stories (or episodes).
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Stronger with fighting back Literature
So in Den of Shadows. The more powerful you fight back against your attacker/vampire sire while you're being turned into a vampire, the more powerful you are as a vampire.
Do we have anything for something like this ?
Immortality only in the realm of the villain Literature
Do we have something for when a villain is immortal and all powerful when in there home dimension but can be killed outside of it.
Like say the heroes fighting him in another world outside of his.