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Please Help Live Action TV
This was an educational show that my teacher used to bring in on a VHS tape. It "starred" a female reporter and a bug puppet that wore glasses. They would show ways to fix grammar and things like run of sentences.
Four situations, what tropes? Live Action TV
Do we have tropes for these four situations?
1. Bob is a Badass... but only when he's high on sugar. Otherwise, he's a Nice Guy and embarrassed about being a Badass. Alice is a natural female Badass, in contrast to Bob.
2. An example of a 2018 Subaru stationwagon is designed to be a Retraux version of the 1998 Subaru Legacy stationwagon
◊, but In-Universe it's passed off as a 1998 car, despite the fact people could tell it's Retraux.
3. A character in a new Arrowverse Spin-Off of The Flash (2014) is very similar to Nora West from The Flash (2014), except doesn't have these character traits: they're not Ambiguously Gay, with no Dark Secret, not a Dead Guy Junior, and less of a Naïve Newcomer. Where they're similar is that they're Adorkable, Mixed Ancestry and The Beautiful Elite. Not sure if this is Captain Ersatz or Expy or even Self-Plagiarism ?
4. In an episode of Dexter's Laboratory, a character, John, pops up in every situation, just to hang a lampshade on whatever the situation is, purely for the sake of comedy. It's more than a cameo role, though, and is plot-relevant.
Do we have tropes for these? (Sorry for the length of them... the bits were relevant!)
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Interspersing commentary from the characters Live Action TV
The show periodically cuts to characters giving commentary on what's happening, like they're being interviewed on what happened. This happens a lot in The Office (US).
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Monster diet substituion Live Action TV
Do we have anything for when say vampires or demons are able to substitute their diet of human blood/flesh/souls with something artificially made (either magical or scientific) like say Tru Blood from well True Blood
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Life tropes?? Live Action TV
Do we have this one??
What tropes fit these two situations?:
The official description (somewhere, can't remember where) for Jessica Jones states that "A private investigator decides to reboot her life."
and:
Alice decides to give her life a complete Continuity Reboot after splitting with Bob. Everything in her past gets forgotten about, and she essentially starts over with a clean slate (not literally, of course, she stays the same age).
At first I thought it was Starting a New Life .
But is there a trope for someone giving their life a metaphorical Continuity Reboot?
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Banner Misunderstanding Live Action TV
There's a joke I've seen a lot of places and I was wondering if it has a tropes page. The joke is that someone will be dictating to a craftsperson what a message should say. It's usually a banner that's hung later in the episode, but it can also be a cake or some other kind of text. The person giving the directions says something after the message itself and the additional directions get appended to the text. It's a running gag on Bojack Horseman, but I've seen it used in a lot of other sitcoms.
Younger self trope?? Live Action TV
Do we have this trope?
Bob has to Time Travel to when he was a teenager, and go undercover in his old high school as a teacher by guiding his younger self to not do the stupid thing that messed up his life which happened when he was 16, but his younger self has no idea that it's his future self he's talking to.
Are there tropes for these?
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Comedy InUniverse, but not OutOfUniverse Live Action TV
Is there a trope for this situation:
In-Universe, Alice makes a mistake in the kitchen producing too many cupcakes (more than ordered) because she's that good at making cupcakes, managing to do them quickly, and it's treated as comedy, maybe even Black Comedy by some and everyone involved finds it funny.
In-Universe, someone even asks if Alice is secretly a superhero Clark Kenting.
Out-of-universe, though, it's played for drama, but it's not done as a Deconstruction, and the work's a Cerebus Rollercoaster anyway.
Out-of-universe, they show it as a drama by the laughing echoing and repeated Jump Cut to people laughing and Bob treating it as a joke has his voice played in slow-motion.
Do we have a trope for where something's treated as comedy In-Universe, but seriously Out Of Universe? What about the superhero bit, not Conspiracy Theorist is it?
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Show is embarrassing for all trope? Live Action TV
Do we have this one??
A series is produced in-house cheaply and with Special Effects Failure everywhere, and the network's embarrassed by it (as well as the actors who did it for the paycheck, but they have to air the series anyway, even though they'd rather just get it off the air as quickly as they can.
Conflict trope? Live Action TV
Do we have this one?
Bob is clearing the attic in the house and finds old high school reports on himself, old photos of him stoned during his college days, and considers the whole thing an embarrassing relic of his past and wants to burn it on a bonfire, but his mom wants to keep them for "nostalgia" purposes. Bob, however, just wants to reboot his life and forget the negative incidents.
Is there a Shades of Conflict, or Conflict trope for this?
As for rebooting his life a la Jessica Jones, is there a trope for that?
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Episodes of TV Show set during other episodes Live Action TV
Is there a trope for episodes of TV Show set during other episodes. Not just continuity nods, more than continuity cavalcade even, but a fully-fledged recreation of the setting of an earlier episode.
TOS: The Trouble With Tribbles is revisited by DS 9: Trials & Tribble-Ations, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country revisited by VGR: Flashback, Star Trek: First Contact revisited by ENT: In A Mirror Darkly Part 1, TNG: The Best Of Both Worlds revisited by DS 9: Emissary & Star Trek: First Contact, DS 9: The Siege Of AR-558 revisited by It’s Only A Paper Moon, VGR: Caretaker revisited by Projections, Before And After, Relativity & Shattered, ENT: Broken Bow revisited by Shockwave
Buffy: Once More With Feeling revisited by Selfless
Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet revisited by Twice Upon A Time
Spinoff show tropes for superhero show? Live Action TV
Do we have this one?
Is there a trope for where a work starts out as a spin-off, for example a hypothetical The Flash (2014) Spin-Off about a metahuman character (portrayed as an Anti-Villain in Canon of The Flash) which splits from the Arrowverse and becomes its own Alternate Continuity, making no reference to Arrowverse or The Flash (2014) in later series of the show?
Basically, a show starts out being a Spin-Off from a series franchise, but in later episodes diverges so much from the parent show that it becomes its own Alternate Continuity.
Time Travel tropes and parents? Live Action TV
Do we have this one?
Alice somehow manages to get the ability to Time Travel and goes back to the year of her birth, 1994, and sees her mom, but has to keep the fact that she's Alice hidden from her mom.
Also, the Time Travel creates an Alternate Timeline every time someone goes back in time - a new branched timeline, basically.
Is there a trope for that too?
music Live Action TV
Is there a trope for when music is used in a funny way in the back-up a scene? There should be. But I don't see one.
Robot eyes turn red when hacked Live Action TV
Robots in fiction (especially ones that exist to protect people) always seem to have a handy feature programmed in where their eyes turn red whenever an evil force hacks or otherwise overtakes them. Is there a trope for this? I can't find one.
Lost in Space tropes? Live Action TV
This applies to the Lost in Space (2018) Netflix adaptation, which I'm a fan of.
Which of these tropes would fit the show??
I want to ensure I'm being accurate, to avoid an Edit War
This question isn't about what the difference between the tropes is, but which would be most appropriate. I don't think there's anything in the rules on Trope Finder about asking about tropes for a work page.
Artificial Human trope for setting? Live Action TV
Do we have this one?
A workplace is populated entirely by Artificlal Humans (except for the boss, who is human).
Not sure if this is an example, but theoretically a police force where everyone is an Artificial Human, like the riot-guard Alternate Self clones of Ava Sharpe in Legends of Tomorrow episode "I, Ava.
Is there such a trope, or is it TLP-worthy?
Regeneration trope? Live Action TV
I know there's The Nth Doctor for an out-of-universe trope, but is Reincarnation the best trope for the Characters.Doctor Who page about the Doctor, on the list of Doctors page, to cover his regeneration?
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Work split for adaptations when it's normally one work? Live Action TV
Do we have this one?
A Crisis Crossover comic has Supergirl (Kara Danvers), Stargirl (Courtney Whitmore), Barry Allen (The Flash) with Green Arrow, Felicity Smoak and Black Canary working together, with them all appearing together in the comic, but in a TV series or movie adaptation, it's split into two series - one focusing on Kara, Courtney and Barry's part in the Crisis Crossover, and the second on Arrow, Felicity and Black Canary.
Is there an adaptation trope for this?
Basically: One single work in comic-book, split for television.
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Reality Television Sucks Live Action TV
A reality TV show tries to be realistic, but fails miserably.
Spoilers in the Closed Captioning Live Action TV
When the closed captioning of a streaming show reveals the name or identity of a character before the show does, is this a case of Spoiled by the Format or Interface Spoiler ?
Which trope fits this scenario regarding Arrowverse? Live Action TV
Last time I asked about Alternate Continuity being an Alternate Universe
and this was stated:
Now that Constantine and Supergirl2015 form part of Arrowverse are they Alternate Continuities that are now an Alternate Universe?
As I understand it, Constantine was an Alternate Continuity (with its own separate) from Arrow and The Flash (2014) when it launched, and Supergirl2015 was in its own Alternate Continuity (with its own separate canon) to The Flash (2014), until Canon Welding took place and they were retroactively put into the Arrowverse?
Am I correct in thinking that if a creator/the creators retroactively move a standalone work that's in its own Alternate Continuity into another universe, an Alternate Continuity becomes an Alternate Universe?
This was also on Alternate Continuity:
This is different from an Alternate Universe in that outside of crossovers and What If? scenarios, they generally don't interact with the "main" universe. However, in some circumstances an Alternate Continuity can become an Alternate Universe if the characters crossover.
Would Constantine and Supergirl fit under Alternate Continuity or another trope entirely, if it was added on the trope pages to include their pre-Arrowverse airings?
I'm just checking to ensure that this is correct, don't want to misuse this trope on pages.
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Fan Fiction tropes for 2010s series? Live Action TV
Which Fan Fiction tropes are these:
- Fan Fic based on Supergirl follow the events of "Pilot" with it implying most, but not all events happened, some things happened differently, but then the subsequent episodes in the Story Arc introduce a very similar character to Ava Sharpe◊ from Legends of Tomorrow called Ava Williams as a Worthy Opponent to Kara Danvers, and it diverges a lot from then on from that point?
Is this an Alternate Universe Fic or another trope?
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Hidden world trope? Live Action TV
What trope fits this scenario:
Alice goes into her local shopping mall one day, and when she leaves the building via one of the entrances, she ends up in an Alternate Timeline meeting her Alternate Self who is very similar and gets on with her Alternate Self. However, main timeline Alice has to keep the Alternate Timeline 's existence secret for fear no-one will believe her, even her friend Bob and for fear of what could happen if the two timelines crossed.