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Series is very similar to one currently airing Live Action TV
Is there a trope for where a series is very similar to one currently airing, e.g. a series about a Vigilante Man that's very similar to Arrow, only without the mystical/superhero/fantasy elements.
An Expy of a current series, basically.
Fans notice the similarities.
I don't think it's Spiritual Successor as the show's still airing, but is it Dueling Shows?
Edited by Merseyuser1
Voiceover Mismatch Live Action TV
Two characters are talking and the camera view switches back and forth between speakers so we can see their reactions, body language, and so forth. However, when the actor in the foreground (typically just the back and side of their head is visible) speaks the movement of their face is clearly out of sync with what they are saying. Indeed, sometimes the foreground actor is obviously not speaking at all.
I notice this all the time. It really isn't a problem unless it is egregious. I fully understand that you wouldn't be able to record audio very easily from behind, and despite cutting between camera angles constantly it is basically impossible to record multiple voiceovers and match them all perfectly. So is there a name for this?
No Title Live Action TV
There was a show and in an episode a guy is getting getting abducted by a woman.and she ties him to a bed I think and she dresses up as a nurse in one seance she is blonde and she has him bath with handcuffs on his feet and his woman believes he is lost or dead something like that
The BigBad is non-human, non-corporeal and weird? Live Action TV
This probably applies more to Marvel Cinematic Universe or Arrowverse, but is there a trope for where the Big Bad is non-human and/or a cosmic force, like Dormammu from Doctor Strange and the Big Bad has Blue and Orange Morality?
Basically, the Big Bad has a non-corporeal form and is weird to the protagonists, but a major threat too.
Do we have this one?
Edited by Merseyuser1
Work feels like one genre due to characters but it's not that genre? Live Action TV
Do we have this one?
A show on a streaming service like Netflix says it's a Crime Drama, but the characters make it feel like it's another genre entirely.
The show has a Captain Ersatz of Saul Goodman from Better Call Saul, an eccentric woman who's similar to the Thirteenth Doctor from Doctor Who, a vigilante girl who's an Expy of Kara Danvers Supergirl and a crime lord who's very similar to Wilson Fisk from Daredevil.
Viewers assume it's either a Sci-Fi or Superhero drama due to the characters mentioned above (excluding Saul), but Word of God is that it's a Crime Drama grounded in reality in a Crapsack World and every episode is crime-focused with no superheroics.
I thought it was Genre Roulette or Follow the Leader (I know Cast of Expies applies to the characters), but what trope fits the audience reactions part about being mistaken for another genre? Is there a Distaff Counterpart trope to Vigilante Man for the female characters?
Edited by Merseyuser1
Family owns van with super powers Live Action TV
I remember watching this as a kid in the early 2000s. It's a live action TV show about this suburban family that owns a maroon van that has super powers. In one of the episodes I remember distinctly the van shrinks so the family can enter the bloodstream of a person so they can save him, and in another one the van becomes a submarine.
Pranks trope?? Live Action TV
Do we have a trope for this??
Bob decides to, as a joke/prank, convince Alice, that it's Christmas Eve and resets her computer's clock to Christmas Eve, and makes the house look like it's Christmas, without using any Time Travel to actually take her there. Alice is convinced she's undergone Time Travel forward a few weeks to Christmas Eve.
In a Darker and Edgier setting this would probably be Gaslighting, but do we have a trope for turning back the clock as a prank? Do we have a trope for Alice's reaction?
I looked on Practical Joke but couldn't find any trope that fitted this scenario, except, maybe, for Clock Tampering, but that applies to time, I guess.
Edited by Merseyuser1
Killed the wrong person? Live Action TV
Is there a name for the trope on procedurals where they catch the killer and he goes "He deserved it!" and the detectives go "Yeah, [Thing] was bad, but you killed the wrong person!"
A Western Time Based Show Live Action TV
This Show Came Out Around 2014-2017 It Was A Western Time Period Based Show & All I Can Remember Is It Was Something (VS) Something. Please Help
Series feels like movie, but it isn't a movie? Live Action TV
Do we have this one?
A Live-Action TV series feels like a movie, has high production values and possibly High Concept, runs to 2 hours each episode, and upon first viewing, fans think it's a movie, but it isn't a movie?
For example, something like Signed, Sealed, Delivered, from Hallmark, their series of dramas.
Or is this a trope for TLP?
crying over a soap opera Live Action TV
Played for Laughs. In old sitcoms, a homemaker or a (usually older) hired housekeeper is on the edge of her seat with suspense, Inelegant Blubbering as she watches a Soap Opera. Her husband, children, or employer enter the room and are concerned to find her crying. She's barely coherent as she summarizes the plot. They're sympathetic, but of course, isn't she a silly old bird to get so wrapped up in it?
What (probably) discredited or forgotten trope is this part of?
Edited by BradyLady
Musician knows the right song to play Live Action TV
Let's say there's a bar scene, and the piano man is playing normal music. Suddenly something dramatic or exciting happens, and the piano man starts playing music which perfectly fits the mood.
Old 90's Christian kids tv show Live Action TV
Don't recall much. Just a brother and sister playing and one goes down a slide and magically enters some cavern. The other sibling follows and also goes down. They then meet some dude dressed oddly and he talks to them about god, religion, the bible etc. Kinda creepy now that I think about it, but would be nice to know the name of it...
Shadowhunters - Clary Live Action TV
Is there a name or trope for clary's ability in shadowhunters? that thing she does with the cup (putting inside a card) or in the first episode when she puts a biscotti inside a piece of paper?
Radio - you're a natural! Live Action TV
I recall Sela Ward playing a widow in the drama 'Once & again", in which she finds herself in the waiting room in a radio station, somehow ends up in the studio, somehow gets a caller's question thrown to her, somehow answers so naturally and perfectly, the station manager offers her a job on the air on the spot. Dolly Parton lucked into a similar position in a film comedy once. There must be a dozen of these hired-off-the-street scenarios involving instant newbie radio stars...but I can't think of any more of them!
After a war Live Action TV
I k ow the tfope of " we just survived lets procreate" but is the trope used often where with their dirtied hands they try to wipe dirt off each others faces but end up smearing blood and they laugh out of hysteria
Edited by Funflareon
Twilight Zone Live Action TV
What's the official name for the trope that describes a character making a last stand when all other options for resolving a situation have been exhausted?
Twilight Zone Live Action TV
What's the official name for the trope that describes a character making a last stand when all other options for resolving a situation have been exhausted?
Face pressed on vehicle window Live Action TV
Happens in a few films and TV shows and other stuff, wholly for comic effect. It's when a car/taxi/bus etc. suddenly either speeds forward/turns around/screeches to a stop, leaving a victim with their face comedically smooshed and forced against the window of the vehicle through impact for a bit. The viewer is normally given a funny shot of the persons face suddenly pressed against the glass of the vehicle... was just wondering if you have this trope??
Episode skipped from reruns due to being embarrassing? Live Action TV
Other than Missing Episode, is there an Audience Reactions or Fandom trope for when an episode is skipped from rotation due to being just plain embarrassing?
I don't think it's Canon Discontinuity, since there's no Word of God about this, but would Executive Meddling fit?
boss Live Action TV
office space annoying polite manipulative
I order you to do... Live Action TV
...exactly what you were already going to do in the first place.
A variation on Glad I Thought of It?
In the original One Day at a Time, disagreements come up while planning Barbara's wedding, but Ann and Barbara finally reach a compromise. They've just gotten through working everything out peacefully when Barbara's fiance Mark comes in and starts throwing his weight around. "All right, enough of this arguing. Since you two can't make up your minds, I'll make the decision. This is what you're going to do."
He then proceeds to order them to follow exactly the plan they just came up with. "You got that?"
Instead of letting him know they had already worked it out, and were going to do that anyway, they meekly "yes, sir" him. He comes away thinking he solved their problem, and even lampshaded it with a self-satisfied, "Sometimes it just takes a man to get things done."
Is this anything else besides Glad I Thought of It?