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Split personality trope for situation? Live Action TV
Do we have this one? Checking before I make a TLP!
Alice (a redhead - this is important to the plot, see below) has a Split Personality and has the following four split personalities:
- Janine, a Fiery Redhead who's not actually evil, just over-exuberant and passionate.
- Michelle, a No Celebrities Were Harmed version of Amy Adams who's virtually similar to Amy Adams
- Danielle, an Awesome Aussie who's a Girly Girl and hates being called a tomboy.
- Becky, an American-Canadian Intrepid Reporter who's as Girly Girl as possible but noted for Kicking Ass in All Her Finery.
She can switch to whichever Split Personality is relevant for the situation, and they all are aware of one another, but she doesn't seem to suffer Alternate Identity Amnesia.
Is there a Split Personality Tropes trope about being able to get the right split personality for the situation?
Animated scene in live action show Live Action TV
When there is a live action show with several animated scenes in the middle of episodes
Edited by Sandro3001s
Psych - Stalling Live Action TV
From Season 3 Episode 10: Six Feet Under the Sea (Video Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko2C4fCpRck)
Is this considered the "Mathematician's Answer" trope?
-=Script=-
Shawn: And I've been doing something I like to call "Stalling" and Rutger Hauer calls "Schtalling"
Bad Guy: Why?
Gus: Because he's Dutch.
Bad Guy: No, why are you stalling?
Edited by styledev
Series Trope? Live Action TV
Is there a trope for this situation:
A streaming service like Netflix decides to launch Jessica Jones. She looks and acts like the Marvel character from the Netflix series, but there are no ties to Marvel or MCU, or any superheroics in the canon, and the only things in common are Jessica being a private investigator and being in New York.
It's not a Continuity Reboot (as far as I know), and I'm not sure it's Alternate Continuity so what trope is this?
"How it could have happened" flashback Live Action TV
Some people are trying to solve a crime, one comes up with a theory on what might have happened and we then see a flashback of that happening. Happened in the CSI shows at least Once per Episode although I think later crime shows started doing it as well.
Genre trope? Live Action TV
Is there a trope for where a type of show suddenly has a change in pace after a long time, for example:
- Dating shows in the 2010s were largely Reality TV shows with Voted off the Island such as Love Island which was accused of Manipulative Editing, especially during the 2018 edition. However...
- A new dating show due in 2019 claims it may change the genre by going back to basics, with no wacky Reality TV antics, no competition or Reality TV Show Mansion, instead it goes back to what a dating show should be about - two strangers going on a date and seeing how they get on, and the main participant deciding who he wants to see again.
Hypothetical example, no actual show.
Is there such a trope for this about genres?
Edited by Merseyuser1
Expect unexpected Live Action TV
When add or trailer say to you to expect unexpected or claims that you will not expect what will come in future episode, it can realy be anything because you are forced to get rid of all expectations because you expect it not to be what you expect it to be,therefor in some sense you really did not expect even if it was something you would otherwise expect. And you are traped in paradox. Search for unexpected hanging paradox as special example for this.
Implied lyrics to the theme song Live Action TV
You know how the Doctor Who theme doesn't have any actual lyrics, but almost every fan has noticed that the lyrics "Doctor Who... Doctor Who..." fit it?
And with Hill Street Blues it's the same thing. The beginning "Dum dum dum" was clearly meant to fit the words "Hill Street Blues".
Is that a trope? Where the theme song is made to fit the show's name?
Edited by MichaelKatsuro
Morality trope? Live Action TV
I'm trying to find a Shades of Conflict / morality trope for The Catch page as regards this:
- The protagonists of The Catch aren't jerks (they're mostly Nice Girl / Nice Guy) characters but they're certainly not outright evil but we root for them, yet the antagonists / Villain of the Week aren't at the level of Black Vs Black, but their morality isn't quite sympathise with them at Anti-Villain level. Sure, the protagonists screw up, but they're not My God, What Have I Done?.
How could I classify the morality for the show?
Also, for Vikings, the morality is complex - I'm trying to find a suitable trope that doesn't show them all as bloodthirsty Horny Vikings stereotypes and indicates that "the protagonists aren't always good, but only sometimes evil, but the antagonists aren't always evil and sometimes sympathetic. I used Sliding Scale of Antagonist Vileness but can't decide which trope to use for the work page of Vikings.
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Identity trope? Live Action TV
Is there a trope for where an Identical Stranger is accidentally forced into the other's role for a day - for example, from my own Fan Fic I'm working on:
- Julia, a lookalike of the Thirteenth Doctor from Doctor Who gets mistaken for The Doctor and is accused by the Doctor's companion Yasmin Khan of having amnesia and tries to get Julia to do things the Doctor does, to get her back to being the Doctor?
Also, what trope would fit about the mistaken for having amnesia part?
Bumped back to the present Live Action TV
There is a flashback scene. A character in the flashback accidentally bumps into someone, perhaps on the street, and the scene immediately goes back to the present (often with said character bumping into someone in the present as well). As seen on The West Wing with Sam Seaborn (Season 2, Episode 1).
Edited by awakeningcry
The Lice-pocalypse Live Action TV
Is there a trope for an episode of a show, usually about school kids, where there's a lice outbreak in the school, and one of the kids is blamed, it's a whole "Nobody Trusts Anyone" thing like that scene from The Thing?
Personality trope for characters/nationality? Live Action TV
Do we have this one?
Bob is British, he lives in London. One day, he meets Alice, who's American, and gets on well with her.
Over the next few months Bob becomes more Americanized in personality (in terms of positive things like optimistic, hard-working, driven) and only has very few British elements left in his personality. He still loves his country and being British though.
A few months later, Alice is with Bob at a party and hangs a lampshade on his Americanisms (in a joking manner).
It's not Fake American, as that's a casting trope, it's not Going Native, since Bob isn't in the U.S., but is it Foreign Culture Fetish or a different one, because it's only personality traits rather than The Theme Park Version of a culture?
Edited by Merseyuser1
Mistaken Identity/Dressed to Heal Live Action TV
When a character is dressed as a doctor, and is assumed to be one, but the dress is in fact a disguise and now the character has to perform a difficult form of treatment, usually an operation. I've found tropes listed on here that are adjacent to this, but I was wondering if this specific one had its own name.
A combined variant of Porn Stash and Infraction Distraction re: Mr. Robot Live Action TV
The protagonist of Mr. Robot is a disaffected loner hacker who doesn't really engage in popular culture. He starts the series hacking into the personal accounts of others in his life largely because he's lonely, and sometimes so he can get an edge on someone. When he finishes hacking someone, he saves the evidence of what he did to an optical disk, labels the disk with a pop song name, then puts the CD into a binder with several other similarly-labeled disks and hides the binder under a dresser. It's clear that he uses this method of hiding the evidence as a distraction, the way other characters would use a Porn Stash as an Infraction Distraction, because both the apparent content and the means of storage (burned CDs like it's the 90s) would be so off-brand for him it'd immediately throw people off. Only problem is, having a secret collection of pop CDs isn't really scandalous for anyone who isn't like him.
So which would be flexible enough for a case like this- Porn Stash, or Infraction Distraction?
Edited by CrystalGlacia
Hated for their hometown? Live Action TV
We have a trope for people who are hated in their hometown. We have a trope for people who hate their hometown. Do we have a trope for people who are hated by other people for their hometown?
Reason I ask is that I've been working on a Professional Wrestling-related character page and I just added a character who that hypothetical trope would apply to. He just gets booed every time his hometown is mentioned. He doesn't actively flaunt his connection to his hometown, so Cheap Heat doesn't apply.
(Accidentally put this under the wrong category, yeesh me.)
Edited by RavenBlack
Copyright trope for business names? Live Action TV
Is there a trope other than Writing Around Trademarks for when a drama creates a fictional copy of a Real Life law-enforcement agency or hotel chain to avoid copyright infringement?
Example: In an Alternate Continuity Better Call Saul, instead of there being Albuquerque Police Department they have Albuquerque Metropolitan Police and instead of Jack-in-The-Box fast food, they have John's Hot Box burger bar.
There's also a Trump Tower hotel in Albuquerque, but to avoid lawsuits, they call it the Prestige Hotels Albuquerque.
The creator provides a possible answer Live Action TV
I'm sure we have this one but I can't find it. This trope is found across all media, but is more commonly found in books/TV and other forms of serialised media. Usually for supernatural or inexplicable events, the author provides a potential answer but never explicitly confirms it. Something for people who want an answer can say it's that, but never enforced.
No Title Live Action TV
Everything happens to our heroes
Hologram trope/disguise trope? Live Action TV
Do we have this one?
In a futuristic city, Alice has to go undercover as a drug-dealer. However, being 6ft tall and looking glamorous won't work, so she uses a holographic device to make herself look like Wendy
◊ from Breaking Bad and the holographic device works.
Is there a trope for holographic disguises, more than just A Form You Are Comfortable With? I did look on Disguise Tropes.
Edited by Merseyuser1
Girl with special powers Live Action TV
What was the tv show with the girl who had a special gift to make things happen and there were people hunting her. There was this guy that was broken out of prison and was supposed to take care of her and keep her away from the people trying to get her. And he was her dad but neither of them knew. I only saw a few episodes and don’t remember the title of it. I think the little girls name was Bo.
Futuristic Live Action TV
This is a trope where something is supposed to look futuristic but instead looks quaint from the 50s or something. Someone wearing clothes made from a space blanket would qualify. I know it starts with a “Z”
Edited by Msheehan360
Romance trope / personality strangers trope? Live Action TV
Do we have this one?
Other than Nice Guy, I Want My Beloved to Be Happy and (possibly) Doppelgänger Replacement Love Interest, what other tropes fit this situation:
Bob has been friends with Alice (a Nice Girl Girly Girl who is the person he Has a Type for) for a long time and likes her, when he tells her he wants to date her, she doesn't return his feelings. Instead of becoming a Stalker with a Crush or Dogged Nice Guy, Bob dates Rebecca, an Identical Stranger to Alice with very similar personality traits and behaviors to Alice. Rebecca is similar, but not quite a carbon copy of Alice.
Are there any tropes for the Identical Stranger and being a carbon-copy of Alice?
As for out-of-universe tropes, Rebecca was originally intended to be in the role that Alice is now in, and she's substantially similar enough as a character. Since she's not replacing Alice in the work, it's not Suspiciously Similar Substitute, but is there another trope?
Edited by Merseyuser1
Starting training from the beginning Live Action TV
I'm looking for a trope which involves a martial arts teacher forcing his students to abandon what they already know up to that point and start over from the very beginning.
Edited by Tenma-Yuuki