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Fanfics Using Developmental gags Web Original
This is something endemic to fanfics. If a fanfic uses or references characters or concepts that were cut from the original canon material (e.g. Zootopia works using Jack Savage), would it still be a Development Gag, or would it be a different trope?
Edited by DancouMaryuu
Censoring audio by replacing it with other words Web Original
Is there a trope for when audio is censored by replacing the censored word with another word from the recording? for example censoring someones name not by bleeping it, but by replacing it with the name of someone else, usually for comedy purposes.
When technical issues affect story? Web Original
Is there a trope for when technical issues affect story? For example, in RWBY, every time a character changes clothes requires a new CGI character model. This leads to things like characters shown eating dinner with chopsticks while wearing their combat gloves—something that they wouldn't do in real life, but showing them without the gloves would require extra time and expense to make new CGI models for them.
Is there a trope describing that sort of thing?
Edited by Robotech_Master
This Very Wiki, Don't Put Links In Spoilers Web Original
Somewhere on this Wiki, I thought I read the rule "Don't put links in spoilers, it renders the spoiler tag as useless as used tissue paper" but I can't remember the exact phrasing and I can't find it.
Character Glitching Web Original
It's basically when a character (usually a Technopath) starts glitching randomly. Is there a trope for that?
No Title Web Original
show on amazon prime, about a boy in high school who tries to get with a popular girl, first episode starts off with him masturbating
A Reddit RP subreddit Web Original
Does anyone know that subreddit where they pair up fictional characters into groups of three and have them fight against other groups of three?
Elemental Ammo Web Original
So I was looking over RWBY and a RWBY fanfic I've been following, but do we have a trope for elemental ammo? I realized that this isn't Abnormal Ammo because they're still using bullets, but what do we use for bullets that also have "magic" properties like fire and ice but aren't Depleted Phlebotinum Shells aimed at killing a specific type of enemy?
Edited by reppuzan
Best trope for a resurrected blog/website? Web Original
Hi, what would be the correct trope for a blog or website that was for all intents and purposes defunct suddenly starting to be updated? Back from the Dead seems to be for actual living beings and likewise everything in Resurrection Tropes also seems to be about biological (or at least sentient and living, for a given value of living) creatures.
For context this is for the blog Topless Robot which has started updating again under new management after nearly three years of inactivity.
Edited by Exxolon
Fan Work Tropes Web Original
This is two questions in one but they're similar enough:
1. Is there a trope for when fan-works are mistaken for real? The closest I can think of is Word of Saint Paul but that's not quite it.
2. Is there a trope for when a fan theory is created as a joke but people start taking it seriously?
Edited by Pichu-kun
Final Battle on the moon Web Original
New Testament SD Gundam Gaiden New World Advent Legend has the final battle take place on the moon. Does that count as Astral Finale? If not, what does it count as?
SD Gundam Crystal Chibi Senshi Web Original
I made a page for the SD Gundam Chibi Senshi toyline, and I need help with one trope. They did multi-pack re-releases with Crystal (AKA Transparent Plastic) versions of the Gundam in the toyline (As seen here
◊ and here
◊ and here
◊). What do special re-releases of toys count as?
"What might have been" inside work Web Original
I'm trying to find a trope that's similar to What Could Have Been, but it's stated in the narrative because someone decided to mess with destiny. The closest I've found is a Flash Sideways, but it doesn't fit.
The text is from The Pieces Lie Where They Fell. Spoiled due it being the last chapter: [...]It had delayed Night’s birth by twenty years so their future Loyalty would be of the same age as the rest of them at the cost the Blade family being unable to connect with each other. It had caused Rex to be chased out of his pack so he would meet the other Elements and away from his destiny to uniting the packs under a single leadership that would see the diamond dogs respected for the first time in years. Balance had caused Wind Breaker’s mother, who had managed to escape Equestria and the Hatchery system and return to the Griffish Isles, to lose her firstborn child as Wind Breaker was snatched away when he was born and brought to places that would eventually see his return to Canterlot and their Hatchery system, an action deemed necessary as the free born griffon would have never travelled to Canterlot and met the others, depriving them of Honesty.[...]
Edited by maddthesane
Trope for Temporary Content while a Main Project is sidelined. Web Original
Suppose a content creator is turning out episodes on a regular basis, but illness or sudden other event sidelines the main content for a while. What would be a good trope to describe temporary/backup content that gets put up until the main can resume?
A more specific example is if a Let's Player is recording Game A and that gets sidelined, but Game B is already recorded and there for backup.
If there's anything better than Filler, please let me know.
Edited by GunarmDyne
"The 682 Gambit"? Web Original
Is there a trope where you cannot kill something without causing the End Of The World As We Know It? For example; there is a youtube video that theorizes that SCP 682 (SCP Foundation) cannot be killed without the universe being destroyed. This monster is essentially a universal cosmic pillar of some sort.
Nickname trope Web Original
An insulting-sounding nickname based from the character's name. An example is in SiIvaGunner's videos, where Chad refers to The Voice inside your Head as "The Gay Mexican Ass in my Ass", but The Voice does not mind that.
Edited by MitchellProductions
Inserts with regional changes Web Original
What's it called when there's a close-up of some written text and it's a different shot for each country/language? Is this covered by Cut-and-Paste Translation?
Edited by eroock
no clue Web Original
Trying to find this sitcom. i believe it was british and fairly recent. in one episode there is a little festival with a great big green guy a tent full of bats and a guy and a girl who take weird suppository drugs in a porta potty. in another there's a bbq with a bunch of hippies and two girls go and then realize they're hippies and leave when they start a drum circle.
Crayons as Makeup Web Original
I've seen some Youtube videos where women improvise of make it a challenge to use lipstick make from crayons or markers. There's even one video about using colored pencils as eyeliner. They're not children, they're pretty much grown women doing this. Do we have a trope connected to this?
Unfair Wins Web Original
Is there a trope for wins caused unfairly or rigged wins? I want to add one to Battle For Dream Island for an unfair win caused by the selling of Firey's spaceship, making him vipunerable and lose.
choose your own punchline Web Original
A mostly critic show trope, where a situation is such prime Snark Bait the reviewer can't use all the jokes he can think of. So instead the jokes show up as Unreadably Fast Text, letting the viewer pause the video to read them. For example, the "penis hair" segment of The Nostalgia Critic's review of The Last Airbender.
Were you expecting something at the end of the video? Web Original
Inspired by this video
, and some movies that I can't remember by name, do we have this trope where you'd expect a blooper or a stinger but someone tells you this related question and tells you there ain't anymore?
Lesbian Web Original