Music in first person Web Original

In this scene, the music plays when the character looks through the binoculars and stops as soon we’re back in third person, as if the music was in the binoculars. Is there a trope for that?

Accidentally destroying set/equipment (trivia) Web Original

Is there a trope where a prop/set was destroyed behind-the-scenes?

My example: https://youtu.be/wdgiTQffiwk?t=145 by Mehdi Sadaghdar

I know it's not quite behind-the-scenes, but in that case, Mehdi actually destroyed his phone in the process of making that video.

Regarding a trope on RWBY Web Original

In RWBY, Cinder's backstory revealed that she was enslaved by Madame and her two stepsisters for five years, and even wore a shock collar. Then, one day, Cinder snapped from the abuse, destroyed Madame's shock collar and killed her and her stepsisters.

Which trope best fits this description?

Snark from an editor Web Original

This is when the editor of a video production (although it could be from other media) inserts snarky on-screen comments and/or effects into the video to make fun of the host(s), point out something in the video that wasn't originally part of its focus, or other shenanigans.

Do we have something for this already?

A weird issue about certain characters in alternate histories Web Original

Like in the title, I've noticed what at a first glance seems to be a pattern in certain web-based alternate histories, and I am curious which trope, if any, fits best to describe it.

Two examples are a self-consciously "dark" alternate history from AlternateHistory.com, and a self-consciously "dark" alternate history mod for Hearts of Iron IV.

Both of them engage in typical tropes involving alternate versions of historical characters, but one thing captured my attention. Namely, to show how "dark" things are, Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo becomes a more-or-less notable character.

Thing is, from what I know (from the Other Wiki) of the guy, he really wasn't the devilishly charismatic psycho type, nor a stone-cold psychopathic manipulator. So, chances are he wouldn't fit the leadership roles given to him by these stories.

So, it's sort of, "let's make an infamous serial killer into a notable character, so people will know how grimdark things are, regardless of whether it makes sense". Feels like a trope, but I can't quite put a finger on it. Small Reference Pools actually seems to be the closest, as Chikatilo is probably the only Soviet serial killer that is relatively well-known (unless you count those in politics), and neither of the more typical Alternate History Tropes.

So, Small Reference Pools? That, or perhaps Historical Badass Upgrade, as awkward as it feels to say so given who that man was. Because one thing I'm certain of is that with only two examples, "Chikatilo As A Unit Of Soviet Grimdark" won't count as a trope on its own.

Cat standing on two legs Web Original

On the Cream Heroes You Tube channel, Claire shows the lives of her many cats. The absolute favorite is the short-legged Lulu, cute as a button with his round face, who has a habit of standing up on two legs. I tried to find a trope for standing on two legs but couldn't find one. Maybe Funny Animals?

Claire also does voiceovers for Lulu, and also some of the other cats. But I couldn't find anything fitting for that when I searched for "voiceover".

Poor quality design? Web Original

I've got an example, but before adding it to StylisticSuck.Web Original or Retraux, which trope does this fit, or both:

• In 2018, a car dealer in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England that launched in 2017, had a website that looked as it if was produced circa 2002-2008; it had HTML <table><td> elements instead of div elements in HTML, if you viewed source in your browser , no links to social media sites about the dealer or design for on a mobile phone/tablet, and a use of Arial font everywhere instead of webfonts, and at Christmas, stock clip art of Christmas trees; the car photos being shot at camera-phone quality though, were the dead giveaway it wasn't produced between 2002-2008. It was not known whether it was intentional bad design or a throwback to the 2000s. By March 2020, the website had moved on to a more modern style.

Religions Based on Works Web Original

I remember there being a Just For Fun page about religions based on various works. What was it called?

EDIT: Found it! It was Intellectual Property Religion.

Fictional Let's Play / footage of a fictional game Web Original

E.g. Petscop, Catastrophe Crow, Super Mario 64 Beta Archive. Like a cross between Found Footage Films and Sidelong Glance Biopic - the narrator usually isn't directly involved in events the way found footage film protagonists are; or if they are, we don't know it at first.

Emphasizing the last letter of a word of a sentence Web Original

A common trope by a large ham character, who tends to emphasize everything he says. In this particular instance, when he finishes a sentence, he makes sure to emphasize the last letter of the last word ("EG, My Name Is Claaaaaaarks AH!")

Here's an example: https://youtu.be/7zsZLN3Xjhc?t=142

What trope would this be?

Realistic trope? Web Original

Do we have such a trope for this scenario:

• A Web Original work (perhaps a YouTube series that's fact-based) starts out relatively realistic in February 2014, but as time goes on it relies on Kayfabe as a way to keep the series going and attempt to avoid Seasonal Rot.

Hated by everything living Web Original

So I was reading The Wandering Inn, its wiki & trope page, about Crelers (https://thewanderinginn.fandom.com/wiki/Crelers), and I noticed that there was an important aspect of them that wasn't mentioned at all ; that they are hated by every single thing that is alive or even undead, as the wiki said : 'Crelers are considered the worst and most universally detested monsters, and are instinctively targeted by all forms of life that can fight them.' and the story mentioned that even rabbits will eat/destroy creler eggs if they see any.

Yet when I looked for a trope that described that, I didn't find any that fitted, with the closest being 'Enemy Mine' (For the 'Everything hate crelers), despite 'Enemy to All Living Things' having a more appropriate title (Because that trope is about someone having an Aura of Death).

So is there a trope that I missed that is like that or should I go to the Trope Launch Pad ?

Fake Foreign-Sounding Name is Insult in Work's Language (SOLVED) Web Original

Is there a trope for when a foreign character has a (foreign-sounding) name that's an insult (dirty or mild) in the work's original language? For instance, a korean character in an american story being named "Suk Mah Dik", or an arab called "Fa'atass Assuholi"?

Alternate History trope? Web Original

I'm trying to find a trope for the Website.Alternate History Dot Com page for this:

• An important historical figure exists in an Alternate History but has no Real Life counterpart. They're not a Historical Domain Character or a fictional relative of them but they have no counterpart in real-life.

I'm talking more about works that are Type 1 or Type 2 on Sliding Scale of Alternate History Plausibility

It's not Canon Foreigner is it, or am I wrong here??

The Cultist Always Dies Web Original

A worshipper performs a ritual to summon the devil or a dark god. When the creature shows up, either because the ritual worked, or by coincidence, it kills (or eats) the cultist.

Teens with powers Web Original

The start of the show is about kids that hears static then suddenly faint and wake up in a castle like school and all of them has special abilities and they try to figure out why are they all in this school.

Sorry wrong page Web Original

Just ignore this page I was talking about something in ask the troopers. But i was in the wrong page.

Actor playing all the characters Web Original

This is common in a lot of online videos, where clones of them are playing all the characters, with different shots for all the different characters they're playing.

What trope would this be under? Web Original

For example, suppose you've got a character that tells some big news, for example, like "Super-Special Awesome Anime Film!" Then other characters, out of shock, excitement, boredom, etc. will repeat that same line, "Super-Special Awesome Anime Film!". Lemme show you what I mean by dialogue:

Bob: Super-Special Awesome Anime Film! Alice: James, did you hear that? Super-Special Awesome Anime Film! James: Super-Special Awesome Anime Film! Aaron: Super-Special Awesome Anime Film!

Aaaand repeat.

For a video example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnJcen4Fohw

"OOC is Serious Business" but in reverse Web Original

a lot of Virutal YouTubers often have a fixed character and setting, but the voice actor isn't contractually obliged to follow that to the letter and are more of a suggestion than anything. usually, if someone's setting is ever brought up, it gets followed by "oh yeah, i forgot you were supposed to be that", or the very act of bringing up the setting is used solely for comedic purposes.

Shipping Shenanigans Web Original

This was under Ship Sinking in Sonic the Hedgehog Twitter. It obviously does not fit that, but it sounds like it does fit something, though I have no idea what.

• Takeover 3 had Eggman receive a file from Infinite called "Sonadow", which Sonic immediately yells at him not to open, and when Shadow was asked about it his response was a blunt "One word... No."

Bringing your own entrance music Web Original

In the first part of this video in Ghost's background lore, Cardinal Copia enters the scene with music playing, but it's coming from the boombox he's carrying, which he turns off before speaking to the other characters. When he leaves, he turns the music back on.

I think there's at least a couple of different tropes happening here but my searches haven't turned up anything.

A canon-divergent fanfic folds back into canon Web Original

Since it's the first time I use this, not sure if the category should be this or "Anime" because it's a My Hero Academia fanfic.

Anyway: said fanfic, recently concluded, is set after the School Festival arc and from there, it takes place over several weeks. However, by the last two chapters it's made clear that some pivotal canon events will still play out eventually, with just a few differences (for example, Endeavor has not received the big scar on his face); not surprisingly by the end the various OCs, while very important during the story itself, are either dead, imprisoned, or gone to places where they aren't expected to influence future events. Basically, the story has replaced the Pro Hero and Joint Training arcs but has not created a completely new timeline.

Does some trope applicable to it exist? Also not being a big reader of fanfics in general, I don't know how many do something similar. The closest I can think of is something akin to replacing some of The Stations of the Canon.

Sorting hat was wrong trope? Web Original

I've seen this described as a cliche more than I've actually heard of it in the wild.

Basically, the protagonist thinks they are [X magic], but they are actually [Y magic].

Here was what made me think of it, a Reddit thread on /writingcirclejerk: "Young Katniss thinks her acceptance to Hogwarts School of Jedi Training will enable her to use the school's TARDIS to destroy the One Ring. But things get complicated when she's accidentally sorted into House Lannister instead of Stark".

Is this a trope?

The narrator doesn't know something the audience does (SOLVED) Web Original

Suppose there's a novel that ends with the twist that the cavemen are actually people from Post-Apocalyptic earth. Through the novel, the narrator mentions the cavemen finding strange objects they've never seen before, shiny and angular, which they assumed to be magic. It's obvious to the reader who knows the twist that these are old high-tech devices, but the story doesn't say it because the characters don't know it.

Is there a trope for the euphemisms used to describe a technology that readers know about, but characters (including First-Person Narrators) don't?