Trope Finder

Holding detached steering wheel after crash Western Animation

This is one I have seen in several comics and cartoons but could not find a trope for: A vehicle crashes, explodes or is otherwise violently destroyed. From the wreckage emerges the driver, dazed and still holding on to the vehicle's steering weel, even though it's no longer attached to anything.

I guess it would be a sister trope to Free Wheel. Do we have something that covers this?

Generic Carnivore Meal Western Animation

Is there a trope for how often Western animation, when a carnivore (often a dinosaur) is shown eating from a huge hunk of meat on the ground, it's just a generic hunk of brown substance, and MAYBE has one protruding drumstick bone somewhere to ID it as meat.

Related to Carnivore Confusion, but this is specifically about how the meat they eat is made to intentionally NOT resemble a former living thing in any way.

The show that brought it to mind is Dinosaur Train, specifically things Buddy eats.

Family Guy possible BigNever trope Western Animation

Just asking this as I'm not sure, was watching this Youtube vid (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDCgU-VxqAM-VxqAM) of the mentioned subject above. At point (2:16) of the vid, Peter Griffin, despite the beating him & his friends (Joe & Quagmire) have taken by 3 tough guys at their favourite bar, refuses to give up their booth, arguing how important said booth is him. Having watch the vid of that point, should Peter's rant be included in the Big Never folder or not?

Here some of the quotes of the vid starting at point (2:10)

Tough Guy #2: Haven't you guys had enough?! Why don't you admit you're beat and get out of here?! Joe & Quagmire (badly beaten, in unison) Okay. Peter: (stands up defiantly) NO! Never! We will never stop fighting for this booth!

Passing Trend Episode Western Animation

Is there a trope for an in-universe Popularity Polynomial?

(i.e. an episode of a show, wherein a certain thing becomes popular among the characters, but then quickly dies out and gets replaced with something else?)

Little clay person turning a crank to show credits Western Animation

I have looked everywhere and searched through every Cartoon Network and boomerang show lists and cannot find the show I am thinking of. All I can really remember was that at the end of every show a little robot or person thing would walk out and turn this crank in a circular motion to show the credits. I AM FRIEKING OUT AND HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF FOR THE NAME OF THIS SHOW! I think it was aired in either the 90s or early 2000s on boomerang or I guess Cartoon Network? plsss help me find out the name of the dang show I was too young to remember anything and I can’t think of anything better to describe it so I don’t know how to find it... I think they were little clay people or robots that would do random tasks I really don’t remember but it’s bothering me

Educational Inaccuracies in King of the Hill Western Animation

In King of the Hill, substitute teachers like Peggy are often shown grading papers and performing major duties as subs. Having been a sub in Texas myself, I can say that subbing involved more babysitting of classrooms of various ages rather than actual teaching. What trope would this fall under?

Curriculum inappropriate for grade level Western Animation

Is there a trope for when the curriculum of a school is either too advanced or not as advanced as would be expected of the grade level? In particular, I'm thinking of the Arthur episode "Desk Wars" where the third grade cast is assigned to write a report about a United Nations agency.

Many Marbles on the Floor Western Animation

You know that thing where hundreds or thousands of marbles are spilled all over the floor, enough to form a widespread slippery layer, and Hilarity Ensues?

This is not a variant of the Banana Peel gag using merely a few marbles to trip over, there has to be too many marbles to count, forcing the characters to move like they're skating.

• Seen in Robots when Rodney tries to get his foot back from Fender while barrels of ball bearings spill all over the place.

No Title Western Animation

I don't know if this is the correct place to ask this but here goes. Lately I've been trying to remember this cartoon I used watch during my childhood but I cant remember its name and google has been useless. The cartoon from what I remember was about cat chefs and their restaurant. I'm not 100% if all the characters were cats but I just gotta feeling that they were. There was also a rival restaurant cross the street and its chefs would try to sabotaje the main characters. I remember a of lot of yellow and the food they cooked always looked so delicious. I don't know what network aired it because I used to rent from my local library it was either a vhs or DVD. It may not be an American cartoon. I honestly dont know. I know this isn't a lot but its all I got that can actually be put into words everything else I remember are just vague fragments. I'm currently 21 and I used watch when its when I was like 9-11 so it must be around 10-13 years old. If anyone knows what the hell I'm talking about please let me know. Its driving my crazy.

Canon Divergent Western Animation

What is a trope that strays away from the same source material?

The same story, but with changes... Western Animation

What is that trope that tells the same story, but has certain changes in it and having different characters playing the roles in that same story? This is for a crossover story that I've made, by the way.

Musical numbers in cartoons Western Animation

Is there a trope/index for musical numbers in cartoons, or would that just fall under The Musical?

You hand it over first! Western Animation

Alice and Bob makes a deal. Bob gives Alice 3 pigs in exchange for him receiving one cow. However, they do not agree on how they are going to do this before hand.

Bob: "You give me the cow" Alice: "Not before you handover all of the pigs" From episode 3.12 of the legend of korra.

Alien trope relating to starfish aliens Western Animation

Is there a trope for Ben 10: Omniverse regarding aliens with these personality traits:

• Alien X can't do anything without Ben 10 in control, since Ben had to let both of his personalities argue their debates for all eternity, with Ben in control.
• The Sylonnoids are robots, but have human brains and humanoid manners. One of them looks very much like a scary lawyer, is there a trope for a stereotypical sleazy lawyer?
• The Vreedles are tall and thin, with gray skin. Is there a trope for this sort of body? (whether it be a human or Human Alien). One Epileptic Trees fan theory claims they're thin due to being junkies. Is there a trope for that?

Blunt Force Edged Weapon Western Animation

A character has a sword, but when fighting enemies is more likely to hit them with the pommel or smack them away with the flat of the blade. It shows up mostly in movies and TV shows aimed towards kids. Usually this only applies to someone fighting humans or humanoid aliens; robots and non-living organics tend to be exempt.

I see it so often I know it HAS to be on here somewhere, but I can't find it.

person-shaped hole Western Animation

when someone is running, breaks a wall, and leaves a hole shaped like their silhouette at the wall

Character naming trope Western Animation

Is there a trope other than Theme Naming for where characters have a suffix to denote which group they belong in, such as the -bory (good characters) and -gury (evil) in Noonbory And The Super 7, or isn't there such a trope?

Emotional Support Animal Western Animation

Any shows about emotional support animals?

Villain doesn't act as antagonist for an episode? Western Animation

Is there a trope for where the Big Bad doesn't act as the antagonist for an episode, like in "Fear of Flying", an episode from Tom and Jerry Kids, where Mc Wolf isn't antagonising Droopy and Dripple and they coach him for a date with Miss Vavoom (the secondary character after Droopy & Dripple in the episodes on that show).

Sofa King Western Animation

I can't find this one, so I'm guessing there's been some discussion about it and it ended up being watered down in between Insane Proprietor and Kitschy Local Commercial. This is when the owner of a store calls himself "(Product) King". Usually furniture or appliances, but never burgers. The wackier ones will wear a crown and purple cape, even when they're not working the store, or force their employees to wear appropriate clothing too.

Is there a trope where one character carries both ends of a heavy object off screen? Western Animation

Is there a trope where one character loads a heavy object in a building or off screen and the same character carries the other end?

Examples

Ed carries both ends of a steel girder into a cardboard elevator in Ed Edd ‘n’ Eddy episode “They call him Mr. Ed”

Cleveland and Ronnie carry both ends of a long sub in The Cleveland Show episode “Brownsized”

Antagonist's true form is non-threatening? Western Animation

Is there a trope for where a Big Bad's true form is non-threatening, e.g. in The Powerpuff Girls (2016) where a psychedelic panda was really a small bear?

Can't remember Western Animation

Okay, it was a show I watched in Australia, even though I can't guarantee that's where it originated. It was definitely on the air somewhere around 2003-2007. And it had these colourful I don't even remember what kind of characters in a base that would go on these "missions" they exited the base by way of helicopter or going from below because their base was on water. One of the episodes was just to help another character get their mouth unstuck from peanut butter.

What trope involving character loading the data from tape? Western Animation

This is a rare Cartoon trope because not alot of Cartoons have ever depict this.