Trope Finder

In love with the crazy one Western Animation

A charecter falls for the ax crazy/cloud-lander type of charecter where as others would either be scared off or intimidated by them

Surprise, It's a woman! Western Animation

I've got this trope in mind since I was a kid. I remember seeing this three times on cartoons*, the trope is as follows:

A mysterious and/or masked character appears on an episode, later, on the same episode OR in another episode, the character is unmasked, revealing that it's a woman.

• Most notably, on the "Regular Show" in-space episode, where there is an assassin with a freeze-ray gun, who later is revealed to be a woman.

Rejuvenated into nothingness (SOLVED) Western Animation

A character has access to a Fountain of Youth, but he overindulges. He gets younger, and younger, until he's a baby, then a fetus, then he pops out of existence.

Awful cop? Western Animation

I'm thinking of Officer Mike Brikowski from The Powerpuff Girls for this one, but do we have a trope for cops who are lazy?

Not Police are Useless (that's the force in general) but is there another trope?

Checking before I make a TLP.

Metaphore Fail Western Animation

Is there an equivalent of Broken Aesop, but for metaphores? Like, in a show where vampirism is supposed to be analogous to drug addiction, but vampires can't be cured, need to drink blood or they'll die, have super strength, etc?

A two-word trope, First begins with a B and the Second with an M Western Animation

There's this Total Drama episode (Mutiny on the Soundstage) and I noted down a trope that's in it that I've now forgotten.

Superpower Roll Call Western Animation

Is there a trope for the opening scene we see in many superhero shows, where a leader or narrator lists the characters' names and powers, and the characters get to show them off?

For example:

Boss: I brought you all together to finally defeat Captain Tropeman. Welcome... Alice, queen of ice (scene cuts to Alice freezing something), Bob, master of flames (Bob burns something up), Charlie, who has power over wind (Charlie makes a little tornado in his hand), etc.

The Show's Resturaunt Western Animation

The show's food joint/snack shop that is a reoccurring location that the charecters meet at it or is part of the plot

Krusty Krab-Spongebob Meh Burger-Sonic Boom Krusty Burger-Simpsons Candy Bar-Jimmy Neutron

Not beans for dinner again? Western Animation

Is there a trope where a character prepares to eat another canful of beans or a coconut, maybe having made numerous dishes out of coconuts, when they suddenly say "Beans / Coconuts for breakfast, lunch, and dinner? Again? I'm sick of beans / coconuts! If I have to eat another bean / coconut, I'll go crazy!"

This will usually result in the character seeking hunting an animal in pursuit of a meatier entree to eat anything beside beans or coconuts.

Offscreen beatdown Western Animation

I see this usually done as a humiliation gag to charecters, they come across a threat much bigger and stronger than them and proceed to get pummeled, only we cut to a shot of charecters reacting, and we only hear various sound effects and screaming on the other end

Examples I know: Squidward & The Guard Worm in the Spongebon episode "the lost mattress", and a couple times in the first Nigel Planter episode in billy and mandy (i.e. The frog dean vs the manticore and Nigel vs the Orge)

Skeptic trope? Western Animation

Do we have this one?

I'm sure I've seen this in cartoons made in The '80s and The '90s, unless I'm wrong.

Is there a trope for when the resident skeptic suddenly immediately changes views upon getting proof the Really 700 Years Old guy isn't a hoax and suddenly gives up skepticism, immediately turning to the side of whoever people are skeptic about, with him being embarrassed in the future about the skepticism whenever someone calls him out on it?

Other than Character Development and Skeptic No Longer, what tropes would fit?

Weather is the same Western Animation

The weather never changes unless the plot demands it.

Villain disguise trope? Western Animation

I saw this on the episode of The Mask, "The Mother of All Hoods"

The new police chief was hired to hunt The Hood, a criminal in a Conspicuous Trenchcoat. However, the true identity of The Hood was the new police chief.

Basically... the heroic police chief was the villain all along.

What trope is this? It's not "Scooby-Doo" Hoax? What tropes fit this situation?

No Title Western Animation

There was a cartoon that used to come on early mornings on the oldies type channel between with a little boy who would chase I think a black widow type villan through time. Each episode was a different piece of history, the two places I remember are ancient Greek Olympics are the worlds fair. I can't find it anywhere

Two characters merged into one? Western Animation

For a character to qualify as Frankenstein's Monster, would the act of sewing together a character qualify, like the new Lemongrab created from the old one and a clone of Lemongrab, as seen in Adventure Time: Lemonhope: Part 2, or is there another trope for sewing two characters together to create one entirely new character?

I know that Lemongrab 2 (and later, Lemongrab 3) was a Nice Guy compared to his Obliviously Evil predecessor.

Friendly, Laid Back Antagonist Western Animation

Okay, so I want to edit a trope page for a character that while is an antagonist and the henchman of the main villain, is actually considered a friend to the protagonist and is annoyed by many of the villain's behaviors.

My question is, what trope exactly would fit for that?

(For more context, I'm talking about Brock from 'Unikitty!'.)

Cartoon is obscure and majority of people don't know it? Western Animation

Trying to find a trope for YMMV.Sheep In The Big City, YMMV.Mike Lu And Og, YMMV.Piggsburg Pigs.

Is there a trope for where a cartoon is largely obscure to the majority of people - an Audience Reactions trope??

I don't think Mainstream Obscurity fits.

Fighting for a lost cause Western Animation

Do we have a trope that is a supertrope of the Hopeless War trope? This supertrope will include things like "Believing in the good of a friend who has succumbed to the darkside" and "Trying to revive a fallen hero who lost his will to live or fight". I don't know if this consitutes as a trope or not though, since it's very general. The trope usually revolves around a character trying to do something that everyone says is pointless or not worth their time, but can also be something along the lines of a protagonist living in a crapsack world, where the "voices that tell him to quit" are coming from himself. Also, I'm not looking for specific examples. I'm looking for the supertrope that encapsulates all the specific examples.

The one human-esque animal in the world Western Animation

You know how Paddington bear is a talking, clothes-wearing bear with human level intelligence and the ability to walk on two legs? And how people in the books (and possibly the movies, which I haven't seen yet) don't really question this, even though this is clearly a world where, apart from Paddington himself, there are no Funny Animals like Paddington? Is that a trope?

Like how Brian in Family Guy can talk and walk on two legs, and this is never questioned, but Family Guy is still clearly not taking place in a world where dogs can do that. Another example would be in We Bare Bears where the three bears as well as Nom-Nom the koala can talk and interact as if they were humans, but no other Funny Animals ever show up.

I am not referring to works where there's an in-universe explanation for it, like the mad scientific experiments of Elephantmen.

I also am not referring to worlds with both Funny Animals and animal animals, like how Disney comics and cartoons have lots of regular animals, like Pluto, and anthro animals like Mickey. (Okay, so Pluto doesn't look like a regular dog, but still.)

This is only about works where there is one, or a handful, of Funny Animals in a world that otherwise only has normal animals, and is clearly meant to be our world.

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Bad guy teetering on his feet, blow on him to knock him over Western Animation

Just saw this in Disney's "A Cowboy Needs a Horse." In animation characters can find their precise point of equilibrium even when knocked out. Back and forth they teeter until the hero gives that one extra push. Usually it's just a puff of breath, sometimes it's a gentle poke on the forehead with a single finger, etc.

Swallowing a scene Western Animation

A scene where a something swallows the universe and the scene itself. Visually the borders of the scene shrink and wiggle to reveal white nothingness behind the borders of the animated "scene". Can be used as a non canonical way to end an episode. I can't think of a specific example but I think I've seen it in futurama where nibbler "swallows the scene" to close the episode.

Swallowing a scene Western Animation

A scene where a something swallows the universe and the scene itself. Visually the borders of the scene shrink and wiggle to reveal white nothingness behind the borders of the animated "scene". Can be used as a non canonical way to end an episode. I can't think of a specific example but I think I've seen it in futurama where nibbler "swallows the scene" to close the episode.

Same character design, different studios Western Animation

Is there a trope to when two character designs by two different animation studios for two different movies look incredibly similar.

It's not a case of a deliberate Expy nor is it "twins" in-story. It's just an uncanny similarity in character design.

The characters in question are Roxanne from "Mega Mind" who is shockingly similar to Evelyn Deavor from "Incredibles 2"

Character appears but doesn't speak Western Animation

When a character in a non-live action medium (animation etc) appears and may play a role in the plot but doesn't speak, usually because of Absentee Actor.

The character has spoken in a previous appearance (esp if it's their first) and no in-universe reason is given for them not speaking now so the silence is conspicuous.

Eg: Many fusions in Steven Universe that have spoken in their first appearances but don't in their fleeting appearances thereafter, usually because the VA's are difficult to bring in again.