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Making specific rules with the intention of excluding one person or group of people in particular?
For example, if Alice has red hair and wants to join Bob's club but he doesn't want her to, he might make a rule saying "No ladies with red hair".
People dying of shock?
Is there a trope to describe when people die of shock or are frightened to death? They may turn pale or their hair might go white.
Named After Song Lyrics Or a Song's Title
Do we have a trope for when a work's title comes from a song?
Tyrant Domestic
A trope where a character bristles at the slightest attempt to usurp his authority or give him orders and makes his displeasure known, even if those people are in fact the ones paying him. Basically, an underling believes he knows best about his domain and refuses any outside meddling, even if that "meddling" is actually his superiors telling him what to do. Sometimes, but not always a case of Almighty Janitor.
Often the underling is somewhat justified in his way of thinking if he's been running the place the same way for years without problems.
For example, an English country house has been run with an iron fist for decades by its very proper butler for its owners. When a next generation tries to modernize the house and maybe give the servants better wages, the butler reacts as if it was suggested his wife perform a striptease at the next church social. Or the gardener who has been told to plant roses instead of geraniums and during the confrontation, essentially bullies his employer into growing geraniums, making it clear he will not have his time wasted by the kind of fools who would plant roses. Or a cook who's always made the exact same unhealthy meal every day, and yells down any attempt to add vegetables.
I hate being right.
Someone makes an assumption about what's going on or will happen, is proven right, and isn't happy about it (usually because his assumption involved something really bad happening).
Worst Fear
Is there a trope for when someone is forced to experience their worst fear, like an arachnophobe being covered in spiders? The closest I can think of is Room 101, but that seems to be about the place where a person is forced to have that experience, rather than the act itself.
Philistine Villain
Is there a trope for a villain who hates art and/or beautiful things in general?
Non-plot variant Author's Saving Throw
Is there a trope similar to Author's Saving Throw that fixes things that aren't narrative-related?
Looks and interests of a tomboy, but with a girly personality
I recenntly had an idea for a character who may look like a tomboy, and even sheer a geeky passion for stereotypically male things, but whom despite it all still has very feminine manerisms and personality traits. Question is, which tropes fits?
Cause it's not quite a tomboy with a girly streak, since she doesn't have any girly interest nor hobbies, but rather acts and expresses herself in girly ways. While at the same time she isn't simply a girly girl with a tomboyish streak, since she just isn't interested in one or two manly things, but rather has a big part of it integrated in her life, ranging from clothing style to aspirations and hobbies.
Edited by RuliusColt
Evil makes you ugly?
A question regarding Evil Makes You Ugly. In the context of the scene, the constant eating of the evil McGuffin turns your skin pale and grayer, but it doesn't turn you into an ugly person, just an equivalent of, say, a vampire. The villain becomes a pale villain with a snow-white skin.
Would this trope still apply?
Edited by Tomodachi
Angry deity revenge
Is there a trope where a god or similar entity is enraged by someone and either personally comes to harm them or sends an avatar to do it?
Heroes Who Kill Their Enemies
I looked over the list on antihero and couldn't figure out which fits best. What tropes refer to heroes who believe in killing their enemies instead of imprisoning them?
No Title
When a couple have been together for so long that they starts to adept each other’s mannerism.
Edited by Andermann
Lotsa Leaks
That thing where a boat or a wall holding back water suddenly develops a leak, and The Hero quickly plugs it...and then another leak occurs, and the hero has to plug that one as well...and then another leak occurs...and another...and another...
Nominal Protagonist
Said to be the protagonist, but actually doesn't get as much focus compare to other characters.
Edited by Andermann
Afterlife Work
Do we have a trope for when a character has a work in the afterlife? I don't mean it exactly like Mundane Afterlife, though the two can overlap. It's a little more like in Big Fish and Begonia, where one of the characters, the Keeper of Souls, did something (it's never specified what it was, I think) and now he keeps the souls of dead good people, or the girl who killed herself in Beetlejuice, who became a recepcionist after she died.
Busy for the rest of the foreseeable future
I've seen this a lot, it's got to be somewhere: Alice absolutely loves to ski, and invites Bob to go skiing with her on Saturday. Bob hates to ski, but he also doesn't want to appear rude, so he tells her he's busy that weekend. Alice, wanting to accommodate his schedule, asks about next weekend, to which Bob replies that he is busy that weekend as well. Alice then asks him for the next time he will be available, to which Bob responds that he'll be busy for the rest of the foreseeable future.
Character gets amnesia after being revived
In context, the villain wants to try to revive her brother to find out what happened to him. After reviving, the brother has no memory of what happened.
Is there a trope for it?
Don't humiliate a father in front of his child Film
Is there a trope where humiliating a man in front of his children (or family, students) is portayed as an extreme Kick the Dog moment, because the kid will lose respect for him?
I remember it being mentioned in that movie, Amélie, as something a character hated to see.
Character is a mental slave to a villain
Do we have a trope where a character is a mental slave to a villain?
Example:
Alice and the Indigo Force walks up to a heavily defeated Lady Doomsday. As they attempt to arrest her after a destructive battle in San Fransico, Lady Doomsday reveals herself as Charlie, Alice's friend who thought to have died before the formation of the Indigo Force.
Charlie reveals she was taken by Emperor Zul when she drifted in space after Emperor Zul destroyed Alice's spaceship. There, she was torment by Emperor Zul and Doctor Atomic for unknown, warped periods of time. Because of the torment, her will was broken and she was made a mental slave to Emperor Zul.
As a mental slave, Charlie still had free will and choice, however, her train of thought was warped, manipulated and influenced by Emperor Zul and Doctor Atomic, and she had to subconsciously follow her own destructive, corrupted thoughts. She conciously knew she committed atrocious acts of villainy and led a supervillain team, but she knew she had a choice. In conclusion, she had free will and choice, but tainted by dark, destructive thoughts of villainy and chaos under the influence of Emperor Zul.
Taboo topics
Do we have any tropes for taboo topics or avoiding saying something that paints one party in a negative light?
Entrance playing instrument
Is there a trope for a character making their entrance into a scene while playing a musical instrument? (As seen in, for instance, Kaiketsu Zubat)