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openDisappearing containers
When an video game item held within some sort of container (such as a potion in a bottle) is user, the container inexplicably disappears alongside its contents, even if there should be no logical reason for such (in a Watsonian sense; in a Doylist sense, it's because you have no use for an empty container).
openAdaptational Ignorance
Not to be confused with Adaptational Dumbass.
In the source material, a character learns something important and plot-relevant. When the story is adapted into a different medium though, they explicitly don't find out, for some reason or another.
Until next time...
Anon e Mouse Jr.
openGhostly Object
An inanimate object somehow "dies" and becomes ghostly so that ghosts can use it. I thought we had this with a Spongebob image of him and his ghost spatula, but can't seem to find it.
openLabel trickery
Is there a trope for when a label on something, like a bottle, is peeled off to reveal another label that has bad effects?
For example, if Bob buys Alice a bottle of something that plumps up hair, only for the label to peel somehow and reveal that the product actually makes people lose hair. Maybe Bob applied the label himself, or maybe it was a mistake. It can vary.
openWhat is the trope for same action, different outcome?
I remember stumbling upon a trope that can be described with "When you do one thing as a character, you die. When you do the same thing as another character, you survive", but I lost the track of it. What was the title for that one?
openFather, I Want To Fight
Do We Have This One? Father, I Don't Want to Fight is for a member of a Proud Warrior Race (or at least a martial culture or family) deciding to be non-violent. Is there a trope for the opposite, where for example a Proud Scholar Race Guy or Proud Merchant Race Guy decides to become a soldier, for whatever reason?
openLast-Panel Title
A comic where the Title Drop occurs in the last panel, usually because it's a spoiler.
For example, The Punisher story where Frank is sent back in time to infiltrate Al Capone's gang, getting close enough to kill him, ensuring organized crime never gets as tight a grip on America and therefore the survival of Frank's family in the present... then Frank wakes up, with the title of "When Frank Dreams" finally appearing.
Edited by Chabal2openBad: no Good Guy: yes
When bad guy or opponent is about to get a humiliation from the hero, he shakes his head for mercy, but the hero doing it just nods that they’re gonna do it.
openMimicking mockery
When character impersonates another with their hand or imitates them with their voice in a mocking way.
openAccidentally Resolved this one
Usually there's (a) main character(s) and an ensemble of friends to said character, and in one episode, for one reason or another, all or most of the friends forget about the main character, and they have to try and make everyone remember who they are through familiar actions. Like that one part near the end of the final battle of the pacifist route on Undertale with the Lost Soul(s)
resolved Forgotten Friends
Usually there's (a) main character(s) and an ensemble of friends to said character, and in one episode, for one reason or another, all or most of the friends forget about the main character, and they have to try and make everyone remember who they are through familiar actions. Like that one part of the final battle of the pacifist route on Undertale, but I think ti usually has to do with TV
openStay true to yourself
Whatever the circumstances, you don't change in something worse, you can't, you believe in yourself, you can't imagine being any other way. I don't mean of course being a good guy, you can be bad too. But if you're blackmailed, shunned, threatened, hurt, or something, you don't lose your way. You are yourself, and that's that.
openNature, not nurture.
Whatever personality you are, it's in your dna, you're born with it. Being badass, evil, charismatic, clumsy, dumb, being a killer, an engineer, a tennis champion, whatever, it's because it's in your dna. Might even throw in junk dna, which is still un-understood, but if activated might result in new capabilities.
open"Get Me Another!"
A phrase usually associated with the Bad Boss where they say "Get me another [beating rod/punching bag/henchman/whatever it is they just angrily destroyed]".
- One Roman centurion was said to be so enthusiastic at disciplinary floggings with a branch his nickname was "Another!" every time he broke one mid-flogging.
- In Dawn Of War, Gorgutz' response to being told his pilot is dead (after crash-landing the plane) is to be brought another pilot so he can take out his anger on him instead.
openRolling eye pupils (often through stun)
A cartoon trope. When character gets stunned or is about to pass out, the eye pupils move around in circles. Eyes are offset and usually, often one eye rotates clockwise and other eye rotates counter-clockwise.
openAdaptational Skill
A form of Adaptation Deviation where a character exhibits a skill or ability that they weren't shown to have in the original work. May be important to the adaptation's story or not.
openPose Meme
A specific type of art meme that uses a particular pose, then other people draw different characters in that same pose, usually for comedy.
For instance, "I think we're gonna have to kill this guy" (two random characters facing the same way, one with their hand on the other's shoulder), "sailor moon redraw" (Usagi looking worried to the right), "oh, you're approaching me?" (two characters strutting towards each other before they fight), etc.
open"it's you!"
One of the good guys is having a conversation with the mole (usually just the two of them). Something the mole says or does makes our good guy realise he is a mole. Instead of just finishing the conversation and telling the rest of the group, the good guy feels the need to announce to the mole they're onto them, sometimes while explaining their whole logic and train of thought, and the mole proceeds to immediately attack them or flee. A bit similar to "have you told anyone else?".
openproblem with the city
what trope could cover this scenario?
In the Miraculous Ladybug fanfic A Small but Stubborn Fire, when taking Marinette to see a therapist for the emotional issues she has witnessed her daughter go through, Sabine starts to see Paris itself as a disease that is causing problems. Soon after Marinette's therapy session where she had another panic attack and Sabine can't get an answer from Dr Zhu due to doctor patient confidentiality, she wants to get Marinette out of Paris.
Edited by Lord-Jaric
Fandom-Specific Plot is only for Fan Fiction, but do we have something like it that applies to fan art instead? I'm thinking of how, say, Welcome to Night Vale adopted a specific idea of what Cecil looks like and it's all over most (though not all) art based on the podcast.
Edited by harryhenry