blandman political

Is there a trope for when someone is supposed to have a political position, but in order to avoid offending anyone, all they only ever have bland, generic, inoffensive positions without taking sides on anything that might actually be controversial? Or would that just be another form of Strawman Political?

Expert teaches the rookie Film

usually done in sports films/comedy sport films in which a old legend comes across a younger fresh talent in his same field and decides to make the person under their wing

Same Names

Your first and last names are the same.

Using object as a coaster / prop up a table leg

This is something I see in comedies pretty frequently. An object, often a book, is not valued for its actual purpose but for some mundane purpose, usually as a coaster or to prop up a wobbly table or something.

Different gender, similar name

Is there a trope when a transgender character's name is almost the same as their birth name? For example, Eric to Erica, Christian to Christine.

Related could be a trope about gender-bent characters having very similar names, like Finn and Fionna in Adventure Time, but that feels like a given for most gender-bend stories.

Difference Between Tropes

I'm probably just missing something incredibly obvious here and will feel awkward later, but ...

Could someone please explain the difference between Once More, with Clarity! and Flashback-Montage Realization? I know the second is a subtrope of the first, but I am not certain what makes it narrower. They both seem to be about a sentence or whole scene having one meaning at first, but gaining a different one when shown again, because of the knowledge obtained in-between.

Is this about who The Reveal is for? Like, Once More, with Clarity! is for showing the scene again after the audience's perspective has changed to confirm the difference, where as in a Flashback-Montage Realization, the protagonist is also seeing the repeat and experiencing the same "click" as well? Wouldn't determining if a scene was a character's flashback or just repeated for the convenience of the watchers be difficult in certain mediums?

However, among Once More, with Clarity!'s examples, there are quite a few that seem to be character specific. Some, like the example for BioShock, are even listed on both tropes. Then again, Flashback-Montage Realization is still a pretty new trope (only launched 7 days ago), so perhaps I am merely being impatient.

So, it seems I already have a sort of answer after all ... am I on the right track?

Ambiguously Earth

I asked a long time ago but never got a reply so: what's the trope when it's unclear if the work takes place on Earth or just an Earth-like planet? Example: the Thief series takes place entirely in an (unnamed) city, and while the place is rather Earth like (including numerous Earth Animals), there are also a lot of fantasy elements like magic and undead, and we hardly learn anything about the rest of the world, leaving it unclear whether it's some fictional city in the past or another planet altogether.

Gaining power by killing?

To put it simply, when a character becomes stronger/gains immortality/etc by killing other beings or through violence in general.

This is a very common trope in RP Gs and similar games (you level up by killing enemies), and it's deconstructed by Undertale. However, it's at the VERY least older than feudalism, because ancient Hawaiian god Kū offers mana through violence.

Monster Clown or Non Ironic Clown? Maybe both?

"Creepy Clown" (which I doubt is an official name, although I don't think anyone knows if the character really has a name) is an animatronic clown that was created to greet visitors to a convention, so it might count as a Non-Ironic Clown. But it has a (presumably accidentally) very creepy design, and nowadays it's most well known for a particular photo of it that is used in creepy clown memes and other things on the internet. Could it potentially go on both Non-Ironic Clown and Monster Clown?

Ambiguously Human? Ambiguously Animal? Ambiguously Costume? Western Animation

I know we have Ambiguously Human, but do we have other variations like the ones I made up in the title? Which trope would best fit Baloney the Dinosaur from Animaniacs? Context copied and slightly edited from an example I wrote for a TLP draft:

• Baloney is a parody of Barney the Dinosaur (a popular children's character portrayed by a man in a costume), but strangely, it's hard to tell whether Baloney is an actual dinosaur or a person in a costume. He does have seams indicating that he's a costume, but his face and mouth move like that of a living thing, and there's no indication of a human actor inside the costume. Also, at the beginning of Baloney's show, he magically transforms from a stuffed animal, but there's no indication that this is just an in-universe special effect. So, for all we know, Baloney could be a living, empty mascot costume.

Recurring Character as the love interest?

In most instances, one main character would be in love with another main character. However, this fictional work subverts by having a main character fall in love with a supporting character. The subversion is even illustrated by the fact that said supporting character is the sister of a main character and while not she's not per say the 'ugly sister' as she's beautiful in her own right, most fans would be amazed that the male main character takes a liking to her over the main one

Clarification

1. What is the trope when a character says something, and then another thing immediately happens that proves them right? (For example, a character claims he's a Weirdness Magnet, and a group of weirdos immediately shows up, and he says "see what I mean"). I was thinking it was Tempting Fate but it doesn't seem quite right.

2. What's the exact difference between A Rare Sentence and It Makes Sense in Context?

Protagonist, Centre of The Universe

It's a little hard to explain... But do we have a trope for when the world of a character relies solely on the point of view of the protagonist?

I shall use Scott Pilgrim as an example. It has been stated by Word of God that the Scott Pilgrim universe is "just the world as seen from Scott’s point of view. Without Scott at the center, it would be a different universe". It has also been stated at one point that other characters don't get much development as Jason Schwartzman was told that he didn't need to play the "real" Gideon, so he wasn't given much depth for that specific reason.

Guilt Dissonance

Character feels crushing guilt over something that isn't that important and/or feels no remorse over something he should feel guilty for.

For instance, Bob is kept awake at night by the thought that decades ago, he forgot to return a library book and his stomach churns just thinking of all the readers who were told the book wasn't available and left empty-handed, all because of him returning a book three days late. Meanwhile, Al once set fire to a building and killed fifteen people, but feels so little guilt over it that he has to be reminded that it happened (or worse, he remembers it as a happy memory).

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.

Museum Area Videogame

Is there a trope for bonus areas in video games that acts as a physical gallery where you can freely look at most of the game's content, such as enemies, models, concept art, etc.? The Museum and the enemy gallery from Bioshock and Yoshi's Island DS respectively come to mind.

Language!

One guy says a dirty word, and the other guy reprimands him for it.

Cryptic Spoilers?

I'm working on a page for a fan series, and the creator can be asked to give these things called "cryptic spoilers," . I would say they're Foreshadowing, but they're usually so vague on what it's alluding to unless the one who asks specifies, like "Cryptic spoiler for (name of character) in (chapter of story). Is there any trope for this specific case of foreshadowing, if you can even call it that?

Paying for the sins of your own family member? Live Action TV

What is the trope where the family begins to pay for the sins for the family member? Let's the perpetrator committed *Insert Horrible Crime Here* and the family of the perpetrator gets harassed horribly by the community even on the internet. What is the name of the trope?

Face Plastered Everywhere

A character keeps seeing a surge of things that suddenly remind them of a person or thing.

For example, Peter in the second spiderman movie started to see Mary Jane's face plastered all over the city after his heart gets broken. A bunch of X's start to sneakily pop up in Scott's (from Scott Pilgrim vs. The World) life.

Benefits, Dear Boy

This character joined the army not because of typical patriotism but because of the benefits. The character is not greedy or anything but he came from a middle class family and wants to make sure he's in a better place and is aware of the risks in pursuit of the benefits.

"Kids bond by jumping something" Film

Is there a trope for a scene in a children's movie wherein the kids, being out on an adventure or something, have to go through a dangerous ordeal (either really dangerous or dangerous for them), such as crossing a cliff on a tightrope, jumping off the bridge onto a lake, climbing an electrified fence...

Usually, the movie makes big deal out of having each kid perform the feat, then start beckoning the others, "c'mon, you can do it, I could". The wimpiest kid is usually the last to do the jump, but, by the end of it, they've bonded as friends.

"Just do some advanced theoretical physics"

What's the trope for when someone tells someone else to "just" do something that's actually a really hard task? Sometimes it's out of ignorance (i.e they are really smart and don't realize it's really hard for most people,) although other times the person is just an arrogant Jerkass.

slideshow cutscene Videogame

Is there a trope for when the cutscenes in a game are basically slide shows? Example: In Strife all of the cutscenes are a series of still pictures (resembling comic book panels), while one of the characters narrates.

magnificent bastards Live Action TV