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Species Envy
Let's say you have a fictional species that regards itself as superior to every other race in existence, and is deeply offended by the idea of one superior to THEM. When said Superior Species shows up, they get angry and try to exterminate them because they can't stand the idea of a species superior to them. Is there a trope for this?
Species Traits
Certain traits that a race or species commonly have.
Dwarves are stubborn and hard while elves are elegant and soft.
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My money is our money, your money is your money
when someone says this in a money argument in marriage,
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?
Single Personality Trait
A character really only has a single personality trait going for them and nothing else.
Just one step above Flat Character, and may or may not be due to Flanderization.
Seducing Someone For Information
What's the correct trope for a character having sex with someone in exchange for information? Is that Sexual Extortion or something else?
BeforeAndAfterPictures not only for advertising, right?
"Before" and "After" Pictures not only for advertising, right?
'Cause I've got a work with someone being a monster before a procedure, and being pretty after it, but it's not advertising a product.
Or is "Before" and "After" Pictures not flexible enough?
Cute Predator Disguise
A predatory creature changes into a less dangerous-looking form to lure prey towards it.
An example would be SCP-247, a tiger that appears as a cat to most creatures. The SCP takes advantage of this, and uses it to hunt humans.
A subtrope of Killer Rabbit. Contrast with Ass in a Lion Skin, where a harmless animal wants to be taken as dangerous.
Verbal Asskicking?
Is there a trope involving a character "kicking ass" not by way of physical fighting, but by way of words, for instance disproving them, talking them down, chewing them out? For instance this bit in the Fresh Prince:
Philip: "I've got a few questions for you. When you got this alleged confession from these two young men, did they have a lawyer present? No, because I'm their lawyer. Did you notify their parents? No, because we're their parents. So officer, don't tell us to wait and don't tell us to sit down. Just open that damn cell and let those two boys outta there or I'm gonna tie this place up with so much litigation that your GRANDCHILDREN are gonna need lawyers!" And all the policeman can do is meekly oblige in response.
'Give That Baby A Father/Mama baby Papa maybe' except...
Two men (one of them is indeed the father) offering to help the woman. It's not a polyamory thing, but rather the second man (who is just a friend, probably genuinely loved the woman before) just didn't know the existence of the first and/or just offering to be the caretaker.
Bonus: The woman accepts them both- one is the father, and the other being the caretaker.
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Can't refuse the villain
The villain shows up and gives some orders to some people. They protest, and refuse to do it. The villain replies with something on the lines of "I don't remember offering you an option".
Dress Codes Are Unfair.
The character in a story, has to deal with an unfair dress code at their school. So they show their disapproval of it, by breaking the code on purpose.
Afraid of breaking the pedestal
So Bob is idolized by his fans, but he's afraid that if they meet him, it would lead to a Broken Pedestal situation should they decide that he's not as awesome in person as they thought he was.
An important character foolishly sacrifices themselves to save less valuable characters
Do we have a trope for this?
For example, a king whose leadership is vital to the war effort is ordering his castle evacuated while the enemy overruns it. In order to save a small group of low-ranked soldiers, he ends up personally attacking the enemy while his troops flee, getting himself killed and leaving the country without a ruler in a time of crisis and thus far worse off than if he'd let the troops make a last stand so he could escape.
Swap Tracks Videogame
Having 2 variants of the same track in order to perform an in-place Tone Shift without interrupting the flow of the music.
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Self-Overrated Attractiveness
A woman offers Sex for Services to a man, he declines, she's furious. Sort of like Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?, but where the woman is the aggressive one and gets turned down.
The Color Of Magic has a Conan The Barbarian expy get visited in captivity by the villain's daughter, who offers herself to him wearing nothing but jewelry if he'll defeat her brothers for her. He looks her up and down mentally counting how much the jewelry is worth, and it's obvious that he's interested more in the diamonds than her, to her increasing anger.
One Thorgal story has a teenaged girl try to seduce a boy of her age into helping her win a contest. He tells her he's seen better and goes back to sleep.
Reluctant hero
The Rhino is a villain, not a hero, and does not go around doing superhero things. However, his niece has been kidnapped. His sister-in-law does not know what to do, and her husband is a useless drunk. So, he does the "superhero thing" and try to locate the kidnapper and rescue his niece. He wouldn't do it for strangers, but he would for the family.
Didn't mean to sound mean
Guy 1 mentions something about his niece. Guy 2 makes fun of it. "You? You have a girlfriend?". Guy 1, with his face in shadows, say "A wife. But not anymore" (meaning, he's a widower). Guy 2 then tries to apologize.
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
I'm rich!
This is usually a moment where someone goes from Rags to Riches. Where someone has an over the top reaction upon being presented with a large some of money, either as a gift, stumbling upon it, or recieving it by surprise by means such as a lottery ticket. Often this is either a pivotal moment in someone's story if being rich is integral to the story itself, or if the episode involves temporarily becoming rich(sometimes as a prank) and discovering as such. Usually moments like this are comedic, such as this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19Rpmux1d_Y
Don't you know who I am?
This is where someone with an ego and either a small-scale, former, or very much alive celebrity image shows up at a restaurant or other place of busniness and attempt to get more than ordinary standards by bringing up the fact that they are a celebrity, often beginning with the line, "Don't you know who I am?" and expecting something such as services not offered, services when the place of business is closed, or services when there are other people in line ahead of him. Discussed here, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8QW2-TawxQ
Made Of Irony
When a character who survived a lot of lethal damage die from something minor just for the convenience of the plot.
Like this he didn't die when he got chopped in half, blown to bits, or completely liqudfied, but somehow he died from getting punched REALLY hard.
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I've checked Hypno Trinket and Artifact of Attraction, but they don't fit...
Is there a trope about an item or effect that doesn't quite mind-control, but instead just fascinate the subjects, making them stand there unmoving until they snap out of it?