Personalized Video

A special book or video made to be "personalized"; parents pay and send in their kid's name and a picture, then it gets produced with their name in it. It's usually themed after a franchise, with the idea being that kids can integrate themselves into a unique story taking place in its world.

Of course, these edits aren't perfect. They're usually subject to Special Effects Failure, but may cross over into So Bad, It's Good.

• SpongeBob SquarePants had a tie-in book called SpongeBob and [kid's name]: Super Detectives, illustrated with original art that has the kid's photo pasted in. The book's also printed to have their name in it, with the story focusing on "super detectives" SpongeBob and the child trying to figure out who stole some Krabby Patties.
• Barney & Friends had "My Party with Barney". Since Barney is in live-action, the kid's face is only shown on an animated character during cutaways. The plot surrounds a birthday party held for the person it's bought for.
• Arthur had "Arthur's New Friend": Arthur and his friends come up with a party idea for his new friend, you. The personalization mostly shows in various Imagine Spots that Arthur's friends have about what Arthur's friend would like.
• My Christmas Adventure is a Christmas CG production featuring you and an elf trying to prevent Jack Frost from stealing Christmas. As a live-action image is pasted over an uncanny CG character, it doesn't look great.
• The Simpsons parodied this in "The Dad Who Knew Too Little". First, a space adventure with one of Ned Flanders' sons, Rod, who claims that his interests are "being quiet during trips, clapping with songs, and diabetes!" Homer likes the idea and buys one for Lisa, a cowboy-themed one where "Sheriff Lisa" tries to chase down the Indians who stole the McNuggets.

Where someone has never experienced a thing but makes something based off someone else's description

n/m. After a few minutes of looking, it's Half-Remembered Homage I was thinking about.

See the subject. More of a real life Trope.

Basically someone is telephone'd, like the old game, a description of a work or event, without ever experiencing it themselves, and then makes something based off that idea.

Like Talking Heads making a Joy Division-like track, with The Overload, after only hearing of Joy Division, but none of their music.

Relative Rank problem

Alice and Bob are in the same hierarchy (military, school, religion...). Problem is, they're also related, and using the wrong term to refer to them (or an accurate term but at the wrong time) can lead to drama (calling the colonel 'dad', calling the teacher "mother", calling your wife 'counselor')...

Bloat and 'Splode

A gross, inhuman creature is defeated. Its body bloats up before bursting.

Sort of like Defeat Equals Explosion, but kind of nastier.

Fan work to original work

A work that started off as a fan work of a preexisting work later becomes its own original work.

Who Could Have Been

This actor had the chance to appear in the work before someone else was cast.

"My defense is that I am not incompetent"

Do we have a trope for when the primary defense against an accusation is that the supposed perpetrator is too clever to have committed it in that way? I'm specifically thinking of an example where a girl is found dead in an alley; one of her old enemies said that if she had paid to have her killed, she would have had her kidnapped first, made it look like she left the country willingly, and then disposed of the body elsewhere, so nothing would ever come back to her.

Unintentional Clark Kenting

Does Clark Kenting or Paper-Thin Disguise cover situations where someone doesn't have a secret identity, they just look completely different in some situations than others? For example, Dolly Parton is apparently unrecognizable when she wants to be, by just taking off her blond wig and makeup. In some cases they may not even be consciously changing their appearance, or it may be magically tied to a certain location (i.e. if they leave a certain area they look completely different).

The example that made me wonder if this exists is Seiichi Tsukishima from The Story Between a Dumb Prefect and a High School Girl with an Inappropriate Skirt Length, who's a Bishōnen inside the school library, but turns into a Gonk as soon as he steps over the threshold.

A thing is just for the audience and doesn't exist in universe

This is kind of hard to explain so I'll just give 2 examples

• In musicals, the extras and other characters not involved in the musical number just ignore it and act like nothing's happening, instead of thinking everyone's lost it like they would in real life

• In Video Games, characters can't really "see" their HUD, health bar etc. It's just there for the player to see.

Two, but one's more important

A duo with one character doing most of the talking while the other one hardly speaks.

Alternatively: A duo, but one character as a whole represents them.

Reverting to past self in romcoms? Film

Is there a name for the trope where the main character has a major glow-up after high school but comes back to their home town for some event and finds themself turning back into their former dweeby self? I can name two specific movies that do this: "Just Friends" with Ryan Reynolds and "You Again" with Kristen Bell. In "Just Friends" it's more subtle with a retainer, but in "You Again" Kristen Bell's character repeatedly finds herself stuck in situations where her newly perfected appearance has to be compromised (ie: someone accidentally chops off a clump of her hair resulting in her having to get awful bangs, losing her contacts so she has to wear her old glasses, getting a rash on her face that looks like zits, etc.)

"We're dying, let's throw a party"

A group of people who know they're all dying soon decide to throw a party to end their life so they at least go out happy.

"Party" can be defined as anything from "dinner with friends" to "Wild Teen Party".

Leader trope

Is there a trope where in a team there are sorta two leaders? Or at least someone else has leadership traits. Not to be confused with the second in command. And it can usually cause conflict. Or where two characters go "I'm the leader!"

When an inactive person is found Web Original

Looking for a trope about how Wazzo TV found several inactive people to work on his online animated show with him Or something to describe the in-universe counterpart of how Wazzo found several people who had left for a long time

Sampled quote Music

A spoken quote from a movie, TV or radio series added to a musical track, as in the page quote for Techno. Can be repeated or not. Does this just fall under Sampling? Just checking.

Dog Whistle Gag

I've seen it a million times. A character blows a whistle or makes some other sound that seems inaudible, but then it attracts dogs because only they can hear a frequency that high.

plot twist

several twists in a row

"You have to hear this"

A character is minding his own business, and someone else tells him to check the TV because something very important has just happened.

False In-Universe True IRL

Other than Reality Ensues , where might be situations where a character says things that are true regarding reality, but false in the context of the show? Examples: On an episode of The Xfiles, Mulder and a sheriff are chatting, and Mulder brings up UF Os. The sheriff asks if the FBI investigates them, and Mulder answers no, which is true, but the premise of the show is that they do. On an episode of Criminal Minds, a podcaster confronts Prentiss about her team, the BAU, using an expensive jet and having a hacker regularly break into computer files. She denies both. This is true of the real BAU, but not the fictional one.

Strawman For Our Side

A situation similar to Token Evil Teammate, but it's "extreme version of the team's ideas" rather than simply immoral, and often serves as The Load by causing others to think the entire team shares his extreme opinions (or claiming to speak for the entire team).

Artistic license tropes? Live Action TV

What sort of Artistic License tropes would these examples fall under:

• In a Period Piece drama, there's an island off the coast in Texas (by Galveston) that's part of Minnesota politically but geographically it's considered part of Texas.
• A drama about the 2000s depicts there being a rebadged Buick version of the Chevrolet Malibu sedan launched in 2003 when there was no counterpart in Real Life. Some viewers claim the series did not do the research.
• An episode of a Criminal Procedural has a line of dialogue which:
  Alice: You know, in 2006, we could still buy the Oldsmobile Alero brand-new for pennies on the dollar and it ain't as good as a Camry or Accord, and Ohio banned smoking in all public places in March (thank god!), plus Dick Cheney went to hospital that month, what a year that was, to think that was a decade ago.
• In a show that's part of Marvel Cinematic Universe with Jane Foster/Thor as the protagonist in an Alternate Universe, Canon Foreigner Jenny is 24 and born in 1980, yet the setting is 2018 when she should realistically be 38, but it's given a Hand Wave In-Universe, even though the maths is obviously wrong. Even characters comment on the discrepancy in-universe.
• Bob looks like The Twink / a Uke and but can't get a job in his chosen field which requires brawn despite his Super Strength, as no-one In-Universe at the company he applies for a job believes a feminine-looking guy like him could be strong enough for the job.

Apathetic good? Videogame

Do we have this? This is for people who are ostensibly leaders, but sit on their asses until trouble comes knocking at which point they will do something but it’s often ineffective.

This comes from The Lords Of Midnight where the Free and Fey lords just sit in their castles and wait to be overwhelmed one by one by Doomdarks armies rather than actively banding together, recruiting soldiers from independent keeps and going on the offensive which would be far more effective.

Kid-Friendly Planet

A version of earth with no drugs, murder or crime apart from the crimes committed by villains and the Monster of the Week.

Teeth shatter as a result of cacophany

Do we have this one? I browsed through Teeth Tropes and the closest thing I could associate with what I had in mind was The Tooth Hurts.

The examples I can think of are this one Villainous short/mini-episode #4 as well as possibly this one instance from The Amazing World of Gumball, however, I can't recall which episode at the moment.

Edited for italicisation of show names.

Unhesitating job offer

Is there a trope for when somebody is offered a job really quickly, perhaps without an interview, so much so that the candidate cannot believe it, and becomes suspicious?