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resolved Depressing Facility Daycare Live Action TV
An evil government facility or private laboratory is performing experiments on children (or, if not so evil, keeping children who might be dangerous otherwise under control), and they'll have this sad underground daycare with a bureaucrat's idea of what makes kids feel happy and safe - old toys and puzzles, faded out painting on the walls, an artificial "outside" look with fake clouds, trees and grass...
Is that a trope?
openCalling Out Racism Live Action TV
Is there a trope for when a character of colour calls out a white character, usually a friend, for being oblivious to their white privilege and schools them on all the additional obstacles and difficulties they face in society?
openClaims to be related to an important person Live Action TV
A person believes himself to be an illegitimate son of John F. Kennedy, and is desperate to prove it.
openStepsiblings fall in love Live Action TV
C's father and A's mother marry each other; at the time, C is 20 and A is 14. Once A is an adult, C and A fall in love with each other. According to them (reported after the parents had been murdered, but not contradicted by anything later in the episode), C's father knows and doesn't mind; they want it kept a secret from A's mother because the mother still thinks of A as her little girl and doesn't want A to date anyone.
openFedora wearing dcom best friend Live Action TV
you know that stereotype where the best friend of the main character in a disney channel original movie or disney channel show will wear a fedora, blazer, vest, maybe a tie or a scarf? Yeah what is that?
openCan't get evidence against individuals? Find a greatly exaggerated charge which doesn't require you Live Action TV
A killer gets off with no prison time. A riot breaks out in order to kill him, and ends up also killing 2 others and injuring a dozen. With no presentable evidence of who did what, the DA charges the entire group with terrorism. Of course, this charge is much more serious than what actually happenned, and allows punishing any individual participent merely for being involved, regardless of what (s)he personally did.
(In the end, the DA was convinced by the actual prosecutor to Plea Bargain down to reasonable charges of murder for those who killed the intended target and manslaughter times 2 for the others.)
Edited by Someone1981openTime Freezing but not really Live Action TV
Is there a version of Time Stands Still without any sci-fi elements or actual time stopping? As in, a group of characters just suddenly stop, and then resume actions later. I've seen this trope done several times, for both comedy and horror (such as in The Prisoner (1967)).
Edited by CanuckMcDuck1openPossibility ruled out due to allergy Live Action TV
A woman had apparently comitted suicide. In fact, her wool gloves have gun shot residue. Oops—ahe was extremely allergic to wool. Since her hands show no sign of an allergic reaction, the golves could only have been put on her hands after death.
openMisreport the cause of disappearance Live Action TV
A woman is missing, and is suspected to have been murdered. A news reporter claims the woman is still alive, and is at an undisclosed mental hospital. It eventually turns out that she was, in fact, murdered; the reporter is suspected to be involved with the murder.
Edited by Someone1981openDated by the presence of an isotope Live Action TV
A claim of something being from the 1930's is proven to be incorrect by the presence of a Cesium isotope not present in the environment until 1957.
openCounterfeit wine Live Action TV
A winery sells what proports to be wine from the 1930's. However, lab results prove it couldn't possibly be from any earlier than 1957. (It's probably much more recsnt than 1957, but no more precise evidence is ever told to the audience.)
Edited by Someone1981openChild causes one parent to kill the other Live Action TV
A child finds a cassette tape at home. Confused about its contents, she leaves it for her mother. The mother listens to it, and believes that it's evidence that her psychologist husband is having an affair with a teenage patient (and this is the same way the relationship between her husband and her began). She kills him to protect the teenager in question. It's later revealed that she misunderstood the tape and there is no such teenager.
openHard Girlfriend Soft Boyfriend Live Action TV
Examples of couples: Beck + Jade - Victorious Max + Kyle - Living Single
the trope where the girlfriend is rough around the edges, and the man still loves her and finds a way to put up with it. the girl doesn't necassarily push him around, but she can confidently voice her opinion and he respects it and goes with it
openConvince him using his kid Live Action TV
A critical witness refuses to testify because of self-incrimination (including authorities other than the one who wants his testimony, and they refuse to grant him immunity). So the DA explains the situation to the witness's daughter (who had been kidnapped by the culpriys along with her mother, and the mother had been murdered), and she convinces her father to testify.
Edited by Someone1981openFake attack wounds Live Action TV
A person is caught comitting a murder. He immediately stabs himself a few times, as a Self-Defense Ruse, and claims self-defense in his trial.
openWhile one buys for someone, an other murders him Live Action TV
An adult who is de-facto responsible for a kid goes to buy him something. While the adult is away, the kid is murdered by someone else.
openReally abuse, claimed to he accidental Live Action TV
A chikd suffers injuries from an Abusive Parent. The other parent claims these injuries are results of accidents.
open"meet me at midnight" Live Action TV
You're a detective. You've made some progress, and angered some potential suspects, but you're still basically stuck on actually solving the case. Then you get an anonymous phone call, and a gruff, unknown voice says they have some information they're sure you'll be interested in, and all you have to do is meet them alone, late at night, down on the docks or in some utterly deserted part of town where there'll be no one to see when you get struck over the head from behind in the dark. But of *course* you go, and of *course* this is exactly what happens.
I'm sure this is a well-known trope and on the site somewhere, but I can't figure out how to search for it.
A person is suspected of throwing a brick into a recruitment center, followed byba firebomb which burned the place and killed a baby. He admits, repeatedly, that he threw in "a brick and nothing but a brick".