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John Jameson and James Johnson Webcomic
Is there a trope for situations where a character's name has a variation that's usually a Paper-Thin Disguise fake name, a [[Those Two Guys best friend's name], the name used for an Expy or parody, an Evil Twin or the name of the Similar Squad equivalent?
The variations can be alternating the first and last names, using opposing words (Jack Black's opposite would be Jill White), rhyming words, similar name formation (Luke Skywalker would be Lars Groundflier), equivalent Pop Culture references or jokes, and so on?
Blood treated as wine Webcomic
So in Unholy Blood. The vampire Lucien owns a night club which serves blood instead of wine. It's still treated as wine even being given name like 21 year old female , 44 year old male. Do we have any thing like this ?
Villain/Antagonists gets put under the pressure and reveal their true colors Webcomic
What is that trope where the villain/antagonist all of a sudden gets stripped of their charisma and the writer puts them under the pressure to reveal their true selves? It is a trope that is often used to make villains/antagonists more pathetic or even more foolish than normally would be?
"House in a X" Webcomic
What's the trope for when a character lives in a regular-looking, all-american two-storey house - but the house is in a wacky place, like a Desert Island, inside a cave or volcano, covered by a dome underwater...
Usually a comedy trope, but also found in nonsense-fueled stories about dreams or the afterlife. If that's too specific, it doesn't have to be a house - something like an office building, vehicle or city work too.
Wilde Life: Heart Magic Webcomic
In the webcomic Wilde Life a shaman character stole a powerful magical artifact, a heart of a god, from a villain some time before. He is now using it to help an injured person but not using it to make the injured person that powerful. Just help him recover from a different monster's attack.
Would this qualify for Utility Magic?
Is there a trope for this? Webcomic
This would probably fall under YMMV. A normal slice-of-life story suddenly and jarringly injects fantasy and/or sci-fi elements completely out of nowhere. I've mostly seen this happen in furry webcomics, where it almost gives the impression that the author got bored with their own creation. It's mostly normal slice-of-life for the first few hundred pages or so, but then one day there's alternate timelines, epic anime fights, alien invasions, gods and magic, time travel, and whatever else the author can throw in there.
I'd describe it as a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment that turns into a complete Genre Shift, if that makes sense.
Parody Personality Opposite Webcomic
Is there a trope about parodies of characters having the opposite personality of the originals? A Sherlock Holmes parody is stupid, a Superman parody is evil, Queen Elizabeth is laid back, Robin Hood is greedy, Hercules is weak, and so on...
"Stationary TARDIS"? Webcomic
Is there a trope for a magical location or building that features several time and/or space portals?
Like, a castle with several doors, and each door leads to a different era - or works as a portal to a different city, with the owner passing as a denizen of all of those cities?
Dark Thoughts Webcomic
What would it be if a character briefly thinks about killing themselves, but doesn’t?
What's going on here? Webcomic
NOTE: Comics are NSFW, take care when checking links.
In Ennui GO!, Sarah has a number of strips where she takes something said by someone else and goes off on tangents of odd examples, such as here
and here, which usually annoys whoever's around her. I'm almost certain we've got a trope for this, but I have no idea what it could be.
Tradesnark, but what else? Webcomic
Panels 4 and 5 of this Ennui GO! strip are definitely Tradesnark™ (thanks, ~St Fan), but do they fit something else? It feels like a weird take on Saying Sound Effects Out Loud but I'm not sure that it really fits.
"Other character is in the same situation" twist Webcomic
Is there a trope for when we're following a main character going through something and we learn about it, but in the end, it turns out the seemingly normal friend is going through the same situation - the point being, we were so focused on the main character we didn't notice the telltale signs?
For instance, Alice is anorexic, she's been refusing to eat, her friend Betty compares their weight, notice Alice's been getting thinner, Betty offers Alice her food but Alice refuses, and eventually Alice's family manage to get her some help. Then, we cut to Betty, alone, throwing food away, and we see that while everyone was worried about Alice, Betty hadn't been eating anything, either.
Bad Guy Kinda did Something "Good" by Accident Webcomic
I need help with an example for the Sandra on the Rocks character page, 'cuz it's kind of like a circle.
Sandra is the POV character who the readers are meant to sympathize with and root for because she's a nice gal type. Except she repeatedly cheated on her boyfriend, Pierre, without him knowing about it.
Eloise is an antagonist to Sandra, because it's one of those stories where the good guy always has what the bad guy wants and is seemingly better than them at everything. That includes Pierre, who just so happens to be Eloise's cousin and her secret crush.
So: After finding out about Sandra's infidelity, Eloise arranges it so Pierre finds out about it in order to break them up so she can have Pierre for herself. The plan works, causing Pierre to dump Sandra and Eloise hooks up with her cousin afterward.
This makes it seem that The Bad Guy Wins, except had Eloise not brought Sandra's cheating habits to Pierre's attention, they'd still be together and Sandra would've continued to cheat behind his back because she was never going to tell him about it. So Eloise sort of did Pierre a favor, albeit for selfish reasons.
How would you categorize that situation?
Edited by MiinU
Co-ed living situations Webcomic
I'm trying to find a suitable trope for a detail in the webcomic Magellan. I'm just not sure how prevalent it is in any other medium. In it, the superpowered cadets have a co-ed living situation, which includes sharing not only their dorms, but also their showers with both sexes. It's partially to inoculate them to the uniforms they'll be wearing later on, since it's hard to be distracted by a boob window or a skimpy leotard when you've already seen that person naked for six years.
A sequel that's more of a coda. Webcomic
Is there a trope name for story that's technically a sequel but really doesn't stand very strongly as a unique story? It's the case where the reader really has to have read the first installment in order for the sequel to make sense? Basically, the sequel is really more of an extended coda to the first installment.
Expressive body part? Webcomic
This is a weirdly specific question. One of the main characters in Headless Bliss is a humanoid who learns eventually that she is a character out of someone's unfinished story. At one point, she loses the end of her right index finger, but instead of nothing being there after, there's a black squiggle where the end of the finger should be. It occasionally forms words, such as here and here. Do we have a trope that covers this?
Divine tech support Webcomic
The main character is "called" in a dream by the forces of good about incorrect billing information. Would this be Afterlife Bureaucracy or something else?
Fan Webcomic Continuity Tropes? Webcomic
Which of these Continuity Tropes applies to Archie Sonic Online, a sort of quasi-Continuation of Archie Comics Sonic The Hedgehog:
- Broad Strokes (it accepts some of the original story as canon, but not all)
- Continuation
- Truer to the Text (trying to keep to original source material?)
I was going to add to the article some Continuity Tropes but wasn't sure which ones fitted the work page, so thought I'd ask here.
Edited by Merseyuser1
Violent Neutral Killer Monster Webcomic
Is there a trope for creatures or groups that are practically unbeatable, but obey their own set of rules, like being attracted to a magical beacon or fulfilling a prophecy. Thus, both sides of the conflict try to take advantage of it by having the non-malicious entity attack the other side?
I'm thinking in particular of the NASA monsters from The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, which kill anyone who attacks a NASA scientist regardless of context.