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groups Literature
What trope is used to describing being put into various groups? for example, the Four Houses of Hogwarts in Harry potter, the Cabins in Percy Jackson, the Factions in the Divergent series, and to a lesser extent, the districts in the Hunger Games.
Game that needs you to do something outside the game Videogame
Example: In Who Framed Roger Rabbit there's a 1-800 number that you're supposed to call. As in actually call, using a landline or cell.
It's okay to be gay?
There have been a lot of Queer Romance songs related to lgbt rights and pro-lgbt rights songs lately. Is there a trope for that?
Ashamed of what I was
After a disastrous event, a person feels contempt for himself (and the group he was in) for letting it happen so easily. It’s mainly because they were so easily misled.
Fan Example: In Star Wars, sometime between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope, a group of people will be talking about how the Empire came to be. among them is a Jedi who survived Order 66. One person will ask how the Jedi Council, guardians of peace in the galaxy, could allow the Emperor to gain control of the Republic, crumble it and reign control of the Empire. The surviving Jedi (before or after revealing himself as such) says with a tone of contempt: “The Jedi Council were a bunch of fools who trusted the wrong people.”
Edited by JohnShel91
Bad Bedroom
A character's neglect, poverty, or general life-struggle is often highlighted by giving them a particularly bad bedroom, especially if the house they live in is overall much nicer than their bedroom would suggest. The Unfavorite suffers from this a lot, from Harry living in a cupboard to Cinderella (and other characters in her sort of situation) living in cramped attics or similar.note
Edited by WarJay77
Some bad thing in the work is especially disturbing because it's more realistic than usual
What trope would this fall under? some examples:
- A lot of people find The Jokers horrible treatment of Harley Quinn to be his most despicable trait, as it seems all too similar to a real abusive relationship
- One for me personally, (although I doubt I'm alone), the Yuuzhan Vong in the Star Wars Legends EU freak me out, as their mindset seems too much like real religious extremist/terrorist groups.
Levitation Leg Bend
Is there a trope for the standard pose a character takes when levitating where they usually have one leg out straight, but one will be bent slightly? It's usually used in animation along with Midair Bobbing to show that the character is floating and not aligned with the ground.
Hidden Limbs Trope?
Is there a trope where it turns out someone has body parts that are unexpected? {like, say, a flower character popping out of the ground to reveal they have legs?}
"I want to change"?
So basically, a trope where a character either believes they are headed down a dark path, and wants to change before they become beyond redemption. Do we have that?
Character is ironically told "have fun"
Is there a trope for when a character is told "have fun" before doing something scary or tedious?
Pulling someone away from brutally beating someone Film
it's a trop where someone takes a weapon or simply just punches someone into a bloody pulp,usually to the person that either kidnapped them or caused them harm..so they give them a senseless beatdown.
But then someone else pulls them away from the beating to calm them down usually saying "Stop!, Stop!"
perfectexample was in the last of us, where joel pulled away ellie after smashing her attacker in the face with a mchete
Spitting out a Fish
Have we got a trope page for someone spitting out a fish (after being submerged in water) for comedic value? I cannot believe we don't, but I searched everywhere...
Just Married
Do we have a trope for the "Just Married" signs that get stuck on the backs of the couples' cars? Or ships, planes or whatever other vehicles they might be using? Tin cans trailing on strings may or may not be included.
Edited by Tallens
Wrongly proud
Is there a trope where someone takes pride in something others wouldn't be proud of?
Such as Mako's dad, a back alley doctor, bragging that he's killed more patients than he has saved (if ever).
Chasing your own tail
A tailed animal — typically a dog or a cat, and especially one a juvenile one — is driven to chase their own tail for one reason or another; knowing or eventually realizing that their quarry is actually part of their body is optional.
Do we have a trope for this? It's definitely not Chasing Your Tail, which although its name gives that impression, is actually about a Boss Battle in which both the player and the boss run around in circles chasing/running away from each other.
Edited by MarqFJA
Heroes Make Great Villains
What's it called when a hero (whether by Face-Heel Turn or Mind Control or some third thing) becomes a villain, and they're actually REALLY proficient at it, sometimes even better than any other villain in the series/film/whatever?
Explaining Episode
Is there a trope for an episode of a show that's basically dedicated to explaining things about the world of a series, but isn't a Recap Episode?
Buddy-cop protagonists put siren on top of unmarked car.
The protagonists receive word from their dispatcher that there is an emergency nearby and they plop the siren on top of their previously incognito car, usually accompanied with eye-contact and a cliche line like "let's roll." Also which films do this if you can think of any?
Edited by spyingcomet85
Hanky blowing
I can't believe it's not a trope already, so...
A character is crying and is offered a handkerchief to dry those tears... except instead of doing just that, he or she also blow his/her nose, loudly, to the disgust of the hanky's owner...
The G In GPS Stands For God
When a character follows GPS’s direction, no matter how absurd it is.
Because GPS said so, it can’t be wrong.