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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.
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.”
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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
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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.
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.
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?
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?}
Character is ironically told "have fun"
Is there a trope for when a character is told "have fun" before doing something scary or tedious?
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.
"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?
"Don't make me turn this car around!"
Is there a trope for a driver (most often a parent) threatening to turn a car around and go home if their passengers don't behave?
"We can mourn them later"
Everyone are mourning their fallen friend Bob (who just died), but one character (let's call her Alice) says what they have to keep moving, or they would end up dead too. It's portrayed as reasonable, not insensitive.
Do we have any tropes for either the situation, or Alice's role in it?
“WHEEEEEEE”/“AAAAAAAA”
Usually found in Western Animation, to my knowledge. Two characters are experiencing some kind of event, probably falling or sliding somewhere unexpectedly, and one character is having the time of their life while the other is terrified.
Rape/Abuse makes a woman stronger
This is a particularly annoying trope which posits that when female characters are raped or endure horrible physical abuse, it makes them stronger, tougher people. Sometimes its framed as a necessary occurrence for them to become stronger. It's often employed to give a female character development or toughen her up. in reality, this usually gives a person PTSD and impedes their strength by giving them trauma to overcome, which is what makes it irritating. The trope can be seen in "The Perfection" and "Game Of Thrones"(Sansa) off the top of my head, and probably almost every rape revenge film. I was looking through the different tropes about rape and i dont think we have this one. Rape as Backstory is similar but doesnt quite cover it. What should we call this one and can it be added as it's own entry?
Supernatural entity capable of things
The Deepness is a supernatural entity capable of exploring the psyche of a human and putting out an impression. In its sealed form, it resembles a swirling pool that is dark and deep.
When a subject dives into the pool of the Deepness, the Deepness will enter the mind of a human and produce a spectral creature called a Figment. After a subject emerges out of the pool, a Figment is formed.
At first tries, Figments are weak and shimmer quickly. But over time, when a subject repeatedly dives into the Deepness, the Figments get increasingly stronger and stronger. This is because subjects carry the Deepness out of the vortex through symbiosis if parasitic.
If it is not Watched, the Deepness will escape from its pool and can never be sealed again. Most of all, never feed it with fear. The Deepness gets stronger from the fear that subject.
What tropes that can be inferred from the paragraphs above?
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...
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?
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...
Gift finding plot
I've noticed we have a couple of drafts in the TLP about giving gifts. I'm wondering if there's a supertrope about characters trying to find a gift for someone.
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.