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openQuoting an insult
A Bait-and-Switch gag where a character insults the people he's talking to... and then it turns out he's not insulting them, he's quoting someone else (and he may have been the original target of the insult).
I thought And Then I Said was this, but that's a different situation.
In Blackadder, there's this exchange when Blackadder is speaking to the Queen and Melchett and appears to be insulting them, but then it turns out he's quoting the man who discovered Blackadder having sex with his wife:
- Blackadder (to Melchett and the Queen): Get out! Get out, libidinous swine! And take that horse-slut painted strumpet with you, where you'll both rot in the filth of your own fornication!Queen: (pause) And what did YOU say to him?Blackadder: Say, Madam? I said nothing. I simply pulled up my tights and jumped out the privy window.
openNot sure what to care this relationship trope
One character gets another character to assist them; sometimes unknowingly, by providing them with something they would want.
openYour emotion gets the better of you
When (usually in a distressing moment) acting on your emotion leads you to make blunders/mistakes.
May or may not be coupled with the mention of how you should control your emotions.
What's the name?
openYour mind/soul goes to another "realm" for some time
For when your mind/soul enters another "realm", leaving your body behind. Might be done by oneself or by the aid of a device (like the "jack-in" thingy from The Matrix).
Do we have this?
openLast-Second Word Addition Music
Related to Last-Second Word Swap: A line seems to end meaning one thing (probably dirty), but then the next line continues the sentence and changes the meaning.
Example in MCR's "The Sharpest Lives:
openSo evil that a transformation doesnt change them
In fiction, you occasionally find cases where humans become monsters or are transformed into them. Well this normally leads to there end of the original personality. There are cases where said human was so evil that they are able to maintain there original personality even after being turned as they were that bad.
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Edited by miraculousopenWhich Gambit?
From Aliens (Steve Perry Trilogy). General Spears is traveling to Alien-infested Earth on Ship A, with a cargo of "tame" Aliens in Ship B he plans to use to retake Earth. Our heroes, Wilks and Billie, stow away on Ship B, and eventually make their way to Ship A to kill Spears. Spears sees them coming, ambushes them, they drive him back, and the result is something of a stalemate: Spears can't attack them again without risking getting killed on the cusp of his "finest hour," they can't critically damage the ship from where they are or bust through to get Spears, but he can control life support in their section. So Wilks calls up Spears and says they planted grenades at critical points on Ship B, rigged to a timer, so Spears' army is about to blow up. They trade the locations of the nonexistent grenades for an escape pod and leave safely.
openHidden healing
When a character is giving another character a healing item, but are also using Healing Hands too without the other character knowing, mainly for hiding their powers.
openRations taste bad
General trope for people complaining about bad food, typically that served in military, sci-fi, or military sci-fi settings?
openRoute 66 Desert trope?
What trope would be that Route 66 desert trope? Where often times a car breaks down in the desert like Arizona with buttes and red rocks, and they have to walk to some gas station with a tow truck. The tow truck is often red and the gas station is usually very old-timey. I’ve seen this trope in the first Cars movie, an episode of Cowboy Bebop, and the overwatch map Route 66. I think it was kind of featured in a Nicholas Cage movie where they’re in Flagstaff for a little bit. Anyone know what I’m describing?
openDark themes gone too far
Basically when a work is so excessively dark that doesn't even come off as laughable and is just flat-out disturbing and unpleasant to watch. Note that this is not necessarily the same as Darkness-Induced Audience Apathy.
Edited by superboy313openMessy, Realistic Childbirth
Do we have a trope for when childbirth is depicted in a realistic, messy factor? Clean, Pretty Childbirth has aversions listed, despite having a "no aversions" rule in the description, and I was wondering if there was a better place to put them.
Edited by LibraryseraphopenTwo-punch spoiler
What would the trope be where a situation merits a spoiler, then a further reveal shows that even that situation was only partially correct?
In Final Fantasy X, for most of the game Tidus is the only one unaware Yuna has every intention of sacrificing herself and one of her friends to end the giant monster Sin, since he's not aware of Sin's cyclic nature, shocking him (and the player) when he learns about it. Then the second reveal (which shocks the entire party) is that this was deliberately engineered from the start, and the people behind Sin are the divine figures of the religion that Yuna is part of.
openCharacter Agency
A "basic" trope about a literary element; about how a character's actions can affect the story and to what degree.
Do we have this?
openRunning/walking towards the camera
Is there a trope for this? A character runs (generally very quickly) or just goes towards the camera until he or she engulfes all of it. Similar to Camera Abuse or Extreme Close-up (in fact they can be related, overlap and even result in). Generally played for laughs.
Examples: - Bugs Bunny on My Bunny Lies Over The Ocean, just after hitting a golf shot, runs to the camera until only his eyes are visible. - Fred Flinstone and Barney Gumble on the opening of The New Fred and Barney Show. - A Live Action example: One of the battlefield reporters of Takeshi's Castle (Shingo Yanagisawa) walks towards the camera as he's doing his report and gets closer and closer until he makes it go black, just for the lulz.
openperson has power they feel guilty using
Example: a person who can read minds but doesn't like to do it because they feel like they are violating their privacy.
A work's summary mentions a character dying, but the actual death doesn't occur until halfway through. What would that go under? Slow-Paced Beginning? A spoilery summary?