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openFake Chill
Is there a trope for a scenario that a character (usually a young male) spotting his crush coming next to him and he nervously tries to act cool, but instead he looks ridiculous and he says to his crush some lame phrase?
openInvoluntary Adventure or Survival
Not sure how to put it, I think there's a trope where Hero(es) don't have any call to adventure (per the Hero's Journey/Call to Adventure) but instead get thrust into adventure via circumstances they don't control. My friend is writing a story where the heroes are in the wrong (or right, for the story anyway) place at the time when a natural disaster occurs, sending the heroes on an adventure. I'm guessing it may also count if the Villain(s) were to capture the unwilling heroes and the heroes must escape to survive. Something like that. I attempted to look, especially connected to the hero's journey, but found only willing heroic ventures (as far as I could tell) Just wondering if anyone knows if it's already here or not. If not, I'll move to the You Know That Thing Where forum.
Edited by CyberneticOriginsopenParody, pastiche tropes for fan works? Live Action TV
I saved a page offline using ScrapBook for Firefox of some Fan Works about TV shows that the author of the site had as ideas (now no longer online), namely:
- A Marvel Cinematic Universe series following another SHIELD-type group with another acronym, who recruit Inhumans. The site owner claimed it was set in Earth-616 but from what I saw of the fansite, there were some changes from the MCU.
- A virtual Season 3 of Robotboy which did add some new characters, and turned Agent Kalaschnikov into a proper character rather than a oneshot, and added her to Robotboy and his friends' side via a Heel–Face Turn?
and also:
- A Lifetime Movie of the Week version of Superman presented as an over-the-top parody of it, without him actually being called Superman.
- A series featuring a human-robot partnership that's way Lighter and Softer than Almost Human.
What tropes relating to satire, parody or pastiche would fit the examples, and as for Fan Fic tropes for the Robotboy example, is that a straight-up continuation? Or is it High-Heel–Face Turn?
Edited by Merseyuser1openFake video to deceive guard
Someone hacks into a system to access a video monitor, probably for some sort of security system. They then insert a fake video, either previously taped or being simulated live, into the feed. The security guard looks at the video and thinks all is well, while actually shenanigans are going on at the place the video monitor is supposed to be monitoring.
This is a plot point in Ocean's Eleven but I don't see it there.
openPunny Picture Index
Is there an index for tropes whose page images are just Visual Pun s?
openSnarky skepticism?
What is the trope for disbelieving something in a snide way? (An example is the "Yeah, right" phrase).
openIdiotic Cop Threat Live Action TV
I keep noticing this trope in the show Monk: Person A knows Person B killed someone, and says "I'm calling the cops" to Person B's face, only to be killed by Person B. Is this anywhere in the TVT database?
openChildren's TV show about a boy with rare eyes Live Action TV
When I was younger there was a children's sci-fi TV show about a boy who had these rare coloured eyes and a rare blood type. I think his father had tried to clone him but had failed to do so. He was highly sought after for experiments due to his rarity. Does anyone have any idea?
openIs The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy's 42, a NoodleIncident?
Since this isn't a trope, what is this? A Noodle Incident? Since the context is unknown?:
Franchise.The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy:
- Administrivia.Zero Context Example: The number 42 is an in-universe use of the trope. Since there's no question, there's no context. Without knowing what the question is there's no possible way to know what "42" actually means.
openPlayer turned enemy?
Is there a trope where a player character/party member has to be fought? Not like a Heel–Face Turn where it's for the rest of the game, but it's only for one or two battles and then you have control of them again. An example that comes to mind is in Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story where you have to fight Bowser out of the blue in the middle of the story.
openA Question
Is there a trope for a moral avenger type of character such as Solomon Kane or the Shadow?
openArtifact from Early Installment Weirdness Anime
Cells at Work!, as a semi-Edutainment Show, is mostly accurate about how the body works. However, it is clear the author initially used one single personification for all the leucocytes (white blood cells), but eventually decided on having separate personifications for different types of white blood cells. The original pan-leucocyte personification is eventually "clarified" as a neutrophil, the most numerous type of leucocyte.
This is why these Neutrophil's design remains elements more appropriate for a pan-leucocyte personification:
- It is the only cell personification with a white Color Motif, even among leococytes.
- It's the only leococyte with the words "White Blood Cell" on their uniform, and is the only leucocyte referred by other cells as "White Blood Cell."
This is an artifact from an Early-Installment Weirdness. But is there a trope for it?
Edited by SamCurtopenThat moment when...
Someone little-known outside of legend suddenly shows up, and proves to be just as badass as they say.
openJust Doing a Job
Alice: "Are you telling me you rigged the election to get Hitler elected chancellor?" Bob: "My job is to make sure history keeps on track, Alice. These things happen."
Edited by BreadBullopenWhat trope would HeartOfGold be?
What trope would Heart Of Gold be?
'Cause it's not a trope, but a Fanfic name, but used like one.
Only now, it gets Redlinked, 'cause non-pages that are valid in other namespaces, do that now.
Is it Nice Guy, or something else?
I don't know if this trope exists already, but if it does, what trope is it when a character (usually in a children's show) learns an Aesop from a dream sequence as opposed to reality? e.g. a character acts very rude to people in real life, and then has a dream his impoliteness turns people away from him and people start being rude to him. The character wakes up having realised the error in his ways.