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openKnowledge He Shouldn't Have Live Action TV
I'm watching an episode of Forensic Files where an arson investigator is found to have set many fires, and part of the evidence against him is that a dispatcher gave the wrong address to a fire but he managed to arrive at the correct location. Is there a trope for that?
openPlatonic Dialog Literature
A dialog between two characters, used to deliver an Author Filibuster or An Aesop. Trope Maker is the works of Plato, but it's pretty common in literature with a philosophical bent.
openThe title is kept untranslated
Basically, when a piece of work is translated outside of its title, for any reason (Rule of Cool or anything else)
openEndless survival game mode
A videogame play mode where you advance through levels/floors/etc and it stops after something inside it stops you.
Endless Running Game is just one variant of it.
openMisblamed atoner
The Atoner did something wrong in the past and keeps beating himself up for it. Then it turns out he was never responsible in the first place, or even framed for it.
openBest friends forever - until the episode ends and you are never seen again!
I have been watching a lot of 90s tv shows on them and one of the quirks I have noticed in them is this: a character will be introduced in one episode as one of the regulars classmates/long standing friend/cousin/neighbour/etc and the episode will do this huge focus on the new character and we will see in this episode just how important this character is to the regular, and yet after the episode ends... we never see or hear of the character again, despite the episode trying to establish just how important they are to the main characters life.
one example would be Queen Latifah's episode of THE FRESH PRINCE OF BEL AIR, where will meets her and they get really close but he doesnt want to date her because she is overweight, and after a long chat and lots of reflection he realises how shallow he was being and goes and sees her and begs her to stay in his life. it is all quite sweet... and yet we never see or hear of her again, which leads to fridge logic as viewers are left to wonder if will had another change of heart and dumped her five minutes after the episode ended!
is there a specific trope for this?
openJudgement of the dead
Some sort of god(s) or cosmic entity sit down and discuss the deeds and acts of a recently dead person in order to decide their fate in the afterlife. Common in many religions (e.g. Judgement Day in Christianity, the weighing of the heart in Egyptian Mythology), but I wonder if there's a general trope for this, or for aspects related to these scenarios.
openI'll Carry You
I'm looking for a trope where a character passes out/ is hurt and the other character carries them in a cradle type hold (I would prefer if it was platonic, but if not that's okay)
openScene mirroring
I'm looking for a trope where a scene from a first movie is mirrored in the second movie in more or less the same context.
openAll for One and Won for All
In the midst of a battle, when everything is looking grim for every member of the group, one person manages to start getting the upper hand, and somehow, simultaneously, every single member of the fight suddenly starts doing better. One common source of this trope is Superhero groups
openIs there are a trope for when an important plot event is publicly televised?
And a lot of people are shown watching TV?
openHere all along / Pointless quest
A character goes on an epic journey to get a valuable item. Returning home however, he finds the already had a bunch of that item and he didn't need to go get any.
openFictional cause behind historical event
- Honkai Impact3rd: The "Black Death" plague in 16th century Europe is revealed to be part of the "Honkai" phenomenon, a force that tries to eliminate humans in multiple ways.
openOh, God, There's Two of Them
Sometimes, the party you're in has that particularly... quirky sort of character. You know, someone with a stilted manner of speech, or some off-the-wall ideas, or they're just plain weird. And sometimes another party has the exact same person. When the two meet, the two quirkmeisters will either hate each other at first sight, or immediately click... and in the latter case, both parties usually stare with horrified shock or at least bemusement, generally with someone muttering, "Oh, god, there's two of them." Is this a trope listed already?
openIncreasingly fast cross cutting
Alright, so I know that I've seen this in so many places, but I can only think of one example currently. Two people or entities are in conflict. Both of them start screaming or charging towards each other. The camera cuts to one of them and then to the other. Then back again. And again. And again. The camera keeps cutting between them and the interval between the cuts decreases with each cut. If they're yelling, the yells will begin to overlay as the cuts do. Eventually it seems as if the two cuts are superimposed onto each other due to how fast they are cut together. This technique is usually present in animation. Anyone know what this is called?
openPragmatic Honesty
EXAMPLE:
- The main character, who's an celebrity novelist, is known for being quite honest about his past to the media, whether negative or positive. When asked why he's so frank about his past, the main character that it's better to know now than decades later.
openNothing costs money
Often seen in kids’ tv shows. A character walks into, say, a movie theater and says, “Two tickets, please,” and the person behind the counter hands them two tickets. Then the character just walks away and no money is exchanged.
Is this a trope?
Very often in action films, there will be a scene where the villain has captured some hostages, or is about to release the super-weapon, and says that the The Hero will be morally responsible for all these deaths unless The Villain gets what he wants. This is obviously wrong as The Villain is both practically and morally responsible for their own actions.
Is there an existing Trope that describes this? It is similar to Accomplice by Inaction, but it is more about displaced morality/responsibility.
Edited by Strange