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Simple minded character with occasional moment of wisdom.

Obsessive villain

While arch enemy dynamics are common it seems that the villain is usually MUCH more obsessive about it than the hero.

Kodoku Anime

Not exactly a trope, but a semi-mythical spell that's been used many times in anime and manga. The Kodoku is a spell where you gather all kinds of poisonous pests from insects up to snakes, put them in a jar, and bury the sealed jar for a set time. Over that time, the animals will eat each other until only one is left. This one can be used in a variety of ways, including a supernatural servant that will bring prosperity in exchange for human sacrifice. If not properly fed, it'll eat its owner. To be rid of it, one places the kodoku at the side of a road or someplace along with gold and silver equal to the wealth it brought the owner plus interest. Sometimes the owner just does this part, leaving the creature and the gold where a target will find and collect it, then fail to feed the creature he doesn't know he picked up and end up being devoured himself.

This concept has occurred in a lot of stories. Sometimes it's a curse that'd actually been made or is being made (Ghost Hunt has a chapter where a guy set up his school, which was in a spiritually isolated location, to become this by summoning countless spirits that couldn't escape and would just devour each other until they became powerful enough to perform his curse). Sometimes it's set up as the ultimate meaning of a Battle Royale Game, to breed some sort of ultimate killer or even supernatural servant from the sole survivor.

Standard video game protagonist

The protagonist in video games always seems to be a gruff middle aged man with a dark past and a drinking problem.

Youthful protagonist

For some reason it seems that protagonists in stories are always portrayed as young. Whenever their age is mentioned it will always be in the 20s range.

server on 1,8 ghz processor

an entire virtual world (size of an earth) with 7000 lags causing events (normally on standard powerful processor) happening on a very weak processor, surprisingly works (without lag whatsoever)

Worst nightmare shapeshifting backfire

Certainly you know about those types of monsters or antagonist that shapeshift to their victim/opponent's worst fear. Be it boggarts of the Harry Potter or Grom of The Owl House.

Except that this one particular character's worst nightmare turns out to be too much even for the shapeshifter's mind to comprehend. Perhaps it's an Eldritch Abomination or Eldritch Location totally defying the laws of euclidean geometry which no less-than-godlike mind was meant to see as its true form cannot be grasped. The shapeshifter's mind crumples at mere imagination of the horror which their victim fears (and even probably went through) and ends up defeating itself.

Does such trope exist? Or did I actually come up with something new?

3rd Person Narration changes how it refers to character

In the The Bartimaeus Trilogy in the third book Nathaniel is exclusively referred to as John Mandrake (his magician name) by the narration for the first half of the novel. Then in a time of emotional crisis, he goes to see an old tutor and the narration almost exclusively refers to him as "He". After that chapter, the narration exclusively refers to him as Nathaniel. Is this just an inversion of That Man Is Dead (reclaiming your old identity), or is this something more specific. What I'm looking at here is the narration specifically.

Rapid cuts for scariness

A technique often used in trailers for horror/thriller media, in which rapid cuts are used to create a scary/tense mood.

I Speak X Too

Is there a trope for when two or more characters complain about another character in another language, unaware that said character can actually understand them? Like, Alice and Bob talk about Charlotte in Spanish, a language they assume she doesn't speak - only for Charlotte to reveal she does, in fact, speak Spanish and understood everything they just said about her?

Kind of like MeaningfulBackgroundEvent, but...

Do we have a trope in which a scene is shown which has a meaning that could be missed by the viewer, but which is not particularly important to the plot?

For example, in Clue, there is an unusually long, silent shot in which Yvette serves drinks to guests, with some accepting and some declining. The shot is not meaningful with regards to the plot, but it does seem to indicate the sexuality of the characters who were offered drinks:

• Prof. Plum, who most openly demonstrated interest in Yvette, accepts.
• Mr. Green, who states that he is homosexual, declines.
• Col. Mustard, a client of Miss Scarlet's prostitution ring and with clear interest in women, accepts.
• Mrs. Peacock and Mrs. White, who have both mentioned husbands, decline.
• Miss Scarlet is served last. Her preferences are not noted in any other place in the film. She accepts a drink from Yvette.

It could be considered similar to Meaningful Background Event, except:

• It's not particularly meaningful. It doesn't affect the plot in any way.
• It's not necessarily in the background. The scene with Yvette serving drinks happens in the foreground, for example.

blink-and-you-miss-it character detail Live Action TV

is there a trope that's about when something is revealed very quickly and subtly? for the example i'm using, a main character's last name is revealed in the header of a letter he receives and is found no where else in the show.

If X Then Y, If Y Then X

In the picture book Time for Spring by Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss, a little girl makes a snowman that comes to life. She's worried that he's going to melt because spring is coming, but he tells her it's going to be okay because so long as he's around, spring won't come. When she tries to argue this point, he tells her "Spring, no snowman. Snowman, no spring." In other words, in spring there cannot be snowman and because of this, since he exists, it can never be spring. Do we have a trope for this sort of fallacy?

Mistaken for performance/special effects

A character uses some magic/super power and other onlookers mistake it as some special effects or a stunt performance.

Classy Hand Fan

Hand fans, whether in old Europe, China or Japan, that makes up the image of "high class". Basically the Distaff Counterpart to Classy Cane.

Do we have this?

Details across synchronized media

When multiple movies/shows/songs/etc. are started at the same time, events in both media reference those currently happening in the other:

• When the trailers for Death Stranding are edited to be the same length, Sam's Bridge Baby disappears in one trailer while emerging in Deadman's machine in the other trailer.
• Playing the last episodes of WandaVision and Loki at the same time shows Wanda becoming the Scarlet Witch, embodiment of chaos magic, in the former while He Who Remains loses his control over the timeline in the latter.

Emoting artifact

An object or animal held by the character changes its emotion based on the weilder.

Wall subsitute

Bob breaks a wall, Alice kills bob and uses his body for covering the damages bob causing

Opening Your Eyes Under Water

I mean the trope in which a person submerges itself, and can keep their eyes open, or even see and guide themselves underwater, without much trouble. When in real life, even when you are on clean freshwater, it doesn't take much for your eyes to get irritated, and being incapable of keeping that up with the pain. Is there a named trope for that?

One character stays bad after the end but fails automatically Western Animation

This trope is most common in kids media but appears elsewhere sometimes to

This trope usually happens whenever their is a Villain with Good Publicity Close to the end of the movie or episode. The characters that loved him (sometimes some of his workers) Start to rebel and join the good guys. However one character (usually the main villain) Still wants to be evil but just as he is about to escape or continue his evil plan something happens to him. For example he might die or fall or trip or get attacked or something that causes his plan to fail.It also might have the character suffer a Disney Villan Death