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openNo gridlock in a car chase
What's the trope for when a car chase scene has no traffic, or it's only just thick enough that the chaser and chased can show off their Badass Driver skills rather than having everyone immediately get caught in the bumper to bumper traffic that a big city should be having?
openBoss-slaying attack Videogame
Wasn't there a trope for attacks that are extra-effective against bosses? It might have been a TLP draft that never got launched.
openSword bullet block
Do we have a trope where somebody stops something like a bullet with a sword?
openThe Jerk Of Wall Street
Since nobody replied to my previous post, I'll post it again.
Do we have a trope for the stereotype of the smug/dickish Wall Street businessman/banker/mogul? Not a Corrupt Corporate Executive, buy nevertheless an unsavory type who only cares about business, money, and cocaine. The Breadwinner splicers from Bioshock and Kermit's cousin Gordon the Gecko from that one Robot Chicken episode come to mind.
openIs there a trope for this concept?
Something I've come to realize: whenever you think you're the only person who believes a certain thing or feels a certain way about something, you're almost always wrong. Is there a trope for this?
openMonument montage
A form of montage that involves many famous monuments and places being shown.
Edited by jandn2014openBully’s bully
When the reason why a character is a bully is because they have somebody else who is cruel to them, whenever it be Abusive Parents or the like.
openRepeat the scene/shot 3 times.
Basically there is a scene/shot of something happening, (like something exploding to give an example,) and it repeats the shot 3 (sometimes more) times in different angles.
openAnimals running away from their owners plot
Animals/livestock running away fron their (usually cruel) owners plot.
Edited by MacronNotesopenactor (not) in trouble
A passes by, sees B, thinks, he's in danger and comes to the rescue. Turns out B wasn't really in danger, so A isn't the hero of the day. Instead, A just interrupted actor B's work on a filmset.
openLost Baby/Egg plot
The protagonists come into possession of a lost baby or egg (for animals) and must return it to its parents.
openStandard Useless Inventions
A gag where certain inventions and devices are mentioned to establish someone as a Bungling Inventor or as the pinnacle of uselessness, such as a screen door for submarines, an ejector seat for helicopters, dehydrated water...
openbeatdown makes Girl love boy Literature
Super-ability girl only notices that the normal guy in love with her is worthy of her notice and affection after he takes a serious amount of damage, often by losing a fight, in order to protect or help her in some way. It's not "distressed dude", as he doesn't need rescuing, it can precede "violently protective girlfriend", but not necessarily. What is the trope in which an ordinary guy proves his worthiness to an extraordinary girl by taking extraordinary physical risks, and often losing in a fight? It's not "loser gets the girl" because that requires both guys to fight over her, and defeat makes her realize that the winner never really interested her. This is more like the girl does not really know she reciprocates his love, until she sees the amount of physical pain and damage he is willing to absorb in their shared cause. It may be the prelude to the "violently protective girlfriend" but not always. Is there something like the "Steve Trevor Effect" from the Wonder Woman (2016) movie? Except in that, they hook up before he blows himself up, but that causes her to (posthumously) forgive him for their fight. Any ideas? It's not "weakness turns her on" because we are not talking about a character who is congenitally weak in body or personality, but usually he is in some way inferior to her - less educated, less intelligent, less trained, whatever. Often, the guy takes a beating in an attempt to serve her in some way, protection, rescue attempt, something. This usually leads to the moment when the girl realizes that the guy who she has been somehow looking upon as insufficient is suddenly recognized as worthy. It's also not the "after-action patch up" ,nor the "After-action hook-up". It's not the "Florence Nightingale effect"because there is not necessarily any medical personnel involved. It's more like a "relationship upgrade due to almost losing him" Several books do this, including Patrick Ness' "The Knife of Never Letting Go" and Brittany Cavallaro's "Charlotte Holmes" series. Both have superior and aloof female leads ignoring inferior but loyal male leads' growing dedication until some sort of damage threshold is passed.Once the damage threshold is passed, though, the female leads suddenly realizes the boy's importance to her, and there is an instant relationship upgrade. Any ideas?
openActor doesn't realize the camera's on. Film
Is there a trope for when a scene starts and it's obvious the actor doesn't realize the camera's running as they will wait for several seconds before they start talking or doing whatever it is they are supposed to do. Typically only happens in really bad films for obvious reasons (I think Manos: The Hands of Fate has it a couple times.)
openEarly Credits Appearance
Someone is listed in the closing credits long before their first appearance.
openLet Them Have Them
In his long list of targets for revenge, Bob is planning to go after next target. However, by chance, he finds out said target has pissed off another person he doesn't know. Rather than beat the other person to the target, he decides to let the other person deal with the target
Edited by JC96openCurse/Spirit nopeing out of the body
Is there a trope for when a curse or a spirit/ghost just exits the body it was possesing because of some external reason?
openRandom Events Weren't So Random
Each member of this ensemble cast, at some point, inadvertently found themselves in a predicament but somehow escaping with their lives. Each incident has been treated both in-and-out of universe as just random events. However, later on, it's revealed all these random events were curated by a villain, who was manipulating the events of the story.
There is a very well known photo related to a real-life event. A fictional work includes part of that real-life event in the plot, so there's a scene that is made to look similar to that famous photo. Do photographs count as art for Art Imitates Art?