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openSomber humanity before battle
There's a trope I want to make a page for, but I want to make sure we don't already have one for it. Right now, I'm calling it, "Somber humanity before battle", but if you can think of a better name, I would like to hear it.
It's the climax or near the climax of a story, and the heroes, and hero armies are about to take part in a HUGE battle against a seemingly unstoppable foe. The music, art, or texture does not establish that this is something to get pumped up for, this is something to be frightful over. The heroes know that the odds of victory are not good, and their all frightened. Nonetheless, they don't run even though staying means they will probably die. The heroes are all going through different emotions, some are frightened and clinging to what little courage they have left, some are sad, some face death with dignity or whatever.
But the heroes have some time before the battle starts, usually just a few hours. So what do they do with what may well be their last moments alive? They show moments of somber, but heartwarming humanity. Some try to raise the spirits of less hopeful soldiers or heroes, some look back at their lives and talk about how far they've come since their story started and compare who they were then, to who they are now, show regret and remorse at mistakes they made, or laugh at their past. Some heroes may tell jokes or sing songs to each other to try and cheer others and themselves up, to make them more confident, trusted friends and companions tell eachother that it's been an honor that they knew and fought together, rivals and friends who's relationships fell apart reconcile before it's too late, reformed villains or atoners complete their archs by showing compassion for former enemies, characters with friends or loved ones far away sent what could be their final messages to them, characters with deceased friends and loved ones offer prayers to the departed promising to join them if they die, and characters in a a relationship or romance have one last time in bed or one last kiss, or maybe their first and likely last kiss or time in bed before they die.
The scene is dark and somber, and doesn't negate the fact that it's very likely that not only could many or all these heroes die, but they could also fail. But the scene is not meant to give false reassurance. The scene is meant to boost confidence in both the characters and audience, and provide heartwarming scenes of humanity to show how far characters have come, and that even when facing death in the face, they still keep going until they die. Even comedy in scenes like these tend to be somber in nature.
Examples include Mass Effect 3, where squad members past and present give their final comments to Shepard, and tell him/her that it has been an honor to know him/her and Shepard having one last scene with romance character, and other characters in relationships doing the same. Aragorn trying to raise the spirits of Haleth in the Two Towers movie, Gimli and Legolas's brief conversation about dying side by side with a friend in Return of the King, and much of the cast of Game of Thrones doing all of the stuff I've mentioned.
Do we already have a page for this? Or can I go all out?
openNarrative told in the background
Is there a trope for where a card background for a character (but the character's art remains static) changes, implying a story as they move from location to location?
openDefense-Evasion Conflation
A game mechanic where having enough armor to nullify an attack's effect is considered the same as evading the attack or the attack missing. Rarely seen in JRP Gs, where the defense stat will usually reduce damage taken when an attack hits instead of being all-or-nothing.
For example, D&D 5e's AC (the threshold under which attacks deal no damage) takes both the character's agility and armor into account, so a Fragile Speedster and a Stone Wall could have the exact same AC and be equally hard to damage despite their completely different appearances and performance in combat (but the FS won't be able to take as many hits as the SW).
openHit-syncing
During a fight scene, parts of the score are synced to the attacks. For example, this fight.
openMaking people dizzy
Being able to make people horrifically dizzy and/or nauseous is a superpower that's recurrent enough that it should be a trope, but if it does exist I can't track it down. The closest tropes I've been able to find are Brown Note and Interface Screw, but I don't think the former is specific enough and the latter feels too specific.
Count Vertigo from the Green Arrow comics has it as his whole thing, as does Vertigo from Marvel. Thok from BIONICLE did too, if I remember correctly. I'm sure there are more examples, but I can't think of any.
openWhat SecretIdentity comics page includes an artist realizing Matt Murdock was Daredevil?
I don't know if this is the place to ask this, but I remember a Secret Identity Sub-Trope that had a separate comic books page with an example of the artist of a alternate cover (posing as an in-universe artist) realizing Matt and Daredevil were the same person when they saw the similarities.
openIs there a trope like The Dreaded but for a location?
Is there? Especially some place so scary and dangerous that even scary monsters/people are afraid to go in.
openGeneric president
When a fictional president of a country (most commonly the United States) is shown, they'll just be a generic, middle-aged white man.
open"Coil of Droppings" trope and "XYZ-ton Weight" trope? Western Animation
Is there a trope for the traditional "coil" style of animal droppings commonly associated with dogs and such that is commonly seen in cartoons?
Additionally (not sure if there are rules against asking for more than one trope in a single post), is there one for an "XYZ-ton Weight" being dropped on someone/something as a gag?
openWhat is the name of the trope where something is good but doesn't feel like part of the franchise? Live Action TV
For instance, I was watching Power Rangers in Space and its the most Power Rangers show. In contrast, a self-contained season like Power Ranger Ninja Storm while very good feels like a completely different show. I know after the Zordon era there's a self-contained season, however, they have ties to the Zordon era or the greater mythos. For instance, Beast Morphers brought Jason back.
For instance, Christopher's Nolan did his own version of Batman. While it was good it changed some status quo elements(Robin) as well as its more realistic tone that it didn't feel like a comic book movie at all.
openDark theory
A trope related to Dark Fic and which can sometimes overlap with Epileptic Trees: when people come up with theories about a work that are darker in concept in comparison to the work itself.
openRace of creatures hates all outsiders due to being enslaved for a long time
What would this be? I'm thinking a combination of Absolute Xenophobe and Freudian Excuse.
openDueling works, except not really
Do we have a page on when two fandoms hold pretty strong or at the very least a notable rivalry, but the creators of those two works are on friendly terms with each other?
openCerebus Reveal
What's the trope where a situation is revealed to be a lot darker than it seemed at first, but isn't a Cerebus Retcon?
In this case, early in The Boys MM appears to be a case of Overprotective Dad when his daughter goes out with wannabe gangbangers and dresses in very revealing clothing along with her promiscuous attitude. Later on we learn that due to the Compound V in her system, she looks to be in her twenties but is actually 12, making MM's fears perfectly justified.
Edited by Chabal2openPointless little object interactions. Videogame
Ok, despite the title, this can often add flavour to the atmosphere of a game, but pragmatically speaking, it's pointless. The type of thing I'm talking about here is, for example, when a game lets you open and close the (empty) drawers, turn the lights on and off, etc, and this has no impact on anything or any apparent purpose beyond just existing.
openPlease Come Back!
Is there a "plot trope" for the often-used plot where a character is accused of great wrongdoing that they were not responsible for or is mistreated harshly by another character, only for different character(s) to not believe them and harshly punish or shun them as a result of their perceived crime/lie, and the punished/shunned character leaves, only for the accuser(s) to have a My God What Have I Done Moment after somehow realizing their mistake, whether they figure it out on their own or another character points it out to them, and beg the mistreated character for forgiveness and to "come back" while apologizing and admitting their wrongdoing in regards to how they treated them?
So, even though the basic plot of the "plot trope" I offered may be rather specific in places, and for that, I am sorry for possibly having poorly explained the trope, I have seen it happen in many forms of media and enjoy it. Is it a trope, and does it have an entry already? I think it fits somewhere in the apology trope index and would be a "common plot" trope like the Beach Episode trope, but further specifics as to how it would be categorized illude me.
Edited by ElectrotechmanopenGratuitous Quantity Multiplier
In some kind of video game, card game, board game, or anything that includes numbers as a serious part of gameplay (in the form of damage, stats, or any other kind of point system), when all of these numbers are "gratutiously" multiples of 5, 10 or some other round number. Like in the Pokémon Trading Card Game where all HP totals and attack damages are multiples of 10 (even though the game would play the exact same way if that Pokémon had 9 HP and did 5 damage instead of having 90 HP and doing 50 damage). Or like in Plants vs. Zombies where sun always comes in multiples of 5.
openI've Always Been Here
Do we have a trope for when a villain either replaces a family member or member of a group and everyone treats the infiltrator (often except for one) as though they had become said member? Sometimes, more people do notice.
For example, in one of the FNAF books, the main character who is a kid notices that his dad has become someone completely different. Yet, no one but the kid seems to notice this.
Not sure if this counts, but in Duck Season, the dad has been replaced by the dog. In Too Many Cooks, Bill's goal is to insert himself as the sitcom dad. However, people notice.
Simple one here. Do we have any tropes specifically about characters dancing the Robot? Also related, what about a trope for robots that dance?