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openThat trope that involves giving orders to the bad guy when they show up suddenly Western Animation
Does anyone know what the trope name is for when a person is giving instructions to his team and then say the bad guy walks up and he starts to give instructions to him only to realize it's the villain often leading to hi jinx?
Like as an example in the What's New Scooby-Doo episode "The Unnatural" Fred is giving orders to the gang to stop the villain of the week the Baseball spectre leading to this exchange.
Fred: "Shaggy you and Scooby Create a diversion"
Shaggy: "Right"
Fred: "Daphne you and Velma will work your way to the other side and get to that control panel"
Velma and Daphne: "Check"
Baseball Spectre: "What about me?"
Fred: "Well you're gonna make your way over to the-"
The Gang screams
So yeah does that joke have a trope? What's it called?
openWho's asking?
Is there a trope where a character is looking for a (usually shady) person and after finding them they ask "Are you *Insert name*" and get a response "who's asking" or "depends who wants to know"?
openLess problematic adaptation
Do we have a trope where an adaptation attempts to remove the more problematic or dated elements of its source material?
openTone at odds with content? Live Action TV
Trying to find a trope for Series.Top Gear for this:
- In the 1996 Soft Reboot series, some fans did not like the Lighter and Softer tone even though the show covered serious topics, which was at odds with the show's general nature. The fandom didn't like it being Lighter and Softer at all during 1996!
openTeaching is where careers go to die Live Action TV
I was thinking there would be a trope for this, but I couldn't find it in HIMYM or Friends, which are the main examples I can think of. Basically the trope is when a character, typically an academic one, suffers career trouble (e.g. gets fired from a museum or an architecture firm) they are presented with an offer to teach at a university. Like I said this occurs in Friends with Ross and in HIMYM with Ted. It also occurs in the second-to-last season of Community with Jeff. It isn't always outright stated, but I feel at least implied that by accepting a teaching position they are accepting something beneath them just so that they can have a source of income until they can get back to a real job (i.e. implying that teaching is a sub-standard profession).
open"Like Something in a Kids Book"
In The Conference of the Birds from the Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children books, Jakob at one point comments that just once he wants to go someplace friendly and inviting, "like portals in kids books." I feel like there's a trope for this sort of fourth wall reference. Closest thing I've come up with is This Is Reality, but I feel like I've seen something before in the past which fits it better.
openFaking high class taste?
Is there a trope for characters that fake having a "high class taste" to impress someone? Like pretending to like abstract art or fancy dance just because someone they want to impress likes it?
openSingle color oversaturation
Do we have a trope for where everything in a scene or setting is only one (usually a bright) color? Deliberately Monochrome is for black and white/greyscale only I believe. This would be for everything is red, for example.
opennarration cards
Onscreen cards saying things like "[X amount of time] later". Like the narrator cards in SpongeBob SquarePants, or panel 1 here
openNo Title
- Animal Crossing penalizes you when plant too many trees, with New Horizons citing it to be "too rural". In order to achieve town perfection, you have to cut some down. This coming from a game that is called Animal Forest in its native country.
This was listed as Violation of Common Sense, which I know is wrong because that's for when a game rewards you for doing something obviously foolish. But this is still an interesting thing worth documenting, I just can't think of what trope(s) it might fall under.
openWhen the child becomes the adult and the adults are children
Similar to Only Child Syndrome — the child is the most mature person in the household, while the parents are more immature. Bonus points if it’s due to being an only child.
openBoth sides are equally wrong
The inverse of Both Sides Have a Point, where a character finds both sides to be equally in the wrong.
openSpecific Fear Trope? Film
Is there a trope for a character who acts tough and bold, but when threatened, even in the slightest, cowers into submission/obedience?
openNon-fruit tree
Is there a trope for fictionnal trees that produce things that are not fruits, like bombs for exemple ?
openDenunciation Backfire
A program put in place to receive anonymous denunciations immediately backfires when it instead has to handle thousands of complaints, 99% of which have nothing to do with anything criminal but are the product of Moral Guardians, old people or other strawmen complaining about just about everything they find objectionable in modern society, e.g. "There's an unmarried couple living in sin", "Young people playing rock music", "The Johnsons only mow their lawn twice a month", "there's black people moving into my neighborhood, they're probably muslimic terrorists", etc.
openPretending not to receive an order so you can disobey it?
I just watched the Deep Space 9 episode, "The Die is Cast," where Sisko takes the Defiant to go rescue Odo from the Cardassians, even though an Admiral just ordered him to stay and guard Bajor. It includes the following exchange...
KIRA: Commander, there's an incoming priority message from Starfleet Command. It's Admiral Toddman. He's repeating his order not to enter the Gamma Quadrant. SISKO: That's what you think it says. How can you be sure when a transmission is as badly garbled as that one? KIRA: You're right. There's an awful lot of subspace interference on this channel. Must be an ion storm or something.
...This seems like a pretty common trope to me, of people pretending not to receive an order so they can have some thin rationalization to disobey it (even though there's no chance in hell that would hold up in a court martial). Is there a specific name for this? I know about "Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!" but I guess I would think of this trope as being more about the method of making excuses for that action.
openCharacter is Ranting about another character, but then inmediatly does what said character did
For example, in an episode of American Dad!, Klaus, the fish, is disgusted to learn that Stan accidentally crapped his pants while jumping to a swimming pool, but then inmediatly he defecates (of course, he is a fish, but still).
Edited by BassikunopenActor playing all the characters Web Original
This is common in a lot of online videos, where clones of them are playing all the characters, with different shots for all the different characters they're playing.
openAlternate Song Interpretation? Music
Is there a trope similar to Alternate Character Interpretation but where a song that's generally thought to mean a certain thing is though by a small minority to be something different? For a personal example: I always found the song missing by Everything but the Girl to be a major Tear Jerker, till I read on some thread someone suggested the protagonist could be intended as a Stalker with a Crush, and the reason they can't find the person is they are actively trying to hide from them, which puts it in quite a different light.
Edited by Bootlebat
Do we have a trope for when a person's fridge is absolutely cluttered with artwork by their children/grandchildren? Often used to show that parents are Good Parents. "Fridge" and "refrigerator" are pretty hard to search for here due to the Fridge Logic namespace...