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openDueling Solves Everything
In a particular world where something is labelled as Serious Business or something else that is trivial in our world, conflict is always resolved through one particular action such as fighting, dueling with children's card games, race car driving etc. And I mean everything, it could even be the most mundane of things.
An example is in Blazing Transfer Student, there is a school which states that anyone can have everything if they win in a fight, no matter what that fight is.
openCase/Monster of the week is eventually revealed as part of the myth arc
I know I asked this before, however, I can't seem to find the original post, so I'm asking again:
There are shows where the heroes solve a different case or fight off a different villain each week - and at first, the audience assumes those are just regular, one-off, cases or villains that are essentially unimportant.
However, at one point it gets revealed that the villains were actually connected to each other, and have worked for the same Big Bad and were part of a much bigger conspiracy the whole time. So, I was wondering is there a trope for this?
openThat Pokemon anime episode where guy beats people up with a staff. Anime
So I asked this question yesterday, but apparently I either forgot to post it or it must have been deleted for some reason.
Anyway, I'm looking for that one Pokémon episode taking place in the Sinnoh region where the event described by the title takes place: detective accompanies heroes in a cave, encounters Team Galactic grunts, and proceeds to beat them up with a Simple Staff rather than engage in the usual mon battle.
EDIT: Oh fuck, this is the wrong forum. No wonder I couldn't find my question here. Trope Finder is where it's at. Sorry.
Edited by Unnerving_PosterioropenDifferent media, same author(s), similar names
Two examples in video games came to mind:
1) System Shock 2 and the Bioshock series, both developed by Irrational Games
2) Warcraft and Starcraft, both developed by Blizzard
I also *think* there might be some others that I heard of, but, sadly, can't remember them right now.
So, is there a trope for this?
Edited by TheGreatDuck2openOff-Screen Comedic Beatdown
Is there a trope for when a character(s) is dragged/pushed off-screen and beaten up in an over the top comedic manner while the characters left onscreen wince at what is going on and the audience can hear the character(s) being beaten?
openWhat trope is this
So there is this dryad character called "The Sovereign of the Dryads" from this manga I am reading that has the ability to break off branches of herself which from into another dryad which is an extension of herself. This dryad branch/clone has her own personality but the sovereign can take over conscious without her knowledge.
I know that techinally this would go on Our Nymphs Are Different but I was wondering if there was a trope for the "branching off clones of yourself that work as extensions of you".
Is that just Self-Duplication?
openCharacter Identification
The reader identifies with a character in a work (who isn't intended to be an Audience Surrogate) because of their similar backstories, personality, outlook on life, or even just name.
Happens in-universe in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (Dalton, a washed-up cowboy actor reads a book about a cowboy who can't find work anymore due to an injury) and in Twisted (a Beleaguered Boss Mis-blamed for the kingdom's woes reads a book about a Not Evil, Just Misunderstood witch who's Mis-blamed for the kingdom's woes).
Edited by Chabal2openChange of script
The script is changed from one version to another, can change slangs, names and even words from one to another (The script I wanna define has a change from the word "Broken" to "Stung" for another version)
openWhat example is this?
This character was involved in the unfair or poor treatment of a particular situation that left the main character understandably embittered. However, this character is not directly complicit but was just part of the side that treated him unfairly. Nonetheless, the character admittedly knows the main character was treated unfairly but they absolutely had no choice to go along unless they wanted to be next for not complying. This reason is why the main character is partially mad at this character.
Edited by JC96openOverwhelmed by responsibilites
Do we have anything for when characters start to get overwhelmed by their responsibilities, almost like they're being crushed by them?
open(YMMV) The part of the game that is hated, but not because it's hard.
In a game, this part is absolutely loathed by almost every player, but not because it's hard (although, it can be a factor), but mainly because the characters are either way too OOC, there might be more than one Ass Pull, or because the overall plot is stupid and non-sensical and almost doesn't feel like it belongs in the same game. It can mostly end up feeling as Filler more than anything.
Examples I can think of are usually the third chapters of both the Ace Attorney and Danganronpa franchises, which are usually adressed as the "chapter 3 syndrome". A mission in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas called "Deconstruction" can also be seen as this, as CJ acts way too OOC and slaughters a whole group of construction workers, ruins all the work they had done and ''buries the foreman alive'' just because a few of them insulted his sister by calling her a "hooker". This is never brought up ever again and the mission just seems to come out of nowhere.
openWhat example is this?
A writer was to have this specific character appear in the sequel work but had him bumped up to the current entry. This decision is even alluded to in the work when the character says, "I know I was supposed to appear a year later but things changed,"
openBig Bad pretending to be the Dragon
I can't find a variant of The Dragon in which there proves to be no Big Bad other than him/herself, as they were only pretending to be the second (or even lower) in command. "I'm just a lowly messenger for The Boss, whom you don't want to mess with", for faked intimidation, or "Please don't make this difficult or the boss will have my head", if played for fake pity. It's not Mouth of Sauron, which appears instead of the boss but the boss does exist. Dragon-in-Chief seems overly broad, covering merely dragons more important than Big Bads, but not cases where there deliberately wasn't a Big Bad in the first place. El Cid Ploy comes to mind, but don't we have something more specific to The Dragon playing this since day one?
Edited by SinusPiopen"When did you arrive?" "I have been here all time."
Alice, Bob and Carol are having a conversation in a room. Alice says something shocking, which earns a reaction from everyone, including Harry... who was not participating in the conversation (but is welcomed to do so if he desires), shocking the people already in the room. When questioned when did he arrive, he simply says "I have been here all the time", which is true, the three of them just didn't notice him until that point.
This can potentially a Running Gag as well. Can also overlap with Right Behind Me, but it's not always the case, as the character in question can show up at, and from, any point, and the subject of the conversation that the other characters are having doesn't have to be about the person that has just showed up.
Edited by BassikunopenVillain apprentice Western Animation
In both Teen Titans and Danny Phantom, the big bad wants the hero to be their apprentice. This is Slade-Robin and Vlad Plasmius-Danny Phantom. Is there a trope for a villain wanting to train the hero and the hero strenuously objecting?
openCartoon Teleportation
A character teleports onscreen by hiding in one place, then appearing in another place that should be impossible.
For example, character A hides behind a tree. Character B opens a box, and character A somehow pops out of the box.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I haven't seen a trope specifically for the ability to change one element to another, such as lead into gold, or stone into Kryptonite.
The closest I could find was Taken for Granite, which doesn't really apply.
Edited by Civanfan