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openLooking for Japan animated kids show
All I remember about the show is that the main character is this girl who is quite a troublemaker.
There's one episode that I remember, it's about this new guy in school, I think he's a rich kid. He was paired up with the main character and Got a crush on her when she let her hair down.
I remember that she leans in to him like she is going to kiss him but in reality she was picking up a caterpillar that she found and gave it to this guy
In later episodes, you can see that the guy was taking a good care of the caterpillar, giving it a very fancy house
openEmbarrassment trope? Anime
Is there a trope for where the villain is a national embarrassment (not just to other villains) in their home country and leaves because of it (even though they're actually a competent threat), becoming The Big Bad in another kingdom and forming a Villain Team-Up of formerly independent villains in that kingdom?
Basically - the villain is actually scarily competent and a Knight of Cerebus but isn't seen as that by the heroes or people of his home country, but in order to be considered that, he has to emigrate?
From an out-of-universe perspective, the heroes/protagonist are from the country that the Big Bad character emigrates to, and the work is set there.
Edited by Merseyuser1openFake boarding school
A kid runs away from home and tells their parents they're attending a "boarding school"
openNo, it's your fault.
So Alice has a Never My Fault attitude, always blaming others for everything that's wrong with her life...until Bob gets tired of this, looks her straight in the eye, and tells her, "Stop blaming everyone else. Everything that wrong with your life is your fault." Is this covered by a trope, or is it tropeworthy on its own?
Case in point, from Revenge of the Sith:
Anakin: You turned [Padmé] against me!
Obi'Wan: You have done that yourself.
Edited by StarTropesopenInverted game mechanic Videogame
Trope searched for: When a game mechanic's purpose becomes flipped around, usually to the player's detriment.
Long-winded explanation: In the Match Three Mobile Phone Game Family Guy: Another Freakin' Mobile Game, at the middle and end of each stage you have a boss fight. In these, you have a limited number of moves to fill a set count of board spaces with white, which you do by making matches. The catch is that if you don't make a special item with matches within a few moves, the boss will attack you. Their attack wipes out a random row or column of pieces on the board, which clears off any spaces you've filled in that area. Also, as pieces are dropping into those empty spaces, if any special items are created anywhere on the board and end up in a match, they will also clear out filled spaces as they go off, instead of filling them like they normally would. The last bit is what I'm talking about.
Edited by WillbyropenNo, but actually yes.
Is there a trope for a conversation that goes on like this:
A: Are you angry? B: No... I'm very angry.
or something like that?
openAge acceleration for plot convenience.
The protagonist’s daughter has just been born, but the writers don’t want to wait years of in-universe time before she becomes relevant to the plot, so they do one of two things: Accelerate the aging process in some way, or bring her adult self from the future.
openNo Body = No Death
This is a trope that I almost always see play out. Whenever a character is thought to be dead, there being no corpse found (or so the show would have the audience believe), means that the character is still alive and out there.
openEqualizing weapon
A trope where certain weapons allow characters to deal disproportionately large amounts of damage no matter the difference in skill (sometimes to the resentment of the professional soldier).
For instance, a character specializing in diplomacy and noncombat skills can still carry and throw grenades, allowing him to contribute more to the battles he can't talk his way out of, or a fragile character can use them from cover, allowing him to deal damage while freeing up the Combat Medic to focus on other fighters.
Similarly, crossbows and later guns revolutionized warfare not because they outperformed bows but because it was a lot faster to train men to use them rather than the years it takes to make a good bowman, along with the guns' low reliability making rate of fire more important than accuracy.
A non-weapon variant in a time-travel story where the protagonist gets a job as an accountant in the Victorian age thanks to bringing a laptop with him, which lets him do the work of several clerks in a fraction of the time.
Edited by Chabal2openunzipping dresses Film
I'm looking for shots in films where a woman unzips her dress or her top (like in American Beauty or Jennifer's Body...)
openMaking a Virus to Sell the Cure Anime
A party creates a virus (or another bad thing) so that they can profit off selling the only cure for it.
open"What?" "Nothing!"
When a character says something inflammatory (usually on the down low), and the person nearby picks up something as says "What?" The the first character pipes up "Nothing!"
openSimilarly Powered Couple
Two people who have the same similar powers become a couple.
openThe Strongest Chew Toy
A character who is the strongest of the team- be they Strong and Skilled, The Big Guy, etc., is often taken out early during a fight scene so to make things "fair" for the opposing side. A couple of examples that I can think of are Sips from Regular Show, who often gets literally thrown to the sidelines during an epic Chase Scene or fight scene, or is just taken out earlier than the audience would have expected him to be.
The second example that I think applies is Huey from The Boondocks. He's typically regarded as the ass-kicker of the group, but is routinely getting his ass kicked by adults.
Edited by KingOfStickersopenTeam recruits a villain who isn't really reformed because he's so useful
For the exact example I'm thinking of: in Chrono Trigger Magus starts out as a Disc-One Final Boss, but later appears as a recruitable character. Despite this, he's still no angel and mainly is joining because he realizes Lavos is a threat to him as well. Most players still let him join as he is the most powerful player character by far. I'm thinking maybe Pragmatic Hero (the party would be this, not Magus.)
openAnger/Bicker transplant
What was the trope when a character bickers a lot with another one, but when yet another character appears, they start bickering with the new one?
I.E.: Charlie bickers with Alice, but when Diane appears, he bickers with her.
openNo Title
Captain Underpants has this for Noodle Incident: "In Book 6, in an attempt to complete Ms. Ribble's assignment, Stephanie Yarkoff and Jessica Gordon attempt to demonstrate how to cook lasagna using a toaster. The next scene cuts to firemen leaving the school."
It's pretty clear what happened, so I don't think it's a Noodle Incident. What is it?