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openI know its trivia BUT...
Do we have a trope for when the music in any given piece of Audiovisual media is replaced entirely. Its extremely common in kids anime and even some other western media like David The Gnome.
openForeigner overpays wildly
When a foreign character pays massive sums for minor goods and services because they don't know the value of what they're offering, often solid gold. Twoflower from Discworld would be the archetypal example.
Edited by JXZopenMusic evoking memories Live Action TV
Do we have a trope where a character hears a certain piece of music and it reawakens or at least reminds them of deeply buried memories?
Some examples off the top of my head (light spoilers):
- Danny the Dog: Protagonist finally recalls his mother after hearing Mozart's Piano Sonata #11 in A Major (a song she often practiced)
- Cinderella: Meta-example — Cinderella's voice actress, Ilene Woods suffered from Alzheimer's later in life. Despite this, she was comforted when listening to "A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes" even if she couldn't remember why.
- Coco: "Remember Me". That is all.
The closest I can find are "Eureka!" Moment and Musical Trigger, but these don't specifically have to do with memories.
Edited by PSColdFireopenQuestion about ExpositoryHairStyleChange
Does Expository Hair Style Change count examples where a character grows or loses facial hair after character development?
NVM it does
Edited by MacronNotesopenA few Title Tropes Western Animation
Are there tropes for the following:
- A work is called "The X Project/Experiment/Experience/Program", where X is the creator(s)? So the work is shown to be their attempt at creating something?
- A work's title makes use of Postmodernism - for instance, the title character isn't the main character, but the Fake Ultimate Hero, or the title refers to the main character, setting or whatever as less important than something else.
- A work's title refers to something that's forgotten way before the story ends - or even after the introduction - and keeps looming over for the rest of the story.
openTargeting person's loved ones to get to actual wanted target
I was doing some ZCE cleanup on Ragnarok and noticed this example that, while under the wrong trope (it's under And Your Little Dog, Too! at the moment) has enough context that I feel like it fits under something, I just can't think of what.
- When L takes Light into protective custody, Loki instead begins targeting Light's friends and family.
openProtective friend
Character A becomes protective over character B after character C frames character B over something B didn't do. Character A and B became friends in the process.
openParamedic Blanket Live Action TV
Is there a trope for how when an ambulance arrives in TV shows and movies, very often, the paramedics wrap the mostly-uninjured people involved in whatever happened in blankets? I assume it's to help them in case they've gone into shock or something, and perhaps it's something real paramedics do. But I feel like it's very common in movies and stuff.
openUncanny Beauty
Like the Uncanny Valley but for specifically for something so beautiful it becomes disturbing, or something disturbing that is also beautiful. Like how The Fair Folk are often described as having an unsettling beauty and grace that marks them out as inhuman and frightening rather than Beauty Equals Goodness.
Edited by ObservanceopenUnearned Payoff
Essentially, the tools and knowledge that an individual uses to their advantage during a confrontation had not been properly earned under the build-up to that scene.
openPerson living in the walls Film
Do we have something for the trope often used in horror, where it turns out that there's been a person living in secret in the protagonist's home? Usually it's a previous occupant of the house who didn't want to leave, or the protagonist's stalker, etc. Examples include Housebound, Brahms: The Boy, and more recently Parasite.
openCredit Theft Backfire
A character takes credit for something they didn't do to gain favor with someone. However, the thing done was done incorrectly, with some consequences attached. Now, the person who is taking credit is now taking the blame.
Edited by IntelleblueopenIs there a trope in which a character is constantly compared to another one?
For example... Alice is a student Who scores very high marks in the tests, Bob on the other hand is more of an average student. When Bob tells someone about his mark (most likely his parents or something) they tell him "You should try harder! Alice from your class always gets really high marks!"
Can someties be paired Up with Always Someone Better.
Edited by BassikunopenSchool Forced Us Together
People who probably wouldn't be friends otherwise are brought together by the school for whatever reason (i.e. they're placed in the same class, have to do a group project, get detention all on the same day).
openNot the Chosen One
Is there a trope like this? John is the hero who needs to save a magical world, but he isn't the chosen one of legend despite there being one, and if he has any powers they most certainly aren't given to him just to help him on his quest
openTrying to live up to their Parents Legacy
A character takes the same job their parent or inherits their legacy but has a very hard living up to it and this often brings them emotional stress.
The parent might have groomed them to be their successor but in some cases the child volutarily takes up the helm
Edited by MacronNotesopenWants what they can't have
Character is attracted to someone because this person isn't interested in them.
openAnime "on hands and knees in shame" shot?
There's this thing I remember in a lot of anime where after a character's been humiliated or shouted at or something, there's a shot of them on their hands and knees with this sort of dark air around them? I don't know what it's called on this wiki or if we even have it.
I'm not sure if I've asked this before, but TV and radio transmissions do not stop at national borders (unless you're the old Warsaw Pact or today's North Korea actively blocking the signal that you can't otherwise control).
Examples: French and Belgian TV can be received at least in Kent and Sussex in England; it used to be possible to pick up Dutch and Belgian TV in the East of England and Lincolnshire; the British domestic TV signal can likewise be received in North-Western Europe and across most of the Irish Republic. The welsh channel S 4 C can be received in north-western England, and the Irish domestic channels can be picked up in northern Ireland. Ireland's national radio station RTE could be received a fair way into England and Radio Luxembourg broadcast radio and TV into all its surrounding nations - this was its big selling fact. And - just guessing - US domestic TV must get into Mexico and Canada, and vice-versa?
Is there a trope or a Useful Notes page covering this? I'm thinking there have to be implications - Radio Luxembourg's British service was a serious rival to the BBC when it came to pop music and it could carry adverts British commerical stations were strictly forbidden to air - for cigarettes, alcohol, gambling and American-style religious nutcases demanding money. Also, "periphery demographics", where domestic programming in one country becomes a hit in another. if there is no Useful Notes page, could be worth writing one?