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resolved Poor Communication Ruins Shirts
Alice accidentally used Bob's shirt as a rag, thinking he no longer needs it, which enraged him once he found out. Specific conversation:
Bob: "This shirt was mine! It was in the closet! Why you thought I no longer needs it?!" Alice: "I found it lying in the corner, dirty, with one button missing".
What could possibly cover this situation?
openMorality / villainy / shades of conflict trope? Live Action TV
What sort of Shades of Conflict is this? (written as if it were on a work page):
- A Period Piece Canadian spy drama Mini Series set during Turn of the Millennium focusing on the CSIS in Canada (Canadian FBI equivalent) portrays the CSIS as the good guys, mainly, albeit flawed, and the FBI as the enemy, who are mostly bad, but have some good points too, yet the viewer is supposed to root for the Canadian side.// In terms of characterization, the Canadian characters are largely the good guys, the Americans are mainly bad, with the exception of three characters.//
openPhone Calls Are Scary
Go On, Answer The Phone: A trope where, typically between a man and a woman in a false relationship, are getting it on when suddenly the man's phone rings, and it turns out to be a girl. The other woman gets immediately suspicious, and forces the man to answer it, thereby outing the fact that he's having an affair (which oftenly Not What It Looks Like).
Alternatively, someone's phone is ringing, and they are simply threatened to answer it.
openThe Ageless or Complete Immortality?
Azusa in Ive Been Killing Slimes For Three Hundred Years And Maxed Out My Level has "immortality" as her New Life in Another World Bonus, and that is currently troped as Complete Immortality. She is indisputably The Ageless, but he Nigh-Invulnerability requirement is a bit complicated because:
- While she is definitively Nigh-Invulnerability at Present Day, it is a side effect of The Ageless; it's that trope that enables why she is invulnerable (see title).
- The story made a Time Skip between her reincarnation and the time she maxed out her level; we have no way to know whether she's still invulnerable without maxing her herself accidentally.
openDeathbringer, Returner of Walllets
Is there (or should there be) a trope for scary, threatening characters who chase after and corner the main ones, only to reveal at the last second that they have otherwise benelovent or mundane intentions? Remember Tom from the Spongebob Squarepants episode "Chocolate with Nuts"?
openRace against regeneration Videogame
This is a fight gimmick in video games where the opponent has some means of regularly healing themselves in combat, forcing the player to defeat them faster than they can heal or find some way to halt their healing powers. I'm thinking of the Witch Queen in Ōkamiden for the latter, as the strategic element of the fight involves stopping her supply of healing fairies, and the Master Mode gimmick in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild where every monster and boss gradually regenerates health. This is not After Boss Recovery; the gimmick is that the enemy heals during the fight.
openForced out of the way trope? Anime
Is there a trope for this situation:
Bob, The Big Guy protagonist, is a Big Eater, so to force him Out of Focus for the duration of the episode, he gets a large amount of candy to eat, so it can be A Day in the Limelight for Jenny and Sarah, Magical Girl characters.
Do we have such a trope for using something to force a character Out of Focus ?
Edited by Merseyuser1openVillainy / actions of villain trope? Anime
Is there a trope for this?:
In Dragon Ball Super, a Filler Villain and his Chekhov's Hobby end up turning the filler episode into something more important when, later down the line, a Flashback is featured in an episode (Obviously, this didn't happen on the show itself.. just an example for the question).
Edited by Merseyuser1openIs there a trope when multiple characters in a video game are the same character in canon
For example, In Dragon Ball Fighterz, Goku has five versions: Super Saiyan, Super Saiyan Blue, Base form, GT, and Ultra Instinct.
Edited by cybirddudeopenEvil Is Cool but for intelligence instead of action scenes.
What YMMV trope do you use for when a character impresses you with their intellect? When they come up with really clever plans or schemes that has you applauding their skill? I thought maybe Evil Is Cool, but that seems more about spectacle and combat prowess. The Chessmaster just means they MAKE plans, but they can just as easily be bad plans full of Bond Villain Stupidity.
openDoing This For The Dead
Someone does something to honor a dead person; this dead person is usually that someone's loved one or relative. This something can be a one-off thing or a perpetual thing (like daily deeds or routines).
Do we have this?
openOverly Simple Baby Name
There's a tendency in fairy tales for the heroines to be named something either super generic ("Beauty") or after something the parents happen to be thinking about at the time ("Rapunzel", "Briar Rose"), I was wondering if there's anything for this sort of name scheme, and if it's still used in modern works.
openDevil in a bussiness suit
I feel like there's a tendency in lots of works to depict Satan/the Devil or any equivalent Satanic Archetype as a sharply dressed man, with the work often drawing an implicit analogy between him an a Corrupt Corporate Executive. Is there a trope for this?
openSequel is changed to an alternate timeline
What's the trope for when what starts out as a sequel is later changed to a different timeline than the original? E.G Everquest II started out as a sequel 500 years after the original, but was later changed to be an alternate timeline, where some of the events in the first game (such as the discord invasion, Mayong Mistmoore becoming a god, etc) never occurred, Although there were a couple Expansion Packs involving a breach between the two timelines.
Edited by BootlebatopenIs there a trope where people build their own hometowns?
I was looking for this kind of trope since I want to add an example for Ever Oasis and something involving Trope Pantheons. If not, is it tropeworthy?
Edited by louisent31openFear of Speaking
The following example is currently listed as a downplayed example of Shrinking Violet, but I kind of doubt it's really an example since the character concerned doesn't have a problem socializing; her problem is just speaking. But what should it belong?
- While she has no problem socializing, she is anxious about speaking to others. This comes from an incident when she made an Accidental Innuendo in front of her classmates and got teased for it, and lives in a constant fear of speaking the "wrong thing" afterwards.
openContext Specific Undead
The type of person you are in life determines what type of monster you might become in undeath.
For example, in Dungeons & Dragons, cannibals become ghouls, criminals become morghs, madmen Driven to Suicide become allips, etc.
Edited by EnigmusPrime
An art style where a character's eyes are obscured/represented by their Big Old Eyebrows or prominent brow ridges, usually giving them a rather Neanderthalean look.
For example, a lot of Far Side characters that don't wear glasses◊, a prison inmate in Powerpuff Girls◊, etc.