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openImpossible throwing ability
Is there a trope for characters who can throw their weapons with superhuman speed, accuracy, and force? Improbable Aiming Skills is almost always in play but they also usually have the ability to throw said weapon well beyond what should be the limits of human capability, rapid fire said weapon, and/or throw it hard enough that it hits far harder than it should? Improbable Weapon User is often also in effect.
Examples include practically everyone in Naruto, Bullseye, Gambit, or just about any video game character who relies on throwing things to attack (especially protagonist characters in the 2D platforming era).
openAlluding The Abandoned Plot
A big arc was originally planned for this main character but it was decided to abandon the arc or just rework it for another main character. Nonetheless, the abandoned arc is alluded by having the former occasionally feeling that something crazy or eventful was supposed to happen to her.
openPitting applicants against each other
An organization has a number of trainees or applicants seeking membership that are made to compete against each other to get in rather than accepting or rejecting them based on set qualifications or lack thereof.
openA spying bug
Don't we have a trope for when people use cameras in the shape of bugs to spy on others?
openCompanion Plant (as a Characterization Device?)
Do we have a trope for when a character keeps and cares for a plant, in a manner that mirrors a Loyal Animal Companion?
The character doesn't particularly need to have a Green Thumb (as would be demonstrated if they took care of a large number of plants, or worked in the agricultural sector), just a particular level of care taken with one plant. Sometimes this trope gets deployed to show that someone's a Bruiser with a Soft Center, or that The Stoic has a caring side.
The best example I can think of for this would be the relationship between Leon and his houseplant in Léon: The Professional, but the care shown by the Mariner for his tomato plant in Waterworld, or between both the Keeper of the Seeds and then The Dag with the seedling growing in an animal skull planter in Mad Max: Fury Road would also fit the bill.
Seems like it would a be a sub-trope of Companion Cube?
Edited by LeporidaeopenBig Bad tricked? Anime
Do we have this one?
Bob is a Fat Bastard and defeats the Arc Villain (who isn't fat, but is a Humanoid Alien) with his obesity (after 23 episodes of the Story Arc). Except Bob isn't fat, it's just a Holographic Disguise and the Arc Villain was 100% fooled.
Is there such a trope for this sort of defeating the villain with physical size and defeating the villain by fooling them?
openTemporarily Getting Rid of a Character Film
Are there any tropes that involve getting rid of a character temporarily from a story until their presence is needed? For example: They are present at the beginning of the story, something happens towards the beginning of the 2nd act (called away somewhere and/or injured) where that character ends up absent during a good chunk of the story, and then they return towards the end. Does anyone have any good examples? The medium doesn't have to just be film.
openImmaterial Obstacle
A situation where the presence of something obviously not solid still presents an obstacle for a character, while another (usually a regular human) can cross it without issue. Usually used in video game puzzles to force a character switch.
For example, a Beast Man with a heightened sense of smell is unable to go in a Torture Cellar without passing out due to the horrific odor while a character who just finds the smell disgusting is able to go in and air it out, a wind elemental is unable to get past a windy area where a heavier character can move with no trouble, a vampire can't explore the Cave Behind The Waterfall until the running water is blocked upstream, etc.
- In the Wario games turning into a bat or zombie is required to get around some levels, but the transformation is cancelled if Wario gets too close to a light source, preventing him from progressing until he gets transformed again and starts over (and they're part of the background rather than being a solid obstacle he butts against).
- In Artemis Fowl, fairies can't go inside a human dwelling without suffering hideous nausea and losing their magic if they haven't been invited inside (being kidnapped doesn't count, however).
- On the Discworld, elves are unable to pass between two blocks of magnetized iron as it disrupts their sense of sight, while humans can (although they can't take anything made of iron with them).
openStressful Jobs Lead To Alcoholism
Exactly What It Says on the Tin. This character may work in a Dead End Job and are tired of seeing their Standard Office Setting every single day. Eventually, they try drinking and begin their Descent into Addiction.
Edited by KingOfStickersopenConcept Namer
Something like Trope Namer on a greater, non-wiki scale, where a character embodies a concept so well that their name basically becomes synonymous with the concept.
For example, after Les Misérables was published, "Thénardier" became a byword for Abusive Parents in French, someone who complains about housework is sarcastically referred to as "Cosette", etc.
openMistakenly thinking you killed somebody
Is there a trope for somebody mistakenly believing that they killed somebody but it turns out they are fine?
Edit: Closest I can find is Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated but I feel like there should be something better than that. Maybe also include people mistakenly thinking that they killed somebody but it turns out someone or something else caused the victim's death..
Edited by legendaryweredragonopenInaudible audible convo Live Action TV
People having a conversation two or three feet away from other people, yet the other people do not hear a thing. Happened all the time on Friends. Parodied or played for laughs in Marvel movies, especially that one time in Black Panther. What is that called?
openI don't know what to do with the rest of my life
After accomplishing a long-term goal or something similar, a person is unsure what to do with the remainder of their life.
openWell Known Deconstructive Work
Much like the Weird Al Effect, where the parody overshadows the original, do we have a trope where a Deconstruction is more popular than the work or genre they're deconstructing? Such as Hamlet, where it's somewhat of a deconstruction of the revenge plays that were popular in Elizabethan theatre.
openTook A Level In Villainy
A villain becoming more evil - either he was an Anti-Villain but stops being anti later, or he steps up his threat (from just threatening the neighborhood to the whole city, for example).
What do we call it?
openEternal Slumber
A character or monster of some sort has been put eternal sleep or at least some sort of dormant state for a long time (usually years) and them waking up from said state is crucial to the plot. Like in Sleeping Beauty.
I looked at Sleep and Wakefulness Tropes and can't seem to find it but it has to exist somewhere.
I thought it was Deep Sleep but that's when someone falls asleep for several days due to extreme tiredness or tramua
Edited by MacronNotesopenWhen the Lancer/Best friend leaves temporarily
That thing where the hero has an argument with the best friend and they leave, only to come back at a plot-relevant point.
Do we have this? The people or culture of a particular setting of a work believe in hunting and eating the flesh of anthor species or their own will grant them supernatural abilities, improve health or can be used as a cure. Sometimes it's proven to be just a myth or the product of some form of bigotry against a particular species or a sub section of their own species/people and other times the superstition is real. A subtrope of I Am a Humanitarian if targeted group is other people.
Edited by MacronNotes