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openFake-out death Anime
What would be an example of the fake out death, such as freeza’s multiple fake outs in dbz?
openValues Dissonance Gag
Someone is shown to have a wildly differing values from others and it's played as a gag.
Do we have this?
openWhat's DyingMomentOfAwesome, that stops the Dying from happening?
What's Dying Moment of Awesome, that stops the Dying from happening?
openStrange Brags
Do we have a trope for a character bragging about something that would not generally be considered positive?
E.g., two examples from Brooklyn Nine Nine:
Jake: Haven’t been to the doctor in 11 years, how trill is that!?
Terry: Your tone is braggy, but your words are real sad.
and
Jake: Says the woman who’s been engaged eight times. Gina Linetti: But never married once. Game, set, match, Linetti.
Edited by GaladrielopenThe character cant tell someone the truth
Is there a trope where there's a character that just can't tell someone the hard truth, because the other character is way too naive and innocent to understand?
openSimultaneous Yes/No
Alice asks Bob and Charlie a yes-or-no question. Bob says "Yes" while Charlie says "No", implying that one of them is lying and that they haven't taken the time to get their stories straight, which Alice will likely comment on.
openArmor Piercing Attack (Solved) Videogame
I'm looking for a trope about attacks that either bypass the enemy's defenses, or renders their defense completely useless.
The example I need it for is from Valkyria Chronicles. At the end of Sylvaria's brief tussle with Alicia, Sylvaria raises her shield and blocks Alicia's attack. But the impact and the sheer amount of energy behind it was so overwhelming, that Sylvaria gets sent flying across the battlefield like a ragdoll and completely drains her of all her energy. Sylvaria tries to stand, but loses consciousness.
Courtesy link to the scene where it happens. The doosest trope I can think of is Unblockable Attack, but it's not quite the same thing.
Edit: Nevermind, I just found it: No Saving Throw.
Edited by MiinUopenHurt but alive
Is there a trope that describes the fate of something like at the end of a movie or episode as 'badly wounded and/or mutilated but alive'?
openNo Title
a girl has a heart in a briefcase and from wat I remember if someone stole it they died. two guys thought it was full of money and get hit by a train. the girl kinda looks like mystique from hero 108. I imagine her kinda dancing along I can't think of any specific mucic tho. please n thnks. -m
openMeeting their replacements
A story is ending, and the protagonists we've been following are ready to move on with their lives, but still have to get through the finale first. During this finale, we're introduced to a bunch of new characters who will "take the torch" so to speak and assume the roles the protagonists had once the show is over- sort of like an implied historical repeat, or an implication that if the story continued, these would be our new protagonists and go on similar journeys.
Seen in High School Musical 3, where the cast started interacting with Freshman characters who seemed like they'd take their place after graduation, and House of Anubis's finale The Touchstone of Ra, where the same thing happened- a bunch of Freshmen were introduced, this time being a rehash of the main trio's dynamic from season 1 and officially joining Sibuna at the end, with the implication again being that it was going to loop off screen.
openStuck/Temporarily stuck on another language
There are some media that have a character get damaged so hard so hard on the head, that said character speaks in another language (mostly his native language or another language he was taught), either permanently or temporarily. I don't know if this is some specific trope or under a general "brain damage" trope.
openCultural Isolation Flanderization
A person from culture A living in culture B has an unrealistic view of it (for example, an immigrant child growing up with their parents and grandparents reminiscing about how much better life was in The Old Country) and ends up overcompensating for their lack of daily contact with culture A, leading to them becoming a flanderized version of A that a person living among culture A would find stereotypical and unrealistic.
Sort of like Cultural Posturing, but in this case the culture is one that only exists in the posturer's viewpoint because he's never dealt with the culture "behind the scenes".
- Star Trek: Worf (a Klingon Raised by Humans) is much more of a Proud Warrior Race Guy than many actual Klingons due to only ever hearing about the positive aspects of his species.
- Arcanum: Magnus Shalefist lives Have I Mentioned I Am a Dwarf Today? 24/7, because as a city dwarf he considers himself to be failing the dwarf ideal of a beer-guzzling axe-swinging miner and fighter (his real name is actually Malcolm). Unfortunately, the only information he has on "real" dwarfishness is a book full of errors and biases, and other characters can very easily tell he's a poser.
- Similarly, Discworld dwarfs are for the most part happy to get on with their lives as miners, it's the city dwarfs who go around in chainmail and starting Bar Brawls and boozing at every opportunity because they feel they have to prove they're "real" dwarfs. In later books this becomes a steadily more severe problem (as in, parallels-with-jihadists-and-religious-terrorism).
- Animorphs: After living with humans for a while, Ax no longer tries so hard to pull the Andalite Proud Warrior Race schtick, because it's not demanded of him. He's still The Spock though.
open"Stationary TARDIS"? Webcomic
Is there a trope for a magical location or building that features several time and/or space portals?
Like, a castle with several doors, and each door leads to a different era - or works as a portal to a different city, with the owner passing as a denizen of all of those cities?
resolved The narrator doesn't know something the audience does (SOLVED) Web Original
Suppose there's a novel that ends with the twist that the cavemen are actually people from Post-Apocalyptic earth. Through the novel, the narrator mentions the cavemen finding strange objects they've never seen before, shiny and angular, which they assumed to be magic. It's obvious to the reader who knows the twist that these are old high-tech devices, but the story doesn't say it because the characters don't know it.
Is there a trope for the euphemisms used to describe a technology that readers know about, but characters (including First-Person Narrators) don't?
Edited by Mac_RopenGiving away a child
Is there a trope where parents willingly give up because they couldn't care for them want them to have a better life. Can't find it on The Parent Trope or Orphan Tropes
- In Night Head Genesis Naota and Naoya's parents give them away to a laboratory because they couldn't handle the stress of caring for two Psychic Children and thought that laboratory would be better for them.
openbored/annoyed tapping
A character who is annoyed, impatient or bored starts tapping their fingers on a surface/object or is tapping their foot on the floor.
Do we have something like that?
openExotic Non-Extended Marriage Literature
I'm looking for a trope into which to fit this example:
In an alien society marriages are monogamous but only last for a limited time. Before marriage a contract is written up saying how long the marriage will last, and when the contract is over the marriage dissolves without it being a divorce. The contract says which parent any resulting children will go with when the marriage is over. Sometimes a couple will have such compatible personalities and/or compatible ambitions that they'll make an open-ended contract with no set termination date, but that's rare.
openLeap into the Unknown
Bob leaps/jumps down into a portal, cliff, river, etcetera to escape something, achieve freedom or go somewhere he forbidden. Theres a high chance he will fail or even die but he is will to risk it all. If he jumps down,fall might broke by improbable means or a secret portal.Most of the time he makes it out of even when realistically he would be badly injured at best ,(if its not a portal).
Edited by MacronNotes
What trope would a lie of omission told in order to make someone seem better or worse than they really are be? Example: If someone described Hitler as "A person who was abused as a child, had his country ravaged by war, and was kicked out of art school." While conveniently ignoring all the atrocities he did. I think it would be Metaphorically True but not sure.