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openCheated Mouth
Character's mouth doesn't turn with their head and always faces the front
openLong-Winded Insult
Is there a trope for an insult so ridiculously long or detailed that it starts to become more absurd than offensive?
resolved No Title
We have Adaptation Explanation Extrication for when an adaptation leaves out the explanation for something.
Do we have the inverse, where an adaptation adds an explanation for something that was unexplained in the original?
openWidow on the hunt
A character archeetype who doesn't quite fit Gold Digger: an middle-aged or older woman looking for a husband (usually after being widowed), but where the Gold Digger is looking for the high life and huge amounts of money, this character is looking for social respectability and enough money to be well-off. Her targets are men of equal or slightly greater age, of good social standing and financial position (doctor, lawyer, army officer...), who usually see her as an Abhorrent Admirer, and if caught can look forward to being a Henpecked Husband for the rest of their lives. Not usually a Black Widow.
- One Tommy And Tuppence story has Tuppence go undercover as one, targeting her husband Tommy, who's also there in disguise (by appearing to pursue him like something out of a farce, they cast suspicion away from each other and have an excuse to share information).
- She's not a widow, but Aunt Marge in Harry Potter is mentioned to be attracted to a colonel Fubster who keeps care of her dogs while she's away (and wants nothing to do with her).
openTrope regarding family members
Hello once again. Is there a trope where a person renounces family members that aren't children or parents in general (i.e. siblings, cousins, etc.)?
Example: Qrow and Raven Branwen in RWBY
Edited by gjjonesopenI'm the Last Person I would have Suspected (needs better name)
Someone confesses to a crime, and genuinely believes that they did it, even though it was obviously wasn't them. Usually happens out of sheer incompetence. Do we have this?
openKeep Going For Better Ending
The narrator of a story ends the story on a bad note. But then, either through the listener protesting, or the narrator admitting it's a bad ending, the narrator changes the bad ending and keeps going with the story so that it can reach a happy ending.
Do we have this?
openPrejudiced Minority
A situation where a character belonging to an ethnic minority that's historically been discriminated against has bigoted views against another, similarly discriminated-against minority. For example, a gay man who hates Mexican immigrants.
The narrator's father in Maus is a Jewish survivor of the Nazi concentration camps who treats every black person he sees with suspicion or outright calls them thieves to their faces (to his son's utter mortification).
openIs this Mood Dissonance?
Bob wants to screw in a lightbulb, yet his simply plan has been interrupted by the plot. He goes on a magic journey, save the kitten in a tree, help the old lady cross the road when all he wants to to do is screw in his lightbulb and be done with it.
Is this Mood Dissonance, or do we have a trope for this?
openHair never comes untied
Someone has their hair constantly tied up without ever letting it fall loose
openAnakin, You're Breaking My Heart!
When a character (usually a love interest) straight-up stabs you in the back and you go on about how upset this has made you? I'm using Star Wars as an example as it describes the trope that I'm looking for pretty succinctly, but it's a pretty common trope. Do we have this?
openAdding Injury to Injury
Someone receives an injury (typically from an enemy) in a single spot on the body. Then they receive it again. If these instances are spread across a long enough time to recover, it's just a running gag. By contrast, this trope involves someone getting hurt in the same spot in fairly quick succession. This may lead to the escalation of pain, which could be for practical reasons, or just to be a jerk.
Example: In the Tom & Jerry short "Trap Happy," Tom and Butch lift an entire wall to get to Jerry, who smashes Tom's foot with a hammer. Tom leaps away in pain, and Butch can't hold it alone, so the wall comes crashing down on his fingers. Jerry then smashes Butch's trapped fingers, ending on two of them with a loud crunch. Since Jerry is safe for the moment, he has little reason to do this, and the smile he has the whole time makes it clear that he likes dishing out that punishment.
openCompanion Book
A work (video game, movie, tv series, etc.) has a book come out that provides additional, pseudo-canonical info to supplement the work. It's not a part of the work or necessary to understand it, but is sold to hardcore fans. A prime source of Word of God or Word of Saint Paul
This may include explanation of the work's plot threads, character backstories, worldbuilding, maps, etc. along with character designs, storyboards, and the like.
resolved Credits for extra-official work? Videogame
So, some videogames have the main character being member of some organization, like a school or military body, and stuff like Experience Points and scores have in-universe explanation. Thing is, the character is still rewarded even if he's acting outside the organization knowledge or control - or somtimes even going against it.
For instance, in a Harry Potter game, the player is awarded house points for stuff the characters are forbidden to do, like going into the forbidden 3rd floor hallway.
openWuss Fight
Do we have a trope for when two people are in a fight, but no one actually manages to hit each other because they either don't want to kill the other or get hurt? For example, this fight scene in Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Rebellion has Mami and Homura shooting at each other with guns, but neither of them actually want to kill the other.
Closely related to Wimp Fight, but the characters aren't actually wimps, have skill and they can sometimes hit each other.
Edited by KingOfStickersopenClose up talking shot Western Animation
Something I noticed recently while watching some old traditionally animated shows (like stuff from the 90s), there are a lot of shots that are just close-ups of a character's head while they talk.
I know Limited Animation is already a trope but considering the frequent use of this technique I spotted in a lot of traditional animation shows from the 90s, it might be able to be a trope in its own right. Provided this trope doesn't already exist.
openOverly complex video games
Do we have a trope for when a video game is portrayed in a medium, it behaves in a way that is far too advanced for any available system and is able to do basically anything, far more things than any dev would think about? (Unless it's justified in-universe by being played on some highly advanced unique supercomputer) Basically an inverse of Pac Man Fever. Example: the games played by the heroes in Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure Part 3 in a wager against Telence D'Arby, which have extremely sophisticated 3D graphics, highly advanced physics and rich character customization.
Edited by MaciekOstopenAdventures in school
When an episode of some sort of adventure series takes the action into a school classroom.
A character that is defenseless against another character. Maybe it's because they're so nice. Maybe it's because they're so cute. They just have a hard time disagreeing with, staying/getting angry at, or defending themselves against this person.
Possibly a guy and his girlfriend/crush. Maybe even his little sister. Perhaps not necessarily, though.
Examples can be given if needed.