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openWork is ahead of it's time scientifically
Is there a trope similar to Fair for Its Day but about scientific knowledge? For a non fiction example: the Ancient Greeks guessed a lot of stuff right (such as the Earth being round, matter being made of atoms etc), and figured it out WAY before most of the world did.
openFiction Turns Out To Be Correct
I'm almost certain that this is already a trope but cannot for the life of me remember what it's called. The best context I can provide for this is the Doctor Who episode "Midnight", set on a planet made of diamonds, and then some time after the episode aired astronomers found a real planet made of diamonds.
openKids Need Parents, Not Role Models
Alice points out to Bob that he's being a bad role model for kids. Bob counters that it's the parents' responsibility to teach kids who they should look up to.
openPerson wants to be just like some historical person
A character has an really strong obsession with some famous historical person, possibly including changing their name to that of the person or even getting plastic surgery and the like to look more like them.
openTalking to the grave
Someone goes to someone's grave and starts talking as if the dead person can hear them.
Occurs in Web Animation/RWBY, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and Worm.
openSad boss fight
A videogame boss fight designed to make you upset or guilty - e.g. its a Zero-Effort Boss fight against an innocent, or you're fighting a Tragic Villain who used to be the main character's best friend - the point is that you feel worse the better you do.
Shadow of the Colossus can basically be summarized as this trope + Boss Game. Undertale's "Genocide Run" consists mostly of these as well. Other examples would be the (entirely avoidable) boss fight against a brainwashed version of your former squadmate Jack in Mass Effect 3, or the final boss of Dark Souls 3 and its infamously-sad piano music.
openOverdose
Self-Explanatory: A character dies or almost dies from a drug or alcohol overdose, sometimes Self-Inflicted, and often because Drugs Are Bad.
openRegifting to other people because they've received far too many presents
Imagine this: It's Valentine's Day and everyone is sending chocolates, flowers and cards to each other. One person, maybe because they have a fan club, they're popular or everyone has a crush on them or all three, but they receive enough presents that they start giving it away to their friends or family.
Sometimes this is done to show a couple of things:
- The person is very popular
- They don't care about the people they've received gifts from otherwise they wouldn't be so remiss as to give away someone's gift for them. (May serve as a contrast to the present from that special someone they DO want a present from)
- That they're frugal. Maybe there is no way they would be able to eat all the chocolate they received and it's better to give it away so it won't go to waste.
So is there a trope that is about regifting presents because they're being overloaded with tons of gifts for their birthday/Valentine's Day/Christmas/etc? Or even just a general trope about regifting presents or getting a lot of presents?
Edited by ShiyoukaopenLie Breaker
Is there a trope for when a character tries to lie and another one, either by ignorance or not actually caring, simply says the truth.
openViolent act undereaction
Is there a trope for when a character does something violent, then has a rather nonchalant apology for said act?
Two examples are:
- On Mayans M.C., when Coco shoots a woman who had jumped on one of the other bikers, then gets reprimanded for it, his response is a reluctant "My bad."
- In Avengers: Age of Ultron when Ultron cuts off Ulysses Klaw's arm during an emotional outburst, he gives an "Oh sorry" apology more in line with spilling coffee on someone's favorite shirt than dismemberment.
openSilent cameo
Basically, a main character appears on a few occasions but never says anything in said episode or whatever.
openUndeserved Revenge
I'm looking for a trope that shows how some people put some crude revenge on someone because they feel that he deserved to be taught a lesson, but the person actually didn't really deserve it.
openForgot they're in disguise
Someone is concealing their identity in some way, and then the guy acts in a way that makes them reveal their identity, usually by accident. Supertrope to Revealing Skill and Revealing Injury.
Example I'm thinking of
- Honkai Impact 3rd: In the past, Kallen is in her Phantom Thief disguise as she's holding a Schicksal priest. Then one of the Valkyrie Squad members comes and calls "Kallen Kaslana" and she looks towards the caller, forgetting that she's supposed to be in disguise. "Why did I look back?"
openHeroism as a paying job
The more "official" version of Heroism Incentive: being a (super)hero is a licensed job with regular payment and perhaps insurance.
What do we call this?
openThe big fish and the small fish team up against the medium fish
Long ago, the Kingdom of Alicia conquered and occupied the territory of the Bobites. The Bobites resent their overlords, but the Alicians have more people and resources, so they cannot hope to win a war against them. Flash forward to the present day, and the Charlian Empire declares war against Alicia with the intent to conquer it. The Charlians make a deal with the Bobites where the Charlians provide them with arms, armour, and the promise of autonomy from/revenge against the Alicians, and in exchange the Bobites rise up in revolt in support of the Charlians. (They may go as far as a Full-Circle Revolution, establishing a Puppet State of Bobites ruling over Alicians - A tenuous state of affairs due to the population difference, which can only be maintained via a continuous influx of Charlian resources.)
Despite what you'd expect, this is generally a tactic of The Empire and other "bad guy" factions - perhaps because the good guys are more likely to view "freeing the oppressed" as an obligation rather than as a bargaining chip they can use to gain an advantage.
Examples:
- Saruman and the Dunlendings in Lord of the Rings.
- The Lannisters and the Boltons in Game of Thrones. (Also implied to be the standard method by which the Blackfyres gained support in the backstory - The Reynes, Peakes, and Yronwoods all joined up to get back at their ancient overlords.)
- The Reapers and the Geth in Mass Effect 3. (The "Heretic Geth" from the first game wouldn't count.)
- A common strategy in the videogame Europa Universalis 4, (and other Paradox games, to a lesser extent.) referred to as "vassal feeding". You might not have any sort of rightful claim to your enemy's territory, but if you can create a Puppet State that does...
- IRL, I vaguely recall this was a common tactic employed by the Roman Empire and European colonial powers, although I can't name any specific examples off the top of my head.
The closest tropes I can think of are Let's You and Him Fight and Fighting for a Homeland. Unlike the former, however, the instigator of the fight is simultaneously fighting against one of the two fighters, and unlike the latter the Bobites have a homeland, just an occupied one, and they're allies in a war against their oppressors rather than mercenaries fighting in an unrelated conflict in exchange for a territorial concession.
openBeaten to the confession
Is there a trope for when someone wants to confess their love for someone but someone else beats them to it or the person they want to confess to does so with another person.
Edited by Lord-JaricopenEveryone's Seen the X Episode
An episode or installment of a series that's so well-known, even people who don't follow the series are familiar with it. Often paints the public's perception of the show.
Edited by RustBeard
An important job like a king,a judge,a president is trusted on something or someone cute and little.Like for example a baby president or a mindless kitty,an iguana to judge a competetion,and a iguana that is a president,people like reporters,etc.blindly ask them,and even if they don't answer,they just do random things,everyone takes it as a response or an answer. These type of Rulers,and characters who has important jobs and duties Do we have this trope?