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openBig EHHHH???? Anime
A popular trope in anime. A character shouts "EHHHHHHHH???" after something wacky happens while the camera pans to the sky.
openOut of sight, out of mind while cleaning
You're cleaning, but there's a little pile of debris left and you don't want to go through the effort of disposing of it properly. So you just toss it where it won't be found immediately. The most common version of this is sweeping the dust under a rug, but there are other variants:
- In the pilot for Friends Chandler and Joey have been assembling a bookcase for Ross, but there's a piece left that they don't know what to do with. So they just hide it in a nearby potted plant.
- Subverted in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. A pair of chipmunks are in the process of sweeping the dust under the rug, but Snow White chides them. So they shove it into a mouse hole instead.
openThe main "power" of a series Anime
Like Stands in Jojo, Ki in Dragon Ball, etc.
Edited by JRads47openStrawman Vs Strawman
Two equally extreme points of view collide, and the audience isn't supposed to agree with either.
For instance, Bob is a fundamentalist priest during the Middle Ages, seeing heresy and sin everywhere and having people burned alive for any reason he deems fit, including women and children. Then Charlie shows up, a drinking, womanizing ex-Crusader whose opinion of people is proportional to the number of infidels they've killed in the Far East, and is famous for his enthusiasm for the Rape, Pillage, and Burn part of the crusade.
Bob sees Charlie as a heathen barely better than his victims, Charlie sees Bob as a Straw Civilian, the world would objectively be a better place without either of them.
openwhat trope(s) do these fall under
Flippy (from happy tree friends) stabs Cuddles (also from happy tree friends) in the heart with a straw from the drink he was sipping on, blood pours out of the straw, and, in a panic, he tries to drink his own blood hoping it will go back into his body but it doesn't work and he soon dies
sorry if this is too dark i got it off a show i just want to know that tropes that falls under
openCharacter change
I'm looking for a trope where a character doesn't have a very large role in the original work, but has their role expanded in additional or fan-made media. Pls help.
openNo longer young
A character comes to terms with the fact that he's no longer a young person and has entered middle/old age.
openFailing Company Drama
The drama inherent when a company or workplace is suffering from hard times and may go out of business. Do we have anything for this?
openMade-Up Holiday
Do we have any tropes for when character's celebrate holidays that don't exist in our world? They may have made it up from scratch, or it could be a real holiday in the work's universe, but that has no real-life basis. I'm thinking of Trool Day from The Cry of Mann.
openLoneliness-induced Evil
Is there a trope for when a character's reason for being evil is loneliness? The best example I can think of right now is Lord Kuruku from Unicointhe Islandof Magic
Edited by EdelwoodTroperopentrope for this
flippy (from happy tree friends) jumps over to cuddles and giggles table at the restaurant they are eating at and flips it over sending fries flying everywhere
openA very sleuthing episode
Do we have a trope when a non-Crime Fiction work has a special chapter/episode with sleuthing (usually a murder mystery or theft)? Something like Beach Episode or Sick Episode?
openWasn't him this time
Typically when there's more than one villain (or one ends up getting introduced), the villain (typically the one everyone's familiar with) gets accused of something and denies it because another villain is behind the evil plan.
openRecycled background for an anime
The anime of Super Dragon Ball Heroes recycled the background from Future Trunks saga from DBS, even claiming it is another universe. Is there a trope for recycled set for animation?
open Weapon-in-Hand Shot
This is a particular way of framing someone with a weapon that I've seen several times throughout media. The camera is shooting from around the character's waist or mid thigh, and the shot is focused on the hand with the weapon. The two examples that immediately come to mind are in one of the trailers for Gemini Man and this shot from the slideshow attack in It (2017). Do we have this?
As you might have noticed, there are two basic types of superpowers.
First, there are the brand new abilities—flying, shooting optic rays and changing shape are abilities that humans normally don't have.
Then, there are the enhanced regular human abilities, like super-strength, super-speed and healing factors, all of which are improvements on traits that humans already have.
(Of course, there are hybrids. Wolverine healing bullet wounds quickly is a normal ability sped up, but him regrowing lost eyes is an ability that normals humans don't have at all.)
Do we have this trope? (And if not, should we?)
Edited by MichaelKatsuro