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openAre these tropes?
A character who's considered to be extremely good-looking among everyone they know. However...
1. They don't agree that they're good-looking, they think they're just average/other people they know look better than them.
Or...
2. They don't know that other people think they're good-looking, they might accidentally do things that practically turns everyone else on but they have no idea why they're all "acting strange" suddenly.
3. Either way, they're probably often used by their friends to seduce people into getting them what they want with their good-looks.
Are there tropes for these things? Thanks in advance.
openInstant Vanishing Injury
Due to a lapse in internal consistency, an injury inexplicably disappears. Are there preexisting tropes that cover the scope of this TLP draft? The Trope Launch Pad Discard Project wants to know before deciding whether or not to discard it.
These tropes are a "close but not quite" fit.
- Healing Factor: That's a superpower, not a lapse in continuity.
- Just a Flesh Wound: That's when a wound persists without slowing a character down like it should, instead of vanishing.
- Offscreen Rebuilding: That's for inanimate objects, not injuries.
- Snap Back: That's when injuries vanishing in between episodes or books instead of within the story shortly after the incident.
These tropes are a likely fit, in my opinion.
openHouse-Lifting Twister
Tornadoes are depicted as lifting houses off the ground, which then float around in the wind. Most popular example is The Wizard of Oz.
openDoesn't want another to have the same fate
Let's say that one character is feeling down or depressed. This one character tries to prevent another character from being depressed.
open"Animated [...] characters who appear paralyzed but for their mouth movements." a trope?
"Animated [...] characters who appear paralyzed but for their mouth movements." a trope?
openChild-Parent flip
Is there a trope for when the parent-child relationship is flipped due to inadequacies on the parent's part in some way, so it's more the child is taking care of their parent? Not an old parent and a middle-aged child, I mean a teenager or little kid helping their full-grown parent manage their own life.
openAcquired Damage Immunity
A sister trope to Acquired Poison Immunity where something is shown as becoming resilient to damage by surviving it for long enough.
- Discworld's Nanny Ogg is mentioned as having only a single tooth left, but after a lifetime of sweets and candy it'll take a lot more than a hard candy every night to bring down.
- Anodized metals work on the principle that the oxidized surface prevents oxygen atoms from going further inside the metal (and can't be further oxidized), so once the entire surface is oxidized the rest is the metal is essentially immune to further attack (it happens, but on a very slow timescale).
openToo Douchy to be Guilty (SOLVED) Live Action TV
Is there a trope for when a suspect in a crime and punishment story has an alibi that's based on him doing something immoral, but not illegal? Like "I didn't kill my wife, I was busy having sex with her sister that night", or "I couldn't have beaten him, the only reason people think I can fight is cause I pay people to take dives"
Edited by PisthetairosopenNo Title Anime
Do we have a trope for this? I thought it was Greed, but the trope page defines it as "wanting wealth more than anything else."
- Tweeny Witches: The Adventures: Even though the Ice Witch from "The Ice Witch and the Dragon of Fire and Ice" was already an extremely powerful Weredragon herself, she attempted to absorb the magic of Gana, the most powerful witch serving the grand master, as part of her plan to Take Over the World.
openOnline Trophies for Dead Servers Videogame
LittleBigPlanet Karting has several trophies that required online play, but the servers have since been shut down. Would online-related achievements that became unobtainable in situations like these fit better under Permanently Missable Content or Temporary Online Content?
openAssimilating personality, not powers
Is there a trope (probably a supertrope) about one character forcing another character into a personality or role that they don't want? Like, Alice thinks that there's something wrong about how Brenda is, so she makes Brenda behave more like Alice (either by peer pressure or outright force).
Examples:
- Meg from Little Women is pressured into wearing fancy clothes and makeup by the Moffats.
- Glinda in Wicked tries to do this to Elphaba in “Popular.”
- I’d say any example of Wanted a Gender-Conforming Child is a sub trope of this related to gender, and Why Couldn't You Be Different? is a sub trope where parents do it to their children.
openAnti-Cool Kids Party
So the popular girl in school only invited the higher ups to her fancy party. Our main character retaliates by saying, "Let's have our own cool party!" Which ends up being cooler than the former. This trope I've seen in "Hey, Arnold!" and Camp Lazlo.
openNon-human hand fitting object
Non-humans find a way to operate human tools that aren't meant to fit their hands, paws etc.
For example, a pony using a pair of scissors that is clearly designed for humans. They still find ways to work around them.
Edited by KingOfStickersopenDancing Barefoot
When characters kick off their shoes to dance. I found it in Pulp Fiction, where Mia Wallace kicks off her shoes to do the famous dance scene—though she doesn't really wear shoes much in the film anyway. John Travolta dances in his socks as well.
Edited by TheWhistleTropesopenPopular with a certain group
So we have Popular with Furries for works who attract those who love animated animals, and LGBT Fanbase for works that have a large following from that demographic but is there one for popularity with certain professions or other subcultures? Like Mythbusters being a hit with science teachers, or the fact that about half of the (small but persistent) TRON fandom works in an IT department?
openPeople put up with something really horrible and evil just because they are used to it
What trope would this be? Can happen to just one person but usually it's something horrible about an entire society. As I can only think of real life examples, I would really like to avoid listing one.
openVillain secretly starts a plague so they can get rich selling the cure
What would this be? A variant of False Flag Operation maybe?
open"if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem"
What trope would represent this attitude? Neutrality Backlash maybe?
In "The Ultimates 2" there is a group of super heroes, and a group of super villains, with similar powers. There is a big fight, and the good guys win. But then the evil god Loki (who was so far just manipulating people from the shadows) reveals his true power, and unleash hordes of mythological creatures on the Ultimates: orcs, giants, giant wolves, you name it. A clear Outside-Context Problem. But then, Thor comes with an "ouside-context solution": all the armies of Asgard, the "good gods", who deal with those creatures.
In short: a Diabolus ex Machina is followed by a Deus ex Machina, cancelling each other. Is there a trope for this?