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openVillain is hurt by their own weapons repeatedly
Is there anything for a villain who, more than once, has their own weapon(s) used against them, at minimum resulting in their plots being foiled and at worst causing actual injury? The example is Asher from Ennui GO!, a psychotic who tries to kill the main character with a cleaver but ends up getting half his face cut off with it, and then tries again with a sword but ends up with another character using the sword to cut one of his arms off.
openGood Girl Joins Sorority
A common plot in college-centric works. A "good girl", as in someone naive, sweet, smart, or generally innocent, tries to get into a sorority or similar. Hazing ensues, with the sorority president often purposefully trying to humiliate them.
openAfterlife/Religion Trope
Is there a trope for when a religious character dies and finds out that their god isn't real, but another god is? Or the afterlife is actually a different religion's afterlife?
Edited by Pichu-kunopenBreakup Allegory
Friends go through a fight, and it's framed like a classic breakup, down to the dialogue and body language. When they make up, it's, of course, framed like a couple getting back together.
Edited by WarJay77openCherokee princesses and other indigenous myths
Are there any tropes related to the "Cherokee princess" myth? Or people claiming they're part Cherokee/Native American?
Edited by Pichu-kunopenA plot that gets less grounded in reality/more extraordinary as time passes
Not quite Jumping the Shark or Power Creep but a trope like, for example, how the Roseanne main cast starts off in relative poverty but are winning the lottery and meeting royalty in later seasons, or how the legendary Moltres of the first Pokémon generation simply controls fire, but Arceus, a legendary from the fourth generation, controls all elements and created the whole universe
openDoesn't work on a specific type of breed
Do we have a trope where particular powers or stuff don't work on particular breeds and the like? For example, onions repel full vampires, but it does not work on hybrids/half-vampires.
openAir-/Spaceport designed to support a variety of craft
When looking at videos of Super Mario Odyssey, I noticed that, when in New Donk City, the titular airship lands at what appears to be an airport, specifically a helipad, that's a fair distance from the city itself. What I'm wondering is if there's a trope for when an airport is equipped to support all sorts of interestingly-shaped craft, from Earth classics like zeppelins and jumbo jets, to spacecraft like the Anaconda and Pillar of Autumn?
While we're on the subject, is there also a trope where, despite their interesting shape, various types of craft are still required to land at areas designed for more traditional craft? Like the Odyssey landing at a standard-sized helipad instead of just landing somewhere convenient within the city.
Edited by GofastmikeopenEverything will be boxy in the future
Like Our Weapons Will Be Boxy in the Future, but, you know, about everything. The future that is all Boring, but Practical.
openConspiracy Conflation
A Conspiracy Theorist who only believes a single theory is dismissed as if he believed every single one, getting sarcastic comments in response to his theory like "Of course the moon landings were faked! It's why Bigfoot killed JFK to cover up the fact that the Earth is actually flat and allowed communists to take over the government, which is why they're now giving out autism-causing vaccines via the water supply."
openPhyric tine traveler
The time traveler is willing to sacrifice anything on his quest to change the past, since no such sacrifice will persist.
Is there such a trope? Should there be one?
Edited by XhosantopenLost in space plot
Exactly What It Says on the Tin: the characters get lost in space and try to find their way home. Examples include Lost in Space, Star Trek: Voyager, Farscape, and Astra Lost in Space.
Edited by BattleMasteropenCharacter has power, that can be used only in specific situations
Example: Bites the Dust from Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure part 4
openEnemies that are dangerous only when other enemies are present
Let's say there's an enemy that only does Scratch Damage, so on its own it's essentially cannon fodder. However, the damage gives you a debuff that makes you very susceptible to magic spells, making the enemy highly dangerous if Spellcasters happen to be present.
openDead Parent Hint
A man takes out his phone and checks his Instagram, spotting a photo of his mother with the caption: Would've been 60 years old today. Happy birthday, Mommy.
openScene for a trailer
A scene which is included in a work just so it can be in the trailer
openThe Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs Literature
Is there a trope for a scenario wherein one or more characters find a way to make steady, easy profit, but then one of them gets too greedy and ruins the scheme?
Usually, it's something like "if we steal one cookie a day from the jar, mom won't notice since she refills it from time to time. But, if we steal all of them, she'll realize something's wrong and take the jar away".
openHair-pull forced face contact
Usually between enemies, it's when one pulls another's hair up so that the second character can look at his face while he's talking. Alternatively, the hair pulling can be done by a third party (usually the ally/henchman of the talking guy).
Related to Villainous Face Hold.
Do we have this?
openA rule against wholesome material?
So, I'm tropefying the works of Akira Toriyama and he has this interview about his work with Masakazu Katsura, where he states rejection for wholesome content. We have a rule for No Hugging, No Kissing, which also applies to his work I think (I need to finish Dr. Slump to confirm this), but do we have a trope for "Anti-wholesome material"? I do notice he focuses more on the comedic nature than whatever he can make someone feel the good feel.
For example:
Toriyama: You were a nag, all right. (laughs) You read the storyboard and said, “There’s no content.” I like stuff without any content. But he really wants to put some actual content in. Things like “human themes”. I hate that kind of stuff. (laughs)
Katsura: With this job, I can now confidently say that Toriyama-san actually aims to draw things devoid of content. So for me, this storyboard was my archenemy. He deliberately does it so as not to put in anything that invites emotion. Plus, Toriyama-san’s stories progress with high energy the whole time.
And another:
Toriyama: In comics, dumb interactions in the middle of the story are my favorite thing. So I don’t like things that express humanity. It feels like losing.
Katsura: Things like characters’ justifications — things which I suppose from my perspective have a sense of “a normal human being would do this”. Toriyama-san‘s characters are “living in a dream”, so they’re completely untethered from unpleasant or dark aspects. Because of that, the characters don’t have any worries that come out.
Toriyama: I can’t draw people with worries.
Katsura: That’s part of your artistic color, Toriyama-san. But this time, I guess I was afraid that if I kept it that way and drew it in my own art style, it would be like, “What have I been doing for all of 53 pages?” I wanted to play it safe a bit and expand upon Sachie’s mental aspects, since Toriyama-san deliberately tries to water the story down.
Katsura: I’d say, “Please, give me a little bit more of things like the sense of despair as the village suffers in poverty!” Things like that!!
Toriyama: I hate that sort of thing. (laughs)
Sorry for the long post.
This is my the hero or heroes a facing off against two different major villains. One is humans and one is monsterous. These foes must be foes in their own who would be dangerous on their own. They can work to together, have no perticular relationship other mutual hatred of the heroes or even fight each other.
Example: In dragon age origins you face the Archdemon and Loghain Mac Tir
In the temerian series you their is both Napoleon and Lein
In teenage mutant hero Turtles your have the human shredder and the alien Krang