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openWrongfully Attributed Misdeed
Wrongfully Attributed is apparently only for work of art or inventions and the like.
Do we have a trope for when someone becomes infamous for something bad that they didn't do/someone else did?
(For that matter, do we have "Wrongfully Attributed Heroics" as well?)
Edited by 4tell0life4openMessage Warped by Oral Spread
A general idea, where something (message, work of fiction, news, etc) are spread through word of mouth and inevitably becomes warped after some X amount of "jumps". Like a telephone game, but not being a game.
Do we have this?
openGravity Defying Descending Platform Videogame
In certain video game there are platforms that will slowly descend when you stand on it, and how are you going to stop its descent? Why keep jumping on it, of course.
openNo Title
Somewhere exists a big space, like huge dome. The surfaces crackle with static, it is interior but has a sense of being exterior, the roof may be the night sky. In this big cavernous space there may be a platform going half-way along, (Think Prof Xavier's Cerebro). This big space is some sort of mainframe that contains all knowledge, all wisdom, all the force etc. It is the mind of the Universe. Sometimes the seer may put on a headset to engage with it. If you or I put on this headset our brains would probably fry because we do not have mind power to deal with it. I thought I'd seen this trope, this image, this device a million times in a million films but now I come to look for it I can't find many examples. Have I imagined it? Can you offer any examples? Thanks.
openArc of Weapons Greeting
You know that thing where somebody enters a room and calls out something along the lines of "I'm here!" or "Guess who's back!" and a bunch of weapons — wielders (and maybe hands) offscreen — immediately point at the incoming character? This can be either expected by the enterer (as in the case of RWBY when Yang Xiao Long barges into Junior's lair and everybody present remembers her clobbering them in a Bar Brawl last time she was in there) or unexpected by the enterer (as in the case of Aladdin And The King Of Thieves when the king of thieves enters the thieves' lair and is surprised by his minions no longer trusting him because they've been lead to believe he betrayed them).
"Awkward Silence" Entrance is similar, but without the weapons.
(one bump so far)
Edited by Miss_DesperadoopenPower Relay
Powers that only work in certain zones, and need some kind of relay to work. Sort of like cell phone reception requiring a tower but with magic or other abilities.
Several RTS games limit building construction to a small zone around other buildings (Dawn Of War, Command And Conquer, Starcraft's Zerg and Warcraft's Undead) or have a single building used solely to extend the buildable area (Starcraft's Protoss).
Lanfeust has a world where everybody has a single magical power, but some people need to give up that power in order to make themselves a relay for other people's powers.
openGetting Lost In The Music
- A woman walks downstairs with her newborn and toddler just in time to notice her husband dancing with an unusual swagger. The husband is unaware of their presence because he's wearing headphones. He then spins around to song, now noticing them and is somewhat embarrassed.
openTrope 3
A rat is in a war against other rats, and has allied himself with the cats. Despite being a rat soldier who is in a war against the cats, he actually believes in their supremacy, or wants to be one. thus he was granted a cat mecha, to fit in with the cat society.
Is there a general trope for that, thanks.
openAwed Whistle
Neither Wolf Whistle nor Not-So-Innocent Whistle. A character sees something awesome (e.g. a bunch of cool explosions) and lets out a whistle of appreciation.
Edited by Miss_DesperadoopenFalling in love with the person being manipulated.
I vaguely remember this one trope, it's when a manipulative character pretends to be in love with somebody but then actually has feelings for them. Kinda like a "Romantic Fake–Real Turn" but more hostile.
openWillingly Suspend My Disbelief
- An main character has just witnessed the most unrealistic thing he has ever seen. Considering things have been weird up to this point, he actively decides to willingly suspend his belief.
openUnderstandably Superstitious
- A man refuses to visit a place which he called for most of his childhood due to an traumatic experience. Since said experience, he has visited the past but whenever he does, something bad happens. His last visit was him being in the vicinity of an terrorist attack. Due to that last visit, he's better off not visiting the place.
openDelaying The Inevitable
- Character: Why would the Spurs trade Kawhi Leonard to the Raptors, of all teams?
- Character #2: "They're delaying the inevitable. It was no secret Le Bron was heading to the Lakers, which was one of Kawhi' preferred trade destinations. The Spurs knew that and knew the Lakers having both Le Bron and Kawhi is a fate worse than death. Now I know what you're thinking. Kawhi has one year left on his contract. and seeing how dormant the Raptors are, he's gonna tough it out with them and then possibly leave for the Lakers."
- Character: "Yeah, so what's the point of trading him to a team he's gonna leave after one season."
- Character #2: "Like I said, they're delaying the inevitable...for now."
openLocked In
Do we have anything that covers the concept of someone being utterly locked up in a place for a long period of time, with no possible escape route, often being completely isolated in the process?
- Everyman HYBRID, with Vinnie being locked in an apartment for 7 months, being unable to even open a window, trapped and isolated despite someone from the outside clearly having access to the apartment (food got brought, furniture vanished) and despite hearing normal people outside.
- Hi I'm Mary Mary, where Mary was trapped in a house, unable to escape through any means, not even having the ability to contact anyone over the internet despite her content being posted just fine.
- Alantutorial, where Alan spent the last few uploads trapped alone in a tiny room for months, where each upload would show the room becoming more and more disgusting and unfit for human life.
- Pokémon Black and White, with the mythical Victini, who was trapped alone in a room for two years, abandoned and forgotten.
I guess there are two possible routes to take here- the general "completely trapped in a room/building for a while" route, and the concept of being isolated to the point of being unable to even leave a room (which I guess would include Solitary Confinement, too?).
Edited by WarJay77openNo Historical Events Were Harmed
A trope where a (fictional) historical event plays out almost exactly like a historical event from real life.
For example, in Blake And Mortimer, the very first album starts with what is basically the attack on Pearl Harbor (a completely unexpected air attack from an East Asian country), but expanded to the world's capitals simultaneously.
- Character: You're like Shawn Michaels and I'm like Mick Foley."
- Character #2: "You mean before he found Christ and after?"
Edited by JC96