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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.
openEnvy Is Green
Is there a trope for the fact that the feeling of envy/jealousy is almost always associated with the colour green, or would that be considered psoc? Since even on This Very Wiki we have tropes like Green-Eyed Monster and Green-Eyed Epiphany?
openPedestal Breaks You
If Broken Pedestal is where someone finds out their hero isn't as great as they thought, what's the one where their hero tells them off? Not necessarily Your Approval Fills Me with Shame, but the hero being disappointed/angry at the fanboy.
For instance, there's a comic where Superman tells a wannabe superhero that he's not doing enough, one where a bunch of Punisher fanboys think he's doing the right thing and he rejects them because no one should be like him (he tells them to go to Captain America instead), etc.
Edited by Chabal2openTook a Level in Smartass
Do we have a trope for when a character gets snarkier, as part of Character Development over episodes, or maybe due to retooling the character's personality when they're transplanted into another work?
For example, Castiel of Supernatural eventually learned sarcasm and told a captor "Bite me" — concepts that would never even have occurred to him when his character was first introduced.
For the latter possibility, the film version of Jack O' Neill was played fairly serious, then the the TV version became the biggest snarker of the show.
Edited by SpocktorWhoopenDepending On The Victim
- Character (on the villain) : The one he kills are the ones that are beyond redemption and reasoning. Yet, the ones he maims are and he left them alive because he knows they'll be asking, "if given the same circumstances, would i do it again?"
openUnwitting Symbol of Change
A character who, one way or another, ends up as the symbol of a movement... despite not wanting to be, and not fully understanding the situation, often because they did something just at the moment when things were starting to boil over and was the last straw for everyone. Katniss would be one example.
openOne is different
Is there a trope for when one member of a team is notably different from the rest? I was looking at Yellow Monkey from [1] which does not look like a monkey like the rest of the Freaky Monkey Five. https://sarugetchu.fandom.com/wiki/The_Freaky_Monkey_Five
Crushinator from [[Western Animation/Futurama]] would also be a good example.
I looked at The Last Of These Is Not Like The Others but that is only for dialog.
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.