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Is there a trope for when someone gets set on fire and it's only a mild inconvenience? It doesn't necessarily backfire, it just doesn't really have much effect.
Or would that just go under Useless Useful Spell?
openNo Title
Do we have a trope for sexual assault used as a hate crime? The closest I can think of is Rape and Switch, which is specifically about sexualities.
openAI Boss Privilege Trope Videogame
The one I'm looking for is when a boss character (or player character) is either buffed in terms of stats, or is allowed to use attacks that are only available when they're AI controlled. But once they're under your control, their stats are nerfed and the aforementioned AI exclusive techs are disabled.
I need it for an example on the Valkyria Chronicles 4 character page. When Claude's controlled by the AI, Rapid Deployment allows him to resurrect all of his defeated team leaders at once. But when he's under your control, Rapid Deployment doesn't have that effect. It can only be used to summon team members from your reserves.
openDisturbing Art Warns About a Character's Mental Instability
Basically, a character makes a piece of art (not necessarily visual art, it could be music, poetry, etc.) that is unusually disturbing for them, even if they are an artist. This happens right before the character does something very bad (such as attempt suicide), and usually the art is shown as a warning that the character is more mentally unstable than previously thought.
An example of this is in Doki Doki Literature Club!, where a female character who writes pretty but sad poems eventually writes a poem that's just "Get out of my head" over and over again, which makes the player go over to check on her—only find out she hung herself.
Edited by CyokieRevottopenBadass trope for character / grouchiness? Live Action TV
Do we have this one?
On Alice and Bob around the World, Tanya has heard claims from Bob that Alice is a badass, but no-one in the rest of the group believes Bob until an Innocuously Important Episode where Alice proves she's a Waif-Fu Badass (in a setting where there's nothing supernatural, just normal Villain of the Week).
Out-of-universe, Alice isn't shown to be a badass to avoid Creator's Pet issues.
Hidden Depths could be the trope, but is there any other ones that could fit?
openMilitary and civilians
A common thing in works featuring the military is a contrast between military stuff and civilian (non-military) stuff. Some military are shown as openly arrogant and disdainful over civilians, while others are shown as more open minded.
openPatchwork rebel?
So there's sort of a trend where certain characters- often the Straw Feminist or another character who's kind of a quirky liberal type- will wear a jacket or vest or something decked out in patches, buttons, etc. to sort of visually demonstrate their individuality. The characters coming to mind for a peak example right now are Michael in Be More Chill and Logainne in most productions of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. It's something I notice a lot and I was wondering if it was a trope, or if it was worth troping at all.
openErrand guy
A character who keeps getting dragged into running errands for various people, even if they have more important things to do.
openTohru & Clemene
At the end of Chapter 38 of Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid Tohru fights Clemene, during the fight she delivers this speech. "If you plead for mercy prettily enough, I might spare your soul and destroy only your body. Now, start begging!!" I looked at the tropes Ain't Too Proud to Beg, Kneel Before Zod and Kneel Before Frodo and those 3 doesn't quite fit. So is there a trope for this?
openBigoted But Attracted To Those That You're Bigoted Towards
Do we have a trope for characters who are attracted to those they're racist towards? For example, a guy is racist towards black people but likes to have sex with only black prostitutes, or a guy who hates Asians but has an Asian wife. An Armoured Closet Gay is often this towards gay people.
Edited by Pichu-kunopenFourth wall trope? Live Action TV
Do we have this one?
I was reading Sliding Scale of Fourth Wall Hardness and wondered what trope applies to this situation:
On Troperia: Adventures of Alice and Bob, Alice declares she's been secretly in love with the creator of the show for the past three years (Lampshade Hanging about the show's run??), and Bob says he wishes he could go out for a beer with the creator of the show.
Other than No Fourth Wall and Noticing the Fourth Wall, are there any tropes for where the characters actually discuss the creator and treat them as if they were a person In-Universe?
Edited by Merseyuser1openNo Power Steering in Planes
This is something a co-worker brought up to me, and I found myself unable to find an extant trope. Control yokes in planes other than small prop planes tend to be fly-by-wire, and yet it seems like a fairly stock thing for the pilot to be pulling with all of their weight against the yoke to do something like pull up out of a dive (although, on the flip side of it, neither he nor I could think of a case where this happens in a modern film, so it could be this is already a Dead Horse trope) as if directly wrestling with the flaps.
First off, do we have this trope already?
openbody part stuck
Someone gets their body or a body-part stuck in something for a long enough time to make it an issue others need to help them with. Seen this in iCarly, Pokémon...
I swear I had another trope I wanted to ask about, but I forgot it. Oh well :/
openObnoxiously Friendly
A character who acts friendly towards others, but is way too pushy about it (and sometimes exhibits Ambiguous Disorder).
openSomething you once loved but now can't abide because of trauma
The general idea is that you used to be very fond of something, but a traumatic experience you had while partaking of that something has completely ruined your ability to enjoy it.
The specific example is from The Outsider, where a character mentions that he loved canteloupe as a kid, but now can't tolerate even the thought of eating it because once, while he was still pretty young, he got hold of a canteloupe that looked fine on the outside, but when he cut it open it was riddled with maggots on the inside.
Edited by WillbyropenThe All Knowing Phone Call
When you get a phone call and the person calling knows what you're doing. (Like at the beggining of the Matrix)
openDistressed Wood Chopping
What happened to the Trope Launch Pad draft Distressed Wood Chopping? I couldn't find it when I used the search bar on the site as a whole, I couldn't find it when I used the search bar on Trope Launch Pad, and I didn't see it on the first pages of the "launched" or "discarded" list.
In the 1990s and early-to-mid 2000s, the internet had a nerdy rep. Is there a trope for that? Spending too much time online is weird.