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openPhysic Defying Cloth
A revealing outfit that really should’ve fall off by now.
Edited by AndermannopenSpinal Exposure
A character's spine/vertebrae is exposed and visible to some decree, usually for Body Horror or to show the character's The Undead
openFacial Hair Mouth Guard
The character's beard and/or moustache is animated or bushy enough that their mouth is hard to see, or isn't shown. For example, Drayden from Pokémon Black and White
openRepresentation of your past self
Sort of the opposite of a Jacob Marley Warning - Rather than resembling the person that the hero could become, a character resembles the person that the hero used to be, prior to Character Development.
Edited by phalanxopenAdding In Realism
Is there a trope for adaptations making things more realistic? For example, how The Lion King 2019 tones down the Artistic License – Biology.
openElma wants everything to go back to the way it used to be
In the Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid spinoff that focuses on Elma, she delievers the dialogue "I've only just gotten started on my mission! And then... maybe we can spend time together again. Like we did back then..." Is this a trope and if so which one is it?
openjoking about a trope
Which kind of Playing with a Trope is it when someone says that a trope is happening, but they're joking? In this case it's "shepherd's pie made with real shepherds".
Edited by wingedcatgirlopenPlaying to lose
Someone plays a game or engages in some manner of competitive activity, with the specific intent of losing. Either they're trying to subtly put their competitor ahead for whatever reason, the consequences of winning are undesirable to them, or second place is more desirable. I wouldn't be surprised if we already have this enshrined in trope, but I can't seem to find it if so.
openStory arc characters / villain tropes? Live Action TV
Do we have this one?
On Troperia with Alice & Bob, Season 4 has a new Story Arc and introduces new characters Kate, Rachael and Julie, a Girl Posse of Alpha Bitch characters who are supposed to be the antagonists, but in reality they're not even that threatening. They're not a failure at it, but compared to Season 1, 2 and 3 whose antagonists were City Threat on the Sliding Scale of Antagonist Vileness, these come in as a Local Area Threat and have goals that aren't as horrifying as the previous season's villains.
In terms of antagonist vileness, well, Kate is an Anti-Villain at worst due to being forced into the girl posse and she's only doing it for the money so she can move out of the city, but Rachael and Julie fall into a villainous version of The Hedonist. Rachael is The Cracker who wants a girlfriend so she can be the Dark Mistress and appears sane.
They're only there for Season 4 and not given a mention in Season 5 or Season 6, with not even a Continuity Nod.
I thought Arc Villain could apply, but they're not Recurring Character as they're in it for one season, so what trope does apply to a single-season group of characters?
Equally, would Harmless Villain fit the trope or not for the Girl Posse or another trope?
What sort of tropes in terms of villainy would fit Rachael and Julie, in terms of villain and characterization tropes?
openPanicked thought process
In a fanfic I'm troping, occasionally the protagonist's thought process switches from normal third person perspective and starts looking like this:
[...] accepting rejecting perfect DEFEATTHEYLOSTNOWONSEALEDPERMANENTINCOMPLETE [...]
These segments completely lack normal punctuation and interrupt perfectly normal sentenses. By the way, there is no paragraph break there. What trope is this? (other that All Caps)
Edited by LermisopenBold-Faced Truth
A specific sub trope of Kansas City Shuffle and inversion of Suspiciously Specific Denial in which the con is telling the truth about something, but deliberately behaves in a way that makes it look to the victim that they’re lying. For example: Country X: “We’ve captured your finest General from his nigh-fatal train accident that killed most of the rest of the crew, and nursed him back to health! He’s currently on our biggest, fanciest, most vulnerable airship. Pay no attention to that dead crew member who looks nothing like him.” To country Y, this has trap written all over it. But it’s the truth—the general really is in that airship. This relies heavily on Refuge in Audacity.
openNo Title
Is there a trope related newer adaptations, derivatives, and the like adding in more LGBTQ characters than the source? The original work had only cis-straight characters but modern versions change that to diversity or make the setting more realistic. I guess this can also apply to other things in general, such as more disabled characters.
openNot true, but not far off
Bob is a Memetic Badass, but laughs off the stories told about him as pure nonsense. Then it turns out the stories weren't off by that much, and he performs feats that should just as impossible but are only slightly less impressive than the rumors.
For instance, Bob is famous for once having hurled a man a hundred feet away in a fit of anger. Bob laughs good-naturedly when asked to confirm this, because it's obviously impossible. Then the audience eventually sees his recollection of it, and he did indeed throw a man, but he only flew ninety-five feet.
Or Alice is once stated to have killed a dozen men with a single arrow. She tells people not to believe such obvious exaggerations, because it turns out it was only ten men and an eleventh one due to a lucky ricochet.
openActually Talented Double
Talent Double is about someone standing in for an actor to show a skill the character has but the actor doesn't. What's the trope for it happening for real (as in, the character lacks the talent he supposedly possesses and fakes by using another character who can do it). Sometimes it's a partnership (Alice has the talent but has No Social Skills, Bob is good with people but can't do what Alice does, so they pretend Bob has the skill and Alice is his assistant), sometimes the faker is forcing the talent to make him look good.
In Discworld/Maskerade, the star of the show is Christine, who certainly looks the part of a ballet heroine but is painfully unmusical. Agnes Nitt's Magic Music lets her sing the part of Christine while part of the chorus.
openReciprocal jelousy
What would be the trope for a story about Grass is Greener, where two people are wishing they were on the other man's shoes?
Edited by ElBuenCuateopenUnwanted Rival
Bob is perfectly aware of Alice's status as his rival (even if it exists only in Alice's head), but is unwilling to act as such, turning down her every request to determine which is the better of them or throwing/forfeiting a competition (or outright giving her whatever trophy she's after without a fight) in the hopes of getting rid of her.
Edited by Chabal2openOur Matter Is Unorthodox
Unorthodox forms and states of matter and particles, like strange matter, muon particles, neutronium and such(or made up alien matter), which can have a lot of weird and interesting results in fiction. Super-Trope of Antimatter and Our Dark Matter Is Mysterious. Examples include neutronium in Mass Effect, Futurama (Yivo is made out of electromatter, which can't be harmed by regular matter)
From The Best Revenge:
"This would be easy except there's one impossibly difficult step" feels tropey. Do We Have This One?
Edited by wingedcatgirl