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openWhen a Title Drop is a book/story/show a character writes? Live Action TV
So far I've seen a lot of tv shows moving towards the final episode having a character write a book with the tv show's title.
Examples:
- Game of Thrones
- Private Practice
- Orphan Black
I'm assuming Jane the Virgin is doing this because the last episode I saw (Season 4 Finale) had her talking about throwing all her half-finished memoirs into one book.
Very curious, because this sub-trope seems to be coming up more and more. I don't know why, maybe its a quick way to give closure?
Edited by donteatrawhagisopenI Would Know You Anywhere
Where two people recognize each other regardless of lost memories, different bodies, or even different forms. It doesn't even have to be because of mannerisms or some other type of Spotting the Thread; they just can recognize each other's souls. Or just one recognizes the other. As an example, the hero's love has been turned into a dog while away on some trip. The hero meets the dog and knows it's his love when their eyes meet.
openCast from Item
Skills/spells that consume something in your inventory item to be used.
Do we have it?
openWatch and Learn, Crash and Burn Live Action TV
What about this one?
Usually seen in a comedic scene, a lovable but overly-confident character wants to display his skill to another character (can be something like his appeal to the opposite sex by asking out someone on a date), only to fail disastrously to comic effect.
One good example is Larry Appleton on Perfect Strangers who often said the phrase, "watch and learn" to his cousin Balki.
openNot Helping The Accused’s Case
What’s it called when someone tries to defend someone else but what they say and do only makes the accused look even more guilty? I did not find anything browsing Not Helping Your Case.
openBreaking the Fourth Wall question
Do cases of breaking character while someone is supposed to be in-character (i.e., not in real life) fall under Breaking the Fourth Wall?
I wasn't sure since the former can happen without addressing the fourth wall, which seems to be a big part of the trope— they might be addressing another character, saying something along the lines of "You know we're just characters on a TV show, right?"
openHe doesn't feel anything except for that one person, and she doesn't seem to notice at first
So, the character is a teen boy usually pretty chill with everyone and everything, but he never showed any love interest on girls like any regular teenager would (he can say if they are pretty or not, he just never felt attraction towards someone). Until that one girl appeared and he felt what seemed Love at First Sight and done almost every steps of this trope when talking to her (nervousness, blushing face, stuttering, erring words, etc) and he doesn't feel like that for anyone else, while the girl treats these attitudes as shyness symptoms only (she's not Oblivious to Love, the file just has not fallen yet). How would one describe his attitude and their "relationship"? I feel like is something else that I didn't mentioned...
Edited by Tybirius_RopenUnconventional Smithing Material
Somehow he forged a sword out of three horns, an eye, and a heart.
Edited by AndermannopenInhabitable Solar system
An alternate history conceit where all of the planets in the solar system are inhabitable and have biological life without terraforming. Tends to be associated with Punk Punk and spaceflight happening earlier. Shows up in pulp science fiction, and modern works that feature it include Larklight and Radiance.
openConfusing/conflating the plot of multiple movies
Usually a comedy trope: a character is trying to remember a movie/book/etc., but confuses it for another with a similar plot or the same actor, usually muddling the two (or three, or more) together as they try to describe it. Historical Character Confusion? Wrongfully Attributed? Something else?
Edited by UnsungopenDemocracy is absurd
Something that I have been seen on medieval fantasy settings like Game of Thrones or The Witcher. When a character proposes an alternative mean of government that aren't kings, based on the common folk ruling themselves, or electing someone directly to do so, only for that character ending up being mocked by everyone else for that ridiculous idea. Is there some trope of this?
openCould have escaped at any time
Character reveals that they escaped from their restraints a while ago and have just been playing along until the right moment.
openRecursion Trope for settings? Western Animation
Do we have this one?
Alice and Bob enter a Magical Land and spend a short period of time inside it. In real world time, they've only been there 30 minutes, so it's Year Inside, Hour Outside (to them).
However, within the Magical Land it's Year Outside, Hour Inside. When they get into another Magical Land within the Year Outside, Hour Inside place, it's Year Inside, Hour Outside within there.
Or this recursive trope:
Bob is the Big Good of the story. Alice is the Big Bad of the story. Then The Man Behind the Man is revealed, and it keeps going all the way up to the top, with God in Grandpa God form as The Man Behind the Man of the story arc!
What tropes would fit these two scenarios of recursive-ness, do we even have a recursive-ness trope?
Edited by Merseyuser1openFinding Out You Have A Child
What would be a trope for a plot where a man learns he fathered a child several years ago? Is it Luke, You Are My Father even if their kid themself doesn't tell them?
openKids Who Abuse Strays
Do we have a trope for kids bullying stray animals? I see it all the time in media. A group of boys who throw rocks at dogs or stuff cats into bags. The closest trope I can think of is Bad People Abuse Animals, which is too general.
openOld people are hideous
A comedy trope where the idea of naked old people (or worse, old people having sex) is treated with the same level of revulsion as Body Horror.
Similar to Parental Sexuality Squick, but applied to the parents' entire generation rather than just them.
openEvil golddigging wicked stepmother
Do we have a trope for the confluence of Derailing Love Interests, gold-digging fiancee, and Wicked Stepmother? It seems like there's a significant number of stories out there where the widowed parent brings a new intended to their children, and it turns out that the betrothed has secret plans to immediately destroy everything good and ship the children away, leading to open hostility between stepparent-to-be and children any time the parent isn't around, and oh look, here's a much better option to marry that the parent actually has chemistry with, if only the kids could get the parent to see that their soon-to-be-spouse is evil incarnate and arrange a Meet Cute.
Usually in a family sitcom, the smartest kid in the family graduates from high school, but the show comes up with some excuse why they don't go to anything better than "California University" (e.g. on "black'ish," when Junior gets a full scholarship to Howard, and first decides to take a "gap year," then decides to go straight into working without going to college at all) so they can keep the kid on the show. It's more the excuse why they go to California University (or, more likely, the local community college) rather than that trope itself.
Edited by ThatDonGuy