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openStupid for confessing
Character A has done something seriously against custom or law (killing someone by accident, poisoning someone...) and confesses - it doesn't even occur to them they could just keep quiet or lie, not even to claim self-defence. Character B, for one, is angered and disappointed/disgusted, but not because of the deed itself. Oh no. It's because Character A was "so stupid they didn't even think of talking their way out of the situation."
Edited by akanesarumaraopenExisting characters being reimagined in a past century
If this trope didn't exist yet, I wanted to create a trope where characters were reimagined to live in the past like the 19th century of some other time period. Series like Spider-Man Noir, Marvel 1602, and Gotham by Gaslight applied this scenario and have differences to differentiate them from their present day counterparts.
Is this tropable enough to be created in the Trope Launch Pad?
Edited by louisent31openWrong Surrogate
Instead of the designated Audience Surrogate, a completely different character is identified as the reader stand-in, leading to problems when bad things happen to the character and the reader sees it as a personal attack.
openPerfect character turns out to have a dark secret
Character who is seen as perfect turns out to have a dark secret that explains how they're so perfect, usually that they get their perfection from traumatic experience or something.
Examples:
- Big Hero 6: The Series: Successful young CEO Liv Amara is a clone of the real Liv Amara, who is an Ill Girl that holds a grudge against normal people and made a perfected clone of herself to carry out her wishes while she waits in cryosleep.
- Edge of Tomorrow: Emily Blunt's character is seen as a model soldier and the hero of the war, but it turns out that it's because she has the "Groundhog Day" Loop power as Tom Cruise's character and she's suffered as much or even worse than he has in order to get to where she currently is (because you have to die to set off the power).
- Can be done in Life Is Strange with Max because of her mini time travelling power. For example, she doesn't know the answer to a question asked to her in class, so failing to answer it correctly the first time will always happen and you will be mocked for it. However, you can use her power to go back a few moments ago to answer it correctly and people will see her as smart. The fandom also thought that Rachel was The Ace because she had the same power as Max (she didn't... as far as we know).
openYou're stupid because you don't know something that you shouldn't know about!
Suppose Alice knows something that Bob doesn't, and she treats him like an idiot because of it. Thing is, it's something that Bob has no logical reason to know about. What would that be?
openHeart eating
Do we have something for monsters which consume human hearts.
Hearts have been known in some works to contain perhaps the soul of the individual or the heart eating gives them powers.
openDefinition Dissonance
What's the trope where different people hear the exact same thing but interpret it differently?
For example, Alice, Bob and Charlie are working for the Inquisition and are ordered to track down heretics. Problem is, for Alice The Paladin heretics are "people who disagree on certain points of doctrine", for Bob the Knight Templar heretics are "people who disagree with the doctrine", and Charlie the Tautological Templar heretics are "people who disagree with me". Naturally, each brings in a different number of "heretics".
Edited by Chabal2openUnknown brush with danger?
Is there a Trope for when we learn a while later that a character or characters were pretty close to something or someone dangerous at one specific moment, but didn't know it a the time?
openSee How Well You Do Without Me
Hero with Bad Publicity has had enough and decide to leave the people to their own device.
Edited by AndermannopenGrocery store tantrum Film
Do we have this one?
A Spoiled Brat is taken shopping by his/her parent. The child demands buying a candy bar or a new toy and - when refused - starts screaming and won't stop. Quite common in comedy.
openTiny Villain? Western Animation
I've seen this mainly in Western Animation... but do we have this one?
The Big Bad is actually tiny, maybe around the size of a hamster or cat, and looks non-threatening.
openPlatonic Version of Destructive Romance Trope
On the trope page it says the platonic version of Destructive Romance is With Friends Like These..., but that implies the two people don't get along or barely like each other, and it doesn't really seem to imply that the relationship is necessarily dangerous to one or more of the participants. In Destructive Romance the two people might actually (seem to) get along fine or like each other a lot—it's just that they (and their relationship) are toxic. Is there a trope more like Destructive Romance than With Friends Like These... that is still platonic?
Edited by CyokieRevottopenMoment of hard choice
One critical moment where (usually) the hero has to choose one course of action at the expense of another.
Supertrope of Sadistic Choice, for when it's imposed by his enemy.
Do we have it?
openAging Audience Sympathy Shift
A situation where an older viewer identifies with a different character in a work than when they experienced it as children.
For example, Spongebob viewers who identified with Spongebob as kids (optimistic, happy, enthusiastic) but as college students or employees realized they were now rooting for Squidward (untalented, hates his job, always grumpy).
Edited by Chabal2openSoundtrack Book Ends
Is there a Trope for something like Book Ends, but the only thing connecting the beginning and the end is that there's the same song on the soundtrack?Or is that just a form of Book Ends? Or is that seen as not noteworthy at all?
I was just curious/wondering, is there a trope where a character bathes/showers with their underwear still on?