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openMultiple-dubs actor
Is there a trope when the same actor provides their voice for multiple voice-acting works for the same material?
The best example I can provide right now is Antonio Banderas, who voices Puss in Boots from Shrek 2 onwards in the original version, and in both spanish dubs for Europe and Latin America, and in both of them he gives a different performance.
Edited by ElBuenCuateopenTwo adventures take place at the same time
Bob is having an adventure. Alice is around there, but can not help, because she's having another adventure of her own. But this is not just a hand wave explanation for her absence: her actual adventure, starred by her, is published elsewhere, and it's made clear that both ones take place concurrently.
Red Skies Crossover? Hero of Another Story? Superman Stays Out of Gotham?
openMore Past than you knew
Many media have some form of The Precursors. Some have a Vicious Cycle. But is there a trope for the Reveal that transitions the setting from "There was one world before ours" into "There were about ten thousand worlds before ours and we're about to become world 10,001 unless something goes different"? Because that transition seems like a relatively common one. Off the top of my (!!SPOILERY!!) head, there's
- Matrix (1st movie Precursors, 2nd movie establishes Vicious Cycle),
- Mass Effect (starting with Precursors, Vicious Cycle becomes revealed in Sovereign's speech),
- Schlock Mercenary (Precursors cursory mentioned in book 2, Vicious Cycle explored starting with book 16),
- Order of the Stick (precursor world mentioned in strip 274, Vicious Cycle established in strip 1139).
openHow it sounds?
It's like "Exactly What it Says on the Tin", but not really. Is there a trope for this?
Person A sees Person B drenched and slightly bitten.
Person A: "Huh? You look like something that escaped a tank of piranhas! What happened to you?"
Person B: "... I escaped a tank of piranhas."
openHistory Tropes??
I'm writing about a work (series of short stories) I co-author (I'm not the creator) and want to check the differences between these tropes before publishing it on here:
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The work I co-author is set in The '90s, but also jumps to 2002-2008, Christmas 2013, 2014-2018 as well, depending on which character's POV it is, in any order.
I'm not sure of the major difference between the two before putting these at Canonical List of Subtle Trope Distinctions.
I'd appreciate any help.
Edited by Merseyuser1openFrequent Change of Identity
What's the trope that covers someone whose job often requires them to change locations/ assume a new identity?
openLine of dialogue said a lot but only in one episode?
What's the trope for when one episode seems to have a tag-line?
For example, in Sesame Street, one episode involved Gabi getting sick on her birthday and everyone said, "It's OK to be sad if you're sick on your birthday."
openBigBadWolf
I’m trying to redirect Big Bad Wolf as The Big Bad Wolf but it won’t let me.
Edited by VulgarBeeopenStay On Your Pedestal
What's the trope for this scenario:
The cast goes to a place where Women Are Wiser (and related tropes like Waif-Fu, etc.) is considered a biological reality, and women are widely considered to be superior to men in all aspects, by both genders.
At first this seems like paradise to the Straw Feminist of the group, but she quickly discovers that the price to pay is that the women need to appear perfect all the time and any failure on their part (in this case, Alcohol-Induced Idiocy) is treated as letting their entire gender down, by both men and women.
openOften forgotten quality
For example, a figter who is so agile and elegant that people often forget the fact that they are also incredibly strong.
openNice shirt, where'd you get it?
A character goes through a wardrobe change, but it's unclear where exactly they got the clothes from. The character is in some kind of situation where different clothes should not be readily available, too, almost veering into Fridge Logic territory.
openGovernment takeover Film
Scientific lab/observatory discovers something big (aliens, crazy disease) and is jazzed about it until the government shows up, takes over, and tries to silence the scientists.
open Power Negation (as a person)
I don't know if we've got this, and I'm having a very hard time trying to succinctly describe the concept. What I'm thinking of is when a superpowered character has an antagonist (not necessarily an Arch-Nemesis) whose superpower completely negates the advantages of the first character's power or takes advantage of the nature of the first character's power to form a counter to it. Whatever the case, the first character can't take the antagonist in a straight-up fight and has to use sneak attacks or another form of confrontation entirely.
The specific example I had in mind is Wolverine vs. Magneto. Logan's adamantium-laced skeleton helps him out against a lot of different foes, but Magneto's magnetic powers make Logan helpless against him, and catching Magneto when his guard is down or he's distracted is the only way Logan can hurt him when they square off.
openNo Title
A person, possibly an ally of The Hero, finds some ancient and powerful greatsword, and is promptly cursed by it, with the sole benefit being that they can apparently wield it like a traditional sword. Long story short, the curse get's broken, and the sword somehow doesn't shatter in the process, but now it's former wielder is so weak they can barely lift it. After an indeterminable amount of time in which the sword falls into obscurity, the hero's team comes under attack by whatever that day's opponent(s) is/are, and wind up getting their asses handed to them. Cue the formerly-cursed ally, now wielding the formerly-cursed sword, who proceeds to use said sword (via a traditional two-handed grip) to fight the opponent(s), and not only manages to use the sword effectively, but win as well, despite the fact that the sword is still too heavy to wield properly.
Edited by GofastmikeopenInstantly Adaptable B-Roll
This is when the B-roll, screen graphics, and other elements of a live news broadcast can adapt to whatever the host is saying even if they've gone completely off the rails. Some examples:
- In Bojack Horseman, when Oscar nominees were announced by somebody that had to guess them after losing the envelope, it still showed the name and a promotional graphic from a work that wasn't even nominated.
- In Family Guy, Peter gets a job as a pundit that rants about random topics. When he gets fired on the air, he turns his ire towards the viewing audience. They had a corner graphic for it.
openDesperate Resurrection for a Loved One.
Is there a trope that deals with a person trying to resurrect a person they love? Maybe with dangerous or forbidden means.
Is there a trope like But You Were There, and You, and You, but for when an All Just a Dream plot has MacGuffins or locations revealed to be based on mundane objects/locations from the real world?
Edited by BinaryStep