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open Murder tv show Film
Hi I can’t seem to find a show, it’s description was about someone who was trying to help police solve murders around the time of Jack the Ripper. The photo for the preview was a man in a bowler hat, I can’t remember if he was a pathologist or not. Please help.
openTalking when told not to
Alice and Bob are meeting someone important or influential and Alice tells Bob to not say anything and to let her do all the talking. Bob of course ends up talking anyway and things end up the same or better than if he had stayed silent.
openArbitrary Timed Mission that falls apart when FridgeLogic comes in
Very commonly with shapeshifting or Freaky Friday Switch, there's a time limit that if Alice and Bob don't change back to their normal selves they'll remain stuck in their new form forever - and nobody will ask whey they can't just initiate a new shapeshift or body swap, which in the end the results would be the same as if they'd reverted.
openObjects destroyed in grid sections Videogame
When you destroy a building in a video game you expect it to collapse into one big heap of rubble, right? Well, in some early games large objects are really composed of a number of smaller sprites stacked together, so instead you see a tiled pattern of destroyed rubble.
openI "let" you punish me
A strong character allow themselves to be punished by law or other things, even though they can easily avoid the punishment by running away or simply killing anyone who try to capture them, and they can often just bust themselves out of prison whenever they want if they're captured.
Usually they either think themselves deserve to be punished, or less commonly convinced to take the punishment by their friend who's more moral.
Edited by AndermannopenContrived breakup?
Is there a trope that's an inversion of Strangled by the Red String? Namely, a couple is shown to have a deep, meaningful relationship with lots of on-screen chemistry together... then they have one minor argument or some other fairly trivial thing happens and Boom! They decide that it's somehow an irreconcilable difference and they split up, typically without even trying to work things out.
open"Jesus!" "No, not him"
I know we have mistaken identity, but is there a specific subtrope for when, say, back in The Bear and the Dragon President Jack Ryan went onto that cruiser and like three people yelled out variants of "Jesus Christ!" in rapid succession and all three times he responded with something like "No, I'm not him."?
openHanahaki Disease
Hanahaki Disease is a fictional disease in which someone throws up/coughs up flowers due to unrequited love. There are typically three ways to be rid of the disease: death, if the other person loves you back, or surgery that removes the flowers (and your feelings for the other person, although sometimes it will remove your memories of them as well). Think Flower Motifs, Cherry Blossoms, or both. It typically pops up in angsty fanworks, but it was popularized by the manga Hanahaki Otome (The Girl Who Coughs Flowers).
I've looked it up, but the only thing I found was a mention of it in the Love Hurts Anime and Manga examples page under Tokyo Ghoul.
Edited by hayan_nabiopenSingular work goes from scary to soft Music
"CIRCLONT14 [shrymoming mix]" by Aphex Twin starts out with an unsettling and desolate sound, but transitions into a softer and more comforting tone over time. It looks like all of the Tone Shift tropes are for more serial works, so is there a trope that covers tone shifts like this, but within a single work?
Edited by CosmicCatopenFinal Battle on the moon Web Original
New Testament SD Gundam Gaiden New World Advent Legend has the final battle take place on the moon. Does that count as Astral Finale? If not, what does it count as?
openPause in the heat of battle
During a big battle, something ridiculous happened, and both side just stop for a moment before they resume fighting.
open(Unintentionally) Calling Someone Out
When Alice complains to Bob about John's actions, unknowing that Bob is guilty of the same things. It's not that Bob is guilty of what Alice thinks John has done - Alice isn't accusing the wrong person. It's that John has done something that disgusts Alice, and Bob has done the same thing before.
I'm thinking about this scene in the most recent God of War game, when Atreus and Kratos find the ghost of a man murdered by his son:
Atreus (shocked and disgusted): He killed his own father?!
(Camera pans to Kratos - who killed his father Zeus in an earlier game - looking like a deer in headlights.)
Edited by iamconstantineopenRidiculous Effect Radius
Basically an item's radius for effecting something is ridiculously big.
Like in Super Princess Peach, the Vibe Scepter affects everyone on the island. The island itself is huge enough to contain multiple climates.
openCharacter is shown in a darker light
I'm not sure if it belongs to Characterization Marches On, Harsher in Hindsight or Slowly Slipping Into Evil, but I was thinking what trope is this.
It involves a main character in later seasons shown in contrast to his earlier, more heroic appearances. In the later seasons, there is a reveal that shows the main character isn't as morally good as it seems.
Example:
Bob is the main character of a show. He's a Tony Stark plus Bruce Wayne style tech hero that forms a super team made out of interdimensional characters.
After a few seasons, there is a slow, horrible reveal about his true nature. Many of the things he did in earlier seasons are shown in a darker light such as:
- Causing an event which was blamed on Emperor Evil.
- Keeping hidden records about the strengths and weaknesses of enemies and allies.
- Manipulating several villains to fight each other.
- Exploiting Alice's mental frailty and untapped powers to use her against her father, Emperor Evil.
- Disguising himself as a villain to infiltrate Emperor Evil's organization and attacking his friends.
What is that trope anyways?
openIt was just a test
In Johnny English, the titular agent messes up and ends up on a hospital-skyscraper instead of the skyscraper of the bad guy. He goes around threatening the staff with a gun, and when he realizes his mistake he says that it was a test of the hospital's emergency response. Is there a trope for that kind of excuse, or that too specific to have one?
Edited by crushingmaloopenA work doesn't skirts around issues
Is there a trope for when a work avoids using certain terms? Like Never Say "Die" but not for death.
For example, in Pokemon Live Delia dated Giovanni and was a part of Team Rocket... except the musical never calls it that. Delia was "Giovanni's friend" and she "hanged out" with "what would later become Team Rocket".
openWeird Blood
Someone...well, has weird blood. Like the blood is differently colored or has some weird properties regular blood doesn't have. I know we have Alien Blood, but that covers...well, aliens and other non-humans, but what I'm thinking of is broader than that. Is this distinct enough from Alien Blood to trope, or nah?
openTainted Victory
One side of a narrative is about to lose and can't do anything about it. Then something happens to prevent the other side from completely enjoying their victory. Can be portrayed as both heroic or petty, depending on which side has the moral high ground and how much responsibility they have in causing the event.
For example, after a sports match that ended in Team B's victory, it's revealed one of Team A's players had a broken leg but played anyway. So while Team B didn't cheat, it can't be claimed the match was fairly fought (and as Team B's captain is the Glory Hound type, he's plagued by the fact that the wounded player is treated as a moral victor and thus gets more respect and attention than him).
openExplanation-induced "Oh, Crap."
The villain seemingly has the Guile Hero at his mercy, and then the hero admits that means he's already secretly won. Examples: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows - Sherlock tells Moriarty he stole his ledger and had the cops seize his fortune, Good Burger - Ed tells all present he dumps all the food additives into the meat = exploding burgers, The 51st State - Elmo tells the Lizard he just drank an explosive cocktail.
Do we have a trope where someone finds roadkill and either eats it raw or cooks it as a meal? Can include intentionally killing an animal to do that?