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Is there a trope for a song that originally had nothing to do with another series, but has since become associated with it to the point that everyone thinks it's the theme? Best example is Black Sabbath's Iron Man, which has since become Tony Stark's default theme.
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Is there a trope for this situation: Bob makes a grand Rousing Speech appealing to the better qualities of the listeners, who listen politely. Charlie steps in, makes a much shorter speech with much more prosaic points, and the crowd goes wild. Usually a Humans Are Bastards scenario, showing that there is no point in appealing to their inherent nobility or sense of sacrifice, or to establish that Bob has a very rose-tinted view of the world that won't last long.
For example, a school principal makes his speech on their important mission to the assembled teachers (Training Tomorrow's Generation, Giving These Children a Future, etc.), but notices they are obviously distracted. His assistant steps in once he's done and tells them the coffee machine's been repaired, and they burst into applause before swarming the machine.
In another, the first character makes a War Is Glorious speech to little reaction, the second one mentions that pillage and looting will be allowed, motivating the soldiers tenfold.
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Animation trope:
1.When Bob hit Charlie's head with a stick,a small hill or something round pop out on Charlie's head.
2.When Bob runs very fast,the background change(you can see a lot of line on the background).This also include jumping very fast.
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A penis measurring competition. When two rivals who hate eachother have to work together. At some random point they need to use a tool and they both pull it only for to one of them have a bigger one then the other. In some cases the other would then pull out an even bigger one. A comedy trope. F.x: In the third pirates of the Caribbean, at some point Barbosa takes out a telescope. Jack then proceeds to pull out an even bigger telescope.
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- In Mega Man Battle Network, Meijin Eguchi's Catchphrase is "San wa iranai!" ("No need for the "san"!)
I think that would fall into Don't Call Me "Sir", but I'm worried that that isn't the case...
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What's the trope for when a war where mankind is against an race of Eldritch Abomination creatures and it is later revealed that these creatures are actually an evolved form of mankind? it usually comes in the form of backstory.
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann — Anti-spirals are spirals who reached the peak of evolution, Attack On Titan —titans are titan shifters who are locked in titan form , Puella Magi Madoka Magica — Witches were formery Magical Girls. Shin Sekai Yori — Bake Nezumi were non-ESPer humans who got their dna spliced with molerats to turn them into bake nezumi to keep the priveledged ESPers on top, and Suisei No Gargantia — hideauze are products of human genome experiments are examples of this.
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Looking for a sort of trope. The setting is high school (or any place where a large number of males and females gather on a regular basis). The description of the trope is that a guy (or a girl) falls in love with someone way way "out of their league", but that person loves them right back, because they "don't have to be the wealthy playboy/elite heiress/ person everyone absolutely adores and looks up to" etc. Basically, the Cool Loser doesn't care about the "top guy's/girl's" social status, and s/he finds that strangely relaxing, like s/he can finally be her/himself.
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I was thinking about this with Frozen. In the "Let It Be" segment, Elsa is adorably hot in her glee at using her powers for the first time in years. It's not Adorkable since she's not being dorky exactly. I'd imagine it's a bit of YMMV since her hotness is all in the way she's smiling and being honestly cute.
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I'm looking for the trope where something can only be found when you're not looking for it.
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Alternate history worlds that are less technologically advanced than ours was at the same point in time?
- The Peshawar Lancers
- crosstime traffic
- Times Without Number
- Pavane
- The Golden Compass
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Looking for a song format where there is a large number of verses and no real chorus except for maybe one line.
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Is there a trope for when a man is in an affair, (or a woman though in media it's normally a man) who won't leave his wife? It's a subtrope of Triang Relations.
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Do we have a trope for when a military fiction story set in the modern, post-WW 2 worldnote depicts women soldiers whose home countries have/had an official ban on them serving in direct combat roles, but nevertheless do exactly that, without any proper handwave for the discrepancy? (After all, Like Reality Unless Noted.)
Example of what would count: The Metal Gear series has more than a few women as direct-combat soldiers during the post-WW 2 period. Fortune of Metal Gear Solid fame is one, serving in the US military as a member of an elite black-ops special forces unit between 2007 and 2009. Then we have Meryl Silverburgh
and Sniper Wolf (members of the US miltiary's FOXHOUND spec-ops unit by 2005; Sniper Wolf joined the unit sometime between 1999 and 2005), Elisa and Ursula (US spec-ops unit FOX in the middle of the Cold War). No mention is made at all of any lifting of the US's 1994 official ban on women in combat roles.
Example of what would not count: G.I. Jane's premise has the US military is experimenting with allowing women to take combat roles, with the female protagonist being the first test case. This is a proper Handwave.
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A contest whose winner is kept ambiguous, with the twist ending that both (or more) of the contestants where declared winners (or losers, a draw basically).
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What I'm looking for is a Videogame Setting.
In Pandora's Tower, there are 12 towers you must complete to unlock the final level, and most of them have familiar settings. Towers 1 and 6 are Lost Woods, 3 and 8 are Down the Drain, 4 and 9 are Lethal Lava Land, 5 and 10 are Eternal Engine, and 11 and 12 are themed around light and darkness, suggesting Dual-World Gameplay and Dark World. But I'm not sure how to classify 2 and 7. They're themed around minerals and precious stones. Gems, dirt and a bit of metal are the main features of these towers. The only tropes I know that have sometimes these are Minecart Madness (but those towers aren't mines), Underground Level (but those are towers, you go upward as you explore them) and Death Mountain (since when towers are mountains?). Any suggestions here? Thanks!
EDIT: And tower 13 is simply a generic Boss-Only Level, but I suppose that's besides the point. =P
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What would it be when someone would rather die painfully than have to endure humiliation.
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Is there a trope for corrupt supply sergeants/quartermasters? The person who manages the supplies for a ship and/or military unit sells equipment on the side, buys cut rate supplies and pockets the difference, etc. It's so common that it's a standing joke that everyone always assumes the supply sergeant is corrupt even if they're not (although I can't actually think of a fictional example where they turned out not to be).I've Seen It A Million Times, although the only specific examples that leap to mind are a couple of episodes of MASH, Nobby Nobbs from Discworld and Chocolate Harry from Phule's Company
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Is there a trope for how writers sometimes demonstrate that the monsters in a story are evil and/or starving by having them eat one another? Different from I'm a Humanitarian or To Serve Man, as these usually involve them preying on people who are outsiders or enemies, not their own fellows. A form of Kick the Dog when it's done by/to sentient beings.
Examples would include the dark-dwelling aliens from Pitch Black, the big male dragon from Reign of Fire, the orcs from the film of The Two Towers, or the subterranean creatures from Lovecraft's The Lurking Fear.
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