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Sequel Egotism Film
In a sequel, the character becomes famous and/or confident thanks to his success in the first part, and develops a huge ego. This usually means the ego'll be deflated and he'll learn a lesson for the second part.
Terrible Pet Name
Character is really bad at naming their pets. Usually giving nonsensical words or even profanity as the chosen name for their pet.
I'm not sure if this falls under Giver of Lame Names, as the name isn't "lame" so much as it's just an awful name that no sane person would ever consider.
Villain Killer
You want to kill a villain, but The Hero follows a Thou Shalt Not Kill rule? Call this guy.
Invasion Literature
Invasion Literature
. Late 19th-century genre about near-future wars with a sinister foreign power. What trope(s) is this? The whole thing probably counts as a Forgotten Trope, but are there other non-forgotten tropes it relates to?
A dog named cat
Like A Dog Named "Dog" but the animal is deliberately named after a different animal. Or does the former cover this as well?
Rocket Launcher
We have Grenade Launcher, but rocket launchers/rocket-propelled grenades don't have a page. Are there good tropes that such would fit under (besides Stuff Blowing Up)?
The tone of the song gets higher and higher after so many lines
I don’t know how to explain it exactly, but how the tone appears to change in this song after Abraham Lincoln and John F Kennedy.
(solved) Vitriolic brothers still stick together
Trope I'm looking for: No matter how much two brothers may not get along, they stick together anyway, and one betraying the other is not an option.
Had a look through Sibling Tropes but I'm unsure if any fit what I was looking for. Best I can think of is a zigzagged case of Sibling Rivalry.
Edit: Forgot to add Literature tag, oof.
Edit 2: Found it, it's Thicker Than Water
Edited by BlackFaithStar
I don't want to be the Hero
- You are the Chosen One, you are to save our kingdom from Big Bad and sacrifice yourself to seal him!
- Nah, i don't want to.
Is there a trope for it?
Edited by BladeDown
Knows a lot of info that seems weird and impossible to know. Film
An example is Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. She has a lot of certain info on people that you’ll wonder how she knew it and it seems impossible and strange that she’d know something like that. She somehow knew that John Walker took the Super Soldier Serum when he took it when he was alone, and Sam Wilson only suspected it and wasn’t fully sure that he took the serum. She also knew that Clint Barton had something to do with Natasha Romanoff’s death when the only people who were there when that happened where Barton, Romanoff, and the Red Skull.
Trauma-Induced Amnesia
Not blunt-force trauma (like a head injury), but PTSD-type trauma that causes the character to forget what happened to them. Based off the real life effect trauma can have on a person.
Fan campaign
I'm looking to editing the Sonic Forces: Speed Battle, and write how there has been fan campaigns for characters that aren't available.
There has been fan campaigns on Twitter for the characters of Sally Acorn (#Rally For Sally, despite being owned by Sega, the character and the other Freedom Fighters have never been playable in the series), Cosmo (#Save Cosmo, a beloved Canon Foreigner who canonically dies) and Shade the Echidna (#Shade Week, a character from a videogame that suffered a legal battle because of former Archie comics writer Ken Penders). While the fans are enthusiastic, Sega hasn't listened to their requests.
Please ignore I posted this in Ask The Tropers by mistake.
Limbs snapping back into place?
I'm thinking of something like the scene in Death Becomes Her where Madeline takes a tumble down the stairs and ends up a twisted, broken (but still alive) mess. Except the character in this case just snaps their twisted, broken limbs back into place, with audible CRACKs. (Played for horror instead of played for laughs like in Death Becomes Her. It's meant to emphasize how inhuman the character is, since No One Could Survive That!) Does it count as Abnormal Limb Rotation Range?
Edited by annieholmes
Don't X me!
Someone says something, and the other person responds, "Don't (insert whatever here) me!"
Idle Police car gives chase Western Animation
Is there a trope name for a police officer sitting in a car on the side of the road (possibly napping or eating), inadvertently being there at just the right time to see a speeding car go by, and then pursuing it?
The Green Zero Live Action TV
Somebody decides to "feel out" a roulette wheel by betting half of their entire bankroll on red, and the other half on black - and the wheel comes up 0 or 00, which is a loss for both red and black
Edited by ThatDonGuy
A stealth/easy-to-miss hint in video game which has severe consequences. Videogame
Say you're dealing with an important event within a videogame that has severe consequences. First time you solve it how your instincts or wits or whatever tell you only for it to go horribly wrong or at least not as well as you were hoping for.
Then on the second playthrough or after reloading a save you discover a tiny detail that hints the boss monster isn't what you think it is. You hold your fire and ... turns out it was your mom/dad all along and you were just hallucinating. Yay you get the ultra-happy Golden Ending.
Now is there a trope concerning the hint itself?
beautiful but deadly
What's the trope for an animal that's beautiful but really dangerous (E.G a tiger)? There's Killer Rabbit, but that seems more about cuteness than straight-up beauty.
Intimidating guy has a fear of something utterly harmless.
For example, a pro wrestler with bulging biceps who can level a building by punching it loses a match against a bee as he has a very bad phobia of bees.