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Checking for breasts
Is there a trope like Outfit-Rip Sex Check and Crotch-Grab Sex Check but involving the chest?
You wouldn't expect them to be religious
Is there a trope for when characters are surprised how devout someone is?
Names dreaded for In-Universe reasons
If a character's family name carries infamy/dread for in-universe reasons rather than the out-of-universe perception of evil stereotypes, then what trope would that fall under? I have a feeling that Names to Run Away from Really Fast doesn't quite cover it, so I'm asking here for better fits.
Threatening club/bat
I'm not sure if this counts as a trope but you know that gesture when someone is wielding a bat, club, or similar weapon and keeps thumping it against their other open hand, as if to say "don't make me mad or I'll cave your skull in"? What is this called?
Edited by Bootlebat
Cloning trope? Live Action TV
Is there such a Our Clones Are Identical trope for this:
- In-Universe, a clone of Central City exists in Cambridge, England, and Barry Allen from The Flash (2014) ends up finding out about it existing on Earth-1. He's surprised that someone could even copy the city exactly, except for a Gender Flip Captain Ersatz called "Scarlet Speedster" (portrayed by English actress Anna O'Grady) and Ice Witch, a Captain Ersatz of Killer Frost (portrayed by Caitriona Balfe). (From my Dead Fic which includes Hypothetical Casting).
Although No Communities Were Harmed is one such trope, there's no cloning trope for cities? I know the last part is Similar Squad, but can't find such a trope for the first one.
Edited by Merseyuser1
Characters whose voices go from high-pitched to deep depending on their mood
Off the top of my head, examples include HIM (Power Puff Girls) and the Japanese voices for Doflamingo (One Piece) and Hazama (Blaz Blue). Usually they'd talk in a higher pitch when in normal conversations or when they're fooling around but when they're angered or serious, their voices become much deeper.
Adaptational superpower
Basically, it's where a non-superpowered character from the source material (particularly comic books) is given superpowers in any live-action film or TV adaptation.
Sword twirling
Is there a trope for how, during swordfights, when not directly attacking or parrying one or more of the participants just sort of twist their sword around? (which I assume is just to look cool, but I don't know.)
Edited by Bootlebat
Outwardly Stern, Secretly Fond
Is there a trope for when a character acts outwardly stern towards another character or characters but later it's revealed that they're actually secretly fond of them and they've just been putting on a gruff front?
Trope where a character denies being in an embarrassing video but is proven wrong
An embarrassing video of a certain character is being played. The character denies that the subject of the video is them, but then in the video, they identify themselves by name.
An example would be in this Youtube Poop:
Comic-book movie trope? Film
Is there such a trope for this:
In a movie from Sony's Universe of Marvel Characters, one character (not a protagonist), suddenly makes a reference to an event from Avengers: Endgame (which probably hasn't happened in this continuity), and no-one In-Universe has any idea who the hell Thanos is, let alone "The Snap". Out-of-universe, it gets the reaction of "What the hell?".
Is there a trope for something like this?
Everything is canon
What’s the trope when an adaptation renders all (or most of) the previous adaptations canon?
I.E.: In the games, Bob has an identical son named Bob Jr.; in the manga, he has a daughter named Charlie; and in the anime, he has a daughter named Diane. Cue a new comic series, which makes Bob have the three kids, Bob, Charlie and Diane.
Angular/low-poly design
This one's been on my mind for a while now. Do we have a trope specifically covering characters or environments that are intentionally designed to be angular/low-poly looking? The closest I can think of is Retraux, but that covers things designed to look old in general, and not all the examples I can think of are video game related. I also think it's different from Living Polyhedron since that one refers to simpler 3D shapes.
The main thing that got me thinking about this trope are several
costumes
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◊ The Masked Singer.
Underage Drinking
A character drinks an alcoholic beverage while being under 16/18/21.
Observation Quiz
I looked through the Test and Trial Tropes index and couldn't find an exact match for what I'm looking for. Bob needs to know how much Alice knows or can pick up through observation about X so he can infer whether she needs protection or can pull her own weight in a risky situation involving X. E.g.
Or:
Or:
Bumped by comment once, because apparently edits don't bump...
Edited by Miss_Desperado
Better to be Sociopathic than a Templar
Basically, being a selfish amoral scumbag is presented as actually being better than a well-intended extremist in some way. Either it's presented as less evil/more moral since the sociopath isn't egged on by a cause so they're more likely to take a pragmatic approach (help yourself by helping others, I guess), or they're a more effective evil because they don't make stupid judgements caused by anger towards perceived enemies. I think the quote on the Obliviously Evil page describes it or at least the first mutation of this trope.
Thrones on Pillars/Raised Thrones
A very specific trope yes but it seems to be a recurring theme in various media, where a throne is on a raised pillar standing above all else, usually at such heights that dismounting would likely break ones neck without some sort of flight or teleportation or some such other power. Examples would be Azmodan from Diablo III, The Organization from Kingdom Hearts, and the King of the Underworld from Pan's Labyrinth. Does anyone know if there is a trope for this?
Edited by Bleazy02
Nickname that describes a person's size
Such as Lil Wayne or Regular Sized Rudy?
Giant person does something minor, but to a tiny person it has a major effect?
A giant, or normal sized person interacting with Liliputians, does something like sneeze or lightly stamp there foot that from there perspective seems low effort or insignificant.
However, to the smaller party this action is monumental or destructive. For example, the sneeze blows the tiny people away or the stamp of the foot is like an earthquake.
Is there an existing trope for that?
Food animals
Is there a trope for sentient food which looks like animals?
Time marches on
I'm looking for a trope for when some piece of media deals with real life and they give information that's accurate to reality. Then time marches on, the media is suddenly a few decades old and the information given is no longer accurate.
7 Billion NPCs And My Friends & Family
A trope similar to It's All About Me where a character is indifferent to the people outside of his immediate social circle. But unlike IAAM, the character genuinely cares for people other than himself, it's just that it only applies to a select number of people, dismissing them as unimportant (in game terms, he goes through life considering himself and those close to him as the player characters and anyone else as NP Cs, only worth thinking about when you want/need something from them but otherwise don't even exist).
For example:
- Alice is on vacation in California when a massive earthquake hits. Bob immediately tries to call her, but of course the lines are jammed, so he expresses frustration at all these unimportant people preventing him from calling Alice to make sure she's OK.
- Alice gets evicted from her apartment and Bob offers to house her while she looks for a new one. When the same thing happens to Bob's neighbor, Bob only acknowledges it with a "Huh" before returning to the previous topic.
Dragon related
What do you call if the Dragon created the Big Bad?
Spider-Man Kiss Parody
A work parodies the upside-down kiss in Spider-Man
Laser beats wand
Is there a trope for when really advanced but mundane technology is able to beat magic powers?