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Would this fall under Poes Law
Someone implies a person they're making fun of believes an obviously ridiculous thing, only for it to be revealed that said person ACUTALLY BELIEVES that exact thing.
Edited by Bootlebat
Addressing someone by species.
What's the trope for when someone uses a character's species instead of name? For example, a robot saying, "Hello, human" to a human.
rock shaped like an animal or person
A giant rock or natural feature shaped like an animal or face apparently of natural origin. Usually indicates something supernatural is afoot, and is often an important landmark in the search for something like treasure or a Lost World.
Dispersed Population
People living after the collapse of society are only allowed to live in communities smaller than a certain number of buildings or structures to keep from returning to an urbanized state. Does this trope have a name? It appears in Leigh Brackett's novel The Long Tomorrow? Has it been featured in any other works?
Charm of inner strength
An item that give character power but not in the sense that it empowers them, but makes them feel confident, secure, determined.
Understand
What are the tropes for someone who gets frustrated by something or somebody that he or she cannot understand?
Edited by ShazamJr
Protagonist Who Likes An Antagonist
What's the inverted version of Villainous Crush? A hero that's attracted to a villain.
Nice but Mean
What is the trope for a person who is nice but has to act mean to protect their friends from a bully.
Edited by 14cross
Metroid: Zero Mission's unknown items
Would they count more as basic MacGuffins or Plot Coupons, or would they actually count as Swords of Plot Advancement?
Juxtaposition Jab
I've seen this in a variety of works, including The Lion King, Monsters Inc., and Monk. Person A will criticize Person B by comparing him unfavorably to Person C, often with words along the lines of, "He's twice the person you'll ever be!" or "You aren't fit to clean his shoes."
Please Help Live Action TV
This was an educational show that my teacher used to bring in on a VHS tape. It "starred" a female reporter and a bug puppet that wore glasses. They would show ways to fix grammar and things like run of sentences.
Four situations, what tropes? Live Action TV
Do we have tropes for these four situations?
1. Bob is a Badass... but only when he's high on sugar. Otherwise, he's a Nice Guy and embarrassed about being a Badass. Alice is a natural female Badass, in contrast to Bob.
2. An example of a 2018 Subaru stationwagon is designed to be a Retraux version of the 1998 Subaru Legacy stationwagon
◊, but In-Universe it's passed off as a 1998 car, despite the fact people could tell it's Retraux.
3. A character in a new Arrowverse Spin-Off of The Flash (2014) is very similar to Nora West from The Flash (2014), except doesn't have these character traits: they're not Ambiguously Gay, with no Dark Secret, not a Dead Guy Junior, and less of a Naïve Newcomer. Where they're similar is that they're Adorkable, Mixed Ancestry and The Beautiful Elite. Not sure if this is Captain Ersatz or Expy or even Self-Plagiarism ?
4. In an episode of Dexter's Laboratory, a character, John, pops up in every situation, just to hang a lampshade on whatever the situation is, purely for the sake of comedy. It's more than a cameo role, though, and is plot-relevant.
Do we have tropes for these? (Sorry for the length of them... the bits were relevant!)
Edited by Merseyuser1
Sent into Hiding
A character is sent into hiding to foil a plot on their lives.
It seems like this should be a supertrope to Witness Protection, but I can't seem to find anything like it.
Thieving Romani
Do we have a trope for Romani being portrayed as swindlers and thieves?
Strong characters easily beaten by hero/villain
No, this isn't the Worf Effect.
This when some no-name/one-off character does some quick, amazing feat of strength and skill to show off how tough they are. Then, the hero/villain squares off with them and the show off is beaten laughably easily.
Finding out the marriage late
So this character just found out that his mother and her "Friend" got married, and no one told him until 7 years later. Basically, the son was the very last one to know about the marriage.
Edited by carlitagt
An object that one wears stops a lethal attack
Looks like a hero's killed, but something they wear or carry saves their life. I did see that trope somewhere but I can't remember how's it called
Audience reaction trope
A villain dies screaming out of agony and terror as he befalls a horrible, frightening death. The audience out of universe is overwhelmed at the sight of the death because it is very disturbing, very unsatisfying.
Female sports manager
A recurring trope I've been seeing in Gaming and Sports Anime and Manga lately is that of a manager to an otherwise boy only sports group. Do we have a trope for that?
Edited by Tomodachi
G-Rated Alcohol
Something in the franchise may not be alcohol itself, but the character, currently acts addicted to the object.
Introduced As A Freshman
Do we have a trope about characters starting school at the start of a work? In the first episode, or start of the film, involves them beginning a new school (usually as a first year).
Innocent Child
So basically the trope I'm searching is about a young kid who didn't realize at the moment that her mother was having sex with another guy, saying that they were doing paperwork.
Mental Autocorrect
Is there a trope about how our brains tend to "autocorrect" stuff we read (such as if a name is spelled unusually we often misread it as the more common spelling, or how if we misread a word the first time we tend to read it the "wrong" way until someone points it out to us?) I guess Failed a Spot Check would work but is there anything more specific.
Midway Motivation Modification
A character starts out with a very strong motivation. As he undergoes Character Development, this starts to change, until at some point the thing he originally wanted happens and he no longer wants it. As there was usually some difficulty in getting it to happen, there is much conflict created by Bob not wanting to be an Ungrateful Bastard.
For example, Bob is a member of an anarchist society who really wants to overthrow the corrupt system, and volunteers to perform a likely-suicidal mission a few months down the line. But in the meantime, he finds a girlfriend and a job he enjoys, meaning he's nowhere near motivated enough when the time comes for him to fulfill his promise.