Clock to 13

Is there a trope for clocks that count up to 13?

Idiotic confession

A character confesses something that puts them and/or other people in jeopardy when everything would have been fine had they not done so.

For example, in Avengers: Infinity War, Gamora decides to confess to Nebula that she actually does know where the Soul Stone is, apparently having forgotten that Nebula has a cybernetic eye that acts as a video camera. Of course, both of them are promptly captured by Thanos and he finds this out by reviewing Nebula's recordings.

Too Poor To Afford A Funeral

Pretty self-explanatory. Someone dies, but their family members don't have the money to pay the funeral expenses. Could apply to other events like weddings.

Television Show Phone Relay Western Animation

Bob is unable to watch television, so he calls Alice and asks her to watch his favorite show and relay it over the phone.

I have seen this trope in both Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Arthur. In Wimpy Kid, Rowley is missing his favorite show, so Greg watches it and calls Rowley to tell him about it. ("I bet this part is gonna be funny. Whup! Ha ha! I was right! It was funny.") In Arthur, Arthur watches a show through Buster's window and has him leave the phone near the TV so he can hear it.

And also earth is flat

Add in a obviously sarcastic statement to make sure people know you were being sarcastic.

If we die I'm going to kill you!

Zero Time Dilemma Carlos says this to Junpei after the latter suggests they all Mental Time Travel to a history where they're about to gunned down.

Rooming Together Disaster

Is there a trope that deal with people moving in together but them having a hard time living together because they start to annoy each other.

Cryptic moral/literal responsibility

Someone says something they think morally applies to them in a way that makes it sound ambiguously literal (either to the audience, solely, or to the other characters as well)? For example, they'll say that they killed someone, but they didn't literally kill that person, they just feel morally responsible for their death. I know that there's Metaphorically True, but is there a more specific one for this?

I can't do it.

Someone is in a position to do something ethically/morally questionable. The choice can't be undone, and going through with it could involve crossing the Moral Event Horizon or Jumping Off the Slippery Slope — so when the moment comes, he decides that he can't go through with it and backs off.

Learning from child, mentor and aprentice swapped

Is there trope about learning from children and about aprentice happening something to learn their master, older or father figure?

Harley Queen stooge

Is there trope about stooges of bigger villain who admire their boss while boss totaly disrespects them? As Harley? I ask in relations to my previous question, wanted to know, if such characters can take same role in villains journey as mentor does in structure of Heros journey, pushing character to villain path and making him proud. The character is naive, they adore villain and do not see his faults. They are younger and somehow seem as aprentice or side kick.

About A Real Man Is A Killer

Can this trope apply to female warriors? In the story, the female villain gloats to the male hero that he hasn't shed blood like hers, as it proves they are both warriors.

Post-apocalyptic world turns out to be mostly okay Print Comic

I've read a couple of comics that take place in post-apocalyptic worlds, but in a surprising twist, it turned out that the world was actually still okay. Modern civilization was actually fine, and it was only in the region where the story took place that things had become post-apocalyptic. (I could name the actual comic series, but since it's usually a spoiler I won't.)

Is that a trope?

Antimentor

Is there an archetype of antimentor? It could be some evil twisted mentor or opposite, it could be naive aprentince and stooge who adores villain, boost his confidence and inspire him to fully go villain path, it is opposite of mentor in campbel journey, also as mentors do normaly encourage hero to go on journey, this one could actually try to avoid this while villains wants to go on journey even tho world is against and mentor does not succed in avoiding him go but pushes him unwillingly. In part, this could be Harley Quin for Joker, but she did not try to avoid him become villain and she did not initiate his path but their chemistry works as what I am searching for, villain has no respect for stooge and stooge never reflects on villains fault it is also close to Walter and Jesie. The one who initiate villains journey is stooge.

Stop BEING stereotypical

Bob is a creator whose works always portray group X as caricatures (for example, every single Republican in his movies is a warmongering sleazy corrupt degenerate Hiding Behind Religion). When called out about this, Bob explains that once Republicans stop being warmongering sleazy corrupt degenerates Hiding Behind Religion, he'll be happy to stop showing them as such.

Basically, where Stop Being Stereotypical is "stop acting like your image in the public mind", this is more "stop making this your image in the public mind".

Character says no, but the player says yes

When a character has their own personality and opinion... which the player can ignore and choose the opposite.

Fake murder for cooperation

Suppose Cowboy Cop Alice has the criminal Bob and is trying to get a confession from him, but he won't talk. So she brings in another criminal, Charlie, and murders him in front of Bob to scare him into cooperating. And then, once Alice has what she needs from Bob, we get The Reveal that Charlie's not really dead, or a criminal. He's actually another cop and Alice only pretended to kill him to scare Bob.

Deducing via a connection between people?

There's Connect the Deaths, but that isn't quite what I'm looking for.

I'm looking for something that would fit a moment in Touch Detective 3. The protagonist, Inspector Daria, and a random civilian are the only non-victims, and when trying to think about why it's just them, Daria realizes that the three of them either didn't bother to or had forgotten to write a tanzaku (prayer flag) for Tanabata (a Japanese festival), and therefore the culprit is somehow targeting people through their tanzaku.

Is there a trope for that kinda thing?

Awkward with kids

Is there a trope for a character who doesn't dislike kids but doesn't know how to interact with them? An example would be a character not understanding that playing a violent movie in front of a child isn't a good thing but would do so in an attempt to bond with the child.

Looks and interests of a tomboy, but with a girly personality

I recenntly had an idea for a character who may look like a tomboy, and even sheer a geeky passion for stereotypically male things, but whom despite it all still has very feminine manerisms and personality traits. Question is, which tropes fits?

Cause it's not quite a tomboy with a girly streak, since she doesn't have any girly interest nor hobbies, but rather acts and expresses herself in girly ways. While at the same time she isn't simply a girly girl with a tomboyish streak, since she just isn't interested in one or two manly things, but rather has a big part of it integrated in her life, ranging from clothing style to aspirations and hobbies.

Alleged shyness

A character would use their "shyness" as an excuse to make others walk on eggshells in complete darkness, and anyone who does as best as possible to try to approach him, especially since nobody knows the character's incredibly cryptic approaches that he's comfortable with, would either be ignored or shut off, and whoever is desperate and still doesn't know what to do would be falsely accused of stalking by him. This would lead to the said people venting about their struggles, usually leading to complete scorn as if he's Playing the Victim Card.

The trope is either No Social Skills, or a subtrope.

We are not heroes, we are criminals with standards

When lesser evil protects innocents people from greater evil, sometimes out of pragmatic reason, other times, because they are still humans who need some money and not heartless monsters.

Powerful magical guardian entity gets corrupted and destroys its creators

Hello, im new. So it goes like this: - Some civilization creates a powerful magical entity to protect them. - The entity eventually gets corrupted and destroys them.

Also, what if the “entity” is not magical but a technological system? For example, humans create a network of satellites controlled by ai and able to launch nukes to prevent war/guard against aliens, and the ai gets corrupted and destroys them? It doesn’t seem exactly like Turned Against Their Masters, I mean it’s a single system, and has only one purpose: To protect its creators. And then it gets corrupted and causes their destruction.

I have been playing Neverwinter Nights 2 and it’s a trope there, and I bet I have seen it somewhere else before as well.

Hug and Whisper Threats Film

Two people, often women but not always, are having an argument but an unwanted witness barges in or is already there and shouldn't be aware of what is said, yet it's not possible for both litigants to step outside the room without looking suspicious.

So Litigant One gives a forceful hug to Litigant Two and whispers a clear threat in their ear with the understanding that this is the last warning before things get nasty for real.

Does this exist?

Destroy the TV

So Bob is flipping through channels on TV. He sees something he despises, say his rival, Alice, gets the award he believes is rightfully his. He proceeds to destroy the TV to vent his frustration, whether it's shooting at it, punching it, or crushing it.

Do we have a trope for this?