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Instant Dance Party Live Action TV
Our heroes attend high school and for one reason or another, need to organize a school dance. With two days' notice complicated plans are made, costly posters printed, tickets sold, refreshments and decorations secured, a hot band/DJ hired to perform and a thousand kids show up to attend the Best Party Ever.
This is a staple in many teen movies and shows. Is there a name?
Musician changes song
Is there a trope for when a musician is performing a song and switches to a different song mid-performance?
For example, there was a Running Gag on King of the Hill where Chuck Mangione would be performing a song ("The Star Spangled Banner", "Here Comes The Bride") and then switch to "Feels So Good".
What is not an example is if the musician stops the first song to instead play the second like when Elvis Costello was performing on Saturday Night Live, stopped the performance of "Less Than Zero", and instead performed "Radio, Radio".
Xerox Species
A trope where an entire race of fantasy species is based on a mythological creature that was A Kind of One, with many of the traits of the original despite there being no such connection in the work.
i.e. Dn D's minotaurs cannot be affected by spells causing the target to get lost and feel right at home in mazes. The reason being that the original minotaur lived his entire life in a maze, but there's no such in-universe explanation.
Episode does not premiere on platform
What is it when an episode does not premiere the same day as its original airdate?
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Sudden downer ending + time skip + ambiguous positive aftermath
The hero is fighting the BBEG, his whole character arc has been aiming for him to live his life in peace with his family once this all blows over. The hero succeeds but gets shanked by his best friend who was jealous, the audience is left to believe the hero died.
Two years later we see all characters living their happy endings, one by one as if to drive the point home. Then a silhouette of someone who may or may not be the hero is shown. We don't know if it's really him, we don't know if he achieved his goal. The end.
I've seen this often enough that it has to have a trope name
Edited by mbartelsm
Takes One To Read One
A message is written so badly, someone makes a sarcastic comment on it like "This looks like it was written by a five-year-old/a drunken idiot/a doctor/on a bus with bad suspension". It's then given to read to someone they know who fits that description/read it in the circumstances they assumed it was written in, and it works perfectly.
e.g. Nodwick has an arc where clue messages are continuously dropped off in front of the heroes that look like they were written by drunken idiots. As the party fighter Yeagar was at the bar the previous night, every time they get a new message they reverse the Cure Hangover spell to revert him to his drunken state where he's able to decipher the message.
Arctic Volcano Wonderland
Is there a trope for the areas in fantasy and sci-fi stories where an otherwise frozen area is temperate because of a volcano?
Rejected by Draft, but Willing to Fight
Do we have a trope where someone wants to fight for their country, but their circumstance is unable to in regards of conscription, such as being too old or too young or too short or disabled, or in historical cases, being a woman or is LGBTQ+, but still willing to fight?
"Character Gets An Infection" Cliche
So, I noticed a lot of "group of kids stranded on a deserted island" books end with the same cliché: One kid gets a bad cut that gets infected, the others do something desperate to try and get rescued and their plan succeeds, book ends with sick character getting treatment. Is there a trope for this?
Lying For Your Own Good
Character A just discovered everything Character B has taught them their entire life has been a lie. When confronted, Character B explains why they chose to lie, and the reasoning was completely justifiable.
Example: In the Heart of Kunoichi Tsubaki follows a female-only clan of ninja called Akane Class, who are taught men are dangerous. Tsubaki accidentally learns from one of her teachers this is a lie. When confronted, the teacher explains that when male and female ninja used to mingle as one clan, too many of them began to abandon their ninja heritage and couple off, putting the shinobi lifestyle at risk of extinction.
This has to exist as a trope, right?
I need help finding a history trope.
I’m unsure if this was deleted or not. But I’m looking for this one section talking about hoer certain countries or what have you during history were either downgraded or virtually made more innocent compared to the greater enemy of focus.
Take World War 2. And how media of the time downplayed the involvement of Japan and Italy compared to Germany making them come off as less threatening. I vaguely remember a section talking about this. It’s not a Historical Villain Downgrade it’s more regarding how a countries history in war is hardly emphasized in media.
Song wasn't made for the show but people think it is
What trope best fits this scenario? A work uses a song in its soundtrack that people think was made for the show, but it was actually already a song.
Older Than They Think seems more about story stuff, not music... it doesn't fit Parody Displacement, that's for, well, parodies... Colbert Bump could fit but I'm thinking about the mistaken identity part. "Common Knowledge" might work?
Blames Themselves For Everything
Hello.
So, Character A runs a Nightclub, and so hires Character B to work there.
However, while Character B is working there, they do something that majorly screws things up, like they dropped an entire tray of drinks or food onto a customer or something like that.
Character A takes to this with extreme guilt as though they were the one who did it themselves, as they feel responsible since they were the one who hired Character B.
So, they take the mistakes of those who work for them as though they made those mistakes themselves.
Is there a Trope that covers the type that Character A might be like?
Edited by BabClayton
Disappointing Assignment
Someone is given a mission or assigned to a unit that they aren't too thrilled about.
- The Secret Pilgrim: After finishing spy training, Ned is stationed at headquarters in London, which he's disappointed by. To make matters worse, his friend is assigned to Berlin, a major Cold War hot spot.
- A Song of Ice and Fire: After joining the Night's Watch, Jon is made Jeor's steward. Jon is disappointed at this as he wanted to be a ranger, but Sam points at that he's being groomed for a command position as Jeor's steward.
Expository Voice style Change
Something like Expository Hairstyle Change , but for voices. It’s not Vocal Evolution ; this trope would be intentional rather than incidental.
Right In Particular, Wrong In General (and inverse)
A character who is proven correct about a situation believes this makes him correct in general, when this is not the case.
e.g. Bob the Conspiracy Theorist says that we're secretly ruled by reptilian aliens who put mind-control chemicals in the water, and that to facilitate this, the mayor, chief of police and high school principal are involved in a drug trafficking operation. When he's proven right about the last one (the three are arrested for moving and distributing cocaine), he takes it to mean that the other two are correct as well.
And the inverse where a character is right about the general gist of a situation, but the specifics are all wrong.
e.g. Bob again: "Russia interfered with the 2016 US election" is true, "Russia hacked election booths to change every Clinton vote to two Trump votes" is not.
Edited by Chabal2
Super or Über - unit Videogame
A massive, expensive RTS unit that may be Awesome, but Impractical, or it may just be as awesome as advertised. It generally has its own Arbitrary Headcount Limit to, well, limit its use; outside of games where they're meant to be spammed, like in Supreme Commander or Planetary Annihilation. Examples include Dawn of Wars relic units, Sins of a Solar Empires Titans, and SupComs Tier 4 units.
Edited by dvorak
Kind -> Bitter
A kind and positive person who turned angry and bitter and distrusts people more often after being treated wrongly by loved ones?
Writing that makes your eyes hurt
I'm looking for a trope that has writing that makes your eyes burn because it's so bad.
Examples could be too much capslock, spammed characters, and lots of unneeded punctuation.