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Drunk With Powder
When a character or a race can get drunk on something that normal human can’t get drunk on.
For instance: Chocolate, Milk... or Blood.
Edited by Andermann
Help me please! Western Animation
I’ve been looking for this kids tv show about dogs and cats. It’s animated and I’m pretty sure it’s newer. There’s a girl who can talk to them and I think the main dogs name is magic. There’s magic in the show and I can’t remember the name. I don’t remember much else about it tho. The main dog had brown fur
I order you to do... Live Action TV
...exactly what you were already going to do in the first place.
A variation on Glad I Thought of It?
In the original One Day at a Time, disagreements come up while planning Barbara's wedding, but Ann and Barbara finally reach a compromise. They've just gotten through working everything out peacefully when Barbara's fiance Mark comes in and starts throwing his weight around. "All right, enough of this arguing. Since you two can't make up your minds, I'll make the decision. This is what you're going to do."
He then proceeds to order them to follow exactly the plan they just came up with. "You got that?"
Instead of letting him know they had already worked it out, and were going to do that anyway, they meekly "yes, sir" him. He comes away thinking he solved their problem, and even lampshaded it with a self-satisfied, "Sometimes it just takes a man to get things done."
Is this anything else besides Glad I Thought of It?
No Title
Someone refers to his nose as a smoke detector. It's useful if you don't have a smoke detector around you, or you can't hear one.
Sort of a break up
What trope involves someone ending a relationship with someone via joining an organization that has his or her death faked and forces them never to contact said person.
The Convoluted re-emerging of the Empire
In some stories, the fall of the evil empire is so devastating that no one expected there would be a sequel or continuation. But when the franchise and its bad guys seem to be too popular, they make a sequel with the previous fallen empire as the enemies again.
But since the end of the last game/movie/book was so devastatingly crushing for the aforementioned bad guys, with the complete disappereance of the empire, a convoluted explanation is needed for explaining how the new faction, based on the values of the old empire, came to prominence and specially military hegemony after so devastating loses. Think the New Helghan Republic on Killzone: Shadow Fall, or the First Order in the new Star Wars movies.
Is there a name given for this kind of trope?
Edited by JohnnyElRed
Whoever Needs To Hear That Will Hear That
When a character is talking to another person, and they scatter some information that is not related to their conversation in the process because they know a certain third person is listening, and they may want to know this.
Patrol: "Have you seen anyone unusal passing by?"
Shopkeep: "Oh, nothing unusal, just some of my usual customers, and I just checked my back door, 'there is no one there, it should be pretty a safe way to escape' should anything happen, so I should be fine, thanks for your concern. Hmmm, but that also mean 'if someone were to sneak in and out of here unnoticed I might have just provided them a safe passage', I might lock it up later."
Patrol: "What are you rambling about?"
Shopkeep: "Oh, nothing, whoever needs to hear that will hear that."
Edited by Andermann
Punish the alternate personality
A character is in dire need of Laser-Guided Karma. Events are changed so that this is no longer the case (preventing him from crossing the Moral Event Horizon, preventing his Start of Darkness, etc.), but the character is shown as being punished for something he technically didn't do/hasn't done yet. Similarly, alternate personalities being punished in the place of the actual original criminal.
- In Chrono Trigger, the leader of a monster town descended from Ozzie uses his ancestor's fame to boss the other monsters around. You can change events so Ozzie never rose to power in the first place, and when you go back, the descendant is now the one being bullied, but it's clearly a Bewildering Punishment for him (and many monsters are much nicer, so there's no in-verse explanation for why this one is being treated so harshly).
- In Animorphs, the cast are in an alternate timeline where WW 2 is fought against a Franco-German alliance with no Nazis in sight, and Hitler is just a jeep driver. He ends up (possibly) accidentally killed anyway, although the entire point of the book is to push the Reset Button on that timeline (by Ret Goning the villain's host body).
- In Dragon Quest VI, the Evil Chancellor's dream self (a Jerkass wealthy merchant) is arrested even though he's technically innocent of conspiring against the king (the real chancellor isn't seen after the king is returned).
But there was no controversy back then!
So let's say someone writes a joke for a TV show, story, newspaper comic, or what have you. It's reasonably funny and mostly innocuous. However, in the months between when the joke is written and when it's released to its audience, some scandal occurs involving the subject of the joke such that when the joke is aired, it provokes a "Dude, Not Funny!" reaction that the writer never intended and could not have foreseen.
Let's Just Not Talk About It
When a character is not using their established ability when it could have been useful.
Alice is established to have the ability to revive the dead at will, and can do this with no drawback.
But at one point in the story, Bob died, and Alice was right there, and instead of making up reason like "Alice can heal dying people, not dead people."or "In order for Bob to be revived there are certain condition that needs to be fulfilled."or "Alice's revive ability actually shorten her own lifespan.", creator just make it so that no one in the setting ever just says:"Hey, Alice, can't you just revive Bob?"
Edited by Andermann
Ninja clan
a group/organization of ninjas, do we have this and if do we not have this is it tropeworthy.
There Should Be A "Captain" In There Somewhere
A character insists on being addressed by their official rank or title.
Edited by Mitchz95
I Knew You'd Google That!
Subversion of Perfectly Cromulent Word by the author, with a slight touch of Schmuck Bait. Random troper-current example: Sanderson's "Dark Talent", where the color "gamboge" is mentioned. Yes, of course I immediately googled to confirm it exists. Also in a version that is not word- but fact-related: occurs frequent in mock-historical settings, where you also keep running to The Other Wiki to check against the outrageous statements in the book (super bonus if they are true).
Tying up loose ends
Is there a trope for when, after a heist or conspiracy, some or all of the lower-level participants are killed off to tie up loose ends?
The Yips
Is there an existing trope about characters that are extremely nervous to the point they choke on somewhat easy shots or catches in sports (mostly common in Golf)? Tried searching around for a bit but haven't found a result to what I'm looking for.
Edited by InklingBear
Honey Trap Except it Backfires
What I'm looking for is the situation Meg from Hercules and Joaquin from Riverdale find themselves in. Basically, a villain is sent to seduce a hero, but then they wind up falling in love with them. Do we have a trope for that?
Annoying Virtual Sidekick
Do we have a trope for this yet? Essentially a person/animal/sentient being that lives in a computer or similar and enjoys needling people.
People in [x category] hate a character with [x]
Is there an equivalent trope of Ethnic Scrappy but for other things, like sexuality or mental illness?
Do we have the super trope of KilledMidSentence and CollapsedMidSpeech?
Do we have the super trope of Killed Mid-Sentence and Collapsed Mid-Speech?
Where someone's speech just ends, in-complete, but not by death or collapse?
Or would this count as collapse?
- Triptych Continuum: that mindless ramble about how unicorns had to beware of those with no true power at all...
(There hadn't been any real details in that tract, and Quiet had generally assumed the sudden ending had been produced by the final tail-clamped drag to the asylum.)
Deadbeat Dad?
I've looked around, and we have stuff like Glorified Sperm Donor and Daddy Didn't Show, but we don't really have this specific archetype.
Male characters are more cartoony
Do we have a trope for art styles that render male characters in a much more cartoony way than the female characters? Like Humanoid Female Animal, but for human characters too?
Would this fall under Cartoonish Companions?
"My Generation Was Better Than The Current One"
Is there a trope for when media portrays the current generation of young adults as self-entitled freeloaders?
Edited by Pichu-kun
martial artist superhero
Basically a superhero or other charater thats a really good martial artist. often has studied many styles and some times also has access to ki manipulation and Dangerous Forbidden Technique. they often are also Badass Normal
do we have this if not shall i lanch i.
Edited by Drakon69