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Resting is Death?
Do we have a trope for when people are asked to stay awake when they're wounded, because if they fall asleep, it's implied they'll die?
Fan-Works Where Most of the Characters are LGBTQ
When posting examples about fan-works, what's the difference between Cast Full of Gay, Everyone Is Gay, and Everyone Is Bi?
Edited by Pichu-kun
Double Bike
I wonder if there's a trope about double bikes...
Parent-o-vision
A scene shot from a parent's point of view shows other characters as literally different from reality, but not to the extent of Through the Eyes of Madness. It can be done with other character types as well, but I've seen it most often with parents having difficulty accepting their children have grown up.
For example, the Bratty Teenage Daughter brings a boyfriend home to meet her parents. We see the scene as it actually is (the daughter is dressed like a goth, the boyfriend slightly dressed up), then switch to the Overprotective Dad's vision: his daughter is now five years old and has a halo, the boyfriend now has prison tattoos, heroin scars and a pack of condoms tucked into his unzipped pants). Then the mother comes in, looking slightly past her prime to the viewers, but to the husband she's still the beautiful twenty-year-old he fell for (and she also has a halo).
For the distaff version, a Beloved Smother sees her son come home with a scraped knee. We first see the kid looking mildly pained, then switch to Mom-o-vision and the kid's leg is broken in three places and he's screaming in agony.
Alien empire consisting of multiple specialized species
A specific sci-fi variant of The Empire, consisting of many alien species that each perform a specific function, altered using genetic engineering in order to make them better at their given task. The whole thing is run by a species of physically weak aliens, (who have some other, unorthodox powers in order to make up for their frailty.) who are set above the other species in the empire via a Fantastic Caste System. Usually, this empire would really like to make humanity into one of its slave races, causing the primary conflict of the setting. Especially common in videogames, as it provides an easy in-story explanation for the various types of Mooks - each enemy type represents a different species conquered by the empire.
Examples
- The Dominion from Star Trek
- The Combine from Half Life
- The unnamed alien empire from XCOM
Also, the Covenant from Halo is a borderline example - They check most of the boxes, but they rarely use genetic engineering, and they almost have a second "leader" species in the form of the Sangheili/Elites.
Ending will explain everything
Plot in anime/movie/tv show etc. is very confusing, but in the ending everything is explained.
Brownies
DO we have a trope page for collecting Brownies, Nisse, House Spirits etc in media?
Nationality as nickname
One of the guys is the only one from a given nationality among the close cast of characters, so those others nicknamed him with it. For example, the only Mexican character in a US setting being nicknamed "the Mexican", or the only character from the US in a foreign setting being nicknamed "The American".
Alternate History trope? Live Action TV
Is there a trope (other than Sliding Scale of Alternate History Plausibility) where a work's Alternate History feels realistic and plausible for the era, sort of like how Original Flavour is for relation to canon in Fan Fic?
I saw Original Flavour mentioned at WebOriginal.Dirty Laundry An Alternate1980s but aren't sure if it applies to Alternate History?
Spelling with numbers instead of letters.
Instead of spelling a word normally, some letters are replaced by similar looking or sounding numbers. This is usually seen in electronic music artists like DJ ASSAS1N but it's also well known in Homestuck. Also done in real life by people who are too bored to text full sentences.
Edited by Lermis
Body flashing
A person's body starts "glitching", so to speak, by flashing. The closest I could find is Flash of Pain, but that's exclusively a video game trope where an enemy flashes when you hit them.
Nostalgia Revival
Is there a trope where a highly popular work or trend that was a mainstay of pop culture seemingly dies out for a while but returns to the spotlight after its audience grows older and starts feeling nostalgic about it? I swore there was once a trope on here for this, specifically using the famous Awkward Zombie Pokemon comic
as a page image.
Not So Big Bad
Is their a trope where a person inadvertently causes problems, and, in spite of his best intentions, winds up being an antagonist.
Not Big Bad, what I'm thinking is more like that inventor rabbit from that one show with the square rodent named Wubbzy, I think?
I Have To Go To The Bathroom
Making up an excuse to leave a (usually uncomfortable) social situation
Death Trope
What trope involves the Big Bad killing one of his or her mooks for suggesting that he or she give up their goal because the risks keep getting bigger?
Biopic uses real person
An instance of a biopic where a real person is portrayed by an actor, but at one point there is a cameo showing the person portrayed by the actual one in real life.
She said she wants to meet you for dinner.
This is one of those tricks you see in sitcoms when two people are having a falling out. They'll say to one of these people "X wants to say sorry and meet you for dinner." and then "Y wants to meet you for dinner" to the other. This may or may not work, but a common area where this falls apart is where one of them says. "Hey thanks for inviting me over to say sorry" and the other says "But I thought you invited me to say sorry".
No Title
What trope is this? In Recap.She Ra And The Princesses Of Power S 1 E 11 Promise, While Adora and Catra's relationship was definitely more like friends, the flashbacks in this episode cement that Shadow Weaver pretty much just saw Catra as Adora's pet. She bluntly tells Catra that she's only allowed to stay because Adora likes her, and then admonishes Adora for letting Catra cause trouble.
Barely-clothed royalty
Where the royal robes cover as little as possible. Examples: depictions of pharaohs, Xerxes from 300, Tasigur the Golden Fang from MTG.
Edited by luiginumber3
Evil Troupe
Evil group of actors/performers, all with distinct characteristics and designs
Evil royal title
When a Card-Carrying Villain is addressed by their subordinates as "Your Evilness", "Your Horribleness" or other negative spin on a royal title.
There's a similar thing with repulsive monster villains that play up their grossness instead. "Your Repugnancy", "Your Royal Stinkiness".
Trap Recipe
A recipe that is secretly designed to kill the person following the instructions.
- In Usagi Yojimbo, an evil ninja clan gets its hands on the recipe for gunpowder. The recipe has all its steps listed, but has an extra step to ensure the user's downfall: setting the powder on fire. Knowing which step to leave out serves as the Trust Password.
- Green Manor has a recipe for an elixir of invulnerability that actually causes hallucinations and delusions of godhood in the drinker, and they inevitably get themselves killed walking out windows (the creator wanted to rid the world of latent megalomaniacs, since only the overly-ambitious would want to drink it).
Run And Gun
Instead of keeping their distance and fire their guns, baddies instead choose to rush in like a bunch of asshole so the sword wielding hero can chop them up.
Clock to 13
Is there a trope for clocks that count up to 13?
Series Finale Death
The producers know that this is the end of the series (maybe it was planned, maybe they get no fresh money) and end it spectaculary by killing the main character. Obviously, this must be here somewhere, but I was too stupid to search...