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openmoon uk
land version of Crystal Dragon Jesus I mean: a fictional land have resembles real life land
Edited by Baolen2445openBasic Decency is Sainthood Compared To Everything Else
Like what the title is describing. Say Bob is being nice to Alice and helping her through her past trauma. By real-life standards, it's basic human decency, but the viewers's standards were pushed so low, due to witnessing arson, murder, theft, and other various crimes in the work, that they view said basic human decency as sainthood compared to everything else.
open"Time Flies" Song Music
A song, typically a sad one, about how time passes quickly. May also come with a "life is short" message. Do we have this?
EDIT: Also, do we have any tropes for a general "time flies, life is short" message? I checked the Time folder on Stock Aesops, but the only trope there is Like You Were Dying, which is related, but not quite what I'm looking for.
Edited by DrNoPumaopenHypocrite but kinda...
Is there a trope where someone works through athour person's problems, but they suffer from said problem and don't know?
openProtagonists have a Work Ethic
I have two specific examples and I'm wondering if there's a trope for them, or if it could go to Trope Launch Pad and hope that others know more examples.
- In S.W.A.T. (the film), protagonist Jim Street is punished for his SWAT partner's misdeeds by being kicked off the SWAT team and is sent to work in the gun cage, a job that causes him to be mocked and belittled by his colleagues. Despite this harsh blow to Street's career, he is shown exercising, training, keeping his skills sharp, and he impresses another officer by going the extra mile on fixing up a battered old firearm to be good as new. This work ethic gives him another chance to rejoin a SWAT team.
- In TerraNova, protagonist Jim Shannon breaks the rules and comes to Terra Nova despite not going through the proper channels, making him seem untrustworthy to Terra Nova's leadership. He is assigned to agricultural duty, which is boring and tedious at best. But when he's tasked to clear vines from a 20-meter-high fence (and clearly this task has been neglected for a long time), he grabs a machete and gets the job done. The leadership watches as he does so, at least a bit impressed by Shannon's willingness to attack a thankless and dirty job with such gusto.
openRobot Chicken Western Animation
There was a Robot Chicken sketch in which Calvin's parents from Calvin and Hobbes see Calvin playing with Hobbes and decide that he is disturbed. They then take him to a therapist and then eventually electroshock therapy and after that he ends up hallucinating and killing them. He's then arrested and ends up in an insane asylum. This feels like a YMMV trope for the simple fact that it's not at all unusual for kids Calvin's age to have imaginary friends, and that's an audience reaction. So is there a YMMV trope here? Or is the situation a bit too specific?
openAesop tropes? Live Action TV
I've got two examples but not the trope:
Live Action TV
- Supergirl (2015) had the episode "Confidence Woman" which was A Day in the Limelight, but not a Villain Episode for Andrea Rojas / Acrata. The aesop of the episode was seen as "Not all villainous people are necessarily evil people, just misguided", although one aesop the episode was supposed to show was "Betrayal will happen in your lifetime to you, no matter what you do, we all go through it", yet the actual aesop was more like "What?"
Western Animation
- Dexter's Laboratory had an episode, "Framed", a Speech-Centric Work which was supposed to be about trends and why succumbing to peer pressure isn't the right thing, but the entire point of the aesop was lost at the end when Mandark, the Big Bad showed up in a cameo with a cast on his arm and people were saying how cool it was.
openFleshy robots, but not the "meat sack" kind
I remember coming across a TLP draft about androids or robots that are made out of wet, squishy snythetic flesh complete with "blood", with a picture of a bisected android from Alien as its page image. (Not to be confused with the Meat-Sack Robot).
Where is it now? What is it called? Did it leave the TLP?
Edited by Unnerving_PosterioropenHave I Mentioned That I Don't Like You?
It's where a character denies having an interest towards their own crush, despite seemingly being attacted to them.
Subtrope of Suspiciously Specific Denial
Not to be confused with He Is Not My Boyfriend
Edited by LiechtraumopenFlashback Showing the Truth
What do you call a flashback that shows what really happened over the voice of an Unreliable Narrator?
openG-Rated Bar
A kid-friendly bar. They have all the things that is acceptable for PG-rated television, but in a bar! For example, you have the kids that are literally Drunk on Milk, filled with intensely sugar-coated G-Rated Drug's. The occasional adult or Absurdly Powerful Student Council may come along to bust the kids that are trading illegal pokemon cards.
Paranatural has this in the form of a literal student bar. Codename: Kids Next Door also has this trope, but I'm unsure if it was a literal student bar as well.
Edited by KingOfStickersopenModern youkai
Youkai doesn't have anything on the specifically Japanese supernatural creatures that were invented in modern times (the kuchisake-onna and hasshaku-sama come to mind). Is there a page for them, or should there be a new one?
openAuthor Cultural Myopia, or something like that
I started following My Next Life As A Villainess All Routes Lead To Doom, and I noticed a particular issue of the author not doing enough research, and thus applying Japanese customs into what's supposed to be a Medieval European Fantasy universe. Specifically, several nobles have adopted, or discussed adopting, distant patrilineal boys as heir. Japanese nobles did frequently adopt heirs, even now, but my knowledge of European history tells me it's unlikely.
I know there're several tropes related to the (lack of) research, but this is the first time I seriously thought about applying one of those. So which trope is it?
openCharacters named after actor
Is there any particular trope where the characters specific actor play retain the name of said actor? So said actor Bob Smith keeps playing characters that are named Bob, too.
openSnarky But Reliable Omniscient Narrator Live Action TV
As in Arrested Development:
Character on the phone: I am so sorry. // V/O: He wasn't.
I did not know. // He did.
I'll do everything to make it up to you. V/O: But he wouldn't.
openI object to your wording!
Bob describes something he does. Alice describes the same thing in terms that are equally accurate but nowhere near as flattering. Bob says something along the lines of "well when you put it that way it sounds stupid!"
When the bible is quoted or part of the Bible is mentioned in anime (usually in the context of some kind of exorcism being carried out by adherents to Anime Catholicism), the reference comes from the Gospel of John. This occurs specifically in Ghost Hunt (where it gets paired with a snippet of The Lord's Prayer), Blue Exorcist, I think Chrono Crusade, and I think others that I don't specifically recall. I wouldn't be surprised if this is also true in other media.