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openHolding the cliff Western Animation
two characters are stuck on a cliff and one of them is holding the hand of the other, and at the same time is holding on the cliff so that the two do not fall.
Edited by NaokoYoshidaopenTemporary Actor Replacement
Do we have a trope for when an actor briefly takes over the role of a character while the original actor is away? Say an actor was sick or busy with another project and couldn't come in on time, so the show temporarily recasts the role for a single episode. You'll often see this in voice-over roles, where a voice actor will occasionally fill in for another actor if they're unable to record their lines.
I'm not sure The Other Darrin quite covers it, since it's not supposed to be a permanent change.
openChekov gun in crafting
A Infinity +1 Sword Requires all sword dropped from some boss some crafted and final ingredient is your iron weapon the starter weapon Ex:Terraria: The Zenith
Edited by Baolen2445openI Hate story shipping
Hiro cancel alice and bob from marrying not because he will prevent mass destruction but because he hates them marrying
Edited by Baolen2445openBad first impression
What's the trope where someone makes a really bad first impression (such as coming off as a Jerkass) due to outside circumstances but it's later revealed they're usually not like that?
For example, in Anyone, the woman who meets Izuku at the start of his internship is obviously upset when she meets him and is very short with him, but it's later shown she's angry because her boss constantly refuses to come into work and didn't provide any way to ease Izuku into his internship, forcing her to basically throw him into the proverbial deep end. By the end of the first day, she's friendly and complimenting Izuku's abilities.
openJustified alternate outfits Videogame
Okay, the setup for this is kinda complicated. In Honkai Impact 3rd, each character has a default outfit and then can acquire a number of alternate outfits, and wear any of them into combat even though some of them are things like fancy dresses, swimsuits, and other clothes that you wouldn't think would be viable for that. However, a recent update has a side event which, although its canonicity is questionable, establishes that all of these outfits are created by the organization the characters work for and are designed to be combat-capable, so whatever the characters are wearing, they can still fight their enemies if they need to.
Is this a justified case of Walking Swimsuit Scene or some other established trope?
openNo Future Cultural Development
I had an idea for a trope and just wanted to make sure it is not already somewhere on this site, or something similar. This is the trope when characters in a future setting (usually somewhere on Earth in the the next couple of centuries) will only ever make cultural references to the culture of the time at which the work is being written. They will also consequentially almost never reference any cultural work from between the time when the work is being written and the future time when the work is taking place. Here is an example to make it a bit more clear.
Say we have a character who lives in the year 2400 AD. He is a huge fan of the works of 20th century author Raymond Chandler. Then we have another character and she is a big fan of the works of Charles Dickens. But there will be no character who is a fan of the works of Matthew Chao, the most popular author in 22nd century literature or something like that. It gives off the impression that no new culture has really been created in the literally hundred of years since our own present time. The biggest examples of this I can find would be Star Trek and Ready Player One, though RP 1 is a bit more defensible in this regard than Star Trek.
This seems to be largely the fault of Author Appeal, Small Reference Pools or simply a need to not confuse the readers, watchers or listeners with an out of nowhere cultural reference to something that you completely made up.
So is this a trope on here already? Is there something similar enough to render this trope's existence pointless?
openGift finding plot
I've noticed we have a couple of drafts in the TLP about giving gifts. I'm wondering if there's a supertrope about characters trying to find a gift for someone.
openMeeting someone after/during a date Live Action TV
Basically, Alice goes on a date, the guy turns out to be a jackass, but she meets a nice guy on her way home (or after the date gets too crazy) - for added irony, the guy she meets is the cop who arrested the jackass date/ doctor that saved his life after he tried something stupid/ chef whose food he disliked.
Also done with Alice going Speed Dating, hating all the guys, but falling for the organizer of the event.
Or, in general, Alice tries to do something, it doesn't work, but from the ashes of the disaster, sheachieves her goal in a way she didn't predict.
openScrew My Life
Is there a trope that embodies the sentiment "Fuck my life"? Like the Only Sane Man or Butt-Monkey getting fed up with everything they have to deal with (or likely a certain situation).
Example: In the Ace Attorney anime, Phoenix looks at Larry's antics trying to (shoddily) impersonate Miles, he gets fed up and thinks to himself "Am I in Hell?"
openSue your for anything
This person threatens to sue anyone for the smallest and pettiest things.
openFake prophecy becomes true
Person fakes a prophecy or premonition, only for it to actually happen.
- In Modern Family Gloria took Alex to see a psychic. Alex is skeptical and decides to mess with the psychic by lying about her premonitions being accurate. For instance, when the psychic has a vision of a knight, Alex lies about going to a Renaissance fair. However, later in the episode she meets a boy who is wearing a t-shirt with a picture of a knight on it.
openFrame rate change
The frame rate changes for a few seconds, usually getting dramatically lower. Not the same as undercrank or overcrank because the speed doesn't change - the shot is filmed and played at the same rate.
openAnthology Host
Is there a trope for someone like Rod Serling in Twilight Zone or Night Gallery? There's Horror Host, but that would be a subtrope — this is a host for, basically, an anthology show or anthology film.
openBasic attack of character, seizure for player
A boss who attack normally but
Edited by Baolen2445openGeeky Turn-On or Nerds are Sexy?
I read the description of Geeky Turn-On and Nerds Are Sexy, and I'm still confused about the difference between the two. The situation I would like to assign a trope on is this:
Alice is not very intelligent, but she enjoys the company of people smarter than she is. For example, her boyfriend Bob is The Smart Guy of the cast and is rather Spocky in his thought process.note Bob has better social skills than the archetypical nerd; but I suppose that's not a determinative factor.
openRoyal Bastard, God And Satan Are Both Good
They aren't tropes yet, but I'm having difficulty finding their drafts in the Trope Launch Pad
openBlack Hole Attack Videogame
Basically, when a character, usually a boss, creates a Black Hole that sucks opponents in and does big damage. For example, Marx’s splitting attack from Kirby Super Star.
openEnergy Crisis Crisis Videogame
This probably occurs in other media as well, but... you know how in some media, humanity in the future is facing an acute energy crisis, and turns to questionable sources to address it (in the DOOM reboots it's Hell/Argent Energy and in Dead Space it's the Markers and their signal, f'rex). Is there a Trope for that?
If I remember correctly, the trope involved using the dead person's friends/family for example: "Is this what X would've wanted?" I need some help. To quote Hiro Hamada from Big Hero 6: "Is this what Abigail would've wanted?"