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I've noticed recently, especially in anime programs, that the Big Bad or Monster of the Week will often preceed their first attack of a battle by describing to the main characters exactly what their reason is for fighting/seeking them out, and exactly how they are going to accomplish it.
Also, when the hero(s) are unable to defeat the enemy that has just explained to them what they're going to do, the enemy provides a bout of evil laughter, followed by a revelation that there is something more complex about their plan.
Example: Let's say the villian is a Mage with a pet bird. One of the members of the Hero's company is cursed by the Mage and the group sets out after them. Upon finding the Mage, they attempt to kill her. She says something along the lines of "First I will kill you Hero, then your (cursed) friend will be cast into hell by my magic!". The hero attacks, and after a short battle sequence is unable to defeat the Mage. It is then revealed that the only way to break the curse on the friend is to first kill the bird.
I've seen this, or something similar more than once, but I'm wondering, do we have this one? It there a trope similar to this?
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Is there a trope where an unattractive character becomes attractive over the course of a series, be it through magical means, hard work, or simple passage of time? It's not Beautiful All Along because the character would be genuinely ugly to begin with. It's not really {{She's All Grown Up}} either because it would be a main or central character rather than someone the protagonist hasn't seen in awhile. I don't really think it's she cleans up nicely either because as far as I can tell that trope is exactly the same as beautiful all along. It would be most similar to a shallow version of Took a Level in Badass but in regards to appearance and not badassness.
Examples would be the ugly duckling or the beast from Beauty and the Beast.
Does it exist?
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Is there a trope where one of the protagonists face a situation where he would need something he usually carries with him (gun, mallet, cellphone, hat with a large plume) but for some reason has forgotten or been unable to bring along this time?
Likewise, is there a trope where the protagonist's friend casually hands him the object because he knew he "would be needing it"?
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So didn't there used to be a counterpart of Real Women Never Wear Dresses called Real Women Always Wear Dresses? You know, where a really butch female character is derided because obviously there's something wrong with being female and not having traditional feminine traits? Was it renamed? Did I just imagine this?
Or is it just covered under another trope? It's not quite No Guy Wants an Amazon - that's specifically about butch women being unattractive to men, not about there just being something wrong with them in general - and it's not Acceptable Feminine Goals, since that's about female characters being given tacked-on feminine traits to avoid this. And it's not Straw Feminist, since a female character can be extremely masculine without actually being a feminist.
Come to think of it, is there even a trope for the gender-flipped version where a male character is derided for having feminine traits?
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No. The piece of work doesn't do anything to hide it, except not calling the character so. Not Using The G Word?
Should I give an example?
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Reposting this due to the borking: Is there a trope for when a Music Video uses a different version of a song than what's on the album? For example, Soundgarden completely re-did "Fell on Black Days" for that video, and for Stone Temple Pilots' "Creep", the verses were re-done while the choruses were the same.
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Is there a trope for Signature Pose? Covers stances/gestures commonly performed within a show, or a pose a character always assume in promo materials?
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What's that trope for when that bad guy who's been chasing you the whole time turns out to be *GASP* your relative, and the villain knows it. It's not Luke, I Am Your Father, because that's not your father, that's your sibling, and it's not Everyone Is Related because the fanfic I'm adding the trope to has already shown that most of the main characters are unrelated.
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Basically, the thing I have in mind is when a fictional family in a TV show (or movie I suppose, but I couldn't find any examples of that) has the last name of an actual well-known person and— Big suprise, they're related to them! Two examples that made me think of this are a joke from Family Guy where their relative Kathy is at dinner and it's Kathy Griffin, and an episode of King of the Hill where Hank's cousin Dusty comes to buy Cotton's car and it's Dusty Hill from ZZ Top.
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do we have a trope for really gullible characters? i know there's Gullible Lemmings, but that's more for when they're gullible in regards to the villain's intention. is there a more general one, like someone always falling for a prank or someone always believing something that's obviously a joke?
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Do we have a trope that displays goodwill for selfish reasons? Like someone who donates to charity for a tax cut rather than actually helping the helpless, or someone who volunteers just to look good on a resume rather than actually feeding the hungry.
Is there also a trope that believes that there's no such thing as goodness for the sake of being good?
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Any tropes on force beams? I'm talking about beams that don't distinguished or burn but inexplicable punch people instead, for example Cyclops's eye beams.
Also looking for a trope connected to the phrase "I'm all you've got" perhaps there the only two people who can stand each other, perhaps their the last of their kind, perhaps they are immortal.
Which ever way it happens the trope would be about limited friendship/relationship options due the rarity of a certain kind of people.
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This would be a soundtrack trope, where the soundtrack is consistently dissonant or confusing- ominous music to character's antics, for example, or music that all sounds the same no matter what's happening. I'm specifically thinking of the music in many of the Seventh Doctor's episodes from Doctor Who.
Do we have a trope for a series of 'nos', usually said by a person after a shocking and horrifying reveal?