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Is there a trope for when, after a huge fight, two characters are apologizing for saying things about each other, and one apologizes for something he didn't actually say? Ex. Person A: "I'm sorry I called you ungrateful!" Person B: "I'm sorry I called you arrogant!" Person A: "I'm sorry I called you a self-seeking manipulative rodent!" Person B: "You didn't call me that..."
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I'm sure there's are tropes for these, but I can't recall them:
Alien world is established. Somehow all the aliens are clearly just funny-colored or slightly altered versions of the creatures from human mythology. For example, Dragonriders of Pern, where tiny dragons are just random native creatures.
Cases of technological reversion, such as in Battlestar Galactica (super-technological Adam and Eve society eventually gives birth to really backwards civilization that has to re-learn everything) and Pern (space travel and super-genetic-engineering tech decays to medieval civilization).
Fantastical creature appears in our world and the plot attempts to explain it away in pure science (such as in Reign of Fire).
Blue and "cool colors" are good, red and "warm" colors are bad. Averted in Avatar, where Azula is the only blue fire user, but played up in Tron, where all good things are white or blue and all bad things are orange, red, and yellow. Red eyes are bad; blue eyes are good. Etc. (I know there's an eye trope, but this is for general color trends.)
Creators getting angry at the mere existence of fan work (the author of Brokeback Mountain, Anne Mc Caffrey, and more), not at the bad fan work in particular
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Do we have a trope that is similar to Settle for Sibling, but instead of settling for Sibling B because Sibling A is not interested, the character dates/marriaries/bethroths Sibling A and only ends up with Sibling B after Sibling A dies? For example, in The Patriot, Mel Gibson's character ends up getting married to the sister of his deceased wife.
Of should I simply use the Settle for Sibling trope and explain in the notes how it is different from the standard?
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Sometimes, in large groups with any sort of authority, one of the people or groups represented is so radically different from the rest, you wonder how they managed to get an equal say. This can be in any media format, but one of my favorite examples is the "Galgamex delegation" of the episode of South Park entitled "Red Hot Catholic Love".
Is there a named trope for this?
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Any tropes along the lines of "sex is worse than violence" for the age rating systems of films and games where sex gets you a higher rating than violence?
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.
Is there a trope for sentences like "In my defence he had a chainsaw" or "In my defence I was fighting with a broken leg"
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Any "good guy" equivalent to Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy (which specifically says it's bad guys only).
It's not A-Team Firing, since that trope's description explicitly draws a contrast between the two (in terms of deliberateness of aim).
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Maybe I'm in the wrong section for this, but is there a trope for a three-part joke? It's a joke in an episode of a TV show that will appear three times: once in one context, then later in another context, then come up near the end of the episode/sequence. Basically, Running Gag meets Rule of Three.
Example: My Life as a Teenage Robot, "Labor Day" (It Makes Sense In Context) 1.) Jenny: "Well, it's hard work, but it beats digging ditches." 2.) Courier: "Hey, it beats digging ditches!" 3.) Millionaire: "Make sure those ditches are nice and deep!"
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In a big heist job the perps pretend to be custodians, or repair men called in at the last minute to fix something, or along those lines. Seen It A Million Times. We must have it, surely, but I have no idea what to search on.
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Is there a trope for a song that's sung entirely in a nonsense/non-existent language? I can only think of two definite examples and one "maybe" one: the Ending Credits track for Coraline, "Almateria" from the Tales Of Symphonia anime, and (the "maybe" one) "Life Returns" from Fire Emblem Path Of Radiance, although that one is just backwards Japanese. I'm sure there's probably more I haven't heard/am not thinking of.
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A classic chase scene moment, whenever the person being chased seems to have vanished, an open window will conveniently appear with the curtains blowing inwards to attract attention of the chaser. The person being chased will always appear outside of said window or within the line sight, and so the chase continues.
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This seems to be common in action movies. Do we have a trope for this? In the middle of an action scene between characters, there's a civilian who either:
- 1. Doesn't notice until he either comes out into the scene or the action comes to him.
- 2. Appears to be completely unchanged despite the action happening right near him (like grandparents).
Would examples help? (I think I exceeded the character limit.)
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I just seem to recall there being a trope for when a character isn't sure how to describe a thing, so - possibly to avoid offence - they focus on the fact that it is... a thing. Let me explain, with this quote from the Fan Remake of Kings Quest II:
- King Graham: You seem to have quite a selection of... well... quite a selection!
There are other variations: I seem to recall a review of an anime DVD running along the lines of "All I can say at this point is that it's 102 minutes long".
Hope this helps!
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Is there a trope where someone starts off a loser, and ends up being a non-loser?. Examples include Kung Fu Panda and Gullivers Travels 2010 Film .
What's the name of that trope where you have a plot hinted at but never followed up on?
Also, do we have a trope for when one character uses another character's catchphrase.