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Technically 2 here...totally unrelated as well.
1. Is there a trope that certain voices, no matter what the medium, are always going to gravitate toward a specific vocal performance...especially if said medium is outside the age range of the ORIGINAL version? For example, any nebbish in a children's Cartoon invariably sounds like varying degrees of EVERYONE's (usually bad) Woody Allen impersonation? TV Chefs before a certain time are generally either Variations on The Galloping Gourmet (if Male) or Julia Child (If Female) and after a certain time frame are generally parodies of Emeril or Paula Deen. Basically it's a quick visual/vocal parody that tells you the basic outline of the character based on everyone's stock impersonation of them.
2. The second is the phrase "You didn't think it'd be that easy did you?" It seems like it'd be it's own trope, but likely is a simple "Stock Villain Phrase"
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This is a trope where a character is vindicated by circumstances entirely beyond anyone's knowledge or control, where character A can do something that is particularly assholish, but during this something happens that makes everyone thank character A, even though he had no idea about it.
The clearest example I can think of is this: Bob has a crush on Alice, but Alice is going on a date with John. John is a fantastic guy and Alice really likes him, but Bob goes along on the date specifically to ruin it. During Bob's shenanigans, John ends up revealing himself as a horrible person and Alice dumps him on the spot, and then thanks Bob for helping her out. Then everyone thinks Bob is a great guy, even though he (and everyone else) had no idea about John's true character, he just wanted to ruin the date out of spite.
It doesn't apply just to dates, though.
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I'm sure this must exist somewhere...
A character makes some sort of declaration/overture/gesture of love toward another character, only to realize that it isn't reciprocated/it's a really bad time/loose confidence in themselves.
They end up making up a ridiculous excuse for what they're said/done that fools nobody.
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Do we have a trope for characters who do not qualify as Sleepy Head who fall asleep in class? I'm thinking more for characters falling asleep due to grueling training, being worn out the day before, etc. as opposed to characters who are just sleepy in general.
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Do we have any tropes pertaining to a character's intelligence being deliberately reduced? Not an Idiot Ball (that would be the writer's fault), but another character attacking their mind in that manner with magic, surgery, or whatever for their own nefarious purposes. Mind Rape doesn't seem to fully cover it.
Examples would be removing The Chessmaster's ability to scheme, regressing the hero's mind to an infantile state, et cetera.
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What is it when a writer goes back and adds something before other stories that does not necessarily invalidate the stories (as in a retcon) but rather looks odd for not having been mentioned in them? I.e. Honor Harrington causing a diplomatic incident in a prequel to On Basilisk Station that nobody in OBS seems to know about?
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In a lot of sci-fi and some fantasy, TV shows especially, an ensemble cast visits or otherwise encounters people from an alternate dimension/mirror universe/whatever. They will have similar characters in this other place, usually played by the same actors, may or may not be Evil Twins. The part I'm getting at is that often the alternate dimension version of the ensemble is often paired off differently, romantically speaking (to play with pairings that didn't make it into the main canon, or just for kicks, or as one of many details that is different between the main and alternate settings). Stargate SG-1 used to play with this to pair O'Neill and Carter, f'rinstance.
If this somehow doesn't already exist as a named trope (I didn't look, I have no idea what to search for), I propose: "Love Counterfactually".
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Okay, so I'm working on a work and I want to upload a page about it when I'm done. But one of the things on it, I can't seem to find the trope I'm looking for. Basically, it's when a character is hallucinating and obviously crazy, but they are more happy with their hallucinations than with reality. It's a little hard to describe.
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Is there a trope for a person liking something you wouldn't expect? Like an American Libby suddenly being a fan of Being Human? It's not Geeky Turn-On because nobody is actually turned on by this.
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A character goes down the path of evil, but turns around at the last minute and saves everything as best s/he can, perhaps because now It's Personal (say, s/he chose some target for crime at random and it turns out to be a precious pet). Basically, the plot of Wall Street, but I've also Seen It A Mil… you know.
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A plot in which a character wins or otherwise acquires, say, only two concert tickets instead of three when they have two friends, family members, what-have-you. The characters friends, family members etc. then spend the rest of the episode in a buttering up competition trying to win over the character with the tickets into taking THEM to the event. I've seen this plot in too many shows but am unable to find anything about it on the wiki. Basically, a brown nosing contest.
Anyone?
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Is there a trope that lampshades the fact that a character that has superpowers automatically becomes a superhero/supervillain. ?
Or Something about characters that instead of using their powers for being heroes/villains . They simply use their powers just to enhance and/or enjoy their lifes.?
If not Can I YKTTW it?
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I wonder if we have this...
There's a minor character who become a hero for one or two episode. But the protagonist still gets the focus; either the minor character is just doing it offscreen, or possibly when he/she comes for the protagonist's aid.