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openContrasting Sequel Side Character
It's not Contrasting Sequel Main Character because they're NOT the main character. Nor are they the villain. In fact, they are a supporting protagonist, while the character they're compared to is a corrupt character. In Mulan, Chi Fu is a minor antagonist who is the emperor's advisor, who is furious when he finds out Mulan broke the rules and joined the army and wants her executed. He also a stickler to rules. In Mulan II, there is Ting-Ting, the emperor's oldest daughter. Like Chi Fu, she is tall and thin, has blue as her main color with purple around her waist. She gets angry at her sisters for wanting to run away with their love interests, turns down her love interest several times (Yeaaahhh...her guy was Not Good with Rejection). The difference between her and him is that she's a secondary protagonist, and she gets her happy ending. I'm not sure if it counts as "suspisciously similar replacement" because while they do have similarities, they are pretty different: Ting-Ting is a pretty young lady and Chi Fu is Gonk, for one: and Ting-Ting is pretty icy but not outright rude the way Chi Fu is, for another. Also, Chi Fu has facial hair and a hat...but they have the similar color palettes, body types, and share a key part of their personality. So kind of similar? But not really? And not center stage?
openUsing superpowers to get rich
Do we have a trope about a character abusing his special superpowers to get rich? The closest thing I could find is Mundane Utility.
openMistaken For Hallucination
Do we have an index or a Super-Trope for tropes like You Can See That, Right? or No More for Me or (this TLP draft) Back to the Hospital? I tried looking for it in Mistaken for Index and didn't find it.
openSound-related Trope Web Original
A sound plays so quickly and repeatedly that the screen zooms in, plays the sound louder, and tints the screen red.
openReligion-Based Gayngst
A religious character struggles with the fact that they are gay even though their religion doesn't accept homosexuality. Sometimes they're an Armored Closet Gay.
openIs this an example of Sole Survivor?
There is a family of four amongst a cast of 13 characters, but over the course of one year, the mother and both children die in separate events. Is the father a Sole Survivor? He certainly is a sole family surviver but the description is not clear on the scope of "sole".
openone-track mind
A character has a general one-track-mind, fixated on one specific thing to the exclusion of anything else.
openHypnotic Screen
A rather mesmerizing backdrop of moving patterns, which can hypnotize someone if stared at.
resolved Checking if someone is paying attention by saying something silly?
Hypothetical example: Alice is telling Bob about her day at work, but he starts to drift off, so, to check if he's paying attention, she says, "Oh, and I was laid off because a frog took my job."
openBald Loser
Bald characters whose baldness is used to convey that they're unsuccessful in life, e.g. Homer Simpson or George Costanza. Unlike Bald Of Awesome and Bald of Evil, this usually manifests as the "power donut" haircut (or a Dodgy Toupee) rather than a fully-shaved head, to indicate the character is bald against their will rather than by choice.
Edited by phalanxopenDistant memory as a child
Childhood memories are vague and distant as if they are mere imagination.
open"You Think I'm A Strawman?!"
A character has some kind of prominent character trait (enthusiastic fan of X, Yaoi Fangirl, liking contact sports, etc.). But then they find out surrounding characters exaggerate this trait into near-Straw Man proportions ("Stop Having Fun" Guy, Het Is Ew, Blood Knight, etc.), and has to remind them that no, that character trait does not dominate their life above all others.
In Animorphs, Cassie is the resident animal lover. But she's shocked to find out her friends think of her as in Animal Wrongs Group territory when they're starving in the Arctic and find a freshly-killed seal carcass, and ask for her permission to eat it.
openDocumentary(?) series
So I’m looking for a documentary series and all I remember is that it was on netflix, and in the show they would talk about a Ancient dinosaur or creature and rebuild it out of metal and Hydraulics. I specifically remember them doing an episode on terror birds and one on mosasaur SOLVED: it’s called mega beasts
Edited by Ur-little-reviveopenLet us help you
Where the characters want to help another character, but he/she refuses
openSucky starting gear
Is there a trope for when a character starts out their gear is just completely awful?
Like they've got a sword that could barely cut soft cheese, armor that provides roughly the same protection as ordinary clothes, and a gun whose range, accuracy, and punch suggests it's firing rubber bands?
Would be a supertrope to With This Herring as it doesn't require them to be on an important quest, just trying to be a hero at all with gear that obviously isn't up to the task.
openGroup Shield
This scene in Scott Pilgrim has Scott's friends defending him◊ from an attack◊. Is this a reference to a specific trope?
Edited by KingOfStickers