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openJust imagine if that other actor was casted
Film industry is big, and for each character in a film (protagonist, supporting, even extras) there may be loads and loads of actors trying to be casted for it. In addition to that, the studios themselves may engage in negotiations to get some big actor to take part in the film. Alas, only one will get the role, everybody else will not. And that mean that, if not for a twist of fate, some other known actor could have played that character, but ultimately didn't (negotiations failed, or someone else was casted).
Is this What Could Have Been, or something else? After all, it means nothing about the plot. The plot could have been exactly the same, just have another actor.
openBad Guy Kinda did Something "Good" by Accident Webcomic
I need help with an example for the Sandra on the Rocks character page, 'cuz it's kind of like a circle.
Sandra is the POV character who the readers are meant to sympathize with and root for because she's a nice gal type. Except she repeatedly cheated on her boyfriend, Pierre, without him knowing about it.
Eloise is an antagonist to Sandra, because it's one of those stories where the good guy always has what the bad guy wants and is seemingly better than them at everything. That includes Pierre, who just so happens to be Eloise's cousin and her secret crush.
So: After finding out about Sandra's infidelity, Eloise arranges it so Pierre finds out about it in order to break them up so she can have Pierre for herself. The plan works, causing Pierre to dump Sandra and Eloise hooks up with her cousin afterward.
This makes it seem that The Bad Guy Wins, except had Eloise not brought Sandra's cheating habits to Pierre's attention, they'd still be together and Sandra would've continued to cheat behind his back because she was never going to tell him about it. So Eloise sort of did Pierre a favor, albeit for selfish reasons.
How would you categorize that situation?
Edited by MiinUopen"War is better than a false peace" Videogame
The setting of Love Nikki - Dress Up Queen is under a curse that anyone who kills another will be wracked by pain. Conflicts are decided by styling contests, this being a dress-up game. When war suddenly breaks out, one of the points made by the attackers is that this peace is fake, has buried instead of resolving differences, and has lead to stagnation. They are willing to defy the curse and bear the cost, believing the war will bring growth. Add to this a dose of Social Darwinism.
Does this count as Ãœbermensch, or are there other tropes that fit better?
openFemales Succeed at Males' Job
That classic concept of anti-male-chauvinism: you have a female character succeed/generally do well at a job (or other activities like sports) that are more expected to be filled by men.
What do we call this?
openThe Dying is Comforted
The general idea of a dying character having someone to comfort them/ease their feelings before their last breath.
What do we call this?
openLaw Breakers vs Law Abusers
An idea where: while breaking law is bad, abusing law is worse. People breaking the law (intentionally, that is) are better (only in a comparative sense) than those who abuse the law, so that the latter tend to be the antagonist (and less sympathetic) while the former is the protagonist.
Do we have something like this?
openUnattractive pedophile
The standard of fiction of depicting child molesters as physicaly unattractive, grimy or at best "homely", whereas there's no actual standard appearance in real life for sexual perdators
open"Won" the fight "Fairly".
I wonder if there is a trope about a character who insists he won a fight fairly although it's clear he only won through dirty tactics and unsportsmanlike behavior such as going too far in something that was supposed to be a light sparring or attack one person with multiple people.
openLooking for a different take on Freudian Slip
do we have a trope that's basically Freudian Slip, but the content of the slip isn't necessarily sexual? the examples i'm think of are the times when Vinny (from Vinesauce) has a brain fart, blurts something that makes no sense with what's going on in-stream or the topic that he's currently talking about, and then goes "I don't know why I said that."
it's not "sexy" enough for Freudian Slip, and it doesn't have the usually intentional "lol so randumb" behind Big-Lipped Alligator Moment.
openSaving your Rival
Basically Save the Villain but instead it's a rival, tends to happen when the rival proves to be a lot better than the character(s) they're rivaling with. They usually end up getting themselves in a pickle and may or may not call their rival for help (especially if they're just being competitive and not trying to kill each other).
Edited by Devan2002openEvil vs Pragmatic Evil
A character (usually a "for a cause" type of villain) has an Even Evil Has Standards moment triggered by someone being Pragmatic Evil.
For instance, Bob is a fundamentalist who wants to hire Charlie to kill Alice for a million dollars. Charlie conference-calls Alice and Bob, tells them Bob has hired him to kill Alice for a million dollars, and will go along with the wishes of whoever pays him the most money. After a lot of bids and counter-bids, Alice pays Charlie ten million dollars to spare her, and Charlie sends Bob his money back.
Bob is reduced to sputtering incoherently that anyone would be so profoundly cynical. If it's suggested that Charlie could have taken Alice's money, killed her, and then taken Bob's money, Charlie reacts with outrage that anyone could be such a money-grubbing backstabber.
Edited by Chabal2openWhat, if any, tropes does this count as?
- The Weather: One skit involves cops looking over photos of murder scenes. Every murder victim is a butler that looks identical to the others, spurring them to theorize that some rich person has cloned their butler and sold off the clones, and now the clones are being targeted.
openTragic engagement ring reveal
It's revealed that a man was planning on proposing to a woman right before he loses her (through death or break-up)
openIs there a trope for this?
- The Weather: Alan Resnick is the only Wham City member to not appear in Episode 2. However, At the very end, he's seen in the audience watching a caller's speech with the others...as an immobile stock-image photo-shopped in, rather than actually being present.
openProduction trope? Live Action TV
Is there a trope for when the Show Within a Show gets its own real-life Spin-Off, but instead of listing real-world actors, it credits In-Universe actors?
For example, a wiki about the Show Within a Show in Arrowverse displays on-screen fictional actors:
'STARRING'
JULIA WILSON
REBECCA JONES
ALESSANDRA DUPONT
but the wiki for the Arrowverse show lists:
Starring
Jes Macallan as Julia Wilson as Jane Doe
Reina Hardesty as Rebecca Jones as Firebrand/Jenny Smith
Emily Bett Rickards as Alessandra Du Pont as Excelsior/Karla Vernier
Is there such a trope for this sort of thing? I don't think it's Kayfabe but I'm not sure what trope fits this scenario.
openTricked thief
Someone steals something. Unbeknownst to the thief, the owner of the stolen thing had intended for them to steal it, as the object they had stolen was actually a fake, or filled with bees, or something like that.
For example: [[Creator/Michael Rosen]]'s story about Orange Juice.
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welcome back to to the overwatch league on ESPN e-sports are the future and the future is now bringing the question of what time really means okay here we go Bastion is in sensory mode which means trouble for exposed players ooh Widow maker comes out of nowhere with a perfect sniper shot and the omaha tripe munchers take the lead
yes both hands on my tits mwah mwah mwah suck my dick
ooh sorry for the language but this is ESPN we still use the name of Washington state NFL team
oh my gosh i can't believe i'm on ESPN hey everyone tuning in to see football too bad you have to see some odd looking outcasts playing video games instead the nerds are taking over can i get a what what (quietly) what what
i'm not a nerd i quit basketball because my friend gave me an overwatch scholarship
i have 11 endorsement deals
yeah we are not nerds dude how can you insult us like that
i've never met you guys before we only played over headsets so i thought you guys were a bunch of dorks when did nerds get so hot i joined because i wasn't cool and they're cool and i'm still not cool what the f**k oh my god i'm all alone just a stereotypical nerd spanking it to widow maker
oh i spank it to widow maker
oh i definitely spank it to widow maker
i'm spanking it to widow maker right now
i'm not alone after all i belong because - oh Jesus he's really doing it you guys
cut to a real sport he's jacking off for god's sake
(static changes to golf)
(clapping) wow a true athlete folks
(end)
any tropes for this script thanks
openPower to make people frozen in place
The ability to point/gesture/look at someone and freeze them in place. (not literally frozen or Taken for Granite, but "paused", sometimes with the ability to look around or squirm a bit.) Sometimes it's a form of localized Time Stands Still, sometimes it's an application of Biomanipulation or just vanilla Psychic Powers.
Examples:
- Charles Xavier in the X-Men movies, most notably when he freezes Sebastian Shaw, allowing Magneto to kill him, and in Logan when he freezes an entire building full of people due to Power Incontinence.
- Kylo Ren from the Star Wars sequels is capable of this, simultaneously stopping a blaster bolt in mid-air and paralyzing the person who fired it.
- One of the applications of "bloodbending" in Avatar and The Legend of Korra.
- Syndrome's "Zero-point energy" can do this in the Incredibles
After being insulted, the character nods in a way with an facial expression obvious to the audience that whomever insulted him is about to get the beating of a lifetime.