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openConstantly late/poor time management
Is there a trope for a character who doesn't have good time management and is often late for everything? There's Fantastic Time Management but that contains my query + the use of Time Travel powers and the like to reverse time. The trope I'm thinking of doesn't have the "using Time Travel powers" aspect.
openGuessing your lover’s desires
What’s it called when lovers know each other so well they can accurately guess what the other is thinking with no powers needed?
openAccidental Betrayal
Bob does something treacherous that he later learns deeply hurt his friend Alice, though she doesn't know Bob did it.
In Brother Cadfael, one villain has a man murdered to Leave No Witnesses, but later learns the man was the brother of his Love Interest, leading to his genuinely regretting the murder.
Edited by Chabal2openNot sure what this would be called
I was wondering if there was a trope for when two characters are voiced by the same actor/actress and one of them mocks the other for having an annoying voice, with the humor coming from the fact they have the same sounding voice?
openFake Wall
This looks like a part of the solid scenery, but upon closer inspection you can walk through this spot to reveal a secret room. Would be a Sister Trope to Suspiciously Cracked Wall.
Edited by AmonimusopenMagic Comes From Pain
I remember watching The Magicians (2016) and hearing that phrase used a lot as a theme, and I'm wondering if it was in any sort of extra things... like, the idea that trauma or emotional distress (or, possibly, protective instinct?) makes one's magic more powerful.
The trope name thing here does come from The Magicians, but this is just a different query.
opengambit trope Western Animation
One character tempts the other to do something, even though the other doesn't want to, but later succumbs to temptation. I think that should be a thing here?
openInversion of Cassandra Truth
Character who tells lies and people believes them to be true.
openYou Aren't Entitled To Have Her
Alice and Bob are dating. Charlie constantly tries to break them up, not because he wants Alice for himself but because he hates Bob for whatever reason and/or believes Alice is too good for him.
openMistaken for story or legend
A character describes an event. Their friends think they're talking about an old legend, until the character says no, it actually happened just a week ago. Their friends initially have a hard time believing it (usually just for a minute or two) until another character confirms the first is telling the truth.
Until next time...
Anon e Mouse Jr.
openOvereager Parent with Photos
Is there a trope specifically towards the kind of new parents that are way too eager to show off their child's photos to strangers? This usually manifests in said character opening up a wallet that has a comedically large number of photos, but in modern times they often take out their smart phone and swipe through a large number of photos.
Don't even know if this is a trope or not at this point.
openHitman becomes found family
An assassin sent to kill someone becomes a member of their target's Family of Choice.
The trope described in this image◊, basically.
openDifferent Language Redundancy
Something or someone's name is their occupation/what it is in a different language.
Example: The Sahara desert is the "Desert desert".
openPart-time or occasional jerkass Live Action TV
I want to do some edits on some TV pages where the main characters will sometimes come out with casual homophobia or fat-shaming or other insulting commentary. They are overall sympathetic characters, so it's not Jerkass, but the comments certainly don't meet current societal standards, and barely met those standards when the show aired. Think Chandler from Friends, the cast of Seinfeld (on a good day).
Deadpan snarker isn't really it either, because it's not deemed funny.
Edited by DeesbyFiopenWimp Among Brutes
A specific variation on One Of These Is Not Like The Others where you have a group of large, physically-imposing men, and one of them is obviously weaker and scrawnier than them all, often nerdy or camp as well.
The Far Side has a strip where the scrawny guy complains that he's getting a blister (on a slave galley), another where all the scrawny rowers are on the same side of the ship, Preacher has a guy who faked the paperwork to be selected for astronaut training lining up with the other applicants (and is immediately kicked out since he was obviously too short), Discworld has a schoolteacher accompanying a barbarian horde, etc.
Huh. I was sure that was a trope.
Edited by Chabal2openStraw Anarchist
This is the character who spouses philosophically about anarchy and is all about fighting the man in any shape or form, even when it's vague about WHY they're fighting in the first place. They're often well read and will use a bevy of political vocabulary to justify their cause, which all boils down to sheer distain for any kind of organized government in favor of anarchy. Not a Bomb Throwing Anarchist since that trope is about anarchists as dangerous villains, this trope is more about the ones who complain about all hierarchies and rebel for the sake of rebelling without taking any actual action. If they do take action, expect them to be shown as bumbling rebels who rarely think beyond their end goal.
Don't know if this one needs its own subtrope since the supertrope would fall under Straw Character. Possibly related to Soapbox Sadie? Overall wondering where this kind of character would fall under.
openMystifying Metaphor
A work uses a really weird metaphor or simile that is hard to understand and might just be meaningless on purpose.
openTown With One Police Officer
During various scenes involving the police, only one or two officers are ever shown on duty despite their supposedly being a lot of additional officers. (i.e.: In Gravity Falls Blubs and Durland are the notable only officers ever featured)
A character is killed off, but a character that takes his role gets transmogrified into being almost exactly like him.
Examples: - Fat tony from the Simpsons - Robotnik and Robo-robotnik from the sonic Archie comic
Edited by vorgil