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openRearranging Internal Organs
We have Man in the Machine for someone needing to be put in a life-support suit. Do we have a different, more specific Body Horror trope for that someone's internal organs being rearranged to fit inside said life-support suit?
openAlways flashing large amounts of money around
What's the trope for a character who casually just goes around with huge amounts of cash? Someone who goes ahead and overspends on everything, sometimes to a comical degree.
For example, in Lucifer, the title character has pizza delivered at the beginning of one episode and pulls out an entire wad of $100 bills that he hands over to the delivery boy. He has a tendency to do similar things throughout the series.
Edited by BattleMasteropenPregnancy Murder
Alice and Bob are an adulterous couple (or Bob isn't married, but prefers having Alice as a mistress rather than a wife/just uses her for sex). One day, Alice gives Bob the good news: She's pregnant! Bob murders her so he won't get divorced/suffer socially/pay child support/give up his swinging lifestyle.
Sometimes Alice is presented as trying to trap Bob into marrying her by deliberately getting pregnant to make Bob (very) slightly more sympathetic, but more often her naive belief that now Bob will marry her serves to make her death even sadder (and Bob look even worse).
Shows up in a Punisher story (the country girl had been drowned by her panicky summer fling who had no intention of giving up the high life as an up-and-coming executive, but the little sister she'd been babysitting remembered his face and contacted Frank for revenge), several Exbrayat murder mysteries (written in the 60s through 80s and in an upper-class setting where divorce and abortion weren't allowed), possibly a Midsomer Murders episode...
openDialect Film
Creating the page for The Wild Goose Lake, a Chinese movie. Trying to figure out what trope would describe the movie being filmed entirely in the Wuhan dialect (as opposed to Standard Mandarin) which necessitates subtitles in Standard Mandarin for the general (mainland) Chinese audience.
Edited by AutomneopenMacguffin should change character but doesn't? Western Animation
I've got an example for WesternAnimation.The Mask but not the trope, what trope is this:
- In "Sister Mask", from Season 1, when Pretorius, the Big Bad, finally wears the mask, unlike other characters who wear it and it lets out formerly repressed sides of their personality, he does not change, and still remains as evil as ever, if anything it amplifies it, but doesn't change him.
- Freddy, a One-Shot Character monster from "Enquiring Masks Want to Know" wears the mask but still remains stupid, and has no alter-ego for himself to become when wearing the mask, unlike Stanley Ipkiss.
Basically, the MacGuffin should cause the character's personality to change but doesn't?
openFinish what you started
Opponent insists to be killed after their defeat, only then will the fight be over.
openPlayful Arm Punch
Do we have a trope for when a character playfully/affectionately punches the arm and/or shoulder of another?
openInanimate object forms mouth Western Animation
Just saw this in The Christmas Light: an intercom speaker horn moving like a mouth. I've seen it with the listening end of a phone headset, etc.
openUnmasking Beneath the Mask
Suppose Alice, like many people, hides her truer personality, i.e. the trope of Beneath the Mask. So, is there a trope if Bob:
- Sees what Alices true personality is?
- Encourages (or even causes) Character Development on Alice by cultivating her true personality?
openFour Tropes
I'm looking for four tropes (natch), which I've managed to compile into a single scene.
- A man is wandering around a small town, when he come across a small Cat Girl. After introducing himself to said Cat Girl, she responds with nothing more than a small "Mew!" After a short Beat in which he just stands there like a statue, he develops a small nosebleed, seemingly at-random, then promptly falls flat on his face like an overturned mannequin in the span of an instant, startling the Cat Girl, who looks around with a "what just happened" kind of look.
- Things that can kill people (or at least induce sezures/heart attacks) just by being cute.
- Nosebleeds that are not caused by direct injuries.
- An act that can only be described as a full-body Face Plant.note I'm thinking some form of Fainting, though something more akin to Face Plant may be better.
- Individuals being capable of doing "non-standard" things without realizing it, and being just as confused as everyone else when said things happen.
- Cuteness Overload
- Nosebleed (natch)
- Face Fault/"Emotional" Fainting
- Achievements in Ignorance (maybe)
openFood Order Password
When a spy or secret agent meets with a contact (usually in some bar or restaurant) and orders a specific meal that's not on the menu as a password.
openBait and Switch Metaphor
Is there a trope when someone is setting up an obvious metaphor, but then makes a completely different conclusion than expected?
openStuck between "Hartman Hips" and "Impossible Hourglass Figure"
Alice has both Gag Boobs and hips wide enough to be considered an Impossible Hourglass Figure, however her waist is of a regular size. Is it considered Hartman Hips or is It still an Impossible Hourglass Figure?
openkids play pretend; then it really happens Film
What is the name of the trope when a kid/s (probably not part of the main cast) is playing and by pure coincidence what ever action s/he are playing suddenly actually happens near by (the action involving a member/s of the main cast) and the kid/s are all like whoaaa!??! Some off the top of my head examples (that I may be remembering wrong) include:
When the action is a coincidence to a game -In the recent Shazam film. A kid is playing with two super hero doll/action figures and he makes them fly into each other. Then, coincidentally, right outside his window the films superhero and supervillain fly into each other. -In one of the Nolan Batman films two kids in the back of a car are using finger guns to pew pew pew a near by car, the car then actually blows up because Batman fired a missle at it from the bat mobile because is was in the way of some important bat business.
Possibly a different trope, when the action is caused by the game, rather than coincidence -In an episode of Family Guy; Steve and his friends find a laptop in Stan’s office and proceed to play the ‘video game’ installed on it only to discover they are controlling an actual CIA drone. -In the film Wargames; David Lightman hacks into a United States Military super computer, runs a nuclear war simulation he thinks is a video game, turns out it’s not and he almost starts World War III.
openPeople who are just out of shape, without regard to weight
do we have a trope for people who just simply don't get enough exercise? the closest thing i've found so far is Geek Physiques and the example i have in mind (a supposed "idol" who, as her friends put it, "dances like an old lady") doesn't really fit that trope.
openDark Is Hammy
A sister trope to Evil Is Hammy.
Basically, this trope describes all dark-themed characters (both good and evil alike) that also happen to be Large or Cold hams. For some reason, whenever a writer gives a character dark powers or makes a dark-themed character in general, then the writers will tend to make those characters go full ham. If a character is associated with darkness, is dark-themed or has dark powers, then expect them to be as unsubtle and overly dramatic about it as humanely possible and Chewing the Scenery. Just goes to show that darkness and hammyness go together like chocolate and peanut butter, I guess...
Here’s a few examples to prove the point:
-Alucard from Hellsing
-A lot of Sith Lords and other Dark Side-aligned force users from Star Wars
-Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty
-The Xehanorts from Kingdom Hearts (SUBMIT!)
-Princess Luna from MLP (Royal Canterlot Voice, anyone?), not to mention her evil side Nightmare Moon.
-Batman, especially when written by Frank Miller or played by specific actors like Christian Bale, for example.
Edited by MisterOM
Let say, Alice wrote a few romance novels where the Love Interest is based on the image of her crush Bob. And now the two are in a stable relationship, and Alice finds those works too embarrassing to show to Bob. However, there're no indication that the work has any quality or Values Dissonance problem otherwise.