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openA destination full of people starting a new life
Do we have a trope about towns, places, countries or cities that for some reason are full of people Starting a New Life?
Mexico has two real life examples of that: CancĂºn and Playa del Carmen. CancĂºn basically exists since 1980, and Playa del Carmen was almost literally born in 2000 or 2005. For a very long time, CancĂºn and Playa del Carmen were the go-to destinations of Mexicans who were leaving everything behind and starting a new life from scratch. In Playa del Carmen, nobody cares about who you are, where you're from or how much money you have — all that matters is you right now, and whether you have skills for the tourism industry. If you failed to develop your career at home because you faced an industry where your pedigree is more important than your actual skills, if you are an organized crime goon trying to leave your life of violence behind, if you underwent a truly awful divorce and you don't even want to cross your ex-spouse not even in a public transit crowd, or if you just want to make some quick cash and have the right skills, Playa del Carmen is for you.
Another example that comes to my mind are a good few towns along the Camino de Santiago in Spain. The spiritual, religious and cultural heritage of that pilgrimage trail has pushed many pilgrims who had a career back in their country to leave everything behind and settle along the Way, usually offering meals, lodging or selling food and goods for pilgrims.
I also understand that the USA had this status among Asians and Europeans back in the 19th century. If you were facing total poverty, you were a fugitive of the Prussian law, or if you just plain wanted to leave everything behind, America was the place to go.
I have already checked the following tropes that might overlap with this one, but none of them fit:
- It is not an Outlaw Town, because the origins of a place to start a new life can be entirely lawful. As noted before, CancĂºn and Playa del Carmen began as planned touristic complexes; CancĂºn was even specifically laid out by the federal government with collaboration from several Mexico City businessmen. Another hypothetic example would be, say, a town in the far-flung sticks of Alaska that developed around a large scale oil drilling operation.
- It is most definitely not a Wretched Hive. The world is full of places that have been or currently are places to start a new life while simultaneously having a functional rule of law and a decent standard of living.
So, do we already have a trope like this, or do we need to launch a new one?
Edited by DaNukeopenStuck/Temporarily stuck on another language
There are some media that have a character get damaged so hard so hard on the head, that said character speaks in another language (mostly his native language or another language he was taught), either permanently or temporarily. I don't know if this is some specific trope or under a general "brain damage" trope.
openMeeting their replacements
A story is ending, and the protagonists we've been following are ready to move on with their lives, but still have to get through the finale first. During this finale, we're introduced to a bunch of new characters who will "take the torch" so to speak and assume the roles the protagonists had once the show is over- sort of like an implied historical repeat, or an implication that if the story continued, these would be our new protagonists and go on similar journeys.
Seen in High School Musical 3, where the cast started interacting with Freshman characters who seemed like they'd take their place after graduation, and House of Anubis's finale The Touchstone of Ra, where the same thing happened- a bunch of Freshmen were introduced, this time being a rehash of the main trio's dynamic from season 1 and officially joining Sibuna at the end, with the implication again being that it was going to loop off screen.
open"Stationary TARDIS"? Webcomic
Is there a trope for a magical location or building that features several time and/or space portals?
Like, a castle with several doors, and each door leads to a different era - or works as a portal to a different city, with the owner passing as a denizen of all of those cities?
openExotic Non-Extended Marriage Literature
I'm looking for a trope into which to fit this example:
In an alien society marriages are monogamous but only last for a limited time. Before marriage a contract is written up saying how long the marriage will last, and when the contract is over the marriage dissolves without it being a divorce. The contract says which parent any resulting children will go with when the marriage is over. Sometimes a couple will have such compatible personalities and/or compatible ambitions that they'll make an open-ended contract with no set termination date, but that's rare.
openGuardian of the Underworld
Is there a trope for figures like Cerberos, Garm or Tuoni? The guys who stand at the gate of the underworld and make sure only the right people get in?
openPerson who behaves similar to their job all the time?
For example, a movie reviewer who reviews everything from the birds to their own fingers, or a comedian who tells jokes 24/7.
openLeap into the Unknown
Bob leaps/jumps down into a portal, cliff, river, etcetera to escape something, achieve freedom or go somewhere he forbidden. Theres a high chance he will fail or even die but he is will to risk it all. If he jumps down,fall might broke by improbable means or a secret portal.Most of the time he makes it out of even when realistically he would be badly injured at best ,(if its not a portal).
Edited by MacronNotesopenFrom ballad to headbang Music
Is there a trope for that particular type of composition where a song starts as a quiet ballad and gradually evolves into a heavy rock tune? Stuff like Bohemian Rhapsody, Stairway to Heaven, One, Welcome to the Black Parade or Buried Alive.
Edited by LyendithopenHurt but alive
Is there a trope that describes the fate of something like at the end of a movie or episode as 'badly wounded and/or mutilated but alive'?
openbored/annoyed tapping
A character who is annoyed, impatient or bored starts tapping their fingers on a surface/object or is tapping their foot on the floor.
Do we have something like that?
open"It was worth a try!"
What's the a trope for when someone tries something that's pretty obviously not going to work, and when it doesn't replies with something like "It was worth a try". E.G in Big Trouble in Little China Jack tries just shooting the beholder-like monster with his (mundane) gun, which doesn't work, and when the other characters look at him incredulously, he says it was worth a try.
Edited by BootlebatopenComic-Book Trope? Print Comic
Is there such a trope for when works are re-issued for nostalgia reasons, even though the content is obviously an Unintentional Period Piece?
I'm basing this on a What Could Have Been for when Motor Trend planned to re-issue the November 1996-2003 issues as a collector's item for fans, with no edits to the original (the idea was nixed).
It's not a comic book, but is there a trope for re-releasing a comic-book or other print medium with no changes ?
openAmbiguous Dramatic Spotlight
A Dramatic Spotlight that emanates from an unknown source. For example, picture a Dramatic Spotlight that's aimed down towards a chest. However, there is nothing used to project the spotlight with.
Edited by KingOfStickersopenFlashback trope caused by PTSD
I'm specifically looking for a Flashback scene trope wherein the character visits a place or experiences another accident that triggers something within their psyche (i.e. fear, trauma) and makes them revisit a very similar scene in their past.
Like, for how one got burned, then suddenly a flashback of a burning house is shown.
Or for how one visits a now-deserted park, only to remember that the park used to be lively before.
openCultural Isolation Flanderization
A person from culture A living in culture B has an unrealistic view of it (for example, an immigrant child growing up with their parents and grandparents reminiscing about how much better life was in The Old Country) and ends up overcompensating for their lack of daily contact with culture A, leading to them becoming a flanderized version of A that a person living among culture A would find stereotypical and unrealistic.
Sort of like Cultural Posturing, but in this case the culture is one that only exists in the posturer's viewpoint because he's never dealt with the culture "behind the scenes".
- Star Trek: Worf (a Klingon Raised by Humans) is much more of a Proud Warrior Race Guy than many actual Klingons due to only ever hearing about the positive aspects of his species.
- Arcanum: Magnus Shalefist lives Have I Mentioned I Am a Dwarf Today? 24/7, because as a city dwarf he considers himself to be failing the dwarf ideal of a beer-guzzling axe-swinging miner and fighter (his real name is actually Malcolm). Unfortunately, the only information he has on "real" dwarfishness is a book full of errors and biases, and other characters can very easily tell he's a poser.
- Similarly, Discworld dwarfs are for the most part happy to get on with their lives as miners, it's the city dwarfs who go around in chainmail and starting Bar Brawls and boozing at every opportunity because they feel they have to prove they're "real" dwarfs. In later books this becomes a steadily more severe problem (as in, parallels-with-jihadists-and-religious-terrorism).
- Animorphs: After living with humans for a while, Ax no longer tries so hard to pull the Andalite Proud Warrior Race schtick, because it's not demanded of him. He's still The Spock though.
openGiving away a child
Is there a trope where parents willingly give up because they couldn't care for them want them to have a better life. Can't find it on The Parent Trope or Orphan Tropes
- In Night Head Genesis Naota and Naoya's parents give them away to a laboratory because they couldn't handle the stress of caring for two Psychic Children and thought that laboratory would be better for them.
openSignificant Logo Change / Logo Evolution?
After a significant event happens in-universe, an organization / country / etc. changes their logo to show that Nothing Is the Same Anymore.
Example:
- In Star Trek: The Next Generation, the Romulan Empire's logo was a Big Badass Bird of Prey holding the twin homeworlds in its talons. By the time of Star Trek: Picard, the homeworlds have been destroyed in a supernova and the Romulan logo no longer has the planets in its claws.
openCheating allowed server Videogame
Is there a trope for when an MMORPG has a server where cheating is allowed, 2b2t on Minecraft is an example, as would be a downplayed version in the Ultima Online test servers: you can use commands to change your stats and skills, but it's not classified as cheating since the point of the server is to test out various character builds, among other things.
a girl has a heart in a briefcase and from wat I remember if someone stole it they died. two guys thought it was full of money and get hit by a train. the girl kinda looks like mystique from hero 108. I imagine her kinda dancing along I can't think of any specific mucic tho. please n thnks. -m