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Spanner in the Works has become the Someone Has to Die, but not a case of Alas, Poor Scrappy.
Kinda like "Hey, the idiot's life is in danger. Just let him go before he becomes a problem later."
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Is there a trope that is a variet of Sorry, I'm Gay, except another person says it? Dude, She's A Lesbian?
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Basically, a trope when a man explicitely counts the days he spent in an isolated location, usually by carving/drawing notches on the walls. May overlap with a Deserted Island or a Room Full of Crazy.
Do We Have This One? Couldn't find any.
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Basically, a videogame trope (unclassified due to the fact there's no videogame medium in here). Unlike many other "main menues" which use a screen with static buttons, certain kinds of these may either have scrolling panoramic menues a-la Earth 2140 (yes, the prequel to that Earth2150) or the fully-controllable character like in Psychonauts. Is it me or this trope doesn't exist yet?
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Do we have a trope for praying mantises? It's a common enough theme in works, at least common enough to say that I've Seen It A Million Times.
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Do you have any trope to describe someone who has successfully avoided getting addicted by TV Tropes — to where one can use it without addicition? i.e. out of ruined life to enhanced life?
One example of Tvtropes enhances life — you break the world record for laughing ...
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In a scene, character A will be giving advice or instructions to character B. Character A will say something like "And one more thing: Whatever you do, don't under any circumstances-" and get interrupted. He'll either lose communication or get distracted somehow. Character B will usually be left in a panic, saying "What? Don't WHAT?"
What's this trope called?
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Another trope question: do we have one for when a character is named after the author (or possibly someone s/he knows) but isn't supposed to be that person in looks, appearance, behavior... etc. Basically, an Author Avatar In Name Only (literally).
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Do we have a trope for
- 1. when something that isn't sad still gets a saddened reaction?
- 2. a character yells, "Get behind me!" in a dangerous situation? In Team Fortress 2, the Heavy will sometimes yell this to the Medic if both are getting shot at.
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Is there a trope for when two characters say the same thing at the same time? like in the link here at 2:12 to 2:25?
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Do we have this? A person is thrown into a Be Careful What You Wish For scenario where after the character makes the wish, they have it granted, but his/her memory of ever making the wish is wiped.
One example is the end of Tsubasa Chronicle regarding Watanuki, but I can't think of any other good ones. I'm sure this trope exists though.
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Alice hears Bob is a pretty bad guy, but doubt he'd be so bad as to do X, right before he does.
Basically Who Would Be Stupid Enough?, but replace "stupid" with evil".
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Was there a trope about conflict in a work of fiction that is totally unrealistic and does little to effect the healthy mental and physical health of the cast so as to bolster the escapism in the work?