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Bowling for Baddies?
Basically, there's a group of bad guys standing around, possibly in the same formation as bowling pins, and something large and usually round slams into them and sends them flying. Having a strike sound effect is optional.
Also, I've seen this happen to good guys too, but I was going for Added Alliterative Appeal.
I typed "bowling" into the search and nothing came up, and I don't know where to go from here. Is this a trope or should I YKTTW it?
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So: Bob is in love with Alice. They might have broken up a while back or never started dating, but Bob still feels for her. As he talks to his best friend about his feelings, Alice stands around the corner and overhears their conversation.
Somewhat of a Love Confession, with one part of the couple supposedly not around.
I looked through the Love Tropes Index but couldn't find anything.
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Pun tropes https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PunnyStuff Has nothing for acronym puns.
Acronym puns are everywhere. Where are they here?
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I was looking at phone tropes https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PhoneTropes and "Single Sided Phone Call" wasn't there.
What do we call that over here? I know it has to be here. Everyone has it. Every show does it at some point.
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Consider this exchange:
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Bob: Well, Lorraine and I separated.
Alice: What?! Why?
Bob: Things were getting a little hectic, so we decided to take a break from each other in order to cool off.
Alice: She kicked you out?
Bob: She changed the locks and everything...
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To summarize: A character tries to downplay something either by telling a lie or not telling the whole truth, but they immediately come clean when another character guesses that they're not being truthful. Is there a trope for this?
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Do we have a supertrope for non-advertising examples of Men Buy from Mars, Women Buy from Venus. Basically, the "men are shallow bumbling unhygienic oafs who have no problem imagining themselves as looking good who only want sex" and "women are overly refined, prissy weight-and-age obsessed harpies who flip out at the sight of an insect or rodent"?
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Might be a little specific, but do we have a trope for when, a character in a bad situation is looking hopeless, with the soundtrack being low along with them, and then, suddenly, gets an idea to solve the problem. The soundtrack powers up and you know something awesome is about to happen.
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Is there a trope for where someone has multiple people's souls within them? Not Split Personality, but someone who is actually a different person, but for some reason or another is now inside someone else's body.
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I'm looking for a trope that is almost exactly Red Right Hand, but instead of a physical deformity of some kind, it's demonstrating powers that only the bad guys use. The example I'm thinking of comes from The Kane Chronicles, the Carter and Sadie's uncle, Amus, uses forbidden chaos magic to turn everybody into little storm clouds, which Zia uses to support her argument that Amus is in league with Set. I could have sworn I read about the trope on the Kane Chronicles page, but I can't seem to find it now.
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Character 1: "How have you not seen [New Character] before?"
Cut to clips of old episodes with new character inserted digitally.
Character 2: "Oh yea, him/her!"
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I'm looking for a certain trope, where the hero manages to kill the villain, but fails to stop his plan in time. The closest I've been able to find is My Death Is Just the Beginning and You Are Too Late, but the former involves the villain's death being part of the plan and the latter doesn't necessarily involve the villain dying.
Have I somehow missed it or am I just searching for a trope that doesn't exist?
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Do we have a trope for inadvertent destruction of props on-camera?
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Is there a trope for pieces of generally unrelated (or rather VERY loosely related) music that sound similar? I'm talking specifically about Super Mario Galaxy's Comet Observatory theme sounding similar to the theme from Clu Clu Land, another Nintendo game (albeit, an obscure one that isn't very good).
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Is there a trope for when a question pertinent to the plot is just plain left unanswered, either due to all the involved parties being killed off or Put on a Bus, or due to the point-of-view character just being out of the loop?
Not quite What Happened to the Mouse?, as that refers more to unimportant things that just never get followed up on.
Do we have a character trope that would cover Disc Jockeys that are too intelligent to fall under Dumbass DJ?