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Is there a trope for situations where a guy ends up pointing a gun (or other weapon) at his brother? It would run into Cain and Abel if he actually pulls the trigger, but I'm trying to think of some trope for when he doesn't.
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Is there a trope for when a character's signature vehicle (Car, Space Ship, Giant Mecha etc...) gets destroyed and treated as if it were almost a death scene?
Wrecked Weapon seems fairly close, but it seems to focus more on weapons/accessories than vehicles.
Examples include the destruction of the Enterprise in Star Trek 3, The Dude's car getting trashed by nihilists in The Big Lebowski, The Black Pearl getting sunk by the kraken in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and the Bluesmobile falling apart at the end of The Blues Brothers.
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Is there a trope for when shows bring in a "celebrity" guest star, but don't actually use the celebrity as either an actor or a voice actor.
Usually ends up in the celebrity being mocked mercilessly, which is probably why the actual celebrity declined to make an appearance...
It's *not* Expy or No Celebrities Were Harmed since no effort is made to conceal the identity of the celebrity being parodied. The celebrity's name will be used quite openly, and may even be the whole draw of the sketch/episode
South Park is fond of this, and Mad TV used to do this occasionally.
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Is there a trope that describes a person who is completely out to destroy the hero's reputation and life, but does so in a way that everyone else thinks they are actually a nice person, and that the hero is crazy and mean for saying otherwise? Doing things like beating themselves up right in front of the hero and convincing the entire rest of the cast that the hero did it?
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Is there a trope where the sequel is much more grim and bleak than the first (and, if in a trilogy or longer, the third entry)? You know, such as in Killzone 2, where the ISA is facing defeat (compared to Killzone 1), or in Resistance 2, where humanity is falling apart.
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I'm looking for a trope that describes any of the staple "disaster requires realization" scenarios so common in Golden age cartoons, where the laws of physics break for a moment to give a character time to realize he/she/it is in for some hurt(e.g. walking off a ledge and remaining suspended until the lack of ground is noticed and finally falling). Any ideas? Thanks.
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Is there a trope for the inverse of Mundane Utility?
For example, instead of the guy concentrating a nuke-level fireblast to warm his food, you have a guy who uses a low-level telekinesis spell to kill thousands by pinching their carotids.
The "Locate City nuke" spell would be a Game Breaking example of this, take a spell with a 40-mile radius, turn it into a spell that pushes objects spreading from its origin point, make it do damage depending on distance travelled, and... see the name.
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I'm not sure whether or not this is already a trope, or on the other hand if it even falls into the category of tropes, but—
A TV show/series of novels/webcomic/etc. has been drawing out the Will They or Won't They? between two characters who have really blatant, possibly even canonically acknowledged, Everyone Can See It UST. It's been going on for a while, and may actually be the driving force of the work. Finally, they actually do hook up, but by this point the Genre Savvy troper's opinion is "well, obviously" instead of "SQUEE!!1!" It's not Shipping Bed Death because that's what happens after the hookup, and it's not a Romantic Plot Tumor or any other bad writing trope—I'm looking for a totally underwhelmed reaction to They Do even if everything else ought to be good (a shipping-specific version of Arc Fatigue, maybe? except that implies actual frustration instead of just "well, duh").
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Do we have anything for occasions when a "disaster map" is shown during in-universe news broadcasts in Zombie Apocalypse films?
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When protagonist is just about to solve the riddle or mystery but a small coincidence makes them not success. For example on Twin Peaks when agent Cooper wants to see Leland's golf sticks he doesn't know the body of Maddy Ferguson is lying next to the sticks and he never realises it because of sudden call from police radio. It's very upsetting trope I think;) But how is it called?
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Do we have a page for when a character is socially and/or psychologically maladjusted, and they're either unwilling or unable to express the underlying problem, so someone else who's got it together better than they do drags them to a bar and gets them so drunk their mental blocks dissolve and they figure out what's wrong with themselves?
If we don't, we're calling it Alcoholic Therapy or Drunken Epiphany.
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I'm not actually sure if this is a trope, but it seems like it would be. It's when a character says something about their future, like an "I'll never" or an "I hope," followed by an immediate, foreshadowing cut to another character.
As a made-up example, imagine Leslie Knope on Parks and Rec saying, "I'll never sleep with anyone again. Ever." followed by a cut to Ben Wyatt, implying that she will indeed sleep with someone, and it will be him. Or a character saying that if he finds out who killed his brother, he'll get revenge, followed by a cut to the person who killed his brother (sometimes viewers might not yet know that this person killed the brother, so the foreshadowing might not be obvious until later).
I tried searching for different types of cuts, and I also tried looking through various kinds of foreshadowing, but I didn't come up with anything. I see this device used so often that I'd be really surprised if it wasn't a defined trope. Any ideas?
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Language dissonance: when a work in language A features a dialogue in language B, then it gets translated/dubbed to language B.
E.g. a Greek cartoon features a scene where the characters speak English badly. Then it's dubbed to English.