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So, years ago, El Goonish Shive made this joke. It was, as far as I know, intended as a one-off which would not be followed up on.
More recently, though, it became necessary for Nanase's magic to become common knowledge, and that joke was used to skip the explanation, which, as Dan pointed out on Twitter, would have distracted from the ongoing plot.
Are there any tropes in this aside from the obvious Call-Back or am I just trying too hard to see patterns in things I find mildly interesting?
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In Aikonia, the variety of magic called "Arcana" is sealed away. There's an establishing shot of the casket in which it is supposedly sealed, and I noticed the word "Arcana", if the plaque became less legible over time (as a Time Skip ensues), could be misread as "Aikonia".
Not sure if this is intentional, and the setting itself is also called "Aikonia". Just wondering if there's a suitable trope here somewhere.
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Please help me find a trope
Here, Durkon goes on about how he hates the undead. (To the point of overdoing an Overly Long Gag.)
Here, Durkon becomes an undead.
There's got to be a trope for that, but I can't remember what it is. There's nothing that looks close on his character page, and, well... Main has a LOT of tropes. Nine subpages A-Z. So could someone help, please?
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can somone tell me what trope describes this characters outfit?
http://princess-of-megalomania.tumblr.com/private/image/64559236901/tumblr_muyksq3CG51snhgtv
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I'm (fairly) new here so I figured I'd go here before YKTTW.
Do we have an article for the (generally comic-specific) tendency of characters to unite handy/offending objects with the heads of annoying characters as seen in this example with the keyboard:
http://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2004/03/18
There are several others from Foxtrot (sweater shoved into Jason's nose, keyboard in Peter's mouth), and I've seen the trope in Garfield (the one where John asks "is the kitty warm?" and has his head stuffed in a coke bottle) and I'm pretty sure I've seen it in Zits.
I searched for the conspicuous trope names and I read the tropes page for Foxtrot but I didn't find it.
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Hello,
In Zebra Girl, Crystal, a perfectly normal human, gains the ability to "smell souls" (exhibit A, exhibit B), though so far she was only seen "smelling" the soul of her friend Sandra, who became a demon (the eponymous Zebra Girl). The thing is, I'm not quite sure which trope would be relevant:
- The Nose Knows (her boyfriend, Wally, is a werewolf, so this trope applies to him, no questions here; however, he remembers her actual "odor", while Crystal specifically remembers her "soul").
- Psychic Powers
- Super-Senses
- Detect Evil
I hope you will be able to help me here.
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I made the fan comic Cinema Snob Reviews Frozen, and I'm not sure what trope fits what I put up for the picture. It's The Cinema Snob complaining that someone tried to trick him into reviewing Frozen, but he talks himself into doing it anyway. I think the line counts as a Breathless Non Sequitur, but I'm not sure. It could be another trope we have, or one to put on YKTTW.
- "Someone tried to trick me into breaking my cutoff date just to talk about one of the most acclaimed animated films in years, that finally regains the magic of Disney's past classics, and why THE FUCK am I complaining about watching a good movie?"
So does anyone know what trope that fits?
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This is kind of an odd one in that I know what the trope is, and what it was called. I remember there being an opposite trope to Girl on Girl Is Hot called Guy On Guy Is Ew, talking about how since most writers are straight males, girl on girl is more common than guy on guy. Only it seems to have vanished. Was the trope deleted, am I misremembering the name, or is this a case of the Mandela Effect?
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What is the trope for when a (good) character is expecting another to finally make an Heel–Face Turn, and decides to give up on him/her because said another character doesn't give them a straight answer?
Context: in the webcomic Zebra Girl, Crystal, the best friend of Sandra, the titular "Zebra Girl" who is a human turned into a demon, discovers that she is back after 5 years of banishment. Sandra was banished because she went full-demon mode (she was turned into a demon at the beginning of the strip, tried to keep her humanity, and at one point decided that if she couldn't be a normal human, she would be a normal demon), terrorized her hometown and attacked her (former) friends (going as far as torturing one of them daily - said character, who was a badass, is now suffering from severe PTSD). Crystal still hopes that maybe Sandra came back to her senses, because if she didn't, they would have no choice but to end her permanently (her current boyfriend, a werewolf, is out for her blood). In this strip, she goes to her hometown alone (ditching her friends to do so), calling out for Sandra to show herself and give her a sign that she has changed (Sandra has, but as far as Crystal's group is concerned she may still be dangerous and vengeful). Crystal kept the hope that Sandra would be back, but she is afraid that the best friend she knew is definitly gone, and she is pleading her to give her a sign, any sign, which would prove that she is no longer batshit insane and that they don't need to kill her (and that she won't hurt them either). Please also note that it is heavily implied that Crystal and Sandra's relationship goes beyond the frienship spectrum, with Sandra being in denial about her feelings towards Crystal (having realized just recently that maybe Crystal is more to her than just a friend - even when she went berserk, she avoided being pointlessly cruel towards her, and admitted that she misses her), and Crystal who may or may not have romantic feelings for Sandra.
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When a work incorporates a reference to work from classical culture, like a poem or a painting, is that still a Shout-Out, or is it an Homage, or something else entirely? I just found out that the Isle of the Dead (a 19th century painting) makes an appearance as an actual island in my favourite webcomic and I'm wondering how to enter this into its tvtropes page.
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Do we have a trope for when a comic uses some sort of multi-panel visual layout trick? I'm thinking like Watchmen - in chapter 5 where the entire chapter is laid out as a visual palindrome. I see this mentioned on the page for Watchmen but not tied to a trope specifically about the layout. Another example is this Planet of Hats strip, where the entire strip is laid out with the left and right halves mirroring each other.
Closest I can find is Painting the Medium, but I'd like something more specific, if it exists.
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Is it a Shout-Out, in webcomics, for the normal artist of a work doing their strip, then also have a strip by the author of another unrelated webcomic? Or would it be another trope?
What I'm thinking of is a page on The Whiteboard, where there's two strips on the page. One is TWB, and the other is a strip drawn by the artist for Commander Kitty that's related to the actions in the TWB strip.
Reading the SO page, I'm not sure whether it applies or not, hence why I'm here.
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On the (currently) newest page of Two Kinds, they essentially do to wolves, and treat wolves, like the Japanese had been treated in WW 2 after Japan declared war. Namely, being imprisoned due to fear that they would help Japan. I'm not sure if there's a Historical Reflection joke or something similar, and I'd like to add the trope in after figuring out whatever the trope is.
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Is there a trope for this specific form of Painting the Medium: when comics purposefully use different fonts for speech from the usual one, to imply something about the character or their voice? Would this just go under Speech Bubbles or Painting the Medium?
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I remember a trope showing a picture from a webcomic about a guy asking his anxious girlfriend what she wants, and the girl is thinking, "another kiss?!". I can't remember the title or the article, but I know for a fact it's related to love and romance. Does anyone here know the exact trope?
Do we have something for use of nonstandard punctuation to show that people are talking in a different language that's being Translation Conventioned into English? Example from Terra with a pair of Azatoth speaking their own langauge, rendered using angle brackets instead of quotation marks.