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openHeroic Hypocrisy
The heroes knowingly do something bad to someone and it's presented as a good thing.
For instance, Bob is a creep who tries to grope Alice. Alice being an Amazonian Beauty, she wipes the floor with him. Charlie The Big Guy comes along, learns what's happening, and immediately begins punching Bob in the face for "taking advantage of a defenseless young woman". Obviously Alice isn't defenseless, but lets Charlie claim she is to justify his beating Bob.
openDidn't Get The Girl originally, but in the sequel
Is there a trope for when the protagonist Did Not Get the Girl in the original installement/first season etc., but in the sequel/later seasons he ends up with his love interest anyway? I think it often happens in comic book movies (Spider Man, Iron Man, Captain America: The First Avenger, Thor, ...) and sitcomcs (How I Met Your Mother, Scrubs, ...).
Edited by TripleJopenComically Old
An old (often centenarian or more) character whose age is played for laughs, like constantly complaining about his various ailments or how much better things were in his day (often overlaps with Evil Old Folks and/or Racist Grandma). Usually nigh-indestructible as well, despite said various ailments and multiple diseases that just seem to prolong his existence. The age is also often near-impossible, like a Civil War veteran still alive and kicking in the 1990s.
Examples: Mr. Burns from The Simpsons, T. Herman Zweibel from The Onion...
openThe character speaks a mournful speech in an unflappable voice.
Something very tragic has happened to the charactr or his life is solid Deus Angst Machina at all and when he tells someone about his grief, it is deadpan and dull.
Edited by UstermanopenTreats Kids Like Adults
The kind of character who talks to children like they are grown ups. I know there is Friend to All Children, but this is more when a character is honest with children, doesn't talk down to them, and treats them with respect. He doesn't have to be friendly, but has to treat children with a mature attitude. Examples I can think of:
- House: Kids are some of the few patients that actually like Dr. House, one because he's quite immature, but also because he talks to them straight and shows them the kind of respect that other adults don't.
- To Kill a Mockingbird: Probably one of Atticus' most famous traits. He always tells his children the truth when they ask hard questions, and takes the time to teach them complicated, nuanced lessons about life. This is in contrast Scout's uncle, who while nice to her, does not answer her mature questions.
- Though this is a part of Westerosi culture, the Hound from Game of Thrones is probably the biggest example. He certainly isn't nice to children (even killing one on Joffrey's orders), but he is really the only character who tells Sansa the honest truth about her situation in King's Landing. He continues this sort of dynamic with Arya, which is in contrast to Brienne:
Brienne: Come with me, Arya. I'll take you to safety.Sandor: Safety?! Where the fuck's that? Her aunt in the Eyrie is dead! Her mother's dead, her father's dead, her brother's dead! Winterfell is a pile of rubble! There's no safety you dumb bitch. If you don't know that by now, you're the wrong one to watch over her.
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Edited by ovskiiopenAnachronic release order
When the same artist, author, studio etc. had ideas or even started with production of a work, then however started atleast one other one and released that before revisiting the one that began earlier
openBad intel and false advertising
Two (or perhaps three?) related trope requests for aspects of the same situation:
a) The law enforcement/spy team investigating different criminal parties (who interact with each other to set up a deal) has bad intel on one of them, who the intel suggests is able to meet their end of the deal but it turns out they really can't.
That's the specific example (maybe it's also a trope itself?), the general trope I'm looking for is "bad intelligence" (which, usually, ends up in deadly or otherwise severe consequences).
b) Said criminal party who fails to meet their end of the deal, has say a faulty or counterfeit product e.g. a broken weapon, uses sugar or salt to pass off as cocaine, or on the other side of the deal stuffs the container used to transport the would-be legit money with useless paper or fake currency, etc.
Edited by FlashStepsopenCtulhu in Sheep's Clothing
Something that maybe look cute but has a terrifying true form.
openPregnant children in fiction
If a child or preteen character gets pregnant at a dangerously early age below puberty or childbearing age, or just at the start of puberty, which trope fits better: Absurdly Youthful Mother or Teen Pregnancy? The latter seems like it could extend to preteens despite the semantic-in-title issue, though the former seems like a more reasonable fit since one paragraph notes precocious puberty and the world's youngest recorded mother, but most of the examples are in their late teens or early 20s, making children seem like an awkward fit for that trope. And it's only for females; we don't seem to have Absurdly Youthful Father.
openAcronym into a nickname.
Is that Fun with Acronyms or something else?
Doesn't seem like FWA.
My example was C.D. the spy becoming "Seedy" in Elementals of Harmony: Pthisis.
openBerserk Button or Serious Business?
I'm currently trying to determine if this situation fits better as Berserk Button or Serious Business for a fanfic I'm troping.
Source: The Ultimate Big Brother, chapter 19.
Context: The students (and Charlotte Katakuri) have assembled in the main dining hall, and when Hina, who has become friendly with Katakuri, asks the pirate if he likes food other than donuts, Katakuri admits that he's had nothing more than donuts all his life. At that moment, Teruteru Hanamura, who's previously been fairly easygoing while also being a shameless pervert and a Mama's Boy, runs in with blazing eyes, growling and running fast enough to light the floor on fire. He then makes Katakuri cooly admit that he's never had things like meat, soup, or vegetables, spelling out that a diet like that is utterly unhealthy, lacking in all kinds of nutrients. Katakuri then states that the chefs of his home can make pastries and tea so refreshing that normal food is unnecessary, but says that Teruteru is free to change his mind and diet, a challenge that the Ultimate Cook eagerly accepts. He then runs to the rear kitchen, leaving a "DO NOT DISTURB" sign afterwards.
On the one hand, is Katakuri eating only donuts a Berserk Button because of how Teruteru behaves and just how unlike him his behavior? Or is it Teruteru treating the diet of a fellow captive as Serious Business? I'm honestly struggling to determine which trope fits better for this situation.
Edited by eruptor142openA sistertrope to Straying Baby?
Do we have a trope that's like Straying Baby in concept except it's with talking children and not necessarily straying but they're in dangerous situations (with or without their guardians) sometimes?
openUnidentifiable vague shaped enemies Videogame
In many earlier video games the graphics were just too poor to depict some distinguishable images, especially if the sprites were too small. Thus most enemies were just nigh-indescribable shapes, mostly akin to wingdings. They could be circles, squares, hexagons or whatever, often with some primitve patterns inside but never looked like any creature or object you could actually identify, be it real or imaginary.
openDogs-Only Sound
A trope that's usually played as a gag based on the idea that dogs react (by barking or howling) to a sound too high for humans to hear (or sometimes the sound is audible to humans but they wish it wasn't, like a Dreadful Musician's performance capped off by every dog in the neighborhood making noise in the distance).
For example, Dumbing Of Age's Joyce squeeing so hard only dogs can hear it.
Can also be played for more serious reasons, like one crime drama having the murderer cause a distraction by making the household dogs bark seemingly at nothing (in fact he had a dog whistle to set them off so the victim didn't hear the murderer in the next room).
openCollateral Damage Cover-Up
A person is initially believed to be collateral damage in a murder or murder attempt only to be revealed to have been the killer's true target all along.
- Shooter: The Archbishop of Ehtopia is killed in what appears to be an assassination attempt on the President of the USA. It later turns out that the archbishop was the real target and was killed to prevent him from revealing atrocities committed by corrupt American government members.
openOld habits die hard?
Is there a trope that's like the idiom "Old habits die hard"? For context, it's hard to stop doing things someone has been doing for a long time. Like smoking, for example. A person tries to quit smoking, but they end up relapsing.
openI remember seeing this trope, I just don't remember its name.
It had a picture saying something that was, like, "Night of the the Night Crawlers".
An attack using a small motion but causes big impact and damage.
Things like the One-Inch Punch or Sephiroth's Gigaflare. Though that may overlap with Ridiculously Potent Explosive.