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Is there a trope for how, when the characters are in some isolated building at night, they have to send someone out (alone) to fix a piece of equipment? It's usually, but not always, a generator that needs to be switched on/fueled/repaired, and it's nearly always an excuse to get the would-be mechanic outside so they can be ambushed by the killer/monster.
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Is there a trope for when a sequel, successor, or a subsequent series takes place in the REAL world, as opposed to the previous installments, which are declared fantasy, as the franchise has significance in this new sequel world?
The only examples I have are Season 3 of Digimon- in which Digimon are now "real", thanks to the use of Digimon cards, and the new Scream 4 movie, in which Scream inspires a "real" killer.
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This isn't properly a Lost And Found question, but I don't know where else I would put it:
What is "Knights In White Satin"? It's listed as a "see also" on the Lady of Adventure page, but doesn't appear to exist.
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Is there a trope for that scene when a hero or villain sets off or only just escapes from a massive explosion but just keeps walking all casual and doesn't look back at it because they are either too cool for school or just to bad arse?
In the last couple of weeks I've seen it in Bond, Green Hornet, No Country for Old Men, Futurama (where Bender hangs a light shade on it) its basically happening all over the place.
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Alice and Bob were rivals in high school, but haven't seen each other since graduating. Now Alice is 50, and Bob shows up to pick up where they left off. Do We Have This One? My girlfriend has mentioned seeing it in The Golden Girls and Friends, and I've seen something similar in Sponge Bob Square Pants.
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Is there a trope on wanted gauges in video games (ala the stars gauge in Grand Theft Auto)? I only found a brief mention of it in the article for Saints Row as a Karma Meter, and I'm not sure about anyone else, but I don't really think it's anything like a Karma Meter.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLqCug7otCw&t=0m13s
This moment. Someone is on a chase, runs into someplace large or crowded, and is like "Oh wtf where did they go?" and camera expresses disorientation by showing that it's in fact, large or crowded.
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How about a You Fail Biology subtrope for when someone's heart is said to "explode", be it from overwork, excessive life energy, or other destructive effects? Unless the organ has been penetrated by an explosive bullet, this isn't actually possible — a failing heart can stop beating, or rupture its connection to major blood vessels, or suffer erratic contractions that make it writhe like a bag of worms, but it can't literally blow itself to shreds — yet it's amazingly common for writers to refer to a heart's failure with "his heart burst from the strain" or the like.
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Is there a trope for when a character has eyes that look like a Pac Man that's been stretched vertically? Several old versions◊ of Mickey Mouse use this, Pac Man himself has them◊, and in Sinfest, the Devil has them. Or is this a specific case of Wing Ding Eyes?
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Is there a trope that's the opposite of Oh, Crap!? Namely, a person is in trouble, and then they see that something is about to happen that will save them(for example Big Damn Heroes)?
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A character gets a power-up that ends up being the entire reason he gets defeated. Examples: In the movie Ghost Rider, Blackheart is immune to Ghost Rider's Penance Stare because he doesn't have a soul, but when he achieves his ultimate goal of gaining the power of the souls of thousands of sinners, he becomes super-vulnerable to it and loses because of it.
In the anime Inuyasha, the human Bankotsu is able to fight Inuyasha to a draw. But when he gets the ability to shoot waves of demonic energy, Inuyasha swiftly beats Bankotsu because he can reflect demonic energy back at its caster with greater strength than it had before.
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Is there one for Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit" but not regarding animals? For example, the Harry Potter series uses the words snitch, squib, and muggle (plus knut, sickle, and galleon) for completely different purposes than their pre-existing meanings (some of which the author may not have known about, eg, muggle being 1920s jazz slang for a marijuana joint).