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Is there a trope for the comedic puffs of dust left behind by a cartoon character who has just made a break for it? They tend to have sight gags of their own (spelling out words, creating a silhouette of that character which also startles and runs away, etc.)
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Is there a trope for how some characters love to use their own name, by itself, as a battle cry, or a non-conversational interjection? It's like a verbal tic, but on purpose. Like Pokemon speak, but they can speak normal as well. Like a catch phrase, but not a phrase nor chosen deliberately.
Examples includes Leroy Jenkins, Wario, Waluigi, Disco Kid and Super Macho Man from Punch-Out!!, and Alfe from the Problem Solverz. They will say their own name, with great enthusiasm, to no one directly, when they feel like it.
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What's the trope for when the Monster of the Week in a normally fantasy/sci-fi show (or comic, or anything in serial form) ends up being mundane?
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Is there a trope about a character who is played by multiple actors, so much so that no one actor can be credited as to playing the character? For example, a shapeshifting character with no Shapeshifter Default Form or a Master of Disguise who doesn't let anyone, including the audience, see his true face?
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Do we have one for the Awesome Kitchen Fight?
Like, when the hero confronts the villain, it will often be in a hotel or restaurant. So they HAVE to move their fight to the kitchen, because there's all kinds of awesome weapons and other methods to get hurt badly there. At the very least, there are innocent bystanders to be shocked in a most comedic way.
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Not entirely sure if this even exists, but I feel like I've seen an example like this on here...
Core trope: Person A likes Person B. However, A is so scared of B hating them if A and B meet that A ends up avoiding B just to make sure B doesn't hate A.
This may make B think A is avoiding out of a dislike, and end up trying to see A, which will lead to a cycle of *Luminescent Blush*—"I—uh—" *runs* and "Why does A not like me?" even if B doesn't like A in that fashion.
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So the climax has passed, and you have defeated the White Witch, destroyed the ring, let your pet tigers back into the wild, captured the wolf with the help of the hunters, killed the wolf with the help of the woodsman, etc, but there is still something wrong. Your brother is dying, you are trapped on the erupting volcano, your tigers might become man-eaters, grandma is already eaten, the duck is already eaten, etc.
Just went it looks like you might have a Bittersweat ending, you suddenly remember your healing potion, eagles show up out of nowhere and rescue you, your tigers find their mother who will teach them to hunt, grandmother is cut out live from the woodsman, the wolf coughs up the live duck, etc.
Do we have any tropes that would describe this sort of last minute save? It is almost like a Belated Happy Ending, yet it is still in the main body of the story, if tacked on to the very end, or maybe the almost very end.
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The Hero is fighting a climactic duel against the Big Bad. Suddenly, in the sidelines, The Dragon or some other evil lackey is about to take a potshot at the Hero or do something else to turn the tide. Right before this happens, one of the hero's allies stops it. The ally quips something like, "Let's let them finish this themselves." Basically a wingman, only for duels instead of dating?
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Is there a trope for someone who's telling the truth but no one believes them (like a Cassandra Truth) but then there's the one person who believes in them?
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Is there a trope for when a game's story is interesting, and immersive, but ultimately unimportant? Something between Waste of Time Story (where the player doesn't care that there's a story) and Excuse Plot (where the story doesn't matter at all)?
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Okay, so this was on Body Of Proof. In the episode, spermless semen was found in the victim, and Megan asked one of the guys (sorry, don't remember which one) if he can think of any single man who'd rather get a vasectomy instead of using a condom. He says no, there's no way a single man would ever get a vasectomy, and they conclude the victim absolutely must have been having an affair with a married man (she was, but that's not the point).
That sounds so much like a trope, or like it could be one if it's not, but I can't think of which one it is. I looked at Childfree Is Not Allowed, but that's definitely not it (and especially now, after the retool). It falls under Wall Banger to me, yes (especially with the hilarious story from The Baby Trap as counter-evidence), but it seems like it should be another, more specific trope.
Is there a trope for assuming that all men want kids? Like a Spear Counterpart to My Biological Clock Is Ticking, but without the time limit, since he can always just marry a woman who's still young enough to have a few once he's sown his wild oats and is finally ready to settle down? That seems to be the way they were thinking: no man wants to be childfree forever, so he'd never do anything to jeopardize his ability to have children in the future when he's good and ready. Trope?
Is there a trope where something references a trope, but doesn't lampshade it?