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Is there a term for when a show opens with a major conflict that's used to set things up, and afterwards settles down into its regular formula? e.g. My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic and Storm Hawks
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So in a group of friends, there's usually that one guy that nobody seems to like. Yes he hangs around the rest of the group, but this is the character that's usually very socially awkward, a major buzzkill, or overall weirds everyone else out. This is the guy that the others groan about whenever he comes around, but somehow is allowed to stick with them because everyone else is just too polite to tell him off.
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Is there a trope for when the hero character has to make a choice between saving his friends and some sort of ability that will later aid him in world-saving? I can't really describe it - but I know of 2 examples that I can name... Such as when Luke Skywalker (from Star Wars) must choose between saving his friends and training with Yoda, or when Aang (from Avatar: The Last Airbender) must choose between saving his friends and mastering his chakra training with the Guru... Is there a trope for this?
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I'm planning on making a YKTTW page called Food Is Reward, but right now, I'm stuck on a few examples. I can only think of two or three examples, but I can't think of any others. If anyone can tell me some examples of Food Is Reward, I'd be very grateful. (Forgive me if this is in the wrong page.)
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Do we have a trope for a video/film that looks like a Oner, but uses separately filmed scenes separated by walls to show the illusion? Here's an example
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I'm taking a gender class in college, and we just talked in class recently about how elderly people are not expected to have and/or want sex. Do we have a trope about that? I feel like there must be something. I checked the Gender and Sexuality tropes and the Sex tropes and didn't see anything, but I might have missed it.
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What's the name of a trope where a character gets pinched by a crab, lobster, or any kind of pincered crustacean? e.g.: Chance from Homeward Bound The Incredible Journey getting pinched on the lip by a crawdad while trying to catch fish, JP from Digimon Frontier getting pinched in the behind by a crab.
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Do we have a trope for a location that is stored in an object? For example storing a house in a ring or something? The closest thing I can find is Hammerspace Hideaway and that's not exactly what I'm looking for.
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Is their a trope for games with multiple Optional Party Members, where recruiting one character prevents you from recruiting another or causes someone else to leave the party? Note that I'm not talking about size limits, I'm talking about two characters whose recruitment are mutually exclusive.
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Do we have a Gift From The Gods type trope, as a counterpart to a Deal with the Devil.
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I know there's a Cat Girl trope, Unusual Ears trope, In the Hood trope... But what about Nekomimi Hood? It's quite popular in certain animes (to be honest, I'd love to own one in real life) and even more popular in Fan Art. You know what I'm talking about, right? It's when a character doesn't have actual nekomimi but their clothes do. Like here or here or here. I'm surprised there's no page for this.
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In which taking a shortcut exposes the protagonist to something amazing and thus includes them in the plot. For example: Alice took a shortcut on her way home, and it was on the "shortcut path" that she saw a random cute animal who makes her a magical girl, and the audience can't help but think "Wow, and if you HADN'T taken the shortcut, it never would have happened."
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Imagine two chessmasters playing "against" each other. One can see the tension between the two as they try to out-Xanatos, out-Yagami, or out-vi Britannia each other, whatever you want to call it.
Then the narrative reveals that the whole thing was a set-up.
Sort of like Kayfabe, where every conflict is planned out, but this one spans nations, galaxies, large-scale conflicts like that. And nobody ever suspects a thing.
Is there a trope for friends who, while getting along very well and trusting each other, have little to no compulsion about putting each other in unsafe situations?
For example, Bob and Jack are best of friends, but when it comes time to explore an ancient ruin deep underground, Bob has no compulsions from suggesting Jack to go in first, to which Jack complies with little to no protest.