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So I was reading Fandom Heresy and it mentioned hating the main character of a work. Do we have a fanspeak term for that? Is this related to Fan Disillusionment? Except with relation to a character.
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In King of Queens episode 11 season 5 "Mentalo case" Deacon recounts his childhood memory about never having a 'Mentalo'-head. In the flashback we see a ca. 1920s/1930s scene in black and white instead one of the 60s/70s where Deacon actually was a child. Is there a trope for the idea that "the past is always the 20s" or something?
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Trying to index a newly launched trope Corporate Warfare, and need a suggestion for the "corporate" part (already have Cyberpunk Tropes and Military and Warfare Tropes).
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How is called that trope when two things are being slowly combined or overlapped to prove they match or don't match, and there is a crescendo in the music. As for example in the movie Ace Attorney, when the images of the two bullets are being overlapped and they don't match at all, or in Chicken Run, when the piece of the circus poster are being reunited and they see the flying rooster was not flying by himself but was shot by a cannon.
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Is there a trope for when one character comes up with several ideas and they are all shot down by another in rapid succession? Things that follow this format, basically:
- Alice: We could go to the mall.Bob: Sorry, I'm broke.Alice: Then how about the park?Bob: No. Pollen's too strong this time of year.Alice: We could hang out at your place.Bob: No, my brother's having a party and I don't want to go near that mess.
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Is there a trope that's an inversion of the Rebellious Princess? As in, a character who acts high-class despite coming from a mundane family.
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I didn't see anything that seemed to fit this when I did some scouring earlier, so just to check:
What I'm thinking of is the stock speech given by the villain to his underlings or talking to himself where he lays out his plans/ambitions/grouses about the hero. It almost always ends with a boast about how everyone will fear/obey him when he has power and that it will be happening soon.
It's a specific type of Evil Gloating, but I don't know if we have it...do we?
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What's the opposite of Seinfeld Is Unfunny? For the effect when you finally see/read the original of a story long slipped into Mainstream Obscurity, and you realise that the characters that were Flanderized into oblivion by all the adaptations/retellings are actually a lot more interesting in the original (while not actually being Unbuilt)?
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Is there a trope for a character who has an attractively androgynous face, but muscular physique?
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Where is that trope where the FBI is almost always made of assholes? Happens a lot in alien movies.
Example: Intrepid protagonists befriends alien and has to help him/her/it get back home, but all the FBI wants to do is disregard all human rights and kidnap the alien for cruel experimentation or whatever. We never really see any sympathetic FBI people.
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Is there a trope for when a shadowy figure appears and is obviously meant to be scary before they step into the light and/or their face is shown and it is a good guy?
For example, in Smallville, there is this small-time somewhat-sympathetic bad guy (who has been working for the Big Bad and failed) on a hospital bed. Then a hand in a black leather glove appears at the end of the bed with creepy music... Turns out it is Chloe Sullivan. It was a serious twist, I completely assumed that it would be said Big Bad or one of her minions. If that twist counts as a subversion, it becomes a double subversion when Chloe takes off the gloves and shuts down his brain by overloading it with information. Super-Intelligence used as a Lethal Harmless Power.
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Do we have a trope that covers situations where Video Game characters only seem to "live" for whatever the gameplay entails (so they never spend their masses of gold to buy food or entertainment, never get anything from the store but healing items, socialise with anyone, etc).
To give some examples;
- Exagerated: Borderlands, the characters only ever spend their money on anything but guns, shields and ammo. Day and night pass, but they're never shown eating or sleeping or as much as entertaining themselves.
- Straight: Hitman, since 47 never seems to do anything beyond buying/upgrading weapons and training in between missions but could be living off camera.
- Downplayed: Sandbox WRPG like The Elder Scrolls (since you can buy all sorts of useless, but everyday, items, and doing everyday things, like sleeping, gives your character bonuses in most games but you don't need to do so like an actual human being, only sleeping for an hour, for example).
- Averted: The Persona series (since you get bonuses from making sure that the MC lives out his life in between dungeons).
Do we have anything where a student lives alone because their parents are overseas or some other reason? I know it's similar to Parental Abandonment, and it happens in Anime a lot.
Examples would be: Maron from Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne, Akihisa From Baka Test (until his sister shows up), and Natsuru from Kampfer.
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