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openCharacter falls from a large height after being mortally wounded by something
I could have sworn we had this one. Character is standing on an edge, is killed or mortally wounded, then dramatically falls from that edge.
openUnusual health item
In most video games, health items tend to be things like food, healing potions, or first aid kits. But some games have much more unusual stuff. River City Girls for example, includes video game cartridges and action figures alongside a variety of food as items that restore your health. Is there a trope for this.
open3D Movie, 2D Photograph
That thing where a movie uses CGI but any photographs taken are 2D.
openA recurring Out of Focus character Web Original
A character is a very famous singer. He doesn't take part in the story, but sometimes he appears with songs on TV.
Edited by FuladeopenProving grounds
Places where the protagonist is subjected to a number of trials to check if they really are The Chosen One.
openTough guy has a similarly tough girlfriend
Trope where a tough male character has an Action Girl as his love interest.
open[SOLVED] Dumbass DOES something clever (not say it)
I know about Dumbass Has a Point but not sure how flexible it is. I'm looking fore a trope where a dumb character does something surprisingly clever.
And by surprisingly I mean that the character in question is dumb enough to grab a knife by its blade or to do something blatantly suicidal but manages to avert it even if the clever action is moderately challenging even for a averagely intelligent person.
Edited by sohibilopenLucky Clothes
A character refers to some of his clothes as something that brings good luck
openFather and Son bond over beer
I've seen this a few times in fiction where a Dad will try to bond with his son by letting him have his first beer.
openA sequence in different media
The show is live action. But the final battle between two groups of characters is a cartoon due to most characters being played by one actor and some impossible elements such as spitting fire and shooting with a guitar or bare hands.
openStuck-On-Transmit
Alice is communicating remotely with Bob, but something happens and now Bob can hear Alice, but she can't hear Bob (sometimes she's aware of it, sometimes she isn't). Or sometimes Alice fakes being unable to hear Bob.
Can be played for comedy (Alice figures Bob is offline and decides to practice her Dreadful Musician skills) or drama (Alice's Mission Control can only watch helplessly through her helmet cam as Alice acts on obsolete information and cuts the wrong wire on the bomb). Often combined with Irrevocable Order.
Stacraft II uses it as mostly comedy and to justify a gameplay mechanic in one level: the Boisterous Bruiser piloting a Humongous Mecha can't hear orders, so figures if there are no orders not to start blowing the enemy to pieces he might as well. Meaning the player can't control the mecha for the whole mission, but has to escort and repair it as it plows through the opposition.
In The L Ast Jedi, Poe acts like he can't hear Hux's transmissions, meaning Hux's dramatic You Rebel Scum! speeches fall flat.
Edited by Chabal2openThe villain often laughs because of some jokes (either sadistic or other)
Soft-Spoken Sadist and brutal serial killer Diego Travis despite his usual grimly-stoic behavior, he sometimes makes black jokes about his victims and their suffering and briefly giggles hysterically and frighteningly.
openFreudian Excuse As Insult
Alice and Bob don't like each other. Bob insinuates or claims that Alice's behavior is due to a Freudian Excuse of some sort.
i.e.
What Alice's parents were like is immaterial since the point is to insult her.
Edited by Chabal2openToo many directions for the dog sitter Live Action TV
I admit that on this one I don't even know where to begin looking. So someone is about to go on a vacation or a mission or an assignment and they have to leave their dog alone with the dog sitter. They give the dog sitter pertinent information but then they also start telling the dog sitter a bunch of other things that might be relevant but this worried prattle just goes to show that the dog's owner is overly worried about being away from their dog.
Also happens with babies. The examples I can think of off the top of my head are in episodes of TV shows for which I've written a lot of the recap, but since I didn't know what this trope is called, I didn't put it in.
What is this trope called of giving the sitter way too many instructions?
openEpithets for champions
What’s the trope for when an announcer hypes up a fighter by listing nicknames? (“…The A of B! The C of D! The E of F!…”)
openMarshmallow People (New Trope?)
A trope when the characters have completely white skin, no nose, usually lacking ears, that stuff. Hair, clothes, toes, nipples, navel, and genitalia being optional. Image example◊.
Usually done as a way to save time drawing.
Edited by CardboardBotopenCrossover induced plothole or What Happened to the Mouse?
I'm troping JoJo's Alien Adventure, and there is something of an Adaptation Induced Plothole, and one lampshaded in the plot. In Battle Tendency, Kars is sent to space as an unthinking hunk of stone, but since both the JoJo and Ben 10 universes are crossed together, Ben brings up the idea that Kars could have landed on another inhabited planet, something Joseph hopes doesn't happen. I'm wondering what trope this falls under because it seems to be somewhat of a mixed bag: is it an Adaptation Induced Plothole, a What Happened to the Mouse? scenario, or something else?
Edited by eruptor142openFights and Tension over Inheritance?
Is there a trope for when characters fight each other over inheriting their father's company and money, etc.? All I found is Inheritance Murder, which doesn't mention any/cover fighting over inheritance.
When a character's defiance of the apparent will of god, fate or something similar (whether successful or not) marks them as a villain. A subtrope would be Nice Job Breaking It, Herod where the specific way they defy fate is to try to kill some prophecies baby, but there are other ways this could manifest.