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Is there a trope where in science fiction/fantasy, a mundane word is capitalized to make it significant? Such as The Sharing (from Animorphs), the Smoke (from the Uglies), The Maze, Variables, The Scorch, The Trials, The Flare, The Bliss, The Gone, The Safe Haven (from the Maze Runner), and The Scratch and The Reckoning (from Homestuck).
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Is there a trope for "Burly Detective Syndrome"
, when the narrative avoids using a character's name by using character tags?
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What was that trope where, if you write yourself into a corner and cant figure out how to progress the plot.... "Have some guy with a gun burst through the door". Essentially making a new character that inexplicably has a way to advance the plot to its next point?
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What's the trope for when an author creates a secondary character that the audience is clearly intended to dislike or dismiss...but the secondary character is much better developed, more plausible and more likable than the main characters? I've been thinking of it as Accidentally Awesome, but there's no trope with that name.
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A character sees something peculiar, asks another character (who's plausibly more knowledgeable in the area) about it. The exchange goes into detail about the weird thing, to the point where the first character asks what it is and the other reveals that he has no idea. Is there a trope for this?
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Is there a similar trope to Narrative Profanity Filter, only it's masking out disturbing events instead of swearing (e.g. a long sequence of Cold-Blooded Torture which is detailed enough to give you the general idea but avoids being too specific)?
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A story starts off, with say, the Zombie Apocalypse, and everything seems to go PERFECT. And considering the situation the characters are getting and finding stuff with ease that they normally shouldn't given the setting. (A car, running HOT water, food, etc.) Then, as the story goes along, it gets worse and worse (obviously) until finally it really feels like the Apocalypse.
So, is there a trope for that and or just the first part?
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Is there a trope for when there is a talk often before or after the climax where a person who is 'in on everything' explains what's going on to the protagonist. For example when Dumbledore in 'the Order of the Phoenix 'says 'I'll explain everything'
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quoting from The Commies Made Me Do It:
> In The Scarlet Pimpernel, Lady Marguerite Blakeney (an intelligent, beautiful, sophisticated yet naive young woman <!—there's got to be a trope name for this—> who is unhappy in her marriage)
I'm sure we have that one but I don't know what it's called either...
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I am looking for a trope in which a character is mistaken for a god. I could have sworn I saw one somewhere on the Wiki, but I can not remember its name.
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I'm thinking of a trope that's like a cross between the Idiot Ball/Smart Ball tropes and the Author Avatar. The idea is that occasionally the author possesses a character in order to spout off about something that the author finds deep and significant. Unlike the Author Avatar trope, it doesn't necessarily happen to the same character every time. It's something like "Author Megaphone" or "Who's Got The Anvil" or something like that...
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Is there a character trope for a shy girl with a troubled past? I mean like, something bad happened to her or she's hiding something and now she is uncomfortable around people. I'm thinking that this would be common for romance novels, where the male protagonist has to show that there are good people in this world as they fall in love.
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Is there a trope for the kind of Exposition that plays with Show, Don't Tell by showing a character in a typical day and then telling (usually through the character's inner monologue) how it's usually a lot worse. Mercedes Lackey likes this one to set up the utter wretchedness of her protagonists before they're swept off to a life of adventure — things are hard, but at least it's not _______ (winter; the rainy season; a particularly bad day; a day when Dad comes home drunk; etc.)
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It's something like Spoiled by the Medium or so (not Interface Spoiler, but its very close). It's that one where you're reading a book and you know how much of the story is left because of how many pages there are so you know that the ending is coming soon, etc. I can't seem to find it.
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Is there a category for deadpan badass. That is, when someone does something incredibly badass and accompanies it with a calm, casual remark to show how simple this is for them.
The example that brought this question to mind is from Sanderson's Mistborn: After their superdestructive fight and just before Kelsier chops of the inquisitor's head with an axe, he says simply, "I'm glad you talked me into this."
So, is there a name for this, should there be a name for this? It's not badass boast, and that's the closest category I've seen.
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I'm pretty sure I've stumbled across it before; I'm looking for the name of a trope where a character within an established fantasy setting will deny the existence of another stock fantasy element for no particular reason, only for it to bite them in the butt later. For example, you're reading through an urban fantasy novel brimming with vampires 'n whatnot, but when presented with a series of grisly murders with a suspiciously large canine in the vicinity, the main character believes that it clearly can't be a werewolf, 'cause that's just silly! Fast forward to the final act, and a big, furry lunatic is nipping at her heels. Any suggestions?
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Rahan and Tarzan bring up a problem for linguistics in say 30.000 BC which Conan and Lord of the Rings for their part have solved.
In Lord of the Rings, everyone speaks Westron because the continent is colonised from Numenor. In Conan everyone speaks whatever they speak because the continent is colonised from Atlanteans. Same idea actually. But not very absurd.
The absurd idea is one which comes into play for Tarzan and Rahan, where on general evolutionist lines the stone age is supposed to have been diverse small populations. I am not sure about Cave Bear series, I think they do include linguistic problems.
Can I name the trope:
If You Are Stone Age, You Speak Pal Ul Don?
Btw, how do I name a trope?
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I stumbled on the pages for Anthony Winkler and his novels and whoever wrote them used the term Fantastic Racism to refer to real-life racial conflicts. Thus, I had to delete a bunch of examples, but I wondered if there were any tropes dealing with race that might allow some of the example to be added back in under the correct trope.

You have two groups of people who are separated by differences that to an outside, objective observer are totally arbitrary (e.g. one group is red, the other blue), but which both groups are convinced opposes them entirely and eternally, even though they're really identical. It's a parody of partisanship and group identity.
I'm specifically trying to remember a specific literary/proverbial example of "black x and white x," where x is some nonsense name that isn't coming to me. It's driving me nuts.