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Do we have a trope for when a character is of a different species from everyone else? For instance, in the cartoon Birdz, literally everyone is a bird except for Sleepy Bat, who is Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
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Is there a step-sister trope to No One Could Survive That! where a character falls into fire/quicksand, etc. but is merely 'captured' and shows up unhurt later? It's something of a Saturday morning cartoon thing, where characters and viewers alike can safely assume that no one ever actually dies.
Not the same thing as an anime dub or edit that spares a character who died in the original or retcons his death.
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In the end of a cartoon, the babies look exactly like miniature versions of the adult couple, with exact gender correlation, like in the end of Lady And The Tramp. Does this exist?
Edit: Omg found it on this page. Gender Equals Breed, eh?
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Pretty sure this only happens in western animation. The character goes to say something, sometimes with his finger pointed up to denote knowledge, but then for one reason or another finds himself speechless. And sometimes his finger will curl downward as a physical response to that. I've seen it happen Ed, Edd n' Eddy, Dexter's Lab (the Computress episode especially), and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.
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In MLP:Fi M, Diamond Tiara brags about how her outfit shows off her cutie mark. However, her outfit actually completely covers up the cutie mark. It sounds like Informed Attribute, but that is an exampleless supertrope.
I thought it might also be Stealth Insult, except that she says it herself so it can't be an insult. So where should I put it?
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I wonder if the following is Adored by the Network, or just something similar: rather than a show that is adored at the expense of other shows, it is some season of a show that is adored at the expense of other seasons of that show.
Some cases I've encountered in the last couple of years:
- In their late evening broadcast of Ben 10, Cartoon Network would only loop through season 3.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer reruns seem to be focused on season 4.
- In Disney XD reruns of the 1994 Spider-Man series, there seems to be a special fondness for season 1, especially the Alien Symbiote episodes: at seemingly random intervals, they will restart the rerun sequence, preferably with these episodes both at the start and end of that adored season.
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This appears in perhaps maybe anime and live action even.
The male character becomes all maternal after caring for a helpless creature or infant or both.
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This happens alot in cartoons there is often one episode where they shrink down and go inside a character for one reason or another. I've seen this in loadsa cartoons eg Spongebob, Rugrats, Phineas and Ferb and Futurama.
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Is there a trope where a character paints a surface(mostly a tunnel) and the hero falls for it, and the hero goes through the painting.The villan then wonders about it, and tries to go through it, only to be smack head first?
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Is there a trope for a particular type of Montage where someone is dead or leaving, or the village is about to be destroyed or have some someone leave it, and the characters look back on happier moments in the life, hanging out with that person or living in that village?
I'm asking about this because there's a parody of this in the South Park episode "Red Man's Greed". The town was about to be destroyed, and Stan says, "We had such great times here." However, all he could remember is scenes of the town being attacked from previous episodes.
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What I'm looking for is a stop-motion animated short, made in the early or mid-90s. It tells a sort of a faux Japanese folk tale about a samurai who has to save a girl from a demon. The animation is the made to look as if we're watching a play, so the camera remains stationary, and instead of cutting from scene to another the props behind the characters change all the time. Also, since it's supposed to be a play, it has a on-stage narrator, an old guy with a beard. I don't remember much about the story, except that the samurai beats the demon and gets the girl. The narrator then walks to the stage, takes of a mask he was wearing and reveals that he's not actually an old guy but the samurai of the story, who's joined by the girl he saved. You'd think the story would end there, but all of a sudden the camera moves (for the first time in the movie) much closer to the characters than previously, and we see the demon attack the samurai and the girl. The demon kills both the samurai and the girl in a rather gory manner, and the short ends with that. It's quite a Mood Whiplash, as the rest of the story was more like a classic children's animation. I think the short won some big price for short films, but I can't remember which one.
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Is there a trope for this? "Illiterate Universe": Usually seen in animation. We never see writing of any kind. In the odd chance a newspaper or something shows up, it is covered in scribbles, gibberish, or other weird symbols. This is usually because of two things: The producers want to export the show to many different countries, or because the outsourced foreign animators have too much difficulty drawing it. Example: Almost every DIC cartoon.
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Is there a trope when a character sees a TV ad that is convenient to their situation? Like Squidward seeing the ad for Tentacle Acres when he couldn't take Spongebob and Patrick anymore or Mordecai and Rigby seeing the ad for Party Pete when their party sucks.
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Lets say character A is on a conveyor belt inching toward an incenerator and the belt is operated by a lever. Character B finds said lever and tries his hardest to pull it to the OFF setting or whatever, but ends up...
1- Breaking the handle in half, which makes it inoperable. 2- Turning it to a higher speed. 3- Both 1 and 2.
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Do we have a trope called something like All Animals Age The Same? Good example will be in Bambi how Thumper and Bambi took the same amount of time to grow up. Another example would be in Ice Age 2 Ellie, Crash, and Eddie were all seen as babies at the same time in a flashback despite the fact that possums only live to be about five and a mammoth wouldn't be full grown until at least 15 or so.
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Do we have a trope for when the kids in the grade above the main characters are huge and look like teenagers even though they are in elementary school? A really good example is The Tough Customers from Arthur. I am also pretty sure this happened on Hey Arnold and Recess.
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Not sure if it's a trope or not, but is there a trope for this:
Whenever construction work is going on in a cartoon, you always hear the sound of a Jackhammer, even though Jackhammers aren't used for building work (least not the type that's supposed to be going on) This might also extend to the presense of any random constuction sound effects that don't fit with the tools the characters actually have in the scene

What's the type of run/charge by cartoon characters where their legs/feet run around in a circular blury motion.
Sonic the Hedgehog from the Genesis games has this type run.