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openAnthro animal with non-sapient pet
What is the trope for when an anthropomorphic animal owns a pet that is not anthropomorphic? Mickey Mouse owning Pluto is an example.
openThing EX is better than Thing
is there a specific trope for when stronger versions of bosses or rarer versions of objects have EX, GX or other two-letter suffixes on the end? good examples are the bosses in Kirby's Return to Dream Land, and Pokemon EX crds(of course).
openChild takes medication without parents' knowledge Live Action TV
Because Kids Are Cruel, a clearly obese 10-year-old takes weight-loss medication without parental knowledge.
openLiving a non-superhero double-life, but not The Mask
Character is living a double-life, but it doesn't count as "the Mask" because they enjoy both their public life and their secret criminal identity/actions (in this case we're talking about a prolific serial killer of the Organized Type who enjoys their public life and persona but keeps it separate from their criminality, including that they avoid selecting victims with any association with their professional and private life and only select victims that they are never seen in public with.) Despite being a serial killer under the Lust description, they avoid committing any horndogged behavior in public/in front of family aside from say— male/female gaze, even flatly rebuffing advances from and refusing to date coworkers. And also strongly rebuffing advances from horny *often drunk* cousins, despite secretly having an incest fetish.)
openWhat is the inversion of Continuity Creep? Web Original
Continuity Creep is basically episodic works that got more continuity as they went on. I'm looking for the opposite trope of that, stuff that had continuity once but got less of it and became more episodic over time. Does it already exist? If so, what's it called?
Edited by TheMageofRacismopenInstant nope
Something weird or crazy is happening. A character walks into the room, sees what's going on, and immediately (and often wordlessly) turns to leave again.
openSociety Moved On, They Didn't
An older character who is unaware/refuses to acknowledge that Society Marches On.
For instance, a tyrannical business owner born in the 1940s will not accept the fact that the dollar's worth has gone drastically down ($1 1940s ~ $20 2020s according to the Internet) and nearly has a heart attack when he hears his workers asking about (what he thinks is grossly inflated) minimum wage.
- Scrooge Mc Duck is known to pay his nephew 25 cents an hour, which only gets outrageously tinier as time goes by.
- One Simpsons episode has Bart mow the lawn for an old woman, who pays him 50 cents for a week's worth of work.
openMattrack Wheels
Someone, usually a robot or Sentient Vehicle, uses wheels that consist of a continuous rubber mat that circles at least three rolling wheels. Examples include:
- WALL•E
- Stretchy, from Little Robots
- Pin in Battle for Dream Island Again as of "PointyPointyPointy"
- Orbit from Rob the Robot
openIdiot Ball + Chronic Hero Syndrome.
Hey everyone, I'm with a small question. What's the trope when a protagonist mixes the "Chronic Hero Syndrome" to the point it feels and seems like he is holding the idiot ball? As in, he is SO focused in helping someone (more often than not a teammate) that he does incredibly stupid things, sometimes even risky if not suicidal?
This was called the "Naruto Syndrome" some years ago when Naruto was still relevant, due to how Naruto 'never let go' of psychopaths that tried to kill him such as Sasuke till his 'friendship' turned them around.
openIs There A Trope For Someone Using Outdated Expressions Live Action TV
Is there a trope for when someone uses outdated expressions or slang? An example would be an aging hippy still saying "far out," and "groovy."
openAngry Curtain Closing
Alice and Bob are mad at each other, Alice is standing outside Bob's window, and Bob closes his curtain or blinds as a sign that he doesn't want to talk to her.
openExplosive talking aid
Person want to talk to someone who just as soon as want them dead.
So they walk in with an explosive with their finger on the trigger and threaten to blow them all up as they are dying
- Return of the Jedi: Bounty Hunter/Leia comes to Jabba's palace and holds a thermal detonator to keep negotiations going with Jabba rather then just shooting them
- The Dark Knight: Joker gatecrashes a meeting of gangsters with a grenades in his jacket and the pins tied to his finger
- Nobody: Hutch visits Yulian at his club with his finger tied to a claymore mine
openA Trope For Switching Position With Someone Anime
Which trope works best when two people end up switching position at the end of a series?
I'm wondering this because the example I was thinking of was for Bokurano, where the Yamura siblings stay at their home because they're waiting for their father to come home. Towards the end of the series, the father returns, but the siblings remain because they are now waiting for Daichi to return.
Since the characters in this example are related, would that be a case of Generation Xerox?
openAPP Friendly Feline
The Inversion of Cats are Mean. (Ex. Stimpy from Ren and Stimpy, Danny from Cats Don't Dance, Tiger from An American Tail, Scratchy from the Itchy and Scratchy Show, etc.)
openThose grapes were sour, anyway
A character, typically one shown to be immature or childish, is denied access to something that they want. In response, they angrily state how they didn't even want the thing in the first place.
open"Do you like my art?" "No - it's destroying you."
This exchange happened in a work I love, and I could swear I've heard it a thousand times (including the second character coming back after the artist dies and saying they really loved their art), but I can't think of other examples off the top of my head. Sort of the opposite of Cope by Creating. I guess the trope would be that the artist is destroyed by their art, not just the Armor-Piercing Response when they ask the second person about it. (... in the case of the show I'm thinking of, his music is literally Cast from Lifespan due to a Deal with the Devil, but it could just be a mundane workaholic situation.)
openSeemingly Unkillable
A character who, by guile, hardiness, or just sheer dumb luck, keeps coming out in one piece in situations where by all right they ought to have died.

A pregnant woman is driving her drunk husband when suddenly she concienceness. Luckily, her husband is able to stop the car without an accident.