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openCharacter influences actor Web Original
What is the trope for when an actor imitates their character outside of filming?
Example: In A Loud House Christmas, Brian Patrick Wade portrayed Rip Hardcore, a wilderness survival expert. Inspired by his character, he created his own set of survival skills for the film's set, which were documented in the fourth episode of A Loud House Christmas: Behind the Scenes, a web-based documentary series that showcases the production of the film.
openHumor of an Unannounced Number? Web Original
From PITCH MEETINGS (Incredible Hulk):
Writer: "He just gives pizza to two different guys and that solves all his problems."
Studio Head: "Using pizza for stealth purposes is my third favorite way to use pizza."
The humor of leaving a number unsaid — the moment where you're like ... wait a minute, if eating's number one, then what's his number two way?
That seems like a trope. Any idea what it would be named?
openLooking for cult/army/lifestyle trope work - Please help!! Web Original
I remember a couple of years back, seeing a work, describing an individual (Legion???) as a”lifestyle, army, cult and corporation”.
Any idea what work this is from and/or the trope page where this is mentioned please…?
openFanon Debut Before Canon Debut Web Original
Is there a trope for when a Fan Work depicts a character before they are in the original media?
Say there is a character that is known to exist in an episodic series, but at the start is only as The Ghost or The Voice. Think White Diamond from Steven Universe or the previous users of One For All from My Hero Academia when those series were still ongoing, or as of now the Knight from Deltarune.
Fans write their own interpretation of the character before they debut in a future episode. Kind of like O.C. Stand-in, but with an extra element of prediction that can be Outdated by Canon. What is this called?
Edited by Midello_Felteveopenincorrect NuMe lingo Web Original
what's the trope for general bad descriptions of new media? like, for example, a news site saying aha a youtube's video has "millions of hits".
open"Character.exe" type horror villain Web Original
Not sure if tropeworthy or not, but the thing you see a lot in video game creepypastas where the villain takes on a form that looks like a preexisting character inside the game, often the playable protagonist.
Sonic.exe and the other "evil 'sonic' in the video game" type guys, MX from Mario '85, BEN from Ben Drowned?
openMultiple "What trope (if any) is used here?" questions Web Original
1) Bob is so narcissistic that he assumes the game Minecraft was made for him because it has "Mine" in the name. 2) A video quoting Alice saying "I'm gonna come forward...", but it humorously cuts Alice short of "come" and spams Vine booms and siren blares to make it look like Alice is saying something lewd when it's obviously not (Imagined Innuendo played for laughs?).
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 TheMageofRacismopenWord of God disproving fan theory/assumption? Unfortunate release timing? Web Original
Is there a trope for:
- When a member of a collective disproving a fan theory or fan assumption (Word of God or Word of Saint Paul)?
- When a media's release was coincided with another occurring event or controversy purely by accident?
I have one example concerning both of these questions, but I suspect that this is quite common.
For context, this query is about SiIvaGunner, a bait-and-switch YouTube music collective channel that mostly uploads “rips” of video game soundtracks. Sometimes these rips are purposefully uploaded to coincide an event or controversy to acknowledge it.
When The Crew (2014) was shut down at the end of March 2024 and publisher Ubisoft promptly revoked licenses from those who have bought the game without refunds or an offline download, a retaliating campaign called Stop Killing Games was launched in the following April to raise awareness of the situation and call for better protection of consumer rights. This campaign has made the rounds on the internet and remained relevant throughout the month.
Enter SiIva, whom have uploaded the channel's first ever rip of The Crew Motorfest, and by extension of The Crew franchise, at the tail end of April, leading to fans and commenters on the upload assuming that this is the channel's way of acknowledging the campaign and the shutdown controversy. However, a comment from the rip's author and backroom member of the channel clarified that this was all coincidental and they "don't give a damn about the whole Stop Killing Games thing."
Edited by Duy03openHot Ones Web Original
What trope is is called that lists all the celebrity guests that appeared and updates every week?
openFun with Time Duration? Meaningful Time Duration? Web Original
I'm looking for a trope about videos or songs or soundbites that is deliberately set to a specific duration either for thematic relevance or for fun.
Some examples from SiIvaGunner:
"Circus (Chex Mix) - Five Nights at Freddy's"
being exactly 5 minutes and 55 seconds.
"Stage Select (Full Version) - Mega Man 3"
being exactly 3 hours, 33 minutes and 33 seconds.
Other examples include:
This compilation clip
of VTuber Minato Aqua being teased by her arc number 44.5 is exactly 4 minutes and 45 seconds.
open"Never Live It Down" applied to controversial scenes instead of characters. Web Original
I wonder if we have a YMMV trope that's similar to Never Live It Down but applied to specific scenes and/or a series' particular season. It's not necessarily a Signature Scene that everyone recognizes for a controvesial reason, but a particular scene/moment/plot point that makes the work or the particular part it happened in to be remembered mainly by it, and for people to always bring it up every time the work/part as a whole is discussed.
It popped to my mind after the removal of two entries I had written and originally listed as examples of Never Live It Down on the grounds that said trope can only apply to audience reactions of specific characters (The Painter by War Jay 77, and The Powerpuff Girls (2016) by myself after learning the criteria for Never Live It Down). The entries are as follows:
- The Painter: The case of Cory and Margaret Beck detailed in "In the Walls", plus the related "Fucktoy Cory" painting seen back in "Faces", have become infamous among the Analog Horror community for its sudden use of strongly implied pedophilianote Specifically, Cory was killed by having his genitals torn off before his body was mutilated in half alongside Margaret's, and "Hell" later indicated that the stitched corpse made from his upper half combined with Margaret's lower half was likely used by the killers as a sex doll., to the point that many detractors of the series began citing it as the biggest reason for why they hate the series, and often ignore murder cases from later episodes that fans of the series have found more gratuitous than Cory's case. It's gotten to the point that not only do many critiques and rants for the series put great emphasis on "In the Walls" and "Fucktoy Cory" over anything else (it's hard to see the people who make these rants elaborate the other episodes as much as "In the Walls"), but it's extremely common for cropped edits of "Fucktoy Cory" to appear in the thumbnails of review videos of The Painter, and for the painting to be the most common subject in instances of Take That! to the series from other works (most notably the Mokey's Show episode "Crocodile"). Even after the release of "Hell" improved the series' overall reception significantly and made audiences view the bigger picture outside of "In the Walls", quite a handful of people still refuse to keep quiet on the topic of Cory's murder.
- The Powerpuff Girls (2016): The show's prominent usage of outdated memes in Season 1, the scene of Blossom, Bubbles and Allegro twerking from "Painbow", and Blossom's relationship with Jared have all become near-synonymous with many detractors' views on the reboot, despite the fact that the show reduced the memes and similar jokes considerably for the next two seasons, and Blossom and Jared's relationship was made significantly less exaggerated and more grounded. Even after the show ended, most detractors tend to cite these controversial problems as the biggest reasons the whole show is terrible, even though the alleged overdose of memes and jokes perceived as Squick had more to do with only Season 1 rather than the entire series. "Painbow" co-writer Julia Vickerman's Role-Ending Misdemeanor from the Western Animation industry after being exposed for her pedophilic posts on social media
does not help matters.
Does anyone know if there's any other trope these entries can fall into? The entries may need some cleanup in case there's another trope they can be labeled as, but I think the point I'm showing in them comes across.
Edited by Inky100openScreenshot and an expressive face Web Original
Seemingly an enforced (or strongly encouraged) pattern on Youtube nowadays. The thumbnail of a video contains a descriptive image accompanied by the, usually very excited, face of the channel owner. Are we treading on trope territory here?
openSlang term for something about a particular character Web Original
A fictional slang term within the work invented by the cast themselves to refer to a particular trait regarding a specific character, usually including said character's name in some way.
Example:
- Charlie's Angels (Kkat): After seeing how Charlie's orgasms are capable of causing destructive earthquakes, Angel Dust and Husk invent the term "Charliegasms" to refer to Charlie's orgasming, which several other characters also pick up on.
openA gag where someone poses exactly like something next to them in someone's (including our) POV Web Original
Only putting Web Original because of this one scene. I'm sure there are loads of such instances.
openWe'll Bang by the End of This Web Original
(NSFW) A character promises another that when an event or (dangerous) situation ends, they'll have sex (with varying levels of becoming true).
The closest example which I can find is from the Trollfic Hart Shaped Love (on which I'm working on a page rewrite):
openSpecific trope name for humanity being enslaved by aliens? Web Original
I'm thinking of Alien Stage, but I wanted to know if there was a broader trope for "aliens mass enslave humanity to keep them as pets". Thank you.

I found a correlation between two examples, found in several SuperMarioLogan videos, but I'm not sure if such a trope fitting the description even exists here:
General outline based on the above examples would be as follows:
This might be too specific to be classified as merely a Running Gag, for instance, as it is more or less directly connected to the plot.
Edited by MeerkatMario