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I'm thinking about stock action film scenes/scenarios.
Like, if you go to an action flick and there isn't a high-speed car chase, something made a high-speed car chase specifically impossible, like cars being inappropriate to the setting. Or if the movie has an adventure-y bent to it, it needs a panoramic shot of the exotic locale the heroes are visiting in that scene. If there's a romantic subplot, the love interest will be imperiled by the hero's action-packed lifestyle. Or explosions regardless of anything else.
I suppose this is more of an index than a single trope?
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This is just one specific example, so it may well be that there's really no trope. In the sequel to Wall Street, Shia La Beouf's character Jacob pitches a form of alternative energy technology that seems to be a sort of fusion of aspects of actual renewable/alternative energies, plus some Techno Babble for good measure. It focuses on atoms of hydrogen, is powered by tides, and involves lasers and "fusion".
Besides the various Physics Goof and whatnot, I'm specifically curious about technology that fuses various contemporaneous technologies, perhaps by way of Did Not Do The Research — like Schizo Tech for only one time period.
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Here's the setup: Bob and Alice are a couple. All of Bob's friends hate to be around Alice because she's a really obnoxious person, but Bob is utterly smitten with her and is oblivious to her flaws. Is this a special case of What Does She See in Him? or a different trope?
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"Fake Difficulty? What Fake Difficulty?" - Challenge Gamer
There's Fake Difficulty, Fake Balance, and Fake Longevity, then there's this.
Luck Based Mission? Good Bad Bugs say not so. Overly long and redundant maze? Not with this unintended shortcut. Camera flips in the middle of a jump? Aha, the player skillfully masters the art of moving the analog stick/dpad with precision timing to counter this. Trial And Error Gameplay? Save Scumming to the rescue.
This is subversion of the control the developers have on the players. Basically, with Fake Skill, the player has the unfair advantage. Can sometimes take real skills to pull off, such as Difficult But Awsome Good Bad Bugs. Also of note, this is often used to reliably counter Fake Difficulty or Fake Longevity, but not always. Save Scumming to get through an area perfectly that has no Fake Difficulty is still a display of Fake Skill.
Do not confuse with using deliberately programmed cheats, which don't count as those are SUPPOSED to be in the game, and are expeced to be discovered and exploited. This only applies to when the player finds unintended ways to subvert Fake Difficulty, or otherwise give themselves some sort of unintended advantage.
Examples:
Infinite Flutter in Super Mario Galaxy 2. Although it is of the Difficult But Awsome variety and only helps if you can't others solve the game's puzzles.
Leg Sweeps on SNK Boss targets that are vulnerable to them.
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I'm trying to find a trope page I saw once. The trope is about misuse of justice against a character by someone that character thought friend. It has (or at least had) an image showing Batman being falsely accused by villagers led by Superman, who is reading Batman's crimes from the paper.
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Is there a trope for just Harem? We have tropes for unwanted harem, but in some shows there are some characters that have a harem that isn't unwanted.
To be more precise, when I say "harem" I am talking about the sort of harem where the "harem girls" are loyal, love and serve the "master" or the Oujo.
How should I tag this?
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What's the name of the trope where, in "behind-the-scenes" videos of celebrities, they pretend not to notice the camera at first and then look up in evident surprise and go "Oh, hello there" (or something like that)? I'm not explaining it very well, but it's parodied in these
videos
and I know I've seen it here somewhere.
ETA: Never mind, I found it, it's Oh Hi There. No wonder I was coming up with nothing by searching "oh hello there"...
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We have the Battle Cry, but what about someone or something that goes into battle laughing?
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Looking for two tropes. One is a character who plays a significant role in a story behind the scenes but goes mostly unnoticed. An example might be HUNK from Resident Evil.
The next is the trope where you realize something simple later that's not immediately pointed out to you. It's different from Fridge Logic. Reading through the page once I remember people rambling things like "This troper just realized that Batman doesn't use a gun because of his stance against killing as opposed to being traumatized by his parent's death." Or "This troper just noticed that Barney looks like an older counterpart to Nelson." I can't think of any specific examples from the page. Those are just made up.
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A closing freeze-frame of two people high fiving. No idea of straight examples, but kind of parodied in Atop The Fourth Wall's Ewoks review midway through where the credits start (with the two visibly shaking), and then get interrupted. Probably from 80s film and TV, though I'm not from the 80s.
I don't think it's a variant of a "YEAH!" Shot, but maybe they didn't have room to do it while jumping.
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De we have a trope for a myth or fanciful story explaining why something is?
Examples of what I'm talking about:
According to Melody Time, coyotes howl at the moon out of sympathy for a man who lost his love.
And the somewhat racist Peter Pan song "What Made The Red Man Red". Red man are red because one of them blushed when he was kissed, and they all have been red sense then.
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Is there a trope for shows/works in which the end of the world threatens on a regular basis, typically by different means? (E.g. the Buffy The Vampire Slayer "plural of apocalypse" thing)
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Bob is a superhero who has consistently had success against his opponents, but finally suffers a crushing defeat. He becomes obsessed with replaying the battle over and over again, trying to figure out what he could have done differently to win, and everything about him changes for the worse. This sounds like Broken Ace, but is there another trope that goes along with this - specifically, the behavior?
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This would be primarily an animation trope. This is a situation in which a character is stretched way beyond the limits a person should be stretched. This would be an Amusing Injury. The Rubber Man would be able to do this voluntarily.
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There's a kind of story wherein a new sheriff (or other law enforcer) comes to town and cleans it up not by kicking butt and taking names, but simply by doing his job the way he's supposed to—turning down bribes, enforcing regulations, and so on. Examples would be, say, On Basilisk Station from the Honor Harrington series. And Captain Carrot from the first few City Guards books of Discworld.
Is there a name for this, and what are some other good examples?

I've searched, and I think I may have come across it at one point, but Ican't for the life of me remember the name (if it even exists). Basically it's a 'fans did it better' kind of thing. Like a manga/anime that is okay, but the fans do better art, doujins, stories, and characters than the original. Or a movie with a lame plot, and fanfics surpass the plot and characters. Exact examples are evading me at the moment, but I have come across it in manga and anime especially.