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I'm wondering about whether or not there are a few tropes.. basically looking for any that mean: "innappropriate slang for the time" "every animal talks" "I'll kill you and your (uninvolved) family" use of a completely wrong word (but not a freudian slip, i.e. "I am the king of all the checkers" as opposed to "I am the king of all the people") "wtf did I just read/see"
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A trope related to Heroic Resolve with a good measure of Rule of Cool and a subtle shade of reality warping. The hero has to perform a task that forces him go to his limits and manages to pull it off after he threw in some more determination, even though his determination has no influence on the chance of success whatsoever. Examples would be: -Chasing the bad guys in a vehicle that ends in a speed race. The vehicle's speed should be rather independant of the driver -Using any kind of machine, especially exoskeletons. -Blocking off enemy fire with a shield. It seems most shields in fiction are powered by the hero's resolve. Holds true on both side of the gun.
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Here's one (sorry, two) for you, which I couldn't find after searching:
In about a gazillion movies and TV shows, the camera shows a character reading a newspaper. Usually there'll be a large banner headline and a photograph, all relevant to the story.
The camera only passes over the page for a few seconds so you're just supposed to get the big stuff.
However, in the majority of cases, the text of the actual news article under the headline is often complete gibberish, either a series of repeated sentences, or a made up but improperly written article, or a genuine but entirely unrelated newspaper article they've just cut and pasted over.
Sometimes you might even catch some silly messages from a crafty staff writer, or bits of the script used to fill the space.
The assumption is that nobody (like me) would take the trouble to actually check the text, so they don't bother to write a proper newspaper page. Lazy, I tell you!
Is there a name for this trope? Is it even a trope, per se?
Relatedly, any time someone is holding an important piece of paper, it's rare that it actually has written on it what the story claims it does. Often it's just the lines that the character then reads verbatim (when they're supposed to be paraphrasing or commenting on the document), other times it's just a random, completely unrelated document which you catch tantalising glimpses of during freeze-frame.
Is this the same trope, or is there a name for this too?
Any help would be appreciated.
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That trope when to find out the resolution to one plot (mostly a side-plot) you have to read/watch another series in the same franchise. It's not All There in the Manual it's another one... that I saw some time...
Please and thank you.
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Dead character reappears as a ghost or in another character's near death experience, but has miraculously had a hairstyle change or grown facial hair while dead. Sort of a subversion of Jacob Marley Apparel but with hair
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Is there a trope where the author acknowledges before hand that his or her next part of the work will most likely have the audience Love It or Hate It due to the direction it is going.
It is in this fic Of Science and Magic
that has me ask this question. And true to the author's word, some of the reviews heavily question the author's adhearance to canon facts(or rather lack of in regards to one subject).
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Trying to find my way around the site and get a bit of info, but not finding what I need. The oddball names make a quick search a bit counter-intuitive in that time has to be spent figuring out what each means in order to remove it from the list of possible tropes.
The trope I'm looking for deals with plot, but I'm having trouble finding it. All supernatural horror act like mysteries in the middle of the second act when the hero investigates the original crime that killed the ghost. That original crime gives the ghost the excuse to commit more crimes (murder generally) and penalize the living for trespass, for ignoring them, and for not spending the time to find their bones, I want to look at the supernatural horror movies that explore the original crime and how it's handled as well as other reasons a ghost would act out on the living.
Thanks.
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We've got to have this, but I can't for the life of me think of the name: OK, so the plot's resolved, the heroes are all heading home, and everyone's celebrating. Then, one character says something like, "I can't help but feel we've forgotten something". Cut back to the Butt-Monkey character about to have something horrible happen to him. Often, there's a cut back to the main characters, with the person who said the first line saying, "It was probably nothing". Characters resume celebrations. Fade to black.
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Two questions:
1. What's the trope for someone who is an incredibly fast learner but isn't necessarily a Bookworm?
2. What's the trope for two people who either dislike or hate each other but are forced to protect the other from danger if they can, mainly because if one dies, then so does the other?
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Real-Time Strategy games often have each faction represented by a different species. (Sometimes a given species may be divided into multiple factions during part of the storyline.) I could have sworn there's a trope which notes that if this is the case, only one of the main factions will be human, though perhaps by another name; at least one other will be less evolved or more bestial, and still another will be more "elegant", maybe with innate superhuman powers like telepathy.
The Trope Codifier is almost certainly Star Craft. If memory's correct, the trope has a three-word name.
Am I imagining this?
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Is there a trope about a Forbidden Romance? If not, How Did We Miss This One?

Is there a trope about a character being unable/unwilling to do what their species/race/class/whatever are known for? Like a fish that does not swim, or a wolf who won't howl, or a witch that can't use magic?
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