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opensatisfied slump of defeat Anime
Often used in a comedic manner—character is sitting under a spotlight without color and smiling with a satisfied/contempt look on their face while their eyes are closed. Similar to corner of woe. IIRC Captain Obi from Fire Force and Dino from Blend S did this in an episode of their respective series.
openLoving the Betrayer Anime
This trope might usually be associated with love stories but is there an existing trope for when a character reveals that they were betraying another character but the said character then reveals that they knew all along and still decided to love them?
openMonsters speak broken English (or any language)? Anime
A monster or whatever mimic speech and speaks broken english/whichever language to communicate? I remember seeing it in an anime late at night.
openCascading bumps Anime
What is the trope of the bumps that appear (usually) on the head that look similar to a snowman almost always after they just got whacked in the head beforehand.
openPower Level Strength Anime
Is there a trope that describes characters who seem to “weigh more” just because they’re powerful? For example, in Dragon Ball or One Piece we see characters lifting huge weights, but when they hit each other they usually don’t get sent flying for kilometers as they realistically should, even if they’re punched without their guard up.
openDoes a fan from hell trope exists? Anime
We have the stalker fan that almost kills Retsuko in Aggretsuko, anyway, is a fan for, whatever reason, starts stalking his favourite star and then he/she tries to kill it, sometimes taking the Loony Fan to an extreme, a Real Life Example of a fan from hell is Mark David Chapman, but there are lots of example in media, do we have a trope like this?
openAnime.ExDriver Anime
In the éX-Driver film, Angela Gambino and Soichi Sugano are captured and chloroformed by Wang Somin's men just after Angela blows up the race track in an effort to stop her father from gambling. After they are thrown into Wang's storehouse, Angela sadly notes that whenever her plans involve Soichi, nothing good ever comes of it. Barely an instant later, Soichi repeats the same quote to her.
Which trope(s) fit the description?
openCharacter gains a new Perspective on their Skills Anime
A character is very efficient at something, but they only view that part of themselves as a tool. Someone else points out something that changes the way they view their talent/skill, making them appreciate it more.
E.G. A character views themselves as overly meticulous, but then someone points out how that allows them to make good decisions, causing them to take pride in that part of themself.
openPotential Man but as a trope Anime
So you guys are familiar with the "Potential Man" meme
right? Forgive the site since it's a bit jokey on its reference but it's quite clear what it's going for - it is a character who is often lauded by the other characters in the story as "having potential", but when it is time to act they kinda fold or fumble.
Quintessentially, the quote "if and when but never is" perfectly encapsulates it.
I honestly think that this is an actual trope, that I've seen something in many shows or felt like it has been referenced on them. Do we have that? I pick Anime because I notice it being common in Anime, but I think I've seen comic book versions as well.
openA senseless but non-fatal sacrifice? Anime
This is a trope that occurred to me after watching the conclusion of the Dressrosa arc from the Animated Adaptation of One Piece, and I'm not sure what it's officially called.
For context, an important local character in the Dressrosa arc is a warrior named Kyros, the former grand champion of Dressrosa's gladiator arena and once the husband of one of Dressrosa's princesses, before she was killed during Doflamingo's usurpation of the nation. Kyros has an enormous sense of personal guilt and lack of self-worth from his past as a common-born thug who was sentenced to the arena for several years for committing murder, to the point that prior to his marriage to the princess, he actually stayed as a fighter in the arena for years after serving his legal sentence. At the end of the arc, Kyros' daughter is officially instated as the Crown Princess of Dressrosa, the rightful heir to its newly reinstated king. Kyros becomes convinced that his presence in her life would only bring his daughter misery, as people would never permit a commoner with a criminal past to be considered part of their beloved royal family. So, he attempts to cut himself out of her life for her own good, spreading rumors that she was the result of a loving but passionate affair between her mother and an unnamed and now-deceased prince from a foreign nation before getting ready to leave the country forever, leaving her only a letter explaining his decision.
But this grandiose act of self-flagellation turns out to be totally pointless.
Firstly, he served his legal punishment and won the respect and admiration of Dressrosa's population years before his daughter was even born, and only further heightened that acceptance with his role in ousting the manipulative tyrant Doflamingo.
Secondly, the fact that Kyros was the princess' husband and the father of her child was an open secret in Dressrosa before Doflamingo usurped the throne — everybody knew, they just politely pretended to go along with the family's pretense of being different people because they loved them both.
Finally, Kyros' daughter chooses to renounce her status as Crown Princess to her aunt because she would rather have a life with her father as a commoner again, having lived that way her whole life, than a life as a royal without him.
So, yes, Kyros' gesture was noble, well-intentional, emotion-gripping... and completely meaningless in the end. It feels a lot like a Senseless Sacrifice to me, but as I understand it, that trope is meant to reflect acts of physical self-sacrifice that turn out to be pointless, isn't it? So, is there an equivalent for this kind of grand but meaningless gesture?
openSympathy is overrated Anime
Used for the fact that humanizing and making villains sympathetic and relatable in modern storytelling (especially anime) has become the norm to the point of predictability. It all seems like villains in modern media just don't feel like villains anymore.
Nowadays they are often painted as charming, attractive, bad boys who are often given a tragic backstory or sympathetic motivations behind their actions to win over audiences (especially girls) since many writers often avoid creating villains who are openly sinister, are pure evil and don't care about superficial popularity in fear of creating shallow or one-dimensional characters.
The truth though is that pure evil villains who fully embrace their darkness and use fear and intimidation to bend others to their will rather than charm and charisma are actually some of the most compelling and memorable antagonists in fiction since conflicts feel more intense and the stakes are higher in the story when a villain simply chooses to be a complete monster and has no interest in redemption, audiences are able to root for the hero in their journey to stop and put an end to the antagonist's tyranny once and for all.
Characters like Frieza, Aku, Pennywise, Freddy Krueger, Judge Doom and Trigon are perfect examples of Pure Evil villains who fully embrace their darkness, use fear and intimidation to manipulate others and don't care about being liked in order to be compelling.
I've just been getting so tired of Modern Storytelling, especially anime, using the same , formulaic antagonists over and over, given there's much more to depth than a tragic backstory or sympathetic motivations, since a pure evil villain can have depth by their actions and impact on other characters in the story, coupled with the fact that many Shonen writers avoid dark, and fear inducing villains, since they're afraid they might be too intense for younger viewers which doesn't make sense given they've already been exposed to these type of characters in other media.
openEyes hidden in shadow specific trope Anime
Usually done when a hero is about to deliver the SMACKDOWN on someone. See Josuke https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FN3Y86hacAUWXMA?format=jpg&name=small
as he's about to beat up Yuya, for example.
I have found a few, but none of them seem to refer to this kind in particular.
openGrowing Up Is Awesome Anime
In contrast to "Growing Up Sucks", this trope describes examples in media where an Aesop is given about the benefits of embracing adulthood rather than drawbacks (independence, being allowed to drive, being allowed to vote, being allowed to have alcohol, etc.).
openDrawing error? Anime
I saw in this scene while the blood flew through the air in one area it left a trail of red dots of blood that remained static in the air, the video was at 720p I uploaded it to 1080p and those red dots were no longer there, I am not an expert in pixels and such but can someone explain to me if this is a thing of the drawing itself of the series or the video format? Can something similar happen even with 1080p?
openTrope for value dissonance in the same culture, but among different religions Anime
Or at least religious levels.
So long story short there's a few scenes of the Madoka side manga, The Different Story, that focuses on the backstory of the 'some sort of christian' Kyoko Sakura, and in multiple places I have seen this lead into debates about the morality of the devoutly religious versus more secular, material world ones. Mostly in regards to things like sins or morality.
As an example, a lesson about why stealing is bad that to the religious is usually seen as a harsh lesson about how sin is bad, by making Kyoko eat the apple(or apples, can't exactly remember) that she stole instead of sharing them with the family as her intent had been, while to the more secular it's 'YOU ARE DIRT POOR AND YOU ARE DOING THAT?! JUST SHARE THE DAMN APPLES AND PUNISH HER SOME OTHER WAY!'
This sort of division on how the devout might put more focus on the second life and the secular the current life and how that affects views on a character's morality is interesting, and am curious if there's a trope for it or not that works.
openA Character Who Doesn't Understand Love but Isn't A Robot Anime
Is there a trope like What Is This Thing You Call "Love"? but for a human character's inability to comprehend genuine love, the unconditional kind, due to trauma? A character who doesn't know how to accept affection because they never got it as kids.

Is there a trope for when a cartoon character's child design (or toddler/younger child if they are still a child) is basically the same design or their older self but shorter? It can also be like they have the same hairstyle and clothing but with minimal differences like a tooth missing??