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openNeither pilot has enough experience Live Action TV
One of the issues causing the crash of Continental Airlines Flight 1713 is that it was a case of "green-on-green" crewing—that is neither pilot had much experience with the type of plane they were flying.
openThe specific disaster always happens above the same place Live Action TV
Three separate planes of the same type all had an unusual malfunction. It then turns out that all three happened near the west coast of Australia.
open"Just In case" what ends up happening Live Action TV
On a plane which will crash on takeoff, one of the pilots says:
openSex Live Action TV
Forbidden fruit. Where the moral universe of the show means that eroticism can only be connected to wrongdoing
openChecking for an Alibi before the frame job Live Action TV
In the Diagnosis: Murder episode Murder on Thin Ice Skater Julie Miller arranges frame her rival Debbie Monroe for an attack on Julie, hiring Debbie's former Manager, Sean Farlow, to slash her with a knife, knowing the press coverage will insinuate that Debbie was responsible, with the public vilifying her as a result.
Later when he comes to meet her on the rink Sean tries to pressure Julie for more money, and then tries to pressure her for sex, causing Julie to lash out and strike him with one of her skates, killing him. To cover herself, Julie switches the blade of her skate with one of Debbie's, intending to frame her for the murder as well.
However, before she does this, Julie calls Debbie's hotel, where Debbie who is asleep in bed, is woken and awnsers the phone, confirming to Julie, who silently listens before hanging up, that Debbie was alone in bed, rather than somewhere public or with someone who can confirm her whereabouts at the time of the murder, making her feel secure with going through with the frame up.
Do we have a trope for that, for a killer making sure that the victim of their frameup doesn't have an alibi?
openCapitalist Realism Live Action TV
Is there a trope for the concept of capitalist realism i.e. the idea that capitalism is so entrenched that it's become impossible to imagine human civilisation without it?
openUnknown Live Action TV
A wealthy but clueless black family a kind of upstairs downstairs thing
openMilitary shoot down civilian aircraft Live Action TV
When TWA Flight 800
exploded in mid-air, one explanation which was looked into was that it was shot down. While the explanation was debunked, there are conspiracy theories which accept it. Note that both the mere asking of the question, and the conspiracy theories, are both mentioned in the episode and each would be justification to list this trope for the episode.
openCompany's mistake causes closure Live Action TV
Several episodes in Mayday cover accidents which were the ultimate cause of the airline's involved being shut down.
openThe failsafe which would have prevented the accident was scheduled to be installed soon Live Action TV
One failsafe on airplanes is a ground proximity warning system (GPWS), which warns pilots if they're at risk of crashing into the ground. This system was required to be installed on all planes by April 1994; a crash at Christmas 1993 would have likely been avoided if the plane in question had the GPWS installed.
openSimilar looks as a hint of being biologically related Live Action TV
The police find a 2-year-old wandering alone at night, and try to figure out who her family is. A specific family with a toddler of this age is suggested by a neighbor, but the family in question show their child to the police (who certainly recognize the similarity). The toddler is eventually identified; it would later turn out that the 2 toddlers (the found one and the one in the suggested family) probably have the same biological father.
openMasculinity Crisis Live Action TV
Is there are trope for characters experiencing some kind of masculinity crisis? I know we have Hollywood Mid-Life Crisis, but I'm thinking of something less linked to age and more about male characters feeling uncertain about they fit in as a man in modern society, like maybe they don't know how to fit into the role of the traditional male provider if they've lost their job and their female partner is the breadwinner in their family.
openDeathbed flashback Live Action TV
I don't know if there are many examples, but the trope I'm looking for is when a character is about to die, and we immediately cut to a flashback where they remember a happy moment, only to then return to the moment of their death.
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openInserted into Historical Footage but of another movie Live Action TV
If someone is inserted into footage of an existing film, does that count as inserted into Historical Footage?
openClone Face Turn Live Action TV
I can only think of one example from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; one of the series recurring villains is the Vorta Weyoun, who acts as a sort of admin for the Dominion. Like all Vorta, he is a clone, but after the 5th clone is killed, Weyoun 6 is born with misgivings about the war and makes moves to defect to the Federation, in the hopes of putting an end to hostilities. All other incarnations of Weyoun are straight-up evil and sadistic.
Is there a trope here for the one "good" member of an evil line of clones?
openCop Avenges Relative Live Action TV
Is there a trope for when a character whose motivation for becoming a police officer is to investigate the death of a loved one who died in suspicious circumstances?
openRepressing Anger Makes You Sick Live Action TV
The Simpsons, Gumball, and Malcolm in the Middle all had this sort of plot: Main character has to repress general awfulness for some reason, and though people like the nicer self better, holding in the snark makes them physically ill.
openLaw-abiding tv show Live Action TV
I'm not talking about "law abiding citizen", where it's limited to single people. I'm talking about portraying the law as an effective way to deal with police procedurals. The cops follow the law, they don't let the suspect make a false confession without evidence, they don't enter the house of a suspect without a search warrant, something along those lines.
If it was the trope mentioned above, it would be just an exception to the "behavior" of the tv series. I'm talking about the general structure of the tv series. I'm talking of the fact that the tv series itself is what makes its characters behave that way, and I'm looking for a series that doesn't have this. At least mostly.
openI Love Them (For This Episode) Live Action TV
I’m sure this already exists, but what’s the trope for when a show has a guest star, and it suddenly turns out that a character is a huge fan of said guest, even though it had never come up before? For example, the Violent Femmes guest starred in an episode of Sabrina the Teenage Witch; the plot centered around Sabrina being one of their biggest fans, even though she had never once talked about them previously (and would never talk about them again once the episode was over).

An airplane pilot is fired from one company for cause, and hired by an other company. The first company, however, never informed the second company about the reason they fired him out of fear that the pilot would sue them.