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openComic characters reacts to shock as if punched (hat crushed over head, flips over) Print Comic
This is an older trope from comic strips. The punch line has A making a scathing verbal comeback to B or otherwise shocking or discomfiting B, and the way that this is shown is some sort of physical consequence as if A had physically punched B, even though B wasn't actually touched. For example, B's hat is suddenly crushed onto his head as if A had pounded on the top of it, or B physically flips over.
Hat example: https://9gag.com/gag/aWxqorZ
Flipping upside down example: https://www.the-solute.com/my-anxieties-have-anxieties-the-year-of-the-month-in-peanuts/
openGiving someone else's name? Print Comic
Do we have one where a character, when asked their name by someone who's grateful to them ("I'd like to name my child after you", etc.), gives someone else's name instead? I usually see this in superhero stories.
openShould have read the damn report Print Comic
The backstory for the Captain America villain William Burnside involves him discovering that the Nazi spy who assassinated Dr. Erskine, the man whose Super Serum formula created Captain America, had actually copied the formula and sent it to his superiors before he died assassinating Erskine and destroying his lab, thus preventing America from creating an entire army of super soldiers like they planned. However, his Nazi superiors never read his report and instead just stuck it in their filing, thus preventing them from using the Super Serum too. Does anyone know if we have a trope to describe this sort of self-sabotaging bureaucratic/managerial incompetence?
openPanel-To-Panel Interaction Print Comic
A type of Mind Screw and Stable Time Loop where a character in a comic strip is able to interact with adjacent panels.
Usually to take something they already have from the panel below (which is also their imminent future) so they have two sets of the thing, at least until that panel where the original is taken by the past version. Or a bottom-paneler tossing something up to their top-panel past self.
openIs this an example of BugWar? Print Comic
Image Comics began releasing a mini-series called Bug Wars in which a human teen discovers his dead father's backyard is home to multiple societies of tiny humanoids called "Mytes" who live alongside (and sometimes interbreed with) insects, frequently using them as beasts of burden and war. In particular, the first issue opens with a full-scale war between barbarian hordes of beetle riders and one of the ant nation-states, with both sides using bugs as battle-beasts. Is this a valid example of the Bug War trope?
openA (back)story is featured in supplementary material before the actual work Print Comic
The Malaysian-animated series BoBoiBoy had a monthly series of magazines that I'm making a page for. Sometimes, stories or characters that first appeared in said comic magazines were later welded with the show (one such example on Canon Immigrant for Nut, in the "Animation" folder).
What trope would fit for that, but applied to a story? In two of the earliest issues, there was a short comic called "Battle Robot Probe" (Part 1
, Part 2
) which is the backstory of how the villain, Adu Du, found his Robot Buddy, Probe. Some time later, the comic was used verbatim (now with color) in the show (like an official comic dub in an episode) to explain Probe's backstory
.
openOffered a cure, but tricked Print Comic
I've been rewatching old Death Battle episodes and something caught my eye on the Deadpool/Deathstroke episode:
Wiz: Facing the inevitability of death, Wade gave up. He abandoned his heroic dreams, stopped his chemo treatments, and dumped his girlfriend to free her from the burden of a man doomed to die.
Boomstick: Doomed, until he was offered a cure by Department K (...) And by cure, I mean he actually was handed over to the Weapon X program
In other words, Deadpool was offered a cure for his cancer, but was tricked and became an unwilling test subject for department K.
openA trope where a character realize they are descendants to a famous person Print Comic
Can you help me find a trope which is used for a reveal where the main character realize they are descendants of a famous person, like the final volume of Cleopatra in Space that it's revealed that both Cleopatra and her descendant Yosira are descendants of Kebechet who is also Anubis' daughter.
And will it be considered Tomato in the Mirror ?
openHelp me identify few tropes Print Comic
Excuse me, I would like to ask anyone, if they could help me identify few tropes in other to add them for the tvtrope pages of the two graphic novel
- Which trope has a person who was cursed or turn into an evil monster is killed by their loved one and said their last words “Thank you” before reverting back to normal in death ? For example in the episode of Codename: Kids Next Door Operation: D.O.G.H.O.U.S.E., after Numbuh Four defeated the weredog Valerie, she said “Thank you” before she and the other weredogs revert themselves back to normal, in the episode of Regular Show Skunked where the villainous wereskunk after being defeated returns to normal and said “Thank you” before he loses consciousness and in the final volume of Cleopatra in Space where the villain Octavian (formerly Cleo’s friend Gozi) is killed by Cleo with the Sword of Kebechet and said his last words “Thank you” before being reduced to dust.
- Which trope has an alien missing their home planet ? For Example E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the main character ET misses his home planet and in the final volume of Making Friends Together Forever has Mortha a moon goblin who disguised herself as Linda Dany’s mom missing her home world, the Moon.
- Which is the trope where a character dreams of having an object or vehicle to travel like a convertible ? For example, Ralphie from A Christmas Story wanted a BB gun and Mortha in the final volume of Making Friends Together Forever wanted a Moon Yacht.
- Which is a trope where someone doesn’t feel like watching their favorite show anymore? Like for example in the final volume of Making Friends Together Forever, Dany after dealing with the aftermath from the previous volume no longer feels like watching Solar Sisters.
- Which is a trope where someone had a crush on another person ? For Example Danny Phantom, Danny had a crush on Paulina and in the final volume of Making Friends Together Forever, Daphne st cloud had a crush on Prince Neptune.
openGrounding Character Print Comic
What do you call the character in a grand universe sized adventure where all life is in danger, but the character helps keep you grounded. With so much going on, they are they reminder of what the little things are to be lost. An example I can think of is during world saving adventures, Spider-Man still takes time to save the little guy, this keeping us grounded.
open"two dogs strive for a bone, a third runs away with it" Print Comic
Is there a trope for such phrase, when a third party is oppurtunist and wins the game, and the rest looses?
"The Smerfolymippic Games" used this, but I don't think me giving examples is necessary.
openJustice League Parodies Print Comic
So, there are tropes for parodies of characters within the Justice League, such as Captain Fishman, Superman Substitute, and Batman Parody, but what about a parody of the League as a whole? The Seven from The Boys (2019) and its comic are obvious examples, as are the Squadron Supreme from Marvel Comics, and I'm like 80% sure The Fairly OddParents! had a parody called "Power Pals" or something of the sort? Does this seem trope-worthy? Maybe something under a title like "A Justice League of Our Own"?
Edited by PhyrexianAjani95openWhat is the trope where something said behind someone's back is repeated by a child in front of them Print Comic
Not in Front of the Kid! covers swear words but what trope covers more G-Rated insults that another person doesn't want repeated in front of another person when a kid says it? This is a very common gag is the US Dennis The Menace strip but I'm not sure what trope that fits.
openBlack Hole Stomach Print Comic
A character's blessed with a metabolism that allows him to be a Big Eater and not gain weight.
Usually a comedy trope that highlights the character as a glutton without worrying about the consequences, making other people jealous of this "power" (especially if we're talking about a woman with an attractive lean figure).
But, also a form of Wish Fulfilment where characters will indulge in junk food because that's cool and modern, but everyone on TV is attractive regardless. "Friends" Rent Control applied to food.
openPeople sit on logs Print Comic
In a representation of their rustic innocence and relationship with nature, people in Arcadia use a fallen log as a makeshift bench. When it comes to dates, it can also mean isolation from other people (and privacy), as well as showing couples getting more acquainted by sitting closer and closer to each other with each passing date.
openSlow burn roaring rampage of revenge Print Comic
During WWI a British corporal is wrongly shot at dawn for cowardice. During the interbellum, a soldier whose life he saved seeks revenge for this by killing the officers present at the corporal's court-martial.
openMarvel Silver Age Title Parody/Homage Print Comic
The often boisterous and grandiose titles used for superhero comics issues (and parodies thereof), usually associated with copy by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, who were famous for advertising their comics as epic sagas (including by the very use of the word "saga"). For instance:
- The Menace of (Supervillain)!
- Enter... (Supervillain)!
- The Coming of (Supervillain)!
- Lo, There Shall be a(n) X!
- The Merciless (Supervillain)!
- A (Supervillain) Rises!
- A (Supervillain) Walks Among Us!
- The Mysterious (Supervillain)!
- Man or (Superhero name)?
- The Dreaded (Supervillain)!
- Behold! A (mysterious object or creature)!
- In the Clutches of (Supervillain)!
- Beware the (Supervillain)!
- The Coming of (Supervillain)!
- The (Startling) Saga of (Superhero)!
- When Strikes the (Supervillain)!
- Where Strikes the (Supervillain)!
- This Man... This (creature the superhero is based on)!
- Where Lurks the (Supervillain)?
- His Mission: X!
- Be This the End of (Superhero)?
- (Superhero) No More!
- At the Mercy of (Supervillain)!
- (Superhero), X! (Where X is killer, slave, villain, monster, et cetera)
- The Power of...(Supervillain)!
- The Man Called...(Supervillain)!
- Lo, this (Supervillain)!
- If this be/Be This X?
And so on...
openThe funnies pages Print Comic
A style of golden era comic (usually revolving around small, cute cartoon animals) where it complies a bunch of comedy one shot comics into one book. Keyword is "funnies".

I've seen this type of splash page, frame, poster and/or fanart where many characters (usually the entire cast) reach their hands into the center or towards the main characters, usually as a representation of everyone lending their help for the finale. Do we have anything like that? Closest thing I can find is Team Hand-Stack.
Here
's an example from the Fullmetal Alchemist manga, and here
's an example of Baldur's Gate III fanart