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openThe hero gets beaten up on their first crimefighting outing Print Comic
A trope where the hero goes after a gang of criminals or evildoers for the first time, and ends up getting severely beaten up due to their inexperience. Like Hank's first time as the Golden Man of Bravery in The Shadow Hero, where he tries to save who he perceives to be a helpless, innocent woman from a gang of thugs, but ends up getting stomped and has to be rescued by the woman he thought he was saving.
openNo Stacked Buffs Print Comic
By slamming their power rings together TNT and Dan the Dyna-mite can create a small explosion which gives them superpowers for a brief time.
They cannot slam their rings together over and over to get more powerful, nor can they slam their rings together more than once a day.
Therefore they cannot slam a stack, unless it's of Pringles.
open"Kill them now or never!" Print Comic
This is when the villian is captured or weakened and the side characters beg the hero to kill the villain.
Happened in One-Punch Man Webcomic
And in the Invincible #60, where his brother begged to kill a villain too.
The hero usually either refuses to do so or really thinks about it.
openTropes about metaphycial seperation? Print Comic
Fantastic Four (2022): Reed Richards had plunged the Baxter Building (which the FF were not in, but their kids were) and the surrounding area a single year into the future. Much of the story afterwards dealing with the Richards family grappling with the fact that they are unable to see their kids until the building returns.
Fire Emblem Heroes: the eponymous goddess of the antagonistic Embla empire has the ability to seal away areas into nothingness.
Want to ask if there is an umbrella concept for these disparate cases specially around the idea of separation or severance.
openRecognition Right Before Death Print Comic
When a character who is brainwashed recognizes the character right before death. An example of this that I remember is Link's Dragon in the Ocarina of Time manga.
open"He's sure to win because he's the main character!" Print Comic
I'm making the page for the crossover comic between BoBoiBoy Galaxy and Lawak Kampus, there may be more than one query for this work.
Aditas says that Vanness is sure to win the football game because the latter is the main character of Lawak Kampus. I wouldn't think this to be Plot Armor, which is for (typically) main characters being most likely to have their life preserved.
If nothing goes for this, good old Breaking the Fourth Wall will do it.
openAnti-Consumerism Aesop Print Comic
The moral of a story is it's bad to spend your money (or your parents' money) on expensive products, you are being fooled by advertisers into buying stuff you don't need and won't make you happy. Except, of course, the book/movie/game that's telling you that.
Also comes in the form of an ad: Buy our product, and you'll be free from the consumerist lifestyle of having other people asking you to buy their product.
openAbrupt anatomical changes Print Comic
Is there a trope to describe a sudden biologically absurd change in character appearance within comic? Like one that happens here with Garfield's teeth: https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1989/12/08
openSequel title that adds a word to the original title. Print Comic
Do we have a trope for a sequel title that simply adds an extra word to the work the sequel follows up on?
Like this example, for instance:
- The second main issue of The Loud House adds the word "More" to the first issue's title (There Will Be Chaos), with the resulting title being There Will Be More Chaos.
openOppressed trying to be accepted by the oppressor Print Comic
A little context: in Radiant, there’s this group of Sorcerers ("Infected" people) who fight on the side of the Inquisition (who normally hunts them down) in exchange for a special treatment, with their powers partially restrained. One of them called Adriel thinks that by doing this he can improve the image of Infected people and help them get accepted by "normal" people rather than feared.
What’s the trope for that?
Edited by LyendithopenRob Liefeld's well endowed Captain America Print Comic
What trope article was this? It's like when an artist draws a character with an impossible placement of limbs, or a contorted spine, or stretched out body parts.
openExoskeleton armoured fishes. Print Comic
In Sonic the Comic there is a race of alien fish called the Drakons, that developed humanoid robot exoskeletons in order to operate on land.
What trope would best fit about the Drakons using exoskeletons because they don't try to look human or Mobian.
openThe villain asks for a duel rather than an execution Print Comic
I've just been looking through the various duel and Just Shoot Him tropes, but can't find an obvious one for this:
The villain is at gunpoint and the hero's about to execute him. Then the villain claims that would be unfair and try to persuade the hero to duel to the death instead.
Where does that fall?
Edited by Mrph1open"Bruce Wayne is Batman...'s roommate". Trope name? Print Comic
Is there a trope name for when characters in a story are unable to piece together a heroes secret identity in spite of any logical evidence pointing to that person? Even if you can accept the fact Superman can hide behind a pair of glasses, there may still be circumstantial evidence pointing to Clark Kent being Superman.
One example would be, Peter Parker is the only photographer who can get any photos of Spiderman and most of the time they are taken from impossible angles. Yet even when characters or villains bring up this connection Peter has to Spiderman, no one reasons that maybe they are one in the same. They either ignore this conclusion or come to a totally inaccurate one(e.g like the Joker does in the Lego Batman movie, though is played for comedic effect).
Is it just an extension of Paper Thin Disguise? Or is there another trope name for this type of occurrence in comics?
openStorm Drain Lucklessness Print Comic
Something small but valuable or important accidentally falls down a storm drain - think stuff like engagement rings or diamont earrings.
openTrope for when a character becomes completely unimportant Print Comic
Trope name for a character (or a group of characters) becomes less important and/or unimportant at all?
One example is where the Hole-Digging Club members in Shimeji Simulation were slightly important characters from Chapters 1 to 20, but the Hole-Digging Club itself becomes unimportant after the latter chapter.
Edited by holygrail24openMushrooms that grow on someone's head Print Comic
What is the name of the trope for a person that has mushrooms that grow on his/her head? One such example is Paras from Pokemon, which has Tochukaso mushrooms on top of it.
https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Paras_(Pokémon)
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/ShimejiSimulation
The main example mentioned above is Shijima Tsukishima from Shimeji Simulation, who has two mushrooms that appear above her head, after two years of being a recluse inside her closet. Except, they are shimeji mushrooms and are not invasive, unlike the one that Paras has in Pokemon.
Edited by holy_grail_24openCharacters who are in-universe fans of real bands, books etc. Print Comic
Prompted by Marvel Comics's Shang-Chi, who was a fan of Fleetwood Mac in a few of the 1970s stories.
It's not really a Shout-Out, is it? Is it a trope at all?

Music notes used around a character to denote that they're calm, happy, or relaxed. Primarily a comic strip trope — for example, in Garfield: His 9 Lives, in the prehistoric chapter, Garfield is shown with music notes around him before the caveman attempts to tame him, to indicate that he's relaxed.
Edited by EthanLac