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open"You came to the wrong place" "Wait!" Videogame
One character starts closing the door, saying, "You came to the wrong place" while the main character grabs the door and shouts, "Wait!"
I know I've seen this before in films and TV, but I just thought of it when playing Detroit: Become Human at the very start of the 17th chapter titled "Zlatko". It plays out almost exactly like the title of this post. Kara (one of the main characters) goes to his door, he says she's got the wrong place, and Kara holds the door open.
openIn-game item only usable at certain times of year Videogame
Warframe and Team Fortress 2 both have cosmetic items that only appear during the Halloween season and can't be equipped outside that time. Is that an existing trope? Is that a common enough practice to be a trope?
openMidgame story branch switch option Videogame
In a video game with opposing sides, you are offered the choice once within the story to change your allegiance (so neither a floating morality scale nor a choice that can be made and reversed freely at any point). If you accept the offer, you will continue on the storyline path of the other side. Examples that come to my mind are Heroes of Might and Magic 2 and the largest sidequest in Drakensang.
Do we have a trope for that already?
openContinuation for a Mod of a game that makes it keep going? Videogame
Plants vs. Zombies 2: Reflourished 's main premise, in it's own words, is "What if PvZ2 didn't end at Modern Day? What if it kept getting new worlds, what if it just.. kept going?"
While it does have new content that isn't this, a big difference between it and mods like Plants vs. Zombies 2 ECLISE and Plants vs. Zombies 2: Alternate UniverZ is that the original content (well the original worlds, there's no Arena or Penny's pursuit) are pretty untouched, with the focus being on new worlds and content, while other mods don't keep the original worlds intact, replacing the original levels with their own.
Basically if vanilla Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time, is like a TV show, a lot of mods are like a rewrite/au of the show, while Reflourished is a series of fanmade seasons taking place after the official ones and spinoffs.
Does this count as Continuation? Since it's not a fanfic but a mod and it's not a sequel, but it is a literally continuation of the original game?
Edited by DromeoopenLast Level, New Element Videogame
Sort of a counterpart to Last Episode, New Character, where the final level of a video game introduces a new element not seen anywhere else.
openRepower shuffling Videogame
In a game that has a temporary depowering sequence, or when the sequel starts with a complete depowering of the player's abilities. While the end result of the available powers is mostly the same, The repowering section is in a significantly different order. This often leads to unique challenges due to lacking something you've come to take for granted.
Eg. Supraland Crash begins with taking away all your equipment from the original campaign, including your basic sword, leaving you with only stomp boots to attack enemies and solve puzzles.
In the Void Stranger EX campaign, you collect the relics in reverse order.
openBroadcast Version of Newspaper Backstory? Videogame
I’m looking for a version of Newspaper Backstory where the exposition is given by a television news reporter, not a newspaper. Like a reporter in episode one of Dispatch explaining the history of the superhero Mecha Man.
openDesign and mechanic integration Videogame
Is there a trope for when a character design changes due to their mechanics?
For example:
- Linzer Cookie's skill has her gain deduction stacks instead of attacking. This is visually indicated by the number of scribbles that surround her.
- Buttermilk Cookie enters Hour of Reckoning state after using his special skill. While in that state, his halo becomes jagged and black.
openMinimal singleplayer mode Videogame
An inversion of Misbegotten Multiplayer Mode - a game that is by all means meant to be played in multiplayer mode, but has a halfhearted singleplayer option tacked on (in extreme cases it may not be more than an extended tutorial), so that it can't be accused of being online-exclusive.
Do we have this one?
openAutomatic Training Videogame
The game has an option that automatically trains/levels up the character for you. You can put the game down and check on it later (in a couple of hours or so) once enough time has passed and the character has gained some EXP.
Edited by SleepingStarAikunoopenSilver Lining Side Effect Videogame
A status debuff or "negative" ability comes with a positive side effect.
openThe Revolution Will Be Commercialized Videogame
So there's plenty of MegaCorp tropes, but here I'm thinking specifically of cases where corporations unexpectedly play the role of underdogs, or feign underdog status, in a conflict against a (stronger) government of a state.
Planet Side and Planet Side 2 exemplifies this concept with the New Conglomerate (https://www.planetside2.com/empires?empire=nc)
, who while they do include freedom-loving small-timer folks against the big bad militaristic Terran Republic, are also mostly backed by greedy corporations who seek to throw off the Republic's control to entrench the wealth of the planet.
To a lesser degree, the much more obscure 2000 space trader/combat/flight sim Terminus (https://www.myabandonware.com/game/terminus-c5n)
has a plucky Mars Consortium against the United Earth League... but instead of being exploited workers like in Red Faction, the Consortium (as per the instruction manual linked to the page) "was established in 2158 by the Martian Mining Corps and other companies operating on Mars. The new organization was planned as a way to protect the economic interests of Martian businesses and to eliminate the infighting between competitors that had gone on since the first days of the planet's colonization." and "The economic boom which followed completion of the Sol Gate Network has benefitted the Consortium enormously. They have plowed large portions of their new wealth into developing their armed forces and their presence in space."
Star Craft is also worth mentioning, with the Kel-Morian Combine (https://starcraft.fandom.com/wiki/Kel-Morian_Combine)
being a "shady, corrupt corporate partnership" who backs the underdog guilds against the Terran Confederacy but also crushes miner revolts with Goliath walkers and "also banded together in order to maximize their ability to drain the resources from the numerous worlds within the Koprulu sector." Yet, the Combine is coded as salt-of-the-earth workers, or at least their military characters (rippers) are depicted as such?
Does Killzone also count? I'm not sure how the Helghast went from a colonization company into a ultranationalist posthuman race, did the corporate leaders back the rebellion or was it folded into the Helghan state?
Submarine Titans (https://www.myabandonware.com/game/submarine-titans-bea)
has a rather goofy version of this where, as per the backstory timeline,
> 2038 Ecological organizations receive massive funding increases. Effective marketing campaigns focused on their activities to protect and preserve life on Earth strike a chord with the panicked population. The major environmental organizations buy ailing major corporations and form a conglomerate with business interests that crosses all spheres. Eco Octopus, as the hybrid organization becomes known, begins following ecologically driven business strategies and experiences a sales boom as consumers feel that ‘someone is doing something’ about the crisis.
That later evolves into the Black Octopi faction by present day 2115, against the U.N. military-descended White Sharks. So it's a corporate faction, but also an environmentalist one. Alrighty.
I would go further, with more examples from obscure early '00s PC games, but I just wanted to point out that something like Gigacorp vs. Iron Coalition from Allegiance (2000) or Tri-Tachyon vs. Hegemony from Starsector isn't what I'm talking about (the Submarine Titans one might not count either): these are examples where after a civilizational collapse/calamity of some kind, a surviving megacorp is able to take on the militaristic remnant state government. So it's a conflict between polities on par with one another. As opposed to some kind of frontier war of independence undertaken by corporations trying to pass themselves off as the little guy.
Oh, and of course the Star Wars prequels do this, with the Separatists consisting mostly of megacorps! I just realized that might be the best example of this!
This would also be a sub-trope of The War of Earthly Aggression, except the revolters are (most likely) not The Moon is a Harsh Mistress-style prospectors, though amusingly in that story because they are libertarians they probably would also be for big business.
Anyway, the idea of corporations claiming to be oppressed and rebelling is just amusing. Economically-speaking, I'm not sure if it'll even make sense. War against the government is not good business. And you might have to do the unprofitable work of governing if you win.
Edited by StrategosRiskopenAscendedFanon or ShoutOut Videogame
Plants vs. Zombies 2: Reflourished, a mod of Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time, mentioned an unseen character by the name of Jeremy in its latest Thymed Event, which has been confirmed to be a reference to a Fanfic on Archive of Our Own. (its noted the work itself hasn't been canonized, but both the fanfic and the Thymed Event have a zombie called Jeremy who works for ZCorp that Miss Information knows.)
Not sure if a single character from a single fanfic that afaik isn't super well known counts as Fanon.
Edited by DromeoopenBait And Switch Sound Videogame
In the Steam Ages Part 2 trailer for Plants vs. Zombies 2: Reflourished, after the failures of Mechanic and Inventor Zombie, Zomboss gets angry and seemingly has an audible High-Pressure Emotion. The camera then pans to reveal its actually the overheating furnace of Furnace Zombie making the sound, who then blows up.
openloot tease Videogame
When a game makes (usually a rpg) makes you think you're gonna get loot, but it turns out you don't, such as a boss with no loot (in a game where bosses in the normally do), or a treasure chest that's actually empty.
openGameplay trope: One entity representing a horde Videogame
Magic: The Gathering: It has Amass keyword, which basically grows an Army of Mooks, represented in-game as a single, ever-growing Army creature.
Possible tropes: The Dividual, The Worm That Walks, I Am Legion.
Edited by ExaskliriopenBorrowed Signature Move? Videogame
We know about Borrowed Catchphrase, and Got Me Doing It, but is there such thing as a borrowed signature move? Or is that a case of Uniqueness Decay?
Edited by SleepingStarAikunoopenFanservice Monster Videogame
An enemy in a video game designed in the same way as the others, but with some noticeable female features. They're not just Monster Girls, but monsters who happen to be girls, seemingly made for the sake of Fanservice. The only games where I know this happens are Toukiden and God Eater: Oni and Aragami probably don't have a biological gender, but some of them look like human females and still have monstrous features like horns and claws (and in the case of God Eater, massive lower bodies
).

A boss fight where part of the difficulty comes from having relatively little room to operate. Especially in games where "dodging" is a key mechanic, and/or against bosses who have Area of Effect attacks that are hard to avoid in such a small space.
Didn't see anything among the Boss Battle list of tropes, so any guidance is appreciated, TIA!