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openEntangling Root Attack
An attack where roots come up from the ground to harm/trap/drain/all-of-the-above a target.
Characters with a Green Thumb or When Trees Attack are common users of this ability, but it isn't exclusive to them.
Seen with Keepers in WarCraft III using Entangling Roots and it's part of the Ranger skill tree in Avowed using Tanglefoot. Almost certainly others too.
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.
openSame Product Different Package
A wide array of products is revealed to actually be the exact same with different packaging / prices. Not New Look, Same Great Taste! since the point there is that the product is the same.
Basically, this image:
There was a YA book set in the Revolutionary War where a man sold the same kind of scissors but one at ten times the price, freely admitting that he let customers believe the expensive one was better.
Edited by Chabal2openSomething that happened technically before the movie release Film
Netflix film "A House With Dynamite" events occurs in July 2025 (as long as a reenaction of the Battle of Gettysburg is taking place and is mentioned is the 162nd reenactment) so, what trope applies here? Present Day Past or Next Sunday A.D. ?
openInternet Slang
This character speaks entirely in internet slang. What trope is this?
Here's an example I found
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openDamaged Jetpack Defeat
A character who's either using a jetpack or wearing one is defeated by someone damaging the jetpack, resulting in the character flying around uncontrollably until they smack into something, the jetpack explodes, or the jetpack stops working in mid-air, resulting in a Disney Villain Death.
openSay something in one language then say the translation in a different one.
I think it's like Parrot Exposition? But it's not, and it's not quite Department of Redundancy Department either, which has this?
- Shakugan no Shana: "It's called a school festival. It's a festival organized by the school.
◊"note This is an artifact of translation, as the speaker uses three different words for "school", "festival" and "school festival."
I'm trying to look for something for this example:
- Thud!:
Ardent rattled off a sentence in staccato dwarfish too fast for Vimes to catch it, and then translated, 'wishy-washy. Dangerously liberal. Shallow. He has seen the light.'
open"Just In case" what ends up happening Live Action TV
On a plane which will crash on takeoff, one of the pilots says:
openReal Time Menu Based Combat
Basicslly a fusion of real time combat and turn based RP Gs combat where the combat is in real time but all of your attacks are based on choosing options from a menu rather than just pressing a button. Like Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch or the new Pokémon game.
Edited by BackSet1openCame into some money
I've seen this as a common set up in sitcoms where someone will get a lot of money. Either they'll spend it one something big that will kick off the episode's plot, or everyone will debate over how the money will be spent.
In American Dad there was an episode where Stan got a bonus from the CIA. Francine hopes he'll spend the money to fund a small business she's been hoping to start, but he just spends it on himself. Francine ends up stealing the money and using it to start the business.
In The Office there was an episode where they discover there's a surplus in the budget that must be spent. There's a debate over whether it should be spent on a new copier or on chairs.
openNew Season, New Logo Western Animation
In a series with multiple seasons, each season has its own title logo with a narrative-related meaning, but doesn't necessarily change the series' title or have a particular subtitle á la New Season, New Name.
Hazbin Hotel comes to mind as an example.
openPlot-irrelevant royalty
When a character’s royal status has little to no bearing on the story to the point where you could cut it out and nothing would change.
Edited by Star-LadyopenA gag where someone poses exactly like something next to them in someone's (including our) POV Web Original
Only putting Web Original because of this one scene. I'm sure there are loads of such instances.
open"Walking Down the Neon Street" Montage
The best way to show the characters' investigation in dark alleys of City Noir? Just make a montage of them walking down the street, passing by various neons and signboard which are meant to represent places they visited. Done to death in old crime fiction and of often parodied.
Edited by AlkochochlikopenProfessional 0, Amateur 1
Alice is very experienced at her job, Bob is completely out of his depth. And yet due to Rule of Funny, everything Bob does works out perfectly while Alice's by-the-book / Taught by Experience approach fails repeatedly.
e.g. Alice and Bob are tasked with bugging Charlie's apartment. Alice puts bugs that are near-invisible, even painting them and putting dust over them so they'll go unnoticed; Bob puts a literal handheld camcorder and points it at Charlie's desk with an obvious [REC] light.
Every single one of Alice's bugs gets found, either by coincidence or because Charlie thinks "if I were to put an invisible bug, where would I put it?" along the same lines as Alice, while Bob's Incredibly Obvious Bug goes unnoticed or "huh, I guess the janitor left a camcorder to charge, better not touch it".
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.
openOh no, I'm turning into you!
Do we have a trope for when Alice does something or exhibits traits that we might tend to associate with Bob (for example, if Bob is incredibly awkward and Alice has an awkward moment, or if he's given to looking on the bright side constantly, and Alice finds herself being optimistic despite herself), and she follows it up with something like 'oh no, I'm turning into Bob!'

Is there a trope for when a scene starts with the characters in the middle of a conversation? It'll often be Played for Laughs, as the viewer won't have the full context.