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openAPP Black and Green = Poison?
Is there an association of characters with a black and green colour scheme having a toxic presence?
Eg: Raishan for Vox Machina and Nergal from Warhammer 40k
And are there enough counterexamples to negate that association?
Eg: Shego from Kim Possible
openIs this an example of Diegetic Soundtrack Usage?
In a 1990 episode of The Generation Game, a game is called Music, Music, Music. Five familiar music pieces are played - the teams have to guess the instrument. The last song played is an instrumental version of The Generation Game theme song, which the presenter Bruce Forsyth is heard singing along to deeply. This is an unscripted example (not a work of fiction), so does this count as an example?
openDouble agent forced to do evil Literature
In the Harry Potter series, Snape is a double agent against Lord Voldemort. One fanfiction says that as part of this role, he was forced to do terrible things such as torture the Minister of Magic for information on where Harry is being hidden.
openBook edition with movie art Literature
Is there a trope for, when a book receives The Film of the Book or another adaptation, the book is reissued as a tie-in with the movie’s poster or artwork as cover art?
openSame story from a different point of view
In the original Harry Potter books, Snape is a teacher in the school where the protagonists are students. He is, at times, an apparent villain, but is ultimately proven to be good. I read a fanfiction biography of him, which naturally describes many of the events from the books from his point of view. Is there a trope for this?
openWilful denial of family connections
Alice has a powerful or influential family member. Instead of taking advantage of this influential connection, she denies her heritage and tries to find success on her own merits.
Is this a trope in and of itself, or is it just Playing with a Trope version of Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!?
openFails to recognize his own name
A child who was previously only referred to on Middle Name Basis goes to school for the first time and fails to recognize his first name.
openI'm not a kid
A kid (or someone who is mistaken for one) is treated as such and this is the verbal response to the accusation. Often than not, an action, usually reckless, to prove otherwise follows. Essentially a response to the Just a Kid trope.
Edited by Doujinguy567openTwo former rivals/enemies eventually express respect for each other
Is there a trope when two characters who spent the whole story (movie/TV series/novel/play) being antagonistic, oppositive or just facing a problem through different approaches, eventually sit together and show that they learned to understand each other. The specific example is that of the television miniseries Chernobyl (2019): at the end Scherbina, the USSR party man, expresses regret for having served a government that in the end proved to give more importance to its pride and image than to the lives of its citizens, declaring that he only managed to stay alongside people like Legasov, the scientist, who instead being more capable of understanding that knowing when to do the right thing is more important, are the men who matter; Legasov, however, replies that he acted only on the basis of the scientific knowledge that many other scientists have, and therefore many others could have come to Chernobyl and given the same suggestions on how to contain the disaster, but what Scherbina did, that is organizing the operations, finding every available resource (moon rovers, 50,000 tons of sand and boron), convincing divers to carry out an almost certainly suicidal but necessary mission is something that no one else could have done, so Scherbina is the one that mattered most!
Edited by NURJIN915openHow would you describe these wine abilities
•Can turn any liquid into wine.
•Can enter your mind and influence you if you were to drink his wine like his cigarettes. Can send cause hallucinations, euphoria, and alter and manipulate your perception.
•Has explosive properties if lit up.
•Can conjure up his wine goblet in his hand.
Edited by Anchor173openAcceptable Evil
An objectively evil system is maintained, with the justification that it can be used on the deserving no matter how many undeserving it affects.
For instance, a medieval lord who encourages literacy, education, medicine, art and culture, etc. among the commoners of his lands. He also maintains the slave trade so he can use it to punish the worst offenders (murderers, traitors, rapists etc.).
openDon't Want You Fired, Just Gone
Bob has been getting on his coworker Alice's nerves for a while. Finally there's a confrontation, and Bob accuses Alice of wanting him fired. Alice sighs and denies this... but then says that she wouldn't mind either: she doesn't care if Bob is moved to another team, fired, or even promoted: she just wants to not have to deal with him and his issues anymore.
Edited by Chabal2openFake Hit Becomes Real
Bob has survived an attempt on his life. Several more happen, but while he was rather blasé about the first one, he's a Nervous Wreck after the others. It turns out that he faked the first attempt, but now people are genuinely trying to kill him and he doesn't know why.
In one case, Bob originally set up the fake hit against him to disguise his murdering his employee Charlie (to avoid Charlie finding out about Bob's affair with Charlie's wife) by making it look like Charlie was murdered by mistake. However, since Bob had conspicuously set up the meeting in disguise in a Bad Guy Bar, plenty of people overheard and figure there's money to be made in killing Bob.
In another, Bob used the Professional Killer Alice's Calling Card to make the "hit" more convincing. Alice, unhappy that Bob associated her with a failed hit, starts just missing Bob to teach him a lesson before finally killing him.
openThe minion fights back
Among a party of adventurers, one of them is a low-level "minion" whose only real role is to do the menial stuff the party can't be bothered to deal with like making food, maintaining their gear, and being abused when the party has nothing better to do. One of these roles is to go into low-level dungeons that the party can't be bothered to deal with to farm items from monsters that only appear in those dungeons, and where the trope comes in is that all that dungeon-delving allows the minion to gain enough experience, skills, and gear to turn the tables on the party, quickly knocking them down a peg hard enough that nothing they do can prevent their former minion from taking all their high-level gear and abandoning them.note And as a bonus, the loss of both their gear and their minion means they can't advance any further without doing the very things they made the minion do.
openEvil is Classy
Wondering if there's a kind of supertrope or general trope referring to evil characters being gentlemanly and polite. Not just in terms of appearance like Sharp-Dressed Man (it doesn't even have to be Always Male), but in terms of personality and themes as well. For example, a evil classy character's theme song having piano or sax in it.
openNever Done Never Forgotten
A variant of tropes like Once Done, Never Forgotten and Remember When You Blew Up a Sun? where people keep bringing up a character's past actions, except that he never performed those actions in the first place, or he did something related and the rumor mill did the rest. Usually Played for Laughs, but can easily be used for drama as well.
e.g. Bob is believed to be a Nazi Grandpa and a war criminal. However, it turns out while he was a criminal during wartime, he robbed a bank in 1943 and had nothing to do with actual war crimes.
openNature Hater
The Opposite of a Nature Lover? But, not to the extremes of an Ecocidal Antagonist. Like, somebody who spends all their time indoors and/or holds the opinion that every Camping Episode is a Horrible Camping Trip?
Would that just be a Downplayed Ecocidal Antagonist?

I've seen this mentioned a lot in media analysis and I was wondering if we have a trope for this: In a cast that's mostly homogeneous (like being all the same race or same gender), the villain will be someone who doesn't fit that classification.