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openThird Semester / off term Live Action TV
Do we have this one already?
Most schools in fictionland and in Real Life have at least some time off. Sometimes it's only a month, other times it's several. The time of year often varies - sometimes it's at the end of the Calendar Year, or it's Summer.
However, sometimes, a character may be required to go to school during the school break. There are many possible reasons for this - maybe due to an illness they couldn't go to class and were too far behind. Or maybe they are Book Dumb and are at risk of being Held Back in School, so they sacrifice most of if not all of their holiday break(s) to make up their missed work and material. Or maybe they cut too much school.
As a result, there's a certain stigma about having to attend school during a holiday - most Summer School (in North America) programs are known for being where the "stupid kids" go and thus Acceptable Targets. While it may not always appear in person during the work, the specter of it may be the motivating factor of the episode where our character has to study. This carries less of a stigma in higher education. A kid in high school in school over the holiday will be laughed at and often portrayed as dumb - whereas a college or university student will be portrayed much more responsibly for choosing to take summer classes.
Sometimes, however, it's actually done for a different purpose - sometimes there may be a school program that runs during the holiday - such as Band Camp.
Examples that I can think of:
- An episode of Arthur had Mr. Ratburn ask Arthur to give an envelope to his mother. Francine of course puts the idea in his head that he needs to go to summer school, cuing an Imagine Spot showing how dreadful summer school is.
- I think this was a fear that Doug had once.
- In Big Fat Liar, the main character has to go to summer school due to not being able to present an assignment in time. Sure enough it is presented negatively.
- MAD Magazine has made fun of kids in summer school - which is one of the reasons this stigma exists.
openStory arc characters / villain tropes? Live Action TV
Do we have this one?
On Troperia with Alice & Bob, Season 4 has a new Story Arc and introduces new characters Kate, Rachael and Julie, a Girl Posse of Alpha Bitch characters who are supposed to be the antagonists, but in reality they're not even that threatening. They're not a failure at it, but compared to Season 1, 2 and 3 whose antagonists were City Threat on the Sliding Scale of Antagonist Vileness, these come in as a Local Area Threat and have goals that aren't as horrifying as the previous season's villains.
In terms of antagonist vileness, well, Kate is an Anti-Villain at worst due to being forced into the girl posse and she's only doing it for the money so she can move out of the city, but Rachael and Julie fall into a villainous version of The Hedonist. Rachael is The Cracker who wants a girlfriend so she can be the Dark Mistress and appears sane.
They're only there for Season 4 and not given a mention in Season 5 or Season 6, with not even a Continuity Nod.
I thought Arc Villain could apply, but they're not Recurring Character as they're in it for one season, so what trope does apply to a single-season group of characters?
Equally, would Harmless Villain fit the trope or not for the Girl Posse or another trope?
What sort of tropes in terms of villainy would fit Rachael and Julie, in terms of villain and characterization tropes?
openSurvivalist Trope for character? Live Action TV
Is there an Inverted Trope of Crazy Survivalist, i.e. the survivalist is sane and he's actually useful and not seen as craxy? Sort of like the survivalist being a Chekhov's Gunman.
Do we have this one?
openWatch and Learn, Crash and Burn Live Action TV
What about this one?
Usually seen in a comedic scene, a lovable but overly-confident character wants to display his skill to another character (can be something like his appeal to the opposite sex by asking out someone on a date), only to fail disastrously to comic effect.
One good example is Larry Appleton on Perfect Strangers who often said the phrase, "watch and learn" to his cousin Balki.
openNo Title Live Action TV
There was a show and in an episode a guy is getting getting abducted by a woman.and she ties him to a bed I think and she dresses up as a nurse in one seance she is blonde and she has him bath with handcuffs on his feet and his woman believes he is lost or dead something like that
openNot Quite an Achilles Heel Live Action TV
I can't think of any examples of this which don't blur the lines of fiction and reality, but there has been a couple of examples of it in Professional Wrestling.
It's where there is a character who is portrayed as near invulnerable. See basically Immune to Bullets. Nothing can affect this guy... until he eats a peanut the wrong way and chokes and dies. It's LIKE achilles heel, except purely accidental and usually the doing of the character themselves. Something similar did happen in an episode of Xena: Warrior princess where a God-Character was completely invulnerable... except to himself. He was able to kill himself after being tricked into stabbing himself. That sort of thing. Would it be a sort of thing like "Only I May Kill Me"? or what?? But more importantly, I'm wondering for instances where it is not ONLY a case of "Only I May Kill Me", but it's combined with "Weaksauce Weakness"
I just realized, "Only I May Kill Me" is not an actual listed trope. It probably should be.
Any Ideas?
Edited by SBMShaneomaniacopenRude Photographer Live Action TV
The photographer is rude and abrupt. He suddenly fires people, complains about the artists working with him, and endlessly yells at the crew. He is only nice to the model, but exclusively says things like "that's it baby" and "work it."
openAlternate History trope? Live Action TV
Is there a trope (other than Sliding Scale of Alternate History Plausibility) where a work's Alternate History feels realistic and plausible for the era, sort of like how Original Flavour is for relation to canon in Fan Fic?
I saw Original Flavour mentioned at WebOriginal.Dirty Laundry An Alternate1980s but aren't sure if it applies to Alternate History?
openSplit personality trope for situation? Live Action TV
Do we have this one? Checking before I make a TLP!
Alice (a redhead - this is important to the plot, see below) has a Split Personality and has the following four split personalities:
- Janine, a Fiery Redhead who's not actually evil, just over-exuberant and passionate.
- Michelle, a No Celebrities Were Harmed version of Amy Adams who's virtually similar to Amy Adams
- Danielle, an Awesome Aussie who's a Girly Girl and hates being called a tomboy.
- Becky, an American-Canadian Intrepid Reporter who's as Girly Girl as possible but noted for Kicking Ass in All Her Finery.
She can switch to whichever Split Personality is relevant for the situation, and they all are aware of one another, but she doesn't seem to suffer Alternate Identity Amnesia.
Is there a Split Personality Tropes trope about being able to get the right split personality for the situation?
openStarting training from the beginning Live Action TV
I'm looking for a trope which involves a martial arts teacher forcing his students to abandon what they already know up to that point and start over from the very beginning.
Edited by Tenma-YuukiopenTerrible Business Idea Live Action TV
Is there a trope for when a Cloudcuckoolander has one (or several) ideas for inventions of businesses that are way too impractical, ridiculous, silly or unnecessary to make any profit?
I'm thinking guys like Kramer from Seinfeld who came up with car periscopes, rubber oil bags and so on.
Not quite a Bungling Inventor since it's not sci-fi, but definitely played for laughs.
openPsych - Stalling Live Action TV
From Season 3 Episode 10: Six Feet Under the Sea (Video Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko2C4fCpRck)
Is this considered the "Mathematician's Answer" trope?
-=Script=-
Shawn: And I've been doing something I like to call "Stalling" and Rutger Hauer calls "Schtalling"
Bad Guy: Why?
Gus: Because he's Dutch.
Bad Guy: No, why are you stalling?
Edited by styledevopen"That's our (name)!" Live Action TV
You know that corny old sitcom cliche where a character says something like "That's our (name)!" when another character does something funny?
Edited by MFLuderopenTurning off the light switch while someone else is in the room Live Action TV
Is there a trope for a character doing something like walking out of a room (usually with someone else) and turning the lights off, humiliating the character who's still in the room (since they apparently forgot he existed)?
Doesn't have to be that exact scenario - anything where a character is humiliated by someone else (accidentally) forgetting about him. Not buying enough food for him, not mentioning him in a list of friends, et cetera.
openExpect unexpected Live Action TV
When add or trailer say to you to expect unexpected or claims that you will not expect what will come in future episode, it can realy be anything because you are forced to get rid of all expectations because you expect it not to be what you expect it to be,therefor in some sense you really did not expect even if it was something you would otherwise expect. And you are traped in paradox. Search for unexpected hanging paradox as special example for this.
openFourth wall trope? Live Action TV
Do we have this one?
I was reading Sliding Scale of Fourth Wall Hardness and wondered what trope applies to this situation:
On Troperia: Adventures of Alice and Bob, Alice declares she's been secretly in love with the creator of the show for the past three years (Lampshade Hanging about the show's run??), and Bob says he wishes he could go out for a beer with the creator of the show.
Other than No Fourth Wall and Noticing the Fourth Wall, are there any tropes for where the characters actually discuss the creator and treat them as if they were a person In-Universe?
Edited by Merseyuser1openNo-one really knows the identity of the Big Bad? Live Action TV
Do we have this one / what one is this?
In a superhero series a la Runaways (2017), the Big Bad that had been around for Season 1, 2, and 3 is eventually found to be a Collective Identity but no one really knows who the Big Bad is.
openDaddy's Boy or Mommy's Girl Live Action TV
I know there are tropes for Daddy's Girl and Momma's Boy, but what if there were parents of the same sex who do everything for their child. For example, a boy who has a dad who treats him as if he cannot do things on his own or that well yet (for example, Nemo's father Merlin), or similarly, a girl who has that type of relationship with her mother, I know from the parents ends, the parents are an Overprotective Dad and a My Beloved Smother, but what would you call the relationships? Daddy's Boy, Mommy's Girl? Any ideas? Thanks.
openJudge trope? Live Action TV
I'm sure I've seen this trope before, but is there a trope for a stock portrayal of a judge (wig, robes, gavel banging loudly, "Order in the Court") and Jerkass behavior? Is there a stock judge portrayal trope?
Equally - is there a trope for when, in a series, for example, a Police Procedural, a judge is nearly always portrayed as nice and good, even though their job isn't. Good Is Not Nice could fit but isn't that more about personality rather than the role, and Punch-Clock Villain doesn't fit the job's definition; isn't that more Designated Villain? Or is that trope description TLP-worthy?
Finally, and this comes from [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pasdDicu0Ms
this video]] (a dance music video - not that NSFW), is there any trope for where a judge is portrayed as hot, and where cops are portrayed as Ms. Fanservice (Fair Cop could fit), but here, in this example, the cops are only there as Fanservice.
Sorry if this is too many tropes, trying to get one theme (judges) into Trope Finder!

So far I've seen a lot of tv shows moving towards the final episode having a character write a book with the tv show's title.
Examples:
I'm assuming Jane the Virgin is doing this because the last episode I saw (Season 4 Finale) had her talking about throwing all her half-finished memoirs into one book.
Very curious, because this sub-trope seems to be coming up more and more. I don't know why, maybe its a quick way to give closure?
Edited by donteatrawhagis