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I'm looking for a trope, very common in late 1920s through early 1930s Western animation, in which the action halts for a moment as a character's face juts into the camera, for comical effect, Nightmare Fuel or both. It's not a Jump Scare, because the character's body stays put; only the face fills the screen. Nor is it Eat the Camera, because it doesn't involve going right inside a wide-open mouth. Related to Nightmare Face. A few examples of what I mean: Circus Capers
(Van Beuren), Mysterious Mose
(Fleischer), Snow White
(Fleischer), Lady, Play Your Mandolin!
(Warner Bros.).
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Now I want a trope that's the opposite of Dude Looks Like a Lady, to be exact. I know I've already asked for a "tasting something makes you feel addicted to it" trope earlier today.
Example:
Liz from The Magic School Bus and Yumi from Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi.
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I'm trying to remember the name of the trope with this basic scenario.
Bob's being chased by an angry mob. Bob dashes around a corner and ducks into a nearby box/trash can/door to a building in panic. The mob gives chase around that same corner, but go right past the box/trash can/door. Bob takes a peek to see if the crowd is out of sight, utters a "Phew! That was close!", and walks off on his merry way- unscathed.
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Sort of a weird one, but ... y'know how some characters in the old Betty Boop-era and early Disney cartoons had unsettlingly shiny eyelids? (Like eyeshadow, but on characters who had no business wearing it.) Is there a trope for that?
I've been searching the wiki for more information ever since my roommate brought up how creepy he thinks it is, and even Google just brings up an unanswered Yahoo Question.
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You guys know how there's sometimes an episode where the main characters are in trouble and the side characters who are friends of the main characters find themselves banding together to save the main characters?
Examples:
- The Transformers Animated episode, "Human Error, part 2", when Sari forms an emergency Autobot team to save Detroit after the main Autobots get mind-controlled by Soundwave.
- The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes episode, "New Avengers", when Spider-Man, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Wolverine, War Machine, and The Thing team up as the New Avengers to save the world from Kang the Conqueror after Kang got rid of the regular Avengers.
What kind of episode/trope is that?
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What's that one trope where someone takes a picture/video of some rare phenomenon but invariably loses the camera or has the lens obscured? I've seen it in Huckleberry Hound (Huck had the lens cap on when he was trying to take pictures of a leprechaun), The Flintstones (Barney had his thumb on the lens), Captain Planet (Wheeler lost the camera containing video of a yeti), and Invader Zim (Dib's attempt to expose Zim was foiled by a lens cap).
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Here's one for the masses. Infinite Communication Barrier. It's when Person A tries to explain something simple to Moron B, but it's literally impossible and every attempt to explain goes way over their head.
Surely this is a trope already. Right?
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Need to know if this is an existing trope.
In the Simpsons, there was a throwaway joke where Iceland wants Homer's blood because he caused them to go bankrupt. Several seasons later, he goes to Iceland with no problem at all as if they forgot about it.
I don't think it's What Happened to the Mouse?.
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Is there a trope where an animated character is suspended midair but does not fall until they look down? This often happens when after the character runs off a cliff.
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Situaton: I'm looking for a trope to describe a RWBY fight in which Coco, a girl who totes around an incredibly powerful gatling gun, is fighting opponents who hide in trees. In an earlier fight, the gatling gun caused massive destruction and utterly shredded powerful armored opponents, literally—as in, into dozens of pieces. However, in her second fight, the bullets weren't able to do much more than mow down grass. When put against the trees her enemy was hiding in, they failed to destroy any of them.
It doesn't have to be about selectively powerful bullets, though that's what I'm aiming for—it could've just been that she switched to a less powerful set of rounds, since it was an organized fight. However, I don't think that's the case, or if it is, power selectivity would still apply, because it was pointed out that gatling guns put rounds out with incredible force.
TL;DR: One time a gatling gun causes mass destruction, the second time it can't even mow down sparse woods.
Thanks.
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I know about the Master of Illusion trope, but I need a trope for illusions themselves. More specifically, there is no proof any master of illusion was around to make one, but there is 100% certainty an illusion happened.
For this example, the illusion was only there briefly, and also was able to vocalize.
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Two related queries. A character has to make a loud noise (burp, scream of pain, etc.), but for whatever reason a loud noise made in the current location would be a disaster. Therefore, one of two tropes must occur:
- The character runs out of town to a distant hilltop and screams there.
- The character sends the noise through a tube to a distant location or traps the noise inside a container (balloon, etc.) for later release (usually the same distant hilltop).
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Mainly animated, but I suppose it could pop up elsewhere. Character A is watching Character B do something, but so intently that A can't just move his eyes to follow B, but moves his entire head to keep in synch. Inspired by the Typewriter Eating scene in "Mickey's Trailer" As Mickey and Donald do the given motion, their heads bob up and down. Goofy watches intently, until his head is bobbing up and down and moving left to right as well, until he gets stuck in a groove and his head hits the drawer to his side.

Is there a trope for a certain type of "charming" smile, where the eyes are half closed and the teeth are showing (often with perfectly white teeth)? Especially quiz show hosts seem to have this smile. It is used quite often in Western Animation, but it is not limited to that as I have seen it in Anime, Live Action movies/shows (if the actor has a cartoony face) and Video Games.
I would greatly appreciate your help.