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openCharacter doesn't like a fictional version of themselves
Is there a trope for when a character reads a story in-universe that's based off their life and gets mad at how they're portrayed. Examples:
- Modern Family: In one episode Manny asks Claire, Alex, Haley, and his mother to act out a play he's written. It becomes clear that the character roles he assigned them are based off of their real personalities. Alex's character is smart, but a spinster. Haley's character is a Brainless Beauty. Claire's character is a bitter alcoholic (Claire is even pouring herself a glass of wine as Manny reads the character description). Needless to say, they all take offense to how they are portrayed.
- Brooklyn Nine-Nine: In one episode Gina and Amy find out Terry has written a children's book and based two characters off of them. They fixate on the characters' flaws and believe that this is how Terry views them. Terry has to point out that these characters have many positive qualities.
- The Fireman: Harper's husband is working on a novel. She decides to read it and finds that the novel's main character is clearly based off of her husband. He's stuck in a marriage with a woman who's much less intelligent than him and engages in a series of affairs. Harper angrily notes that the women the protagonist sleeps with are based off women her husband knows.
openStuck In The Surgery Room
Characters, for one reason or another, dress as doctors while running around in a hospital. They then end up in the surgery dome, expected to operate on a patient. Seen in Drake & Josh, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, and, in a Played for Horror variant, A Series of Unfortunate Events.
Edited by WarJay77openAmbiguously dead
It's left deliberately unclear whether a character is alive or a ghost
openWhen the writers failed to research foreign names and end up with a badly-named character
Similar to Stock Foreign Name and As Long as It Sounds Foreign, but I think a little different.
This is for when someone gets a legitimate name, but it's from the wrong place (e.g. a Swedish person with a Norwegian name) or gender (e.g. a man named Yoko) or it's a last name instead of a first name.
openGiving Up Prized Possession
A character willingly gives away one of their prized possessions as an act of selflessness, sometimes to give it to someone in a greater need than they are. Would be a supertrope to "Gift of the Magi" Plot, or at least the story itself involves this trope.
openSmall Wing, Huge Body
A rather weird design usually seen in fantasy shows, where a creature's wings is disproportionally small compared to the rest of it's body. And yet IT CAN FLY using those puny-looking wings
Anyway, do we have this?
openEvil Furby Parody
I have three examples of Furby, or Furby expies, being portrayed as evil in works of fiction. It's like a cross between Killer Teddy Bear and Hostile Animatronics, but as a Stock Parody. Does that sound tropeworthy?
Edited by DrNoPumaopenSneaking into age-inappropriate entertainment
A kid or an adult helps a kid sneak into something that the kid would normally be banned from.
Edited by jandn2014openWhy do we even have that?
Characters have something incredibly random lying around that, when brought to their attention, usually elicits a "why do we even have that?"
openHair Ears?
Like Ears as Hair but inverted. I originally thought this would fall under Hair Intakes, but turns out what I’m thinking of is a completely different style—it’s more like unnatural tufts of hair sticking out at each side of the head, instead of bunched up on top.
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openCannot keep the NDA
Do we have a trope where an actor or producer, someone closely associated with a work, ends up accidentally (or purposefully) giving away spoilers for a future project? This can be as little as a "the sequel is underway" or as big as Luke, I Am Your Father. No matter what, it seems that they will inadvertently give away some secret they're supposed to be keeping followed by the rest of the cast and crew giving off a Rapid-Fire "Shut Up!".
Sometimes the audience will catch on, sometimes they'll completely miss the spoiler.
Not necessarily Did I Just Say That Out Loud?, in that the person knows they said it. Neither is it Accidental Public Confession due to the fact that the person knows the public does not know this information and they know their microphone is on.
openSemi-specific situation that involve irony?
Bit of a specific situation, so I'm not sure if there's a trope, but it goes like this: Alice is shunned/ignored/excluded/bullied, or perhaps seen as a loser. Whatever form it takes, she's not considered socially desirable, and very few (if any) people care abut her.
Years pass. Alice grows up, and becomes famous/rich/successful. The same people who wouldn't have given her the time of day all those years ago, are now trying to act chummy with her. Alice's response doesn't matter - only that their opinion of her has changed due to her fame/wealth/success/etc.
Example: Winona Ryder was bullied for wearing boy's clothes, culminating in an attack that left her needing stitches. She was expelled instead of her bullies. Many years later, she ran into one of the girls that helped beat her up. Said girl asked her for an autograph, to which she responded "Go fuck yourself."
Example 2: Jessie J's 'Who's Laughing Now', directed at classmates who put her down as a child, but now act interested in her due to her fame.
Edited by ParadoxicopenBest school ever
A specialized training school (e.g. cooking, arts, etc.) that's famous for its high-standards and graduates from that particular school is almost guaranteed to become the cream of the crop of that field.
openThe phonebook is a bedtime story
Do We Have This One? A young character asks an older character to read them a bedtime story. The older character, for whatever reason, has no suitable bedtime story material and tells the kid so, to which the kid responds that the adult can read them anything. Cut to the adult reading the phonebook (or some other logically inappropriate material) and the kid falling asleep. Bonus if the kid is actually enjoying it.
An example would be in Cold Pursuit, Nels reads Ryan the snowblower manual as a bedtime story.
Edited by Hello83433openUsing a theme backwards Videogame
What is the name of the trope where one track is based on another in reverse (i.e. Ballad of the Goddess is based on the Legend of Zelda Theme backwards). Often used for making creepy atmospheres, or just to be a cool Easter egg.
openeavesdropping via landlines
In a house with multiple landlines for the same number in multiple rooms, someone who wants to spy on another person's calls picks up the phone in another room to listen in.
open(Beat) Everybody Laughs
It looks like the characters are seriously considering something, but after a moment they all break out in laughter instead. Subtrope of Bait-and-Switch, inverse of Berate and Switch, similar to I Have Just One Thing to Say. Often overlaps with Tension-Cutting Laughter.
Examples: Get Out
Gus Johnson
I know there are others but I can't remember any off the top of my head.
openDidn't know whether to scratch his watch....
.... or wind his butt.
Absent-minded professor locked his wife and kissed the door good night.
OK, the bills are washed, the turkey is paid, and the laundry is in the oven. What's next?
What trope is this?

Alice and Bob: *trying to figure out who killed Charlie*
Alice: *finds evidence suggesting that it was Bob*
Alice: Bob, no... please tell me you didn't...
Bob: *telling silence*
Alice: Please, just say it, say it wasn't you...
Do we have a trope for the "please tell me you're innocent" thing going on here?
Edited by wingedcatgirl