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Do we have a trope for something like this? It's appeared in both anime and video games already.
In games and shows with Elemental Rock–Paper–Scissors, Dragons have a tendency to be weak against Dragon based attacks.
For example, in Monster Hunter, dragon-looking monsters and elder dragons are always weakest against an element named "Dragon" *
For a non-video game example, in Dragon Crisis, the only thing that could injure a dragon and counter everything it can do is a small blade made from a dragon.
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Someone writes a song in 2001 that pretty much describes the unfolding of the decade from 2001-2010, when seen in retrospect.
Is the applicable trope Harsher in Hindsight, Fridge Horror, or something else entirely?
(is working on the Loudness page and wants to make note of the song "Bloody Doom" from Pandemonium.)
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Do we have a single trope for any case where someone Doth Protest Too Much (IE they claim one thing so frequently and forcefully it becomes clear that the opposite is true)? I know in psychology it's known as "reaction formation", but I'm not sure if we had a term for it. Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today? and Most Definitely Not a Villain would probably be subtropes. Suspiciously Specific Denial is probably related.
Edited by joeyjojojuniorshabadooopenNo Title
Im most television shows/video games/etc., whenever they mention a "massage", it's always the "percussion"-style massage, where the masseur/masseuse quickly applies many small hits to the person's back and shoulders. If the person speaks during this massage, their voice is hilariously distorted like Breathe on the Fan. Do we have a trope for massages (that don't involve sex)?
Edited by SgtFrog1openNo Title Live Action TV
(My apologies to User:Fast Eddie, I posted this on the wrong page. Thought I'd give it another bash here before I delve into YKTTW)
A (hopefully) easy one for you: There's a technique I've seen used several times involving a single character who has to interview or interrogate several other characters. The interview appears to be a single, continuous meeting, but as the camera switches between participants the person being interviewed is revealed to have changed.
So, for example, the interviewer (usually someone hostile) will ask a question. The interviewee will offer a suitably sardonic or defiant reply. The aggressive interviewer will then follow up with another question but this time the reply comes from a different character without any change in scene or shot, showing that we're actually now watching a later interview.
It's a pretty seamless way of showing multiple interviews all at once.
As well as in some movies I've seen this done particularly well in the ST-TNG episode "Coming of Age", and also in Firefly, wherein an Alliance commander is doing the questioning and the recipient keeps switching between different Serenity crew members, to humorous effect (see "Terrible Interviewees Montage" on the Firefly page).
Does this technique have a name? And am I making any sense?! Any help is appreciated, as always.
Edited by DamageTVopenNo Title
Is there a trope for when a character is standing at a particular location in one shot, then in very soon afterwards, they're in a location that they logically shouldn't be? By this, I mean that it's a goof in production, that the character is standing in the wrong (but nearby) location.
In the example I'm thinking of, the character breaks off from a crowd to speak with another character. The next shot of him shows him back in the crowd, then the shot after that has him separated again.
Edited by ZombieAladdinopenNo Title
Looking for a trope that describes that pre-disaster bliss that people have when they don't know what is about to happen... eg. lady crossing the road not knowing a car with failed brakes is about to hit her, or a few cars that are on collision course, but don't know it yet...
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Generally in your average High School tv show, where one member of the protagonist group suddenly finds themselves insanely popular for some reason. They ditch their old friends for most of the episode, only to eventually realize that "Wait a minute, being popular sucks!" They then return to their real friends, who forgive them.
I would think it'd be called Popularity is Lame, but I can't find anything like that.
The main example I can think of is one episode of Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, where Moze found herself on the list of popular kids for no real reason.
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Okay, first of all, this is about video games, except there's no option for that. Anyway, my ideas stem from Super Mario Bros, and I call them: That First Goomba and That Last Koopa. Basically, in many of the Super Mario Bros. games, as soon as the screen starts scrolling, there's a goomba there. If you're dashing and fail to be Genre Savvy you'll run right into it and die instantly. Essentially, first goombas are put there to make sure you're paying attention. It doesn't even have to be an enemy; I recall that, in Episode 16 [1]
of The Runaway Guys' LP of NSMBW, in the volcano level they kept falling victim to the blatantly obvious pit of lava. Like I said, you have to be paying attention. Alternately, That Last Koopa is when you're close to the finish, you can practically taste victory, you're jumping up the steps, when suddenly a koopa is coming down those very same steps and you jump right into it. This is now the game making sure you're not getting cocky. If you keep falling for these, you're Too Dumb to Live.
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Is there a trope that covers the recurring (often in YA lit) theme of teenagers getting streamed in some sort of test or selection process that determines their destiny forever?
e.g. Hunger Games's Reaping, Divergent's tests, Harry Potter's Sorting Hat, to some degree the separation between Specials and Pretties in the Uglies series
It's almost always teens, and the tests are often pretty arbitrary, and it's used to support social segregation (divide and conquer).
I thought Achievement Test of Destiny might be it, but that implies that you can study and prepare for this test, and that's not usually the case with these.
Also on a related note: Are there tropes that cover social segregation happening to teens (some sort of Rite of Passage thing?) and how in the last book of a lot of YA series there's some sort of camping trip involved?
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How about a trivia trope for when a written work is effectively un-filmable — either impossible to present as originally told, or impossible to render visually at all — for reason of its inherent content? For example, nobody can film "The Colour Out of Space" in its original form because you can't render a color that's utterly foreign to the human visual spectrum on video, and nobody can film scenes from Thief Of Time in the same way that it's written without giving away that Lobsang and Jeremy look the same much too soon. Subversions would be things that nobody thought could be filmed until F/X made them workable, such as how everyone thought there'd never be a live-action Lord of the Rings until CGI.
Edited by SharleeDopenSibling Protagonists?
Do we have a trope about the protagonists being two or more siblings? AFAIK, we have Sibling Team but that is more about siblings belonging to a team regardless of their importance as characters (they could be mooks).
openDescribe this female villain
A harpy who is as equally depraved as her centaur companion, albeit more mentally unhinged. From feasting on people regardless of they were alive or not to her sick justifications of why she’ll happily join in on violating other woman with him. Really likes “pretty things” like eyes for example. So much so that she’ll pluck them out. Looks fairly normal and statuesque until you see her face. Gaunt, has a vulture-like nose, beady black eyes, and crooked teeth. She wears heavily revealing clothing so it doesn’t rip off her body easily when she turns into a harpy. Her harpy form is based on a vulture.
Edited by Anchor173openReformed Parent
Someone who was a less than stellar parent tries to make it up to their kids.
openKeeper of Today
Villain's motivation is to make sure things remains constant, typically either by conquering time powers or forcibly making everyone immortal.
opentelling everyone to quiet down
is there a trope about a person telling a crowd to settle down, only for someone to keep on shouting?
openSquare Shaped = Friendly/Reliable
You know how you have that idea that different shapes in character design express different ideas? Like square characters are associated with being friendly, reliable, supportive and trusting, Is there a trope for this?
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Looking for a 'vision modes' trope, usually featured in games. For example in AVP 2 you have night vision, electromagnetic vision and thermal imaging. In splinter cell: Pandora tomorrow you have night vision, thermal imaging, movement tracking, and E.M.F vision. Usually they measure something that we can actually detect by other means, unlike Aura Vision.