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openTropes on...?
Are there any tropes on this situation? A schoolteacher is supposed to be grading a pile of papers composed of reports and tests. However, two of her buds/co-workers catch her reading a book instead.
openFake Escape
Alice is held captive in a Big Fancy House. She frequently goes missing, causing the guards to panic and send out search parties to find her and bring her back, but is always found in some out-of-the-way location in the house rather than outside the grounds, and wasn't trying to escape at all (helping out in the kitchens, reading in the library, tending the gardens...). This goes on for a while until the guards stop panicking every time she's out of sight, at which point she usually escapes for good.
Edited by Chabal2openSupersized Superhuman
A class of people with superhuman abilities - whether gods, demigods, cyborgs or androids, genetically engineered, or otherwise - are taller than everyone else.
openSupertrope about instant fixes to problems
I feel there could be a super-trope to every trope that a involves someone doing some fix to a problem that not only stops further damage from being done but gets rid of all previous damage, even if it's unrealistic. I.e Magic Antidote, Instant Cooldown, No Ontological Inertia. These all fit that theme, and I was wondering if there is an existing super-trope or other tropes that fit this category.
openLetters replaced by objects in Titles
Do we have a trope in which a letter/s are replaced by objects that resemble said letter/s in the title logo of a work?
This for a character Hazbin Hotel that was just recently revealed.
The title logo for the series has a key replacing the t in Hotel.
Recently, it's been revealed that this iconic key is actually a character all along, a demon cat that can shapeshift between a key form and a cat form apparently. The cat's design and various accompanying tweets pretty much confirm this.
The trope I'm asking for if it does exists I believe would be appropriate to list under this character's folder.
openOutcast Among Outcasts
In a place serving as a retreat for those outcast by the rest of the school/society/etc for whatever reason, there exists individuals who are yet still outcast *even from there*.
openFantastically Logical Explanation
A situation where a situation can be explained using in-verse logic but wouldn't work in reality.
For instance, a detective series set in a fantasy world has cases unsolvable by Fair-Play Whodunnit standards and must instead be solved by Magic A Is Magic A: the murder being a locked room mystery limits the suspects to those who can teleport, turn intangible or shapeshift, the one elf at a multispecies feast being poisoned is because the murderer added a plant poisonous to elves but harmless to any other species, the victim of a family curse actually was cursed, etc.
Edited by Chabal2openCan't admit mistakes
A character who can acknowledge to make mistakes, so not Never My Fault, but is terribly afraid of admitting them to others.
openAccidentally quoting a weird-ass rule instead of a reasonably/realistic one
What is the trope when a character quotes rule x, but another character says they meant rule y, because rule x is something unrealistic, weird, disgusting, or sometimes just totally off-topic?
openHigh Ranking Revenge Dissonance
Those situations where it turns out that the Admiral, General, Dragon or other high-ranking character is actually working for the other side. And specifically, the reason they've been working for the other side for so long is to get high enough to get exact significant revenge against their current side for some injustice that it did to them long ago.
Fridge Logic ensues once you realise just how many dissonant things they would have had to do to get into such a high position. E.g. they want revenge against the Empire for the fact that it destroyed their village and killed their family. So they join the Empire, and spend the next 10-20 years working their way up into such a position of power that they can exact some significant revenge, such as killing the Emperor. But along the way, in order to get promoted so highly, they have to embrace the Empire's methods and do huge number of things that are at least as bad as what happened to them, such as ordering the destruction of other villages and the death of even more families. And yet, rarely is this dissonance discussed or even brought up.
openVast room of objects
Is there a trope for a room containing a vast collection of objects, which is notable for its vastness, and what some might describe as "Aladdin's Cave"? Not Grail in the Garbage, where something valuable is found in a lot of junk, but simply the presence of so many things, especially if somebody explores it, or passes through it, and sees just how big it is. Can be used to show the opposite of minimalism.
Examples:
- The BFG: The BFG's vast collection of dream bottles, completely filling a huge cave.
- Esio Trot: Mr Hoppy collects well over a hundred and forty tortoises in his scheme to seduce Mrs Silver, and he keeps them all in his living room.
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the vast room containing all the things people have hidden in the school over the years. (Yes, it becomes Grail in the Garbage later.)
- Return to Oz: The vast ornament room, which is also Needle in a Stack of Needles, as the right ornament has to be found.
- Keeping Up Appearances: When Richard explores under the stage in the church hall, he sees lots of mysterious things, and remarks that it's like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
- Mary Poppins Returns: Topsy's shop is full of things she has mended.
- Room 101: The objects which people have previously banished are seen in the background of the studio.
opendestroy the letter without reading it
Someone was given a letter by someone else. The letter should tell him something, important of not. But instead of opening and reading it, he crumbles it, destroy it, shred it to pieces. It could be because he doesn't want to know what the letter has, or that he already knows what is inside it, or maybe angry and want something to take his anger on.
openNot The End After All
Bob believes The End Is Nigh for whatever reason. He gets all his affairs in order, but then doomsday comes and goes and the world is still turning, and now has to deal with the consequences of his acting as though the world would end (such as selling all his belongings, confessing his love, getting several dramatic secrets off his chest, etc.).
openDisliking something you're very good at
Is there a trope for when a character is really good at something, but dislikes doing it for whatever reason, whether that be because they find it unpleasant, because they find it beneath them, or because they find it morally wrong?
Some examples would be Obi-wan Kenobi with using blasters and piloting, or Kenshin Himura with killing.
openCheater blames their spouse/partner for what they did
Would this just be Never My Fault? Or is there something more specific?
open"Fragile Ace"
Do we have a trope for a character who's the best, but when someone catches up to them it's revealed they're really, really bad with dealing with not being the best?
openVillain dies of old age before he can be punished
For example: a person is discovered to be the greatest Serial Rapist in history, but dies peacefully in his sleep at age 100 before they can press any charges. Would this just be Karma Houdini? Or not since he actually died?
openIdea Too Late
An author has a new idea, a way their story could be better—but their story is already published by this point, so it's too late.
Options include
- mention it in an interview
- when your book is made into a movie, use this as a second chance to include the idea
openBlackmail for the greater good
A protagonist or antagonist is tasked with doing a good deed of some sort by another character or else certain secrets or truths will be revealed to some unaware third party. It seems like it'd be more of a antagonists tactic but I've seen some protagonists do this to people in order to keep them in-line.
Edited by clockworkboy
Strong presence/concentration of magic causes any technology in its vicinity to break or otherwise malfunction.