The TVTropes Trope Finder is where you can come to ask questions like "Do we have this one?" and "What's the trope about...?" Trying to rediscover a long lost show or other medium but need a little help? Head to Media Finder and try your luck there. Want to propose a new trope? You should be over at the Trope Launch Pad.
Find a Trope:
resolved TheGhost being shown in an adaptation?
Is there a trope for when a character who is The Ghost in a work is physically shown in an adaptation? Like Rosaline, a fairly well-known unseen character in Romeo and Juliet, being shown in Romeo and Juliet (1968)?
resolved Teleport includes anyone touching
When a person teleports away, anyone holding on to them will come along for the ride — with or without the teleporter's permission, or even knowledge.
Eg in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Hermione Apparates to Grimmauld Place to escape, but a Death Eater manages to grab her and be pulled along, thus being granted access to the secret of its location.
It seems somewhat related to What a Drag, but that one is about intentionally dragging someone behind you as a punishment. There could sometimes be overlap if being pulled into a teleport is harmful, but What a Drag doesn't cover the case above.
resolved (Insecure)-ity Guard
Basically even lower than the Meddlesome Patrolman, a security guard who clearly wanted to be a cop but was rejected for his multiple issues. Prone to power-tripping, using cameras to ogle women, really wants to use his gun/club on people (usually minorities), often The Napoleon and/or Pathetically Weak as well.
resolved "Gods won't listen to my prayers"
Character, usually a bitter atheist or someone who merely lost their faith, complains that they prayed so hard and for so long, but no answer or divine sign happened and thus they've decided god(s) aren't real.
resolvedAPP Boss absorbing wood for power Videogame
In the Terraria Game Mod Fargo's Mod, there’s an early boss called the Trojan Squirrel. On the hardest difficulty of the mod, Masochist Mode, it can destroy wood blocks and trees and gets bigger. This definitely counts as a Griefer since it can ruin your buildings (I assume that’s the case, I’ll run tests in game tomorrow to see if it can destroy houses)
But what about the absorption of wood for power? No normal life form (or mecha) can just absorb wood and get bigger.
resolved Outspokeness Bias Film
Wasn't there a trope about how movie reviews are either very positive, or very negative, because if a viewer's reaction to a movie is just 'meh', he won't bother writing a review - he'll just either praise the movie to the high heavens if he likes it (or he's a fanboy) or give it 0 stars if he's offended or disgusted by it (or he's a Fan Hater).
resolved About the trope Zodiac Motif
If a character do have a canon birthday under a specific sun sign, and their personality matches the common description of said sign but the fact is never mentioned in the work or confirmed to be related by the creator/author/... and is left ambiguous for whether they're used intentionally or coincidentally (as in, their personality just coincidentally match with their birthday's sign) , would it fits the trope?
Would simply mention someone's zodiac sign a trope? What about blood type? Is there a trope for "MBTI Motif" too?
Edited by LucasdaKoolresolved Trope for "Data is Treated Like a Moveable Object"
Do we have a trope for when data is treated like an object you move between different storage units, instead of being copied and needing to be deliberately deleted instead of being deleted as a matter of course?
Relatedly, do we have a trope for "draining the data file by file" like you were emptying a flask into a bucket? "Data Draining", maybe?
resolved Brown is Neutral
Where brown is assigned as the most neutral color (next to gray) and is thus symbolic as the most boring thing imaginable. So far, only Real Is Brown comes up but that only illustrates real life and doesn't describe the negative side. If not, would this warrant a trope in its creation?
Edited by SilvershadeWolfresolved Observing from the shadows
Someone follows the hero/heroes from a distance throughout their adventures, often lurking from the shadows without being seen
resolved Hidden Object Game Hoarder Syndrome
In Hidden Object Games, such as Criminal Case, there are usually scenes with lots of objects to find. Said scenes are extremely messy, filled up with everything from mundane things you would expect to strange items that it looks like as it everyone in that game’s world is either a compulsive hoarder or just extremely untidy.
Why is this necessary? Trope?
resolved New villan revives an old villain
I swear there's a trope for this. it normally ends with the old villain killing the new one.
resolved Giving you a chance to turn yourself in. Live Action TV
Is there a trope for where Character A offers Character B chance to reveal their big secret or hand themselves over to the authorities, with the threat that if B doesn't do it, A will spill the beans?
resolved A Day in the Limelight Literature
More of clarification than direct trope search: is there any better fit than A Day in the Limelight / Ascended Extra for the following scenario (and which of those two fits better):
Alice and Bob are the main characters of a Amateur Sleuth book series. Other than being mentioned, Bob's mom Mary is in exactly one scene in the first book. Second book doesn't change that much - Mary is in three scenes, but far less present in the dialogues of other people (and it's more about the agro-tourism business she runs than her directly). But in the third book, Mary is suddenly one of the more important characters of the story, playing rather big role in the plot, having plentiful interactions with various characters and is instrumental to solving of the case they are dealing with... and by the 4th book she virtually cease to exist, being mentioned grand total of once and never present in person. Meanwhile, through the series, Alice and Bob are firmly the definitive main characters, so it's not that their role or presence is diminished in any way.
Thus: is Mary an Ascended Extra (but for just one book) or is that specific book where she's in the tight circle of 5 most important characters her A Day in the Limelight
Edited by Tropiarzresolved Trope about speech audio logistics Film
Do we have a trope that covers how nobody has any troubles hearing a speaker giving a grand speech? Like when Kylo Ren talks to the entire army of stormtroopers in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, everyone can hear him clearly despite the distance.
resolved Born Undead
Typically, the undead used to be something else (often a human), but then after they died/were turned, they became a zombie/ghost/vampire/whatever. But sometimes, they're not. Sometimes they're just like that. Might also apply to things like Werewolves where they're not undead but also typically formerly human.
Examples:
- The skeletons and ghosts from Undertale / Deltarune seem to just be types of monsters, rather than undead humans. They have monster souls and work like other monsters in general (well aside from Ghosts being only hittable by Magic. At least unless they fuse with a body they're possessing (ex: Glad Dummy and Mettaton)
- (taken from the page for Technically Living Vampire):
- Minilife TV: Vampires such as Snowball are created from mixtures baked in Easy-Bake Coffins and aren't negatively affected by sunlight, though they have very short lifespans, lasting for only a few years.
- Ringworld: One of the hominid species on the ringworld that evolved from the Paks are haemovores dubbed "vampires" by explorers from Earth. They produce pheromones that send their prey, other hominids, into a mating frenzy, but are not themselves sapient, with the exception of a couple who fed on a Pak protector and became protectors themselves.
- * Lost Souls (1992): Vampires are a predatory subspecies of humanity that have been living alongside, breeding with, and preying upon humans for eons. In fact, the four main vampires in the book (Zillah, Molochai, Twig, and Nothing) have so much human ancestry that almost all the 'classic' vampire traits have been bred out of them.
resolved oc in a crossover
is there a trope for an original character in a crossover setting
resolved Unnatural disaster
I’m looking for stories about Natural Disaster-style events with causes that wouldn’t happen in real life. So stories like , Under the Dome, where a town is surrounded by a giant dome, Rain from Strange Weather, where it rains nails, or Sleeping Beauties where all the women in the world aren’t able to wake up when they go to sleep. With the connecting thread of these stories being that it’s not an invasion of hostile creatures but also not a realistic disaster like say, a virus or a fire

A gag in which a character claims to be unable to spell something, even though it's literally something that's spelled out. For example, in Dr. Dolittle, Dr. Dolittle asks a rat if he knows how to do CPR, the rat says he can't even spell it.