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Here's the text for an example for Batman: The Dark Knight Returns:
Due to age and rust, Batman isn't as stealthy as he used to be. The thugs he's pursuing in the first chapter hear floorboards creaking under him and mention "[...] he never used to make noise before." This comes back to bite him hard in the third chapter when the Joker hears one of the funhouse mirrors creaking under his weight and shoots him as he breaks through it.
Now, is this just a straight-up Chekhov's Gun, one of its subtropes, or something different?
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I seem to remember that there was an inverse of Rescued from the Scrappy Heap, but I can't seem to find it.
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Scenario: A person makes a statement such as "I'm not prejudiced/racist/sexist/etc. but [...]" or "No offense, but [...]" and then proceeds to say something that's either blatantly prejudiced/racist/sexist/offensive/etc. or is close enough to blatant that anyone can see it for what it is and sees the person's hypocrisy, whether or not they call him/her on it.
I'm not sure if this falls into one of the established subtropes of The Hypocrite or not...I skimmed through the list and none of them seem to be an exact fit.
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Is there a trope about a person who is teamed up with someone that is actually also supposed to keep an eye on that person in case of betrayal or anything suspicious in general?
Basically, a treacherous person is teamed up with a contrasting, loyal to the cause, person who is also monitoring the former in case of betrayal.
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Okay, we have Camera Abuse, and we have Glass Smack and Slide, but what about when something on-screen is thrown at the camera but doesn't actually "hit" it? IIRC, one of the TMNT games had a throw you could do that would launch Foot Soldiers offscreen but in the direction of the camera, and in Angry Birds 2 it's possible to hit a pig in such a way that it flies at the camera (usually screaming in fear) but doesn't make contact. Do we have something that covers that?
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"Good bad luck".
A piece of bad luck turns out to be a good thing, because it prevents something even worse from happening.
Example: Bob has booked a passage on the Titanic. At the last moment, however, something happens — there is an accident and Bob gets his legs broken, or there is a break-in in his flat and his passport gets stolen, so that Bob cannot sail — which of course ends up saving his life...
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This seems like something we should already have, but I can't think of what it would be called for the life of me. It's when a villain's power(s) provide a very effective, if not perfectly so, counterbalance to the hero's powers, so that the hero has to resort to other tactics to effectively fight the villain. The specific example I had in mind was Wolverine (metallic skeleton and weapons) vs. Magneto (can control and manipulate metal at a molecular level), but I'm sure there's others.
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Not sure if a particular trope (YMMV or otherwise) illustrate a situation where a character stumbles onto a place that has loads of items/evidence/information on an event that would make the owner of said place the main suspect.
Example I can think of is "The Bridge" where the police raid a house and they find loads of maps, photos and diagrams. And one of the photos has a supposedly deceased FBI agent on it posing with one of the protagonists.
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Is there a trope about characters being able to instantly jump out of their clothes whether by Flash Step or for comedic value?
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Tropers help me here.
So I just updated to v. 8.6 of Puzzle & Dragons and tried multiplayerco-op mode. The music style is noticeably different. Instead of "Orb Festival", it's a completely new soundtrack that sounds like a mix of the bg for the Final Fantasy collaboration and the overall soundtrack of PADZ. Would you classify this music shift as a subset of Art Shift? I don't know the name of the trope of it. Or is it a completely new trope?
For reference, here's the normal
and boss
soundtracks.
And here's the video of the co-op mode with the new soundtrack
in question (I haven't found a yt video of the bgm separately).
resolved Enemy Constructive Criticism
A scientist (Bob) submits an invention for approval and arranges for his archrival Charlie to be on the approval committee. The idea being that Charlie will be much more motivated to find and attack every single mistake (and thus find one that might have been overlooked by the others) in his effort to discredit Bob.
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Is there a specific trope that mentions a person's inaction due to protecting the reputation of a person/group/country?
resolved A Deal/Bargain Trope Live Action TV
In the second half of the miniseries The Jacksons: An American Dream Berry Gordy, founder of Motown, is shown trying to convince Michael Jackson to participate in Motown's 25th anniversary telecast with his brothers. MJ, though tired of making TV appearances at that point, eventually agrees to join, but only if he was given a solo performance slot to perform "Billie Jean".
Now, exactly what bargaining/deal trope would this fall under? I've checked most of the bargaining tropes, but they don't seem to fit this situation. (EDIT: For reference, here's the scene in question
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Is there a trope about ghosts or demons who take form of company or theme park mascots or is there a trope where a serial killer disguises themselves as a mascot to commit murders? because this seems to be becoming a frequent trope in media.

Can Unwanted Assistance include cases when the help actually is wanted or asked for, but the help they get ends up terribly for them, so that the assistance becomes unwanted after the fact? Not necessarily because the helper fails in helping, either, but because of all of the collateral damage caused by the helping.
Like, Alice asks Bob to fix the kitchen sink. An hour later, the kitchen is destroyed, but the sink is fixed.