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resolved Try Something New
Quite simple - the aesop is "don't be afraid of trying new things." Sometimes, maybe, more specifically, trying a new food. Do we have this?
resolved Motionless Flight
A character can fly, unaided by things such as wings or jetpacks. Instead of hitting the Up, Up and Away! pose, the character's body remains still as though they're standing on solid ground. This is usually done to a jarring effect, as it implies a certain control and casualness to flying to other characters.
This is sometimes visually aided by the character hitting a very stiff pose while flying, such as crossing their arms or standing with their arms by their side.
It's not impossible that this is just a hyperspecific visual thing for Flying, but if there is a trope that exists for it, I'd like to find it as I find it very visually interesting and would like to find more examples
resolved Mistaken for the Opposite Gender?
Is there a trope where a character is mistaken for the opposite gender?
resolved But What If It's Genetic?
Angsting over the possibility that parents may have passed an unwanted trait onto their children, ranging from a specific disease to more dubiously heritable things like generic "insanity" or Hereditary Homosexuality.
resolved Eccentric wizard
I've noticed that very often in fiction, wizards, particularly ones who are elderly men, are regularly portrayed as being a bit quirky between their unique sense of fashion and a personality that often mixes Absent-Minded Professor and Mad Scientist. Examples include Gandalf at the beginning of both The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings (before the main plot kicks off and he gets serious), Merlin in The Sword in the Stone, and Fizban the Fabulous from Dragonlance.
Is there an actual trope for this?
Edited by BattleMasterresolved Took it literally Live Action TV
I almost added this example to Answers to the Name of God, but it isn't that. Is it Comically Missing the Point, or something else?
- In The Jeffersons, Bentley brings his telescope to the Jeffersons' apartment to look at stars from their balcony. Louise walks in as George is using said telescope to watch an attractive woman in a different apartment. Of course, he doesn't want her to know what he was looking at, so he moves the telescope slightly, claims he was looking at a church, and offers to let her have a look. When she does, she ends up witnessing a murder.
Louise: (focusing) Well, I don't see a church. I see.... (pulls away, horrified) My God!
George: Boy, that must be a strong telescope!
resolved Intra-species Rivalry Trope
I can't recall if there is an Animal Jingoism-esque trope for characters but inverted. Basically they don't get along with each other because they are the same or related species, which gives them reason to be especially hostile because of either:
A. They believe they should be allies, but they're not because they don't have share the same ideals.
B.They think their title of species superior is challenged by the existence of the other character.
C. They feel entitled to fight this specific character because they're honor-bound or know it takes one to beat one.
Note that unlike the others, this is between two characters, not a character and their entire race to keep it confined and simple; not much depth on racial ideology will be found here. Happens frequently Animal-Themed Superbeings of a similar theme despite not being an animal too, like Catwoman and Cheetah.
Edited by SilvershadeWolfresolved Ball in neighbour's yard
Children need to sneak onto private property, because a toy, most often a ball, has gone stray and landed there. To make things more dramatic, the neighbour in question has a reputation of being a Child Hater.
resolved Vehicle equivalent to ObviousStuntDouble Film
A specific case of switching a car to a visibly different one (not exactly a Freeze-Frame Bonus), usually just before a costly crash or after one, causing a continuity error. It's not common enough to be a new trope, but I think it may fit an existing one.
- In Castle, a new dark grey Mercedes is crashed offscreen, the wreck being a silver, previous model.
- In Gran Turismo (2023), everytime an older GT-R is used, it gets damaged.
- In Ballerina (2025), the Chancellor gets into a current Range Rover. In the next scene, where the car gets shot at, it's a 00's one (as modern windscreens are brutally expensive to replace)
resolved "[Real life thing] isn't real" trope? Western Animation
Looking for a particular type of joke where a character claims a well-known aspect of life is fictional, such as the villain in Megamind claiming the Queen of England is a mythical figure like the Tooth Fairy, or a bit character in Leverage: Redemption saying INTERPOL isn't real to an INTERPOL agent. Is this just a twisting of Common Knowledge?
resolved Dog sticking head out of car window
The stereotype (or not) of dogs sticking their heads out of the window of a moving car and letting their tongue flop around.
resolved Stage Sabotage
You how live performances can get ruined/sabotaged in a way? Whether that would be the lights or audio cut out, the amp gets unplugged, the spotlight falls down and crashed (okay maybe that's too much), or maybe the livestream gets hijacked?
Is there a trope solely for a live stage performance getting sabotaged?
resolved Coordinates Clue
Is there a trope about character obtaining a pair of numbers that they don't initially understand but later finds out to be coordinates to a location vital towards a goal?
resolved Shaking Building Beatdown
A form of either a Gory Discretion Shot or Too Gruesome for Cartoon Physics. Basically, a character getting beaten up is partially obscured by cutting to the exterior of the building they're standing in and having the building hop up and down and/or shaking as blows are heard landing.
"Cut to exterior of castle. The Pretzel Men do nonspecific but presumably very unpleasant things to our heroes off-camera."
resolved Two non-murderers surrounded by murderers
Not that these characters are not capable of or do not engage in murder, but they are different in that unlike nearly the entirety of the villain cast, they weren't killers before joining the Big Bad's organization (which they haven't been in for long)
resolved Mood Contrast
I was thinking about a scene from Carry-On (2024) and was wondering if it fell under anything, because the juxtaposition stood out to me.
So, it's Christmas Eve at LAX and things are chaos. Our protagonist, Ethan, is dealing with the Big Bad talking in his ear and is trying to figure out a way to topple is scheme before it's too late. In the midst of all this, we get a scene where the rest of his coworkers are... actually enjoying themselves, playing bingo with contraband and laughing at angry travelers (such as a lady making a video about how she's protesting being swiped, while the TSA agent just laughs and does the metal detection because she's standing in the perfect pose and is oblivious to it). Then cut back to Ethan, who is unbelievably stressed and distracted. It's the contrast of "everyone is having a good time oblivious to the situation, save for the protagonist who is completely serious and worried, juxtaposing him with everyone else around him". This jumped out to me as a fun little detail to highlight his isolating situation, as well as show the sort of antics he's missing out on thanks to the plot, while his coworkers go about their day and try to make things fun.
I don't have other examples of this happening so if it's not a thing I wouldn't be rushing to TLP or anything; just wondering if there's something here. Other tropes (Mood Dissonance, Mood Whiplash, Bathos, etc) didn't seem to quite fit, but I could be missing something.
resolved Initials and last name spell a word
Do we have a trope for when a character's name, when initialized, spells out a word describing what the character is about, such as a thief being named Samuel Thomas Ealing, which becomes S. T. Ealing?
resolved Dancing on a large staircase, widely parodied Film
The performers sing and dance on a stage with a large, typically curved staircase. The men will be in top hats and coat tails, often with a cane in hand. The ladies will be in leotard and tights, sometimes with elaborate head gear. They sing and do a coordinated dance to a show tune. I have often seen this combined with synchronized swimming, such as having the ladies jump off the staircase and into a pool of water. This kind of dance is often parodied, and often a Show Stopper. It's famously used in the opening sequence of Family Guy but I've seen it elsewhere, such as Blazing Saddles and the opening song of Muppets Most Wanted just to name a couple I can think of. I tried searching the web but no help.

Corrected as in explained or excluded from the remake. Like in Translation Correction but without the translation being needed.
For example in the original Ghosts (UK) the late Lady Button appears as a floating translucent ghost after her death while all other ghosts look like a living person.
This is the same in Ghosts (US), however a later episode shows a recently deceased ghost (Eric) as a floating translucent ghost before adopting the other look, implying that this change is normal for ghosts (in this version, at least). Meanwhile in Ghosts France, the late Lady's ghost simply is living-like from the beginning.
Edited by Naram-Sin