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resolved calling out a harm you haven't inflicted yet Live Action TV
Dialogue trope I've seen a couple times on TV shows. Alice mentions some kind of injury or harm that Bob has suffered, Bob interjects that he hasn't, and Alice inflicts the injury.
- Straight example: Burn Notice S1E9 - "Hard Bargain": Michael tells Lucio to tell his boss Reyes that he was late getting back because he broke his foot on the stairs at the mall. Lucio replies he didn't break his foot. Fiona immediately breaks it.
- Played with: A Knight Rider episode where a Dirty Cop pulls Michael over claiming KITT has a busted taillight. Michael says he doesn't. Cop says he does and kicks KITT's taillight, only to find that KITT's taillights are just as tough as the rest of him.
resolved Making chores harder
A character is made to do chores as a punishment, but the authority figure deliberately makes the chore more difficult. For example, they might trash a room and then order the person to clean it up.
resolved Protective rage for an animal
Is there a trope where a bad guy hurts a cute animal and a protective person beats up the bad guy that hurt their pet/the animal?
resolved Endless task
A character is forced to perform a task endlessly
- The art piece Can't Help Myself by Sun Yuan and Peng Yu was a robotic arm that would sweep a blood-like fluid into itself to power it. However, the fluid would leak constantly, locking the robot in an endless cycle.
resolved Hot When Angry
A character (usually female) getting angry is considered a turn-on to another character in-universe.
resolved PayingTheirDues in Fiction
Is there an In-universe version of Paying Their Dues for when this comes up in a work of fiction? Or just add In-Universe to the example?
resolved Prisons As Pensions
A desperate/homeless/terminally lazy character commits a crime in order to be arrested and sent to prison, their logic being that in prison, you're fed, clothed and get medical attention for free instead of needing to work for a living.
resolved A family cares more about inheritance than about the well-being of their relatives
The sons and daughters or other relatives are more concerned about inheriting the material gains or throne from someone than with their state, especially if the relative is elderly or even dying.
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resolved "Shadow drops"?
Is there a trope covering "shadow drops" of works? For example, if a TV show or a movie gets quietly released with little to no fanfare?
EDIT: Never mind, I found it — it's Surprise Release.
Edited by ilovewildkratts1resolved Breadcrumbing Videogame
I'm using this title because it seems to be an existing concept in video game design. The particular concept or mechanism here would be those instances of a "meta" or design cue where the game is subtly indicating to the player where to go or what to do.
The example that brought this to mind was playing an FPS that doesn't have a map, and using the presence of enemies to determine direction, e.g., "No enemies and quiet = not where I need to be, as opposed to: enemies and sound effects = where I need to go". Another instance that is probably more in line with the name would be the sprinkling of rewards like coins/tokens/collectibles/health/etc. to draw a player in the desired direction. The most overt example would probably be games where the path is illuminated or colored in a way that could be interpreted as diegetic, such as a flickering street lamp drawing attention to a door, or an emergency exit that is painted a bright color, a switch or other interactive feature that is glowing in-universe (not simply for the player), and so on.
Edited by wingedsnakeresolved Apocalypse Noninterference
An area is affected by a cataclysmic event; other unaffected areas don't help out.
resolved Deity-like characters causally interacting with normal people
I remember this trope where it describes juxtaposing characters of high, often supernatural or spiritual status who talk elegantly as expected of someone like themselves interacting with regular characters who talk more casually. The key aspect is this being treated as normal or regular. The only example that I can remember is a vague one from Moral Kombat (i.e., Johnny Cage talking to Raiden or something like that).
resolved Angry get bigger
A character gets angry and shout at another character, they are depicted as being bigger. The transformation is not literally.
resolved I Can't Spell Acronym
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.

In one episode the character meets another person, then, through a Nightmare Fuel scene it looks like the second person had wounded the first character and leaves to a Cliffhanger. Cue to next episode, and we see first character recovering from his injuries and starts remembering what really happened: he saved the supposed criminal from someone to wanted to kill him/her (the real criminal ran away).