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resolved NamedAfterSomebodyFamous
Is Named After Somebody Famous flexible enough to apply to someone who is famous In-Universe only?
resolved Surprisingly unoccupied area
A character arrives to a location that they expected to have people in it, only to find it empty. For example, someone attends a party that was cancelled without their knowing, or a child comes home to find their family gone. I'm sure I saw this just a few days ago, but I can't find it now.
resolved Non-Video Game UpdatedRerelease
Do we have a trivia trope like Updated Re-release for things like J. R. R. Tolkien altering later editions of his books, or old works edited for modern release by removing depictions now seen as uncomfortably bigoted?
resolved When the phrases "kicked out" or "thrown out" are taken literally
Gag common in cartoons when a character is removed from a building by an angry person via literal kicking or throwing.
resolved Two Children-related tropes Film
1 - When a movie that features rauchy humor or extreme gore has a child actor, scenes are often edited so that the kid isn't present during the recording of the dirty/violent scenes, because the crew is worried about the kid's psychological balance. Some movies make a point of showing the editing so viewers can relax knowing the innocent little actor wasn't subjected to graphic images. (for example, that scene from Clerks where Randall is listing off a bunch of porn movies he needs to buy, and a lady with a baby is hearing it with a shocked expression). What trope would that be?
2 - Some works (or some episodes of a certain work) feature kids in a realistic setting that celebrates the bittersweet innocence of childhood, as opposed to setting the kids up as wiser than their elders, sarcastic, competent, mature, or involved in speculativeFiction tropes. I'm thinking in particular of the "kids being kids" episodes of South Parklike "Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers". Is there a trope for that?
resolved everyone comes back for the ending Film
A comedy where the main character meets lots of people throughout the movie (often during a road trip), and in the last scene everyone shows up, usually for a party or something. Or, the character is spends the movie helping people out expecting nothing in return, then in the end when all hopes are lost, the characters show up to help him back.
resolved "Split Team" episodes
A show follows the adventures of Mary, Bob, Alice, and Ted. Most episodes feature all four of the characters. However, one episode centers around Mary and Bob, with Alice and Ted nowhere to be seen. The next episode shows what Alice and Ted were up to during Mary and Bob's adventure.
resolved Snooty Ivy Leaguer Western Animation
What trope would fit the character of a snooty, young male Ivy League student, who's part of an old fraternity he joined thanks to his old money family connections, acts pompous and towards the main characters, drinks expensive booze, wears cardigans around their neck, plays tennis, lacross or rowing, and gets humiliated in a gross manner in the end?
resolved There's only one Vigilante (SOLVED) Print Comic
Is there a trope about the Fridge Logic that applies to countless superhero stories - that is, the fact that people in-universe always assume the superhero is a single guy, despite not knowing anything about him - and despite the fact that the superhero costume makes it easy for impersonators - for instance, J. Jonah Jameson always assumes Spiderman (the chameleon or Mysterio) robbing a bank is "proof" he's a criminal, rather than some other powered character buying the same costume.
Edited by Mac_Rresolved Punching the hand Western Animation
A badass or violent character gets ready for a fistfight by punching his own hand softly - usually, the character is a bully, and the scene fades to black so we don't see the actual beatdown.
resolved Sickly sweet Literature
There's a character who has chocolate (sickly, vomit-inducing sweet chocolate) as his motif. This isn't used to make him cute; on the contrary, it's used to portrait him as disgustingly sweet, both in- and out-of-universe.
Character has tendency to distort most words he uses to sound "cute" (including his name, which now sounds just ridiculous), but achieves opposite effect. He tries to act "kind", but only makes people trust him less due to this "sweetness" hiding quite sticky personality. Even his body is literally made out of chocolate (long story), which characters in-universe find to be just disgusting.
And yes, he is a villain, though of a very low grade. Backstabbing, snitching and generally annoying.
While he is certainly Faux Affably Evil, what I seek for is something about his "so cute, it's disgusting" vibe, because it's really important part of his characterisation, and characters react to it with disgust in-universe even before he had a chance to betray anyone specifically because he is sickly sweet.
resolved Vampire Doctor
Do we have a trope for characters whose chosen profession shows that they have a great deal of control over their Horror Hunger.
resolved Lying to the Dying Western Animation
Suppose Bob and Alice are fighting some enemy to save Charlie. Bob is mortally wounded, and is losing consciousness. He asks Alice if Charlie's alright, and Alice lies and says they achieved their goal, that Bob's death wasn't meaningless, so he can die happy. A super sad scene.
Is there a trope forthat?
resolved Fake Foreign-Sounding Name is Insult in Work's Language (SOLVED) Web Original
Is there a trope for when a foreign character has a (foreign-sounding) name that's an insult (dirty or mild) in the work's original language? For instance, a korean character in an american story being named "Suk Mah Dik", or an arab called "Fa'atass Assuholi"?
Edited by Mac_Rresolved Go out with an insult
Is there a trope where someone is mortally wounded and their last words are some kind of insult to their killer (sometimes with them dying before they can get the whole phrase out)? Other than just Famous Last Words?
resolved Distopyan Flag Spam Literature
Is there a trope for when someone (often a Fish out of Temporal Water) travels to a place and sees creepy flags everywhere, which are a visual aid to the fact that the setting is a political dystopia? The flags can be replaced with the leader's portrait, too.
resolved Didn't know when to stop Live Action TV
A character goes to legal or illegal casino. He starts out winning some money, gets a lot of chips, wins a fortune, but keeps gambling and gambling in hopes of getting more, until he starts losing, and ends up losing everything. Had he said he had enough, he'd go out a rich man.
resolved People Know What the Author Knows (SOLVED!) Print Comic
I remember a trope in this wiki about authors (especially amateur ones, like Fan Fiction writers) assuming, either consciously or subconsciously, that the characters know the same things they do - the examples listed were how random characters assumed Supergirl was Superman's cousin, even though that wasn't common knowledge - she might be a sister, friend or even just a fan. Another example was the old Star Wars expanded universe, wherein characters somehow "knew" Darth Vader was Luke's father after the fall of the empire, despite Luke never going public - and nobody knowing Vader's real name and background to begin with.
Edited by Mac_R

Bully sees a victim who the bully assumes will be weak and helpless, and starts harassing him. Bully then has an OH CRAP moment when he discover that he picked the WRONG person to pick on. A few examples that come to mind:
1. The West Wing: Some drunk frat guys harass a girl they meet at a bar and the guy she is with. They discover the girl they are harassing is te president's daughter, and the Secret Service quickly deals with them.
2. Catch Me If You Can: Some high school bullies harass a young-looking man, who turns out to be their teacher. Of course, he wasn't really a teacher, but they still had the OH CRAP moment because they thought he was.
3. Chiefs: A corrupt police officer in a small southern town in the 1960s pulls over a black man and starts harassing him for no good reason. That black man turned out to be the new Chief of Police.