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resolved Insincere philanthropy Film
A Bourgeois Bohemian family does a lot of performative philanthropy that exists simply to stroke their own egos and show-off to other rich people. Said philanthropy isn't just showy, it's also incredibly shallow and even cheapskate due to the actual pocket change sums spent on any of their causes.
I know there is We Care, but description of the trope suggests it's only applicable to companies, not a group of people or a family. The case I've got isn't about their business scoring PR points, it's explicitly about the family and the ego of the matriarch of it.
resolved One Location Film/Stageplay/Book Film
Is there a trope that describes a work taking place entirely in one isolated location? We're talking one house, one room, or otherwise one space throughout the entire runtime.
Examples include 12 Angry Men (originally a stageplay, too), Green Room and Panic Room, Murder on the Orient Express, and Cube (1997).
resolved Like "Jerkass has a point", but the characters *don't* acknowledge that point in-universe. Film
The character is unsympathetic, but he is not important or evil enough to count as a villain. The protagonists might see him as a jerkass, but they don't concede that he's right, which rules out the "Jerkass Has A Point" trope. But, at least IMO, he does have a point. So which trope can I use? Specifically, I'm thinking of the sports official in, IIRC, one scene of the movie "Cool Runnings" who denies funding for the protagonists' project.
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 Bedwear Beatdown Film
A hero/villain/supporting character is woken up from sleep and finds themselves having to fight off an assailant or multiple attackers while wearing their pajamas, and overpowers them. Does this trope already exist?
EDIT: I just realized I shoehorned this into Film, but it could easily be in other mediums.
Edited by InjusticeFallsresolved There's so much evidence against me, I must be innocent! Film
A crime's been committed and all the evidence points to one suspect. So much evidence, in fact, that it seems like the suspect's being framed - he'll say stuff like "If I was going to kill him, don't you think I'd be smart enough to take off my personalized cufflinks before doing so?"
Of course, that raises another hypothesis - he committed the crime and made it obvious it was him just so he could claim he was framed - especially if he made a big deal of making the "evidence" freely accessible.
resolved Personality-Reflecting Swag Film
When a character is being introduced, and the camera focus to some personal items of his to help reveal his personality.
For instance, the characters enter a guy's house, and the camera focus on the american flag on the wall, the old pictures of army buddies, a rack with old guns on the wall... gives viewers an idea of what the character will be like.
Related, but might be a separate trope, is when a character is approaching by car, and the camera focus on dashboard toys, air fresheners and fuzzy dice inside the vehicle, without showing his face.
resolved Old-timey fast-talking newspaperwoman Film
Is there a trope for the stock character of a female journalist having fast exchanges with other people in the office, being portrayed as tough, clever and competitive? Usually in stories set before the 1960s, where there would be a single woman in the bullpen and she had to work hard to compete with the boys
I can think of Paige Sinclair from BoJack Horseman as a parody of that type of character.
resolved Last Scene New Monster Film
Is there a trope for when the last scene of a movie features a new monster oe enemy, so the hero can do the whole "I've got this!" thing and ride off to fight it? The idea being that now the hero's confident enough, and that he'll be having many more adventures after the movie.
resolved Genius cam Film
When a character is a genius, savant, etc., shots from their perspective show things like diagrams and mathematical equations, often in glowing white lines. Like in The Good Doctor.
resolved Dousing something in gasoline and setting it alight Film
Where a bad guy douses a car (or person) in gasoline, then drops his cigarette or lighter on it to get rid of it - also done when he covers the target, walks away leaving a trail of gasoline, then lights the very end of the trail so he's further from the conflagration.
resolved Orson Welles making frozen pea commercials Film
Is there a trope, in-universer or out, for accomplished creators/athletes/performers whose careers drop to comically humiliating lows, thanks to a perceived decrease in skill, abrasive personality, offscreen antics (including legal troubles) or a refusal to compromise their ethical values?
A more extreme version would be an actor being reduced to making porn.
Edited by Mac_Rresolved 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 Conflict over child's future in family business Film
Is there are troupe in this index about the conflict between parent (or parent-like figure) and child about the child's future occupation? Dad wants Son to stay at home and work in the Family Business, while Son wants to "Make it on his own." Some examples that come to mind include October Sky (Dad wants son to be a coal miner like him — son wants to become a rocket scientist), Annapolis, kind of (Dad wants son to work with him as a ship builder, Son wants to join the navy), Star Wars, A New Hope (Uncle Owen wants Luke to continue working on the farm, Luke wants to go to the Imperial Academy).
resolved Omnidisciplinary Cop Film
The cop who's involved with every aspect of the olice procedural - he's working a beat when he finds the drugs, then leads the investigation to pinpoint the distributors, drives across states to catch them, leads the SWAT raid on the distribution facility, drives the prison truck to jail and watches over the criminals when they're talking with their lawyers.
resolved Unique in the Original, commonplace in the EU Film
In The Empire Strikes Back, Luke uses a desperate, improvised maneuver to destroy one of the giant armored walkers in Hoth - he shoots an emergency grappling hook and circles the rope around its legs, causing it to tumble down.
Even though it was supposed to be a last resort in the movie, a bunch of Extended Universe works have the same thing happen, going as far as showing it to be a common technique, since it's such a memorable scene.
Is there a trope for a scenario like that? Something that was supposed to be an one-time thing in the original work, ends up showing up all the time in sequels, adaptations and expansions?
resolved driver doesn't watch the road Film
This is super dangerous, but happens all the time in films. Most of the time this is just an acting convention, but sometimes it does matter.
What is the trope for this ? That doesn't seem to be Blind Driving, so I am thinking of Drives Like Crazy.
resolved character named after actor Film
Hi, is there a trope for characters having a name related to the actor playing them?

A trope for works where Sci-Fi technology has been around for long enough that there is “old” technology and not everything is shiny and clean