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resolved When someone can help, but doesn't Live Action TV
Someone is in trouble, and a friend has the ability or means to help, yet doesn't do so.
Example: I need to get my finances in order but can't. A friend with a financial background could offer his advice or outright help in the matter, but stands by and watches me struggle.
resolved When someone suddenly looks more attractive Live Action TV
A woman removes her glasses and suddenly becoming gorgeous in the eyes of her love interest.
resolved Experiment on orphans, so no one will care Live Action TV
A Deadly Doctor wants to do illegal experiments for AIDS treatment. In order to minimize the risk that he will be stopped, he uses orphans.
resolved No Title Live Action TV
is there a trope or tropes for a good guy seemingly being forced to work for the bad guys maybe under threat of death but he later reveals to the other good guys he is the bad guy leader and lied about being forced so they wont expect him
Edited by Bzrkfayzresolved Choosing your way of dying Live Action TV
The help is not coming. There is no rescue. This is a death trap, and the oxygen will probably run out too once the scrubbers get full.
And now Bob face a choice: commit a quick and relatively painless suicide and be done with it, or painfully, slowly dying from starvation and the fact he has an open fracture that nobody is going to put together.
No, I'm not looking for Driven to Suicide. I'm looking for this choice of going out in a specific way: quick and easy, or pointlessly struggling much longer, but still being doomed to die.
Edited by Tropiarzresolved Effective life sentence Live Action TV
A person is convicted of several crimes, not one of which comes with a life sentence. However, due to the number of these crimes, he's sentenced to 240 years in prison.
resolved Looking for a definition Live Action TV
Character supposedly has a happy ending. Character friends supposedly has a fulfilling life and archive great things. But they exist in the past and a future event is coming that cannot be changed that calls into question if it such a happy ending .Like character manages open a successful business in 1940s Hiroshima and fix the crumbling infrastructure in his neighborhood just prior to WW 2 occurring.
Edited by Tuvokresolved 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 A character enters the scene with news or some timely comment Live Action TV
I've seen this more in Law and Order:SVU but I'm sure that must happen in other shows.
Two or more characters are chatting about some case or problem. At a given point, one of those character says something crucial and then a third (or fourth or fifth) character that wasn't there, enters the scene with a very useful/timely/brightful/witty comment.
For example:
Olivia: I'm gonna stay to drive her to Rikers in the morning. Elliot: Look, she made her own choices. Olivia: Doesn't mean that I have to feel good because she's going to jail for murder.
Suddenly we hear the voice-off from Casey Novak:
Casey: She's not!
They turn to look at Casey, coming from the shadows with a tape in his hand.
Casey: Her lawyer sent this to me.
The characters doing this always came from outside of the scene, looking as if they managed to hear the last bit of dialogue and they are able to intervene with surprising news.
Does this trope exists? Is it a broader trope or is only a SVU writers trite resource?
resolved The Robots Don't Turn Off Live Action TV
There's this sophisticated notion in some stories where, despite having no real conscience, robots (or other type of artificial thing, like virtual world A.I.s and so on) who are supposed to act human, will continue to do so, even when there are no humans around to witness and interact with them.
Usually, one would assume that, if there's no reason for them to pretend to be human, they'll stop doing so the moment there are no humans around, if only to save energy. But no. Justifications for that are based on verisimilitude:
- A human could show up unannounced, and it's more believable for the robots to be in the middle of doing something, like having a conversation.
- It'd look suspicious if the robots were in the same place/position they were in when the human left.
- A robot can only communicate with other robots in the same way it communicates with humans, to prevent plot holes (e.g., a robot would need to talk to another about the human, so a robot who wasn't part of the story yet won't have knowledge it shouldn't).
- The robots programming isn't able to distinguish other robots from humans, so we end up with ridiculous situations where one robot assumes the other is a human, like two ad-bots trying to sell each other something.
- The robot performs functions other than interacting with humans.
resolved Giving you a chance to turn yourself in. Live Action TV
Is there a trope for where Character A offers Character B chance to reveal their big secret or hand themselves over to the authorities, with the threat that if B doesn't do it, A will spill the beans?
resolved The band from the show? Live Action TV
A common resource in some teen TV shows and telenovelas, where some characters end forming a pop band and even make a tour as the group in Real Life, such as happened in telenovelas like Rebelde or Alcanzar una Estrella (where Ricky Martin had a shot forming Muñecos de Papel)... do we have a trope for that?
resolved Middle Eastern Terrorists Live Action TV
A Sister Trope to Western, African, South Asian, and Far East Asian Terrorists, Middle Eastern Terrorists are terrorists who are
resolved Not Missing but Dead All Along Live Action TV
Dead All Along seems to involve characters who were ghosts or projections the whole time, but is there a specific trope for when a character's who thought to have run away and broken off all contact with their family is revealed to have been murdered, with the killer(s) having tricked the deceased's loved ones into thinking that they were simply living somewhere else and just didn't want to be found.
resolved Back by popular demand Live Action TV
A character is originally going to leave for good, but is brought back due to being a fan favorite.
It's like I'm in some kind of... TV Tropes...
resolved Oh, [character]! Live Action TV
Stock phrase that I'm pretty sure is mostly used in older sitcoms. A character says "Oh, [character name]!" when they do something funny or stupid.
Edited by c1beat7per9minuteresolved Alleyway blocked by fence Live Action TV
A chase scene in a dense urban environment. The characters run through an alleyway between tall buildings, and suddenly they come to an alley blocked by a metal grate or a chain link fence.
Is this a trope?
Are alleys blocked this way common in real life? I haven't spent much time in dense cities and I've never seen it. It doesn't seem safe in case of emergency, so is it something that is far more common in fiction than real life?
resolved Animated interlude in live-action work Live Action TV
A live-action work has a segment that's animated, often as part of a Dream Sequence or Art-ernate Universe.
resolved "Obvious" evidence of editing an interview (for length/clarity) Live Action TV
For a specific case, there was an interview for a news show with a person, done through Video Call, and because of where the interviewee was located (they were 'in detention', read jail), there was an on-screen notification for "XX minutes left". The entire segment was only about 5 minutes, but the timer went from 18 minutes to about 7 minutes by the end; of course there were some jump cuts (which is expected, even for cases without an on-screen timer) back and forth between the interviewer asking the questions and the person being interviewed, with the timer being notably shorter after some of them.
Edited by CurledUpWithDakka

this is more of a "do we have this trope" but I think it happens in Power Rangers a lot and it's like Die or Fly but without gaining super powers
Edit: the trope I was originally describing was Crisis Makes Perfect but after looking at it I realized I was looking for a more broad "you have to get over a Fatal Flaw in order to fight a villain"
Edited by Wild-Starfish