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resolved Silent/gibberish shows that get dubbed in other countries
Just curious, is there a trope about when shows that were originally silent or just used gibberish get dubbed in other countries to have actual dialog? The main ones I know about are Pat & Mat's various dubs and Pingu's South Korean English dub.
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 During an action scene, everything freezes, and the screen goes blurry Anime
See above. Though I’ve put this as an anime trope, I noticed it in an episode of The Nutshack (yes, I know…) which was heavily inspired by Voltron. For whatever reason, I’m having difficulty finding the right page.
resolved Camera pans down to short visitor at door
Wasn't there a trope where a character opens the door when they have a visitor, and the camera pans down to show that their visitor (if there is one) is shorter than expected, likely not being the visitor they expected?
resolved Ordinary Name Slur
Do we have a trope for ordinary names that, for some reason, is used as an insult in certain contexts?
For example, there’s Karen for entitled women and Tom for blacks seen as selling out to whites.
resolved Multi-language conversation
Is there a trope for when characters have a conversation and each speaks their own native language(though they can understand each other just fine). Like Han Solo and Chewbacca.
resolved Unnatural disaster
I’m looking for stories about Natural Disaster-style events with causes that wouldn’t happen in real life. So stories like , Under the Dome, where a town is surrounded by a giant dome, Rain from Strange Weather, where it rains nails, or Sleeping Beauties where all the women in the world aren’t able to wake up when they go to sleep. With the connecting thread of these stories being that it’s not an invasion of hostile creatures but also not a realistic disaster like say, a virus or a fire
resolved oc in a crossover
is there a trope for an original character in a crossover setting
resolved Born Undead
Typically, the undead used to be something else (often a human), but then after they died/were turned, they became a zombie/ghost/vampire/whatever. But sometimes, they're not. Sometimes they're just like that. Might also apply to things like Werewolves where they're not undead but also typically formerly human.
Examples:
- The skeletons and ghosts from Undertale / Deltarune seem to just be types of monsters, rather than undead humans. They have monster souls and work like other monsters in general (well aside from Ghosts being only hittable by Magic. At least unless they fuse with a body they're possessing (ex: Glad Dummy and Mettaton)
- (taken from the page for Technically Living Vampire):
- Minilife TV: Vampires such as Snowball are created from mixtures baked in Easy-Bake Coffins and aren't negatively affected by sunlight, though they have very short lifespans, lasting for only a few years.
- Ringworld: One of the hominid species on the ringworld that evolved from the Paks are haemovores dubbed "vampires" by explorers from Earth. They produce pheromones that send their prey, other hominids, into a mating frenzy, but are not themselves sapient, with the exception of a couple who fed on a Pak protector and became protectors themselves.
- * Lost Souls (1992): Vampires are a predatory subspecies of humanity that have been living alongside, breeding with, and preying upon humans for eons. In fact, the four main vampires in the book (Zillah, Molochai, Twig, and Nothing) have so much human ancestry that almost all the 'classic' vampire traits have been bred out of them.
resolved Trope about speech audio logistics Film
Do we have a trope that covers how nobody has any troubles hearing a speaker giving a grand speech? Like when Kylo Ren talks to the entire army of stormtroopers in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, everyone can hear him clearly despite the distance.
resolved A Day in the Limelight Literature
More of clarification than direct trope search: is there any better fit than A Day in the Limelight / Ascended Extra for the following scenario (and which of those two fits better):
Alice and Bob are the main characters of a Amateur Sleuth book series. Other than being mentioned, Bob's mom Mary is in exactly one scene in the first book. Second book doesn't change that much - Mary is in three scenes, but far less present in the dialogues of other people (and it's more about the agro-tourism business she runs than her directly). But in the third book, Mary is suddenly one of the more important characters of the story, playing rather big role in the plot, having plentiful interactions with various characters and is instrumental to solving of the case they are dealing with... and by the 4th book she virtually cease to exist, being mentioned grand total of once and never present in person. Meanwhile, through the series, Alice and Bob are firmly the definitive main characters, so it's not that their role or presence is diminished in any way.
Thus: is Mary an Ascended Extra (but for just one book) or is that specific book where she's in the tight circle of 5 most important characters her A Day in the Limelight
Edited by TropiarzresolvedAPP Boss absorbing wood for power Videogame
In the Terraria Game Mod Fargo's Mod, there’s an early boss called the Trojan Squirrel. On the hardest difficulty of the mod, Masochist Mode, it can destroy wood blocks and trees and gets bigger. This definitely counts as a Griefer since it can ruin your buildings (I assume that’s the case, I’ll run tests in game tomorrow to see if it can destroy houses)
But what about the absorption of wood for power? No normal life form (or mecha) can just absorb wood and get bigger.
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 New villan revives an old villain
I swear there's a trope for this. it normally ends with the old villain killing the new one.
resolved Hidden Object Game Hoarder Syndrome
In Hidden Object Games, such as Criminal Case, there are usually scenes with lots of objects to find. Said scenes are extremely messy, filled up with everything from mundane things you would expect to strange items that it looks like as it everyone in that game’s world is either a compulsive hoarder or just extremely untidy.
Why is this necessary? Trope?
resolved Observing from the shadows
Someone follows the hero/heroes from a distance throughout their adventures, often lurking from the shadows without being seen
resolved Brown is Neutral
Where brown is assigned as the most neutral color (next to gray) and is thus symbolic as the most boring thing imaginable. So far, only Real Is Brown comes up but that only illustrates real life and doesn't describe the negative side. If not, would this warrant a trope in its creation?
Edited by SilvershadeWolfresolved About the trope Zodiac Motif
If a character do have a canon birthday under a specific sun sign, and their personality matches the common description of said sign but the fact is never mentioned in the work or confirmed to be related by the creator/author/... and is left ambiguous for whether they're used intentionally or coincidentally (as in, their personality just coincidentally match with their birthday's sign) , would it fits the trope?
Would simply mention someone's zodiac sign a trope? What about blood type? Is there a trope for "MBTI Motif" too?
Edited by LucasdaKool

The great woods of Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia portrayed as full of monsters and a setting for horror analogous to Lovecraft Country. I swear we used to have a page on this but can't find it anymore.