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resolved Character's Noun
A title trope where the format [character]'s [noun] is used. A sort of in-universe version of In Case You Forgot Who Made It.
Examples: Bob's Burgers, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Bowser's Fury
An adjective can also be used in the title, like Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure or Rocko's Modern Life.
Edited by Pbskidsfanresolved Chain of pulling
A character grabs another to save them (from falling off a cliff), but needs someone else to grab them fast, and so on.
resolved One Man Show
Where most characters in a work are played by the same actor, just putting on different voices and costumes.
Puppet shows,Youtube sketches, etc.
I think South Park has a version of this going on too but with 2-3 people.
Edit: Oh I guess it's just an exaggerated version of Acting for Two.
I think it's a bit different when the entire cast is made up of one person, but good enough.
Edited by IronAnimationresolved Different Time Measure Tropes
Is there a trope about measuring time on earth/other places according to things like "moons", seasons, or the like? Such as a character saying they're "seven winters old".
resolved Standing Strength Reveal
A very common gag, usually in light-hearted action/spy/adventure stories, where one character provokes another, seemingly normal-looking character, only for them to stand up, take off their shirt, etc, revealing that they’re very, very large, often towering over the provokee. Oh, Crap!
Usually occurs in a Mugging the Monster or Bullying a Dragon scenario, either when a side character riles up the big guy and bites off more than they can chew, or where the big guy, usually a random thug, subsequently gets thrashed by The Hero.
Very, very likely to occur in a Bad Guy Bar.
Edited by Azorius24resolved Lie doesn't get revealed, but still leads to undesired outcome
Alice lies to get out of a sticky situation, and it's successful insofar that Bob doesn't find out the truth, but to keep it up, she has to make a fool out of herself in front of others/has to do continually maintain a charade around Bob/loses out on something etc.
For example: Alice is having an affair. When Bob wonders where she is every Sunday, she says she's playing Bingo. Bob says he loves Bingo and he'll go with her! Alice now has to pretend to be excited.
I thought Maintain the Lie would be this but that trope is very specific about Alice having to involve other people in the lie.
EDIT: While I marked this as resolved (see below), I've since stumbled upon Bluff Worked Too Well, which is closest to what I had in mind.
Edited by rasteraxresolved Reference to a beta/trailer
If a videogame has a reference to its trailer or a closed beta, what is that referred to as? Example: An area only appeared in a combat demo for a game, but didn't make it into the game until much later, the NPCs allude to it having appeared in said combat demo
Edited by AwkbutTVTresolved Do we have an index for synchronized tropes?
There are some tropes of which the main feature is stuff happening at the same time or otherwise being synchronized—e.g., Synchronization, Implausible Synchrony, and Synchronized Morning Routine.
Do we have an index that groups them?
resolved Shapeshifter tell Western Animation
Is there a trope for when a shapeshifter has a certain trait they cannot hide? Like in the new Kung Fu Panda 4 trailer, there is a Chameleon villainess who can transform into other characters, but her skin remains scaly in whatever form she takes.
resolved Original idea turns out to be common, just elsewhere
Bob is writing a movie script. He decides to throw the curve ball and completely go out of the box when it comes to story elements. He then reads his script idea to Alice, an expat from Ruritania. She remains completely unimpressed and when Bob is done with his pitch, Alice points out that he just described to her the outline of a book that's an obligatory read for 2nd graders in her country - it just never got a translation into other language than Ruritanian.
What OTHER tropes than Pop-Culture Isolation and Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure this falls in, since Bob had no way of knowing this book exists in the first place.
resolved random words as insults
not using similar-but-less-vulgar words instead of curse words, but rather using random words in their place. best example i can think of right now is “santa chihuahua!” from the book of life. i’ve also noticed a lot of instances where the random “swears” were actually food names.
resolved Place outside any legal jurisdiction
Is there something covering the idea (realistic or not) of something being outside the jurisdiction of any law due to where it happens? For example, I saw a show in which the villain would supposedly escape legal repercussions for a crime because he sailed his yacht out into international waters before committing it, and I once read something set in a saloon which, due to a surveyor's error, was outside the jurisdiction of the local sheriff, making it a refuge for anyone on the run.
(I'm not just looking for a trope about places where the law officially applies but isn't properly enforced — I'm wondering if there's something specifically for places which are "legally" lawless, so to speak.)
I've already looked through Crime and Punishment Tropes, Artistic License – Law, and Hollywood Law — I didn't find anything that looked quite right, but might have missed something.
resolved Time compressed for dramatic purposes Live Action TV
Events that, in the real world, would occur over months or years are portrayed in fiction as taking place over a few hours, days, or weeks. Some examples:
1. Trials: On television, they make it look like a person gets arrested, and then their trial happens a few weeks later. In reality, it can take months or years. They do the same thing with civil cases: The car accident happens, the next day someone gets served with a complaint, there are one or two depositions over the course of the following couple of weeks, then there is a dramatic trial. Pretty much every legal procedure show (The Practice, Law and Order, JAG, etc.) does this.
2. Medical problems: Someone goes to the hospital with a medical problem. Over the next day or two, their doctors do a long list of scans, blood tests, biopsies, and other tests. Once the problem is diagnosed, surgery is scheduled for the next day, and then after a couple of days of recovery the patient, now cured, goes home. House, MD is a prime offender.
Is there a Troupe for events that would normally take place over a long span of time being portrayed as occurring in an unrealistically short timeframe for dramatic purposes?
resolved Theft originated by supply scarcity
Greetings, tropers. I hope this doesn't seem like a dumb question, but is there a trope that revolves around a character, or group of characters, resorting to stealing other people's supplies when theirs begin to ebb? I'm watching an animated show where this happens in an episode. Thanks in advance!
resolved Post-Apocalyptic Faux-Badass Western Animation
The apocalypse happens, and one of the survivors is a rugged Bad Ass that probably survived thanks to his special ops skills or bloodthirsty criminal lifestyle. Except it's later revealed, to the other characters or the audience, that he was actually a harmless average person who survived thanks to dumb luck, or because his skills or lifestyle coincidentally helped him out.
The idea isn't so much that the character isn't skilled in the story, but the contrast between the present version of the guy and the Nerd Behind The Mask he used to be.
resolved Stumbling/leaning on something leads to discovery.
A trope where a character accidentally finds something major simply by goofing off on their surroundings.
resolved Tempting Fate Exploitation Attempt
A character says something along the lines of When Pigs Fly or Tempting Fate. It happens right after they say it, and they immediately follow it up with a much more appealing wish which doesn't happen.
resolved Percentage error
A character is listing the components of an abstract concept by percentage, but they don't add up to 100. For example, "A successful marriage is 50% communication, 50% compromise, and 50% love!"
resolved Expert through Experience
Do we have a trope where something happens to a person so often that they become an expert at it?
Do we have a trope for a character being shocked by another character's bad or uncouth language? I mean irrespective of whether they're a Sir Swears-a-Lot, this would be a reaction trope.