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Random person gets got in a cold open Live Action TV
In Monster of the Week tv shows, a lot of times, there will be a cold open where a person is going about their business, when something strange catches their attention. Then, an unknown monster (that is generally only shown in bits and pieces) attacks them. Then, cut to the intro. It’s done to show what the main characters will be dealing with for that episode.
Instantly Recognized Music
Epic Riff meets All There Is to Know About "The Crying Game", so to say. Music titles you can recognize by hearing literarily only the first note. Or maybe two. (Some offhand examples: Satisfaction, Supervixen, Amateur Hour, Action...) Not necessarily limited to music (bet you know the beginning of Moby Dick or The Metamorphosis, so add some Wham Line to the mixture), so in general: Any work that is instantly recognizable from its start.
Too excited to sleep
You want to go to sleep but are too excited.
Brief but Passionate
Strangers brought together by circumstance share a brief but passionate romance (weeks, days, or even hours) before parting ways again, possibly forever.
Fandom misconception that often causes arguments?
closest thing that i've found that fits the bill is Fandom Heresy, but i'm not sure about it.
the example i'm thinking of is differing opinions of the purpose of the fatigue point system in Dungeon Fighter Online. during the game's relaunch (and once in a blue moon after that), people come out of the woodwork swearing by their grave that fatigue is a deterrent to bots, even when people come out with proof
that it's merely there to comply with Korean laws.
Not even sure how to title this, but here goes: Videogame
So, there's this video on Youtube of a guy playing DDR, and for a moment during one of the songs on its highest difficulty, because it's all nothing but shock arrows after shock arrows, he actually just walks up and out of the camera shot for a bit before returning.
Would that information fit anywhere in particular, or...?
Talking to somebody... while having your back turned to them.
Exactly What It Says on the Tin, usually done by cool, brooding, or authoritative characters as seen in this image from an Image Pickin' discussion:
TV Store Trope?
This trope is when a crowd of people are seen watching a broadcast in a store display of TV's, usually with multiple TV's. One example I can think of is in the Spectacular Spider-Man intro.
Worldwide peace through telepathy?
Looking for this trope describing a plot point in fictional stories from various media wherein a telepathic mind-link established among the entire population across the whole world (a common example is "all of humanity on Earth") leads to worldwide peace, utopia realized and happy ending for the narrative/story.
In addition, is there a Trope Page/Name for the Inverted or Deconstructed version of the trope described above?
EDIT: Is there a specific Trope Page/Name for the scenario where "the worldwide mind-link is successfully established, but it failed to result in peace and utopia"?
Edited by VILE
Malevolent Mesmerist
This trope would be when mind-control powers are associated with villainy, especially for hypnotists and mesmerists. Usually these people are depicted as being manipulative and sadistic, controlling other people for their own ends or for simple amusement. A Subtrope of Bad Powers, Bad People, similar to Psycho Electro (when electrokinetics are portrayed as evil) and Beware the Mind Reader (when mind-readers use their powers unethically).
Edited by ClancyGardener
Character accesses another world/dimension through their dreams
Say a character, once they fall asleep, wakes up in a place vastly different from where they went to bed. They think it's a dream, but in actuality, they somehow arrived in an entirely different world. They can interact with the environment, feel a degree of pain, and maybe learn how to do some magic while there, but for one reason or another, they always wake up back in their bed, and slowly begin to believe that the place they were just in was no dream. What do you call this trope?
Fluent In One, Comfortable In Another
A character is fluent in one language, but feels more comfortable speaking another they aren’t as good with.
Example: Gabby is fluent in English and knows enough Spanish to get by. She feels more comfortable speaking Spanish around other people.
Edited by HMSquared
Pixaresque Western Animation
A style of 3D animation influenced by Pixar's films in the 2000s, featuring round, blobby bodies with streamlined and often distinguished sillhouettes, Rubber Hose Limbs, and bright colors.
JC4 tropes
I was fooling around in Just Cause 4, when I noticed some potentially tropeworthy situations. I've actually got four situations to look at, but two of them are similar enough to another pair that I can put four examples into two situations.
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- Threading-the-needle evasion: I was trying to avoid a pair of Black Hand jets, when I spotted a bridge running across a canyon. What I then did was to fly not under the bridge, but at it, aiming for the support beams on one side. And once I'd gotten close enough, I closed up my wings, yoinked my way through the gap between two beams, then redeployed the wings in time to avoid an unintended landing. Though I didn't see it, after my maneuver I heard a large explosion, followed by an unmistakable cracking sound, indicating that at least one of the oversized lemmings behind me had collided with the bridge in an attempt to follow me, and had demolished the bridge as a result.
- Driving A Plane: Shortly after the above, I was once again accosted by the second jet, which had somehow missed the bridge. What I then did was to fly down toward a tunnel, drop my landing gear and fold up my wings, then drive (yes, drive) my plane through the tunnel, being treated to a second explosion as the other plane succumbed to the same fate I'd avoided during the first stunt. And once I'd made it to the other side of the tunnel, I unfolded the wings, took off, and flew into the air with nary a foe in sight.
in a cave. And while they're mostly fictional, and thus will use TVT's filler characters instead of actual in-game characters,note the situations themselves are predominantly based on my adventures through the Cueva de la Ñusta/Tumba de la Princesa cave system.
- Unorthodox Assistance: Alice is at the edge of an underground lake, on the opposite of which is a diagonal shaft that presumably leads up to the surface, but the cavern is too big for her to get across in an efficient manner. Shortly after setting up a camp at the water's edge, intending to formulate an escape plan the next day, a small group of Elite Mooks ambushes her and forces her to call for help. Bob responds that he's inbound with a "Flycatcher," and she assumes that, as he mentioned missiles, he'd wingsuit in with a rocket launcher, grapple to the cavern's ceiling, and bombard the mooks from above. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately), both Alice and the mooks fail to realize that the "Flycatcher" is an X700 fighter jet until they physically see it careening down the aforementioned shaft. And once it gets to the lake, it lets loose a missile barrage that kills all of the mooks at once, then deploys it's VTOL mode just in time for it to settle above what used to be Alice's camp. A few minutes of conversation later, and the Flycatcher is on it's way back up the shaft with Alice riding it like an oversized hoverboard.
- Useless Thing Becomes Useful: Alice, Bob, and Charlie are exploring a large underground cavern in search of a powerful artifact.note When they decide to bring weapons "just in case", Bob brings, of all things, the X700 Flycatcher. When the other two attempt to explain that bringing an aircraft into a cave is a futile idea, he counters by pointing out that not only is the majority of the cave big enough to support it, the Flycatcher's VTOL is different from a helicopter in that there's no rotors to damage should he get too close to the walls. Long story short, the X700 proves to be indispensable, and they make it to the end with no trouble. However, they do have one tiny problem, in that not only is the artifact a large statue, but attempting to take it from the main chamber will cause the entire cave system to collapse. One Distant Reaction Shot later, in which the area is shown "transforming" into a sinkhole, and the jet blitzes out of a cave in the foreground at full speed with the artifact hanging from one of it's missile racks in lieu of the aforementioned ordinance, effectively giving the ancient (in)security system the finger by simply being too fast to catch.
Interactive Clickable Elements Videogame
This is primarily found in Point And Click Games. There are elements that you can click on or select for a little animation or funny sound. They don't contribute anything else to gameplay, but they are amusing.
I thought this was Feelies, but it turns out that that's something else entirely.
Edited by DrNoPuma
Mob Deal Room Scene?
Is there a trope for this?
It's sort of a stock scene, where two shady types sit in a room lit by the orange glow of a setting sun, exchanging briefcases over a table.
I've seen it a lot in anime, and usually seems to be played for laughs as it turns out the deal being made is something perfectly legal, and they're just hamming up how totally evil they are for fun.
Straw Man Indulgent Fantasy
Mocking one side's beliefs by presenting them as a power fantasy or with a message of "this is what you look like when spouting your beliefs".
For example, a webseries starts with the handsome, charismatic hero Robert delivering a beatdown on caricatured enemies and spouting an Author Tract. Then we "zoom out" to see that this was a webcomic by the in-universe creator Bob, and Bob himself is a strawman (in a webseries created by Alice). Bob is then shown to be even less likable: where Robert is tall and muscular, Bob is short and wimpy, with the same face as Robert but with more pimples and a bald spot. Bob is also shown going on message boards and throwing a hissy fit over people not liking his (preachy, Self-Insert, and objectively badly-written) comic.
Similarly, a work starts by showing (for example) a neo-Nazi leading an armed revolution that curbstomps blacks, women, Jews, and other minorities. Then we see that it's all in the head of the original neo-Nazi (who's a lot less muscular than in the previous sequence) in a statis pod, with two scientists looking at the readout and shaking their heads at the neo-Nazi's sad little fantasies.
Edited by Chabal2
A character's "thing" (speech pattern) Western Animation
Flexo, from Futurama, has this thing where he says something, then immediately says "nah, I'm just kidding" and the opposite. It's not a Mad Libs Catchphrase since it doesn't change just one term, but the entire phrase, and it's not a Strange-Syntax Speaker since the grammar isn't wrong.
Plus, the joke is that Flexo speaks like that all the time, which makes him sort of a shallow character.
"Immigrant reconnecting with roots" plot
Seen It a Million Times: Sort of like the child of An Immigrant's Tale and Heritage Disconnect, is there a trope specifically for an xth-generation immigrant (or anyone else raised in another culture) reconnecting and rediscovering their cultural roots and heritage?
Fake Love Confession
Alice pretends to confess her love for Bob to either distract him or to get something from him
Edited by MacronNotes
Daytime is scary
A scary scene could easily be set at night, because the darkness would add to the scare factor. However, the writers instead opt to make the scene in question happen in the daytime and it still works just as well.
For example, in the Doctor Who episode, Blink, the infamous angel scene near the end appears to happen in broad daylight, yet we all know how many people it managed to scare.
African American Cast
A movie's cast of characters is almost entirely African American.
Impersonation for good
Is there a trope where someone impersonates another to improve the impersonated's reputation? An example I was thinking of is this Brawl in the Family strip.
Misunderstanding a story's meaning
Is there a trope for when the meaning/Aesop of a story flies over many of the audience's head, either because it requires some thinking to get it, and/or the story itself does a poor job of conveying it? Either way it results in a good chunk of the audience taking away a different meaning from the story than it was actually telling, to the point it erupts many discussions and misconceptions as to what the actual Aesop was.
Freeze Spell
Someone is magically frozen in place (but not turning into stone or into ice)