Trope Finder

Fridge hearthwarming

The opposite of a Fridge Horror. A hearthwarming moment that is not so evident in the work, and you only notice it in a later view when you think a little more about what has just happened.

Bulletproof being

A trope where someone is bullet proof all on their own, like the tf2 medic's uber, or superman.

Leaving doors open Film

In visual media, whenever a character walks into a room, you see them open a door, but rarely do they close it, even if the character logically should because they are running from someone, doing something private, or it's the sort of door that no one ever leaves open (like the front door to a house).

This is likely due to the Law of Conservation of Detail, or because scene is being filmed from the angle of someone standing in the doorway, but it brings up a lot of Fridge Logic. When I see this, I often expect an enemy or unwanted person to walk through the open door, but this rarely happens.

Impersonating a Complete Monster

A character goes undercover as someone who actually exists (or takes on their identity). For whatever reason (usually a serious one instead of Rule of Funny), he has no idea what the person is like or what people think of him, so it comes as a surprise when it turns out he's impersonating the Complete Monster of the year.

Excessive resuscitation

What's the one where (usually on a medical show) a doctor (or other medical professional) continues trying to resuscitate a character everyone else around has already concluded is dead. This goes on until someone else (usually another doctor or a nurse) says something like "John, he's gone".

Similar fictional animals

Do we have a trope for fictional animal or animal breeds, or one for when a fictional breed is inspired by a real breed?

Storm Hawks tropes

I'm looking for any tropes that may appear in this clip(5:16-47).

Initially, I was only wondering about the Condor's involvement, namely the whole "including a full-sized airship in an ambush mainly comprised of flying motorcycles" part, not to mention why the thing would need to announce it's arrival with the horn, but I eventually decided to just let the TvT community loose on the entire clip to see what came up.

Note: For a size comparison, the Condor is easily triple the size of a Galleon, and much, much faster to boot, while the Skimmers are barely larger than a Harley Davidson without their wings.

Yeah, I'll...sorta do it.

So someone is given a job to do, but he doesn't really want to (for whatever reason), so he deliberately half-asses it and claims "I tried."

Expy or Captain Ersatz of buildings/landmarks in cities, towns? Live Action TV

Do we have a trope for where there's an Expy or Captain Ersatz of well-known buildings or landmarks, for example, if a work had the Chevrolet Tower in New York City as an equivalent to the real-life Chrysler Building?

Or if a work set in Paris had the Gustave Tower, instead of the Eiffel, or the Horn Buildings instead of Trump Towers in a work set in NYC, would these be an Expy or Captain Ersatz, or another trope?

I'm not implying there's any major physical changes to the buildings themselves, just they're sufficiently recognizable.

At first I thought that was No Communities Were Harmed, but that's for towns isn't it?

Escort the fake so the real stuff is safer

Something like this:

• In the Ghost In The Shell Stand Alone Complex Pu 239, Kazundo Ghoda tasks Section 9 with escorting a case of plutonium through a refugee zone, acting as security in case the refugees try to get their hands on it. At the end of the episode, Ghoda reveals that there was no plutonium inside the case, and the Japanese Self-Defense Army relocated the actual plutonium without incident.
• In the film of Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, Abe and a few crewmen are securing a train that carries silverclad things to be used against the Confederacy vampires in the Civil War. Predictably, the vampires - including the Big Bad, Adam - tries ambushing the train... Only to found out that the train contains no silver, except for Abe's pocket watch (which he uses to kill Adam). The real silver stocks are in a separate train that goes underground, and that convoy goes safely, allowing the Union side to decisively win the war with silver bullets.

Ends on a wedding

I couldn't find it under Wedding and Engagement Tropes. Do we have a trope for when works end on a wedding?

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con artist posing as a beggar, often seen getting into an expensive car.

Nightmare of friends dying

Is there a trope for when a character has a nightmare/vision of all their friends dead. He or she might find one of them taking their last breaths and being powerless to stop their passing. Bonus points if combined with Kill the Cutie. Think of Thor in Avengers: Age of Ultron.

Overpowered by circumstance

Is there a trope for characters that are overpowed, but only under a specific circumstance?

For instance, Lapis Lazuli can control the entire ocean and bend it to her whim, use it to fight the Crystal Gems while simultaneously stretching it into space, and has been shown multiple times to be a devastating force around water.

Without water, however, Lapis is severely disadvantaged. She isn't a physical fighter and has been shown to be easily taken out by a hard punch to the back.

On-screen counter

There's an on-screen counter that increments every time a certain thing happens, like the Fusebox and Ass Counts from The Spoony Experiment or that one episode of South Park with a counter for every time a character said "shit".

Impostor Drama / Protagonist In Over Head Drama

The viewpoint character is pretending to be someone/something he isn't, and much of the drama comes from his having to prevent people from finding it out and losing their trust or from doing too much damage (for example, fraudulently claiming to be a doctor and suddenly being asked to administer first aid).

• In Overlord 2012, Ainz is considered an Evil Genius by both subordinates and enemies, and tries to act the part despite being in completely over his head. His repeatedly telling his subordinates he's not as intelligent as they claim him to be doesn't work, and he comes up with ordering the actual Evil Genius to recap the situation to avoid being Locked Out of the Loop.
• The hero King in One Punch Man is lauded by everyone as a superpowered savior. In fact he has no powers whatsoever, all his "victories" are actually Saitama's, and at first he said nothing because it seemed to give people hope, and now he can't back out. We see him confronted by a monster and it's all he can do not to break down crying in public.
• Chrono Trigger: A little boy is identified as a legendary hero and given all the help the kingdom can give to defeat a monster. In fact the kid is just a kid, and runs away from danger once out of everyone's sight.

Exonerating evidence is more embarrassing than admitting to the crime

Similar to Confess to a Lesser Crime, but I don't think that quite covers it.

Example: Guy could prove he didn't commit a murder by submitting his PC's browser history. But it would prove he was streaming My Little Pony, so he refuses.

Looking for the specific refusal, not the trope(s) covering how stupid this is: (Be as Unhelpful as Possible, Skewed Priorities, A Fool for a Client, etc)

Virtual Reality Videogame

Checking my understanding; Cyberspace is the trope for fictional examples of Virtual Reality games in addition to virtual reality as an interface?

Doom approves

There is a team up between a hero and a villain against a common enemy. Desperate and with limited options, the hero proposes something. The villain says something that basically means "That plan is completely evil. I approve it!". Is it a subverted What the Hell, Hero?

All Boss Fights Videogame

I know this trope exists but I can't remember the name.

It's when video games are entirely boss battles. Like shadow of the collosus.

Start Being Stereotypical

A trope where a character doesn't conform to a stereotype and is criticized for it (and not necessarily by someone of the same "type" as the character).

For example, Alice is the one girl among a bunch of guys, who participates in their Alcohol-Induced Idiocy. When they get punished, Alice gets singled out specifically because she's averting Women Are Wiser.

Or Bob is an Asian student who keeps getting offered money to do other kids' homework, but this ends when it turns out he subverts the "Asian students are all geniuses" stereotype.

Never had to deal with emergency

Is there a trope for a person who doesn't know how to handle an emergency because they've never had to? The character of Mr Peanutbutter on Bojack Horseman has led a life where everything comes easy to him, and as a result, he's completely incapable of handling situations where the solution doesn't come easy (such as when his house falls into a recently-dug oil well).

For a real life example, there's the captain of the Titanic. The White Star company chose him because he'd never been in an accident, so he must be "lucky". Unfortunately, this meant that when the Titanic hit an iceberg, he had no idea what to do and simply went into Heroic BSOD while his subordinates handled things.

Oh, no, the original is back!

In the begining, a character behaved in some X way, and now it behaves in some Y way. If I got it right, it's Character Development if done right, and Character Derailment if not.

And now, the changes are removed and the character is back to its X old habits. If the original change was disliked, this is a welcomed Character Rerailment. But what if the audience was fine with the original change, and it's the regression the one that is disliked? Is it still character rerailment, or is it something else?

For Art?

Do we have a characterization-based equivalent of Doing It for the Art other than Mad Artist or For Science!?

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an entry in a franchise that is unlike every entry that came before it