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Improbable lack of injuries? Anime
So in Love Live Sunshine the girls get to ride a freight transporter monorail system that breaks and turns into an uncontrollable roller coaster as it accelerates down a hill.
And none of them sustains as much as a bruise apparently. At least they can all run after this.
Plot Armor ? Or something more specific?
Made Of Irony
When a character who survived a lot of lethal damage die from something minor just for the convenience of the plot.
Like this he didn't die when he got chopped in half, blown to bits, or completely liqudfied, but somehow he died from getting punched REALLY hard.
Edited by Andermann
Reluctant hero
The Rhino is a villain, not a hero, and does not go around doing superhero things. However, his niece has been kidnapped. His sister-in-law does not know what to do, and her husband is a useless drunk. So, he does the "superhero thing" and try to locate the kidnapper and rescue his niece. He wouldn't do it for strangers, but he would for the family.
Swap Tracks Videogame
Having 2 variants of the same track in order to perform an in-place Tone Shift without interrupting the flow of the music.
Edited by SomePerson
Self-Overrated Attractiveness
A woman offers Sex for Services to a man, he declines, she's furious. Sort of like Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?, but where the woman is the aggressive one and gets turned down.
The Color Of Magic has a Conan The Barbarian expy get visited in captivity by the villain's daughter, who offers herself to him wearing nothing but jewelry if he'll defeat her brothers for her. He looks her up and down mentally counting how much the jewelry is worth, and it's obvious that he's interested more in the diamonds than her, to her increasing anger.
One Thorgal story has a teenaged girl try to seduce a boy of her age into helping her win a contest. He tells her he's seen better and goes back to sleep.
I'm rich!
This is usually a moment where someone goes from Rags to Riches. Where someone has an over the top reaction upon being presented with a large some of money, either as a gift, stumbling upon it, or recieving it by surprise by means such as a lottery ticket. Often this is either a pivotal moment in someone's story if being rich is integral to the story itself, or if the episode involves temporarily becoming rich(sometimes as a prank) and discovering as such. Usually moments like this are comedic, such as this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19Rpmux1d_Y
Didn't mean to sound mean
Guy 1 mentions something about his niece. Guy 2 makes fun of it. "You? You have a girlfriend?". Guy 1, with his face in shadows, say "A wife. But not anymore" (meaning, he's a widower). Guy 2 then tries to apologize.
No Title Western Animation
There was a cartoon that used to come on early mornings on the oldies type channel between with a little boy who would chase I think a black widow type villan through time. Each episode was a different piece of history, the two places I remember are ancient Greek Olympics are the worlds fair. I can't find it anywhere
Detective's family member mixed up in case
I've searched through all the crime/detective related indexes and can't find this one, although I've seen it in loads of works. By coincidence, a close family member of a detective (usually a police officer) is involved in a case, either as a suspect or potential victim, or not directly involved in a case but closely involved with someone who is. Cue moral conflict.
Don't you know who I am?
This is where someone with an ego and either a small-scale, former, or very much alive celebrity image shows up at a restaurant or other place of busniness and attempt to get more than ordinary standards by bringing up the fact that they are a celebrity, often beginning with the line, "Don't you know who I am?" and expecting something such as services not offered, services when the place of business is closed, or services when there are other people in line ahead of him. Discussed here, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8QW2-TawxQ
Sad Ridiculous Story
Someone tells a story that may sound pretty dumb for some, but it has a deep emotional meaning for the one who tells it.
is thier a trope for Tax Right offs?
i'm just wondering if thier is a page for Tax Right off projects?
Badass Damsel
A situation where the Big Bad breaks into a castle looking for this week's Damsel in Distress, except when he finds her, the would-be damsel instead turns the tables, then literally kicks him out of the castle so hard he clears the moat with a few feet to spare.
Ultrapowered kid
When a Kid-Appeal Character is a crybaby and also the most powerful character. Example:
4-year-old Charlie: I…I don’t want you to hurt my friends! *generates lighting that fries Emperor Elvuz*
Alice and Bob: *to David* That’s why you should never mess up with Charlie.
Help Me, Prime Universe, You're My Only Hope
Do we have a trope specifically for when one or more characters get pulled from their main canon universe into an alternate dimension (NOT time-travel) for the sole purpose to right some wrong in this alternate reality, a la Injustice: Gods Among Us? (It has to be recognisably the same setting as the canon universe, so this is not a Crossover trope)
Edited by crackersthesparrow
Absent survival
I'm looking for a trope that describes a somewhat For Want of a Nail scenario: A person who was supposed to be at the site of a catastrophic event survives because they have been elsewhere, held up or simply too late.
Taller person getting book from bookshelf for shorter person
I feel like I've seen this many times, but particularly in anime and manga and everytime I see it, I can't help but feel like it's quite common. One character (usually a shorter girl) is reaching for a book on a bookshelf but can't reach it so their love interest (usually a taller guy) comes behind/beside them and reaches it for her. I feel like it's common enough to be a trope itself but not sure if it is already here?
Hidden world trope? Live Action TV
What trope fits this scenario:
Alice goes into her local shopping mall one day, and when she leaves the building via one of the entrances, she ends up in an Alternate Timeline meeting her Alternate Self who is very similar and gets on with her Alternate Self. However, main timeline Alice has to keep the Alternate Timeline 's existence secret for fear no-one will believe her, even her friend Bob and for fear of what could happen if the two timelines crossed.
Alliterative Superhero Names
Do have a trope for a superhero or supervillain whose alias sounds like their actual name?
Black and White Naivete
Do we have a trope where someone naively thinks that people can only be 100% good or bad? Or does Black and White Insanity covers# it?
Spiritual Regrouping Videogame
Protagonist and companions attempt to face villain for final battle, but are utterly defeated. Companions appear to be gone for good before protagonist dies. Protagonist wakes to find themself in a spirit realm where a guide tells them how to save themself and companions. Protagonist regains strength then searches for each companion individually before returning to physical world to face the villain again.
Last week I finished a game that had this (although the searching was less involved) and got to the searching point in another game last night. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this elsewhere, probably in a game, but maybe in a non-interactive narrative, although the searching for individual companions bit seems especially gamey.
Group items placed in container and watched
I've seen this on TV several times, but cannot think of what it is called. You have a group of people, let's say 5, and they each have a valuable item that they put in a container. The group then gives the container having the five valuable items to a 6th person that each of the five trust with the container of valuable items. It could be given to one of the 5, but usually it is given to someone outside the group who is a neutral person. The 6th person was (or secretly was not) trustworthy, but now with the container of valuables, the 6th person uses them as thought they are his/her own. In addition, one of the 5 people (we'll call the 2nd person) might later approach the 6th person and cut a deal by which the both the 2nd and 6th person use the valuables in the container as they please without the others knowing. Person's 1, 3, 4, and 5 begin to mistrust each other as well as the 2nd person and the 6th person. If this is a comedy, hilarity ensues. A western, there is gun play. A mystery, perhaps a series of murders. I'm looking for the name of the trope. Thanks!