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Delayed Fall
For example, when a villain appears to be undefeated after the last blow or explosion, only to physically admit defeat by falling down to the ground.
Edited by Rapidkirby3k
Joke theory
A fan theory that only exists as a joke.
Mistaken for Imprisonment
Is there a trope for when a character thinks he/she is being detained for a crime but is actually able to leave freely or is being detained for something more mundane?
Vehicle Upgrade Videogame
Is there a trope for when in a videogame, you can upgrade or customize your vehicle? Be it a Cool Car, Cool Plane, Cool Boat, or Cool Starship? Basically Equipment Upgrade but with a vehicle.
Born Again
Is there a trope for when a hero basically has everything stripped away from them, losing everything, but by refusing to give in, they come back strong? It usually involves a He's Back moment, but it's broader than just that moment.
I'm thinking something like the character arcs of Daredevil: Born Again, Iron Man 3 ... even Avengers: Endgame, really.
Edited by DarkPhoenix94
Unexpected Non-Virgin
Character everyone expects to be a virgin or uninterested in sex (the fat nerd, the homely girl, the guy never known to be dating, the Sour Prude etc.) turns out not to be one (or is outright the most experienced member of the cast).
Usually has an undertone about not judging by appearances or that sex isn't everything, but sometimes used for laughs by Virgin-Shaming a more conventionally attractive character.
Disappointed by the Motive, but completely benign
Disappointed by the Motive is currently defined to be The Hero disappointed by a bad guy's petty Motive Rant. But does this applies to a completely benign case, like the following Played for Laughs example:
Alice did something that is undoubtedly having Grew a Spine to be a Determinator. Bob asked Alice why she took such drastic action, and Alice gave Bob a completely reasonable and mundane answer. Bob's mood sours.
- Bob: So it wasn't you Hearing Voices from the outer space...Alice: It's my first time seeing someone getting disappointed like that.
Of course, Bob is already established as a Cloudcuckoolander.
Edited by SamCurt
Visually edited dub
When a movie or an episode has some visual edits in some dubs. Like that news anchor in Zootopia who is a different animals depending of the movie's language.
Messed up fictional author Literature
Is there a trope for works of Stylistic Suck where the real author adopts a fictional persona of a mentally unstable person, usually to portray the work as the product of a sick mind - but sometimes to Troll the audience into thinking a real person is writing something so odd?
Plain first part, more innovative sequel
Primarly in video games, some sequels don't change the core gameplay, but add new elements and mechanics to increase the depth and variety in the game, sometimes to the point that the first one looks now a bit uncreative.
Ghost Hunter
Do we have a trope for a character whose aim is to fight and defeat ghosts? It's different from Paranormal Investigation in that they aren't looking to learn more about the haunting.
Death Works Everything Out
A trope (mostly in older works, given the change social values) where people acknowledge someone dying (or outright killing themselves) is the best solution all around (usually involving avoiding a scandal or ruining other people's lives). Not Leave Behind a Pistol, where the victim is told that their suicide would arrange quite a few matters, this is the person dying or killing themselves without any outside suggestion.
For instance, one Hercule Poirot story sees the exposed murderer take a gun in full view of the rest of the cast after The Summation and declare he's going to hunt rabbits. Poirot himself stops them from going after the murderer, actually calling it the best solution as it avoids revealing the murderer had not only killed his wife, but was attempting to gaslight his (not actually his but his best friend's) son into suicide.
A botched translation of an iconic line Anime
Example: the line "計画通り" is usually translated as "Just as planned". The Funimation translation of No-Rin, on the other hand, seems to not get the fact that this is in fact a popular line from Death Note, instead translating it as "Just like a plan", as somewhat accurate as it may be: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BeN1wl6CcAA9HQ_?format=jpg&name=large
What trope does this fall under?
Watching through fingers
Is there a trope for when someone watches a horror movie, covers his eyes in terror, and parts his fingers just enough to continue watching.
Referenced in Ready Player One:
- Aech: I've never seen The Shining. Is it scary? Sho: I have to watch it through my fingers.
Magnet trouble
A character is stuck to something, injured by a flying object, has something ripped from their hands, etc. because of magnetism.
Villain Gets Arrested
Do we have a trope for when a villain exits the story by being arrested? (As opposed to dying, getting off scot-free, etc.)
Open Relationship Drama
A couple is open to have each other having casual sexual relationships on the side, or some similar arrangement, but some circumstance about it suddenly begins causing trouble between the couple, such as one of them getting jealous or one actually developing feelings for someone else.
Do we have a trope for something like that?
any trope that fit this conversation
Hiro: I need your blood to make your wish filled, Mr. man: Alright then what blood are i need to sacrifice my soul or something as long you get blood i will sacrifice any thing then Hiro:to gain blood you must bleed Mr.man: alright then (swings his sword then hiro interrupts) Hiro:Hey, there way other than cutting here the way (Hiro aims to Mr.man finger then pin a needle to it and it bleeds, hiro then pick blood from mr.man bloody finger then apply adhesive bandage to mr.man finger) Hiro:wait 5 hour or for removing adhesive bandage [[ Catchphrase and that's it] Mr.man:oh then that worthless for me thank you
Your moral may vary
Trope for when morale is YMMV
Plot and gameplay death? Videogame
The hiro encounter an impostor then rages, in gameplay it instantly kills him
Find a person wants McGuffin
The Hero had MacGuffin (latter or sooner) and the plot want hero sends the macguffin
ascended what
romhack: use new map real game: use that romhack map
You Don't Need to Know
Is there a trope for the character who reflexively keeps secrets, usually "for your own good" or "for the public good?" I'm not talking about making information classified, but routinely either burying it or hiding it behind a cover story, even when there isn't a need for it. This would be the polar opposite of "Loose Lips" and sometimes results in a character challenging them with If You Won't, I Will, to force a revelation.
Temporary theme tune
Do we have a trope for when a show replaces its theme song for a single episode? Replaced the Theme Tune seems to be about long-term changes, but I'm thinking more about when the theme song gets replaced for a gag, or to introduce a Lower-Deck Episode or something. BoJack Horseman and South Park did it a few times.
Look back before realization
Basically, a trope in which a character has to look back 2 or 3 different times before they realize something. Anybody know what that trope is?