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Take It At Face-Heel Value
When a good character is doing something that make them looks like they seemingly about to betray their friends during a crisis, but it turns out they just want to do the right thing in their own way because others never listen to them.
Edited by Andermann
Renovation Tropes
Just wanna ask... Is there any Renovation tropes in this website? Its hard to find it. I'm specifically looking for tropes that applied to renovating a building in general.
You're not going anywhere.
This is where someone's attempt at a Screw This I'm Outta Here fails. Either because the friend of the character attempting this is preventing their cowardice, or because the villain blocks the path this character.
“Why are you even here?” “I don’t know”
When a character actually hasn’t got a reason to be in the Team but it’s still there and has adventures.
Mind Games
This is similar to a logic bomb, but rather with an artificial intelligence it involves a human being. More specifically it's where someone says something that confuses someone. It can be either comedic where the protagonist says something confusing to someone in an attempt to distract them, or taken seriously such as something that causes someone to question their actions, thereby causing an openning for a discration.
Shock value tropes? Live Action TV
I've been periodically editing one of the live-action GARO pages and I'm looking for a trope about a show that's starting to rely on shock-value for a YMMV, but the search-bar hasn't been my friend. (For context, I'm referring to having such little plot that shocking things like child-death and rape allegories are used to make things seem weightier than they are)
Edited by klom99
Hidden face and visible eyes
A horror trope where a character's face is shown as a solid monochrome shape, with only the (often bloodshot or protruding) eyes showing to make for prime Nightmare Fuel.
For example, the fourth and fifth panels of this webcomic.
Artwork creation sequence
Creation Sequence cover the creation of creature or object, magical or mechanical.
Does such a sequence for the creation of a work of art would fall under the same trope, or is there a separate one?
A Man Must Make More Than His Wife
A situation where a man refuses to ask a woman in marriage (or even confess his feelings for her) because she's richer than him/makes more money than him/he's not rich enough to spare his wife from working/is afraid that he'll be seen as a Gold Digger, etc.
Usually played for laughs, with everyone (the woman included) telling him to stop being a romantic idiot and propose already.
In the moment
Is there a trope that describes a person that doesn't dwell on the past or future but prefers to live in the present?
Fatal opening
Before we get into the plot proper, we get a Cold Open of sorts where someone gets killed. While it might sometimes kick off the plot, most of the time it's the death of a Red Shirt—the character killed might not even be named, let alone reappear later. I usually see this in horror movie and crime shows like Criminal Minds.
Edited by iamconstantine
Emotional Release
When a character manually release their bottled up emotions like anger, sorrow by punching trees or smashing rocks, or crying their eyes out just to get them out of their system and keep going.
Edited by Andermann
Adaptational Skimpiness
Is there a possible trope that serves as an inversion of Adaptational Modesty? Hotter and Sexier really covers the setting. I'm wondering if there is a trope for it or if I'll have to launch one.
Harley Quinn in the New 52 is a good example.
(Just to be clear, if there is none, I'm already working on a sample page to take to the launch pad.)
Edited by ClownPrince47
Kids Imagine Their Future
An Imagine Spot where kids think of their future and time only appears to have passed for them: they have adult-sized bodies, but still live in the same houses with their families, still have the same pets, sometimes the parents don't even look any older.
If it's got a hinge, people pretend it's a mouth that's talking or eating
- Just saw this in an episode of Cutthroat Kitchen. After a losing chef returns his money to the briefcase Alton opens and closes it a few times, making eating noises.
- In a Friends episode Ross and Carol are at the obstetrician/gynecologist office waiting for the doctor. Ross picks up a speculum and opens and closes it making duck sounds.
Silent Dissonance/The Silent Movie Gag Film
A gag in silent films where a character clearly talks for a period of time that would imply a paragraph but once the subtitle frame shows up,it reveals the speaker only said two or three words.
Adopted kid looks like adopted parent
Is there a trope for when a child is adopted by someone (and not secretly actually their biological child) and winds up looking like them anyway?
Kings With No Last Name
When royals don't have surnames, is it normally One Name Only or First-Name Basis? For example, most Disney royalty.
Workout as Punishment (Solved) Literature
The villain defeats the hero (or the hero's dad) and sends him off to do forced labor in the Salt Mines, a Slave Galley or the army. Then, after a few years, the hard work turned the hero into a giant muscular superman who's actually a threat.
Edited by Pisthetairos
You Know I'm White, Right?
The inverse of You Know I'm Black, Right? Character A tries to insult Character B by calling them by a derogatory term. Character B points out that they are not even a part of the insulted demographic. The closest thing I can find is Wrong Insult Offence.
Edited by pidget_spinner
Secret Secret Keeper Conversation?
The loved one of a superhero knows their identity, and said hero also knows their loved one knows, but neither side has directly confirmed or denied it. So what tends to happen is that when they talk to each other, then tend to drop huge hints in their conversation to let them know they know, but can't outright say it.
- This was done in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, where Jefferson figures out Miles' identity as the new Spiderman, and Miles is aware his dad knows. But when they talk, they have an unusually awkward "conversation" to let each other know that they know their secret.
A variant of this would be when two spies are having a conversation that appears to be casual filler, but their vernacular is loaded with codewords that take on an entirely different meaning in terms of intel. This results in a boring conversation about the weather, apple pie, and a daycare to be a highly detailed discussion about a secret test facility.
Edited by Rikun
We Used To Be Lovers
So there's We Used to Be Friends and Evil Former Friend... but do we have anything where two characters were in a relationship before they became bitter enemies? Or would this be a case of Tropes Are Flexible?
Comically Dramatic
The moments in a work where there's drama, but it's clearly exaggerated or played with a comedic twist that it's meant to be funny.
What would it be?
designated Asshole
In a #Relatable work, a character is desinagted to be an annoying asshole who does all the annoying stuff to represent the annoying people that the cartoonist encounter in their real life.