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Parent hunts creature not knowing it is their child Western Animation
My roommate watched Wolfwalkers and asked me to find this trope. In the movie, the dad is hunting wolves and he doesn’t know one of the wolves is his daughter. This creates dramatic tension because she knows that’s her father, and he wouldn’t hurt her normally.
The formula of this trope is “kid is turned into something else” + “parent hunts that thing” + “the transformation makes parent unable to recognize their kid.”
Any ideas? TY!
Production company change Western Animation
Are there any tropes for when a television show changes production companies between seasons for whatever reason? Like how WesternAnimation.Hit Monkey season 2 is going to be produced by 20th Television Animation because Marvel Television got absorbed into Marvel Studios?
Unwelcome character keeps appearing
Which trope is it when an unwelcome character keeps turning up all the time?
no establishing shot
A really important building or other structure inexplicably never gets an Establishing Shot, and we only see the inside of it.
Mistaken Trope
A character really believes a trope is in play, but it's not.
Sort of like Wrong Genre Savvy, but smaller scale. Maybe an uncommon and yet unnamed version of Playing with a Trope?
Edited by Eievie
Non-Americans Using American Terms Film
Looking for the trope where non-American characters use American terms when it wouldn't be realistic in reality.
For example, in Knock at the Cabin an Edinburgh-based nurse says 'parking lot' when they would have said 'car park'.
Rich people are scruffy
Is there a trope for when a rich or powerful person is scruffy in clothes or appearance, contrary to expectations?
Song about religious guilt Music
This is for Ghost:
- The song "Spillways" points an accusatory finger at the deep-seated guilt complex that fuels the endless sin/repentance loop, calling it "the cruel beast that you feed" with "your burning, yearning need to bleed / Through the spillways of your soul" (i.e. crying from shame).
Do we have a guilt- or religion-based trope that would cover this?
Horror movie dogs always die Film
Is there a trope for when dogs (and other animals sometimes) die in horror films? It's a really common occurrence in horror movies.
Honorable good guy dies trying
The trope where a good guy has information about the bad guy/bad organization and goes to some trusted authority with said information, only to realize that said trusted authority is on the bad guy's side, good guy may or may not die as a result.
I know I've seen this a lot but I can't think of an example off of the top of my head!
An evil businessman driven by greed
An immoral and greedy businessman who is willing to cross the Moral Event Horizon for money and influence.
Edited by Fidor
Murderous power imbalance Film
Does anyone know any movies where the character dynamic is similar to Hannibal(2001), Hijacked (2012) and Leatherface(2017) where the male character is a bad guy and could kill the female character but chooses not to and there is potentially some romance sprinkled in. It's similar to the power imbalance trope and the Stockholm syndrome trope but I find the suggestions in there don't quite cover what I'm looking for, bonus points if it includes a switching of the roles e.g. Hannibal being a prisoner and Clarise being an FBI agent but then when he escapes and drugs her the balance of power is shifted, or in Leatherface where when Lizzy and Jackson meet she is in the position of power as the nurse but then when the asylum is overtaken by lunatics, the power shifts to Jackson yet he decides to make it his mission to protect her when he could have killed her instead. Thanks in advance:)))
What trope it is?
Good day everyone, I really like this trope, but I don't know what it's called exactly. Can you help me please?
"Raise a husband?" "Top is younger than bottom?"
I feel it's something different. I am looking for concrete trope's title when one character is younger than another and an older one raising them. This is similar to "mentor and disciple", but not in all cases one is a teacher for the other. Usually in this trope, the younger one falls in love and shows romantic interest in the older one first.
Breath Attack Warning Signs
Is there a trope or tropes for the thing(s) where a character gives the following warning signs that they are about to use a Breath Weapon, 1. puffing their cheeks out 2. Closing their eyes 3. puffing their chest out & finally 4 leaning their head way back. Like the following images cheeks only
◊, or eyes only
◊, or both cheeks & eyes
◊, or chest
(no image for either head, or three out of the four signs) or finally all four.
Updating this cause I really want to know.
Does Fake Hair Drama apply to fake beards?
Sorry if the question looks dumb, but I don't see whether if the trope applies to facial hair. All the examples and the page in itself makes Fake-Hair Drama seem like just scalp hair.
Saving Equals Friendship
The wheelchair-bound villain wants the hero dead and hunts him because the hero was the one who crippled him. The hero is a Nice Guy and a Wide-Eyed Idealist who thinks the villain is just pretending to be a bad guy. After both of them end up underwater, the hero saves the villain from drowning. The villain becomes the hero's friend and pulls a bit of Heel–Face Turn.
Sliding scale of cartoonish to realistic Videogame
Is there a trope for how cartoony vs realistic a game's graphics are?
Characters complaining about your greedy behavior Videogame
In Warhammer 40,000: Darktide, if one of the players greedily grabs any ammo that can be found or uses a medicae station's limited uses to heal minor injuries, one of the other Player Characters will complain about your selfish behavior.
Puffed up cheeks
A category for scenes in tv shows and stuff that have puffed up cheeks. Plus things that involve puffed up cheeks like blowing, burping, holding breath, breath weapons and vomiting. My favourite kind of puffed up cheeks is when the lips pucker up or in the shape of a 3. One more optional thing, I prefer if females do it but You can put males in aswell. Oh but I don’t like it when it’s combined with stuck out tongues.
Edited by Puffylover3