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Walking backwards/away from someone who's desperate
Is there a trope where one character walks away from another character after revealing something big?
You see it in romance movies a lot but it's not limited to romantic relationships. It can be family relationships, work relationships or teacher/student relationships.
Examples include: The part in the recent sugar pine 7 episode (Goodbye dad.) where James says "No, I'm just walking backwards now dean, I'm sorry" The part in avatar the last airbender where zuko leaves uncle iroh to find his own way. The part in teen titans where terra walks away from beast boy
A character ends up getting more/more powerful superpowers as the years go by
Is there a trope that's like Characterization Marches On but for superpowers. A character starts with no powers, or one or two basic powers, but as their series went on, more powers were added or the powers they had were powered up considerably.
Like how Superman went from being faster than a speeding bullet and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound to being Superman. Or how Mario has gone from just having an above average jump to basically being Superman.
"That [X] whose name we no longer speak"
So, we have:
- Let Us Never Speak of This Again, where two or more characters agree to never bring up a certain topic for various reasons
- Never Say That Again, where a name or reference causes a negative reaction in someone who hears it
Do we have something for when a person expresses their negative feelings for someone/something by refusing to address them by name, instead referring to them by some variation of "that [X] whose name we no longer speak" or "that [X] who shall not be named."?
Edited by Willbyr
Actually Impossible Achievement Videogame
Similar to That One Achievement, except the achievement is actually impossible to get. The game is broken or glitched.
Some kind of romance arc trope??
A person is in love with someone but is married to someone else, and chooses to honour their commitment.
Edited by ammjal
Catchphrase foreign dub
Is there a trope for a character's Catch-Phrase that didn't exist in the original version, but was invented for a foreign dub?
is there a trope for this?
siblings who share rooms is a common thing in shows, is this an actual trope. this is sometimes used as a plot device in episodes.
Fighting Smart
Someone who definitely doesn't qualify as combat pragmatist but still fights smart using their surroundings and can be creative. Is this a trope or People Sit On Chairs?
Guy says "Hey," other guy turns around, Guy says something Film
I see this trope a lot but can't find an article about it. The usually goes like this:
[Guy 1 and Guy 2 just finished having some kind of conversation and so Guy 1 turns around and walks away, until suddenly Guy 2 has something else to say]
Guy 2: "Hey, [Guy 1]"
[Guy 1 turns back to face Guy 2]
Guy 2: Some random line, often a "Good Luck" or some final statement or instruction
[Guy 1 either replies or just smiles, and then finally walks away]
Examples that come to mind right now include:
Mallrats: https://youtu.be/YFLlwtqHINs?t=3m33s
Second Glance aka Hey Scotty, Jesus Man (Probably a more well known one): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTLlzHyfyS8
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (ENDING SPOILERS): https://youtu.be/ZVxuv9ne32U?t=1m50s
There are probably a bunch more examples of this but none of the top of my head.
Thanks!
Edited by BenJia
The kid fights back
There's a bully who attacked a kid, and left him demoralized. So he took self-defense classes, and trained hard. Eventually the bully returns, but the kid manages to defend himself and get out of there without being bullied.
I thought about Challenging the Bully, but there is no challenge involved. It says below that "A character standing up to their bully without a challenge being made is not this trope", but then which one is it? Or perhaps the trope works as well without the challenge, despite of the disclaimer?
Characters floating will bend one knee
When a character is floating (or descending from a higher place), they usually do so with one leg slightly bent which seems to look cooler than having both legs stretched out. This is not gender-specific. Do you think this is tropable?
Lovable Caligula
About a leader (usually of a nation) that is deranged and whimsical, but does show that he cares for his people (and not in the "I'm being generous, now shut up" manner, but actually genuine).
Short-Hopping Mooks Videogame
There's a lot of enemies in video games that don't do much other than taking a short leap at the player. Is there a page for that?
Indentifying "bad guy" trait
Is there a trope that exists for a certain trait that identifies a bad guy but is specific to that bad guy and is not necessarily inherently evil? Similar to Red Right Hand but it's not evil, kinda like Sinister Clue but not specifically about being left handed? An example I can think of is the six-fingered man in Princess Bride, where the trait isn't evil but is abnormal and is an identifying feature of a bad guy.
Real Name, Fantasy Location
When a setting/game/book/movie uses a Real Life name for a town or a series of towns but the location they're set in is fictional.
Example: In The Bard's Tale (2004), the main towns are actually named after towns of the Orkney Islands (Houton, Finstown, Kirkwall, Doubny and Stromness) but the overworld's geography doesn't match with said island (with Finstown, for example, being immediately south-east of Kirkwall rather than far to the east).
List ending in food
I'm wondering if there is a trope listed here for when someone (usually the protagonist) goes on a long list of things they "need" in order to do or fix something. Then the final item is a piece of food, to which someone replies "what do you need (food) for?" and they they answer something like "because I'm hungry".
No Title
Two people meet each other, and one of them says, "You."
Phlebotinum Switching Between Good and Evil
Is there a trope for when a phlebotinum causes someone to switch from good to evil or evil to good?
Examples:
Angel from Lilo & Stitch is one of the 600+ experiments with unique abilities, and can do this with her singing, but cannot affect the experiments that were made after her.
The city/machine called Nirvana from Fairy Tail can do this to those who are already at the tipping point between good or evil, regardless of whichever one the individual is normally affiliated with.
Edited by Namor21
God Created Unofficial Stuff
Things that the creator makes (whether writings or picture or some other stuff) that, by the creator's words, aren't meant to be "official" for the work that said things are related to. Basically the supertrope to God-Created Canon Foreigner.
Do we have something like that?
Possessing someone else to get their power
Alex possesses Bob's body (or have their souls exchanged) so that Alex can use Bob's abilities.
Does it count for Powers via Possession, or is it its inverse?
Sacrificial Lion But Lives
Is there a trope where a significant character is permanently injured (often in a Career Ending way) to show the villain is a threat? It's like Sacrificial Lion minus the death part. For example:
- Havoc from Fullmetal Alchemist faces Lust and gets a spear through the spine and loses the use of his legs.
- Also from Fullmetal Alchemist, Lan Fan faces King Bradley and loses an arm.
- Yang from RWBY faces Adam and loses an arm.
- Barbara Gordon is permanently paralyzed after being shot by the Joker.
actor re-appearing in later version
Is there a trope for when the same actor appears in different versions of the same work? For example playing a child in the original version, and decades later playing that character's parent in a new version.
Mistaken for Monster
Is there a trope where a character assumes that they themselves or someone they know is a supernatural being? Similar to Fake Rip Van Winkle, this is a situation where someone mistakes an event for happening when in fact it did not. For example, in the Spongebob episode "Krab Borg" the title character believes Mr. Krabs to be a robot after watching a movie and a series of coincidences. In Phineas and Ferb episode "The Curse of Candace" similar to "Krab Borg" has the character Candace believe she has become a vampire after a movie, an encounter with a vampire bat, and a set of coincidences. And to name one more example, in American Dad episode "Fiances with Wolves" again like the previos example, after a movie, encounter with a wolf, and set of coincidences, the character Steve believes himself to be a werewolf.