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Furry Headphones Confusion Western Animation
In which a funny animal character has ears on top of their head, but their headphones are placed where a human's ears would be.
Think like that moment where Arthur is wearing headphones. I know it's also played straight in Bluey, but averted in Zootopia. Any ideas?
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Commonly used joke about somebody's last name being a common thing. Live Action TV
I feel like it happens a lot in TV. Is there a trope for when somebody makes the very common joke where they imply a super common thing is named after a fake person? ie>
Jonathan Movie, inventor of Movies Robert Microwave, founder of Microwave, Inc.
Ragtag Bunch of Misfits, but for children in supernatural horror. Film
Note: I selected Film as the medium, but this trope (or sub-trope?) seemingly transcends all Western genres.
Is there a name for a young Ragtag Bunch of Misfits who usually live in a Close-Knit Community that is a Town with a Dark Secret? Maybe the New Exchange Student is inducted into the group (is there a name for this as well?) much to the reluctance of one of the Misfits (who can be represented in a variety of archetypes). This is usually supernatural horror, but can be found in lots of different 80s nostalgia-baity works. Everyone (Goes) To School Together, and the kids have to work together to defeat the Dragon and/or Big Bad. Possibly distinct from the sort of teenage summer-camp-oriented slasher horror (Friday the 13th, Fear Street: 1978, etc).
Maybe I'm being too specific or haven't looked long enough, but to me it seems that this kind of story is suuuper prevalent and distinct enough to at least be a sub-trope of something. Or this might be too general.
Examples: Spooksville, films of Steven Spielberg (Goonies, ET), writing of Stephen King (namely, It), My Babysitter's a Vampire, arguably Gravity Falls or most iterations of Scooby-Doo!, the works and film/TV adaptations of RL Stine, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Stranger Things, and many, many more.
Sorry if that was too long, I'm new here hahaha
Edited by ephun
Door Scene Door
A trope where a character opens a door, comes face to face with an unpleasant character, then calmly closes the door. May have a touch of Dissonant Serenity in their reaction of what they just witnessed.
Split Eyebrow
You know when a character is marked as a badass by having their eyebrow split in two by a scar (wether the actual scar is visible or not)? Do we have a trope for that?
Media deception trope
Is there a trope out there that portrays media as controlling and/or deceptive?
Circular definitions
What's the trope for when someone gives circular definitions of something, usually as a joke? For instance: "What's a gambler?" "Someone who engages in gambling", "Ok, what's gambling?" "The thing a gambler does."
Fake Out Narration Film
Isn't there a trope about when there's narration at the start of a film that seems like it's for the sake of the audience, but then it's revealed that the narrator, who is also one of the characters in the film, was talking to somebody else in universe, or recording some sort Captain's Log? An example I can think of is from Wreck-It Ralph, where the film starts with Ralph explaining who is and some of his background, only to reveal that he was actually speaking in a Bad Guys Anonymous meeting. Also Iron Man 3 where Tony's narration throughout the film was revealed in the after credits scene to be Tony speaking to Bruce Banner like a therapist.
Joy And Grief Juxtaposition
Something good and something bad happens at the same time (though not necessarily to the same character) or very soon after each other. Usually ends in the mood turning towards grief although the grieving character may hide it so as not to spoil the joyful character's mood (or vice-versa). Can overlap with Birth And Death Juxtaposition.
e.g.
- Bob just learned his daughter has Died In Childbirth. Charlie bursts on the scene cheering that he's a grandfather and passing pictures around. Bob leaves so as not to bring the mood down, and once the news is broken to Charlie, he's horrified at looking happy when Bob has just suffered such trauma.
- Alice learned she's getting promoted. She goes to find her boss Bob to find him clearing out his desk, having been fired for backing the losing side in office politics. She doesn't talk about the promotion to not hurt Bob any further (she thought she'd be a manager in another department, not replacing Bob).
- Bob is despondent at having failed an assignment. He asks Alice what she got, and she claims she didn't look yet (not showing him the note saying she got an A+).
Drinking Something Undrinkable?
Is this trope that involves someone drinking something that normally isn't supposed to be drunk? (If it helps, in the case that made me wonder this, the character in question drinks oil.)
Mundane Routine
In the first episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi, Kenobi going through the same routine three times.
Kenobi is working at cutting up meat, the work shift ends, and he talks small slice for himself, cleans his knife, clocks out, rides the sand train back to town, feeds his eopie and goes home. Seeming to accept that this is his life now.
Is there a trope for this?
Edited by Lord-Jaric
Performance montage
Montage of the various acts in a competition or talent show.
Mistaken for relatives
Someone mistakenly believes that two (or more) other people are related.
No Title
What trope would this be? In Lord of the Flies, they ask Piggy what his name is, and he says he doesn't mind what they call him as long as they don't call him the nickname "Piggy" which he was once given. Then he gets called that again. You'd think he'd just not tell anyone the nickname and he'd never get called that.
Rekindled love
Two characters who used to despite each other, preferably lovers and exes, slowly being to rediscover their love for one another and grow closer than they used to.
Work launches on the same day as its announcement. Videogame
Basically, where a game (or anything really) is both announced and released on the same day, with the work being released shortly after its announcement. I've seen numerous games that have done this (especially by Nintendo), including most recently, Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Mega Mix+, which was released on the Steam store the same day as its announcement. Is there a trope that covers this? If there is, I hadn't been able to find it.
Edited by Tylerbear12
No exotic pets Film
Anytime a person, usually child or teen, finds a mysterious person, creature, or robot that they usually live with, have an adventure where someone tries to obtain or kill the mysterious being, and then at the end the two are separated, despite victory, by a sacrifice, someone going to live elsewhere, or legal red tape.
Examples: The Giant in Iron Giant sacrifices itself for everyone else. Creech in Monster Trucks is alive but moved to a protected, isolated habitat with others of its kind. BFG in The BFG goes home to his isolated island while Sophie gets adopted. In E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, E.T. leaves on a spaceship back home with his family. The robot dog in A-X-L self destructs to keep the military from capturing it.
Stereotypically "bad" guys being wholesome
The trope where you'll see the literal devil being a nice, misunderstood guy who gets excited about getting a tinder date with a biblically accurate angel.
The kind where the aliens invading earth will see that a boy has just confessed to his crush and they're blushing from a distance, going "oooooo he confessed!!", thus stopping the invasion because it doesn't feel right.
Where the mafia men are actual bros to each other and care about each other.
Basically, the subversion of expectations based on the stereotypes regarding who is inherently evil or not.
Is there a specific name for that trope? I haven't been able to find such a thing.
Edited by angeltze