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Intoxicating Toxic
This person is so strong that poison can not kill them, only makes them drunk.
cultural black box
a piece of durable technology that contains the entirety of collected human knowledge in case of catastrophic societal collapse.
Part-Time Cuckoolander
As Opposed to tropes like Dumbass Has a Point, Idiot Savant, and Genius Ditz, while not going as far as to invoke Idiot Ball, the character in question seems equal points Cloudcuckoolander and Normal/Genius, being the former more regularly such as giving actual meaningful advice with reliable frequency, but having enough idiot tendencies and insane logic chains that it's no question they aren't completely normal. An example might be a character contributing meaningful help to figuring out a mystery, while simultaneously and for no logical reason making a series of decorative paper hats.
The plot of A Quiet Place and it's clones
Any horror that punishes characters for possessing a particular sense such as hearing or sight, or performing basic functions like blinking and noise-making, as it is either how the monster hunts or how it kills. Heroes survive because they are disabled in a way that makes it impossible to be hunted, or because the monster is a Handicapped Badass who themselves has their other senses impaired which can be taken advantage of to either avoid or kill the monster.
You should know this by now!
When a video game character asks questions they should know such as where the store is in the village they grew up in.
Its not quite As You Know where a character tells them such stuff unprompted, right?
Time travel gives me a headache to understand Print Comic
In countless time travel stories, the time traveler gets things explained, like "You'll need to go to the past and meet her, but don't worry, because technically you've already been going to have had met her," and the time traveler replies "Understanding this stuff gives me a headache" or make some similar complaint. Is that a trope?
Hiding A Child's Parentage
Do we have a trope for a kid growing up believing that their mother or father is an Honorary Aunt or uncle? It's not a Family Relationship Switcheroo.
Immortality only in the realm of the villain Literature
Do we have something for when a villain is immortal and all powerful when in there home dimension but can be killed outside of it.
Like say the heroes fighting him in another world outside of his.
Legally Blind but Not Totally Blind
Do we have a trope for when a blind or deaf character is mistaken for completely blind or deaf when they can actually see or hear, to a degree?
Penn and Teller: Fool Us Live Action TV
In one episode of the show, where other stage magicians try and fool the old masters of Penn and Teller, one guy did an appearing from behind a screen trick with a story of getting rich. See here. Well, at the end, Penn and Teller admit that they got so engrossed in the story and the humor of it, they missed a key part of the act.
Question: What distraction trope would be best for this? Failed a Spot Check?
The Smurfette principle inverse
Can't find anything on subtrope when there is exactly one male character in the group of female characters.
Bike Fu
Kung-Fu with a bike or a bicycle or even a monocycle. A variation of Car Fu. Why use a heavy vehicle when you can use a slighter one ? You can throw him (Exemple: Anime/Manga: Mumen Rider when he uses his "Justice Crash" or Wester Animation : Code Lyoko: Ulrich with his Overbike). Or you can make a rotation at 360° striking your ennemies. A part of Vehicular Combat, it's the main form of fighting style for a Biker Babe or a Badass Driver with a bike.
Bad Example
Bob uses an example during an argument. Alice then points out that Bob's example is either irrelevant to his point or outright contradicts it (although it doesn't necessarily prove Bob's entire argument to be wrong). Bob usually concedes the point, especially if it involves a Take That!.
For instance:
- In Sherlock Holmes, Watson mocks a newspaper story for being a Cliché Storm, claiming he can tell the story without even reading it: a drunken husband beats his wife and it ends in a divorce. Holmes points out he chose the worst possible example (because it's a case he was involved in): the husband didn't drink, but he did throw his false teeth at his wife at every meal.
- In Foxtrot, Paige complains that everything she enters in the search engine gets porn instead, such as White House photos. Peter argues that some of those are probably actual White House photos. Paige concedes the point.
- In Discworld, Lord Rust cites multiple battles as examples of Ankh-Morpork military valor. His aide has to point out to him that several were defeats and one was a fairy tale, to which Rust responds with his usual Selective Obliviousness.
Nice Culture
A society/culture that has no formal laws or rules because "everyone's just that nice to each other". Examples include Hy Brasil from Erik the Viking and an early episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Casting Swords from molten metal
Do we have a specific name for this trope? When they take metal completely melt it down to a molten liquid and pour it into a caste. It happens ALL THE TIME even though it's not how you would make a steel sword. I've only seen it listed under tropes like Rule of Cool or Artistic License
The time when magic/other phlebotinum starts to exist/becoming common in the world
Probably 2 separate tropes:
- At first, magic didn't exist. Then something happens, and magic exists now; either only a handful of people know of everybody does.
- At first, only a handful of people know magic. Then something happens, and now everybody does.
Do we have something like that?
Read the wrong article
Do we have a trope for when Character A tries to show Character B something — let's say — via newspaper, but B looks at an article that isn't the one A meant to show?
It happened in:
- The Looney Tunes Show, "Devil Dog": When Daffy tries to show Bugs the escaped tasmanian devil poster, but shows the wrong side of the paper, and Bugs reads the guitar lessons ad.
- The Son Of Bigfoot: When Eastman hands Shelly a newspaper with the Bigfoot sighting article, but she reads a different one.
Old wives tales
Is there a general trope for so-called "old wives tales"? Or would that go under Urban Legends?
Ordinary Love Song
A song about how people don't need to be special/rich/whatever, and can have true love as ordinary people.
Displacement
Is there a YMMV trope similar to Adaptation Displacement, but not from a work? For example, there must be a lot of people who only know about Kimba the White Lion because of comparisons to The Lion King.
Humans are perverts
Is there a trope for when in a sci-fi story humans are depicted as having a way higher sex drive than most alien species? Example: at one point in Ringworld after Louis (the protagonist) has sex one of the alien characters says something about how humans copulate more than any other known (sentient) race.
Art reflects personality
We have Clothing Reflects Personality, but what I'm thinking of is when a person creates a work of art and someone else comments on how it reflects their personality (or lack thereof). The specific example I had in mind was a scene from Nijigahara Holograph where one of the characters is in an art class and is chided by her professor for a lack of soul in her work...I don't have the manga with me ATM to give the exact dialogue, but the impression is that the painting is cold and emotionless, which is a pretty good summation of her as the story reveals.
Slowed Down Creepy
What is the term for when something (particularly music or a sound) is made creepier by slowing down (possibly becoming deeper)?
Warning a Loved One to Leave
I'm looking for a trope where someone warns a person they care about to leave a location that is about to become very dangerous, but for whatever reason is unable to broadcast a warning to the rest of the world.
For example, Alice knows that an ancient curse is threatening to destroy New York City if she can't retrieve the McGuffin, so she calls Bob and tells him to "take the kids and go visit your aunt in New Jersey for the weekend." (In this situation, Alice would not be able to warn all of New York City without inciting mass panic, or she would not be believed if she tried to warn the authorities that a supernatural force would destroy the city.) In another situation, Bob learns that his secret spy agency will be attempting to take out a terrorist cell who have infiltrated the guest list of the huge fundraising gala Alice is hosting, so Bob warns Alice not to attend her own gala. (In this situation Bob must keep the operation a secret, but he doesn't want to endanger Alice by letting her blindly attend a gala full of terrorists and secret agents.)
Edited by Leporidae