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Detective's family member mixed up in case
I've searched through all the crime/detective related indexes and can't find this one, although I've seen it in loads of works. By coincidence, a close family member of a detective (usually a police officer) is involved in a case, either as a suspect or potential victim, or not directly involved in a case but closely involved with someone who is. Cue moral conflict.
Audience reaction trope
A villain dies screaming out of agony and terror as he befalls a horrible, frightening death. The audience out of universe is overwhelmed at the sight of the death because it is very disturbing, very unsatisfying.
rock shaped like an animal or person
A giant rock or natural feature shaped like an animal or face apparently of natural origin. Usually indicates something supernatural is afoot, and is often an important landmark in the search for something like treasure or a Lost World.
Dispersed Population
People living after the collapse of society are only allowed to live in communities smaller than a certain number of buildings or structures to keep from returning to an urbanized state. Does this trope have a name? It appears in Leigh Brackett's novel The Long Tomorrow? Has it been featured in any other works?
Female sports manager
A recurring trope I've been seeing in Gaming and Sports Anime and Manga lately is that of a manager to an otherwise boy only sports group. Do we have a trope for that?
Edited by Tomodachi
G-Rated Alcohol
Something in the franchise may not be alcohol itself, but the character, currently acts addicted to the object.
Introduced As A Freshman
Do we have a trope about characters starting school at the start of a work? In the first episode, or start of the film, involves them beginning a new school (usually as a first year).
Innocent Child
So basically the trope I'm searching is about a young kid who didn't realize at the moment that her mother was having sex with another guy, saying that they were doing paperwork.
Mental Autocorrect
Is there a trope about how our brains tend to "autocorrect" stuff we read (such as if a name is spelled unusually we often misread it as the more common spelling, or how if we misread a word the first time we tend to read it the "wrong" way until someone points it out to us?) I guess Failed a Spot Check would work but is there anything more specific.
No Title
A new child arrives/is born in a none-too-law abiding family and the family vows to come clean so they can raise the child properly. It is similar to Raise Him Right This Time but no reincarnation/turning back into baby/spirit extraction or similar is included.
Oblivious to Danger
In an adventure or horror story, the guy who insists that everything is fine and that there's no danger, even though the Genre Savvy would realize that obviously listening to the person who is scared is the right thing to do.
No Title
If A is an amorphous blood creature that lives in B's blood stream, does that count as Two Beings, One Body?
Ultrapowered kid
When a Kid-Appeal Character is a crybaby and also the most powerful character. Example:
4-year-old Charlie: I…I don’t want you to hurt my friends! *generates lighting that fries Emperor Elvuz*
Alice and Bob: *to David* That’s why you should never mess up with Charlie.
Contrived kiss
A highly contrived situation that forces two characters with romantic tension between them to kiss.
Riding a tiger
Do we have a trope where someone starts something that grows dangerously beyond them — they cannot stop or control it but also cannot walk away from it.
Edited by DracMonster
Let's Do This Again
Alice and Bob are childhood friends, and when they were little Alice will always pin him down on the ground and sit on his chest when they were play fighting, and the two will laugh together.
After they grew up, Bob becomes a villain and Alice have to put him down, after a fierce battle, Alice manage to pin him down on the ground, sits on his chest and start strangling him while crying, not unlike when they were play fighting as children.
Jesuits in Space
No, not a sketch in the Muppet show, I am reading "The Sparrow" by Mary Doria Russell and am reminded of a couple of other stories off-hand, "A Case of Conscience" by James Blish and "Hyperion" by Dan Simmons. I am guessing this is quite a popular theme. It could involve other religions too of course, such as the Buddhist miners of the Asteroid Belt in "Wheelers" by Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen. These all are celibates so far, which may be an important part of the picture.
It occurs to me that being in a religious order could be a useful format for space exploration, as a well-formed hierarchy will (probably) always be necessary for this to be possible. I doubt if a totally anarchic free-wheeling spacer culture as in e.g. "Neuromancer" would last long.
(I am thinking of real religions, not made-up ones as in the Dune stories, and it doesn't need to refer to specific orders like the Jesuits, I suppose "Catholics in Space" would do but it doesn't have the same ring to it).
Edited by RogueBean
Fat Animal Gag
Some sort of animal referred to as fat appears as a comedy gag. Examples of common species include hippopotamus, elephants, whales, cattle, pigs, and pandas.
Sooo Anime
Not actually sure if this is a troupe, but: a character who is either a tsundere or displays tsundere qualities having an older sibling whose either: a) possessive of their sibling (Think Makoto Teruhashi from "The Disastrous Life of Saiki K."), b) displays yandere-like qualities towards younger siblings (once again, Makoto Teruhashi from "The Disastrous Life of Saiki K."), and/or c) is a yandere and behaves that way about their sibling. I'm asking because it seems common for a tsundere/tsundere-like character to have a yandere/yadere-like sibling?? I know it's mostly played for laughs, but it's been bugging me. Is this a actual troupe, or is it simply a favored combo of various troupes?
No Title
Is there a trope concerning a rather big and muscular person that is actually quite sneaky and stealth-like? Steal Hi Bye is almost it, but that can apply to anybody that's sneaky.
Thoughts?
Tragic Bromance With Platonic Life Partners
Could a pair of Platonic Life-Partners have a Tragic Bromance, or is Tragic Bromance limited to Heterosexual Life-Partners?
Finding out the marriage late
So this character just found out that his mother and her "Friend" got married, and no one told him until 7 years later. Basically, the son was the very last one to know about the marriage.
Edited by carlitagt
An object that one wears stops a lethal attack
Looks like a hero's killed, but something they wear or carry saves their life. I did see that trope somewhere but I can't remember how's it called