Trope Launch Pad

You have a trope that you have seen a million times. It just needs a snappy name. Discuss it here! This is also a good place to call for examples.

How this works: Cruise through the list looking for a title or synopsis (which we call the 'laconic version') that might interest you. View the draft description with attached discussion, then give the sponsor your feedback and maybe an example or two of where you have seen the trope in media.

Have an awesome idea but think it might already exist? Check the Trope Finder or explore the TV Trope indexes to see whether another troper beat you to the punch.

Please see the TLP Guidelines for the full etiquette of TLP.

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0 5Special Aesop Victim

A person dies to hammer home the message for an Aesop or special episode

2 20Bodyguard Legacy

Where Protection Is An Occupation Handed Down From Parent To Child Throughout the Linage - Needs Examples

3 28Heinousness Retcon

A returning villain's crimes or personality are suddenly retconed to make better/worse than originally established - Needs Examples

0 10Gangster Fiction (WIP)

Media with a substantial focus on the movers and shakers of organized crime

0 11Repaid In Good Karma (Need Title Feedback)

When a group of people pay their gratitude back to a singular individual who has helped them in the past. (FORMERLY "Repaying For The Needs Of The One")