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openTrigger Question
Compared to a Trigger Phrase, and Contrast to an Armor-Piercing Question that would leave a person insecure and nervous, a Trigger Question would rather enrage a person, causing them to reach their breaking point, and comeback at them with an aggressive answer.
Edited by StoucaopenElders Voicing Elders
If we can a trope of Children Voicing Children, how about a trope where old actors voice old charcaters.
Edited by StoucaopenSomeone covers a corpse with a blanket as a final gesture of kindness/respect
Similar to Comforting Comforter, except the one being covered has passed away. Is it even a trope?
openEverything Montage Film
A montage that covers either the entire history of the universe, just Earth, or just humanity. Usually starts with a slower scene of the big bang, then progresses faster and faster showing short scenes or stills of Earth on different eras, hominids, human beings in different ages of human history, 20th Century film clips, ending with a aerial shot of a large city representing present time.
Usually, if a character becomes omniscient (or like some sort of AI absorbs all of human knowledge from the internet), this montage will represent what's going on in their thoughts.
openFew tropes
1. All of reality is just a dream of a god-like being. Examples include the Godhead from The Elder Scrolls and the One Being from Mortal Kombat.
2. Related to the above, if a person from The Elder Scrolls series acknowledges the fact that he/she is just a part of a dream, they can achieve CHIM and become a god-like being or vanish from existence.
3. It's very important to the plot to have a character that is only mentioned and never appears in person. I'm not sure if this is just the ghost trope or just a subset of this trope.
4. A character that originated in spin-off media later becomes part of the main media. For example, Lugia from Pokémon was created for the second movie, but this Pokémon was liked by game developers, and they added Lugia to the second generation.
5. A character is hidden, and we are getting subtle hints of the existence of this character. I'm not sure if this is foreshadowing or a subset of it.
openWhen a problem is treated as fixed even though it isn't.
A trope for whenever there's this biiiiig problem the characters encountered encountered ages ago that they deal with for a bit and then proceed to do absolutely nothing about.
Like, say, a great evil that they fought and sealed away, and then they just... sit on it, for centuries or millennia, not doing anything further. Inevitably, when said great evil gets loose again, despite having ages to come up with countless ways to deal with the great evil, they're somehow caught completely by surprise and thus probably are steamrolled over.
openSound Barrier Burst
Showing how fast someone is going by creating a ring burst to represent breaking the sound barrier.
openSequel Title Retcon
The title of the next installment in a series is given in the current installment (i.e. a book that ends with "Will our heroes make it? Find out in The Sands of Eternity"), but once it comes out it has a completely different name (the next book picks up where the first left off, but is now titled "The God in the Abyss"), with some reprints updating the name.
openLow Standards
Someone has very low standards on who they'll date.
- Scrubs: When one of his patients offers to set up JD with her granddaughter, he asks to know a little about her before going on a date with her. She tells JD that her granddaughter is single. Cut to JD at the restaurant, awaiting his date.
- Bob's Burgers: According to Gayle, her ideal man has a face and can go outside.
openAudience misunderstanding metaphors and taking them literally?
THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT has fallen victim to many of its lines being interpreted literally. I've seen several examples on TikTok and Twitter, but one that frequently comes up is people being baffled that the narrator of "Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?" says "You wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me". They would post that line, plus a picture of Taylor Swift's rather nice childhood home. Many of these posts seem to have a "gotcha" tone as if calling her a liar, or misinterpreting that she's talking about her family life, which she has frequently sung of positively. In context, the song is about her struggle with the music industry and her public image. Therefore, the asylum is a metaphor for the vicious industry, with Swift having been a child star and spending most of her life "growing up in the asylum".
openObject travelling for a long time
As the title says itself. What is the trope where an object has been travelling for a long time, like the real-life Voyager 1 and 2 space probes?
openTwist Reveal that a Character Only Appears to One Person
Is there a trope for when there's a twist that a character the audience has been watching all along (and assumes is a regular person) is actually only appearing to one of the other characters? Usually this is because the character doesn't actually exist and is just an alternate personality of the other character, or because they're a ghost that most people can't see. Famous examples would be The Sixth Sense, Fight Club, or The Other (1972).
If there isn't one, I think it might be worth creating one.
Edited by Luanna255openSpear counterpart of Absurdly Elderly Mother
Is there a Spear Counterpart of Absurdly Elderly Mother, or is it just Not a Trope?
Edited by AlfexopenShowing what you have done, to make someone else feel guilty
Is there one in which Alice shows Bob things she has done, or sacrifices she has made, to make Bob feel guilty, especially if Bob cancels something they were going to do? Examples:
- At the beginning of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry suddenly decides that he must carry out the dangerous mission to find Horcruxes alone. Hermione immediately counters this by listing all the preparations she has made, including modifying her parents' memories so they don't know they have a daughter. Ron also shows Harry how they have transformed the family ghoul into Ron, to provide the cover story that Ron is seriously ill with spattergroit.
- Brassed Off: When Phil is bracing himself for the difficult task of telling Danny that they will not take part in the brass band final, Danny suddenly hands Phil their sheet music, which he had spent all night preparing, compounding Phil's guilt.
- Played for laughs in Little Britain. When the prime minister tells Sebastian that he cannot accompany him, Sebastian protests "I had my hair done, and everything!"
openA race's member is "born" within a single location only
Is there a trope for a certain location where members of a specific race are born and resurrected?
Example: In the gacha game Eversoul, the titular Souls are a magical humanoid race that are Made of Magic, and as such do not reproduce or experience mortality like humans. They're all "born" or "reawaken" near the World Tree found within the Fayren Union, one of the world's seven nations, making them a bonafide Truce Zone that no country, powerful or otherwise, can ever intrude upon or antagonize.
openSun-fried egg Western Animation
A visual gag - it's so hot, a character can put a frying pan on the ground and "fry" an egg in a few minutes.
openCharacter sees another character everywhere
So I'm reading a shipping fic, and things have gotten tense. One of the characters is doing a crossword to take their mind off things, but all of the answers are words that remind them of their current situation. I swear something like this would have a trope page but I can't seem to find it anywhere?
To a lesser extent, I remember a bit from Total Drama where Courtney is trying to get over Duncan, but it's a bit hard because she finds a rock shaped like him. I swear I also remember seeing something where character A is stressed about a situation involving character B, and then everyone around them looks like character B.
Surely something like this has happened, right? I'm not having some weird kind of Mandela Effect? I can't find a trope page anywhere, and this might not really be much of a trope at all.
Bob is caught doing something wrong that happens to be a stereotype of [X ethnicity/country/profession Bob belongs to]. His Sitcom Arch-Nemesis Alice uses this to insult him (and X) further by claiming it's perfectly natural for X to do (usually involves Cultural Posturing or Condescending Compassion).
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