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Seen something of interest in a work of media, but you don't know what it is an example of? Put it here. Sometimes, an example may be of a trope that we don't have yet. In that case, the trope can be submitted to the Trope Launch Pad. |
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Surface Detail: Lededje Y'breq, having recently come Back from the Dead, is at a big, loud, chaotic party. She tells the person she's been speaking to that she is looking for the avatar of a "disreputable ship". He had assumed that she was cruising for sex. She actually is interested in sex, and tells him so (leaving out the fact that she isn't that into ''him''). He assumes (possibly due to him being on more drugs than her and her being a non-native speaker of Marain) that she wants to have sex with a ship's avatar. The two quests are actually unrelated, but he doesn't listen, and repeats his bizarre assumption to an actual ship's avatar. Curiously, no one seems to have that big a problem with this. | |
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One of the better-known gags in Bone is spread out◊ between two panels, and I'm having trouble thinking of a trope that describes the transition. It's very similar to a Gilligan Cut, but it's almost the exact same position and angle, just a few seconds later — in fact, the change is really no different from any other panel transition, except that it skips those few seconds forward past a transitory event (the rat creatures' jump), and that skip is essential for the comic timing. (Also worth noting is that I don't recall ever seeing this kind of transition in a manga.) That looks like playing with a Gilligan Cut. The important part of a Gilligan cut is the juxtaposition between "they won't do X " and "they are doing X". The length of the time skip can vary enormously and the change of location is optional. |
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In the video game Azrael's Tear, each of the main characters is seen to betray at least one other (and the Player Character in some cases) in all of the Multiple Endings. Well, obviously, it doesn't all happen in the same continuity, but given that which ending you get depends mostly on a Last-Second Ending Choice, clearly the plans for betrayal are all there at the same time. I can't find a trope that seems to fit, which seems crazy, given how common this sort of situation is in fiction. Gambit Pileup? |
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In the first two seasons of Angel, Angel, a vampire with a soul, wears black and other dark colors (as he does throughout the series), while Wesley, a former Watcher (which is like a Slayer's Jedi Master), wears a lot of light-colored clothing. Consequently, there's always a nice contrast when they stand next to each other, and it's hard not to think, What Do You Mean, It's Not Symbolic?? Also, Wesley's wardrobe gets considerably darker as he becomes a darker character. Another troper has noticed the same effect between the Fifth Doctor and The Master. Probably coincidental, since it never seems to occur with other incarnations, but it's a striking visual anyway. |
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I'm thinking like on Bones when B&B went to England and met "the English version of us" there and ran around with a cop and another forensics guy. This has to have been done on other shows (or is troped somewhere and I can't guess what it might be called), right? | |
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Mac Taylor: Forensic scientist, Police officer, musician, former Marine. | |
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In Suits, Louis Litt is the firm's Butt-Monkey, and only became Named Partner because he blackmailed Harvey and Jessica. But he also works insanely long hours, maintains the internal bylaws, has shown fanatical loyalty to the firm, plays Drill Seargeant Nasty to ALL the associates at once, and is a valued expert at some vital branches of law. Frankly, he should've had his name on the door before Harvey. | |
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In The Big Lebowski, the Dude never bowls a single frame on camera. I don't think there was any intended significance to this, it was apparently just an accident of editing. Still, it feels like this is an example of something. The only thing like it I can think of is how in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Ferris and Rooney never actually interact; during every "conversation" they have, one of them is either completely silent or a recording. First one could be Informed Ability? Eh, not quite. If the Dude's bowling skills were being talked up the whole movie, then it would be Informed Ability. All we're told is that he bowls, not that he bowls particularly well. The first is close to Second-Hand Storytelling, but doesn't quite fit there, as it's not really relevant to the plot. I'm not sure the second is anything tropeworthy in particuar. |
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The song "Belle" from the beginning of Beauty and the Beast is definitely one of these, but I'm not sure which. | |
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That weird "throbbing" or "pulsing" visual effect that happens to Inuyasha whenever he changes back from full mortal to half-demon. Also used for swords, basically when ever the manga specified "pulse of power" SFX, this is how the anime represented it. |
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The eighth episode of Futari wa Pretty Cure, the series which kicked off the first of the three Pretty Cure universes, focuses on Nagisa and Honoka having a fight with each other, getting all awkward, then finally reconciling at the end, and briefly explores the effect that their fight has on their combat abilities. | |
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In Sonic Battle, the reward for clearing all the stories is unlocking a Green Hill Zone battle arena. Anyone who listens to the sound test before unlocking it would be spoiled by the iconic music, if the devteam hadn't deliberately left it out. I wanted to list this as an aversion of Interface Spoiler, but someone deleting examples for "not a menu option" makes me think it might not fit. Halp? I think this fits Interface Spoiler perfectly, especially as it's more foreshadowing rather than a direct spoil. The fact that the sound test isn't part of the gameplay but an extra should make it come under 'interface'. |
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In Tracy Beaker Returns there a few occasions where the titular character denies her mum came back for her. This contradicts Tracy Beaker: The Movie Of Me where she does indeed meet her mother. I would list this under Series Continuity Error, but the consistency at which Tracy meeting her mother is denied makes me wonder if the writers are playing Canon Discontinuity. This is tangled. The movie ends where the next series begins, with Tracy being fostered by Cam, but fails to acknowledge that this happened in the course of the movie, where Tracy's mum's visit was integral to the plot. Are there other mentions of events of the film? If not, it might be intended as an Alternate Continuity. In season 4, Hayley is fostered by the policeman and his wife who first appeared in the movie. This is the only other reference to the film. |
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The eighth episode of Yes! Pretty Cure 5, the series which kicked off the third of the three Pretty Cure universes, focuses on Rin and Karen (who are clearly based on Nagisa and Honoka) having a fight with each other, getting all awkward, then finally reconciling at the end, and briefly explores the effect that their fight has on their combat abilities. Power Rangers S.P.D. episode "Walls" (the fourth episode) had a plot similar to the above, although Sky had fallen out with Jack since episode 2 and the episode didn't really explore the effect on combat abilities, if anything it explored the effect of Sky disobeying one of Jack's orders-Emperor Grumm getting another of his materials for his invasion of Earth. Anyhow, what would this trope be called? Reconciliation 888? That title wouldn't work with the Power Rangers example though, unless someone thinks it should go elsewhere. |
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Was playing Sonic Shuffle and thought about how, since Eggman is the villain in most main Sonic games, you'd think he'd have some story importance if not being the main villain. But aside from board events and mini-games he doesn't appear at all and isn't even in the story. Giant Space Flea from Nowhere is the closest thing we have, frankly it sounds more like you were expecting the story to be Hijacked by Ganon but it wasn't, which isn't a trope since it is based solely on expectations. |
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In Ninja Warz there are Relics offered in the the Relic Shop when in the description saying they were behind/under this daimyo statue that you get bonuses all the time A combonation of Hidden in Plain Sight and Hidden Right Under Your Nose ? | |
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The eighth episode of Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash★Star, the series which contains the second of the three Pretty Cure universes, focuses on their counterparts Saki and Mai having a fight with each other, getting all awkward, then finally reconciling at the end, and briefly explores the effect that their fight has on their combat abilities. | |
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When the Phoenix is about to take off in Star Trek: First Contact, Zefram Cochrane realizes he forgot something and acts like it's really important, saying "we can't lift off without it!" Just as Riker and Geordi prepare to abort, Cochrane finds it, pushes it into the cockpit's dashboard and switches it on. Rock music blares. Sounds like invoking Mundane Made Awesome. |
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Dana Scully: Medical Doctor, Federal agent. | |
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On Batman Beyond Bruce opens a secret door to reveal the really top-secret part of the Batcave (where he keeps all of his Kryptonite). Is there a trope for this sort of thing, where a character walks past something every day and they have no idea that there's actually something there? | |
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Is there a trope for background plot elements — fluff, basically — that get promoted to a major plot element in another part of the same universe? Two examples that immediately come to mind, both from Dungeons & Dragons: the Blood War in Planescape, and the Beholder Genocide Wars in Spelljammer. Something like a Plot Tumor, I reckon? It's similar, but I wouldn't call it exactly the same thing — it's not so much a minor element taking over a continuity, as being given a corner of the continuity where it can be freely expanded upon without crowding out other content. Another example sprang to mind while I was considering it — Suikoden V focuses on an event that was significant to the backstory of a few minor characters, but wasn't expanded on or terribly core to the main plot until it got a game devoted to it. It sounds a Gaiden Game. |
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I've heard several DVD commentaries for PG-13 movies pointing out that they are permitted exactly one use of the word "fuck", including the thought process that goes into finding the best place to use it. For most of its run, Bob and George made a running gag of using the word uncensored once per year, always on the same day. | |
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Samantha Carter: Physicist, Air Force officer. Could destroy the universe if she wanted. | |
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So in the Mega Man episode "Campus Commandos, Roll says "I'm going to get even with that two-timing Top Man for tampering with my emotion circuits!" (Basically, Top Man has been flirting with her throughout the episode, and has just revealed he is in fact a mole working for Dr. Wily.). She seemingly chooses to disregard the fact that she has bigger problems on her hands, like for instance, the fact that she's currently moments away from being crushed between clock gears. Is this a trope? It seems like it could be Casual Danger Dialog, but for the fact that Mega more or less snaps her back to reality with his response (Roughly "We won't have ANY circuits if we don't figure a way out of this!"). Sounds like a bit of Skewed Priorities |
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Batman: He's the freakin' Batman. | |
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Perhaps we need something like Beta Expy, for when the more well-known version is the one encountered first, and the viewer realizes later that they're really an Expy of the original. For example, we meet Owen Burnett way before we meet Preston Vogel on Gargoyles. | |
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In Girl Genius, when under attack by a Lapinemoth Agatha says that this will be a chance to test her new de-arming device. It doesn't have anything to do with weapons - it causes the monster's arms to drop off. | |
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In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry is not old enough to enter the Tri-Wizard tournament, and doesn't even try to enter, someone else puts his name in the cup as part of an elaborate scheme, but he ends up actually WINNING the tournament, and going above and beyond the call of duty. | |
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This happened once on an NCIS episode. Gibbs and the rest of the team didn't go anywhere special, they just ran into carbon copies of their personalities with different faces. I also haven't seen it troped anywhere. It's been done in at least one other show, but I can't remember what show that was. | |
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Friendly Hostility: A more accidental - and meta - version occurs with the launch of Other People's Business - some fans have expressed concern that they won't be able to look back on F.H.'s fluffy and romantic moments without thinking about the impending doom of the sequel comics. It remains to be seen whether Fan Disillusionment, Alternate Universe - ing, abandoning of the 'ship or good old Fanon Dis Continuity will win out. | |
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A magazine posts fake news and it says it's real. Some days ago I found a magazine showing some fanmade Ben10-themed Yu-Gi-Oh! cards and saying they're the 5 most rare cards in the new Yu-Gi-Oh! expansion Bringer of the Omnitrix and talking about a whole Structure Deck about the "Omnitrix Alien" monster type. | |
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Watching The Castle of Cagliostro recently, I realized that Clarisse and Count Cagliostro himself are dead ringers for Nausicaa and Kurotowa from director Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind - except Nausicaa came later. (Mind you, their personalities are completely different...) Wouldn't that just mean Nausicaa was an Expy of Clarisse? (I haven't seen any of the works involved, so if this makes no sense for some reason...) Perhaps we need something like Beta Expy, for when the more well-known version is the one encountered first, and the viewer realizes later that they're really an Expy of the original. For example, we meet Owen Burnett way before we meet Preston Vogel on Gargoyles. |
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Attacks that do "recoil" damage in the Pokémon games, like Double-Edge. Cast from Hit Points? A less suicidal version of a Suicide Attack? Yeah, not really any different from Cast from Hit Points. |
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Does this trope exist? It would apply to something that is described as being awesome, but one or more characters say they're actually afraid to use it. One example I can think of is the Charger from The Fast and the Furious. | |
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In Mega Man ZX, we can modify the trajectory of the bullets of Model F to create odd bullet maneuvers. Do we have a trope for this? | |
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In the "Armadeaddon" storyline, there's apparently nothing unusual about the idea that a prop-replica bat'leth in a comic book store would be a fully functional zombie-killing weapon. (Similarly, in a Goats storyline the stormtroopers at a nerd convention are of course carrying actual blasters.) Well, in most shows/stories, zombies may be tough combatants, but that is owing to how much damage they can dish out, and their resistance to conventional harm, like bullet holes— Even a flat-edged Wave-Cutter sword like the one Anne uses could do some serious harm to dead flesh, especially if these are on the decomposing end of the Zombie Scale. Doesn't the ending out the incident as some really, really, really, screwed up tabletop RPG? Except it was real? It might be two tropes: "in comedy, fiction and reality are often blurred" and "in comedy, things that the viewer knows perfectly well could never work can work when it's useful to the plot, Finagle's Law notwithstanding.". |
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Example from Enchanted | |
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In Magical Boy, trans boy Max suffers from a Heroic BSoD when he fails in closing the third gate and his behavior is upsetting his normally confident mother, so the next day he walks out in a dress. He only walks a few blocks on his way to school before suddenly suffering from an anxiety attack. | |
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In Mega Man & Bass, Dive Man and Pirate Man are said to hate each other, even though they are often on the same side, because Dive Man is a sailor, and Pirate Man is... well, a pirate. What trope is this? Definitely a Discord Trope: involves characters that have some issues with each other: Cooperation Gambit or Enemy Mine: They are enemies, but work towards the common goal. I Don't Like You and You Don't Like Me if they happened to discuss this predicament. No Sympathy Between Mooks if they work together but wouldn't help each other in trouble. If they would, it's With Friends Like These.... Teeth-Clenched Teamwork if their mutual hate actually presents trouble in working together. Depends. If this is referenced in-game, I have no idea. If not, then it's Fridge Brilliance. |
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Another troper has noticed the same effect between the Fifth Doctor and The Master. Probably coincidental, since it never seems to occur with other incarnations, but it's a striking visual anyway. | |
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That chaplain off ER. Hippy sort of Christian, rather attractive. Played by Reiko Aylesworth. Blonde Republican Sex Kitten or something different? Something else entirely. As anyone from Massachusetts can tell you, religiously conservative does not necessary equal politically conservative. Call it Cool Priest or something. |
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Power Rangers S.P.D. episode "Walls" (the fourth episode) had a plot similar to the above, although Sky had fallen out with Jack since episode 2 and the episode didn't really explore the effect on combat abilities, if anything it explored the effect of Sky disobeying one of Jack's orders-Emperor Grumm getting another of his materials for his invasion of Earth. Anyhow, what would this trope be called? Reconciliation 888? That title wouldn't work with the Power Rangers example though, unless someone thinks it should go elsewhere. | |
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In Str.A.In.: Strategic Armored Infantry, initially the plot sets up the female Captain Vivian Medlock as the Big Bad, but even then, the plot focuses more on her main enforcer, the male Ralph Werec, as a villain. Then, about 2/3rds in, he betrays her, revealing himself as the real villain. I am not certain if this is an example of Females Are More Innocent, as Medlock is not really given a sympathetic backstory to my knowledge while Ralph is, but the show seems to have the idea that, while women can be kickass heroines and good gals, a woman cannot be a good main villain- that's a man's job. There is probably a Double Standard trope to describe this, but I don't really know which one it is. Is there a trope that says that a woman can't be a true villain, not because women are inherently good, but because they are incompetent as villains? Like Smart Heroines, Stupid Villainesses, Smart Male Villain? | |
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An episode of Star Trek: Voyager has B'Elenna and a couple of other Maquis crewmembers take a piece of equipment (without Capt. Janeway's authorisation) that will allow Voyager to teleport from one place to another. The attempt to make the equipment work with Voyager fails, so B'Elenna has to explain herself to Janeway. During the meeting, B'Elenna is present, but the two other crewmembers are not, and B'Elenna explains that while there were others involved, she was the most senior crewmember in the plot and so is taking all the blame. (Yes, I know, Tuvok was involved as well and he then confessed that he had a hand in it so he was the senior officer.) | |
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