...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!
Green Rooming
- 124 statements
- 23 feature instances
- 24 referencing feature instances
| Green Rooming | type |
FeatureClass | |
| Green Rooming | label |
Green Rooming | |
| Green Rooming | page |
GreenRooming | |
| Green Rooming | comment |
Introducing a new character who is then inexplicably ignored for a few episodes. Often the result of a clumsy Debut Queue setup. Alternatively, a common use of Lampshade Hanging to explain why a cast member useful to the plot isn't around. This can be to exclude a character who would make a plot end too early or because the writers want to focus on specific characters. Poorly used, this will introduce a character who is used for a single arc and then forgotten for long periods of time. The kind of writer prone to this is also liable to keep doing it. The trope is named after the "Green Room," a backstage area in a theatre where actors who are not required on stage can wait and preparenote Although there are older green rooms which are actually green in colour, this is not a requisite. The etymology is not certain, and may have nothing to do with the colour, the idea being that the ignored characters are just hanging out there. Not to be confused with shows shot in a green room. Or the movie where Patrick Stewart plays a murderous skinhead. See also Offstage Waiting Room. Examples |
|
| Green Rooming | fetched |
2024-03-13T16:16:44Z | |
| Green Rooming | parsed |
2024-03-13T16:16:44Z | |
| Green Rooming | processingComment |
Dropped link to RobotBuddy: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Green Rooming | processingComment |
Dropped link to outoforder: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Green Rooming | isPartOf |
DBTropes | |
| Green Rooming / int_2a8943c0 | type |
Green Rooming | |
| Green Rooming / int_2a8943c0 | comment |
Miraculous Ladybug: Lila Rossi is introduced at the end of Season 1 as a new classmate, with Hawk Moth insinuating that unlike other akumatized victims, she hasn't gotten over her anger towards Ladybug for humiliating her and may still want revenge, setting her up as a potential antagonist. Although that is eventually addressed in the show, she inexplicably disappears for nearly the entirety of Season 2 with no explanation or acknowledgement of what happened to her after her debut episode, and it's not until she returns in the Season 2 two-parter finale that it's finally clarified that she's been absent due to skipping school under the guise of being out of the country doing charity work. | |
| Green Rooming / int_2a8943c0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Green Rooming / int_2a8943c0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Miraculous Ladybug | hasFeature |
Green Rooming / int_2a8943c0 | |
| Green Rooming / int_2af4f467 | type |
Green Rooming | |
| Green Rooming / int_2af4f467 | comment |
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero had a habit of doing this, with its ridiculously large number of characters and all. | |
| Green Rooming / int_2af4f467 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Green Rooming / int_2af4f467 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero | hasFeature |
Green Rooming / int_2af4f467 | |
| Green Rooming / int_33803d7f | type |
Green Rooming | |
| Green Rooming / int_33803d7f | comment |
In Doomwatch, Geoff Hardcastle is introduced in the opening episode of season two and established as having joined Doomwatch in the second episode...only to be absent from the next two episodes without a mention. | |
| Green Rooming / int_33803d7f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Green Rooming / int_33803d7f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Doomwatch | hasFeature |
Green Rooming / int_33803d7f | |
| Green Rooming / int_35e05f2a | type |
Green Rooming | |
| Green Rooming / int_35e05f2a | comment |
RWBY: Adam is introduced in the Black trailer but doesn't appear again until the end of Volume 2, despite the heavy use of White Fang faunus. Similarly, Junior and the Malachite twins are introduced in the Yellow trailer but don't appear until Volume 2, despite their club being associated with Roman Torchwick from the outset. | |
| Green Rooming / int_35e05f2a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Green Rooming / int_35e05f2a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| RWBY (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Green Rooming / int_35e05f2a | |
| Green Rooming / int_404622d6 | type |
Green Rooming | |
| Green Rooming / int_404622d6 | comment |
Goo was introduced halfway into the third season of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, but doesn't appear again until the fourth season, but then is almost a main cast member. | |
| Green Rooming / int_404622d6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Green Rooming / int_404622d6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends | hasFeature |
Green Rooming / int_404622d6 | |
| Green Rooming / int_41804317 | type |
Green Rooming | |
| Green Rooming / int_41804317 | comment |
In Anpanman, thanks to the large amount of characters in the series, a character can end up getting their own spotlight episode and then disappear from the series. Many characters from the early years of the show has had this happen to them, and the movie- and theatrical short-introduced characters end up having the same fate, the newer ones never being transferred into the show. | |
| Green Rooming / int_41804317 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Green Rooming / int_41804317 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Anpanman | hasFeature |
Green Rooming / int_41804317 | |
| Green Rooming / int_41b0198a | type |
Green Rooming | |
| Green Rooming / int_41b0198a | comment |
The Dresden Files has Bianca's Party in book 3. Everyone and everything introduced the party has a role in the series, according to Word of God. Of all the attendees, Ferrovax went the longest without returning, finally appearing again in books 16 (Peace Talks) and 17 (Battle Ground). | |
| Green Rooming / int_41b0198a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Green Rooming / int_41b0198a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dresden Files | hasFeature |
Green Rooming / int_41b0198a | |
| Green Rooming / int_42d070ed | type |
Green Rooming | |
| Green Rooming / int_42d070ed | comment |
In season 3 of the anime adaptation for The World God Only Knows, Kanon, or rather her goddess Apollo, is taken out of commission right away in the first episode, and ends up causing Keima to undertake the conquest of the goddesses after witnessing Lune stabbing her. She doesn't appear again until around episode 8, and even then just as a brief cameo to let Keima know she's still doing okay for the most part. This conveniently allows other girls and goddesses to have more screentime with him, some whom he conquered in earlier seasons, and some who only appeared in brief scenes due to the anime skipping many chapters in the manga between season 2 and 3. | |
| Green Rooming / int_42d070ed | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Green Rooming / int_42d070ed | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The World God Only Knows (Manga) | hasFeature |
Green Rooming / int_42d070ed | |
| Green Rooming / int_4c095a1f | type |
Green Rooming | |
| Green Rooming / int_4c095a1f | comment |
The Transformers suffered from the same thing, some characters only appeared for one episode! | |
| Green Rooming / int_4c095a1f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Green Rooming / int_4c095a1f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Transformers | hasFeature |
Green Rooming / int_4c095a1f | |
| Green Rooming / int_88652dbc | type |
Green Rooming | |
| Green Rooming / int_88652dbc | comment |
Mixels, being filled with tons of new characters every series, will often shift focus onto the new characters for a long while, ignoring the previously-created ones, and then the cycle continues when a new series is added. | |
| Green Rooming / int_88652dbc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Green Rooming / int_88652dbc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mixels | hasFeature |
Green Rooming / int_88652dbc | |
| Green Rooming / int_9e2dbb4d | type |
Green Rooming | |
| Green Rooming / int_9e2dbb4d | comment |
Regular Show: Thomas was shunned to the green room having only appeared with a speaking role in the three episodes that introduce him at the start of season four. He made his re-appearance late on in season four though, twenty-four episodes later. | |
| Green Rooming / int_9e2dbb4d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Green Rooming / int_9e2dbb4d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Regular Show | hasFeature |
Green Rooming / int_9e2dbb4d | |
| Green Rooming / int_aa3400cd | type |
Green Rooming | |
| Green Rooming / int_aa3400cd | comment |
In Kämpfer, Mikoto is seen in the first few episodes via postcards to her childhood friend Natsuru. She's seen again at the end of episode 5, but Mikoto doesn't see Natsuru till episode 6. She remains part of the cast after she returns home. | |
| Green Rooming / int_aa3400cd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Green Rooming / int_aa3400cd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kämpfer | hasFeature |
Green Rooming / int_aa3400cd | |
| Green Rooming / int_b30ae4db | type |
Green Rooming | |
| Green Rooming / int_b30ae4db | comment |
Game of Thrones, due to having a huge cast, did this a few times. Beric Dondarrion, for example, was introduced in a single scene in the first season where he had no lines. He didn't appear again until season 3, played by a different actor. | |
| Green Rooming / int_b30ae4db | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Green Rooming / int_b30ae4db | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Game of Thrones | hasFeature |
Green Rooming / int_b30ae4db | |
| Green Rooming / int_b4726fcf | type |
Green Rooming | |
| Green Rooming / int_b4726fcf | comment |
In Star Impact, Remy was introduced in Chapter 1 as a friend of Teddy's, but she wasn't seen again until halfway into Chapter 4. | |
| Green Rooming / int_b4726fcf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Green Rooming / int_b4726fcf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Star Impact (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Green Rooming / int_b4726fcf | |
| Green Rooming / int_b925327b | type |
Green Rooming | |
| Green Rooming / int_b925327b | comment |
Happened quite a bit in Code Name: Eternity due to the episodes being aired out of order. The two main characters meet a sidekick early in the season, followed by a replacement sidekick in what should have been about halfway through the season; but instead, the sidekicks seem to appear and disappear at random. | |
| Green Rooming / int_b925327b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Green Rooming / int_b925327b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Code Name: Eternity | hasFeature |
Green Rooming / int_b925327b | |
| Green Rooming / int_b98da5d2 | type |
Green Rooming | |
| Green Rooming / int_b98da5d2 | comment |
A skillful usage of this technique is in Love Hina, where Motoko (along with her "groupies") is introduced in the first minutes of the first episode, but she immediately leaves on a training excursion, thus freeing up screen time for introductions of the other characters before she gets her turn to take center stage in the third episode. Shinobu is also seen in the first episode, but not really introduced until the second. | |
| Green Rooming / int_b98da5d2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Green Rooming / int_b98da5d2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Love Hina (Manga) | hasFeature |
Green Rooming / int_b98da5d2 | |
| Green Rooming / int_c4282b71 | type |
Green Rooming | |
| Green Rooming / int_c4282b71 | comment |
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic has several examples, considering it has tons of characters. Most prominently: Princess Luna makes her first non-Nightmare Moon appearance at the end of the pilot two-parter, where she is reunited with her older sister Princess Celestia, and has a party in Ponyville in her honor. She is then never mentioned again, even in passing, until her titular Season 2 episode, after which she's still seen even more sparingly than Celestia. Being nocturnal probably has something to do with it. The zebra Zecora has an entire episode dedicated to introducing her, then she reappears for one quick scene the next episode... and then doesn't reappear until the same episode Princess Luna returns in. |
|
| Green Rooming / int_c4282b71 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Green Rooming / int_c4282b71 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic | hasFeature |
Green Rooming / int_c4282b71 | |
| Green Rooming / int_c43df4d8 | type |
Green Rooming | |
| Green Rooming / int_c43df4d8 | comment |
In Doctor Who, Robot Buddy K9 is introduced in "The Invisible Enemy", then promptly breaks down for the duration of "The Image of the Fendahl", the script of which was written before K9 was added to the cast. Also, Robot Buddy Kamelion is introduced in "The King's Demons" and then disappears for almost an entire season, reappearing only in order to be written out. This was because the complicated and expensive Kamelion prop actually did break down, and the only person who knew how it worked had died. note Or so the official explanation went at the time, anyway; script editor Eric Saward has since admitted in an interview in Doctor Who Magazine that Mike Powers' death wasn't the sole cause of Kameleon getting sidelined. The robot prop hadn't worked right from the beginning, and the character had been created based on some exaggerated claims of its capabilities. Powers' death provided an easy explanation that didn't lay blame on anyone. |
|
| Green Rooming / int_c43df4d8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Green Rooming / int_c43df4d8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Doctor Who | hasFeature |
Green Rooming / int_c43df4d8 | |
| Green Rooming / int_d6e434aa | type |
Green Rooming | |
| Green Rooming / int_d6e434aa | comment |
The Power of Five starts off with Matt, who then vanishes after book 2, gets a brief mention in book 3, and then is gone for the first half of book 4. | |
| Green Rooming / int_d6e434aa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Green Rooming / int_d6e434aa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Power of Five | hasFeature |
Green Rooming / int_d6e434aa | |
| Green Rooming / int_eb1c3b66 | type |
Green Rooming | |
| Green Rooming / int_eb1c3b66 | comment |
In the anime of New Game!, programmer Umiko Ahagon and director Shikuzu Hazuki are introduced in the first episode, way ahead of their manga debuts. They then proceed to disappear and do nothing till the anime reaches their respective introductions. This is partly because the two work in different departments- Umiko is a programmer while Shizuku is a director- and since most of the main characters are in the character design team, Umiko and Shizuku don't interact with them on a daily basis. | |
| Green Rooming / int_eb1c3b66 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Green Rooming / int_eb1c3b66 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| New Game! (Manga) | hasFeature |
Green Rooming / int_eb1c3b66 | |
| Green Rooming / int_ee221a4e | type |
Green Rooming | |
| Green Rooming / int_ee221a4e | comment |
Similar to the cartoon, The Transformers (Marvel) often did this but the Dinobots were a particular stand-out example. Their presence on Earth is hinted at in the initial miniseries and they finally show up in Issue #8 when Ratchet tracks them down to help against Megatron. They aren't seen again until Issue #19, and even then they just appear at the start to announce they're quitting Optimus Prime's command and walk off (not to be seen again for a further eight issues!), as if they've been with the Earth Autobots all along when in fact this is the first time they've been seen with them. | |
| Green Rooming / int_ee221a4e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Green Rooming / int_ee221a4e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Transformers (Marvel) (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Green Rooming / int_ee221a4e | |
| Green Rooming / int_f62745c0 | type |
Green Rooming | |
| Green Rooming / int_f62745c0 | comment |
In episode 4 of Unlimited Fafnir, Honoka is introduced as a New Transfer Student in episode 4 alongside Tear. But she is quickly forgotten as the latter takes prominence in that episode. She does however interact with Yuu in the next episode after he sees her in the nurse's office. | |
| Green Rooming / int_f62745c0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Green Rooming / int_f62745c0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Unlimited Fafnir | hasFeature |
Green Rooming / int_f62745c0 | |
| Green Rooming / int_ff0bf83f | type |
Green Rooming | |
| Green Rooming / int_ff0bf83f | comment |
In the first episode Justice League Unlimited, much is made of the League's interest in recruiting Green Arrow and how important he is, only to have him not show up again for thirteen episodes. | |
| Green Rooming / int_ff0bf83f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Green Rooming / int_ff0bf83f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| JusticeLeagueUnlimited | hasFeature |
Green Rooming / int_ff0bf83f |
The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.
Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.