My TV Tropes stuff
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Tropes launched by me
- Babysitter's Nightmare
- Barred from Every Bar
- Bread of Survival
- Camera Shy
- Chores Without Powers
- Deathbed Promotion
- Deceptively Cute Critter (adopted)
- Doctor's Disgraceful Demotion
- Ear-Piercing Plot
- Extremely Easy Exam
- Fluffy, Not Fat
- Forced Bath
- Hide-and-Seek Horror
- Homework Slave
- Kidnapper's KFC
- Magical Profanity Filter
- Male Sun, Female Moon
- Micro Dieting
- Mindless Sheep
- Neglected Garden
- Nobody Likes a Tattletale
- Opportunistic Vendors
- Painless Death for a Price
- Pattern-Coded Eggs
- Perfection Is Static
- Prenatal Gender Picking
- Pulling Your Child Away
- Remote Control Ruckus
- Sentenced Without Trial
- Sentimental Homemade Toy
- Sewing Needle Sword
- Silly Brain Diagram (foster-parented for a while)
- Smorgasbord Test
- Soulless Bedroom
- Soup of Poverty
- Student Animated Films (index)
- Super Wool Growth
- Sweets of Temptation
- Symbolic Tears
- Tastes Like Disdain
- Teacher's Unfavorite Student
- Toy-Based Characterization
- Tragic Abandoned Toy
- Trapped at the Dinner Table
- Treated Worse than the Pet
- Trojan Veggies
- Troubled Toybreaker
- Vengeful Abandoned Toy
- Weeding Out Imperfections
- Weight Loss Salad
- Winter of Starvation
My trope ideas
- Adults Are Boring: From a child's point of view, everything grown-ups do and/or like is boring.
- Babysitter Fridge Raid: A babysitter gets the privilege of helping themselves to anything in the client family's fridge, and takes full advantage of it.
- Teen Girl Squad: In Issue 13, So and So is babysitting, but her friends show up uninvited and What's Her Face declares that she'll eat all the family's food. She takes a diet soda out of the pantry, but So and So stops her and yells, "Don't you remember health class!? You'll microwave the baby!" in reference to an urban legend about a stoned babysitter confusing a baby for a turkey and putting it in the oven.
- In "Fallensitter
," Twilight's parents desperately need a foalsitter for her. When Princess Cadence shows up on their doorstep and offers to do it for 175 bits an hour, Night Light talks her down to 8 bits for the night and two oatsicles from the freezer. Cadence tries to up it to three, but Night Light is firm on two.
- Baby Gazzee
: Tak gets hired as Gaz's babysitter when the girl is accidentally turned into a baby, but still keeps her nine-year-old mind. She raids the fridge and eats piles of junk food in front of Gaz, making her scream in frustration because she can't have any.
- Bizarre Taste In Music: Someone's music taste is perceived as unusual.
- Steven Universe: Pearl is an alien who still hasn't quite acclimated to Earth culture after thousands of years. Her favorite song is a commercial jingle for a car mechanic called "Cam's Cam Shafts."
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Percy has a dream where he sees Rachel throwing darts at a painting of him while blasting music from her docking system. He comments, "As far as I could tell, Rachel's only rule about music was that no two songs on her iPod could sound the same, and they all had to be strange."
- The Boogeyman: A character who tales are told about to scare children.
- Born From Clouds: A living thing is born from a cloud.
- Partly Cloudy: In this short, human and animal babies are born when they are created by cloud people and sent off to their parents via delivery storks. The main character, Gus, is a storm cloud who has the job of making dangerous baby animals like alligators and electric eels, and his stork friend, Peck, gets frequently injured by them.
- Sanrio: Cinnamoroll is a soft, fluffy white puppy who was born from a cloud.
- In Classical Mythology, when Zeus wanted to punish Ixion for assassinating his father-in-law and sleeping with his wife Hera, he created a cloud called Nephele which assumed Hera's form and tricked Ixion into mating with it. The resulting child was Centaurus, father of the centaurs.
- Centaur's Crossbow: Fictional centaurs always wield crossbows.
- Clumsiness Excuse: An abuser tries to excuse the injuries of their victim by claiming they're clumsy and hurt themselves.
- Clutching the Ashes: Someone frantically tries to put back together the pieces of a precious object as it is irreversibly destroyed.
- Controlling Shock Collar: Shock collars are way more powerful than they are in real life and are used as a torture instrument.
- Coveted Flower Girl Position / Flower Girl Plot: A young girl really wants to be the flower girl at a wedding.
- Coveted Prom Queen Crown: Being elected prom queen is Serious Business and the Alpha Bitch is going to get that crown no matter what!
- Cruel Golf Game: A villain uses a golf game to Kick the Dog, usually by using someone as a tee.
- Depending on the Production: An aspect of a theatrical production that varies according to the actors, resources, theatre size, etc.
- Disposable Babymaker / Disposable Incubator: Someone is expected to conceive a child and will be killed after they have produced one.
- Queen of the May: King Robert despises Princess Rhaenys because her father Rhaegar ran off with his beloved fiancée Lyanna. He betroths her to his son Joffrey and allows the boy to abuse her as much as he wants. Rhaenys believes that once she is married to Joffrey and they have an heir to continue their line, Joffrey will get bored of her and "accidentally" kill her. Because of that she is desperate to win the May Day dancing contest, where the winner can ask for one boon from the king that cannot be refused, and use it to gain her freedom.
- Wish Carefully: The Dark pureblood families of magical Britain are suffering a Generational Magic Decline and are desperate to have more magical children. They start forcing pureblood Squibs and the children of the Cabal (magically strong girls kidnapped to be Breeding Slaves) to procreate. If the resulting child is magical, the Squib dies soon after in an "accident".
- Everyone's Least Favorite Chore: The chore nobody wants to do in a team setting.
- Evil Smells Good: A villain is associated with a pleasant scent.
- Dorothy Must Die: When Amy is infiltrating the Emerald Castle in the disguise of a maid, one of her tasks is to brush Princess Dorothy's hair. She notices that it smells like lemons and sunshine, which surprises her as she expected there to be "a rotten note underneath."
- The First Pain (tentative): Someone's first conscious memory is experiencing pain, and it affects them deeply.
- Generational Abuse Downgrade: The child of a bad parent grows up to be a slightly less bad parent, but still not a good one.
- Good Flowers, Evil Weeds: Among sentient plants, flowers are beautiful and good, while weeds are evil, ugly, and greedy.
- Hands Against the Glass: A visual motif of hands pressing against glass (or another transparent object) that expresses desperation, fear and the feeling of being trapped.
- Hogging the Bathroom: Someone takes too much time in the bathroom, to the annoyance of others.
- Highlights for Children: In the short story "No One Ever Listens To Me!", Patty Jo is frustrated when her brother Matt is taking too long in the bathroom and yells at him to hurry up because she's going to be late for school. He just says, "Too bad," and takes even longer.
- In this infamous story
, a group of cosplayers attending Anime Expo were getting ready, and one girl who was cosplaying Terezi Pyrope from Homestuck went to the bathroom to put on her makeup. After she didn't come out for 2 hours, the others started to notice a strange smell coming from the bathroom. After 15 more minutes, they opened the door and found her sitting naked in the bathtub in a mixture of 70% alcohol and Sharpie dye, which she had used to try and dye her skin grey. The mixture was splattered everywhere in the bathroom, and they kicked her out and made her pay the resulting $700 in damage fees. She also allegedly got skin poisoning.
- Total Drama: In "Paintball Deer Hunter," Heather is taking so long in the girls' bathroom that there's a huge line of all the other girls standing outside, looking like they're about to have a Potty Emergency. Gwen gives up and decides to go lumberjack-style in the woods.
- Human Doormat: Somebody steps on someone else as a show of dominance.
- Jock and Cheerleader: Jocks and cheerleaders are the most popular students, and therefore always date each other.
- Lab Rat: Rats and mice are used as lab animals, or are scientists when they're anthropomorphic.
- Laika Lives: What if Laika the Soviet space dog survived?
- The Lambs of God: Sheep are heavily associated with religion.
- In The Bible, sheep are referred to many times, as they were very important to the Hebrews and other peoples for the wool, meat, and milk they provided. Many references are made to them being offered as sacrifices, most notably Jesus who is called the Lamb of God and died to absolve the sins of mankind.
- When Cain (a farmer) and Abel (a shepherd) have to make sacrifices to God, Cain gives some of his harvest crops, and Abel gives some of the meat from his sheep. God appreciates Abel's offering, but not Cain'snote . Cain is so mad, he stones Abel to death and commits the first murder.
- God asks Abraham to sacrifice his only son, Isaac. When Abraham takes out his knife and is about to do it, an angel stops him at the last second and reveals that it was a test of his faith. He turns around and sees a ram with its horns stuck in a thornbush, which he sacrifices instead of Isaac.
- Jesus is compared to a shepherd who lovingly watches over and guides his flock, or in other words, his followers.
- When the tenth and final plague is about to descend on Egypt, Moses commands each Hebrew family to kill a lamb and smear its blood on their doorposts, so the Angel of Death will know to pass over their houses and not kill their firstborns.
- The Prince of Egypt: A lost sheep leads Moses to a burning bush that speaks to him in the voice of God, commanding him to return to Egypt and free the enslaved Hebrews.
- The Conjuring Universe: The Disciples of the Ram are a Satanic cult that was founded by Janice/Annabelle while she was possessed by the Annabelle doll.
- Cult of the Lamb: The Lamb becomes a devotee of an eldritch god called The One Who Waits and starts a cult in his name, gathering followers and defeating the Bishops of the Old Faith.
- Aesop's Fables: In "The Lamb Chased By a Wolf", a wolf pursues a lamb, which hides in a temple.
Wolf: If you don't come out, the priest will catch you and sacrifice you.
Lamb: Thanks, but I'd rather stay where I am. I'd rather be sacrificed than eaten by a wolf! - The Binding of Isaac: The game is rife with Christian symbolism and includes an expansion called Wrath of the Lamb. Another expansion, Rebirth, introduces a boss called The Lamb, which is a demonic skeletal monster with ram horns and an inverted cross engraved on its forehead.
- In The Bible, sheep are referred to many times, as they were very important to the Hebrews and other peoples for the wool, meat, and milk they provided. Many references are made to them being offered as sacrifices, most notably Jesus who is called the Lamb of God and died to absolve the sins of mankind.
- Land of Sweets: A subtrope of Level Ate; a whole entire land made of candy, desserts and other sweet stuff.
- Lethal Budget Cuts: Because of a budget cut, something horrible happens.
- Medusa's Statue Garden: A modern Medusa (or another character who can petrify people) pretends that their victims are just very detailed sculptures and/or makes a living as a "sculptor".
- Nerdy Homework Helper: A smart kid is the school's go-to for help with homework.
- Ominous Birth: Being born under bad circumstances bodes ill for a child's future.
- Warrior Cats:
- In Bluestar's Prophecy, Leopardfoot goes into labor half a moon (two weeks) early, loses a lot of blood, and gives birth to three small, weak kits not expected to survive, which ThunderClan's medicine cat Goosefeather interprets as a bad omen. Two of the kits, Nightkit and Mistkit, die before they are a moon (month) old, but their brother Tigerkit survives and grows up to become the ambitious, bloodthirsty dictator Tigerstar.
- Yellowfang, a medicine cat forbidden from having a mate or kits, enters a relationship with her Clan's leader, Raggedstar. When she gets pregnant, she secretly gives birth in the hollow of a dead tree and describes the experience as horrendously difficult and painful, leaving her too weak to even eat the medicinal herbs she brought with her. One of her three kits is stillborn, the second dies minutes after her birth, and the third has his face twisted in rage and hate from the moment of his birth. This kit grows up to become Brokenstar, a cruel leader who brings grief and ruin to his Clan.
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind: Diavolo, the Big Bad boss of Passione who will kill anyone to preserve the secrecy of his identity, was born in a women's prison on a remote island under bizarre and unexplainable circumstances. His mother showed no signs of being pregnant until the night he was born, and claimed that his father had been dead for more than two years. The scene is framed very darkly with the mother clearly being in terrible pain and the prison not being the most pleasant of places.
- Warrior Cats:
- Precious Child's Drawing: A parent keeps their young child's drawing as a sentimental keepsake.
- Prenatal Gender Picking: Using magical or scientific means to choose the gender of an unborn baby.
- Our Lady Suspiriorum
: Elia is the mortal form of Mother Suspiriorum, one of the three mother-goddesses of Valyria. Her husband Rhaegar wants a son to name Aegon after his famous ancestor, but Elia bears him two daughters instead, Shiera and Aelinor. Her inner monologue makes it plain that she could have a son if she felt like it, but she feels Westeros has been male-dominated for too long.
- Wish Carefully: When a Dark pureblood couple has their first child, male selection spells are used on the wife to ensure that their firstborn is a boy. Pansy has trouble conceiving a child with Draco when his family insists on using the spells. Without them, she is able to conceive a daughter. In hindsight, her father-in-law Lucius thinks to himself they should have been grateful the child was at least a witch, considering the Generational Magic Decline in their society that followed.
- Fire & Blood: It is lightly implied (but never confirmed) that Queen Visenya used magic to conceive her son, Maegor. After ten years of being married to her brother-husband King Aegon without ever getting pregnant, people start whispering that she is infertile (and bringing up the possibility of marrying their daughters to Aegon instead), but suddenly she is pregnant and correctly predicts that she is having a boy.
- Triptych Continuum: Mytilene's Truest Love, or The Most Special Spell, is a spell that allows two mares to conceive a foal. One side-effect of it is that any foal conceived by the spell will be a filly.
- Our Lady Suspiriorum
- Rejecting the Gift: Refusing a gift from someone because you're mad at them.
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: Percy Weasley cuts ties with his family over their continued support of Dumbledore, viewing them as dragging him down in his ambitions to get a high-ranking job at the Ministry of Magic. His mother Molly still sends him a Christmas sweater in the mail, but he sends it back.
- Running Equals Guilty: If someone flees a crime scene, others will assume they ran because they committed it.
"1. Any suspect that makes Benson, Stabler, or Fin chase him/her is automatically guilty."
- Servant's Leftovers: Poor people or servants get fed the table scraps of the rich.
- Snapped Twig Alert: While in the wilderness, someone is immediately alerted to the presence of another person when they step on a twig and break it.
- Taunting Shipper: Someone pretends to be a Shipper on Deck for two people, but only to annoy them or others.
- Thinking Hurts Brain: The act of thinking is physically painful for a really stupid person.
- Tomboys Hate Sewing: A tomboyish girl hates sewing or being forced to learn how to sew.
- Down the Path of Good Intentions
: One of the things Lyanna hates about being Rhaegar's wife is having to sew for the poor when she would rather be practicing sword training.
- American Girls: Felicity: Felicity has to learn how to sew as part of her education in becoming a Proper Lady, but her impatience makes it difficult. Her mother gently chides her because her stitches fly all over the place.
Felicity: All these miles and miles of stitches! They are never finished.- A Song of Ice and Fire: Arya Stark hates sewing and her stitches are always crooked, in comparison to her older sister Sansa's which are perfect. When her half-brother Jon gives her a sword as a gift, with a small and thin blade suited to her size, she names it Needle as an ironic reference to her hatred of needlework.
- Down the Path of Good Intentions
- Short-Lived Crush: A character has a crush on someone that very quickly goes away, sometimes within the span of a single episode.
- Hazbin Hotel: Niffty likes "bad boys" and develops a yandere-like crush on Sir Pentious when he comes to stay at the hotel. After she hears him sing a song about being sorry and wanting to make up for his mistakes, she calls him "lame" and "not a bad boy," complete with kicking him in the tail.
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In the first season, Rarity dreams of marrying the rich and handsome Prince Blueblood. She gets excited to spend time with him at the Grand Galloping Gala, but quickly discovers that he's a complete Prince Charmless who forces her to pay for snacks, makes her cover a puddle with her cloak so he can step over it without getting his hooves dirty, and takes out a cushion only for himself to sit on. She finally snaps when he uses her as a shield to protect himself from a flying cake.
Rarity: You, sir, are the most un-charming prince I have EVER met! In fact, the only thing royal about you is that you are a ROYAL PAIN!
- Total Drama: In "The Chefshank Redemption," after Gwen hits Harold over the head with a shovel, he privately admits in the confessional that he's both scared of and attracted to her. However, it never comes up again.
- Too Old for a Babysitter: A kid gets left with a babysitter for the night, despite being way past the age where most kids would need one.
- Spank of Life: Hitting a newborn baby to get it to start breathing.
- Super Diaper Baby: Shortly after Billy is born, the doctor prepares to give him the spank of life, despite his parents' protests. His attempt to do this somehow ends with him accidentally throwing Billy out the window, but at that moment, Deputy Dangerous and Danger Dog are flying by and carrying a beaker of Super-Power Juice which Billy lands in. The newly super-powered baby proceeds to beat up Deputy Dangerous, and then spanks the doctor in revenge.
- The Ren & Stimpy Show: The first sensation that Ren felt in his life was "unspeakable pain" from a doctor spanking him after he was born. Ever since that day, he has had sadistic tendencies from wanting others to feel the same pain as he did.
- Rugrats: "Stu-Maker's Elves" reveals that Chuckie is afraid of heights because he was held by the ankles as a newborn before getting the spank of life.
- Unwavering Faith: A character is defined by never losing faith in their religion, no matter what terrible things happen to them.
- Void of Memories: A White Void Room or pocket dimension where you are surrounded by visual projections of your life's memories.
Page images I chose
Work pages started by me
Comic Books
Fan Works
- Asylum of Doom (Invader Zim)
- A Bad Week at the Wizengamot (Harry Potter)
- babytails (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)
- Beyond the Wall (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)
- Experimenting Fear (Pokémon: The Series)
- Gaz's Horrible Halloween of Doom (Invader Zim)
- Here Lies Shouta's Hopes and Dreams (My Hero Academia)
- It's Always The Quiet Ones (Harry Potter/Cthulhu Mythos crossover)
- Karma Circle: Judgement (Invader Zim)
- A Mad Glimmer (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)
- Miraculous: Tales of Littlebug and Chaton Noir (Miraculous Ladybug)
- Passion on Display (My Hero Academia)
- Queen of the May (A Song of Ice and Fire)
- She's Mine Then (Encanto)
- Tough Love (The Twilight Saga)
- Vengeance of Dawn (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)
- Witching Hour (Invader Zim)
Films — Animated
Literature
- Angel Child, Dragon Child
- Baby-Sitting Is a Dangerous Job
- Chrysanthemum
- Gregory, the Terrible Eater
- Herb, the Vegetarian Dragon
- Horrible Harry
- Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse
- The Magic Finger
- Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty
- Princess Academy
- The Ribbajack
- The Rules of Survival
- Socks
- St. Joseph in the Forest
- The Table, the Donkey, and the Stick
- Wemberly Worried
- What Are You So Grumpy About?
Live-Action TV
Video Games
- candypink
- Cartoon Network online games:
- Cult of the Lamb
- Finch
- Hay Day (did not start, but heavily contributed to)
- Jinx
- Plantasia
- Subliminal
- w0rd 0N 7h3 S7R337
Web Animation
- Bed Time - Spy x Family
- Course of Nature
- Dia De Los Muertos
- INVADER ZIM LOST EPISODE (RARE!!!)
- Isabelle Ruins Everything
Webcomics
Western Animation
Pages to make later
Fan Works
Literature
Music
Tropes
Web Comics
Web Original