Administrivia / Trope Idea Salvage Yard

This list was created by participants in the TLP Discard Project thread as an attempt to salvage trope ideas scavenged from deleted or unviable drafts.

Sometimes a draft is unfixable, but the idea is decent. So we're making a depository for anyone who wants to browse and adopt one of these trope ideas (or just use them as a starting point). As a secondary function, this page can also be used to deposit ideas that you yourself may not have the time or knowledge to successfully draft. Just don't abuse the privilege.

Anyone is free to add to this list, or adopt ideas from it. Note, however, that if your idea is coming from a deemed-to-be-unworkable draft, please post a link to the old draft if possible.

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For well-made drafts that just need some TLC, check out the TLP Adoption Drive. If you need help determining if an idea is tropeworthy, you can ask at the Trope Idea Sounding Board.

See also the Salvage List for drafts worth salvaging.

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Ideas with no source draft

• "Optional" boss: so say like there's a timer in which you need to escape a city or defuse a thingy in a game like final fantasy or something. if you don't do it, it's not like you'll die, you'll just meet the boss that either you wouldn't have met had you been quicker or would have been weaker had you made it out on time. obviously not that specific, but you get what I'm talking about. unless you don't.
• Worthless Old Fisticuffs: Crafted weapons are needed to deal damage in video games. Boxxy Quest: Having no weapon means a multiplier in the damage formula is 0, resulting in no damage; Lost Ruins: The Heroine literally can't launch physical attacks without weaponry; The Legend of Zelda: Just the whole series; Returnal: Selene's melee attacks are done with the Atropian Blade, instead of her fists or Pistol-Whipping, and she needs to find said blade to do so.
• "Actor Existence Paradox" (needs a better name), for when an actor playing a real person in a Based on a True Story work would logically interact with another person who that same actor famously played. The example that springs to mind is The Damned United: most of the well-known beats of Brian Clough's life are depicted, with the notable exception of his interview with David Frost—likely because Michael Sheen, who played Clough, also played Frost in Frost/Nixon.
• Hollywood Depression, when media doesn't correctly show how depression works. Hollywood and any mental health issues have similar problems.
• "Effect Trigger Percentages lower than / at 50% / greater than": Deliberate setting of effect activation chance to happen less / as / more often than not. Seems relevant as it has big effects on planning and stuff.
• Some instrument trope ideas suggested in an unrelated draft:
  • Instrument Of Legend would "have a history behind it"
  • Instrument Of Plot Advancement would "be essential to the plot in some way"
  • Doing things similar instruments can't do should be even more specific, like Instrument of Murder is used for combat.
• The Dead Have No Human Rights: Acceptable Targets are made into zombies in order to remove any moral dilemma involved with killing them.
• A flashy move that you'd rarely see in a real-life game, if it isn't downright impossible. Used as shorthand to tell the audience that one player is really good.
• A character gloats about a move they just pulled, then their opponent immediately pulls off a much more impressive move. Shorthand to tell the audience that one of them is much better at the game, and the other has a vastly inflated opinion of their own skill, and is a bad sport to boot.
• Our Cupids Are Different: Love Goddess Sub-Trope, Fallen Cupid and Cupid's Arrow Super Tropes, Putto related, Classical Mythology related. Needed to create a target for a Cupid disambig, since that already has Visual Novel, two Series, and Video Game.
• All Girls Like Princesses: Like All Girls Like Ponies, but Princesses. Examples: Her Code Name Was "Mary Sue": Series.Wizards Of Waverly Place example, Literature.Princesses Of The Pizza Parlor...
• Supernatural Underwater Breathing: A character who biologically can't breathe underwater gains the ability via magic. Not To Be Confused With Super Not-Drowning Skills, in which a character who biologically shouldn't be able to breathe underwater can anyway, just because.
• Multiple Hit Move: Is this just Spam Attack? Like VideoGame.Pokemon's Rock Blast and Pin Missile... With the randomization of the number of hits, it makes it be a very large source of random damage... VideoGame.The Other Airis Adventure has a variation of X hits total, divided randomly over Y enemies... Prayer of the Faithless: Verigo Castle's Medics have Butterfly Slash, which, if Baikon uses the same Ability, is three slashes in one move.
• Solo Character Party: A Role-Playing Game that does a Solo-Character Run automatically, not as a player choice. This changes how revival items work, because there's no second member to apply them in battle, and a few other things? ... There might be a trope for Single Character fighting single enemies, like VideoGame.Eternal Senia Hydrangea After The Rain, and VideoGame.Dragon Quest I... Some connection to The Aloner?
• Wacky / Friendly Cult: Cults portrayed as funny, weird, or harmless, rather than dangerous.
• Playersexual: NPCs that will date a PC of any gender, despite not otherwise being established as bisexual.
• "The Developers Knew You'd Cheat": A sub-trope of Developer's Foresight, because it's got more than 2K wicks... Meaning it's likely large enough to have sub-tropes. ... This is when the devs program things that can only be accessed through cheats, like VideoGame.Golden Sun's Mind Read messages. ...
• "Manually Applied EXP": EXP that's not automatically put towards a purpose. It's collected and then the player chooses how to spend it. Had a "Multiple Use Resources" idea for resources that can be used for different things, like EXP or monster bait or something. Found this in my old Trope Finders: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/query.php?parent_id=71215&type=lnf
• "Hold Down Button To Use": In contrast to just "Press Button To Use". Meters might be a Super-Trope of this. Charged Attack is related and can overlap, but not the same since there's usually the ability to use them even not at full charge. VideoGame.Yandere Simulator: Multiple examples, but here's one: When at a door, opening needs to hold down the button for it, and only opens when a meter is filled. Changed as of 2022. "It is now possible to perform certain actions by tapping the relevant button instead of holding it until a circle fills up." ... Borderlands 3: Dropping items from the inventory requires that its button be held down until the meter around the icon fills to full, unlike in previous games where only a single button tap was needed to drop selected items. Crystal Story The Hero And The Evil Witch: Most buttons literally say "Hold" when needed to be held to finish. Like selling items, saving over games, crafting items, and reforging items... Loop Hero: "Skip tutorial" button in the demo says "HOLD" when moused over, and a "Skipping..." comes out of the menu on the right, completing when it's fully visible. Control: Used to activate most everything, from crafting to switches. RemiLore: Lost Girl in the Lands of Lore: Used to switch with a weapon on the ground, the spacebar is held until a ring fills. One Step From Eden: Used for confirmation of upgrading a card and deleting one from the Deck. Sunset Overdrive: When searching for Bryllcream again, the clues need the activation button to be held down for less than a second, filling a black bar with orange from left to right, instead of just pressed like most objects. River City Girls: As its Trivia says: "Making the light attack button the same as the interact button would often result in the player leaving the area when they meant to continue their combo. A later patch fixed this by making it so you had to hold down the button when you wanted to move to another stage."
• "Interaction Description": A Role-Playing Game trope where furniture can be interacted with to provide Flavor Text.
• "Tail Microphone": A cartoon animal with a long tail, like a cat, monkey, mouse, or lizard holds the tip of their tail to their mouth talks or sings into it as though it were a microphone.
• "Ever Upwards Stat": A statistic in Role-Playing Games that only keeps increasing, and has no way of being decreased, not even temporarily. Character Level, Experience Points... Sometimes the latter it's averts this in cases where Death Is Cheap and the cost is Experience Points.
• "Dependent Values / Stats": Numbers in Role-Playing Games, calculated based on other numbers, such as in most UsefulNotes.RPG Maker games where character statistics are based on a formula using Character Level as an input. Such as Parameters: The cost of "LIFE Rcv." is Character Level * $20 for a first use, then it starts to cost even more, but price falls back to base if unused for a while. It also changes the multiple to $25 sort of. $500 at LV 20, but $540 at 22. Activity point increases cost $5 more each time until the 6th, where it starts costing $6 more. $126 for the 6th.
• "Enemy Levels": Character Level, but for Enemies instead. Different from Level Scaling, in that the latter is just "Things change based on level". It doesn't mean that enemies have actual levels that actually scale. Some games that do this are Titan Quest
• "Irrecoverably Deleted Item": Sister trope to Permanently Missable Content, where something that might or might not be missable in the first place can be (discarded, deleted, dismissed, etc) after getting it, and can never be retrieved afterwards if you do.
• "Gifted School": Schools for the academically talented. VideoGame.Yandere Simulator's Akademi High, which has, or had, entrance exams. A Certain Magical Index: Tokiwadai Middle School, a One-Gender School for girls, whose students must be Level 3 or higher, in the rankings of their intellect-based Psychic Powers... Classroom of the Elite's Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing School? It's "dedicated to instruct and foster the generation of people that will support the country in the future.", whatever that means... ... Then there's the non-Japanese examples...
• "Making Room": The Super-Trope to Making Room for Baby... For when the reason isn't a baby... Like maybe a couple just married, and want a new home together... Fanfic.Dungeon Keeper Ami: Around Chapter 200. Being vague to avoid spoilers... "Just got too many minions for current residence... Need to find a new space..."
• "Ambiguously Queer": Missing Supertrope to Ambiguously Bi and Ambiguously Gay at least — there have been edit wars over which of those two things a character is, when the whole point is that it's ambiguous.
• "Designer Imposed Caps": A type of Cap that is clearly made to limit a player. The intent makes it different from other kinds of caps. Like the Bethesda Games ones where Damage Reduction is stopped below what'd be an expected maximum of 100%... There's likely a valid functional difference between stopping below, at, and above 100%. The following is a Sub-Trope of this, so this encompasses the rest. One use is Anti-Hoarding, but this isn't just an inventory cap.
• "Powers Of Ten Minus One"-type caps. A.k.a a "Counter Stop" in Japanese... A shorter term could involve "Limited by Number of Digits" or something. "Digit Count Limit"? Or a Visual Cap, like Visual Pun. The numerical system and screen system prevents numbers from going higher because at the size, it would go off screen... Subverted in some cases, when Life Meter starts turning into more of a Hit Points by just numbering how many left, instead of using visuals. Like Metroid does?
• "Multiple Item Stacks at Cap": A subversion of Cap where item stacks are capped, but you can have multiple stacks. VideoGame.Cute Knight 1, VideoGame.Terraria, VideoGame.Titan Quest for potions...
• Overload Allowance: Usually only for inventory caps like Pokemon Go and Starfield (Go from large home ship to smaller one and cargo's overloaded and can only add more once space is available. The Elder Scrolls and Fallout 3+: Encumbrance is a soft cap. Go over, go slower, or utter halt?
• Darkness is Smoke: Seen It a Million Times. When moving darkness—such as in the case of a Living Shadow, or when Casting a Shadow—is depicted as though it were some sort of thick smoke. In some cases it even somehow reflects light enough to have highlighted regions!
• Danger Moves Across: The protagonist is standing more or less still—perhaps unawares, perhaps on alert. And then, just for a moment, a half-seen danger stealthily and swiftly passes across the view, or a portion of it. This may happen in the foreground, with a blurred shape momentarily sweeps across the screen; or in the background, perhaps moving past an open doorway. Either way, the protagonist may well notice nothing—only we, the audience, are aware of their peril.
• Hand Check: A character confirms their state by checking their hands. When the work is viewed in first-person, this may have the additional benefit of informing the audience of the character's state, too.
  • Examples: Half-Life 2, on first getting the HEV suit, and Showdown Bandit.
• Art Lover and Art Hater: Contrasting character tropes about a character who loves art and a character who hates art. Both are used to show facets of the character's personality and interests; the Art Hater, for example, may be too serious or literal to appreciate it, or they just find it boring. The Art Lover is more creative and open-minded, but may over-exaggerate the actual quality of some art.
• Eat the Victim's Food: An unsuspecting character gets killed by someone else and the killer then decides to help himself to a bite of the tasty snack the victim picked out. (This was on YKTTW many years ago, but the draft can no longer be found.) Very close to Enemy Eats Your Lunch, but doesn't fit its Example as a Thesis; it suggests Robbing the Dead covers this, but that seems to imply taking items of serious value, whereas this is more likely to be played for Black Comedy.
• Lightning Strikes The Grave: A lightning strikes a grave, often to signify resurrection.
• Stalemate Breaker: A mechanic that is meant to solve a stalemate, or any situations where no moves are possible. Super-Trope to Tiebreaker Round.
• "Company Crossover", a type of Crossover like Company Cross References, but with more crossing over betweem works of the same company, like Batgirl & Supergirl in The New Batman Adventures E20 "Girls' Night Out" as a crossover between DC Comics franchises.
• "Holding Open Spacetime": Using physical force to hold open non-physical things, like the edges of a tear in spacetime. Webcomic.Rusty And Co: Used for the edges that lead to the Psion's location.
• "Mercy Rule": A game ends early because the outcome has become a Foregone Conclusion. Sounding Board post
• "Single Antagonist / Single Antagonist vs. Multiple Protagonists": And the reverse, because it feels like numbers matter a bit, for some reason? Being outnumbered or something?
• "Chaotic Plonking Piano": A Score And Music Trope where a piano playing random notes is used to indicate a chaotic situation or when a character is losing their composure. For example, Kurapika's Theme Music Power-Up when angered/using Emperor Time in 2011 Hunter × Hunter is an instrumental rock tune underscored by a plonking piano. Also used a bit in Western cartoons, but can't think of any specific examples.
• "Installment: Series Title And Specific Subtitle": Usually part of Numbered Sequels, unless it's N+1 Sequel Title. Occurs in Harry Potter and Acacia. Artemis Fowl perhaps. A rare overlap with Named After First Installment in non-Numbered Sequels cases. High overlap with Character Name and the Noun Phrase?
• "Elemental Portal Network": Portal Network-s and Anchored Teleportation connecting certain elements like Harry Potter Floo for Fireplaces, Shadow Walker for shadows, Portal Pool, Reflective Teleportation for water / reflective surfaces, Telephone Teleport
• "Instant Teleportation" and "Slow Teleportation": Teleportation Tropes we don't have. Then there's some Extradimensional Shortcut-s that look instant on the outside, but inside feels slow. Like Triptych Continuum's the between...
• "Imported / Derived Trope": A Fanfic Trope Trope about tropes that are only known to occur in the derived work due to the source work. For instance, Fallout: Equestria - Project Horizons teleportation is Flashy Teleportation only because it's flashy in Fallout: Equestria. Because the effect is never said until Chapter 31 after a dozen teleports or so, which make it seem Stealthy, which it isn't.
• "Lost Key Item Quest Failure": From looking at UnintentionallyUnwinnable.The Elder Scrolls, Morrowind's needing the misplacable Tools of Kagrenac and "Threads of the Webspinner" items for separate quests. Basically Permanently Missable Content that leads to Unwinnable quests.
• "Freeze-Frame Cover / Poster Shot": The barest aversion of Covers Always Lie, where the scene appears, but not for long. Like Film.Ghostbusters II: Where the poster uniforms are only seen in a montage.
• "Mistaken For Adoption" a character wrongly believes they are not the biological child of their parent/s. Can be played for drama (as with Sarada Uchiha in Boruto series) or humor (such as Kenan Rockmore's identity quest on Kenan and Kel.)
• "Manual Humor": A sibling trope of Textbook Humor and intentional cousin to Manual Misprint, where the manual for a video game (or possibly some other kind of software) includes random jokes about things that are mostly completely extraneous to the game.
• "Forced to Create": Against their will, a character is forced to create something for someone else, whether they're already a creator or not. Usually for artificial creations only, otherwise Mandatory Motherhood is a Sub-Trope.
• "Dialogue Branch Dissonance": When the options presented by a Dialogue Tree prompt turn out to be misleading due to unclear wording or omission of information, which often results in the player character's reaction not matching what the chosen dialogue option implies.
  Yahtzee: It's not clear if "doubt" means to raise a single disbelieving robot eyebrow or to accuse them of secretly masterminding the Cuban Missile Crisis.
• Canon Retelling Fic: A fanfic that starts from the same point as canon and targets the same endpoint. Frequently features For Want Of A Nail. Often overlaps with Alternate Universe Fic in the form of "canon retelling except X" (Hermione is sorted into Slytherin, Harry is a cat Animagus, Hermione is a mathematical prodigy, and so forth)
• "Stealthy [Ability]": To encompass the opposite of Magical Incantation / Invocation, where abilities can be used without notice, such as Stealthy Teleportation.
• Smash Up Through The Floor: Like Crash in Through the Ceiling, but for floors. Through the Ceiling, Stealthily's Film.Entrapment example would fit this and Sneak Up Through The Floor, the sneaky version of this trope.
• Tragedy Plus Time: Tragic events are Dude, Not Funny! at first, but become valid targets for Black Comedy after enough time has passed. Back when Distanced from Current Events was called "Too Soon", a lot of misuse was pointing at this idea (mostly ended up pointed to Dude, Not Funny! in the cleanup). Sounding Board discussion
• Technological Implant: To cover the opposite of most Cyborg tropes and remove all entries from it, since a Cyborg either has artificial external bits, or internal bits. ... Oh, there's technological organ replacement... Do we have a trope for that? Portal Reloaded: Test 13's conclusion reveals that the player character has one, so they can hear the AI like their own consciousness, and that a large part of their cerebral cortex was removed to make it work, so it's more literal than figurative.
• Stat To Zero: A debuff reduces a particular stat to 0.
• Zero The Original: The use of "0" to denote the very first instance of something. This is somewhat analyzed in My Hero, Zero, but that trope is about something different. Patient Zero and Year Zero would be subtropes. Sorta related to zero-indexing lists in Real Life?
• "Magic Bullets": When firearms and their ammunition are influenced by Functional Magic or other Applied Phlebotinum to behave in certain ways. A number of links here are about this concept. Elemental Powers might do this.
• Mirrored Protagonist Movie Poster: Showing off a protagonist's multiple identities in a semi-mirrored poster: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/query.php?parent_id=63651
• Inherently Cool Sports: Sports like skateboarding, surfing, or snowboarding, portrayed as inherently "cool" or added to make a character seem cooler.
• Teacher-Teacher Romance: There's two variations in which this can play out, both of which could warrant a draft:
  • Kids think it's cute when their teachers start flirting.
  • Kids think it's gross when their teachers get together.
• "Freeform Level Select": Level selection where progression is not railroaded, or at least not too much. Usually appears in puzzle games? Cloud, see here. Four levels, choose in any order. Khimera: Puzzle Island: After tutorial, any puzzle except the final set can be played. Megaman 1: Defeat the Robot Masters in any order.
• Self Describing Dialogue (or something): A statement regarding some set of information which includes that statement makes a point of clarifying how the statement applies to itself. Sounding board discussion
• Fake / Illusionary Wall: Walls that are illusions or something, with a path behind them. Sort of like Cave Behind the Falls. PsyCard: Friend's Quest: A sign near an fake wall says: "fake walls can hide sweet loot". Whateley Universe: The Three Little Witches: The titular trio enter a library of magic hidden by one, through following a janitor through it. Princess Remedy In A Heap Of Trouble: Outside the first building in the school, in the secret "REALLYDAD" difficulty.
• Impossible To Lose Game: Games without any loss condition of any kind, no knockouts and back to checkpoints, nothing. Some relation to Death Is a Slap on the Wrist. The first one might be The Secret of Monkey Island, making this Older Than They Think because people think the first is Loom, as its YMMV says. Some other games are Forget Me Not: My Organic Garden: Idle Game, no combat, constant forward progress; From Death Is a Slap on the Wrist: Curse Of Enchantia takes this to an extreme - death is not even possible. Anything that would kill the player character in any other game is a mere hindrance that at worst causes Amusing Injuries that Brad instantly recovers from. So Uh A Spaceship Landed In My Yard: All story, Hit Points exist, but are never used. Kinetic Novel is a Sub-Trope of this, since there's only one path and one end state. Although, how "game"-y it is... Hmm... Multiple Endings where every loss state is an ending, is a variation.
• 'Ascendant NPC,' for possible lack of a better name for now: An NPC (or AI,) potentially an Ascended Extra, who Grows Beyond Their Programming and comes to the realization that they live Inside a Computer System. They may later Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence, at least temporarily, in that they get and take a chance to go Up the Real Rabbit Hole and spend some time as a Refugee from TV Land. (A couple rough examples: Alice from Sword Art Online: Alicization, Qube from Prophecy Approved Companion.)
• Fourth Wall Quiz: A quiz section in a Video Game, that doesn't mesh with the story at all, like an Outside Joke, but not a joke. Princess Maker: Talking about the Third Eye, Märchen Forest: Mylne and the Forest Gift, talking about Video Games.
• "Late Progress Tracker": Learning how close you are to something, after having possibly made it impossible. Tales of Symphonia: Getting the Monster Compendium after possibly missing 3 bosses, Vidarr, Golem, and some third one.
• "List Title": Basically a Super-Trope of Name and Name, but covers lists of non-names...
• "Opening Title Drop": The inverse of Finale Title Drop. Raid Title Drop, search for "Opening" and such:
  • Vainqueur The Dragon: The first words of the first Chapter Title Drop, are "Vainqueur the Dragon".
  • Cells at Work!: "Mission! Health Comes First", the opening to the anime, drops both the English and Japanese titles as it goes.
  One, Two! Three, Four!
  We are Cells at Work!
  • In Ninja Nonsense, when Miyabi first arrives, she tells Shinobu to "Stop this..." and you know the rest. That's the English title, of course — the Japanese is an untranslatable pun that even the original version can't work into dialogue, so it's included in the opening theme instead.
• "Characterization By Trait": The last split for Characterization Tropes, I think?
• Damage Proof Protagonist: The protagonist cannot be harmed, like in Racing Games with no damage mechanic, puzzle games, etc. Also Fairy Bloom since the Life Meter is for the plant of the Protection Mission, not the fairy herself.
• "Pathos": It's a thing... That's wicked from Music.Life In Yellow... Would also go on the We Are Not Alone Index...
• "Testing for Special Children": Because there's usually something that needs them to be tested young instead of when they're adults or something?
  • Avatar: The Last Airbender: Specifically, the mythology of Aang as the Avatar is lifted directly from The Dalai Lama, down to reincarnation and how the Air Nation chooses them at a young age by ancient toys and heirlooms from the previous Avatar's possessions.
  • Prophecy Approved Companion: From the first chapter:
    As each child was born they were taken to the hut that housed the Prophecy and held in front of it to see if they gained a faint golden or silver glow. Qube had glowed silver, and, as the only half elf with magical abilities in the village, she’d been selected to be the Healer Mage Companion when she was about five.
• Plus For Improvement: Lucky Charms Title that uses the "+" sign to signify an Updated Re-release or something: King's Quest II+
• "Automatic Allocation / Activation": LitRPG-s offering some characters the ability to choose their classes, while others don't? Skill selection, etc... Sorta like Anti-Frustration Features where the trope is in deviating from a defined norm.
• "Teleportation Device": If Time Machine and Time Travel can exist together, why not this and Teleportation?
• "Hack the Grade": A character hacks into a computer to improve their own ratings (or someone else's ratings) in some field, usually their school grades.
• "Better Is Not Better": Possibly a Video Game only trope, if restricted to tiered items, where a improvement in level isn't strictly better in the important ways. A longer cooldown for higher damage is expected, but not lower damage but still higher level. For example: Control, Rare Seize Accelerators can have a 53% improvement, but the level below it, Uncommon Seize Accelerators, can have 56%.
• Do Well Enough: Things where 100% Completion isn't required. Control: A tamer example is the unmarked quest which grants you the Eternal Fire mod for Grip, which requires you to notice the nondescript TV sets scattered around Maintenance — the ones with the flame on the screen. These turn out to be indestructible, but what are they for? There are a few of them near the furnace room, so you might try launching them into the furnace. Nothing tells you this is correct other than the fact that the TVs don't respawn. Launch six (there are at least seven) into the furnace's blazing maw and you'll unlock the mod.
• Still Music Video: At least I think it's mostly Vocaloid / Indie music vids? Usually for animated things, where a still image is Pan and Scan and Zoomed and stuff so it's easier than animating everything or something... Or for more rapid movement? "Knots Way"? ... Anime might use it too in openings and stuff? Dunno.
• The Beginning Title: Opposite of The Last Title, like for Dungeon Engineer, first chapter: "Explosive Beginnings".
• Spaceship Stories / Space Station Stories: Space Stories split because a craft / home makes the setting very different? The final split might be Alien Planet Stories?
• Narrating Physical Condition: NPC pun, for when they yell how they're poisoned, like in MostAnnoyingSound.Action Games: In the video game based on Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, your party members will start to complain that "I'm poisoned! I really need some antidote!" once afflicted by that status effect - and will continue to do so, repeatedly, until healed. Or Tales Of Symphonia, on if Lloyd ends the battle poisoned:
  Lloyd - Colette, need cure for poison...
  Colette - I'm FINE. I'm not poisoned.
  Lloyd - No, I mean, ME...
• Hedging The Statement: When a sentence is followed by a hedge or emphasis, like "I almost X. Almost.", but not actually Repeated for Emphasis. For example: The Five Hundred Kingdoms: The Fairy Godmother:
  Stepmother was bad; being kept as the captive of bandits for their pleasure would be infinitely worse. Probably.
• Situationally Activatable Attack: Situational Damage Attack, but in that the attack does nothing unless the conditions are met, instead of "something, just not max power". Arbitrary Weapon Range is a Sub-Trope; Toontown: Corporate Clash: Zap will miss entirely on unsoaked cogs. You need to attack a cog with Squirt, which soaks adjacent cogs as well.
• Deriving Into A New Genre: Maybe too punny. It's for fan works whose genres aren't a subset of its parent work, like a fanfic of a Fairy Fiction work, that doesn't involve fairies.
• Minimal Animation Video: A video where it's animated, but not such that everything changes, like the blinking in "Persona5 - Beneath the Mask | COVER | Caitlin Myers". Or how the girl blinks in "【公式】 ダーリンダンス／かいりきベア feat.初音ミク". Sorta like Creepy Changing Painting.
• Down Syndrome: A Useful Notes page about Down syndrome.
• More Love Confession splits. It's one of the Overdosed Tropes, and it has 8 subtropes. Probably room for more, like Rejected or "Mistaken For"
• "Killer McMurdername": A Sub-Trope of Names to Run Away from Really Fast, since it has ~10K wicks. Snowclone of Awesome McCoolname for murderers named to match their occupation.
• "Scary Animal Name Bearer": A Sub-Trope of Names to Run Away from Really Fast, since it has ~10K wicks. For things like Wolf, Tiger, Snake, and others in the Scary Animals Index. Uses Ambiguous Syntax deliberately for a Double Meaning name.
• "Taking Lives To Bring Them": Maybe a bit too vague and the idea is too uncommon. But do we have somewhere to fold it into? Basically, "A murderer having kids to repent for their killing". "Karmic Balance" from Emily Martha Sorensen's Magic and Mischief collection; "Born of Conflict" from Story Shuffle.
• "Rare Candy Drop" - Random Drop and Rare Candy, because usually Rare Candies have a limited number, but having them be dropped by regular enemies makes them not limited. A Very Long Rope to the Top of the Sky, Epic Battle Fantasy 5, Weird and Unfortunate Things Are Happening
• "Shout Out By Name / On-Screen Shout-Out": Directly naming / showing a work as a Shout-Out, such as Mermaids: The name of the book that Charlotte Flax reads was "The Lives of the Saints" (1894) by Alban Butler.
• "Inadvertent New Power": Some event affects a character and messes with their powers, and when the condition is reversed, they gain the ability to trigger it at will, such as Persona 5: Lavenza gets the ability to voluntarily transform into the twins, after the condition was induced involuntarily the first time.
• Stunt Meter: Found in racing games, a gauge that fills when certain things happen (or even just time passes) and that lets you perform a speial stunt once it's full.
• "Alliterative Portmantitle": Because Alliterative Title has a two-word+ requirement, and therefore doesn't allow clearly intentional examples of portmantitles / compound titles like "Bitburner".
• "Functionally Duplicate Goal / Achievement" or just "Duplicate Achievement": For an Achievement System that has achievements with duplicate requirements, such as Terraria's "Still Hungry" and "It's Hard!", for defeating the Wall Of Flesh and unlocking Hardmode, respectively, but since defeating the Wall is how to unlock hardmode... Pokémon Black 2 and White 2: Getting 50 medals gives two medals for it. If this is broadened to goals in general, then a quest checklist that's "Defeat X" and get "X's Core" where the defeat of X automatically adds X's Core to the player's inventory on defeat...
• "Tiered Achievements / Nested Achievements": For when there's goals like "Kill 100 / 200 / 500 enemies", so they're tiered. Or "Kill X enemies" and "Kill X enemies in hardmode", where technically, doing the latter means fulfilling the former.
• Themed List: The Super-Trope of Alliterative List, Hurricane of Euphemisms, Rhyming List, and other lists where the items share some theme.
• Number Only Title: A Title by Number Sub-Trope for well, titles that are just a number, no "The [Number]", nothing. Like 300, 9, the song "Three" from Seventeen Seconds (Album). The utter lack of noun information compared to The 4000 or Eureka Seven, makes those titles more than just One-Word Title overlaps.
• Repetitive Title / Anaphora Title: Either split out Repetitive Title to match Repetitive Name more, instead of being a "Double, Double" Title redirect which is really strict, or split off from Anaphora. A title that's made of two or more parts that share a starting word. Repetitive Title might be a better name because then it can capture Epiphora Title too. Criminal (2006): Wrong Time, Wrong Place; Coby's Choice: New World, New Choices.
• "Hair Stands on End": This wiki doesn't seem to have this common expression and reaction shot. Other tropes like Expressive Hair aren't quite right, or else this is a distinct sub trope. Discussion.
• Pet Peeve: Something a character finds especially annoying. Would probably cover some of the misuse of Berserk Button.
• Item Compendium: The item / for-collectables version of a Monster Compendium, and therefore a Lore Codex sub-trope. The Other: Rosie's Road of Love: The Item Book of the Starting Equipment, a counterpart of the Monster Book; Hero & Daughter has a list of all the collectable items. Recettear: Has one accessible from the Start Screen; One Step From Eden has a Library of the Spells and Artifacts; Mega Man Battle Network: The Chip Libraries;
• Named From the Source Code: The name used to refer to a Video Game character/enemy/item/etc. comes from the Source Code and not from in-game, usually due to the character/enemy/item/etc. never actually being named in-game.
• Useless Final Boss Rewards: The rewards from a Superboss or Final Boss that can't be used, such as: Weird and Unfortunate Things Are Happening: The Progress Natilius's defeat awards 99999 EXP, but then it immediately goes to the credits for doing the very last thing in the game, so those Experience Points are useless; Girlfriend Rescue: The $200 and 4680 EXP from defeating the final battle, where credits roll immediately after.
• Line Of Sight Analogy: Similar to Line-of-Sight Alias, it's when a character is trying to find an analogy for something, so they look around and use something they see. Examples: From The Simpsons: Homer: "Marriage is like..." (spots a bowl of fruit) "...like eating an orange." (Takes an orange and eats it.) And from The Umbrella Academy (2019): Klaus and Five are visiting the world's largest ball of twine, and start talking about their family. Klaus: "But what is family? It's like some kind of giant... ball of twine that you can never untangle."
• Puzzles As Combat: Combat mechanics that involve using puzzles, such as a Match-Three Game, to inflict damage on an opponent.
• News Fluctuation or Good News Bad News Good News (needs a better title): A character delivers good news to other characters, which causes them to cheer. Then the character delivers bad news on top of the good news, which causes the other characters to give dejected reactions. Than the character delivers more good news, which causes the other characters to cheer again. Might be spun off from Good News, Bad News with enough examples.
  • An example from the Wild Kratts episode "Rattlesnake Crystal":
  Aviva: Bros, any luck?
  Chris: Yeah. We found a tellurium crystal!
  Aviva, Koki and Jimmy: [gasps] Yay!
  Chris: But then we lost it.
  Aviva, Koki and Jimmy: [chorus of "aww's"]
  Martin: But we're gonna find it again!
  Aviva, Koki and Jimmy: Yay!
• Speculative Police: The many portrayals of police and paramilitary services in fantasy and sf settings, often related to Tour Guide Detective as criminal investigations are an immediate look at a setting's social problems (regardless of whether law enforcement is involved in causing them or fixing them). Subtrope of Fantastical Social Services, and a missing supertrope to Androids and Detectives, Cape Busters, The Men in Black, Mutant Draft Board, Police Psychic, Space Police, Time Police, and possibly Vampire Detective Series.
• Escalating Cruelty: A trope about bad guys targeting an innocent and, of over the course of a single incident, ramping up the sadism of their actions from petty to (oftentimes) deadly.
• Fun With Feng-Shui: A trope about characters misunderstanding feng-shui and the comedic things that can result.
• Immersive Theater: Theater with a high or very high level of Audience Participation, where interaction with the performers is expected.
  • Punchdrunk are a well-known provider of this, Stranger Things has recently gotten in on the act and Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge is a Disney example.
• Avant Garde: Experimentalism in arts
• Action Comedy: Genre combining Action Genre and Comedy
• Historical Romance: Genre combining Historical Fiction and Romance
• Techno Thriller: Genre combining elements of Thriller, Science Fiction, and others.
• Vampire Romance: Genre combining Vampire Fiction and Romance
• Independent Media (name?): Supercategory to things like Indie Game, Alternative Comics, Underground Comics, Independent Film and Independent Music
  • Independent Film
  • Independent Music / Indie Music
• Color Contrast Duo: Supertrope to Hair-Contrast Duo
• Visual Contrast Duo: Supertrope to color-contrast duo tropes, as well as things like Fat and Skinny
• Unrequited Love (currently a redirect to Unrequited Love Tropes)
• Sinister Summer(?): When summer weather is used to create an eerie atmosphere. Discussed in this article, which also lists some examples.
• Inadvertent Animal Adoption: A character accidentally finds themselves in a creature's home, such as a bird's nest, and is adopted by said creature and treated like one of their own children, much to the character's chagrin. Attempts to escape the home usually end in failure, but depending on the work, the character will escape successfully either with the help of another character or by various happenstances. In subversions, a character will stay with the creature and be raised by it because they like their new living arrangements.
• Muting Gag: Somebody talks their head off, which causes the characters to mute them. See Chicken Little: Ace in Action's intro.
• Coat Hanger Abortion: Someone using a coat hanger to perform abortion, which is considered a highly immoral medical practice nowadays (doubly so when some people consider abortion immoral in general), similar to Lobotomy.
• Backmasking: Hidden backwards audio message, often (but not exclusively) allegedly used as subliminal brainwashing. (Relatedly, Backmasking currently redirects to Subliminal Seduction.)
• Gray Is Neutral: Gray-and-Gray Morality but about the color instead of the stance. ''Cloud: Gray clouds are defined as "Neutral" (sic)
• Undo Button: hoshi-wo-miru-hito rerelease, Puzzle Games
• Meaningful Runtime - the runtime of a work is significant in some way. (For instance, the runtime of the Norwegian patriotic album Til Dovre Faller is 18:14, a nod to the year Norway got its constitution.) If this is too specific, maybe we could do a "Meaningful Meta Info" trope to cover stuff like this and be a super-trope to Meaningful Release Date.
• Excited Show, Excited Title!: A work's title contains an exclamation mark to reflect the tone of the work. Possible way to salvage the now-defunct Excited Show Title by requiring the exclamation mark to have a meaning.
• Senpai/Kohai Relationship / Pining for the Upperclassman(?): A rework of the cut Senpai/Kōhai trope to cover the most common and generally understood meaning of the dynamic; a junior (kohai) has an infatuation for a senior (senpai) that may or may not be requited. Almost exclusively seen in Japanese school or workplace settings. Would be a sister trope of Lover and Beloved, and since it usually (though not always) involves same-sex couples, Pseudo-Romantic Friendship or Gay Romantic Phase may also apply.
• Fan Game Difficulty Spike: When a Fan Game is considerably more difficult than the source game/series. Happens because it's generally expected that you'll start playing fangames after finishing the source game (if you didn't even like that one enough to finish it, why play a fan game?).
• Complexity Lockout: When a game is so complex that it's hard to get into (see: Yu-Gi-Oh!). Mechanical equivalent of Continuity Lockout.
• Snap Music: Also known as "ringtone rap". A Lighter and Softer offshoot of crunk that doesn't have its own page (possibly due to the genre's Condemned by History status). Wikipedia page.
• Motherly Mounds: A loving or nurturing female character who could easily qualify as either an Action Mom or Team Mom, while also being well-endowed. Being a mother is not an absolute prerequisite, but actual mothers certainly qualify. Has some discussion going on here.
  • Examples include Mercedes from Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Ersha from Cross Ange, Sofya Obertas from Madan no Ou to Vanadis, Amaha Masane from Witchblade, Maria Cadenzavna Eve from Symphogear, Tifa Lockhart from Final Fantasy VII, and so forth.
• Killer Satire: A satire so effective it killed the thing it's satirizing; The Simpsons killed the Dom Com, The Cold Equations killed the Invincible Science Hero, Airplane! killed the aerial disaster flick... Sounding board discussion.
• Inspiration Inversion: X in real life or existing media inspired the work's creator to include Y, but In-Universe Y is the inspiration for X. Sounding board.
• Polite Predator or The Predators Who Dont Do Anything or something: Predator animals which are supposed to be seen as sympathetic act much more politely to their prey species than they would in Real Life. Sounding board.
• Unknown Is Question Marks: Like My Name Is ??? and Confused Question Mark, but broader than just character names. Shantae: Half-Genie Hero: The collectables in each area are noted on the world map as "?" until one of them is found, then they're noted in "[found] / [total]" form if there's more than 1; From Vague Hit Points: Final Fantasy Tactics enemies with >=1000 Hit Points shows the value as "???"; Age of Empires: Mythologies: The upgrade "Mother of Deceit", obtained from worshipping Nyx, has the HP of your units be hidden from enemy units unless there is an enemy unit directly adjacent to them, with it appearing as "???/???". The enemy units in the Greek campaign automatically have this upgrade in addition to Nyx's other upgrades whether or not they have Hades as their Major God.
• Next Move Knowledge: Combat Clairvoyance but for Video Games. There might be a better name for it. Might be Combat Clairvoyance, if it's flexible enough. Touhou Lost Branch Of Legend: Next move of the enemy is noted above their heads. Neurodeck: A Fear, a.k.a Phobia's move and move order are all listed, except for Helio and Nycto-phobia, who transform into each other and only the active half's moves are displayed, along with Theophobia applying a random rule every turn, but the rule is only known after it's applied.
• Additive Subtractive Damage Formula: Hit Points lost = Attacker Attack - Defender Defence. The simplicity of the system makes it clear the value of a single attack, defense, or hit point, compared to if there's squaring values, and other functions. Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Paper Mario
• Venus Means Female: Only now appears in Japanese stuff. English stuff usually uses it as the planet, now? Innocent Venus, probably referring to mysterious girl Sana Nobuto? Venus Versus Virus, Venus Blood - H-Game, probably referring to girls with that?; Dead or Alive Xtreme: Venus Vacation; Venus Project Climax - Female Idols; Venus Envy - English work about a trans girl; Venus Eleven Vivid - 11 girls soccer team; Characters.Aikatsu Stars Venus Ark?; Characters.Maken Ki Venus Academy Members - Seems to be only girls.
• Accidental Joke: Like Accidental Pun, but broader, since not all jokes are puns, but all puns are jokes?
• Farcycle Thieves, The Bicycle Thieves Plot or some name like that: Whole-Plot Reference to Bicycle Thieves, where something a character feels they cannot live without (e.g. their bike, car, phone, or another precious item) is stolen and the mishaps that ensue when they try to search down the thief. Not to be confused with Dude, Where's Our Car?, which is set on by a missing vehicle (though the trope namer might be more of an example of this salvaged trope).
  • Pee-wee's Big Adventure: Pee-wee's bike is stolen while he's shopping at a magic store, and he accuses his next-door neighbor, a Spoiled Brat named Francis, of stealing his bike since he's always envied it. He doesn't get much help from the police, and his own search efforts aren't fruitful, so he takes advice from a psychic and goes on an epic journey to Texas to find where the bike is.
  • "The Thief", the second-season premiere of Master of None, sees Dev's phone stolen while he's in Italy, so he and his pasta-making instructor's son try to track it down.
• But Not Too Political: A source material, character, or real life person's politics are downplayed in an adaptation or biopic.
• React In Unison: Like Speak in Unison or Thinking the Same Thought, but for actions not verbal stuff. Not the intended use (Zantetsuken Reverse): Chapter 9: Soma and Mina are embarassed and trying to hide their feelings for each other: "Kazuya looked at Mina, then at Soma. Then at Mina again. / "Are you two dating?" Both Soma and Mina turned very red."
• Nagging Is Feminine: A Trope in Aggregate, to explore how nagging◊, fault-finding is a woman's game. — Argument for this existing came out from a discussion on whether or not [verb]=[adjective], would be better than [noun]=[adjective]... and the discussion got... headache inducing.
• Weapon Of Sex Slaying: Weapon of X-Slaying where X is sex / gender, because the utility of this is also partially Game-Favored Gender: Lost Ruins: Wearing the Maid Uniform makes the Heroine deal more Broom damage to female enemies; Fallout 3: Black Widow and the Spear Counterpart perk; Pokémon: Attract and some other moves and abilities work based on sex of both user and target.
• The Knowledgeable Are The Powerful: An individual (either falsely or correctly) believes that acquiring more knowledge will lead to them gaining more power or maintaining their current role as a powerful person. The knowledge can be as basic as reading books or go as far as testing every theory known to man. The power can be political, social, physical, or any combination of the three.
• "Ghosts of Players Past": Or bones files, as most games call them; subtrope of Macrogame in which previous failed runs leave some remnant of their dead protagonist behind that can affect future runs. Endemic to the roguelike genre; Dungeonmans's player pyre things, Nethack's bones levels, Noita's wand ghosts, etc
• "4th Wall Modesty": When a naked character cares more about covering what the audience sees, than what is visible In-Universe. Alluded to the description of Behind the Black pretty much as a footnote.
• Cutscene Payment: Or some more general Forced Payment trope. Coromon: Entering the Darudic spa has an immediate cutscene exchanging 50 coins for new clothes without any player input.
• Upgrade With Drawbacks / Double Edged Upgrade / Tradeoff Equipment: The equipment / active-until-explicitly-disabled version / supertrope of Double-Edged Buff, such as: Dissidia Final Fantasy: The Ensanguined Shield, which reduces your Initial Bravery by 100% and your Initial HP by 95%, in exchange for defense; A Very Long Rope to the Top of the Sky: Gravity Suit and the Mechanical Girl set; Titan Quest: Some high-level rare gear seems to reduce EXP gain; Real Life? Stronger / more durable weapon weigh more? But since we don't have explicit stats and everything has weight, this is sorta downplayed in real life, at best?
• Cap Raise Without Current Raise: Creates situations where you can be 100% Healthy, but gain enough HP Cap Raiser-s and you could have be 1% Healthy due to just increasing how much healthier you can be. Wallet upgrades are always going to be this, because why would you get cash for nothing? Subtrope of Cap Raiser: Konaes Investigations: Levelling up increases the HP and MP caps without raising the current value of the stat.
• Hidden Until Discovered: Because Hidden Mechanic doesn't allow post-discovery notes, so these don't count: Castlevania: Circle of the Moon: All the DDS Card effects are hidden as ??? until they're activated, even if they seem obvious, like Venus + Griffin's +25% Intelligence. If it's activated at a full Mana Meter, the stat is clearly increased in the character stats section of the menu, but since no mana is being restored since it's already full, it won't reveal itself unless you level up and MP limit increases and needs to be topped up; Sword Art Online: Hidden skills with requirements only stated after they've been acquired, Kirito's is "Dual Blades" from being the player with the fastest reaction time; Cinnamon Bun: The magical System that controls the LitRPG mechanics tracks events but only reveals what events were needed to unlock which class evolutions, when explaining the evolutions; Pokémon: The requirements for evolution are never stated, it's just implied, in how you never see the pre-evolved form of a Pokemon after a certain level.

Ideas with a source draft

• A trope about a character hearing another character from the past’s voices in their head when they are ready to do something important. Source. It has a sandbox (Sandbox.Voices Of The Past) with a rehauled description and three examples.
• A trope about a character's reaction to hair loss. Source.
• Characters who give thanks profusely/excessively. Source. Sandbox.We Are Eternally Grateful.
• A trope about characters standing on chairs (or other objects) in order to deliver an important or emotional speech. Source.
• A character has been bullied to the point where they no longer even try to resist the bully due to broken spirit. Source.
• Characters suffer an isolating communication breakdown, often during an apocalyptic scenario. Related to Impeded Communication- distinct? Source
• A trope about a character bleeding from the ears due to a loud or harsh noise, subtrope of Ear Ache and possibly related to Brown Note. Inspiration
• A Useful Notes or just generally education page on Cryptozoology. Source
• A trope in aggregate about heroes have Playing with Fire powers tying into how fire is considered powerful and heroes are commonly Hot-Blooded. Would need to ensure that it doesn't quickly decay into "every heroic character uses fire". Source.
• Nervous Squiggle Mouth: Animated or comic character has an curved zig-zag line for a mouth to indicate nervousness. Source
• A woman wearing a hoopskirt jumps into water and uses her skirt to float, or uses the dress as a parachute. Source
• A trope where works make fun of horror movies (etc.) for having incredibly stupid casts. NOT "people in horror movies are stupid" — that's Idiot Ball or other Contrived Stupidity Tropes. Source
• Flushing the antagonist/monster out of hiding as a strategy. Source.
• Kidnapped by a Relative: Someone that is...kidnapped by a relative, which would have different motives and repercussions as if its done by a stranger. Source.
• Trade Gone Wrong: The trend in fiction for trades to always go wrong somehow. Source.
• Xenophobe's Inn: A Trauma Inn in the xenophobic village in the middle of nowhere Source
• Personified Doubt: Ever have doubts deep-down about some idea of yours, and imagine them being expressed by others? This is for characters, often a form of Imaginary Friend, who seem to represent these doubts on someone else's part, as a form of foil. Source.
• Self-Inflicted Amnesia: A character purposely gives themselves permanent amnesia to hide dark secrets or get rid of painful memories. Source.
• Benched In Hospital: "character gets injured and this causes them to get benched for a while, because they're at the hospital/in recovery" Source.
• Someone is shoved against the wall. Since we already have the trope You're Insane!, the title and scope of this draft, Are you out of your mind?, could be retooled to be about the action of slamming someone up against the wall.
• The army forms an aisle while yelling encouragement at one heroic unit, volunteered to storm the castle, go on a suicide mission, or heroic sacrific. Source: This seems like it could be something trope-shaped, but the examples and description are lacking. Also, the name "Cat Call Advance" is terrible.
• Death by Debris: Character gets killed by getting hit with flying/falling fragments. Source draft has neither description nor examples.
• Male Bob Haircut: A male character wearing his hair in a bob cut. Appearance trope about a feminine-looking bob haircut on a man. Needs a fresh start-over draft if someone wants to restart it as a genre- or setting-indicator instead of solely an appearance trope.
• The concept of a Casanova or Celibate Hero disliking porn because they're "real men" could be a trope. Inspiration
• This Needs Salt: No New Stock Phrases, salting food is People Sit on Chairs, more specific ideas in the comments might be worth a draft
  • putting salt on non-food to indicate that the character is about to attempt to eat it
  • salting food that normally isn't salted
  • using a ridiculous amount of salt / salting for a ridiculously long time to show the character is...
    • ... thinking about something else
    • ... disgusted by the food
    • ... angry at the chef / host
  • pulling a salt shaker out of Hammerspace
  • having a character salt a ridiculous big pile of food to show that that character is planning to eat it all(maybe followed by an Ambulance Cut)
  • salting food underwater
  • having a normal cartoon animal turning into a Funny Animal to salt some food and then turning right back to normal
• Ask A Busy Mother: "A common advertisement, this is, as the name suggests, where a busy mum discusses how great The Product is, how much time it saves, how happier her kids/husband/dog are now." Source
• Useful Notes/Aleatoric Art: Art produced by method determined by chance. Source
• Uplifted Trope: A trope that's fallen out of favor because of constant Deconstruction is made popular/desirable again. Source
• A comedy trope, wherein someone makes up a convoluted family relation that turns out to be a lot less convoluted than it's intended to be, as is almost immediately pointed out by the listener. Source
• Chain Of Evidence: Investigating by finding and examining evidence one piece at a time. Source
• Dummy Trade Gambit: This is a two part gambit, consisting of I) giving your trade partner false or incomplete information/goods because you suspect/know they will not complete their end of the bargain, then II) telling them you will only complete the trade once they have met your conditions. Source
• Celts With Claymores: A Useful Note on Medieval Celtic countries. Source
• A Useful Note on Dementia, preferably a bit more accurate than this: Source
• Crit or Miss Attack: An attack that either does critical damage or nothing at all. Source
• Destruction Is Cool: "Destruction and Violence are Awesome. As this is nigh-universal, examples should be kept to subversions, lampshades and other surprises." Source
• Character Name In…: A title trope where the work’s title is “<Character Name> in <Title>. Source
• Hybridization Plot: A plot about a character (usually but not necessarily evil) attempts to create a chimera/animal hybrid/half-human half-animal, or hybridize people and some other creature. Source
• Happy Hero Serious Show: A serious/dark story with a happy, comedic hero. Source
• Hero is seen as an outsider until they save a little girl from some kind of threat, then they're accepted as one of the locals (or at least well-regarded by them). Source
• Gasoline To Flames: A fire breaks out, and somebody mistakenly dumps gasoline, alcohol, or some other flammable substance on it. Source
• Collective "No": Everyone says "no" at the same time, usually in response to a particularly dumb idea. Source
• Kissing The Proxy: One character asks another to close their eyes for a kiss, then has them kiss something else instead. Source
• Muscles on Muscles: A cartoon sight gag where a character's so swole, their muscles have muscles. Source
• Ridiculous Fictional Award: An in-universe fictional award that's ridiculously specific or just plain ridiculous. Mostly played for laughs. Source
• Punching Bag of Hate: Taking out one's frustrations on a punching bag that looks like/bears a picture of an enemy. Source
• Tycoon Game: A subtype of Simulation Game where the point is to run a business empire of some sort. Like SimCity but for capitalism. Source
• We Have an App for that: Could work as a modern day equivalent of Specific Situation Books. Source.
• Undercover Robot: Robots infiltrate the ranks of humans to take over/destroy them. Source.
• Everyone Gets a Trophy: Everyone is awarded for competing. Source.
• "No Save" Attack: An attack that prevents anyone killed by it from being revived by their friends in a game where that's normally possible. Source
• Take That, Replacement Scrappy!: Writers effectively haze the replacement for a departed popular character. Source
• A video game dungeon that's extremely large but can be completed relatively quickly; the remainder of the dungeon merely allows racking up loot/EXP/gold/etc. Source
• Toss the Treasure, Treasure the Person: Character goes through hell to obtain item for another character, only to find that the other character just wanted them safe. Source
• Snake Swing: Gag where a character swings on a vine, only to see that it's really a snake. Source
• Forbidden Trope: An inversion of Enforced Trope where highers-up disallow creators from using a certain trope in the work. Source
• Diegetic Commercial Break: A show lampshades, or makes a fourth-wall breaking joke about, a commercial break. Source.
• Clock Countenance: The face of a living clock will sport humanoid features. Source
• Kachou Fuugetsu: This is a Japanese-specific trope about a "flower, bird, wind, moon" motif. The draft was abandoned without ever establishing the significance of the motif, so it never really went anywhere. Source
• Mexico is Yellow: A specific form of Color Wash that, for some reason, has Mexico affiliated with yellow or orange tones. Could possibly be expanded to location or temperature-specific washes. Source
• Phone CPR: Slamming on the hook or carriage of a traditional phone in an attempt to make it work again. Form of Percussive Maintenance that's outdated/a Forgotten Trope with the proliferation of wireless and cell phones. Source
• The Splits Are Sexy: As it existed, it was mostly just a list of female characters performing the splits. The draft claims that these examples are for fan service, but doesn't really attempt to prove that point. Source
• Bumbling Eavesdropper: Often a comedy trope, this is about eavesdroppers who trip, stumble, or otherwise give away/almost give away their position. Source
• Get Ready: A video game prompts the player to get ready just before the action starts. Source
• New Love Interest Looms: Someone knocks on the door of their ex, only to meet the new love interest. Source
• Induced Friendly Fire: "A character tricks two enemies into destroying each other." It would act as a supertrope to things like Set a Mook to Kill a Mook or Deadly Dodging. Source
• When a detective uses gloves improperly or not at all while collecting evidence. Could also be broadened to using pens and other contaminating ways of gathering evidence. Source
• Pals With a Professor: A younger character/brilliant professor duo who have access to Cool Science Things and go on adventures. Source
• Nazi Counterpart / Fascist Counterpart: An Evil Doppelgänger that follows a totalitarian system from an Alternate Universe. Source
• Only women and black men are drawn with lips; other men are portrayed as lipless by default. Source
• A character is given a great opportunity, but that would mean abandoning her friends, so the friend try to point any negative thing to convince the character of not taking the opportunity. Source
• A character tries to use a Euphenism, but it sounds worse than the actual word. source
• Angelic Choir Reveal: The brief musical sting of an angelic choir used to punctuate the appearance of something divine. Source Source 2
• Universal Jurisdiction: American military or police operate worldwide without the consent of local authorities. Source
• Kill it with Lightning: The best way to get rid of something is to zap it.
• Deus Ex Aquam: A hero slowly rises from a calm lake shortly before kicking ass. But how many of these aren't direct references to that one scene from Apocalypse Now?
• Character refuses to take sides in an argument because both sides' arguments are ridiculous. Source
• Alleged Legend: A character is famed for apocryphal exploits — deeds attributed to them, but weren't actually done by them. Source
• New Adult Literature: A genre of sorts, essentially "Young Adult but for a slightly older market", comments on the draft came to the conclusion that this was at the time mostly a marketing scheme by publishers, but if the scheme succeeded the result would be a real genre, so the discussion would be tabled for "a year or two" until the outcome was clearer. Source
• Hallway Hallway GHOST Hallway: Characters in an open elevator see each floor as they pass by; most of these floors are empty but one contains a monster or other Jump Scare. Source
• Vicarious Trauma: Being Forced to Watch or walking in on something horrific, or having a close loved one or housemate who's suffered a massive trauma, can cause trauma in itself. Source
• Threadbare Duds: A character's clothes are tattered and raggedy. Would need work to make it not just an appearance trope. Source.
• NPC Exit Convention: The tendency of NPCs that have finished talking to the player to wander off in some direction where the player won't be able to follow once they regain control. (Mother 3 has a humorous subversion of this.) Source.
• Exposure to a dangerous substance or item that should kill a character instead grants them superpowers. Would be the supertrope to Radiation-Induced Superpowers. Source
• Alibi Worse Than Crime: A character needs an alibi, but the alibi is worse than what they actually did. Source
• Historical Sex Life Upgrade: A historical figure is portrayed as having a more active sex life than the historical record suggests. Source
• A character steers the conversation back to the plot after a digression. Source
• The female character of a team is played up as an equally capable member of her mostly-male team, but is relegated to demeaning secondary roles (Fanservice, assisting male characters, having their work taken over by male characters, etc.). Source
• Faux Smart Guy: Subtrope of Informed Attribute where the supposed intelligent and/or tech-savvy character never actually puts their intelligence to use. Source
• Prank Scare: A fakeout Jump Scare caused by a character pretending to be a murderer to scare their friends. Source
• Adult Daycare: When parents take their kids to an event that is only targeted at children, there is a special zone for adults to enjoy something in the meantime. Source
• A character seductively beckons using the "come hither" finger gesture. Source
• Location Specific Enemy: A type of Mook that appears in only one level of the game. Source
• A character walks through a crowd that stares at him and talks behind his back, indicating his social isolation. Source
• A panel in a comic is split in two to ensure the reader sees the setup of a joke before its punchline. Source
• Added For Scale: Something of recognizable size is included to ensure audience knows something is huge. Source
• Car Bonnet Shot: Camera Trick where the main focus is on the road as it would be seen if the camera were sitting on the hood of a moving car. Source.
• Fake Fight, Real Issues: Characters have to stage a discussion or argument, but ultimately bring up their real issues with one another. Source
• Video game characters use vague dialogue when talking about specific things so that the voice clips can be recycled. Source
• Quantum Unmasking: Character A discovers the identity of the villain at the same time that, somewhere else, the villain reveals himself to Character B. Source
• Jaded (Time) Looper: A characterization trope where a character going through a "Groundhog Day" Loop for an extended period of time slowly becomes more apathetic and embittered. Source
• Like Canon Unless Noted: Everything in a fanfic is just as it is in the canon work, unless or until the author specifies otherwise. Source
• Backlash Backlash: Source draft is awful, but a trope about backlash against some other backlash has merit.
• Death Tether: A character is killed by being attached to something that falls. Source Draft has loads of examples to mine.
• Made in a Villain's image: Source
• Discovery Triggered Bomb: A bomb that only goes off when it's discovered. Source has tons of examples to mine.
• The Phone Tells You The Danger Is Here: Long title aside, the idea of being warned over the phone that someone in the same room as you is dangerous is tropeworthy. Source
• The Org Chart of Evil: The good guys have a chart of who is involved in the bad guys' organization. Source
• The box art depicts several characters looking in one direction together, but one person is looking in a different direction, hinting that they have ulterior motives or will betray the other characters. Source
• But Doctor, I Have to See Him!: No New Stock Phrases, but the idea, which is when a character protests a "no visitors" policy that keeps them from a loved one, is tropable. Source
• Both of a character's parents are dead/missing, but only one is given narrative attention. Source
• Dexterous Boxing Gloves: A character wearing boxing gloves does something that would normally be highly impractical and cumbersome or even impossible with them on. Source
• Depression Hobby: character immerses themselves in a hobby just to cope with grief or depression. Source
• Characters who can perfectly imitate the sounds of inanimate objects. Source
• Genre of children's shows where the cast are all different types of emergency responders. Source
• The standard style of print ads in The '50s. Source
• A self-titled album that's usually referred to by fans as its color. Source
• A big boss places you near its chest, while the camera allows you to see its head. Source
• Cancel The Next Meeting: A character encounters something so important, weird, or disastrous that they immediately intercom their secretary to cancel their later appointments. Source
• A universal range dogwhistle Source
• A Useful Notes page for filming FPS techniques Source
• A page about using Santa as a metaphor for Jesus. Source
• Dangerous Disguise: An impostor is attacked by the enemies of whoever he's impersonating. Source
• Mirror of Misperception: A character with body image issues sees their reflection differently. Originally posted as Mirror of Anorexia.
• Token Gay Option: A Gay Option is significantly not as fleshed out as the straight romance options. Further discussed here, note that "significantly not as fleshed out" will need to be defined (a shorter route length? But Not Too Gay? Hide Your Lesbians?) and "token" may not be the best word to use in the title. Source.
• Easily-Cleared Mind: An idiot forgets everything (which isn't much) to learn a new skill.Source.
• Something Spacey This Way Comes: A character discovers something approaching from faraway. Draft.
• The only characters in a work with a shared racial background just happen to be related. Alternatively, somebody assumes characters of the same race to be related and gets chewed out for being offensive. Source.
• Trendy Dance Craze: A work references a real-world dance craze (the Sprinkler, the Harlem Shake, the Floss, etc) to make a character look trendy. Source.
• A subtrope of Clothing Damage about the seat of one's pants splitting, revealing their underwear or their bare bottom. Source.
• And You Thought It Would Succeed: A work is originally expected to be successful, but becomes a flop instead. Source
• The Ginger Spice Effect: A Boy Band or Girl Group declines in popularity due to the departure of a member. Source
• Welcome Sign of Doom: If you come across this sign, you'd better turn back immediately. Source
• Edgelord Parody: Similar to Parody Sue and Testosterone Poisoning, a trope for characters whose angsty, edgy, grimdark traits are exaggerated for laughs. Often seen with parodies of Emo Teen characters. Source
• Containment Breach: A secure facility/device meant to hold something dangerous fails and lets it out. Source
• Deadly Senior Drivers: Similarly to Asian Drivers and Women Drivers, this is the stereotype that elderly people can't drive very well. Source
• Sulking in the Dressing Room: Diva actors lock themselves in their dressing rooms or trailers until they get their own way. Source
• Pig Mask: Pig face masks worn by killers, usually in horror media. Source
• Unwitting Disguise Breaker: A disguised character is greeted by an acquaintance who doesn't realize they're in disguise, blowing their cover. Source
• Ex Next Door: A character goes on vacation, only to discover that their ex is staying in the room next door. Source
• Athlete Advertiser / Appeal to Sports Fame: Famous athletes use their clout to advertise products. Source
• A trope about silly things happening at auctions. Source
• A trope about a male character successfully performing a task a female one asks him to do because she can't. Source
• A trope about characters with Super-Speed being immature. Source
• Assimilation Into Awesomeness: The majority of characters in a work end up as the character type most appealing to the audience, even if they started off opposing it. Source
• Fun With Condoms: Source
• Horrible Price Tag: A gag where someone is seemingly threatened with "paying a (terrible) price", but the price turns out to be literal money, usually a trivial amount. Source
• Expressive Character Portrait: Source
• A trope about zombies being nested inside of one another. Source
• Declaration Reconsideration: A character cuts a passionate statement short to weigh their options. Compare to Verbal Backspace. Source
• A trope about small flying vehicles used by videogame bosses. Source
• Pulped By The Publisher: The concept of publishers destroying unsold copies of a work is viable, but the original draft was DOA because of its barebones description and lack of examples; the comments have usable information. Source
• Rule of Twelve: The number 12 is often used as a plot device. Source
• Microscope Exposition: A microscope is used to help explain things that are smaller than the naked eye. Source
• A Stock Visual Metaphor about characters' noses disappearing when they get emotional. Needs to make sure examples have enough context. Source
• Controller Slot Priority: The controller order determines the outcome of events in the game. Source
• Submersion Torture: Torturing someone by dunking and holding them in water. Source
• Fully Submerged Snorkeling: A fully submerged snorkel allows a character to breathe underwater. Source
• Fez Noir: Film Noir story set in Casablanca, Morocco or Istanbul or a Qurac substitute setting. Source
• Vinglesh: A fictional language that's actually a mashed-up real one. Source
• Eldritch Asymmetry: Asymmetrical creatures are alien and creepy. Source
• Judging A Book By Its Cover: Concluding something based on solely the first impression. Source
• Incorrect Terminology Beginner: Newbies use wrong terminology for things they do. Source
• All Magic is Channeling: Every supernatural power in a setting has an external sentient source. Source
• Environmental Kill: The use of environmental hazards to indirectly take out your enemy. Source
• Alien name, Ireland: When an alien or timetraveller lists their home, and handwaves it by saying it's something foreign. Source
• Detergent Overload: Too much soap gets put into the washing machine. Hilarity Ensues. Source
• Acquired Tastes: It starts to taste good after you've eaten more than you ever wanted. Source
• A trope when someone deliberately removes a safety feature to show they don't need it, or to raise the stakes. Source
• A trope about lots of small objects moving together as if a mass of fluid. Source
• A trope about when the protagonist is plugged into another realm or body through reclining. Source
• A Different Face In The Mirror: The face in the mirror belongs to someone else. Source
• A trope when people attuned to the supernatural are the first to get overwhelmed once such forces start acting up. Source
• A trope about visual effects accompanying strong punches. Source
• Unravelling Dream: Once you notice you're in a dream, it gets a lot more surreal. Source
• Child of Santa: Offspring of a holiday character with supernatural powers. Source
• Glass Is Blue: The portrayal of glass as visibly blue in media, even though it's colorless in real life. Source
• Jailbird Song: Music while behind bars. Source draft here.
• Unknown Grudge: Basically, a character has a grudge against someone else, but the other party has no idea what it could possibly be. Source
• Alpha Bitch Friend Request: A character is invited to join the popular group. Source
• Team Rivals: Characters on the same team who are rivals. Source
• Abrasive Newbie: New team members has an attitude problem. Source
• Unknowingly Talented: A character has a skill they don't realize that they have. Source
• Inappropriate Movies At Sleepovers: Characters watch mature movies at sleepovers. Source
• You Got Your Argument In My Exposition: A third party trying to mediate and argument gets explained what the conflict is about. Source
• Grateful Bastard: When a villain or jerkass genuinely appreciates any help/compliment/gift/whatever given to them. Source
• Bulletproof Spandex: Superhero suits are thin, flexible, and inexplicably bulletproof. Salvaged from here.
• Look what you made me do: Villain can't accept responsibility for their actions and blames the heroes. Salvaged from this draft.
• Inconsistency between two different types of gameplay within a game Source.
• Sacrificial Snake: The villain we're lead to believe is the Big Bad is killed by the actual Big Bad. Salvaged from here.
• Chronic Shirt-Ripping Disease: Character is so muscular that they repeatedly rip or destroy their shirt simply through flexing their muscles. Source.
• Musical Show: A work that frequently uses songs but is not a musical. Salvaged from here.
• The Gospel According to Camp: Hammy, black preacher. Source.
• X Is The New Y: One quality, thing, or trope replaces another in terms of coolness by a certain subculture. Salvaged from here.
• One Arrow Sure Hit: Dramatic downing by afar attack of the heroes just as they're escaping. Source.
• Not In My Sickbay: Gentle or meek doctor becomes badass if their patients are threatened. Salvaged from here.

Ideas from TRS efforts

• World of Only Children: In a work of fiction, all of the characters seem to have no siblings (formerly the idea of Only-Child Syndrome). TRS thread
• Bug Buzz Attack: A sonic attack generated by a buzzing insect or a character with an insectoid theme. This idea branched off the TRS thread for Bug Buzz.
  • A move in Pokémon is called "Bug Buzz". It's a sound-based Bug attack that damages its target. And it's the second most powerful Bug move in the game. It is commonly believed that bug moves are strong against psychic types because the buzzing sound breaks their concentration.
  • Some of the grasshopper enemies in Bug! have an attack where they fire out a sound wave from their legs.
• Hollywood Steering: A trope about inaccurate driving styles; supertrope to Driving a Desk and Driver Faces Passenger. The TRS thread cut it when it failed to gain any examples.
• Ramping Shot: A trope covering a Camera Trick in which the camera moves and zooms in for dramatic effect. However, the TRS thread noted that it was severely underperforming, with examples barely having much context.
• Sudden Coming Out: A character unexpectedly (in-universe or otherwise) reveals that they are LGBT. The TRS thread found only 7 usable examples under this definition.
• Twinkle Toes Samurai: A trope that covers how samurai tend to be dainty in their footwork. The thread noted the original's barebones description, while examples lacked much context. However, there is a tropable concept.
• Virtual World: an index for immersive online environments, such as games like Furcadia and Mole's World. TRS thread that cut the original page decided that it was a viable idea, but so old and below current standards. The thread contains the contents of the old page.
• Laser Show: A VFX trope. The use of real-life (low power) lasers as a visual used in stage shows. Cut from Frickin' Laser Beams TRS because they didn't fall under any Energy Weapon use.
  • Music.Jean Michel Jarre: Part of most Jarre concerts. There used to be laser projections, today there are laser scanners, and let's not forget the Laser Harp.
  • Music.Perfume:
    • Their concerts feature liberal use of green ones, specifically. In fact, for their 2013 European tour they had to import the machines from Japan.
    • Used liberally in the dance shot of the "Laser Beam" PV.
    • Behold this jaw-dropping live performance of "Mugenmirai", from Perfume's Perfume x Technology series.
• Cult Soundtrack: The TRS thread for this trope agreed on redefining this trope as "a soundtrack that is more popular than the work it came from". Some examples of this can be found on this sandbox.
• Re-Ditto: The opposite of Divergent Character Evolution, where two characters become more similar over time. The TRS thread cut it for not thriving, with only 4 of the 11 examples being valid.
• Matchmaker Game: A type of show that focuses on simulated dating. A TRS thread noted its anemic description, ZCE's, and archaic markup, but felt that it can be a viable genre page.
• Only 0.2% Different: A trope revolving around how similar one creature's DNA is to people, though there are nonhuman variants. The TRS thread noted a confusing name keeping it from thriving. A post was made to archive the page image and valid on-page examples, for use in a possible TLP draft.
• Mediator: A trope about characters who have some kind of mediator function. The TRS did not find anyone volunteering to make or maintain such a TLP (examples here) so it was put here instead.
• Dragon Power: A trope about characters having dragon-themed powers, such as summoning dragons or dragon-like creatures. Ex amples.
• Arc Break: A case in which an author sets an arc aside temporarily to focus on another. Some examples have been archived.
• Kids Hate Grownups' Conversations: Children are depicted as uninterested in adult conversations. This thread determined there's something tropeworthy in there; it just needs more examples.
• Cut to the Funny: A humorous scene is used to retain attention, usually during exposition. Examples archived in the TRS thread.
• A trope about an overly complicated mechanic (usually in a video game) that is later reworked to be much more simple and sensible. TRS decided that the old name "The Pennyfarthing Effect" needed to be changed. Salvaged examples can be found here. Before the page was cut, it had this image◊, as chosen by this IP thread.
• Ick Barrier: Something important is protected by something revolting. Determined to be a tropeworthy concept in this TRS thread. Link to salvaged examples here.
• A trope in which someone knowingly goes the scenic route, Scenery Porn usually included. Salvaged examples from a TRS effort here.
• Rule-Playing: A style of roleplaying in which game rules dictate everything. Some examples are saved in the TRS thread.
• Some ideas on the sandbox for Phone Booth, including using a phone booth as a trap. TRS discussion
• A trope in which viewers watching an event or show leave to use the restroom, the fridge, or other appliances during a low point of the program. TRS thread with examples
• No Tech Night: An agreement to go a day without electronic communication. Link to TRS thread; examples and description from the old trope (No Phones Tonight) can be found on Sandbox.No Tech Night.
• Troublesome Animate Object: An Animate Inanimate Object, not necessarily malevolent, causes all sorts of mischief. This was the old definition of Books That Bite, before this TRS thread narrowed the latter to animate books only.
• Punch Spin Gape: A comedy trope in which a character spins around after being punched. Some valid examples are listed in the opening post of the TRS thread.
• Ethnicity Obscuring Mutation: A character’s ethnicity is obscured by their unusual physical attributes. The original page for this concept has been cut as per consensus from this TRS thread due to the definition being unclear.
• Surreal Symbolic Heads: A character with a humanoid body has an unusual head because of symbolism. This concept used to have a page but was merged with its super trope, Non-Human Head, because of the high example overlap.
• One Last Fling: Lovers share one last fling together before closing the door on their relationship forever. Sandbox here.
• Pronunciation Trouble: Someone's being corrected regarding how a word or name is pronounced. Split off from what used to be "It Is Pronounced Tro-PAY"; example list is kept in this sandbox.
• Installment Quality Drop: Supertrope to Seasonal Rot and Sequelitis, for when an installment's quality is thought to be lower than its predecessor's. Link to thread.
• Gloves Of Toughness: Gloves, particularly fingerless gloves, indicate "rough-and-ready"ness — the character is willing to jump straight into the action. In this sense, may overlap with Boots of Toughness.
• Gloves Of Coolness: Gloves, particularly fingerless gloves, are given to a character to indicate that they're cool and/or badass.
• Odd Oversized Sleeves, where oversized sleeves are meant to denotate a character being odd or eccentric.From this thread for Hand-Hiding Sleeves.
• High Class Sleeves, where large sleeves are meant to add to a character being rich or royalty. From this thread for Hand-Hiding Sleeves.
• Sneaky Sleeves, where a character's sleeves covering their hands is meant to indicate them being untrustworthy or mysterious. From this thread for Hand-Hiding Sleeves.
• Theme Deck: A deck of TCG cards with a central theme. From this TRS thread for the now cut Theme Deck page.
• Hodgepodge Computer: A computer hobbyist/genius builds a computer and/or programs their own operating system, throwing in twists and bizarre logic as they go. They may have a specialized purpose, or only be tinkering. The result is inevitably an ugly mess loaded down with buttons but may prove surprisingly powerful. From this TRS thread.
• Psycho Butterfly Knife: Subtrope of Psycho Knife Nut that portrays butterfly knives as the preferred weapon of unhinged individuals.
• Stock Jungle Setting: Stereotypical depictions of jungles in fiction. The idea came from this thread for The Amazon.
• Country Is Only City: Depictions of a country or region thereof usually only take place in one city there.
• Bandage Fanservice: The use of bandages for Fanservice Costumes. Salvaged from Bandage Babe per this TRS thread.
• Bandages of Vulnerability: The use of bandages to indicate a character's vulnerability. Salvaged from Bandage Babe per this TRS thread.
• Whooshing Credits: Credits that fly around, often toward or away from the screen, leaving trails behind them. The original page for the trope has been cut for not thriving per this TRS thread.
• Unrelated Effects: When an object or action produces an effect that it shouldn't be able to cause.
• Puzzlement About Payment: One character mentions their paychec, and the character they're talking to is surprised they get paid at all.
• Unnamed Disorder: The work states the character has a mental problem but doesn't clarify.
• Extreme attention to detail: Characters have extreme attention to detail. Salvaged from Super OCD per this TRS thread.
• Hollywood OCD: Stereotypical depictions of obsessive compulsive disorder.Salvaged from Super OCD per this TRS thread.
• "Randomly encountering an old foe and fighting for old time's sake": Upon seeing each other, rivals decide to duke it out, more for the sake of recalling old times or bonding than actual fighting over good and evil. Examples were moved to this sandbox. Salvaged from Lying in the Dirt Together per this TRS thread.
• Hexagonal Speech Balloon: Offscreen characters are shown in speech balloons. Salvaged from this TRS thread.
• "Signature Shoes": Distinctive footwear that hints at a character's personality. Salvaged from this TRS thread.
• "Stock Slasher Weapons": Certain weapons are associated with murderers, such as axes and knives. Salvaged from this TRS thread for An Axe to Grind; examples have been copied to Sandbox.An Axe To Grind in case anything is salvageable.
• "Violent Axe Murderer": Murderers who use axes are particularly violent. Subtrope of "Stock Slasher Weapons". Salvaged from this TRS thread for An Axe to Grind; examples have been copied to Sandbox.An Axe To Grind in case anything is salvageable.
• Aerial Wrestler: Wrestlers with an agile, aerial wrestling style, being split from misuse of I Have the High Ground (since renamed to Dramatic High Perching). [1]
• "Hero/Villain Sex Life Contrast": Heroes have more fulfilling sex lives than villains. Examples have been salvaged from Good People Have Good Sex on this sandbox. Salvaged from this TRS thread.
• "Bad People, Bad Sex Lives": Evil characters are shown to have unfulfilling sex lives. Examples have been salvaged from Good People Have Good Sex on this sandbox. Salvaged from this TRS thread.
• "Porcupine Prick": Porcupines are typically grumpy or mean. TRS thread
• Beings that drain life force via sex: Split off Horny Devils, which was expanded to include succubi and incubi in general, regardless of whether they drain life force via sex. May include some examples of Horny Devils (i.e., ones that fit traditional depictions of them draining life force via sex). Salvaged from Horny Devils per this TRS thread.
• "Dramatic Landfall Shot": The opening shot that takes the form of a forward travelling on the sea, with the camera slowly rising to give a view of the shore. TRS thread.
• "Quick Draw Decision": Someone is faced with a difficult choice, perhaps a Sadistic Choice. They will undoubtedly need to spend a few moments thinking it over, perhaps Wangsting a little, but will still quickly come to a decision. TRS thread.
• "Adaptation for Child Performers": These adaptations are often heavily modified to make them suitable for performance by young and very young children. Many undergo some Bowdlerization, and the parts kids don't like often get cut out as well. Beyond subject matter concerns these plays see simplification of lines and parts to make them more manageable for the child actors, with the possible exception of the protagonist which will usually be taken on by the best student of the highest grade level of the production. Vocal Ranges will also likely be simplified to avoid straining any young voices. Time is also a factor - scenes and sometimes whole acts are sometimes cut to bring the length down, with an hour or half hour being the two most frequent target lengths. This is both for the attention span of the performers but also sometimes to comply with local laws concerning child performance. Salvaged from this TRS thread.
• "Selective Localisation": Separate countries receive different translations despite the countries in question using the same language, such as having separate American English and British English translations. Salvaged from this TRS thread.
• "Sunday Leaked Document": Agencies will strategically leak information around the weekend. Salvaged from this TRS thread.
• "Staring through the Sword": A Stock Pose wherein a swordsman holds a blade between their eyes. Salvaged from this TRS thread, an archive of the wick check has some good examples to start with.
• An advertising trope in which two friends discuss a problem with one of them bringing up the advertised product as a solution. Formerly called "Two Guys in a Garage" and "Two Chicks in a Kitchen"; this post from the joint TRS thread contains examples from both tropes.
• Portrayals of T. rexes as leaders. Salvaged from this TRS thread, which only found three such examples.
  • Beast Fables: During the Primeval Age, Urvara was ruled by a long line of Tyrannosaurus known as the Tyrant Kings, who created an extensive empire by conquering the other dinosaurs and reptile civilizations of their time.
  • Daigunder: Bonerex is a red T. rex and the team leader of the Dino Unit.
  • Dinosaurs: The True Story: The president role in the short's Disaster Movie pastiche is taken by a T. rex who towers over the ankylosaur general, pterosaur scientist and generic theropod techies.
  • Extreme Dinosaurs: T-Bone is a T. rex and the leader of the Extreme Dinosaurs.
  • Flesh: Old One-Eye is regularly shown to be the undisputed ruler of her prehistoric domain, and even the other tyrannosaurs are afraid of her.
• "Oversized for Cuteness": When characters wear or are designed wearing oversized items of clothing to emphasize a cute or moe personality. Super-Trope to Cute Oversized Sleeves. Salvaged from thread on Giant Waist Ribbon.
• Koosh Bomb: Cartoonish explosions that look like a spikey ball; sually several such, concentric and multi-colored.
• "Discovered in a Box": Character is introduced by being found in a box/other sealed situation. Salvaged from Girl in a Box (on-page examples salvaged here) via this TRS thread.
• A character states that they are taking a closer look at something, and gets themselves into danger. Salvaged via this TRS thread.
• Sketchbook adds a hidden dimension/makes 2 characters bond. Salvaged via This TRS thread.
• Sketchbooks have some significance in general. Salvaged via This TRS thread.
• A seemingly "pure good" character/All-Loving Hero feels guilt and horror about having human flaws. Salvaged via this TRS thread.
• Success Symbiosis: Two characters are each doing their thing, whether that's saving the world or just trying not to get fired. For some reason, it turns out that neither can succeed if the other fails. Salvaged via this TRS thread. Expanding the definition to remove the requirement for the characters to work together was suggested.
• "Gi as regular outfit": A character wears a gi in non-gi-related situations, indicating something about their personality (akin to All-Cheering All the Time). Salvaged via this TRS thread. Sandbox of potential examples here.
• Minor change leads to major consequences that are shown explicitly. Salvaged from this TRS thread, which had Sandbox.For Want Of A Nail created to salvage examples.
• "Adorable Pandas": A trope about pandas being considered cute In-Universe by the characters. Salvaged via this TRS thread. Sandbox of potential examples here.
• Tax Deductions: A person takes advantage of ways to reduce their tax payments. Suggested in this TRS thread, in which the term was used for the opposite.
• Folklore creature/magician helps a hero on their quest. Salvaged from this TRS thread for Fairy Godmother. Fairy Godmother Salvage Yard Examples was created to hold such examples if any are found when Fairy Godmother's examples are being cleaned.
• Made on Demand: A studio only makes as many copies of a work as customers actually order instead of shipping copies to stores before they're ordered. Salvaged via this TRS thread.
• Long Form Promo: A two- to three-minute film extolling the virtues of whichever network it's running on, usually run during off-peak periods (late at night, or as filler after a long-running live event). Salvaged via this TRS thread.
• Past in the Rear-View Mirror: Originally defined as using the rear-view mirror of a car as a metaphor for reflecting upon the past, or leaving something behind, but renaming it and broadening it into a trope for a broader "leaving your past" metaphor was suggested. Salvaged via this TRS thread.
• Inaction Sequence: When a work is adapted to a faster-paced medium (such as from manga to anime), the fight sequences run the danger of being over in seconds or minutes. As a result, the adaptation ends up padding out the fight with extensive non-action moments, such as dialogue, which slows down the pace of the fight and creates long periods of inaction where there should be action. Salvaged via this TRS thread, which decided to send the trope to the Salvage Yard to rewrite the trope in a way that covers works from any country and isn't specific to anime and manga.
• Suddenly Deep Voice Gag: A character suddenly adopts a much deeper voice than usual. Often used to exaggerate how angry, mean, loud, or forceful they are at the moment, but sometimes for no reason except because it sounds funny. Salvaged from the TRS thread for Basso Profundo, which merged that page with MediaNotes.Voice Types.
• "Was Actually Abuse": Abuse is mistaken for something more innocuous. Salvaged from this TRS thread for Abuse Mistake, which narrowed that trope for when something that isn't abuse is mistaken for abuse, and decided to split off the inverse (previously, Abuse Mistake covered both). Examples stored at Abuse Mistake Split.

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