The testing site of Amonimus to see how the wikiwords work for future use, and also as notepad of sorts.
Examples
- App Namespace
- Caps Lock
- The Catalogue
- Content Policy Reasonings
- Evil Counterpart Tropes
- Happy Science Anime
- Higurashi Recap
- Hololive Alternative
- Hololive Music
- Isaac Asimov Books In Order
- Japanese Urban Legends
- Laconic Wiki Template
- Mac Guffin Wick Check
- M.U.G.E.N
- Notability, Verifiability, Tropability
- Pages Flagged by AVG
- Please Save My Earth
- Plot Armor Wick Check
- Present Day Wick Check
- Proposing New Tropes
- Real-Time Fandub
- Recap Guidelines
- Sitemap
- Steins Gate Timeline
- Suspension
- Truck Of Metamorphosis
- Unwritten Rules
Tech Polygon
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Notepad
- Blue Liquid Absorbent: 11 wicks, pre-historic. As an ad trope, Too Rare to Trope.
- Literary Work of Magic: 13 wicks, pre-historic. Should be remade into Art Is Secret Magic or something.
- Bring Them Around: 17 wicks, pre-historic. Needs re-TLP?
- Pickup Hierarchy: 18 wicks, pre-historic. As essental part of Platform Game, could just be merged with it.
- Near Misses: 20 wicks, pre-historic. Redundant to Hero-Tracking Failure and A-Team Firing.
- Cue O'Clock: 21 wicks, pre-historic. Needs examples.
- How About a Smile?: 23 wicks, 2012 rogue launch? Duplicate of Stepford Smiler.
- Penultimate Outburst: 23 wicks, pre-historic. Can be merged with Unconventional Courtroom Tactics.
- Made of Shiny: 25 wicks, pre-historic. Can be turned into a redirect to Everything's Better with Sparkles.
- Loads and Loads of Writers: 29 wicks, 2010 launch. Needs example context. May not be trope-worthy. Can be merged with Round Robin (125 wicks)
- Deception Non-Compliance: 27 wicks, 2015 launch. Needs examples or better name.
- Rules of Orphan Economics: 31 wicks, pre-historic. Redundant to Conveniently an Orphan.
- To Hell with This Infernal Job: 32 wicks, 2016 launch. Needs examples.
- Steel Mill: 36 wicks, pre-historic. Not tropeworthy or could be remade into Factory Inferno.
- Thought Caption: 36 wicks, pre-historic. Redundant to Speech Bubbles.
- Disobey This Message: 37 wicks, pre-historic. Needs cross-wicking or better name.
- God-Karting with Beelzebub: 45 wicks, pre-historic. God And Satan Are Pals would be a better name.
- Infinite: 48 wicks, pre-historic. Redirects have a more clear name.
- Hard Core: 50 wicks, pre-historic. Lacks an example list and has at least 6 separate defentitions on page.
- Hi, Mom!: 52 wicks, 2008 launch. Stock Phrases. Should be merge with Look Ma, I Am on TV! (33 wicks) as a duplicate. Had a thread.
- Impossible Mission: 61 wicks, pre-historic. Just a Whole-Plot Reference to Mission: Impossible.
- Common Mary Sue Traits: 65 wicks, pre-historic. Not a trope and is used to bypass Mary Sue's Flame Bait.
- "Have a Nice Day" Smile: 69 wicks, pre-historic. Describes a symbol an not a trope.
- Memetic Hair: 75 wicks, 2012 launch. Too specific, expand to Memetic Appearance.
- Scanlation: 82 wicks but no on-page examples. Actually a Useful Note.
- Smurfette Breakout: 88 wicks, pre-historic. The Same, but More Specific of Breakout Character.
- The Notable Numeral: 95 wicks, 2009 launch. Needs major cleaning and example context.
- Now, Where Was I Going Again?: 173 wicks, pre-historic. Reads like YMMV and redudant to Quicksand Box and Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer.
- Going Critical: 258 wicks. Needs soft-split removed and better description.
- Wheelchair Woobie: 272 wicks, 2010 launch. The Same, but More Specific of The Woobie.
- Tailor-Made Prison: 655 wicks, pre-historic. Misused? Discussed here how the defenition is very ambiguous.
- Gut Punch: 662 wicks, 2011 launch. Redundant to Cerebus Syndrome and Tear Jerker.
- And You Thought It Would Fail: 748 wicks. Should be Trivia, as it describes objective meta events.
- Speedrun: 757 wicks, pre-historic. There's nothing YMMV about this, Self-Imposed Challenge bits can be split into Speedrun Challenge.
- Not the Intended Use: 918 wicks. For Video Game Tropes, has a lot of unrelated examples, even on-page. Can be split.
- Shocking Moments: 1245 wicks. Reads like Moment of Awesome or Funny Moments, too subjective to be kept at YMMV and redundant to Wham Shot.
- Damn You, Muscle Memory!: 1685, pre-historic. Highly subjective, move to YMMV.
- Facial Markings: 1770 wicks, pre-historic. Personal Appearance Tropes, can be more trope-worthy if restricted or split.
- Mundane Utility: 6400 wicks. Is specifically about superpowers, but is misused for any unusual gagets having unintented uses.
- Names The Same: 7317 wicks. Not Trope-worthy / JFF.
- Trope Namers
- Video Game Flight: Not tropeworthy and mess of a description
- Boss Vulnerability
- Two Dun It
- Fanfic Magnet
- Firewood Resources
- Adaptation Sequence
- Animutation
- Fan Wank: Duplicate of Epileptic Trees
- Killed Off for Real: No sign of rejected revival
- Luvvies
- Ryokan Inn
- Made-for-TV Movie: Television Movie Index
- Homegrown Hero
- Totally Radical: not many examples are \"outdated language\".
- Stealth Clothes
- Expectation Lowerer
- Deus ex 'Scuse Me
- Misty May
- Advantage Ball
- All Women Hate Each Other
- Pre 2010 Starving Tropes
- And Then I Said: Merge with Exposition Cut
- Ye Olde Nuclear Silo
- Proportional Aging
- He Also Did
- Stock Clock Hand Hang
- Recurring Boss Template
- Characterisation Click Moment: Characterization Marches On
- Kawaiiko
- Building Is Welding
- Truth in Television
- Dateless Grave
- Sniper Rifle
- Audience Awareness Advantage
- Barely-Changed Dub Name
- Armed Altruism
- Composite Character
- Innocent Fanservice Girl: Misused not Accidental nudity
- Satire/Parody/Pastiche: Note a trope
- Pastiche: Duplicate of In the Style of.
- Pre-Meeting: merge with checkovs gunman
- Western Zodiac: Merge with Eastern Zodiac into Zodiac Motifs
- Viewers in Mourning
- Trailer Delay
- Hands-Free Handlamp
- Emote Animation: Merge with Emote Command
- After-Action Villain Analysis
- RPGs Equal Combat
- Curves in All the Right Places
- Don't You Like It?
- Genesis Effect
- Guarding the Portal
- Plot Armor, move to Prophecy Armor, No One Could Survive That!, Only the Author Can Save Them Now, Like You Would Really Do It
- Spit-Trail Kiss
- Cartoonland Time
- The CSI Effect
- Same Story, Different Names
- Name-Tron
- Orphaned Series: Actually Trivia.
- Stock Costume Traits
- Image Macro
- Anti-Climax Boss: A lot of non-VG examples.
TLP Drafts
Intro: The Noblesse Oblige redirects to Royals Who Actually Do Something, even though "nobility" and "royals" are not the same thing and not used in the same context, which in turn redirects to Comes Great Responsibility
Description:
The character of the high social class who believes Comes Great Responsibility towards the lower class naturally comes with their status, even if told otherwise. This sense of duty is often called "noblesse oblige" (bonus point if quoted).
A Blue Blood or Fake Aristocrat (or themed like one) that believes it's part of their title to help "less fortunate". This can also extend to aliens, non-humans, or soldiers of an invading faction that don't like how the locals are treated in a derogatory manner.
They'll be typically the only character in the setting to act like this and be the Token Good Teammate to high nobles, who would all be Aristocrats Are Evil and mock them for not using their privileges. Their entire family maybe this as well, or otherwise, they'll be White Sheep. Their reasoning may come off as Innocently Insensitive. May become White Man's Burden, The Needs of the Many, Holier Than Thou, or in extreme cases, Knight Templar. Bad Samaritan or Enlightened Self-Interest can invoke their noble image for a long time to get what they want in the end.
Like any Good Samaritan, they don't think of any benefits for themselves and assume Karmic Jackpot may naturally come to them. If they have the money, they'll be Non-Idle Rich, but even if they're Impoverished Patrician, they'll still feel helping out. Their classic thing to do is to drop a gold coin or a handkerchief to a beggar. If a work focuses on an orphan of any type on the street, high chance they'll soon be Happily Adopted into such a family, alternatively if they were prisoners, bought out, and have Happiness in Slavery. In older literature, they are a literal Knight in Shining Armor.
May act with Honor Before Reason and get in trouble themselves for it, but ask others to Think Nothing of It. Typically it shows Old-School Chivalry, which may or may not actually be "old-school". They're quick to Glove Slap anyone who acts forceful to ladies, even if the opponent is of even higher status.
Very likely to be Born Unlucky or The Atoner and despise the caste system for personal reasons. If their backstory isn't given, they may fall into Prince Charming.
The inversion of Aristocrats Are Evil. See Code of Honour, White Guilt, The Golden Rule, Royals Who Actually Do Something, Pillars of Moral Character, For Great Justice.
Examples:
- Danganronpa: Students of Hope's Peak Academy have their exceptional talents trained so when they graduate they could use their skills and knowledge for the better of the world. Some graduates do become "hope" as intended, some grew a bit naughty about it, and some were "artificially raised" into this role. All that increased the social segregation between "ultimate" and "ordinary" people and played an important part in the backstory.
- Fire Emblem: Three Houses: Lorenz Hellman Gloucester and Ferdinand von Aegir are both from powerful noble families, but believe their upbringing gives them a high degree of accountability.
- Harry Potter:
- Helck: Rafaed adopted and raised Helck and Cless when everyone else would treat them like dirt. Unfortunately, he's done so as a member of Ancient Conspiracy.
- My Hero Academia: ...
- Noblesse: The Nobles are a race of ancient vampires that declared since the dawn of humanity to protect the lesser species from behind the curtains. The titular Noblesse is the King Incognito, with the authority to execute any Noble or man-made creature that feels entitled to use humans as they please.
- Elegant Spy x Family
Referenced by...:
- The NEXT name of some Lynx in Armored Core.
- Eden of the East: The theme of The Seleção Game run by Mr. Outside. Each of randomly chosen people is given 10 billion yen that they must use to save the country. If any runs out of gash or uses their spendings selfishly, they get killed.
- An Artifact Set in Genshin Impact.
- Kamen Rider Gaim: Became sort of the Arc Words:
- Me And My Girl: Used in the Song of Hareford.
- Super Robot Wars: Original Generation:
Archibald Grimes: Noblesse oblige, then? Very well.
If one side of the conflict is presented as villainous, the leader of that faction is Unwitting Pawn and Disc-One Final Boss. Upon defeat, the secret faction comes from the curtains to take matters into their own hand and always show themselves as Eviler than Thou. Upon the reveal, the conflicting sides have to call Enemy Mine. The reasoning for it can be Evil Versus Oblivion, which may lead to Heel Realization when the evil faction realizes their motivation for war has been orchestrated.
Can happen on a lower scale, like if an unrelated person is actually recruited by one member of a Love Triangle.
The good guys can sometimes have deeper ties to them, with the connection kept by Evil Chancellor or Engineered Heroics who's been contacting them in secret.
Can predate all nations as a part of Ancient Conspiracy.
If the audience didn't know they are Evil All Along from the beginning, almost all characters surely don't, resulting in Internal Reveal. If they did show up but their intentions were unknown, they are possibly The Dog Was the Mastermind.
War Is Hell, and not just for the parties involved. The Empire is invading The Good Kingdom, which is a problem for them. But, it's ever a bigger problem for every other nation who don't want to be swallowed by either side the moment they pick another.
Unless the world runs on Black-and-White Morality, they would like to remain independant, and openly declare neutrality and desire to stay out of the conflict.
But in fact, they're really not. They are very aware of the Neutrality Backlash that would follow, when a bigger nation declares them as free resources. So, they keep up a sharade to delay the potential invasion on their territory. Neutral in Name Only, Outside-Context Problem.
Examples (UNMARKED SPOILERS!):
Anime and Manga- Blood-C: Fumito Nanahara, the casual cafe owner, is revealed to be the mastermind behind the Elder Bairns' attacks. When it's revealed that the people Saya has been trying to protect are all paid actors, Fumito gets rid of them as well.
- Fullmetal Alchemist: Amestris's expansionist policy, especially the massacre of Ishval, was all a part of Homunculi and Father's plot. Every soldier beside the high command had no idea what's the wars are for.
- Getter Robo: The reason why the villains attack Saotome Institue? To prevent the creation of Getter Emperor, which in the future destroyed most of the universe. While Getter Rays are helpful for the heroes in the present, it's clear that they work in self-interest, and humanity one day will get assimilated.
- Last Exile: The lands of Anatoray and Disith instead of a desparate all-out war use The Guild as a referee for regulated skirmishes. However, the Guild is actually keeping the food and resources they are supposed to share with the world for themselves and keeping the war ongoing for entertainment.
- Legend of the Galactic Heroes: The Dominion of Fezzan is a Galactic Empire's border planet on paper, but has reached enough economic autonomy that they can freely trade with the Empire and the Free Planets Alliance, as long as they don't get involved in the war. But in fact, they are a front of Church of Terra and have been escalating the conflict through hired puppets.
- Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Kyubey of the Incubators conveniently forgot to tell the Magi that the Witches they are fighting are in fact former magical girls, and the girls themselves are effectively regarded as fuel.
Live-Action TV
- Kamen Rider Build: The war between Touto, Hokuto, and Seito is kept going by Namba Heavy Industries and Faust. While Juzaburo Namba likes to think of himself as the mastermind, for Evolt to consider him to be just a stepping stone for himself.
Video Games
- Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth 2: Edgeworth has to deal with, and successfully brings down a conspiracy between Zheng Fa and Prosecutor's Office. All that, however, what Simon Keyes (Sota Sarushiro), a presumably unfortunate witness, indirectly pushed him to do in the first place.]]
- Doom Eternal: The demonic invasion is a part of Khan Maykr's plot, as they only need to let demons do their thing and watch Earth be sacrificed for energy. That is until Doom Slayer gets something to say about it.
- Fire Emblem: You can make a drinking game for every time the ongoing war is caused by a hidden dragon.
- Fire Emblem Fates: Anankos to Hoshido and Nohr.
- Fire Emblem: Three Houses: The unification of Fodlan is presented as the ambition of The Adrestian Empire. The real cause actually two ancient conspiracies of Those Who Slither In The Dark / Agarthans and The Church of Seiros.
When a subordinate demands respect to someone else, by force perhaps, even if the person in reference specifically doesn't mind it. The sentence usually goes as "You cur, how dare you talk to the great X like that!" before being interrupted.
If not interrupted in time, the offender may get beaten up right away or after the conversation. Sometimes the master will stop them after their guest is half-dead, even if their talk will be much more difficult because of that. The case of insubordination will never get punished though.
Usually, the master is someone of real authority and the minions are nameless extras. Not always a villain's trope, as The Hero or The Lancer often feel the need to protect someone's (each other's) honor and has to be stopped before a potential Nice Job Breaking It, Hero.
Especially problematic if 1. the master literally asked for an honest opinion 2. the guest is an enemy and has no obligation to show respect 3. the guest is master's equal or superior.
A case of Undying Loyalty or The Champion.
Examples:
The probability of success is directly proportional to the cost of failure. As in, if someone in fiction can take some loss, they will, repeatedly, until the last attempt will really be the last chance.
A supertrope to: Final Battle, Down to the Last Play, Final Girl, One Bullet Left, Time Bomb, Just in Time, Near-Villain Victory, You Can't Thwart Stage One, Crisis Makes Perfect, Million to One Chance
Examples:
When someone takes care of another for a long time, then gets really offended when they try to leave.
Alt: when the Entitled Bastard thinks their victim is an Ungrateful Bastard because they don't accept their "generosity".
The owner of the house is often an Evil Mentor, Archnemesis Dad, Enemy Within, or some other Bad Samaritan, who, in exchange for housing or training, assumes their protectee would always obey them, or at least show Dude, Where's My Respect?. This typically takes the form of Gaslighting to guilt-trip the victim into staying. The villain may also try to pull a We Can Rule Together on someone going through a Heel–Face Turn to compel them into staying. Can be a case of Wants a Prize for Basic Decency. The trope usually plays at the moment of Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal.
They may also not really be evil and be a case of Obliviously Evil or Blue-and-Orange Morality. Maybe they don't have an Enlightened Self-Interest and genuinely think the person is being ungrateful and they themselves are doing a good thing. They may invoke I Did What I Had to Do if they think the person doesn't understand it's unsafe outside.
Can be an inversion of Stockholm Syndrome, Happiness in Slavery, A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil or The Farmer and the Viper.
Examples:
- Toriel in Undertale to Frisk.
- Helgenish to Primrose in Octopath Traveler.You're nothing but a stupid whore! You would have died on the street if not for me!
- Mr. Jawsum to Hero in OMORI.You disrespect me, boy. I take you in... a youngin' with no experience... and I turn you into the ultimate employee! You would be nothing if it wasn't for me!
- Shredder in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987).If not for me, Hamato Yoshi would never have left Japan.
- Dark Prince in Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones.Do you think you would be here now if not for me? How many times did I save you?
- Lord Harkon to Serana, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.You disappoint me, Serana. You've taken everything I provided for you and thrown it all away for this...
- Viv, Zebra Girl.I know this stuff. If not for me, you'd be eaten.
- The series had No Antagonist, but the last bits of the story introduce a dangerous Arc Villain to wrap up all of the Character Development.
- A Hidden Villain who is also Non-Action Big Bad until they decide to get invovled.
- One of the heroes undergous Big Bad Slippage, or one of the minor villains outlives all others, and has to be dealt with last.
- Tomato Surprise! The story was featuring a Villain Protagonist the entire time.
Examples:
Related to Fattening the Victim.
Examples:
- Metal Sonic in Sonic Heroes
- Krantz in Noblesse
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Examples:
- One Piece: Luffy does this in the Cake Island arc.
- Courage the Cowardly Dog: A Running Gag with Eustace.
Often When It All Began. If the event is not explained in the end, see Cryptic Background Reference. Related to Great Offscreen War, The Legend of Chekhov and Vagueness Is Coming.
Examples:
- Kamen Rider: A Recurring Element from Heisei seasons onwards is for villains to namedrop something, only for it to be explained as Mid-Season Twist.
- Kamen Rider Kuuga: Gegel (Gegeru).
- Kamen Rider Agito: Akatsuki Incident.
- Kamen Rider Ryuki: Rider Fight.
- Kamen Rider 555: Ryusei School Reunion.
- Kamen Rider Blade: Battle Fight.
- Kamen Rider Hibiki: Orochi.
- Kamen Rider Kabuto: Shibuya Meteor Strike.
- Kamen Rider Den-O:
- Kamen Rider Decade: Rider War.
- Kamen Rider Double: Gaia Impact & Begins Night.
- Kamen Rider Fourze: Day of Awakening.
- Kamen Rider Wizard: The Sabbath.
- Kamen Rider Gaim: Inves Games & Sengoku Rider War.
- Kamen Rider Drive: Global Freeze.
- Kamen Rider Ghost: Demia Project.
- Kamen Rider Amazons: Operation Tlaloc.
- Kamen Rider Ex-Aid: Zero Day.
- Kamen Rider Build: Sky Wall Disaster.
- Kamen Rider Zi-O: Oma Day.
- Kamen Rider Zero-One: Daybreak Town Accident.
- Kamen Rider Saber: War of Wonder World.
- Kingdom Hearts: Keyblade War.
A very common concept in Jungian Psychology, which believes that every person creates a mask for every situation in life and takes a role like actors in theatre. Often a result of Inferiority Superiority Complex or Dark and Troubled Past.
For some of positive outcomes see Becoming the Mask and Split-Personality Merge, if the aspects of the tough persona eventually carry over to the main one.
Compare with Enemy Within, into which this can evolve to and is explicitly hostile. See Beneath the Mask, when the person acts tough, but in reality is Small Name, Big Ego.
Examples:
Anime and Manga- One Piece: Usopp and Sogeking.
Examples:
Some works are based on the entire panthon or multiple legends. If more than one pantheon is used, it's Fantasy Kitchen Sink.
Examples:
See Recycled: The Series.
Examples:
Fictional alternatives to "Shibuya 109" strore.
Shibuya Scramble Crossing is an iconic location in Tokyo, and the 109 is an iconic department store, a typical landmark in Japanese media. However it's also a trademarked name, so more often than not this building says something else.
Related to Tokyo Is the Center of the Universe.
A subtrope of Bland-Name Product. See Spoofs "R" Us for a westen counterpart.
Examples (add appearance as context):
- Blue Period: Shibuya 283
- Chaos;Child: Shibuya 107
- Chaos;Head: Shibuya 107
- Detroit Metal City: Shibuya 106
- Devil Survivor: Shibuya 901
- Devil Survivor 2: The Animation: Shibuya 190
- Digimon Adventure: Episode 33: Shinuya 199
- Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth: Shibuya dpf
- Dr. STONE: Shibuya 100
- Gatchaman Crowds: Shibuya 209
- Ghostwire: Tokyo: Shibuya 429
- Hell Girl: Shibuya 106
- THE iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls Theater: Shibuya 106
- Kingdom Hearts: Shibuya 104
- Ladies versus Butlers!: Hyakten 100
- My Hero Academia: Shibuya 1009
- Nisekoi: Shibuya 105
- Osomatsu-san: Shibuya 106
- Persona 5 Strikers: Shibuya 705
- Shin Megami Tensei IV: Shibuya 108
- The World Ends with You: Shibuya 104
- Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE: Shibuya 106
- Tokyo Revengers: Shubuya 10Q
- Zekkyou Gakkyuu: "Courage App": Shibuya 100.
Aversions (109):
- Tatsumaki
- Akira
- Kamen Rider
- Franchise/Pokemon
- Super Sentai
- Umineko: When They Cry: In each game, Beatrice introduces a new rule to go against Battler's logic.
- Battler's main defence against "magic culprit" in Episode 1 is "Devil's Proof", though it's only named in the next game. If he can provide a plausible theory for the "human culprit", he wins, but if he can't resolve the impossible crimes, Beatrice wins. He doesn't have the burden of providing the correct culprit or the method, only to show that the "magic culprit" isn't the only explanation.
- In Episode 2 Beatrice gets tired of Buttler making things up and introduces Red Truth. Everything said in Red is to be treated as a partial confession and is not arguable. The opponent has no burden of explanation. This serves to invalidate the "human culprit" arguments and to avoid a stalemate.
- Episode 3 brings up "Hempel's Raven", which while isn't a game rule, is used in Episode's arguments as a logical extension of "Devil's Proof". If the current "human culprit" theory is invalidated by Red, the Human side needs to present a different one or it will be considered as an admission of the "magic culprit".
- Episode 4 introduces Blue Truth. Previously, the opponent had no obligation to use the Red Truth right away or at all. When the one side makes an argument in Blue, if the other side refuses to use Red they'll get physically penalized and the Blue statement can be regarded as factual until invalidated later.
- Episode 5 adds Gold Truth. The meaning of it is not explained in this Episode. These represent true statements about how the scenes were interpreted by all observers, though not necessarily factual.
- Episode 6 brings up the "Detective's Authority", meaning by the time of the debate, it's confirmed that the Human party has full knowledge of the crime scenes and no evedience was destoryed by the Witch's party.
- Episode 8 has Purple Truth. By anyone who isn't the culprit, this works analogous to Red, but the culprit can speak in Purple with no pentalty. As the culprit's idendity is unknown, this means someone's account is false.