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resolved First kill is the most important
Trope where a characters first Murder is highly emphasized compared to their subsequent murders. This potential trope also probably includes where a characters first act of murder causes a sort of descent or change to them
resolved Unused Exotism
Is there a trope for this situation: A work takes place in a different country than the protagonist's, but little to nothing is made of it (not even The Theme Park Version) and the story could just as well have taken place at home.
e.g.
- A heist movie that takes place in Hong Kong with mostly American characters, but because it all happens in a modern office building at night the only indication it's not in the US is that the signs aren't written in English, so there's no Culture Clash.
- A Spanish movie that takes place in Mexico with so few Mexican elements (accents, exterior shots etc.) that you can't even apply the Spexico trope.
resolved Calling Out The Player Videogame
Essentially, in games where there is Video Game Cruelty Potential, the game calls the player out on it without it exactly being a Video Game Cruelty Punishment. Could overlap with not-videogame tropes where a character calls another character for their Jerkass behavior.
resolved Instinctual Language Knowledge
A character is able to speak the language typical for their nationality or species despite never learning it. For example, an elf who is raised around humans and has never heard or seen Elvish before can speak it fluently when they meet another elf for the first time.
Alternatively, just a character being able to speak a language fluently without learning it, if the above is too specific.
resolved A Worker, Not a Friend
A character thinks someone in a service position is being nice to them out of genuine regard, but it's either just a job or a front to get more money out of them.
resolved Inconsistent Pronunciation
I added this entry to Viewer Pronunciation Confusion, which got removed:
- Hiveswap: How is Nihkee's name pronounced? Her soundtrack title says "it's like the shoe" (NYE-kee) but characters in the game call her "Nicky", implying it's pronounced that way.
resolved Family-Friendly Violence
Cuts and blasts don't actually hurt the opponent, just make them very exhausted, due to the target demographic. A non-comedic Amusing Injuries.
resolved Reverse Flanderization?
What’s the trope for when a character’s flanderization is undone and they act more like their old self? Probably not Character Check as this isn’t a temporary reversion, and it’s not Character Rerailment as this isn’t a YMMV scenario.
resolved Green Visor Accountant Western Animation
An accountant will stereotypically be portrayed as wearing a green visor over his eyes, especially in older works.
If a character is acting like an accountant or pretending to be one, he'll put on the visor for the role. The visor's also used by dealers playing poker.
resolved A product with a fatal flaw becomes popular
In at least a few different western cartoons, I have occasionally seen this plot where the main character(s) create this new product that becomes an instant hit and best seller, only to later discover that the product has some sort of flaw that, more often than not, is not foreshadowed, and does not appear until after dozens, if not hundreds have already been sold to the masses. Does this type of plot exist as a trope on this wiki yet, or does it need to be proposed?
Edited by HipsterDog02resolved Moments That Are Infuriating
Is there any YMMV tropes I can attribute to moments that are aggravating to the audience? And I don't mean the stereotypical moments of "oh this streamer is doing bad at a game and it's painful to watch," I mean more a scenario that is meant to invoke anger in the audience, such as a character who is putting a Woobie through the wringer for no reason, or when someone regales a series of unfortunate events that happened to them and it is just very upsetting to listen to.
Does that sort of entry exist at all, or is there something similar that it could be attached to?
resolved Chekhov's misfire
A trope where a character does or says something that is strongly implied to be a chehkov's gun but it never ends up happening through either it simply not occurring or it being actively prevented
resolved Cut to End of Exposition
There's this thing that's sort of an inverse of As You Know, where the actual "Alice tells Bob" part is skipped over, and we cut straight to either Alice wrapping it up or Bob reacting to what he's just been told, usually because the audience is expected to already know it. In military settings, for example, we open up with Bob acknowledging the new orders.
- Avatar: A scene opens up with Quaritch's reaction to having just been told that Jake said he was from the "Jarhead Clan"
- Star Wars: The Bad Batch S3E15 "The Cavalry Has Arrived": Rampart asks Nala Se to explain what Project Necromancer is. We then cut to something else. When we cut back, the scene opens with Rampart reacting to the info he was just given. A rare case in that the audience does NOT know the exact details.
- The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: The episode "Send in the Clones"
Jimmy: Wait, everyone! Oh, I can explain. [4 hours later]' And that's how it all happened.
resolved Parting Gift
Is there a trope where a character leaves something behind when they die - like, for lack of a better description, a video game character dropping loot after defeat? Intentionally or unintentionally.
resolved A work in one medium presented as another.
Pretty self explanatory, when a work has the aesthetics of another medium, here are some examples:
- The Original "Alan Wake" game was framed as a tv show with individual levels as "episodes", the Dlc's are "specials" and each episode begins with a Previously on…...
- "Cuphead" has the aesthetics of a Max and Dave Fleischer cartoon.
- "MythForce" is a Roguelike Action RPG that looks like a Saturday-Morning Cartoon like He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983)
- "#Blud" is a Legend Of Zelda like-game with the look and feel of a The '90s cartoon you'd find on Cartoon Network or Nickelodeon, for example the chapters each have an Episode Title Card that looks like something out of My Life as a Teenage Robot and Becky's house looks EXACTLY like Dexter's.
Edited by Muppet
I thought the trope I needed was Can't Live with Them, Can't Live Without Them, but maybe not. I'm looking for a trope about siblings or cousins who do not get along well at all. Like, one sibling is on the good guys team and the other is a villain or a rebel rogue off on their own, or they just have two completely different personalities. One sibling gets so mad at the other's antics. Maybe they threaten to disown them, or they purposefully shut themselves away and commence the silent treatment, only to realize that, despite their sibling's shenanigans, they still love them, want to bond and hang out, no ill will or harm is wished upon the one whose pulling things.