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This seems to be common in action movies. Do we have a trope for this? In the middle of an action scene between characters, there's a civilian who either:
- 1. Doesn't notice until he either comes out into the scene or the action comes to him.
- 2. Appears to be completely unchanged despite the action happening right near him (like grandparents).
Would examples help? (I think I exceeded the character limit.)
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Is there a trope where someone starts off a loser, and ends up being a non-loser?. Examples include Kung Fu Panda and Gullivers Travels 2010 Film .
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A character goes down the path of evil, but turns around at the last minute and saves everything as best s/he can, perhaps because now It's Personal (say, s/he chose some target for crime at random and it turns out to be a precious pet). Basically, the plot of Wall Street, but I've also Seen It A Mil… you know.
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I'm thinking about stock action film scenes/scenarios.
Like, if you go to an action flick and there isn't a high-speed car chase, something made a high-speed car chase specifically impossible, like cars being inappropriate to the setting. Or if the movie has an adventure-y bent to it, it needs a panoramic shot of the exotic locale the heroes are visiting in that scene. If there's a romantic subplot, the love interest will be imperiled by the hero's action-packed lifestyle. Or explosions regardless of anything else.
I suppose this is more of an index than a single trope?
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This is just one specific example, so it may well be that there's really no trope. In the sequel to Wall Street, Shia La Beouf's character Jacob pitches a form of alternative energy technology that seems to be a sort of fusion of aspects of actual renewable/alternative energies, plus some Techno Babble for good measure. It focuses on atoms of hydrogen, is powered by tides, and involves lasers and "fusion".
Besides the various Physics Goof and whatnot, I'm specifically curious about technology that fuses various contemporaneous technologies, perhaps by way of Did Not Do The Research — like Schizo Tech for only one time period.
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Is there a trope where a character refuses to do something, gets threatened, and spinelessly agrees to the demand, played for laughs? For example, in Gullivers Travels 2010 Film , Gulliver says to a Brobdingnag that there's no way he'll play "tea parties", the Brobdingnag rips the head off another doll, and he pretty quickly agrees to her demands.
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End scene after action.. Main surviving character(s) sitting in the back of an ambulance wrapped in a blanket. They are offered coffee and the main good guy comes over and talks to them. Is this on TV Tropes anywhere? It's in almost every drama, action film with victims, Lifetime movies, etc.
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A character or group of characters is moving through an area, usually tracking or looking for someone. The camera follows them for a while, then pans around to reveal that whatever dangerous person they're looking for- OMGHESRIGHTTHEREGETOUTNOW!
See 1:00-1:20 here. Also in Pitch Black and maybe First Blood.
Usually, the only indication that he's there is visual. No music or anything. Do We Have This One?
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I'm thinking of a trope, it's similar to Billing Displacement, but it's more of a region thing, like Person A gets top billing in one country cause he's more popular there, but Person B gets top billing in another country because he's more popular. Or is that still falling under Billing Displacement?
(if I must be specific. Seth Rogan and Jay Chou in posters for The Green Hornet. Rogan gets top billing in the US, Chou in Asia.)
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Is there a name for the trope where a normal person who gets injured like everyone else becomes somewhat bulletproof when they become a bad guy? An example is during the scene in The Dark Knight where Harvey Dent, after becoming Two Face, is in the car with that mob guy and then shoots the driver resulting in the car flipping over. I assume the mob guy died but it looks like Harvey walked away fine where as earlier in the movie he probably would have been sent to the hospital.
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Early in a film (or TV series), one of the main characters attempts to seduce/has sex with an attractive member of the opposite sex. Then a scene or two later, it turns out that this person is (shockingly) the character's boss, or new coworker, or something like that. It's in Top Gun, Anchorman, Grey's Anatomy, etc. I know there's gotta be a trope out there for this, just can't find it.
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A film (or book or whatever) is successful enough to warrant a sequel — but all the loose ends have been tied up and the main gimmick of the original is now gone (the lovers got married, etc), making any attempt to extend the story feel very artificial. I'm not finding it on the list on Sequel or other linked pages…
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Is there a trope for those times when the Hero and the Villain are in a Duel to the Death, with the Hero in the lead. But instead of the Villain meeting his well-deserved end (he spent the first 90 minutes Kicking the Dog with ice-climbing boots and laughing), the Hero wins and the Villain... survives? Both combatants have been using perfectly lethal weaponry, with every intent to use them lethally. In fact, if the Hero hadn't made a very suspenseful comeback, he would have died. But somehow the Hero wins definitively, yet the Villain is allowed to crawl back from whence he came. The film ties up the conflict neatly, but does not have to address the moral implications of killing the Villain and tarnishing the Hero. The audience is left to uneasily examine how they would have failed to show the same mercy.
Is there a trope where a movie displays awesome graphics but has a terrible plot (e.g. Episode 1)?