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openThe Dismissive Friend Group
Do we have a trope for when someone is super excited about a certain event coming up, but none of their friends seem to take it seriously, and that leads the person to get increasingly disappointed/angry? Off the top of my head, I can think of "The One Where No One's Ready" from Friends, as well as that that MLP episode, "Suited for Disaster."
open"Copy. I killed your friend."
When there's silence from an operative's radio or communicator, leading to concern and repeated "do you copy?" from other operatives or higher-ups, until the silence is broken by the voice of a known enemy gloating or threatening them, implying that said operative is killed or captured. It came to mind after seeing a clip from the Clone Wars where Asajj Ventress hears the voices of troops over the radio of a dead clone, trying to communicate with him. She smiles and I thought for sure she was going to answer the radio herself, but no.
The only example I could think of, however, is from this movie Run, Hide, Fight, where a school shooter kills a lunch lady while she still has an active call open with her husband, then the shooter picks up the phone to brag about the murder to him.
openSubtle exploration limiters in an otherwise wide-open game Videogame
In a game that is otherwise a Wide-Open Sandbox or at least a particularly wide-open example of it's genre, there are subtle limitations put in place keeping the player from exploring too high of level areas or getting exceptional gear too early. It'd be in a similar vein to something like a Beef Gate or Ability Required to Proceed, but less overt.
For example, in Unicorn Overlord, there are several literal Broken Bridges to side areas throughout the game that require getting a certain amount of a certain resource to repair. Some of them lead to really good items, but the game doesn't offer enough of the required resource until you've progressed through most of the region in which they're located, at which point the items are still good but less game-breaking.
TIA for anything!
openAccidental Oathbreaker
What would the trope be for this situation: A knight is assigned to guard a princess and her handmaiden during a long sea voyage towards the princess' Arranged Marriage, chosen specifically because he has no interest in her. The knight is regularly visited at night by the handmaiden and they sleep together with the lights out, but he's kind of upset that the handmaiden barely acknowledges his presence in daytime given her enthusiasm after dark. Once the trip ends, the bombshell drops that it was the princess who was sleeping with him all along, and he realizes he's broken his every vow of loyalty to sleep with a woman he wasn't even attracted to in the first place, not to mention the diplomatic consequences.
openIncessant chatting leads to character's downfall
Are there any tropes on characters who are endless talkers but are unaware their conversation is being recorded? Engineered Public Confession seems one, but are there other tropes that pertain to criminals and villains being taken down this way?
openDesperately screaming their authority
Do we have one for this, where somebody is in a desperate situation, and they cling desperately to some "authority" which they may have? This can sometimes be covered with I Am the Trope, but this would not cover the Nanny Mcphee example.
Two examples involving Imelda Staunton:
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: As the centaurs carry her away, she screams "I am senior undersecretary to the Minster of Magic!"
- Nanny Mcphee: As the children are tying her up in the kitchen, she says the repeated line "they do not come in here, I have it in writing".
Also:
- The Madness of King George: As the King is being tied to the chair, he yells "I am the King of England!"
openMedia where there's a lot of profanity used by the characters/narrator.
I am looking for a trope that deals with stories with lots of swear word usage
openFluff Hater
A character who hates saccharine and "girly" stuff like ponies, plushies, pink, etc.
openPet Grieves over Lost Owner
Reverse of Lost Pet Grievance: a pet's owner died, and/or the pet becomes someone else's, and the pet acts in grievance to that (like waiting for its owner to come back even though they might never)
Tried checking that page, I can't find the related trope.
openIn-Universe Allegory
Just a quick question: is Allegory applicable to Show Within a Show In-Universe?
openSounding silent letters
Is there one for when somebody says silent letters out loud, out of ignorance, or for comic effect? I know there's Funetik Aksent, but I don't think that's the right one. For example:
- Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator: Mr Wonka sounds the "K" in Vermicious Knid.
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail: The French talk of "King Arthur and his silly English k-nig-gets."
- Flanders and Swann: In the Gnu song, the G-nu wishes he could g-nash his teeth at you.
openKnight of Cerebus Not Quite Inversion
This is when a character makes the other characters scarier. It's not really changing the tone of the story, but the character is sort of teasing out the other characters' potential to be scary. The only example I can think of is in seasons 3 and 4 of Rolling With Difficulty. There's this one antagonist who gets to be scary in their introduction, but then the protagonists all get turns to scare the antagonist.
openFake religiosity
Someone becomes (or pretends to be) a part of a religious order despite not believing in any of its creed in order to reap benefits of being a part of the organization.
openX So Not Y
A gag in which someone or something is recognized as being not what it's supposed to be because of a particular factor that's clearly out of place. For example, in The Encounter from Animorphs, a group of "park rangers" clearly are not actually park rangers because "Park rangers don't carry machine guns."
openHand over mouth
A character covers their mouth from embarrassment, shock , horror, or implication of themselves.
openCritical Comparisons
Critics compare a work to another. For instance, gritty Spy thrillers get compared to the works of John le Carré.
openAlien Time System
Do we have a trope where the characters use a time system different than the "60 seconds = 1 minute" system we're familiar with?
For example, in Literature.The August Few, the Kivouachians use the following time system:
- Tick = kivic minute
- Bell = kivic hour, 70 ticks
- Chime = kivic day, 40 bells
- Tone = kivic month (3 earth months)
- Stanza = kivic year (7 tones)
A character kills someone (whether as a Professional Killer, a brawl, or in a battle), then decides to adopt and raise the deceased's relative (usually their child) as their own.