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Do we have a trope for that? Speed Echoes is not the case.
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Is there a trope for the moment, typically at the conclusion of a one-on-one fight, where there's a delay between the final blow and the moment the person falls over, giving the victor time to refresh a little, straighten her hair (if female), sheath the sword, and assume a nice pose in front of the body of the fallen foe? (A good example is here.)
Not quite You Are Already Dead, since the battle is pretty much over and everyone knows it — it's more about the hero having a second or two to put himself/herself together before things are completely over.
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What's it called where, regardless of setting, characters can operate machinery and technology with apparently natural aptitude, eg. using a forklift truck in a fight?
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Is there a trope for a comically bad magician? One who might say, "Pick a card, any card! ...No, not that one. Not that one either." Here's another: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MViuNWN5Q7s&t=2m32s
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Is there a trope for how, no matter how large or small the source might be, male characters nearly always have deep voices and female characters, higher-pitched ones? The physics of sound dictate that the pitch of a voice should vary in proportion to the size of the larynx that produces it, yet pint-sized hobbits and giant ogres are still portrayed with the vocal range of human beings who share their gender. Subverted only for Rule of Funny, or if it suits the plot for the outsized creature's voice to be so high- or low-pitched that it's unintelligible to humans.
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Is there a trope for a plot that's easily solvable, but the characters often don't even consider the option to use the solution that would fix things so easily? Happens a lot in stories where time travel is readily available and there are few to no negative consequences of doing it. Later in the story something really bad happens, and the characters don't even consider using time travel to try and stop it from happening. (like in Harry Potter) Or in Harry Potter And the Goblet of Fire. Why didn't he just back out the competition? The following article from Cracked has some examples:
http://www.cracked.com/article_18658_6-movie-plots-that-could-have-been-solved-in-minutes.html
So is there a trope for it, or can I make one?
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I have tried this one before but I don't think anyone found it:
Alice and Bob are best friends and get into an argument. Alice yells "I can find a better best friend than you!" and Bob says the same. Alice finds a new friend who turns out to be just like Bob (and may be played by the same actor), Bob finds a new friend who is just like Alice, and then Alice and Bob realize they need each other and make up. The new friends will usually go off with each other as well. Seen It A Million Times
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Is there a trope for this: An episode of a show where the characters start a band. They get into a disagreement, almost always about who should get the most attention. As a result they break up and all try to perform solo. But their audience hates their solo performances so they get back together and learn An Aesop.
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I see this on a lot of sitcoms ... a character bursts through a door of an apartment or home and proceeds to interact with the characters within ... but leaves the door wide open. If this were to happen in real life there would be a resounding "CLOSE THE DOOR! Where you raised in a barn or something?" but everyone just ignores the open door. Heck, I'm sure I've seen them leave via another door with the front door wide open. Is there a name for this trope, and I'd be particularly interested if it's ever been lampshaded.
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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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Do we have a trope for when Visual Novels/Dating Sims/some anime claim that someone is either definitely, totally over 18/20 (depending on it being either America or Japan respectively) when it's either highly improbable, completely impossible or contradicted by later events? To go with this, sometimes they simply don't state ages for anyone because they're supposed to be under those ages, but they can't legally say so.
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Specific version of You Can't Fight Fate. Someone goes back in time to prevent a historical horror from occurring. Either it happens anyway, or something worse happens in its place. The intended message is that events like World War II, 9/11 etc. are fixed points in time that "needed" to happen. Example: The episode of The Twilight Zone where a time traveller tries to prevent Hitler from being born, and becomes his nanny. She kills the baby - so his parents replace him with a stolen child, and that child becomes the Adolf Hitler we know of today.
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How about a text-format trope for when an entire short phrase is rendered with its words strung together by hyphens? Usually this phrase is presented as a descriptive (e.g. "her lips curled in an I-know-something-you-don't-know smile"), or as a more intense and snarky alternative to a common figure of speech (e.g. "he wasn't falling-down drunk, he was climbing-the-walls-and-howling-at-the-moon drunk").