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I've been looking without success for a trope like this: when a character seems set up to be placed in a certain group but gets placed in another one. Sorta What Could Have Been. To use an example, like if Hermonie Granger had been placed in Ravenclaw, or if one one of the Weaslys got placed in Hufflepuff.
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I can't find the entry for when superheroes try out for a sports team of some sort, and they end up not making it because it's unfair for the other athletes that they're just naturally stronger/faster than them. Which ignores than in real life, there's tons of people who are just naturally stronger than other people without trying, and poses the question of where you draw the line.
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Is there a trope for when someone says something along the lines of "If something should happen to me..." and then reveals their emotions, or says who would inherit what, or give them instructions on what to do afterward (visit so-and-so from time and time, have a beer for me, etc)?
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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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Is there a trope for; a character to have a minor to huge changes in their personality then the franchise they are a part of get adapted to a new medium? Like then a character in video game that gets adapted into a novel, and then the character has a different personality in the novel then in the game? I have an example that involves a change in one characterization trait, but is kinda major so I think it should be mentioned.
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A Weather and Environment trope.
The environment is distorted by some tremendous source of power, or a force of chaos.
Result: the terrain appears to rain upward—either it is becoming liquid when solid, or it is already liquid, or the terrain appears to crack and shear to float into the sky.
I believe we had this one at one time, but I looked through the Weather and Environment tropes and in the Dragon Ball page (where it should DEFINITELY occur) and it is absent.
Perhaps it was lost in the Great Crash.
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Is there a trope for when a message (usually a letter) containing crucial information almost, but doesn't quite, get to its intended recipient? Not because the messenger died or was abducted or the message was intercepted by the bad guys or whatever, but just because of mundane delays, a typo in the address, a carrier pigeon being eaten by a random predator, the recipient being in such a hurry that they don't open it until it's too late, etc.
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Is there a trope for when something bad happens to a character and they walk away all slouching and sad? If the character is an animal, his or her ears will usually wilt as they walk away sadly and sad music will play in the background. If this happens to a character on a regular basis, then you get an instant Woobie
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Okay, so we have the Sidekick, the Supporting Protagonist, the Decoy Protagonist, and also the Deuteragonist. But what about two or more characters that are equally important? Like Ren And Stimpy, Fanboy And Chum Chum, Ed Edd N Eddy or The Powerpuff Girls. Are they all protagonists? Are they the protagonist, the deuteragonist and so on? Or is there another trope dealing with stories that have more than one protagonist?
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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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I have a feeling this has to be an already existing trope. It just has to. Too many people have experinced this for it to not be. But I searched, and nothing came up. Honestly.
When you rewatch something from your childhood, the you remember in a positive light, and it suddenly dawns on you how aweful/stupid/weird/surreal/unitentionally funny it is. You suddenly begining cringing at the songs you loved, or realize how much this should have teriffied you as a kid but didn't. The reaction is usually upset or shock, and possbily a refusal to watch anything else in case the same thing happens because you'd rather have your untarnished memories.
Come on, that's got to exist. Right?
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is there a trope for trucks pretty much driving themselves? seen a lot in western tv and movies, but also in some anime, usually someone will be in the middle of the road for some reason and a truck will hurl his or her way. the truck won't stop or make any evasive moves, at most it will hunk but it will continue driving, even after something happens. examples are from "the frogger" episode in 'seinfeld', a truck destroys Goeroge's frogger machine and keeps on going like nothing happens.in BTVS, Cordelia, blind from a spell stands in the middle of the road and a delivery truck is driving her way (not at such a high speed even) and doesn't bother to stop. may also happen when character is driving and going off the lane, a truck (always a truck!) will come at him (honking, of course) which will cause the character to realize he's off the lane and quickly go back.
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So there's a heavily guarded stronghold somewhere and the place has tons of guards. When trouble is afoot, the target tends to stay in a heavily guarded area with huge doors. Suddenly, someone knocks on the door and the guards in the room check to see who it is. They see their commerade standing outside, so naturally they open the door, only to have said commerade slump forward to reveal the assassin/agent that was sneaking his way towards the target!
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"I admit that humanity has in the past been barbaric. Therefore I say test us. Test whether this is presently true of humanity."
I'm trying to think of what trope this would fall under. A little help?