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Pun tropes https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PunnyStuff Has nothing for acronym puns.
Acronym puns are everywhere. Where are they here?
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Consider this exchange:
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Bob: Well, Lorraine and I separated.
Alice: What?! Why?
Bob: Things were getting a little hectic, so we decided to take a break from each other in order to cool off.
Alice: She kicked you out?
Bob: She changed the locks and everything...
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To summarize: A character tries to downplay something either by telling a lie or not telling the whole truth, but they immediately come clean when another character guesses that they're not being truthful. Is there a trope for this?
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Do we have a supertrope for non-advertising examples of Men Buy from Mars, Women Buy from Venus. Basically, the "men are shallow bumbling unhygienic oafs who have no problem imagining themselves as looking good who only want sex" and "women are overly refined, prissy weight-and-age obsessed harpies who flip out at the sight of an insect or rodent"?
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Might be a little specific, but do we have a trope for when, a character in a bad situation is looking hopeless, with the soundtrack being low along with them, and then, suddenly, gets an idea to solve the problem. The soundtrack powers up and you know something awesome is about to happen.
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Is there a trope for where someone has multiple people's souls within them? Not Split Personality, but someone who is actually a different person, but for some reason or another is now inside someone else's body.
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Character 1: "How have you not seen [New Character] before?"
Cut to clips of old episodes with new character inserted digitally.
Character 2: "Oh yea, him/her!"
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Do we have a trope for inadvertent destruction of props on-camera?
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I'm looking for a trope that is almost exactly Red Right Hand, but instead of a physical deformity of some kind, it's demonstrating powers that only the bad guys use. The example I'm thinking of comes from The Kane Chronicles, the Carter and Sadie's uncle, Amus, uses forbidden chaos magic to turn everybody into little storm clouds, which Zia uses to support her argument that Amus is in league with Set. I could have sworn I read about the trope on the Kane Chronicles page, but I can't seem to find it now.
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I'm looking for a certain trope, where the hero manages to kill the villain, but fails to stop his plan in time. The closest I've been able to find is My Death Is Just the Beginning and You Are Too Late, but the former involves the villain's death being part of the plan and the latter doesn't necessarily involve the villain dying.
Have I somehow missed it or am I just searching for a trope that doesn't exist?
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Is there a trope for pieces of generally unrelated (or rather VERY loosely related) music that sound similar? I'm talking specifically about Super Mario Galaxy's Comet Observatory theme sounding similar to the theme from Clu Clu Land, another Nintendo game (albeit, an obscure one that isn't very good).
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Is there a trope for when a question pertinent to the plot is just plain left unanswered, either due to all the involved parties being killed off or Put on a Bus, or due to the point-of-view character just being out of the loop?
Not quite What Happened to the Mouse?, as that refers more to unimportant things that just never get followed up on.
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I noticed that in almost all anime the characters can hear eachother no matter how far away they are, just as long as the person they're speaking to is in sight. A guy stands on top of a skyscraper a half a mile away? No problem just say hi he'll hear you. No need to scream either.
Anyways is there a trope for that?
A zig-zag of sorts for this can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tH60cNil1g#t=3m40s
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Alright, consider this situation:
For some reason or another, Alice and Bob pretend to be a couple (perhaps it's part of a disguise, or one of them lied to someone about having a significant other, etc.). However, over the course of pretending to be a couple, they eventually fall in love and become a couple for real.
My question is this: Does this fall under FakeāReal Turn, or is there a more specialized form of that trope that deals with relationships?
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I'm thinking of starting up a YKTTW, but I figured I'd check to be sure it doesn't already exist. Specifically, I'm thinking about a variance of Legacy Character in which the person who takes up the Legacy is far more well known than the person who started it. Examples would be something like the Human Torch—everyone remembers Johnny Storm, but few actually know that the original Torch was a Golden Age android named Jim Hammmond. Another example would be Steel. Most people think of John Henry Irons, the black engineer who became a superhero after Superman's death, but few people outside of comics (or even those inside) remember Henry Heywood, who came long before that.
Never mind, found it. Please delete.
Edited by DrRoy