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Is there a trope where a person wants to murder a hero, simply because he's a hero? It's kind of hard to explain, but it's Onomatopoeia's schtick, and is the motivation of the omake (yes, I used that word) at the end of The Killing Joke..
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Totally drawing a blank on this one, but do we have anything similar to a Couch Gag, where instead of something being different each episode in the ending or opening sequence, there's always just something different in the episode setting itself?
I know, I know. That's exceptionally vague that could cover just about anything, but let me give you an example. The Spoony Experiment. Spoony does most of his reviews just sitting in a green chair while you can see posters hanging on the walls in the room corner directly behind him. In pretty much every review he does, he changes those posters to reflect something relevant to the review itself, usually a movie poster of the movie he's reviewing. I feel there's something about this...
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Is there a polar opposite to an Idiot Plot, or when a cast who are normally incompetent all get the Smart Ball?
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Do we have a trope for when Reed Richards Is Useless or Cut Lex Luthor a Check is averted - where a superhero or supervillain uses his powers to make a genuine impact on the world, especially in "mundane" areas? Can be an Elseworld of a regular comic series or the main plot of a more deconstructive work. I've seen it a few times out there, and am using it myself in a comic I'm drawing.
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A performer, especially a live-action performer who talks directly to the audience without playing a character, tells the story of the most amazing thing they've ever seen.
I think this happens when the performer want to do something very flashy, but they don't want to look like a show-off. So they invent a tale of meeting someone who was much more impressive than they are. This also lets them talk up the performance without looking egotistical.
Examples: The magician Jay Sankey tells the story of "the best trick I ever saw", involving straightening out face-up and face-down cards, finding all four aces, turning a blue-backed deck into a red-backed deck. It's very technically skilled, but he claims to have been baffled by the mysterious stranger who showed it to him (even though he obviously does the trick himself).
The magician David Williamson performs a similar trick he saw done by "the greatest magician he ever saw".
The folk musician Angie Nussey sings a rock anthem called "Forbidden Thoughts". It's one of her best songs, about meeting a man in a bar who borrowed her guitar, pumped out the best song she'd ever heard, and then just walked out of the place. Of course she wrote he whole song herself.
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Never Live It Down is about the fans. Is there an article describing characters who never live it down? Like, that character's friend does something regrettable at the beginning of an episode, and despite having rectified it and perhaps more, that character will continue to harp on it, maybe even into later episodes.
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Name for a camera angle/shot taken from slightly below the person, to make them seem larger, more imposing, more heroic (if good) or more threatening (if evil)?
Not a Dutch Angle since it's not meant to make you feel off-balance... it's more of a "these are Big Damn Heroes - emphasis on 'big'" thing. (In fact, the page image for Big Damn Heroes is a decent example)
I'm sure we must have this one.
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I was just watching Robotech, and in episode 5 when Macross does it's transformation half the city is destroyed. Yet in episode 7 it's back to it's ship config and you get the feeling that the city isn't even damaged. You'd expect the ship to stay in robo form since the transformation would no doubt do even more damage. But here, it seem after making such a fuss over the ship transforming the first time, the story seems content to say, 'Oh, that doesn't happen anymore.'
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Happens all over, but the examples I can think of are LATV. A teacher who seemingly only teaches one class a day, like Mr. Kotter on Welcome Back Kotter, Mr. Moore on Head Of The Class, etc.
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Is there a trope for a young male character (elementary school age) who is a sissy? I mean, a sweet-tempered young boy who picks flowers, bakes cookies and such and cries easily. Sometimes also awkward and nerdy. Unlike most boys his age, he likes hanging around girls and generally doesn't believe in cooties. May overlap with Cute Shotaro Boy and various "camp" tropes. May turn out to be a Camp Straight later on in life.
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I'm not sure if it counts as an Innocent Innuendo, but where the audience is clear that something innocent is happening, but other characters aren't? If not, what would be that trope?
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Do We Have This One? If so, what's it called?
Okay, so I think I'm looking for some kind of motivation trope. Basically, the reason that Alice feels obligated to protect or ensure the well-being of Bob is that Alice once saved Bob's life - therefore, she feels "responsible" for him. She believes that, because she made a choice to save Bob from certain death, it is from now on her moral obligation to make sure that no harm comes to Bob ever again. In practice, this perceived moral duty may include keeping an eye on Bob whenever danger lurks around the corner, or perhaps even providing for Bob in terms of shelter, food, money etcetera.
I know I have seen this a number of times before, but I'll be darned if I can think of any examples.
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Do we have that one where the Monster of the Week comes back for exactly one other episode? Like, a Monster Of Two Weeks? They don't show up often enough to be a full Recurring Character, but they come back, so they subvert Monster of the Week. Examples off the top of my head:
- The Powerpuff Girls battled their evil next-door-neighbor in one episode. A later episode had him get out of jail and come back for revenge.
- The Helmacrons in Animorphs were a Villain of the Week in book 24. They came back again with a new scheme in book 42.
- Mizuki in Naruto causes trouble at the beginning of the series and isn't seen again until a filler episode later on, where he comes back and turns into a tiger or something for one episode.
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I was watching one Buffy episode and at the beginning she is dressed exactly the same as Kim Possible, specifically the lime tank top and blue pants she sometimes wears. I don't think this is a Shout Out from KP creator Steve Loter, as it would be fairly obscure. I'm leaning towards Hilarious In Hindsight, given the similarity of the two shows, but I'm wondering if there's a better trope for it.
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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?
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Is there a trope for when someone returns to a place, after not being there for a long time, and sees sorta ethereal younger versions of them self (and others) representing their memories of that place. The only work offhand I know this is in is Astonishing X-Men #1, when Kitty Pryde sees her memories of Xavier's mansion, though I've seen it in other stuff. My mum also directly referred to this sort of trope when she visited my university (which used to be her and my dad's university) after not being here for 23 years, commenting that she could almost see ethereal versions of herself and my father walking the hallways.
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Looking for a trope along the lines of "no-one ever enters and no-one ever leaves" about a city/town or in the case of the above, vault where nobody goes outside, because they believe it is impossible, or their nothing out there.
Of course the story will be about the impossible happening and someone leaving or arriving. One example is vault 101, from fallout 3, as the above quote.
Hi everyone, just starting up here. The damn place sucks so much of my brain away as it is lol.
So my question is this. Is there a trope for badasses who stopped being badasses for a while and then returned to being badasses down the line?