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openKnight of Cerebus opposite
is there a inverted/opposite version of the trope Knight of Cerebus where somebody light and happy makes a very dark and bleak story cleanly light, instead of a scary and evil antagonist appearing to make the lighthearted story dark
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)
openAffectionate face touch
When a character place in his hand on his loves face in a sign of affection or understanding,protection , romance, or love.
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.
openDescribe these tropes and deviations of Demeter
Demeter:
•Manifested in a forest along with her sisters.
•Her sisters are Hestia and Hera (No blood relations to Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades.)
•Created Persephone using magic.
•Was killed by Hera when she went to save Persephone from Apollo.
•No mentions of killing people during her depression but Persephone mentions her driving a king to eat himself over the accidental murder of some nymphs.
openStanding out by looking plain in trendy society.
Do we have some trope about that when you look plain, you actually stand out because most of the people are generally very fashionable?
This is somehow becoming Truth in Television in some parts of the world.
openFlanderization Projection
Similar to Psychological Projection, but instead of "everyone thinks and acts like me", it's "everyone thinks and acts the way I think they do". Basically, when Bob needs to put himself in Alice's shoes, he uses the flanderized (often insultingly so) version rather than his own viewpoint, and is just as wrong.
e.g.
- Alice is Bob's adult daughter's girlfriend, which he does not approve of (Bob lives in a small town in the Deep South and believes homosexuals drag innocents to Hell with them). When Alice is known to have gone missing he suggests searching bars, drug dens and other places where lowlifes live, since to him that's where his imagined version of Alice spends her days.
- Carl is asked what to get his coworker Diana for her birthday. Since she works in accounting and says she enjoys it, Carl answers "a high-end calculator", since his imaginary version of Diana does accounting for fun (and since Accountants Are Boring, can't imagine her wanting to go on a tropical vacation).
- Ed is on vacation in Yosemite, when he runs into a bear. Since he thinks All Animals Are Dogs, he tries throwing a stick for it to catch and gets mauled.
openAge-inappropriate buxom.
A girl's bust is rather too developed for her age.
Example is Eins of Three Forbidden Books who is 9 but appears to have at least a B-cup.
Edited by sohibilopenRemember the bounty hunter in Ord Mantell? Film
When characters refer to an offscreen event, that is never explained, they are very familiar with but we are completely in the dark. The first mention of the Clone Wars was this. Not exactly Shrouded in Myth, sometimes they are offhand jokes like: "We saved you in World War II !!" "Yeah, well,we saved YOU in World War III!!!"
openAbsent Antagonists
A work that features a central conflict against someone or something (foreign country, aliens, zombies etc.) as a backdrop also has a conspicuous absence of them, focusing on the antagonists on their own side.
e.g. A work set in the trenches of WWI (on either side) that never shows the enemy, only the occasional bombardment but never any soldiers, and most of the conflict is between soldiers and officers, deserters and loyalists, two soldiers who hated each other before being conscripted into the same battalion, etc.
open"The colors are too dull or depressing"
Is there an existing Audience Reaction or YMMV for this?
A work is criticized for its choice of colors being too "dull", "depressing", or unsaturated. For example:
- Fans do not like that a work (or a sequel) uses the Real Is Brown trope.
- The work originally has a vibrant color palette for the first half, but then the second half uses unsaturated colors which fans don't like.
- Some fans like the work for having a general unsaturated color palette, but others don't, hence YMMV.
openA duo made of a warrior and a diplomat
I don't think we have a trope for when a warrior and a diplomat are part of a Red Oni, Blue Oni duo. Sort of like Combat, Diplomacy, Stealth, but without Stealth, and it's two characters.
Unless Athens and Sparta can apply to characters.
openVillain harms a female minion before the male hero can.
It's kind of like Designated Girl Fight, only it's the villain that conviently disposes of a female Mook just so the male hero dosen't has to harm her.
openCaptain Estraz for a setting
Is there are page for settings that are based on another work's setting?
Examples
- Abiotic Factor is a Survival Sandbox set in a faculty based of Black Mesa from Half-Life
- GURPS Reign of Steel is the future of the The Terminator films with a few more skynets for variety
- Xenomorphs: The Fall of Somerset Landing for Whats Old Is New is based of world of Alien
openHow would you describe this figure from Mexican Folklore?
El Charro Negro:
•A legend that originated in Mexican folklore from remote places of Tlaxcala, Veracruz, Puebla and Hidalgo; to date the outskirts of the metropolitan area of Mexico City and even in the interior neighborhood of Coyoacán.
•He usually appears at dusk in streets and lonely sidewalks, always looking for a pedestrian to whom to offer gold coins, which he takes out of a small bag that he always carries around the waist.
•He’s a rather tall, elegant-looking man in impeccable black suit made up of a jacket, a shirt, tight pants and a wide-brimmed hat wanders in the depths of the night in the lonely stretches that join the little things that unite the small towns of rural Mexico on the back of a huge, jet-black horse.
•In one variation, he’s actually a demonic figure.
•His supposed backstory is that he once came from humble origins. He was poor but extremely vain and greedy. One day that greed got the better of him and he sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for infinite wealth. However he soon began to regret his decision. The people around him didn’t like him, they liked his money. He decided he was gonna escape all of that. Dressed in an elegant black suit and wide-brimmed hat, he packed his bags and tried to leave town. However, the Devil caught up to him quicker than expected and collected his debt. Ever since then, he looks for someone to take his place in hell.
•He’s known for manipulating and seducing women.
openNot Your Fault But You're Responsible
A character is causing problems for everyone else through no fault of their own, or rather, they had no intention of causing problems but it's still the case.
e.g. Bob has allergies, and he sneezes loudly and often. Everyone at work sympathizes with him, but as the day goes by everyone starts dreading the next one, Alice The Stoic starts showing teeth every time Bob sneezes, Carl the Nice Guy starts to fantasize about how easy it would be to strangle Bob, etc. The solution they find is to put him to work in an isolated office where his sneezes won't interrupt, which isn't great for Bob but it lets the rest of the team work.
Edited by Chabal2openWar between different deities creations
Different gods create their own types of life, which fight.
Example being Evangelion where Humans, created by lilith, engage in war against the Angels, created by adam.
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.