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resolved Tricked into Investigating for Evildoer Literature
To paraphrase, I am looking for relevant TV tropes for the following situation a few of us had come up in a LARP recently (put it under literature because it feels like something that might happen as a plot twist in a book and didn't see a category quite fitting LARP):
A group of people breaks into the office of someone they suspect is a spy for a major enemy to the kingdom, looking for information, while one person plays decoy. The decoy gets identified as part of the group because one of them blurts out something blowing the decoy's cover of pretending to not be part of the group. The baddie lets the decoy leave with the group (knowing that their cover is blown)- for the moment.
Baddie then goes to the secretly invading group to let them know what happen. They hire a PI- who is generally a decent, "lawful good" type and cite the various minor laws the group of people that did the break-in violated, say the decoy was a co-conspirator, and ask the PI to investigate the decoy and find out who is linked to them and who might've been one of the intruders in the office. PI provides information on the decoy and identifies 2 other people.... and unwittingly ends up enabling the kidnapping and torture of the decoy and those two with their information, making the three innocent people trying to stop baddies victims of far worse crimes than the few they committed (breaking-and-entering, vandalism, theft, trespassing)
What trope or tropes is that?
resolved Touch to Activate Power
A character has to have physical contact with something in order to use their powers. Usually a brief touch is enough. For example:
Uraraka from My Hero Academia has to touch objects to use her gravity powers on them.
Shigaraki (also from MHA) has to touch people with all five of his fingers in order to disintegrate them.
Soifon from Bleach has to touch someone twice in the same spot to instantly kill them.
Jaune from Arc of the Revolution has to make physical contact in order to amplify the Aura of someone (unlike in canon where he can do this from a distance).
Matthew from Weight of the World has to touch someone in order to erase their memory. His brother has to have physical contact with technology in order to manipulate it.
Gambit has to touch objects to turn their potential energy into kinetic energy. Rogue can copy people's powers by touching them.
Is there a trope or TLP for this? I know Touch Telepathy and Touch of Death exist but there does not seem to be a trope for other touch-activated powers.
Edited by EmeraldSkyresolved Empathy through similarities (SOLVED)
A character feels particular empathy towards another character's troubles since they went through something similar in the past. For example, Alice understands Bob's troubles and is more patient with him than some because she used to be an alcoholic. I swear I've seen this one but I'm blanking on its name.
Edited by EmeraldSkyresolved Stock Anime Movie Plot (aka Instant anime movie, just add MacGuffin Girl!) SOLVED
Often when a Shonen anime series gets a movie, a female character is created for the movie and it's the heroes' job to protect that girl from the villains who want her for some power or other reason. The girl usually falls in love with the main hero too, though it naturally goes nowhere. I've seen this plot done a lot, particularly in Shonen movies.
Is there a trope for this commonly-used anime movie plotline of creating a female original character for the movie and using her in a "protect her from baddies"/Living MacGuffin type way? This isn't about the girl herself so much as the plot that comes with her.
Examples of movies with this type of plot: Fairy Tail the Movie: Phoenix Priestess, Bleach: Memories of Nobody, Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos, Fullmetal Alchemist and the Broken Angel (anime video game example), Naruto Shippuden: The Movie, Naruto the Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow, Hunter x Hunter: Phantom Rogue.
Edited by EmeraldSkyresolved Destroy the Weapon and a New Magic/Superpowered World
First, I'm looking for two similar but distinct tropes.
1. After a climactic battle, the heroes get the dangerous Legendary Weapon away from the villain, only to find it was accidentally broken during the fight.
2. After a climactic battle, the heroes get the dangerous Legendary Weapon away from the villain. They intentionally destroy it so no one else can use its power since it is so dangerous.
This is less about the "weapon" itself (it could be a Legendary Weapon, an Artifact of Doom, a Fantastic Nuke, etc.) and more about it being used and then destroyed in the end: accidentally in one case, purposely in the other.
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The other trope I'm looking for is the opposite of The Magic Goes Away, where instead of leaving, magic or other superpowers start appearing in the world. Appearing, not reappearing. So it's not The Magic Comes Back because there were no powers or magic before this point. It's like in My Hero Academia when superpowers started showing up years before the storyline began.
Edit: Ignore that last one. I found it. It's The Magic Comes Back, Subverted.
Edited by EmeraldSkyresolved Celebrity brought on just to be killed
I remember a trope about celebrity actors brought on just to be killed quickly in shows with things like Sean Bean in Game of Thrones (not Chronically Killed Actor)
Adam Conover character's death in the first episode of the the new Troopers brought it to mind
Edited by jormis29resolved Missing letters in sign make it say something different
I've seen it at least three times:
- In The Moon Over Manifest, a sign is meant to say, "Manifest: a town with a great past and a reasonable future" but it's rusty so all it says is "Manifest: a town with a past".
- In The Midnight Gang, most of the hospital signs have missing letters, so the one for the children's ward says, "WAR" among several others.
- In Puss in Boots, a neon sign is meant to say "Glitter Box" but the "G" is missing, so it says, "litter box".
resolved Rhetorical question used to say yes?
Like the classic "does a bear sh*t in the woods?".
resolved character named after actor Film
Hi, is there a trope for characters having a name related to the actor playing them?
resolved Addressing someone by species.
What's the trope for when someone uses a character's species instead of name? For example, a robot saying, "Hello, human" to a human.
resolved Opposite of Its All About Me and Attention Whore
This might be a few tropes.
Bob is in mental, physical, or emotional pain but always focuses on other people's pain and misery and never his own. He bottles up his emotions, plants on a smile, and tries to help his friends through their suffering. He also deflects others' attempts to focus on him and insist they should worry about the other people. This comes from Bob's extremely low self-worth: he genuinely believe others' lives are worth more than his and is confused why people focus on him when they should (in his mind) be helping the others (even though Bob's injuries and suffering are the worst). It gets to the point where other characters wish Bob would be self-centered just so he'll take care of himself.
So we have: 1) Puts others before himself (often at the cost of his own health) beyond the point of reason. (Though not to the point of parody). 2) Low self-worth that makes Bob see no value in his life or health. 3) Bob's confusion why people care about his well-being and see worth in his life. 4) Other characters wishing Bob would change so he'd take care of himself for once.
What are the tropes for this situation? I tried looking at the inverses of It's All About Me and Attention Whore but none seem to fit.
Edited by EmeraldSkyresolved Fails to See Reality
In the fanfic Grey Skies Over London Arthur fails to see reality when it comes to Alfred. He genuinely believes Alfred was "kidnapped" (reality: Alfred rebelled against Arthur willingly), Alfred is terrified of his former "captors" (reality: he's shaking and crying in grief because his friends are being executed), and Alfred has become broken and gone mute because of the trauma from his "kidnapping and attempted brainwashing" (reality: he has become broken and gone mute because Arthur has kept him locked up and made him watch the executions of the people he cared about). Would Arthur be Obliviously Evil or is there another trope (maybe an Insanity one) that fits this scenario?
Edited by EmeraldSkyresolved Sacrificial Lion But Lives
Is there a trope where a significant character is permanently injured (often in a Career Ending way) to show the villain is a threat? It's like Sacrificial Lion minus the death part. For example:
- Havoc from Fullmetal Alchemist faces Lust and gets a spear through the spine and loses the use of his legs.
- Also from Fullmetal Alchemist, Lan Fan faces King Bradley and loses an arm.
- Yang from RWBY faces Adam and loses an arm.
- Barbara Gordon is permanently paralyzed after being shot by the Joker.
resolved Not so long trip
Which would be the trope for a character that needs to leave their friends or party to search for something, cut to them exhausted and about to collapse of thirst...just for one of their friends to offer some water and reveal that they haven't travel that long?
resolved why did they drop their weapon Film
I don't think this is Do Not Drop Your Weapon which is about video games.
I am thinking of cases in which the protagonist abandons weapons in spite of still being in danger. This is especially obvious in The Raid in which the protagonist loses his police baton and his knife, then makes his injured buddy drop his combat knife, then has to do some surgey using a butter knife. And after that he walks in a corridor ignoring his own baton (plainly visible onscreen), and ends up fighting weaponless against people with machetes.
(In this case this is obviously because Rule of Cool).
Edited by gropcbfresolved Why is this even here
A head-height signboard that just says "Watch your head" or something.
resolved The loot-and-burn-the-city riot.
What is the trope when people discover something terrible about their society (ex: the end is near, the government has been doing immoral things behind the scenes, their favorite sport's team lost the match, etc.) and begin rioting? The people loot the stores, burn all the buildings, fight the police/soldiers, drag out those they blame for their problems and execute them, and maybe throw a Molotov Cocktail here and there, resulting in enforcers stepping in to (usually violently) attempt to disperse the mob. One instance I can think of is the scene in The Hunger Games where District 11 rioted.
Edited by EmeraldSkyresolved You have n hours Film
The boss asks technicians how much time they need to complete a task. They honestly answer they need like two days. Their boss says they have only one day, and nobody complains. (Generally they manage to do said task in that arbitrary shorter time due to the power of doing their jobs).
(I think Mad Max the Road Warrior did that, and Speed Racer the film played with that).
Edited by gropcbf
Sub-Trope of Artistic License – Law. In real life, a deed needs to specify the previous and new owners of the property being transferred, and usually needs to be officially registered. In fiction, they're treated as though anybody who gets hold of the deed document becomes rightful owner of the property.
Do we have this one? I'm sure I've seen it a lot, but I can only recall one specific example: