KirbyRider
Since: Nov, 2011
Mar 7th 2012 at 3:22:26 PM
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- Played Straight: Brick can send tremors and manipulate rocks.
- Exaggerated: Brick can travel through water in the form of mud.
- Downplayed: Brick can only manipulate earth powers when he has rocks, sand, mud, etc. near him.
- Justified: Brick is a monster made of rock.
- Inverted: Brick resists earth, but doesn't control it.
- Alternatively, he can't stand Earth. As said before in the other inversion, he doesn't control it.
- Subverted: Brick throws a rock, but he actually picked it up.
- Double Subverted: He then gets earth abilities
- Deconstructed: Brick's abilities are uncontrollable, so he wears glass armor to shield himself from his own abilities.
- Alternatively, Brick only uses Earth when Earth is needed.
- Reconstructed: He then learns how to use earth powers.
- Parodied: Brick uses his Earth powers for trivial purposes.
- Averted: Brick does not control any element.
- Lampshaded:"Please don't spoil our food with your powers. OK, Brick?"
- Enforced: "I <3 Earth, so let's give our hero Earth powers"
- Invoked: See Reconstructed
- Defied: Brick tries not to learn Earth Powers
- Discussed: "Those tremors, sand, rocks..." "I know, Brick's powers aren't my faves"
- Conversed: "From those movies... Let's say Brick controls Earth"
Stoogebie
Since: Apr, 2011
Mar 31st 2013 at 6:49:21 PM
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Suggestion:
- Inverted: Blow You Away (Air is considered the opposite element to earth)
DarthBatarang
Since: Jun, 2012
Telcontar
MOD
Since: Feb, 2012
Nov 4th 2012 at 4:53:29 AM
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Redirect, sure, but a rename isn't needed here.
Edit: Oh, it's already a redirect to Closer to Earth.
Edited by Telcontar That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
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DataAngel
Since: Nov, 2009
DataAngel
Jan 6th 2012 at 1:18:12 PM
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Does Ludo from Labyrinth count as a film example, since he could call rocks?
SabreJustice
Since: Dec, 1969
Jun 20th 2010 at 9:00:14 AM
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I still think this trope should be called I Feel The Earth Move. I suppose it doesn't fit the pun titles of the element tropes, but I like old songs.
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Ju
Since: Jan, 2014
Feb 15th 2011 at 12:48:42 PM
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Seconded. Most of the examples here are more rock-related powers anyway, so the theme doesn't make much sense to me.
Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Extent of crossover between Elemental Shapeshifter and
, started by Leaper on Apr 23rd 2011 at 12:19:30 AM
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