Terrible Tropes with Terrible Names

In your post, respond to the above post's trope name with a brief description of what it might be. Then, add your own terrible name for a trope (don't use a wikilink please) for the next post to describe.

For descriptions, you need not follow any of the rules about tropes, as long as there is some argument that it fits the trope name. Our Giant Space Fleas From Nowhere Are Different could be "A video game that uses more than one boss" for example. The more pointless, self-evident, and/or pointlessly specific, the better.

For names, there are no hard rules, but they should be parody names, meaning, for example:

• Obtuse snowclones and crappy puns on existing tropes.
• Random, meaningless, and/or highly obscure quotes or character names.
• Mashing together troper vocabulary without regard for meaning.

Good luck!

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Instant Water, Just Add A.I.!

Have you seen my comic yet?

Your character is terribly thirsty, but there is no water source around. So they have to do one simple thing: Build a robot or a food replicator with artificial intelligence that makes drinking water.

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Schrödinger's Theon Greyjoy

It's just Schrodinger's Cat but with a Game of Thrones character instead of a cat.

Laser-Guided Fridge Mary Sue.

Edited by HyperReal on May 3rd 2019 at 7:02:06 AM

Toby Fox is the only person to make an mpreg homestuck rock opera and then compose music for smash bros.

Laser Guided Fridge Mary Sue: So this is obviously a badly written female character written by bad fan fic writers (who are all girls) — shame on them! shame for writing self-insert fics — But she's Mary Sue only in very specific ways and only if you really think about it. She may bot even be that badly written at first glance. But she's bad for sure! Sue all along.

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Schrödinger's Theon Greyjoy is named for Theon and his famous 'dick in a box'. Until a father of a castrated son opens the box, his son is both with and without his penis at the same time. Only after the box is opened, viewers know which is true.

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Bizarre Alien X Files Green Goo

Edited by InTheMirror on May 7th 2019 at 10:29:16 AM

A catch-all term of a piece of horror/monster media completely devoid of creativity. Slimes not necessary, but said media would probably include those anyway.

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Everything's Better With Rosie Palms

Timers to measure time, thermometers to measure thermomets, mometers to measure mom, and measuring containers to measure measurements.

Gratuitous use of masturbation.

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Screw This MacGuffin, I Don't Have Morals

Explicit Cargo Ship between a depraved Big Bad and the inanimate Plot Coupon.

Clap Your Hands If You're Named Steve

Migrated to Chloe Jessica!

A work that both averts the One-Steve Limit and involves multiple Steves in a Clap Your Hands If You Believe moment.

Aloof Dark-Furred Tortoiseshell-and-White Cat With Amber Eyes

A distant cat who has yellow eyes and dark green and white fur.

Cannibal Child Complaining While Body Parts are Shaped Like a Z who is Unnamed until Her 573th Birthday

Explains itself quite thoroughly. A trope prevalent in storybook adaptations of Danish soap operas made in 1983.

Middle Child Hates Tomato Sauce And Loves Disco

“Now! Let us engage in the art of deduction!”

Really a terrible trope with a terrible name. No snowclone? No trope namer? No clear-concise-witty effort? I'm disappointed.

That said, it's exactly what is says on the tin. It is someone who is legally a child despite being old by human standards because in society on their planet, children become adults in their 600th year. Their species is also known for cannibalism, autocannibalism and excessive complaining. Their limbs have to be shaped in various letters of Latin alphabet, Z, X, CH and SH being the most common, but Z is the universal favourite. The 573th Birthday is usually called THE NAMEDAY because that is the day everyone can choose their name, which everyone celebrates by complaining about cannibalism and eating their little finger.

There are at least 4 known example from various media.

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Middle Child Hates Tomato Sauce And Loves Disco:

This character as device trope has 5 requirements:

• must be middle child (2nd child of three siblings, 3rd child of five, 4th child of seven, etc.); it's usually a son among daughters or a daughter among sons
• tomato soup is always their trademark hated food, no exception
• loves disco — both music and dancing
• usually drinks from an early age, starts doing drugs really soon, too
• will never sit on chairs, only ever sits on the ground or on the couch

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Did You Just Dump Manic Pixie Dream Cthulhu?

Edited by InTheMirror on May 7th 2019 at 6:10:50 AM

When you break up with a monster who is sweet.

Child on a Chair

Exactly What It Says on the Tin. May or may not overlap with Edgy Backwards Chair-Sitting.

Our Fridges Are Different

Fridges are portrayed differently in various cultures and across media. Some are white, some are red, some are black, some have pictures on them, some have magnets... you get the idea.

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What Measure Is a Diabolicus Ex Machina Rabbit Hole?

The degrees of a hole with rabbits in it which comes out of nowhere and serves to ruin the plot.

Has at least 50 sightings in various media.

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Everything's Better with a Butter-Covered Young Memer

By themselves, young memers are, well, pretty boring. But cover them in butter (for the memes, of course) and they automatically makes every scene butter.

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Egregiously What It Says On The Tin

Hey how you doing well I'm doing just fine I lied I'm dying inside

It is, indeed, just what it says on the tin, but only because this meaning has been shoehorned in over a description or name that actually sounds good or less clunky

The Waluigi

"Leftover items still have value!"

a character that is often memed as a loser. aka, Memetic Loser

Pee Pee Poo Poo

Bathrooms appear in a work, or are mentioned.

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The Bank Teller

Not necessarily about, as the name might imply, actual bank tellers, but rather any character who have a deep knowledge about banks and can tell you everything you need to know about them

Evil Villain

"Leftover items still have value!"

A villain who is at best typically evil and at worst horrifically depraved.

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Good Hero

Google Snake Game.

A double meaning: not only is the hero a good person, they're also a well-written character

One Alice And Bob Limit

"Leftover items still have value!"

bump

"Leftover items still have value!"

bump, and let's replace it with...

Fridge Badass

Edited by Zanreo on May 19th 2020 at 1:10:57 PM

"Leftover items still have value!"

when you realize something that someone did is pretty badass after missing it the first time

Fridge Thought