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resolved Time compressed for dramatic purposes Live Action TV
Events that, in the real world, would occur over months or years are portrayed in fiction as taking place over a few hours, days, or weeks. Some examples:
1. Trials: On television, they make it look like a person gets arrested, and then their trial happens a few weeks later. In reality, it can take months or years. They do the same thing with civil cases: The car accident happens, the next day someone gets served with a complaint, there are one or two depositions over the course of the following couple of weeks, then there is a dramatic trial. Pretty much every legal procedure show (The Practice, Law and Order, JAG, etc.) does this.
2. Medical problems: Someone goes to the hospital with a medical problem. Over the next day or two, their doctors do a long list of scans, blood tests, biopsies, and other tests. Once the problem is diagnosed, surgery is scheduled for the next day, and then after a couple of days of recovery the patient, now cured, goes home. House, MD is a prime offender.
Is there a Troupe for events that would normally take place over a long span of time being portrayed as occurring in an unrealistically short timeframe for dramatic purposes?
resolved Early Career Weirdness
Does Early-Installment Weirdness cover cases where a creator's early output is significantly different from what follows? (e.g. an author writes one realistic novel for adults, and then spends the rest of her career writing children's fantasy)
If not, do we have something that does cover it?
resolved Dev Leaving stuff in for Datamines Videogame
Okay, I KNOW this is a trope, but I forget the name: what's it called when a developer leaves little things in the files that would otherwise not be found for dataminers?
resolved Real life is a StoryWithinAStory
Is there such a trope for stories in which real life, or some event that happens in our world, exists as a fictional story by the characters? It's basically Story Within a Story, except that the "story within a story" layer and the "real life" layer are the same.
resolved Mafia TV show, long episodes 10-20 years ago
Can you please find a show for me here is its plot 2 kids lost their mom, mafia killed her and want to kill these kids as well cuz they saw too much one random woman is running away at the start when she took the kids they ran away with a boat from one harbor with them to somewhere else this woman does not know much about them but knows their mom got killedshe is trying to save them by contacting police firstly but unfortunately, a high ranking police detective or smth like that is corrupted and trying to get these 2 kids only for the mafiaso she became wanted and marked as kidnapper of themcuz she cannot rely on the police, she trying to get to the paris for a help some ppl finds out she is that wanted one in the train while she was trying to escapeshe came to the one house where was her partner or smth like that and old man who owns that big house, but later mafia arrives there, trying to get info on where are these kids and that woman, then mafia kills both cuz they dont wanna cooperate anyways one of the kids saw that, and that corrupted cop saw him as well, and makes gestures so that kid can leavethat corrupted cop starting disliking his cooperation with that mafia and their actions, so he would like to change the sides, but ofc he cannot do that so quickly and simply, otherwise he might die kids were like 12-13 that woman was mature, brown hair ig, was not very skinny there was also one scene which happened after the train incident, where she tried to disguise herself one the girl was sick so she tried to get her help one doctor contacted them and invited them to his house he acted like does not know them but he knew that doctor just recognised them from the TV where it was showing her being WANTED but they escaped the episodes are long and it was released about 10-20 years ago
Edited by MaiLuxresolved Walking Spoiler but no
Like the trope Walking Spoiler, but instead of a character in a piece of media being a Walking Spoiler , a media itself is a Walking Spoiler. Examples include but are not limited to Undertale/Deltarune, There Is No Game, and The Stanley Parable, with the latter(TSP) being the most on the nose in terms of this trope
Edited by GxchxFxndomsresolved Worldbuilding Creep
Do we have a trope for when a serialized story starts off with relatively soft Worldbuilding (i.e. the author doesn't hesitate to throw random stuff in for the sake of narrative or just a laugh), which eventually gets harder and harder in the sequels, as the rules of the setting become formalized and ossified? So far, I have found Continuity Creep (which is related, but not the same) and Early-Installment Weirdness (which is only for elements that become obsolete as the world rules get nailed down).
resolved Puffed up in the Published Version
A (male) politician decides to publish copies of some of the speeches he's made, but they significantly deviate from what he actually said. He's edited some lines to make him sound more confident than he actually was, and he even adds entirely new passages, some of which approach Purple Prose.
resolved I know you too well
A character is able to tell how another is feeling because they know them intimately. The Social Expert but for one specific person, essentially
resolved Foreign cover song
I was curious if there was a trope about something like this (also as a way of finding music to listen to) - Basically, media using a "foreign" (i.e. non-original (typically English) language) version of a pop song.
For example, Orphan Black uses the singer Eileen's German-language version of "These boots are made for walkin'" for a scene where the protagonist disguises herself as a German socialite.
Or like Minions: The Rise of Gru takes inspiration from Kung Fu Movies and spy capers and uses a sort of "James Bond-y" Chinese-language cover of the Cher song "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)"
resolved Certain gory scenes are censored even if AdjustableCensorship is disabled Videogame
A video game has Adjustable Censorship to censor or outright remove otherwise-prevalent Gorn; however, there are specific gory scenes which are deliberately censored, even if the Adjustable Censorship is disabled. I'd normally classify this under Gory Discretion Shot, but I can find no examples where shots are left as-is, but, instead, censored. Is this in fact an example of Gory Discretion Shot? Another trope? Or not an example of a trope?
resolved Irrelevant Conversation
Two characters carry on a ridiculous conversation whose subject matter is completely irrelevant to the story. The only reason it matters is because there is an ongoing conversation, either so they have something to do before something important happens or possibly to provide a reason for why they might be distracted.
resolved Tropem related to invention
What is name of trope related to something like "scientist created New invention, good right? Well they doesn't understand how it even works. Oh, that might be the problem"
resolved Trope about attacking with Toys
I know there are tropes about equipping remote-controlled toys with real weapons, but is there one specifically about using toys (of any kind) to attack people? Maybe a toy gun that shoots real bullets or stuffed animals with real claws?
resolved The emperor has no clothes
Everyone can see that something isn't true, but they all act like they believe it because everyone else says it's true, and they don't want to look stupid by being the dissenter.
resolved Ask and you shall receive?
Is there a trope for when a character wants something and gets it simply by asking nicely?
Politeness Judo is the closest one I've found. Is there a more appropriate trope?
resolved No Title
One person is humiliated by two people at once, who are teasing them and treating them like the next Meg Griffin
What is this trope?
resolved How did you get into my room?
I'm pretty sure that Batman does this a few times, but in any case, what is the trope for when a character breaks in another character's place and waits till they return to talk to them? I can't seem to find it.
resolved Character Thinks The Past Villains Are Holograms When Surrounded But They Are Real
This Trope Is That In Season 3 Of "The Epic Tales Of Captain Underpants" The Past Villains Were Halograms, But I'm Wondering If Theirs a Trope Were The Past Villains Are Real.
A flashback scene will feature characters wearing stereotypical fashion items of the era, to an exaggerated level, even if in the series' present time they just dress in clothes that might be common in different settings, such as suits, white shirts, and so on.
For instance, in The Simpsons, Dr. Hibbert has a short hairdo that doesn't really stand out, but in flashbacks he'll have jheri curls, braids or dreadlocks depending on the era.
Even Homer wears a nondescript white shirt and jeans, but is fashion-focused on flashbacks, like in That '90s Show, he wore an 8-Ball jacket over a hoodie... even though when the show actually aired in the 90ies, he had the same white shirt.
Might be a Justified Trope in that characters might care more about fashion when they're young, but still...