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openCharacter is treated as dead due to their profession or choices.
I feel like this is a trope we have (or fits under one) but I can't find it. Basically the idea would be that a person is still alive but their family acts as if they are dead (sometimes to the point of holding a funeral) due to traditions related to their career or life choices. The examples I'm thinking of would be Dwarf Knockermen from Discworld, Canim Hunters from Codex Alera and Nora Deathseekers from Horizon Zero Dawn. In each case the person is going into a profession with a high mortality rate (and in the case of the Canim one that is also dishonorable) so their family/friends basically holds a funeral for them ahead of time and treats them as if they are dead.
There would also be the negative examples where a family holds a funeral for someone who's choices they disagree with, such as leaving a religion but the examples I was thinking of are positive ones (for certain values of positive)
I was thinking about these three examples and trying to find a trope where they would fit but couldn't really find one. Tropes I considered:
- Legally Dead - sort of fits except that everyone involved knows that they are alive (for now)
- Death of Personality - doesn't really fit since who they are hasn't changed, just what they are doing. This also appleis to sub-tropes for this such as That Man Is Dead.
- Un-person - in some ways this is closest except that people aren't denying their existence, just holding a funeral ahead of time. The same goes for I Have No Son!.
Any thoughts on this?
Edited by Adeonopen"Copy. I killed your friend."
When there's silence from an operative's radio or communicator, leading to concern and repeated "do you copy?" from other operatives or higher-ups, until the silence is broken by the voice of a known enemy gloating or threatening them, implying that said operative is killed or captured. It came to mind after seeing a clip from the Clone Wars where Asajj Ventress hears the voices of troops over the radio of a dead clone, trying to communicate with him. She smiles and I thought for sure she was going to answer the radio herself, but no.
The only example I could think of, however, is from this movie Run, Hide, Fight, where a school shooter kills a lunch lady while she still has an active call open with her husband, then the shooter picks up the phone to brag about the murder to him.
openStep Activated Trap
When a character sets on a floor panel, which is actually a button trigging a booby trap.
openDescribe this power set for villain! Apollo (God of the sun)
•Sun Manipulation: When the sun is out, he can create and manipulate things made directly from the sun. Can summon by shouting into the sun while reaching out.
>Η οργή του ήλιου (Fury of the sun): Can summon miniature crossbows on his wrist and shoot tiny arrows at a rapid speed.
>Δοξάστε τον ήλιο (Praise the sun): Blast people with sunlight. Can either blind or kill them depending on usage.
>Μελωδία του φωτός της ημέρας (Melody of the light of day): He can summon his lyre and start playing beautiful that can sometimes control and cause people to dance to their death.
•Healing potions
•Immortality:
>Eternal youth (Forever looking like he’s 21)
•Prophecy
•Plague creation
Notes:
- Partially inspired by Lore Olympus Apollo and MK 1 (2023) Shang Tsung
openOne last little thing
Which best covers these, when one last little thing happens, perhaps as part of a magical process?
- Mary Poppins: At the end of the "tidy the nursery" scene, when the furniture is still dancing about, Mary Poppins yells "When you've quite finished". Everything goes silent, apart from the cupboard doors, which make one last plink.
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: When Dumbledore and Slughorn put the wrecked house back in order, the chandelier returns to the ceiling; one last piece is caught under Harry's foot, which eventually flies back into place.
opena king/queen (or something similiar) is friends with a peasant
Basically, the platonic version of Uptown Girl. Is there a trope for it?
openAdopting your kill's relative
A character kills someone (whether as a Professional Killer, a brawl, or in a battle), then decides to adopt and raise the deceased's relative (usually their child) as their own.
openAccidental Oathbreaker
What would the trope be for this situation: A knight is assigned to guard a princess and her handmaiden during a long sea voyage towards the princess' Arranged Marriage, chosen specifically because he has no interest in her. The knight is regularly visited at night by the handmaiden and they sleep together with the lights out, but he's kind of upset that the handmaiden barely acknowledges his presence in daytime given her enthusiasm after dark. Once the trip ends, the bombshell drops that it was the princess who was sleeping with him all along, and he realizes he's broken his every vow of loyalty to sleep with a woman he wasn't even attracted to in the first place, not to mention the diplomatic consequences.
openPushing someone's words back onto them
Used when Alice insults Bob but instead of Bob getting hurt he twists the insult and uses it to hurt Alice, which ends up working
Ex: In HH's "Stayed Gone", a duel vs Alastor and Vox, Vox starts the song by saying "Welcome home; I'm gonna make you wish that you stayed gone. Say hello to a new status quo, everybody knows that there's a brand new dawn - Turn the tv ON" and, at the end of the song, Alastor says "Let's begin - i'm gonna make you wish that I stayed gone. Tune on in~ When i'm done, Your status quo is gonna know it's race is run~ Oh, this will be fun!"
openSubtle exploration limiters in an otherwise wide-open game Videogame
In a game that is otherwise a Wide-Open Sandbox or at least a particularly wide-open example of it's genre, there are subtle limitations put in place keeping the player from exploring too high of level areas or getting exceptional gear too early. It'd be in a similar vein to something like a Beef Gate or Ability Required to Proceed, but less overt.
For example, in Unicorn Overlord, there are several literal Broken Bridges to side areas throughout the game that require getting a certain amount of a certain resource to repair. Some of them lead to really good items, but the game doesn't offer enough of the required resource until you've progressed through most of the region in which they're located, at which point the items are still good but less game-breaking.
TIA for anything!
openBe the Brush!
Not to be confused for Body Paint, when painting takes a level of extreme. Say an artist has a big canvas, and the artist covers their body in paint, and smash their body across the canvas, making a great art piece!
openIncessant chatting leads to character's downfall
Are there any tropes on characters who are endless talkers but are unaware their conversation is being recorded? Engineered Public Confession seems one, but are there other tropes that pertain to criminals and villains being taken down this way?
openMarkers/Pings Videogame
A mechanic in some games where you can place down a set marker or send out a ping to your teammates to say "stand here," "shoot that guy," "move that box," "jump off a cliff" etc
Edited by AwkbutTVTopenIn-Universe Allegory
Just a quick question: is Allegory applicable to Show Within a Show In-Universe?
openDesperately screaming their authority
Do we have one for this, where somebody is in a desperate situation, and they cling desperately to some "authority" which they may have? This can sometimes be covered with I Am the Trope, but this would not cover the Nanny Mcphee example.
Two examples involving Imelda Staunton:
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: As the centaurs carry her away, she screams "I am senior undersecretary to the Minster of Magic!"
- Nanny Mcphee: As the children are tying her up in the kitchen, she says the repeated line "they do not come in here, I have it in writing".
Also:
- The Madness of King George: As the King is being tied to the chair, he yells "I am the King of England!"
openMedia where there's a lot of profanity used by the characters/narrator.
I am looking for a trope that deals with stories with lots of swear word usage
openFluff Hater
A character who hates saccharine and "girly" stuff like ponies, plushies, pink, etc.
openFake religiosity
Someone becomes (or pretends to be) a part of a religious order despite not believing in any of its creed in order to reap benefits of being a part of the organization.
My question is if this scene counts as camera abuse or as a rupture of reality since when looking at it closely there is a scene in which the broken glass is behind the two spheres, if it were camera abuse they would be in front, in addition to that at no point do the spheres collide with the screen or get close to it, that's why maybe I think it's breaking reality, since as far as I can remember, the scenes that I can remember are one from the movie Dragon Ball vs Broly in the one where the fighters bump fists breaking reality, but I'm not totally sure.
The only thing that matters to me is that you confirm if that is an abusive camera or not.
I put the scenes in this reddit link where I ask the same thing, the ones I'm referring to, the one above is the scene from Sousou no Frieren and the one below is from the movie that I'm giving you as an example.
https://www.reddit.com/r/tvtropes/comments/1cdr7p4/doubt_about_this_scene/