The TVTropes Trope Finder is where you can come to ask questions like "Do we have this one?" and "What's the trope about...?" Trying to rediscover a long lost show or other medium but need a little help? Head to You Know That Show and try your luck there. Want to propose a new trope? You should be over at You Know, That Thing Where.
(sub)-plot of trying to keep someone from getting dangerous power
Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Ethical magical girls try to keep regular girls from becoming magical.
Accel World where two friends try to keep Chiyu from Brain Burst?
I guess it's Locked Out of the Loop or something.
Edited by Malady
Rape? Claim it's consentual Live Action TV
A rapist claims his victim agreed to have sex. Had this been true, it would have been legal.
Edited by Someone1981
"Powerful attack" quote Videogame
I'm looking for a trope about what someone says before doing their Limit Break or other powerful moves. Calling Your Attacks seems like it's for when they call the exact name of their attack, but I'm looking for the more "general" version of it
Do we have it?
Porn Raid
Haven't seen this in shows where I've seen it occurred. In anime, manga, etc., you can almost be certain anytime a girl enters the male lead's bedroom, especially if she has any potential as a love interest, one of the first things she's going to do is try and find the guy's porn stash. Sometimes the guy will try to stop her, likely resulting in them crashing in a convenient position (and naturally getting interrupted immediately). If instead she finds something, chances are almost certain she's going to find something surprising and/or offensive. Either the contents are too close to her, or contain things too far from her, or maybe involve some questionable fetish, or maybe there's just far too many. In any case, the raid always happens. Heck, I've even seen cases where a group of girls comes by and then proceed to search with the kind of planning and efficiency that makes it clear they worked everything out well before arriving.
Doesn't like being touched
Do we have a trope by this title? I noticed that "Dead End Paranormal Park" has redirects to it but it takes me to a page that states the troup doesn't exist, does it exist under a different name?
What's it called when someone is helping from behind someone else's back?
Alice and Bob are facing each other, Charlie is behind Bob's back, facing Alice; Alice can see Charlie, but not Bob. Charlie is doing something behind Bob's back in an attempt to help Alice out somehow - miming actions, mouthing words, whatever. It's pretty common, so I'd be very surprised if there wasn't already a trope page for it, but I can't figure out what it might be called and I'm having no success searching for it.
Inflection/context changes meaning of a single word
One-Word Vocabulary is about characters who only ever speak one word. They might say it with different inflections to mean different things, but they only ever say one actual word. But shouldn't there be a supertrope (or sister trope) for that, where it's not necessarily the case that a character can only say one word, but situations where one word is used multiple times and it has very different meanings each time? Not about the characters themselves, but about the language? Like here
. Is that a trope?
The Crazy Person with a Plushie
Abandonment-Induced Betrayal
Is there a trope where a character is motivated to do a Face?Heel Turn (or the reverse) because they were left behind/left for dead? I've searched for it, but the closest I could find was Left for Dead, but that doesn't seem to fit.
Edited by dragonwing7
Rhinestone Switch Literature
A woman is given or lent a diamond, and cleverly replaces it with a rhinestone replica - when she has to return the diamond (like if she breaks up with the man who gave it), she keeps the real one and returns the replica.
Jack Reacher and Ryan (?) Film
I'm looking for the trope that is mainly used on Reacher. Claimed that "you don't find him, he finds you" as well as something of a Ghost Trope that Reacher has since nobody prior to the Film knew who he was, just a name but no face. Not even fingerprints.
They/Them
New town
The tendency for people to name a newly established town after a town that they previously lived in. Simply calling the town, ?New X.? For example, Joe once lived in Tropersville, but it got destroyed in a nasty fire. Joe decides to build a new town, and calls it ?New Tropersville.?
A queen advises a new king when he needs guidance
Two rulers of kingdoms have a strong alliance and consider each others equals. However, one of them is young and in need of guidance occasionally. A role the other ruler advises him in since she has more experience in ruling then he does. Neither are evil or have ill intentions with each other.
Yugamin's non-defined personality
I've got a question in regards to editing for Yugamin's folder, which is the mascot of NIJISANJI.
I want to add Voices Are Mental because "any affiliated Vtuber can transform into Yugamin, but keep their own voices, with possibly some alterations to their original voices".
Since Yugamin has no defined personality and he has been portrayed in numerous ways by the Vtubers (cute mascot, creepy loanshark, stalker, etc.), I want to ask if there is a trope regarding his ever-changing personality.
Edited by MajinAkuma
People figure out being a hero is actually a dangerous lifstyle
There use to be a lot of heroes in the world but after a lot of them were killed saving the world, there were few heroes left. Even years later when there were more heroes, it isn't near enough like it use to be. Mainly because people picked up on the fact that being a hero isn't just about being popular hero. It means there's risks and consequences and putting your life on the line.
The right villain ensemble for the Seven Barian Emperors Anime
In the Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL, the Seven Barian Emperors serve as the main villains for the second half of the series and they are also the Greater-Scope Villain of the first half.
I'm trying to figure out what the right villain ensemble trope fits for them. Quirky Miniboss Squad doesn't fit, since they aren't Elite Mooks, but the actual main villains and they don't just disappear after losing once (at least before the series' climax). Psycho Rangers doesn't work because not only do they vastly outnumber the main heroes of three, two of the seven villains are heroes-turned villains, including one of the three main heroes, which makes it seven vs two. It also doesn't help that The Starscream of the Seven Barian Emperors turns against his own team, leading to an internal team conflict that leads to big losses for their group.
Legion of Doom doesn't fit either. Apart from two Face?Heel Turn characters, the group itself isn't comprised of past villains.
It should be noted that there's another Greater-Scope Villain who is responsible for their villainy and tragic backstories, but he's mostly inactive before the climax near the end of the series.
Otaku
Reverse-cyborg
Example:
"After Commander Alice's ship crash lands into another planet, her enforcer droid is critically damaged. With no spare parts for repair, Commander Alice uses the body parts and biomass from various denizens of the planet to patch up her enforcer droid. Thus, Alice's enforcer droid becomes a reverse-cyborg - a robotic being with organic parts."
Action Cheerleader
Is there a trope for the type of character that is a cheerleader and also involved with a lot of action? Think Kim Possible, Juliet Starling, Sabrina Spellman, etc.
Butchering a common saying while still trying to retain the meaning Live Action TV
Think of George Bush's "Fool me once, you can't get fooled again".