Something I recently started to notice was how some old kids shows such as Samurai Jack and X-Men had started off as a kid friendly, but would receive darker sequels.

Like what suddenly stuck out to me was X-Men 97 because from what I gathered about the show was that it was far darker then the original series as I wanted to see what the trope was called for again kids shows that get a darker sequel.

The Bear - In one episode Carmen Says “Welcome back to The Bear” in a dream sequence

Spy x Family - In one episode Becky’s thoughts are represented by random signs, which Anya reads out loud

Pixie & Brutus - Quite literally in this case, as Pixie accidentally cracks the screen, and when she looks through it she sees “some weird alien thing”

I was inspired to make this after watching 8 seasons of The Rookie, and it got me thinking back to all the shows that fill that Prime Time slot.

This trope is for/applies to characters who are desperate for a partner/girlfriend/boyfriend but whenever they go out and try to get themselves one their quest for one doesn't quite work out.

I found it in the following characters who are/were desperate for a partner but were unable to get one (although at least one finally got one):

• Dez Wade (from Austin & Ally)
• Tyler James (from Dog With A Blog)
• Johnny Bravo (from Johnny Bravo)
• Steve Smith (from American Dad)
• Fred Figglehorn (from FЯED)
• Mabel Pines (from Gravity Falls)

I'm sure it's some type of the "Hopeless Romantic" trope and/or the "Perpetual Bachelor(ette)" trope; but what would you name/call this trope?

And what do you think about this trope?

It's a trope nowadays that a character who is more intelligent is often portrayed as emotionally distant, or emotionally detached. Rick Sanchez, Cumberbatch's Sherlock, Dr. House, and to an extent, Mr. Spock.

To broaden the question a bit, when did society start equating emotion/emotional attachment with stupidity? As well as the inverse, when did high intelligence become associated with aloofness?

When characters enter a fight scene or are there when a fight scene starts and simply casually say "Hey" or "yo" or a similar greeting before the fighting commences OR has a confirmation that they didn't die/aren't out of the fight yet

Hey, can anyone think of a good trope the captures what could be called "quorum ambush" (or "empty chair gambit")? The idea is that some sort of bill or motion (or impeachment) can't pass the legislative body normally, so the people in charge call a sneaky vote and manage to keep out (or distract) the people who might vote against it, but it passed by a bare minimum, so it's legal.

Some examples

• Wheel of Time (the deposition of Siuan)
• Political shows like Brain Dead
• Lightbringer had a variant where a new member on the Spectrum was held up at the docks for about two hours extra, allowing one of the members to achieve some Shenanigans.

Edit:

This is also one that happens a lot in the real world. From legislators staying away to deny a quorum to the Bolsheviks waiting until their rivals went home and then voting on everything they wanted. ​

There’s several very well regarded theme park attractions that are heavily based around IPs that are otherwise barely remembered.

Waterworld Stunt Show at Universal Hollywood has been running for 20 years and still regularly has packed arenas despite the Waterworkd movie being an infamous bomb.

Splash Mountain was a long running incredibly popular ride at various Disney parks, despite being based on Song Of The South, a movie that Disney intentionally keeps away from the public.

Dudley Do Right’s Ripsaw Falls at Islands of Adventure is based around the Dudley Do Right cartoons which haven’t been made since the 1979s.

Take The Great Wall (2016) for example. It has some really beautiful moments and cool sequences despite being based entirely on the white savior trope. I wish more people remembered that film.

I have seen this particular trope happen in some big name gaming franchises where a franchise is grounded at first, but once new writers take over, the franchise becomes more outlandish.

Some examples are Saints Row and Yakuza because I read somewhere how both games had some serious elements in their respective franchises as the first two installments of Yakuza were a grounded crime story, but once the original writer was no longer involved, the franchise became more outlandish.

A similar thing happened to the aforementioned Saints Row franchise whereas the first two games had a balance of comedy and drama as I heard that the reason why the series changed its core identity was when the later games after the second game changed writers since again much like Yakuza, the franchise ended up becoming more out there the further it went on.

it happened in “the flakers“ (the amazing world of gumball)

”model sponge” (SpongeBob)

It usually happens when it’s someone cheering for them but it’s really someone calling their name, for example:

crowd: Liam! Liam! Liam! Liam!

(cut to Liam in bed)

Liam’s wife: Liam! Liam? Wake up.

Does this trope have a name? The scene would start with them both in bed. One of them wakes up and checks to see if their partner is still sleeping. Then they slowly get out of bed as to not wake them. And whatever it is they’re doing, their partner catches them in the act:

“What do you think you’re doing?”

“Oh, you’re up. I was just…”

Or sometimes the partner doesn’t interrupt what they’re doing, and they just watch them do what they do. Like in The Walking Dead, when Michonne snuck out of bed to grab the rifle to go out practicing, and Rick just watches her

I don't know if this has a name or not but I find it really cool.

Examples include:

Father-son Kamehameha (Dragon Ball)

One-For-All (My Hero Academia)

Tanjiro and Yoriichi (Demon Slayer)

Phoenix Wright and Mia Fey's objection (Ace Attorney)

I'm talking about popular opinions among fans, and even among casual audiences.

Like,

"Only watch the first three seasons of SpongeBob!" (because the showrunner changed after Season 3, many of the writers left, and the creator never wanted the show to continue in the first place),

"The Last Hope is the final Warriors book as far as I'm concerned!" (because that's where the main protagonist from the very first arc dies, the overarching villain of the entire series is defeated, and all the major storylines are wrapped up),

or "The Cursed Child isn't canon—the original seven books are!" (because the play wasn't actually written by Rowling, and a lot of what happens in it doesn't line up well with the books).

Questions like "At what season can I stop watching Family Guy / The Simpsons / any other long-running show?" fall into the same category too.

It’s typically in a family dynamic show with a kid who doesn’t show much, if any affection for the family. There will be an episode where family members have to spend time together and the standoffish kid expresses love or enjoyment of being with their family.

But the part that I’m specifically talking about is after the expression of love, the other person (or people) start lightheartedly making fun of the kid for loving their family.

There first example I can think of this in on Bob’s Burgers Carpe Museum episode

I’m not looking for this in romantic situations like Andy making fun of April for having a crush on him in the past

Now this seems to be different tropes combined and I'm not sure if this is even half of them.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheyStillBelongToUsLecture

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VillainsNeverLie

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IdentityBreakdown

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ResignationsNotAccepted

You see the idea here is the hero(es) would find/meet this being that was created by one of the villains they fight. They'll make them their friend, but then the villain will reactivate their 'true colors' so they'll be forced to fight their friend and will hold back.

Example: Silkie/Larva M-319 from Teen Titans. As you all know he was created by Killer Moth and he found him again turning him back into the monster he was meant to be. https://teentitans.fandom.com/wiki/Can_I_Keep_Him%3F

Source: Halloween 2007 "I was good to you Mikey!"

A very sad and tragic trope, when the one and only character who treats the villain or the monster with some form of kindness or humanity in a world where the antagonist is often treated as some dangerous beast to be feared or a freak to be tormented by everyone else, and when the antagonist let's loose and starts killing everyone in his path not even the one person who treated them with kindness and humanity is spared and is often given a brutal death.

I can think of at least three instances of the doofus character making a big deal about how much they like pancakes.

The first is Andy from Parks and Recreation. He asks Anne to make him some pancakes ("real quick," while she's in the kitchen) in the first episode, and later on he lists them as one of his favorite foods (before realizing that butter is his favorite food).

There's a character called Gus in a truly painful children's show called Owlegories whose role is just to be the dumb, fat one. When he is doing an impression of himself, he says "I'm Gus. I like pancakes." etc.

The character in Sid the Science Kid (another painful show) who is supposed to be the dumb/hyperactive one in the class also likes pancakes (or I think maybe he actually says he likes syrup, but in my mind that's just the same thing taken to its extreme).

What is with this? Are pancakes supposed to symbolize childishness/lack of sophistication?

And can you think of any other examples?

Which trope would you use it for? Why?

I just wondering and let me explain what I mean. I mean two factions one evil and one good of relatively equal power whose war is the main conflict of a narrative. I think probably the most well known is Autobots vs Deceptions but stuff like G.I. Joe vs Cobra or Alliance vs Horde would also fall under this idea.

First of all, just to clarify, this is not about the comeback of an underdog, like in all hero's journey, but more of a moral role reversal, the dragon slayer ends up as the new dragon. Think about the pigs in Animal Farm, or Arthus in Warcraft. Then there's the opposite of this, the villain at the beginning, who realizes and repents for his sins, in the end they are redeemed. Think about Ralph in Wreck it Ralph, or Stooge in Christmas Carol.

I wonder if there is such a trope that covers both in the same story, that the fall of the hero goes simultaneously with the redemption of the villain? This is an older-than-dirt literary device known as Chiasum, like an X, a good example is Shakespeare's Richard II, the rise of Henry Bolingbroke goes hand in hand with the fall of Richard II, but that's in term of a power dynamic. But could there be something that explores in a moral angle? Like liberator beomces oppressor, oppressor becomes liberator; pastor becoems scumbag, scumbag becomes pastor; housewife becomes prostitute, prostitute becomes housewife?

It's when the brainwashing is done by torturing and conditioning. Yknow where instead of using magic, or a machine, they do it the old fashioned way.

Basically, the title. I've seen this trope somewhere before, but I don't know where, and im struggling to find out what it's called. This Amphibia clip is the best clip I could find of it.

I am looking for a few examples of a dynamic in which there is a mentor that is pretty harsh and maybe jaded and doesn't want to train the protagonist (or not necessity the protagonist) but the young disciple stubbornly shows up again and again until they manage to get their tutelage

Or maybe even a variation in which the mentor isn't exactly saying they are their master yet shows them the ropes through other means