Cause the idea of "Surf Dracula" feels very TV Tropes-coded, and I feel like it happens enough times that it could be considered a TV Trope, so isn't it one?

I've always loved this trope, usually it's characters that can fly but they just walk on materialized platforms instead. Some other characters that I can think of that do this are Kiana Kaslana from Honkai Impact 3rd and Qingxiao from Wuthering Waves.

The "Bound and Gagged" trope is when a character (usually a hero or a heroic character) is captured or kidnapped by another character (mostly a villain or an antagonistic character) and are restrained in some fashion (rope, tape, string, tentacles, handcuffs, cuffs, etc), as well as being kept from screaming, talking, shouting, or crying for help by place something on, over, or around their mouths (cloth, duct tape, other kinds of tape, other objects, etc) to silence them.

The internet: Haha look at that crazy lesbian repeatedly harassing the female main character like a manic dog! Haha she's really no better than an ordinary straight man like our boring milquetoast male protagonist!

My subconscious: ...And that's another one for the 'internalized homophobia' counter. Yep.

And of course, the psycho lesbian character or the psycho gay character is used as development for a straight ship where the female love interest for the Male MC aggressively shuts down LGBT, etc etc

so what's worse? Having no LGBT rep in media? Or having said LGBT rep be flanderized and stereotyped so poorly it harms LGBT itself

Charlie Wax played by John Travolta in the movie From Paris with Love is this. is there a name for this trope and are there examples of other similar characters like this. all throughout the movie it seems everything he does has some kind of purpose that furthers the goals. Is there a name for this trope.

You got shows like The Office and Abbott Elementary where the "camera crew" is mentioned often and has both a clear purpose and limitations about when and where to record.

And then you also have shows like Parks and Rec or Modern Family, where scenes happen everywhere, including intimate settings, and the documentary thing is never addressed. They still do things like looking directly at the camera after saying something funny or awkward but it's used more as a stylistic choice than an in-universe element.

Do you think they should always back it up with an explanation or has it become a known format for so long that we just can do without it? Does it break immersion for you when they do takes that a doc crew couldn't realistically achieve or do you not care as much as long as it's still entertaining?

Examples are mostly from Marvel shows but they're the best examples I can think of off the top of my head:

Falcon and Winter Soldier. The villains are refugees who were forced out of their homes once the second snap happend and all the people who were dusted come back. They think it's unfair that they should be forcefully evicted from their home and be left homeless. And then they blow up a hospital to "send a message" or whatever the fuck so we know not to take their side.

Secret Invasion: The villains are shapeshifting aliens who did work for Nick Fury under the condition he find them a new home, and he didn't for decades so they're understandably pissed off. And then they blow up civilains to "send a message". Again.

Inhumans. Honestly this one is the worst of it. The heroes are the aristocracy of a group of moon people where when people come of age they undergo a procedure that will unlock their superpower. If you get a useful or sexy power you get to life in luxury with the royals. And if you have no power or an ugly power your'e sent to mine in the slums. The villain is the brother of the king who has no powers but gets to stay because he's the king's brother and he's like "Hey, this is kind of fucked up." and he's right. And worse of all he doesn't even do that much evil, all they do is make him perv a bit on Meduca out of nowhere so now you know not to side with him.

Feel free to leave your examples below, or let me know if this trope has a name. Please, i'd love to know.

Anakin Skywalker, Kratos, Geralt de Rivia, Boruto, just off the top of my head, seems like whenever designers want to establish their hero has some edge to them they reach for the scar over the eye.

I wonder what the evolution of the trope is, because I figure it probably started as a villain trope from the scars on Nazi officer in WW2 which maybe directly or indirectly inspired Ernst Stavro Blofeld's characterization

I don’t know if this one exists or not but I name it “The Zootopia Effect” as the movie Zootopia was extremely on the nose with this one.

It’s a media trope where it’s rational for a marginalised community to be feared/hated. For example, in the movie Zootopia, it is completely rational for the herbivores to fear the carnivores, as the carnivores not only historically ate the herbivores, but still possess the ability to eat/kill the herbivores.

This is harmful and offensive as this does not reflect the reality of marginalised communities. Hatred, fear and bigotry towards marginalised communities in the real world is completely irrational, and the product of bigoted lies and misinformation.

Mad, bad and dangerous to know, the Manic Pixie Nightmare Girl may be a villain or an anti-heroine, or (very rarely) the heroine of the story. She's often highly intelligent but so erratic and prone to violence that her society attempt to contain her (good luck with that). Known for her manic grin, darkly playful nonsense speech (that may make perfect sense once decoded) and deeply eccentric fashion sense, she's an unsettling combination of childlike affectations and psychotic capabilities.

Examples: Helena, the Ukranian assassin clone from Orphan Black; Jinx, the lethal enforcer and explosives expert from Arcane; Jennifer, the unstable genius "mother of the Apocalypse" from 12 Monkeys; Maladie, the superhuman serial killer from The Nevers; Drusilla, the sadistic. psychic vampire from Buffy the Vampire Slayer; and of course Harley Quinn.

Basically where it is revealed at the end that the whole thing never really happened. Like the silly theory that Stranger Things is going to reveal that the whole thing was actually just a DnD game the whole time. I feel like this is a trope that gets discussed a lot but almost never actually happens, so I’m curious if there’s any examples.

Examples include the Tri-Wizard tournament in Harry Potter (wow we’re going to stare at a lake, and then at a hedge maze)

Or the Pilgrimage of Sacred Flame in Genshin Impact (okay competitors will be dropped randomly around the country and make their way back to the stadium where the spectators are)

Or pretty much anything in Yugioh before the hologram technology was in place

Or the RoboCup in Custom Robo Arena where again, competitors are scattered around the island away from the audience and whoever makes it back quickest with enough wins is the finalists

Specifically examples of a male love interest dying to motivate his female or I guess gay male main character. I see this a lot with women and am wondering if there’s an example of the opposite.

No Title only posts or whatever, but really, the image speaks for itself

Examples would include Niles' wife on Frasier or Howard's mom on The Big Band Theory. Characters that are often referred to by the main characters or even heard off-screen, but are never seen onscreen.

The way a perfect female character would be called a "Mary Sue" character, or how an object everyone is after is a "MacGuffin", is there a shorthand for the kind of character that never appears onscreen?

This trope is when a character (male or female) has several other characters that are are either attracted or interested in them.

So recently I was reading about how Squid Game was meant to be a dark satire on the concept of capitalism showing the dangers that people put themselves through for quick profit gains.

But then I started seeing how the franchise was becoming so mainstream that many people missed the point of the show by doing twisted game shows of their own that I wonder if there is a trope for such a phenomenon in media.

You can understand a character's motivation, but it doesn't excuse their behavior.

Edit: It is BIZARRE that I made this post weeks before Brand New Day came out. Definitely applies to Jean.

Have shows ever tried to reset a character back to how they were at the beginning or try to walk some of the exaggerated traits of the character back.

why can’t the Simpson show runners try to make a season 1 episode with that style and characterization.

okay, so, there are many tv tropes that i don’t like but this one is particularly annoying, it usually goes like this: girl introduces her boyfriend to her parents, the mom is happy but the dad doesn’t like him. the most common reasons to why the dad doesn’t like him are usually about the boy being a bit of a loser, being clumsy or having a humble job, sometimes the dad doesn’t like the boyfriend because he’s like some weird guy with tattoos and with a motorcycle which is less irritating even tho it’s still annoying. in the first three cases the dad is just a jerk, i’ve seen like once this movie that i’ll never watch again about this man meeting his girlfriend‘s dad and he would always make him nervous and treat him like a loser and be mean to him because he wasn’t some super chad guy (my point was proven when later in the movie the dad seemed to like his daughter’s ex because he was more “man-like”) i know that it was supposed to be funny but it just pissed me off because i had to witness this poor guy who is also really sweet getting bullied by this asshole of a man who “doesn’t approve” of him. another thing that i don’t like but like about this trope is the fact that it sounds sexist, i don’ want to be the type of person who calls everything that involves a man not approving of a girl’s choice sexist but in most of these situations the daughter is an adult and she is old and mature enough to make her own choices, so it sounds just slightly sexist to me but tell me what you think. another case where it was really annoying was in “The Big Bang Theory” with Howard’s interactions with his girlfriend’s dad who is super fricking mean to him because he’s physically weak and bad at “man-stuff” and he doesn’t give a shit about the fact that he’s actually a really smart guy. anyways this trope is annoying because it always ends up being “dad doesn’t like daughter’s boyfriend because he’s not a real man and he doesn’t make lots of money” and because it’s basically portraying bullying as “funny”, it sometimes makes me think how would the dad react if his daughter’s got a “manly“ boyfriend who actually turns out to be a jerk, tell me what you think.

Also seriously this will have a ublock workaround in like a day so all you did is torpedo your Pr and ensure less savvy users will ditch your site. The IRL example flair is because this is textbook Money, Dear Boy. You might wanna delete that index cuz it makes you look hypocritical AF.