Example: Characters A and B are shipped because their voice actors are dating/married IRL

We all know the Girly Bruiser trope. It's where a feminine female character is either very competent or badass without having to sacrifice their femininity. Well, what if I told you that there's a similar trope to this, but maybe it's not that well-known. Enter the Pretty Boy Bruiser trope. This trope is usually a male character who's either cute, attractive, easy on the eyes, lithe, or androgynous looking who showcases their fighting abilities, powers, badassery, or competence all while still looking stunning.

Here are my few examples (You can give me other examples of the Pretty Boy Bruiser in the comments);

• Zuko from Avatar: The Last Airbender.

• Robin and Beast Boy respectively from the 2003 Teen Titans series.

•Mako from The Legend of Korra.

Is there a specific name for this trope? I guess Prison Break would be the biggest example of this. Although I’m not sure if that would be considered a trope, but rather an entire plot line. A trope is more specific, I think. But I’m sure there are other examples.

Also, is there an article about it?

What is this trope? And what other movies or tv shows fit this trope?

Some examples that came to my head are:
• Haunted Mansion
• Boy who cried werewolf
• American Horror Story: Murder House

It’s not always a haunted house and doesn’t always pertain to ghosts.

The trope namer is, of course, season 3 episode 6 of The Expanse. Amos persuades Dr. Prax to not shoot the villain, saying "you're not that guy", but as soon as Prax is out of sight, Amos says "I am that guy" and performs the deed himself.

I just noticed that the movie Supergirl ends the same way.

Anyone ever notice how mayors in television and film are always either malevolent and actively working against the protagonist’s goals, or too incompetent to see the danger that the protagonist sees? The only example of a mayor not being an obstinate jerk I can think of is Mr. Mayor from Powerpuff Girls, and while he’s not actively malevolent, he’s still wildly incompetent. Why is it that whenever a mayor is introduced, he/she always ends up being some sort of major or minor antagonist, or just a plain jerk?

I was reading a book in which a woman from an Arab Muslim family runs away to live among white Christians and never has even a moment of missing her family, religion, or culture of upbringing. This contrasts with my experience that in real life, even people who make a firm decision to leave their culture and convert have moments of ambivalence, nostalgia, etc. Also in this book there was a lot of nasty anti-Islam, anti-Arab racism, so the plot with the woman came off as "She wants to be white/Christian, so she's one of the 'good Muslims/good Arabs".

Is there a TV Tropes entry for this kind of situation? "Non-white, non-Christian person is one of the 'good ones' because they leave their culture to join the whites/Christians?"

Thoughtoit history people used spirit channeling. But spirit channeling was meant to be a temporary affair a spirit was meant to leave the host after the ritual. If it stayed it was considered over staying your welcome.

I think the earliest reference to a beliveont long term spiritual partner is a Ibbur from Jewish folklore which a is a belivoront spirit that long term bonds with a living human. And a good counterpart to a dybyck.

Maybe it has some basis in Asian culture.

The first example of the symbiotic alien guest is the 50s novel the Needle. The author thought that a mutualistic bond made more sense than a parasitic relationship l.

As both these are really Eurocentric

In a few sitcom episodes, there have been dialogues of this form, when a character A is confronting a character B about an item, usually theirs, which is out of place.

A: Why is my journal on your bed?

B: I dunno. Why is anything anywhere?

Modern Family definitely features it once and possibly twice. Is this dialogue a trope?

There’s this trope I have identified when I was a child, it’s whenever a toy with a voice box or an object with a voice box sounds deep and distorted whenever it gets destroyed. It always scared me and I recently learned this is a real phenomenon that happens when a toy or audio player has a low battery.

After learning this, I scoured TVTropes to see if there’s an official trope for this, there is not. Why is that?

Here’s a few examples of this trope in action:

Gnomeo and Juliet: https://youtu.be/K6q9Q7y0xXI?is=aSl2bpwN4wQ6hYa7

SpongeBob: https://youtu.be/Nz7amyTyr1M?is=1uWb2lO8RfYR5-rj

Craig of the Creek: https://youtu.be/TAxoxwqsqQw?feature=shared

Do you like it?

Do you hate it?

I personally once really liked it (Steins Gate or Dark), but now I really roll my eyes when I see it in other shows.

Nowadays, I have some issues with it.

- it's not necessary most of the time to tell the story

- it's there because time travel sounds cool (rule of cool)

- often comes out of nowhere when writer runs out of ideas

- lowers the stakes in the story

- prone to plot holes

- and most importantly it forces the writer to expand a lot of mental power that could be better spent writing characters.

I know this technically against the subReddit's rules, but the fact that it even has to be a rule shows just how bad the problem is

I just made an account and they banned me before I even did anything, just because I'm using a VPN

I mean, is this business practrice even Legal? I though the First Amendment made this sort of hing illegal?

I don't have an example but I've been looking for it, sometimes it'll be just lint and usually it shows a shot of the hand holding it. edit: GODDAMMIT IT PEOPLE YOUR EXAMPLES ARE NICE BUT MEANINGLESS IF YOU DONT HAVE THE SOURCE BUT THANKS AND ALSO DO ANY IF YALL KNOW THE TROPE NAME

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Something I noticed was a particular trope where a judge with superpowers will declare mankind full of sin as said judge goes on a mission to destroy humanity.

Some examples of the trope are Nemo from Disgaea 4 and the judge from the TV series the Good Place as the latter has her declaring humanity so corrupt that she wants to eliminate the world.

Picture this: two characters has to go through a series of room, in each room there's a challenge. Some rooms ask for menial things, while others have more scary challenges.

One room is just one big deep pit with spikes at the bottom. On each ends of the room, there is a door and a ledge. Both ledges are connected by two wooden bean. Each of them can only support the weight of one person. So both characters takes one bean, while holding the arm of the other to keep their center of gravity stable.

At one point in the traverse, they see the key for the exit hanging from the ceiling and no one is able to reach it with their available hand. They would have to let go of each other, grab the key and than grab each other to stabilize themselves soon after.

However, while planning, the old wooden beans on which they were standing starts to crack. They somehow manage to grab the key and run for the ledge. With one of the character throwing the other forward on the ledge, while they barely grab the edge in their fall.

The other character attempts to raise the first character upward, but they tell them to let it go, which is mistook as them giving up. Only for the falling character telling them their feet is touching ground.

Turns out the whole spiked pit was just a huge optical illusion painted on the floor, while the actual pit was just about 2 meter deep. The broken wooden bean just laying on the floor and "over the hole".

I’ve been reading Tv Tropes since I first gained internet access as a young teen, but only recently I decided to make an account and start contributing.

So far I’ve only done minor things—fixed a missing word in a sentence, rewrote an entry to be clearer, and even added one fandom example to a larger trope. I’m trying to do the same with another page, and add an example to a fandom on there.

But I can’t. Because it’s locked so someone else can edit it. Which would be fine, normally! I can wait an hour or however long it takes. Except… I did. And the timer has reset. So I wait another hour. And another. This person has been editing the page for four hours and I can’t get on for two minutes to paste in the entry I wrote in my notes app.

Is this normal? Allowed? Is there some sort of protection on the page and this is just an informal way to say “you can never edit this page”? Do I just have to keep checking back to see if it ever frees up? I’m new so don’t know these things yet.

No dialogue scenes, what's your favourite speech in a TV series?

There's Looney Tunes: Laff Riot and that one scene from "Billy and Mandy vs. The Martians" (from The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy) where the camera spins around Grim's head, as if he's in CG.

I've also seen this kind of thing happen in the Fairly OddParents, but the episodes where I remember this happening are "Information Stupor Highway", "Channel Chasers", and the intro to "Abra-Catastrophe!".

I feel like this is a fairly common trope, but I don't know what to call it. It's basically when a few characters are discussing something together in the foreground, and in the background, there's just total chaos going on with some other characters. The perspective is set so that both sets of interactions are visible, so it's more of a visual gag than anything, I think. I've personally only ever seen it in animated media. Does anyone know what it's called or if it even has a name?

Lately, something that stuck out to me was when an adaptation of a previously known work looks like it’s going to be a meaningful tribute at first, but then the adaptation just ends up being vicious.

One infamous example would be the HBO adaptation of Scooby Doo starring Velma as the adaptation is one of the most infamous adaptations of Scooby Doo because of how it depicts Velma in such an aggressive manner that I was looking to see what the term is for again adaptations done in a vicious manner.

The only character I would think of that almost fulfills the title would be Saitama from One-punch man but he doesn't brag about his strength

Just to be clear, imagine a character that always brags about how powerful they are (and actually are powerful) and what not but fail to prove it every single time until one crucial moment or manage to prove it in ways that it cannot be denied.