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Dramedy - Television Tropes & Idioms - 0 views

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Cerebus Syndrome - Television Tropes & Idioms - 0 views

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  • A Tone Shift towards Dramedy
  • any story/series which starts out light, episodic, and comedic, and then assumes dramatic elements and a more coherent continuity
  • occurs in works where parts have been broadcast/published before other parts have been written
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Anthropic Principle - Television Tropes & Idioms - 0 views

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  • For any given story, there exist basic elements that are required for the story itself to happen; there would be no story otherwise.
  • without those conditions, we wouldn't even be here to be making those observations in the first place
  • Therefore, the probability of us being in a universe where the conditions of the universe are perfect for the existence of intelligent life is 100%.
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  • Every fictional universe has fundamental, axiomatic elements without which its story simply could not exist
  • For House to happen, Dr. Gregory House must be able to keep his job as a genius diagnostician despite being a major Jerkass.
  • you cannot have a Space Opera without Faster-than-Light Travel
  • the Anthropic Principle says that certain details of the story do matter because they are the foundations that the story itself is built upon
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Lie to Me - Television Tropes & Idioms - 0 views

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  • Cal is utterly brilliant. He also has an awkward body language and very little regards to things like tact and the like, and the first line of his second book was, ‘Let me be clear. I understand very little, least of all the people close to me.’
  • Briefcase Full of Money: What Dr. Lightman purported to be trying to hide when he tested Ria Torres at the airport. After he and Dr. Foster end their hiring pitch, they leave behind the briefcase; when Ria calls them on the "forgotten" item, Lightman says nonchalantly that's her hiring bonus.
  • Last Name Basis: Characters address each other by last name more often than first name.
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  • Lie Detector: Dr. Lightman points out all the ways polygraphs suck. One of them involves getting a guy to fail the control questions by use of a woman in a sexy outfit.
  • The daughter specifically asks Dr. Lightman not to do any "covert" lie detection. She neglected to include "overt" lie detection as well.
  • Loophole Abuse
  • Cal and Ria's techniques of information gathering waltz into the distinctly unusual.
  • Cal has admitted to Emily that he loves Gillian.
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Portmanteau Couple Name - Television Tropes & Idioms - 0 views

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Acceptable Breaks from Reality - Television Tropes & Idioms - 0 views

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  • There are certain elements of story or gameplay where realism would simply make a work tedious, difficult, or confusing
  • Artificial Gravity
  • if it were totally realistic there would be no drama
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  • Bag of Sharing
  • Big **** Fire Exit
  • Blatant Item Placement
  • Bottomless Magazines
  • Continue Your Mission, Dammit!
  • Convection Schmonvection
  • Convenient Weakness Placement
  • Easy Communication
  • Eternal Equinox
  • Event Driven Clock
  • Floating Platforms
  • Fourth Wall
  • Friendly Fireproof
  • Global Currency
  • Gold Silver Copper Standard
  • Heal Thyself
  • Hyperactive Metabolism
  • Inexplicable Treasure Chests
  • Infinite Flashlight
  • Iron Buttmonkey
  • Just Add Water
  • Justified Extra Lives
  • Justified Tutorial
  • Leaked Experience
  • Nominal Importance
  • No Stat Atrophy
  • One Size Fits All
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Playing with a Trope - Television Tropes & Idioms - 0 views

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  • Justified: The trope has a reason In-Universe to be present where we see it.
  • Inverted: The trope (or its elements) are reversed
  • Subverted: A trope is set up to occur, but then the audience's expectations are thwarted in some way.
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  • Doubly Subverted: Like a subverted trope, but then later it turns out that the apparent subversion was misleading, too.
  • Untwisted: The audience expects a trope to be subverted, but it is played straight instead.
  • Parodied: The form of the trope is twisted and often used in a silly way for comic effect.
  • Deconstructed: The intentional use and exploration of the trope
  • Reconstructed: Reconstructed tropes are the new and improved Played Straight of an often deconstructed trope, taking the best parts of the Deconstruction or reassembling the original trope to strengthen its flaws or improving its feel. In other words, this is the inversion of a Deconstruction.
  • Zig Zagged: None of the above, or more than one of the above; a trope that gets triple subverted, or inverted and played straight at the same time, or, well, just done confusingly.
  • Averted: The trope is simply not used where it could have been.
  • especially surprising
  • known to have been deliberate
  • Enforced: The trope occurs solely because of outside expectations
  • Necessary Weasel: Similar to an Enforced Trope, the trope is included because the genre's audience already expects it to be there.
  • Implied: The trope isn't shown, but the audience is indirectly led to believe that it happened off-screen.
  • Played for Laughs: The humorous elements of a trope are played up.
  • Exaggerated: The trope is used to an extreme.
  • Downplayed: The trope is used to a far lesser degree than typical.
  • Lampshaded: A trope is played straight but explicitly pointed out, without any further explanation.
  • Invoked: A character is Genre Savvy, and/or uses their knowledge of a trope as a reason for their own actions, hoping that the effect will come through as it does "in fiction".
  • Defied: A character recognizes a trope is about to happen, and takes steps to avoid it.
  • Discussed: The trope is explicitly discussed by Genre Savvy characters in a situation that is directly relevant to the trope. Can overlap with This Is Reality.
  • Conversed: A conversation about tropes the characters have seen
  • used purely to lean on the fourth wall
  • Exploited: A Genre Savvy character, knowing a trope will occur, uses it to their advantage.
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Tropes Are Flexible - Television Tropes & Idioms - 0 views

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Tropes Are Tools - Television Tropes & Idioms - 0 views

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  • Writers understand tropes and use them to control audience expectations
  • to convey things to the audience quickly without saying them
  • a character action that happens plenty in Real Life
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  • a reasonable type of character
  • Every story is influenced by what came before it
  • stories often gain something by having ties to other works
  • It's impossible to write something completely and utterly without tropes
  • Fiction isn't necessarily supposed to be realistic.
  • Much fiction seeks to show not what is, but what could be, or what should be.
  • All tropes can be written badly.
  • All tropes can be overused.
  • The important thing when writing a story is that it's believable
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Have a Gay Old Time - Television Tropes & Idioms - 0 views

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  • "language drift" — natural changes in the common vocabulary — causes a word or phrase originally intended as wholly innocuous to be potentially taken as startling, confusing or just plain funny in a different time or place.
  • words can change meaning almost overnight these days
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The Untwist - Television Tropes & Idioms - 0 views

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  • All that evidence against him, which the reader dismissed on the grounds of being too obvious, is actually correct and valid
  • The author drops a large number of hints at the start of the story which a Genre Savvy reader assumes to be obvious red herrings, and thus is surprised when, later on, it turns out that the simplest, most obvious explanation was the correct one.
  • without the expectation of a twist would be a very boring story
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The Un Reveal - Television Tropes & Idioms - 0 views

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  • An Unreveal is when it seems that crucial detail the characters and audience has been longing for is finally going to be shown, only for it to turn out to be a giant tease
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