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'''Notes for possible Trope Workshop Pages''' |
'''Notes for possible Trope Workshop Pages''' |
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== Trope Workshop: |
== Trope Workshop:Meteoric Rise == |
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[[Needs a Better Title]]. ''Really'' Needs a Better Title -- even the page creator thinks that this one is an [[Esoteric Trope Names|Esoteric Trope Title]], but can't come up with anything better. Suggestions here (above the page quote), please. |
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{{quote|Dwarfs are very attached to gold. Any highwayman demanding 'Your money or your life' had better bring a folding chair and packed lunch and a book to read while the debate goes on.|''[[Discworld/Men At Arms|Men At Arms]]''}} |
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Most people like particular things and dislike other particular things. Some people really like certain things, to the point that everybody else around them knows it. |
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And then there are these people - the ones who really, ''really'' like something, to the point that the liking is a major (or sole) facet of their personalities, verging on or actually being an obsession with the thing that's liked. |
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If this attraction is taken out of context - or, in some cases, in context - it can sometimes be seen by in-universe viewers as [[Head-Tiltingly Kinky]]. |
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Overlaps with [[Drink Order]] and [[Trademark Favorite Food]], when those are what the character lives for. |
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Compare with [[Security Blanket]], where the liked item in question gives its owner peace of mind simply by being within sight. |
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=== Anime and Manga === |
=== Anime and Manga === |
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* In ''[[Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?]]'', Bell Cranel goes from being a level 1 adventurer to being a level 3 adventurer faster than anybody else takes to go from being level 1 to level 2. |
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* ''[[Read or Die]]'': Yomiko loves books, and [[Paper Master|the paper in them loves her back]]. The earliest manga chapters show her loving books ''romantically.'' |
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* ''[[Mahoromatic]]'': Chizuko really loves good cooking (but doesn't have a particular [[Trademark Favorite Food]]), to the point that she finds Mahoro's excellent cooking to be [[Orgasmically Delicious]]. |
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* Mikoto in ''[[Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?]]'' loves hot springs so much that she can track them down by scent. |
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* Marvel Comics's [[Thanos]] loves Death - the [[Anthropomorphic Personification]], not the act of killing, which for him is simply a means to the end of being able to see her again. |
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=== Literature === |
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''Don't know whether this is actually a trope or just a list of musical oddities. If it;s the latter, toss it.'' |
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* ''[[Discworld]]'' has this as the dwarfs' racial attitude toward gold. In more than one novel, it's made clear that their sorrow after a mine cave-in isn't caused by the loss of dwarf life, but rather by the loss of a seam of gold that hadn't been completely mined out yet. As for keeping the gold once they've dug it out of the ground, see the page quote. |
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A song is written in a style that's usually used for a completely different topic. |
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A character is discriminated against because of the character's race, species (in works with more than one sophont species), gender, or sexual orientation. |
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''needs a better description'' |
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Super-trope to: |
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* [[All of the Other Reindeer]] |
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* [[Have You Tried Not Being a Monster?]] |
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* [[Klingon Scientists Get No Respect]] |
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Truth in Television, alas, so No Real Life Examples from the last hundred years and only capsule descriptions of earlier injustices, please - otherwise, we'd be here all day. |
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsDkmVo2fg4 "The White Collar Holler"] by [[Stan Rogers]] is a working-man's blues tune about having a desk job. |
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* "Ride That Lightning" by [[Chris Hadfield]] is a gospel tune about space flight. |
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=== Music === |
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* In Shemekia Copeland's song "She Don't Wear Pink", the person that the song is about loses her job as a teacher because she isn't straight. |
Latest revision as of 13:20, 22 October 2021
Notes for possible Trope Workshop Pages
Trope Workshop:Meteoric Rise
(in ability)
needs a better description
Anime and Manga
- In Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?, Bell Cranel goes from being a level 1 adventurer to being a level 3 adventurer faster than anybody else takes to go from being level 1 to level 2.
Trope Workshop:Style Mismatch
Don't know whether this is actually a trope or just a list of musical oddities. If it;s the latter, toss it.
A song is written in a style that's usually used for a completely different topic.
needs a better description
Music
- "The White Collar Holler" by Stan Rogers is a working-man's blues tune about having a desk job.
- "Ride That Lightning" by Chris Hadfield is a gospel tune about space flight.