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Horror Sky / Eldritch Sky
Trope for when the sky or atmosphere itself is the avenue for plot terror.
Examples I have in mind are the SCP "When Day Breaks" where walking into daylight mutates you, and the Asimov story about people eventually taking a look at the unubstructed sky going insane.
Basically, do we have a trope for when the sky itself is portrayed as a (direct) source of horror. Most of the tropes I find are about specific things that happen to the sky, which are usually bad omens. Like Red Sky, Take Warning
Alien Sky could fit, but that seems to just be about the sky looking weird.
Edited by IronAnimationQuestionable Collab/Crossover
A YMMV Sister Trope to Questionable Casting where two creators or works collaborating is seen as bizarre by fans of both, either by the two works/artists having nothing in common or being so contrastingly different.
For example: Taylor Swift collabing with Def Leppard [1]
Edited by AudioSpeaks2Post Battle Wake Up
During a battle or other large-scale event, the MC kills the Big Bad or activates/destroys the MacGuffin and then passes out. Suffering a loss and having to be rescued off-screen counts too. We then cut to them waking up in a bed or hospital after the battle is completely over and the other characters have to explain what happened with the mop-up or escape.
The Hobbit After Bilbo blacks out during the battle of the Five Armies he wakes up after the fact and it is explained how it ended. A similar thing happened with Frodo waking up after the one ring was destroyed.
Mistaken Genre
What is the trope where the readers (NOT THE CHARACTERS) think the book they are reading in question is an Iyashikei genre, but the contents prove otherwise?
Word salad insult
An insult that's just a combination of negative words (usually including some swear words) that don't actually mean anything when put together.
You need to move on
As far as I’m concerned, The Lost Lenore only deals with a villain’s love interest. Is there a more platonic version of The Lost Lenore, where the villain had a family member or really close friend that meant the world to them, and their death is what drove them to villainy. How about if someone is grieving their lost one, and has been doing so for a very long time. The other characters tell them that they need to move on. Is there a trope to describe this?
Funny Definition Film
What is the name for this trope, where a funny definition is given?
Dr. Lawrence Bradford: What is a cocktail dress?
Paula Bradford: Something to spill cocktails on.
Strong mice
Is there a trope for mice that are strong, or is it just Pint-Sized Powerhouse?
Finding the bug
A character knows their room has a microphone or camera in it somewhere and tears the entire room apart trying to find it.
Overshadowed By Mundane
Rather than Bob being skilled and outclassed by the more talented Alice as in Overshadowed by Awesome, Bob is utterly inept and Alice has a perfectly mundane level of skill (or even lower than average), but the gap in ability is the same or greater than with Overshadowed by Awesome. Bob usually feels threatened by this, but gets no sympathy as it's pointed out his lack of skill is his own fault.
For instance, Alice runs a lap around a sports field, as does Bob. It takes Alice five minutes to do so, but it's still faster than Bob, who takes a quarter of an hour to finish.
Bob is a C+ student, Alice a B-, Bob calls Alice a tryhard.
Bob is a Casanova Wannabe who's asked hundreds of women out and got turned down every single time. Al has asked women out a total of five times in his life, got rejected twice, Bob hates Al as though Al was The Pornomancer.
Alice is a new hire at Bob's workplace, and starts unknowingly making Bob look bad because she's visibly outdoing him in basic tasks like being on time, cleaning up after herself, being nice to people, etc.
Edited by Chabal2ItWasADarkAndStormyNight
Is It Was a Dark and Stormy Night about dramatic things happening on stormy nights, or just about stories beginning on stormy nights? Like would a climax on a dark stormy night count?
Garfzilla
Would being in a world that’s small and your giant be Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever or something else?
Time travelling lack of plan
Bob has access to a time machine and want to fix event A. instead of going back a long time before or several times, Bob goes back in just the nick of time and are barely able to fix it.
Sic the hero on em
Is there a trope where a Villain A needs Villain B or maybe just an enemy dealt with, so they manipulate events to have the hero deal with Villain B for them? Sort of like an Enemy Mine situation, but the hero is unaware of it.
Selective political correctness
"Fine, I do like using Racial slurs, but don't say something bad about queer folks."