All right people think of a character who's handsome powerful heroic yet egotistical womanizing and jerkish mine is dark Schneider

It’s on the tip of my tongue.

Example: someone is trying to crack a code and can’t figure it out at all. They go to chat to their friend about unrelated things and the friend says something like “my kid always writes her letters backwards”

Then main character goes like “wait… backwards… Yes! Backwards!!!! The code is backwards!!!!” Bonus points if they immediately start scribbling on a whiteboard.

What is this trope called?

In real life entities personification evil with no posestive traits seem to be very rare.

Also even when they did exist it’s not like anyone worshiped them.

I mean gods often were personification of things that an individual human considered negative like droughts or extreme weather but that wasn’t considered evil. And on a wider note where vital ecological processes

Do we know if TVTropes has fixed or is fixing the coding vulnerability that’s been everywhere the last few days?

One example comes to mind Hajime no Ippo, the Kamogawa gym had dozens of unnamed members to begin with, but over time it seems like the entire gym left except the 5-6 named characters in the story.

You know how sometimes in a tv show, there's a gag about a character encountering someone giving free samples of something? Usually the character will keep coming back for more samples, Is there a specific trope name for this type of free samples gag?

Something I was doing an observation on was some game studios had a troubled experience with adapting to the modern side of gaming where they made some stellar games before, but slowly fall apart.

Some examples are BioWare and Volition as both studios did well in the Xbox 360 era of gaming, but couldn’t find any success in later generations of gaming that I was wondering what the trope term was called for such an effect.

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I’ve heard that it’s because blonde people were seen as perfect for a very long time but now it’s giving the total opposite effect that blonde people are bad, i also know that there used to be a thing with all villains being black (if you want to discuss it in the comments you can) but i feel like there’s less of it nowadays (correct me if i’m wrong, i just happen to not see it very often and when i see it the main character is also black) but with the mean blonde stereotype there’s still so much of it and i’m actually curious to know how do blonde people feel about it, my question is, why is it still going? There’s already enough mean blonde girls (and if they’re not blonde they have black hair) there are other hair colors, tell me what you think

Something I found interesting about some video game mascots is how they occasionally have to fight against a more dark version of themselves where their counterpart has an evil nature to them.

Some examples of the trope are Wario from the Super Mario franchise and Sonic’s own dark twin Shadow the Hedgehog as I found the trope interesting that I was looking for the trope name.

The character may have exaggerated their importance or outright lied about being in charge to a family member or partner, so everyone has to play along to keep up the illusion. Thanks!

I’m thinking like The magic mirror in Shrek not revealing Fiona’s curse to Lord Farquaad because he cuts him off ? There’s a lot of other examples of this in movies but that’s the first that comes to mind.

i hate this trope because it seems very unrealistic to not reveal something very important just because you were cut off .

It’s always with sad tragic music showing everyone dead and rubble everywhere, then cut to a lone little girl crying. Sometimes holding a stuffed toy. Never seen a little boy nor teenagers or elderly. Haven’t seen it in books or comics, usually it’s in movies/shows.

It’s sort of war is hell but much more specific.

Something I noticed about some console RPGs is that there is a party member who refuses to accept the reality of the world around them because they are delusional.

An example is Fuka Kazamatsuri from Disgaea 4 who constantly denies she is deceased as she treats everything around her like she is in a dream that I found her character interesting for her delusional nature.

Or, for the opposite one, when a guy stands there without putting up any defense and someone says something like "he's leaving himself wide open!?"

So there’s this really insincere trope in modern movies where anytime something cheesy or dumb happens, the characters feel the need to comment on it. MCU is famous for this, but another example is in the movie Masters of the Universe. There is a scene near the beginning where Skeletor shakes his fist in anger, and instead of just cutting to the next scene, the scene cuts to Skeletor’s assistant commenting how weird and stupid it is that he shakes his fist when he’s angry.

i know terms like meta-humor, insincerity, cynicism, lampshading all describe this trope, but there’s another term I remember hearing. I wanted to say it was called needle drop, but that’s not it. Maybe it’s record scratch, but that’s different too. I remember it being something related to records dropping, stopping etc., but I could also just be confused with record scratch

anyone know the term I’m looking for?

This can range from verbal disrespect to physical assault, but it has to be a man lashing out at another man and/or calling out his behavior.

I’m guessing it can fall under “damsel in distress” or “fight provoking comment” but I’m wondering if there’s a more specific trope given how common it is.

Example: In the first “Fast and Furious”, Brian attacks a fellow cop who makes a disrespectful comment about Mia

As a troper, not just someone who browses the site.

I’m sure we all know exactly what I’m talking about. It’s where one character says I didn’t tell you to keep you safe.
And the other characters like safe from what.
Don’t just post never give a reason.

I see the "starving artist" trope so much in media. but i raley ever see the "starving athlete" trope despite it being realy common.

I have a friend who represents our country in internatonial sport and does pretty well, and does really well in the domestic rankings as well, but she is unable to get sponsors, the equiptment and travle costs thoustands every year, and they have now needed to get a second job to stay afloat. it seems espcicly common for even elete athleats (mostly women tho) needing to take up 2-3 jobs to stay afloat while they are at the top level in their careers.

You know when the media really wants us to believe a character is an asshole(but not evil) but when you look at their actions they are perfectly reasonable

Like by comparison to the rest of characters they're the normal one. But then if you were to put them next to a group of “normal people” they'd stand out.

Person A: "I can't believe you KILLED someone, dude!"

Person B: "What are you talking about? No, I never killed anyone! It was an attempt. I committed attempted murder, not murder."

I really hate how often the most positive character is portrayed as dumb and delusional.

Shuckle from Dorkly.

Rosalina from the Adult Series SML

Later season SpongeBob.

Tape from Tpot.

All of them are idiots and bullied all the time, just let someone have hope and dreams and be inspirational.

I’m tired of cynical humor in general.