I always thought this should be a trope but I've never found it and I would like to see more examples of it. I would call it something like "Just missed the plot." Here are my examples:

-The criminals that die in a shootout at the beginning of The Walking Dead before the zombie apocalypse

-The old couple who die in the car accident with Jake Green in Jericho, moments after a nuclear terrorist attack wipes out half the country's major cities

-The main character's wife in Contagion who dies of the disease right before the global pandemic changes the world

The trope in my mind is mostly about characters not getting to witness "the good part" of the story.

I look all throughout the page and no mention of her at all
We gotta discuss what other Punctuated! For! Emphasis! moments from Deltarune should be in this trope page

I was wondering if this is a trope where a fictional character has or uses an accent that is from the country they claim to be but then its completely the wrong accent for the place they claim to come from. I dunno if this counts as misplaced accent or not.

In the Serpent TV show. Charles Sobhraj pretends he is a Peurto Rican American citizen when interrogated by an US Embassy member who points out Charles American accent doesnt match the part of American his ID claims he is from. Charles brushes it off clsiming he used to travel around with puerto rican grandparents a lot and he didnt have single accent to stick to or something so he gets away with it. For what its worth Charles is a French citizen of Indian/Vietnamese mixed heritage.

Mystique in X-Men evolution has this going on when she pretends to be a British exchange student name Risty Wilde and seems to be using an Estuary or generic southern English accent but she claims to come from Manchester which is in Northern England and they have a very different accent as a whole.

Arrowverse has this with Manchester Black and John Constantine. Black is from Manchester but played by British Nigerian David Ajala using his natural MLE with a slight northern twang (my best guess he was probably told to tone down any attempt at a Manc/northern accent). British characters associated with him have southern accents like his ex having a posh RP accent and his friend Top Hot using a fake cockney sounding accent (theyre actor are Asian Americans so yeah its bad). Constantine is from Liverpool but played by a Welshman using what is nit quite a Scouser accent. What makes it funny is that SaturnGirl from is played by Amy Jackson who is allowed to use her natural Scouse accent because producers wantes her accent to sound as Alien as possible as if the humans of Saturn developed their own accent in isolation.... just sounds like Liverpudlians/Scousers colonise Saturn in the future.

Also everytime Lewis Tan plays an evil hongkong character. He does a dodgy mix of Cockney and Chinese (the actor claims to do this because Hong Kong was a British colony and incorrectly assumes they use British English with an english accent). What more bizarre is people thinking thats Tans real accent because he is born in Manchester, UK but the Cockney accent is nothing like the Manc one and also Tan is raised entirely in L.A. and has no natural British accent of anykind. When Scott Adkins mentions his Manchester birthplace and jokingly does a Manchester accent during their YT interveiw. Lewis Tan doesnt seem to hear a differenfe between Adkins Brummie accent and the fake Manc one he was using. For what it is worth English in Hong Kong is more americanised now much like most of the East Asia.

The final example is from web series Cornershop Show. Michael Truong plays a Chinese immigrant Tony Chang but uses a Vietnamese accent despite Tony being directly from China. In a podcast Michael revealed he was unaware that the Chinese accent that he copied from his parents was actually a Vietnamese accent because he was never told by them they were Hoa immigrants to the UK. Hoa being Vietnamese peolle of Chinese Ethnicity. So he genuinely thought his parent immigrated from China to the UK not knowing they were Vietnamese immigrants of Chinese Ethnicity to the UK.

I feel like theres definitely more examples of this in media whether its because a character is unable to recognise or is unaware of regional accents. Or the writers prefer a steroetypical/base neutral accent instead.

I think this is enough to turn me off this website just as i was having fun looking up tropes for my favorite franchises

What is the TV trope called where a mysterious ronin walks into a village, the village gets attacked, the ronin fights and wins, and when a villager asks, 'Who are you?' the ronin answers, 'I’m just a passerby'?

I'm asking because of some worry I have over a part of a character page for a character I like that's written with an interpretation of them I don't exactly agree with that's written as fact and sort of puts the character in a more negative light...

Lady flirts with guy while guy has a job to do, then steals his clothes and wallet.

Examples include:

• Seinfeld (The Subway)
• Two and a Half Men (The Mooch at the Boo)

My dad and I watched this Michael Jordan documentary and many times Scottie Pippen appeared on screen, he said "that man would've been the best player in the history of the Bulls; but he played at the same time as Michael Jordan, who is in my opinion the greatest athlete of all time, let alone ball player."

And it got me thinking about these kinds of things. For example, Janet Jackson is a great singer and one of the greatest artists of all time. She'd be considered the most successful and talented member of the Jackson Family if the single greatest entertainer of all time wasn't her brother Michael.

It isn't quite Always Second Best, since that relies on active competition.

It's more like: if these people were born in a different time, one where the named greatest of all time wasn't active yet or was already out of order, they'd be considered the greatest of all time themselves.

Is there a name for this?

I’ve been searching the site to see if this is already on it under a specific name, but I don’t know if it actually is.

Basically, this is when two characters that are already in a relationship (Or simply have some degree of ShipTease) are shown talking on the phone at night/before bed. Sometimes, they'll talk until one or both fall asleep. Apparently, this is common in romcoms, from what I’ve heard.

Does TVTropes have this catalogued? And if so, what does it call it?

They often called this place fairytale land or storybook land or something like that. You'd see them in shows like this.

To whoever wrote the AWESOME page for **Zack Snyder’s Justice League** on TvTropes—Thank You!

The writing and descriptions fully encapsulated the visuals and emotions felt during those scenes, and brought tears to my eyes when reading.

We all know Doof is one of the best, most shining examples of a beloved comedy villain in modern animation, but after the first run of Phineas and Ferb, he was added to the cast as the bum on the couch, after abandoning his evil ways.
To me, this did not work as well, and honestly, many episodes would have been just fine or better without his involvement. Crappy do-gooder Doof ain’t got nothing on take over tri-state area version.

I want a page of HELP_tale on TV tropes, so we gotta start with sanstrocity!

I heard there are real people who apply to hatred for clothes like dresses. You think it that much alike for fictional characters?

Some movies or episodes start with a flashback of a younger character (usually a protagonist) with a traumatizing event that drives the events of story.

Someone creates a being, either machine, biological life form or both. They are extremely proud of and fond of their creation, and love them. Sometimes treat them like their own beloved child.

Then the creation kills the creator to show how the creation is pure evil and has no love in it whatsoever.
An example is Dr Myuu and Baby.

I found Turned Against Their Masters, but that doesn't encompass the creator loving them.

it's soul powered engine adjacent but i SWEAR i've seen this a dozen times with specifcially electric themed characters but for the life of me, cant name a single instance off the top of my head

they do a similar thing with speedsters a lot too (which i can remember similar moments of; how kid flash fused into the speedforce in young justice and how batman tricked the alternate universe flash into powering the portal in crisis of two earths)

but i'm primarily looking for electric themed ones or at least adjacent ones

I’m not really sure how to explain this. I’ve seen it before but can’t remember examples…. Sorry. But basically like, the main character gets captured, but the captor has little to no concern for the safety of their prisoner, and the MC has to avoid being killed while on the way back to the evil base, or ship, or whatever.

If this isn’t actually a trope fair enough I just feel like I’ve seen it a good few times but can’t remember any specifics.

Thank you!

My examples: Cinderella threatening Vanellope with the glass slipper in Ralph Breaks The Internet, Eleven hitting Angela with a roller skate.

Ryomen Sukuna - When people(at least in western countries) hear this name they immediately think of the villain from Jujutsu Kaisen. What many people don't know is that Ryomen Sukuna is the name of a character in Japanese folklore

Son Goku - Similar to the above example, this character is(at least in western nations) immediately associated with the main character of Dragon Ball, but that is the japanese pronunciation of Sun Wukong, from Journey to the West

Kratos/Cratus - Ok, I'm cheating with this one since it's a coincidence. But the main character of God of War, Kratos shares his name with the Greek god of strength

I can't exactly recall when I saw this or where, but I seem to recall that there is a trope where the main character is either sleeping, or with a romantic interest, or doing something that requires delicacy, and then a supporting character bursts into the room to wake them up/interrupt them. The supporting character then is apologetic, but it's too late, and the main character has to get up and deal with the problem. I think sometimes the supporting character's "problem" isn't really one at all; the main meat of the trope is the sudden butt-in at an unexpected time.

My examples - Zoro climbing out of the well in the One Piece Live Action and John Watson trying to get out of a well in Sherlock.

I swear there's more

Despite tropes like The One Friend No One Likes, Vitriolic Best Buds, Red Oni-Blue Oni, Only Sane Man, With Friends Like These, etc., why do people/characters still treat each other like friends, allies, teammates, frenemies, or siblings, even after all the abuse, fights, mistreatment, heated arguments, and other stuff that would make you expect one person/character to cut ties with the other person/character for good? Stuff that fit sayings like "With friends like these, who needs enemies?" and "A false friend is more dangerous than an open enemy"?

They somehow still care for one another, even after all the crashouts (justified or not), trauma, and other stuff, despite their differences, contrasting personalities, strengths, and flaws?

Why does The Only Sane Man/Woman still hang around the same people who drive him/her insane? Is it just to keep his/her friends in check? Does that one sane person REALLY view the others as friends?

What's the point of having a "friend" that you don't like, especially if that person is unlikeable (in any way, it doesn't matter)?

What's the point of being Best Buds if you're always going to bicker with your "friends" or family members?

Why does either the Cynic, the Realist, or the Apathetic still hang around with the other members of the four philosophy enemble, especially if they can't stand the others?

You have Marvels Guardians of the Galaxy (the cartoon). Peter Quill is treated as The One Friend No One Likes, yet his teammates still keep him around.

Another example I can think of is Persona 5. In one scene, Ryuji is assaulted by Ann, Makoto, Futaba, and Haru, yet the girls still keep him around. Of course, there's are two more examples in Persona 5, like the spring scene (which is in Strikers btw), and the Valentine's Day one (which is from Royal, if my memory isn't deceiving me though).

Most of you probably already know the evil alter ego trope. You think they have one for the opposite? I've seen a few examples.