#tropes

[comicaurora]

Is there a name for the trope where the protag is suddenly backed up by an army of allies, when their about to go face a massive threat alone. That trope gives me life but I cannot find a name for it.

This is a variant of The Cavalry! Our severely outnumbered/outgunned hero or heroes need to reach the brink of utter defeat before their allies can show up to even the odds. There's a few variants, but in order for the setup and payoff to not feel like a deus ex machina, the cavalry needs to be foreshadowed one way or another:

One of the heroes went off on their own to Not Endanger The Others, so the audience expects their friends and allies to show up at the eleventh hour to something something power of friendship

Our heroes tried to get outside help from a powerful potential ally before the final battle, but they didn't seem willing or able to divert their forces to help them out. Our heroes have written them off, but they show up because somebody changed their mind

A random background character they helped out once is like "hey I've been rallying some friends offscreen ever since you saved my village" and we get a big cameo fest of everybody our heroes ever hung out with

Team loner was like "this is a suicide mission and I'm leaving" and then they turn up at the last minute with friends and a gunship and probably some apology chocolates

Hey, guess who ALSO doesn't want this apocalyptic threat to win? That's right it's all the previous major villains and they brought ALLLLL their guns

[amaliazeichnerin]

In the bookish community, it has become a trend to advertise books with tags and tropes, like it's done in fanfiction communities. So I thought I'd do the same for "Dead Boy Detectives". So in case you are wondering if the series might be interesting for you, maybe this helps a bit to see if you might like it. Feel free to reblog this and add more tropes and tags if you can find more.

[ionlypostmymeemocs]

I am thinking about the popular tropes about Medic in fanfics and mostly in art...

Is the work alcoholic one and the literal alcoholic one!

The work alcoholic one is the Medic, who never takes breaks, never eats, and sleep because their work matters more!

The alcoholic Medic... Doesn't really need an interdiction! It's a Medic who always drinks! And drinks more than their demoman. Always drunk! But somehow, they managed to complete their work with NO issues! Oh! I also noticed that they are always mad for reasons and for no reason. And their mood never changes when they get drunk as well.

So my question is just for fun!

What is the Medic trope that YOU noticed in fanfics or in art!

Who knows! I might draw those tropes as Medics.

[not-avril]

The trope I appreciate very much

[the-overanalyst]

it's always so fascinating and heartbreaking when a character in a story is simultaneously idolized and abused. a chosen prophet destined for martyrdom. a child prodigy forced to grow up too fast. a powerful warrior raised as nothing but a weapon. there's just something so uniquely messed up about singing someone's praises whilst destroying them.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

please please please please reblog if you’re a writer and have at some point felt like your writing is getting worse. I need to know if I’m the only one who’s struggling with these thoughts

[ukrainian-groove-metal]

I love the "came back wrong" trope but from the opposite side.

Imagine you are dead. And then you are RIPPED from the embrace of decay into the world of the living again. Your memories are hazy and you don't recognize any of these people, but they act like they're close to you? Like they love you? So you try to get your memories back, to act like you belong here, but everybody tries to forget you died. And you can't. It is omnipresent. And just trying to grapple with that fact pushes the people who "love" you away, and they're incapable of understanding, and they're so confused, what's wrong N̶̄̀O̶͛͗T̷̉́ ̷͋͝Y̴̎̌Ȍ̴̈U̸̓R NÄM̴̃͑E̵̾̇? And you just need them to understand, you aren't that person! You aren't! You don't know who that person is! You don't know why any of this is happening, but they're unwilling to bend, they keep insisting you are that person, your memories will come back, everything will be normal again, and you want to scream and cry and claw yourself open to show them you're different. Your existence as a being wholly separate from whoever you "used to be" is a sin unto itself. All you can do is scrabble for life and to them, you're killing whoever they loved to do it.

just. lots of fun in that concept, you know?

[psyduckz]

time loop wrapped

failed to save a loved one 8402 times

punched your boss in the nuts 13 times

arrested 329 times

died by falling down a manhole twice

binged 178 tv shows

you spent 328500 minutes in the loop. that’s over 7 months nonstop!

top 10% of time loopers worldwide

[jadedanddark]

I died but I came back exactly the same. You though, I came back and you were wrong. Did the fact of my dying really damage you that much? Was bringing me back worth what it cost you? Would it have been better to just leave me?

[babsvibes]

One of the funniest things about enemies-to-lovers ships is how they’re almost always obsessed with each other. Like if a character actively chooses to interact with another character over and over again instead of simply ignoring them? Throw darts at it all you want, but you still printed out a picture of them to hang on your wall

[prokopetz]

Some of y'all are trying to found-family your blorbos into a nuclear family parent/child dynamic in a way that suggests you have profoundly misunderstood the circumstances under which the one would plausibly call the other "daddy".

[comicaurora]

Inspired by that previous ask, is there a specific name for that kinda really specific trope where two allies stage a big fight/argument between them, usually to draw out the villain or because they need to convince the villain that one of them is Super Down To Turn Evil Now? (Crucially, the heroes deliberately set the fight up and both of them are in on the plan and aware it's not a real fight, not any of that miscommunication-enabled bs)

That's the Fake Defector! The trope as written includes the cases where the "traitor" doesn't explain the plan to their friends first and there's a degree of miscommunication, but since its execution often relies pretty heavily on the Unspoken Plan Guarantee, the audience usually doesn't know how much information their allies actually have when they "turn traitor," and will only find out who was in on it when they inevitably reveal that they're actually still a good guy.

[winterandwords]

I could fix him. I could make him worse. Good for you. I could gently take the weapon out of his shaking, blood-soaked hand and hold him until he finally believes that he doesn't have to be defined by all the ways the world has hurt him. Then we could ruin the lives of everyone who has ever treated him like he's a monster who doesn't deserve love.

[let-them-fight]

can we stop doing this trope

[live-from-flaturn]

"But you already wrote that trope."