Thursday, January 14, 2021

Tumblr Thread: The World's Greatest Tropes


The verdict is in on this quick and entertaining Tumblr thread about the world's greatest tropes, and these apparently absolutely fit the bill. You've just got to love those moments in movies where characters provide flashbacks but said flashbacks involve all the other characters speaking in their actual voices, but also matching the actual cadence and vocabulary of the character telling the story. Also, the rumor is that basically all of these occurred in the "Road to El Dorado." 

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Text - inspectorwired Follow movie tropes that will never get old to me: • a thing happens + two people exchanging money in the back • fourth wall breaking • "give up all your weapons" and that one guy that spends the entire evening taking his weights worth out his pockets • *a terribly loud crash* meowing/ car sirens heard offscreen • alternatively: a terribly loud crash and one of the characters going "oops" in the most casual voice "fuck you" "well if you insist" nerdgasrnz Follow #alternativ

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Text - wearevengeancenow character being all “you expect me to do X?" Gilligan Cut to character doing X susiephone Follow • the squad gets captured and interrogated separately, and they're all telling equally terrible, completely contradictory lies people completely missing the completely unsubtle, very visible dangerous thing in the room with them alternatively, people absolutely seeing the completely unsubtle, very visible dangerous thing in the room with them and just not giving a shit

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Text - bonus points if it's a beleaguered minimum wage employee who just goes about their business like “yep same shit as always" • someone pretending they don't know another character is eavesdropping, only to casually reveal at the end of the scene that they know (*leaving* "tell tom that he can come out now" *tom drops from the ceiling in spy gear, irritated*) • choosing to deal with the villain by just leaving them alone in a room with another character • the "hands go down" trope • example:

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Text - These are all great but let's not forget two characters giving extremely biased flashbacks to the same event that each paint the other as an incompetent loon stunt-muppet Follow i would like to respectfully add: scenes where a character walks into a room, sees something scary, and turns around and walks out with no reaction or change of expression scaliefox Follow Bonus points if he DOES react, but it's to close the door and tell his buddy “it's for you."

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Text - brieflyshypuppy Follow Intentionally getting wrong easy-to-pronounce names (“It's Sean, isn't it?" "Dude. It's John.") • That one character who is like actively dying but insists they've had worse and wants to keep fighting Knocking down a big group of opponents with a bowling ball sound effect • Convenient book titles (*Plot-Related Thing for Dummies") bpd-disaster Characters giving a flashback and voicing all the characters themselves

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