r/tvtropes

There is a trope where two old friends reunite and the new best friend feels left out when they hang around together. Third Wheel refers to a couple and their friend so this is not it.

TV Tropes' signature trope is Flanderization named for Ned Flanders. As you can see, I crossposted my comment from r/FavoriteCharacter but who do you think is your favorite character who was Flanderized? Of course I have Flanders himself but also Bubbles.

In a shorter sense, which fictional character do you wish would have a recasted actor? Mine are as follows:

• Baljeet Tjinder - Phineas & Ferb
• Kris - Pokémon Masters EX
• Nigel "Numbuh One" Uno & Hogarth "Hoagie 'Numbuh 2'" Gilligan Jr. - Codename Kids Next Door
• Amethyst - Steven Universe
• Raphael - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012)
• Jimmy Neutron

Usually seen at the end of an episode, season, or even a series. When the cast has all accomplished some huge task collectively and the camera starts at one person smiling and nodding, pans to another also celebrating, and keeps panning to different members of the ensemble, all getting their shot, all celebrating in their characters own way.

I’ve heard it talked about as a common shots I swear it had a sports metaphor for a name, but I cannot think of it and digging through tropes and other google searches hasn’t come up with an answer.

Thank you in advance.

I’m told that pop culture hatred of unions was largely an American thing. At least compared to Europe and Anglo colonies. I don’t watch much other media.

Having Union is a mob front jokes is American thing

Certain animals are considered more positive and heroic while others are often villains but it seems to be highly cultural specific what animals are associated with.

For example sharks are seen as valued ancestors in Polynesian culture and even in European culture it seems sharks weren’t thought of as much different from other fish before the 1916 shark attack.

Bats are associated with good luck in Han culture because the word bat sounds like the word for fortune.

Wolves are highly regarded in Mongolian and Ojibwe culture.

Only examples I can think of is the first Yo-Kai Watch game, where at the end, the human and Yo-Kai World get closed off from each other, sending all Yo-Kai back there. Ignoring the post game.

And in deltarune, where the main goal of the game is to seal the Fountains of The Dark Worlds, closing them off from the Light World and turning the room The Dark World is based on back to normal, reverting all Darkners back to normal objects. It's also theroized that the ending of deltarune will have The Grand Fountain be sealed, leaving no Dark Worlds left.

Bothered me for years. In a show people get on a transport going to a place for a thing, and it requires a detailed plan like assumed identities or a specific sequence of infiltration steps.

Then the camera cuts, they arrive, and only at that exact moment do they hand out assumed identities you need to be expert in, or only then the steps for infiltrating a place.

Memorable example is when Bucky, Zeno, and Sam arrive at Maripor to get intel, and as the car is intercepted by agents on a bridge, they get out and start talking identities.

Has bothered me for years. I don’t need a ton of exposition, nor an Oceans 11 level of detailed plan sharing. But at *least* cut the camera and start with “as we discussed in detail…”

I know that TVTropes has a page on “Archenemy” meaning a character’s main enemy (I have some qualms about that particular article but that’s not really my point here) but what I’m wondering is why it doesn’t seem to have one on what I’m calling a Nemesis by Default. Essentially, this character has few to no recurring enemies save this one such that this adversary is their nemesis by default. I don’t mean Even the All Loving Hero has Hated Ones, though I wouldn’t be surprised if there were overlap. I’m thinking how all three Avatar movies have Quaritch as their villain (for example), all the Lilo and Stitch sequels have the villain be either Hamsterviel or one of his henchmen, and in every Harry Potter book, the main villain is either Voldemort or under his auspices. Thoughts?

I don’t know if there is a trope for such moments in TV shows because I don’t want too give away too much for those who haven’t seen them yet, but I have seen the trope used in Breaking Bad and Money Heist.

In Money Heist’s case, one scene has a guy drive like crazy when he discovers the truth behind the Professor’s identity as it almost causes his death as a result as a similar scene happens in Breaking Bad when a particular character learns about the identity of Heisenberg.