Questions tagged [trope]
For questions about tropes, a common plot, cliché or meme which appears in literature or media.
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What's the significance of the boy with the drum?
Near the end of Triangle, at the car accident scene, we briefly see a boy that appears to belong to the parade they were having:
This boy is sitting on the floor (crying?) with his drum in front of ...
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What was the first work where the main characters became the 'aliens' who crashed at Roswell?
In some science fiction works, such as Futurama's Roswell that Ends Well and DS9's Little Green Men, established characters somehow go back in time and crash-land near Roswell New Mexico, and ...
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Did Tolkien invent the trope of the "green glint" in the eye? If not, who did?
In J.R.R. Tolkien's The Two Towers (1954), Sméagol has a transient "green glint" in his eye when his Gollum alter ego surfaces in his consciousness.
At the word hungry a greenish light was ...
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What's the first appearance of Becoming the Costume on Halloween in literature?
What's the first appearance of Becoming the Costume on Halloween in literature?
Something turns people into whatever costume they are wearing.
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How many times has Superman caught the falling Daily Planet statue?
When and how many times has the Daily Planet's statue (of the eponymous Daily Planet) at the top building fallen and been caught by Superman?
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Name for trope where a POV character has someone hanging out in their mind?
I've seen this trope in a lot of different media, where a telepathic being (not necessarily capable of telepathy with anyone, this can be limited to the one character) is just sort of hanging out in ...
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Where did "Dungeon Breaks", a.k.a monsters flooding out of a dungeon, come from?
Where did "Dungeon Breaks", a.k.a monsters flooding out of a dungeon, come from?
We know where the term for monster-zone "dungeons" came from, since that was my question...
But &...
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What is the origin of the trope of enslaved wizards/witches?
I have been reading The Wheel of Time books, and found the Seanchan Damanes to be very similar to The Tethered Mage books, where magic is rare and strictly controlled (even with minders that use ...
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Is the Coraline movie trying to make a point that people should have freedom?
I know it was originally a book and I'm wondering whether the original story was trying to make a point that people should have freedom.
In the Coraline movie, the main character Coraline went into ...
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