![]() Examples: Her Code Name Was "Mary Sue": Series.Wizards Of Waverly Place example, Literature.Princesses Of The Pizza Parlor. ![]() Girls Love Princesses: Like Girls Love Ponies, but Princesses.Needed to create a target for a Cupid disambig, since that already has Visual Novel, two Series, and Video Game. Our Cupids Are Different: Love Goddess Sub-Trope, Fallen Cupid and Cupid's Arrow Super Tropes, Putto related, Classical Mythology related.Technically, most Character Level systems cap HP / MP this way. VideoGame.The World Is Your Weapon: Sister's Gift LV 2: Herb Pouch raises Herb Cap from 10 to 20. Like VideoGame.Science Girls, where, as an Anti-Frustration Feature, skills can't be raised to levels that they're un-castable due to needing too much SP Franchise.The Legend Of Zelda: Wallet upgrades VideoGame.Borderlands 1 / VideoGame.Titan Quest: Inventory upgrades. Allows easier control of player progression, limiting supplies. Cap Raiser / Cap Dependency: A cap that is dependent on other things, so it's not static.Shorthand to tell the audience that one of them is much better at the game, and the other has a vastly inflated opinion of their own skill, and is a bad sport to boot. A character gloats about a move they just pulled, then their opponent immediately pulls off a much more impressive move.Used as shorthand to tell the audience that one player is really good. A flashy move that you'd rarely see in a real-life game, if it isn't downright impossible.The Dead Have No Human Rights: Acceptable Targets are made into zombies in order to remove any moral dilemma involved with killing them.Doing things similar instruments can't do should be even more specific, like Instrument of Murder is used for combat.Instrument Of Plot Advancement would "be essential to the plot in some way".Instrument Of Legend would "have a history behind it".Some instrument trope ideas suggested in an unrelated draft:.Seems relevant as it has big effects on planning and stuff. "Effect Trigger Percentages lower than / at 50% / greater than": Deliberate setting of effect activation chance to happen less / as / more often than not.Hollywood and any mental health issues have similar problems. Hollywood Depression, when media doesn't correctly show how depression works."Anti-Alcohol Aesop": The moral of the story is that you shouldn't drink alcohol.The example that springs to mind is The Damned United: most of the well-known beats of Brian Clough's life are depicted, with the notable exception of his interview with David Frost-likely because Michael Sheen, who played Clough, also played Frost in Frost/Nixon. "Actor Existence Paradox" (needs a better name), for when an actor playing a real person in a Based on a True Story work would logically interact with another person who that same actor famously played.
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