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unusual facts about trope


Trope

Michael Trope (born 1951), American trial lawyer and former sports agent


Alan Wake's American Nightmare

Critics praised the change of style and tone from the earlier themes of isolation, light versus darkness, and melancholy, utilizing psychological horror tropes, found in Alan Wake to the madcap, Pulp-influenced themes in Alan Wake's American Nightmare, utilizing black comedy tropes found in works by Quentin Tarantino.

Charlotte Mary Sanford Barnes

Barnes' first original play was the blank verse drama Octavia Bragaldi, or, The Confession, which took the Beauchamp–Sharp Tragedy (the 1825 murder of Kentucky legislator Solomon P. Sharp by Jereboam O. Beauchamp) and set it in 15th century Milan, a popular trope of the day.

Environmental suit

The concept of an environmental suit protecting someone from contamination is a feature of the boy in the bubble trope: both David Vetter and Ted DeVita at some point used such suits.

Four Yorkshiremen sketch

A near derivative of the sketch appears in the BBC Radio show I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again Series 7, Episode 5 on 9 February 1969, in which the cast, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie, David Hatch, in the guise of old buffers at a gentlemen's club, employ the same trope of out-doing each other for hardship, this time in the context of how far and how slowly they had to walk to get to various places in former days.

Glossary of anime and manga

More good (and otherwise Anti-heroic) examples would be Belarus from Axis Powers Hetalia, Hatsune Miku and Megurine Luka in the song "Scissorloid , or Nu-13 from BlazBlue Western/non-anime or manga characters that are similar in concept to a Yandere such as Annie Wilkes in Misery fall under the Abhorrent Admirer trope.

Leah Horowitz

The central model she presents is the midrashic trope of the children of Israel going into exile, weeping at Rachel's grave.

Love at First Sight

Love at first sight is a literary trope, in which a person feels an immediate romantic attraction for a stranger.

Notker the Stammerer

regardless of historical verisimilitude (Pepin the Hunchback, for example, is supposed to have been sent to Saint Gall as punishment for his rebellion, and – in a trope owed to Livy's tale of Tarquin and the poppies – earns a promotion to rich Prüm Abbey after advising Charlemagne through an implicit parable of hoeing thistles to execute another group of rebels).

Rebel MC

Paul Gilroy argues that Rebel MC's message prevents the existence of "the trope of race as family".

Tropidophis celiae

The Canasi dwarf boa or Canasi trope, Tropidophis celiae, is a species of dwarf boa endemic to the northern coast of La Habana Province, western Cuba.

Vagina loquens

The taking vagina theme is the central trope of The Vagina Monologues.

Yerach ben yomo

Since the name "Haman" is traditionally drowned out by the gragger during the reading of the Megillah, few take any notice of the actual trope sound that is being pronounced at this time.


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