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  2. Trope (cinema) - Wikipedia

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    A "Mexican standoff" is a common film trope. In cinema, a trope is a type of stereotypical situation or mannerism of a character that is commonly used in its setting or genre. [1] A common thematic trope is the rise and fall of a mobster in a classic gangster film. The film genre also often features the sartorial trope of a rising gangster ...

  3. List of stock characters - Wikipedia

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    The following list labels some of these stereotypes and provides examples. Some character archetypes , the more universal foundations of fictional characters, are also listed. Some characters that were first introduced as fully fleshed-out characters become subsequently used as stock characters in other works (e.g., the Ebenezer Scrooge ...

  4. List of Magical Negro occurrences in fiction - Wikipedia

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    This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. ( April 2022 ) The Magical Negro is a supporting stock character in fiction who, by means of special insight or powers often of a supernatural or quasi- mystical nature, helps the white protagonist get out of trouble.

  5. Figure of speech - Wikipedia

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    For example, the phrase, "John, my best friend" uses the scheme known as apposition. Tropes (from Greek trepein, 'to turn') change the general meaning of words. An example of a trope is irony, which is the use of words to convey the opposite of their usual meaning ("For Brutus is an honorable man; / So are they all, all honorable men").

  6. List of films about animals - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of notable films that are primarily about animals.This include film where the main characters are animals or the plot revolves around an animal. While films involving dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals are included on this list, those concerning legendary creatures, such as dragons, vampires, or animal-human hybrids like werewolve are not.

  7. Mutants in fiction - Wikipedia

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    The concept of a mutant is a common trope in comic books and science fiction.The new phenotypes that appear in fictional mutations generally go far beyond what is typically seen in biological mutants and often result in the mutated life form exhibiting superhuman abilities or qualities.

  8. List of natural horror films - Wikipedia

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    Natural horror is a subgenre of horror films that features natural forces, [1] typically in the form of animals or plants, that pose a threat to human characters.. Though killer animals in film have existed since the release of The Lost World in 1925, [2] two of the first motion pictures to garner mainstream success with a "nature run amok" premise were The Birds, directed by Alfred Hitchcock ...

  9. TV Tropes - Wikipedia

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    Darth Wiki, named after Darth Vader from Star Wars as a play on "the dark side" of TV Tropes, is a resource for more criticism-based trope examples or common ways the wiki is inappropriately edited, and Sugar Wiki is about praise-based tropes, such as funny or heartwarming moments, and is meant to be "the sweet side" of TV Tropes.