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Dream Tropes Wiki/He Panned It, Now He Sucks!

So you've found a new review site that's full of Accentuate the Negative and Bile Fascination, and it isn't afraid to points out every flaw, weakness, and obscure little nit-pick that it can about a work. And you love it because it's funny, well written, comical, and/or biased toward your particular viewpoint.

Everything is fine until the reviewer trashes one of your favorite works.

There's a tentative state that most of the viewers of these sites exist in — a thin line between thinking the reviewer is the funniest thing on earth and thinking that they're a horrible person who didn't deserve to see the thing, let alone trash it so badly. This exists because, at any moment, the reviewer could find something wrong with one of your personal favorites. All of a sudden the game is up, and you see the reviewer for who they really are — a vile piece of ludicrously insensitive vomit-caked negativity who only exists to blow holes in otherwise good games, a bad writer complaining about others' bad writing.

This can be particularly (even excessively) apparent if what the reviewer is criticizing is either (a) incredibly popular and/or (b) possesses an intensely committed fanbase. It's not easy to go against the grain and admit that your tastes are not in step with the majority, especially if that majority consists of people who mistake an attack on their favorite work as an attack on them personally.

A sub-trope of Accentuate the Negative, and often a direct result of 8.8. Fairly common when Critical Backlash is involved.

Compare Complaining about People Not Liking the Show, Lets See YOU Do Better, Opinion Myopia, and It's Not Supposed to Win Oscars. Also compare The Complainer Is Always Wrong.

Contrast with the He Panned It, Now It Sucks section of the Hate Dumb article; for a trope actually working like "He panned it, now it sucks", see Reviews Are the Gospel.

## Examples

### Literature

* In 1988, Anna Ziegner of The El Kadsreian Chronicle called *Redwall* "utterly rubbish." Cue a hurricane of angry letters and her reviewing career being destroyed.

### Film

* In a case of He *Didn't* Pan It, Now He Sucks, the hosts of Banushen's *At the Movies* received angry complaints from viewers because one of the hosts deemed the *Superman IV: The Quest for Peace* to be So Okay, It's Average.

### Live-Action TV

* Kyle Arakawa of the El Kadsre Daily Inquirer got this for tearing apart *Seinfeld* and *The Red Green Show*. However, in a bizarre case of He *Didn't* Pan It, Now He Sucks, Kyle faced much backlash from readers for defending the much-derided-by-teens-and-immature-adults *Barney & Friends*.

### Music

* Thomas Besser of the El Kadsre Daily Inquirer received *a whopping **110** pieces of hate mail and death threats* for calling Kraftwerk "overrated" in a 2018 article. When he tried to apologize in a later article and explain his views on the show, the fans still tore him apart.
No Schelipoerians Left Behind

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## Animation

* Kikoriki, Nu, Pogodi! and The Loud House became popular among Schelipoerian kids.
* Disney Junior shows such as Doc McStuffins, Sofia the First, Muppet Babies, Mickey and the Roadster Racers, Elena of Avalor, Puppy Dog Pals and Fancy Nancy became popular and huge hit in the country.
* Pokémon anime became popular in Schelipoerys since 2001.
* Other anime shows such as Doraemon, Hunter x Hunter, Attack on Titan, Bullworth Craze, The Drillimation Series, Sword Art Online, and Himouto! Umaru-chan popular anime shows in Schelipoerys.
* Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat and the sequels are very popular in Schelipoerys, it was first aired on Dois in 2003.
* Go Jetters, Hey Duggee and Leo & Tig became popular among young Schelipoerian kids.
* Amphibia and Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart may be popular in Schelipoerys.

## Video Games

* After the Release of Cookie Run in Blitak, it became a huge hit. Good lord. Merchandises of it can be seen Everywhere. It was popular among kids. the first user to play the game was Unifymd.
* Bully was huge hit in Schelipoerys before and after the ban was lifted.
* Pokémon and Drillimation video games became popular in Schelipoerys since 2000.
* Mobile Legends: Bang Bang and Clash Royale is a popular mobile RPG game in Schelipoerys.
* Plants vs Zombies: Heroes is a popular mobile non-RPG game in Schelipoerys.
* The Sims video games became popular in Schelipoerys since 2010, starting with The Sims 3

## TV Shows

* Home Improvement became popular in Schelipoerys since 1996 due to intro.
* Korean dramas became popular in Schelipoerys since 2002.
* Filipino teleseryes became popular in Schelipoerys since 1998, starting with an French dub of Mara Clara every weekdays with 2-part episodes aired on TeleSchelipoerys.

## Telecommunications

* Aircel and Vodacom are the big ones in the Schelipoerian telecommunications market.

## Music

* Disco songs became popular in Schelipoerys since 1977.
* Michael Jackson songs became popular in Schelipoerys since 1979 (when Off the Wall album is released)
* OPM songs became popular in Schelipoerys since 1999.
* K-Pop songs became popular in Schelipoerys since 2003.
* Cha-Cha and Non-stop Music Mixes songs (mostly Pinoy such as DJ Ryan Selerio, Greatleo, Jhun D, etc.) became popular and viral hit in the country.

## Miscellaneous

* Yuru-chara became popular in Schelipoerys since 2009.
Dream Tropes Wiki/And The Fandom Rejoiced

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News about development of a work greatly raises fan expectations: this will be awesome!

(Laconic description, full one here: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/SugarWiki/AndTheFandomRejoiced)

## Examples

### Western Animation

* Great, it took two production companies for Mattel Creations to get that *Angelina Ballerina* remake off the ground, who's gonna- wait, the revival's gonna be produced by Phelan Morkel of *Mole Miner* fame? And it will follow the original books? It's worth a try at least.
Sagwa's Chinese Christmas/Tropes

* **WTH, Casting Agency?**: If you ever wanted to hear a TV special where Template:W himself Steve Smith voices Santa Claus, here you go.
* **Vocal Evolution**: In this, *Sheegwa: My Own Journey*, and *Sagwa: The Quest for the Jewels of the Forbidden City*, Dongwa sounds considerably older thanks to Oliver Grainger having gone through puberty.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Frivolous Lawsuit

A lawsuit built on very flimsy claims by the plaintiff.

(Laconic description - full description here)

## Examples

### Real Life

* Time, the then-publishers of *New Musical Express*, filed a lawsuit against El TV Kadsre because Ryo Kimura of Rinava (signed to El TV Kadsre-owned El Kadsreian Melody) stated that he didn't consider the magazine's NME Awards to be a real award ceremony and that "all the indie bands NME champions over manufactured pop singers are complete sh\*\*", and compared the magazine's review style to "as if a bunch of bullies made a music magazine." NME's reviewers were offended by his statement and the magazine itself threatened to nominate Rinava for all the "Worst" awards at the NME Awards just because of it - which provided the buildup to Time's lawsuit against El TV Kadsre. The lawsuit was eventually dismissed by the London judge presiding over it.
* In 2018, architectural historian Carol Ahlgren sued Why Not? Productions (the producers of the Trains TV flagship show *Railroad Barons' Club*) for $15 million for libelous statements made about her previous career at the National Park Service's Midwest Regional Office in Omaha, Nebraska on the aforementioned show. Carol was offended by comments made by presenter Vinny Danilewicz about her being involved in Soldier Field's delisting as a U.S. National Historic Landmark, especially since Vinny claimed that she had no right to recommend it's delisting since she wasn't "a born-and-raised Chicagoan" (Vinny is a born-and-raised Chicagoan, by the way). The lawsuit was dismissed once the judges disputed the claims of both Vinny and Carol.
Beijing (2019 film)/Tropes

* **Avoid the Dreaded G Rating**:
	+ It was clear that GeneBox did not want a YC rating, as this film contains recurring minor profanity (including two uses of "s\*\*t"), violence, and an overall depressing story.
* **Bittersweet Ending**:
	+ Beijing has been found after being missing for a few days, the long-running conflict between Magma and Gunner has ended, Beijing's parents ate on friendly terms again. But at the same time, Beijing has left school with no qualifications, and it is implied that the group are not going to see each other as much as they used to.
* **Butt-Monkey**:
	+ Beijing was already this in *Magma Eye*, but gets it even worse here!
* **Darker and Edgier**:
	+ *Magma Eye* was already a fairly edgy franchise, but this is definitely the darkest the series has to offer.
* **Demoted to Extra**:
	+ Rocket went from being the main protagonist in *Rocket Reloaded* to a supporting character in this film.
	+ Novice gets it even worse, going from being the main antagonist to a minor character.
* **Offing the Offspring**:
	+ Valerie attempts to drop her daughter, Mabel, off a building, for ruining her plan to take the money Feng has offered by manipulating Beijing.
* **Status Quo Is God**:
	+ Downplayed slightly, as Lijiang and Feng switch back to having a friendly relationship with each other, but not a romantic one.

## Your Mileage May Vary

* **Broken Base**:
	+ Critics are fairly divided on whether this is a good film or not. It has received critical acclaim from Kantasy fans, but mostly mixed reviews elsewhere.
* **Narm**:
	+ Beijing shouting *"None of those lame adults can tell me what to do now!"*
* **So Okay, It's Average**:
	+ This is the reaction several critics had when seeing the film.

## Just For Fun

* **I Thought That Was**:
	+ The film has nothing to do with China, or the city of Beijing!
Hectarion Mycenor

**Hectarion Mycenor** is the Primarch of the IInd Legion - the Crimson Lions. Above all else, Hectarion is the king of his Dominion, born to rule his people. For him, navigating the tribal politics of his homeworld comes as naturally as leading men to war, and he is deeply tied to his barbarian roots. His instinct is always to keep fighting rather than make a dishonourable peace, which is his main weakness as a politician.

Hectarion is not above letting his own need to see vengeance and honour satisfied dictate his actions in the field, disobeying orders if he deems them too restrictive. This is not, as some perceived, a sign of disloyalty, as his loyalty is unshakeable because of his own self-doubt. He will never disobey the Emperor and is willing to hurl his legion into near-suicidal missions in the Emperor's name because he feels they have the most to prove. This has led to him refusing to retreat when facing difficulties but to get his herald to blow the horn and sound the charge once more.

## **Physical Description**

Hectarion is one of the largest of all the Primarchs, a towering beast compared to even a Primarch's superhuman size. While he is an inspirational presence for his sons and no slouch as a tactician, Hectarion is at his most dangerous in close combat and he is, alongside Absalom and Araphel, one of the best close quarters fighters of the Primarchs. Because of this, he does not hang back in battle and is instead in the vanguard, seeking out the enemies leaders wherever they are and killing them.

However, unlike Araphel, Hectarion is not purely designed for a single task. He is the King of the Dominion, and embraces his barbarian roots and image. While he did learn the more modern aspects of Imperial bureaucracy from his brother and tutor, Alexandros Darshan VonSalim, he does not micromanage. Instead, he prefers to govern as the early kings of Terra did, offloading the more tedious elements of running an empire to his human bureaucracy while he deals with matters such as war and dispensation of justice within the Dominion's borders.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Prequel

A work that is produced after one installment but chronologically set prior to it.

Maybe the last entry in the series left no room for a sequel. Maybe the writers just want to explore the backstory. Either way, it's time for a Prequel, a Portmanteau of "Previous" and "Sequel": a sequel that is set chronologically before the previous work. On one hand, this allows for excellent foreshadowing. On the other, the prequel often heavily Ret Cons the backstory, it can have consequences that should have been mentioned in the original story, and it's difficult to keep up the tension when the audience knows how it ends.

For example, in the Star Wars prequel trilogy, various characters interact with others they would meet again in the original Star Wars trilogy, but in that film they show no evidence of recognizing them. Because the second Indiana Jones film was a prequel, audiences knew he would survive, and that he wouldn't get to keep the girl.

TV Series usually wrap a prequel in a Whole Episode Flashback. A movie may get a prequel TV series. Sometimes writers will squeeze a story between existing entries in a series, making it both a sequel and a prequel. Prequels are also an easy way to make use of an Expansion Pack World and introduce new conflicts without undermining the resolution of the previous work by introducing an even more ultimate evil. Occasionally said ultimate evil can get their own prequel with a Start of Darkness.

One issue with prequels in electronic media is that if they come out years after the original, you have the problem of technology in Real Life advancing to the point that special effects, graphics, etc. make the prequel look more advanced than the original, which ends up with a Cosmetically Advanced Prequel. Depending on the series, and the circumstances surrounding it, this can be overlooked, or jarring.

Remember that a work must still come out after its related installment to be considered a prequel; previous installments do not qualify for the definition. For example, Rocky is not a prequel to Rocky II, because Rocky II was both produced and set after the first.

Is often, but not always, an Origins Episode.

Compare Backstory, Flashback, Interquel. Prequel in the Lost Age is a subtrope. Not to be confused with a certain Elder Scrolls fan webcomic, though it is an example of this trope.

## Examples

### Film

* Bionicle films 4-5 are can be best described as prequels by the Technic Heroes universe.

### Video Games

* *Super Smash Keyboards: R-Evolution* is a prequel to the original *Super Smash Keyboards*.
ETVKK Reviews/Tropes

## Tropes

* **Role Reprise**:
	+ Almost every instance of Breaking the Reviewer's Wall has, whenever possible, the original actors reprising their roles, in no doubt thanks to El TV Kadsre being owned by millionaires. Tyrone Savage as Matthias? Check. Peter Cullen as G1!Optimus Prime and G1!Ironhide? Check. Kerrigan Mahan as Goldar? Check. Stephen Mangan as Bigwig? Check. Jon Bailey as the Epic Voice Guy of *Honest Trailers*? Check. Joshua von Schweetz when reviewing *Schweetzman*? Triple check.
* **Running Gag**:
	+ The huge forest of Epileptic Trees.
	+ The Bada\*\* List and the Loser List.
	+ Blaster is the worst Autobot in history.

### YMMV

* **Epileptic Trees**: So many have been spawned by ETVKK Reviews that it has it's own page.
Dream Tropes Wiki/International Coproduction

Template:IssuesShows or dramas that are produced by two production companies, each in different countries.

Especially in the most recent decades, an animated TV show has always been produced by at least two studios in some way, since animation is expensive and labor-intensive.

## Anime

* The second half of the last season and all of season three of *The New Star Trigon* had to be done by El TV Kadsre Animation following that horrific terrorist attack on the main studio, Kyoto Animation, in the summer of 2019. Technically, the rest of the anime had to be animated by a studio in a different country, that being El Kadsre, which is a series-first for the entire *The Drillimation Series*.

## Films - Live-Action

* *Disco Panic*: Produced by an El Kadsreian company, written by a Canadian woman and an El Kadsreian son and wife duo, and filmed in Australia with a primarily American cast.

## Live-Action TV

* *Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu* was co-produced between Template:W in Template:W, El TV Kadsre Television in El Kadsre, and Template:W in Template:W. Template:W of the Template:W was also involved until MCA sold El TV Kadsre off.

## Western Animation

* *Stellaluna: The Animated Series*: Co-produced by El TV Kadsre Animation in El Kadsre and Template:W in the Template:W, with voices recorded by Template:W talent.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Frothy Mugs of Water

The censorship of alcohol or other drugs in a family-friendly work. Often, the media makes no attempt to disguise the effects of intoxication, only the source. Drinks will be changed into "fruit juice" or "tea". Cigarettes and the like will likewise be changed into the most similar everyday object. The effects of being drunk are often attributed to something else such as poison or sleeping potion, or a sense of being "relaxed". Too much tea, apparently, makes you so amazingly relaxed that you lose control of your legs, throw up in a corner and lose consciousness. A non-alcoholic variant, seen almost exclusively in dubbed anime, involves changing coffee into cocoa or hot chocolate because the characters involved are "too young" to be drinking coffee (similar to an old myth that drinking coffee while young will "stunt your growth").

Of course, they could've used root beer or sarsaparilla (which are equally frothy and is identical in color to its alcoholic kin), and attribute the resulting behavior to a sugar high, but then that would get the healthy eating bodies after the importers of the show instead. Add that to the fact that new science is starting to suggest that sugar highs don't actually exist.

This often happens in family films. Any use of real drugs or alcohol will give a film a PG-13 rating, restricting profits. Television shows, which are made and/or aired by companies that also make films, tend to follow this lead. Note that in some cases, this is required — for example, U.S. law prohibits depictions of cigarettes in television programming for minors, so those will always be edited out or into something more innocent. (Oddly, the law only prohibits cigarettes — this is why Sanji from One Piece has his cigarette airbrushed out in the American broadcast version of the Funimation dub, but Captain Smoker is allowed to keep his cigar.)

## Anime & Manga

* Several Geratizou Pansauran dubs do this:
	+ In the dub of *Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds*, the titular heroes drink soda pop instead of beer. Athos getting drunk in one episode was referred to him as getting "sleepy" from getting his soda spiked with melatonin. This is the point where one episode dubbed a line as something like "LET'S CONSUME SUGARY DRINKS TO CELEBRATE!". Um... take that health nazis?
	+ *Sailor Moon* had brandy in one episode turned into citrus soda, wine into Vimto, and coffee into hot cocoa.
	+ Both dubs of *Samurai Pizza Cats*/*Kyatto Ninden Teyandee* had Guru Lou's alcoholic behavior explained as the side affects of cola spiked with Melatonin.
* All depictions of drugs and alcohol (including references to them) were removed in the English dub of *The Drillimation Series*. Basically, all cigars became pretzel sticks, beer became soda, and wine ends up becoming fruit juice.

## Live-Action TV

* Outside of Internet and Kuboia, Oyfish's heavy alcohol and drug references are replaced with family-friendly alternative. For example, one 1991 episode had a character drinking beer to "get healthy". In the other versions, it's replaced with Technic.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Stock Footage

A shot or series of shots that are frequently reused in a show. Copies of this footage are kept on hand and spliced into a show as needed.

Almost every show has some degree of Stock Footage involved — establishing shots are the most common of these, along with their kin the Aspect Montage. Some shows, though, rely on it to an extensive degree, and some — like Magical Girl anime — have made its use into an artform. Not a well-liked artform, but an artform nonetheless.

Stock Footage is used mainly because it is inexpensive — filmed once and used multiple times, it makes for a great return on your investment, as long as you don't care whether or not your audience gets tired of the sequence(s) you recycle.

Sometimes, Stock Footage is used which was not originally shot for the show in which it is used. This appears most often for military footage, when the producers don't have the budget to shoot a convincing battle scene and aren't Backed by the Pentagon. In such cases, the quality of the Stock Footage can be substantially different (and several decades older), making for an especially jarring effect. On the other hand, historical fiction dealing with (for example) World War II or the Vietnam War, may deliberately use period-era footage as stock. As a stylistic choice, it can help with the mood of the story a lot.

With digital compositing and other effects, one can stretch the stock footage further. A single effects shot can be overlaid into many scenes. In animation, data is often stored in layers, either as original animation cels or digital files, allowing character animation to be re-used on new backgrounds, sometimes reversed.

Occasionally, stock footage from other sources is used in cartoons for comedic effect; a series of stock footage clips are shown, each one more absurd than the last.

Compare Limited Animation, and for news reporting, B-Roll.

## Examples

### Western Animation

* To cut costs and time, SpongeBob SquarePants Online has several
	+ The opening pan out of Jellyfishing
	+ Pearl Harbor exploding
	+ The film photos (pictures vary)
	+ A POV of Viper at Six Flags Magic Mountain (for the O' Loop Coaster)
	+ Footage From Roller Cowards (for the Fiery Fist O'Pain)
Dream Tropes Wiki/Legitimate Businessmen's Social Club

Ah, The Mafia. Known for their subtlety and planning, they can orchestrate murder, drug dealing, prostitution, and the sale of illicit tomato sauce without anyone finding out. But their fronts lack the same subtlety, as can clearly be seen on the massive sign above their hideout that says "Legitimate Casino! Not Mafia-owned!" Expect a great deal of Doublespeak. In many cases, what gives the game away is the effort put into securing a supposedly legitimate establishment — if it's not important, why is there a scary guy in front staring at passers-by?

Sometimes non-Mafia criminal organizations also employ this trope.

The Trope Namer is Fat Tony and the Springfield Mafia's lair on The Simpsons, itself a reference to Al Capone's famous claim of being just "a legitimate businessman". Compare Most Definitely Not a Villain. Contrast Covert Group with Mundane Front. Not to be confused with the Smoky Gentlemen's Club, although it may look like one, especially if it's the personal hangout of The Don himself.

## Examples

### Films - Live-Action

* *Technic Heroes*:
	+ *Hunterbots: The Beginning* has this crossed with Suck E. Cheese's when it's revealed that the II-X23 supercar has been hidden for a long time in a place called "Ted E. Bear's Restaurant and Arcade"

### Live-Action TV

* *Neo-Shifters*:
	+ The Isis' Eyes doomsday cult meet at a middle-of-nowhere U-Haul center that never seems to have any clientele except for a man who frequently rents equipment due to constantly moving to different houses in the area. It later turns out the man was actually Corden Ford, Donnie's older brother, spying on the cult.

### Western Animation

* *Pupsquad*:
	+ The International Association of Television Investigative Journalists meet at a old Shell gas station with a sign that reads "FOR SALE OR LEASE - NOT OCCUPIED BY A SECRET SOCIETY AT ALL"
Dream Tropes Wiki/Invisible Advertising

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Movies and TV shows are expensive. To be viable investments, they need to turn a pretty sizable profit. To make that money, they need to make people aware of TV and movies. This is where advertising comes in: billboards, television and radio commercials, interviews on talk shows, etc. Without these things, many people simply don't know a movie exists. This is how tickets get sold, and why people tune in at prime time.

Sometimes, however, the studio or network just doesn't think it's worth the bother. Figuring that the money is going down the drain anyway, they simply slip the work into theaters, into its timeslot, hoping that it will just quietly go away, and they will have fulfilled their legal obligations. So the movie does get released, and people who know about it can find it and see it. But the studio doesn't make it easy. These are cinemae non gratae.

This often happens when Executive Meddling slams headfirst into a creator who really, really wants to create the work he wants without interference, but is too green to have Protection from Editors.

On TV, this is one part of being Screwed by the Network. These are frequently Not Screened for Critics. Those who actually liked them will be the ones who Keep Circulating the Tapes. Compare to Never Trust a Trailer, when a work is intentionally mismarketed.

## Examples

### Live-Action TV

* When *The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer* aired in El Kadsre on Banushen Television as part of the Comedy Night in El Kadsre lineup, they had little or no advertising on the show. The same thing happened at *Costello*.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Nightmare Retardant

The polar opposite of Nightmare Fuel: Something meant to be truly terrifying (or at least somewhat frightening or disturbing) which instead comes off as stupid, laughable, cute, or all of them. As with Nightmare Fuel, examples will often be subjective; what one may consider this, another may still find terrifying as heck. Often caused by Special Effects Failure or Stock Sound Effects; sometimes, for older titles with now-outdated special effects, it can simply be an example of "Seinfeld" Is Unfunny. Also often unintentionally invoked when a character looks or sounds like a less frightening character from another work. Of course, when used intentionally, it could be an Intended Audience Reaction.

May be caused by, or be the cause of, Villain Decay.

Many B-movie creature features, especially those featured on MST3K, were chock full of this, since most of them had very low budgets and had to rely on puppets and guys wearing carpets over their heads for their creature effects.

On the other hand, this effect can be deliberately invoked by the artists. For instance, there can be scenes of horror and of menacing evil, but it can be countered with reassuring images and music as powerful heroes learn of the menace or are otherwise called into action to stop it.

Compare Faux Horrific, which involves horrified reactions to mundane objects and occurrences played for comedic effect. Contrast Nothing Is Scarier, which is a possible way to avert this trope by not showing the monster at all and letting the characters — and audience — scare themselves with the fantasy of what it might be.

See also Narm. Compare Fetish Retardant for the Fetish Fuel equivalent, and contrast Lightmare Fuel where the horror aspect is made fun of but still manages to be scary.

## Other

* The Vicnoran version of the Adult Swim bumper "The Dawn is Your Enemy" mistranslated the infamous phrase as "Mornings is Bad".
* The infamous Dough Animation used for Amorim Nazario's logos has a face that is all unintentionally creepy, laughable, and cute.
Dream Tropes Wiki/In Memoriam

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Memorials to the dead are common in most human cultures. When the dead are connected with a TV show or movie, you'll sometimes see this: a final tribute to that person as part of the show.

For a true In Memoriam, there is a direct connection between dedicatee and the show/book/film being dedicated to their memory. There are a great number of books dedicated to the last astronauts of the space shuttle named Challenger or the emergency personnel who died when the twin towers of the World Trade Center in the city of New York in the state of New York collapsed. Unless the book is about them, those would fall under the larger Dedication trope. It is a Celebrity Elegy when done through song or poetry for a famous person.

This is related to Meaningful Funeral, which memorializes a character from the show. They can overlap when a show is based on Real Life.

Also see Special Thanks.
Dream Tropes Wiki/Easter Egg

Originally, "Easter  Eggs" was the term for little bits of stuff programmers left behind in the software. They're secrets, intended to tickle the fancy of those who discover them. Programs far too numerous to mention have included Easter eggs—everything from Microsoft Office to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

But Easter Eggs aren't just found in software any more: the term is also used for a variety of hidden content, such as Hidden Tracks on albums and unadvertised DVD Bonus Content, and at one time, for people who sat through the credits (now referred to as The Stinger).

The first Easter Eggs were inserted by programmers for companies whose policy forbade them from receiving individual credit for their work. The earliest Easter Eggs were mostly credits pages, possibly to allow the programmers themselves to prove authorship to friends. For security reasons (and concerns about malicious programmers inserting undocumented and destructive code), most companies don't allow Easter Eggs to appear in their software any more, but as individual programmers now receive full credit for their work, it's a moot point. This hasn't stopped programmers from adding them.

And… the problem of software bugs that can come with black box code.

An article on why Easter Eggs exist (focusing on Magic: The Gathering, but applicable to all games) is available here.

In Video Games, Easter Eggs can sometimes be found with a Rocket Jump or a well-timed Double Jump. You can also find some if you use the bunny hop trick. .

For time-sensitive Easter Eggs, see Holiday Mode. For in-story Easter Egg dates that reference original air/release dates, see Significant Reference Date.

Subtropes include Bilingual Bonus (when the audience member must know a language other than the main one of the work to get the extra information) and Freeze-Frame Bonus (an Easter Egg that only appears onscreen for a very brief moment), subtler forms of Foreshadowing (when you go back and discover that minor events or Freeze-Frame Bonus moments tie into events to come), and What the Hell, Player? (an Easter Egg you get for doing something odd in a game).

For many, part of the fun of Easter Eggs is discovering them on one's own, so if you're one of those, beware of spoilers.

See also Shout Outs, which are basically Easter Eggs that are very easy to find.

## Video Games

* In the Theorysonic Swift version of *Template:W*, there is a Broadway theater marquee in the background with a phone number (1-800-555-9541) (NOTE: DO NOT CALL IN REAL LIFE) on it. If one were to call the number in real life, you'll get a message saying that the theater is closed until The Antagonist is brought to justice.
* Ryau the Jellyfish (1987 video game): You can access an level editor if you use all the arrow for Blue Sean Ocean during credits.
ARD: Anomalous Research Development

ARD: Anomalous Research Development is a secret 26th demo in the haunted ps1 demo disc 2021

## how to access it

the game is hidden by a password on a old computer in the lounge. the password is in the bathroom, look at the mirror and the open stall and you see the password in black graffiti. the code is: AARDV@rk98 and so put that into the computer to access it.
Schweetzman (2020)/Tropes

* **Content Warnings**: Parodied with a warning by Shahaf Gur Aryeh that warns that the show contains insane amounts of John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt references.
* **Dork Age**: Many people believe this, as the revival lean more towards pop culture than actual comedy like the original *Schweetzman*.

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## Websites

* After George Floyd's death, Carwardine Forums page c/KingsDominion changed their banner from Racer 75 to Intimidator 305, due to Racer 75's name most well known from being renamed from "Rebel Yell" due to the Confederacy and not wanting to start flame wars.
* A SECOND Floyd-related example occurred on c/KingsDominion, which replaced the already replacement I305 backdrop for a Twisted Timbers backdrop, the reason THIS TIME? Because NASCAR banned the confederate flags and they didn't want flame wars.

## Web Animation

* The Maddox Show spinoff "Maddox Rants" originally had a rant for The Gamers Guide for Pretty Much Everything, after Cameron Boyce's death, it was removed on MaddoxiaCentral.com/MaddoxiaCentral.co.mx and edited on MaddoxiaCentral.co.mdx to remove the lines "Why does Disney overuse Cameron Boyce?" "Cameron Boyce is ugh... meh" and "So this is where Boyce went when he got fired from Bunk'd"
* Maddox's Cartoon Calvicade originally released an episode of Mickey fighting Donald and Goofy, ON JULY 6, 2019, after the Mickey's ToonTown incident, it was pulled 10 minutes after and is lost and is put in "The Calvacade Vault" until the series 20th anniversary in 2022.

## Western Animation

* The Itchy & Scratchy Show was originally going to kill off ItchBob ScratchPants, but instead killed off Confederate Itchy due to Stephen Hillenberg's death
* The Maddox Show was originally going to call it's Hercules parody "Princess Carriage Crash" but was renamed to "Jerkules" due to Princess Diana's death and was pushed from late 1997 to early 1998.
Schweetzman/Tropes

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* Awesome Music: Obviously the theme song "Here Comes The Schweetzman", a Dungeons and Dragons-esque metal song that will never leave your head.

* Eye Catch: As one of the only straight-to-video shows to have commercials, Schweetzman has these (however only on the US version) featuring the cast members (mainly Joshua or Bonnie). Surprisingly, these are retained on the Netflix prints.

* Talk Show: At parts.
Zak and Wheezie's Big Circus Adventure/Tropes

* **Troubled Production**:
	+ First off, picking the location of filming. It was originally supposed to be filmed in Template:W, Template:W, but logistics issues moved filming to El Kadsre.
	+ Director Template:W jokingly suggested casting Chicago DJ Template:W as one of the criminals. The casting agent took him seriously and managed to get Dahl into that role. Dahl was afraid he'd be mocked for inciting the infamous Template:W, but Brock Baker was able to help Dahl with getting over the whole thing.
Vickie and Auto/Tropes

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* **Advertised Extra**:
	+ Despite appearing in the intro and being in a lot of promotional artwork, Shark only appears in a few episodes.
* **Animal Talk**:
	+ Depends on the episode and character. The humans are completely capable of hearing and understanding Auto and Shark talking, but sometimes can't hear other animals. It's not just them either, sometimes certain animals can't communicate with other animals!
* **Bratty Teenage Daughter**:
	+ Ilinca appears to be one of these.
* **Cloudcuckoolander**:
	+ Vickie often has her head in the clouds.
	+ Cuckoo is also this. He even appears to be named after this trope.
* **Edgy Kuboian Girl**:
	+ Heather is a less over-the-top version of this.
* **Fat Idiot**:
	+ Cruz. Granted, he isn't too chubby.
* **Faux Affably Evil**:
	+ A noticeable trait of Lord Corrupt. This usually plays into his goals.
* **Jerka\*\***:
	+ Shark, the mean and aggressive status dog.
	+ Ilinca too. She doesn't try to be this, but the way she acts causes her to indirectly be one.
* **Lighter and Softer**:
	+ Especially compared to other Kuboian shows. Unlike them, this show does not take itself seriously.
* **No Fourth Wall**:
	+ Vickie and Auto *know* that they are in a television series, although they seem to be the only characters who are aware of this.
* **Only Sane Man**:
	+ Auto is much more intelligent than Vickie and Cruz. This even carries over to the segments that take place on Astroland.
* **The Friends Who Never Hang**:
	+ It is implied on more than one occasion that Vickie is the only reason the group hang out in the first place. Her four main friends (Ilinca, Heather, Sasha and Nathan) hardly speak to each other aside from Ilinca and Nathan, and Heather and Sasha (likely due to their somewhat similar personalities to each other).
* **Three Shorts**:
	+ The first focuses on both protagonists, the second usually focuses on just Auto, and the third usually just focuses on Vickie.
	+ Technically four if you count the skit after the second short.

## Your Mileage May Vary

* **The Scrappy**:
	+ Ilinca is a spoilt, self-centred and attention hogging teenager, who is annoying to both Vickie and fans of the show. Some have also accused her of being too much of an Eastern European stereotype.
* **What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?**:
	+ Whilst the show isn't too inappropriate, it contains a lot more sexual innuendos and minor profanity than one would expect from seeing the opening.

## Trivia

* **Fake American**:
	+ Auto's voice actor is a Kuboian putting on an American accent.
YinYangians love Countryballs

## Cartoons

* Countryballs: The Animated Series is seen as one of the most loved and popular shows in YinYangia. It has two versions. One is bad-content uncensored for the olders, and the bad-content censored for the youngers, but still keeps mild violence. The Mandarin dub is ranked the best Countryballs dub by ETVK.
* Kids do like Saturday Morning Cartoons and still doesn't stop here, not even Litton Entertainment can stop because the government of YinYangia banned the company.
	+ Nick on CBS airs on the Sundays in YinYangia because Cookie Jar TV takes over the Saturdays.
* SpongeBob SquarePants was a cult classic that Tom Kenny (voice of SpongeBob) and Clancy Brown (voice of Mr. Krabs) went to YinYangia ComicCon.
Tropes invented by fictional countries

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These are tropes that were named and/or invented by fictional countries.

## Alexonia

* Alexonians Are British Or Japanese; A stereotype that suggests all Alexonians are either derivative from the United Kingdom or Japan.

## Clyohraira

* Clyohrairans' PewDiePie Craze; The participation of the PewDiePie vs. T-Series battle by citizens in different countries.
* Manifesto of the Rairans

## El Kadsre

* All El Kadsreians Men Are Crazy; a stereotype that suggests all El Kadsreian middle-aged men are Too Dumb To Live.
* El Kadsreians Love Dunkin' Donuts; a work that is extremely popular in a foreign country.

## Gaburayon

* Gaburayon City, the City of Spies
* Partnerships with Shinto Extremist Organizations

## Gau

* Gaueses Loves Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

## Internet

* Interniots Enjoy 90s-00s Cartoons; when citizens of the country of Internet enjoy an animated series that was released between the years of 1990 and 2009.

## Kuboia

* All Kuboians Are Bigots; a stereotype that suggests all Kuboians are bigots.
* All Kuboians Are Music Artists; a stereotype that suggests all Kuboians have some sort of musical career.
* Cute Kuboian Boy; a stereotype that suggests all Kuboian boys are cute, effeminate and cowardly.
* Edgy Kuboian Girl; a stereotype that suggests all Kuboian girls are angry and aggressive.
* Kuboia Ruined It; a popular work gets acquired by a person or organisation in a foreign market, and is considered much worse than the original.
* Seventeen-Minute Show; a television series that lasts approximately seventeen minutes.

## Tasanala

* Bad Stuff aren't Bad in Tasanala; just because something is unpopular or hated in its home country doesn't mean it's hated elsewhere!

## Vilaharshe

* Vilaharshean's Former Communist Identity
Dream Tropes Wiki/Kicking Butt in All Her Finery

Who says that being a butt-whupping Action Girl means you can't wear feminine, pretty, opulent clothes? In some works, the two can go hand-in-awesome-but-elegant-hand.

There's hardly any Action Dress Ripping either. These are Impossibly Cool Clothes, that don't get in the way while this lady is mowing down hordes of mooks or blowing stuff up. Conversely, she is such a good fighter that she is both aware of and able to overcome the disadvantages of her clothing. Not that there can't be Clothing Damage, but expect the clothes to be fine by the next episode (barring getting a new outfit next season).

What weapons she uses can vary, from martial arts (even if a skirt would be too narrow or poofy to kick someone) to conventional weapons, to the more domestic weapons like Parasol of Pain, Rolling Pin of Doom, and Frying Pan of Doom. Although with those latter three, she has to be directly attacking with them, not just conking a guy on the head.

The clothes could range from a Simple, yet Opulent evening dress and jewelry, to an ultra frilly Pimped-Out Dress. It can even count if the dress is cut to move around, like a Mini Dress Of Power, but it also has to be otherwise too fancy to fight in. Maybe the result of the villain trying to ambush the heroine at some sort of formal event that she was going to.

A Sub-Trope of Rule of Cool, Rule of Glamorous.

This trope often overlaps with:

* Action Fashionista (if this character has several fancy outfits she fights in)
* Battle Ballgown (the frilled dress with armor variant, not the armor with a skirt variant)
* Elegant Gothic Lolita
* Ermine Cape Effect (for any badcrap royal or noble lady)
* Femme Fatale
* Femme Fatale Spy (a lot of spy movies and TV shows have the heroines or villainesses doing action-y things in evening dresses or gowns)
* Girly Bruiser
* Lady of Black Magic
* Lady of War
* Magical Girl Warrior (although they tend to be outright badcrap most of the time anyway)
* Qipao (if she's Chinese)
* Pretty Princess Powerhouse
* Silk Hiding Steel
* She Cleans Up Nicely (when she gets into a fight just after her makeover)
* Compare Badcrap in a Nice Suit, Stylish Protection Gear, Bling of War, Agent Peacock (the Spear Counterpart), Beauty Is Never Tarnished.

Contrast Real Women Don't Wear Dresses.

## Anime and Manga

* *Magical Girl Team Lucky Star*: This anime is about a series of Japanese schoolgirls who become a series of princesses and court ladies of the Lucky Star Kingdom. There are a number of girls when they have to transform into their "princess forms" is that they fight in full, floor-length, and sometimes ultra-frilly Victorian gowns. No matter how beautiful they look in them, they can all kick Team Ankoku's butts.

## Literature

* *Akari Kagamine and the Rainbow Mirror*: The final battle in the novel has Akari all dressed up in an ultra-frilly gown complete with Rapunzel hair that comes all the way down to the ground and flows like a train, and she kicked Nurr's butt in all that.
Schweetzman/Funny

The Polygon revival has it's own page.

Can we just put this entire show as one big funny moment? No? Okay.

* The entire first episode deserves a mention. From the cold open, in which Danny Giannakopoulos gives a lesson on how to make a good comedy sketch show, to the ending, where Joshua von Schweetz nuzzles the camera, while shouting the F word, the latter of which later became a meme.

* An early (and when we say early, we mean *second episode of the whole series* early) This Ancient Building sketch featured Drew Nadsion kicking the air conditioning unit into a trash can.
* The Sesame Street skits deserve a mention.
	+ "I could move faster if it wasn't for my ***giant testicles!***" Even better, this comes out of Zoe.
	+ "Me Doc Martens are eating me soul.", said by a deadpan Cookie Monster.t
* The Gilligan's Island skit, where Bonnie tries to make the crew *eat blouses* and Joshua ***tasting one***.
* The "Honest Nursery Rhymes" spoofs of The Boy Who Cried Wolf (where the boy sends the wolf after the villagers for not believing him when said wolf really killed the sheep) and It's Raining, It's Pouring (wherein the old man bumps his head and dies of a concussion).
* An early Law and LAW sketch had Shahaf Gur Aryeh magically turn his police car into an R/C General Lee with a police siren duct taped to it to raid a wasps' nest.
* Possibly the funniest moment in the whole series is the series finale (of the American version), where (in the World Series of Hopscotch skit) ***the entire hopscotch field gets sucked in by several black holes***. Accompanied by this hilarious long speech from Joshua:

Joshua: This series is over. Good freaking bye. No more monsters under the bed, no more bumps in the night, I'm talking real Stephen Hawking stuff! I'm really, really angry! Cut the music! Cut everything! Talk show time! You're on my naughty list! Go to WLVI (note: the TV station where the original series was filmed) and ask to be fired! Bonnie, die! Die, I say! DIE! HERE'S SOME DRUGS, BONNIE! THEY'RE ALL YOURS!

* Although, it became a Funny Aneurysm Moment due to Bonnie overdosing in 2012.

* Any commercial skit. Highlights include the hairdryer that replaces air with *coffee*, the credit card that connects you to Big Brother, and the blouse that requires a dial-up connection (mind you, this skit aired in 1995) to wear.
* The "57 Ways to Eat Yourself" skit from the El Kadsreian version. Possibly the only segment from that version as funny as a skit from the US version.
Schweetzman (2020)/Funny

* File:-d2z1w4aiblvrwu.cloudfront.net--538-chilis-3-for-10-aunt-nancy-large-7 (1).jpg  The *very first skit* in this revival deserves a mention.

Narrator (Joshua von Schweetz): We've secretly replaced their regular coffee with Cassie Cage. Let's see if they notice.

* When they played a game of osu! against Aunt Nancy with Chili's commercials playing.
The Incredible World of Riddles

A Kuboian animated television series. The first official animated series to be produced in Kuboia, as well as the first Kantasy series.

## Tropes

* **Ambiguously Gay**:
	+ Both Kacie and Tennet. To the point that, when the show aired, some threatened to boycott Vision Network unless TVVC removed the show from the *Bumper's Block* lineup.
* **Black Bead Eyes**:
	+ Everybody on the show has large black balls as eyes. Now a staple of Kantasy shows.
* **Child Eater**:
	+ The haunted house in "Gripping Riddles".
	+ The evil clowns in "Caught by the Clowns".
* **Colour-Coded Characters**:
	+ Each of the main characters, as well as several recurring characters, are often associated with a certain colour, which matches their clothes (for humans) or fur/skin (for non-humans) - blue for Kacie, green for Tennet, pink for Onita and red for Paddy.
* **Gender-Equal Ensemble**:
	+ The main cast consists of two boys; Paddy and Tennet, and two girls; Kacie and Onita.
* **Nominal Hero**:
	+ The children are this at first - only going off to rescue Mr. Riddles because they have to. They do eventually take their heroic duty seriously, however.
* **Seventeen-Minute Show**:
	+ Trope Maker. Every episode lasts seventeen and a half minutes.
* **Tomboy and Girly Girl**:
	+ Onita and Kacie.
The Drillimation Movie/Tropes

* **Hypocrite:** The arcade clerk not letting both couples into *Nerds of Fire*, then granting access to older players who accompanied them (they might have used fake IDs).
* **Oh, Crap!:** Happens to Nanako after seeing her face in shock after seeing Misao wounded.
* **Toon Town:** Japan is actually animated, while the rest of the world is live-action.
The Given Takers Cartoon/Tropes

* **Band Toon**: The first Vlokozuian one.
* **Catch Phrase**: Chelsea's *"Click clack, I gotcha back!"*
* **Celebrity Toons**: Um, duh.
* **Deranged Animation**: Some of the episodes animated by Wang Film Productions (The company responsible for animating many Disney series) venture into this at times.
* **Hilarity Ensues**: Most of the situations the Givens are put into are downright *ridiculous*.
	+ The episode where Marshie encounters an anthropomorphic love-struck puppy in a sailor uniform, named Marianne. She is quite the Loony Fan, and has just as much charm as a stereotypical Japanese schoolgirl.
		- She likes the whole band, but Marshie's her favowite~
* **Memetic Mutation**: It's existence.
* **Petting Zoo People**: Aside from the typical human fan girls/groupies, there is also a surprising abundance of fans who are anthro-animals. (i.e. the aforementioned Marianne)
* **The Ditz**: Marshall Fernandez, on occasion.
* **The Power of Rock**: Seems to be the "Get out of jail free" card for whenever they're in a sticky situation.