rubegoldbergsaciddreams:

prokopetz:

More favourite weirdly specific tropes:

• Protagonist is forced to go to a big gnarly monster for help. Though the monster is indeed huge and creepy, apart from its disconcertingly abrupt manner of speaking and its utter lack of any concept of personal space it never says or does anything particularly threatening, and readily agrees to help. It’s genuinely unclear whether it actually eats people or whether it just has a scary reputation.
• Protagonist is forced to go to a big gnarly monster for help. The monster is legitimately threatening and roughs the protagonist up, but before anything too bad can befall them, they accidentally name-drop a parent, spouse or other relation – whereupon the monster goes “that name is… not unknown to us” and agrees to help with no further screwing about. The audience never does find out what the backstory is there.
• Protagonist is forced to go to a big gnarly monster for help. The monster proves to have the personality of a grumpy but harmless elder, and agrees to help only after much fussing and cajolery. When the time finally comes for it to render the promised assistance, it does so with apocalyptic force, and the protagonist has a little nervous breakdown as they realise “oh, shit, I called that a brat to its face?”.

good tropes op