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Send in a character trope and I'll draw or write an OC/Character with that prompt

tropes from tvtropes

All-Loving Hero - A heroic character whose love and compassion are unlimited.

The Antagonist - Opposes The Protagonist.

Anthropomorphic Personification - Living, roughly hominoid embodiments of abstract concepts.

Anti-Hero - A morally questionable hero who lacks conventional heroic qualities.

Blind Seer - Physically blind, but "sees" with other means.

Blue-Collar Warlock - Modern, street-smart spellcasters.

Bruiser with a Soft Center - Tough characters are capable of having soft hearts.

The Champion - A character devoted to sticking up for another character.

A Chat with Satan - A character tests whether the hero would enact their darker desires if tempted.

The Chosen One - The ancient prophecy says that only a certain person can save the world.

Classic Villain - A villain who acts as an evil foil to the hero's personality and is a main block to his journey towards his destiny.

The Conscience - A character that acts as another one's moral guide.

The Corrupter - A villain who tempts people into doing evil things.

The Cynic - Someone who always has low expectations for everything.

Demiurge Archetype - Someone evil pretending to be the setting's Top God.

Dumb Muscle - Lots of brawn, short on brains.

Eccentric Mentor - A mentor who is quirky, yet still wise and skilled.

Enigmatic Empowering Entity - A mysterious character who grants great power.

Evil Overlord - An incredibly powerful, highly influential despot who is usually the Big Bad of the story.

The Fair Folk - Fairies have Blue-and-Orange Morality.

False Prophet - A savior or religious figure, or someone posing as such, lying for selfish reasons.

Father Neptune - An old, gritty, experienced sailor.

The Ferryman - A mythical figure whose boat is used as a vehicle to transport people to Other Worlds.

Fool for Love - Tough, and possibly cynical, but still a sucker for love.

Gentle Giant - An imposing and scary but kind-hearted Big Guy.

The Good King - A king who is good at his job and beloved by the people.

Granny Classic - A wise, nurturing, and reliable grandmother.

The Grotesque - A character's ugliness is so extreme that it elicits pity instead of disgust.

Herald - What sends The Hero on their journey.

The Hero's Idol - The character who inspires The Hero to follow their path.

Heroic Wannabe - Wants to be a hero, but lacks the skills and/or mindset for actual heroism.

The High Queen - A woman of wealth, power, near-impossible beauty, and a calm demeanor.

Higher Self - A character's wiser, dettached side.

Hunter of Monsters - Someone who hunts and kills monsters and supernatural creatures.

Ideal Hero - A morally perfect hero.

The Idealist - A character defined by their hopefulness in the present and the future.

Ineffectual Loner - A capable but solitary character whose efficiency is limited by their lack of friends.

Jeanne d'Archétype - A young, soldier woman who is seen as her cause's symbol.

The Kirk - The balancer/combination of logic and emotion.

The Klutz - A character whose defining trait is clumsiness.

Knight in Shining Armor - A hero who champions the weak and innocent, especially women in distress.

Loser Archetype - A character whose disgrace comes from their lack of talent/skill.

Lovable Rogue - A charming, likeable trickster.

Madonna Archetype - Humble mother figure modeled after the Virgin Mary.

The McCoy - The emotional and sentimentalistic character.

Mentor Archetype - Someone whose role is to ensure The Hero's Character Development.

Messianic Archetype - Someone who endures great sacrifices to save others.

Mock Millionaire - A millionaire wannabe.

Modern Major General - Can do anything well except their actual job.

My Girl Back Home -The loved one who The Hero leaves when going on an adventure.

Old Soldier - Military Old Master.

The Paladin - Holy knight with healing and defensive powers and light based magic.

The Paragon - An embodiment of virtue who inspires others to help society.

The Patriarch - A male elder with the highest authority in his family.

Person of Mass Destruction - A person with massively devastating abilities.

The Pollyanna - A character who remains optimistic no matter what may happen to them.

Powers That Be - Almighty, powerful, and invisible forces.

Princess Classic - An innocent, good and kind princess.

The Protagonist - The character whom the story is about.

Rebel Leader - The character who leads La Résistance.

Rebellious Spirit - A character who doesn't abide by the rules.

Reluctant Monster - An Always Chaotic Evil species is oblivious/reluctant to their deeds.

Satanic Archetype - An evil-doer modelled after Satan.

Seeker Archetype - A character whose main motivation is to learn a certain truth.

Shadow Archetype - A character embodies another character's rejected facets.

Sidekick - The ever-reliable Number Two guy to every hero.

The Spock - The logical intellectual.

Star-Crossed Lovers - Lovers doomed to be kept apart.

The Storyteller - A character who tells tales and sometimes is the narrator.

The Trickster - A cunning character who disregards the rules.

#tropes #characters

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undead-bones · 5 months

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Relationship Tropes

Lima Syndrome

Claiming a child you know its not yours

Even Evil Has Loved Ones

Dating Catwoman

Enemies to Lovers

Foe Romance Subtext

Villainesses Want Heroes

I Will Find You

Parent with New Paramour

Facade Marriage

Solomon Divorce

Rejected Marriage Proposal

Love Matyr

Settle for Sibling

Stolen Lover

Single Line of Descent

Taking the Kids

Mother Owl

New Child Left Behind

Half-Sibling Angst

Doormat

Mother of a Thousand Young

Morality Pet/Chain

Shoo the Dog

Forbidden Contact

And Now You Must Marry Me

Love Obssesion

'Luke, I am Your Father' Reveal (or similar)

Frenemies

Forbidden Friendship

Mixed Heritage

Paramour

Fire Forged Frenemies

Enemies in Law

Old Flame/Ex

Found Family

Fake Family

Nurture versus Nature

Parental Figure

Break Up

"Not So Different" Remark

Emotional Dependance

Fish out of the Water

Mentor's New Hope

Unbalanced By Rival's Kid

Paternity Fraud

#lists

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undead-bones · 5 months

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Some Death Tropes

Immortality

You Should Have Died Instead

Defeated and Trophified

Balancing Death Book

Kill the Ones You Love

Died Without (Giving?) Answers

Ape Shall Never Kill Ape

Widow

We Need Them Alive

Died in a Attempt to do Something (Failed or Sucessful)

Poison the Water Fountain

If I Can't Have You. No One Can

Killing the Caster Won't Stop The Curse

#lists

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undead-bones · 5 months

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Laws and Formulas

Formula with a Twist

Anthropic Principle

Redemption Earns Life

Departure means Death

The Laws of Magic

Your Magic's No Good Here

The Ending Changes Everything

Failure Is the Only Option

Finagle's Law

Sparse List of Rules

Sorting Algorithm

Set Swords to Stun

Sanderson's First Law

Code Silver

Equivalent Change

Exact Words

#lists

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undead-bones · 5 months

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Be Careful What You Wish For

Bothering by the Book

Due to the Dead

Evil Tower of Ominousness

Laser-Guided Karma

Liminal Time

Merciful Minion

Once Upon a Time

Please Shoot the Mensager

Intangible Theft

Red-Headed Stepchild

Rash Promise

The Promise

Secret Identity

Hitchhiker Heroes

Involuntary Shapeshifter

Threshold Guardians

When the Clock Strikes Twelve

Trail of Bread Crumbs

Changeling Tale

Forbidden Fruit

Don't Go in the Woods

The Hedge of Thorns

The Big Bad Wolf

Admiring the Abomination

Animal Eye Spy

Captive as an Resource

Pieces of God

Too Good To Be True

Too Broken to Break

Beware the Superman

Fallen Burden

#list

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undead-bones · 6 months

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Political Situations

Political Actions

Free the Prisioner/Mole/Spy (you want him to lead you somewhere? A kinda Trojan Horse situation? Feed the him with Fake Information?)

Having normal (normal jobs at least) people being spies, like doctors, teachers, tavern owners, inn owners, maids…

Little normal things can turn political, clothes, colours, use a crest, wearing a certain jewery, a title, gival of lands/property. Some deal proposals can be just a insult. The Queen of Love and Beauty Crown and Alicent’s Green Dress are good exemples.

Being forced to attent an event/showing up uninvited

A ball/meeting/council, basically a reunion of many factions/families.

An action that is an show off power. Someone being forced to fight (either in a tournment/duel or for real). Or being forced to lose an fight.

Doing something explicit to please a powerfull person, may or not have the intented results.

An person (maybe an child?) being given as an ward/squire, adopted or fiance to another faction because of an deal (perharps an bloodline or special power). Can have an conflict of loyality included.

Put someone in a group or position as punishment or an deal (like Kingsguard or Night Watch).

Save the member of another faction for own agenda.

A person teaching another can have politics involved (as an way to control/keep an eye on the student, reasons of prestige, an family heir…). Sending their heirs to be fostered and educated by a ally too, or a minor family member to work for them (a trade of professionals/warriors?)

Conflict Between Kingdoms

Retaking of lands/treasures/throne/place

An nation being taken over by another. An castle/city being taken over or given to another lord/lady as reward.

An guest turns hostage. A position turned hostage or a way to get rid of a person without killing them.

An kidnapping, an confrontation, attack an guest, execute/punish an hostage (over an accusation? Retribuition? Misunderstanding? An exchange? Impulsive actions are an mess).

A compensation for a offence to a Allied Faction.

Problems with the Ambasador (he’s mole? Fake? Spy?)

Someone dies/get injured in another faction territory. An guest at an Kingdom got involved in inner issues. Two guests from Enemy Factions start shit. A bad intentioned guest.

An tragedy was made just to blame an person or an group. Can be done by their enemies or/and by a minory of said group.

Asking for the head of someone from the enemy faction in change of an Alliance or at least a punishment.

Continuar lendo

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undead-bones · 6 months

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Two characters split for a time and, when reunited, they are on different sides. Make a twist of the ‘found out my dead friend is alive and working with the enemy’ to the villian’s friend instead of the hero’s

Someone who knows you but you don’t remember them (An villain? You were friends or enemies? Amnesic? A long lost relative? May be a case of Good all Along).

An member of the Good Faction that is somehow related to the Enemy (or one of the ‘Evil’ Nation/Race) is killed an revenge by proxy (can also be an hostage). Or an defector still has family/friends in the Former Faction and they are punished for said defector’s actions.

Characters with similar origins but different fates. Like…the children of a usurped king, one managed to run away and the other remains captured by the Usurper. Or a more vast exemple, the characters don’t need to be that close or know each other: refugees from a fallen Kingdom, one escapes and starts a organization seeking revenge, the other finds haven in the Kingdom who destroyed theirs.

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Types of 'bashing' situations (please add more):

A character with a unique power/ability is wanted and perhaps hunted down. Orphans are easier to take under your control.

The character is a pawn of sorts. Fake friends, 'convenient' dead parents and hidden information are the most common ideas. If made any friends/mentors that the manipulator disaproves, they would try to get 'rid' of said people (False Accusations and Unjust Imprisioned? Mindfuckery? Sealing? Secret Murdered? Declared a Traitor? Breaking the Friendship? Control?). Or kill an lover (and even children, legitimate or bastard, and if you want to go even darker: a 'convenient miscarriage') to free them up to your own choice of spouse. Attempt to isolate and break them. Or kidnap his wife and children latter to use them if in a 'run away' case.

The 'previous pawn of the manipulator' can be a interesting character. Are they suppose to be death? Turned 'evil'? My mind goes to Xanxus, Touya and even Hella (because I hate Odin).

A wronged group, maybe a clan like the Uchiha or a ethnicy like Ishvalans, can include fantasy prejudice. The 'last survivor' can be used as a pawn to get something that only his/her people can (money, a bloodline, mcguffin, knowledge).

Sealing/Killing someone because they are too dangerous/power to be free, bonus if they try to use them as an weapon, power source or a battery of sorts. To power an city? Suply magic? Use their powers for something (I am still pissed at Hashirama for the Jinchuuriki bullshit, fuck him).

An friend being mindcontroled/possessed/infected, turned into an monster, having an cursed power or whatever and the 'good guys' want to simple kill them. Or nuke an city for similar reasons.

Capitalism. This one has a lot of opportunities to work with. Or anything similar to real life with an fantasy version, like an race having blood that can heal or cry jewels (like koorimes in YYH), fur or bones wanted in the market, or creature (sapient?) being keep an prized pet, an magical type of tree that is needed to make something. A bad product/drug (can be an 'good' product, like one that heals, but made of people resources), ingredients for potions or delicacy, entrainment (what type? songs? carriage?) . Maybe a nobleman wanting (or feeling entitled to it, duo begin descendants of a Hero or something like that?) to have a magical creature or artefact (Mononoke has something similar).

Tropes Names: Solid Gold Poop, Fantastic Medicinal Bodily Product, Eye of Newt, Sapient Fur Trade, Supernatural Human Trafficking, Human Resources, Industrialized Evil, People Farm.

Light vs Dark with a Twist. A certain type of things are 'forbidden' or 'dark' without much of a good explanation. Or unnatural. Bonus if religion intolerance is included. I know people that think the weirdest things are of the devil.

Something similar to HP's wizard community with magical creatures in general and muggles. Fuck them. If is a crossover with a character belonging to a magical species (like in Trollhunters) you can bet they will try to use their 'laws' (created by wizards without consulting the people they are made for) to control the character.

Messing with people's soul, body or powers or something like that, 'breaking', sealing or changing it to suit your plans and benefit you.

Using people as a sacrifice of sorts for the 'Greater Good'. Anything to do with the 'Greater Good'. Or 'for the progress', 'for the science', 'for the motherfucking pRoFiT'...

'Superheroes' that think their position as the 'protectors' give them the right to do whatever they want (like stalk and harass people and take their DNA without consent for test just because they are 'suspicious'). Stealing objects for 'curiosity' and make tests or weapons with them are pretty common routes too in that type of story.

You cannot break in people's houses, search/examine their things and demand them to come with you, 'you have questions' my ass. They have rights and if you don't have a warrant, you need to get the hell out of my house.

Meddling and fucking up everything.

When a group is trying to defeat a villain or in a quest and another one far to 'curious' try to find information about them and end up fucking up a lot. This one is more crossover like. Avengers, Soul Society, Wizard World are some of the assholes in question, often occurs an kidnapping, ilegal imprisonment and attempt 'interrogation' to see if they are an 'threat' (nevermind who is kidnapping who here buddy), I get pissed when they are forgiven easily or if they just spill information like idiots.

Cultural Appropriation, Modification and Erasure. Fetishzation, acting condescending (even if you have good intentions), denial and attempt hidding of the advancement or great achievement of the prejudiced folk, segregation, stereotype. It can be clothes, techniques, festivals, languages, books, folklore, architeture, traditions, mythology, symbols, monuments, cities, songs, image, words, names (of places and people)...

Other types of appropriation too, like the rich elite/politians invade and take over a movement/form of art/ideology for themselves. Or like the swastikas, used by a evil ideology.

Make the Leader/Ruler join so the other will too. Take over/Absorve another faction within yours. Create a system that centralizes power and control.

Make someone and their friends/family an target of your enemy to force them to join/help you. Kind of 'our enemies think you are one of ours, they will attack you.'

Any type of attempt to make another people to fight for you in your wars, probally by forcing them to join an 'secret world' by drawing the villains's attention to them or revealing your location to them, making them believe 'oh, they will go after you anyway, its better if you join us', plenty of manipulation involved (to get the into trouble, to fight, to steal, stop them from leaving an place where you have more power). Can manipule the villains to kidnap or experiment on them, so you don't need to do it yourself.

Use of of your own as hostage/bait when your subordinade/child befriends an powerful person (or dunno, a defector? Someone you want to recruit?). This person in question (often an minor) is under your custody. Or to get/find something because of their relations (blood or not) with another faction/group family.

An Fight is an Trap (forced recruitment maybe, like...in an 'official' duel/tourment would announce they belong to an certain group). The Ring Battle in pretty much a trap for Xanxus to swear loyality to Vongola.

Mindfucked and forced into another identity.

I read an few interesting stories where an woman is seduced/mind controled to marry an man, because of her (unknow for her) bloodline/power. More often than not, she's the MC's mother. Ex: Kushina, Lily and Nana.

Unknown Siblings are also very common. Either killed/rebeled/hidden/used by the manipulator, given away or bastard children being taken from their mothers. Maybe one parent lied to their partner about their baby being stillborn and kidnapped him/her to another place or your parent(s) is not your real parent(s). Maybe your Bad Father had a bastard child he hides. I read a good reincarnation crossover about Naruto's older sister being MIA during the Kyuubi attack because Sarutobi wanted Naruto be raised as a no-named orphan, so she was trained and hidden by Danzo. KHR often has Tsuna having a brother Iemitsu took (kidnapped) to Italy, or just dragging the Vongola heir (his kid or not) to the Iron Fort without nobody consent.

An magical society is slowy losing their powers due incest and the nobles choose to go through drastic ways to get their power back. Can lead to warm to pure magical criatures like fairies. Maybe thats how the first magicals got their powers?

I kike the concept of a evil person or group losing any type of power and their attempt to get it back.

The monopoly of magic (or similar). A commoner (or a character who is considered 'lesser' in some way) having a power/doing something only a noble family could have (or wants everyone to believe is a noble blood's power and belongs only to them). If its a 'Magic is coning back' even better, please don't make the commoner be a long lost noble heir.

Wanting to kill an person because he/she is an 'mistake' of sorts, either they are an threat for an 'balance', survived an purge or source/key. Or an dangerous power or nature or 'bad luck' (leave black cats and albinos in peace) in some way. It also can your own worldbuilding 'version' of Witch Trials.

Attempt to force a powerful person to marry, either because you want their throne/propriety (usurpation by marriage), children with an certain bloodline power, powerful heirs (when you want to marry them to you or your own children), the loyality of said person or to force them to join your faction by association with their 'spouse'.

The said spouse can be weak (so they won't have their support), a loyal spy, a black widow...they will probally get rid of you after a kid or two are born.

Or maybe its your parents that wants to use you to do this to another person.

On another character's perspective, if the bloodline/power/heritage/whatever comes from the good parent, the evil one is going to manipulate the hell out of the kid. If the kid raised away from them (hidden?), even better.

Did I mention how much I like bloodline plots? Todoroki Rei and Ursa from Avatar both fit this. Clara from the Other Side of Paradise kinda too.

One fantasy species wants/needs to use another for some reason (Resources? Source of power/energy? Food? Servants or Working Class? Labor? Reproduction? Parasyte? Army? Eggs? A Substance they naturally produce?), they could also have nature powers that serve to make the land fertil or maybe healing powers. If they had been using them for an long time, the entire society may turn dependant of it. More of an Grey situation.

Colonization, theft of resources, attempt to take over of local realms/tribes/kingdoms. Attempt to use someone army for your own benefit.

Pretty common in the Naruto/HP fandom, a character got adopted and the toxic birth family refuses to accept it, ignoring the existence of the foster family, calling him/her by birth name telling them its their 'real name', trying to bring you 'home' where they 'belong', dragging/shoving you back to their house or just try to stop you from leaving said house. Speaking of 'family' and 'filial duty' more often than not they want something of this so-called reconciliation, maybe they feel guilty of being bad parents and selfishly want their 'child' back or you are useful for them/they need you in some way. Attempt at toxic and clingly parenting after knowing you for less then week. They want you to abandon your loving foster family to stay with them forever and ignore the fact you explicit told them you want nothing to do with them. Can have they trying to take you from the school or hijacking your life and traps for forced surprise reunions, demands to have a part in your children's lives (and names too). Insistence that 'they are family' and you 'cannot leave them', 'I am your father, I have authority over you' demanding your time. Toxic attempts on bonding and 'getting to know you'. Maybe even a non-consensual blood test involved or stealing documents from the hospital. We need more KHR fic like this, Nana and Iemitsu are abusive as hell and delusional too.

Or just attempt to drag you back to your abusive family And if your birth parents are dead, bad distant relatives still can try to take you by force for some reason.

That works with former friends that fucked up and won't leave you in peace because they want you back.

I am trying to list 'bashing ideas. Having a bit of trouble here, but until now I am going well. Its less bashing and more 'evil' actually. This word has an bad reputation.

Or absent parent thinking he has a right to your life. Imposed and forced relationships is the goddanmit summary of KHR, so is fucking up and all but demanding forgiveness. Or just a person that don't understand you don't want anything to do with them, leave me the fuck alone.

Or just begin estranged from your family and they want something from you (or your S/O and kids) years later

I wish there were more about magical creatures. Wonderful source of plot.

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Evil/Grey/Annoying Actions for Characters

Unethical Actions and Crimes (especially some ‘spy’ ones)

Terrorism

Bombs/Nukes.

The Status Quo.

Sabotage

Extortion

Spying, Stalking and Harassment

Infiltration (and associated crimes, like poisoning and making the secretary sick to take her place)

The Motherfucking Greater Good.

Refusing to understand a fucking 'NO’.

Reading other people mails, cellphone and stuff. Or restraining them.

Unethical information gathering. Leaking the information for the wrong person.

Use other people as bait/decoy/scapegoat/cover/distraction.

Drugging (potions too). Also, don’t mess with people’s food. Never.

Doing anything to a person in vulnerable state, like unconcious, sleeping or injured.

Bugs, Trackers and Cameras. (Non-consensual pictures and videos)

Steal Information/Documents

Blackmail and Bribe

Unethical and Ilegal Interrogation

Take blood/DNA without consent. Stealing a blood/DNA sample or a blood test too.

Corporal Punishment, Violence, Multilation, Torture, Physical Abuse…

Professional Impersonificators (Like Doctors Theraphists, Drivers, Police, Babysitters). Infiltration (as a Maid? Secretary? Fake Friend? Teacher?) or just having those people in your pocket.

A bad solution to a real problem.

Propriety

Steal MacGuffin, Objects in General or 'Confiscation’ or Modification of said McGuffin (because of curiousity, greed, you want to taunt someone)

Steal inventions, discoveries or just take the credit. Etnopiratary.

Grave Robbing or any disrespect to an corpse.

Hoard of Knowledge, Resources, Lands…

Money is a great source of crazy ass conflicts (Heritage? Lottery? Marriage’s finances?)

Stealing Inheritance. Stealing things like work and art. Doing it 'legaly’ is even worse. Attempt/Demand to get an person to 'hand over’ an artefact. Refusal to give something back too.

Entitlement (some people think everything and everyone is God’s gift for them or that other people legally getting something you wanted is 'stealing’, may have fantasy prejudice involved).

Resources in general, from either animals or people or others ('magicals’ or not).

You 'don’t want it to fall in wrong hands’? Okay, pal, what are 'good hands’ then? Yours?

Using an object the wrong way or something like that, dunno, just remembered Kim Kardashian with Marilyn’s dress and MJ’s jacket, THAT was a evil greedy villain worthy action

Threats (Do it or Else)

Threatening someone loved ones (they can be under your power in some way?) or using them against said person in any way (taking them to a dangerous place or situation? Put a bomb or something similar on them?) Trying to get said loved one under your control (like taking them to 'safety’).

Threat of imprisonment. Taking a person to make their loved ones 'cooperate’. (Like a 'invitation’ for a meeting or interrogation). Put them in any danger.

Threat of withhold the cure or medication for a sick person/people, can be secretely making the patient’s condition worse. Offten have a relative of said patient working/helping you.

Any threat really, can be a sniper, a bomb, physical. Take advantage of a person’s dependency on another.

Doing something bad to a person under your custody because they are dependent of you or you think you 'own’ them, therefore have the 'right’ to do so.

Any threat to free will or control (over a person self and their abilities): mindcontrol, brainwashing, potions, drugs, magical contracts and oaths, binding and seals, devices, the Cage Bird Seal from Naruto…

A unfair deal/exchange/blackmail to get incentive someone to help you/give you/stop doing something in some way. Like 'I will give the thing I stole back if you do this for me’, 'I will break the deal if you steal this for me’ or even 'I will heal your friend if you give me this thing’, Maybe by making the person need you in first place?

Manipulation

Forced Recruitment, Servitude or Help.

Manipulation (to fight? To steal? Forcing you to do something? Fake information? Using people how? Sign you up for something without consent? Tricking you to agree to a unfair deal? Social or Emotional? Guilty Trip? Humiliation? Isolation?)

“Tests” are very manipulative, often forcing a person hand, like the Poison and Cure Gambit. Control Freaks. Attempts to exercise authority (and begin respected and obeyed as such) everywhere. Attempt to coerce, press and trap you on obeying them, giving people orders and deciding/dictating their life choices.

Use a person to/for: find another? find a place? get a object? get inside a place?

Use a Relationship as means of control and manipulation.

Forcing them to fight against their will: maybe locking they up with the opponent or left you with them? Bring the enemies to you? Put their loved one in danger? Create the problem for them to solve? Forced enlistment?

Mindfuckery, just reading (or attempting) people’s mind without consent, it does not matter if you are 'curious’ or how 'rightful’ you are. Also erasing things too (events? information? people? alter memories?), forcing someone into another identity or to obey you, getting information.

Unfair Deals or trying to make a 'generous offer’ to get something from a person (when you need or want her/him), forcing her to accept your terms, especially when the person owns you nothing. Sadistic Choices too.

Blackmail someone with arrest and prision to make them do something.

Any extreme thing to get what you want: want a person to move? Steal all their things and put in another house or burn down their house. Want a person to attend a college not other? Sabotage or sign off them. Or got them in trouble. Want them to wear some clothes not another? Burn the other clothes. Refuse to go? Send their men to 'fetch’ you. Refuse to give/borrow something? Steal it.

Science and Biology

Bloodpurism. I hate it but love its plots, from both Asoiaf and Harry Potter.

Non-Consensual Experiments in General (not just the 'mad scientist’ type, any non-consensual medical test, unaware ones, sterilization, fucking lobotomy and shock theraphy). Kidnapping is not really necessary, plenty of times the hospitals did more experiments than what was consented, or told the patients they were doing another thing, more vulnerable people like mentally disabled, soldiers and isolated tribes (or the non-educated poor) are easier to trick.

Using the Results of an Unethical Experiments (like the Nazis or Henrietta Lacks). Using an artefact or something similar that had unethical origins too (kinda like the philosophical stone with the Ishvalan souls)

Disrespect to Body Autonomy and personal choices. (Deny acess to things like contraceptives, pain killers and insulin, hysterectomy, tampering with it too. Information about your own body, about an medical process, breach of privacy, chastity belt, lack of medical consent, body modification or mutilation)

Anything related to hurting an animal (magical one included, any curious attempts to 'capture’ one to study is also included, or entertainment). Fuck zoos by the way. Be it a 'cursed’ or 'blessed’ creature leave them in fucking peace.

Any breeding programs, genetic aprimorament and asthetic alterations too. Eugenics. Also if they produce or have something you want as a product or another reason (pearls, skin, venon, medicine…)

Reproduction Control and Breeding Programs, especially in minories (the Church used to kidnap and fake the death of babies of single mothers and pagans to give them to 'proper Christian couples’, lesbian faced problems to their rights for insemination and adoption, mixed children were aborted without the mother’s consent or even knowledge, 'pure’ aryan women were 'encouraged’ to join brothels to breed in Nazi Germany.) Its a fucking mess, but normal in matters of prejudice.

Kidnapping/Restriction of Freedom

The 'Rebel = Evil’ mentality.

Unjust Imprisonment, Unlawfull Arrests. Double Standarts and Inequal Rights.

Kidnapping (can be complex ones like showing up at school/work or using an trap like summer camp, a vacation or a modeling job the most, forced meetings, forced to move which may involve stealing your things, arranged marriages…)

Just taking you to a place for different reasons (under false pretense) of those told to you is already bad. Making a person go with you because of threats or 'incentives’ too. Taking you to a place you won’t be able to leave without their help, like another country. With intent to permanently keep you (and never let you near your family and friends again)

Block the passage/door, invade personal space, surrounding places, ganging up, traps. Stop a person from leaving a place or taking her here against her will, 'retrivals’ and 'escorting’ also count. Imprisonment ultil you agree with their demands or is under their control.

Hostages (don’t have to kidnap, can be someone that was in your custody before the conflict started).

Any restriction to a person’s freedom. Guilded Cages (marriage? a puppet king?), forbidding to have a life (education, hobbies, fun, friends, to travel, isolation, certain jobs), forbidding to anything for a bad reason (contact with people, go to a place, being locked for your safety or usefulness)…

Servant Race (looking at everyone who mocks Hermione’s anti-slavery moviment).

Locking up people because they are 'different’, 'crazy’ or 'unnatural’ (most likely a prejudiced group) Ex: monasteries, asylums, reformatory camps…Not only that, but anything done to 'fix/cure’ them, like devices, surgeries and treatments.

Being in another territory, or services like Hospital, Towns and School, even if it is from an 'ally’ is dangerous, same thing with their people (doctors, drivers, professionals of any type).

Any Binding of sorts, by seals, contracts or magic or whatever. And breaking willing bonds against the person’s will too.

Incapable of Disobeying

Attempt on gain the custody of minor for bad reasons. Children of powerful people have the powers/bloodline/heirship/propriety/alliances but are easier to control and manipulate.

Any forceful adoption: taking children from parents to be adopted into families you have control of, taking a bastard child away from their mother, taking any child in your custody without their consent (even if you are related/has the 'legal’ right to). Maybe a reveal that your 'adoption’ is pretty much a kidnapping? (Loki and Xanxus both sound like this to me, Theon too).

The person is change of you is revealed to have bad intentions? Want to create a matyr hero, maybe?

Ownership or Claim over an person or people (Bloodline? Recruitment? Human Weapon? By Association? Nationality? McGuffin? Custody between parents?)

Forced Marriage or Mandatory Fatherhood/Motherhood. (To 'continue the bloodline’, a alliance or some shit like that)

Destruction and Invasion

Set a place in fire (house? comercial buildings? orphanages?)

House (or Room) Invasion and Trashing, messing on people’s things without consent, uninvited guests. Trespassing private propriety in general, invading a space you are forbidden to go into, appropriation of buildings or other places (public? religious?private?), wanting acess to said places, forced housing (like that law about soldiers, thankful its no longer valid).

Destroy propriety and places (especially important and 'simple’ ones, like libraries, burning books, clothes, hobby materials, documents, with sentimental value, or worse things like medicine). Not even when its 'accidental’ careless excuses, don’t touch people’s things alright?

Sell/Throw away other people’s things for any reason, like not respecting their choices (food, religious pratices, hobbies, books).

Another Things

Everyone loves bashing the 'Hero Faction’ and so do I.

Unhealthy Obsession

Toxic Relationships (neglecful? clingly? delusional? imbalanced? obssessed? smothering? controlative? pushy? attempt forced reconciliation? expectations? selfish? doormat? fangirl? clingly? manipulative? False but keeping appearences?). Friendship? Romantic? Parental? Leader?

And people in a bad relationship, even if they are the victim, can do bad things because of it and refuse to leave the relationship. Can even begin unaware used against you.

Both Lysa Arryn and Sawada Nana are exemples of this. Worse, they are mothers, and mental ill for sure.

Doing something without a person’s consent, awareness or knowledge. Honestly, 'needing’ to sacrifice a person in some way is and always will be fucked up.

Dragging a person back to the bad situation they ran away from in first place.

Put reputation above safety, people lives and feelings (like refusing to cancel a event, deny a divorce or attempt cover up, a cover up, refusal to let people leave when in danger, in situations like death, rescue and injury)

Force an person to use an dangerous power without thinking of the consequences. Force a Traumatic Power Awakening. Attempt to learn the Secret of an Power.

'Feed’ on an person’s lifeforce, use their energy to power up yours or something similar? Stole their power/magic to give to another?

Unethical Hunters/Collectors.

Indiana Jones, Museums and stuff.Tourists being assholes (like taking 'souvenirs’)

Wanting people to sacrifice or risk themselves for your own benefit. Or calling them selfish for thinking about themselves first or doing something for their own benefit (maybe something they used to do for another people’s benefit?)

Telling a secret that is not yours (about plans? Existence? Location? If you are a professional, than its ilegal)

Turn everything (people, mcguffins…) into weapons or source of money.

Make everything about yourself. Make yourself the victim when you aren’t.

All of the Other Reindeer Trope

Fostering a foster child for bad reasons (like free labour)

Be creative when creating your own fantasy world problems, here some ideas you can adapt:

Society and Culture

Bad Working Conditions.

Nationalistic Ignorance

Matyr Culture. (And all this duty to country bullshit)

Any danger a Secret Society presents to clueless innocent people.

A country’s superiority and their right to rule/choose/have authority/even 'save’ other ones.

Fantasy Capitalism and attack on everything that threats it in some way (libraries and free knowledge, community gardens, unions, lab-made diamonds…)

Insist that another character is 'lying’ or 'just confused’ about something and refuse to investigate/try to silence them. Happens often with children.

Religious/Cultural Appropriation and Modification. (That include monuments, objects, songs, rituals, words…)

Refusing/Closing researchs and pretty much anything because it goes against your 'beliefs’.

Insist that another character is 'lying’ or 'just confused’ about something and refuse to investigate/try to silence them. Happens often with children. Ignore or mock a person’s knowledge. (Scientists did it a lot with some natives about their own history, medicine and culture). Believe yourself to know more than people with experience on this. (maybe they have a problem you don’t?)

The denial of truth (Biology? Science? History? Origins? Problem?)

Calling people 'mad/hysterical’, 'inferior’ or 'unstable’, (mostly happens to women and disabled) to justify their 'incapability’ of making their own decisions.

Control the information taught in the schools/history. Keep information from people, therefore putting them in danger. (Its work related? About a product? Scientists?)

Many fake facts and rumors about prejudiced groups still taken a real today, even in professional medicine, it really bad. Mostly for the vilification or attempt control.

Put a person with special needs, or any person really, in danger/pain because of 'belief’ or ignorance.

The classification of what is 'Unnatural/Natural’ and 'Pure’ in a society.

Anything cruel, (like abuse, assault, murder, prejudice, cruel punishment, rituals, some ideologies, multilation) being done by the sake of 'tradition’ or because its 'natural’, the whole 'its was always done like this’ bullshit. Honor-Related abuse in general. Also religion as a justification for this.

Created a mess at someone event (like a proposal at a wedding)

Authorities

Imposed authority and orders.

Make an country go into civil war or war with another for benefit/profit.

Military, there so much problems. (I am pro-veteran and anti-millitary), the whole enlistment = free college is a fucking trap for poor people.

Deny acess to important things. (Like information about the problems/situation, medicine, education, some places, jobs). Hide information about something because it benefits you (about a product? A food? A experiment? A operation? Mission? Goal? About people’s own biology?).

Being forced to put up with an bad person’s bullshit because your Leader refuse to punish them/acknowledge them as evil or easily forgive them. If they try to make you 'befriend’ said person aka let them into your house, with acess to your things, begin easier to do shit.

Defending a bad person and refusing to acknowledge it, expecting you to forgive and let them hurt you without fighting back.

Like the Minister of Magic or Shield trying to 'confiscate’ the miraculous, or a zanpakutou. Or even Dumbledore with the Philosopher Stone. Or trying to have some 'control’ over a 'magical creature’.

The Guys in White from Danny Phantom are the worse villains cuz they are 'legaly’ doing crap. Interrogating, kidnapping and attacking people, invading the houses and stuff.

Ministry of Magic having Magical Nazis in their ranks but leaving them be because they are rich and noble, ignoring everyone’s warning, wrongly punishing people and silencing them, forcing students to put up with spies and clearly problematic people in power (like that fucking toad and the Death Eaters like Snape), therefore making laughable easy for them to kidnap/attack students, people being allowed to do as they please (hurting your friends, family and innocent people in the process) and you being forced to sit down and do/say nothing because the Authority says so, refusing to check the Dark Mark, punish pureblood Death Eaters or give Sirius an trial is the most realist shit in HP.

Your Leader/Ruler is either an inactive idiot or an asshole and the characters are forced to obey their orders and decisions.

Ignoring a crime because it benefits you (looking at you China government about bride kidnapping). Or keep a cure, a eco solution or something like that a secret for the same reason.

Destruction of Evidence that goes against you in some way (your beliefs? Your ideals?)

The Law Enforcers take the side of criminals against the victims. (Like giving back a kidnapped victim back to her kidnappers)

If you going to have a Evil Tyrant, you need to plan their actions (force the people to build them something? Steal their labor and lands? Maybe they want the lands to build their evil invention?)

An Cover Up (specially when involve the villanization of the victim, like I saw in a few HP stories where the wizards aka the 'good guys’ put drugs on dead muggleborns students, making their families lost their jobs and reputation. Or an Danny Phantom one where his family is murdered and he’s kidnapped by evil scientists, who put the blame of their deaths on him).

Unhelpfull Characters

Useless and stupid adults in general, who could led their children into dangerous situations without care. If a guy/gal showed up asking about my kid, to have a private conversation with them or a 'intership’/special school without signing up first. I will bury them into my garden, weirdo.

The Fentons and Sawada Nana are the best example.

The annoying character who just do crap and refuse to listen good advices, fucking up the entire plan.

Naive, dumb, petty, pushy or delusional characters.

Passive Character who don’t do nothing.

Disrespect the privacity of people and will, like letting another person mess with their things/room/house, telling secrets that are not theirs, forcing you to go to an place or with an person, worse if its an parent.

If any of those things is done to an minory group (or vulnerable ones like the poor, pregnant, disabled, refugees, orphans and children) because of prejudice, even worse.

Its depends a lot on what type of social problems you create, like squibs are disabled-coded (hidden from public from bringing 'shame’ to the family, most likely to be killed by their pureblood parents), so you could make, idk, a 'magical surgery’ of sorts in attempt to give them power? One that could be harmful to them but pureblood parents are more interested in having 'perfect magical children’? Or a secret pureblood mass kidnapping of innocent muggleborn babies to be switched with squibs?

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Before the Plot Tropes

A Greater Conqueror

Reincarnation of an Legendary Figure (An Celestial Guard? Hero? Keeper? Chosen One? Cursed One?)

First Meetings.

Failed Quest

'Just So' Story: Kinda...origins? (Of the moon? Winter? A creature? Why the sky is blue? You choose).

An ancestor that lives through his descendants.

A dispute between founders of a place/organization. A dispute between lines descendants of siblings.

A mysterious city of the past.

A character sealed for decades, even hundred of years. A sealed hero? Maybe self-sealed? Guarding something? Who sealed them?

Founders in general (also, what is their origins/backstory? What lead them to found whatever? A Hidden Kingdom founded by refugees or former slaves for exemple).

The Beginning of Something?

Origins in general (of a clan? a power? a kingdom? magic? a race? a person?).

Some fuck up the atual characters need to fix. Can be more personal, like its your Ancestor's fuck up.

A familiar foe, enemy to your ancestor/parents. Which one is the right or the wrong? Both? One cursed another? Sealed? Betrayed? For a good reason? Your antecestor fucked up. (Cursed someone or an group/family? Started an eternal winter? Released an creature? Stole an McGuffin?)

Someone did something considered impossible (survived something? Went to a Forbidden Place? Used a weapon? Touched a cursed thing? Exposed to a thing?)

A character is compared to a another (either so they wont take the same evil path, privilege, the former ruler is better...)

The hierarchy of the land changes a lot with time (like a Family that previously was the Ruling one is now a subordinade). So can the landscape.

The 'First' of whatever: wielder of power, ruler, dragon rider, bloodline, patient zero...

Take a good look at your world and start asking questions, How to begin with. If they have dragons, where they come from? O how they tamed them?

The Predecessors (of the current leaders? heroes?). If there is something like a competition, there will be the former winners.

Creators of something (Power? Kingdom? McGuffin?)

Backstory: A Mysterious Past that eventually catched up.

A Nation created by refugees? By exiled prisioners?

A tragic romance or friendship between the founder (or an hero) and a Villain.

A love triangle with Villain, Hero and an Priestess Archetype

A dynasty with Divine Heritage (good or bad)

A rivality between lines/folks/kingdoms (maybe the reason too?). Could it be an betrayal of their - at time - leaders? Thief? An Insult? An refusal of cavalary?

A group of legendary warriors.

A thing that ended (order? clan?) and the heroes will probally bring back.

A being/person (or more than one) who gets reincarnated a lot of times. Reincarnation Romance?

An ancient immortal manipulator who is behind A Lot Of Shit (capital letters needed)

Legendary Hero betrayed and turned into an Mysterious Villain/Cynical Anti-Hero with an secret identity.

Legendary Ancient Figures and their relation to the actual characters.

The kingdom/organization was founded on an lie.

An Revolution/Rebellion

Legendary Hero has his own redeemed Villain.

A clan starts/creates something

An Ancient Immortal Evil

A fallen legendary kingdom of the past. Maybe the remains split into the 'modern' kingdoms?

The fall of an hero/rise of the villain .

An massacre/purge

An Ancient Tragedy that is totally different than the one in the history books.

An character's backstory give him/her an bad/cruel reputation, but the story is far different than the real one. (An murder can turn into suicide or have an good reason, they could sacrificed their reputation to protect another person, to hide an secret, being an silent scapegoat, rebelled against the Kingdom's corruption or framed, he killed his friend because as asked to)

An Great Failure.

The Legendary Hero is an fraud or the actual villain.

The story of the parents/grandparents of one of the characters.

How the world (or an land) became chaotic. Like...there is a Eternal Winter? Then why and how.

An legend/tale of an fictional folklore/mythology that is associated to the main plot.

Two siblings became enemies (and their lines too)

Anything related to an line/family really (an curse? An ancestor? An system? An deal? An conflict?)

The story of an folk (past leaders, migration, part or inaction in an war, how they got their lands, refugees, stolen lands (places in general) and goods, extermination). An conflict with another folk (forced to share land, prejudice, envy, rulling class, suborninade folk)

The start of a Noble House, Clan, Family or whatever.

Maybe the return of those people after they were exiled from their lands? Or driven out? Or they went in search from something? They run away? Who is living on the land now?

If the race is more magical, explain their magical origins.

Why is a folk discriminated against? Why one is considered superior or inferior? Why two Kingdoms or Families hate each other?

The goverment tries to hide the origins of a important person or discovery because they belong to a marginalized group.

Two characters are revealed to have a past.

You have to fix an mistake the hero group did (well-intentioned maybe? Stole an magical artefact from an Ancient Being/Tomb/Cavern and its pissed now? Or false accusation that got someone punished - like losing an position - has to be corrected? Settle an argument between two Rulers/Kingdoms/Factions over a Very Old Conflict? A thing your Ancestor did? A wronged enemy has a good reason for waiting revenge?)

While the 'mystery' and fishy things about the society and world you live into is pretty cliche thanks to bad YA, it can be very good if done properly.

Ghost Story: How did a undead character died? Maybe they are trapped in the limbo?

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Characters that went Missing for a While

Taiki (Twelve Kingdoms)

King (Nanatsu no Taizai)

Arya Stark

Princess Anastasia

Lumine or Aether

Matt Holt

Thingol

Ford Pines

Aang (the Avatar)

Five (Umbrella Academy)

Odysseus

Vhagar

Shaina from Saint Seiya

Koko from Pokemon: Secret of the Jungle

Rapunzel (Tangled)

Alan Parrish (Jumanji)

Xanxus (nearly nobody was aware of what happened to him)

Pan (PJ)

Great Lord Rukkhadevata

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There is a name for when a special (in a supernatural way) title/position is passed down during the story, and this is important to the plot.

I saw it five times only. All of them have three individuals (relevant to the plot in Avatar's case).

Glen Baskerville from Pandora Hearts (Reim/Levi, Oswald, Leo)

Jinchuuriki of Kurama (Mito, Kushina, Naruto)

Indra and Ashura reincarnations (Madara and Hashirama/Sasuke and Naruto)

Sky Arcobaleno (Luce, Aria, Yuni)

Avatar (Roku, Aang, Korra)

The Dragons from Akatsuki no Yona kind too? We don't have much about the predecessors yet, onthe the First Dragons. And the Norrisville Ninja? We have Randy, his evil predecessor and the First Ninja.

Someone knows the name of the Trope?

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Characters and Groups

Trope for when there is a 'Chosen Group' and one of them is a leader (not like...one the characters end up taking a leader position, more like its the 'Chosen One and his/her Chosen Servants'.)

Akatsuki no Yona and Dragons

Akito Sohma and Zodiac

Luce di Giglio Nero and Arcobaleno

Athena and her Knights

Millenium Earl and Noahs (D. Gray-Man)

Fushiji Yuugi

LadyBug and Black Cat (for all the others miraculous)

Sailor Moon and the other scouts

And sometimes there is like...divisions/groups of an Power System (by elements, colors, patrons...), and on each one there one character that is either the keeper/guardian of that power type, an pillar, the main representant of that generation...

Some are born part of the group, or having consecutive generations of the said group (reincarnation or not). Chosen One or Chosen Many.

They could be a group of rulers, of captains, of creators/inventors, of warriors, of founders, of the 'Aces', an Elite Group like the Three Legendary Sannin , of keepers of the balance whatever.

There are also the 'Magical Divisions' groups: Factions from Divergent, Houses of Hogwarts or Flame Types in KHR.

How does a hierarchy work in your world? Create different organizations within a Nation/Kingdom, districts and social classes, divide your magical system in types and arts.

Also the Chooser of One, a character responsable for choosing a person (or people) for any position.

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Origins/Creation

Monsters/Creatures

Created by the Villian

Mythological or Supernatural

Science Experiment/Freak Lab Accident

Curse

Accidental

Familliars or Summons of sort. (like Pokemons)

From another world/dimension/realm. Often with a few references to mythological or eldrich.

From the Space.

Mutation

Was once a person (maybe cursed?)

Analogy to a popular being by Another Name (Kishin from Soul Eater or Ghouls from Tokyo Ghoul).

Robots/Machines

Half-Human Beast

Hybrid Monster

Dire Beast

Sea Monster

There is a few authors who try to create a totally different systems of creatures and their fighters. But usually end up weird and confusing.

{Literaly Anything} gained sentience.

Made of (wood? plant? ice? glass?)

The Original Man Trope

Baby Born Weird: It seens to be a common tropes when a child is born with 'different' features for one reason or another, especially in mythology

Others

Magical Creatures

Artificial Person

Flawed/Poor Imitation

Rebeled

Purpose (To guard an McGuffin, vessel, guard/serve/guide an person, guard knowledge)

Prototype

Super Prototype

Replacement

To be someone’s child or student.

For a position.

More options: in Slumber, Unstable...

Made by an sentinent McGuffin

The creator identity is very important. How you were created? Material?

Artificial Race/Species

Artificial Hybrid

Uneven Hybrid

Clone (one or more donors?)

Experiment (a soldier? Hero?)

Raised in a Lab

Guinea Pig Family

Made with DNA (or the ‘magical’ equivalent) of another character/creature/being. (Or your mother is the experiment?)

'Part’ of another person/being. Can be split in two/three or an minor part that gained sentience.

Servant Race

Created by the Villains

Born/Made from/with the help of a McGuffin.

Hybrid

Born from an Plant

Born from Magic

Mook Maker

'Mook' Race

Changelings

Our Phlebotinum Child

Wonder Child

Star-People

Rare or 'Abomination’ in some way, a deformation, strange color, ability.

Evilutionary Biologist

Artificial Animal People

Self-Constructed Being

Carbuncle Creature

Made of Indestructium

Subspecies

Transhumanism

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Deal/Gratitude/Reward

Trade

Buy/Sell

The Bet

Auction

Life Debt

Mystical Deal

Baby as Payment

Intangible Price

Bargain with Heaven

Standard Hero Reward

Contract Clause

Binding Ancient Treaty

Releasing from the Promise

Give an Inch and They'll Take a Mile

Contractual Immortality

And Your Reward Is Parenthood

Doom as Test Prize

An Offer You Can't Refuse

Leonine Contract

Make a Wish

Quest for a Wish

Offer (of apology? of gratitude? for pardon? for freedom?) or Exchange.

Request/Conditions/Demands

Take Care of the Kids

Blessed with Suck/Cursed with Awesome

Dark Horse Victory

Upsetting the Balance

Irrevocable Order/Message

Entitled Bastard/Ungrateful Bastard

Give Someone the Choice (that was supposed to be yours)

Magic Stuff

The Rule of Three

Offerings to the Gods

Appease the Volcano God

Targeted Human Sacrifice

Summoning Ritual

Banishing Ritual

Imperfect Ritual

Take Up My Sword/Passing the Torch

Eternal Winter

Eternal Burden

Prophecy Twist

Hereditary Curse

Curse Escape Clause

Family Curse

The Dragons Come Back

Patient Zero

Sacred Hospitality

Muggle in Mage Custody

Muggle Born out of Mages

Mage Born of Muggles

Trapped in Another World

Magical Wound

Magical Guardian

Not-So-Imaginary Friend

Magical Gift (an ability? an gift turned curse?)

Magic Feather

Sorcerer's Apprentice Plot

Ruled by the Moon

Disability-Negating Superpower

The Seventh Son

Order vs Chaos

Glamour

Involuntary Dance

Truths and Lies (either be object or rules, anything magical related)

Time

Ultil Midnight

The Hidden Hour

When the Planets Align

Cosmic Deadline

Celestial Deadline

Fantastic Fragility

Total Eclipse of the Plot

Race Against the Clock

Liminal Time

Time Limit (you can't This Thing for more than 30 seconds or else)

Eclipse Day

Spell with a Time Limit

Plans

Ambush

Cheating/Sabotage

Distraction

Exact Words

Honey Trap

Baby Trap

Assimilation Plot

Decoys and Baits

Disguise

Trojan Horse

Meal Ticket

Blackmail

Gambit Tropes

Social Engineering

The Plan

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Authority

Alliance

Evil Power Vacuum

In Its Hour of Need

Playing/Running Both Sides

The Man Behind the Man

Voluntary Vassal

The Missing Faction

Lonely at the Top

Civil War

Enemy Civil War

Brain Drain

Sorcerer's Apprentice Plot

Ambitious Lesser Noble

War and Battle Trophy

Isolationism

A City Sacked

Peace Treaty

Ban on Magic

Royal Decree

Envoy

Trade

Garrison

Siege/Besiege

Restoration

Servitude

Slavery (Race? Mooks?)

Submission

Tame

Dowry

Honor and Reputation

Rumors

Good Princess, Evil Queen

Demilitarising

Monopoly of Resource (can be a more abstract thing, like the Sun?)

Devasted Land After War

Inheritance

Fallen Princess

Finders Rulers

Rightful King Returns

Orphan Heir

Inadequate Inheritor

Superior Successor

Disinherited Child

Lost Orphaned Royalty

Denied/Stolen Heritage

Denied Position/Candidate

Passed-Over Inheritance

Mother Makes you King

Hidden Backup Heir

Spare to the Throne

Rejecting the Inheritance

Only Surviving Candidate

Royalty Superpower

Former Rulling Dynasty

Nepotism

Royal Blood

Long Lost Heir

Second Son

Position

Conqueror

Tyrant

Rulling Couple

Puppet King

Alleged Boss

Fake King

New Master

Shared Position

Unaware Position

Questioned Position

Unwanted Position

Klingon Promotion

Demoted to Dragon

Stripped of Titles

Dragon Ascendant

Offered the Crown

Abdicate the Throne

Abdication in Shame

Regent for a Life

Weak Leader

Naive New Ruler

Reluctant Ruler

We Can Rule Together

Rash Grey Ruler/Bait-and-Switch Tyrant

Throne Battle (cousins? siblings? uncle?)

Heir-in-Law

Usurper/Usurped (what happened to the usurped? Run Away? Locked Up? Killed?)

Successor/Predecessor (how the they got the position? Their relationship?)

Disgraced

Stolen Lands

Second Place

Vacant Position

Rebellious Rebel

Society and Nobility

Social Hierarchy

Colony

Capital

Split Folk

Foreign

Fantastic Caste System

Ethnicity Monarch

Foreign Ruling Class

Interclass Friendship or Romance

Class Segregation

Nobility Marries Money

Nouveau Riche

Rags to Riches/Royalty

Rich Suitor, Poor Suitor

Crapsaccharine World

Adopted into Royality

Royal Bastard

Minor House

Branch House

The Outsider Befriends the Best

Impoverished Patrician

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Rebel

Screw Your Ultimatum!

Defends Against Their Own Kind

Start My Own (or go solo at least)

Secret Rebel (Alter Ego? A Mole can be a Rebel that decided to stay instead of Defecting. A Secret Rebellion?)

Screw the Rules, I am Doing What is Right

Turned Against Their Masters

The Pawn Escapes or Rebel

Faustian Rebellion

Resign in Protest

Defector from Paradise

Breaking the Glass Ceiling

Retired Badass

Former Member (Servant? General? Quitted? Kicked out?)

Uprising

Rebellion/Resistence

Coup D’etat

Defiant Captive

Band of Outlaws

Grew Beyond Their Programming

Rebellious Subordinade Faction

Cultural Rebel

Forbidden Fruit

Phlebotinum Rebel

The Paragon Always Rebels

Occupiers Out of Our Country

Outcast Refuge

Split Rebellion

Robot Rebellion

Hunting the Rogue

Deviants

Disobey an Order

Resistance as Planned

Theft

Monumental Theft

Decoy Object

Steal It to Protect It

Stolen Powers

Stolen Love

Intangible Theft (voice? heart?)

Usurpation is not only for a throne, maybe stolen inheritage, a competition, a heroic merit, a position, a familiar, bastard children being passed as their parent's...

Duel

To decide something? Its 'official' or cultural like Agni Kai? Or Vongola Ring Battles? You can have a champion? Trial by combat?

Forced Prize Fight

Shapeshifter Showdown

What decision? A maiden's hand? A trial by combat? Honor? Humiliation?

The results, the defeat could be part of someone backstory. What happened after?

There was a sabotage? Its was staged? What happens to the loser? Execution? Dishonor? A lawful trial is not murder is some settings

Impossible Task

Necessary Stab

Trial by Combat

Punishment

or just doing something wrong? And related situations? Not sure how to tag this.

The Resenter

Clear My Name/Clear Their Name Quest

Ask for Forgiveness. Never Permission.

Sins of our Fathers (Children of a Traitor or Enemy? Familiar Foe?)

Amnesic Crimes (maybe being unaware or mind controled?)

Punished for Sympathy

Pre-Redemption Crimes and Former Enemies/Villains Problems.

Horror Hates a Rulebreaker

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

Punishment as Revenge or Compensation.

I Will Punish Your Friend for Your Failure

What is the Punishment? Its the more 'Magical' or 'Mundane' type? There can a offer for a better alternative for the original punishment, like the 'Recruit the Criminal' trope.

Arrest? Investigation? Apology? Forgiveness? Pardon? Reconciliation? Deal? Blame? Or Refusal to do so? Missing Culprit? Fugitive?

Can have someone beg for mercy, can have the accused being denied a trial or give false confessions, even a forced one. Or they run away and/or are captured. Or someone stand up for them.

Can result in the accuser being punished for lying (is it truly a lie?). Or maybe the victim ends up punished. Or the real culprit remains free while the blamed is locked up/exiled/killed.

You can forced to punish someone (relatively) blameless. For reputation? Laws? Measures? To please a ally?

You can defend/trust/believe the wrong person. You can get a friend in trouble (to save another? yourself?).

The allies can demand the freedom of the accused

A former criminal that did a good thing can be given both a Reward and a Punishment.

Or third character taking the blame, willing or not, or suffering the consequences to 'fix' the situation. Even if they were not involved at all.

Or the wronged person takes advantage to ask for something in change (it was a mistake then? guilty tripping?).

You can punish people by association (student? followers? a hostage? family? allied or subordinade faction?) with the culprit. Or in their place (because the character escaped?) or use them to punish the person in question.

Another character can confront or attack by themselves or take the matter on his/her own hands (by openly accusing? kidnapping the suspect? playing judge and executor?).

Maybe you decided to act because of suspicions? Not exactly a punishment, but like...a ultimatum? A order to keep the supposed accused in check?

A entire faction (family? kingdom?) being persecuted for the actions of a few (most likely the leaders at time).

The culprit was caught in the middle of the act or after an attempt.

The victim does not wish for the criminal to be punished

Imposter? Set up? Misunderstanding? Framed? You did an good thing but its 'ilegal'? Disobeyed Orders? Self-Defence? Revenge? Seeking Justice? Scapegoat? It was presumed due you have good reasons to do so and the real criminal don't? Tricked? Rebel? Pariah? Staged? Used (like a caravan unknowing having spies?)?

The character thinks they are responsable for said deed because of the tricks of a Manipulative Bastard. (A perspective variation: they think another character did it for the same reason)

A thing you are responsable, but wasn't unaware. Kinda like a "I did this?" Reveal.

You get in trouble with the local law

A Non-Mundane Example, kind of a 'Magical' Punishment? For insulting a supernatural being? Disobey some 'Magical Rules' given? To teach them a lesson in humbleness?

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