Repetitive Traits and Mannerisms

[JohnWillow]

Have you ever seen a particular thing within a film or tv show that's reminiscent of previous projects done by the same company or by others. You get it a lot with sitcoms and animations, like the particular set up to jokes or the way character's express emotions. Here are a couple that I've noticed.

The "Slip and Slide" scene - the most inexplicable phenomenon of animation, have you ever noticed since the birth of CGI films there has been a rise in the number of times you will see a character slip, cascade or travel uncontrollably down a slope of mind boggling height which has absolutely no business being there. Happy Feet, Surf's Up, A Christmas Carol, Tintin.

A lot of Disney Villains fall to their death - Yes, in such classics as Beauty and the Beast, Up, The Lion King 1 and 2, Tarzan, Hunchback, Snow White, Basil the great mouse Detective, Fox and the Hound, Sleeping Beauty, and arguably Peter Pan the villain will take a nasty tumble leading to an untimely end.

Dreamworks sink and sigh - When a dreamworks character wants to show how misjudged they are they'll always let out a big breath of air and lower their shoulders

[KJOokami]

Need I also mention the "Dreamworks Face"?



They always manage to find a place to put that particular expression into their movies. :p

[Chaplin]

-The Hulk's pants turn purple when he transforms

-The only thing they eat in Pokemon is white balls with black lines on them


Oh, and KJ, your link is broken. Here's the image:

[Wanderer]

Are you talking about tv tropes?

[Dissension]

It sounds like it! Based on the title, I assumed this thread was about... you know... repetitive traits and mannerisms (like how I constantly count down from four to zero basically the entire time I'm conscious), not tropes. = P

[JohnWillow]

Sorry for the confusion, i probably could've picked a better title.

TV Tropes eh? That's the first time i've read that phrase, what exactly does it mean.

[Seth]

pretty much what you said in your opening post.

Something that gets repeated in multiple works.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage

[The Grey Wolverine]

I have one repetitive trait, OCD I guess. I have to count from 1-8, and I count everything I do or see, its quite annoying. The closest thing to mannerisms I have is I call everybody man.

[Sleet]

TV Tropes eh? That's the first time i've read that phrase, what exactly does it mean.

Oh God, Pandora's box has been opened.

[RancidRabbit]

NOO! NOT ROCKY'S EYEBROWS! He needs those for...for like most of his faces!

I'll often start a thought out loud and finish thinking about it in my head. Its usually not even part of whatever conversation I may have been having before.

[JohnWillow]

Here's another few I notice

Nobody knocks on Friends - Have you ever noticed that nobody in the TV show Friends knocks before they enter their other friend's apartment. Now that i think about it I suppose this was resolved in the last episode when they all put down the keys to the same apartment on the kitchen counter.

Animals know far more than they should - In a lot of animated movies animals know lots of things which they really shouldnt. Happy Feet is a great example. Like when Mumble escapes the big seal and it says "Come here little sausage, i take you with Ketchup", yea, in the second one we're also meant to believe penguins can "Base Jump" but nobody knows what a Puffin is!!!

They never learn their lesson - Whenever we get a very moral driven cartoon the main characters never seem to apply what they've learned in the next episode

[NogitsuneGabriel]

Did somebody say "Dreamworks Face?"


But seriously, Dreamworks isn't the only studio to use that face:

[Ebly]

did somebody say most common expression in pretty much all drawn and animated media ever as well as every single comedy flick

i have to admit, i can't think of it as being the "[company] face" when it is in everything.

[RandomGeekNamedBrent]

it is also called the "smarm brow" and it was already mentioned.

[Ebly]

it is also called the "smarm brow" and it was already mentioned.

indeed, indeed.






did you like totally miss the smilie

[RandomGeekNamedBrent]

no I didn't. I was talking to NG up there, saying it was already mentioned under its better name.

[Penwrite]

Does anyone else hate that face? Because I really hate that face.

You're just jealous because you can't do it yourself.

[The Grey Wolverine]

It looks arrogant. I can forgive Woody and Buzz though. Toy story is awesome.

[Medli]

As already mentioned in that other thread, whenever I feel unobserved and walk somewhere, I play Ministry of Funny Walks by myself.
Also the voice of my mind adapts to accents. When I have a Skype call with british people, my mind starts talking to me in fake british accent. After playing a game of STALKER(which plays in the Ukraine) I think in fake russian accent.

[RandomGeekNamedBrent]

repetitive traits found in myself:
-I talk until I finish my thought, even when I know everyone stopped listening and I'm talking to myself.
-When I read, I picture the scenes as anime and read dialogue in the voices of voice actors.

[Sleet]

My God the Dreamworks smarmbrow is all over Tangled.