Underused tropes in fiction, TV & film

[Shippou-Sensei]

I thought you were taking the piss but I see that actually exists

I only know about it because of Star trek to be honest

 

[T & P]

I only know about it because of Star trek to be honest

I just edited my previous post to reflect on that very fact.

Now, Columbo somehow travelling to the future and finding himself a crew member on a Federation starship is a spinoff series I could get behind

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Now, Columbo somehow travelling to the future

He knows a guy or two who could help

 

[PTK]

It woud be good if, when chasing someone, a spy or detective tripped and fell on one knee, ripping a hold in ther trousers.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Walking barefoot along a beach never seems to result in dog shit squelching up between people's toes, or lacerations from broken bottles. An occasional combination of both would be nice.

 

[T & P]

It woud be good if, when chasing someone, a spy or detective tripped and fell on one knee, ripping a hold in ther trousers.

Fully agree with that, but if a lifetime of watching spy or action films has taught me anything it’s that the protagonist’s clothes, and indeed their physical integrity, have just two settings: immaculate/ barely bleeding at all even after being shot, stabbed, blown up, or clothes torn to shreds/ entire body covered in blood.

 

[belboid]

Not in the original series but we had the dubiously cannonistic Mrs Columbo series.

She has divorced him in that.

Well…

They were still married in the first season, called Mrs Columbo.

In the second, newly retitled Kate the Detective, she was called Kate Callahan, but the change of name was never referred to in any way. She may well have just wanted to use a different surname for professional reasons.

The second season saw the show being renamed Kate Loves a Mystery halfway through. They never explain that either.

 

[T & P]

In the times before the advent of electric torches, villagers forming an impromptu angry mob/ search party at night or intrepid explorers who wish to explore immediately an ancient temple they’ve just discovered suddenly realise that nobody present has the knowledge or means required to make the oil-soaked torches essential for their search- at short notice at least.

In a similar vein, ancient temples that have laid forgotten for centuries or even millennia are not actually equipped with oil-soaked torches hanging from the walls at regular intervals to aid the progress of intrepid foreign explorers seeking to loot the place far in the future.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Them landing on any of the other 250-odd nations on Earth for a change would also be a welcome twist.

District 9 is quite good. Set in South Africa.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Bad Taste (New Zealand)
Monsters (Mexico)
Revolt (Kenya)
L'Empire (France)