(08-25-2022, 01:24 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: Do we have any kind of trope for someone getting first billing among alleged equals? The result looks like the band name format "x and the ys" but doesn't necessarily have anything to do with music -- for instance, "Leo Gorcey and Bowery Boys".
While I'm asking about tropes, here's one I'm sure we must have, although I'll be damned if I can find it: A character or group of characters are in need of more cash than they can realistically get their hands on. However, coincidentally there is at the same time a competition or challenge of some sort going on which with a cash prize at least equal to and often more than they need. They join the competition with the intent of winning the prize, usually by way of a Zany Scheme.
Does that ring a bell for anyone?
-- Bob
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I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....