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Cassandra Truth: A character who is never believed because their claims are seen as insane.Cassandra Did It: When a seer/psychic/time-traveler is proven right, sometimes, everyone will just assume they did it.Cannot Tell a Joke: A character's attempts to be humorous just leaves their audience bemused, bothered and bewildered.Cannot Spit It Out: The character purposefully keeps quiet out of conflicted feelings.Calling Me a Logarithm: A character misunderstands an unfamiliar word as an insult.Be as Unhelpful as Possible: A character goes out of their way to not give someone useful information, usually due to lack of trust.Auto-Incorrect: Texts do not convey accurate information because the autocorrect disagreed with the sender.Angrish: A character is too angry to get their point across coherently.
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Abilene Paradox: Doing something that you don't want to do because you think everyone else wants to do it.This is a trope rife with major plot points by necessity. Works using this trope will often discuss The Power of Language. When communication is impeded not by character flaws but because of an outside force, see Impeded Communication. See Facial Dialogue for those times in which a character seems unable to communicate, but actually can get entire encyclopedias of information across with just body language and a twist of the eyebrow. It's a pun: "poor communication skills" and "poor communication kills" death does sometimes happen as a result of poor communication.Ĭompare Dramatically Missing the Point Open Mouth, Insert Foot Impeded Messenger Doomed Appointment Funny Phone Misunderstanding Suspicious Missed Messages.Ĭontrast: Just Eat Gilligan, Amnesia Danger. NOTE: though the trope name includes "kills", no death has to happen. Though similar, this trope does not include things like Selective Obliviousness, You're Just Jealous, or Sarcastic Confession, as those are failures to listen rather than speak (though listening is also a vital part of good communication). Authors who pull this trope badly run the risk of straining the audience's Willing Suspension of Disbelief. Alternately, if everyone in the story has unreasonably bad communication skills, it may be an Idiot Plot. A Ditherer may refuse to speak up on something because it would mean having to make a choice one way or the other.īasically, the miscommunication or misunderstanding should be borne out of flaws and behaviors that a character has had from the start rather than something that happened because the author needed a story to go a certain way and derailed the characters involved, making them hold the Idiot Ball. A Horrible Judge of Character may implicitly trust a villain who wants nothing but bad things for him, and tend not to believe those who tell him of the villain's evil intentions. Someone who is naturally shy or has No Social Skills may also have trouble getting their point across. A character who has a hard time trusting someone, for example, is more likely to dismiss that someone's explanation of what's going on out of hand than to hear the person out. In order for this trope to work, the misunderstanding or miscommunication needs to have a reason to occur, best borne out of the natural characterization of the characters involved.