Tropes You can Pry from My Cold, Dead Hands:
Royalty/Bodyguard OTP dynamic
Tough, stoic character who is soft for one(1) person
Enemies to Friends to Lovers
āMy job is to protect you!ā āWell Iām gonna do the dangerous thing anyway because itās the right thing to do. If you wanna protect me, youāll just have to come with me.ā
The Power of Friendship
Friend groups that have both a Mom Friend and a Dad Friend (even better if the two are dating/pining)
Characters that are total badasses, but also crack jokes and snark the whole fight
Self-rescuing damsels in distress
When the tough loner character that got hurt protecting the other characters pretends not to be injured
The other characters realizing the tough loner character got hurt protecting them, immediately shouting āYouāre hurt!ā and rushing to help them
True Love
The super nice/peaceful character that can also whoop your ass
When the super nice/peaceful character utterly DESTROYS the bad guy that hurt/scared their friends
That moment right after the Heroās Self-Doubt Moment, when they look up at the villain, the music changes, and you KNOW the bad guy is about to get wrecked
The heroes all sitting down for a meal together, talking and laughing and being a family
Found Gamily Dynamics
When a villain is doing their villain song and they grab the hero and maneuver them through a dance
When the tomboy and the girly girl are actually besties
Awkward love confessions
OTPs being domestic
When the stoic loner character is playing with a bunch of kids, and the character that didnāt like them very much is watching from afar with a smile as they realize theyāre not so bad after all
When to characters accidentally get married to each other
When an OTP accidentally confesses their love in the middle of an argument
The character thatās basically the teamās adopted mother/grandmother, and every member of the team will JACK YOU UP if you do much as talk bad about her
When two characters who are pining for each other end up dancing together at a party, and the UST is so thick you could cut it with a knife
The sunshiny optimist character whoās best friend is the grim and cynical character
The grim and cynical character who would die for the sunshiny optimist
When two characters have gotten really close together as they argued and keep glancing to the other characterās mouth because they realized how close they are and really want to kiss them
When a character is desperate to talk to their crush, but has no idea what to actually SAY once theyāre together
When the emotionally constipated character waxes poetic about their crush in their head/to their friends, but can only manage to say things like āWhatās up assholeā to their crush in person
When the tough stoic character just MELTS when looking at their lover/best friend
Villains who treat their subordinates like friends
When a character whoās jilted lovers and been selfish in the past goes full ride-or-die for the hero theyāve fallen in love with














