Tropescilloscope: Random Events Plot

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More Tropes Dark Reprise Meaningful Name You Killed My Father Anyone Can Die For Want of a Nail Half the Man He Used to Be Japanese Films Amusing Injuries Groin Attack Beard of Evil Knight Templar Flipping the Bird Cool Shades Depraved Bisexual You Have Failed Me Death by Sex Retcon Aluminum Christmas Trees Immune to Bullets Reckless Gun Usage Ghost Fiction Children Are Innocent Tagline Final Girl Jerkass Has a Point Monumental Damage Nice Guy Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Hate Sink NO INDOOR VOICE Black and Gray Morality Adorkable Slasher Smile Plucky Comic Relief The Chessmaster "The Reason You Suck" Speech Historical In-Joke Product Placement Henpecked Husband Face Death with Dignity Psycho for Hire Men Are the Expendable Gender The Cameo Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Expy Time Skip Get Out! Ragtag Bunch of Misfits The Lost Lenore Artistic License – History Dark Action Girl Implacable Man No Celebrities Were Harmed The Chick Took a Level in Badass Scare Chord Loophole Abuse Vampire Fiction Neck Lift Call-Forward Corpsing The Alcoholic Pet the Dog Facial Horror It Will Never Catch On Big Bad Adults Are Useless Offscreen Moment of Awesome Combat Pragmatist Rule of Cool Throwing Your Sword Always Works Naked People Are Funny Man on Fire Only in It for the Money The Hero Dies The Bad Guy Wins Darker and Edgier Face–Heel Turn Posthumous Character Dramatic Irony Disguised in Drag Artistic License – Physics Mercy Kill Ship Tease Really Gets Around Rousing Speech timeperiod Manly Tears Hypocritical Humor Wham Shot Big Eater Cassandra Truth Translation Convention Bolivian Army Ending Black Dude Dies First Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Plot Hole "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Unwitting Instigator of Doom All Just a Dream Soft Glass Meet Cute In Name Only Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Country Matters Hair-Trigger Temper The Stinger Rule of Funny Book-Ends Bond One-Liner Despair Event Horizon Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Yandere Pretty Little Headshots Heroes Want Redheads Jump Scare Martial Arts Movie Leaning on the Fourth Wall Anachronism Stew Anguished Declaration of Love Fan Disservice Naïve Newcomer Freudian Excuse Dogged Nice Guy An Axe to Grind Sole Survivor Amoral Attorney Freeze-Frame Bonus A.I. Is a Crapshoot Broken Bird Artistic License – Military Not So Different Off with His Head! Silence Is Golden Agony of the Feet Bad "Bad Acting" True Companions Rewatch Bonus Bloodier and Gorier My Beloved Smother Apocalypse How I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Obstructive Bureaucrat Villain with Good Publicity The Brute Not So Stoic Crazy-Prepared Obfuscating Stupidity Sir Swears-a-Lot Red Shirt A Date with Rosie Palms Decoy Protagonist Hidden Depths Totally Radical Getting Crap Past the Radar Off-into-the-Distance Ending Diabolus ex Machina Stock Footage Disney Death Important Haircut Black Comedy Rape Becoming the Mask "Awesome McCool" Name Gold Digger All There in the Manual Age Lift Fate Worse than Death Dirty Cop The Smurfette Principle Male Frontal Nudity Bunny-Ears Lawyer What Happened to the Mouse? Action Survivor Big Applesauce Famous Last Words Same Language Dub Slashed Throat A Minor Kidroduction Every Car Is a Pinto Would Hit a Girl Ax-Crazy Casting Gag Pragmatic Adaptation Advertised Extra No OSHA Compliance Drives Like Crazy French Films Central Theme Early-Bird Cameo Exact Words Stuff Blowing Up Music Stories Insane Troll Logic Bring My Brown Pants The Dog Bites Back Cluster F-Bomb The '90s Auto Erotica Large Ham Market-Based Title Annoying Younger Sibling Shout-Out In Medias Res Novelization The '60s The Stoner Death of a Child Fat Bastard Sports Stories Bottomless Magazines Meaningful Background Event Homage Cold-Blooded Torture Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Fantasy Films Defrosting Ice Queen He Who Fights Monsters Faking the Dead As the Good Book Says... Hollywood Darkness Butt-Monkey Red Right Hand Race Lift Trailers Always Spoil The Ace Big Damn Heroes Your Head A-Splode Badass in a Nice Suit Spiritual Successor Video Credits Riddle for the Ages Revenge All Girls Want Bad Boys Red Oni, Blue Oni Wham Line You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Dual Wielding Does Not Like Shoes Papa Wolf Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane One-Man Army A God Am I Stealth Pun Camera Abuse Exactly What It Says on the Tin Contrived Coincidence Irony Mighty Whitey Arranged Marriage Red Eyes, Take Warning Kick the Son of a Bitch Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Oh, Crap! Insistent Terminology German Films Be Careful What You Wish For One Steve Limit Genre Shift I Have Your Wife Australian Movies Evil Is Petty Bury Your Gays Sequel Escalation Adaptational Villainy Gone Horribly Right Only One Name Bittersweet Ending Once More, with Clarity! Woman Scorned Ominous Latin Chanting All There in the Script Domestic Abuse Dutch Angle Manchild Card-Carrying Villain Attempted Rape Film Noir Index Romantic False Lead Defiant to the End Show Within a Show Fake Shemp Mr. Fanservice Daylight Horror Bilingual Bonus Not Using the "Z" Word Alliterative Name Genre Throwback Even Evil Has Standards How We Got Here Not Quite Dead Suspiciously Similar Substitute Friend to All Children Love Triangle Deliberate Values Dissonance Improbable Weapon User Drugs Are Bad Author Appeal Blood Knight Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Redemption Equals Death Karmic Death Dressing as the Enemy No Antagonist Rich Bitch Catch-Phrase Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Sacrificial Lion After the End Villainous Breakdown Funny Background Event Evil-Detecting Dog Creepy Child Arc Words Artistic License – Biology Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Due to the Dead Funny Foreigner Early Installment Weirdness World of Ham Evil Brit Better to Die than Be Killed Love at First Sight Here We Go Again! Back from the Dead Outrun the Fireball Vacation Films Training Montage Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Death by Adaptation Star-Crossed Lovers Failed a Spot Check Shown Their Work Good Is Not Nice Adaptation Dye-Job It's Personal Nice Hat The Big Guy Intergenerational Friendship Woman in White I Did What I Had to Do Cain and Abel Mooks Actually Pretty Funny Unusual Euphemism Fire-Forged Friends Taking You with Me Offscreen Teleportation Bi the Way Victoria's Secret Compartment Idiot Ball Damsel in Distress Real Life Writes the Plot Dull Surprise Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Small Name, Big Ego Straight Gay Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Artistic License – Gun Safety Chekhov's Gun Mexican Standoff Artistic License – Geography The '80s Body Horror Credits Gag Evil Laugh Retirony Chekhov's Gunman Hoist by His Own Petard Arch-Enemy Car Fu Black Best Friend Mr. Exposition Kubrick Stare Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Unresolved Sexual Tension Action Girl Names to Run Away from Really Fast Hollywood Law Pragmatic Villainy Does This Remind You of Anything? Left the Background Music On Fanservice Extra Heel Realization B-Movie Match Cut Ass Shove Camp Gay Sequel Hook Fourth Date Marriage Leitmotif Villain Ball Stylistic Suck Fingore Gender Flip The Lancer Based on a True Story Author Avatar The Casanova There Is No Kill Like Overkill Affably Evil Those Two Guys Badass Boast Tranquil Fury Bloodless Carnage Punch-Clock Villain All for Nothing Have a Gay Old Time Refuge in Audacity Blatant Lies Truth in Television Green-Eyed Monster Heel–Face Turn Everyone Has Standards Bond Villain Stupidity "Well Done, Son!" Guy Heroic BSoD She's Got Legs Punny Name Gainax Ending Demoted to Extra Canadian Movies Boom, Headshot! Villain Opening Scene Fish out of Water Ungrateful Bastard The Starscream An Arm and a Leg Heroic Sacrifice Humiliation Conga Italian Films Our Vampires Are Different Eureka Moment Missing Mom The Place Rated M for Manly Dramatic Gun Cock Romantic Comedy Rasputinian Death Badass Normal Bullying a Dragon Honor Before Reason Morality Pet Chekhov's Skill Brother–Sister Incest Drill Sergeant Nasty In the Back Bound and Gagged Wounded Gazelle Gambit It's All About Me Mood Whiplash No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Leave the Camera Running Comically Missing the Point This Is Gonna Suck Soundtrack Dissonance Tempting Fate Jerk Jock Jerk with a Heart of Gold Curse Cut Short Mad Scientist Epic Movie The Vamp Animal Motifs Hong Kong Films Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Four-Temperament Ensemble The Cavalry Paper-Thin Disguise The Bully Big "NO!" Action Prologue Say My Name Award-Bait Song Bloody Hilarious Happily Married Smug Snake Black Comedy Together in Death Asshole Victim For the Evulz The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Documentary Chiaroscuro Break the Haughty Psychopathic Manchild Adult Fear Fiery Redhead Loads and Loads of Characters Cool Car As Himself Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Adaptation Name Change Evil Plan Heterosexual Life-Partners Peek-a-Boo Corpse Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Unspoken Plan Guarantee Wrong Genre Savvy Blonde, Brunette, Redhead My Greatest Failure Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Dirty Coward Dropped a Bridge on Him Improvised Weapon Beta Couple And I Must Scream Hooker with a Heart of Gold Sealed Evil in a Can Driven to Suicide Beauty Is Never Tarnished Air-Vent Passageway The Voiceless Bland-Name Product Karma Houdini Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Actor Allusion Up to Eleven Take a Third Option Obviously Evil "Shaggy Dog" Story Mundane Made Awesome Batman Gambit Film Series My God, What Have I Done? Foregone Conclusion Anti-Villain Break the Cutie Accidental Murder Brutal Honesty Creator Cameo Dumb Blonde Malevolent Masked Men Token Minority Recycled IN SPACE! Berserk Button Gory Discretion Shot The Atoner The Reveal Sinister Minister Mythology Gag Spared by the Adaptation Even Evil Has Loved Ones Reality Ensues The Un-Reveal Major Injury Underreaction Disproportionate Retribution Intrepid Reporter Pimped-Out Dress Sanity Slippage Character Development Silent Movie Make It Look Like an Accident Corrupt Corporate Executive Mistaken for Gay The Musical Antagonist Title Christmas Movies Index Dying Moment of Awesome Bait-and-Switch Adaptational Heroism Undying Loyalty Destination Defenestration Hero of Another Story Took a Level in Jerkass Lampshade Hanging Worthy Opponent Skewed Priorities Retired Badass Meaningful Echo Overprotective Dad Armor-Piercing Question Coming-of-Age Story Almost Kiss Manic Pixie Dream Girl Fatal Flaw Eldritch Abomination Unreliable Narrator Empathic Environment Big Brother Instinct Gilligan Cut Needs Wiki Magic Love Genre Savvy Fanservice What the Hell, Hero? Adapted Out Gorn Police Brutality Instant Death Bullet Stalker with a Crush Pyrrhic Victory Our Zombies Are Different Suspiciously Specific Denial I'm a Humanitarian Big Fancy House Psychological Thriller Parental Abandonment Dwindling Party Humans Are Bastards Death by Irony Ambiguously Gay Mystery and Detective Films Lighter and Softer Properly Paranoid No-Sell The Great Depression Dissonant Serenity War Is Hell Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Light Is Not Good Motor Mouth Hell Is That Noise Anti-Hero Authority Equals Asskicking Villain Protagonist Curb-Stomp Battle Canon Foreigner Grievous Bottley Harm Jerkass From Bad to Worse Stealth Hi/Bye Epic Fail Serious Business Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Action Genre The Dragon Sadistic Choice British Films Cat Scare Title Drop Evil Counterpart Crucified Hero Shot Reasonable Authority Figure May–December Romance Grey and Gray Morality The Sociopath Determinator aka: The Determinator Big-Bad Ensemble Not Even Bothering with the Accent Cat Fight Five-Man Band Handicapped Badass Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Vitriolic Best Buds Double-Meaning Title Last-Name Basis Cruel and Unusual Death Animated Credits Opening Non-Indicative Name Captain Ersatz Chase Scene Suddenly SHOUTING! Parental Substitute Cowboy Cop The Faceless Nothing Is Scarier Betty and Veronica Reality Is Unrealistic Improbable Aiming Skills Eye Scream Military and Warfare Films Real Life Never Trust a Trailer The Hero Let's Get Dangerous! Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Wicked Cultured Ms. Fanservice Badass Grandpa Laughing Mad The '70s Breaking the Fourth Wall All Men Are Perverts Re-Cut Cool Guns Crapsack World Killed Mid-Sentence And Starring Logo Joke Fainting Made of Iron Ambiguous Disorder Abusive Parents Dirty Old Man Vomit Discretion Shot Mind Screw Guile Hero Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Interrupted Suicide Wretched Hive Death Seeker Zombie Stories Deal with the Devil Alas, Poor Villain Toplessness from the Back MacGuffin Darkest Hour Spanner in the Works Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Horror Films Femme Fatale Dark and Troubled Past Composite Character Double Entendre Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Foil Closed Circle It Can Think Slasher Movie Broken Pedestal He Knows Too Much Extreme Doormat Not What It Looks Like Unusually Uninteresting Sight One-Word Title Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Older Than They Look Catapult Nightmare Random Events Plot Room Full of Crazy Covers Always Lie Deus ex Machina Reality Has No Subtitles '80s Hair Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Expository Hairstyle Change Downer Ending Those Wacky Nazis The Load Never My Fault Badass Longcoat Works Set in World War II The End... Or Is It? Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Stepford Smiler The Remake Framing Device Distracted by the Sexy Extremely Short Timespan Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Hope Spot Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Moment Killer Hero Antagonist Film Noir Whole Plot Reference The Film of the Book Biopic Noodle Incident Slap-Slap-Kiss Poor Communication Kills Cool Old Guy Shirtless Scene Celebrity Paradox Science Fiction Films Evil Is Hammy Insult Backfire Roger Ebert: Great Movies List The Stoic Frame-Up Belligerent Sexual Tension Scary Black Man Lock and Load Montage Kick the Dog Smoking Is Cool Storming the Castle Affectionate Parody Dramedy Ascended Extra Scenery Porn Television Movie Index As Long as It Sounds Foreign Foreshadowing Adaptation Distillation Word of God Badass Bookworm Horror Comedy Earn Your Happy Ending Bald of Evil Cool Old Lady Spiteful Spit Enemy Mine Never Found the Body The Power of Love Only Known by Their Nickname Chewing the Scenery Eiffel Tower Effect The Ghost Bavarian Fire Drill No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Historical-Domain Character Only a Flesh Wound Greater-Scope Villain Ambiguous Ending The Oner Disappeared Dad Shower Scene Visual Pun Deadpan Snarker Red Herring Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! I Need a Freaking Drink Animal Title Index Adaptational Badass Precision F-Strike Redshirt Army Sassy Black Woman Dies Wide Open Evil Sounds Deep The Ditz The Mafia Bare Your Midriff Bad Boss Flashback Rape as Drama Kill 'em All Maybe Ever After Neck Snap Would Hurt a Child Imagine Spot Conspicuous CG The Dreaded Developing Doomed Characters Babies Ever After She Cleans Up Nicely More Dakka Abhorrent Admirer Continuity Nod Alpha Bitch Rule of Symbolism Those Two Bad Guys Disney Villain Death Self-Deprecation Police are Useless Taking the Bullet Demonic Possession folderlabel Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas No Ending Playing Gertrude Put on a Bus Overly Long Gag Fatal Family Photo Fun with Acronyms Cloudcuckoolander Jitter Cam No Name Given Guns Akimbo Running Gag The Alleged Car Historical Hero Upgrade And the Adventure Continues Kids Are Cruel Aside Glance Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Pretty in Mink La Résistance Big Bad Duumvirate Spell My Name with an "S" Death Glare A Father to His Men I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Calling the Old Man Out Bar Brawl Fantastic Racism Pay Evil unto Evil Call-Back Hypocrite Scenery Gorn Villain Song Not So Above It All Twist Ending Male Gaze Race Against the Clock The '50s Superhero Informed Ability Sexy Discretion Shot Drowning My Sorrows Politically Incorrect Villain Eyepatch of Power Anachronic Order The Quiet One Vomit Indiscretion Shot Eagleland Bowdlerise Mama Bear Awesome, but Impractical As You Know Made of Explodium Roaring Rampage of Revenge Manipulative Bastard Establishing Character Moment Adaptational Attractiveness Evil vs. Evil Super Strength Ironic Echo Your Cheating Heart The Smart Guy Too Dumb to Live Very Loosely Based on a True Story Narrator Dark Is Not Evil Knife Nut N-Word Privileges Didn't Think This Through Accidental Misnaming Crazy Jealous Guy Well-Intentioned Extremist Parental Incest Blood from the Mouth O.O.C. Is Serious Business Deliberately Monochrome Danny Peary Cult Movies List Historical Villain Upgrade What You Are in the Dark Only Sane Man Broken Aesop Mugging the Monster Did Not Get the Girl Department of Redundancy Department Kill It with Fire From Nobody to Nightmare Shipper on Deck The X of Y Index of Film Westerns Captain Obvious Laser-Guided Karma Shoot the Shaggy Dog Blackmail Setting Update Serial Killer Rule of Three Take That! Daddy's Girl 20 Minutes into the Future Gratuitous English Brick Joke Artistic License – Law Ripped from the Headlines Shut Up, Hannibal! Beware the Nice Ones Shell-Shocked Veteran An Aesop Tap on the Head Married to the Job Parental Neglect Pre-Mortem One-Liner Easily Forgiven Madness Mantra Russian Films The Mole Thriller Protagonist Title Creative Closing Credits Deconstruction Adaptation Expansion Sci-Fi Horror BFG Brainless Beauty Costume Porn Determinator Line-of-Sight Name Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Faux Affably Evil Public Domain Feature Films You Have Outlived Your Usefulness