Tropescilloscope: An Aesop

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