Tropescilloscope: Arranged Marriage

A type of marriage where the bride and groom are selected by their families. Angst/Comedy/Drama ensues. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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