Tropescilloscope: Moment Killer

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