Tropescilloscope: Affectionate Parody

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