Tropescilloscope: Book-Ends

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