Tropescilloscope: Affectionate Parody

Parody by the loving fans. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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