Tropescilloscope: Hollywood Law

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