Tropescilloscope: An Aesop

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