Tropescilloscope: Danny Peary Cult Movies List

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