Tropescilloscope: Humans Are Bastards

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