Tropescilloscope: Danny Peary Cult Movies List

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