Tropescilloscope: The Dog Bites Back

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