Tropescilloscope: Aluminum Christmas Trees

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