Tropescilloscope: And Starring

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