Tropescilloscope: Crazy-Prepared

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