Tropescilloscope: Exact Words

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