Tropescilloscope: How We Got Here

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