Tropescilloscope: Serious Business

Treating something more seriously than necessary. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Guy Gory Discretion Shot And the Adventure Continues Diabolus ex Machina Author Avatar Pragmatic Adaptation Bunny-Ears Lawyer Storming the Castle Bland-Name Product "Awesome McCool" Name Psycho for Hire Really Gets Around Line-of-Sight Name Blatant Lies Call-Forward Ambiguously Gay Ass Shove Combat Pragmatist You Killed My Father Chewing the Scenery '80s Hair Adaptation Name Change Hoist by His Own Petard And Starring Wicked Cultured Guile Hero Abusive Parents Thriller Big Bad Duumvirate A.I. Is a Crapshoot Artistic License – Physics Together in Death Back from the Dead All Men Are Perverts Groin Attack Cool Old Guy It Will Never Catch On Evil Is Hammy Dirty Coward The Alcoholic Daylight Horror Your Head A-Splode Reality Is Unrealistic Villainous Breakdown Abhorrent Admirer Big-Bad Ensemble Shipper on Deck The Voiceless It's All About Me Eagleland Early-Bird Cameo Drugs Are Bad Chase Scene Ship Tease Blood from the Mouth Kids Are Cruel Needs Wiki Magic Love Suspiciously Similar Substitute Irony Hate Sink Foil I'm a Humanitarian Adaptation Expansion Epic Fail Black Best Friend Bloodless Carnage Neck Snap Heterosexual Life-Partners Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Redemption Equals Death Empathic Environment Retirony Death Glare Badass Boast Pragmatic Villainy Japanese Films Exactly What It Says on the Tin Protagonist Title Catch-Phrase Adaptation Dye-Job Lock and Load Montage You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! All Girls Want Bad Boys Morality Pet Happily Married All Just a Dream The Great Depression As the Good Book Says... Animal Title Index Fantastic Racism Continuity Nod Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Made of Explodium Department of Redundancy Department Berserk Button Heroes Want Redheads German Films Mad Scientist Award-Bait Song Works Set in World War II Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Yandere Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique For Want of a Nail Freudian Excuse Frame-Up Older Than They Look Mercy Kill Interrupted Suicide Implacable Man Friend to All Children Bittersweet Ending Hypocrite Green-Eyed Monster Hollywood Law Destination Defenestration Sequel Hook The Dreaded Pre-Mortem One-Liner Chekhov's Skill Death of a Child Crazy-Prepared Genre Throwback Stock Footage Translation Convention Have a Gay Old Time Fan Disservice Lampshade Hanging Loophole Abuse Fire-Forged Friends Better to Die than Be Killed Demoted to Extra Belligerent Sexual Tension Never Found the Body Evil vs. Evil Our Vampires Are Different Even Evil Has Standards The Cavalry Evil Laugh Spared by the Adaptation Refuge in Audacity Ascended Extra Red Oni, Blue Oni Fatal Family Photo Captain Ersatz Gilligan Cut No Celebrities Were Harmed Military and Warfare Films My Beloved Smother Only One Name Reality Has No Subtitles Fatal Flaw Brutal Honesty Dutch Angle Air-Vent Passageway Country Matters Film Series Beauty Is Never Tarnished Get Out! 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Armor-Piercing Question Flashback Monumental Damage Mystery and Detective Films Novelization Meaningful Echo The Place Silent Movie Insane Troll Logic Stealth Pun Good Is Not Nice Informed Ability Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold As Long as It Sounds Foreign Fiery Redhead Guns Akimbo Amoral Attorney Dark Reprise Arranged Marriage Super Strength Rewatch Bonus Exact Words Fanservice Extra Man on Fire Broken Pedestal Captain Obvious Bad Boss Cloudcuckoolander Science Fiction Films Bald of Evil Red Right Hand Alliterative Name Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Credits Gag Idiot Ball Covers Always Lie Gone Horribly Right Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Action Girl Closed Circle Anachronism Stew Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Spiritual Successor The Hero Anachronic Order Show Within a Show The Big Guy Dumb Blonde Public Domain Feature Films The Mole Real Life Action Genre Villain Ball Psychopathic Manchild The Brute Manic Pixie Dream Girl Nice Hat Does This Remind You of Anything? Cool Guns Horror Comedy Parental Substitute She's Got Legs Unspoken Plan Guarantee Narrator Suddenly SHOUTING! Recycled IN SPACE! Parental Abandonment Vomit Discretion Shot Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer The Lancer Artistic License – Military The Dog Bites Back Famous Last Words Skewed Priorities Off with His Head! 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They Really Do Love Each Other Black and Gray Morality Only a Flesh Wound Historical-Domain Character Dark Is Not Evil Lighter and Softer Conspicuous CG Romantic Comedy Disappeared Dad Fourth Date Marriage Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Adaptational Badass Funny Foreigner Batman Gambit This Is Gonna Suck Politically Incorrect Villain Did Not Get the Girl Due to the Dead Attempted Rape Roaring Rampage of Revenge Cassandra Truth Scary Black Man Adults Are Useless Facial Horror Anti-Hero I Have Your Wife Rape as Drama Sacrificial Lion Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! The Load Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping The Cameo Bar Brawl Shell-Shocked Veteran "The Reason You Suck" Speech MacGuffin Manly Tears Deadpan Snarker Large Ham Offscreen Moment of Awesome Face Death with Dignity Men Are the Expendable Gender Mistaken for Gay Historical Hero Upgrade Smug Snake Instant Death Bullet Moment Killer Bond One-Liner Screw This, I'm Outta Here! World of Ham Let's Get Dangerous! 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Made of Iron Dying Moment of Awesome Ungrateful Bastard Nice Guy Eldritch Abomination Insult Backfire Villain Song Immune to Bullets Fantasy Films Serious Business Cat Fight Affably Evil Obfuscating Stupidity Canadian Movies Reckless Gun Usage Bolivian Army Ending You Have Failed Me Age Lift Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Hero of Another Story Rule of Symbolism Improbable Weapon User Fat Bastard Red Herring Noodle Incident Foreshadowing The Casanova My Greatest Failure Whole Plot Reference Token Minority folderlabel Shower Scene Death Seeker Annoying Younger Sibling Intrepid Reporter Worthy Opponent Evil Counterpart Race Lift Humiliation Conga Video Credits Shirtless Scene Index of Film Westerns "Shaggy Dog" Story Eureka Moment Logo Joke Homage Everyone Has Standards timeperiod Chekhov's Gunman Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Mooks Hair-Trigger Temper The Hero Dies Cool Car Dramatic Irony Zombie Stories Beard of Evil Getting Crap Past the Radar True Companions The Stoic Put on a Bus Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Broken Aesop Twist Ending Wrong Genre Savvy Sci-Fi Horror Left the Background Music On Those Wacky Nazis Wham Shot Domestic Abuse Missing Mom Demonic Possession One-Man Army Once More, with Clarity! He Knows Too Much Call-Back An Aesop Hidden Depths A God Am I Spanner in the Works NO INDOOR VOICE Flipping the Bird All There in the Script Butt-Monkey Overly Long Gag Throwing Your Sword Always Works Your Cheating Heart The '80s Brainless Beauty As You Know Kill It with Fire Creative Closing Credits Outrun the Fireball Reality Ensues Crucified Hero Shot Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Sequel Escalation Dirty Cop Stepford Smiler In the Back Driven to Suicide The Atoner Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Intergenerational Friendship Oh, Crap! Extremely Short Timespan Sexy Discretion Shot You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Earn Your Happy Ending Alpha Bitch The Film of the Book Undying Loyalty Author Appeal Took a Level in Badass She Cleans Up Nicely Say My Name Break the Haughty Black Dude Dies First Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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Red Shirt Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Beware the Nice Ones Leave the Camera Running Adapted Out Serial Killer Knight Templar Antagonist Title Bottomless Magazines Title Drop Eye Scream Gainax Ending Adorkable I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Hollywood Darkness Funny Background Event Never My Fault Important Haircut Heroic Sacrifice Redshirt Army An Axe to Grind Straight Gay Mugging the Monster Honor Before Reason Sir Swears-a-Lot Drill Sergeant Nasty Killed Mid-Sentence Italian Films Bond Villain Stupidity Bilingual Bonus For the Evulz Race Against the Clock Taking the Bullet Mexican Standoff Distracted by the Sexy Stalker with a Crush The Smurfette Principle Fun with Acronyms Accidental Murder Unusually Uninteresting Sight Vitriolic Best Buds Grey and Gray Morality Random Events Plot In Name Only Police Brutality Improvised Weapon Kill 'em All And I Must Scream Taking You with Me Faking the Dead Face–Heel Turn Four-Temperament Ensemble Vomit Indiscretion Shot Henpecked Husband Up to Eleven Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Villain Protagonist Hooker with a Heart of Gold Not What It Looks Like Arch-Enemy As Himself Overprotective Dad Only Known by Their Nickname Non-Indicative Name Light Is Not Good Evil Sounds Deep Fanservice Police are Useless Nothing Is Scarier Not So Stoic Imagine Spot Disguised in Drag Stuff Blowing Up Big Damn Heroes Tempting Fate British Films Those Two Guys Mythology Gag The Quiet One Big Eater Be Careful What You Wish For Artistic License – Geography Mighty Whitey The Stinger Peek-a-Boo Corpse Car Fu Kick the Dog Riddle for the Ages Documentary Gender Flip No Ending Manipulative Bastard He Who Fights Monsters Hero Antagonist Bi the Way Big Fancy House Leitmotif Fish out of Water It Can Think A Father to His Men O.O.C. Is Serious Business Married to the Job Broken Bird Auto Erotica Darkest Hour Sole Survivor Depraved Bisexual Suspiciously Specific Denial Precision F-Strike Those Two Bad Guys Reasonable Authority Figure Fingore Soundtrack Dissonance Evil-Detecting Dog Bowdlerise Calling the Old Man Out Deliberate Values Dissonance Dark and Troubled Past Anti-Villain Mama Bear Anguished Declaration of Love Only Sane Man Accidental Misnaming Setting Update Obviously Evil Humans Are Bastards Deus ex Machina Punny Name Ironic Echo B-Movie Television Movie Index I Need a Freaking Drink Film Noir Index The Chessmaster Jerk with a Heart of Gold The Oner Madness Mantra Punch-Clock Villain Badass Longcoat Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Actually Pretty Funny Insistent Terminology Agony of the Feet Framing Device Psychological Thriller Fake Shemp Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds The Vamp May–December Romance Damsel in Distress Card-Carrying Villain Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Mood Whiplash Heel Realization Villain Opening Scene Corrupt Corporate Executive Vampire Fiction Obstructive Bureaucrat Based on a True Story Retcon The Faceless The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Small Name, Big Ego Expository Hairstyle Change Disproportionate Retribution Dogged Nice Guy Bavarian Fire Drill Offscreen Teleportation Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Cluster F-Bomb Danny Peary Cult Movies List No-Sell Jerkass Has a Point Animal Motifs Central Theme Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Defiant to the End Woman Scorned Ambiguous Ending Ominous Latin Chanting Blood Knight Bloody Hilarious Adaptational Attractiveness Leaning on the Fourth Wall Black Comedy The Smart Guy Mundane Made Awesome Running Gag Adult Fear Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Black Comedy Rape Creator Cameo The Alleged Car Laughing Mad Greater-Scope Villain The Lost Lenore Unreliable Narrator Authority Equals Asskicking Big "NO!" Tap on the Head Australian Movies Advertised Extra Double-Meaning Title Adaptation Distillation Star-Crossed Lovers Manchild Artistic License – History Rasputinian Death Babies Ever After Spell My Name with an "S" Kick the Son of a Bitch Cruel and Unusual Death Badass Bookworm It's Personal Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Artistic License – Law Epic Movie The Ace Christmas Movies Index Hypocritical Humor Sinister Minister Failed a Spot Check Dressing as the Enemy Visual Pun Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Crapsack World Adaptational Heroism Hell Is That Noise Bait-and-Switch Parental Incest Children Are Innocent The Ditz Pretty in Mink Brick Joke