Tropescilloscope: Russian Films

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