Tropescilloscope: Mystery and Detective Films

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