Tropescilloscope: Vampire Fiction

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