Tropescilloscope: The Film of the Book

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