Tropescilloscope: Canadian Movies

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