Tropescilloscope: The Mole

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