Tropescilloscope: Retcon

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