Tropescilloscope: Christmas Movies Index

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