Tropescilloscope: Eagleland

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