Tropescilloscope: Japanese Films

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