Tropescilloscope: Moment Killer

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