Tropescilloscope: Wicked Cultured

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