Tropescilloscope: Book-Ends

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