Tropescilloscope: Auto Erotica

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