Tropescilloscope: Mythology Gag

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