Tropescilloscope: It's All About Me

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