Tropescilloscope: Fish out of Water

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