Tropescilloscope: Mundane Made Awesome

Ordinary, mediocre and everyday tasks made EPIC. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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