Tropescilloscope: Crapsack World

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