Tropescilloscope: Silent Movie

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