Tropescilloscope: Becoming the Mask

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