Tropescilloscope: Sci-Fi Horror

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