Tropescilloscope: Romantic Comedy

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