Tropescilloscope: Vampire Fiction

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