Tropescilloscope: Mystery and Detective Films

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