Tropescilloscope: How We Got Here

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