Tropescilloscope: Canadian Movies

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