Tropescilloscope: Historical In-Joke

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