Tropescilloscope: Genre Savvy

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