Tropescilloscope: Public Domain Feature Films

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