Tropescilloscope: The X of Y

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