Tropescilloscope: The Mafia

Scary Italian and Sicilian criminals with a code of their own. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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