Tropescilloscope: Dull Surprise

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