Tropescilloscope: Word of God

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