Tropescilloscope: Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality

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