Tropescilloscope: Casting Gag

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