Tropescilloscope: As Long as It Sounds Foreign

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