Tropescilloscope: Mystery and Detective Films

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