Tropescilloscope: Epic Movie

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