Tropescilloscope: Eureka Moment

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