Tropescilloscope: Bloodier and Gorier

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