Tropescilloscope: Silent Movie

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