Tropescilloscope: Big Brother Instinct

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