Tropescilloscope: Documentary

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