Tropescilloscope: Danny Peary Cult Movies List

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