Tropescilloscope: Genre Savvy

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