Tropescilloscope: Aluminum Christmas Trees

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