Tropescilloscope: Homage

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