Tropescilloscope: Canadian Movies

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