Tropescilloscope: Christmas Movies Index

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