Tropescilloscope: It's All About Me

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