Tropescilloscope: Italian Films

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