Tropescilloscope: Star-Crossed Lovers

Lovers doomed to be kept apart. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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