Tropescilloscope: Rule of Three

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