Tropescilloscope: Creator Cameo

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