Tropescilloscope: Shown Their Work

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