Tropescilloscope: Author Appeal

A single gimmick or philosophy is unusually central and widespread, per the author's tastes. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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