Tropescilloscope: French Films

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