Tropescilloscope: Line-of-Sight Name

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